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Chapter 1: Mystery Meat
(Cue Intro: Normal Danny Phantom Introduction.)
(Comic Title: Mystery Meat. Tagline: Today's Special: Horror. The image shows Danny in ghost form flying at a large monstrosity made of meat that's holding down Sam and Tucker in what appears to be a kitchen.)
Danny let out a sigh as he got up at the familiar sound of the alarm. He swung his hand, his arm going intangible by complete accident. Danny groaned in frustration as he looked at his untouchable hand. After a minute it turned back to normal and he turned off his alarm clock.
It had been over a month since the accident. The accident had left Danny trying to control his new powers. He had found himself taking his ghost form at random times as well as going intangible or invisible at bad times. This had resulted in him breaking a few things at school and getting a reputation as a klutz at school.
Another problem that came up was the fact that Sam and Tucker seemed to distance from him for a while. The two avoided him until school started and even when it started they seemed to be afraid of him.
Hell, when he first approached the both they freaked out screaming they were being attacked by a mad ghost. Danny tried to convince them that he was who he said he was. They wanted proof. Danny wound up telling them about the time Tucker threw up in Sam's lunch box when they were little…and how Sam promptly pushed him off the monkey bars. After that revelation they accepted Danny was who he was. Though Tucker had to deal with an angry Sam for the lunch box incident. After a while things got back to normal…well as normal as a boy who has recently gotten powers can be.
As Danny got out of bed and walked to the shower he wondered how things were going today.
After showering Danny walked downstairs, walked through the living room, and entered the kitchen
There he saw Jazz reading a book on psychology, and his parents both working on a non-destructive weapon. After an incident involving a misfire they decided they would limit all weapons to the lab.
Danny poured himself a glass of orange juice and a bowl of cereal before sitting down to eat.
After a few minutes his parents stood up and Jack proudly proclaimed, "It's done!"
Jazz looked up from her book and asked, "What is?"
Jack held out the bizarre looking device with a bunch of buttons a little round screen and a small satellite dish on the end of it.
"We call it the Fenton Finder," the Fenton patriarch said, "With this we'll be able to find any ghost wherever it is."
Danny gulped loudly as he heard this.
In his fearful moment Danny's hand went intangible and the spoon in it and falling into the bowl.
"Oh please," Jazz said as she returned to her book, "That this is probably going to be about as useful as that ghost catching thermos you made."
At that moment of silence, the device it spoke, "Ghost detected. Move directly forward."
The pair moved forward, and Danny began to move, getting out of his seat and backing up towards the wall. When he was backed up against the wall and couldn't move any more he began to mentally panic.
"You have found the ghost. Thank you for using the Fenton Finder."
The two looked at Danny who looked nervous.
"Wait…darn it," Jack growled in frustration, "That can't be right. Looks like this thing still needs to be worked on."
Danny looked between the device and his parents before letting out a small sigh.
"Actually," Danny said, getting their attention, "There is something I need to tell you."
Before he could say anything, Jazz broke in again and said, "You don't need to say anything, Danny. Now let's go before their paranoia and irrationality rubs off on you. I'll give your ride."
Jazz then pushed Danny out of the kitchen, grabbing his backpack along the way, and headed out to her car.
There was a moment of silence in the kitchen. Maddie idly wondered what it was Danny had to tell them. Jack, however, had a different thought process.
"Wait, Jazz has never driven Danny to school before. Danny don't go, it's a trap!"
He was about to rush off only for Maddie to grab him by the collar of his jumpsuit.
"Jack," she said, "Jazz has been driving Danny to school ever since she got her license."
Jack blinked and slapped himself on the forehead saying, "Oh right."
Later at Casper High…
"I came this close to telling them," Danny muttered as he and his friends walked down the hall of the educational institute.
"Come on, Danny," Sam said as the trio ascended a staircase to their next class, "we both know that your parents won't listen, and worse they won't understand. Why won't they just accept me!"
Danny stared blankly at Sam. It was no secret that Sam's parents didn't approve of her lifestyle or how she dressed and presented herself.
"Sam…I'm talking about my powers…my problems," he said.
Sam chuckled nervously and said, "Yeah…so am I."
Danny sighed and said, "I know, it's just this is frustrating. It's bad enough that I'm the son of the local crackpots, but if people see me walking through walls and turning invisible, I'll become the biggest freak in town."
Tucker suddenly said, "Uh speaking of weirdness…"
Danny blinked in confusion until he realized Sam and Tuck were getting taller. He looked down to see his legs had become intangible and he was phasing through the floor. Sam and Tuck quickly grabbed Danny by his arms and lifted him from the floor just as his legs turned back to normal.
"Damn it," he growled as he continued up the steps and down the hall, "If my parents can make something that turns me into a ghost why can't they make something to turn me back to normal.
Sam and Tucker caught up with the boy and Sam tried to get Danny to cheer up.
"Danny your powers make you unique," she said, "Unique is good. That's why I'm an ultra-recyclo vegetarian."
There was a hint of pride in her voice.
Tucker then asked, "What does that mean again?"
Danny answered, "She doesn't eat anything that has a face."
Tucker just shrugged and said, "Eh, who cares about that. Two words Danny, meat connoisseur."
The techno geek got in close, creeping Danny out for a moment, and sniffed.
"You had sloppy joes last night," he said simply.
Danny blinked in surprised and said, "I'm not sure whether to be impressed or disturbed."
Tucker just grinned and said, "Meat heightens the senses and my all meat streak is almost sixteen years strong."
Sam just smirked and said, "A streak that is about to be broken. I finally managed to get the school board to agree with me on a new menu."
Tucker and Sam looked at the girl and Tucker asked, "What did you do?"
The amethyst eyed girl smiled and said, "You'll just have to wait and see."
With that said the girl walked down the hall towards class followed by her two friends.
Meanwhile, Danny began to get a sick feeling in his stomach.
The rest of the day went normally…being bored by droning teachers, nerds getting picked on, and jocks showing off.
Come the lunch break they were wondering just what it was Sam had changed. When they arrived at the cafeteria, the two were starving, especially Danny since he never finished his cereal from breakfast. The two were excited as they were serving meatloaf today and it was one of the better meals they served. When they entered they felt their jaws drop at what they saw. Most things were normal in the lunch room. The different groups and cliques all hung around with each other. However, what really got their attention was the line. Hanging over the lunch line was a banner that read, "New this week: Ultra-Recyclo Vegetarian Menu."
