He stood up, feeling disoriented, confused, and unsure of anything. These feelings raged all at once in his mind as he gazed at the dark grass below him. He didn't remember what this place was, or how he got there. There was a flash of green, then gone. Nothing before or after that, nothing just silence.

He heard a soft clang of gears, a soft voice speaking softly as the world froze around him. The green swirls paused in their moving, the purple doors stopping their bobbing. His green eyes looked up as a man in a purple robe like outfit walked up to him.

He had gears on his chest, deep red eyes with a scar over one of them. The hood concealed most of his face however. The other frowned a bit, looking back down, confusion in his eyes.

"You want answers, many questions unanswered swirl your mind." He spoke in a calm tone that made the boy feel comfortable around him. It wasn't like the shrieks of the world around him, it just was.

The man gazed at him, "I can help you, I can give you a purpose." He promised to the boy as he waved his hand and a fuzzy outline of a name showed and the letters vanished just as quickly as they came, turning into dark green gears as the name was spelled out to the boy.

His green eyes gazed up and in soft voice spoke his name, "Gear." He looked up to see a now older man smile kindly at him.

"I'm in need of an apprentice." He told the other, "This will be your name, if you want it." The now newly named ghost nodded to the other, as the other turned into a small child, "Good, you many call me Clockwork." He told the other taking Gear's hand as the two of them vanished from the island in the ghost zone and time returned to normal.

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In the mortal realm, a mother cried over the body of her dead child. Why did Danny have to die so young?

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So I got the idea from watching and playing Kingdom Hearts and thought what if Roxas's beginning was like Danny's if he died when entering the portal?

First off, if I get enough reviews I might continue this story I had other ideas for it unlike most, but I need feedback to tell me to continue.

Secondly, the idea can also be used by anyone else prior with permission, just PM me if you want to use it.

Third, Danny will be referred to as Gear, and he has memory loss due to dying in a tragic way. Often when people come back after near death experiences they can have problems in memory. Gear does have dreams and faint memories of his past, but can never hold them for long.

Clockwork is pretty much Gear's mentor and teaching him the ways of the Ghost Zone, but he can never tell Danny the truth for it would be against the rules of time.

This can have AU's in it, being that Clockwork's place is immune to paradoxes, Gear will sometimes hear his mentor talking to Danny from another time, but he can never see or hear him talk back.

All around this is an experiment fanfiction of one shots.