Danny Phantom: A Change at the Start
A month has passed since Danny first gained his ghost powers and he's gotten pretty good with them, he can turn invisible and intangible at will, can fly up to 100mph and recently gained the power of telekinesis. But he's hasn't mastered it yet, so it's not useful in a fight yet. His ice powers have come along decently enough as well, being able to chill drinks and the air around him by twenty degrees so far, not to mention being able to breath out a strong chilled wind that can knock back his target a fair bit. But none of them are really battle ready except his icy breath attack in certain situations
Danny was rather glad that his mother continued his self-defense training as he began building his muscle, which was noticed by the other students of Caspar High. Mainly Dash who after a week of Danny's consent training learned that Danny wasn't going to let him get pushed around anymore when he judo flipped the jock onto his back at the end of school. The other students were shocked that someone finally stood up to Dash, this led other students on the social ladder to stand up for themselves more. When Mr. Lancer tried to discipline Danny, he was countered by Maddie who told the man that all Danny did in self-defense and that just because Dash was on the football team didn't mean he should get off scot free for his misbehavior
This was ignored of course as the football team was how the school made money. To bad the government had begun to crack down on such things last year, starting with the lunch/breakfast menus
Danny was headed to lunch wondering what they were going to serve as he had heard that the higher ups were forcing the School Board to change the lunch menu to the new standards (It's what you'd find in a real life school, not the glops of mush they show in cartoons)
However when he entered the lunch room he and his two friends Sam and Tucker were shocked at what they saw, the lunch room was decked out in a Ultra Recyclable Vegetarian them, with a matching lunch menu
"Sam! What did you do?! Where's the meat!" demanded Tucker as he glared at Sam
"Hey! What are you looking at me for?" asked Sam "I made this suggestion weeks ago!"
"I bet it's the school's last act of defiance" said Danny "My mom said that the government told them to change the menu last week, but they clearly didn't listen to them the way they wanted them to"
"Great, now everyone's going to blame me for this" sighed Sam
"I smell meat" said Tucker
"It's all in the teacher's lounge I bet" said Danny
"Would make sense" agreed Sam "Most of them can't just let go of their meet"
"Neither can I" complained Tucker
"Tuck, I know you like your meet, but you do need more fiber in your diet" said Danny "Not this kind of course, but it's not good for you to eat just meet dude"
"Oh yeah? Where'd you hear that?" demanded Tucker
"Anatomy and Physiology" answered Danny simply "It's one of the few classes that I have a good grade in right now"
Tucker had no response to that and just sat down at their normal table, Sam being the only one getting anything to eat
"Danny aren't you going to eat something?" asked Sam
"Uh I found that I could sustain myself with my ghost half by absorbing negative emotions a few days ago, so the bad mood is benefiting me right now. Not that I like doing so mind you" explained Danny in a whisper
"Seriously you can do that?" asked Tucker in shock
"Not very well mind you, but with how much negative emotions there are in the room it's not hard" answered Danny "Plus doing so makes me feel like some kind of vampire, so it's not something I'll only use in an emergency or something"
"Good idea" agreed Tucker "We don't know what effects it might have on your psyche, so using it sparingly is a good way to avoid it"
"I bet there's a ghost who's a master of this power" said Sam
"Wouldn't be surprised" said Danny
Suddenly Danny's Ghost Sense went off ie: a wisp of blue mist came out of his mouth
"A ghost here? What for?" asked Tucker
"There in the kitchen" said Danny when he saw a ghost floating around in the kitchen looking for something "It looks like their looking for something, but what I don't know"
"How are we going to find that out?" asked Tucker "It's not like we can just up and ask her, someone is bound to see us go in there"
"Then we need a distraction" said Danny as a smirk came to his face "And I know the perfect one"
Danny quickly grabbed Sam's lunch that she partially ate and yelled "Garbage Fight!" as he tossed the meal into the crowd, hitting one of the jocks in the face
Suddenly the entire lunch room was a war zone with food? flying everywhere while Danny, Sam and Tucker snuck into the kitchen
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The group made it into the kitchen and saw that indeed the ghost was looking for something and got a good look at it as well
The ghost was what appeared to be a former lunch lady with green skin and red eyes who asked when she noticed them "You three shouldn't be back here"
"Sorry, are you looking for something?" replied Danny
"Today was supposed to be meatloaf, but I can't find any" said the ghost
"That would be because the school changed it to what I suggested weeks ago to spite the government when they told them to update the lunch with a much healthier menu that was up to their standards" explained Sam
"Yeah, I mean the menu hasn't been changed or updated for nearly fifty years" added Danny "And according to my mom the standards for school menus has changed quite a few times over that time period, yet a large number of schools have refused to change them. So the government recently decided to crack down and reinforce the standards they set by force all across the country in the schools that refused to change"
The lunch lady wasn't stupid, she knew that menu changes made by the government were nonnegotiable when they put their foot down, plus updates to the menu wouldn't have made her leave the Ghost Zone as they would have been fairly small. But hearing how the school decided to change the menu to something completely different caused her to snap and fly into a rage
"The menu hasn't been changed in fifty years!" roared the Lunch Lady "Now face my wrath! Putrid girl for giving them the idea!"
