Anything you recognize I probably don't own. There are also some parts of this taken directly from the Danny Phantom Show but it will get more and more different as it goes.
(This is Danny speak thinking.) (This is Sam speak thinking.) (This is Tucker speak thinking.)
Episode 1
Day One Afternoon
Staring at the back of his father's head Danny couldn't but wonder what had possessed him not to flee the house the moment he noticed his dad was about to go on a Ghost Hunting recruiting rant. Oh, yeah, he remembered glancing at his friends who were sitting in chairs next to him in front of the closed portal doors, we stepped in the Ghost Portal and now we need to know how to avoid my parent's inventions in case they try and kill us for being ghosts.
"So, Danny…" his dad said cheerfully, "you and your little friends want to hunt ghosts."
"Um, actually Dad?" Danny interrupted, "I want to be an astronaut." Not that that would work anymore. He thought somewhat bitterly. But it's what Danny Fenton would be expected to say and how ever unlikely it is we can't have people noticing that something has changed.
Sam's voice interrupted my thoughts as she added her piece, "Sorry, Mr. Fenton. I was into ghosts, but their so mainstream now. They're like cell phones."
That might even be true for her. Danny snorted slightly and projected, (What would you do if being Vegetarian ever became 'Mainstream', Sam? Become a meatasaur like Tucker?)
Tucker looked almost scandalized as he raised his hands and added his opinion on hunting ghosts, "Waste these looks and all this charisma hunting ghosts? Criminal."
(Being a Vegetarian is a life style choice everyone should take up. We don't need to eat meat and doing so is both cruel and wasteful. I will never eat anything that once had a face.)Sam's mental sniped back at Danny but he could feel the fondness behind it.
Danny could sense Tucker dramatically gearing up to reply as his father continued his talk, "Well, if you do want to hunt ghosts, there are a few things you need to learn."
As Jack turned to the table behind him a faintly visible breath left Danny's mouth and he gave a full body shiver feeling every goose bump stand up. (That's not good.)
(No kidding.) Tucker grumbled back as he turned to look at the portal door to the side of him. (Oh, damn. Guys, the Portal's opening.)
With that warning Tucker ducked off his chair as a tentacle flicked out of from the direction of the Portal but Sam isn't fast enough. Two ectopuses hovered over their chairs with Sam held in one of their grasps. (Tucker, distract the one that has Sam.)
Tucker looked slightly doubtful at the giant green creatures that were managing to hold Sam in one tentacle and their gaping black maws but well, he trusted Danny.
As Tucker lunged at the Ectopus holding Sam Danny ducked under a table and transformed with a flash of blue-white light into his Ghost Form. (Bite it Sam. Or damn well kick it; you're wearing your sodding combat boots after all.) Sam it seemed had taken Tucker's advice as the next moment the tentacle cross her mouth jerked back and with Tucker pulling on it, it dropped her.
Danny rammed into the ectopus that unoccupied had been moving towards his father, who with an absent sort of incredulity he realised, was still talking, not having noticed the ghost fight happening literally behind his back. "True, I've never seen a ghost, but when I do, I'll be prepared." Danny slammed the ectopus into the wall before he spun around and flung the Ghost straight back into the Ghost Portal before it recovered from its dazed state.
Sam and Tucker have been holding their own against the other ectopus by mostly attack it from one side then the other. The octopus shaped ghost is a bit confused by now so when Danny arrives and kicks it into the celling it doesn't think to go intangible. Grabbing one of its tentacles, Danny braced himself and used that leverage to fling it back through the open portal.
As Jack continued, oblivious, to talk, "It all starts with your equipment." Sam and Tucker hope back into their chairs and put on what slightly ruffled innocent looks as Danny transforms back into his Human Form. Quickly shutting the Portal Doors he managed to hop back into his see as Jack turned around.
Jack walked over to the three not noticing their flushed faces and slightly ragged breathing as he holds a green and white thermos like item in from off them, "Sam, Tucker, Danny, this is the Fenton Thermos." he hands it off to Danny, "It's supposed to trap ghosts," (That could be useful.) Danny muttered eying the thermos with more interest as Tucker and Sam projected their agreement. "but since it doesn't work yet it's just a thermos." (Damn) Tucker murmured. "A thermos with the word 'Fenton' in front of it."