Danny looked at the lunch lady with a concerned expression as she placed a slice of bread with grass laid out on it, like it was a sandwich.
"What is this grass on rye?" he asked out loud, causing the lunch lady to shrug and motion for him to move along.
After getting out of line the two immediately spotted Sam near their usual lunch table.
"What have you done!?' Tucker asked angrily, after he arrived.
"Tucker, it's time for a change," she said with a smile.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen the lunch lady, having served the last of the "food" walked out of the kitchen, pulling out a large cheeseburger, wrapped in foil, she had managed to sneak in her apron when this whole thing was announced.
As soon as she left a large green crack began to form in the wall. It spread until it split open revealing a glowing green interior. A figure stumbled out and looked around slightly confused. It was then the figure realized the place it was in was familiar. After a moment, it saw a binder on the desk a nearby counter that said, "Recyclable-Vegetarian Menu", and its eyes narrowed in rage.
Back out in the cafeteria the trio sat and ate. Well, Sam was eating, Danny and Tucker was all just staring at their food, if you can call it that. Danny, out of simple curiosity, simple took one bite out of the stuff and almost immediately spat it out.
"Uh, Sam, don't you think this is a little extreme?" Danny asked after he chugged down some water to get rid of the taste of the food.
Before Sam could answer they were interrupted by one of the teachers. He was an old Caucasian male, late forties early fifties, with a bald head, the remains of a goatee on his chin, and dark green eyes. His bulging gut was under a light blue dress shirt with the sleeve rolled up and black tie, with a pair of plaid shorts, white socks, and black shoes.
This was Mr. Lancer, teacher at Casper High, and probably one of the most disliked by the student body.
He looked down at Sam and said, "Ms. Manson, the school board sent me to personally thank you for giving us this welcome experiment to our cafeteria."
Suddenly, Tucker started sniffing the air as a familiar scent went under the carnivore's nose.
"Meat…near…" he said as he sniffed the air. As he realized the smell was coming from Lancer he glared at the teacher.
Lancer took a half a step back and raised his hands defensively as he said, "No! No, the rumors of an All-The-Meat-You-Can-Eat buffet in the teacher's lounge are unfounded and true. Thanks again."
He walked away and started picking his teeth with a toothpick.
Tucker turned and sent a glare at Sam and said, "Yeah, Sam, thanks for making us eat garbage."
Sam scoffed and said, "It's not garbage. It's recyclable organic matter."
"It's garbage," Danny and Tucker both said.
At that point Danny gasped as a cold feeling went through his body, and a wisp of light blue mist was blown out of his mouth. Something Sam and Tucker were quick to notice. This was Danny's ghost sense, a power he discovered shortly after the accident. It only went off when anything ghostly was nearby.
"Guys, we have a problem," Danny said.
"Fenton!" A familiar, and somewhat whiny sounding voice shouted.
"Make that two problems," he said as he turned towards the voice, as did everyone else to see what was going on.
With a groan of frustration, Danny turned around and faced the person.
The boy, despite being Danny's age, was taller and a lot more muscular, indicating he hit puberty a bit earlier than some. He had blonde hair and blue eyes. He wore a black shirt with a pair of jeans and red and white sneakers. Over his shirt was a red and white letter jacket.
This was Dash Baxter, the Casper High Raven's star quarterback, captain of the basketball team, self-proclaimed "King of Casper High, and the school's biggest bully.
The jock had crowned himself king after hitting puberty early and gaining extra muscle. Also because of his social status some of the teachers let him get away with messing with the less popular students, since a good portion of the school's money came from sporting events. If the teacher wasn't in his pocket then he played teacher's pet, acting like a model student for them. This caused most of the teachers to take Dash's word at face value.
He walked towards Danny with a scowl on his face and said, "I asked for three mud pies. And you know what I got? Three mud pies! Literally!"
He picked up Danny by the front of his shirt and continued his rant.
"After high school it's all downhill for me. How am I supposed to enjoy the rest of my glory days eating mud?"
Sam, deciding it would be a good time to interrupt said, "Actually, it's topsoil."
Dash just scoffed and said, "Whatever."
He pushed Danny back into his seat and place the tray of mud down in front of him.
"Eat it," he ordered, "All of it."
Danny glanced past Dash and saw a figure in the kitchen that didn't belong there. Mostly because after serving everyone the lunch ladies leave to eat, themselves.
Danny knew he had to think fast. His first impression was to cause a food (garbage) fight, but that would only get him in trouble. After a few moments of thinking, he got an idea.
Danny just rolled his eyes in annoyance and said, "Seriously Dash, just because you don't like it doesn't mean you have to eat it. And do you think you're the only one who doesn't want to eat this slop?"
As Danny said this many students glanced at what was being served and winced slightly at the sight of the unappetizing looking food.
"Now, I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to go find a vending a machine and see if I can squeeze a meal out of a few bucks," Danny said simply as he got up and walked out of the cafeteria.
There was a moment of silence following his departure.
Sam then got up and ran after her friend saying, "It's not slop, it's recyclable matter."
Tucker quickly followed, "Hold up man, I may need a few bucks."
After that other students began to realize that vending machine snacks would be better than this stuff. Slowly, the various groups of the school began to break off.
As the students dispersed and the cafeteria began to empty Danny, Sam, and Tucker stayed back.
Before Sam could say anything, Danny entered the kitchen. The two looked at each other and followed him. Danny entered the kitchen and saw the ghost who had set off his sixth sense.
Now, Danny had seen plenty of ghosts before, but none of them were human. Most of them were ghost animals, from pets to wild animals such as moose, deer, and bears.
This was Danny's first time seeing a human ghost.
The ghost was female, standing about his father's height, take away an inch or two. She was also overweight with a thick body and arms. She wore a pink lunch lady uniform with a white apron, yellow gloves on her hands, and a hairnet that held back her white hair. Her eyes were red, which was common among most ghosts, but what stood out to Danny was her skin. Instead of the bright ectoplasm green he'd seen on the fur of the ghost animals she was a sickly green. The kind of green you get when you're sick.
