Amity Park, said to be the most 'haunted town' in the states, but none could really say why that was as there could be any sightings of ghosts in that little place.

All that changed when a special family came to Amity and set up shop, their name was the Fentons and they made a very special machine that would lead to the greatest adventure ever for a trio of friends and an additional companion when everything that goes ghost comes along...


In the basement of Fenton Works, a big bear of a man spoke up with a grin to his audience. "You and your little friends want to hunt ghosts?" The first one was the man's son by the name of Danny Fenton, the next two were the first friends of his with the African-American in the red hat Tucker Foley and the Gothic girl Same Manson, the last one was actually a late friend by the name of Cedric Trace, often going by the nickname of Tracer with friends, often found with a light jacket and a look that said 'Don't try my limit' as Danny spoke first.

"Uh, actually, Dad? I want to be an astronaut." Sam rolled her eyes as she answered as well.

"Sorry, Mr. Fenton. I was into ghosts, but they're so mainstream now. They're like cellphones." Tucker played it off like a cool guy, which he never will be.

"Waste these looks and all this charisma hunting ghosts? Criminal." Cedric was next as he was using a PDA in tandem as he answered as well.

"It would happen if I had a actual sample of this 'ghost hunting' before I take it up." Danny glanced over to him who just smiled as Sam and Tucker lightly chuckled as Jack spoke up.

"Well, if you do want to hunt ghosts, there are a few things you need to learn." He turned his back to them as he trifled about a table of equipment before a blue wisp escaped Danny's lips and he gasped.

"Oh no." Bellowing in the back of the lab was a large, closed gateway and it opened up as Danny spoke. "This isn't good." Coming from the swirling green abyss were two octopus-like creatures with jagged mouths and red eyes, growling as they found prey, in a word. Before any of them could move, the two snatched Sam and Tucker and started to fly about with Danny agape and Cedric just studying the creatures as Jack spoke, heedless of what was happening.

"True, I've never seen a ghost, but when I do, I'll be prepared." Danny was still in shock as Jack continued. "And so will you. Whether you want to be or not." A look of determination crossed Danny's face as he jumped out of his seat and leapt after the ghosts with Cedric still detailing all of it with Jack just talking, a flash of white flashed in front of Cedric as he nodded and continued, having slipped on a pair of goggles that he got from the lab with Jack messing with the things as if he didn't know what to grab and show. "It all starts with your equipment."

Finally he pulled out a thermos and turned just as Sam and Tucker were placed back in their seats or rather flung on, still not noticing the ghost fighting in the background, not even showing where Danny had gone. "Sam, Tucker, Cedric, this is the Fenton Thermos." He handed the Thermos to Sam as the three friends looked at it before Cedric resumed the recording with Jack turning his back again, missing a ectopus flying past in a knock back. "It's supposed to trap ghosts, but since it doesn't work yet, it's just a thermos. A thermos with the word 'Fenton' in front of it." The ghosts gave up and flew back into the portal as it closed and Danny returned, breathed as Cedric chuckled as Jack strolled over to the portal, still heedless of what just transpired a few seconds ago. "And that? That is the Fenton Portal. It releases ghosts into our world whether I want it to or not. And someday, I'll figure out how that..." He taps on the steel wall in continuation. "...works too." He turned to the trio still sitting. "Now, who wants to hunt some ghosts?" From the looks of it, Sam and Tucker's expressions said that they were FAR from eager from joining in a dangerous past time. Cedric just smiled as Danny rested a hand on Tucker's seat in exhaustion before Jack exclaimed.

"You kids, look at you! You're too excited to speak! So I'll just go on speaking. I was born many years ago in a log cabin in the woods. Don't exactly remember where, but I do remember I wanted a pony." The trio looked to Danny who hung his head to the incoming story. "Never got the pony. As a matter of fact, we had to eat horsemeat during the war. I had a problem with that."


Inside the Fenton Works building, littered with radar dishes and equipment from the regular structure of the brick building, resided the Fentons, a rather 'different' kind of family as the matriarch, Maddie Fenton, tinkered with an unknown device with Jack close by. Their eldest daughter, Jazz Fenton, glanced up from a book on psychology with a hard stare before returning, while Danny WAS eating breakfast before his hand disappeared, dropping his spoon and causing him to panic by hiding the now invisible hand under the table as Maddie spoke.

"Okay, two more days, and it's done!" She turned off the blowtorch she was using as Jack spoke up."