"Uh oh, I think she's gone off the deep end" noted Tucker as he began to panic
"Guys we need to move!" yelled Danny as he knocked his friends to the floor as the Lunch Lady made everything in the kitchen come flying at them
"What do we do?" asked Tucker
"We need to stop her" said Sam
"Dad recently made a way to catch and transport ghosts in case of a situation like this, but we're going to have to weaken her before I can catch her" said Danny
"But non of the weapons your parents are making for us is done yet!" yelled Tucker as they avoided cutlery flying at them
"Then looks like I'm going to have to deal with this" said Danny as he transformed into his ghost self Danny Phantom
"What's this? A halfa?" asked the Lunch Lady in confusion and shock, before getting angrier "No matter you're in my way!"
Suddenly all the stoves came to life as they began sending ghostly green flames out at the group, only for Danny to use his fledgling ice powers to barely put the fire out before it reached them
"Man that took a lot out of me" said Danny as he began panting
"Well you just used your ice powers to block fire in the middle of a fight, so I'd imagine taking it out of you" said Sam
"Uh guys, she's still here!" yelled Tucker as the Lunch Lady raised up the stoves and other kitchen appliances into the air
"Grab onto me!" yelled Danny as the Lunch Lady threw everything at them
Sam and Tucker grabbed onto Danny as he made them intangible and pulled them into the hallway behind them, just as everything burst threw the wall. Allowing everyone to see the Lunch Lady in all her ghostly rage and glory
"Ghost!" screamed one of the students, not noticing Danny as he had changed forms as he phased threw the wall
Everyone started running like crazy as the Lunch Lady changed targets from Sam to the teachers as they were the ones who ultimately made the decision to change the menu, all Sam did was suggest it to them
"Mom, Dad I need some help here!" cried Danny over his phone as he ran down the halls of the school to avoid the Lunch Lady "The ghost of a former Lunch Lady is on a rampage due to the change the school made to the menu wasn't the one the higher ups told them to!"
"Don't worry Danny we're on our way" assured Maddie "Just do your best to hold her off until we get there"
"Alright, but I don't know how long I can keep her occupied" replied Danny as he looked around for anyone before becoming Danny Phantom again when he saw no one around
Danny went back to protect the students and staff from the Lunch Lady who had taken the form of a giant meat monster and bashed her way out of the school to go after the staff
"Hey leave them alone!" yelled Danny as he flew in and delivered a solid punch to the meat monster's face
The fight proceeds mostly like in cannon, with the Lunch Lady creating little meat minions, but those are easily dispatched by Danny's good martial art skills. After taking the minions out a few times and wearing Danny out quite a bit Jack and Maddie show up and start taking them down while Danny moves in to finish of the Lunch Lady's meat monster form
After a few good hits and blasts from Danny's new Ghost Rays allowed Danny to tear apart the meat monstosity and reveal a weakened Lunch Lady
"Sorry lady, but I can't let you terrorize everyone just because the menu changed" apologized Danny as he pulled out the Fenton Thermos and sucked her into it in a beam of blue light
"Glad that's over" said Danny as he flew down to land and find a place to change back without anyone seeing him
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After the attack from the Lunch Lady school was canceled for the rest of the day, so Danny, Sam and Tucker went back to Fenton Works to send the Lunch Lady back to the Ghost Zone
"Man I can't believe she flipped out like that" said Tucker "All because the menu changed for the first time in fifty years"
"I don't think that's what mad her angry Tuck" said Danny "I think it was how it was changed that angered her"
"And her obsession clearly took her over when that happened" added Sam
"I hope she calms down though, it wasn't her fault for what happened after all" said Danny "It was the school trying to defy the government's orders that led to what happened today"
"Danny are you home?!" called Maddie as her and Jack came home
"Yeah we're down in the lab" called Danny "I just sent the Lunch Lady back to the Ghost Zone"
"Oh good, so what happened exactly?" asked Maddie as she came downstairs with Jack behind her
The three recounted what happened from when they first entered the lunch room, to their encounter with the Lunch Lady, to her exploding in rage when she learned what happened to the menu, and finally the short fight that ensued before Danny called for help
"Sounds like she wasn't to pleased with what the school tried to pull today" noted Maddie
"I know, I think though that if the menu was the one the government told them to make, then she wouldn't have jumped into the deep end the way she did" said Danny "It looked like she understood changes made to the menu by the order of the higher ups was for the best in terms of nutritional needs, but such a drastic change made is what most likely made her leave the Ghost Zone in the first place and made her enraged"
"I think you might be right about that Danny" agreed Maddie "You'll have to ask her if you get the chance"
"Yeah, if they're under circumstances conductive for conversation" agreed Danny
Sam and Tucker gave Danny a odd look as they've never heard him say anything like that before
"What? My parents are genius, I picked up some smart sounding words from them" said Danny in defense of himself
Sam and Tucker just rolled their eyes
"Hey I just realized Jazziepants can't deny the existence of ghosts!" exclaimed Jack "What with the ghost attack and everything"
"Well she might have seen it, but I don't think she's going to believe it was a actual ghost attack yet" said Danny
"Danny's right, Jazz has spent so long denying ghosts are real that it's going to take a bit more for her to admit she was wrong" agreed Maddie
"I suppose so, but even when she dose admit she was wrong I'm still not going to tell her what really happened to me" said Danny "She still needs to figure it out on her own"
"We weren't going to ask you to sweety" said Maddie
"Well since school is out, how about another run on the obstacle course?" suggested Jack "Need to work on getting the hang of those new Ghost Rays of yours Dannyboy"
"Yeah, good idea" agreed Danny as he became Phantom
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