Drabbles on Clockwork and the Fenton Thermos

Hy readers, it's being a while I didn't update a thing, that's because I got a lot of plotting with DP-RPG, I already got the prologue but won't put the story on before I got a few chapter ahead so I could have some time to write the next chapter!

Ok this one shot is aboute a lot of things: how Dan thought of himself, how Clockwork is the Master of all time (quite messy for me, I sure hope you got the concept) and….

Puppy eyeing observers!

Dan, still fused with the thermos, jump noisily to Clockwork study, the Time Master in grandpa mode was visioning a political event about space development, he remember that he crash this for his first world attack, it had put an absolute end to all space technology! It was funny and sad in a twisted way, his Danny side probably, it's a side that is always wrong. Why? Because of his naiveness, fourteen years old experience of life and one year of half ghost, nothing stable and firm and sure like his Vlad side, the fruitloop (no one's perfect) had much comfort in his believing and trust: trust no humans, at least the standard ones, all ghosts are easy to control once you get their way to think, and I'm rich, smart, practical and a jerky bastard who never fallow the rules and always cheat because I hate to lose! Yeah! V-man sure knows how to live happily, just forget about family and you got him: Dan Phantom, the most strong and vicious ghost of the universe, and maybe futures! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

But it didn't prevent him from loosing against his younger self, why? He was too kind and the time master had played a really dirty trick against him. If he had ever seriously damage his younger self, like he always do in a minute against anyone (nearly, his Valerie sure master the best defense technique) he might had done significant change on himself, like weakening him, since he was at the top of his possibilities and abilities, he was nearly sure that he could have only weakened if he had change his past. The itch here was the boy had probably seen him and would have change things just for his friends. Yes, separation hurts, but it's a small hill for a greater EVIL! And he couldn't replace him too, it would have ended in so many possibilities that would backfire him in the end, he do plan things and think forward, even if he didn't practice the plot part of Plasmius for a long while. In the end he had too little time to think of a good plan to save him from all possible changes! So he tries to make sure everything go as they should have. But the young Danny would have never seen it like his side did… (Mental smack since the thermos don't have hands) Of course, this plan wasn't any better than killing his younger self! He would have given anything to take his revenge, and even force the Master of time to help him to, I'm lucky he stops me in the end! Or worst! The kid could have actually kill himself, Vlad would save him from that but the boy would still gave anything for his family, the evilly powerful thermos realize that his trick with time traveling had engaged a long term time paradox that would have doomed him in a way or another! He should have tried to convince his younger self that it was great to be like him! He would have changed the kid vision of the world since he knows him to the deepest level: his logics and morals!

But thank goodness the time ghost had believed He had create too much mess with his hypothetical time stream that had to interact in person in this!

Now he know Clocky(kid mode) wouldn't have move a finger to stop him if and the Nasty Burger accident it wasn't for the observers, but it seems like they wanted him dead, so he didn't slaughter Danny at his depressed moment, he could have easily guide the boy the suicide by letting him alone in a room with a knife, it sure was the easiest way out of it! So why he'd just obeyed halfway through their orders? Or maybe more important how do day held authority on him?

The thermos realizes that Clockwork (man mode) stare kindly at him.

Dan: What are looking at?

Clockwork: You.

Dan: Me? And why?

Clockwork(old mode): Even with your thermos body, I was able to read your corps expressions, and so I saw you was in deep though, probably about you most the time, but maybe with some interrogation about me?

Dan: (freaking a little to be this easy to be understood, it wasn't at all himself!) well yeah! I was wondering how a nearly all god ghost like you is controlled by the observers?

Clockwork(man mode): (stare a good moment at Dan, debating about whether answer or not) I don't think you'll be able to understand that, not yet anyway.

Dan: Ho comes on! Please (using his Danny side to be absolutely childish, it really weird how well it still works on his thermos state, he's really retrograding!)

Clockwork(kid mode): ho no! Not that with me! No! Stop! Not the false brat voice!

Dan knows for sure that Clockwork was some kind vulnerable to childish pleading, but he knows he was still far from getting the time ghost to answers, and his sanity (evil one of course) wasn't holding on that long. But suddenly the duo observers get out of the shadows.

Observers1: Ho Master of Time! We request you to prevent the invention of the ghost portals by Jack Fenton!

Clockwork(old mode): Again? It's no and I got a better reason than any of yours so forget it!

