Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom, Urusei Yatsura or any of the characters used here. Danny Phantom is the property of Butch Hartman, Nickelodeon and Viacom International. Urusei Yatsura is the property of Rumiko Takahashi. I also do not own any of the characters utilized in this crossover, they all belong to their respective owners.

Those Obnoxious Ghosts

Chapter 11: Ten's Decision

In the Ghost Zone

A certain crazed up fruitloop had just left his secret laboratory and was currently checking in on his most hired hand.

His reason...same as always.

To find a way to kill his ex-best friend (who also happens to be his young adversary's father), finally marry the love of his life (who also happens to be that same boy's mother) and finally have himself the perfect half-ghost son that he deserves, along with him becoming ruler of the Earth.

None of which should be too much to ask for, or so he believes.

"I must remember to make sure that place with my favorite latte stays open when I conquer the world..."Vlad thought as hurried up.

After the alien invasion, things had been hectic in every possible way and Vlad had to cancel his weekend trip and use his abilities in order to get the town back under his control, as well as make sure his young foe doesn't get as much credit for saving the world as he should have, which was no easy task, even with his political power and ghost powers.

He also is trying to find a way to take control of those aliens...or at the very least, find a way to use them in his plans. He didn't really care much about those so-called oni aliens but he felt they could be useful.

But for now, he was heading to Skulker island to see if he's available for his next assignment.

He has been trying to contact that brute all day for an assignment, and no answer.

"That oaf better have a good excuse for not answering my calls today..."He thought, wondering why he still keeps him in his employ.

However, he would have more questions as he arrived to Skulker's floating island and saw the ruins of the hunter's domains.

"What in Pariah's name did all this?..." Vlad said as he looked to the ruins. "And where is that idiot?..."He asked out loud.

That's when he heard it. It sounded like yelling, but it was of a low volume and higher pitched.

"Whatever is happening better be a good excuse to not answer..."He said as he floated to the source of the noise, under a big pile of rubble.

That is when he also saw to his feet sticking out and wriggling in anger, a small creature was clearly stuck.

He knew who it is too.

"Skulker, what in the Ghost Zone are you doing? Better yet, why haven't you answer my calls for your next assignment?..."Vlad said as he watched his minion finally get out of there, not bothering to help him.

He was annoyed, but also found it kind of amusing to see him like this, while the little green blob dusted the debris off of him.

"Don't you lecture me, Plasmius! Plus, I'm not available for that right now.."Skulker growled angrily, but due to being without his suit, it sounded funny instead of threatening.

"Oh, I think we can squeeze something in..."Vlad said sarcastically. "Now, what exactly did all this? Did you and Technus try to see how much wine you can drink again? Or did you have another fight with that diva ex-girlfriend of yours?..."He asked and the wanna-be hunter looked offended.

"NO! It was the whelp, but I will get him yet, him and every last one of those aliens of his!..." Skulker said in his high-pitch and funny voice, looking furious.

Vlad would have rolled his eyes and left but what he last said got his attention.

"Aliens?..."The evil halfa repeated as he raised a brow as he turned to the little blob of a hunter.

This small bit of news coming from an even smaller source was just the thing that he needed to hear.

"What was this I hear about aliens?..." Vlad asked with interest as the imaginary chess board readied.

It seems he had a chance to use these extraterrestrials after all.

Meanwhile

Danny had just rescued Ten and brought him back home. The little alien had finally woke up and was now wrapping his mind over the adventure he had just been on.

"D-D-Danny...is..." Ten paused and Danny suspected that he was going to blame him for the whole thing and started whining to Lum.

He was VERY surprised to hear this come out of the little alien's mouth.

"SO COOL!..." Ten yelled, with an excited look on his face, surprising Danny and the others, sans Lum.

"Huh?..." Danny said as he saw Ten wiggle out of Lum's arm and soon went at him, now clinging to him.

Everyone was shocked to see this, especially Lum. She knew how Ten did not let any male outside of his family touch him without giving them a fire breath.

They were all pretty stunned to see that this oni child's opinion of the ghost boy turn to a complete 180.

Danny was even more confused, especially since he had been sure the little alien had hated him.

He needed some clarification here.

"Did… you just- I mean… when did-..."He stammered, totally baffled as the little alien still clung to him and stared at him all starry-eyed.

