Daphne waved back at her friend. "Bye, Mandy. Thanks for the ride!" The minivan pulled away from the curb and the track star shouldered her bag and trudged up her driveway. She had just gotten a Pinnacle Chip for her birthday, despite the recall. As she opened the door to her house, she remembered the scene from two days ago: her squealing in delight at finding the rare piece of hardware in her gift and rushing up the stairs to install it.
"'M home!" she shouted, dropping her bag on the ground next to the door.
"Don't leave your stuff lying next to the door!" her Mom called from the kitchen down the hall.
"Kay, Mom!" she shouted back and re-shouldered her bag before heading up he stairs. She entered her room and dropped the bag unceremoniously amid the piles of clothes and track gear before looking up to see her little brother using her computer.
"Billy!" her face turned beet red as she stormed across the room and lifted up the nine-year-old by the back of his shirt. "What are you doing in here?" she snarled through clenched teeth.
"Nothing!" he whined back, trying to squirm out of his older sister's grip. She hauled him out of her room and slammed the door in his face, locking it. Daphne paused and took a deep breath before investigating what he had done.
On the bright side, nothing was broken, sticky, or corrupted. On the down side, the internet was open and a string of nonsense was typed in: "[=g3,8d]\&fbb=-q]/hk%fg". She scowled at the screen and moved to press the "delete" key.
The moment she pressed the key, the world seemed to explode. Her body seemed to stretch and colors flashed and danced before her eyes as reality warped. She clutched her head as information poured in until she didn't think there was any more room, but it kept coming. The world spun faster and faster until finally coming to a halt. Daphne groaned and sat up, reassured to find herself in one piece.
"What just happened?" she asked out loud. Suddenly she jerked and her body warped to be replaced with a blue girl with black lightning in her blond hair.
"Hiya!" the blue girl said, chipper. Her body warped again and she was back to herself.
"Something is definitely not right." Daphne told herself, lurching to her feet and rushing to the bathroom.
F!F!F!F!
Dexter Douglas was reading a funny story in binary when Freakazoid felt a disturbance in his energy field.
Hey Dex! he called to his alter ego. Dex!
What? the boy asked.
I just felt something weird with my energy field.
Do you think it's Guitierrez again?
No, Roddy blocked him out.
Do you want to check it out then?
Yes.
In reply, Dexter stood up from his chair and cried out, "Freak out!" The lanky teenage nerd was suddenly replaced with the superhero, Freakazoid, who zapped himself into Dexter's computer and into the Internet.
Unsurprisingly, Roddy MacStew was waiting for him.
"Hi, Roddy!"
"I assume you sensed the disturbance, laddie."
"I sure did. Do you know what it is?"
"That I do not, but I have every intention of finding out what it is." the Scotsman replied.
"Yay! You're coming with me!" Freakazoid prepared to zap away, following the disturbance.
"Ay, let us hope this is not a trap."
"Or poo gas." The blue boy made a face and zipped away with Roddy close behind. The pair stopped at a terminal, looking out through the screen. Seeing the posters on the walls and various items around the room, Freakazoid made a face. "Ugh! A girl's room!"
"Better tread carefully laddie. I have seen many frightening things in this world, but nothing is more terrifying than an angry woman."
"Yes sir!" Freak saluted and zapped out of the computer and across the room to the safety of the hallway. He heard strange noises to the inexperienced ear down the hall and motioned Roddy to follow him. He tiptoed quietly to what was apparently a bathroom. He pressed his ear to the door to hear a distressed girl talking to herself.
"Keep cool Daphne, you're just hallucinating from the shock you got from your computer."
"Pssst!" another voice chimed in.
"It's just your imagination, it's just your imagination-"
"Psst!"
"It's just your-"
"Hey!"
"Imagin-"
"Unzip your head!"
"What?"
"Unzip your head, like this!"
"Bwaaaah!"
At this point Roddy motioned for Freakazoid to knock. Freak gave his mentor a "are you sure" look, to which Roddy nodded.
Freakazoid knocked. "Are you alright?" The door flung open.
"Hiya!" a blue girl thrust her face towards his in greeting. She had blue skin and blond hair with black lightning. A goofy grin that was clearly familiar to both of the men was plastered on her face. She wore an outfit identical to Freakazoid's but for the fact it was the color blue. She caught both of them off guard.
Suddenly, she twisted and fell against Freakazoid, a normal girl wearing shorts and a T-shirt.
"What's going on?" she asked bewilderedly.
"Just calm down and we'll explain everything." Roddy told her.
Daphne nodded, hoping that they would make some sense of this.
F!F!F!F!
Author's Notes
This is my first fanfiction and my first story on this site, so please help me out if I screwed up anything. Also, please review. Please. I need it.
Also: the title is taken from the unproduced script which I couldn't find, so I made this up. The concept of Daphne came from one scene in the Freakazoid and Friends song showing a girl who looks just like Freakazette and looks like she would be in track.