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Here's another update! Please review!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE! (Sorry! Sugar rush!)Clockwork turned to Danny. "I'm sorry Danny, I don't have much time," he said ironically. "You hybrids are stuck in your head until you find the key to the last door in that long hallway, no shortcuts."

"Wait, Clockwork, why am I in here?" Danny asked. "The ghost that captured me said I'm trapped on your orders!"

The Time Ghost sighed and stared at the floor. "I am sorry Danny. Please remember that, alright? It will help you in the long run."

Danny was about to say something, but was cut short when Clockwork started to fade. "No, Clockwork! Please...... Who is she?! PLEASE! CLOCKWORK!" He was almost completely gone by now, and only dropped an engraved stopwatch at his feet. The hybrid bent over to pick it up, but by time he'd come back up Clockwork had disappeared.

The stopwatch was pure, elegant silver, with an engraved CW on it. It had a tiny pearl knob on the side and when Danny opened it a note tumbled out the side.

- Danny

This stopwatch can be used for time traveling, immunity to my Time Staff, transportation or teleportation, communication to my castle, and more to be discovered by you. (I made it, but you don't honestly think I'd give you all the answers!)

Please be sure to be careful how you use it, and try not to let your former archenemy know about it. Although you might not be able to hide it for long...

Anyway Danny, I need to alert you that the stopwatch will only work for you, it will glow purple when you're about to be possessedby a ghost, and it will fade to black when you're being controlled. The watch will be white if you are no longer being controlled, but the ghost is still there. It will turn into a necklace if you're going to drop it. To make it a stopwatch again, there's a button on the back.

I'm sorry for putting you through all this, but all will be explained if you make it out alive and well. Oh, and by the way, it's the anniversary along with your 15th birthday today. Happy birthday, and good luck.

- Clockwork

'The anniversary?' Danny thought, 'I got my powers less than a year from now! It's not the anniversary... What happened today a few months after I got my powers?' Vlad walked out of the training room and it hit the young hybrid like a ton of bricks. He dropped the note and the stopwatch turned into a necklace and clung to his neck.

"Dan...Clockwork didn't mean when I got my powers, he meantthe CATs......" Danny murmered, just soft enough for Vlad not to hear.

"What was that Daniel? I heard you screaming and-" Vlad stopped. Danny continued staring into space with a miserable and desperate expression on his face. "Daniel are you alright? Daniel!"

Danny walked over to the wall and threw a side jab at it as hard as he could in newly erupted blind fury, and the punch managed to tear a huge slab of concreteout of it. Still not satisfying his anger, he let out an unearthly scream, the Wail. Vlad was unwillingly shoved against a wall, struggling to stay conscience until the red shock waves-

Wait, didn't those sonic waves used to be green? Oh well...

The wail suddenly came to a halt and Vlad collapsed onto a nearby bed that had been also slammed against the wall, miraculously staying conscience. Danny, however, looked like he'd been surroundedby blood blossoms for a week. His knees buckled underneath him and he fell to the ground with a thud.

"Daniel? Are you awake? Can you hear me little badger?" Danny groaned and tried to sit up. Keyword: tried. Bursts of colored lights appeared in front of his eyes and he plopped back down.

"Urg... What hit me? It feels like I-" Danny paused examining the discombobulated room. The strange anger protruded into his head again, until his eyes turned an evil red. "VLAD! WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

The older hybrid stared at him, brows furrowed in confusion. He hadn't heard Danny's yelling through his confusion. All he could think about was the strange resemblance he had to himself. Why had he gotten so angry so easily?

"Daniel? I'm going to ask a question I'll probably regret asking, but here it goes." he took a deep breath, "Why the toasted waffles are your eyes red?!"

"You didn't answer the question Cheesehead." he growled back.

"Cheesehead? Since when have you called me that? Isn't some childish name like Veggycirclesor something?"

Danny's eyes change back to a amused green and started laughing. "Are you kidding me? Veggiecircles?! Geez! I guess when you have money you get so out of touch with the rest of the world. It's Fruitloop. You know, the seriously crazed up kind? It's in the 'I should get a cat' department of the grocery store?" Danny took a breath from laughing so hard and continued. "And I didn't call you Cheesehead."

"Yes, you did Daniel. It was right after your eyes turned red." Vlad smirked when he saw the smile slide of Danny's face.

"Vlad...." he started frantically, "when and why did my eyes turn red?!" Danny saw a bead of sweat drip down his own face.

Plasmious looked at him strangelyand then angrily replied, "you know just why Daniel! It was five minutes ago for crying out loud! How could you not remember? You punched a freaking wall! Then you thought it would be a smart idea to hit me with that red sonic wave power. Use some common sense!"

"Wait, the Wail has green shock waves.... Why were they...? Oh no." Danny froze and looked down to the silver necklace. The vine-like jewleryhugged his neck and pulseda bright pure white. He had been controlled. Red eyes, red Ghostly Wail, calling Vlad Cheesehead, loss of memory.... It could only be Dan, Danny's worst nightmare has come back to haunt him.

Vlad was still waiting for an explanation and started tapping his foot. Tap. Tap. Tap. TAP. TAP. TAP! TAP!!! TAP!!! Tap. Tap. Ta-

"ALRIGHT! Just stop with the evil foot tapping!" Danny screamed. "I guess you'd figure it out anyway..... Let's put my mind back to normal first though."

"Your mind was normal?"

"Maddie! GHOST!" Jack sprang into action and grabbed an ecto foamer, dropping his fudge in the process. He saw the fudge close to hitting the floor and snatched it with his large, black hands.

That was all the time she needed. The ghost shot the man with a black ectoblast and he, well, blacked out. He hit the floor with a loud thud and the force of him hitting the ground set a blast of wind up to her cloak hood and blew it off.

Serena had gleaming white hair that sat right below her shoulders in dramatic waves and layers. She wasn't very pale, but had the 'I'm gonna get sunburned' skin. However, what was most startling were her beautiful eyes. They were swirled with green and black. It looked a lot like you had a spin-art and dribbled green all over a pieceof black paper.

"JACK!!! You, Ghost! Get out of my house you slimy ectoplasmic murderer!" Maddie had heard her husband'scall and descendedinto the basement, guns ablaze. That was until she realized Jack was out for the count. Maddie picked up his ecto foamer and tried to shoot the ghost, but she was too quick.

Serena looked at her with pity and whispered an "I'm sorry," before nailing her in the chest with the same blast Jack received. She put up her hood, picked up the bodies, and touched a necklace she was wearing and said, "Take me to Clockwork's!"

And off they went.

What is it with me and cliffes in this story? Oh, well. Review or PM me please. Are you guys happy I wrote a longer chappie?

Kirby