!Disclaimer: I was unable to find an actual episode where Danny gets his ghost powers, because the first episode Danny already has them, but I used the famous line for accuracy! I do not own Danny Phantom and this Epilogue is based completely off the TV show! I do not own it!

!Warning: This is the last chapter to this story. Thank you all for reading and patiently waiting! I hope this isn't my last story but either way, I won't be posting anything for a while. I'm working on a new plot, but I try to improve my writing with each story so it's going to take me a little before I post the prologue to anything new. Don't worry: I have a great idea but if it's been too long I will post a one-shot so you all know that everything is fine! Love you all very much, thank you for the support, and enjoy the ending!

Or, is it really the ending?

Epilogue

In the small, unimportant town of Amity Park, three best friends had snuck down to the basement of Fenton Works to see for themselves the portal Jack Fenton loudly boasted could do the unthinkable: create a door into another realm where ghosts lived. He called it the Ghost Zone, but he and his wife Maddie had no proof of its existence. This is why they decided to construct the portal—to prove their theories correct, yet alas they could not fix it enough to have it properly operate.

Sam Manson, the only female in the trio, snapped a picture of the broken portal in fascination, as she was a Goth. One of her friends, Tucker Foley, was trying to connect his PDA to the mainframe to see if he could figure out that which alluded the Fentons. He was having no luck thus far. Her other friend, Danny Fenton, was glancing around nervously as if expecting his parents to appear from nowhere and ground him for life for allowing his friends near the ghost equipment. He also had a small fear of ghosts—he just turned fourteen after all!—and didn't feel completely comfortable being left alone in front of a portal that was supposed to create a door into their habitat.

"Are you done yet Sam?" Danny nervously asked, wanting to go back upstairs before he could get into trouble or something bad happened from the ominous looking portal.

"O c'mon Danny, chill out. Aren't you even a little bit curious to know what kind of awesome, super cool things might exist on the other side of this portal?" Sam asked as she stood before the harmless machine.

"Ya, seriously dude. Wouldn't it be cool to just take a peek inside and see what it is your parents have been obsessing over for the last year?" Tucker added, coming to stand beside the other two.

"Just one peek Danny," Sam dared as she pulled out the hazmat suit originally created for Danny by his parents. It had been made before he told them he wasn't going to be wearing it to school because it was against the dress code in an effort to spare his parents' feelings. He was already embarrassed of their work, no need to break their hearts by telling them he didn't want to be associated with the Fenton weirdness of ghost hunting.

Danny debated his answer in his head for a couple minutes, and letting curiosity get the better of him—not to mention Sam's own version of puppy dog eyes—he took the suit and zipped it up before turning to face the portal. He allowed her to rip off the Fenton logo—his dad's face—because he agreed that he couldn't go walking around with that on his chest before stepping back to the portal's entrance. It was broken, so nothing would even happen, right? He took one hesitant step inside and then another, turning around briefly for Sam to take a picture before continuing towards the back of the portal. It wasn't very long leading him to wonder how an infinite realm could fit inside. It also wasn't lit well and to guide him to the back he set his hand along the side of the portal. As luck would have it, Danny found himself tripping over one of the many chords lazily lying around because he had been staring in concentration at the sight surrounding him, and as he fell forward his hand found the small and forgotten button his dad must have installed and accidentally pushed it down.

His yelp turned into a bloodcurdling scream as electricity flowed freely through his veins within seconds of his trip. Every inch of his body boiled under the heat of being electrocuted and the only other thing he could hear were his friends screaming his name. It seemed to last forever and he pleaded with any and all higher entities that they end his suffering as quickly as they could, for Danny was sure this was it. He was going to die. No way he makes it out of this alive. Just as he felt that he could no longer take this torture—

"Time out." Clockwork opened his portal as he flew into the Fenton's basement. He proceeded to observe all the commotion, checking to see where Danny's parents were located before turning his full attention back to the trio. Tucker has dropped his PDA in order to hold Sam and stop her from rushing forward—as was her first reaction when she heard Danny cry out in pain. Sam, unable to go to her friend, has her hands over her mouth as she listened to the screams she is sure will forever haunt her as she thinks this is her fault. Danny is suspended in the air as his DNA absorbs the ghostly interference that likely would have killed anyone else.

However, Clockwork knew better and is able to look past Danny's fear to see his soul's determination to live. He does not want to die. There are many words he's left unspoken and many actions he had not taken that deserve to be given the chance to play through. Clockwork understood this, as do the Observants, and so with a final look around, Clockwork ensures aloud, "All is as it should be."

He summoned his portal to bring him back to his tower, where he will watch this young child grow into an adult and furthermore, a hero once more as he has already watched this before and will continue to watch many more times afterwards. It is his job, and he rather liked the stories that came with happy endings. Smiling at Danny, he was assured that everything was in fact how it should be, so he turned back to his portal and flew through it, saying only in goodbye, "Time in."

Then again, perhaps he was actually saying hello.

Author's Note

There are no endings, only beginnings.