It was a rainy night at the Fudo house. Cherry and Mo came over to help Atticus watch over Darla as Patrick and Emily had gone out for the night. Darla was supposed to be asleep, but the storm woke her up and she came down to see her big brother and his friends.

"Man, it sure is raining cats and dogs out there." Atticus said.

"Not my favorite expression." Mo commented.

Cherry rolled her eyes, then looked over. "Dimples? Is the storm bothering you?"

"Uh-huh..." Darla pouted as she hugged her teddy bear.

Patch soon came in the house before shaking his fur dry. Cherry groaned and then glared.

"Hey, Patch." Atticus put a blanket over his puppy.

"Thanks, Atticus." Patch muffled with a smile.

Atticus smiled.

"Where did you go again?" Cherry asked as her glasses dripped.

"I had to go and help a puppy get to his human." Patch said.

"Good boy." Atticus smiled.

Darla sighed as she sat on the couch.

"What's wrong, Darla?" Patch asked.

"I can't sleep." Darla pouted.

"The storm bothering ya?" Patch asked.

"Yeah..." Darla pouted and nodded.

"At least the power's not out." Cherry said.

The storm got worse and worse and then the power cut out.

"Great." Cherry groaned.

"Way to go, Cherry." Mo scoffed.

"I didn't do anything!" Cherry defended as she then took out her phone and turned on the flashlight app and handed it to Atticus. "Go fix the breaker box, boy."

"Alright." Atticus said.

Cherry tossed him her phone.

Atticus caught it and then went to the door, but looked out the window as it was thunder and lightninging outside. "Uh, Cherry, that storm looks pretty bad..." he bit his lip nervously.

"So?" Cherry replied.

"Just a bit concerned of how bad it might get." Atticus said.

"Atticus, are you afraid of storms?" Patch asked.

Atticus sighed and then nodded. "Yes..."

"Still?" Cherry deadpanned.

"Yes." Atticus nodded.

"Oh, brother..." Cherry rolled her eyes. "Storms aren't that bad."

There was then a loud thunder clap and a small yelp heard. Mo lit a candle and then shone it on Cherry as she was latched onto the ceiling like a scaredy cat.

"Th-Th-That was loud..." Cherry shivered nervously.

"Now you can understand why I have a fear with thunderstorms." Atticus shivered.

"Well, we might as well wait for the power to come back on." Mo said.

"But I still can't sleep..." Darla frowned.

"If only we could get away from the storm and distract Darla at the same time." Patch pondered.

"Yeah, but how?" Atticus asked.

"Maybe we could go somewhere like when we went with Cherry to meet Pocahontas?" Patch suggested.

"That was a crazy accident, I doubt that'll happen again." Cherry replied.

"You never know." Mo said.

"You guys met Pocahontas?" Darla asked Cherry, Atticus, and Patch.

"Yep." Atticus nodded.

Darla smiled until the thunder clapped again. The candle's light then went out.

"Aw, come on!" Mo groaned.

Cherry stood up and tried to feel around the house, she blinked a few times and she could now see in the dark. "Alright, everyone, follow me, I'll find a way to give us some light." she then said.

"Alright, then lead the way." Atticus said.

Cherry walked around and came to the backyard.


The storm seemed to be clearing up slightly. However, they were suddenly behind bushes and they somehow ended up in a jungle far, far away and not just from home, but also in the time period.

"Where are we?" Mo asked.

"This can't be the backyard..." Cherry firmly pouted.

"Cherry, where have you led us to?" Atticus scolded.

"I don't think she led us here on purpose." Patch said.

There was a big lightning strike which made what look like a llama gasp and then pout at the rain before crying.

"You okay?" Patch asked.

The llama looked over to them. "You can talk?" he then asked.

"Uh, yeah, you can too?" Patch replied like it was obvious.

"Okay, this is gonna sound crazy, but I'm not really a llama..." the llama told them with a sigh. "It's a long, sad, story... I was the nicest guy in the world and they were mean to me for no reason!"

"Mind telling us?" Darla asked.

"You could start with your name." Atticus added.

"The name is Kuzco..." the llama sighed. "Emperor Kuzco."

"Did anyone evil turn you into a llama?" Atticus asked.

"I guess we should go back to the beginning..." Kuzco replied.


Suddenly, the others were shown a baby boy with a crown on his head.

"No, see, that's too far, you gotta-Oh, look at me!" Kuzco cooed. "That's me as a baby!"

"Aw! You looked so cute!" Darla awed.

The baby boy hugged a toy, but hugged it too hard that the toy's head ripped off which made the baby cry until servants handed numerous replacements.

"Mind if you skip to the actual beginning?" Cherry asked Kuzco.

"Ahem!" Kuzco then cleared his throat.


Somehow, it was morning and the sun was out. Cherry, Atticus, Patch, and Darla wore peasant clothes and sandals.

"I so do not look great in this color." Darla said.

