Season 1 Episode 1

Mystery Meat

"All New! In Terrifying Meat-Vision"

In a lab, a semi-obese woman with shoulder-length whiting-black hair and blue eyes, and wearing an orange jumpsuit with black gloves, a black belt, black collar, and short boots walked up to three teenagers sitting on chairs. Right near them was what looked like a closed portal hole with yellow-and-black striped doors.

"So, Dani, you and your little friends want to hunt ghosts?" She asked her daughter.

"Uh, a-actually, Mom, I want to be an astronaut." The black-haired girl, Dani, said with a small smile.

Dani's hair was long and wavy that reached down to her waist, wore a blue headband over her bangs that hung near her face, icy blue eyes, fair skin, and red lipstick. She wore a small white shirt with red sleeves that reached close to her elbows, a red oval on her chest, a red collar, and revealed her midriff. She also wore blue skinny bootcut jeans and red sneakers.

"Sorry, Mrs. Fenton. I was into ghosts, but they're so mainstream now. They're like cellphones." The goth boy said glumly to the obese woman.

The boy had messy shoulder-length hair that reached down to his neck a little with bangs, violet eyes that showed his fierce and independent stare, and both of his ears were pierced with three earrings each. He wore a thin-chain necklace, a black T-shirt with a purple oval on his chest (similar to Dani's), and black pants with a green crosspatch pattern, tucked into his grey combat boots with black laces.

"Waist this pretty face and all of this charisma hunting ghosts? Criminal…" The African-American girl said as she placed a hand on her hip with a look of somewhat disagreement.

She had short shoulder-length black hair with two lock bangs on the sides of her face and wore a red beanie on her head, turquoise eyes, red lipstick, and wore bifocal glasses over her eyes. She wore a yellow buttoned short-sleeve top, green cargo shorts, and brown boots.

"Well, if you do want to hunt ghosts, there are a few things you'll need to learn." Mrs. Fenton said as she turned to the counter behind her and began playing around with a few beakers.

Then a blue mist suddenly emerged from Dani's mouth as her eyes went wide when she gasped in alarm. She then glanced nervously at the portal next to them. "Oh no, this isn't good." She murmured quietly to herself.

The gates opened as it revealed a green swirling portal, until two green octopuses suddenly emerged out of the portal while they roared eerily. They both suddenly grabbed the goth boy and the black girl by their mouths and lifted them out of their seats, making them yelped in surprise.

"True, I've never seen a ghost, but when I do I'll be prepared, and so will you." Mrs. Fenton said, completely oblivious to what was going on. Dani glanced from her mother to her friends while the octopus ghosts held them hostage. "Whether you want to be or not." Dani then made a look of determination and jumped at them before white light emitted. Various fighting and beatings were heard. "It all starts with your equipment." The woman held up a thermos-like device before an octopus flew behind her.

The goth boy and black girl flew back onto their seats. "Sam, Tina, this is the Fenton Thermos." Mrs. Fenton said as she handed the goth boy, Sam, the thermos before she turned back to the counter. "It's supposed to trap ghosts, but since it doesn't work yet, it's just a thermos." She briefly glanced back at the teens, but completely missed the octopus that flew behind her. "A thermos with the word 'Fenton' in front of it!"

The octopuses looked disoriented until they flew back into the portal before white light emitted again. Dani scowled at the portal before it powered off, until she glanced with a gaping look and she quickly jumped out of the way before her mother noticed. "And that? That is the Fenton Portal: it releases ghosts into our world, whether I wanted to or not. And someday, I'll figure out how that works, too." She said as she tapped her finger on the portal's gate.

"Now, who wants to hunt some ghosts?" She asked the teens dramatically as she towered over them.

Sam and Tina were both trembling in fear from their little 'experience' with the octopus ghosts while Dani panted heavily beside her friends, looking a little exhausted while she held her hand on Sam's chair for support. Mrs. Fenton seem oblivious since she continued to smile.

"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. I don't exactly remember where, but I do remember that I wanted a pony, never got the pony. As a matter of fact, we had to eat horse-meat during the war. Had a problem with that…"

As obese ghost huntress continued to speak, Dani eyeball glanced at her friends before she dropped her head in exhaustion. Sam and Tina only continued trembling uncontrollably.

Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Young Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged

(Phantom, Phantom)

When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

Inside a large red building called Fenton Works, with a large observation room on the roof with dozens of satellite dishes and radars, in a kitchen, a man with short caramel-brown hair, purple eyes, and wearing a blue jumpsuit with black gloves, belt, a strap holster with cargo-like pocket holders, and boots threw his mask on with red goggle lenses as he turned on a blowtorch.

He then worked on some kind of invention on the kitchen table while Dani ate her breakfast cereal and an older teenage boy read a book, but looked really annoyed by the man, who could have been his father. The boy has short orange hair, aqua blue eyes, a black long-sleeve shirt, blue pants, and black shoes. The orange-haired boy buried his head on his book while the sparks flew onto the covers.

Dani chewed from her cereal until her arm suddenly became transparent. She was about to bite on her spoon, when her utensil dropped into the bowl, making her gasp in surprise before she examined her transparent hand. She freaked out a little with a small yelp, and she quickly hid her transparent arm underneath the table before her family could even notice.

"Okay, two more days, and it's done!" The man, Mr. Fenton, said proudly as he switched off his blowtorch.

Mrs. Fenton suddenly appeared into the kitchen, looking excited when she stared down at the device on the table. "What did you say?" She asked enthusiastically before she snatched it from the table. "It's done? The Fenton Finder is done! This baby uses satellites to lead you right to the ghost."

"It uses what to track what?" Dani asked nervously with wide eyes.

"Welcome to the Fenton Finder. A ghost is near. Walk forward." A female voice said from the device. Dani walked backwards away from her folks, but they followed her while the device pointed directly at her. Dani pinned her back against the wall until the device beeped more rapidly when Mrs. Fenton got closer to her own daughter. "Ghost located. Thank you for using the Fenton Finder." Dani smiled weakly while her parents stared at her in confusion.

Mrs. Fenton's eyebrows narrowed in confusion. "What? Agh, that can't be right?" She said to her husband.