(My parents are crazy.) Tucker snorted but Sam replied, (Mine are worse.) (I didn't think that is possible.) (Oh, trust me it is.)(If you want us to believe that, you'll have to take us to your house someday Sam.)Tucker added with an amused irony. (If they can top the ops-centre I'll admit they're more crazy them Danny's.)
Their attention drifted back to the closed Portal as Jack pointed at it, "And that? That is the Fenton Portal." (Oh, we're familiar with that alright.) Sam snarked. "It releases ghost into our world"-(How could we miss that when we spend all hours of our day chasing them down.)-"whether I want it to or not. And someday, I'll figure out how that"-Jack tapped the door-"works too."(If he doesn't I will, then I can shut the damn thing and keep all the ghosts out.)
(I'm sure you will.) Danny thought as his father walked over to stand over the trio. "Now, who wants to hunt some ghosts." They stared back silent at him. "You kids, look at you!" (Oh, no.) Danny moaned into his friends minds. "You're too excited to speak!" (He's worse than Tucker.) "So I'll just go on speaking." (Hey, I was never close to that bad.)
They dissolved into mental quarrelling as Jack droned on.
# # #
Day Two Morning
Danny was stubbornly being busy eating his cereal and not eyeing the invention his mother was touching up with some welding cross the kitchen table from him. He can all but fell Jazz's annoyance next to him as she looks at Maddie over the top of her book "Surviving Adolescence Through Therapy" before returning to steadfast reading. He loves his sister really, but she is going to be in for a shock if it gets out that Ghosts are real.
He twitched as his hand tingled and focus on the feeling of solidness before he lost his spoon. Instead he redirected the intangibility down to his left foot. He's found since getting his powers that suppressing them all the time didn't work but redirecting the power surges did lend him a measure of control. I hope those stop happening at some point.
"Okay, two more days, and it's done!" his mother exclaimed almost giddy and Danny looked up with concealed wariness as Jack appeared behind her.
"What did you say?" Jack grabbed the box shaped invention with what looked like receivers on it. "It's done?" Oh, no. "The Fenton Finder is done!" That does not sound good.
Danny raised an eyebrow as he slowed in his cereal eating and just like he expected his Fa-Jack boasted, "This baby uses satellites to lead you right to the ghosts."
"It does what?" Danny asked with an incredulous sort of confusion even as with his mind he gently reached out to nudge the minds of his friends. (Tucker. Sam. We may have a problem.)
As Tucker and Sam brought their attention to him the Fenton Finder began to beep. "Welcome to the Fenton Finder." A woman's voice called out. "A ghost is near. Walk forward."
Danny stayed seated and just watched the Fenton Finder warily as his Jack and Maddie walked to him with a confused look on their faces. Putting down his spoon he raised an eyebrow at the satellite receiver right in front of his nose. "Ghost Located. Thank you for using the Fenton Finder."
(My parents have made a satellite scanning ghost locater called the Fenton Finder that leads them right to Ghosts. And it's picking up on me.)
"What, oh, that can't be right." A confused frown set across Jack's face as he looked between the Fenton Finder and his son. For a moment Danny felt the coolness of invisibility settle across his legs but he didn't react. Better then it happening somewhere visible.
(Yeah, that could be a problem but nothing I can't fix if you give me enough time) (They seem to think it's malfunctioning but if this is going to happen a lot we might need an excuse. What do you think of Ecto-contamination?) (It could work but how do you explain Jazz?) (That she only has a very low level, which Ghost Hunting equipment doesn't pick up on, but that we were home when the Portal went on and maybe it a blast of airborne Ecto-Plasma was released by it.) (How would it have escaped the lab?) (My parents left the lab door open when the Portal failed to work.) (Okay, it seems like a sound enough argument.)(Sam?) (Sure, I just hope they don't tell my parents.)
