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Chapter 5

"That's just gross," Tucker said, now standing beside Sam and the kids and Valerie.

Danny was fighting the ghost while they watched. "Tucker, aren't you going to help him?" Sam asked as Danny's powers were shorted out for the second time, and he landed hard on the ground.

Without waiting for a reply, she ran to Danny's side. Valerie kept hold of the kids who were afraid but not crying or screaming.

Danny groaned and shook his head before rolling back onto his feet. Sam ran up to him. "Danny, are you okay?"

"Sam, you shouldn't be here. Get the kids and get out of here." A metal arm-like thing grabbed Danny around the middle.

"Danny!" Sam cried, as her husband was pulled away from her. Being married to someone that was half ghost was a lot harder than just being friends with him, she finally decided.

"Hurry, Tucker!" Valerie was holding DJ who had begun to cry when the arm grabbed his dad. Hailey was clinging to her leg.

"I'm trying! I'm trying!" He was typing something on his PDA. "Yes!"

They both looked up, and Skultech 9.9 smashed into a lamp post. Danny was still trapped in his weird metal arm-like thing, but he was still in one piece and unharmed. Sam, Tucker, and Valerie (with the kids still attached to her) ran up to him.

"Daddy!" Hailey hugged him while Valerie passed DJ to him. "I knew you'd be okay."

"Can you guys get me out of this thing?" Danny asked over DJ's head. He and Hailey were arguing over who had been more worried about "Daddy."

Tucker and Valerie each grabbed a "finger" of the arm thing and tried to pry it apart. Sam reached out and grasped Danny's shoulder as the amulet around Skultech's neck suddenly dropped to the ground. There was a flash then all that remained was the poor mangled lamp post.

Tucker looked around him, the first to recover. They had finally managed to release Danny only to find themselves in a place they'd never seen before. "Okay, we're definitely not in Amity Park anymore," Tucker said.

It was a tower filled with weird odds and ends. Two or three mirrors were on one wall with images floating through them. On another wall there were hooks where medallions were hanging.

"Hey, cool." Valerie grabbed one and slipped it around her neck. Tucker followed suit.

Danny and Sam exchanged a glance. Sometimes those two had way too much in common.

"Nice bling," Sam said before wandering away to one of the mirrors.

Hailey and DJ were wandering around climbing on things and just being kids while Danny remained where he was, slowly looking around him. Sam gasped as she looked into one of the mirrors. Someone that looked remarkably like Danny's ghost form was smashing cars with ectoplasmic rays and enjoying it. There were some differences between him and her husband though. His hair was blue and fire-like, like Ember's, and he had two fangs like a vampire. She knew it was him though by the D emblem on his chest, a D she had created and put on his costume when his memory had been wiped and he'd had to go through the Portal for a second time.

"What is it?" Danny asked, moving to stand beside her. The others walked over to join them. Hailey held onto Danny's hand while DJ clung to Sam's pant leg.

"I think I've just seen your future," she glanced at her husband, "and you're kind of an a….er, jerk." She hadn't cursed in front of her children, and she wasn't about to start now.

They turned back to the mirror and watched as Danny's future self demolished buildings and cars with a strange ghostly wail.

"Never mind, you are a jerk."

Danny was staring almost horror-struck at himself. "I'm going to end up…like that?" Destroying the town he loved and every one in it was definitely not something he had on his New Year's Resolution list.

"Not if I can help it." At the voice, everyone turned. A blue glow surrounded Skulteck and flew into the mirror they had just been looking in.

"Where'd he go?" Tucker asked.

"I returned him to his time." A figure moved out of the shadows. It was difficult to describe the person before them because he continued to shift from an old man to a boy to a man every minute or so. "My name is Clockwork, Master of Time, and you," he pointed his staff that held a clock at the top to Danny, "must die so that future can never be."

"What? You're going to kill me for something I haven't even done yet?" Danny went ghost, flying toward Clockwork.

"Time out!" Clockwork pressed a button on his staff, pausing time. He moved then pressed the button again. "Time in!"

Danny blinked then pulled back, turning around to fly at Clockwork yet again.

"Time out!" Clockwork pressed the button yet again.

"Wow, why's time only pausing for Danny?" Tucker asked.

"I was just about to say the same thing," Valerie admitted.

When no one commented, they looked beside them. Sam, DJ, and Hailey were standing frozen in time.

The couple looked down at the medallions they wore then grinned at each other. Valerie slipped one around Sam's neck and another two around the kid's while Tucker tried to figure out how to get one to Danny. He was distracted by Clockwork who was enjoying pausing time just as Danny ran into a bell hanging in the room then rewinding time and playing it again. This way, Danny's head was rammed into the bell over and over and over again.

Clockwork laughed. "I could do this all day, you know."

Sam finally grabbed the medallion from Tucker, and managed to slip it on her husband's neck. Danny managed to stop from running into the bell yet again, almost dropping to the floor because the room was spinning from hitting his head so many times.

"That hurts," he muttered. "Tuck', remind me to kill you later."

"Forget that, just get rid of the bad guy, and let's go," Sam said, picking up DJ as he walked up to her.

Clockwork laughed again. "You think you can defeat me?" His staff glowed, and replicas of Clockwork from ever century appeared beside him. "There's no place for you to run, Daniel Fenton."

Danny glanced at the mirror that held his future. "Except the future!" He grabbed the group below him and flew into the mirror, disappearing into the future.

Clockwork smiled to himself, the replicas disappearing. "Let's see if he can stop his future by entering into it."

A/N: And I'll leave you there until Chapter 6! I won't update until the people above mentioned for their reviews review, and I require one new review as well.