Chapter Nine: Going on a trip to the Past.
March 19, 2008, Tuesday
It was another day on mind numbing boredom at Casper High. Our heroes were in their history class, which normally wasn't bad. But today the regular teacher was sick and Mr. Lancer was teaching the class today.
"Settle down students, just because your normal teacher is gone today does not mean you can goof off." said Mr. Lancer.
The students all groaned, realizing that today would be horrible.
"Now it says that you are to do a report on early 20th century Amity Park, which is due tomorrow. I want you to get into your groups and discuss your report." said Mr. Lancer.
So all the students got into their assigned groups. All of our heroes were in one group, mostly because Sam had used her powers to make the teacher but them together.
"Guys, we have a big problem here, we didn't do the project." whispered Danny.
"Well we have been very busy with all the craziness that has been going on." said Sam.
"Yeah, it's almost like some sort of insane person is causing all this." said Alicia. (AN: You don't know how right you are Mwhahaha!)
"Well insane people aside, what are we going to do?" said Valerie.
"Yeah, we don't have the time to finish the project now." said Tucker.
"Wait! That's it! Time is what we need." said Danny.
"What do you mean?" said Alex.
"I mean who do we know that can send use back to early 20th century Amity Park so we can see it first hand?" said Danny.
"Clockwork." said everyone else.
"Right, now to get out of this class, Mr. Lancer!" said Danny.
"What is it Mr. Fenton?" said Mr. Lancer.
"My group has to do some extra studying. Can we please be excused so we can go to the library?" said Danny.
"Ok, but don't spend all day in there." said Mr. Lancer.
So our heroes left the room and after a quick stop in the library so that it would like they were there they left. Sam, Alicia, and Alex had left some duplicates of our heroes so if anyone looked for them they would look in the library.
"Hey Alicia, I've always wondered this, how come for some spells all three of you have to help?" said Tucker.
"Because spells are more powerful when more then one person is doing it. We wouldn't want our duplicates disappearing on us would we?" said Alicia.
"Ok guys, open a portal to Clockwork's tower." said Danny.
And so Alicia, Sam, and Alex opened a portal to the home of Clockwork and our heroes flew in.
"Do you think Clockwork will let us go to the past?" said Sam.
"Of course he will." said Danny.
"No, I will not let you go into the past." said Clockwork.
"Aw! Come on! We really need to go to the past!" said Danny.
"I'm the master of time, not the master of A+'s." said Clockwork.
"Come on, this is for 30 of our grade, and it isn't our fault we didn't do it, it's been all the craziness and ghost fighting recently." said Danny.
"Be that as it may I will not abuse my power in such a manner." said Clockwork.
"Then you leave us no choice. Girls, execute plan cuteness overload." said Danny.
It was then that Sam and the other girls pulled out the most devastating weapon that man has ever known, the sad puppy dog face. With their giant sad eyes and quivering lower lips no force in the universe could resist. At the same time Alex was playing a really sad song on a violin.
"What are you doing?" said Clockwork.
"Pwease Mr. Clockwork, let us go back to the past." said Sam in an ultra cute voice.
"Pwease!" said the other girls.
"Stop that!" said Clockwork.
"Pwease help us, if you don't we'll cry." said Sam.
"No." said Clockwork.
Then Sam and the other girls started the water works, it was enough to melt even the iciest of hearts. Finally Clockwork could not take it anymore.
"Oh Fine! You can go to the past, just stop that!" said Clockwork as he threw up his hands.
The girls instantly went back to normal.
"Works every time." said Alicia.
Clockwork moved over to the time portal and set it to early 20th century Amity Park.
"Ok, it is set, all you have to do is fly into it and you will return to the past." said Clockwork.
"Thank you." said Danny.
"Just don't mess up the past like you did last time." said Clockwork.
"We won't." said Danny as he and his friends jumped into the portal.
"I have the feeling I just made a mistake." said Clockwork.
Amity Park, 1910
Our heroes flew out of the portal and landed in a big pile. When they got up they noticed they landed in front of a sign.
"Amity Park: A Nice Place to Live, what? Has that always been on the sign?" said Alicia.
"I guess so, lets get started on this report." said Sam.
Sam started to walk towards the tiny town that would one day be their home, but Danny stopped her.
"Uh Sam, I don't think it would be a wise idea to go into town dressed like that." said Danny.
"Oops, I forgot for a second, if we came into town dressed like this they might suspect something." said Sam.
Sam, Alicia and Alex quickly changed everyone's clothes into the style of early 20th century America.
"Lets go." said Danny as they headed into town.
They quickly found themselves on the main street of the town. The street was full of people going about their daily business. Carts being pulled by horses were carrying various items up and own the street, there was even a car or two. People were walking down the side walk and shopping at the small stores. They could see a general store and a blacksmiths shop and a small post office. As they walked further down the street that saw something unusual. There were two shops next to each other. One was called Izzy's fix it shop and the other was Ghost Away Inc.
"Hmm, these seem like interesting shops." said Sam.
Then out of one of the shops comes a man. He has black hair and violet eyes, and he looks somewhat familiar.
