The Case of the Missing Reptar Wagon
Summary: When the Reptar wagon gets stolen at the park, it's up to detective Tommy, detective Chuckie, and detective Zachary, to crack the case.
Editional Notes: Characters that appeared one tine during the original run of Rugrats, like Josh from "New Kid in Town," Megan from "Cradle Attractions," and Big Binky and Emma from "He Saw, She Saw," will make an appearance, as well as a new character, Danny Mcnulty, who's a visiting cousin of the Mcnulty Brothers, Timmy, Teddy, and the twins who are between them. It should be also noted, that Tommy is 2, and Chuckie is 3 in this story.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Rugrats, they're the property of their original creaters, and, as a reminder, Zachary is based off my nephew in real life, introduced in Rugrats and the Gray Plague.
It was one week after Tommy's second Birthday, and Tommy, Chuckie, Kimi, Zachary and Dil were all watching TV in Tommy's living room, when a commercial came on the TV.
"Are you age 2 and up? Are you a Reptar fan? Then enter your favorite Reptar toy into our Reptar contest, and you could win first prize, a year's supply of Reptar cerial! The contest is tomorrow afternoon, so get to the park, and enter your toy today!" Said the announcer on the television.
"Hey, we should enter that contest," said Tommy with a smile.
"But what can we enter?" Asked Chuckie.
"I know, we can enter the Reptar wagon." Answered Tommy. "It is our favorite toy and we do go on lots of adventures in it."
"That's a great idea Tommy," answered Chuckie with a smile.
"Ok then, we'll do that when we go to the park today," Tommy added.
Later, Taffy was walking down the sidewalk with the minis, taking them to the park. Behind Taffy was the Reptar wagon, with Tommy in front, and Zack and Dil, who was sucking on a binky riding in back, and bringing up the rear of the line was Chuckie and Kimi in Chuckie's pedal powered bright red car that he had in the episode, "Pedal Pusher." Chuckie was driving and Kimi was riding. Tommy has changed a lot since he turned 2. He now had short dark purple hair on his head, and while he still wore the light blue T-shirt he's worn forever, his diaper was covered up with dark blue shorts, and he still went around barefooted. Zack looked a little bit like Dil, only bigger, with an inch of blond hair on his head, 2 bottom teeth, a dark blue T-shirt that said "Greatest Nephew Ever," on the front in yellow letters, and he wore a diaper and no shoes. Dil, now 1-years-old, had an inch of bright red hair on top of his head, wore no shoes, a diaper, and a green and yellow striped shirt. Kimmi and Chuckie didn't look much different from how they looked in the original series, except now that Chuckie was 3, he was bigger. As they arrived at the park, Dil spit out his binky into the Reptar wagon.
Later on at the park, the kids were playing in the sandbox, when a flying remote controlled Dectar landed in the sandbox.
"What's this?" Asked Zack, picking up the toy.
"That's Dectar, one of the characters in the Reptar movies," answered Tommy.
"But where did it come from, and how did it get here?" Asked Zack.
"Hmmm," said Tommy putting a finger to his mouth and looking around. Suddenly, he spotted the Mcnulty boys across the way, but with a new kid with them who he hadn't seen before, holding a remote control.
"I think it's powered by a remote control, like the model airplane I got for my second Birthday from my daddy," added Tommy. "They're probably looking for it, come on, we'd better go give it back to them." Tommy continued, smiling, as he stood up in the sandbox, heading towards the Mcnultys. They got there, to find the 4 red headed brothers, and a new kid, a boy who was slightly larger than Timmy, with dark black hair, wearing blue jeans and a black leather jacket. The black headed kid was holding the remote control for Dectar.
"Hi, my name is Danny Mcnulty, and I'm Timmy's visiting cousin," he added.
"Uh, hi Danny, my name's Tommy and this is my brother Dil, and my friends, Chuckie, Zachary, and Chuckie's sister Kimi," answered Tommy.
"Pickles?" Asked Timmy, looking in Tommy's direction, hardly recognizing him. "It's been a while. Word on the playground is, you're a 2-year-old survivor of the Gray Plague."
Tommy nodded, handing the Dectar toy over to Danny.
"And I'm Zack. I met these guys at Chuckie's third Birthday, and, we've been friends ever since, playing together everyday." Added Zack.
"Um, I think this belongs to you." Said Tommy.
"Thanks for returning it." Replied Danny. "Had you not brought it back, we would have never been able to enter it into that Reptar toy contest later on today." He added.
"What are you guys entering into that contest?" Asked one of the Mcnulty twins.
"We're entering Tommy's Reptar wagon," replied Chuckie with a smile.
"I wish we had one of those wagons," Danny said with a sigh. "My cousin's little red wagon barely fits the 4 brothers, let alone me, who's visiting," Danny added with a frown.
Just then, the Rugrats spotted the Mcnultys eating a bag of cookies.
"What are you eating?" Asked Zack.
"We're eating Reptar cookies," answered Teddy, the youngest Mcnulty.
"Can we have some?" Asked Zack.
"Sure!" Said Teddy as he started to hand a cookie to Zack.
Just then, Timmy snatched the cookie out of Teddy's hand.
"Sorry little brother, but you're forgetting the rules. We don't share with babies and toddlers outside of the Mcnulty family." Timmy snapped.
"I'm sorry, I forgotted," answered Teddy, sniffing back some tears.
"Well, that's the rules. And if I were you, I'd scram!" Timmy shouted pointing a fist at the rugrats. Suddenly, they heard Taffy calling them for lunch.
"Hey minis, lunch is ready." Taffy called from a distance.
"I think that's our babysitter Taffy calling us for lunch," said Zack.
"We'd better be going, come on," added Tommy as they ran in the direction of Taffy's voice.
Later on after lunch, the rugrats were curled up on a picnic blanket taking a nap, when Dil woke up crying.
"Uh oh, I think something's wrong with Dil." Said Kimi.
"He probably just wants his binky." Said Tommy. "He left it in the Reptar wagon when we got to the park today."
"Don't cry Dil, I'll get it," added Chuckie, as he looked around for the Reptar wagon. Looking around, he saw his red pedal pusher car, but no sight of the Reptar wagon.
"Um, guys? The wagon is gone!" Panicked Chuckie. Tommy looked in that direction.
"Oh no!" Exclaimed Tommy.
"But where could it have gone?" Asked Zack.
"I don't know." Replied Tommy.
"It's a mystery!" Exclaimed Kimi.
"Yep, and it's up to us to find it! From now on, I'm Detective Tommy." Said Tommy with a smile.
"And I'm Detective Zachary!" Exclaimed Zack.
"And… I guess this makes me, Detective Chuckie." Chuckie sighed.
"Don't you wanna find the Reptar wagon Chuckie?" Asked Tommy.
"Uh, yeah, I do." Answered Chuckie.
"Then let's go!" Added Tommy as he, Chuckie and Zack started to walk away from the picnic blanket, in search of the wagon.
"And, I'll stay here with Dil. Good luck detectives." Said Kimi, who was sitting on the picnic blanket with Dil, who was slobbering all over Kimi's hand in his mouth.
This ends chapter 1. To follow them on the journey towards solving the mystery, you'll have to go to chapter 2.