Reiko brought her hand together with her sister

"No!" shouts Clockwork.

Danny closes his eyes. "It's the end! Everything's over!"

Dan runs toward Reiko.

Sam lies on the ground.

Danny ducks.

"Stop!" Clockwork holds her staff over her head. "Time! Stop!"

Xxx

"Clockwork."

"Yes, Elder."

"The third thing you must not do: You mustn't stop time. You and the staff you carry are endowed with the power to move time. But no matter what happens, you must never stop time. If you ever violate that law..."

Xxx

Danny opens his eyes. "Nothing... happened!?"

Dan and Reiko stand frozen, amid a dark cloud. Reiko holds her hand an inch apart from Kurai.

"They're standing still!? Clockwork!?" He sees light swirling around his staff. "Oh no! He stopped time!?"

The others slowly open their eyes and get up. The planet Dominion holds still in the sky.

"Everything's stopped moving!"

"Dominion too? Even the air... It's like it's all frozen!"

"Time... stopped!?" thinks Kurai.

The fog around Dan dissipates. The blackness fades from his eyes. "...Reiko..."

The fog around Reiko leaves. She falls to the ground.

Clockwork is knocked to the floor, and loses consciousness.

Kurai and Sam run to him. "Clockwork!? Wake up!"

Danny runs over. "He shouldn't have done that! He stopped time...!"

"Clockwork did what!?" Sam says.

"He stopped time. He violated the most important law..."

"What law!?"

Clockwork moans.

"The most important law!? What's that!? And if Clockwork broke it, what'll happen!?"

"If you ever violate that law... You will give up your life."

"He gave up his life...!?"

"Time has stopped..." Clockwork says. "But it won't last for long... Kurai... Carefully get away from Reiko..."

"Clockwork!"

"Hurry!" she says.

Kurai slowly goes Danny's side.

"There's no power in my body..." says Reiko.

"Clockwork," says Kurai. "I away from her. Look."

"Good." says Clockwork.

"Thanks to you, Clockwork."

"I... wanted to help you... To fight with you... Kurai. My apprentice. The future of this world. You're what I longed for. Kurai, please... Save Reiko!" He coughs hard.

"Clockwork! Stay with us! Just a little longer! You can get through this!"

"Danny..." she says. "I committed the crime by myself... I must atone for it..." He weakly reaches for her rod. "My apprentice..."

Xxx

Tucker sits by the space-time door. He vanishes, and appears before Clockwork. "Thank you... Tucker... Guard the door for me..."

"Clockwork!? Hold on!"

"I... carried out my mission with honor... "

"Clockwork..."

"I can't protect Reiko... I'm sorry..." He holds out the space-time key. "Reiko..."

His hand falls limp on the floor.

"Clockwork!" cries Kurai. "Open your eyes! Noooo! Clockwork!"

"Reiko..."

"I... am Reiko. I have no allies or friends. I am alone."

"This is the time key. You can travel through time with it. It's a very important key."

"Whenever I go to see her," Reiko thinks, "My sister gets mad at me. But she's so important to me. I wonder if my sister loves me..."

Tears fill her eyes. "It's overwhelming me... What is this feeling? Why am I crying?"

"Reiko...!?" says Kurai.

"My most valuable friend... Clockwork... Clockwork!" The black earrings on her ears shatter. Her body shines with light.

Dominion begins to approach Earth again. The fog vanishes from around Dan. "The Ultimate Power!?" he says. "Where are they!? That light...! That light!"

"Reiko!" calls Kurai. "That light... Reiko!?"

Reiko's eyes clear and she is no longer evil.

"Reiko!" says Danny.

"She transformed...!" says Tucker.

"Reiko!" says Kurai.

"Kurai..." she says. "I..."

"The birth of the Ultimate Power," says Tucker.

"Tucker!"

"The awakening of the Ultimate Power!" Tucker walks up to Reiko.

"Kurai!" she says. She turns around. "Clockwork! Look! I transformed!

"Look at me!" she says. "Clockwork! Clockwork..." She falls to her knees, with tears in her eyes. "I finally transformed... But I'm not happy at all! Wake up! Clockwork!"

"Reiko...!" says Kurai.

Kurai hits her hand on the ground. She stands up and faces the planet looming overhead. "You manipulate people's pure spirit! You toy with them! You drag in people who want to live without fighting! I won't let you do this!" Her hands shine with power. She blasts power at the planet.

"So you've gotten rid of the evil spirit that possessed Reiko," it says. "Such wondrous power. And now you're coming to fight me."

"Sister..." thinks Reiko. "She has a strong heart..."

"Nobody else is going to die!" Kurai shouts. "Dominion! I won't let you do what you want with this planet!"

"Now that I have this power," thinks Reiko, "am I going to fight the enemies too!?"

"That's too bad," says Dominion. "You are small. Now I have you in my grasp."

The ground starts to waver around them.

"It's the distorted space of the Dominion!"

"I will smash you into pieces," Dominion says. "Heh heh heh..."

"If Xar wasn't able to do it..." says Dan. "I'll do it!" He charges toward Kurai.

"Kurai!" calls Danny. He reaches out.

"Danny!" Kurai says. She grabs on to his hand with him, and they hold it out toward Dan. It glows brightly, and Dan's body changes to the side of good once more and joins them.

"Young Dan," Dominion says. "So childish. I have been waiting for ages and ages to bring out my power. He had a plan to create a magnificent history, but he and his allies were fools."

Kurai and the others fall into darkness, the surroundings twisting around them. "Space is distorting!" Kurai says. "We're being sucked into the darkness." She sees the palace of the Dominion, on the forehead of a huge, fiery head. "Is that... Xar's true form!?"

"My name is Xar," he says. "I attacked the blue planet, Earth, and was sent off to the dark, cold planet of darkness. A warrior."

"Dominion!" says Danny.

"But now the planet Dominion has become a part of me. It is full of the massive power of the Darkness. I have the strongest power! And with it, I can do anything!"

"He's been in the Ghost Zone for hundreds of years. Is it his hatred moving the planet!?"

"An evil without form," thinks Kurai. "I won't let it happen to Earth... I'll stop it!" She holds out her hand. "I'll stop it!"

Light shines through the air from her hand. A huge swirl appears in a sky, then disappears. The sky is clear.