Author's Note

going to try and upload all new chapters tonight.

Ch 4: Meeting the Princesses part 1

Ghost Guardian of Harmony

Ch 4: Meeting the Princesses part 1

The moon had risen and the stars glittered the sky. All the residents of Ponyville headed into their homes to get the much needed rest they deserved after a days hard work. Most of Twilights friends went home to get a good night sleep for tomorrow. Twilight had gotten a letter earlier that day from Celestia saying that she would be coming tomorrow in the morning to greet her guests and to talk. The last one to leave was Fluttershy and she waited until the others had left to tell Twilight something. She was nervous and looked very worried about something. She stood there pawing the ground for a while with her hoof before Twilight decided to speak up.

"Fluttershy is there something wrong?" Twilight asked as she saw a worried expression on the yellow mares face.

"I-It's about Danny." Fluttershy said softly while looking at the ground nervously. She needed to tell Twilight what she saw. She was sad just remembering it.

"What do you mean? What's wrong?" Twilight asked worriedly. This was not good. That poor pony is already hurt, what else could be wrong?

"Well you see, when I was tending to Danny I um, saw that he had been hurt before and has a lot of scars. His white fur makes it hard to notice but up close I could see them clearly." Fluttershy said while looking up at the stair case with worry. Fluttershy didn't like the idea that a young colt like Danny had been hurt so much before.

"WHAT?! But he's still just a child! How could he have a lot of scars? How bad do they look?" Twilight asked with worry and Fluttershy looked down sadly, not responding. They were pretty bad and Fluttershy really didn't want to talk about how bad they were.

"They're that bad?" Twilight asked almost in disbelief. Danny is just a kid! There is no way he should have scars that bad! She did understand that young colts would sometimes get small scars when they did something stupid but not this bad! What did he do to get scars this bad? Do his parents know? Do they not notice?

"I would have asked him what had happened to him but I was afraid that Clockwork would get mad at me for asking." Fluttershy said whimpering a little when she remembered Clockwork glaring at Rainbowdash when she tried to talk to Danny. Clockwork was a very nice guy but he really didn't like it when ponies bothered danny.

"Clockwork does seem determined to keep us away from Danny. Perhaps he doesn't want us to hurt Danny with how bad he'd been hurt before?" Twilight asked mostly herself as she was thinking of theories as to what happened to Danny.

"Twilight what should we do? I'm worried about Danny." Fluttershy said looking back at Twilight for an answer.

"Nothing. There is nothing we can do. Clockwork won't let us near Danny, it's best if we just wait." Twilight said looking up the stairs. Clockwork is just doing his job as Danny's teacher and protecting Danny. It would take him some time to adjust to what is going on and relax a little.

Both Twilight and Fluttershy stood there for a while not sure what to do or say. After a while Fluttershy left to head back home. She said that she needed to go take care of her animals and Twilight headed up stairs to get some rest herself. Today had been a stressful day and she still could not find anything about Clockwork. It's like he never existed! Hopefully the princess will know something about him. As Twilight reached her bed room she saw that Danny was already asleep and Clockwork was on the floor next to Danny's bedside. Twilight saw a big problem here. Clockwork was too big for the bed and was forced to sleep on the floor. She bit her lip thinking on how she could fix this.

"I have some extra blankets and pillows if you want." she asked softly to Clockwork so she would not wake Danny.

"That's quite alright Miss Twilight, there is no need to trouble yourself. I am fine the way I am." Clockwork said as he picked up his head off the floor to look at her.

"Are you sure?" Twilight asked and Clockwork just chuckled.

"Yes, I'm sure." he said and laid his head down again to prove his point.

Twilight sighed and walked over to her bed to sleep. Tomorrow was going to be a long day and she was slightly worried. Mostly with Clockwork and the princesses meeting. The princesses are very powerful and the last thing she wants is for Clockwork to feel threaten by their power and feel the need to protect Danny.

