Chapter 03: Food Wars Part 1

~Night of the Portal Activating~

Whistling could be heard as Angela the Lunch Lady for Casper High was cooking in the Kitchen, preparing the food for the students to enjoy. Truth be told she didn't really care for this job that much-sure when she started she enjoyed it, seeing the bright faces of students getting lunch.

But over the years that toned down as each day the students got more disrespectful and showed their disgust over the cafeteria food, even saying it to her face. It got to the point where she wondered why she even bothered trying, but it was her job and she was determined to continue it.

Still it wouldn't hurt to have some form of respect from those kids wouldn't it?

Angela paused as she felt a cold chill as movement could be heard behind her and she turned only to scream at the sight while an arm made of meat reached for her.

~Present Time~

Danny sat at the Kitchen Table a good week after catching the Librarian watching the news.

They were still going on about the 'vandalism' that someone did to the school library and how whoever it was would eventually be caught and he shook his head.

Probably for the best that they believed that it was simple vandalism rather than Ghosts attacking people.

"The nerve of some people." Jazz commented with her arms crossed looking at the TV. "To trash a school library like that?"

Danny just shrugged not saying anything that could incriminate him.

It's been a busy week as he's been going through some of the blueprints his parents had, making his own copy so he could make his own stuff and waiting for his ribs to heal so he didn't have to hide any bruises, reading the Ghosts of the Ghost Zone book while doing so.

He was also trying to make a better way to disguise himself to avoid looking like he was about to mug someone. A small childish part of him felt like he was playing Superhero but that was quietly quelled by the serious part reminding him that he needed to find the other escaped Ghosts and catch them.

The fight with the Librarian showed that he has a chance at this due to how he actually won that fight but it also showed him just how powerful Ghosts really were, the Librarian was definitely more powerful than the one that nearly clawed his eye out and the others could be even stronger.

He had to be prepared.

Closing his notebook where he had a crude drawing of some armor he wanted to build-although it was probably unrealistic given how things really were in life, Danny looked back up to see that the weather was going to be pretty sunny.

Well that was good to know.

Back to the armor, he could use his Hazmat Suit as when he looked through the blueprints he saw that it was more than a simple Hazmat Suit, it was tear resistant and offered some protection from blunt force trauma given the hazardous nature of their experiments, there were a few extra's so he could borrow one and modify it-.

That was when he noticed that Jazz was giving him a worried look. "Can I help you?" He asked a little annoyed by the look.

Jazz just frowned at his tone. "I was calling your name for the last five minutes, just what were you working on?" She asked crossing her arms.

"Oh nothing really important, just something that I want to talk to Tucker about." Danny lied as he didn't want to bring his friend into this.

Not only would he be hard pressed to convince Tucker of the threats but it would be selfish to drag him into the mess he created.

"So what do you want?" Danny asked as he was curious in why she called his name when he wasn't paying attention.

"You're not getting involved in anything weird are you?" Jazz asked remembering the news article Danny was reading.

"Nope." Danny said immediately, trying to look normal.

Jazz gave him a look of disbelief before Jack ran in. "Morning Jazzy-Pants, Danny-Boy!" He greeted opening the fridge.

"Hey Dad." Both Danny and Jazz greeted seeing the man pushing some stuff to the side looking for something.

"Have either of you seen the box lunch I had in here?" Jack asked looking around.

Danny just chuckled. "It's right behind the emergency ham." He said with his Dad giving a shout at finding it.

Jazz just pinched her nose to relieve some stress at being in a weird family.

"It was you wasn't it?" Danny blinked as Sydney confronted him in school while he was trying to get a drink of water before the first bell.

"You're going to have to be more specific." Danny said having a sinking suspicion on what he meant.

"The Library, this last week people were saying it was vandalized," Sydney said swallowing nervously. "It was that green guy and you took care of him didn't you?"

Danny froze and his eyes quickly scanned around them behind his shades, thankfully no one was paying attention.

"What makes you say that? I barely remember what happened." Danny said rubbing the back of his head.

"Don't, please I just want to know what was that?" Sydney said with a frown. "I tried ignoring this all week but I can't forget it."

Seeing that Sydney wasn't going to drop it and he didn't want anyone to overhear this he frowned. "... Meet me on the school rooftop after school." He said in a low tone to avoid being overheard.

Sydney looked ready to disagree but the warning bell rang showing he had to accept that as his shoulders slumped before he walked off.

When he disappeared from view, Danny messed with his hair in frustration.

Great, now he had to deal with this and he should've seen it coming, after all Sydney knew he was the only other person to see the Librarian and now he's gone after the report of someone vandalizing the Library?

Lovely.

Danny hid a surprised face as when class began they were assigned partners to do an assignment and for once Tucker was assigned to someone else and his partner was none other than Sam Manson.

