Hello there, and welcome to my first real fanfiction! I did one for Max and Ruby many eons ago under a different account, but that one was terrible and was mostly copied and pasted from a yo-yo tutorial or something. This one is an alternate ending to the final Urusei Yatsura arc Boy Meets Girl, where time runs out before Lum could put her darling's hands on her horn, and Earth gets it's memories erased of those obnoxious aliens, with Ataru losing his memories of Lum as well, as well as Lum... if you read the summary, you'd already know... Also, we'll find out what happens when a dysfunctional oni and a dysfunctional human stay in the World of Darkness for too long.
This here is the prologue, which takes place during Boy Meets Girl and changes a plotline in the arc: This time, Lum does not know about the copy-shroom and the clone that was made from it. As for if Benten and Oyuki find out about the copy-shroom clone... Stay tuned for later chapters (that is, if I don't get writers' block)...
If you are wondering if there are more stories coming from me, I have another UY fanfic planned that's a crossover with a very famous webtoon. Let's just say that Spices will meet Strongs...
One more thing: This takes place in a universe that combines aspects of the manga, the anime adaptations and the movies, which means that Kōsuke Shirai and Lum's Stormtroopers will co-exist in this fanfic, and events in certain movies have happened before this fanfic. With that being said, please enjoy!
"Come now! Don't make this difficult!" said one of the dressers as he tried to dress the temperamental bride-to-be.
"Ouch!" yelled another dresser as he took a punch to the face from the bride.
Rupa, the prince of the World of Darkness was waiting outside the room where his future bride was being dressed. He could tell from the sounds of kicking, punching, throwing and biting that the dressers were having a hard time with the bride. But to him, it would be all worth it soon, as long after being told as a kid he would marry her one day, he would finally have the chance to marry his long-awaited bride!
Of course, getting her here was the problem, as not only she had settled down on earth, but she was also engaged to someone else! But luckily, the deal Rupa's great-grandfather Upa made to save the bride's great-grandfather's life (originally to claim the great-grandfather's non-existent daughter, then to claim the first girl born in that family) was made before the other fiancée declared his marriage to the bride, so Rupa immediately had the upper hand. On top of that he had also slipped an aging ring on her that aged her up to 18, temporarily losing her horns and powers in the process, making her easier to capture.
Looking back on his bride's predicament with her other fiancée though reminded Rupa of another problem: Karula.
Ever since she heard that Rupa already had a fiancée when they were kids, Karula, who had a crush on Rupa, had been non-stop harassing, threatening and even trying to force her to marry her for years. And with the wedding finally happen, no doubt she would know one way or the other, especially that her ship crashed into a ship piloted by the bride's friends in a botched rescue attempt. Rupa certainly hoped his great-grandfather had a plan to make sure she would not ruin the whole wedding.
And yet, believe it or not, Rupa had also secretly had a crush on Karula, and, had not his great-grandfather not made that deal, would have married her one day. Of course, because of Karula's attitude towards him after hearing of his fiancée, even saying "I love you" was something Rupa could not muster out of fear of potentially getting blasted again. Didn't help much that Karula kept sending plushies, posters and jackets of herself to the former to secretly admire.
And yet, Rupa wondered, did his bride-to-be have to go through this with HER other fiancée? Even moreso, something about his bride-to-be reminded him of Karula, so did she do to her other fiancée what Karula did to him?
All thoughts were pushed aside when the door slid open, and one of the dressers, clearly battered and bruised, with bandages on his nose, to boot, peeped in. "Master Rupa!" he said, "The bride is ready!"
"Good!" Rupa replied back. He then entered the room to see how his bride looked in her wedding gown, only to be met with a kettle to the face. When it fell off, he stood in awe at his angry bride in her wedding gown. "Wow..."
Sure, no one could blame Lum for being this pissed at Rupa. He had aged her up a year, her horns fell off, her powers temporarily gone, then she was knocked out and taken here. All this thanks to her lousy great-grandfather's deal with his great-grandfather. Then again, if her great-grandfather turned down that deal for the antidote and died of that poison mushroom he ate, she likely wouldn't have existed. Her baby cousin Ten, who still had his horn and flying and fire abilities, was taken along for the ride to World of Darkness, but a failed escape attempt resulted in Ten getting sent to a cell.
