They were inside of Clockwork's Tower. The viewer showed swirls of green, and gears ticked and turned everywhere. The viewer blazeed, and Skulktech and the trio are thrown through it to land on the floor. The cuff sprang open.
"Where are we?" Tucker said.
"I don't know. The Ghost Zone, I think. But...no part of the Ghost Zone I've ever seen." Danny said.
"Master..." Kurai said and fell to one knee before the approaching ghost.
Clockwork towered over her in his adult form, holding his staff and glowing.
"Welcome...my apprentice." Clockwork said. "Introductions? Fine. I am Clockwork, Master of Time. Clockwork switched to child form. "I've been charged with the task of eliminating your future, so that" Clockwork pointed at the viewer. "never happens."
Danny and Tucker stared at Kurai.
"Let me explain." Kurai said. "This is what I've been trying to tell you all. I am from a horrible dystopian future. The mission was to go back to the past and create Danny Phantom to stop this horrible future."
"I know you were sent to give me powers...but what do you mean...' horrible future'?" Danny asked.
"I think she means...that." Tucker pointed at the viewfinder.
Dark Danny was laughing and throwing ectoblasts at screaming people and buildings, then laughing. A label on the screen read FUTURE: 10 YEARS.
"I think I'm seeing your future. And you're kind of a jerk." Tucker said.
On the viewer, tanks, helicopters, and police cars approached Dark Danny. He easily dispatched the lot of them with his Ghostly Wail. Tucker looked aghast.
"Ok, you're "really" a jerk." Tucker said.
Danny pushed Tucker out of the way. "Wow, what is that?" Danny was Excited. "Some kind of ghostly wail? What a cool power!"
Kurai and Tucker stared at him.
Danny backtracked quickly. ...If it weren't being used for evil!
In the viewer, Dark Danny picked up a tank and threw it, then tossed a few more ectoblasts around.
"You've got to be kidding me. Name one evil thing I've done!" Danny protested.
Smiling, adult Clockwork pointed his staff at the viewer. In it, Jazz was pulling the C.A.T. answer packet out of Danny's backpack and gasping, "Danny's a cheater!"
"Bet you can't find two!" Tucker said.
In the viewer, a sobbing Jazz turned into Dark Danny standing triumphantly over the wreckage of a city street, decorated liberally with fallen helicopters.
"How about two thousand." Clockwork switched to child form.
"I don't have to sit here and explain myself to you!" Danny said. "Kurai! I wanna see this future for myself!"
"As you wish." Kurai said reluctantly, and pressed a button on her pendant.
A portal opened. She put two pendants on the boys and they stepped through.
"Then let's see if you have what it takes" Clockwork switched to child form. "to face that future."