The ghost turned towards them, finally noticing them, and spoke. Her voice was happy and rather sweet, like a sweet old lady, which she was, in a sense.
"Hello, dearies," she said in a polite, grandmotherly tone, "Can you help me? Today's special is meatloaf, but I don't see the meatloaf. Did somebody change the menu?"
Without a second thought Tucker jerked his thumb at Sam and said, "Yeah, she did."
Almost immediately the ghost's expression changed. Her face became angry, he eyes glowed a brighter shade of red, and her hair flailed wildly like white flames as actual green flames burst into existence on her back.
"You changed the menu?!" she screamed in absolute rage, "The menu has been the same for fifty years!"
The three backed away with terror on their faces. Danny quickly managed to get his wits about him.
"Get behind me," he ordered as Sam and Tucker did just that.
Danny could have sworn he heard a sarcastic remark from Sam, but he ignored it and said, "I'm going ghost!"
A bright white ring appeared around Danny's waist and split in two, the two rings were going up in two different directions. When they passed Danny was clad in the ghost form he had gained a month ago.
Danny flew up and faced the ghostly woman shouted, "I command you to…um…go away!"
The Lunch Lady snarled and said, "You protect this menu changing harpy. Then all three of you shall perish!"
She held out a hand which glowed bright green.
The plates within the kitchen began glowing green and floated into the air before shooting forward towards Danny.
The half ghost reacted quickly, and he turned intangible causing the various objects to go right through him.
After realizing this he said, "Hey, I actually meant to do that."
The Lunch Lady seemed angered by the lack of success and then aimed at Tucker and Sam sending a wave of plates and platters at them. The two dodged, but were shocked when they saw them turn and graze the wall. The plate leaving gashes like they were giant round shuriken or buzz saws. The platters then changed directions ready for another kamikaze run.
Danny reacted quickly flying forward and managing to catch the plates in his arms…and a few in his teeth.
Unable to fight he flew over towards a counter and dropped off all the collected objects. As he took out the few he had caught in his teeth he said, "Well, at least I know I have a back-up career plan as a bus boy."
He was brought from his thoughts when he heard something shaking. Three ovens in the back of the kitchen were shaking wildly emitting green smoke.
"I control Lunch," the ghostly woman growled, "Lunch is sacred. Lunch has rules!"
Her mood then did a complete 180 as she pulled a piece of cake from out of nowhere and said, "Anybody want cake?"
The group could only stare at the woman with shocked expressions, completely caught off guard. The only thing they could do was nod.
"Too bad!" she shouted, her mood doing another 180, "Children who change my menu don't deserve cake."
She flew up just as the ovens opened and fire a triple shot of bright green flames at the group. Sam and Tuck dodged at the last second. The heat from the flames was enough to make them sweat. If that wasn't enough they burned through the plaster and metal of the serving area and smashed into a table, reducing it to ashes, melted steel and plastic.
The group was suddenly very glad that Danny had managed to get everyone out of the cafeteria now.
The lunch lady growled as she held up her gloved hands. Energy went from her hands to the ovens. The centermost temperature knobs turned into crimson eyes as the glass doors turned into sharp glass teeth with bright green flames in the depths of their maws.
The newly formed monsters roared angrily as LL went intangible and flew through the opposite wall and away from the group.
The trio of monstrous ovens charged forward causing Sam and Tuck to scream. Danny flew down and grabbed the two and after a moment of concentration turned all three of them intangible before flying through the wall into the hallway. The ovens, their targets gone, couldn't stop themselves from crashing into the wall forming large square shaped dents right under the smoldering hole their earlier fire blast had left.
In the hallway the trio crashed to the floor after turning solid again.
"Wow," Tucker said, impressed after seeing Danny in action, "you're getting better."
Sam, however, had her mind somewhere else.
"This is the thanks I get for thinking like an individual?!" she half yelled angrily.
Before the two could say anything, a small tremor seemed to shake the school and the lights in the hallway seemed to die. A sudden wind picked up, becoming so fierce that locker doors were ripped open pulling out books and papers.
Following the trail of flying books and papers to see the Lunch Lady standing down the hall. Her face, portraying her anger.
As the wind continued Tucker started sniffing the air as familiar and delicious smells went through the air.
"Steak, Rib-eye, barbecue, choice cut, well done," he started muttering.
The others thought he was crazy until they saw the various pieces of meat passing through the air and moving towards the woman. The meat collected on her body and merged together like a giant meat ball. It grew arms and legs becoming a giant meat suit.
"I thought they got rid of the meat, "Sam said, "Where did it all come from?"
Tucker's eyes narrowed and said one word that explained it all.
"Lancer."
Meanwhile at the teacher's lounge (aka the karma room) …
Lancer stood before his fellow teachers who looked like they were starving. His hand laid on a tarp that was covering a table.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "I present to you, the All-The-Meat-You-Can-Eat buffet."
He pulled it away causing shocked gasps to run through the group. Lancer turned, ready to stuff his gut full of the good stuff, but stopped when he saw the buffet was bare. Not a speck of meat was in sight, there wasn't even any grease left.
Enraged, the overweight teacher slammed his fists on the bare table and growled, "Paradise Lost!"
Back with the group everyone cares about…
The meat monster roared as it stomped towards the trio. It now stood a few feet taller than Danny with fists twice the size of his head.
The monstrosity turned towards Sam and pointed its massive hand at then, specifically at Sam and growled, "Prepare to learn why meat is the most powerful of the five food groups!"
Doing another emotional 180 she pulled a cookie out of nowhere and asked, "Cookie?"
Caught off guard again, Sam could only shake her head.
Apparently angered by the refusal the ghost did another emotional 180 and angrily roared, "Then die!"
Danny got between the two and said, "No way, if anyone is expiring it's you!"
Danny stood strong ready to fight. Then his hand glowed white before he suddenly changed back to normal.
Glancing between Sam and the meat monster said, "Son of a- "
Before he could finish his swear a meaty fist slammed into his face knocking him off his feet and sending him crashing into Tucker.
The meat monster than reached out and grabbed Sam, pulled her into its body before turning and turning its legs into a meaty tail, that resembled a slug's, and slithered away at a fast pace.
