Sorry if my doctor mumbo jumbo isn't that accurate. I was trying to use terms and stuff I remembered from watching Grey's Anatomy and I'm not sure how great I did.
A stretcher is rolled into the ER of a hospital. The family crawls out of the ambulance after it, walking through the whitewashed rooms until they're in the room where the lanky boy is moved from the stretcher to the bed. The light feels harsh and sharp, and the smell of sterility it making the family queasy with fear.
The doctor's begin their work, hurrying in order to save this boy.
Soon the machines begin blaring, and the room's pace picks up and orders are shouted out.
Danny awakes in a place that looks similar to the ghost zone. It's not as well lit and it looks more blurry than it should. Looking around, Danny sees a glowing, yellow light off in the distance. It entrances him, and he begins to walk slowly towards it.
The parents of the boy begin shouting, asking what's wrong. Instead of answering their hysteric questions, they're ordered out as an intern escorts them to the waiting room.
Back in the boy's room, the doctor's are inserting IV's and cutting his shirt off, prepping for fluid's and the crash cart.
Hearing a noise, Danny turns around to see Clockwork standing behind him.
"Clockwork?" Danny says, confused. "Where am I?"
"This," Clockwork gestures to the area around them. "Is the bridge between life and death. Something happened to you and at the moment, you are unconscious in the ER."
Danny looked down at his feet, eyes wide. He wasn't expecting an answer like that. He didn't remember anything happening. And honestly, he sometimes falls asleep and the next time he awakes he's in the ghost zone.
So he hadn't really thought much of it until Clockwork showed up.
"One milligram of epi!" A doctor calls, doing compressions on the boy's chest.
"We need to intubate!" Another doctor shouts. A few seconds of hustling occurs and a doctor is standing at the head of the boy, inserting something into his throat.
Danny looks back up at Clockwork.
"How come I didn't see this place when I was in the portal accident?"
Clockwork looks at him, changing from his adult to his elder form. "I would not be able to say. With all I can see and all I know, little is known about the creation of a halfa and what that all entails."
"Oh." Danny mumbles, looking back down at his feet. "Could it be since halfas don't really stay dead, like the possibility of a full and permanent death is removed?"
Clockwork looks ahead of them at the light, the glow increasing.
"Perhaps."
A crash cart is brought into the room. The boy's heart is flat lining.
"Charge to 100!"
"Clear!"
"Why does that light look like it's creeping towards us?" Danny asks Clockwork.
"Right now you are in an unstable condition. It's simply showing how close you are to your imminent demise."
"What would happen if I just walked into it?" Danny was feeling the tug of the warm light in his chest. He wanted to be engulfed by it.
Clockwork smiled.
"Wouldn't walking into death be just a little too easy for the almighty Danny Phantom?"
The doctor's held their breath for a few moments after the last charge they put through the boy's body. Soon, a faint beeping could be heard coming from the machine. Sighs were let out all through the room.
"Prep O.R. 13!"
Soon the doctors were wheeling the hospital bed out of the room, hurrying to get the boy to surgery.
"Why are you the one here with me anyways Clockwork? Isn't watching over all time a full gig already?"
Clockwork chuckles, amused by Danny's choice of words.
"I orchestrated the events leading up to the C.A.T. and manipulated your choice so that you could choose the right path instead of merely eliminating you. The Observants made you and your future self my responsibility.
"I am merely here to make sure you don't walk into the afterlife before your time."
Danny began to grow tired, his eyes becoming heavy.
He could see Clockwork smiling at him through his blurry eyes.
"I seem to have stalled your death successfully. Go see your family, Danny Phantom…"
Clockworks voice faded out, and Danny's eyes closed. Darkness engulfed him.
Danny began to slowly wake up from his slumber. When his eyes opened, he was blinded by the bright lights bouncing off the white walls of the hospital room. Looking around, he could see his family and friends in varying stages of slumber.
Tucker and Sam were both tucked into one chair asleep, worry lines etched into their faces. His parents occupied a couch on one side of the room, trying not to let sleep take them, their heads drooping and shooting back up. Lastly, Jazz was in a smaller chair near the foot of the bed reading a book. She was the first who noticed he was awake.
"Danny!" She shouted. She dropped her book and ran to his side.
Her shout had roused the rest of the room and they all joined him at his bedside.
After a few moments of gushing over him, his parents went to go get the doctors.
"Guys." Danny croaked out. "You would not believe who I saw."
"Who?" They all rang out together.
"Clockwork." Danny smirked.
"He helped me cheat death once again."