Hey if anyone's interested could they draw a picture of Danny with the Lyoko Warriors? In costume, out of costume and in Lyoko? I would but I suck BIG time at drawing! The picture must show the Lyoko Warriors as well as Danny!

Without further ado here's the chapter!

Chapter 7: Mystery Meat

Danny practiced firing his gun against the tree in the Forest Sector, "How was that?" He asked with a smirk.

"… You hit the wrong tree." Danny did a face plant as Aelita said that.

"Oh great, now you tell me." He pouted while Aelita laughed at his behavior.

Danny's been sneaking to Lyoko every few nights since his fight with Skulker to chat with Aelita, practice his combat in Lyoko or just for the heck of it. He really enjoyed talking to someone that knew that he was a ghost rather than lying to that person.

"So Xana's been quiet for a week or so?" Danny asked after he was done pouting.

Aelita nodded, "Yes, he hasn't tried anything since his Nuclear Sabotage plan failed… But that has me worried that he's planning something."

"You talked to Jeremy about that?" Danny asked twirling his gun around.

"No, there's not much he can do until Xana does attack." Aelita said before giving Danny a look, "When are you going to tell the others about your condition?"

Danny sighed, "I don't know how they would react." He explained truthfully, "They could accept me but they could also fear me as well, I mean come on! Ghosts have haunted people for centuries and there are very violent ones out there so we don't really have good reputations."

"I'm sure that they would accept you." Aelita reassured him, "But the longer it takes for you to tell them the worse you'll feel about lying to them."

"… Yeah that's true." Danny admitted, "But I'm just scared of their reactions."

"They accepted me," Aelita pointed out with a smile, "They will accept you as well!" She promised.

'Yeah, they accepted you… But it's not the same.'

Danny looked down before he looked serious, "When they materialize you I'll tell them." He decided, "That way it'll give me time to think about what to say… And it'll give me time to figure out how they would take it."

Aelita didn't look too happy at having to still keep this a secret but she sighed, "I have a feeling that's the best I would get from you."

Danny laughed, "Pretty much." He said with a grin.

"So what's new with the Phantom part of your life?" Aelita asked as Danny began to practice his aiming on another tree.

"Nothing serious after Skulker… I'm still wondering what he meant by me being a rare breed of Ghost… Then there was the Box Ghost the most annoying ghost there is!" Danny shot the tree right in the middle, "But other than that there are just muggers."

"Muggers?" Danny forgot that Aelita doesn't know that much about crime in the real world.

"People who rob others of what they have," Danny explained, "It doesn't matter if it's valuables or money."

"Why would anyone do that?" Aelita asked in shock.

Danny shrugged, "Some do it out of desperation while others do it for thrill." He explained, "I honestly don't know why but sometimes someone is killed because of it and that's why I'm out there to make sure it doesn't happen!"

Aelita was silent for a bit shocked that some people would do stuff like that… But Danny didn't find that surprising since the only people that she ever met were the Lyoko Gang.

"Don't let it get to you." Danny told her, "Think of it like Xana awakening every time a crime happens and the Superheroes like all of us trying to stop Xana."

"Okay." Aelita decided to let the matter drop instead of pursuing it and in a little bit Danny was devirtualized to the real world.

While he flew through the air he thought back to Aelita's shocked face. 'Maybe I should've been more tactful in explaining that to her.' He thought sadly.

Shaking his head he made it to the room and landed on his bed dropping his invisibility. He was in his regular clothes rather than the Phantom Costume since he practiced his techniques in Lyoko all night. But right now he was thinking about how they would react to him being a Ghost.

'Would they hate me? Would they accept me? Would they be angry that I kept this from them? … Why am I randomly thinking to myself?'

Danny didn't know how they would react and he didn't want to find out yet so he waited for the alarm to go off in a few minutes taking in the silence that surrounded him.

~In an unknown location~

"Where the hell is Skulker?!" The shadowed man snarled as he was waiting patiently for the Ghost's return from his mission but of course he didn't come back and his patience was slipping away.

Then one thought struck him.

"What if the boy defeated Skulker?" The man pondered on that for a bit before he came to his own personal ghost portal opening it to show what looked like a green skinned lunch lady, "I have a job for you!" He said darkly.

~With Danny~

Danny stared as he saw that the Cafeteria was going on a health week and all the meat was gone…

"Rest assured this is a temporary transition!" Jim said to the students as they were groaning, "A school in Amity Park, Illinois is doing the same thing and our school won a draw to copy that."