"Come on," he said, "Change back. We have to go after them."
Before Danny could do anything, a small cough got their attention.
They turned and saw a rather irate looking Lancer.
"You two aren't going anywhere."
A few minutes later in Mr. Lancer's personal office…
"Now…Mr. Fenton, Mr. Foley, would either of you mind explaining why you left cafeteria?" Lancer asked the two boys as they sat in chairs across from Lancer's desk.
Lancer's office was small with just enough room for his desk and the two chairs that wo boys were currently being forced to sit in. Off to the side there were a few screens that showed various areas in the school.
"Well," Tucker tried to explain, "We weren't going to eat what was in the cafeteria so me and Danny were heading to vending machines to get something eat. Junk food seemed better than what they were serving."
Lancer raised an eyebrow at that and seemed to accept the answer.
They thought that this would be the end of it, but unfortunately it wasn't.
Lancer got up and walked over to a filing cabinet, grabbed two files and walked back out.
He laid them down and opened one up.
"Mr. Foley," he said, "talking in class, chronic tardiness, several counts of having phone out during lessons, and repeated accounts of loitering by the girl's locker room."
Tucker looked sheepish at that, but didn't say anything.
The sighed and said, "Well, I guess a little trip to a vending machine is excusable given you've had not major bouts of mischief in the past. Now go and get ready for your next class."
The boy nodded and got up to leave. Danny was about leave as well, but Lancer stopped him.
"Not you Mr. Fenton. There is still something we need to discuss."
Danny looked confused as he sat back down.
"Now as for you Mr. Fenton, the most you seem to be guilty of is breaking a few beakers in chemistry class," Mr. Lancer read out of Danny's file, "Also no major mischief. Now tell me why it is you tried to pick a fight with Mr. Baxter?"
Danny had to resist the urge to face palm as he heard that. He should have known Dash would try something like this. This was also the main reason Lancer was one of the most hated teachers in school. No matter what the situation was he always bailed out the A-List…though for some reason he seemed to dislike Danny, for some reason.
"I didn't pick a fight with Dash," Danny defended himself, "He- "
Lancer interrupted, "Threw four touchdown passes the last game, and as such is immune from scorn. You, however, are not."
Danny had to resist the sudden urge to glare at the favorites playing teacher.
"However, since this is a first offense I am willing to let you off with a warning," the fat man said, "but do so again and there will be retribution. Do you understand?"
Danny had to resist the urge to growl and simply muttered, "Yes, sir."
Lancer nodded and said, "Good now I suggest you join Mr. Foley."
Danny got up and left the office with a growl.
As the door shut Danny immediately found Tucker and said, "We have to find Sam. Who knows what that nut job lunch lady is doing to her."
Tucker nodded and said, "Great you find her. I got to get to class."
The boy was about to leave when Danny grabbed his arm and said, "Oh no. You're helping since you're the one who got Sam captured in the first place."
Tucker looked shocked and yelled, "What? What did I do?"
Danny gave the boy a dark look.
Tucker then remembered how he was quick to point the finger at Sam and looked sheepish.
"Oh, right."
Tucker then sniffed the air, his heightened meat sense kicking in again and smelled something very familiar.
"I think I know where they're going."
The duo then went through the school following Tucker's nose as they tried to find their captured friend. The trail led them to a large locker near the back of the school where almost no one else could be found this time of day.
As they threw open the doors they were shocked to see a ton of boxes with loads of meat labels. Steak, pork, shish kebabs, chicken, and all other kinds of various meats and protein rich foods. Tucker was drooling. He had heard of the school having a large meat locker, but no one could figure out where it was.
"Wow," Tucker said as he ran up and hugged one of the many boxes, "I heard of it, but I never through I would live to see it."
Danny blinked at his friend's antics and said, "Okay…why is it you're the weird one when I'm the one with super powers?"
Danny's ghost sense went off and he knew the Lunch Lady was near. After that he light blue mist moved, as if it was leading them. The duo followed the mist until they came to the sight of the Sam and her ghostly captor.
"I didn't know that sense of yours could lead us to the ghosts," Tucker whispered as he glanced at his friend.
"Neither did I," Danny whispered back.
The two looked at the sight of Sam trapped in a mound of various meats as the ghost lady floated in front of her.
"Little girl," the woman said in a grandmotherly tone, "Meat is good for kids. It helps them grow big and strong. Why won't you eat it?"
Sam, stopped her struggling momentarily, argued, "We don't need meat. That's a scientific fact."
The ghostly woman did another emotional 180 as she growled, "Silence! You need disciple! Manners! Respect! Do you know where that comes from? Meat!"
She then became happy again taking out a chicken and a stead as she asked, "Red or white meat?"
Deciding to know that there was something, Danny transformed and said, "I'll distract her, you get Sam out of that pile of meat."
Hearing his stomach growl Tucker answered, "Way ahead of you."
Danny floated up and flew around the corner.
"Hey, grandma, clench your teeth!"
The woman turned just in time to take a shot to the jaw. She was sent flying before crashing into the wall leaving a large crack. She snarled as he raised her head to glare at Danny.
Meanwhile, Tucker got down next to Sam and said, "Don't worry, I'll you free in no time."
With that said, he started stuffing his face full of the meats finally putting an end to his hunger.
Sam gained a deadpan expression and said, "You've got to be kidding."
Back with Danny, the half ghost boy flew at the woman and lashed out with a kick. It was promptly stopped when the woman grabbed his ankle. She got up and held him upside down.
"You see?" she snarled, "This is why you need meat! Your all skin and bones!"
She threw Danny with surprising strength. Danny turned intangible out of reflex and went hallway through a wall. He quickly got his bearings and got up to face his opponent.
Good thing too as the mad woman had reached out with her powers, her hand glowing green as a box of shish kebabs opened and launched forward like miniature spears.
Danny, using agility and flexibility he didn't even know he had, dodged as fast as he could, the kebabs piercing the stone with ease. However, as he stopped moving, believe she had run out of ammunition, he found that she had held a few back, and sent them flying, bunched more closely together. Danny willed his body to change to avoid the projectiles, instead of turning intangible however his body changed. Extending at the waist in a snake like fashion.
Danny looked down to see his extended body and thought, 'Cool…a little weird…but still cool.'
