Oh god I can barely type with how much I’m im crying, god my head hurts, I thought it was gonna be an ending where he finally goes back in time to see the people he loves, god I’m so emotional rn. Everyone he loved is gone and that breaks my heart so much; to be alone for so long. I hate this story for making me THIS EMOTIONAL; I haven’t cried this hard in a long long time

Damn your writing style. It's really good. Y'know, you made cry.

Like, lots of times. Fuck The Box Ghost :((

I wan' Danny to be 'appy.

HUH? i don’t understand! am i too slow?! what does that mean!? can only be destroyed in a future that doesn’t exist but needs to? i don’t get it! qq anyway, that was a good read. ofc all yer stories are but still. this was enjoyable. thanks fer sharing. i loved every chapter.

Very well done story. I'd hope for a sequel, but you don't seem to be active these days, so I won't hold my breath...

Oh, that is so very human... Find something that poses a threat, and despite obvious signs of non-threat or even help coming from the same source, and the best answer is "destroy it entirely". Skip the steps involving understanding, communicating or compromise; just eliminate it with extreme prejudice and sort out the fallout afterward.

Bruh I wasn't expecting that ending but I love it! I love this story so much!

oof ouch my heart

this was wonderful

Wow, ghost genocide. That's brutal.

Just wanted to mention that Vald apparently died on my birthday. Not a bad gift if I do say so myself.

I started this years ago and got around to go through with it.

Completely different than what I thought would happen.

Nonetheless, this still provided wonderful insight into the world of the future. Glad that Danny can make the most of it.

It was a nice fic. I really liked it. The ending might be slightly confusing, but I think it's just because there's so many possibilities. That he died and was either another alt. version of Danny himself or that Clockwork could somehow take him back despite dying, and then he wakes up, and there's the possibility he's home, but then he's not but he has all that stuff that Vlad gave him without even mentioning wanting to be friends (or something) and the possibility of Danny going to him, but then he doesn't do that either, and even throws away some of his stuff (not sure if he's forgoing the whole identity or not, but the debit card would've been nice to keep). But then there's still the possibility of him being the primary Danny and Clockwork taking him back after he figures out how to get rid of Dark Dan (since there's the possibility that the little things that led up to this universe were put in place because of Dark Dan and it being the only way to get rid of him for good). ...Just think, if Danny had lived out his life, and then the ghost threat was somehow eliminated and he and everyone else retired, and then Dark Dan showed up when Danny's rusty and no one else was around who could even help... But anyhow, it's been a neat fic.

Aw, you have a nicer end for Lancer. That's nice. (though, I'd always assumed Lancer's memorial had said 'Gone but not forgotten' just like the other one, but that most of the words were buried beneath the ground.)
After that talk at the cemetery, I feel like it'll be more satisfying (than I used to think) if Danny doesn't get back to his home time. I guess because he's feeling like staying in this timeline is starting to be a real possibility. Kind'a coming to an understanding.

man... if this really is just Vlad's hologram then he's playing a really dirty trick on Danny by doing this to him.
Wow... to be there while the ghost zone was melting... Sounds pretty horrible. (but I'm still confused on the timing. That happened After the incident with Danny's thermos. How could he have had anything to do with stealing and burying him?)
Aww... Box Lunch. :( (also, why wasn't He desolving like the other ghosts? I thought he would've fled to the human world after seeing what was happening, but he seems untouched by it.)
Wow... so it was the Box Ghost all along - and he was going to turn him loose, but forgot. ...Kind'a like how Vlad wasn't really mean enough to torture Danny with the 'ghost' of his mother.
Oh... so it's not a continual thing, but more like... one blast of poison that quickly faded. ...but still, how could he just assume something like that? Did someone tell him?
What exactly did he do to Dani?

...I wonder if the old fenton thermos survived the reformatting because it's a real-world object. But he must've been outside the thermos before that point if he was able to steal Danny's thermos and bury it.
Wait, he killed Danielle? It wasn't just her outliving her stablization like they'd assumed?
Aww, Vlad's too smart to be taken by complete surprise at the kid being Danny later. (but, from the last lines, maybe now he'll actually go talk to Danny)

(blank stare for a moment) He does set off the sensors? Does that mean Sam and him have been messing with them? And then what about the one that Danny had set off? And if someone was sabotaging them then why didn't Vlad notice that someone wanted to remain hidden? I assume Vlad doesn't know about him, at least. If he does, I'd think he would've wanted to be around the closest thing to a halfa that was left. ...Poor Vlad, all alone.
...That's not another Danny, is it? At first I thought it could be Vlad or Clockwork in the Ghost Zone watching Danny, until he mentioned something about being stuck in a thermos.
...Whoever he is, he's the one who buried Danny? How did he survive the ghost zone getting wiped? Why didn't he do more in the human world within that 70 years? Why am I writing so much for a fic that was completed 8 years ago?
Follow them, 'Matthew'! These so-close encounters pull at me in such ways.