It was just a simple assignment that on the History of Amity Park, back when it was founded by and named after Amity Richardson in 1845. Currently they were reading on the trial of a weird occult that was created around six years after Amity Park was founded.

"Strange how some places get gangs and the racists, but we got a Cult." Danny couldn't help but say. "Think they wore all black-?"

Sam just gave him a look as he went quiet remembering that Sam wore all black. Crap there he went running his mouth again.

"Uh sorry about that." Danny apologized with a nervous laugh before deciding to at least be friendly as they. "So how have you been settling into Amity Park?"

"Fine." Sam said in a short, abrupt manner.

That kind of put Danny off as he was kind of expecting a bit more than that. "Oh uh cool," He said hating how he sounded awkward. "Any favorite places?"

Now Sam was giving him a slight glare. "Danny was it?" She asked earning a nod. "Look I'm not here to make any friends so can we just get to the assignment."

"Right." Danny said dropping it.

Sam hasn't been hanging out with anyone in the school and the whole buzz about her being the new kid died down so people were leaving her alone, to be honest Danny kind of felt bad for her as she didn't seem to have a single friend to talk to. But she said she didn't want to make any so he shouldn't push.

Leaning back, Danny glanced over to see that Tucker saw that exchange and the tech teen made a motion showing that he really screwed that up.

In response Danny made a face at him as if asking what he was talking about?

Tucker just shrugged with a chuckle and he went back to his assignment further confusing Danny.

Sometimes he just didn't get his best friend.

After school, Danny waited on the rooftop looking up at the sky as clouds slowly passed by. It was pretty peaceful up here, he used to come up here during Lunch to catch a quick nap if he was tired but right now he had a bit more pressing issues-one of them now walking through the door.

"Hey Sydney thanks for coming." Danny said looking at the nervous teen.

"Well you asked me to come up here." Sydney said with a frown while Danny gave him a look. "What?"

"Are you sure you want to know what that was?" Danny asked giving Sydney a chance to back out. "Once you know things won't be the same."

Truth be told he was just saying that to make Sydney back out so he wouldn't have to explain this but the nerdy teen gave a nod determined to get some answers. "Just tell me Buster." He said before flinching. "P-Please?"

"Dude I'm not going to hit you for talking back to me," Danny said guessing that some of the jocks probably did that to him before sighing. "Okay first off do you believe in Ghosts?"

Sydney blinked, unsure of what he was getting at. "Of course not, Ghosts don't exist."

On hearing that, Danny chuckled and tossed him the book that he took from the Library. "Go to the page I have bookmarked." He said with Sydney looking unamused at seeing the title. "... Humor me."

His frown deepening, Sydney did so, almost dropping the book in shock at seeing the page showing the Librarian. "W-What?"

"Ghosts are not only real but dangerous and he wasn't the only one on the loose." Danny said with Sydney looking back at him.

"W-Wait so you're hunting them?" Sydney asked in disbelief remembering hearing the rumors about Danny's parents being Ghost Hunters.

It was one of those rumors that made people ostracized the Fentons, calling them nut jobs some people warning their kids not to interact with those 'weirdos'.

"And if I was?" Danny asked not denying or confirming that. "The News said that someone vandalized the Library, that's all I know about that issue."

With that said, Danny took the book back.

"So was that all or did you have any other questions?"

Sydney hesitated not sure if he truly wanted to know.

It kind of annoyed him that Danny was denying it when he clearly was the one from the News but he also was unsure if he should continue pushing this.

Seeing the hesitation, Danny spoke. "It's for the best that you drop this." He said making Sydney look indignant. "Think about it, how do you think people would react if they were told this without seeing what you have?"

Slowly understanding dawned on Sydney's face. "They would think I'm crazy."

"And you would most likely get bullied even more-."

"I don't get bullied." Sydney said shaking his head.

"I have to call bull crap on that one," Danny said in a deadpanned tone. "But back to what I'm saying it would cause an unneeded panic or draw of attention, just go back to living your life alright?"

He swore he saw Sydney tense a bit at that but the boy just gave a nod and left without a word-honestly that worried Danny but he couldn't afford to be distracted from his hunt for the Ghosts. He had to find them before another person see's them.

After school, Danny was walking home with Tucker who was working on overdrive on his PDA. "Alright I'll bite, what are you working on?" Danny couldn't help but ask.

"Oh just going through some rumors." Tucker said before chuckling. "Like get this, someone posted a rumor about seeing a green skinned lady in the Cafeteria this last week."

That made Danny pause, the Librarian flashing through his mind. "Did they?" He asked now interested.

That made Tucker quirk a brow. "Wow I had no idea you were into green women." He said as a joke.

Danny just rolled his eyes. "Hilarious, but tell me more about this rumor."

"It's only a rumor, like a bad scary story, I mean seriously a green skinned lady? Ooh a martian." Tucker teased with a chuckle.

"Yeah." Danny said looking away.