Slowly, sleep took over Twilight but Danny and Clockwork were having a harder time sleeping.

For Danny it was paranoia. He already got use to sleeping very little because of all the ghost fighting he had to do in the middle of the night. Even if he was in another world that still didn't help him calm down. Danny was awake when Twilight came in and started talking to Clockwork but he just kept his eyes closed and pretended to be asleep. Danny was a nervous wreak! Clockwork had told him that he felt like something was going to happen tomorrow and for him to stay near Clockwork. What the hell was going to happen?! Was it bad or good? Hell, Clockwork didn't even know, he just said to stay close. Danny just hoped that what ever it was, it would be something he could handle without his ghost powers.

"Daniel get some sleep. You're going to need it for tomorrow." Clockwork told him as he picked up his head to look at Danny.

Danny sighed and opened his eyes to look at Clockwork. How did he know that he wasn't asleep? "I can't. I'm worried about what's going to happen tomorrow. The whole fact that we're in another world doesn't help much either." Danny said

"I know Daniel but we are just going to have and bear with it. As long as I'm here you will be fine. I promise." Clockwork said and Danny felt slightly better. Even if Clockwork couldn't see the time line he was still the one ghost that Danny would have the most trust in.

Danny closed his eyes this time trying to go to sleep. It was so peaceful here it was almost hard to believe. He was so used to fighting and there would always be a bad guy there, wanting to hurt his world and loved ones. It kind of felt good to finally get a chance to relax without some ghost trying to kill him. He soon found himself drifting off to sleep as the quiet and cool night slowly took him away, resting for the first time in a long time.

Clockwork was a different story; he didn't need sleep like Danny since he is a full ghost and constantly watched time but since his sight of the time line of their world was gone he has nothing to watch and this truly did piss him off. This world's time stream was making it hard for his time powers to adjust and even he could feel that he was going to have a hard time controlling them. He was just lucky that his generic ghost powers still worked the way he wanted them to. So instead of sleeping he was concentrating on getting his ghost time powers to connect with this world time stream so he could regain some control of his own time powers and possibly see this world's history so he and Danny could know what they were dealing with. He let his mind drift and felt the time move smoothly here in this world but something seemed off. It's as of this world's time didn't move naturally on its own. This couldn't be good. Well not that time didn't move naturally, just how it's seen. This would make it harder for him to control his powers if time does not move naturally on its own.

Clockwork opened his eyes and looked out the window as he watched the night. This indeed was going to be a long month and Clockwork had a feeling that they were not going to leave easily like he hoped they would.

Starlight woke up that night in the medic bay and saw that everypony had already gone to bed. The only ones awake in the castle were Luna's night guards and they roamed the halls on high alert. How long had he been asleep? What time was it? Is Luna okay? And what about Celestia? Starlight carefully got up to get out of bed but when he tried to step off the sheets caught his hoof and not so gracefully, he fell out of bed. He hit his head hard first on the floor and then his back followed and fell to the floor as well and finally the sheet fell over him as he was sprawled on the floor.

"Ow!" he groaned loudly in pain as his head hurt. He turned over and sat up to rub his now aching head.

"You're a walking disaster waiting to happen." Said a cold, hard voice that send shivers down Starlight's spine. Starlight looked across the room to see Arkive step out of the shadows with a frown on his face.

"By Celestia, you almost gave me a heart attack!" Starlight exclaimed, pouting.

Arkive took off his helmet and walked over to Starlight. Arkive rarely took of his helmet when he was in the castle so Starlight guessed that he must have been very worried about him. Not many knew Arkive like Starlight did and they really didn't understand how he felt most of the time but Starlight knew better. After all, him and Arkive use to be good friends when they were younger. Almost no pony knew this but him and Arkive knew each other very well. It's actually hard for anypony to notice with how Arkive almost ignores Starlight and acts like he totally hates him. Starlight didn't mind though, he knew Arkive well enough to know that he truly didn't feel that way about him. It was only when they were alone did they truly get to be themselves with each other.

