Written by: Memmek10k

Edited by: WhiteShoeQueen

Chapter 1: Origins and Mystery Meat

Summery: What if Danny Fenton was the boy who was late to Ember Mclain's date the night she died. We're going to go through the entire series to find out.

Caspar High

Danny Fenton the unofficial leader of the group, had been best friends with Amber Lain for most of his life and had a crush on her ever since they met. Amber Lain a brunette with clothing attire similar to Sam Mason, was the most vocal of the group. She had dreams of using music to help unfortunate kids struck by sickness and hard times in life. She had similar feelings for Danny.

Tucker Foley the tech expert of the group and met his best friends Ember, and Danny when they were in daycare. Sam Mason first met the trio in her fifth grade summer school and has since become inseparable with her best friends. Sam was also the most political minded of the group who also has had feelings for both Danny and Tucker. Now the four of them walked towards the front doors of their high school Caspar High, Sam and Tucker engaging in their own conversion while Danny and Amber carried on their life long 'Musical pun war'.

"Hey Amber, I heard your song on the radio last night. I guess your 'the girl on fire' right now." Remarked Danny as Amber resisted the urge to chuckle she quickly thought of a come back.

"Well I guess you that's why your like 'Ice baby'-pop. Hey Danny, I was wondering are you free tonight?" Amber blushed.

"Yeah I am, wait are you asking me out of a date?" Danny asked.

"Yeah." Amber replied blushing as Danny smiled.

"I'd like that lot Amber." Answered Danny.

The School day went by fast as Amber and Danny talked to Tucker and Amber talked to Sam.

"Sam I know you have feelings for Danny as well." Amber said as they walked into Sam's Room.

"Hey you made your move and I didn't." Sam said resting her hand on Amber's shoulder.

"Now let's make Danny speechless." Sam said as Amber gave Sam a chuckle and a nod.


At Danny's Home.

"Danny, Jazz get down here your father and I have something to show you." Maddie screamed as their children came down.

"Can we hurry this, I have a date with Amber tonight." Danny said as he was putting on a causal dress jacket.

"Congratulations, Sweetie. " Maddie replied as she walked up to the cords

"Whoa! Danny, you have a date?" Jake Fenton said as his wife, Maddie hooked up the cords to the ghost zone.

"Dad, what's that?" Danny and Jazz said simultaneously.

"This? This is what's going to put your mom and I on the map. The Ghost Zone." Jack said. Jack Fenton and Maddie Fenton powered up the the Ghost Portal and nothing happened. Disappointed the couple exited the basement while Jazz looked with shame back at Danny seeing him take off his jacket and began to put on a jumpsuit.

"Danny what are you doing?" Jazz screamed.

"What do you think, I seeing what's wrong." Danny replied to his sister as he walked into the Ghost Portal turning it on.

"Danny." Jazz shrieked as he lied there unconscious with white hair.

Meanwhile with Ember, as she waited at the movie theater looking at her last text from Danny.

'I'll be there at 5 :)'

It was now 7pm

"Maybe he's just running late." Amber thought as she sat there as time passed by her.

"Where could he be?" Amber thought as she looked up at the dark night sky glancing down at her cellphone it read 9:00pm.

"Amber?" Sam said coming out of the movie theater with her parents.

"Oh! Hey Sam, did Danny talk to you at all?" Amber said with tired and sad voice.

"No not since today at School." Sam said looking down at her friend.

"Oh." was all Amber said bringing her knees into her chest, hiding sobs from Sam.

Sam left Amber alone for a little while to tell her parents that she would be home later and wanted to spend time with Amber to cheer her up.

"Amber." A voice called from the distance as both girls looked up to see Danny standing there panting.

"Hey, What kind of guy are you leaving Amber here all by herself." Sam yelled at Danny

"Look." Danny said trying to cache his breath "something weird happened to me today." as he explained to both of the girls.

"Look Danny if you don't like me that's fine." Amber said too tired to listen to his Excuse as she got up and started walking away.

