A/N: The beginning of my Mike's Adventures series. Everyone belongs to their respective owners, Don Bluth and Cartoon Network. Read & Review!
In the Megaville League, Mike, Lu, and Og came to see Dexter in his private lab of the league. They had never had their own mission together before and would be a good idea to give them some experience. This case was also very personal for Mike's case, it involved a very distant ancestor of hers on her father's side.
"I'm related to Anastasia Romonov?" Mike sounded very surprised once she received this news and the boy genius told the three why he wanted to see them in specific.
"It's not fair!" Lu folded her arms. "How come Mike gets to be related to a princess? She's not even royalty type!"
Mike glanced at her, then looked to Dexter. "So, what's up in the Romonov clan?"
"It's Rasputin," Dexter informed. "This is a very grave and big mission for you three, but I'm sure you all can do it. Mike, your ancestor Anastasia was separated from her grandmother and they need to be reunited."
"Why is that?" Lu had to ask.
"It's a very long story," Og informed, seeming familiar with this story, surprising his cousin and friends with his knowledge despite being a mere island native boy.
"You know it?" Dexter asked him.
Og nodded. "It's one of the books in my mother's personal library when not writing the Albonquetine Island history and the Cuzzlewitz's End."
"Well, perhaps you could tell them a lot better than I could." Dexter suggested.
"Gladly," Og nodded, then came to the two girls he was rather close with, but neither in a romantic sense, since Lu was his cousin and Mike was only a friend. "There was a time, not very long ago at around 1916, the world was an enchanted place full of parties and grand celebrations and Nicholas was the Czar of Imperial Russia. It was the anniversary of the family's rule."
"How many years?" Mike asked.
"300." Og informed.
"I think that's how long we've had our island." Lu commented.
"We'll have to ask Mom about that," Og shrugged, then continued his story. "Nicholas's mother was very found of her youngest granddaughter named Anastasia. The old woman was going to return to Paris, but her granddaughter begged her not to, but gave something to make the separation easier for the both of them."
"What was it?" Lu asked in vast interest. "Diamonds? Rubies?"
"A music box," Og replied. "It played a song that Anastasia knew as her and her grandmother's lullaby, so whenever Anastasia would hear the tune, she could think of her grandmother."
"Oh, how sweet." Mike smiled in delight.
"It read 'Together in Paris', but they would never be together in Paris," Og told the story. "A dark shadow had descended upon the clan revealing to be the one known as Rasputin. They thought he was a holy man, but he was a fraud, he was power hungry and dangerous!"
Mike and Lu held each other in slight fear. Mike looked determined and angry however while Lu clenched her teeth in slight fear. What if they were to run into this Rasputin and he causes a lot of misfortune for them?
"Consumed by his hate for Nicholas and his family, he sold his soul for the power to destroy them," Og told the story, sounding more graphic the more words he would tell the girls. "From that moment on, the spark in their unhappiness fanned over the country and soon would destroy their lives forever! So many lives were destroyed that night. What had always been was now gone forever."
"Wh-What about Anastasia?" Lu asked frantically. "Did her grandmother and her ever reunite?"
Og hung his head and shook it no. "Her grandmother never saw her again..."
"Oh..." Mike and Lu hung their heads then, even if this was such a long time ago, it was still very sad and tear jerking.
"And that is why you three must go on this mission, I got you all backpacks," Dexter took out a pink backpack for Lu and a brown one for Og as Mike already had her purple one. "You will bring these bags with you on any adventure you will take."
"What's in them?" Mike asked as she opened her bag to reveal other things than her school supplies.
"There are some ear piece translators," Dexter informed. "In case you go to non-English speaking areas, your words and their words will be so you all understand them. There are also disguise watches for you all to wear so you can blend into the surroundings of where your adventures will take place."
"I helped perfect that." Otto chimed in.
"Right, Otto would know," Dexter gave a nod to one of his best friends in the league. "Your mission is to make sure a man named Dmitri finds Anastasia and return her to her grandmother so the Romonovs can be whole again or else..."
"Or else what?" Lu asked.
"Or else Rasputin will make sure the last of the Romonovs will die," Dexter explained. "And if that happens, then John Mavinsky's family will be no more and Mike herself will disappear from existence."
Mike grabbed her throat in slight worry. "Gosh..."
"But how do we get there?" Og asked.
"With this," Otto handed a special wrist-watch to give Mike specifically since she was the more responsible one of the trio. "This will transport you to any time, but I set it so you can only go back to old time Russia to meet Anastasia and Dmitri and report back to the Megaville League as soon as your mission is over. Not too soon and not too late."
"Right," Mike secured the watch around her wrist. "Anything else?"
"Oh, Mike, do not tell Anastasia who you are," Dexter advised cautiously to the red-haired girl. "If Anastasia were to find out, it could jeopardize your mission. Also, don't tell her that she is who she is right away."
"What do you mean?" Lu asked.
"Anastasia lost her memories after the separation," Og explained. "She doesn't know she's Anastasia, she just believes she is a woman named Anya. Dmitri is to tell her and reunite her with her grandmother, not us."
"Right." Dexter and Otto nodded in confirmation.
"Okay," Mike used her special device to turn the three of them dressed for winter with hats, coats, scarves, gloves, and boots all matching their favorite colors, red for Mike, green for Lu, and blue for Og. "Come on, guys, we gotta go."
"Let's go then and get this over with," Lu sounded very serious about this adventure mission now. "I wonder if I'll get knighted for this."
"Don't hold your breath." Og muttered.
Dexter and Otto waved to Mike, Lu, and Og as they set Mike's watch and hit the top to transport them to the early 20th century. In a flash of white light, the three kids were gone and set for their mission. They were now leaving the Megaville League and on their way to Imperial Russia.