"What did you say?" He took the device in hand as he exclaimed. "It's done?" He then held it like a true marvel. "The Fenton Finder is done! This baby uses satellites to lead you right to the ghosts."

"It uses what to track what?" Danny was not sure if satellites COULD track ghosts, but he didn't want to find out, which was impossible.

"Welcome to the Fenton Finder." A robotic female voice answered as it somehow knew. "A ghost is near. Walk forward." Danny walked with his parents in pursuit before he was backed into a wall of the house as they looked at him with confusion. He gave a weak smile as Jack spoke up, tapping on the machine with Maddie looking as well.

"What? Oh, that can't be right." If they had kept their eyes on Danny, they would have seen him disappear just like that and he gasping to recover and then giving a defeated look, to give up what had happened to him.

"Actually...I need to tell you guys something." Jazz took that moment to intervene, having NOT seen the same thing like her parents.

"That's not all you need, Danny." She had stood up and walked over to the trio as she spoke. "You need guidance, and parents who can provide it."

Maddie tried to reason with Jazz on the topic. "Sweetie, I know what we do doesn't make sense sometimes, but you're only-"

"Sixteen. Biologically!" Danny made to sneak away since the moment was ruined as Jazz continued her attack. "But psychologically, I'm an adult! And I will not allow your insane obsession with ghosts..." She grabbed Danny and held him as she continued the meaningless lecture. "...to pollute the mind of this impressionable little child!" Danny was completely weird out on how this conversation had changed from he about to relieve his latest secret to being 'guarded' by Jazz as she looked at him. "Come, you abused, unwanted wretch. I'll drive you to school." She cast a glare to both of their parents before heading off with Danny in tow as Maddie questioned.

"Huh. That's weird. Jasmine never offers to drive Danny to school."

"That can only mean one thing. That's not our daughter; that's a ghost." He charged off to stop the 'ghost' and warn Danny. "Danny, no! It's a trap!" Maddie followed in pursuit as the pair of kids headed for the school...


Casper High School loomed as students came to and fro through its halls as Danny rejoined with Sam, Tucker, and Cedric and they headed up a flight of stairs before Danny spoke, bringing up what had nearly happened at breakfast. "I think I should tell them."

"Why? Parents don't listen." Sam answered as they came to a stop on the mid of the stairs. "Even worse, they don't understand!" She threw her head back and yelled about her own frustrations. "WHY CAN'T THEY ACCEPT ME FOR WHO I AM?!" The trio looked at Sam before Cedric sighed and added something on his PDA with a hushed breath of 'happy-goth troubles' before Danny answered.

"Sam, I-I'm talking about my powers, my problems?" Sam had a line of red spread across her face as she stammered in agreement.

"Oh, right. Me too."

"Questionable at best, Sam, I don't think you were THAT exposed to the portal." Danny groaned as he spoke.

"It's been a month since the accident and I still have barely any control!" He crossed his arms and huffed, heedless that his emotions were kicking in again. "If somebody catches me, I go from geek to freak around here!"

"Kinda like what you're doing right now?" Tucker pointed out to Danny being halfway through the floor as he yelped before Sam and Tucker grabbed him by his arms, Cedric snatching his pack and the trio lifted him back up for his lower torso to return to normal before he grimaced again.

"Gah, darn it!" He headed off with the trio behind him as he commented. "If my dad can invent something that accidentally made me half-ghost, why can't he invent something that turns me back to normal?" He continued on through a snack machine and pressed on as his body returned before Sam spoke up to another halted period.

"Danny, your powers make you unique. Unique is good! That's why I'm an ultra recyclo-vegetarian." Tucker questioned what THAT meant.

"Which means what?"

"She doesn't eat anything with a face on it." Danny replied with pause as Cedric just prodded Danny a bit before he nodded and continued his notes.

"Oh, who cares about that stuff?" Tucker exclaimed with a smile. "Danny, two words: meat connoisseur." He smelled the air around Danny before replying. "Last night, you had Sloppy Joes." Danny raised a brow before he commented.

"Impressive."

"Meat heightens the senses, and my all-meat streak is fourteen years strong." That was QUESTIONABLE a bit more than Sam's statement as Sam brought the party down.

"...And it's about to end. The school board finally agreed to try a new cafeteria menu. I wore them down." She had a smile in return as Tucker lost his.