Dani suddenly turned invisible unconsciously. She looked down at herself and realized it before she turned visible again. She glanced back up at her parents nervously, until she then slouched with a look of defeat like she was about to consider telling them something they apparently didn't know about.

"Actually…" Dani said reluctantly to her folks, catching both of their attentions while they both wondered what she was gonna confess. "I need to tell you guys something…"

"That's not all you need, Dani." The orange-haired boy said as he closed his book. He then stood up from his chair before he shoved his parents softly when he walked up to Dani. "You need guidance, and parents who can provide it." He then glanced at his parents with a scowl.

"Look, son, I know what we do doesn't make sense sometimes, but you're only-" The man, Mr. Fenton said, but got cut off by his eldest son.

"Sixteen, biologically, but psychologically, I'm an adult!" As he spoke, Dani tried to walk away from her older brother, looking a little creeped out. "And I will not allow your insane obsession of ghosts to pollute the mind of this impressionable little child!" He then pulled his little sister, Dani, back and hugged her tightly and protectively, much to her discomfort. "Come you abused, unwanted wretch, I'll drive you to school."

He then narrowed his eyes at his parents while he walked away as he hugged his little sister. The siblings both exited the kitchen, leaving the parents alone while they both watched their children leave for school.

"Huh, that's weird. Jameson never offers to drive Dani to school." Mr. Fenton said as he glanced up at his wife, sounding a little confused.

"That can only mean one thing, that's not our son...that's a ghost." Mrs. Fenton said suspiciously as she narrowed her eyes. She then immediately ran out of the kitchen. "Danielle, no, it's a trap!" Her husband then followed suit.

At Casper High School that morning, all the teenage students were either chatting with each other randomly or were walking to class like any other normal teenager. Dani, Tina, and Sam made their way up the steps together up to the second floor as they made their way to class. They weren't exactly the most popular kids in school, since they were more part of the 'invisible clique', and most of them were bullied and made fun of constantly.

"I think I should tell them." Dani said to Tina as they climbed up the steps.

"Why? Parents don't listen." Sam said with a frown before they all stopped midway up the stairs. "Even worse, they don't understand. WHY CAN'T THEY ACCEPT ME FOR WHO I AM?!"

Dani realized that he just misunderstood what she was talking about, since he was actually referring to his own parents. "Sam, I-I'm talking about my powers, my problems?" Tina remained silent while she arched a skeptic eyebrow at her gothic friend.

Sam slouched in embarrassment as he smiled sheepishly. "Oh, right...me, too."

"It's been a month since the accident, and I still barely have any control. If somebody catches me, I'll go from geek to freak around here." Dani didn't actually notice that she was sinking through the floor while her friends stood there and watched in silence.

"Kind of like what you're doing now?" Tina asked as she cocked an eyebrow.

Dani glanced down and yelped in surprise as her lower half sunk right through the floor. Sam and Tina quickly grabbed each of her arms and they both lifted her out of the floor before her legs became solid again.

"Darn it!" She grunted before she continued up the stairs to the second floor, looking very frustrated with herself. "If my mom can invent something that accidentally made me half-ghost, why can't she invent something that turns me back to normal?"

Dani unknowingly turned herself transparent again as she miserably walked right through the snack machine in the hallway and didn't really pay attention to it since she looked down, and turned solid again. She didn't have much control over these newfound powers she has recently acquired a month ago like she just mentioned, and nobody but her best friends knew about it. She also never told her family about the accident, since her parents were apparently ghost hunters and she feared of what their reaction would be, if they would either accept her or resent her for what she has become.

Sam ran in front of Dani, making her stop her tracks while she looked up at him with a dull look. "Dani, your powers make you unique! Unique is good! That's why I'm an ultra-recyclo vegetarian." He said proudly as he crossed his arms and smiled brightly about himself.

"Which means what?" Tina wondered with a flat look on her face.

"He doesn't eat anything with a face on it." Dani replied while Sam remained silent.

"Ah, who cares about that stuff? Dani, two words: meat connoisseur." Tina specified to Dani that she was an all-meat eater. She then sniffed the air around her best friend before she smiled. "Last night, you had sloppy joes."

Dani grinned a little, looking mildly impressed by her keen sense of smell. "Impressive."

"Meat heightens my senses, and my all-meat streak is fourteen-years strong."

"And it's about to end, the school board finally agreed to try a new cafeteria menu. I wore them down." Sam said casually with a look that made his best friends suspicious about what he just did.

Dani and Tina both knew that Sam had this bad habit of coming up with ideas to show off his importance of individuality, which was also why he was a goth. But sometimes his ideas almost always turn out more bad than good at times.

"Wait...what did you do?" Tina asked in alarm as she narrowed her eyes.

The trio headed to the cafeteria at lunchtime and there was a sign that read 'Ultra-Recyclo Vegetarian Week' above the food counter. For lunch, all the students got were buns with grass on top, and it looked really inedible in everyone's minds. Of course, Sam looked really okay with it, since he was an ultra-recyclo vegetarian himself and he was the one who changed the menu.

"What is this? Grass on a bun?" Dani asked out loud in confusion while she stared down at the inedible-looking grass bun on her lunch tray.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Tina cried dramatically to Sam in despair, who was unfazed by his friend's outburst.

"Tina, it's time for a change." Sam said with his smile not dropping as he held up his grass-bun, looking proud at his accomplishment.

Meanwhile at the Fenton Works lab, the portal remained active as its green swirling vortex hummed with energy, until it flashed brightly when a lunch lady ghost emerged from the portal with a stern scowl.

She then smiled brightly with interest. "Oh, somebody changed the menu!" She said before she levitated straight towards the ceiling and phased right through it, out of sight.

The Fenton couple didn't even notice that there was an actual ghost in their own lab behind them, since they were both too occupied with working on some kind of invention.

"Maybe this is a bad idea." Mr. Fenton said to his wife, sounding a little unsure.

"No, it's perfect! When James gets home, we suck the ghost out of him with the Fenton Xtractor!" Mrs. Fenton said with a confident smile as she held up a vacuum-like device in the air.

