Bubble Wrap

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom. Surprise, surprise.

A strange crash echoed from outside as Danny sat at the table desperately trying to get his homework done before he had to go to school. He'd been up all night fighting ghosts, as usual, and now he was stuck trying to finish his final English essay for Mr. Lancer in ten minutes. Five hundred words, topic of his choice. It should have been easy.

"It's not a ghost," Danny mumbled when he heard the crashing noise a second time. It sounded like someone was knocking over the garbage cans. "My ghost sense would have gone off if it was. It's probably just Dad, and he's probably just digging through the neighbor's trash for parts for some new invention again—"

A sudden chill and a single fogged breath instantly made Danny stop, and sighing heavily, he put down his pencil and forced himself to his feet even as his shoulders sagged.

"Or not. You'd think my parents could take care of it for once," he grumbled as he glanced around the kitchen, and shifting into his alter ego, he quickly flew through the kitchen wall and in the direction of the sounds he'd heard a minute ago as he prepared an ecto blast. Normally he'd wait to assess the threat before preparing a blast since not all ghosts were malevolent, but if he could just get this taken care of quickly, then maybe, just maybe he'd be able to finish that essay and squeak by without failing, and so today whatever poor ghost was outside was going to suffer from a blast first, questions later policy.

Yet the instant Danny spotted the ghost, he realized he probably should have kept doing his homework after all since this particular being wasn't a threat at all.

"Beware, oh metal rectangular device, for I shall insert my box shaped letter of doom into your—"

"Hey!" snapped Danny irritably, and instantly the Box Ghost paused and looked over at him. Sure enough, the trash cans were the banging that he'd heard earlier—the Box Ghost had knocked them over and into the street, which Danny couldn't understand since the stupid ghost could've just gone intangible and moved through them instead of making a mess, but maybe the fact that they were giant cylinders bothered him or something.

And naturally if the ghosts weren't making messes all the time, then Danny wouldn't have been forced to don his metaphorical cape in the first place.

"Can't you just, I don't know, go terrorize some other part of town this morning? Maybe the mayor's instead?" he grumbled, scowling as he floated over there with his arms crossed. "I really don't have the time to take out my aggression on you, no matter how much I really want to right now."

"Beware, Danny Phantom, for I am not here to terrorize you with my boxes and bubble wrap of doom!"

"Funny, but it kind of looks like that's exactly what you're doing," Danny grumbled, nodding at the trash barrels, but the box ghost merely ignored him.

"No, young Phantom. Today, I am here to place my box-shaped invitation to my wedding in your rectangular delivery box of doo—"

"—wait, your what?" gaped Danny, staring at him stupidly, and for the first time he noticed the white invitation in the ghosts hands, or at least, the object that the ghost claimed was an invitation. Danny had never seen one shaped like a box before, after all, yet somehow it totally fit the bizarre, box obsessed ghost.

"My wedding, Phantom!" he declared proudly, holding out the invitation. "I am betrothed to the Lunch Lady, and she insisted that we invite you to our wedding!"

For a long moment Danny simply floated there, staring at the Box Ghost in shock. Even though he knew that the Lunch Lady and the Box Ghost were the parents of Box Lunch, the cutesy little ghost girl from the future who packed boxes full of delicious food related destruction, he hadn't even considered that it was still going to happen in his timeline now that he'd defeated his evil self, or that they would have planned on getting married first. And inviting him, Danny Phantom, their enemy, to said wedding . . . that was just bizarre.

For once, Danny didn't have a witty comeback.

"But . . . um . . . I'm your enemy, remember?" he said at last, barely able to squeak the words out through his shock addled brain.

"Beware, Danny Phantom, for if that means that you are not planning on coming to our box themed glorious wedding then I shall be forced to rain cube faced doom upon you until—"

"—Okay, okay, I get it!" snapped Danny, grabbing the invitation from the ghost's outstretched hand. "I mean, I don't get it, but whatever! I'll be there! Now can you please just leave me alone? I have a paper to finish."

"Very well, Danny Phantom!" he exclaimed, and as he rapidly disappeared he let out one last cry, "And BEWARE!"

Shaking his head as he transformed back into regular old Danny Fenton, he walked back up the stairs to his house and sat down. Sure enough, when he opened the box, there was an invitation inside to the wedding of the Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady (the date and time were scrawled in icing across the top of a tiny cake beneath a layer of the Box Ghosts's beloved bubble wrap, of all things, but since it was glowing he didn't dare try and eat it), to be held two weeks after he got out of school at Skulker's Lair.

"How the heck did they get Skulker to agree to that?" murmured Danny, grinning as he pictured the two hopeless spooks trying to convince the hunter to let them use his island for their wedding. The only thing stranger than picturing Skulker agreeing to it was that somebody actually wanted to use Skulker's lair for a wedding site.

"I wonder what I should get them for a wedding present . . . maybe a box lunch?" he chuckled, shaking his head, and then he noticed that the invitation said he could bring one guest. Grabbing his phone and his horrible, mostly forgotten and unfinished paper, he quickly dialed Sam's number as he rushed out the door, transformed, and headed to school.

There was no way she was going to want to miss this.

A/N: Yup. My attempt at avoiding another depressing one-shot was to write this silly thing before heading off to work today. Still, I hope that you guys enjoyed it, and as always, please review. :)