"You had me worried there for a while." Arkive said as he helped Starlight up giving him a sad and worried look.

"I'm fine. It's going to take a lot more to keep this stallion down!" Starlight said proudly as he puffed out his chest. Arkive rolled his eyes and lightly pushed Starlight's side successfully getting the light lavender stallion to fall over again.

"You're such a klutz. What am I going to do with you Starlight?" Arkive said sighing as Starlight got up again and pouted.

"That's not fair! You pushed me!" Starlight accused pointing his hoof at Arkive.

"Are you sure you're alright? You took quite a hit from Luna and the last time you tried to stand up to a pony stronger then you, you got hurt very badly." Arkive said before the subject was changed.

Arkive was worried about Starlight. Starlight was practically the first one he saw when they entered the lunge room and his whole mind screamed bloody murder in panic at that moment but he had a duty as a knight and went to see if Luna was alright first. Starlight was Arkive's only friend and he would hate to lose him. When they were younger Starlight tried to stand up to a bully of his and ended up getting hurt really bad. Of course this lead to Arkive kicking the shit out of that pony and both he and the bully pony ended up getting kicked out of school for a while. Starlight had to stay in the hospital for a while too because of the damn bully.

"Yeah I'm fine, really. I just needed some rest that's all." Starlight said and his ears dropped down at that memory.

"Just don't do anything stupid next time okay?" Arkive said as he nuzzled the side of Starlight's head to make him feel better. Almost immediately it worked and Starlight was almost beaming at Arkive.

"I won't!" Starlight said and pulled Arkive in a tight hug to which Arkive had to pry Starlight off! He hated when Starlight hugged him, it was too damn embarrassing!

"You say you won't but you always end up doing it. GET OFF OF ME ALEADY!" Arkive shouted when Starlight wouldn't let go.

"NO!" Starlight giggled happily as he waited for Arkive to give up first which usually happens.

Arkive swears that Starlight is just as bad as Pinkypie some times and that's because he hasn't even really meet her personally. He's just seen her at the castle when Twilight and her friends are here to talk to the princesses about some matter and even then from the distance Pinky looks crazy and acts so too. Eventually Arkive gave up and frowned at Starlight and he just grinned back happily. It wasn't until a few Seconds later that Starlight let go and looked away slightly grinning and chuckling.

"Ass!" Arkive said with bitterness.

"I can be at times" Starlight said looking back at Arkive and then notice something. He saw a pair of Green glowing eyes in the shadows glaring at him.

Starlight stood up straight, startled and backed away a little, suddenly scared. Those eyes seemed very familiar and felt very bad!

"Starlight?" Arkive asked as he saw Starlight's frightened expression and looked back to see what he was looking at. There was nothing there just the dark shadow of the wall. "What's wrong?" he asked

Starlight was in shock that Arkive couldn't see it but he dared not to look away because if he did then he felt like he would get attacked by those eyes. So was it just him? Did he hit his head that hard? "I-It's nothing. I think I might have just hit my head a little too hard." Starlight said and literally had to tear his eyes away from the green ones as he was almost petrified to look away. He looked back at Arkive and gave him an apologetic look and slightly glanced back at the wall but the eyes were already gone. This was weird, scary and he didn't like it.

"Maybe you should lie down and get more rest." Arkive said worriedly and started pushing Starlight back to the bed. Maybe he should get some more rest. Starlight sighed in defeat and went back to bed.

"See you in the morning." Arkive said to Starlight. He picked up his helmet and put it back on, ready to get back to work.

"Arkive." Starlight called out before he left.

"Yes?" Arkive asked looking back at Starlight in question.

"…Protect Luna okay?" Starlight said softly as he covered himself with his sheet and looked off to the side almost lost in thought.

"…I will." Arkive said wandering why he asked that. Of course he was going to protect the princess, it was his job after all.