"But what if James isn't a ghost? What if we accidentally hurt him?"

"Matt, the Fenton Xtractor doesn't hurt humans...unless it gets on your hair." She turned on the device and it sucked in most her hair, making her scream in agony. She then immediately ceased her screaming like nothing has happened when she smiled. "See?"

Back at the Casper High cafeteria, Dani stared down at her spoonful of inedible-looking grass-bun, but she looked debatably at it on whether she should eat it or not. Of course, Dani and Tina weren't the only ones not too excited about this new food, since all of the students in the cafeteria were very disappointed that they had to eat food that was straight from the ground.

"Don't you think this is a little extreme, Sam?" Dani asked him while Tina remained silent and scowled at their gothic friend in disapproval.

Before Sam could answer Dani's question, a hand touched his shoulders. "Ah, Mr. Manson." A man said calmly. He was an overweight, bald middle-aged man with green eyes and a goatee and wore a light blue shirt with a black tie, blue slacks, and black shoes. He smiled at Sam's accomplishment at convincing the board to changing the school-prepared menu (which none of the students were too happy about). "The school board wanted me to personally thank you for ushering in this welcome-experiment to our cafeteria."

Tina sniffed the air and began to perspire with anticipation. "Meat...near!" She said frantically. She then sniffed the teacher and glared up at him in suspicion.

He smiled nervously as he held his hands up defensively. "No, no, the rumors about the new all-steak buffet in the teacher's lounge are completely untrue." He used a toothpick before he leaned back at Sam. "Thanks again." And he walked away to leave the trio alone.

"Yeah, thanks again for making us eat garbage, Sam." Tina said bitterly and sarcastically as she continued to glare at her friend.

"It's not garbage, it's recyclable organic matter." Sam said somewhat defensively as he held up his 'grass on a bun'.

"It's garbage." Dani and Tina said in unison while they both scowled at him.

Up at the food counter, a student walked away sadly with her vegetarian meal before the lunch lady eyeball glanced to make sure if anyone was looking. She then secretly pulled out a cheeseburger right out of her apron pocket. She smirked before she snuck off to eat it in secret. After she left, the same lunch lady ghost from Fenton Works phased into the school kitchen from the ceiling. She then spotted the "Ultra-Recyclo Veggie Menu" book and picked it up while she examined it, and then her eyes narrowed in disapproval.

Back at Dani's table as she stared at her spoonful of grass-bun, she suddenly gasped when she felt a familiar chill up her spine. A blue mist emerged from her mouth, but she made a look like something was wrong.

"Uh, guys, I've got a problem." Dani said nervously to her friends while Sam and Tina both stared at the mist emerging from her mouth.

But then someone suddenly threw a good chunk of mud straight the back of Dani's hair, making the trio recoil in surprise while Dani herself grunted from the impact.

"FENTON!" A girl yelled angrily to the top of her lungs.

Dani turned around and made a look of nervousness. "...Make that two problems."

A girl with short, blonde hair that was combed over the top of her head, blue eyes, and wearing a cheerleader uniform (consisting of a red and white top, revealed her midriff, a short red folded skirt, and white shoes) angrily stormed up to Dani with a platter of mud while she glared with absolute rage.

"I ordered three mud pies, and do you know what they gave me?! Three mud pies! With mud! From the ground! All because of your boyfriend!" She exclaimed angrily to Dani as she narrowed her eyes accusingly.

"He's not my boyfriend!" Dani protested with wide eyes.

"I'm not her boyfriend!" Sam added as he frowned.

The cheerleader only grabbed Dani by her shirt and roughly lifted her close to her face. "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?!" She shouted even angrily at Dani's face, making her cringe and recoil with fearful wide eyes.

"Actually, it's topsoil." Sam had his arms crossed as he glowered irritably at the cheerleader.

"Whatever!" The cheerleader then angrily shoved Dani back onto her table as her face slammed on the table. She then shoved her plate of mud at her face, forcing her to make her eat it as an act of revenge. "Eat it, all of it."

All of the students watched in awe as Dani slowly lifted a spoonful of mud to her mouth, but she froze when another blue mist emerged from her mouth again. She suddenly saw a lunch lady ghost hovering inside the kitchen. Dani knew that she had to find a distraction and fast.

"Uh...uh…" Dani stuttered nervously, until she thought fast when she quickly picked up the mud platter. "GARBAGE FIGHT!" She threw it right at the cheerleader's face as mud splattered all over her.

Everyone else immediately grabbed their mud balls and grass buns before they began to hurtle them at each other. Chaos ensured all around the cafeteria as mud splattered all over the walls and floor.

"It's not garbage, it's-" Sam began to protest out loud irritably, until Dani grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him down to ground level to avoid getting whacked by the flying mud.

The three of them crawled past the student's legs until Dani stopped and looked back at the vengeful-looking cheerleader. "You're going to pay for this, Fenton!" She vowed angrily before her face and the back of her head were splattered with mud.

"Great, I'm still her favorite." Dani muttered sarcastically to herself as she rolled her eyes.

The trio continued to crawl down to the kitchen room until they finally reached the room without getting themselves covered with mud. They peeked through the door saw the Lunch Lady ghost carrying a bowl of vegetables.

"Huh, shouldn't be so bad. She looks a little like my grandmother." Tina said quietly when she noticed how the ghost looked so innocent and peaceful looking.

"Shouldn't she be haunting a bingo hall?" Dani asked sarcastically.

Sam closed the door behind him, catching the ghost's attention when she turned to the teens and hovered up to them. "Hello, children, can you help me?" She asked the trio kindly while they stared at her blankly and remained silent. "Today's lunch is meatloaf, but I don't see the meatloaf. Did someone change the menu?"

"Yeah, he did." Tina said as she pointed her thumb at Sam, who remained silent.

The Lunch Lady was silent until she suddenly exploded with rage as she glared angrily at the trio. "YOU CHANGED THE MENU?!" Her hair blazed into flames and her red eyes began to flash from her anger. Dani, Tina, and Sam all gasped in horrified shock at her sudden outburst of anger as they recoiled. "THE MENU HAS BEEN THE SAME FOR FIFTY YEARS!"

