Ultimate Phantom
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Danny x Sam
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Danny found himself blessed with other worldly abilities shortly after the accident. At first he didn't notice it at first, feeling a rather light headed and a bit cold. What really tipped him off was when he woke up one morning and he was floating several feet off the bed. Unfortunately that meant he now had to worry about his ghost obsessed parents finding out his secret.

''So, Danny, you and your little friends want to hunt ghosts?'' Jack Fenton, Danny's portly father asked him.

The three teens found themselves in the Fenton's basement hoping they could acquire some knowledge from Danny's ghost expert parents so they could better defend themselves.

'Actually, Dad, I want to be an astronaut.'' Danny informed him, hoping not to disappoint his ghost obsessed father.

''I'm really still on the fence about the thing to be honest.'' Sam stated with a shrug of her shoulders. While she was still into ghosts most of them were so bland and lacking personality so they didn't interest her like they once then.

'' Waste these looks and all this charisma hunting ghosts? Criminal.'' Tucker said, voicing his obvious non-interest in the paranormal. He was an electric guy after all.

''Well, if you do want to hunt ghosts, there are a few things you need to learn.'' Jack told them as he picked up and introduced a Thermos. ''This is the Fenton Thermos. 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!''

Danny's ghost sense then went off. ''Oh no, this isn't good.'' The teen whispered in panic.

The ghost portal opens and two green octopus-like ghosts came out. The creature tentacles lashed out only to be blasted as Danny let out ecto blasts causing the creatures to lerch back into the portals. A flash of light reacted from the portal as it promptly closed all the while Jack kept on lecturing Tucker and Sam.

''And that? That is the Fenton Portal. It releases ghosts into our world. Unfortunately my wife and I haven't been able to figure out how to control the blasted thing. Someday will be able to figure how to control it and learn all about the world of the afterlife.''

Danny found himself sitting at a table eating cereal while his older sister Jasmine was reading a book and his mother Maddie was building yet another Fenton brand invention. Looking up from her book Jazz expressed a huff of annoyance. She just couldn't believe her parents were just so obsessed with ghosts. She herself had as of yet to see to see any of these specters so she was rather skeptical. She wished her parents would get real jobs instead of relying on the money of their old college buddy to finance their research and inventions. As such she never hid her shame or embarrassment of her parents interests.

As Danny was eating his cereal his hand turned intangible. He let out a gasp as he hastily hid it under the table. Still having trouble trying to control his power.

''Okay, two more days, and it's done.'' Maddie proudly exclaimed after weeks of tinkering.

''What'd you say? It's done? The Fenton Finder is done!'' Jack said happily as popped up into the kitchen. ''This baby uses satellites to lead you right to the ghosts.''

''It uses what to track what? '' Danny squeaked out as he hid his hand behind his back as the device began speaking in the same monotonously tone a computer without an advanced program A.I. would.

''Welcome to the Fenton Finder. A ghost is near. Walk forward.'' It instructed as Danny hopped away and swerve out of its way as Jack followed it's directions to Danny.

''Ghost is located. Thank you for using the Fenton Finder.'' the monotonous voice of the computer announced.

''What? Huh, that can't be right.'' Jack said scratching his head as he missed Danny turning invisible and back quickly.

''Actually, uh, I need to tell you guys something.'' Danny said with his head dropped. He figured that the game was up and now his secret was blown.

''That's not all you need Danny.'' Jazz said closing her book and standing up. ''You need guidance, and parents who can provide it!'' she declared rather dramatically.

''Sweetie, I know what we do doesn't make sense sometimes, but you're only...'' Maddie tried to assure her daughter only to be interrupted.

''Sixteen, biologically, but psychologically I'm an adult and I will not allow your insane obsession with ghost to pollute the mind of this impressionable little child!'' she said all the while walking over to Danny and grabbing him. ''Come, you abused, unwanted wretch; I'll drive you to school. '' she said dragging Danny out of the room all the while glaring at Jack and Maddie.

''Huh, that's weird. Jasmine never offers to drive Danny to school.''

''That can only mean one thing,'' per usual Jack jumped to the wrong conclusion. ''That's not our daughter, that's a ghost. Danny, no, it's a trap!'' he declared as he and Maddie ran after them.

The group of four were traveling up the stairs of the school as they entered the building.

''I think I should tell them.''

''Why? Parents don't listen. Worse, they don't understand! Why can't they accept me for who I am!'' the goth said going out on a little tangent due to her parent's rather suffocating hold and over-protectiveness.