He looked back at Starlight one last time before he left going back to guard duty. Something was defiantly wrong; he just hoped that it didn't get worse.

The next morning in Canterlot Luna woke up refreshed and felt a whole lot better then the day she had before. The sun was rising and the day started for all the ponies of Equestria. She got up from her bed and walked out to her balcony as she looked over the happy ponies of Canterlot glad to see everything was still normal. Then she frowned when she remembered the trouble that would soon head their way and the pain that would befall her precious ponies. Luna would do everything she could to protect everypony and she swears that she would not let this darkness take over Equestria.

Luna snapped out of her thoughts when her sister Celestia flew down on her balcony. Her sister gave her a worried look but Luna just simply smiled. "Morning sister." Luna said happily to her sister.

"Good morning Luna. How are you feeling?" Celestia asked.

"Much better actually. Thank you for that sweet dream spell." Luna said as she walked over to her sister.

"You're welcome." Celestia said as she gave Luna a loving hug.

"So are we going to see Twilight now?" Luna asked. She really wanted to see who these ponies were and hoped to their mother that they are the ones they need to help stop this evil.

"Yes. We shall be leaving shortly. First I have to send a letter to Twilight letting her know that we are on our way." Celestia said as she began to walk out of Luna's room with her following.

"How is Starlight?" Luna asked still feeling bad that she had attacked him. He was a sweet pony and didn't deserve such a treatment even if it was an accident.

"Starlight is fine, dear sister. He woke up this morning happy as always and went back straight to work." Celestia said smiling. "He is a strong willed pony. He won't let anything keep him down and he did say he forgave you as well so do not worry dear sister."

"I know but I still feel bad. I can't believe I let that evil thing get to me so easily." Luna said, sighing

"Fear not sister. We will stop this evil; you just need to have a little faith in yourself and the friends around you." Celestia said as they walked down the hall to her room.

"I know." Luna said sighing but smiled slightly at her sisters words. She was right; Luna needed to stop worrying so much.

"Princess Luna!" Arkive said as he ran down the hall to her. "How are you feeling Princess?" he asked with worry.

"I'm fine sir Arkive. You need not worry for me." She said smiling at her loyal knight. "You should worry more about Starlight instead of me."

"Starlight is a big boy Miss Luna; he can take care of himself." He stated in a serious tone. He stood tall and ready to do anything she commanded.

Luna just sighed. He doesn't make it easy for her does he? "Very well, my sister and I shall be leaving soon to Ponyville. I need you to stay here and watch after the kingdom while we are gone." Luna said as she looked back at her sister and Celestia nodded in agreement.

"Will you not want somepony to escort you two to Ponyville?" Arkive asked really not wanting his princesses leaving by themselves.

"My sister and I shall be fine Arkive. Do not worry yourself. After all, we have the bearers of harmony to assist us if anything were to happen." Celestia said grateful that Arkive worried for them.

"Yes princess, as you wish." Arkive said and walked off.

"Let's go Luna, before others come to see if you're okay." Celestia said smiling with playfulness in her voice. Luna just giggled and they both dashed off to Celestia's room.

Twilight woke that morning and let out a loud yawn. She sat up and stretched a little before she got ready for the day. As she got out of bed she noticed that Clockwork was already up and was staring out the window looking very concentrated. Twilight was a little confused as to what he was doing but his voice broke her thoughts before she could think any further.

"Good morning Miss Twilight." Clockwork said as he looked back at her from the window.

"Oh, um, good morning to you too." She said giving Clockwork a small smile.

"Did you sleep well Miss Twilight?" Clockwork asked politely.

"Yes I did, thank you. Would you like something to eat?" she asked not sure if he was hungry or not.

"No that's quite alright. A glass of water would be fine for me but I'm sure young Daniel will be very hungry." Clockwork said as he walked over to Danny's side and laid on the floor again.