He'll look into this as soon as he can, but right now he couldn't afford to go in there at night due to last time so that meant he'll have to keep an eye out during school the next day with just the Thermos. Once he has a confirmation and if he's unable to catch it during the day then he'll go back at night.

His lack of response gained a worried look. "You alright Danny?" Tucker asked, concern in his voice. "I mean I didn't overdo it with the joke, did I?"

"Hm? Oh no it's fine Tuck just a lot on my mind." Danny said.

"You've been acting strange all week." Tucker said wanting to know what was bothering his friend. "I mean what could be bot-... Ooh."

Danny grew cautious as Tucker smirked. "What?" He asked wondering if Tucker figured it out.

"Could this have to do with a certain new student?" Tucker asked slyly. "After all you did start acting weird right after she showed up."

Danny blinked before realization sunk in. "Tuck it's not that." He said seeing how he came to that conclusion and honestly he was happy that his suspicions were wrong.

"So you say." Tucker said with a laugh earning an eye roll from Danny.

Making it back home after saying goodbye to Tucker, Danny paused when he heard his parents talking. Now he normally doesn't eavesdrop, but when he heard his name he couldn't help but be curious in what they were talking about.

"I can't help but think that something's wrong with Danny, he's been acting distant." Maddie's voice came from the Living Room, none of them hearing the front door.

"Come on Mads, we all were distant as a teenager," Jack's voice came through showing his usual happy-go lucky attitude, the sound of mechanical tinkering could be heard. "Danny knows that he can tell us anything if something is troubling him."

"I know." Danny peeked around the corner seeing that Jack seemed to be working on some sort of metal fishing rod while Maddie was pacing, her arms crossed, idly glancing at the wall where a few certificates and trophies were displayed.

They were all Martial Art ones.

"It's just that Danny has been pretty obsessive about certain subjects since we tried the Mk. II Portal," Maddie said, making Danny wince his scar burning from phantom pain while Jack stopped what he was doing a neutral look on his face, remembering that day well. "Especially when it came to Martial Arts and the Gymnastics I've been teaching him."

"Maddie he felt powerless." Jack said his tone now sounding serious. "Hell we all did after what that spook did."

It was a memory he wished he could forget because he never felt so scared before in his life, he almost lost their son, their youngest because of their excitement. That was the reason they made so many safeguards before attempting the Mk. III Portal and gave Danny his own Ecto Pistol.

"And besides I think we should be proud of him," Jack said returning to his usual self in an instant. "He made it pretty far in those Martial Arts tournaments you signed him up for."

There were quite a few third place trophies, a couple of second place ones and a single first place Trophy showing what he was getting at.

"Don't get me wrong I am and I'm happy he wants to know to defend himself, but I still worry." Maddie said with a sigh right as Jack smiled and placed the fishing rod down to give her a hug.

"Of course you worry Mads, it's our job to do so."

Now Danny felt a little guilty, this was obviously a private discussion even if it was about him and here he was eavesdropping on his parents. Not only that but they were right in a way.

He was very obsessive when it came to Martial Arts and Ghost Weaponry, enough to ignore food and sleep as long as he learned more. If he didn't have Tucker for a friend or Jazz for a sister he probably would've been a recluse.

Slowly backing up, Danny reopened the front door, this time making some noise. "I'm home." He called out closing the door, making more noise. "Mom? Dad?"

"We're in the Living Room sweetie." Maddie called out as Danny walked around the corner. "How was school?"

"It was fine, nothing interesting really happened," Danny said with a shrug, intent on appearing happy to avoid them worrying. "What about here?"

"You're just in time to see the prototype of our new weapon," Jack said proudly presenting the Fishing Rod only for the reel to fall off. "... Just as soon as I repair it."

Danny just quirked a brow. "What is it?"

"It's the Fenton Fisher, perfect for catching those unsuspecting spooks with the line I showed you last week." Jack said quickly fixing the reel before casting it as it went around the light above getting stuck. "Ah poo."

Maddie sighed as Jack handed the Fisher to Danny to run and get the ladder. "Sometimes I worry for him," Maddie said with Danny idly pressing a button curious in what this could do, making her eyes widen. "Danny don't-."

It was too late as the reel acted up and unexpectedly pulled Danny towards the ceiling where he hit his head and fell, landing on the couch with a headache. "Ow."

"Press that," Maddie finished rushing over to check on Danny right when Jack came in with the ladder. "Jack get the first aid and make a note that we might've put too much horsepower in the reel."

"It's fine Mom, just a headache." Danny said when the front door opened again with Jazz coming in.

Jazz took one look in the room with Danny holding his aching head to Maddie and Jack with the First Aid Kit, to the Fenton Fisher that was hanging in the middle of the room, swaying slightly along with the new crack in the ceiling.

"Do I dare ask?" Jazz was unsure if she wanted to know but Jack took that as an invitation to tell her about the Fisher making her groan.