"Actually, I need to talk to you about something." Danny told his parents as finished his cereal and stood up.
Jazz closed her book, "That's not all you need, Danny." She walked over to stand behind him, pushing her father back a little as she did so. "You need guidance, and parents who can provide it."
(Oh, dear. I don't think I'm going to get around to telling them anything.) Danny observed in a gloomy sort of voice that did nothing to hide the fondly annoyed amusement colouring his mind. (I think Jazz is on a roll.)
"Sweetie, I know what we do doesn't make sense sometimes, but your only-" Maddie began with a long held expiration colouring her tone before Jazz cut her off.
"Sixteen. Biologically!" (Right, see you at school. I'm just going to try and escape before Jazz drags me into this.) As Jazz continued on –"But psychologically, I'm an adult!"-Danny placed his bowl in the sink and started to sneak out of the room. -"And I will not allow your insane obsession with ghosts-" As Danny tied to sneak past her Jazz grabbed him and pulled him to her. "-to pollute the mind of this impressionable little child!"
(God luck getting away from that.) Tucker felt amused and Sam felt excited. (See you at school.)
Jazz looked down at him and Danny gave her a weirded out look as she said, "Come, you abused, unwanted wretch. I'll drive you to school." With a final glaze at her parents she walked off with arms around Danny's shoulder.
As they existed the room they could hear Maddie remark, "Huh. That's weird. Jasmine never offers to drive Danny to school."
"That can only mean one thing." Jack said slow, "That's not our daughter; that's a ghost." (Oh, gods my parents think my sister is a ghost because she's driving me to school.) Danny groaned in horror as his enhanced hearing picked up on what his parents were saying as they left the house. "Danny, No! It's a trap!" Jack ran out the front door yelling as Jazz's car took off.
(Just hope they don't turn up at school dude.) Tucker smiled at the feeling of mortified embarrassment that spread from Danny's mind.
# # #
Day Two Lunch
(So, anyone one had any serious problems with their powers?) Danny glanced around for anyone nearby; he had learned early on that their powers seemed to be influenced by emotion. So talking about them was an almost sure-fire way to make them act up.
(Not really. Had a limb or two go intangible while I was in my room but nothing public and nothing new.)(No problems, but I went invisible for a minute when I was trying to avoid my parents.)
(That seems consistent. Remember we need to stay alert for any changes.) They had noticed in the last month that Danny seemed to be the strongest of them. He was best at flying and his Ghost Form was easiest to access and it glowed the most. He also had problems with all of his powers accidently manifesting in human form. The only thing Tucker had manifesting in human form was intangibility while for Sam it was invisibility but hers seemed to be emotionally triggered only.
The trio turned a corner and entered Casper High's cafeteria. Sam smiled as she spotted a big white banner stating in blue writing that it was "Ultra Recyclo-Vegetarian" week and Tucker made a chocked sound. "Sam," Tucker turned horrified eyes on his Goth friend, "what have you done?"
"I wore the school board down. They have finally agreed to try a new cafeteria menu." Sam told her friends smugly as they lined up for their lunch.
Danny stared at what the canteen lady had given him. It was a bread slice- with bright green shoots growing of it. "What is this?" Danny asked Sam with a kind of horrified fascination, "Grass on a bun?"
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Tucker cried backing away from the canteen line.
"Tucker," Sam smirked, "it's time for a change." She held up their 'lunch' which honestly seemed to be grass on a bun.
Tucker point-blank refused to get any of the 'grass on a bun' and so the trio made their way over to their usual table. Sitting down Danny eyed the apparent food before him with something approaching the same scepticism that he held regarding food made by his parents. Poking it with his spoon he asked, "Don't you think this is a little extreme Sam?"
Sam smiled then glanced up as Mister Lancer, their slightly out of shape, bolding vice principle, put his hand on her shoulder, "Ah, Miss Manson. The School board wanted me to personally thank you for ushering in this welcome experiment into our cafeteria."