"You really don't..." Mo said. "What happened to our clothes?"

"I guess we're supposed to be here..." Patch sighed as he didn't change much. "I wonder where Kuzco is now?"

"I guess he's in the palace." Cherry shrugged.

They soon got their answer as two doors opened behind them.

"Whoa!" the group jumped back and looked to the doors that suddenly opened and where they saw someone coming out from the doors.

Patch stood behind Atticus just in case it would be dangerous. Luckily, it wasn't anything dangerous.

"Oh, yeah..." an older teenage boy was at the door with long black hair with blue earrings, a red outfit with black sandals, and a golden sun crown.

"Emperor Kuzco." the group recognized.

"So, this is what he looks like." Atticus said.

Kuzco glanced at his company. "Do I know you all?"

Drell soon placed fake memories of him thinking each of them had jobs at the palace and where Atticus's job was body guard and Patch's was guard dog and Mo's job was maid and Darla's job was junior maid and Cherry's was his foot rest. The others stammered slightly.

"Oh, wait, now I remember," Kuzco stopped them. "You thought you could get away with this? I believe you all have work to do for me."

"Um, right!" Mo grinned nervously. "Reporting for duty, Emperor Kuzco."

"Yep, we are here to work for you, Your Highness." Darla said.

"Well, don't just stand there, let's get started for another day, shall we?" Kuzco smirked. "We still got time before I have to meet my summoned peasant."

"Summoned peasant, sir?" Darla asked.

"Yeah, I wanna talk to him about where he lives." Kuzco nodded.

"That seems nice of you, Your Highness." Darla said.

"Yeah, yeah, let's get to work," Kuzco told them while impatiently clapping for them to get to work. "Chop-Chop, people."

"Yes, Your Highness." Atticus and the others said.

"Maids?" Darla and Mo sighed as they got in place.

"At least we're bodyguards." Atticus shrugged to Patch.

"I'm a FOOTSTOOL?!" Cherry snapped.

Drell soon laughed quietly.

"I'm gonna drown him..." Cherry growled under her breath.


Atticus and Patch followed Kuzco as he walked down a path. Darla threw down rose petals as Kuzco walked in to decorate his arrival down the red carpet that was placed down for him.

'At least there's no theme song.' Darla thought to herself.

"Butler," Kuzco smirked as he sat at his throne while his feet were on top of Cherry. "Chef... Theme song guy."

"Wait, what?" Darla asked.

There was a tall cake and a singer came out of it and sang all about Kuzco.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me." Darla groaned.

Kuzco smiled smugly as he enjoyed the song a little too much while it seemed to annoy everyone else.

"Atticus, no offense, but this guy seems... Uh... Full of himself." Patch spoke up.

"I agree with you there, Patch." Atticus said.

A red ribbon was given to Kuzco and he cut them lazily with a large pair of scissors and there were three newborn babies given to Kuzco and he took out a stamp and planted it on their foreheads to show kiss marks. He then lazily tossed a bottle to a ship which then sailed away in his honor. He then wiped his forehead until someone fanned him and he was given water and had to spit it into a bucket, but he missed and splashed the servant, but the servant didn't dare to complain.

"This guy is really full of himself." Mo whispered.

"Man, I hate selfish people." Darla pouted.

Cherry snickered at that since Darla was just like that before she became a Fudo.

"I get it, I used to be selfish too." Darla groaned.

"Yes, you were..." Cherry remembered.

"I don't like to be reminded of it..." Darla replied.

"Alright, Cherry, I think you should stop mentioning it." Mo said.

Cherry muttered and rolled her eyes.

Kuzco had fun being the center of attention, until he did a moonwalk and bumped into an old man and then complained. "NO! You threw off my groove!" he glared at the old man before turning away and folding his arms.

"I'm sorry, but you have thrown off the emperor's groove." a guard told the old man before throwing him out of the palace.

"Sorry!" The old man yelled.

Kuzco glared before looking down to his singer. "You were saying?"

"What's his name?" the singer asked as he brought the song back up.

"Kuzco!" the chorus jeered.

"I am just about to lose it." Patch groaned.

"Okay, if it helps, he's worse than you were." Cherry said to Darla.

"Thanks, I guess..." Darla rolled her eyes.


After the song ended, Kuzco kicked a door open. "HA! Boom, baby!"

Atticus and the others soon other young women in the room.

"Oh, Your Highness, it's time for you to pick your bride..." a man in the room said, rather nervously.

"All right, trod out the ladies," Kuzco smirked. "Let's have a look-see..." he then examined each of the girls one-by-one. Hate your hair, not likely, yikes, yikes yikes, and let me guess, you have a great personality," he then glared at the man. "Is this really the best you can do?"

"Wow, he sure is judgy with choosing a bride." Patch whispered.

The man stammered of Kuzco's disapproval and tried to excuse himself while Kuzco looked annoyed of him babbling.

"Uh, Your Highness, we should probably get to your throne room." Atticus spoke up.