"Wait... What did you do?" Come lunchtime, the cafeteria had been changed greatly with a hefty amount of foliage and plants also being seen from the 'ultra recyclo-vegetarian week' banner, even some dirt-based materials as Danny got his... he wasn't sure what it was.

"What is this? Grass on a bun?" Cedric shrugged while Tucker lost it.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"

"Tucker, it's time for a change." Sam commented with her own grass on a bun in hand, suddenly the lunch period was going to be interesting...


Back at Fenton Works, the Ghost Portal opened once more and emerging was a elderly ghost in lunch lady attire as she paused before she spoke in amuse. "Ooh! Somebody changed the menu!" She headed through the ceiling as Maddie and Jack were tampering with another tool, heedless of the ghost that just entered their world.

"Maybe this is a bad idea."

"No, it's perfect. When Jazz gets home we suck the ghost out of her..." Jack voiced with a 'vacuum cleaner' in hand and a action pose. "...with a Fenton X-tractor." Maddie still argued on the matter.

"But what if Jazz isn't a ghost? What if we accidentally hurt her?" Jack replied in kind.

"Maddie, the Fenton X-tractor doesn't hurt humans...unless it gets in your hair..." He turned it on and yelled as it caught his hair and ripped it out, he acting no worse for wear. "...See?"


Back at the cafeteria, Danny had some of the 'Turf-wich' on his spoon before asking. "Don't you think this is a little extreme, Sam?" He couldn't get any backup from Tucker as it was truly lost to the 'thing' before him and Cedric... was actually content with an apple, orange, and a bit of the Turfwich while Sam just smiled as someone rested a hand on her shoulder.

"Ah, Miss Manson." The individual was Mr. Lancer, an overweight teacher and vice-principal of the school as he commented on the 'change' with glee. "The school board wanted me to personally thank you for ushering in this welcome experiment to our cafeteria." Tucker perked up as he sniffed the air.

"Meat. Near." He smelled near Lancer and glared as the man backed up.

"No, no. The rumors about the new all-steak buffet in the teacher's lounge are completely untrue." Cedric raised a brow before he shook his head and just ate on to Lancer himself pulling out a toothpick and using it before putting a hand on Sam's shoulder again. "Thanks again."

Lancer leaves as Tucker huffs at the experience placed before him. "Yeah, thanks again for making us eat garbage, Sam."

"It's not garbage." She answered as she held it up for all to see in their small group. "It's recyclable organic matter." Danny and Tucker still had the same answer while Cedric just finished up and hummed before he returned to the data he somehow kept with him before drafting something up on it.

"It's garbage." Danny near-yelped as Cedric poked him with something and glanced over to find that he was still working on something with a bandage on Danny's shoulder, how does he do that!? No one noticed when the lunch lady headed off with a burger, but one noticed when the ghostly replacement came as the blue vapor came again as Danny spoke up in concern.

"Uh, guys? I've got a problem." No sooner did he say those words than a pile of mud was thrown into his head as he yelped to an angered voice.

"FENTON!" Danny turned with the mud dripping off him as he remarked.

"...Make that two problems." Dash, team captain of the Casper Ravens football team, stomped on over with a plate of... watery topsoil as Cedric saved the data and tapped his finger as the jock went into a rant.

"I ordered three mud pies. Do you know what they gave me? Three mud pies. With mud. From the ground! All because of your girlfriend!"

"She's/I'm not my/his girlfriend!" Danny and Sam yelled before Dash lifted Danny a few feet off the ground and continued.

"These are the best years of my life! After high school, it's all downhill for me! How am I supposed to enjoy my glory days eating mud?!"

Cedric huffed and a wince went through the jock. "Am I suppose to take your 'clean slate' as a fact that you have NEVER bitten the dirt in football, that's part of the fun in the sport." The dead eye stare would ensure a surefire way of crippling the jock, if Sam had not spoken up.

"Actually, it's topsoil." That broke Dash's spell as he tossed Fenton back into his seat in yelling."

"Whatever!" He then pushed the topsoil straight to Danny and demanded. "Eat it. All of it." Danny grimaced as he spooned some up, but the vapor came again, no one really noticing before Danny stammered and suddenly decided on a course, having now seen the elderly ghost of a lunch lady.

"Uh...uh..." He glanced to the plate and shouted, surprising everyone. "GARBAGE FIGHT!" He threw true and the plate of muddy topsoil slammed into Dash's face, the effect widespread as the other students started to throw the menu food about the place as Sam shouted, having taken cover with the trio.

