Hey guys!
Guess what! Today is my birthday! So as a special treat, I've decided to submit not one, but TWO stories! They are 'Klank and Orbus, Where Are You Now?' and

'What if Julie...?'. I know I said I was only going to release one based on the poll, but I figured what the hey, and decided to do this as a special birthday gift from me to you. All you have to do is send me reviews as to whether this is good, how can I improve it, what you liked about it, and what you might like to see. I really need reviews everyone because I am really busy in real life and your reviews inspire me to let my creativity out as they tell me that 'Yes, we care that So-and-So was willing to write this and we hope to see him do more!'. So please, read, review, but most importantly, ENJOY THE SHOW!

-Count Kulalu-

Disclaimer: I don't own Power Ranger/Super Sentai/ Dr. Seuss and/or any and/or all concepts and/or characters. They are copyrighted to their respective owners. If I did own them, I would have the power to release Power Rangers Zeo and Ohranger on DVD and iTunes for purchase. That, and all the other seasons and series in seasonal box sets and season options on iTunes. Don't you wish I was in charge?

"I do, however, reserve the right to claim Klank and Orbus as my robot minions considering that I hired them after Zeo and Ohranger ended. But I don't own the shows they appear in.

Just wanted to make that perfectly clear! Enjoy!"

-Count Kulalu-

Chapter 0-Wish, Wish, *Wish*-Part 1

It was just another day at the fortress of the Royal House of Gadgetry. Nothing important or out of the ordinary was going on. No schemes to takeover worlds were being planned or acted upon. The big plan to conquer Earth was still light-years and centuries from being enacted. So to this race of machines, it was simple a boring day.

Unfortunately, a day when things are simple and boring is a day that brings pain and annoyance to two loyal footmen.

"Faster you bucket of bolts!" shouted the young Prince Buldont. He was riding on the back of Klank as if he was a horse. The poor butler could only comply although he hoped his master would take it easy on him.

"Your majesty, there surely must be better things you could d-"

"I said faster! Or do you want to end up like the tin can over there." The prince pointed at a pile of scrap metal that looked like a collapsed erector set. Underneath the pile you could make out the buried form of Orbus in a cage made from the rubble.

"Don't upset him, Klank! Spare yourself the pain!" The poor little guy cried out. Klank's gears wound faster as he decided to hasten his pace in order to save himself from a similar fate. The worst part was knowing that the erector set was brand new-they had to melt the cog soldiers down to make it just a few days ago.

"I'll say! What is the meaning of this?" Klank stopped running to see Empress Hysteria waving a folded fan impatiently. This was not a good sign. "I thought I told you to put Buldont to recharge an hour ago, Klank?"

"Well, your majesty, it was…I mean…" Klank was screwed. He could either tell the Empress that he disobeyed her order to obey Prince Buldont's order to continue playing or he could tell her the truth and risk the wrath from putting the blame on her son. Either way, he wasn't getting out of this unscathed.

"Ah, mom, do I have to recharge? Can't I just get a new power pack when mine depletes?"

"No! A member of the royal house does not simply settle for a power pack." Hysteria lectured her son. "Besides, you are much too young to go long periods without recharge."

"But-"

"No buts! Now off to your recharge station." She pointed the way for him with her fan. The little prince grudgingly obeyed.

"Oh, fine."

"Now as for you two!" She pointed at Klank who was getting Orbus out of the prison. "Clean up this mess!"

"But-" Klank started, but the empress already left before she could hear him. Orbus saw his friend's displeasure and if he had a face not made of metal, would probably give him an understanding frown.

"Makes you wonder what it would be like to work for someone else, right?"

Klank just slowly nodded and got to work. Never did he think what his little friend said would have some major repercussions.

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[At another place and time]

Count Kulalu was just sitting there on his couch, playing Bayonetta.

"C'mon…take that Fortitudo!" He kept mashing buttons. The halo counter on the screen was going higher and higher. "Heh-heh, yeah, now I almost got enough for-"

He suddenly paused the game. "Why do I have the sudden urge to punch Klank in the face for letting Orbus break the fourth wall? And why do I feel like someone out there is calling me a hypocrite for doing the same?"

The masked count pondered this more as he adjusted his top hat. He simply shrugged his shoulders and continued playing his games, ranking up halos with a certain gunslinger witch. He absentmindedly mashed buttons in one hand while he used the other to pull out a pocket watch.

"Well, it's about time I get this show started." He then saved his game as he finished playing. A quick adjustment of the top hat here, and a minor shift of his collar there, and he looked ready to go.