"Amber wait." Danny said catching up to her, his hand started to become intangible as he fell through. Danny started becoming solid again knocking her over in the process.

"How did that happen?" Amber questioned as Danny helped her up.

"That why I was late, and I really sorry about that." Danny said as he went on to explain the events that led to him being late and how Jazz would help him keep his secret while Sam walked up to them.

"So what now? You're a human with ghost powers now?" Sam said as Amber started leaning on Danny.

"So can I go home now, I'm kind of tired." Amber asked as Danny just smiled and nodded his head.

"Do you want me to fly you home?" Danny offered stretching out his hand to her.

"No thanks dipstick, but I guess we can try again next time." Amber said giving Danny a small simile.

"Thanks." Danny said smiling back.

"But if you are late again Dipstick, consider yourself dumped. Got it?" Amber told Danny as he just stood there nodding his head.

Moments later Sam's parents dropped Amber off at her house. Crawling into bed was was too tired to do anything else, so she slept as a fire somehow started as a ghost with a white cape and black hair walked away from the area.

In the Ghost Zone

"Welcome to Ghost Zone, Amber McLain." Said blue cloaked ghost with a clock staff. He shifted between baby to adult and then morphed into an old man.

"How do you know my name?" Amber asked as her fears started taking over.

"You're dead my dear. My name is Clockwork, master of Time and it is I who foresee time over everything both living and dead." Clockwork explained to Amber as he showed different version of her, all which she started out as a villain and in some she even became Danny's girlfriend in others his wife to which at those she smiled.

"You are the most unique version of you as you have already have met Danny and because of this I am willing to give you back your humanity, but only for a limited amount of time.

"Okay pops, how much time would I have as a human?" Amber ask excited with the prospect of being part of the world of the living if only for a short amount of time.

"Eight hours but every time you turn into your present form your clock will reset." Clockwork explained as he gave her a watch. Putting it on Amber looked at up at Clockwork as he opened up a portal to the human world.

"One more thing Amber." Clockwork said as Amber stopped in her tracks. "If you die in your human form you won't exist anymore." Clockwork said as Amber gave him a nod and walked through the portal.

One month later

"So Danny, you and your friends here want to hunt ghosts." Jack Fenton said.

Danny, Amber, Sam, and Tucker looked at him.

"Actually, dad I kinda want to be an astronaut." Danny said.

"And I just want to stop only the bad ghosts." Amber said looking at Danny and blushing.

"Sorry, I was into ghosts and but now they're so mainstream now, there like cellphones."Sam said glancing at her friends Danny and Amber.

"And waste these looks and charisma hunting ghosts criminals?" Tucker said.

"Well if you do want to hunt ghosts there are a few things you need to learn." Jack Fenton said then went to a table filled with beakers.

"Just then Danny's ghost sense went off as two ghosts came out of the Ghost Zone grabbing Sam and Tucker as both Amber and Danny turned in their ghost personas and preceded to beat the crap out of them causing them to release Sam and Tucker back to their sets.

"Sam, Tucker this the Fenton thermos, it doesn't work but it is a thermos with the word Fenton on it so there's that." Jack Fenton said handing Sam the Fenton Thermos as Danny and Amber turned back to their Human selves.

"And that is the Fenton Portal it releases ghosts into our world, whether I want it to or not." Jack spoke as he knocked on the Fenton Portal "and someday I'll figure out how that works too. Now who wants to hunt some Ghosts?" Jack Asked as Sam and Tucker shook out of fear.

In the kitchen the next morning Maddie was working on an invention while Jazz was sitting next to Danny reading a book entitled "Surviving Adolescence Through Therapy" while Danny was eating a bowl of cereal.

"Two more days and it's done." Maddie exclaimed as her husband took the invention and turned it on.

"Welcome to the Fenton Finder. A ghost is near. Walk forward." the Fenton finder speaks as Danny's parents walk forward as Danny got up and walked away from the Fenton Finder. They ended up backing Danny into a wall of the Kitchen.

