Life and Death
Clockwork was fixing his staff in his tower.
The two Observers entered his lair.
"Clockwork, we need your services again," asked Observer one.
"It is about this," Observer two showed a scene in the time screen.
"We fear a war may be as a result of this country's bickering."
"It will be very violent and deadly."
"So you want me to prevent it?" asked Clockwork.
"That is all we ask."
"This will most likely take longer than the task we sent you to do."
"I accept, I have some special plans for those people," he noted.
The observers nodded as Clockwork set off into that scene.
"Come, we have some observing to attend to." Observer two reported.
"I see."
Observer one turned around and bumped into a table.
An object dropped on the ground, but they merely watched it.
After a few moments, they left.
The object broke open and a figure appeared in the tower. He looked at the time screen, which was showing random scenes from the past, present, and future.
A certain scene caught his attention.
"Yes, just what I'm looking for," he smiled and chuckled.
In the Fentons' lab, Sam, Danny, and Tucker are doing their homework.
"Just when I thought chemistry couldn't get any duller," Sam complained.
"Stop complaining, at least we're actually starting to experiment with chemicals," said Danny.
"Experimenting? We can't even do anything but look at it! You call 'observing' fun?"
Tucker is looking over the list of chemicals they had to observe.
"Uh, guys? I think we're missing one more thing," he observed.
"Which one?"
"Some chemical in hand sanitizers."
"That can't be too hard to get," said Sam.
"I'll go home and get my mom's"
"You can borrow Danny's."
"Uh, I don't have any. My dad used it up when he was cleaning up after that Ectoplasmic goo mess," answered Danny.
"Wait, I think I have some upstairs."
"I'll go with Sam," said Tucker.
Both of them left the lab.
Danny looked at the two chemicals he had so far.
"Hmm, 'Do not mix, very explosive.' Cool! If it wasn't so harmful."
He put the graduated cylinders down and looked over his notes.
A figure appeared behind him, but Danny didn't notice until his ghost sense went off.
He turned around and gasped.
It was Dan.
"You! What are you doing here? How did you escape the thermos?" he shouted.
"I easily got out. It was as if I was welcomed out." Dan chuckled.
"Well, you're going back in. I'M GOIN' GHOST!" Danny shouted as he turned into Danny Phantom.
"Ah, ah, ah." Dan grabbed Danny's arm and shocked him to make him to weak to stay in his ghost form.
Danny screamed Dan dropped him.
He used up his remaining energy to stand.
"What do you want?" he shouted.
"You ruined my plan and shoved me in a thermos. What do you think I want? My fourteen year old self couldn't have been this pitiful."
He blasted a ray at Danny but missed.
"Well, my twenty-four year old self couldn't have been this lousy at aiming."
"Wasn't aiming for you."
Danny turned around and saw the two cylinders filled with dangerous chemicals broken.
"NO!" he screamed.
Dan went intangible but Danny wasn't quick enough.
A huge explosion hit the lab and destroyed everything.
Everything and everyone within a mile's radius felt the ground tremble.
Sam and Tucker heard the explosion from the living room and ran down the stairs, or what's left of it.
"Danny!" they called out.
No answer.
Sam walked on top of piles of rubble from broken devices and pieces of the ceiling.
Tucker kept close by the wall and looked at everything.
The lab was completely destroyed.
The Ghost Portal was broken and hidden under the rubble, wires stuck out of the ground, and machine parts were everywhere.
Sam walked over to where she thinks the Ghost Portal used to be and spotted something under a pile of rubble. She bent down and hoped it wasn't what she thinks it is.
It was a hand sticking out.
"Tucker!" she cried.
Tucker came running to her.
"What?"
He spotted the hand and lifted the rubble off of it, revealing Danny.
"Danny?" Sam shook him, "Wake up, Danny, wake up."
She kept shaking him and shaking him, as an attempt to wake him and prove her thought wrong.
Tucker bent put his ear against his chest to look for a heartbeat.
Nothing.
He stood up and turned away, trying to hide back the tears.
"Tucker? Is he…" Sam asked.
Tucker didn't move.
Sam knew it was true and began sobbing.
"Danny! No! You can't die! Danny!" she sobbed over his body and kept trying to shake him awake. She finally gave up and cried harder and harder.
Tucker cried with him.
Jack, Maddie, and Jazz came down and gasped at the sight of the destroyed lab.
"What happened here?" demanded Jack.
Maddie spotted Sam and Tucker crying and Danny on the ground.
"Jack, honey…"
She walked over to Sam and Tucker.
"I-is that…Danny?"
Sam nodded.
Maddie started crying too and leaned against her husband.
"My baby, dead!"
Jazz and Jack heard her words and cried with her.
Danny Fenton was dead.