She then roared into the heavens as green flames engulfed her body, and the energy appeared to be circling above her head with her arms in the air.

"Get behind me!" Dani shouted before Sam and Tina both quickly jumped behind her.

"Wow, I feel safe." Sam said sarcastically.

Dani narrowed her eyes with determination. "I'M GOING GHOST!"

She raised her arms in the air and engulfed herself in white light and her friends watched as white rings appeared at her torso before they intersected her entire body. Her whole attire changed into a one-piece black jumpsuit with a white collar and belt, white elbow-length gloves, and white thigh-high boots. Her fair skin became more tanned, her black hair turned white while her blue headband turned black, and her icy blue eyes now glowed neon green. Her entire body was also covered in a thin white glow.

Dani crouched down before she flew up to the air as her friends watched, and she hovered in front of the Lunch Lady. "I...command you to...go away!" She demanded until she made a look of uneasiness.

The Lunch Lady only remained silent and grinned when she waved her hand out, causing the piles of dishes that surrounded a sink to glow and float around as she directed them straight at Dani. She cringed and turned herself intangible, causing the dishes to pass harmlessly right through her while they impacted the wall behind her. She turned herself solid again when she glanced at the wall behind her, and she smiled at her accomplishment of not being hit at all.

Dani then saw another bunch of plates flying with great speed straight towards Sam, who stood there with wide eyes. She merged her legs into a ghost tail before she quickly flew in front of him just in time to catch all the plates before they made contact with her gothic friend. The Lunch Lady made another bunch of plates fly from the counter and straight towards Tina, making her brace herself. Dani luckily made it in time to catch more, and caught a few in her mouth. Tina stopped wincing and smiled at her superpowered friend before she flew off to stack the plates back where they belonged.

Dani removed the plates from her mouth and stared at her ghostly reflection. "Well, if this superheroine thing doesn't work out, I can have an exciting career as a busgirl." She muttered to herself sarcastically.

She then noticed that the stoves behind her began to shake around, making her frown again.

"I control lunch! Lunch is scared! Lunch has rules!" The Lunch Lady shouted in miffed anger, until she suddenly became calm and held up a piece of cake with a gentle smile. "Anybody want cake?" Tina and Sam both nodded their heads in shock, but the ghost immediately became angry again. "TOO BAD! Children who change my menu, do not get dessert!"

She phased through the ceiling while the three stoves began to emit green fire. The green flames fired out of the ovens while Sam and Tina jumped out of the way, and Dani dodged the flames in time. The stoves then gained angry expressions when they flew directly towards Sam and Tina, making them both brace themselves for impact. However, Dani hovered behind them and grabbed their arms, concentrated hard, and she made all of them intangible while Sam and Tina looked down at themselves in surprise. The ghost girl quickly flew herself and her friends through the wall and out of the kitchen, right before the stoves impacted and cracked the wall where the trio escaped through.

Dani flew her friends through the wall, into the hallway as they became solid and tumbled across the floor. They all glanced back at the wall in shock and made sure the living ovens weren't after them.

"Hey! It worked!" Dani exclaimed in amazement and looked down at herself. She really was getting the hang of using her newfound powers, slowly but surely.

"This is the thanks I get for thinking like an individual?" Sam asked irritably as he threw his arms up in the air. Dani and Tina only stared at him somewhat oddly in silence.

And then a loud crash was suddenly heard when the trio jump in surprise as they looked around for the cause. The ground began to shake violently until all of the lights in the hallway short-circuited, making the friends flinch from the electrical shortages. A worried Dani glanced at the row of lockers closest to her before they suddenly opened and supplies came flying out while she ducked. Another locker opened while it surprised a frightened Sam before more lockers opened and supplies flew out. They swirled around the very peeved Lunch Lady ghost floating at the end of the hallway while she glared at the trio, who were all gawking at her.

Tina's eyes went wide before she sniffed the air when she noticed various meat products that flew past her in the air. "Steak...! Ribeye...! No, porterhouse! Medium-rare!" She said as she blurted out the meat flying above their heads. The meat products then began to attach themselves onto the Lunch Lady's body until they completely covered her and only her mean green eyes could be seen. "But where did it come from?" Tina glared over her shoulder in realization. "Lancer!" Then a piece of paper flew onto her face.

Meanwhile in the teacher's lounge, apparently there actually was an all-steak buffet happening in the lounge. Mr. Lancer began to present his faculty members all kinds of meat they could dig into.

"Esteemed Casper High faculty, I present your all-steak buffet." Lancer said before he pulled the tablecloth off covering the supposed buffet, but all of the meat was missing. All of the teachers and staff members gasped in surprise while they held onto their utensils. Lancer noticed their reactions before he turned, and he gasped in surprise when he saw nothing but a rattling bone. He angrily slammed his fists on the table in frustration. "PARADISE LOST!"

Back out in the hallway, the meat-covered Lunch Lady, now several feet tall as a giant meat monster, towered over Sam as she glared down at him.

"Prepare to learn why meat is the most powerful of the five food groups!" She yelled at the goth boy as she pointed directly at him, until she changed back to her polite side while she held up a cookie with a smile. "Cookie?" Sam shook his head fearfully. The ghost seemed surprised at first, but then in a split second, became angry again and raised her hand to attack him. "THEN PERISH!"

Dani suddenly slid backwards in front of Sam to protect him from the meat monster ghost. "Forget it! The only thing that has an expiration date here is you!" Dani shouted out loud with a glare as she pointed straight at the meat monster. Then, when she clenched her hand into a fist, it glowed before she accidentally reverted herself back to human form. She stared at her hand and then down at herself in shock while Sam gave her a blank and dull look. "Whoops! I...didn't mean to do that."

The Lunch Lady roared as she grabbed Dani and tossed her to Tina by the lockers. The girls both grunted while they got covered underneath a pile of papers. The meat monster then grabbed Sam in her fist and lifted him up the air before she flew off, taking the goth boy with her to somewhere in the school.

"Come on, change back! We gotta go!" Tina exclaimed to Dani as they got onto their fours and shook the papers off of them.