"Ghost located, thank you for using the Fenton Finder." as Jack and Maddie look puzzled at both Danny and the Fenton Finder.

"Actually.. I need to tell you guys ..something." Danny said as Jazz closes her book.

"That's not all you need Danny." Jazz says walking over to Danny and their parents. "You need guidance and parents who can provide it."

"Sweetie I know we don't make sense sometimes but you're only-"

"Sixteen biologically! But psychologically I'm an adult and I won't let your crazy obsession with ghosts pollute the mind of this impressionable little child! Come, you abused, unwanted wretch. I'll drive you to school." Jazz remarks gearing at her parents as she walks away from them.

"Since when does Jazz drive Danny to school?" Maddie asks Jack.

"That could only mean one thing! She's a ghost." Jack Fenton said.

Later at school Amber, Sam, Danny and Tucker are walking in school as the bell rings for lunch.

"Should I tell them?" Danny asks his friends.

"Baby pop, you shouldn't tell. They tried to get me yesterday." as Amber gave Danny a reassuring squeeze.

"And that is exactly why you shouldn't tell them and besides parents don't listen anyway." Sam remarked as the four teens stop in the middle of the stairs.

"Even worse they don't understand, why won't they accept me for who I am?" shouted Sam.

"Sam we're talking about mine and Amber's powers and our problems." Danny replied.

"Oh right, sorry." Sam said as her cheek turned red from embarrassment.

"Its been a month since my accident, and I barely have any control." Danny lamented as he started phasing through the floor.

"Ah Danny!" Tucker said as he pointed to Danny's lower half.

"Gah!" Danny yelled as Amber and Tucker helped him up.

"Hey Baby pop be thankful you're still alive. Now I've got four hours left so I'm going to see if eating is worth the time." Amber said running off to the lunch room.

"Hey she's right Danny." Tucker said.

"Danny, your powers make you unique and unique is good. That's why I'm a ultra recyclo-vegetarian." Sam said as the trio of teens walked towards the lunch room.

"Which means what?" Tucker asked

"It means she doesn't eat anything with a face." Danny replied to Tucker's question.

"Oh! Who cares about that? Two words Danny. Meat. Connoisseur." Tucker says while sniffing Danny's odor. "You had sloppy joe's last night."

"Impressive." Danny remarks.

"Well that's about to change Tucker." Sam says to Tucker as she opens the lunch room doors revealing a Ultra Recyclo-Vegetarian menu.

A few moments later Sam, Tucker, and Danny are sitting at table eating their 'food'.

"What is this? Grass on a bun." Danny questioned. "You know I can understand why Amber isn't here right now."

"I worn down the school board so we're having this stuff all week." Sam replied with a smile as she took a bite of her food.

"Miss Manson, the school bored would like thank you for this experiment." Mr. Lancer said putting his hand on Sam's shoulder.

"Meat near." Tucker said while sniffing the air frantically.

"I assure you what you heard about the teacher's lounge's all meat menu is untrue." Mr Lancer walking away quickly.

"Fenton!" a jock screams as he heads towards Danny and his friends holding a tray of mud on it.

"What do you want Dash." Danny said looking down at his tray of 'food'.

"I ordered three Mud pies and you know what I got? Three mud pies from the ground! Its all thanks to your stupid girlfriend." Dash said.

"Sam isn't my girlfriend Dash, Amber is." Danny replied.

"Well I'm still going to beat you up. " Dash said as he picked up Danny by his shirt and pulled him closer.

"Hey Dash." a feminine voice called from the distance as Danny's ghost sense started going off.

"Huh?" was all Dash could say as mud came flying towards his face and covering his eyes.

"Don't you ever lay a hand my baby-pop got it?" Amber stood before the boys as she helped Danny to his feet. "Oh yeah and another thing. Garbage fight!" Amber yelled as the lunch room erupted into a frenzy as Amber led Danny, Sam and Tucker out of the lunch room.

