Disclaimer: I wish I owned Danny Phantom! Desiree: -turns me into Butch Hartman- AHHHHHHHHH! CHANGE ME BACK CHANGE ME BACK! -is changed back-

Dani DOESN'T know who Dan is and Danny kinds of understands what happening, but not completely.

"You cheated," Valerie repeated herself when she found Dani innocently sitting on her bed in her human mode.

"You're just jealous cause I'm faster," Dani giggled. Valerie wasn't mad. Even if she was, how could she be mad at Dani? Valerie instead smiled, deactivating her suit before opening her closet to find Dani something to change into.

"Is that your homecoming dress?" Dani asked, nodding towards the dress hanging on the back of the closet door.

"Yeah. Paid for it myself with my own money," Valerie told her proudly. Dani smiled. It was a basic orange spaghetti-strapped dress that reached the knees with touches of yellow.

"It's really pretty," she told her truthfully as she looked at it a little closer.

"Thanks. I'm hoping it'll last for all of the school dances," she replied. "And hopefully even next year's homecoming. Money's a bit tight, you know?"

"Maybe if you change it up with some accessories or something, it'll look like a new dress each time," Dani suggested.

"That's a good idea," Valerie admitted.

"Do you have a date?" Dani asked, remembering hearing some girls go crazy, talking about homecoming a while ago. She ended up listening to the conversation, thus learning all about homecoming.

"Well, no," Valerie sighed, grabbing an old t-shirt and shorts. "But I'm going with some friends, so it shouldn't be that bad. Here." Valerie handed her the t-shirt and shorts, which Dani accepted. "They're a little small for me, so you can even keep them if you'd like. There's a bathroom down the hall."

Dani smiled and walked out. As she headed to the bathroom, her ghost sense went off and she heard something.

"Time out."

Clockwork frowned slightly as he watched the halfa girl down the hallway, her back to him before letting a gentle smile grace his expression. She was just like Dani, from her ghost powers to the future that would await her. He let himself smile a little longer at the memories before turning serious. Holding his time staff in the air, he summoned a young ghost who looked no older than ten.

She appeared to be sleeping, long black hair that flowed to her wait covering one eye. Her skin was a light green, and she was dressed in a dark green t-shirt and lighter green pants. When Clockwork put the time medallion on her, she woke up, blinking with bright red eyes as she stared curiously at the world she had been placed in.

"Where am I?" she asked, taking notice of the wise old ghost.

"Amity Park, my child," he told her gently. The girl looked at Dani.

"It's...It's Dani," she whispered to Clockwork in a hushed and fearful tone. "But she looks so much younger."

"This is Amity Park, before you were born," he told her.

"Is this before...before everything happened?" she questioned hesitantly.

"Yes it is," he told her, smiling kindly. "You know, you are a smart young lady. Why don't you show her what your father has been teaching you?"

"Okay," she replied, smiling back.

"Time in," Clockwork said as he disappeared.

The ghost's eyes widened when the halfa girl took immediate notice of her. She backed up slightly when Dani went ghost and shot an ecto-blast at her.

I thought he meant talk to her! she thought, panicking slightly. Instead of showing her fear, she raised her hand toward an electrical socket. Some electricity shot to her hand, building up. She shot it at Dani, the blast resembling a lightning bolt.

Dani immediately dodged, but it grazed her arm. She looked at the small wound, which had flickers of electricity around it for a moment before it died. She looked up at the girl before she was shot at again. Even though she went intangible, it still hit her.

Crap! Dani thought in panic as Valerie came into the hallway.

"What the-?" was all she got up before she was shot at by the young ghost.

Thankfully, Valerie dodged, moving back into her bedroom. She emerged seconds later in her huntress suit.

"Valerie! Don't! Even when intangible she can still hit me!" Dani yelled at her as she began to float, putting up a shield. The blast destroyed the shield. "It's dangerous!"

"I'll be fine!" Valerie insisted, shooting at the younger ghost. She took the energy and used it to shoot at Dani. Dani dodged completely this time before phasing through the roof.

The ghost followed pursuit, and Valerie jumped out her window, summoning her hoverboard. Dani glanced behind her before a shooting pain shot down her back as she was hit with the lightening.

She saw Danny come up and shoot at the ghost girl, hitting her successfully. The young ghost skid across the roof before standing up. She jumped into the air, floating before him.

"I, Nicole Technus, am daughter of Nicolai and Desiree Technus!" she blabbed. "I come from the future with the help of some weirdo ghost that looked like my grandpa's living room clock that he got from some yard sale when he was alive! I, with my amazing powers of electricity and wish-granting, even though I could still use the practice but my daddy says I'm getting really good! Mommy doesn't really teach me much because there's not really much to learn about when it comes to granting wishes. Well there is imagination, but my mommy says I have too much of that. She says I get it from my daddy. What was I talking about? Oh yeah! I was sent to rid the world of the feared enemy of the future!" She suddenly gasped as the three teens stared at her. She covered her mouth, flushing red. "Oops."

"Like father, like daughter," Danny taunted at he sent another blast at her. She captured the energy and sent it back. "I thought the future was safe, that I took care of Dan."

Valerie gave Dani a confused look at the mentioning of Dan. Dani shrugged her shoulders.

"Not you!" Nicole scowled. She pointed at Dani, at the same time sending electricity towards her, which she managed to dodge. "Her!"

"Me?" Dani squeaked out, pointing to herself. The girl nodded before flying towards her, body slamming her. Dani flew backwards, towards FentonWorks.

Dani's heart raced as she turned intangible and ended up slamming into the lab floor. Luck was on her side today, for the Fenton adults were not in there. There was pain shooting down her back again as she noticed the fact that she had slammed into a table full of experiments. She paid no real attention to it, phasing up through the roof to join the fight again.

She should have paid attention. Maybe then she would have noticed the ecto-gun that fell onto the heater.

The second she came up, Danny had punched the ghost in the jaw, causing her to go upside down momentarily. Before Danny could pick it up, Valerie snatched it up. He saw it though.

Clockwork, he thought, his eyes narrowing.

Before Valerie could shoot, he flew off. He flew into FentonWorks and into the Ghost Zone. He needed some answers.