"It's time for this adventure to get underway…Klank and Orbus!"

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[Back at the Baranoia Fortress…IN SPACE!]

"I still don't see why we have to tell the pipsqueak a story, Klank." Orbus said from his perch on Klank's shoulder.

Klank tried to get the little guy to understand. "It's like this, Orbus, we tell the prince a story, he'll fall asleep, then we'll get some peace and quiet until the masters tell us to perform some other tasks."

"Yeah, but even then we'll still have to fix the royal viewing screen." Orbus sadly informed.

Klank just patted his head. "Look, after we put his majesty to sleep, we'll just fix the screen and go out for a nice tune up. How does that sound?"

"Sounds good! Could I get the 50 credit treatment?"

"You've earned it, Orbus."

"I better have. I didn't go through that torture for nothing. Nuh-uh!"

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It wasn't easy, but after much fuss and whining from the prince, the two butlers finally got him to go into recharge mode. Now all they had to do was fix the viewing screen and they could get a well-deserved rest.

"So what made Bacchus-boss mad this time?" Orbus asked as stood next to the tool box. Klank was doing his best to repair the special cog that showed the Royal House whatever they wanted to see, but it looked like the blast it suffered from was a real doozey.

"Apparently he's been a bit cranky since he found out that we are two weeks behind schedule on the new soldier production line." Klank said as he reset the broken wires together. Just to think, he barely got out of the way of the blast from Bacchus' staff to avoid being the machine blown apart this time.

"Only a bit?" Orbus asked. Klank tried to ignore that quip, but felt that he had something else to say.

"Orbus, do you ever wish that you could just get away from it all?"

"You mean like when you go to your secret place behind-"

"Not like that! I mean…do you ever just wish we could live our lives like we want them to be?"

The little robot tilted his little head in wonder. "You mean…if we were our own bosses?"

"I suppose so…" Klank started only to immediately assure his comrade that he wasn't thinking of committing treason to the empire. "I mean, I will always be loyal to the Baranoia cause…but you can only be kicked around so many times."

Orbus could only agree. He may not have been slammed to the ground like Klank has, but that was more because of his friend taking the hits for him. Had it not been for Klank, he would have been made into spare cogs eons ago. Still, he was given the amount of respect that you would give to a pet, not a loyal member who despite being vertically challenged actually did his part to keep the empire running smoothly. As for all the shenanigans he was put through during Prince Buldont's playtime…if it wasn't for the fact that as a machine he could transfer certain memories from his files, Orbus would have probably gone through the procedure to have a self-destruct feature placed in him. "…Oh, how I wish, wish, *wish* we could get away from it all, even if it was for only a moment."

"Aye! Although, it probably be only a moment compared to all the centuries we'll live." That was all too true. The two of them were not just any sort of machines, but those of the Machine Empire Baranoia. They were beings of the eternal gears. They would never die. Eternity was just a state of existence and what was a lifetime for some was just a moment for them. It seemed that forever wasn't as special to them since they could always be fixed, recharged, and made anew.

All eternity was to the two robot butlers was an existence that was shackled into serving the empire.

"But enough of that kind of thinking for now. Hand me that hammer over there." He had finally made all the proper connections and was now ready to hammer down the covering over the circuitry. Orbus gladly handed him the tool. They were just about done and-

"KLANK! ORBUS!"

Klank smashed through the wiring and pierced the screen on the other side. The Emperor's sudden shout caused him to overexert himself.

"No! Now we have to do it all over again!" Orbus cried out as he stared at the broken screen.

"Oh dear! If Bacchus finds out, we'll-" But before Klank could finish that thought, the screen started to glow with an extremely bright light. Had they not been machines, Klank and Orbus would have been blinded by its brilliance. Still, they were hypnotized and dazed enough to be ignorant of the world around them. They were especially ignorant of a certain machine emperor's call to them.

"KLANK! ORBUS! COME HERE AT ONCE!"

But they didn't. Or rather, they could not for in that flash of brilliant white light they stood there. When the light died down, it left an empty room with neither footman of the Machine Empire in sight.

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"Oh, my aching circuits." Klank moaned as he slowly got up.

"Let's not do that again." Orbus groaned as he floated off from his spot on Klank's chest.

"Aye. Never Again." He then took a look around the vast white space they were in. "Now where do you suppose we are?"