"Oh, you're right and besides, I have a feeling Yzma is trying to do my job again." Kuzco said.

"Yzma?" The others asked.

"Yeah, my adviser and where luckily one of you just might become my new adviser after firing her." Kuzco said as they made their way to the throne room.

Atticus and Patch smiled to each other.


"Come along, you can all have a break, you seem cooler than the other servants," Kuzco said, his lackadaisical teenager side coming out. "Anyway, Yzma's basically living proof that dinosaurs once roamed the Earth, and let's not forget Yzma's right-hand man, every decade or so, she gets a new one, this year's model is called 'Kronk'."

"I don't pay much attention, but it's just her thing..." Kuzco shrugged. "She's been here for as long as I can remember ever since my parents left me in charge in case they didn't make it back home from their voyage out to sea."

"How long have they been gone?" Darla asked.

Kuzco paused to think about it, but then frowned slightly. "Sometime after I was born."

This caused the others to gasp as that must have felt horrible.

"Don't tell me, at some point, you're gonna find out about Kuzco's parents." Cherry said to Atticus.

"I might have to." Atticus replied.


They came into the throne room where a cowardly older man was talking with an older woman who was next to a buff young man who looked more like a gentle giant than a mean bully and where he didn't seem not that smart. Yzma waved at a bug that was buzzing around her face.

"Yeah, I got that there, Yzma..." Kronk said as he tried to get the fly, it landed on his forehead and he smacked himself on the forehead, missing the fly, and making him fall back on the floor.

"Yep, that's Kronk..." Kuzco sighed and shook his head. "Now, lately, Yzma's gotten this bad habit of trying to run the country behind my back, and I'm thinkin', that's gotta stop."

"So, you're gonna fire her, right?" Atticus asked.

"Oh, you betcha." Kuzco nodded.

The villager was trying to tell Yzma his concerns, but she didn't seem to care.

"It is no concern of mine whether your family has-" Yzma glared down the villager. "What was it again?"

"Uh, food?" the villager replied.

"HA!" Yzma mocked. "You really should have thought of that before you became peasants! We're through here. Take him away. Next!"

"Shouldn't you stop her from sending that man away?" Darla asked Kuzco.

"I'll worry about it." Kuzco replied.

"Ugh..." Yzma groaned as she rubbed her head.

"The nerve of some of those peasants, huh?" Kuzco asked quietly.

"Tell me about it..." Yzma replied until she screamed out and saw him right behind her. "YAUGH!"

"Hello." Cherry smirked.

"Ooh, Your Highness..." Yzma smiled nervously to Kuzco.

"Ahem." Kuzco pointed to his throne.

Yzma smiled nervously as she dusted the seat to get 'her germs' off of it.

"Uh, you were doing it again." Kuzco told Yzma.

Yzma was soon stumbling her words, acting like she didn't know what he was talking about. Kuzco scolded her until he found himself zoning out and even noticed that Yzma had a piece of broccoli in her teeth.

"Good thinking, Yzma, what do you say, Kuzco?" Kronk smiled before tapping the young emperor gently.

"WHOA! No touchy!" Kuzco got defensive. "No touchy!... No touch!"

"He really doesn't like being touched." Patch whispered.

"Cherry's like that too." Atticus whispered back.

"Uh, excuse me, your Highness," a guy walked in. "The village leader is here to see you. "

"Oh, great, send him in!" Kuzco replied before glancing to Yzma. "By the way, you're fired."

"Fired?! W-W-What do you mean fired?" Yzma asked out of shock.

"Uh, how else can I say it?" Kuzco replied before getting a servant to fill out a pink slip to give to Yzma. "You're being let go, your department's being downsized, you're part of an outplacement, we're going in a different direction, we're not picking up your option. Take your pick. I've got more!"

Yzma took the slip and stumbled over her words again and fell into the throne. "But I-you - uh-but your Highness, I have been nothing if not loyal to the empire f-f-for many, many years..."

"Hey, hey, everybody hits their stride, you just hit yours 50 years ago," Kuzo replied before smirking. "So, who's in my chair?~"

"Ooh, I know, I know!" Kronk raised his hand. "Yzma's in your chair, right?"

"Wow, he is not smart." Patch whispered.

"Very good, Kronk!" Kuzco cooed before taking out a cracker. "Here, get the snack!" he then pretended to throw it.

"Got it!" Kronk jumped like a dog for a treat before falling off the throne and crashed on the floor. "I'm okay!"

"Okay, you heard the man!" Kuzco shooed Yzma away. "Up, up, up!"

Yzma soon got off the throne before walking away grumbling.

"Arent' you worried she might try something later?" Cherry asked.

"Ah, what could she do?" Kuzco scoffed before sitting down into his throne. "Ah... Atticus, congratulations, you'll be my new adviser."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Atticus said with a bow.

Patch also bowed as he couldn't help but did what his master did.