New place, same fight
Danny loves his friends, they have been with him since they were little and they have experienced too many things together, things that have helped them grow, things that only strengthen their friendship. Because Sam and Tucker were everything to him, as he was everything to them.
But at the same time, Danny could admit that he hated his friends; not always, but there were times where they wouldn't stop fighting, where they forced him to choose. The halfa could understand, Sam and Tucker had different world views, they saw different things and occasionally Danny thought they only got along because of him.
That was okay, he learned to live with them, to be the center of their arguments. And when they moved from Amity to Gotham, when they decided to rent an apartment together and go to the same college (which miraculously had all their majors), he thought everything would be fine.
It was idiotic of him. Because at the time he could only see a repeat of what had happened in high school; Sam was having a protest about the cafeteria menu and Tucker had organized the meat lovers (again), and the halfa knew how it was all going to end.
The point is, Danny was tired of repeating the same cycle, a cycle that apparently included Waylon and Poison Ivy fighting in the cafeteria at his new college (and how the hell did his friends manage to get the Rogues of Gotham into their fights?), so when he saw the people in bat suits he exploded.
When Sam and Tucker turned to ask his opinion he shook his head, pointed at Lunch Lady, who had her arms crossed and decided it wasn't his problem before disappear. Literally, no matter if half of Gotham was calling him meta, he was tired.
Red Robin gawked at him before turning his attention to Lunch Lady, who was gathering all the meat around her to form a giant meat monster. And Danny decided it wasn't his problem.
Apparently, Sam and Tucker decided that the bats could take care of it before they looked worried and started looking for Danny. It became obvious that the bats needed help when Danny looked at a giant meat monster two hours later, the halfa arched an eyebrow in dismay, weren't they supposed to be professional heroes? Lunch wasn't even trying...
Honestly, she was just there to check on him. Gotham had much lower ambient ecto levels than Amity, and she wanted to make sure that he was getting all of the nutrients he needed.
Lunch Lady had tracked him down to his cafeteria and, out of respect for Danny’s anonymity, took on a human visage. She had a large box (courtesy of her lovely husband) full of ecto snacks that would hopefully see him through the next few weeks until she could come again. Before Danny had left for college, they had set up a schedule for visiting the mortal realm, and she wasn’t going to be the first one to breach the agreement.
They’d just finished a lovely catch up when the doors to the cafeteria burst open. That female friend of his marched in with an assortment of odd looking people, carrying banners decrying meat and animal products. Before she could do more than stand up, the doors at the other end of the eating hall burst open and Duulaman’s reincarnation marched in with his own assortment of people and banners. Were they protesting dietary requirements again?
Lunch Lady was incensed. Not only had they decided to disrupt her time with Danny, but they’d also decided to interrupt one of the most important times of the day - meal time! As the two continued carrying on she could see Danny slowly slump over in embarrassment, lunch all but forgotten on the table in front of him. Unacceptable!
The final straw was when a group of people dressed as bats of all things crashed through the windows. She thought they were going to be breaking up the protest, but then half of them joined in! “Apologies for this, Danny dear” she said, before pulling all of the meat from the protestors towards herself. It was time to end this!
Clearly Phantom didn’t mind, he left her to it and exited through one of the open doors fairly soon after that. It seems that this was one occasion where he didn’t mind her breaking their truce.
danny: bats can take care of it, she was literally my first ghost opponent on his return danny: seriously! they STILL haven't finished! They haven't been heroes for how long now?
Danny only came back because his afternoon class was due to start ten minutes prior and one of the few students who showed up mentioned that their teacher was stuck in the cafeteria under a table.
He walks into the cafeteria and Lunch Lady pauses to turn to him, but he walks right past her and over to the table barricade that a few humans were hiding behind to watch the show. Sam and Tucker haven’t even noticed that he’d left in the first place, and immediately start yelling at him to pick their side.
He glares at them both, gives Batman a disappointed glance, then phases his teacher through the desk. “Come on, I didn’t stay up until midnight studying just for us to not have that quiz today. People are waiting for you in the classroom.”
At this stage, the entire hall has gone silent and is watching him walk his professor out. He stops at the entrance door and turns to look at Lunch Lady. “Go home, or I'll tell Boxy that you said you preferred circle boxes for pizzas.”
She flees back to Amity immediately. Play time is over.
oh shit, I can only imagine box ghost's face of absolute betrayal, holding back tears while looking at his wife, it almost ended in divorce.
It is because of this accident that Danny ultimately does not become the godfather of box lunch