"Hey guys, that man over there, he seems oddly familiar." said Valerie.
"Yeah, like I've seen him somewhere before." said Danny.
Danny looks back and fourth between the man and Sam. Finally he realizes who the man reminds him of.
"Oh my god! That man looks like Sam." said Danny.
"Your right, in fact he looks just like my…great grandfather Izzy!" said Sam.
It was true, this man that stood in front of the shop was Sam's great grandfather, the one who had invented the machine that but cellophane on the top of deli tooth picks. It was this machine that made the Manson's all their money.
"Wow, so this is what he looked like before he created his great invention." said Sam.
Then out of the other shop came a large man who also looked familiar. He went over to Izzy and greeted him with a big bear huge.
"Hey Izzy! How are you doing today?" said the man.
"Fine John, but could you please put me down?" said Izzy.
Our heroes also noticed that this man looked familiar and then it hit them.
"That guy looks just like Mr. Fenton." said Alex.
"Your right, he does." said Tucker.
It was true, except for the fact that he did not wear a jumpsuit and had a large mustache, he looked exactly like Jack.
"It seems ghost fighting runs in the family." said Danny.
"Guys, we better not interact with them, who knows what will happen if…" Alicia started to say, but then John noticed them.
"Hey look, there are some kids! Do you kids want to see my amazing ghost hunting weapons?" said John.
"Uh not real…" Danny and Valerie started to say, but John cut her off.
"Of course you do, come in so I can blather on about ghosts." said John as he directed Danny, Valerie, and Alex into his shop.
"Jeez, have the Fenton's always been this pushy?" said Alicia.
"As long as I've known him." said Izzy, who was still outside.
"Uh, hello…person I've never meet before." said Sam.
"Good one." said Tucker sarcastically.
"The names Manson, your friends will be in there awhile, you can wait for them in my shop if you like?" said Izzy.
"Thank you." said Sam.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?" said Alicia.
"What could it hurt?" said Sam.
They walked into the shop and saw that it was full of items and old time appliances that needed to be fixed.
"So you fix things here?" said Alicia.
"Yeah, but that's just to support the family. What I really like to do is invent." said Izzy.
"Cool." said Tucker.
"Cool? Well it is a little cold, but mid March is like that." said Izzy.
"Tucker, be careful, we can't use any modern slang around him or he might get suspicious." whispered Sam.
"That is very fascinating Mr. Manson, so what are some of your inventions?" said Alicia to cover up Tucker's slip.
"Well I have the latest invention I'm working on. It's supposed to but cellophane on the top of a tooth pick so that it looks more appealing." said Izzy.
"What do you mean supposed to?" said Sam.
"Well it doesn't seem to work, here let me show you." said Izzy.
Izzy put a lone tooth pick in the machine and turned it on. At first everything seemed to be going all right but the spinner began to go faster and faster. Soon cellophane was flying out of the machine, Izzy quickly shut the machine down.
"I can't seem to keep it from spinning to fast." said Izzy, looking depressed.
Sam saw her great grandfather sad and despite the warning from Clockwork decided to help.
"Maybe if you but a thing on the spinning part to weigh it down it won't spin so fast?" said Sam.
Izzy sat there for a minute and then he looked like he had just discovered gold. He quickly ran to a table and grabbed a weighted ring of iron. He ran back to the machine and attached it to the part and turned the machine on. It worked at a normal speed and put a perfect piece of cellophane on the top of the tooth pick.
"It works…Its works!" cried Izzy happily.
He danced around the shop and then gave Sam a big hug.
"Thank you! An angel must have sent you to help me." said Izzy.
"More like a ghost." muttered Sam under her breath.
"You must come with me to meet my family. They will want to meet the girl who helped me." said Izzy.
Before they could protest Izzy had directed them out of the shop. They did not get far when John came out of the other shop with Danny and the others following him.
"And that is all you need to know about ghosts." said John.
"John, I have great news, I just finished my invention." said Izzy.
"That is wonderful! How did you do it?" said John.
"It was this girl, she helped me finish it." said Izzy pointing to Sam.
"Hey, did I hear that you finished your invention?" said a black man that looked sort of like Tucker.
"Yes David, and its all thanks to this girl." said Izzy.
"Well we should mark this moment with a picture, and why don't I use my state of the art camera." said David Foley as he brought out a large camera on a tripod.
"That David and his new gadgets." said John jokingly.
"Now everybody get together and say cheese." said David.
Soon everybody was ready and David took the picture.
"This will look great, it should be ready in a minute." said David.
"While he's doing that you can all come to see my family." said Izzy.
"Uh ok, but first we have to go tell my…cousin where we will be." said Sam.
"Ok, we wouldn't want your family to worry." said Izzy.
Our heroes walked down the street, as soon as they got around a corner they began to run back to the sign on the edge of town.
"Sam! What did you do?" said Danny.
"I sort of…helped my grandfather invent his deli tooth pick machine." said Sam.
"Oh this is bad, Clockwork will be mad when we get back." said Danny.
They got back to the sign and saw the time portal was there again. They quickly jumped in and were transported back to the future. They landed in a heap back in Clockwork's tower and were greeted by a ticked off Clockwork.