However, someone appeared out of nowhere when a couple of hands grabbed both of the girls by their shirts. "You two aren't going anywhere!" Mr. Lancer exclaimed, looking very angry as he lifted the girls off the ground.

The same cheerleader from before then appeared, still covered with mud from the cafeteria fiasco Dani started as a distraction. "Told ya you'd pay, Fenton!" She retorted to Dani as she glared at her.

"Oh, could this day get any worse?" Dani complained as she grimaced.

As Dani asked herself before, that day could get a lot more worse. In Mr. Lancer's vice principal office, he was sorting through the permanent record files of all his students in his file cabinet. Dani and Tina sat on individual chairs and remained absolutely silent. The cheerleader was also present in the office, and she looked very pleased about how things were turning out for Dani while she leaned against the wall with her arms crossed and wore a smirk on her face.

"Tina Foley: chronic tardiness, talking in class, repeated loitering by the boys locker room." Lancer said as he read off from Tina's file, and Tina made a sly smile at the last statement. The teacher continued when he read off of Dani's file next. "Danielle Fenton: thirty-four dropped beakers in the last month, banned for life from handling all fragile school property, but no severe mischief before today. So, ladies, tell me…" He slammed the file on his desk with a calm and casual smile...until he suddenly thrusted his head aggressively at the girls, making them both recoil in their seats in surprised fear. "WHY DID THE TWO OF YOU CONSPIRE TO DESTROY THE SCHOOL CAFETERIA?!"

"Daphne started it, she threw-" Dani began to protest as she glared angrily at her arch-rival and cheerleader, Daphne.

"Marked four leading cheer tryouts as successes and is therefore exempted from scorn." The cheerleader, Daphne, looked very pleased and proud by this achievement when she held her chin up. Lancer continued scowling directly at the Dani and Tina. "You two, however, are not. I'll map out your punishment when I return. Ms. Baxter, watch the door." Lancer then left his office.

Daphne smirked evilly at the girls one last time before she closed the door behind her, leaving Dani and Tina alone for the moment when they rose from their seats.

"We gotta find Sam, and for some reason I feel like I got him kidnapped." Tina said, looking a little surprised by the thought.

"Maybe because you told the ghost he changed the menu, how about that?" Dani reminded her sarcastically as she narrowed her eyes at her big-mouthed friend.

Tina suddenly froze with wide eyes when she sniffed the air. She processed the smell before she narrowed her eyebrows and glanced at her best friend. "That steak is still in the building! Two hundred yards, tops."

Dani walked up to the wall of TVs showing different security camera views. Two of the storage area, one of the exit out of school, and the last one of the storage, but has a trail of juice from the meat. Dani immediately realized that it was the trail the Lunch Lady left behind when she was in her meat monster form.

"Check it out! Meat trail." She said before she changed into her ghost form. She then grabbed Tina by her wrist as she phased them both through the floor.

"WHOA!" Tina yelped in surprise.

Just then, Mr. Lancer and Daphne walked back into the office while the vice principal held up a broom. "Ladies, your punishment will be…" He began, but then his and Daphne's eyes went wide in surprise when they both realized that both of the chairs were empty, making the teacher even angrier. "WORSE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE!"

Inside the storage room, Dani and Tina arrived inside the meat room as they looked around at all the boxes of meat. Tina looked very elated and amazed as she stepped into the room while she laced her hands together by her cheek.

"Sweet mother of mutton!" She exclaimed heavenly before she quickly latched herself onto the wall of boxes lovingly and hugged it like it was the love of her life she has been waiting for. "I've dreamed of it, but I'd never thought I'd live to see it!"

Dani walked up to her as she gave her best friend an odd look. "How is it that I have the ghost powers, and you're the weird kid?" She asked her meat-loving friend rhetorically as she pointed her thumb at herself and then pointed at Tina.

Both of their eyes went wide when they suddenly heard eerie cackling coming from nearby. The girls both peeked through the corner of stacked boxes and saw the Lunch Lady hovering in front Sam, whose body was trapped in a pile of meat from neck to feet.

"My dear child, meat is good for kids. It helps them grow and makes them smile." The Lunch Lady said politely while Sam struggled to break free. "Why won't you eat it?" She offered a chicken leg right at Sam's face, making him recoil in disgust.

"We don't need meat, that's fact!" Sam snapped at her.

"SILENCE!" The ghost reverted back to her angry side when gusts of wind began to blow. Tina and Dani both watched with worried looks on their faces. "You need discipline, manners, respect! You know where that comes from?! MEAT!" She went to Sam's face as he recoiled again, this time in fear. She then suddenly switched back to her nice side again when she held up a chicken leg and a dead fish. "Chicken or fish?"

"I'll take care of the ghost. You just find a way to get Sam out of that pile of meat." Dani told Tina.

"Waaaay ahead of you." She said knowingly as she held a fork and knife, showing that she was gonna eat the meat to set Sam free.

Dani then flew straight out of their hiding spot and charged up to punch the Lunch Lady with her fist ready. She turned around in surprise, but noticed too late when Dani punched her dead on. She sent her flying across the room and crashed onto a nearby wall before she collapsed onto the floor. Dani landed in front of her in a ready stance as she glared at the ghost while she glared back at the ghost girl.

Sam looked at them before he glanced at Tina, who was just cutting some meat on his pile with her knife and a bright smile. "I'll have you free in no time, Sam!" She said enthusiastically.

"You've gotta be kidding me." Sam said in disbelief as he frowned.

Back in the fight, Dani jumped up as she somersaulted in midair before she held out her foot and prepared to kick the ghost right in the face. However, the Lunch Lady merely caught her by her ankle before she could even touch her, and then she dangled a surprised Dani upside down as she hovered off the ground.

"Don't you see?! This is why you need meat! Your skin and BONES!" The Lunch Lady shouted before she threw Dani straight across the storage room. Dani quickly turned herself intangible to avoid colliding with the wall, but she only tumbled on the floor a few times until she phased halfway through the wall with her head sticking out.