''Sam, I'm talking about my powers, my problems?'' Danny dead panned as Sam was brought back down to earth.

''Oh, right, me too.'' she replied, rather embarrassed by her outburst.

''I don't know how much longer I can hide my secret. I keep going intangible at times and if someone catches me I go from the kid with the crazy parents to some sort of ghost freak.'' He said as he started sinking through the floor before catching himself and making himself tangible. ''Something needs to be done. 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 asked as he leaned against a bending machine only to go through it and pop right back up.

''Your powers make you unique you know. Do you really want to give that up?'' Sam said as she turned and to a machine. She took a wallet out of her satchel and put in some quarters and purchased a powerade. ''It helps make you, you, you know. That's why I'm an ultra-recyclo-vegetarian!''

''Which means what?'' the meat carnivore asked, catching the tail end of the discussion.

''If it was alive once she doesn't eat it.''

Tucker shrugged his shoulders as the group weaved their way through the crowd of students.

''Bah who cares about that stuff? I am a meat man!'' he proudly declared as several student snickered and pointed out. ''Anyway speaking of which,'' he said sniffing the air. '' Last night, you had sloppy Joes. ''

''Impressive.'' Danny said as Tucker based about his ability to smell.

''Meat heightens the senses, and my all meat streak is fourteen years strong. '' Tucker proudly boasted.

''And it's about to end. The School Board finally agreed to try a new cafeteria menu. I wore them down.''

''Wait, what did you do?'' Tucker demanded as they arrived at the lunch line. Getting their trays they were handed a piece of bread with grass on it is put on their trays.

''What is this? Grass on a bun?'' Danny asked as he poked at it.

''What have you done?'' he cried out as it he was told his puppy had been kidnapped.

''Tucker, it's time for a change.''

Back at the Fenton Lab the ghost portal opened a old woman wearing a chef's outfit floated out.

''The menu's been changed? Why would someone do that?'' she whispered to herself daintily as she floated through the ceiling.

''Jack, maybe this is a bad idea.'' Maddie said as her worry was even visible through her face goggles. ''I mean what if you're wrong. I mean so it's unusual for Jazz to offer Danny a ride to school should we really jump to the conclusion that she's a ghost. What if we accidentally hurt her?''

''Maddie, the Fenton Extractor doesn't hurt humans. Unless it gets in your hair.'' And of course the Fenton Extractor turns on and sucks in Jacks hair.

''Aaaagh!"' he screamed in pain for moments before he finally turned it off. ''See?'' he said as it looked like he had been shocked by a powerful electric current.

Meanwhile in Casper High Danny was poking at the piece of grass on a bun with his spoon. It was bad enough he was half-dead apparently, but now he had to eat grass and stale bread.''Don't you think this is a little extreme, Sam?'' Danny asked.

At that moment substitute teacher, or was it teacher that substituted for several classes Lancer showed up. ''

''Ahh, Miss Manson, the School Board wanted me to personally thank you for ushering in this welcome experiment to our cafeteria.'' Lancer said as Tucker's head shot up and he sniffed the air.

''Meat...Near.'' he said as if he was in a trance, sniffing Lancer and sending him a glare all the while.

'' No, no, the rumours about the all-steak buffet in the teacher's lounge are completely untrue.'' he specifically suspiciously denied as he once more thanked Sam and took off.

''Yeah, thanks again for making us eat garbage, Sam.'' The African American sulked as he picked at his plate. His murmurs were being mimicked by the various students in the cafeteria who were also unsatisfied with this menu choice. Today was supposed to be Pizza today after all and unlike most cafeteria school Casper high cafeteria food wasn't complete crap. The more observant students could feel the animosity of their fellow class mates and tracked their eyes to where the Trio was.

'' It's not garbage, it's recyclable organic matter.'' Sam informed Tucker in that all knowing matter of hers. Unfortunately from what could be noticed about Sam so far, was that she was a pretty damn pushy a person. She was pretty adamant and dedicated to her vegetarian ways though and believed that all animals deserved the right to live.

Tucker and Danny shared a look as they simply informed her with a simultaneous statement of, ''It's garbage.''

Then that's when it happened a portly older woman wearing a lunch lady's uniform and green skin floated down through the ceiling. Hoping to spot the person responsible when a book caught her eye. 'Ultra-recyclo-Vegetarian-Cookbook.' which made her snarl something nasty.