Danny grumbled in the Ops Center that night, going over the Fenton Fisher Plans, only just the reel.

While that was an unexpected surprise, Danny was glad it happened because he could use something like that, it reminded him of that gadget from a Batman comic with the Grapple Gun?

Sure he could mess with the horsepower to lessen it a bit but with that and the unbreakable line he'll be golden if any of these Ghosts toss him into the air. Although he'll have to modify it a bit more.

It certainly would've been useful against Samuel.

Speaking of which.

Danny looked at the Thermos that held the Librarian for the last week.

He honestly had no idea on what to do with the Librarian, he couldn't keep him in there forever, that would seriously be a dick move, but he couldn't release him either unless it was back into the Ghost Zone but doing so would mean opening the portal and risking more coming out.

In theory he could give the Librarian to his parents but then not only would he have to explain how he caught him and why he did that but that would also be subjecting the guy to the experiments his parents would pull to find out more about Ghosts and build more effective weapons. At first he was okay with the idea because he was taught that Ghosts had no emotions, it was something his parents were taught as well as their own theories.

But that fight with the Librarian, it showed Danny that they were all wrong, not only do Ghosts have emotions but they can feel pain which makes that idea one of the worst ones out there and he was sick just thinking about it.

And if these Ghosts have emotions were all of them intent on hurting people or were they like people in where some of them only want to be left alone. Was his whole obsessive drive to want to take them out to avoid people being hurt wrong as well?

Giving a sigh, Danny just decided to work more on the Hazmat Suit he discretely borrowed. He already inverted the colors to where it was a black hazmat suit with silver gloves and boots-something to give him more dark colors to blend in and he had an old black cloak tied around it.

The cloak was actually one of the fireproof blankets that they had in the Lab, he just took one and worked on it-pretty hard as the damn thing was tear resistant, until he got it to look like a cloak.

Just in case one of these ghosts had pyrokinesis abilities, he wasn't taking any chances after seeing the Librarian fight and cut through the wall with freaking books. Plus the cloak hangs off the ground when he had it on so he didn't have to worry about stepping on it and it could easily unclasp just in case it get caught in something, watching the Incredibles taught him that.

Right now he just needed to work on the Mask because he tried on a different full face mask-one to avoid looking like a mugger-only for his vision to be blocked a bit.

So he decided to use some reflective lenses, his Mom had a lot of them for her goggles in various colors, so he borrowed a pair and he made them a little big like Spider-Man's so he wouldn't be blinded by the mask fabric in itself.

Raising the mask up, Danny just looked at it.

Honestly it didn't look half-bad.

Checking the time, Danny was surprised to see that it was two in the morning and quickly folded the makeshift Hazmat suit into his backpack along with the mask.

He'll work more on the makeshift grapple tomorrow.

Oh well at least it was a Friday.

Mr. Lancer frowned as he walked around the cafeteria with a shaken up Angela early the next morning. "Ms. Lewis this is getting ridiculous," He finally said after hearing nothing but meat monsters from the school lunch lady this last week. "I think the stress is getting to you."

"I'm telling you this school is haunted," Angela protested refusing to go into the kitchen. "And I'm not the only one, some students saw what I did."

"Most likely them jumping on the bandwagon of a new rumor," Mr. Lancer said dryly. "Look I can understand how stressful changing the menu can be but I think you're dealing with it the wrong way."

With that said, Mr. Lancer checked his watch.

"Now if you'll excuse me I have a class to prepare for." Mr. Lancer said turning to walk away.

"Lionel I'm not crazy." Angela whispered remembering vividly what happened.

It was terrifying.

Shaking a bit, Angela left the Cafeteria and not a moment too soon as a shadow passed by the kitchen. "Menu," A voice muttered enraged. "Someone changed the menu?!"

A roar as a wet, squishy sound could be heard before the voice spoke a bit more menacing.

"Nobody changes the menu."

Danny found it very odd when he saw Tucker sobbing in the hallway making him blink slowly.

His friend was known to be pretty over dramatic when it came to certain stuff so he was wondering if it had to do with a failed pick up line or if something really did happen?

"Uh Tuck? You're kind of freaking me out."

"Danny it's horrible." Tucker grabbed him by the arms with a tight grip. "I'm talking apocalypse inducing horror."

"Tucker," Danny said with a frown. "You're cutting off circulation to my arms."

He could easily get out of it but he didn't want to do that to his friend who slowly let go of him.

"Sorry."

"Okay now what the hell is going on?" Danny asked now pretty curious.

Did it get leaked that he's the School Information Broker? That would be pretty bad if it did.

"The Menu," Tucker began eliciting a confused look. "It's been changed!"

… What?

"The Menu's… Been changed?" Danny asked stupefied by this.

That was what he was worried about?!

"It's horrible right?! All the meat gone!" Tucker said looking to the roof as if he was gazing to the heavens. "No more Sloppy Joes, no Hot Dogs, nothing edible it's horrible."