The Lunch Lady's hand glowed green as she summoned shish-kabobs from a box with their pointed ends flying straight at Dani. She luckily saw this coming when her eyes went wide before she concentrated, and made her body split into two as the kabobs stuck to the wall through the intangible area she created. She smiled upon realizing this new power, but then her smile dropped when she glanced back at the ghost again. The Lunch Lady yelled loudly as she summoned dozens of meat from the boxes when they exploded from their places and into the air. Dani pieced herself back into one again and watched as the meat flew straight towards the ghost.

Just when Tina was about to eat a piece of meat, it suddenly flew out of her fork and the pile that was trapping Sam released him in the process while it made its way to the Lunch Lady. She smirked evilly when she once again became a meat monster. She then elongated her hand as she grabbed Dani in her fist and lifted her up high, just when both of her best friends arrived at the scene.

"Help's on the way, sis!" Tina said with a bold look and a determined pose while she held out her fork and knife.

However, the meat monster threw Dani across the storage room as she shrieked loudly when she phased out of the room. The monster then turned her attention towards Sam and Tina before she roared loudly, making Tina more frightened now while they both stood there, somewhat paralyzed with wide eyes as their hairs fluttered from the gusts.

"Run?" She asked in fear.

"Run." Sam agreed fearfully before they bolted away from the ghost with Tina leaving her utensils behind in midair.

They both shouted in fear as they ran away for dear life while they made their way towards the exit door. The ghost sent a giant meat fist straight at them when the pile of meat made them scatter as the meat pile also barricaded their way out. Dani phased through the wall while she rubbed her head to rid the dizziness, but then she noticed that her friends were yelling and running for their lives. She narrowed her eyes determinedly as she flew after them. Sam and Tina continued to run away as fast as they could while the Lunch Lady gained up on them. She raised her fists up high, ready to slam the two teens to bits with a roar and a smile, but luckily Dani quickly swooped down and caught her both of her friends in her arms as she phased them out of the storage room. The Lunch Lady looked surprised, but couldn't stop herself when her meat monster form splattered into a pile all against the wall, leaving her out of commission for the moment.

Dani, Sam, and Tina phased through the wall to the outside of the school, and they continue to float in the air. However, Dani looked very tired and worn out from all the energy she has used during her battle.

"Jee, Dani, fighting meat monsters, flying through walls...you must be exhausted." Sam said when he noticed her worn out expression.

"What? Of course not! What would...give you that idea?" Dani said, but then faltered while she trailed off and passed out from exhaustion as the trio fell to the ground.

They tumbled on the ground before Tina and Sam sat upright, but Dani laid unconscious on the grass. She automatically reverted back to her human form, making Tina and Sam glance at each other.

At Fenton Works after school, James entered his house, but looked puzzled when he saw that it was completely dark and silent in the living room. "Mom? Dad?" He called into the empty and dark room as his voice sort of echoed a little.

He took two small, slow, and cautionary steps forward when the door behind him suddenly slammed shut. Two smoke bombs then rolled in front of him and covered everything in white smoke.

"Now, Matt, hit him! I'm moving in!" Mrs. Fenton shouted from the smoke before James' scream was heard in the smoke. "GET MY BACK!"

The smoke cleared to show a severely irritated James with his arms crossed with the Fenton Xtractor sucking on the back of his shirt behind him. He glared down at both of his parents, who have latched themselves onto their son's legs before they slowly released him in silence.

"This is all going in the memoir." James muttered as he stormed out of the living room with his fists at his sides while the device still sucked on his shirt.

Matt and Mrs. Fenton stood up from the ground and stared at where James stormed off, just when Tina and Sam entered the house. Sam was carrying Dani bridal style, who was still unconscious from her energy loss during her battle with the Lunch Lady ghost, while Tina opened the door for him.

"Hey, Mr. and Mrs. Fenton! What a school day, poor Dani nodded off. We figured we'd just carry her all the way home and tuck her into bed without any parental interaction whatsoever." Tina said casually yet quickly while she and Sam smiled weakly and nervously at the Fenton couple.

"Don't get up, we know where to go. Bye!" Sam said with a nervous smile as they made their way up the stairs before they disappeared upstairs.

"Hmm…" Mrs. Fenton hummed as she looked up at the ceiling in thought with suspicion in her eyes.

"Jackie, Dani is not a ghost." Matt said simply as he waved it aside before he crossed his arms.

"You're right…" She said sternly as she looked at James in the hallway, who was trying to pull the Fenton Xtractor off of the back of his shirt. Jackie then narrowed her suspicious eyes at her own son. "James is."

In Dani's bedroom, she was sleeping on her bed until she began to regain her consciousness and then her eyes popped open with a yelp in surprise. "Ah! Aah! Wha? What's going on?" She asked in confusion as she glanced to her friends, who were standing next to her while they watched over her.

"You passed out, we took you home, you've been asleep for four days." Tina explained.

Dani sat up quickly in alarm. "FOUR DAYS?!"

Tina chuckled softly and smiled childishly. "Nah, it's only been a couple hours."

Dani laid back down, but still looked a little shaken up from Tina's little joke while Sam frowned with his fists on his hips. "Knock it off, Tina. This is the second time today your carelessness almost got her killed." He said to her, looking unimpressed by her freaking Dani out like that.

Tina glared back at her gothic friend offendedly. "Me? I almost got her killed? The only reason this happened is because you had to be unique! You had to take the meat away!" Sam crossed his arms and turned his back to her before she stormed out of the room while she gave her friend a determined glare. "And I'm gonna get it back!"

Sam peeked through his eye when she vowed that before he glared even more in anger. "You wanna change that menu back?! YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME TO DO IT!" He exclaimed angrily after Tina before he slammed the door shut.

Dani sat up, looking a little shocked at what just happened. "Well, I'm sure everything will be back to normal by tomorrow." Dani said to herself with a sigh.

The next day outside of the school, Dani walked up to the front courtyard of Casper High and she saw something that was completely out of the ordinary.

"...or not, maybe it'll be worse." Dani said with a look of disbelief.

She saw on one side a bunch of meat lovers whose protest was complete with meat balloons, people dressed as meat, among various other things involving meat. On a stage some girls were dancing in hot dog outfits before they danced offstage.