The lunch lady looked shocked before she let loose an enrage scream, getting Danny's attention. The meat in several boxes burst open and went towards her, including the meat that had trapped Sam.
The ghost had formed another meat suit only this time it was much bigger. As opposed to her first suit, this one had fists as big as Danny's torso.
She extended her arm grabbing Danny and then throwing him. Danny let out a scream as he turned intangible and went flying through the wall.
The transformed woman glared at Tucker and Sam before looking at them and letting out a loud roar sending bits of meat grease flying at them.
"Run?" Tucker asked in a scared tone."
"Run" Sam answered.
The two proceeded to run away screaming, heading directly for the door. The meat monstrosity then drew her fist back and unleashed a fist of meat that formed a blockade, preventing their escape. The ghost reached out and more meat from the surrounding boxes flew up and formed another fist for her.
She roared and ran after them, her large feet shaking the room.
The monster chased after them. She raised her hands and dark green flames erupted around them, cooking the meat then burning it. The smell of burnt meat filled Sam and Tucker's noses as the meat turned hard from being overcooked.
She brought her fists down. The pair just barely managed to dodge the massive fist. It left a huge crater, indicating how strong the blow was, and there was no crack in the hardened meat, indicating how hard it was.
The two redoubled their efforts to get away.
The transformed ghost simply turned into a swarm of meat and flew up and landed across from them with her massive hands raised up.
At this point Danny came back and his eyes widened as he saw his friends about to turn into patties. He flew forward and grabbed the two. He flew away as fast as he could.
The meat monster let out a growl as she formed her legs into a slug like tail as she pushed herself forward, moving much faster keeping pace with Danny. The boy need to think fast. He saw a wall and immediately got an idea.
He slowed down deliberately, as the woman raised her fists preparing to crush the trio. Danny moved from side to side dodging the attacks, which resulted in Sam and Tuck screaming in terror. As he was close enough to the wall, Danny sped up shooting forward, turning him and his two passengers' intangible. They flew through the wall, and the ghost realized she'd been tricked.
Before she could stop, she crashed into the wall leaving a massive pile of meat. The woman phased through the meat pile and growled.
Outside, Danny flew forward Sam and Tucker safely in his arms, relief flooding him.
Sam looked at Danny, ready to thank him for saving them, but was surprised to see he was having trouble keeping his eyes open.
"Wow, Danny," she said, "Fighting meat monsters, flying through walls, you must be exhausted."
"Of course not," Danny said, "What would…give you…that idea…"
Danny then fell to the ground as a combination from the exhaustion of fighting, as well as barely eating any breakfast and no lunch caught up with him. He fell to the ground losing consciousness and changing back to his human form.
Tucker looked from Danny to Sam and said, "Great, what do we do now?"
Thinking quickly, the two grabbed their friend and jumped behind a bush. The Lunch Lady came through a wall. She looked around and after not finding her targets, let out a growl before she returned to the school.
A little bit later at Fenton Works…
Sam and Tucker carried Danny through the front door. They looked around and saw that Jazz wasn't around and quickly went upstairs passing by the kitchen where they saw Danny's "parents" sitting at the table working on something.
"Jack," Maddie said, "just give up on the Fenton Thermos for the day, it's obvious not going to work."
Jack, ignored his wife and said, "It will. Once we figure out how this thing works we'll be able to catch any ghost in the blink of an eye."
The duo continued upstairs, found Danny's room, and laid him on his bed. The two then sat down and waited for Danny to wake up. Not knowing how long that would take Sam helped herself to some of the books on a shelf nearby, while Tucker took out his PDA and started playing a game.
After a while Danny groggily opened his eyes. After a moment he realized he wasn't at school and shot up from his laying position.
"What's going on? How did I get home?"
Tucker, put away his PDA, and said, "We brought you home after you passed out. You've been asleep for four days."
Danny shot up and yelled, "Four days!?"
Tucker let out a chuckle as he said, "No, it's only been about an hour."
Danny and Sam were not amused at Tucker's attempt at comedy.
"Knock it off Tucker," Sam said, in an annoyed tone, "This is the second time today, your recklessness almost got him killed."
Tucker turned and glared at Sam. His belief that she was at fault for all this coming to bear.
"My recklessness?" Tucker asked, angrily, "The only reason this whole thing happened is because you took the meat away."
Danny, realizing a similar argument to the ones the two had had in the past was about to start, tried to play mediator.
"Now take it easy you two," Danny tried, but they didn't stop.
"I was just trying to make a better menu for everyone," Sam argued angrily glaring at Tucker.
In response, the techno geek scoffed, "Yeah, grass sandwiches and mud pies are really good food."
The argument continued for a good five minutes and Danny finally had enough.
"SHUT UP!"
The two stopped their argument at the shout. It was unnaturally deep and had a slight echo to it. The two turned to see Danny facing them with an angry expression.
"Both of you shut up and sit down."
Tucker took a seat at Danny's desk chair while Sam sat down on the edge of Danny's bed a little bit from Danny.
Danny rubbed the bridge of his nose and looked between the two before stopping on Sam.
"Sam," Danny started, "did you really think that your own diet would be good for people to eat?"
Sam looked at Danny and said, "Yeah. We don't need meat. I mean look at me. I haven't eaten meat in years and I'm one of the fittest girls in school."
She said this with pride as it was true. Sam was stronger than most of the girls in her class. Danny was pretty sure that if she ever arm-wrestled with Dash she could give him a run for his money…and most likely win.
Danny nodded and said, "Really? And did you think that changing the menu like that would be accepted?"
Sam rolled her eyes and said, "Well, they would have liked it if they had actually tried it."
Danny rolled his eyes. Sam could be stubborn, especially when it came to her own beliefs.
Danny then said, "Well then…what about Tucker? He hasn't eaten a single vegetable in his life. Did you think about the effect the new menu would have on him?"
Sam was about to answer, but stopped when she realized that she hadn't. Tucker had been living on an all meat diet most of his life. She didn't think about the effect the introduction of a foreign food.
Danny, seeing he got her to think, continued, "Also, do you think that people who have eaten regular food would eat what a person of your personal diet would eat after seeing it once? It was grass on bread and mud. Did you think that anyone would find any of that appetizing?"