"Isn't Cafeteria Food horrible to begin with?" Danny joked to calm himself down from his annoyance at being worried for nothing.

"That's not the point, I live off of meat, without it there's no reason being here!"

When Tucker said that he fell to his knees and began to sob again while Danny was torn between trying to help his friend or pretend he doesn't know him and slowly back away.

"You sound like a drug addict when you say it like that." Danny pointed out.

Thankfully Tucker was almost back to normal when class began but he was working feverently on his PDA, using his connections as an Information Broker to desperately try and find out who changed the menu.

"Tuck give it a rest," Danny said honestly worried for his friend. "This is getting weird."

"Hey nobody takes my meat away." Tucker said before he saw Mr. Lancer looking their way and quietly put his PDA away to avoid it being taken away making Danny snort in amusement.

"Keep this up and we'll have an intervention."

Around Lunch Time Danny was beginning to see why Tucker was freaking out. "Is this grass on a bun?" He asked in disbelief before a heaping scooping of mud was placed on his tray in the form of a mud pie.

He might start bringing home lunch if this keeps up.

Slowly he walked and sat by Tucker just staring at his Lunch. "How is this edible?"

"You're asking the wrong tech geek," Tucker said with a shrug, not sure himself with his PDA out again. "That's why I didn't get any."

Danny poked the grass bun with his spork right as Tucker gave a cry of triumph.

"I know who did it." Tucker said with a frown. "That Sam girl changed the menu."

"Sam?" Danny looked surprised as he wasn't expecting that before seeing Tucker stand up. "Tuck?"

"I'm going to give her a piece of my mind."

Danny looked worried, wondering if he should stop him before his eyes widened.

Looking back at the Kitchen area he saw a figure go through the wall, it was lucky that no one else saw it because Tucker just made a lot of noise when he reached Sam.

"What's the big idea changing the menu?!"

Looking back at the center of attention, Danny winced kind of feeling sorry for Sam who glared right back at Tucker ignoring the other scathing glares from the others as it was revealed that she changed the menu.

"It won't kill you to try something different." Sam responded to him actually eating the grass on a bun.

"I don't eat rabbit food." Tucker protested and they continued to argue, the noise of it giving Danny the cover he needed to sneak into the kitchen only to see the rest of the weeks food consisting of vegetables to be squashed as if someone had a violent meltdown.

"What the hell?" Danny whispered, looking around, ready to grab the Thermos in his bag just in case he needed it. He was also keeping an ear out for anyone coming in as he didn't want to be blamed for this.

As Danny walked through the kitchen, seeing his breath showing that the temperature was dropping, he failed to see meat slowly coming out of the meat locker, snaking its way towards him.

Steam burst from a nearby pipe making Danny jump before he chuckled. "Damn thing scared the hell out of me," He placed a hand on his palpitating heart only to feel something slimy around his leg making him look down. "What the?!"

His leg was completely enveloped in meat and that was before it tugged and pulled him into the Freezer, slamming him against the wall.

Danny groaned in pain from that surprise attack as the meat formed and created a nine foot tall meat monster with glowing green eyes that opened its mouth showing razor sharp teeth made from meat.

The Meat Monster roared in Danny's face, making him grimace from the smell of spoiled meat.

"Dude two words," Danny coughed, in disgust. "Breath mints."

With that he pulled the Thermos out to end this quickly but even when the light enveloped the Meat Monster it easily broke free.

"What?! But that worked on Samuel," Danny muttered looking at it before remembering how the Librarian worked to try and get out. "Oh man don't tell me I have to wear them down."

He didn't get a chance to think more on it as the Meat Monster quickly slammed him back into the wall, holding him there while the raven haired boy struggled uselessly in her grip.

"A-Achoo." Danny sneezed as the cold from the meat freezer was finally kicking in, making him shiver.

The Meat Monster just stared down at him before it got in Danny's face. "Child did you change the menu?" It rasped making the teen give her a confused look, trying not to shiver.

"No I didn't, who the hell are you-?!"

"Silence!" The Meat Monster roared. "If you didn't change the menu then you are useless to me."

With that said it spun around, throwing Danny towards the door, using whatever power it had to open the door right before he rolled on the floor from the momentum with the door closing shut in a snap.

Rubbing his head in pain, Danny stood up frowning as he smelled like spoiled meat now before he heard shouts coming from the Cafeteria.

Taking the chance to peek out, Danny was hit in the face with a mud pie making him give a deadpanned look as a food fight was going on before he slowly wiped the mud off.

As it turned out while he was gone, Tucker somehow rallied those who ate meat on one side while there were other Vegetarians that were on Sam's side showing a standoff in a matter of three minutes before all hell broke loose.

Luckily Danny used that food fight to his advantage to sneak back into the Cafeteria but he had to let himself get hit by a lot of mud to get rid of the smell of spoiled meat.

