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As Dan was sucked into the thermos I quickly turned around in horror to see the Nasty Burger about to explode. Too energy spent to transform I started to run until I tripped, falling hard as I watched my loved ones, and Mr. Lancer, explode before my very eyes. 'My future is set,' I thought bitterly as the burning metal sliced through my flesh until the final piece hit my eye causing me to black out as purple clouded my vision.

~~~~~~~~~~Time Skip~~~~~~~~~~

As I came to I let out a low groan, my eyes opening with a snap as I came face to face with a familiar ghost dog, Cujo licking my face before jumping off of the bed I was currently occupying. "Cujo?" I questioned blearily, wincing as I tried to sit up only to fall back down from pain. Looking around the first thing I noticed other than Cujo was that I was covered in bandages along my torso, arms, and across the right side of my face. Confused I also noticed that I had somehow wound up back in Clockwork's domain until it all came rushing back to me along with a splitting headache. I groaned in pain again as I wondered how I had gotten here before remembering the flash of purple I had seen before blacked out.

"Clockwork," I whispered as I tried to figure out what had happened after my loss of consciousness.

"Oh god you're awake," Clockwork then announced as he floated into the room, "I was wondering when you would, you we're quite injured when I found you."

"My family?" I questioned him as Ibegan to prop myself up with a slight wince before seeing the look on Clockwork's face and letting myself sink back into the pillows defeatedly. Blinking back tears as I thought of the horrible fate that had befallen my family and the only friends I had ever had.

"I'm sorry Daniel," Clockwork spoke, his words bringing me out of my sorrow for a moment, "but there are some things even I cannot tamper with."

"Why am I here?" I spoke quickly, not trusting myself to speak more than a few words yet curious at the same time, "shouldn't I be getting ready to move in with Vlad?"

"Actually no, you see Daniel while your family's time was up yours is not and as soon as you're healed enough I'm afraid I'm going to have to send you on a mission."

"A mission?" I questioned, "my entire family was killed before my eyes and you want me to go on some mission?!"

"Daniel you have to understand," Clockwork began before I cut him off.

"No you have to understand, my family is gone. My friends are gone and I couldn't do anything! I watched as they were blown to pieces! Now you're saying I have to just suck it up and go on some, some mission that I don't even know anything about?! That I can't even grieve?!" I yelled out in anger as my hands gripped the bedsheets as I fought tears.

"Daniel!" Clockwork yelled, his voice harsh, shutting me up instantly as he touched my forehead with his staff, images flashing through my head that caused all of the anger to leave me as I realized that Clockwork was right. Grieving would accomplish nothing, I'd just have to keep going, for them.

"I sped up time on your injuries so while you may be sore for another day or sore, and some scars will never fully heal, you no longer have any open wounds," Clockwork stated once I had grown silent.

"Okay?" I stated more like a question as I waited for him to explain the mission he had mentioned earlier.

"And your eye is healing very nicely given it's new advancement," Clockwork continued as he turned his attention to one of his viewing screens. A puzzled expression came over my face as I stared at Clockwork, remaining silent as I brought my hand up to the bandages over my eye, rubbing at them absently. The screen then activated, showing a young boy with curly black hair, a rose pink shield floating in front of his apparent battle stance. What drew my attention however, was that in between his shirt and pants where his belly button was supposed to be instead was what appeared to be a type of pink crystal.

"This is Steven," Clockwork announced as behind the boy appeared 3 other figures along with a large pink lion, "he and his guardians form the Crystal Gems, protectors of Earth and all life that resides on it."

"What are they?" I couldn't help but ask as I surveyed their strange gem-like objects placed somewhere on each of their bodies and the strange coloration of the lion.

"Gems," Clockwork stated simply, "beings from another planet they refer to as Homeworld that all have a gem placed somewhere on their bodies that allows them certain abilities that are beyond human capabilities."

"Such as?" I inquired curiously.

"Being able to summon a weapon out of their gems, a healing factor as should they become too injured in battle they can retreat into their gems and so long as their gem is neither cracked nor shattered they shall regenerate in perfect health, some of them even have hidden abilities unique to their specific gem. The Crystal gems use these abilities to defeat other gems who have become corrupted and as such violent, much like you do by taking care of the ghosts that plague your town. Steven helps them but as you may have noticed he is different from the other gems as he is half-human, similar to you being half ghost except that Steven was born that way rather than it being caused in a lab accident. His father being a human and mother a gem who gave up her physical form to give birth to him," CLockwork explained.

"Why are you telling me this?" I questioned, slowly taking all of the new information in, my mind struggling to wrap around all of it as I knew Clockwork did everything for a reason.

"Because I fear at a point in young Steven's future there will come a great darkness that will seek to destroy him and his guardians before trying to destroy the planet itself. Your mission is to prevent that from happening and ensure that Steven remains safe," Clockwork explained as Cujo bounded back into the room.

"Are you sure that's wise? I haven't exactly been great at the whole protecting people thing as of late. And unless where they live has a ghost problem I doubt that I'll fit in all that well," I pointed out as Cujo jumped onto the bed I was sitting on and placed a mirror in my lap, my hand reaching out to absently scratched him behind the ear.

"On the contrary, I have everything prepared to ensure you an easy transition into Beach a new addition to your person that will provide you shall we say an in with the gems," Clockwork commented as he motioned to my eye that was currently covered with bandages.

Hesitantly I reached back to where the knot was and slowly began to remove the bandages while Clockwork continued to speak, "keep in mind it was either this or the loss of your eyesight in your right eye."

Pulling away the last of the bandages I lifted my hair out of my face with one hand and used the other to raise the mirror and peer into it. Shock registered on my face as where before had been a sky-blue eye now lay a small oval gem, appearing at first glance as an emerald as it glowed a faint green in a sea of pure black. Once the initial shock past I did the only thing that made sense at the time, I screamed.

Hey guys so I'm not dead just suffering from writer's block with my other stories so I decided to start another one. This idea has actually been running in my head for a while now but it took me awhile to actually finish the first chapter. Anyways I know the whole Danny's family dying in Ultimate Enemy is a bit overused for crossovers but to be honest I felt as though I could do more with the story if it was only Danny. By the way, I realize that Danny moved past the news of his family's death pretty quickly but that's because I needed to move the plot along and what Clockwork showed him in his mind. ALright so I should have the next chapter up in about a week if everything goes as planned but I'm not making any promises. Just keep an eye out and I'll try and be more frequent with updates. Please leave a review and tell me what you liked or think I need to work on, constructive criticism is welcome.

~ShadowDragon1553