Sam blinked as she heard this. Now that she thought about it, she was the only one in school on the recyclo vegetarian diet in school.
"Sam, I know that you meant well when you brought this menu change, but you didn't really think about the consequences did you? That sound more like something that your parents would do."
Sam's eyes widened as she heard that. She knew how much her parents had tried to force Sam to share their point of view on the world. That the normal way was law, and that anyone who didn't follow it was automatically a freak. How they tried to force her to wear bright colors and control her life.
She had tried to force her views on everyone.
Sam hung her head as he realized she had made a huge mistake.
She turned to Tucker and said, "I'm sorry Tuck, I didn't mean to cause so much trouble."
Tucker grinned at being in the right and said, "Good. Glad to see you see things my way."
Danny smiled and said, "Great…now you apologize to Sam."
Almost immediately Tucker's smile fell as Sam looked at Danny with surprise.
"What?!" Tucker almost yelled, "What for?"
Danny gave his friend a slightly menacing glare and said, "How about the fact that you almost immediately pointed a ghost towards Sam because you were upset over a menu change?"
Tucker stopped and wanted to defend himself, but knew he couldn't. The result of Tucker's thoughtless actions had nearly gotten Sam killed. Realizing what had happened was his fault Tucker gained a somber look and faced Sam.
"I'm sorry Sam," he said, truly apologetic, "I was so upset over the change that I wasn't thinking."
Sam nodded and said, "At least you realize you made a mistake. However, it may take a while before I can forgive you."
Tucker looked upset, but he understood.
"Now that that is out of the way," Danny said breaking up the moment, "we need to figure out how to deal with that crazy woman."
The other two nodded.
"I got nothing," Tucker said, after a few minutes, "We don't even know that much about her."
Danny thought about that for a moment. They didn't really know about what happened to make her so obsessed with lunch and meat in the first place.
Danny blinked and thought of something. He got up and walked over other to his computer. He booted it up and activated the search engine.
"What are you doing?" Sam asked as she and Tucker joined him at his side.
Danny then typed a few words into the search engine. "1950's, Lunch Lady, Casper High, death."
After a moment the search proved to have results. One of the searches brought up a newspaper article titled, "Meatastrophe!"
The article was from the 1950's. The article talked about how a batch of rancid meat had been sent to the school by a complete accident. Thankfully, not many people were killed, people mostly getting sick. However, there was one reported death. The Lunch Lady in charge of the cafeteria, named Brenda O'Leary, had eaten a bit of the bad meat before the warning got out. A picture of the woman was present, and they were able to immediately recognize her as the Lunch Lady.
"So that explains why she's so upset over the lunch change," Tucker said as he read the article.
Danny nodded and said, "I think I heard my parents mention this before. They mentioned something called an obsession. Something that a ghost focuses more than anything. It makes sense when you think about it, as overseeing the cafeteria was her job."
Sam shuddered slightly at the idea of something you love killing you.
"What else do we know about her?" the resident goth asked.
Danny sat down and said, "We don't know much other than that. Other than her powers we've seen control over plates, ovens, and meat."
Sam added, "Don't forget the fire…and that burning thing she did."
Danny looked at her confused and asked, "Burning?"
The pair looked confused before they realized that Danny hadn't been in the room when she burned and hardened her meat suit.
"Remember that flames of rage trick she did back in the kitchen?" Tucker asked, earning a nod, "Well, before you grabbed us she burned the meat on her arms, making it crazy hard. She left craters in the ground for Pete's sake."
Danny blinked at this and rubbed his chin in thought.
"So," he said, "fire powers, control over kitchen appliances, and meat control. Now we have some idea on what she can do."
Tucker nodded and said, "So what do we do now?"
The trio became silent. They began thinking on what to do about this ghostly woman. She seems completely motivated by the fact that the menu had been changed, and due to Sam's actions.
Danny, after a few minutes, said, "Well, the first thing we do is have to draw her out."
The other two turned towards Danny and asked, "Then what?"
Danny blinked and said, "I don't know. We play it by ear. I'm sure my parents have at least one invention that will work."
The Sam and Tucker looked at Danny with blank expressions.
"Hey, cut me some slack, I'm not used to coming up with plans to stop ghosts," Danny said looking at them annoyed
There was a moment of silence before Tucker's eyes lit up and said, "I know! I think I know a way to get her attention. I better get started if I want this to work."
Before Sam and Danny could stop the carnivorous techno geek, he ran out the door and out of the Fenton household.
The goth and hybrid sat in silence for a moment before Sam broke the silence.
"You don't think he'll go too far, do you?"
Danny glanced at her and answered, "No…whatever Tucker does…it's probably not going to be very big. I mean, what could he do in one night?"
The next day…
"A lot…apparently, he could do a lot in one night."
Danny and Sam both stared in shock at the sight of the massive protest that had formed in front of the school. There were multiple grills and vendors all over the place. They were grilling, frying, roasting, smoking, and baking all kinds of meat from chicken and turkey to ribs and pork. They smell of cooking food, barbecue sauce, and burning charcoal filled the air. Naturally, many of the students and plenty of teachers were taking place in the food. Other than the food being served there were various balloons shaped like eat products and the animals they came from floated in the air and people holding signs that showed they supported the protest. There was even a news crew nearby covering the protest.
Hey, when you live in a sleepy town you go with whatever news you can get.
Danny's attention was diverted to a large stage where pretty women in bare hotdog costumes were dancing. As they danced of stage, Tucker took their place with a microphone in his hand.
"What do we want?" he asked.
"Meat!" the crowd shouted.
"When do we want it?!"
"Now!"
Tucker smiled proudly at his handiwork. With this protest he would get a knew that it would get the ghost's attention and, most likely, get the menu changed as well. Two birds with one stone. As he noticed Sam and Danny, he got down from the stage and walked towards them. They were both shocked and slightly impressed.
"You got a protest together in one night?" Danny asked, surprised.
"My parents are a part of the NMS," Tucker answered with a proud smirk, "The National Meat Society. A group dedicated to all things carnivorous, well almost everything. Anyway, when I told them about the menu my dad called in a few favors, and BOOM instant protest."
Sam looked around and said, "I'm not sure if I should be impressed…or freaked out."