"It's not garbage! It's-" Danny snatched Sam and pulled her down toward the floor before they made their way in crawling, Danny looked back to Dash threatening.

"You're gonna pay for this, Fenton!" He was brought down by two servings of mud as Danny commented.

"Great. I'm still his favorite." The four of them made it to the cafeteria door and the boys peered over to the Lunch Lady who was looking over the 'vegan options' with surprise as Tucker lead up.

"Huh. Shouldn't be so bad. She looks a little like my grandmother." They slipped in with Sam behind them as Danny rubbed his head in confusion with Cedric crossing his arms.

"Shouldn't she be haunting a bingo hall?"

"That is a bit rude, both of you, have some respect for our jobs... and ghosts, I don't believe that they are emotionless." Cedric commented as the door closed, drawing the ghost's attention as she spoke to them.

"Hello, children. Can you help me? Today's lunch is meatloaf, but I don't see the meatloaf. Did someone change the menu?" Before anyone else could speak of it, Tucker acknowledged who did.

"Yeah." He stuck his thumb to Sam. "She did." It was true, but what happened next scared them.

The Lunch Lady switched from a gentle soul to a rage-filled being without a filter on violence, with blazing hair and burning red of eyes. "YOU CHANGED THE MENU?!" The quartet gasped as they stepped back from the being as it ranted. "THE MENU HAS BEEN THE SAME FOR FIFTY YEARS!" She shouted this as green flames surrounded her and even above her head before Danny took action.

"Get behind me!" The trio did so as Danny was the barrier before Sam remarked with a complete sense of 'I don't believe this'.

"Wow. I feel safe." That didn't last as Danny shouted.

"I'm going ghost!" Danny changed before all of them as black hair turned to white, blue eyes turned to neon green, and NASA shirt and blue jeans changed to a black and white jumpsuit as the rings that appeared around his waist and traveling both directions before he took off to confront the Lunch Lady, but his confidence could use some work. "I command you to...go away!" The Lunch Lady was not so scared off as piles of plates were lifted up with ghostly aura and 'throwing' them at the group, Danny was lucky as he turned intangible, but he swiftly came to the aid of his friends as both Sam and Tucker grinned to his save, Cedric was more like 'Okay, that is a thing'. He quickly put them down on the counter before commenting with the plates he caught in his mouth now in hand. "Well, if this superhero thing doesn't work out, I can have an exciting career as a busboy." He paused and turned as the stoves started up and frowned as the Lunch Lady continued to lecture.

"I control lunch! Lunch is sacred! Lunch has rules!" Just as swiftly, She was back to her calm state before offering a slice of cake. "Anybody want cake?" Sam and Tucker nodded their heads in shock as the Lunch Lady rejected the suggestion. "Too bad! Children who change my menu do not get dessert!" She phases through the ceiling, leaving the stoves to attack the four of them, Cedric rolling out of the way a bit faster than Tucker and Sam who just jumped away while Danny dodged with his powers before the trio were targeted for a charge when Danny saved them with his intangible and Cedric followed through as he lunged back, slamming into Danny and pulling the four through into the hall, the wall cracking to the stove attack before Danny exclaimed as they returned to visible form.

"Hey! It worked!" He cheered while looking at his hands before Sam commented with an upset or irritated tone.

"This is the thanks I get for thinking like an individual?"

"No." Cedric answered as the hall sounded with a crash and the four got up, just in time for the lockers to attack them as well with school supplies and flying over to the Lunch Lady who was arming up. "It is just the behavior of devoted food critics." The supplies flew behind her. before Tucker smelled the air as various meats flew from behind them.

"Steak...! Rib-eye...! No, porterhouse! Medium-rare!" The meat gathered and collected onto the Lunch Lady until a hulky mass of meat with glowing greens peered out of the monster. "But where did it come from?" He paused before glaring behind him. "Lancer!" His face was covered by some paper as the far distance a voice could be heard yelling 'Paradise Lost'. The Lunch Lady shouted once more in rage.

"Prepare to learn why meat is the most powerful of the five food groups!" Once more the shift as she held up a cookie. "Cookie?" Sam shook her head as Cedric yelped 'How are you even doing that!?', the ghost surprised by the refusal before rage took over again. "Then perish!" A clawed hand descended, just as Danny jumped in to protect Sam.