"Alright I'll bring some food up then." Twilight said and walked over to Spike's basket to wake him up. "Spike, its time to get up."

"Five more minutes." Spike muttered in his sleep and just rolled over to his other side. Twilight rolled her eyes and just levitated the small purple dragon.

"Aw Twilight! Come on it's too early." Spike whined as she took him down stairs to give Clockwork and Danny some privacy.

"I know Spike but right now I don't want to bother Clockwork or Danny right know. Besides Danny's is going to be hungry when he wakes up and you know as well as I do that I'm not the best of cooks." Twilight sighed remembering the last time she tried to cook breakfast; she ended up exploding the oven. How that happened she really didn't want to talk about it. It was already embarrassing enough.

"You got that right." Spike said and yawned to wake himself up more.

Danny woke up that morning feeling really good. Damn, how long has it been since he had a good night sleep like that? Danny looked around the room and saw Clockwork on the floor thinking.

"Morning Clockwork." Danny said getting up and stretching the best he could as a pony on the bed.

"Good morning Daniel. Did you sleep well?" Clockwork asked.

"Actually, I did, surprisingly." Danny said grinning at Clockwork.

"I'm glad. Today I need you to stay in this room ok? Don't come out until I tell you to." Clockwork said as he got up giving Danny a serious look.

"O-oh, ok. Why exactly?" Danny had to ask. He knew Clockwork would have a good reason but that still didn't stop him from wanting to know.

"I feel a powerful force coming our way. I would like to handle the situation first on my own and see what I can learn." Clockwork said looking out the window again. He had felt it earlier this morning but from what he could tell it didn't seem to want to bring harm. Clockwork guessed that this force must be the princesses that Twilight talked about yesterday when they had found them. They must want to talk to him and Danny.

"Should I be worried?" Danny asked not sure if this was a good or bad thing.

"No, do not worry Daniel. Everything will be fine." Clockwork said. Then suddenly Spike came up with some breakfast for Danny and water for Clockwork.

"Hope you're hungry." Spike said putting the plate of sliced apples, daisy sandwich and hay on the bed in front of Danny.

Danny looked at it strangely before looking back up at Spike. "Um, thanks." Danny said slowly not sure if this was some kind of joke.

"No problem!" Spike said happily and gave Clockwork his water before going back down stairs.

"Do I really have to eat this?" Danny asked poking at it with his hoof.

"Daniel don't play with your food. And yes you do. You're going to need your strength and with your new pony body this food is going to be the only thing you'll be able to eat." Clockwork said taking a sip out of his glass of water.

Danny pouted and sighed, Clockwork was most likely right. Danny ate the apple slices first before he ate the other stuff still not sure if he would like it. Then Danny hastily took a small bite out of the daisy sandwich and to his surprise it was not that bad. It actually tasted good. That was kind of scary, he was sure he would not like eating flowers but then again he is a pony now. Danny sighed and continued eating the rest of his food, he then noticed Clockwork walking over to the stair case. Levitating his glass if water with him.

"Remember Danny, stay in here." Was all Clockwork said before he headed down stairs. Danny sat there in silence not sure what to do. He really wanted to know what was going to happen but Clockwork told him to stay put. Maybe a little peak won't hurt?

Twilight walked back and fourth down stairs nervously. She had just gotten a letter from the princess saying that she and Luna were on their way. She was worried with what was going to happen. Clockwork was a strong pony she knew that for sure and so were the princesses. She didn't know what might happen and the fact that this could go the wrong way easily nerved her to no end. She was thinking too much again, she needs to calm down and relax. Everything would be fine; the princesses know what there doing. She hoped at least.

Then suddenly Clockwork walked down the stairs and sat there in front of the stair case as if to prevent any pony from going up there. He sat his cup of water gently down next to him and waited.

"Clockwork?" Twilight asked but she got no answer from him and he just simply sat there waiting. His eyes were full of serious determination and he slightly glared at the front door for a moment. Twilight was confused with his sudden behavior until there was a knock on the door.