At that Danny's eyes widened as a blue wisp exited his mouth and dispersed as he shivered a bit. Even after all this time he hadn't gotten over the sensation this ghost sense of his made him felt. Of course Tucker (Pro-Meat) and Sam (Pro-Veggie) were arguing so they didn't notice.

''Uugh guys! We got a problem!'' he said as he was suddenly hit by a tray of food. ''My hair!'' I just got it back to the way I liked it.

''Fenton!'' Dash's annoyed and oddly pitched voice roared as he stomped over to the table.

Danny face clasped at this as his number one tormentor was obviously going to blame him like everything else in his life. ''Make that two problems.'' he amended as Dash slammed his head on the table.

''You know I was looking toward to some Pizza this lunch and you know what I get? MUD PIES!'' He hollered as he pointed to the teen's plate. ''Three mud pies with mud. It was your little girlfriend who did this you know!'' Dash shouted and that drew in the attention of everyone else as the Cafeteria mansion.

''I'm not his girlfriend!'' Sam furiously denied as her face began glowing red.

''The best years of my life! My high school life and now it's ruined!'' He grabs Danny by the shirt. ''How am I supposed to enjoy my glory days eating mud?''

''Actually, it's topsoil.'' Sam corrected the jock who growled.

''Whatever!'' he said as he threw Danny as he picked up some mud pies. ''You guys like this gunk so much you can...'' before Dash could finish he was hit in the face by some of the topsoil courtesy of Danny. ''Uuh...uh...garbage fight!"' he said as he took notice of the rather negative look on the ghost's face.

And of course the Cafeteria erupted into a mass food fight. ''It's not garbage! It's...'' before Sam could go on a tirade she was pulled down as the Trio made their way through the cafeteria.

After following Danny's ghost sense they finally came across the ghost holding a salad in her hands. Though the ghost spotted them and floated over to their surprise and worry. She didn't seem malevolent, but more like she was lost in thought.

''Hello, children. Can you help me? Today's lunch is meatloaf, but I don't see the meatloaf.'' she paused them politely asked. ''Did someone change the menu?'

Tucker answered her with a bored 'yeah' and pointed to Sam. ''She did.''

The ghost became Angry. ''You changed the Menu?'' she angrily snapped as the Trio became alarmed. ''It's been the same for decades and you go and do something like this?'' the ghost paused as meat from unknown places began to pour in through various holes and floating through the air as the ghost began to glow with fury.

And in that moment Tucker voiced all their thoughts. ''Oh hell!''

Danny found himself sent reeling through the wall as the Lunch Lady continued her furious attack. A series of ectoplasmic bullets spurts soared through the air as the ghost chased after them. For a brief moment he was able to draw the Lunch Lady's fury away from Sam by snagging the locket he noticed slightly visible from one of her pockets.

"Give that back you little Hooligan!" she shrieked in outrage as she began firing the bones from hams and steaks as projectiles. People shrieked and scream, cars crashing into buildings and panic filled the streets. Danny took a hard right down one of the streets and passed a bakery and then another hard right into an alleyway away from the populous. He covered his nose with his right hand; the rank stench of the spoiling meat was making him nauseous.

The Lunchlady used the sausages as a sort of Lasso and attempted to Lassoed the teen only for him to phase through another building. Danny spun, gathering power in his left hand; he let loose an ectosplasmic blast that caused a hole in the Lunch Lady. She quickly reconstituted herself and continued the chase. Again he fired, keeping up the pressure, but despite his attacks the Lunch Lady kept replenishing herself by summoning nearby meat. For a brief moment his transformation faltered and Danny gasped, if he didn't get out of there soon he would be dead meat. After groaning from the unintentional pun he raised the locket high in the sky. "You want it. Go fetch it!" he shouted as he flung it with all his might several blocks down the city. Danny preyed that he didn't doom some poor souls to injury as he quickly phased through a building while the Lunch Lady was distracted.

He collapsed into a counter as his transformation gave way. He struggled, pushing himself to his feet as a throbbing pain and nausea coursed through him. He continued his way out of the thankfully deserted store as his vision began to blur. "Got…go." His body completely shut down on him as he lost his self to exhaustion.

''Oh man this is freaky! It's like all of a sudden were beacon for homicidal ghosts. I'm Allergic to homicidal ghosts!"

Danny groaned, as he began to stir. "Tuc-ker." He said as he felt a pair of hands hold him down.

"Whoa Danny, slow down man. You're still pretty beat up." Tucker cautioned him.

"What happened?"