"You saved me! You actually, really, saved me!..." Ten said in excitement.

Knowing he'd be making things worse, he answered honestly.

"Well… it's what I do." Danny said, smiling sheepishly at the baby who suddenly worshipped him.

"It's what he's been doing since he first got his ghost powers..." Tucker then added.

Sam ribbed him for not shutting up, much to the tech geeks irritation as he rubbed his arm.

Ten didn't notice or care since he was too busy speaking with his cousin over what had happened.

"You should have seen him, Lum! All his powers and moves! That metal jerk-face whats-his-name never knew what hit him! He totally wasted that creep!..." The child said, sounding like a kid talking about his favorite superhero, even imitating some moves.

Lum smiled upon hearing that and felt happy Ten was accepting Danny, as well as pride for her "husband's" accomplishment.

"Naturally. He is my darling of, course..." She said proudly.

Sam narrowed her eyes at Lum, but decided to let it go, this one time. What matters is that Ten was brought back safe. Even if he is a spoiled brat, he didn't deserve to be in danger.

Danny, however, looked a bit annoyed by what she said but let it slide since she been worried sick for her baby cousin when he got kidnapped.

Jazz looked at her little brother and couldn't resist saying the following.

"Looks like you got a new fan, little brother..."Jazz said in a teasing tone as Danny rolled his eyes.

"It is a nice change compared to what's been happening lately..." He muttered.

"But not that nice…" He thought.

Ten heard that and then he remembered all the mean things that he said and did to Danny as he got out of the teenager's arms.

"Umm… Danny?..." Ten said in an awkward sounding voice.

"Yeah?..." Danny asked, looking down at eye level with him.

"Not that I'm ungrateful...but why did you come and save me?..."He asked.

He was thankful that he was rescued but he is still confused.

Danny sent him a curious look.

"I already told you back at the cage that I can't let someone get hurt, even if they can be a pain. Plus, it was the right thing to do..."Danny said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Ten looked surprised at what half ghost teenager just said.

"He risked his own life and rescue someone who didn't like him... because it's the right thing to do?..."He thought before he realized how wrong he had been about him.

The little oni child floated down and he now stood on the floor. He looked up at the older boy again and was silent until he said what needed to be said right now.

The little alien sighed. He usually doesn't do this sort of thing but he felt that he owed Danny this at least.

"I'm going to be straight with you all here. At first, I only came to stay here because I was worried about Lum..."He said as he turned to face Danny again.

"I didn't think she could be happy with a guy like you, so I wanted to get you out of her life. I thought that for a person like you, Lum was pearls cast before a swine..." Ten confessed and Danny raised a brow.

Sam raised a brow as well.

"Out of HER life?!..."She repeated, though had to silently admit that the baby was more mature than her cousin was, well… when it comes to want to make sure someone they care about is safe.

The ghost boy, however, noticed his words and was a bit confused.

"You didn't say that before..." Danny said, knowing of all the stuff the baby said to him.

None of them were kind, but he didn't say that.

"I was thinking it..." Ten admitted, looking down ashamed of himself.

Jazz, Tucker, and Sam scowled at that and Danny simply sighed since he already expected something similar like that but the kid continued.

"But I was wrong...you really are a hero..."The oni child said, being as honest as he had ever been in his young life.

Lum watched, feeling proud of her cousin for his rare moment of maturity.

"What changed this outlook on me?..." Danny asked.

Ten looked up at the teenager and sighed.

"I hate admitting this, but I was completely powerless before that metal creep. He had me trapped and I thought I was a goner, but you freed me and I survived. And how you fought to save me showed me how much like a warrior you really are..." Ten said respectfully. "I was wrong about you, Danny. I take back all the mean stuff I said about ya... especially all the mean stuff I thought about ya..." He said to the ghostly boy, bowing as he does, as per custom of his people.

Danny smiled sheepishly, rubbing the top of Ten's head and made to avoid the horn.

"Eh, no harm done..." He said, letting it go.

Ten turned to his cousin, still looking pretty starstruck right now.

"Lum, does he do these cool things all the time?..."He asked, sounding excited.

Lum nodded and smiled widely.

"That's right. My darling is very brave and goes out of his way to fight for those who cannot defend themselves..."She said, looking very proud.