"You altered the past, which I specifically told you not to do." said Clockwork.
"I'm sorry! It was just that I saw him looking so depressed and I wanted to help and…" said Sam, beginning to panic.
Then Clockwork's face softened and a smirk crossed his face.
"Don't apologize, you did what you were supposed to do." said Clockwork.
"What do you?...Why you sneaky ghost, you wanted me to go back and help my great grandfather." said Sam.
"That is correct." said Clockwork.
"So you wanted Sam to alter the past, so that the future would happen?" said Valerie.
"Correct again." said Clockwork.
"But why not just ask her to do it?" said Alex.
"Because her mind would have gotten in the way, she had to let her heart make the decision for her." said Clockwork.
"So that means that Sam is the one responsible for her family being rich?" said Tucker.
"That is correct." said Clockwork.
"Well Sam, you can say from now one that you are a self made millionaire, even if you never work a day in your life." said Tucker.
"Yeah, but there is still one problem, that photo they took of us. Its proof that we were in the past." said Sam.
"Not exactly." said Alicia as she held up the photo in question.
"Where did you get that?" said Sam.
"I did a little 'slight of hand' before we left." said Alicia.
"Alicia, you are the greatest!" said Sam.
"Thanks, and I think you deserve to have this." said Alicia as she handed the photo to Sam.
"Thanks, this means a lot to me." said Sam.
"Well everything went well, we got the information we need for the report and Sam got to help her great grandfather. How about we celebrate?" said Danny.
"Monster movie marathon?" said Sam.
"You read my mind." said Danny as he and Sam shared a kiss.
"Well the celebration will have to wait, because we have to get back to class." said Valerie.
"Oh right, I forgot." said Danny.
So our heroes flew back to the school to finish their report. But what they did not know is that when Alicia had taken the picture she had forgotten to get the negatives. So after the first picture disappeared David had just made another one. That might have created a problem if not for the fact that Izzy's invention made things a little hectic. In the chaos of publicity and investment offers the picture had been forgotten and placed in an old trunk. It sat there for one hundred years until a familiar looking ghost came looking for it. He found it in the attic of the Manson mansion.
"Ah! I've been looking everywhere for this." said Izzy.
He looked at the picture taken so long ago and looked at the face of the girl who had helped him.
"I never even learned her name." said Izzy sadly.
He was about to fly out of the house when he decided to look at what his descendents were doing. He flew down and was shocked at what he saw. Sitting right at the table in the kitchen was the girl from the photo.
"So Sammy dear, what did you do today?" said Mr. Manson.
"I had to help my friends with our project on earliy 20th century Amity Park." said Sam.
"that's nice, what are you doing now?" said Mrs. Manson.
"Just going over to Danny's house to match movies." said Sam.
"Now I don't know, it is a school night." said Mr. Manson.
"Oh let the girl go, she might as well have fun while she is still young." said Sam's grandmother.
Izzy recognized the women speaking as his daughter. He had last seen her when she was a young women, before a heart attack took his life.
"Oh alright, but just don't stay out late." said Mr. Manson
"I won't." said Sam as she left.
Izzy flew out of the house and looked at the retreating form of his great granddaughter, a ghostly tear coming to his eye.
"Thank you Sam, for all the help." Said Izzy, then he flew back to the Ghost Zone.
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Ember: So Sam is the reason her family is rich?
Rob: It would seem so.
Ember: I would if I could do that?
Clockwork: No, there has been enough meddling with the time line for today.
Ember: Aw man!
Rob: Hello Clockwork, how are you today?
Clockwork: Fine thank you.
Rob: Since you are here would you like to pull the hurt Vlad lever?
Clockwork: Yes I would. Clockwork pulls the hurt Vlad lever. On the TV monitor we see Vlad rebuilding his castle from the last bit of destruction visited on it. He can see him arguing with the foreman.
Vlad: Your men are working to slowly!
The Foreman: We're working as fast as we can.
Vlad: Well it is not good enough! Then suddenly Vlad is hit by a wreaking ball and sent flying through the sky. He is hurled through one of the just completed walls and ends up in a fan belt of a dump truck. The fan rips his clothes and sends him flying through the air were he lands in a pile sharp pieces of debris and rusty nails.
Vlad: This is the worst pain ever! Then the Fluffy Army of Doom surround him.
Leader of the Army: Squeak squeak squeak, squeak! Translation: That is where you are wrong, get him!
Vlad: Ahhhhh! Screams Vlad as the army visits unimaginable pain on him.
Clockwork: That was most enjoyable.
Rob: You got that right, and now the chapter summery.
Well our heroes have saved their grade point average. Also Sam got to help her great grandfather. That Clockwork is one sneaky ghost. But what chaos awaits our heroes tomorrow? Only the insane author who created this story knows for sure. So to find out what happens read the next chapter of 14 Days in the Life of Danny Phantom.
Ember: He totally shut me down. Ember pouts.
Rob: I'll make it up to you with a romantic dinner.
Ember: You always know how to make me feel better. Ember kisses Rob.
Rob: So until next time Danny Phantom fans, Read and Review!