Twilight looked away from him for a moment and went to go answer the door only to see the princesses there. "Celestia! Luna! It's so good to see you two!" Twilight said happily and opened the door more to let them both in.

"It's good to see you too my faithful student." Celestia said smiling and giving Twilight a gentle hug.

"Like wise." Luna said and walked in as well.

Then suddenly Luna and Celestia whipped their heads at the stair case once they felt the tremendous power coming from there.

They saw the sky blue alicorn with crimson red eyes staring back at them with knowledge that succeeded their own. His power practically radiated off him and it seemed to be far greater then their own as well. This was a Surprise to the sisters, for they have never felt power this great before. It was far more powerful then Celestia's own power and she did not know who this pony was either.

"Hello." Celestia said kindly to him. "Who are you?"

"I am Clockwork; Master of time and space." He said simply not taking his eyes off the princesses. He skipped the part about him being a ghost, the last thing he needed was to scare everyone.

Luan and Celestia wide eyed. They have never heard of a pony who mastered time magic and this slightly upset Celestia because she banned time magic from the ponies of Equestria. For some pony to go against her law was a little hurtful.

"Are you the one who came out of the light?" Luna asked. She had no idea who this pony was or why he was so strong. He was a handsome looking stallion and he didn't look like he meant any harm but she needed to be sure. …he really did look handsome though. Luna felt her cheeks get warm at the thought but she ignored it. This was serious! She didn't have time to be thinking about those silly thoughts.

"I am, along with my student." He said nodding.

The princesses of this world did hold quite a lot of power that was for sure. Clockwork needed to be careful about this. The last thing he needed is to offend them in some way and he really didn't want to fight at the moment. Not without all his powers back.

Clockwork was more focus however on this older sister Celestia. She held more power then the other and held sadness in her eyes. Clockwork had seen this sadness before. It was the same one that Danny had when he saw the ones he'd lost. Like his family and friends in his evil future and almost losing Dani to Vladimir. Though Danny never really got to lose anyone in his time line he still felt the sadness knowing what could have happened. But there was a big difference he could tell from Celestia and Danny. Whoever Celestia had lost before she still hadn't gotten past it where as for Danny he had already accepted it and moved on while knowing the fact that it will happen to him some day.

"A student?" there was another who studied time with this so called master of time? This was not good. The last thing she needed was somepony going around playing with time like they actually understood it. "May we speak with them?" Celestia asked.

"No" Clockwork simply said narrowing his eyes at her. He could see in her eyes that she doubted him being the master of time. If it's one thing he hated the most, it was went others underestimated him and his power. He was far older then them, that he can tell and he would not be looked down upon by one of them.

No? Celestia didn't understand why he would not let them see his student. Did he believe that they would hurt them?

"We won't bring harm to your student Mr. Clockwork we just want to talk." Celestia said calmly.

"Then talk to me. Young Daniel is still recovering from our last fight and I would want to know why we have been summoned here." Clockwork said sternly. The part about Danny recovering was a lie. He should have been fully healed by now with the speed healing he had thanks to his ghost side. But something was telling him to not reveal Danny just yet.

"Daniel? Did you say Daniel as in Danny Daniel?" Luna asked. She hoped that this was the pony from her vision. She just wanted some way for them to stop future events from happening. A way for her to protect the ponies she has grown to love and the love they have shown her as well. She wanted nothing more then to protect everypony.

"No princess this pony is named Danny Fenton not phantom." Twilight said finally speaking. She had been watching the whole conversation nervously and was praying that a fight didn't break out. She was almost afraid to say something with all the tension in the room.

Well that was a giant disappointment for Luna but there was still some hope. The names sounded very similar so maybe they might know who this Danny Phantom is. "Oh, well by any chance do you know anypony by the name Danny phantom?" Luna asked Clockwork.