As if to answer their questions, the space was suddenly filled with a bright spectrum of colors until a man appeared before the. He was dressed up in a black suit with a square-like white spiral on the shirt. He wore a top hat, but it was his mask that drew the most attention towards himself. It was half black on the left and half white on the right with the alternate color shading in that side's half of the smile and eye. His eternal smile seemed to fit him well because he spoke with a happy an upbeat tone.

"Klank and Orbus, your wish has been heard, and your wish, has been granted!"

(He took off his hat and gave a quick bow.)

Gentlemen, I am a head representative of the good doing Guardians Of Dimensions.

(He handed them a card that had an emblem of a guardian angel with the letters G. O. D. on it.)

I have branches from Twilight Town, Angel Grove, Traverse Town, and Hollow Bastion.

(He showed them a star chart, which turned out to be a world chart that was marked with MANY more places.)

And I put about helping people like you who need our services and you most certainly do!

(He put a gloved hand in front of his masked face as if he was holding back a laugh.)

Your lifestyle…if you'll permit me…is simply P.U.!

(Klank and Orbus bowed their heads in shame because there was no arguing with that.)

But!

(He pointed a finger towards the heavens.)

You lucky two,

I've got a gift just for you,

It's a way to get away from it all!

(A mysterious musical instrument and bench slowly descended down from the white void above. It looked like the cross between an upright piano and a keyboard. It was carefully brought down by two figures that looked possibly related to the mysterious figure in some way. They too wore masks, however, the seemed to be dressed in spandex suits because the one on the left was all black, while the other was all white. To make them appear even stranger, the black one seemed to only have half of the masked man's mask while the white one had the other.)

This lucky keyano,

Not a simple piano,

Will take you away from it

Far, far away from it,

Far, far away from it all!

"See here, Mr…" Klank started, only to realize he hadn't received the masked man's name.

"Kulalu" He tipped his hat to the two members of the Machine Empire Baranoia. "Count Kulalu."

"Well, we can't just go off and about at this moment."

"Well, why not?" Kulalu tilted his head in curiosity, however the smile of his mask added to the aura that he knew the answer, but found the excuse humorous.

"Yeah, why not?" Orbus questioned like a child being told he was not old enough to go.

"Orbus, you know His majesty would not permit us to leave with no announcement."

"I bet he wouldn't let you leave at all." He nudged an elbow to the all-black character. "Am I right, Schizo?"

"I'm sure they must get some sort of vacation time." The all-white character stated optimistically.

"They obviously don't, Phrenia, otherwise we wouldn't be here to pull off a musical number." The now named Schizo replied curtly.

"Now, now. No need for you two to fight. We're here for their problem, not yours." Kulalu kindly chided. The count's words must have had serious merit on the two, for they immediately stopped whatever argument they were about to have.

"Sorry, sir." They both replied simultaneously, which oddly sounded like a slightly distorted version of the count's own voice.

"No problem. Just remember why we are here. Speaking of which, it would be helpful if you knew how to use this keyano, no? Now, to use this lovely contraption, just play these simple notes," Kulalu's fingers ran along the keyboard as if he'd done this dozens of times. The moment the little tune (C, C, C, D, D#, E) ended, the Keyano opened up and displayed a great number of different colored buttons. "and voila! You have access to any place in the universe with a touch of a button. Isn't that great?"

Orbus shook in excitement. "Oh! Can we really go anywhere?"

"Anywhere in this world, another world, or maybe nowhere at all." He then pushed a button that was organized into a section of more mundane looking buttons. "Here, I'll just set it to fly around for a bit to demonstrate."

The keyano started to play itself in a jovial tune as the count simply laid down side ways on the bench. It then rose up and started to fly about in wide-spread figure eights. As it flew about, the notes it played would magically trail behind it in a spectrum of colors.

"Now, if you ever find that you need to come back to your home-not sure why, but you never know-then all you have to do is to lift this latch here and twitch this homing pigeon switch." He then lifted a latch on the side of the keyano and out poped a long switch that he simply flicked. The moment he did so the keyono stopped in place and started to play a different tune. The melody of this one was more gentle and soothing and reminded a person of the place one's own home had in their heart. A gentle flock of black and white notes appeared around it, almost like butterflies. It was the right song to play as the keyano gentle settled down in front of the two robots.

"So what do you say? Want to take it for a spin?"

"What's the catch?" Orbus asked.

"No catch. Just make sure that where you go is where you want and be off." His hand waved nonchalantly, but stopped as he realized he forgot to mention one little thing. "Well, there is one little thing. Just a small concession on your part."