Ten looked even more awestruck

"SO COOL!..." Ten exclaimed happily.

The others smiled at how Ten was giving Danny the recognition he deserved for being a hero and not a threat like how people saw him when he first started out. Seeing this made Sam smile a bit and relax a bit.

"Maybe I judged him too quickly?..."She considered as the kid was showing Danny the respect he deserves.

Lum smiled, happy to see that her cousin now saw Danny for who he truly is.

A hero.

Still, she wanted to hear him say so himself.

"So what do you think of my darling now, Ten?..." The alien princess asked her favorite little cousin.

"I'll be honest Lum. At first, I thought he was just some perverted jerk who tricked you, but I was wrong. You made a good pick in a husband here, you picked a superhero!..." Ten said in excitement, feeling his cousin really did find someone worthy of her.

Danny heard this and frowned as he recalled his previous alien problem.

"And we are back to the OTHER problem at hand here..." Danny thought as Lum and Ten kept talking happily about him.

"I told you that darling was wonderful Ten, you just had to get to know him first..." Lum said with a bright smile and Danny groaned.

Danny sighed, holding onto the baby and being careful to not hurt him.

"Ten, can I talk to you… alone?..." He asked in a careful tone.

Ten nodded

"Sure thing!..."He said, still smiling at his new hero.

Danny soon took Ten upstairs, Lum was about to follow them but Sam blocked her.

"He said alone..." Sam said sternly.

Lum narrowed her eyes at that.

"Jealous shrew…" The alien thought, frowned.

With Danny and Ten

The two boys walked...or floated to talk by themselves as Danny turned to look at the small alien child.

The same child who is still smiling at him.

"So, what did you want to talk about, Danny?..." Ten said, being more nicer than he was yesterday.

The ghost boy knew that the alien warmed up to him, so he chose to share important information. Hopefully, Ten might understand and maybe talk some sense him Lum.

"Ten, I think you should know the truth..." Danny said.

Ten raised a brow, confused.

"The truth? What truth?..." The alien toddler asked.

Danny sighed and decided to be frank with him.

"The truth of the matter is, my "engagement" to your cousin was a misunderstanding..." The ghost boy confessed.

"What do you mean?..." Ten asked, not liking what he is hearing.

Danny decided to explain everything that really happened. Starting from the end of the tag race and his fateful encounter with the alien princess.

"This is what really happened, I was coming back on patrol and I was in my room. I was talking to myself, not believing how I was able to survive that game of tag with Lum when I remembered some… unimportant stuff that my dad said. It turns out that she was eavesdropping on me and misunderstood what I was talking about. And for some bizarre reason, she then decided that we were engaged..." Danny said, looking miserable as he recalled that.

Ten blinked at that.

"You didn't mean to propose to her?..."He questioned.

"I didn't even know she was still on this planet when I said that..."Danny said to the little alien boy.

Ten was surprised to hear this, wondering what it was he said that made Lum think Danny was proposing to her. He lowered to the ground in the air as he thought.

"I see…"He said, not liking this.

Seeing this, Danny continued to explain things to him.

"Look, I will admit that she's a lot prettier than I'm willing to admit but she is also really clingy. And not only is she clingy but what she doesn't seem to get is that earth isn't a safe place for you two, especially since both the Ghost Zone and the people of this world would try to hurt you, if they know you're still on this planet, even though I won..." Danny said.

"Why?..." Ten asked.

Squatting down, Danny was now eye level with him and chose to be direct.

"Because I don't want to be married, especially now in my life. I'm not ready for that, especially with someone I barely know..."He said as he looked serious.

"Do you think you can convince Lum to go back to your home planet before someone like… I don't know an Alien version or the Guys in White come and try to do something horrible to you both?..." Danny asked, hoping to get through to him.

The little alien seemed lost about the last part.

"The who?..." Ten asked.

"Bad guys who hunt people who are not human, like me and you. I just know that if they find out about this, they might come and try to do something horrible to you both..." Danny said. "But never that for now, can you help me out?..."He added.

Ten looked unhappy upon hearing that.

"I see…"He said, wondering what he should do.

Before Ten could process everything Danny said, Lum came and hugging Danny tightly, exclaiming between kisses.

