After the Time Freeze faded, Kuri was gone.
They walked to Memorial Park, and saw the girl sitting by herself on a swing.
They heard the girl sniff. "Dad..." she cried.
Danny stepped forward. "Kuri?"
"Where's your house? We'll take you home." As he took the girl's hand, he saw an image of a crystal city. "What?" he thought. "What was that? Did I just see something...?"
The girl held onto him. "He's warm," she thought. "He's nothing like his future self."
"Danny, you've gotten attached to her!" said Sam.
"Now that I look, she's a normal person," said Danny.
"She is not normal!" Tucker protested
"She has no hostility now," Danny said. He looked at the girl. "Where did you come from?"
"How do you know about all this ghost stuff?" said Sam.
The girl was silent. They took the little girl back to Danny's home and Kuri hid behind Danny when she saw Jazz.
Maddie came out.
"Danny, you're back?"
"Oh, Mom," said Danny "Umm... Err... This is..."
"Kurisuta Chronos." Kuri said. "But you can call me Kuri."
She bowed.
"Why, Danny, you're always so helpful," said Danny. She looked at Kuri. "Is this a foreign exchange student?"
"No, that's..." said Danny. "A girl I'm kind of fond of."
"Well, she's lovely," Maddie said.
"I am foreign. I'm Japanese." Kuri said.
"Kurisuta Chronos?" thought Jazz. "A foreign girl with a last name like that?
"So, are you called Kuri then?" said Maddie.
Jack walked up to them.
"What's going on?" Jack said. "You're all gathered here."
"Hey, look at the necklace Kuri has." Tucker said. "It looks like a pretty cool clock."
"Yeah, it does!" said Danny.
"You're so cute, Kuri!" said Maddie. "Where's your home? It's dinner time already. Your mother must be worried."
"I..." said Kuri. "Fenton Daniel. I've decided to watch you for a while."
"Huh!?" said Danny.
Kuri picked up the clock around her neck. It turned into a staff and she struck it on the ground.
"Wh- what!?" said Danny.
A spiral pattern from the staff hypnotized everyone—but Danny wasn't affected.
Danny shook his head. "Oh no!"
He bopped Sam and Tucker, knocking them out of their trances.
Danny looked at his parents. "Mom!? Dad!?"
Maddie smiled at Kuri
"Well," Danny said. "How great to have you here! From now on, think of this as your home. We've been waiting for you, Kuri."
Danny gasped. Kuri smiled.
"Damn that brat!" thought Danny. He grabbed Kuri and ran to his room upstairs.
"Show me your true identity!" He said. "Kuri! What did you do to Mom and Dad!? Return them to normal!"
"I won't..." Kuri said quietly.
"You won't...!? What's that supposed to mean! What did you do!? Who the hell are you!?"
Kuri was silent.
"Say something!" said Danny. "You've been unfair since the start! I won't go easy on you!"
Jazz walked into the room.
"Hey!" Jazz said.. "Danny's bullying Kuri!"
"Jazz..." said Danny.
"Come on, Kuri," Jazz said.. "Dinner." She lead her out of the room.
As she left, the light caught on the clock around her neck.
Xxx
Danny peered into Kuri's room the next morning, and saw her sleeping quietly.
"What a relief. Is she sleeping...? I don't believe it..."
Danny stared for a minute.
Kuri rolled over, whimpering. "Daddy..."
A tear fell, and she began to sob.
"She's...crying?" Danny went over to her and put the blanket on her. "Hey it's alright. I...I'm going to help you..."
Kuri's hand fell on his and clutched it. "Only Danny Phantom can stop him...the Ultimate Enemy..."
"Who...what?" Danny was shocked as his phone started to buzz.
He quickly left the room.
Xxx
Danny then went to see Tucker and Sam.
"I see," said Tucker. "So she's staying at your place after all, Usako."
"But we don't know what kind of bomb she might be carrying." Sam said. "We don't even know who this 'Clockwork' is. I'll come to take a look at her, too.
"Should we at least ask the police whether anyone's asked them to search for her?" Tucker said.
As they all talked, a little girl was watching them.
Xxx
Later Danny and his friends went to Nasty Burger.
"Hey," said Danny. "I brought new stuff from my parents lab!" He dropped two rings on the table. "This should counteract any ghostly attacks." He dropped wrist bracelets on the table. "And communicators. We must be prepared in case something happens."