"Forget it! The only thing that has an expiration date here is you!" He would have been successful, but he wasn't on the grounds of when he said it, he reverted back to human. "Whoops! I didn't mean to do that." He was snatched and hurled at Tucker, having removed the paper, sending them into a row of lockers and getting covered in papers before the Lunch Lady snatched Sam and headed down the hallway, Cedric giving chase as Tucker shouted.

"Come on! Change back! We gotta go!" A pair of hands refuted as Lancer found them, grabbing them by the collars.

"You two aren't going..." He lifted them up as he finished. "...anywhere." Dash came from behind and shouted as well, covered in the topsoil and a smirk.

"Told ya you'd pay, Fenton!" Danny was worried for this was a mess...


The quiet was unsettling as Lancer filed through his cabinet, pulling out a pair of files with Tucker and Danny seated while Dash just leaned in a smug tone. "Tucker Foley. Chronic tardiness, talking in class, repeated loitering by the girl's locker room." Tucker smiled shyly as Danny was next. "Danny Fenton. Thirty-four dropped beakers in the last month, banned for life from handling all fragile school property, but no severe mischief before today." Somehow, that was 'suppose' to be helpful. "So, gentlemen, tell me..." Lancer slammed the files on the table and yelled with anger. "WHY DID THE TWO OF YOU CONSPIRE TO DESTROY THE SCHOOL'S CAFETERIA?!" Danny defended himself in vain.

"Dash started it! He threw-"

"Four touchdown passes in the last game is thereby exempt from scorn. You two, however, are not." Danny groaned as he couldn't even get Lancer to at least listen to him. "I'll map out your punishment when I return." He headed over and gave an order. "Mr. Baxter, watch the door." Lancer left with Dash smirking and closing it shut, leaving Danny and Tucker alone in the room as Tucker started again.

"We gotta find Sam. For some reason, I feel like I got her kidnapped." Danny raised a brow as he pointed out.

"Maybe because you told the ghost she changed the menu? How about that?" Tucker would have countered before he smelled the air and had a heading for them.

"That steak is still in the building. Two hundred yards, tops." Danny looked to the monitors and found where to go, several of the cameras showing a couple of boxes, but more importantly, the trail left behind of their contents.

"Check it out." He pointed out with Tucker looking as well. "Meat trail." Not the most original thing, but still it worked as Danny turned ghost once more and turned in intangible with Tucker's surprise, moments before Lancer returned and yelled of HOW two boys escaped when the door wasn't opened again.

They arrived to the storage room and Tucker gasped in glee. "Sweet mother of mutton!" He hugged the boxes of meat with Danny in disbelief. "I'd dreamed of it, but...I never thought I'd live to see it!"

"How is it that I have the ghost powers and you're the weird kid?" Both paused as cackling was heard, heading to a corner of boxes to find the Lunch Lady who was floating in front of a meat-trapped Sam as she spoke, the boys unsure where Cedric went.

"My dear child...meat is good for kids! It helps them grow and makes them smile! Why won't you eat it?" Sam retorted back in her usual way as she turned away from the offered chicken leg.

"We don't need meat. That's fact! And get Cedric down from there!" Danny and Tucker finally spotted Cedric... hanging by his feet from the ceiling from a congealed mass of meat as Lunch Lady howled in rage.

"SILENCE!" She pointed at Sam and continued to lecture. "You need discipline, manners, respect! You know where that comes from? MEAT!" The winds stopped as she tried again and remarked. "Chicken? Or fish? And your friend will be fine, he is rather polite to be putting up with my moods." Danny and Tucker raised a brow as Cedric was silent before they realized that he was barely sleeping as the pair slipped on back and Danny made the plan.

"I'll take care of the ghost. You just find a way to get Sam out of that pile of meat!" Tucker had his answer in a fork and knife, held in glee.

"Waaaay ahead of you." Danny charged, Lunch Lady slow to the attack as she was sent flying into a wall and Danny standing before her glaring gaze as the impact stirred Cedric from his nap while Sam looked to Tucker just sawing at the meat with enthusiasm, not taking it apart by hand. "I'll have you free in no time, Sam!"

"You've gotta be kidding me." Sam frowned as Danny took on the Lunch Lady, starting with a kick which was grabbed and he dangled in surprise as she lectured him.

"Don't you see? This is why you need meat! You're skin and..." She tossed Danny through the air. "...bones!" Danny righted himself after going through a wall and falling to the ground while making it halfway, glancing up to incoming shish-kebabs and splitting his body in two to keep from getting impaled. He smiled to the use of his powers, but grimaced as meat started to gather again to the Lunch Lady's roar. It freed Sam, but it also allowed the Lunch Lady to blast Danny with a meaty punch, Cedric somehow still stuck as Danny was held captive to Tucker's yell of aid.