"Darling you are so noble! Thank you for saving Ten!..."Lum said and Danny became intangible to escape her.

"No… problem…" Danny groaned as he tried to keep out of her reach.

Ten saw the whole thing, but his focus was on the way his cousin looked at the ghost boy.

"She really does love him..."He thought as he continued to watch the interaction between the two teens.

"Come back to my arms, Darling! You deserve a proper reward for what you did..."Lum said, wanting to reward him like the last time.

Danny flinched and shook his head.

"No thanks!..."He said, not wanting to go through that again.

He tried to get away before he saw his blue breath and knew what that meant and actually smiled in relief.

"Finally… a ghost..."He said as he decided to handle it and take his frustrations out on it.

Soon, from the portal and phasing upstairs, came a ghost like eel as it snarled.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR..."The eel ghost let out, acting menacing.

Moving Lum and Ten to the side, Danny knew what he had to do.

"I'm going Ghost!..." He cried out and transformed, as he usually does when he gave his battle cry.

Ten watched amazement at this, it was really like watching a hero at work. When he was done he flew at the eel to fight it.

Compared to Skulker, this ghost isn't as threatening. After a few powerful hits, the eel went down and Danny pulled out the Fenton Thermos as it began to struggle as it was being pulled in.

"This Earth sure is an exciting place, after all..." Ten commented after seeing Danny capture that ghost eel.

"I told you that it's lovely..." Lum said, staring lovingly at Danny's bravery, as well as seeing her favorite form of him.

Once the ghost was caught, Danny changed forms and deposited the captured ghost back into the Ghost Zone for it to swim away.

"Back to the ghost zone with you..."Danny said, almost disappointed that the fight didn't last long.

"Awesome..."Ten said, still amazed by the heroic act.

"Little guy, you'd be amazed how great earth can be when you get to know it..." Tucker added, trying to be nice but his friends glared at that.

"Tucker!..." The other three humans shouted.

"What?..." Tucker asked, clueless.

The little alien then sent a look to his cousin, then Danny and nodded, as if he has made some decision.

"That's settles it, I am staying..." Ten said.

"What?!..." Danny, and his group yelped in horror.

The little alien then floated to his new hero and sent him a look.

"Well...you are a good guy, Danny but I gotta stay and help protect my cousin, just in case that metal creep tries something, again..." Ten said, adamant in his decision.

"B-B-But…" Danny began, trying to think of another reason.

"And, I actually think I wanna see her marry you..." Ten thought to himself, nodding to himself.

Ten may be a kid, but he knew that he liked Danny, he's a superhero, he is strong and he actually saved his life.

That outweighs Rei by a long shot.

Sure, Rei is a good looking oni and a warrior, the ideal male for any Oni woman. However, he is also a gluttonous pretty boy who cares more about food than anything else.

He could almost understand why Lum wasn't too keen on him now.

Meanwhile

In Space

A dark green haired oni in a tiger skin jumpsuit sneezed, the effect of it made him change forms briefly before he looked up at the night sky of his home world and said only one word

"Lum..."

Back on Earth

Danny and the others were still looking at disbelief from Ten's announcement and Lum just looked happy.

"We'd be happy to have you stay here, Ten..." Lum said.

Danny's jaw dropped and stared at her in disbelief.

"WHAT?!..." He yelled. "You can't just decide that on your own?! Besides, this is MY house!..."He shouted.

Lum frowned and crossed her arms.

"Ten is family and if he's wants to stay, then we should welcome him with open arms like family should..."Lum said while Danny wondered if universe itself was against him right now.

His sister also looked equally disproving.

"What about Ten's parents? Don't you think they'll be worried that their son is on another planet?..." Jazz asked.

"Yeah, my sister's right. Don't you need to go home so your parents don't get worried?..." Danny asked, hoping for Ten to go home and hopefully take his cousin with him.

Ten just waved his hand dismissively.

"My mom and dad are always working. My mom is busy putting out fires all over our planet and my dad is always going from planet to planet to represent my uncle in negotiation with our allies. I am usually just home with my robot nanny..." Ten explained.

The ghost boy a little taken aback by this but still tried to come up with a reasonable excuse.

"Well...what about his education? I mean...he has to be receiving some kind?..." Danny said, looking desperate.