Still as everything was calming down his mind wandered back to that Meat Monster Ghost that tossed him around, contemplating what he learned.

It caught him completely by surprise especially when the Thermos failed to work showing he did need to fight the Ghosts a bit before they could be pulled in. Not only that but it was searching for whoever changed the menu so that meant that Sam could be in danger if he didn't take care of this.

Hearing sniffing, Danny turned to the side to see Tucker sniffing the air. "Meat… Near." He muttered creeping Danny out.

'How is it that I'm the one who hunts Ghosts and he's the weird kid?'

"So how bad was it?" Danny asked as Mr. Lancer broke up the food fight, being covered in mud and took the two responsible to his office.

Sam and Tucker.

"Just detention with cleaning the Cafeteria up, everyone involved is doing this." Tucker said with a sigh. "And that sucks because it's the weekend that means we'll be doing this when we could've been having fun."

Danny sympathized knowing how bad the weekend detentions in Casper High were but then he froze.

That meant he had to get the Meat Ghost tonight.

That night Danny was cleaned up and slowly putting his newly made Ghost Hunting Suit on, the suit hugging his skin a bit showing it was a good fit ashe buckled the silver boots and placed the belt around his waist with the Thermos holding the Librarian holstered along with his specially made Ecto Pistol and the Pocket Knife.

The Thermos was spray-painted to a darker color, hiding the Fenton emblem and he slowly clasped the cloak around his shoulders.

Rolling his shoulders as he was trying to get used to this outfit, Danny pulled the mask over his face and looked at himself in the mirror.

He had to say, if he saw this in an alleyway he would be pretty damn intimidated.

It will definitely do to hide his face just in case one of these Ghosts throws him into a public area.

Reaching to the side, he grabbed the Fenton Fisher that he brought up, borrowing it for the night as he didn't have time to make the makeshift grapple so this would be his best bet.

Opening the window of the Fentonworks Satellite, Danny climbed on the pane windowsill and looked down towards the dark streets of Amity Park in the middle of the night.

There was no way he was going to walk through the streets dressed like this, it was just asking to either be arrested or shot.

So he'll have to go by the rooftops.

Taking the time to gulp, Danny aimed and threw the Fenton Fisher, watching the line shoot out, a hook at the end hitting the building and pulled to a stop. He pulled on it to check and see if it would hold before he took a deep breath.

"Well either this works or I end up on the News in a body bag." Danny muttered as he leapt, resisting the urge to scream in fear as the wind rushed through him, his cloak flapping wildly as he pressed the button on the reel, letting it pull him towards the building, thankfully not as fast as when he did so indoors showing the horsepower of the reel was lessened a bit.

When he landed, Danny ended up rolling with the momentum feeling some pain from that showing he needed to work on his landings.

With that done it was rinse and repeat with him going by rooftops on his way to the school at a faster rate than when he snuck in to deal with the Librarian and this time he snuck in by picking the lock on the roof, taking care to avoid the school cameras as he knew where they were due to helping Tucker at times with his Information Broker thing.

He took the time to press a button on the Fenton Fisher to have it fold up to place on his belt.

Eventually he made it to the Cafeteria where he pulled out a small pocket flashlight and turned it on, the light shining on the mess that those involved in the Food Fight would have to clean up tomorrow.

As he walked, Danny kept an eye out for any sort of meat just waiting to move if it so much as twitched, his paranoia going overdrive here.

Especially because unlike with the Librarian, Danny had no information on this one and he searched the index for any Meat Ghosts so he was going in blind here.

The first spot he checked was the freezer and he only saw the meat in there, none of it was moving but he kept an eye on it before a noise caught his attention.

Quickly turning the flashlight off, Danny let the cloak wrap around his body, letting himself blend into the shadows as he silently stalked to where the noise was coming from, coming to the stairs in the Kitchen that lead to the basement.

Danny knew there was a chance that it might've been a security guard checking up on stuff down there but he had to risk it because there was a chance that it was the Meat Ghost.

So he descended into Casper High Basement.

"-ge the menu." Danny strained his ears at hearing that voice after two minutes of silently walking through the basement, taking the time to marvel how big it was, it was a bit of a surprise that they used this much space to do nothing but store food for the students.

It was like they were preparing for an apocalypse or something.

Hearing a box fall over, Danny's hand inched towards the Ecto Pistol on his belt and silently pulled it out, taking care to control his breathing to remain silent.

The air was beginning to get colder so Danny took a step back, quickly pulling the hood over his mask and once more letting the cloak wrap around his body, hiding in the shadows as a figure came into view.

"Once I find out who changed the menu they will feel my full wrath." It was the voice of the Meat Ghost, but it had a bit more of a feminine touch to it.

It looked to be a Lunch Lady ghost with green skin, wearing a pink cafeteria uniform with yellow gloves and a white apron.