Danny didn't pay him too much attention though as he eyed Tucker who was frantically sniffing the air, "Meat. Near." Tucker glared at Lancer who backed away, "No, no. The rumours about the new all-steak buffet in the teacher's lounge are completely untrue." Pausing for a moment to pull out and use a tooth pick he then patted Sam on the shoulder and said, "Thanks again." before walking off.
"Yeah, thanks again for making us eat garbage, Sam." Tucker said bitterly.
"It's not garbage." she protested in an almost snobbish tone holding up the 'grass on a bun', "It's recyclable organic matter."
Tucker and Danny traded a look and chorused, "It's garbage."
Sam glared and with a sigh Danny cautiously cut out a piece of grass on a bun. Goose bumps suddenly lifted all over his body and he frowned at the faintly visible blue mist that issued from his mouth. (Guys, you might have noticed but we've got a ghost problem.)
"Urgh!" he cried as a handful of mud landed on his head, "What the hell?" (Make that two problems.)
"FENTON!" Dash bellowed as he marched over with a plate of mud in his hands. "I ordered three mud pies. Do you know what they gave me? Three mud pies. With mud." -(Really, Sam? Mud pies? No wonder Dash is pissed)-"From the ground. All because of your girlfriend!"
Any answer that Sam might have mentally made was cut off by twin ingrained protests, "She's not my girlfriend!"/ I'm not his girlfriend!"
Dash reached down and lifted Danny by his shirt a few inches of the ground. (Whoa, that must take some serious upper body strength.) (Not helpful Tucker.) Danny made sure to look properly alarmed as he hung there with Dash right up in his face.
"These are the best years of my life! After high school, it's all downhill for me!"-(Of course it is, your nothing but a muscle bound Jock and failing grades won't get you anywhere.)-" How am I supposed to enjoy my glory days eating mud?!" (Yeah, Sam, how am I supposed to relax and grow while eating mud? Men need meat to grow.)
"Actually," Sam sniped from where she had stood up to watch next to Tucker, "it's topsoil." (Really not helping Sam.)
"Whatever!" Dash snapped as he tossed Danny at the table. Landing on the bench Danny groaned as Dash walked over and shoved the plate of mud in front of his face. "Eat it. All of it."
He gave a grimace of disgust as he gripped the plate and raised his spoon then he shivered. Looking up he caught sight of a ghost moving behind the cafeteria kitchen counter. (God damn it Sam, did you have to force a change on the menu without telling us? If we'd known that you were going to do this we could have just hid somewhere and avoided this.) Danny gripped the plate more firmly and threw it right into Dash's face.
As he dived under the table he yelled at the top of his lungs, "GARBAGE FIGHT!" Tucker and Sam followed his dive and hid under the table. As all the other students of Casper High start throwing their food and making a real ratchet Sam peeks out from behind the table and called indigently, "It's not garbage! It's-"
Danny grabbed her and pulled her back down. Glad that they choose to sit on the outer edge of the cafeteria they crawled towards the doors. Remarkably they managed not to get hit by any of the flying food. Behind them Dash bellowed, "You're gonna pay for this, Fenton!" and was subsequently hit on the head with mud. Twice.
"Glad to see I'm still his favourite." Danny muttered as he cleared the doors.
Tucker and Danny peer around the corner into the kitchen part of the cafeteria to see an elderly female human shaped ghost floating there as she looked at the bowls of salad. The woman was large, bluish skinned and wearing a pink cap hat with some white hair peeking out from underneath and a pink top with a white apron over it and yellow gloves. Pulling back they turned to confer with Sam. "Huh. It shouldn't be so bad. She looks a little like my grandmother." (You have a scary grandmother then Tucker.)
"Shouldn't she be haunting a bingo hall?" Danny wondered sarcastically as they mentally planned. (Sam, Tucker you should go in and try talking to her. I will stay out and Transform into my Ghost Form in case we need to fight. Remember my name is Danny Phantom or just Phantom in Ghost Form. Are you good with this plan?)
(Yeah, sure you've got our back, Danny. I mean Phantom.)(I-. Fine. I guess this should work.)
Sam and Tucker nodded to each other before stepping into the cafeteria kitchen and kicking the door gently closed behind them. In the hall Danny ducked into a corner and making sure there were no cameras or people watching transformed with a flash into his Ghost-Form Phantom.