"Help's on the way, buddy!" That was in vain as Danny was hurled away, phasing through a wall and the monster loomed over both Sam and Tucker, now scared as Tucker asked. "Run?" Sam replied.

"Run." Both yelled as they booked for the door, yelping as a wall of meat blocked the door, Danny recovering to phase through halfway and catch up with the pair of friends as more meat fists were made and the Lunch Lady made to smash them before Danny saved them, passing through the wall and surprising the Lunch Lady as the meat slammed into the wall before the trio continued on outside and Sam questioned.

"Gee, Danny. Fighting meat monsters, flying through walls...You must be exhausted."

"What? Of course not!" Danny defended before he started to trail off. "What would... give you... that... idea?" They fell to the ground as he passed out, reverting back to human form and the pair of friends looking at each other.

Back in the room, the Lunch Lady seemed to rage with remorse. "Oh dear, I sure hope those dearies are well, they do not look quite healthy to be running such a dangerous time."

"Hey..." Cedric groggily spoke as he glanced down. "Can you please get me down, please, the blood is rushing again." The Lunch Lady nodded as she caused the meat to fall and she caught Cedric and spoke.

"Oh dear, you are too thin as well, what do you do for this slim form?"

"I work on machines and devices and trying to be a more-understanding scientist of ghosts." He cracked his eye to her and asked. "Can I get a burger with only lettuce, a side of fries, and a pint of grape juice, please?"

"Of course, deary..." With that, Cedric was treated rather well as he recovered and studied the Lunch Lady for both details and history...


The door of Fenton Works opened to Jazz calling out. "Mom? Dad?" Confused, she stepped in and the door slammed closed as a pair of smoke bombs rolled in front of her and went off to Jack's voice.

"Now, Maddie! Hit her! I'm moving in!" Jazz shrieked to the attack. "Get my back!" The smoke cleared out to Jazz, unhappy with crossed arms, Maddie and Jack gripping her legs while the X-Tractor had taken Jazz's hair. Both parents released her legs as Jazz stomped off and spoke.

"This is all going in the memoir." Both got up from the ground as the door opened to Sam and Tucker hoisting Danny in as Tucker spoke.

"Hey, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton! What a school day! Poor Danny nodded off. We figured we'd just carry him all the way home and tuck him into bed..." He spoke while they headed upstairs without a single word. "...without any parental interaction whatsoever."

"Don't get up! We know where to go. Bye!" Sam replied as Jack hummed in ponder before Maddie spoke.

"Jack, Danny is not a ghost."

"You're right." Jack glanced over to Jazz trying to get her hair out of the X-Tractor as Jack continued. "Jazz is." Still, there was something off, Jack didn't say it often, but his gut told him that Danny was 'not' dozing off on purpose, more like something else was going on. Up in Danny's room, he stirred before he sprung up with a yelp and questioned with panic.

"Ah! Aah! Wha? What's going on?" Both of his friends looked down on him as he didn't see where Cedric was.

"You passed out. We took you home. You've been asleep for four days!" Danny sprung again as he yelped.

"Four days?!" Tucker chuckled as he corrected to Sam's increasing ire.

"Nah. It's only been a couple hours." Danny settled back down, just in time for Sam to lash out at Tucker, hands on hips to mean business.

"Knock it off, Tucker. This is the second time today your carelessness almost got him killed." Tucker countered.

"Me? I almost got him killed?" Tucker snapped back, neither hearing Danny's 'Where's Cedric'. "The only reason this happened is because you had to be unique. You had to take the meat away!" Sam turned with crossed arms as Tucker stormed off with a declaration. "And I'm going to get it back!"

"You want to change that menu back?" She yelled in anger, confirming the war to come. "YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME TO DO IT!" Both left the room behind with a angry slam of the door as Danny breathed in relief, hoping that they would do anything too extreme.

"Oh well. I'm sure everything will be back to normal by tomorrow." Danny dozed off and slept for the next day.


What Danny was expecting was relief the next day, but that was in vain as he commented in grief, of WHAT the two friends had done. "...Or not. Maybe it'll be worse." On one side was a convention of meat; meat foods, clothes, gigs, and themed items as there was even a stage set up for dancing girls in hot dog costumes before Tucker arrived with microphone in hand and yelled.