Danny shrugged and said, "I'm pretty sure we can manage to be both."
Danny looked around and said, "Do you really think this is going to draw her out?"
Tucker smirked and answered, "It should. This ghost is a meat lover."
Sam smiled at Tucker's thinking. Then she remembered something…something very important.
She turned towards Tucker with an alarmed expression and said, "Tucker did you forget that she- "
Before she could even finish her sentence, Danny breathed out a wisp of blue mist. At that point, the meat began to shake and was suddenly ripped away from those. Off buns, grills, hands and sandwiches the meat flew. Trucks full of them were ripped open knocking workers and chefs respectively to the ground.
The meat all focused until it took the familiar shape of Brenda's meat suit, this time taller than the school with fists that could crush a truck in its hands.
"It's lunch time!" she roared as she looked down at the group with glowing green eyes.
The reactions almost immediate as everyone screamed in terror as they ran away, not wanting to get caught up in the massive monster's rampage.
"She can control meat!" Sam yelled, over the screaming of the panicked crowd.
"I did not think this through," the boy said simply, a look of absolute panic on his face, and making a mental note to kick himself for forgetting that crucial detail.
Danny looked around and seeing that nobody seemed to be looking quickly, changed into his alter ego. Thankfully, everyone was too busy being scared and running for their lives to notice.
"Danny are you seriously going to fight that thing?" Sam asked as her friend transformed.
Danny nodded and answered, "If I don't then who will?"
Danny flew up towards the massive beast and floated right in front of its face. Brenda immediately recognized Danny and let out a menacing growl.
The large creature raised its massive hand and swung it. Danny dodged to the left to avoid the massive hand. Danny flew around the massive blows that would crush him like an insect if he didn't move. Danny flew around the massive hands before turning invisible.
The meat monster glanced around and tried to find Danny. The boy in question turned visible behind her, right in the monster's blind spot. Danny drew back his leg and lashed out a kick that slammed into the massive beast's head. The strike caused her to stumble before she growled.
She spun around and lashed out with a powerful punch. Danny flew to the side warping his body, extending his waist to avoid the massive fist. He flew forward and delivered a punch right to the ghost's eye. She clutched the injured optical organ with a growl of pain.
She lashed out in rage and pain. Danny decided to do a repeat of his last attack and turned invisible. He flew behind her and lashed out with a kick.
Suddenly, the meat warped, and a hand shot out of the back of her neck, nailing Danny in the jaw knocking him back and stunning.
"Fool me once, boy," the woman growled as she drew her fist back and let it fly into the boy sending him skyward.
Sam and Tucker gasped at the sight and Sam said, "I hope he knows how to take a punch.
It was at this point that a familiar vehicle showed up. Jack and Maddie had raced to the school having heard about the attack going on with the news. They gasped at the sight of the large meat ghost and immediately brought out some of their weapons.
Maddie was the first to noticed Sam and Tucker and said, "What are you two doing here? And where's Danny?"
The two jumped as they had been too focused on the fight to notice the two.
"Um…Danny ran off," Sam said quickly, "He thought he saw another ghost."
Jack smiled at this and said, "That's our boy! Now stay back! We got work to do!"
The two ghost hunters brandished their weapons menacingly and opened fire on the meat wrapped Brenda. Their weapons barely did anything to penetrate the monster's now insanely thick hide.
The two teens amongst them looked at each other with nervous expressions. They hoped Danny would be able to beat her soon.
Speaking of which, Danny shook his head attempting to clear the cobwebs in his mind. He looked down at the monstrosity and realized that he wouldn't be able to get her with the same strategy twice.
Danny then flew upwards as fast as he could when he saw an airplane he knew he had flown up enough. Danny then performed a U-turn and flew down, his legs fusing into a ghostly tail and shot downward. Air whipped his face and pushed his hair back. He pushed his arms forward as dark green energy began to glow around them.
As he broke through the clouds Brenda saw his flying charge and didn't have enough time to react. The impact destroyed the meat suit and caused a nicely sized explosion that knocked the quartet of humans watching back onto their butts.
Jack and Maddie got up and saw a large crater where the beast once was. The pair looked at their weapons in shock.
"Maddie," Jack said, his voice portraying his shock, "I think you may need to redo your math."
The woman nodded as she hadn't expected to be that powerful.
At that moment a low groan got their attention. They looked towards the sound and saw Danny, thankfully still in ghost form, rose up from the crater.
The two saw the ghost that, they thought, was behind the trouble. They were about to approach. When they saw another ghost appear, the Lunch Lady, rise out of a nearby pile of discarded meat products.
"Oh dear, what a mess," she said, a sad and concerned tone filling her aged voice as she looked at Danny, "Are you okay?"
Danny got up and rolled his shoulder, which was slightly sore from the massive impact and said, "Yeah, I think so."
Immediately, she performed an emotional 180 and growled, "Tough! Because if you're okay, then it isn't part of my four-course menu of doom!"
She held out her hands, and a dark green glow came across a few piles of meat as they merged into tiny creatures only a few feet in height with glowing green eyes and growling angrily. Before they could attack Brenda was hit the back by a bright green beam. She roared in pain as a burn on her back.
She turned with an angry expression to those who would dare get in the way of her mission.
"Freeze ectoplasmic piles of post human consciousness!"
Danny turned towards his parents with shocked expressions.
Brenda let out a growl and ordered, "Kill them!"
The minions roared as they leapt at Maddie, Jack, Sam, and Tucker. The two adults jumped in front of the shocked teens and opened fire. The blast of bright green energy slammed into the meat monsters obliterating them into various meat products.
The pair of ghost hunters looked victorious while Sam and Tucker looked relieved. At least they were until the pieces of meat rose up and merged back together.
Meanwhile, Brenda was putting all her might into crushing Danny. Thankfully, she was not much of a skilled fighter as her punches were relatively show and sloppy.
Danny dodged a punch and countered with a powerful strike to the gut. Brenda stumbled backwards and snarled angrily. She roared as he charged forward and threw another punch. Danny ducked under the blow, but had to dodge when she threw out a punch with her other arm.
Danny caught this one and shifted his weight, like he'd seen in a few movies, and pulled Brenda off balance. Danny then lifted the two hundred plus pound woman and threw her like a rag doll.