"I do." Clockwork said looking at Luna. Clockwork didn't know much about this girl but he could see that she went through the same pain that Danny went through. She had that same sadness in her eyes like Danny did. The sadness when he had to face his evil future self and knowing the fact that it had happen. Clockwork suddenly felt his face soften as he looked at her almost as if trying to comfort her in some way. "But it's not my place to talk about." he said to Luna and she looked down sadly.

"You said your student and you got into a fight? May I ask what happened?" Celestia asked.

"We fought a dragon and young Daniel got hurt in the process." Clockwork said simply.

"We are sorry for what has happened to you and your student but we would very much like to talk to the both of you." Luna said almost pleadingly. "You see I had a vision that something bad is about to happen and a pony named Danny Phantom is greatly involved."

"We were hoping to talk to this pony to see if they can help us stop what is to come." Celestia said.

"A vision is something that will happen in the future and is almost impossible to change. Only ones who have a very clear vision of the future events and know what the cause of it can have any hopes to changing it. But even then it's hard to get that change to happen and most of the time it will end still being the same as how one saw it. Only those with connection to time itself can see the tangled strings that could or could not lead to ones future can have any hope to changing its fate. Even with the help of Danny Phantom I doubt he can help you change it. He can only help you bear with it." Clockwork said to them.

All three girls in the room were speechless to what he had said. Would it really be that hard to stop the future from happening? Luna didn't like the sound of this.

"Well I suppose that's why the elements of harmony brought you here then master of time. To help us stop the future." Celestia said looking back at him seriously.

"I'm sorry but I cannot. I will not change this world's time line; it's not my place to do so." Clockwork said simply giving Celestia a stern look.

"But you do have the power to change it if you want is that not correct?" she asked with a knowing tone in her voice.

"That is correct." he said not liking that tone in Celestia's voice

"Oh please Clockwork, you must help us! I don't wish for this evil to hurt the ponies of our world! You have to help!" Luna said walking up to Clockwork giving him her sad big eyed look.

Clockwork flinched a little at the look. He really hated when girls did that to get others to give into them. And it didn't help with the real pain that lingered in her eyes. "Even if I wanted to help I can't, your summoning has affected my control over time and I dare not tamper with this world's time stream unless it is necessary. I would rather use my time powers to get my student and I back home." he said sighing.

"Wait so you're saying that you have no control over your own powers at the moment!" Celestia said with worry. She did not like the sound of this and panic was slithering its way into her mind. The last thing she needed is some fool to lose control of their time magic. It's already happened once she did not want it to happen again.

"Well no but I am wor-"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO? DO YOU REALIZE THE DESTRUCTION THAT WOULD BEFALL THIS LAND!" Celestia yelled in panic and even used her royal Canterlot voice to show her worry. Then Twilight started panicking, if Celestia is in panic then it's not good. Even Luna backed away a little at her sister's voice. Now she could understand why everypony found it rather annoying.

Celestia did not need for this to happen again. The last pony to use time magic was a unicorn named Solarstride and he was an apprentice of Starswirl the bearded. He had tried to use time magic to impress his teacher but it went wrong and almost made a time worm hole in the middle of Equestria! It took most of her power to just get rid of it and not only that but SolerStide disappeared too, never to be seen again. This had saddened Starswirl greatly but he continued with his work like always.

"Calm down princess. I know what to do to regain control over my own powers. I just need a lit-"

"CALM DOWN! HOW CAN THY CALM DOWN WITH SUCH POWER, LOST?" she yelled but suddenly got splashed in the face with the water in Clockworks cup.

He was not amused with this situation and the way she acted. He knew better then to let his powers go unchecked and he didn't like the fact that she talked to him like he didn't understand the threat of his own powers. He was all too aware of it and he also really was getting annoyed with how she was practically screaming in his ear! Plus the fact that she kept on interrupting him didn't help either! So without a moments thought he splashed some water on her face to calm her down. He knew for some reason he would need the water but he wasn't quite sure for what, that was until now.