Tina then appeared up to the crowd on stage as she carried a microphone in her hand. "What do we want?!" Tina shouted in the microphone.

"MEAT!" The crowd chanted back as they threw some meat into the air.

"When do we want it?!"

"NOW!"

Dani then looked at the other side of the protest. The vegetarian equivalent of the meat protest side was full of hippies, laid-back people, goths, and everyone else who was nature related and hated eating meat. Sam was standing on top of a school bus while he yelled into a microphone while carrying a sign that read 'NOW!'

"VEGGIES NOW! VEGGIES FOREVER! VEGGIES NOW! VEGGIES FOREVER!" Sam and the protesters chanted together out loud until Sam noticed that Dani was standing in between the protests.

Sam and Tina both walked up to Dani as they glared at each other aggressively with their hands on their hips. "You guys put together two protests in one night?" She asked her best friends in somewhat disbelief.

"Meat eaters, Dani, always ready to fight, and our high-protein diets give us the energy we need to do it quickly." Tina said with determination in her voice as she glared at her veggie-loving friend.

"Ultra-Recyclo Vegetarians are always ready to protest!" Sam said with equal determination as he fixed his eyes on his meat-loving friend. "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?" Dani asked, looking a little worried about their little lunch-prepared menu feud about having either meat or veggies. Out of the three of them, Dani seemed like she was the only one who loved eating both veggies and meat together, so she was technically at neutral with her best friends' food quarrels.

"No choice, girl. You're either with me…" Tina said, still glaring at Sam with determination.

"Or you're against her!" Sam finished as he glared at Tina with just as much determination in his face.

They both suddenly leaned closer to Dani, making her duck a little in surprise. "So whose side are you on?!" They shouted in unison.

Then huge gusts of wind suddenly began to blow when the sky turned gray, making the trio's eyes go wide in surprise. Cackling was heard from out of nowhere while Dani's 'ghost sense' went off as she gasped before the cackle turned into a loud roar. The students all looked around in bewilderment and confusion as the meat truck in the meat protest side exploded while its contents flew and swirled around the air. All of the students stared up and watched in awe as the meat swirled around the air, until it formed into a more gigantic meat monster version of the Lunch Lady.

"IT'S LUNCHTIME!" She roared to the crowd, enough to cause all of the protesters to be driven into a panic when they all screamed in absolute terror while they ran away for their lives.

"Meat! Why have you betrayed me?!" Tina cried dramatically in dismay as she buried her face into her hands.

"Guys, time to make up, NOW!" Dani said urgently to her friends.

Sam and Tina both hugged her out of view as she transformed inside of their hug. Then they released each other from their hug while they revealed Dani in her ghost form as she glared with determination before she ran out and flew to the air, ready for some action.

Meanwhile, at a picnic table away from all the chaos happening several feet away, James was talking to a goth boy wearing all black, a mohawk, and was covered in piercings and tattoos.

"Spike, you have to open up to your parent, be true to yourself and them. Tell them how you feel." James told him with his psychological knowledge. "I mean, it's not like they're gonna attack you or anything."

Then right on cue, his eyes went wide when he was suddenly captured in a green net, making him shout in surprise. Spike watched as he got dragged away by his own mother, Jackie Fenton, who was reeling the net towards her behind a bush.

"I've got him! And the Fenton Grappler is working like a charm!" Jackie said to her husband as she continued to reel in her son.

"I don't understand. If James is a ghost, why isn't he phased through the net?" Matt wondered out loud in oblivious confusion.

"Because I am not a GHOST!" James exclaimed as he threw the net off of himself and glared at his ghost-obsessive parents, who have been attacking him all because they thought that he was a ghost. "You've ambushed me, suffocated me smoke, and worse, I was pulled away from Spike before he had his breakthrough! What do you have to say for yourselves?!"

His mother only remained silent until she suddenly pulled out the Fenton Thermos and aimed it at her son. "Eat hot Fenton Thermos, ghost pal!" She shouted, but nothing but a spark flashed from it. James looked surprised at the thermos before he glared back at his parents again. Jackie looked at the device with scrutiny as she shook it. "Hmm, darn thing still doesn't work."

Back at the fight, an alarmed Dani looked up at the Lunch Lady, who was still in her ginormous meat form as she gave out a ferocious roar. She attempted to punch Dani, but she quickly flew out of the way as she dodged it, she then tried to slap the ghost girl out of the air, and then tried to uppercut while Dani avoided each one of her blows. She flew right behind her and kicked the monster hard on the back of her head, sending her splatting onto the ground.

"She really is getting better." Tina admitted to Sam.

Dani smiled down at her friends, but her smile quickly dropped when she glanced back to the ghost. She saw a meaty fist heading straight for her before she got punched when she got sent flying straight up high into the air.

"I sure hope she can take a punch!" Sam said verbally as he ran a few feet, watching with worry in his eyes.

Dani flew straight upward towards a passenger plane above her. "There's your water, sir!" The flight attendant said to a businessman.

Their eyes went wide when Dani suddenly phased through the floor and through the ceiling of the plane right between them. They continued to watch her fly through the plane again while she grabbed the water cup from the passenger.

"Thanks!" She shouted as she disappeared while the man and attendant remained silent with stunned eyes.

Dani splashed the water onto her face before she tossed it aside as she charged straight towards the meat monster ghost.

Back with the Fentons, Jackie and Matt stared at James, who was still glaring irritatedly at them with his arms crossed. Jackie suddenly smiled before she glanced at the thermos. "I, Jackie Fenton, from this day forth, do hereby turn my back on ghosts…" She said while, from several feet away, Dani slammed right into the ghost, sending meat everywhere and caused an explosion, which her family oddly didn't even notice.

In a large crater as meat rained down to the ground, Dani pulled herself out from the crater that she created weakly from her impact. "Oh dear, what a mess. Are you okay?" The Lunch Lady asked the ghost girl politely.

Dani finally pulled herself out of the crater and rubbed her arm a little bit. "Yeah, I think so." She said.

She remained silent until she became angry again. "TOUGH! BECAUSE YOU BEING OKAY IS NOT PART OF MY BALANCED DIET OF DOOM!"