And it was Lum, who had hoped that her darling, Ataru Moroboshi, would come rescue her and take her away from this forced wedding, like she did when Elle tried to marry Ataru.
Her friends did try to rescue her, but a sudden collision with another ship sent them crashing instead. And when Lum got a glimpse of who were captured earlier ago, she saw her alien friends Benten, Oyuki and Ran, her ex-boyfriend Rei and her high school friend Shutaro Mendo... but no Ataru.
Of course, the last time she saw Ataru, he was jealous about the whole situation with Rupa and called her a two-timing cheat... So could it be... He was too jealous to come to her rescue?
Unbeknownst to Lum, Ataru had indeed come with Benten and the rest to save his Lum, but that unintended collision knocked him out of Ran's ship, and was now of part of Karula's plan to get Rupa to marry her instead.
And now, Lum stood in bridal attire, panting heavily, peeved off at Rupa, who got hit with a kettle she had thrown seconds ago, and was now awe-stuck at the way she looked in that gown.
"The most beautiful bride in the universe!" complimented the dark-skinned prince with the white enoki mushroom growing on the top of his head.
Lum didn't respond to that compliment, still mad as hell.
"But Master Rupa!" One of Rupa's guards said. "The way things are going, she'll completely destroy the wedding hall!"
Of course Rupa knew the "she'll" the guards were referring to Karula, who, by now, was planning on making this wedding a shotgun wedding instead. Lum was just thinking they were referring to her instead and snarled.
"Nyuk nyuk nyuk! No need to worry, poh!" said a voice from behind. Rupa turned around to see his great-grandfather Upa entering the room "Great-grandfather!" Rupa said. "Master Uba!" one of the guards greeted him.
Uba then made his way to the pissed-off Lum and confronted her face to face. "Well, miss Lum..." he said, "Are you ready to live a lovely life united with my great-grandson Rupa, poh?"
"As if!" cried the angry oni, "Besides, if you hadn't tricked my good-for-nothing great-grandfather, I would have been only engaged to just my darling-cha!"
"Nyuk nyuk nyuk!" laughed the old man as if he were one of the Three Stooges, "That good-for-nothing man is clearly the sucker at play here, poh! He clearly didn't bring any food with him when I met him starving 120 years ago, poh!"
"Argh! Regardless of whose fault it was," Lum yelled, "I didn't agree to marry your great-great-great-grandson-cha!"
"Actually, it's just one great in the title, poh..."
"Whatever! I am not getting married to Rupa-cha!" the oni snapped back.
"Oh, I bet you will, poh..." Upa sneered sinisterly.
"Oh yeah, and how are you gonna make me?"
Upa took no chance and pointed.
"Look, it's your darling, come to save you!"
"WAIT?! REALLY?!" Lum gleefully turned around at the direction Upa was pointing to. Could it be true? Has her darling Ataru come to save her at last?!
*WHAM!*
Clearly, Lum didn't foresee the giant mallet that came down on her head, knocking her out instantly. "Nyuk nyuk nyuk!" laughed Upa again. "Gotcha, poh!"
"What the hell, great-grandfather?!" A shocked Rupa yelled, "Are you trying to kill her before I could even marry her?!"
"Calm down, great-grandson, poh." Upa replied, "I made sure the impact would be the right amount of hard to knock her out for a few minutes, poh."
"Besides, I don't want her to know about my back-up plan, poh."
"Oh, yeah," Rupa thought, "The plan!" judging by what Upa said when he walked in, he implied he found a way to make sure Lum would still be intact if Karula did come.
And a plan he had. Pulling out a copy-shroom with a "Nyuk nyuk nyuk!", he blew the copy-shroom's powder onto the unconscious Lum, the asleep oni coughing as he did. A copy-shroom then grew out of the knocked-out oni's dress and popped out, growing on it's own until it became a exact duplicate of Lum!
"Nyuk nyuk nyuk!" Upa laughed once more. "When the time comes, you can use this duplicate for the wedding!"