Observers2: Can we at least know why?

Clockwork; I'll give a try:

"You see, even if that man had engaged a process that will give to the whole mankind the access to the dead world, he will be considered as a great genius (not from his leaving that's sure). The fact that people be able to know what' after death will erase the fear of death, of course we must prevent people to let themselves die with no fight, but the fact of an afterlife will, block out all motor wish to go back in time! Thus preventing mortals to invent time machine and meddle with the time stream and making wrong moves about it!"

Observers1: you're afraid to lose your job or powers over time? That just gives more reason to go forward!

Clockwork: If it was only that, I wouldn't have gone through all the meddling I done in the past! No. I' m avoiding the time traveling by others to prevent one major catastrophe that I'm the only survivor of it! Due the fact it was a catastrophic time distortion, warping all prediction and logics, killing nearly all intelligent forces, and resurrecting it at the same time all under a pressure and absolutely no ending circle of errors done in the past, never stopping and extremely painful: worlds (both dead and alive) pollution to intoxication, wars for trivial reasons, worlds crush with his five next minute versions, ect… I'm speaking of the most evident ones! So I was forced to a terrible choice to get out of this craziness before being destroyed myself. I erased the first moment of the universe after the big bang, erasing all other consequences including the time warp afterward. And so a new more and virgin time stream came, yours! Since then I keep a good look at any evolution making sure, that no one ever meddle with the powers of time. Not until the last effects of the first time stream disaster end at least, in other word me who exist, even I couldn't answer the reason why, maybe and the only logical and useful reason is to be the last mark of that past doom.

Dan: Whow! Than mean you're really are older than time itself? And who would know you where a worst jerk than me? hahahaha!

Observers1&2: YOU COULD ERASE EVERYTHING! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ERASING THE "BEGINNING"!

Clockwork: Well first you must know that I can't no more do that, because I lose the tool that aloud me this and had never held the science that had create it, my time staff held all my knowledge and it can time travel, freeze time, accelerate it, revive it and register eventual possibilities, the last powers his useless for me since I manage to be omniscient of the whole time stream by myself (smirk)! By the way, I though you already know about my story. Didn't you watch the first tape I gave you to view?

Observers1&2: … (remembering that they thought it was some poor scenaristic Science Fiction film about time, and so didn't pay at all attention to it, they didn't even take a quick look at it!)

Dan: You guys sure are freakier than me, especially when I know you had submitted all the great ancient ghosts to your authority! How did you manage? Really, you're dumb for not using perfectly your eyes balls to see things and under the lines, you don't have some kind of divine power in you, you're not jerks having hostage to forces them,… I could go on and on! So how do you do it?

Clockwork( kid mode):…( silently expressing to the Observers to not explain him, no actually pleading them)

Observer1: Show him. (His eye expressing childish cruelty)

Observers2: With pleasure!...( he concentrate himself by closing his eye, and open it, when he open it, his pupil was dilated, like some cute small pet, making small cute noise and walking kindly to the time ghost)

The time master (old mode) was made of stone, in a purely pity look on his faces, trying to compose himself and not melt under this huge adorable glassy eye, after a minute and huge from the watery eyes observer, Clockwork crackle under the plea:

Clockwork: Alright! Alright! I'll give you…. But do you want?

Dan was staring (sort of as a thermos) at the pleading observers, and he must admit he nearly fall for it. This was one of the lowest tricks he ever saw in his all villain career! Come on! That's…. the weakness of the ancient ghosts? Puppy eyes? Man the universe is wrong!

Observer1: we want you to prevent the creation of the ghost portal, or… (Duo observers Puppy eyes) let use barrow your time staff, please?

Clockwork handle them his time staff, knowing well he'll have to fix things after that, but he can't fight back two of those huge puppy eyes!

Dan was trying to convince himself to retrograding to this in attempt to get out of the thermos but his pride doesn't allow him that (unaware he nearly had done not even five minutes ago), still it might be the only way out of the time master clutches. BUT HE GOT PRIDE OF SUPER DEADLY EVIL VILLAIN TO PRESERVES! NO NERVER! NOT EVEN ON HIS OVERDEAD BODY! But he have to, there's nothing else seeming to be able to affect him! It's the only way out!

An eternity of imprisonment is still better than being reduced to plead the Time Master with puppy eyes. His Vlad side is always right! But his Danny side?...