Upon hearing Amity Park Danny groaned, "I should've known!" He muttered getting the attention of the others.

"What?" Odd asked, "You know who's responsible for this?"

Before Danny could answer Sissi shouted, "Who made this happen?!"

"A teenage girl named Samantha Manson." As soon as the name Manson left his lips every student turned and looked at Danny who was regretting choosing her last name at the moment… But it wasn't like he knew that this would happen.

"Someone you know?" Ulrich asked with a raised eyebrow.

"… Cousin." Danny lied before he thought about it.

To say that he wasn't hated by everyone but the Lyoko Gang would've been an understatement.

"Way to go Manson!" A sandwich with grass on it smacked his face as they sat down before mud hit him.

"You're cousin had to do this."

"You suck!"

Odd whistled, "Man you are seriously hated for this." He was eating it pretty okay which surprised the gang but they just put it as him being him.

"Maybe we should leave the Cafeteria." Yumi suggested before another Mud Pie was mushed into Danny's hair mixing brown and white, "While you still have white hair left that is."

Danny's eye twitched as Odd snickered so when no one was looking he shot a very tiny ecto ray at Odd's Knee cap causing him to yelp in pain to everyone's confusion.

Jeremy pushed his food away, "I still have some money so why don't we just get a burger?" He offered.

They didn't need any convincing to go as they left the room but not before Danny's ghost sense went off so he looked around only to see nothing before Ulrich put a hand on Danny's shoulder, "Come on." He said as every student burned holes in Danny's head at that moment.

After a bit they made it to a fast food restaurant and ordered a burger each… Well Odd ordered six but anyways they were a lot better eating burgers than the health food that the school set up.

"So your cousin did all that?" Odd asked with a smile, "What's she like?"

Danny stopped eating as everyone was waiting for him to answer… It was to be suspected since the only thing that they knew about Danny was the fact that he's from Amity Park, he loved the Band Humpty Dumpty and that his best friends name was Tucker Foley.

With a sigh he began, "Well she's a Goth that's an Ultra Recycle Vegetarian-."

"Which means?" Odd interrupted.

"She doesn't eat anything with a face on it." Jeremy answered for Odd, "As in, she doesn't eat animals."

"Oh."

Danny chuckled, "But she's the type of person that believes in rights for everyone so she pretty much hates the Government." Danny finished.

"So wait… She's a hippie?" Odd asked.

"… I'm pretty sure that if you say that to her face she'll kick you with her combat boots." Danny pointed out while Odd cringed at that image.

"Sounds like I would get along with her." Yumi said with a smile.

Danny smiled when he gasped and his Ghost Sense went off… This time in front of the Lyoko Gang.

"What was that?" Ulrich asked.

"What was what?" Danny asked weakly.

"That blue mist!" Odd pointed out.

"What blue mist?"

Yumi sighed, "If you're going to lie to us than at least make a believable lie." She said to him.

Jeremy was about to say something when he remembered that he promised to not bother Danny about it, "Let's just leave him alone."

The others looked shocked while Danny looked relieved before he excused himself, "What was that about Jeremy?!" Odd whispered to him, "He was about to spill the beans!"

"I promised him that we wouldn't bother him until he was ready to talk to us about it." Jeremy said as the drinks came in, "He'll tell us eventually."

Odd looked put off by that but Ulrich shrugged, "That's fine by me." He said.

"When he tells us he'll tell us." Yumi took a sip of her drink.

~With Danny~

Danny quickly changed to his Phantom guise in the bathroom and flew through the roof only to see a rope of sausages heading for him, "… Ooookaaay that's new."

The sausages came at him so Phantom took out the machete that he took off of Skulker and sliced them in half where he swore that they snarled in anger which shocked him.

"Why the hell are there possessed sausages coming at me?" After a few moments he thought about what he just said and his face went red in embarrassment under his mask, "Why the hell did I say that?"

"Foolish Ghost Child!" Phantom turned to see a green skinned lunch lady ghost, "Tremble for I am the Lunch Lady!"

'The Lunch Lady? … Okay why am I getting the weird enemies?' Phantom randomly thought in surprise. 'I mean come on! Skulker was a better criminal than this!'

Then she changed from her anger demeanor to a happy grandmother one, "Cookie?"

"… Uh no thanks." Phantom declined.

He knew that was a bad idea to decline the cookie when her hair lit up and her eyes went bloodshot red, "THEN SUFFER!"

As she roared meat was flying everywhere. Chicken, Hamburgers, Hotdogs it was meat of every kind until a gigantic Meat Monster towered over Phantom and she roared.

