It's been a while since Danny saved the world from the disaster-oid. A long LONG while. Everyone he has ever known was now gone and on top of everything else, he was the King of the Ghost Zone and Clockwork's apprentice. Now to get a better understanding of the timelines he must travel to multiple different alternate timelines and accomplish his tasks in each. However, this seemed to be more difficult than the halfa first thought.

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I don't own Danny Phantom ok. Glad that's out of the way. Just try to enjoy the story.

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Chapter 1 ~

Danny, for the fifth time that day, looked into one of the time portals that stood in the main room of Clockwork's tower. There was no denying it. He was bored.

Danny's crown floated crookedly above his head as he looked around the room for something new to do. Just had to look left, then right, and after finding nothing, looking back left. To his relief, Clockwork was there where he hadn't been before.

"Oh good! So glad you're here! I bet you can guess what I want?" Danny rushed closer to his mentor with pleading eyes, his crown threatening to fall off.

"Yes, Daniel, I'm well aware of how bored you are monitoring the current timeline. However, I can't just send you off willy nilly to relieve yourself of your boredom." Danny slumped in posture as Clockwork gave a slight grin.

"Oh come on! You already know what's going to happen, so what's the point in keeping me here to watch it all play out?" Danny crossed his arms in defiance, the ring he wore shone brightly in the dimly lit room.

"I suppose that is for me to know and for you to find out, now isn't it?" Clockwork faced away from Danny and peered into the time stream that was open.

Danny, however, didn't want to just sit and wait. He decided to open a time stream at random and gaze at the events occoring in the ghostly screen. He had to admit though, watching everything play out right in front of him was exciting. Not nearly as exciting as actually being the one in the action, but close enough.

"Come to think of it," Clockwork paused and Danny turned to look at the Master of Time. "there are a few things you could do to better understand the different time streams."

"Like what?" Danny couldn't tell what he was thinking even after all the years he'd spent with him. Clockwork just gave a weak smile.

"Oh but I don't think you'd be up to such a boring task." With Clockwork's repeatingly changing appearance it made it even harder to take the sarcasim seriously.

"Come on! Don't hold back on me like this!" Danny flew up to Clockwork once more. "Anything away from sitting and watching is better than this!"

The Time Master chuckled.

"So the halfa wants an adventure, does he?"

"Pleeeeaaaase!"

"Very well." Danny was about to jump with joy before Clockwork continued. "However, there are some very important rules that you really must follow."

"Of course! Anything!" Danny straightened up as he floated on equal grounds with Clockwork. He wanted to show how serious he was about being given such an opportunity like this.

"Unfortunately you will be left, in a sort of way, 'sitting and watching' with this task I am about to give you."

"Oh come on. If you were going to have me just sit and watch, then you could have just left me to watch the time stream. What really am I going to do?"

"You will just be observing, for the most part. In this timeline some things do tend to go wrong and I want you there to be able to fix them."

"What kind of things?"

"In this timeline, you don't become half ghost like you did 112 years ago."

Danny flinched when he remembered how long it had actually been. Time just seemed to go by much differently when he was in the Ghost Zone.

"Do you mean some kind of alternate universe? Sounds like something out of a fanfiction."

"Don't let your imagination get ahead of you. I am well aware of how absurd it may sound, but believe me it is as real as your own timeline."

"So, what? Am I just going to watch how things could have been if I never had that accident? I'm pretty sure the world would be in chaos from all the ghost attacks."

"On the contrary, your Majesty. You'll be there, and with your influence you can keep your alternate self out of harm as he plays his own role." Clockwork paused for a moment, thinking of the right words to say. "You remember your ambitions when you were younger, don't you?"

"Of course," Danny answered back right away. "I wanted to be an astronaut."

"That is correct, and with nothing like ghost attacks occupying his time he will be able to accomplish his goals."

"So I just keep the ghosts at bay until I-he becomes an astronaut? Thats an awfuly long time, Clockwork."

"Yes, it is. However it gets even more complicated from here."

"How could it get any more complicated than it already is?"

"You'll be going into multiple different timelines during this mission. You'll only be tasked with dealing with the more powerful ghosts that your parents can't handle themselves. And if they can't figure it out you'll have to find another way of getting the low levels out of the hair of your alternate self. After one important task is completed in one realm you'll be transferred to the next to figure out and deal with another problem. You could end up going to one of the timelines only once while another one you would have to visit more frequently. Is this making any sense to you?"

"Uh, yeah I think so. Go back and forth between the timelines until all the problems are delt with and my alternate self accomplishes his goal."

"That is the basics of what you will be doing, however some timelines may require you to stop yourself. In what kind of way, I will not tell. This is to give you more experience after all. It would ruin the trip if I spoiled what was going to happen." Clockwork grinned seeing Danny mentally flip out from being kept in the dark. It was one of many things the Time Master enjoyed doing to his apprentice and King.

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