Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. I also don't own the redesigns. The redesigns are owned by Sakuyamonon Deviantart. I also don't own some of the ideas here, which are owned by Sakuyamon as well. I do, however, own the character's slightly altered AU personalities...
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Act 1: Danger, Death, and Revival
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Chapter 1
"Yo Danny Fenton, he was just fourteen..."—Danny Phantom theme song
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Daniel 'Danny' Fenton was your everyday, average fifteen-year-old teenaged boy. He had icy blue eyes and blonde hair. It was another average school day, and he walking down the hallways of Casper High, the only high school in Amity Park. He is wearing a white t-shirt with the Casper High logo on the front (a red dot with a white C in it), blue jeans, and red and white sneakers. A red backpack is strapped to his back.
His best—and only—friends followed him. They were Samantha 'Sam' (don't call her Samantha) Manson and Tuckard 'Tucker' Foley were at his sides. Tucker was on his left, Sam on his right.
Tucker was Danny's African-American best friend since sixth grade and Sam's friend since first grade. Tucker has black hair and green eyes. Tucker's been afraid of her since they met, though he'd never admit it aloud. He considered himself a ladies man, and has flirted with every girl in the school (that includes Danny's older sister just recently...)—though this isn't true, as he is rejected pretty much all the time. It probably has something to do with the fact he's a techno-geek: he always has at least one bit of technology with him at all times. Usually, it's his trusted PDA. Both Danny and Sam knew that Tucker was incredibly smart, since he got much better grades then both of them. Tucker is wearing a yellow sports shirt with the number three on it, green shorts, and brown shoes. A pair of black-rimmed glasses are over his eyes and a red beret is placed on his head.
As for Sam, she had been friends with Tucker since grade one. Even though they are polar opposites, they get along rather well...when Tucker isn't being annoying, that is. Though she denies it, Sam has a short temper and does not hesitate to hurt Tucker for his antics. Though she does have a soft spot for Danny—uh...don't tell her I told you that. Nobody's supposed to know that. Anyway, Sam is very open-minded girl; she's a goth, vegetarian, 'save the animals'-type girl. She's usually very dark, depressive, and sarcastic, but sometimes she shows a lighter side to herself (though only Danny and Tucker actually see it, and it's very rare). Sam has purple eyes and raven black hair with some red strands in it. Sam is wearing a black top that shows some of her midriff, a black skirt that has purple rims on the bottom, and black combat boots (which—according to Tucker—really, really hurt to be kicked by).
Tucker was being his usual annoying self. He held up his PDA and complained, "I've had this PDA since sixth grade! My mom won't buy me a new one! It's not fair...not fair at all."
Danny rolled his eyes, "Tuck, what happened to the one that you built yourself? You know, the one you claimed could shot a laser or something?"
"It could!...It just...didn't go very far..."
"Well, what happened to it?"
"I dunno...I think Sam broke it one day..."
Sam glared at Tucker, "For good reason."
Danny asked the goth girl, "What did he do?"
"...I don't remember, but I do know he deserved it." Sam muttered darkly.
Despite the fact Sam mean every word and sounded a bit evil as she spoke, Danny laughed. Both of the boys were used to Sam's dark and sarcastic attitude. They could tell she wasn't joking, but they knew just to laugh it off anyway. Well, Danny laughed it off. Tucker always got hurt courtesy of Sam's left fist if he mocked her 'evilness', while Danny simply got a glare...speaking of which, Sam glared at him.
Danny smiled innocently, "I was laughing at the mental image of you hurting Tucker..."
"Sure you were." Sam retorted in half-annoyance, half-amusement. Her soft spot for Danny was considered a weakness; she couldn't stay angry at him for long.
The goth girl (more then-)often pondered this 'soft spot', but could never understand why she liked him enough to forgive him so easily. A good example would be the year before, when Danny had gotten popular by dating the most popular girl in the school, Paulina Sanchez. The blonde boy had been a real jerk the whole year, until Danny and Paulina broke up. Surprisingly, it was Danny who broke up with Paulina, instead of vice-versa.
Despite this, Sam had been pissed at Danny the whole year, but quickly forgave him after his break-up with Paulina. (Tucker had suggested staying angry at him...but a kick to the face from Sam's combat boot changed his mind.)
So far the following year to now, Danny had done everything to say sorry for the previous year. He carried Sam's and Tucker's books, did their homework, and many other things that Sam got slightly annoyed by and Tucker simply ignored (though the techno-geek was really happy when he was given a new PDA after Danny accidentally destroyed one of his other ones...).
Tucker, oblivious to this conversation, continued to rant, "And I can't find the parts I need to build another one! I guess I could take apart this one"—he held up the PDA—"and build another from scratch it the pieces, but that'll take too long!"
"Tucker..."
"Yeah, Sam?"
"We...don't...care."
Tucker blinks and sighs, "Yup, that's what I thought you'd say." He began fiddling with his PDA. Danny and Sam shared a knowing look before they continued to walk through the hallway. However, they didn't get far before the whole hallway darkened and one of the lights above the trio exploded. They instinctively used their arms as shields. Surprisingly, they didn't get any glass stuck in their skin or anything. Though there was some glass stuck in their hair, they quickly and carefully brushed it out with their hands.