"Hello children" Lunch Lady Ghost appears before them with a worried look on her face.

"Um hi." the four teens said at once.

"I can't seem to find the meatloaf, did someone changed the menu?"

"She did" Tucker said pointing to Sam.

"YOU CHANGED THE MENU?! THE MENU HAS BEEN THE SAME FOR FIFTY YEARS!" The Lunch Lady Ghost screamed as her hair turned into fire.

"Get Behind us." Danny and Amber say in unison. "We're going Ghost." as Amber turns into Ember McLain and Danny into Danny Phantom.

"Alright lady, you wanna rock? Lets rock." Ember says as throws a power cord at the lunch lady ghost.

"Aghh!" lunch lady cried out in pain.

Getting angry the Lunch Lady ghost used her power to throw dishes at Sam and Tucker as she set the ovens on fire and threw them at Ember and Danny. Making themselves intangible the ovens passed through them while Danny caught the dishes and safely putting them back. Ember tackled the lunch lady as they passed through the wall and into the hallway of Caspar High. Danny and the others went to the hallway as Ember is blasted music notes at the lunch lady.

"Oh deary, you play that guitar so well ." The lunch lady randomly says caching Ember off guard as she smiles.

"Thanks, I've been practicing my whole life and wanted to help people through the their hard times with my music." Ember said as the lunch lady saw Sam stand besides Danny and Tucker and walks up to them.

"Cookie?" the Lunch Lady asks Sam as she shakes her head no."Then Perish" as the Lunch Lady begins to summon all of the meat throughout the school, as it morphs her body into a meat monster.

"And Now you shall know why Meat is the most powerful of all the food groups. " Tucker said.

As Danny stood in front of Sam he accidentally became human again. As the lunch lady grabbed Danny and threw him at Tucker they both hit the lockers.

"Alright lady, lunch is canceled." Ember shouted as she started to jam on her guitar throwing fiery notes at the lunch lady. The lunch lady grabbed Sam and flew her down the hallway in the from of a meaty trail.

Ember McLain turns invisible as Mr. Lancer grabbed both Danny and Tucker away.

"What to do?" Ember thought to herself as she decided to turn back into a human, making Mr. Lancer notice her as well.

In the Detention room three chair are before Mr. Lancer. As he pulled out files on the three Teens.

"Tucker Foley. Chronic tardiness, talking in class, repeated loitering by the girl's locker room. Danny Fenton, thirty-four dropped beakers in the last month, banned for life from handling all fragile school property. Finally, there's Amber McLain, so Sorry to hear about your house caching on fire and you have nothing worthy of note expect today when you caused the entire cafeteria to be covered with mud and grass. Now, I must ask why the three of you destroyed the cafeteria."

"Dash was bullying my boyfriend so-."

"While we have a no tolerance policy regarding bullying. Mr. Baxter here has to be exempt from scorn this one time since he made four touchdowns in the last game. You three however are not. I will map out your punishment when I return. Mr. Baxter please watch the door." Mr. Lancer said as he and Dash walk out of the room.

"We got find Sam. For some reason I feel like I got her kidnapped." Tucker exclaims

"Oh really you just had to blab to that ghost that Sam was the one who changed the menu." Amber remarks to Tucker while Danny looks up at the monitors.

"Guys come here! Meat trial." Danny says as both he and Amber turn ghost. Danny grabs Tucker and all three of them headed to where the lunch lady ghost was.

"Lady and gentlemen your punishment will be.. far worse then you can imagine." Mr. Lancer shouts as he saw Amber, Tucker and Danny were nowhere near in sight. Danny, Ember and Tucker found themselves in a storage unit.

"Holy mother of Mutton." Tucker exclaims hugging the boxes of meat.

"How is it that Ember and I have ghost powers and you're the weird one." Danny says pointing at Tucker as the three of look from behind the boxes of meat to see the Lunch Lady Ghost holding Sam down with a pile of meat.