"Awesome new gadgets!" Tucker said.
"Someone's gotta protect you from that brat." Sam said.
"I...I don't think she's evil." Danny said.
"What?!" The two of them said back.
"She's sad. Whoever this Clockwork guy is, he's in danger." Danny said. "She came so we would help her dad. I think she's just trying to play it safe. She doesn't really have any allies so maybe that's why she's so harsh with us."
"Is that so..." Sam looked at her watch. "Oh no!" she said. "I was going to be back at school by 4:30. I have preparations to make."
"What? Why?" Danny said.
"The school's having the Japanese Foreign Ambassador over." Sam said. "All the clubs are doing something. Come see me do a fortunetelling booth."
Xxx
Sam went to the Goth club and was surprised to see Valerie.
"What are you doing here?" They chorused.
"Well I'm happy for the help anyway." Valerie said. "Everyone around here is just sitting around. I got the booth up myself."
"Um...ok." Sam said.
"For some reason the others want us to focus on UFOs that people have been seeing in town, and spontaneous combustion." Valerie said. "Both have been in the papers, though if you believe in all that.."
"If I didn't I wouldn't be in this club." Sam stated angrily.
Star ran up, panting. "Valerie! Some other girl is reading fortunes like Sam!"
"Are you kidding me?" Sam got up to check it out. But she made sure she had the ring and bracelet given to her by Danny on, in case of a ghost.
She opened the tent to find a little girl reading fortunes of death and terrifying people.
"Hiya." She said. "I'm Kurozuki Bento! Can I read your fortune?"
"I don't want a fortune of death!" Sam snapped, her ring alerting her and telling her this was definitely a ghost.
"Cmon Sam don't make this worse." Valerie said, leading her away.
They were going back through the hall to their booth when they saw a teacher.
"I'm gonna tell the teacher about Bento!" Sam said.
Suddenly the teacher burst into flames.
"I told you! Spontaneous combustion!" Valerie said.
A group of teachers turned, laughing, with dominion crescents on their foreheads.
"What the hell?" Sam took out one of Maddie's lipsticks and zapped them, knocking them to the ground.
Danny saw this.
"Going Ghost!" He transformed and ran over to Sam, protecting her.
He used his Ghost Ray to knock the ghosts out of the teachers, but it didn't work.
"Look out!" Kuri pushed him down out of the way of their zap.
"Kuri?!" Sam said.
Tucker arrived then and he and Sam weakened the Teacher Ghosts with ghost weapons.
"I can't...push the ghosts outta them..." Danny said.
"You need my help." Kuri grabbed his hands.
A silvery gold light shone, and Danny's ghost ray turned silver.
"Try it now." Kuri said.
Xxx
Dan watched on a monitor. "That's...!"
"It can't be!" Ahri said.
"Its the Purification Light!" Dan said. "Only Clockwork can do that!"
"No." Ahri said. "Even at his strongest, Clockwork's light was never so bright as that woman's. And with Danny's added to it...they are invincible."
Dan slammed his fist down. "No one is invincible! His greatest power, is it? Make it his greatest weakness. We will get that woman from him, and shatter his strength!"
Xxx
"I understand now!" Danny shouted. "Together we are stronger!"
Bento was blasted away in a burst of light.
Fright Night approached them. But he looked different, stronger, older. "Blowing away Bento...but she was weak..." he says.
"The Fright Night!? Why do you look like that?!" Danny said.
"I am no longer the Fright Night. I am Osore, the Ghost of Fear! I have come for the Miko!"
"No way!" Sam jumped in front just as Osore attacked.
She was lifted off the ground, surrounded in fire.
Danny raised his hand to attack.
"Even if you eliminate me," Osore said. "That field of fire cannot be extinguished by anyone but my master."
Xxx
"Osore," said Dan. "Take her. Bring the girl to our time alive!"
Xxx
"Sam!" shouted Danny.
"My master has commanded it," said Osore. "I shall take the girl."
The flames lifted Sam into the sky.
"Sam!?" called Danny.
Osore disappeared with Sam in a flash of light.
"SAM!"
Kuri stood there watching, her father's words ringing in her ears.
"Danny Phantom is invincible."
She stared into the sky. But Father, he was just defeated!