"IT'S LUNCH TIME!"

"… Oh crap." Danny muttered as a giant meat fist came at him.

~With the Lyoko Gang (Ten Seconds ago) ~

"How long is he going to take?" Yumi asked as their food got there, "He's been in there for a while."

"I'll go get him." Ulrich sighed as Odd was about to bite into his Cheeseburger but then it literally flew out of his hand as did every single piece of meat in the Restaurant.

Odd just gaped in horror as his food flew away from him while Jeremy looked out the window to see a giant meat monster, "IT'S LUNCH TIME!"

"You think it's Xana?" Odd asked in horror at seeing a giant meat monster.

"I don't know." Jeremy admitted, "My Laptop would've beeped if a Tower was activated!"

"Plus it looks like someone else is fighting this thing." Ulrich pointed out the window to show Phantom dodging the meat fist before firing his green energy beam but it did nothing.

"Yumi, Odd and I are going to head to the Factory!" Jeremy said to Ulrich, "You stay here with Danny to help people out if something happens!"

"Got it Belpois!" Ulrich told him and the others ran off while Ulrich ran to the Bathroom to get Danny but he was greeted by seeing no one, "Danny?" He looked around wondering where he was.

~With Phantom~

Phantom gritted his teeth as he increased the power of his ecto blasts but all he got was cooked meat from the Lunch Lady who lunged at him, "Nothing can defeat meat!" She roared.

"Well your meat isn't going to win!" Phantom shouted back ignoring the many wrong innuendos coming from that statement.

"We shall see!" Lunch Lady roared, "Now, how about a nice slice of chocolate cake?"

"Okay seriously?" Phantom asked in confusion, "What is with the mood swings?!"

He punched the Lunch Lady's head but the meat shield absorbed the blow knocking him back before she punched him into the ground creating a crater, "You're all skin and bones!" She boomed, "You need meat!"

"Uh let's not and say we did!" Phantom joked before he got stomped on by the Lunch Lady, "… Okay I take back what I said… This ghost is a threat."

Phantom groaned as the foot came down the second time and he was sent through the street into the sewers where he landed in the water.

"Ugh now I smell like Kiwi on a bad day." Phantom looked up only for his eyes to nearly bug out of the mask so he moved back as the Lunch Lady lunged at him nearly turning him into a Pancake in the process.

Then Lunch Lady roared and some expired and disgusting meat flew out of the sewers making her look even more horrifying.

"I skipped out on Lunch for this?!" Phantom shouted as the Lunch Lady lunged.

~At the Factory~

"Aelita can you hear me?" Jeremy asked as he typed in the Supercomputer with Odd and Yumi looking at the screen with him.

"Loud and clear Jeremy!" Aelita's face popped up, "What's wrong?"

"We're wondering if Xana activated a Tower!" Jeremy explained as he typed into the Computer, "There's a giant monster made entirely of meat in the city and our local vigilante is fighting it."

Aelita looked shocked at the subtle mention of Phantom but she hid it, "No, Xana hasn't activated any Towers today." She told him, "To be honest Xana could be plotting while this is just a coincidence."

Jeremy leaned back, "So there's no way we can help?" He asked.

"Looks like this is Phantom's fight." Odd stated before Yumi called Ulrich.

"Hello?"

"Xana isn't active so you and Danny head back to the School!" Yumi told him, "We'll meet you there!"

"Danny disappeared!" Ulrich told her, "He's nowhere in sight and this is getting the attention of the Military!"

"You need help finding him?" Yumi asked.

"That would be nice." Ulrich admitted before hanging up.

"What's going on?" Odd asked feeling left out.

"Danny is missing in all this mess." As Yumi said that Jeremy had a sudden thought.

"Wait, Danny is missing when Phantom showed up again?"

"Yeah so?" Odd asked before he realized what he was implying, "You don't think-!"

"Danny disappeared and Phantom appears and vice versa!" Jeremy explained, "Plus when Xana possessed Danny he could shoot the same energy beams as Phantom himself can! I can't believe that I never saw the connection before!"

"So you're saying that Danny is Phantom?" Yumi asked in surprise as it did make sense in a way, "Do we talk to him about this?"

"It's not our secret." Jeremy admitted, "But we can't pretend that we don't know… So we'll confront him tonight."

~With Phantom~

Phantom panted as the Lunch Lady punched him right through the wall and not in the nice intangible way either.

"YOU SHALL SUFFER THE WRATH OF LUNCH!"