"What do we want?"

"MEAT!"

"When do we want it?"

"NOW!" On the other side of the school was the vegan equal of the meaty mess; hippies, laid-back people, and even goths somehow as Sam protested with several others from on top of a school bus.

"VEGGIES NOW! VEGGIES FOREVER! VEGGIES NOW! VEGGIES FOREVER!" Danny was in disbelief at what he was seeing as Cedric somehow joined him and spoke, a bag of cereal in hand as he commented.

"Not the first time this has happened, but it certainly a first being hosted and backed by teenagers."

"I don't believe this..." Tucker and Sam detached to glare at the other, mere feet from Danny. "You guys put together two protests in one night?"

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

"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."

"Don't you guys think this is a little extreme?" They were headstrong, but at least Cedric was like 'a little' with his fingers before the pair tried to turn the both of them to their side while still glaring at each other.

"No choice, buddy. You're either with me!"

"Or you're against him!" Both leaned toward Danny and yelled as he ducked a bit while Cedric was undaunted.

"So whose side are you on?" At that moment, a harsh wind blew in and the sky turned gray before cackling filled the air and Danny's sense kicked in, meaning one thing. The crowds were confused before a truck of meat erupted of its contents to form a colossal monster of meat as it bellowed.

"It's lunchtime!" The quiet was shattered as protesters fled for their lives while Tucker screamed out.

"Meat! Why have you betrayed me?!" Danny took control as he shouted.

"Guys, time to makeup. Now!" They did so as cover and Danny changed into Phantom once more before heading to battle the creature of meat. Meanwhile, somehow undaunted by the raging monster of meat or the protests, Jazz was speaking to a goth that was not that chatty about it.

"Spike, you have to open up to your parents! Be true to yourself and them." That was asking a lot from a blacked-out teen with a mohawk and was covered in both tattoos and piercings. "Tell them how you feel! I mean, it's not like they're gonna attack you or anything." That didn't go over as well for her as she was caught in a green net and reeled over to a set of bushes while the teen had watched it happen before Jack could be seen standing behind the bushes as he commented.

"I've got her!" Maddie popped out as well as Jack continued. "And the Fenton Grappler is working like a charm!"

"I don't understand. If Jazz is a ghost, why isn't she phased through the net?" Jack WAS going to say that, due to the content of the net, no ghost could phase through the netting and it would, in essence, de-power any ghost long enough for further action before Jazz broke the question with a shout.

"Because I am not a GHOST!" She yelled after standing up and throwing the net off before she lectured her folks. "You've ambushed me, suffocated me with smoke, and worse, I was pulled away from Spike before he had his breakthrough! What do you have to say for yourselves?" Jack had something as he lashed out the Thermos and shouted.

"Eat hot Fenton Thermos, ghost gal!" The thermos simply sparked and nothing else as Jazz looked at it and glared at her folks as Jack checked over the Thermos and shook as he huffed. "Hmm. Darn thing still doesn't work!" Back with Danny, he was alarmed with the size of the monster, but stood or hovered his ground as he dodged from a thrown fist and slipped past a backhand attempt. He also took the opportunity to knock the beast down with a hard kick from a failed uppercut on him as Sam and Tucker smiled to his progress.

"He really is getting better." Danny smiled to the comment before turning back to the ghost, unprepared this time as she punched him away, Sam grimacing as she pleaded.

"I sure hope he can take a punch!"

"I'm sure he can." Cedric commented as Danny flew high, but they could tell that he was coming right on back, though with a wet head as Jack took a look at the Thermos and how it had failed him after a look at a angry Jazz and unsure Maddie before he spoke his intention to both Maddie and Jazz, unaware of Danny coming back down in a soaring punch.

"I, Jack Fenton, from this day forth, do hereby turn my back on ghosts." Danny slammed hard into the monster, blasting meat everywhere and releasing orange smoke in the distance of the trio of unaware Fentons as Danny clamored up from the crater created as the Lunch Lady inquired from behind him, back in her usual form.

"Oh, dear! What a mess! Are you okay?" Danny paused before he gave his answer with a rub of the left arm.

"Yeah. I think so." She gave a small smile before reverting to angry Lunch Lady.

"TOUGH! BECAUSE YOU BEING OKAY IS NOT PART OF MY BALANCED DIET OF DOOM!" Meat surged from the crater to form five small forms of the monster from five meat piles. Danny took flight with the mini monsters behind him before used a flying kick to knock them down, but not for long as they just reformed and he commented.