"To think that they changed the menu again," The Lunch Lady Ghost snarled looking like she was trying to strangle someone. "One would think they'd learn their lesson after last time but no, they just had to do so once more."

Again? Last time?

While that sounded like quite the story, Danny shifted to where he could fire at the Lunch Lady but it seemed her senses were much stronger than a normal person's as she quickly spun around looking right where he was snarling as her hair shot up before meat broke through the boxes in the basement.

The meat formed into a spear and went to impale Danny who dove out of the way, not a moment too soon as it went right through the wall. Coming up to a roll, Danny stood up, the cloak flapping back showing his form.

The Lunch Lady paused at his strange get-up. "Who are you?" She asked not knowing what to expect.

"That's not important," Danny said avoiding the question, not wanting to give his name out as he stood in a non-threatening pose, but kept the pistol in his hand, out of view due to his cloak just in case he needed it. "What did you mean by the menu changing again? What happened last time?"

Danny figured that fishing for information was his best bet but the Lunch Lady grew enraged at those questions.

"What happened?! You dare ask that question?!" The Lunch Lady shouted her hair flaring up as more meat shot out of the containers and surrounded her.

"I'm trying to be peaceful here." Danny said bracing himself as the force the Lunch Lady was exerting was enough for him to almost slide back.

"There will be no peace for changing the menu." The Lunch Lady roared, the meat swirling until it took the form of the giant Meat Monster from earlier, only this time it was even bigger, standing at 21 feet tall, bending over to avoid touching the roof.

Now seeing that the peaceful solution was out, Danny quickly opened fire with the pistol, seeing it go right through the Lunch Lady's chest not even affecting her as she smirked, raising a fist.

Danny jumped back as it slammed into the ground cracking it.

'Good lord if that hit me I would be dead.' Danny thought seeing how this one was a lot more dangerous than the Librarian.

But he couldn't be scared, if he didn't take care of this Lunch Lady it would continue to hunt down the person who changed the menu and that meant she would hurt Sam.

Sam might not be a friend of his per say but he wasn't going to let this Ghost hurt her or anyone else that it would go after.

"Just hold still and this will be over." The Lunch Lady fired meat out of her hand like a harpoon, with it barely missing Danny.

"Yeah I don't think so." Danny mocked before focusing fire from the Ecto Pistol at the knee joint and that worked as the Lunch Lady stumbled, some meat falling off. 'Okay that proves I can still win this if I fight smart.'

"Enough!" Meat then enclosed around Danny before he could get away and linked itself to the Lunch Lady's chest in the form of a third arm, holding him up. "Prepare to learn why Meat is the greatest of all food groups."

Danny nearly gagged from the spoiled meat practically plugging his nose before he saw the Lunch Lady's entire demeanor change to look happy.

"Cake?" She pulled a plate of cake out of nowhere.

On seeing that, Danny looked a bit freaked out under his mask, wondering just what was going on. "Uh no thanks?"

That seemed to be the wrong thing to say as the Lunch Lady now looked pissed. "Then Suffer!"

With that she turned intangible, the act following to Danny who felt like his stomach was doing jumping jacks before shooting through the roof to where they were in the night sky as she spun Danny around holding him by one leg.

Giving a demented grin, the Lunch Lady let go and Danny began to plummet to the ground.

Danny couldn't control his fall as he was spinning, his cloak getting into his face while the ground kept getting closer. 'Ohshitohshitohshitohshit.' He thought in a panic trying to reach the Fenton Fisher on his belt.

Eventually he managed to grab it and wasted no time in flinging the line in a direction, praying that it would latch onto something and it held true with the line wrapping around a flagpole, Danny swinging in an arc an inch away from the ground.

The momentum and his weight however was too much for the flagpole to hold as it broke and he tumbled to the ground, in pain but alive.

Groaning, Danny pushed himself up and looked to the sky, seeing the Lunch Lady snarl before she went back into the school.

He wanted to rush after her but Danny checked his watch seeing that it was close to four, showing he needed to get home before anyone woke up seeing him missing.

Plus he was bruised a bit and had meat in his clothes.

So with a sigh, he cast the Fenton Fisher to the roof reeling him up and began to head home.

Jazz couldn't help but worry for Danny the next morning as he was absently eating a bowl of milk with a fork, his hair still wet from his shower and his eyes looking baggy due to forgetting his sunglasses.

"Danny are you alright?" Jazz asked hesitantly.

"Hm? Yeah I'm fine." Danny suppressed a yawn. "Why?"

"You forgot the cereal."

Danny paused and blinked before looking down. "... I knew that."

Jazz just gave him a look.

"I played D.O.O.M all night." Danny lied looking away.

There was no way he was saying what he really did.

Jazz's scoff showed she believed him. "I swear you are addicted to that game," She muttered with Danny giving a sheepish shrug before he filled the bowl of milk with Cheerios. "After you eat you should get some sleep."