"… Why do my enemies have weird lines?" Phantom muttered feeling dazed. He hasn't felt like this since he was alive and he knew that if this battle kept up he'll be out of power.

He forgot the Thermos back in his room and he knew that he couldn't leave with the Lunch Lady following him so he stood up.

"Is that all you have? You old hag!"

The Lunch Lady snarled as he said that and lunged right at him so with a smirk Phantom moved as she struck a steam pipe.

Howling in agony the meat on the Lunch Lady was turning spoiled and falling apart, "NO!" She roared until she was back to being a normal ghost, "YOU SHALL PAY FOR THAT GHO-!" Before she could finish Phantom punched her in the face.

"Not in your afterlife!" He quipped happily.

Lunch Lady snarled as she shot ecto energy at Phantom who split himself into two his top half going up and his bottom half going left! The only thing keeping them connected was a strand of wisps in his middle before he came back together.

"Whoa!" Phantom had his hands on his stomach in shock, "I didn't know I could do that!" Then he looked up to be punched back and she had her meat form back and it was uglier than ever.

Phantom looked around to see that he landed in a Garbage Dump with meat everywhere.

"Note to self… Pay more attention to my surroundings." Phantom muttered as she added more meat to herself and came at him slowly so Phantom backed up firing Ecto Blasts but she shrugged each blast off.

Pretty soon Phantom fell to his knees in pure exhaustion but when he got up the Lunch Lady backhanded him into the garbage before slamming him into the wall to where he coughed up green blood.

"This is the great Phantom?" The Lunch Lady roared in laughter, "You defeated Skulker?! I honestly don't see why our employer is interested in you ghost child!"

"Employer?" Phantom glared at her his left green eye showing through the damaged goggles, "What employer?"

"Don't worry, you won't meet him!" She formed a hammer made of meat in her hand and slammed him into the ground causing Phantom to shout in pain, "You will die tonight!"

Phantom rolled his eyes painfully, "News flash Lunch Lady! I'm a Ghost already!"

"But you're a Ghost that can die!"

Now Phantom was confused, "Huh?"

The Lunch Lady saw no harm in telling him since he was going to die again in a little bit, "Every once in a while whenever a Ghost is created a certain breed is born with potential to become the strongest being in the Ghost Zone but the cost is that they can fade away after too much damage!" She smirked, "Pariah Dark was the first and last one for centuries before my employer showed up nineteen years ago and now there's you!"

Phantom's left eye widened in realization, "What Skulker meant-."

"You're a rare breed of Ghost but my employer is in a breed of his own." With that the Lunch Lady formed a sword with her arm before Phantom stood up in anger.

"No! It's not going to end." He muttered stumbling, "Not like this!" He blasted her focusing all his power and she screamed in pain before the meat disappeared leaving a green swirling vortex.

The Lunch Lady looked scared, "It's not possible!" She muttered, "A stable portal to the Ghost Zone?!"

Phantom smirked as he grabbed the Lunch Lady and blasted her into the Portal as she screamed in pain before he focused and it closed.

No sooner did it closed did Phantom fall to his knees in pure exhaustion before he coughed out blood, "W-W-When c-could I do that?" He managed to get out before he took his mask off in pain, "No matter… Now I know how to get rid of Skulker and Box Ghost."

Phantom took a step forward before he collapsed onto the ground feeling the blood leaving his mouth and his last sight before blacking out was a shape heading towards him and then… Nothing.

To Be Continued…

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~In the Rec Room~

ULW approached Odd, "Hey Della Robbia! The world didn't end so-!" He held out his hand.

Scowling Odd handed him five bucks but before ULW could put it up Yumi took it.

"This should start with the payment of the Japanese Antique you broke!" Yumi told ULW

ULW paled, "How many times do I have to say sorry?"

She left while Odd chuckled at ULW's misfortune before he paled at ULW's smile, "What are you smiling about?!"

"Oh I'm thinking about doing something to you in my story." He left leaving Odd sweating bullets while Ulrich who was reading shook his head at the antics in the room.

Outside the Recording Room Dan Phantom appeared, "I'm here to-!"

ULW waved his arms in a panic as Danny, Sam, Tucker, Odd, Ulrich, Yumi, Jeremy and Aelita looked at each other in confusion, "You're early!" He shouted, "WAY TOO EARLY!"

"Uh who's this?" Danny asked but he was justly ignored as ULW pushed Dan Phantom out of the room leaving a weird silence from most of them wondering what the hell just occurred.