Noticing the two students that had entered the room with her the Ghost Lunch Lady turned to them with a sweet smile and inquired, "Hello, children. Can you help me? Today's lunch is meatloaf, but I don't see the meatloaf. Did someone change the menu?"
Before Sam could go on a lecture about the greatness of being a Vegetarian Tucker spoke up, "Yeah," he pointed his thumb at Sam, "She did." (Get ready Danny, I don't think that's going to go over well.)
It seems Tucker's mental comment was right on the mark because the Lunch Lady's white hair suddenly turned flaming as he eyes flashed read and she yelled in an almost demonic echoing voice, "YOU CHANGED THE MENU?!" Intangible, Danny floated through the wall, into the kitchen. "THE MENU HAS BEEN THE SAME FOR FIFTY YEARS!"
Green flames suddenly burst into existence around her. Danny floated in from of Sam and Tucker as an almost vortex of green light started to swirl above her and a strange wind whipped through the kitchen. "Stay behind me." he commanded.
"Wow, I feel so safe." Sam commented sarcastically as Tucker slowly pulled her towards the doors.
Danny floated towards the enraged Lunch Lady with an impassive look on his face, "Lunch Lady, Amity Park is mine. I don't permit Ghosts who are causing damage or threatening humans to remain. Either calm yourself or leave."
(Nice poker face dude. Though I don't think it's going to work.) Danny smiled a little as he noticed the Lunch Lady's hand begin to glow and she pointed at him as the piles of dishes around the sink begin to glow then fly. Danny didn't bother turning intangible, he just dodged out of the way and let them hit the wall behind him. Noticing the Lunch Lady launching another bigger stack of dishes at Sam his Ghost Tail activated and he flew in front of her, catching them in neat stacks with his arms and hands. A second bunch flow at Tucker but Danny caught those too with a few balanced on his head and shoulders.
How the hell are these actually stacking? Never mind it's probably a ghost thing like the strength.
Flying over to shrug them off onto a counter while keeping a wary eye on the Lunch Lady he commented rather sardonically, "Well, if this superhero thing doesn't work out, I can have an exciting career as a busboy."
Picking a couple of plates of his head he frowned as he noticed them reflecting three glowing stoves moving behind him. Floating towards his friends who were sneaking towards the kitchen doors he listened to the enraged yelling of the Lunch Lady, "Lunch is sacred! Lunch has rules!"
"Anybody want cake?" Danny stilled confused by the sudden switch to calm, sweet grandmotherly tones and lack of fire while a startled Tucker and Sam nodded. Angrily the Lunch Lady snapped, "Too bad! Children who change my menu do not get dessert!"
She phased through the ceiling while green flames began to emit from the three stoves. The green flames then leapt out of the ovens in great streams like water jets towards Sam and Tucker who were forced to jump away from the kitchen doors to avoid them. (Danny! We need to get out of here!) Sam called mentally to Danny as he dodged the third blast of flames.
(Stand close.) Danny called as he flew towards Sam and Tucker. Behind him the three glow stoves managed to look angry as they flow through the air towards the two. As the stoves start to spew flames Danny flew to his friends and gripped them by the shoulders. His ghostly glow flared and spread to cover them and they turned intangible along with him.
As they flow through a wall out of the kitchen Tucker mentally commented, (Jeez, I'll never get used to how weird that feels when someone else is doing it.) (Aren't you glad we practiced?) Danny asked as he dropped the intangibility and let go of them in a school hallway. He then winced as he heard the stoves slam into the wall behind them which trembled from the force.
"This is the thanks I get for thinking like an individual?" Sam exclaimed in irritation, throwing out her arms in question
"No," Danny deadpanned, "this is what you get for trying to force everyone to do the same thing as you."
Sam looked faintly like she'd been slapped before a loud crash interrupted them. Worriedly the trio looked around as the lights sparked and smoked then went out and the hallway began shaking violently. The rows of lockers all along the hallway suddenly start bursting opening as their supplies come pelting out and flew down the hallway.