"Wasn't expecting that." He also went back to being human as he continued. "Or that." The monsters take the chance in snatching him and lifting him up into the air, two releasing for him to dangle in the air as he yelled, the unaware Fentons still not knowing what was happening as Jack dismissed the Thermos.

"...And this Thermos can't trap ghosts because ghosts don't exist." He tossed it, rather well, into Danny's face as he caught it and exclaimed.

"The Fenton Thermos! But how am I going to get it to work?" The three still holding him released and he yelled before trying to focus his powers to come back. "Change back! CHANGE BACK!" The ring appeared once more and he turned back to ghost, surprising the meat monsters before they gave chase, Danny falling through the ground as he thanked them, surprising the Fentons altogether. "Thanks for the thermos!"

Jack was surprised before he cheered. "HA! Ghost kid! I was right!" He started to dance and sing to it. "You were wrong! Ghosts exist!" He then laughed to the small victory. "I never doubted for a second!" Jazz was NOT pleased to say the least as Jack continued to laugh before the meat monsters, having lost their form and control from the Lunch Lady, fell on the trio. Danny phased back through in front of Lunch Lady, the slight taste of dirt in his mouth, as she howled to the new object in hand.

"NO! Soup's not on today's menu!"

"I'm changing the menu, permanently!" He then whispered to the Thermos for support. "Please work." He pulled off the top and prayed that it would do what it was meant to do. "I hope I'm right!" Danny's aura glowed before infusing itself with the Thermos, reverting him back, but activating the Thermos, blasting out a net beam at the Lunch Lady before pulling her in as she cried out.

"NOOOO!" It finished trapping her and Danny capped it as he smiled and headed over to his friends who were trapped under a protest balloon, Cedric taking the Thermos off Danny's hands as he helped Sam out before she asked.

"What happened? Where's the ghost?" Danny smiled to the Thermos as Cedric worked to figure out how it turned on like it did.

"My parents have their moments."

"Ghost directly ahead." Danny turned to find his parents, covered in meat, strolling toward them as Jack held the Fenton Finder before stopping in front of Danny with the voice speaking again. "You would have to be some sort of moron to not notice the ghost directly ahead." Danny smiled weakly to both Maddie and Jack looking at him, the moment of truth at hand before Danny... dismissed it for a secret identity that he would use.

"Oh, sorry, Dad." He gestured behind him as Cedric rolled his eyes playfully. "You just missed him." Jack was on the case.

"We got a runner!" Both charged off as Jazz huffed in upset.

"Great." She headed off to the school again. "Back to square one." Tucker and Sam joined Danny as Tucker asked.

"So, you're not gonna tell 'em?" Danny shook his head as he answered, Cedric stashing the Thermos as he spoke.

"Nah. I think I might've finally figured out what these powers are for. They make me-" A hand landed on his shoulder and he grimaced with wide eyes as he looked to find Mr. Lancer and he was ticked, yet strangely not covered in meat.

"In a world of trouble." Where the trio grimaced, Cedric just smiled, what exactly is he smiling about...?


The team were forced to clean up the mess that was left behind, both side of the protesters had left a number of meat and vegan things laying about and the ghost fight just scattered the whole mess about, Lancer enforced it with a megaphone. "Manson! Pick up that T-bone!"

"With my hands?" She answered with disgust as Lancer turned to Tucker.

"Foley! Pick up that Turfwich!" Tucker shuttered as he replied the same way.

"With my hands?" He even holds it by the corner as Lancer was pleased, chomping on a turkey leg before walking away. Dash was also there as he just laughed at their misfortune, Danny ready to just phase the meat out of the dumpster that Dash was leaning on before Cedric came over with another deposit and spoke.

"Dash, just walk away, we don't really need your 'humor' here."

"Make me, wimp."

"Alright..." He laid the broom down and, without a blink of the eye, he closed the distance, stunning Dash with a pair of chops to the neck before picking him up and hurling him into the meat dumpster. "It helps to know how to face a ninth-degree master in judo and karate, bear that in mind, Mister Quarterback." He chuckled as Dash stammered before yelping.

"FENTON! A little help?" Danny was pleased as he just remarked.

"Whatever you say, Dash." He looked elsewhere as he felt the green of his ghost side flare up. "Whatever you say." They glowed before dying back to blue and helped Dash out; it was official, Cedric was one guy that he could count on for some backup...