He might not know a lot about aliens, but Ten is obviously smarter than the average baby, so he has to be receiving some form of education.

"Oh, I receive my education from transmission via our technology..." Ten said.

"Ten can study from anywhere in the universe, besides, he won't officially be in a real school until he is five..." Lum said.

"Oh, come on!..." Sam exclaimed, hating this.

She knew with Ten here and him helping Lum, Danny will get treated even worse between the electric shocks and the attempts at sleeping with him done by the princess, who still refuses to accept that he want's nothing to do with her.

The goth was worried that with the baby's help, Lum's obviously going to take Danny away from her.

Danny, on the other hand, didn't want to have to deal two aliens now and tried to stop this madness.

"But Ten, what about what I told you earlier?..." Danny whispered but the little alien still looked starstruck.

"You are strong Danny, much stronger than any other warrior I have seen and I know that you will be able to protect Lum..."Ten said with admiration.

Ten looked up at his favorite cousin and his hero, stars in his eyes as he knew he must help get them together. Knowing that they would be good together. Besides, he knew that if Lum had to marry an earthling, she could have picked much worse compared to Danny.

Heck, if the random selection for Lum's competitor had been another man that Lum decided to marry, who'd turn out to be the worst possible guy a girl could ever wind up married to.

Meanwhile

In Japan

While Ataru was asleep he sneezed loudly, thrice, before he went back to dream his kind of dreams.

"Hehehehe… Shinobu… Sakura..." The perverted boy drooled out as he continued his sleep.

Back with Ten

Ten suddenly felt a cold shudder go through his body, though he wasn't sure why.

He couldn't help but feel that somewhere in the universe, there IS a guy that is like that, and it's his job to protect Lum from creeps like that.

Besides, he much rather she'd be married to Danny than some idiotic, perverted scumbag who'd probably never amount to anything, would treat her horribly and probably tried to cheat on her too.

Compared to a guy like that, Danny is practically the ideal husband.

"But what about all the other stuff we talked about?!..."Danny said, hoping to talk some sense into him.

It didn't work as the boy waved it off and remained positive.

"Don't worry, my new and favoritest in-law..."Ten said, not seeing how the older boy cringed at that title as he continued. "With my help I'm sure that you two will definitely begin to understand and love each other..." Ten added, sounding confident.

Danny's jaw dropped, while Lum smiled widely as she hugged Ten.

"Really? Thank you, Ten!..." Lum said happily since to her, her favorite cousin was getting along with her darling.

He giggled as Lum hugged him.

The humans knew what was going to happen before each turned to Danny, their expression speaking for themselves. Tucker's apologetic, Jazz's worry, and Sam's jealous anger.

Danny tried to speak, hoping to end this madness.

"Hold on! What about everythi-ahh!..."He shouted as Lum hugged Danny tightly, nearly crushing some of his ribs.

"Isn't Ten the greatest, Darling?..."She said, still squeezing him.

"Yup, I'm a good boy..." Ten said happily, smiling widely and Danny groaned in dismay.

"I can't believe this..."He muttered as the two aliens were all over him.

"Do you think you can teach me how to do that neat scream thing you did earlier?..." Ten asked, in a fanboy kind of way as Lum kept trying to hug him to pieces.

Danny deeply hated what was happening right now and almost wished he was dealing with another ghost invasion right now.

"I think I liked it better when he tried to barbecue me...'Danny grumbled as the realization dawned on him.

He now had TWO aliens who won't leave him alone to deal with now.

"Why couldn't we have been invaded by something less… obnoxious?!..."He thought in irritation as he phased out of Lum's grasp.

He tried to avoid more of Lum's affection and Ten's new-found hero-worship.

While they were all busy playing the most outrageous version of cat and mouse, they were unaware that a certain spy bug had been watching the entire ordeal play out.

Meanwhile

In Vlad's mansion

The supervillain/ mayor of Amity Park was watching the events unfold via one of his robot insects.

He had been stunned to see the two aliens that were with his young adversary. He saw the look of misery on Danny's face and it brought a smile to his face, laughing at his expense before getting an idea.

"Hmm...perhaps I can use this…" He said as the imaginary chess board suddenly had more pieces.

-To Be Continued-

Next Time on Those Obnoxious Ghosts

A Growing Problem At Casper High

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