"HAHAHAHA My dear child meat is good for you. It helps you grow and smile." the lunch lady pleaded with Sam.

"We don't need meat! That's a fact." Sam argued back.

"Alright Ember you and me will fight the lunch lady. Tucker you free Sam." Danny said as Tucker pulled out a fork and a knife.

Ember blasted the lunch lady ghost which made her turn around in surprise as she got punched by Danny. While Tucker dashed into free Sam through eating the pile of meat. The lunch lady ghost was sent flying into a nearby wall. The Lunch Lady gets up and looks at Danny and Ember. Her hands glowed green as she summoned shish-kebabs from a box with their pointed ends heading straight for Danny and Ember.

"Nothing can stop the power of meat!" screamed the lunch lady as Ember and Danny got into a near by wall to escape the shish-kebabs. Meanwhile Tucker tried to stuff as much meat into his mouth as possible.

"You're enjoying this aren't you." Sam mockingly said to Tucker as he was still eating the meat while Danny and Ember were fighting the lunch lady. The lunch lady summoned all the meat as Sam smiled being free while the lunch lady took all the meats and turned it all back into the meat monster. The meat monster lunch lady shot a blast of meat at Danny as she grabbed him and threw him towards a wall. Ember saw the lunch lady throw giant meatballs at her as she goes intangible, as Danny Phantom got out from the wall.

"Run?"Tucker asked Sam as she nods in agreement as the Lunch Lady began to chase them. Ember started to distract the Meat Monster Lunch Lady by shooting power cords at her, but she gets caught and thrown at Tucker and Sam. Danny, not wanting his girlfriend and his friends to get hurt began to hurry to their rescue as the lunch lady followed him as he grabbed the others and phased through the wall and outside on the school courtyard turning back into his human form in the process.

Sam, Tucker and Ember look at Danny.

"I'll help you guys bring him home." Ember said as she turned back into her human form.


Back at Danny's home Jazz walked through the front door. A smoke grenade was thrown at her and Jack and Maddie grabbed her. As the smoke cleared Jazz was annoyed at her parents behavior.

"This is all going in the memoir." Jazz said walking away.

The door opens up again revealing Sam, Tucker and Amber holding a passed out Danny."

"Hey Mr and Mrs. Fenton." Tucker greeted Danny's parents.

"What a school day! Poor Danny nodded off. We figured we'd just carry him all the way home and tuck him into bed." Tucker told Danny's parents while Sam, Amber and Tucker carried him to his room.

"Jack, Danny is not a Ghost." Maddie said demising the case as Jack nods in agreement.

Inside Danny's Room.

Danny woke up to see Amber, Tucker and Sam looking at him with worried expressions.

"You passed out. We took you home. You've been asleep for four days!" Tucker said chuckling

"Agh I've been out for four days?!" Danny exclaims.

"Relax Baby pop, you've only been out for a couple of hours." Amber said soothingly while getting angry at Tucker's antics .

"Knock it off Tucker. This is the second time today your carelessness almost got him killed." Sam said getting angry.

"This wouldn't have happened if you didn't change the menu and take away the meat. I'm going to get it back." Tucker replied to Sam while walking to the door.

"You want to change the menu you're going to have to go through me to do." Sam yelled at Tucker while slamming Danny's door in the process.

"Get some rest Baby Pop, I'll be by in the morning hopefully this will all blow over by tomorrow." Amber said, kissing Danny on the cheek. She turned back into Ember Mclain and flew out of Danny's window. Unfortunately this caught the eyes of his parents as they start firing at her.

Caspar High

Amber and Danny walked on to the school courtyard and saw it divided between meat eaters and hippie like folk.

"Looks like things...didn't blow over." Amber says shocked along with her boyfriend.

The ghostly couple saw Tucker get on a stage and shout in a mic.

"WHAT DO WE WANT!?" Tucked shouted.

"MEAT!" The Crowd answered back.