"Hey I'm not a baby." Danny protested while Jazz gave a smirk.

"I won't baby you when you learn to sleep instead of playing games."

Danny grumbled under his breath but he wasn't going to argue any further, in fact while he wasn't showing it he was a bit grateful. He was tired and sore.

Plus he'll need to be rested for his rematch against this Ghost the next time they meet.

Mikey Harvard, a kid with light ginger hair and glasses wearing a white shirt and brown shorts sighed as he was mopping the hallway near the Cafeteria, hearing the others in there doing some cleaning. Right now he wished he didn't participate in that Food Fight, he could be home right now watching Star Trek reruns or playing video games, instead he's cleaning-.

He paused, shivering as he felt cold and turned, seeing a dark shape go around the corner.

"H-Hello?" Mikey asked in slight fear walking down to the corner, peeking around it but he saw no one.

Was this a prank by one of the jocks?

Shaking his head, Mikey turned his eyes widening as he saw the Lunch Lady behind him and he opened his mouth to scream only for meat to wrap around his mouth cutting the scream off.

To Be Continued…

Phew I think this chapter is a definite improvement over the original and I hope you are all ready for what's to come. I think I got a lot done on characterization and setting a lot of things up so far, but this will only be a two parter I can promise you that. Oh and hopefully people enjoyed the explanation on the Thermos-something to explain why he doesn't just use it on the Ghosts immediately, I figured that they needed to be worn down otherwise they could escape the beam before being sealed in.

So let me get the reviews out of the way so we can get this chapter posted.

PhantomDragon99: Yup but there will be more to come I can promise that.

Foxchick1: Thank you.

Nightmaster000: Yeah sorry about that oh and don't worry you weren't annoying me with that PM, I've just been to busy to properly check them all and I meant to reply but I never got around to that, the PM was extremely helpful and I really liked the info I got thank you. Yeah, so far Sam isn't that friendly with Danny and Tucker, moreso with Tucker due to the confrontation earlier in this chapter. I can agree with you on the fact that a lot of DP stories are all about Danny/Sam and like I said once I get to a certain distance I'll put a poll up to make it fair. Ah yes Freakshow, now he will be a very important character later on and appear more than he did in the show, but for now nothing but mentions. The Librarian was a bit tricky to type as it was my attempt at making an OC enemy for Danny, I figured with the enemies he faced in Canon having an enemy called that wouldn't be too far-fetched. Haha yeah the classic jokes are always the best ones.

Wiseguy2415: Haha thanks, I'm glad you liked it.

Coldblue: I know the feeling with being in a rut and I'm sorry for putting this story on hold after all the hype with planning it. Yeah the last chapter was close to being the same as the original with more details and dialogue, but there were a lot more changes in this version which made it even more fun to type along with the many ideas on where I want to take this story flowing through my head it's been helping with this chapter as well.

Now for your Questions. 1) Yes he will, it will show in the next chapter but he will study the book intensely whenever he has the time to prepare himself. 2) Huh that would make it a bit more believable and if it's abandoned then they wouldn't have a record of it right? Or if they did Tucker could hack and delete it. 3) That's a pretty good idea, thanks for the suggestion. 4) Okay I honestly didn't think about that, that would add so much depth to those Ghost Hunters and give Danny more human enemies to match wits with. 5) He'll find some eventually but he doesn't have the knowledge of them yet. 6) Whoa, you really thought this one through and it would make quite the strange connection between Dora and Danny if she ever learns his name, plus having the Dark Phantom be knighted just sounds awesome. 7) Damn that got dark quickly but it's an intriguing take on Desiree but man you made me hate this John Crew guy but that would make him quite the bad guy as well. 8) Wow… That's all I can really say to the origins for Sam and why she's like how she is, all of these origins are incredible.

PJforever: Haha thanks and I'm sorry for leaving this one like it was for a year I'll try to do better with it.

Iwymoisiraslom: Thanks it's nice to hear that people get it, I love typing stories but Fanfic doesn't pay the bills and turning into a recluse is not on my to do list.

AlienGhostWizard14: Thank you it's good to be back and I hope you enjoyed this chapter like the last one.

ChaoticMinds: Okay you have a point… I could spin it to where they hung around that area because years ago a portal opened there and the specter that got sent back told them that someone was making a portal, so it could be a hotspot for them to frequent. Haha yeah I should probably explain how he knows to pick locks.

Mario986: Thanks and I don't know, I'm just focusing on this one, the Miraculous Spider and the Red-X story for now… Uh I never said anything about depression, I've just been ignoring a lot in life I needed to pay attention to, I can promise that I'm not depressed, sorry if I gave that impression.

Richard1081: Thanks it's great to be updating again, I missed doing this story.

Alright I think I'll end this here, hope you all enjoyed this chapter so be sure to leave a review if you did or not. This is Spidey Signing Out!