The trio stare in shock as the supplies start too whirled around behind the Lunch Lady who was suddenly standing at the other end of the hall. Tucker sniffed the air and turned around all but mouth-watering, "Streak…Ribeye..! No, porterhouse! Medium-rare!" Tucker called out as meat products flow past him before he lunged at a passing steak. Shockingly enough he managed to grab and make a good start on eating it before it was pulled from his hands by the force off the Lunch Lady's call.
Danny and Sam stare in shock at the Lunch Lady who as completely covered herself in meat but for a pair of mean looking green eyes. She now resembled some sort of sludge monster made of red meaty slop more than anything else. Why does Casper high have such high ceilings? He wondered absently as he stared up at it/her
Tucker meanwhile was more bothered by something else. "But where did it come from?" he wondered aloud before suddenly exclaiming, "Lancer!" A piece of paper hit him in the face and he battered it off seeming ready to go and hunt down the vice-principle to demand that he feed him some meat.
(Tucker! This is so not the time!) Danny called as he looked the meat covered ghost that towered over the three of them. Tucker snapped his attention back as the Lunch Lady menacingly exclaimed while pointing at Sam, "Prepare to learn why meat is the most powerful of the five food groups!" then she paused for a moment and asked politely, "Cookie?"
Wide eyed Sam shook her head which seemed to surprise the ghost before it raised a clawed hand, "Then perish!"
"Forget it!" Danny exclaimed as he pushed Sam and Tucker back. (Stay close, I don't think I can fight this ghost straight on. We're going to have to run.) He pointed at the Lunch Lady, "The only thing that has an expiration date here is you!"
The Lunch Lady made to swat at them but Danny clasp hands with Sam and Tucker and dropped through the floor. Returning to tangibility to moment they hit the next levels clear air space Danny flow quickly towards the wall and slipped into intangibility again. Flying free of the school Danny switched to invisibility before anyone saw them.
(We're ditching school then?) Tucker asked with a grin. (Yeah, school doesn't exactly seem safe right now.) Danny flow over the park and then moved down. As he hit the trees he dropped his invisibility for intangibility. (But what about the other students? You can't just leave them! You have to save them, Danny!)
As they landed Danny and Tucker gave Sam matching looks of disbelieve. (How is it my responsibility to save them?) (Because you have Ghost Powers. It's your duty to protect those who don't from Ghosts.)
(Yeah, I don't see how that works.) Tucker commented.(You have Ghost Powers too Sam. I don't see you leaping in to save the 'helpless humans'.)
(But-) Sam started to protest before Danny cut her off. (Anyway the Ghost wanted to kill you because you changed the menu. The rest of the students should be fine. And if they're not... I'm only 14 Sam, it's not my job to die for them. If you don't mind I am going to spend the next couple of hours sleeping. Wake me up when we should be heading home.)
With that and having checked that there was no one watching Danny promptly transformed in two bluish-white rings of light to his Human Form and passed out. Tucker caught him and lowered him to the ground with a glare at Sam. (It's not his job to risk his life saving people from Ghosts and he's under no obligation to do so. I won't stand by and let you get my best-friend killed again.)
Taking out his PDA Tucker sat down next to Danny and was promptly engaged with arguing with Sam for the next few hours. Verbally they fought about Sam's change to the school menu, their normal Meat vs Vegetable stuff but when they could call up the energy and focus with Danny asleep, then in their minds they fought over Danny and who he was to them and what he should be doing.
Tucker, it seemed, was not happy that Sam was trying to manipulate his best-friend into risking his life for the people of this town and Sam was angry that he wasn't using his powers to do what she saw as right. In the end Tucker argued that it was Danny's choice and he'd stand by his best-friend no matter what he choice and he wouldn't let Sam force her choices on him.
# # #
Day Three Morning
The next day Danny walked into school with a look of disbelieve on his face although secretly he was impressed that both of his friends had actually managed to come through on plan.
To one side were the Meat Lovers; to the other were the Vegetable Eaters. At the head of each parade were Tucker and Sam. Keeping to the plan Danny commented for anyone who might be listening, "Or not. Maybe it'll be worse."