She bounced across the ground before skidding to a stop. She got up, slightly dizzy from her sudden before a powerful punch to the jaw knocked her for a loop. She then felt herself being lifted and then thrown. She crashed into the wall of the school.
The woman growled and glared at Danny who had a smug look on his face. Suddenly, green energy flashed across her arm. She held out her hand with the fingers extended and curved. She drew her arm back as a bright green fork appeared above her arm.
She lashed out and the fork shot forward like a four-pointed spear. Danny dodged to the right. He got to see the four-pointed weapon pierce the brick wall, leaving four large holes. Danny, stood shocked for a moment, before turning towards his adversary just in time to see her raise her other hand into the air.
"Whoa…didn't know she could do that. I wonder If I can?" Danny said, before he turned his attention back to his opponent.
Brenda raised her arm and swung it down like a karate chop. As she did a massive wave of energy shot forward. Danny dodged, just barely, and was temporarily blinded by the dust cloud that came up after the attack.
Brenda, with shocking speed, shot forward and drew her fist back. A large construct formed…a large frying pan.
There was a loud clang noise as the impact slammed into Danny. A huge wave of pain went through the boy as he was launched across the field. He impacted the wall hard, leaving an imprint of his body and several cracks. Danny felt like his bones were going to break and he coughed up a large amount of saliva with bits of green sludge. He looked up just in time to see another frying pan flying at him and pushing him deeper into the wall.
Meanwhile, Jack and Maddie were beginning to tire. The meat minions were proving to be a huge problem as they kept regenerating after being blasted. Maddie had been successful in holding them off with a mix of firepower and martial arts. Jack had been using firepower mixing with his pure brute strength. As part of not being experienced with ghost hunting the two lose their strength from the constant attacks.
Sam and Tuck had offered to help, but they had stubbornly refused saying they didn't need it.
Maddie noticed the fight with Danny now in the wall.
She quickly yelled, "Jack! The Fenton Thermos. If you stop her, you may stop all the meat."
Jack nodded and pulled out their first attempt at a ghost capture device. Unfortunately, he never got the chance to use it. Before he could even get the cap undone, a meat minion sprouted pointed chicken bones from his fingers and slashed at Jack's arm cutting his jumpsuit and his skin easily.
The man shouted in pain and he lost his grip on the device. The same minion kicked the weapon away.
Maddie jumped up to defend her husband. With some impressive martial arts moves and grabbed the thermos. She aimed the weapon at the ghost, and hit the green button on the side. Unfortunately, all that came out were some sparks of light. The meat monsters, realizing the weapon wasn't working jumped up and pinned the two ghost hunters to the ground, knocking their weapons away. They also grabbed Sam and Tucker before they could run.
Brenda continued punch with giant frying pants until Danny was smashed through the wall. After stopping and taking a bit of breath, she turned and saw the ghost hunters and teens pinned to the ground. Brenda walked forward and glared down at the group.
"You supported this menu changing hussy," she growled, "Now you will pay!"
She raised her hand as meat flew to her arm creating a massive meat arm which then lit on fire.
As the meat arm began forming, Danny got out of the wall, falling to his knees with a moan of pain. He looked down and saw the Fenton Thermos at his feet. He glanced towards the woman and winced as he got up, pain from the powerful impacts shooting through him.
Going off a complete hunch he reached for the device and picked it up. Danny uncapped the device and sent energy into his hands causing the device to glow. The device shot a bright white beam of energy.
The bright flash got Brenda's attention as she was hit in the back causing her to she lost her concentration and the meat fist fell to the ground with a thump.
She tried to fight the beam and got sucked into the device and Danny quickly capped it.
As soon as the ghostly woman was sucked into the device. The meat that was holding on to the four humans quickly lost its strength and fell to the ground without any strength whatsoever. Danny let out a breath of relief at seeing his friends and family safe.
Sam and Tucker both let out sighs of relief as they stood up from the massive pile of meat. Tucker had officially lost his appetite after seeing his life flash before his eyes. Sam was alongside Tucker in relief at being free mostly because most of the meat wasn't cooked yet. She made a note to shower as soon as she got home.
Jack and Maddie, however, had a very different train of thought.
The two ghost hunters jumped up and aimed their weapons at Danny.
"Hold it ghost!" Jack yelled, "Hand over that thermos!"
Danny looked like a deer in headlights not expecting his parents to train their weapons at him. Unfortunately, they took the ghost boy's lack of response as a sign of him not wanting to cooperate.
"Fine," Jack said as he aimed his weapon, "then we'll just take it!"
The pair fired…or at least they would have if their weapons hadn't fizzled out. The husband/wife pair quickly realized their attack on the meat ghost and her minions had killed the power sources on their weapons, and they need a recharge.
Danny, realizing now would be a good time to get away, flew off and out of sight leaving two fuming ghost hunters and two very grateful teens.
As Danny flew home he glanced down at the thermos. He smiled a bit as a small feeling of pride filled him at his accomplishment. He had fought a ghost, he had beaten it, with some help, and he had managed to stay alive the entire time.
As he flew he began to think that this was why he was given these powers. He would protect his town from the ghosts his parents couldn't. He felt a small twinge of nostalgia from when he was small, and someone asked him what he wanted to be.
He was a superhero.
Cut! Okay, that was the first episode of Phantom Devil. Now, you saw a few changes here than what was normal so let me explain. First, Danny is going to be stronger than the original series, as such I've decided to make his enemies stronger. For the Lunch Lady, or Brenda, as I've named her, I added to her repertoire as best I could. I used stuff from what we've seen in the show that they didn't use very much. We saw her use fire powers in the first episode, but it was never explored on. As for it hardening her meat, I know from personal experience if you cook meat too long it gets tough. As for her attacks when she was in human form, I saw a weakness she could do without. If there is no meat around she can be weakened significantly. Her "Fork", "Knife", and "Frying Pan Punch", are from an anime called Toriko, used characters Toriko and Mansam. Given how the show revolves around food, it made sense. There may be other changes with characters and a few other elements added later in the story.
Now, you may have noticed that I took out the attack names for the show. That is because, after looking through it, I found it kind of pointless…and very stupid. Now, you may recognize them, or not, depends on the person. Anyway, still expect references.