"That meat ghost disappeared." Sam explained as she removed the towel form his forehead. "How are you feeling?"

"Exhausted." Danny remarked. He sat up and realized he was in Tucker's room.

"Don't worry, my parents aren't home." Tucker told him.

"Was anyone hurt? By the Lunch Lady I mean?" he asked.

"We don't man. We found you passed out in street a few hours ago and that was it."

"We'll have to check the news then. Maybe we might learn something." Sam suggested as Tucker turned on the TV.

''This is Tiffany Sanchez of Channel Five news. Earlier reports today have reported a rather large Shape of Meat causing havoc in the city. Many accidents occurred as the creature began chasing after and terrifying several of our own citizens. Reports of 26 counts of confirmed injuries and several hundred thousand dollars in property damage have occurred. Whether or not the legitimacy of this creature has yet to be confirmed, but there is some sort of menace out their attacking people and causing property damage. The police are investigating the incident and all citizens are encouraged not to go out alone during the night.''

"I have to do something." Danny remarked as he sat up.

"You're in no condition." Sam argued.

"It's my responsibility." He stubbornly argued. "I have the power to do something, so why not do something?"

"Dude, it's not your fault she's out their terrorizing people."

"Tucker's right." Sam agreed.

"It's Sam's fault!" he quickly added as Sam turned to him, shooting him a furious look.

"WHAT! You're blaming me?"

"You did change the menu!" he pointed out.

Danny made his way for the door as his friends follow.

''Where do you two think you're going?'' Danny asked with a raised eyebrow.

''Where do you think? We're coming to help.'' Sam stared down the half-ghost. She was stubborn, all things considering.

''You two will only be in danger. I'm sorry." He said as he changed into his ghost form and phased through the wall. Danny began searching far and wide until he finally came back to the school. "So, just me against an older, far more experienced and vengeful ghost. What could go wrong?" he lamented.

"Hey! What are we? Chopped liver?" Tucker remarked as he and Sam appeared behind him. Tucker was equipped with a bib, knife, and fork as he and Sam walked through the double doors behind them.

''What are you two even doing here?'' Danny asked, annoyed that they would put themselves in danger. ''You two know it's dangerous. I don't even know if I can even beat her."

"That's why we're here Danny. You're our friend, we won't abandon you." Sam argued. Bits of meat slowly moved in the background. ''We're in this together, all three of us."

The Lunch lady's shriek caught them off guard as a series of knives were hurled at them. ''Get down!'' Danny shouted as rays of ectoplasm firing out of his hands as he disintegrated the knives.

''Dude! My hat!'' Tucker cried out, taking off his trademark red hat, throwing it to the ground and stomping on it as the top of its was singed. Though Tucker's hat would have to wait as the bones within the meat products were removed and hurled at them with deadly accuracy. The three teens were sent reeling back, the force of the blow nearly cracking Sam and Tucker's bones. Danny found himself slightly scuffed up, but no worse for wear.

Lunchlady gave a ferocious yell before attempting to punch Danny. Danny flies out of the fist's way. The ghost then tries slapping Danny with the other hand, but Danny dodged it again. She then tried to uppercut him which he also dodged.

He finally retaliated by kicking the ghost hard and knocking her over, resulting in her landing hard on the ground.

The Lunch-lady let out a snarl and sent and several small piles of meat. The piles suddenly form into little meat monsters. The meat monsters began chasing after Tucker and Sam. Danny blasted them to bits only for them to quickly reform. Seeing little to no options Danny pulled out the Thermos. A bright blue beam of light erupted from the thermos, sucking up the little monsters.

''NO!'' The Lunch lady said angrily. ''Soup's not on today's menu!''

''I'm changing the menu!'' Danny determinedly remarked. ''Permanently!'' He grabs the top of the Thermos aiming the Thermos towards the Lunch lady Ghost. The energy forms a net that surrounds the surprised Lunch-lady Ghost and traps her.

''NOOOO!'' she wailed, struggling. The energy swirls and sucks the Lunch-lady Ghost into the Thermos and he closes the lid back onto the Thermos. With the Lunch Lady defeated things would be settling down. Though, much to Danny and Tucker's ire Sam's menu was still being served the next day.

In another part of the country Vlad Master sat down in his favorite chair as he watched the video feed recorded. He watched as and studied what was going on. ''Young Daniel seems to have improved.'' he contemplated. Now, to figure out whom to send next to test Danny's capabilities further. After searching through several texts a smile formed on his face as he found the next candidate. "Perfect!"