As Tucker shouted into his microphone, "What do we want?" I wonder where he got the stage and hot dog dancing girls from?
And was answered by a roaring cry of, "MEAT!" from the crowd.
Danny remembered the idea they come up with. Sam and Tucker had been simmering with fury when they had walked to the Fenton home with Danny. Knowing that a month ago, before the accident Sam's menu change would have resulted in a massive fight with Tucker, they had staged one.
Tucker's call of, "When do we want it."
And the roar of, "NOW!"
Momentarily distracted by the wave of sound Danny then returned to his thoughts. Sam and Tucker were furious with each other but they probably would have put it aside grudgingly for Danny and the Lunch Lady. Danny though knowing that they really couldn't be seen acting unusually had told them that if they wanted to have a massive argument then have a massive argument.
Sam and her Veggie eater's chanting distracted Danny again, "VEGGIES NOW! VEGGIES FOREVER! VEGGIES NOW! VEGGIES FOREVER!" Did Sam steal the Casper High School truck?
Together they had semi-staged a massive screaming match about the Casper High menu at Danny's house before storming off. They had then both managed to pull up enough people to form a protest the next day. While Danny had known they would be doing the protests he was still impressed by the speed and size they had managed.
As Sam and Tucker marched over to him he pulled his thoughts back to the present. With an only partly fake disbelief he asked, "You guys put together two protests in one night?"
"Meat-eaters, Danny." Tucker said knowingly while glaring at Sam, "Always ready to fight. And our high-protein diets give us the energy we need to do it quickly."
From his other side Sam sniped back, "Ultra recycle-vegetarians are always ready to protest. And because we don't have to waste time cooking our food, we can move even faster."
"Don't you guys think this is a little extreme?" Danny asked raising his hands; he had to admit, even knowing this was a good part fake, it was still almost frightening.
Still glaring Tucker replied, "No choice, buddy. You're either with me!"
"Or you're against him!" Sam snarled.
"So whose side are you on?" They asked together as he cringed back.
Danny was 'saved', for the dubious value of being saved, from having to reply by the sky suddenly turning grey and the wind picking up. He shuddered as his Ghost Sense went off and the three of them exchanged grim looks as the problem they had been worried about arrived.
The brown leafed trees shook from the force of the wind and for a moment it almost looked like a hurricane was going to form but instead the vortex started sucking in meat. A woman's cackle echoed around the place as a meat truck was punchered by streams of wet meat that flew off into the vortex. A truly massive torrent of meat formed as it was drawn from all over the place (That's a little bigger than I thought it would be.)(Yeah.) it circled around a middle stream in great rings.
The protesters had mostly looked rather bewildered until the meat flow in the air had formed a giant meat monster. "It's lunchtime!" The Lunch Lady bellowed in her meat form to screams of terror from all the protesters as they fled.
The trio had fled too. Tucker had screamed while running, "Meat! Why have you betrayed me?!" Like everyone else they ran in terror but unlike everyone else they discreetly slipped into a hidden spot to watch unseen instead of continuing to run.
(Anyone got a view of us?) Danny asked grimly as he started up at the, frankly massive meat monster. (No.)(No, people and no cameras either.)
(You sure about this plan? You don't have to if you don't want to Danny.) He could feel the concern and care-loyalty-friendship from Tucker's mind even as Sam bristled. (No, I'm sure Tucker. I mean it's only until my parents or someone else gets here to deal with her.)
With vertical bluish-white rings from around his waist Danny transformed into his Ghost Form. Nodding to his friends he flew towards the Lunch Lady. I think its mouth is big enough to swallow me without trying.
Ramming into her with a vicious punch to the gut that folded her over and sends her sliding back he darts back up into the air before she can swat him out of the air. He then dodges a punch. And another punch Then he flew past an upper cut to deliver a kick in her head that knocked her down.
Trying to take advantage of the ghost's disorientation Danny dived down and kicked her again but wasn't fast enough to dodge a punch that blind-sided him with a glancing blow.