Meat suddenly poured out of the crater into five piles around Dani, and they formed into five little meat monsters. She flew up as the meat monsters jumped right at her while she thrusted her foot out as she did a flying swing-kick that sliced through all of them and they exploded into pieces, before she sliced her foot on the ground as she got into a dramatic pose. Dani's smile dropped when she glanced upward and all of the meat monsters formed themselves again.

"Wasn't expecting that." Dani said before white rings appeared and changed her back into her human form, making her look down at herself in surprise. "Or that."

The meat monsters then all grabbed her while she tried to fight them off, but they kept hold when they flew her straight to the air. They dangled her upside down as she shouted with a trembling yell.

"...And this thermos can't trap ghosts, because ghosts don't exist." Jackie finished miserably as she tossed the thermos away.

While Dani was still being dangled by the meat monsters, the thermos suddenly whacked her in the face and she caught it in her hands. "The Fenton Thermos! But how am I going to get it to work?" She asked herself before the meat monsters suddenly released her as they hurtled her directly towards the ground. Dani shrieked loudly while she plummeted straight towards the ground. "Change back! CHANGE BACK!"

She clenched her eyes tightly while she concentrated hard before light suddenly flashed and she changed back to her ghost form as she smiled. The meat monsters looked surprised by this at first before they turned furious and then they all dove after her.

"Thanks for the thermos!" Dani shouted as she phased between her family until she was out of sight while they all watched.

"HA! Ghost kid! I was right!" Jackie shouted happily, and then did a singsong voice in her son's face. "~You were wrong, ghosts exist!~ Haha! I've never doubted for a second!"

She continued to laugh in triumph while James didn't look too pleased by this, until a large amount of meat suddenly crashed right on top of the three of them as they all yelped in surprise.

Dani phased through the ground and in front of the Lunch Lady with the Fenton Thermos in her hand. "NO! Soup's not on today's menu!" The Lunch Lady shouted angrily to the ghost girl.

"I'm changing the menu! Permanently!" Dani said as she grabbed the top of the thermos and squeaked in a small voice with plead. "Please work." She uncapped the top effort she aimed the ghost-sucking device straight at the Lunch Lady. "I HOPE I'M RIGHT!"

She concentrated as blue aura surrounded her body while she transferred her ghost energy into the device to power up the thermos. The device began to charge up until it suddenly released a stream of blue energy from the opening, knocking Dani backwards a little. It shot straight towards the now surprised Lunch Lady ghost and trapped her in its stream.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She yelled as she struggled against the raw stream of energy, but she continued to scream until she got completely sucked into the thermos device.

Dani, now in her human form when she used most of her energy to charge up the thermos, quickly recapped the recapped as she breathed a few times before she smiled that she actually won her first major ghost battle. She turned around and saw her friends crawling out of a protest balloon before she walked over to them to help them out.

"What happened? Where's the ghost?" Sam asked with wide eyes.

Dani held up the thermos while she smiled at it. "Let's just say my parents have their moments." She replied.

Her eyes went wide when she heard faint beeping as she quickly hid the thermos device behind her back. "Ghost directly ahead." The Fenton Finder said as Jackie and Matt, now covered in meat, walked up to their daughter as the satellite device tracked them to Dani. "You would have to be some sort of moron to not notice the ghost directly ahead."

Dani gave her parents a weak smile while they stared down at their daughter suspiciously. "Oh, sorry, Mom, you just missed her." Dani pointed her thumb behind her.

"We've got a runner!" Jackie shouted before she and her husband ran to where their youngest daughter directed them to.

Meanwhile, James had his arms crossed and looked very displeased that his parents have gone back to hunting ghosts even when they were just about to admit that ghosts didn't even exist. "Great, back to square one." He mumbled bitterly as he stormed away.

"So...you're not going to tell 'em?" Tina asked Dani.

Dani shrugged as she smiled reassuringly. "Nah, I think I might've finally figured out what these powers are for. They make me-" She began until a hand suddenly grabbed her by the shoulder, making her eyes go wide.

She glanced behind her and grimaced at her antagonistic teacher and vice principal, Mr. Lancer. "...In a world of trouble." He said dangerously calmly as he glared down at his least favorite student.

At nighttime outside at Casper High, Lancer has forced Dani and her friends to clean up the mess from the protests and the ghost fight, as punishment for both beginning the protests, and for Dani and Tina escaping punishment from the other day when they began that food fight from earlier as a diversion.

"Manson! Pick up that T-bone!" Lancer ordered Sam through his megaphone.

"With my hands?" Sam asked him in disgust.

"Foley! Pick up that turfwich!"

"With my hands?" Tina asked, sounding equally as disgusted as she held a grass on a bun by its corner with her index finger and thumb.

Lancer looked pleased and took a bite out of a chicken leg before he turned around and walked away. He left his troublemaking students responsible for their punishments, under the supervision of Daphne Baxter.

As Dani broomed the meat on the ground miserably, Daphne looked very pleased at her favorite bullying victim's misfortune while she leaned on the garbage bin, where the meat has been collected, before she began to snicker rudely. Dani glared at the cheerleader in annoyance before she walked up to the side of the bin, placed her hand on the edge, and it glowed blue as she made the entire garbage bin intangible. It then dumped all its contents all over Daphne, who yelped in surprise as she got buried underneath a huge pile of meat before the bin returned to normal.

Daphne popped her head out from under the meat pile, trapped inside the contents. "Fenton! A little help?" She pleaded out loud as she struggled a little.

"Whatever you say, Daph...whatever you say." Dani said, looking pleased with her free hand on her hip. She looked out and smiled as her eyes glowed green when she narrowed them.

After she finally defeated the Lunch Lady, Dani began to feel confident that she was given these ghost powers for a reason: to protect her entire town of Amity Park, now that ghosts were starting to become a real threat to her hometown and she knew that she was the only one who can stop them from harming the world. This was just the first step for Dani and her friends, since they were about to journey through a never-ending adventure together full of action, fighting ghosts, life lessons, and lots of mysteries about the paranormal world of the unknown.