Luna and Twilight almost wanted to laugh at the look of disbelief on Celestia's face and embarrassment. She couldn't believe that he just splashed water on her face and that she let her worry get the best of her. This was not like her; she guessed the stress of what has been happening to her sister finally got the best of her.

"Will you stop interrupting me? I am no fool. I am very aware of the consequences of my own power." Clockwork said narrowing his eyes at her.

"Yes, right. Forgive my sudden outburst." Celestia said slightly looking away.

"Please don't think less of my sister. She is just worried about everyponys safety." Luna said as she looked from her sister to Clockwork. It's been a while since she last saw her sister embarrassed like this. It was kind of funny.

Clockwork sighed and nodded. "I understand but you must understand that neither I nor my student can help you. At least not yet, give us time and I shall think it over. For now let us be." Clockwork said.

Luna nodded in understanding and looked over to her sister. Celestia sighed, she was still unsure of this Clockwork but for now it looks like they have to wait. She was just not sure how long they have before their time was up and that evil decides to attack.

"Very well, we will talk again when you and your student are ready. We would still very much like you're help, until next time." Celestia said and she bowed her head down to Clockwork and he did the same.

Both Luna and Celestia began for the door and said there farewells to Twilight who said good bye in response. Before they left Luna looked back one last time at Clockwork. "I would very much like it if you did help us Time Master. Please, at least take it into consideration." Luna said then walked out. Twilight followed the princesses out so she would speak with them before they left. She was worried about Celestia and hope that she didn't take that splash of water as offensive from Clockwork.

"Trust me princess. Something tells me I won't have much of a choice on this matter." Clockwork muttered to himself. He looked up to the stair case to where he knew Danny was trying to peak out from without being seen. He was sure that Danny had listened to the whole conversation and with Danny's kind heart he most likely wanted to help them.

The door closed and Clockwork let out a loud sigh. "You can come out now Danny." He said and watched Danny slowly and cautiously walked down the stairs.

"Clockwork." Danny said walking up to his side. "We're really not going to let them face this evil alone are we?" he asked slowly with almost a helpless look in his eyes. Danny didn't like the idea of just leaving when someone needed his help, it didn't feel right.

"No Danny, we're not going to leave this world without aiding them. I just needed to see what we are dealing with. Whatever evil this is, seems to have a connection to us as well. If not then we would not be here if it went for its threat." Clockwork said glancing at the window to see Twilight talking to the two princesses. "Plus this evil may be what is blocking my vision of the time stream for both our world and theirs."

"So in other words it's just the regular saving the world kind of deal?" Danny said and Clockwork nodded.

"Only this time I feel it will be far more brutal then the ones you have faced before." Clockwork said.

Great, it was going to be another one of those things then. Danny really hated those kinds of bad guys. Then all of a sudden there was another loud boom in the distends and a flash of blue light again like last time.

"The hell!?" Danny said as he ran to the window to see the light over the Everfree forest.

"Ah, that must be your friends and right on time if I do say so. Though I had expected them to have been here a little later. The block on the time line must have set me off just a bit." Clockwork said as if it was normal.

"WHAT?! My friends?! You mean that was Sam and Tucker?!" Danny said looking back at Clockwork in disbelief.

"But of course. You didn't really think your friends would have let you save the world on your own did you?" Clockwork said smirking and Danny just stared at him, dumbfounded. "Perhaps you should go find them before they run into a dragon don't you think?"

And just like that Danny was out the door running as fast as he could to the Everfree forest. Clockwork just smirked and walked out the door where he heard Twilight yell after him.

"Danny wait!" she yelled and then looked back at Clockwork as he walked out. "Clockwork what's going on? Why was there another flash of light?" she asked

"It seems that Danny Phantom has come earlier then what I had originally thought." Clockwork said smiling at Danny's running form. Twilight and the princesses just looked at each other at his words.