It sent him flying through the air and into the clouds. He blinked. Then accidently yelled (Airplane!) down his mental link to a worried Sam and Tucker as he turned intangible.
With some amusement he caught sight of the plane's shocked looking passengers before he reorientated himself and dived back down.
(Are my parents there yet?) (No, they don't seem to have arrived.) (Please don't tell me when there is an actually dangerous ghost terrorizing my school that they haven't noticed.) (It seems like it) (Fuck.)
Danny focused as he sped up in coming down and aimed right for the meat monster. He collided fist first with a loud thump and bang as meat was sent when flying everywhere. It even sent up an orange cloud from meat juices. Unfortunately he didn't pull up fully in time a left a small crater in the ground with his feet. (Least I managed to get the right way up instead of hitting the ground arms first.)
"Oh, dear." Danny floated up slowly to look warily at the Lunch Lady, "What a mess! Are you okay?" (It seems my attack managed to destroy her Meat Monster form but her normal ghost form is still here.)
"Yeah." he replied warily getting ready to fight, "I think so."
The Lunch Lady smiled then snarled, "TOUGHT! BECAUSE YOU BEING OKAY IS NOT PART OF MY BALANCED DIET OF DOOM!"
Danny watched with an internal groan as five streams of pulped meat leapt from the crater behind him to form in front of him five smaller meat monsters. He flow back a bit, noting as they jumped after him that they couldn't fly. Timing it carefully, Danny suddenly turned in a flying kick that managed to cut through all the meat monsters before he landed in a crouch on the ground.
He turned to look at the meat monsters and softly swore as they reformed. (Damn, don't suppose any one as any smart ideas of how to get rid of these before I run out of energy?)
There was a pointed silence in his mind as he took of back into the air. Double damn, he thought as he noticed that the monsters where flying after him. Taking off into the air quickly he checked that they were still following him before turning and abruptly diving towards the ground. They followed and he pulled up with a burst of intangibility the five meat monsters ploughed straight into the ground.
Floating above them he frowned as they started to slowly reform. How can I stop them? Something suddenly collided with his head and he blinked in surprised as he reflexively caught the Fenton Thermos. (It's supposed to trap ghosts but it doesn't work. How can I fix it?)
(Maybe it needs power?)(Thanks Tucker.)
Focusing Danny powered his bluish-white transformation over the Thermos. Hopefully that infused it with my Ecto-energy or something. Please work. He opened aimed the Thermos then flipped the lid open. A bluish glow overpowered his normal ghostly white one and a stream of bluish energy sucked in the ghostly meat monsters.
(Yes! It worked.) Shutting it he flew towards the Lunch Lady but not before he noticed the rest of his family staring at him in surprise. Guess that's the first time they've seen a Ghost. "Thanks for the Thermos!" he called back at them and heard his father yell something about Ghost kid and being right.
Slowing slightly as he approached the Lunch Lady he braced himself to be attacked with the Thermos gripped tightly in his hands. Seeing the Thermos she called angrily, "NO! Soup's not on today's menu."
"Well then," he called as he gripped the Thermos lid and aiming it, "I guess I'm changing the menu, permanently!"
The Thermos released a bluish stream of energy and Danny grunted a little at the backlash as it caught the Lunch Lady in an almost net of it. Holding on tight he ignored her wail of "NOOO!" as she struggled and held on tightly as the Thermos sucked her in. Capping the Thermos he panted for breath before he picked up on the sound of his parents approaching.
Turning invisible he flew over to where Sam and Tucker had watched the whole thing. At Tucker's nod he let himself transform back into Human Form with a sigh. (Nice work with the Thermos.) Danny smiled weakly (My parents have their moments.)
He looked over as Jack came bouncing onto the field with the Fenton Finder in hand and Maddie and Jazz following behind. (Come on. Let's go before my parents or anyone else notices us.)
Silently they slipped away towards Fenton Works, just barely avoiding a furious looking Lancer.
You might notice the time skip here. Originally I was going to write that month between the Portal Accident and the first episode but I got distracted and lost interest in writing this story before I got around to it.