"Well, we know where this is going," Tucker muttered. Before anyone could respond, there was a menacing laugh that echoed through the halls. Everyone in the hallway glanced around in panic as the laughing increased in volume.
A voice, an elderly female's, echoed, "Who dares change the lunch menu!?" Sam glanced around with shifty-eyes, though no-one noticed. Another light exploded and a few lockers burst open as the ghost materialized in middle of the hallway, hovering in the air. She looked like a lunch lady that worked at Casper High, except with dark green skin and red eyes. She scowled, "The menu has been the same for years...who dared to change it!?"
You may be thinking, 'Why isn't everyone shocked that a ghost is hovering in middle of the hall?' Well, this wasn't the first ghost attack. Ever since Danny's parents had finished building some sort of 'ghost portal' and activated it, ghosts started coming out of the portal. Luckily, the Fentons were able to handle them...mostly.
Still, the students panicked and quickly ran away. The only people who stayed were Danny, Sam, and Tucker.
Tucker looked at Sam suspiciously, "Changed the menu? Wow, I wonder who did that."
Sam smiled innocently, "Yeah...I wonder..." She was always doing something to make Casper High unique from other schools, despite the fact (that Tucker pointed out) that she would be less unique as everything else became unique. Sam just ignored him, even though she knew, deep down, he had a point...
The Lunch Lady hovered over to them angrily, "Tell me who changed the menu!!"
Tucker pointed his thumb at Sam boredly, "It was all her." Sam glared at him.
"Youchange the menu!?" The Lunch Lady roared angrily. Her anger caused a slight breeze in the hallway. The trio shivered slightly as they backed away in fear. Lunch Lady continued, "The menu has been the same for fifty years" She paused and suddenly asked, calmly, "Cake?" She held up a slice of cake, out of no-where. Danny, Sam, and Tucker, in shock, nodded slowly. The Lunch Lady roared, "Too bad! Children who change my menu do not get desert!!" The ghostly-cafeteria worker glowed green and meat began flying over the trio and towards her.
Tucker drooled slightly, "Meat...wait a minute, if the menu is changed and—knowing Sam—it's vegetarian now, where the heck is all this meat coming from!?"
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Mr. Leonard Lancer, the vice-principle and one of the teachers of Casper High, was standing in front of the whole staff. He proudly stood in front of a table covered by a cloth. Mr. Lancer spoke, "Esteemed Casper High faculty, I present to your our all-meat...buffet." The overweight teacher removed the cloth...to reveal that all the meat was gone. The rest of the staff gasped in shock. Mr. Lancer took a few moments to realize that something was wrong. He looked over his shoulder and gasped, spinning around, "Paradise Lost"
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"Shouldn't we be running?" Danny asked. Sam and Tucker both shrugged in response and the trio turned to run.
Lunch Lady roared, "You will not escape, green-eater!!"
"I thought I lost that nick-name in third grade..." Sam muttered. She suddenly shouted in surprise as a knife barely skimmed her arm, creating a cut in her shirt and a drip of blood to fall. Sam hissed as she covered the wound. "Ow! Hey!" She spun around in anger but stopped short when she saw the Lunch Lady covered in meat as a 'meat monster', with left-over meat and multiple pairs of cutlery hovering around it. Sam gulped slightly.
Danny and Tucker grabbed Sam's shoulders and began dragging her away. Just in time for one of the ghost-'possessed' knifes to hit the spot Sam had been standing in. Danny said, "We have to get out here...now!"
"No, duh." Tucker rolled his eyes.
Danny responded with, "If you hadn't told that ghost it was Sam who changed the menu, this wouldn't be happening." Tucker shrugged.
Sam shook her head and glared at Tucker, "Danny has a point." She clenched a fist up to Tucker's face, "Next time you do something that somehow threatens my life, then I'm kicking your a—!"
"Come back here, vegetarian fool!"
"—We'll talk about this later." Sam shoved Tucker quickly instead of punching him. The trio turned a corner...to find a dead end.
Danny blinked, "A dead end? That's so...so..."
"Dramatically cliché?" Sam guessed.
"Yeah, pretty much."
"Time to meat your doom!" The Lunch Lady materialized in front of them.
Danny rolled his eyes, "That was worse then one of my jokes..."
The Lunch Lady glared, "Silence!" Three barrages of eating utensils hovered into the air around her, "Prepare to be...sliced and diced!" She laughed evilly as the three barrages of utensils glowed. One went towards Danny, one towards Tucker, and one towards Sam.
Danny shouted in surprise and dodged the knifes and forks directed towards him by jumping to his left. Tucker dodged the ones aimed towards him by ducking. However, Sam couldn't dodge all of the knifes directed towards her...
Danny suddenly shoved Sam out of the way, leaving himself standing there. With a large pile of utensils being sent straight towards him.
"Danny!"
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Wow...that was anti-climatic...heh...