"Ah, I see!" his great-grandson said, "This is the way we keep the wedding from falling apart! We can hide Lum when Karula comes, do the vows with the dupe, then when Karula finishes her rampage and leaves, we pull Lum out, secretly force her to say I do and kiss, and Karula will none know the wiser!"
"Actually, I was hoping the dupe would be the pastor, but that idea of yours works too, poh!" Upa joked, much to his great-grandson's confusion.
"But, wait, great-grandfather," Rupa realized, "If Lum doesn't wake up in time for the wedding, what do we do then?!"
"Easy..." Upa said. "...You marry the duplicate instead!"
Everyone else except the still-unconscious Lum and her copy-shroom copy fell to the floor in disbelief. "ARE YOU SERIOUS, GREAT-GRANDFATHER!?" A frustrated Rupa shouted in confusion.
Lum did wake up in time for the wedding, and of course she did not like being forced to marry Rupa one bit. She instantly didn't know what happened during the time she fell for Upa's trick and was knocked out. At this point, the pastor was nearing the end of his wedding speech, with the vows coming up, who could possibly save her now? Her parents and fellow Oniboshi folks and army were currently contending with a giant mushroom invasion sent by Upa, her friends and Ten were currently locked up somewhere, and her darling... her darling might still be too jealous to save her at this point...
Just then, an explosion was heard outside the wedding hall. Amongst the confused shouts of "Huh?" and "Poh?", Rupa had already realized it. "Crap! That could be Karula!" he thought.
"Time for plan B!" Rupa said as he quickly dragged Lum to a trapdoor, opened it up and threw Lum into the basement, Lum protesting with a "HEY!"
"You stay in here for now!" Rupa then quickly said and slammed the trapdoor shut, and locked it so she wouldn't escape. Lum then climbed up the basement ladder and banged on the trapdoor. "OPEN UP!" she protested.
Both the basement and it's trapdoor were soundproof, so no one could hear Lum's yells on one side, and Lum couldn't hear anyone on the other side. However, one could barely hear the banging from the trapdoor, and the rumbles that ensued from Karula's rage trembled across the basement.
Lum still banged heavily on the trapdoor, thinking how easier this would be if could blast out the trapdoor with her electricity. "If I just had my horns... I'd be out of here in no time!" she thought to herself. "If I just had my horns..."
Her thoughts of gaining her powers back were rudely interrupted by another large rumble. "Aah!" Lum yelped as she fell off the ladder and on her butt due to the shaking of the basement. "What's going on up there?" Lum wondered to herself.
A large *KA-BLOOIE* that blasted the trap door open was the answer. "EEK!" Lum yelped again as she ducked and covered. When the dust settled, she looked up to see she now had a way out!
"Well, that was easy..." she thought to herself as she climbed up the ladder of the now open basement and made her way out.
...And without even noticing the copy-shroom duplicate of her that fell into the basement with that one *KA-BLOOIE*.
"I'm going to marry Rupa." the duplicate Lum kept repeating, knowing full well she had succeeded in making Ataru the most pissed-off he would ever be at Lum.
As Lum made her way out, she noticed that a dark-skinned, white-haired girl dressed in similar-looking bridal attire was blasting at every single thing in her sight. Rupa, the guards, the guests. "This has truly become a shotgun wedding" Lum thought to herself, having experienced a similar madness at Elle's failed wedding. But then a familiar looking face caught Lum's eye...
"OH! DARLING!"
"GET AWAY FROM ME!"
And you know what happens next:
"YOU STILL REFUSE TO MARRY ME?"
"I don't like ANYTHING about you!"
"You... You think you can just..."
"Darling... why...?"
"Forget about those traitors!"
"I'm marrying this girl!"
"D-don't get the wrong idea. I just happened to reach you."
"AAAAAAAH!"
"LUUUM!"
"I CAN'T TRUST YOU, DARLING!"
"YOU WANT PROOF? HERE'S THE MARRAGE CERTIFICATE!"
"YOU AND I ARE THROUGH!"
...And Lum and Ataru would have hit the ground and died on impact right then and there... Had not Lum become so enraged she grew new horns...
*ZZZZZZT*
But by then, darkness had 100% seeped into Lum's body, and so did Ataru's. If only they knew...