"WHEN DO WE WANT IT?!" Tucker asks again into the Mic.

"NOW!" They respond back.

While Danny and Amber looked to their right and saw the hippie folk doing the same thing as Tucker, expect instead of meat it was veggies. Sam and Tucker saw Amber and Danny and approaching both of them.

"You guys put together two protests in one night?" Danny asked Sam and Tucker.

"Meat-eaters Danny. Always ready to fight. And our high-protein diets give us the energy we need to do it quickly." Tucker explained to Amber and Danny.

"Ultra-recyclo vegetarians are always ready to protest and because we don't have to waste time cooking our food we can move even faster." Sam says to Amber and Danny.

"So which side are you two on? Are you with me?" Tuckers said pointing at his side of the protest.

"Or against him." Sam says pointing to her own side of the protest.

The Sky darkened and the wind howled and twisted as the lunch lady appeared into her meat monster form.

"It's lunch time!" she yelled as waves of people paniced.

"Amber, go find Jazz." Danny said as Amber nodded her head and looked for Danny's sister.

"Guys, make up now." Danny said as Sam and Tucker covered up Danny as he transformed and flew off to fight the ghost.

"Spike, you have to tell your parents how you really feel. Open up to them and be true to yourself and them." Jazz says as a goth kid sits on the table listening to her with a slight scowl on his face, when suddenly a green net captures her and drags her towards her parents.

"I got her."Jack exclaimed happily as he reeled in Jazz with the Fenton Grappler.

Amber saw Jazz being dragged and dived in turning invisible, making it seem like she phased through the net while Ember McLain went and helped Danny battle the lunch lady.

"Hey lunch lady! Ready for the encore?" Ember said catching Danny as he was being punched toward the ground. Ember fired a blitz of notes at the lunch lady.

Danny Phantom followed suit as he side kicked the lunch lady knocking her down to the ground. Both Danny and Ember swing around charged into the lunch lady causing her to explode. The two ghost heroes crawled out of the crater as the lunch lady looked down on them with concern as Danny turned back into a Human.

Jack Fenton spotted the ghost battle and pulled out the Fenton Thermos and pointed it at Ember.

"Eat Fenton Thermos ghost gal." Jack Screamed as nothing happens when the lunch lady turned around and summoned meat minions to destroy Jack and Maddie. Danny seeing this focus changed back into his ghost form, bypassing the meat minions and took the Fenton Thermos and pointed it at the Lunch Lady as he channeled his ghost energy into the thermos sucking her into the thermos causing the meat minions to collapse into piles of meat. Amber turned back into a human and walks up to Tucker and Sam.

"The ghost, what happened?" Sam asked and Amber helped both of them up.

"My parents have their moments." Danny says as Jack and Maddie walked up to them.

"Ghost directly ahead, you have to be some-kind of moron to not know the ghost is in front of you." The Fenton Finder said causing Jack to look at Danny and the gang in surprise.

"Oh, sorry Dad you just missed him." Danny said covering his tracks as Jack and Maddie walked away looking for the ghost boy.

Jazz walked up to the Gang.

"Hey Amber, thanks for freeing me earlier and little brother, I think it would be wise to not tell them." Jazz said smiling at them.

"I agree Jazz and I finally think I know what these powers are for and where I stand." Danny said as put his hand on Jazz's shoulder.

"In a world of trouble." Mr. Lancer said. Later that night the group is picked up the piles of meat at the school while Jazz helped them willingly as Mr. Lancer shouted through a megaphone.

"Thanks for the help Jazz." Danny said as he put up the brooms and bags.

"No problem little brother." Jazz said smiling as everyone walked away with the area clean and ready for a new day tomorrow.

The End.

A/N: Let me know what you think by dropping a thought in that box below.

WhiteShoeQueen Editor's note: I'll be steadily working on each chapter so they'll be easier for everyone to read. It won't happen overnight mind you given my schedule, but I can assure you I will get the job done. Happy reading. :)