"What's that?" Klank cautiously asked. He had expected this to come with a price. Nothing ever came for free, especially when you work under the Royal House of Gadgetry.

"I just need you to sign this sheet here, with the promise that I can count on you to do a favor for me in the future." He held the sheet in front of them with a pen in hand. "Nothing serious, just that I'm basically giving you a non-expense way to go anywhere, so the least you could do is to scratch my back as I have done yours, so-to-speak."

While Orbus nearly flew at the count to give his signature, Klank reached out and grabbed the little droid in midair. "I suppose we have the chance to read this contract before we sign."

"Of course, go right ahead." Kulalu handed them the paper and pen, while sitting back on the bench in anticipation.

Klank looked at the contract carefully, making sure to scan every line no matter how small. As a machine, he could scan for loopholes better that any human ever could. He also had obtained the skills of contract reading after a culmination of doing paper work for the Machine Empire. As far as he could tell, there was nothing detrimental to signing this sheet of paper other than that if he destroyed the keyano, he and Orbus (who be the signatures on this contract) would have to pay of the debt they would accumulate.

"Does everything seem in order?"

"…Aye, it does." Klank said as he finally decided to sign this piece of paper. He would normally use a seal of the Empire next to it-which he always kept on hand in his hand-but Emperor Bacchus was the last one he wanted to know about this. He gave the pen to Orbus, who signed his name too and even made a smiley face with the 'O' in his name. Klank handed the sheet back to Count Kulalu. The masked man took the paper and slipped it into his top hat for safe keeping.

"Now that that formality is out of the way." He got off the bench and gestured towards the keyano. Klank and orbus immediately found themselves seated on the bench thanks to the 'helping hands' of Schizo and Phrenia. "IT's time for you to get far, far away from it all!"

Orbus shook his little arms in excitement. "Oh boy! Where should we go, Klank?"

Klank looked at all of the different buttons in hesitation. There were so many, and he sensed that any of them had an equal chance to be better or worse that where he currently was. He finally decided on one of the greenish colored buttons, but only placed a finger hovering over it as if he needed a more convincing nudge to choose it.

"Oh that's a good one!" Kulalu assured. "Takes you straight to the land of Ooo."

"Really?" Klank pondered. "Well, why not Ooo?"

"Oh! Oh! Can I push it?" Orbus asked. Klank nodded and the little robot floated up and pressed the button. The keyano then started playing an acoustic melody that was calm like the sea breeze. The notes that came from it were a mixture of gold, blue, and green. They floated high above them and started circling around, faster and faster until they suddenly became a portal. As the two robots were busy watching the sight, they realized that the keyano and bench they were on was flying towards it.

"Have fun boys! Enjoy yourselves in Ooo!" The count said as he, Schizo, and Phrenia waved goodbye to them as they flew off into the portal.

"Thank you, kind sirs!" Klank waved to the three.

Orbus waved to them as well. "Thanks again!"

The keyano finally passed through the portal. The portal immediately disappeared behind the the two robots, along with any notion that the three lone occupants in this dimension were overly exuberant.

Instead, they all suddenly took a much more solemn and serious tone as one could see when they spoke to the other.

"Was it all right to get them to sign that piece of psychic paper?" Phrenia asked.

"Is the goody-goody feeling guilty?" Schizo mocked.

"No, I just don't like to trick people into doing things like the two of you do." The white one defended. It looked like a violent argument was about to start.

Again, Count Kulalu stopped it from breaking out between the two. "It was necessary. I know it. You both know it. What's done is done."

"But what is it that we have done?"

"What could come about from what you plan on doing with them?"

Both had valid points. What was it that Count Kulalu hoped to accomplish from all of this?

The masked count looked up at where there once was a portal and two robots riding a keyano through it. His mask may have a smile on it, but he couldn't have looked much more solemn.

"…I hope that they could be the ones who could do it." He took off his hat and placed it over his heart in hope. "Maybe they could be the ones who could find the right door and save all those whose lives who have been made to be ruined...especially hers."

He placed his hat back on his head as the white space suddenly faded into black. Schizo and Phrenia were nowhere to be found. It was like they were never there. Before it completely faded to black, Kulalu's mask remained in the dark with his final words.

"It may be a madman's hope, but I believe that those two are the ones who can save her."

His mask suddenly and inexplicably became a shape of a black and white chibi doll chained to a heart shaped moon.

"After all, it could be that those who claim to be without hearts…maybe in fact be able to reach out to one who may never got the chance to have one of their own."

And with that said, the realm was completely black as if it was a void in which nothing was ever there at all.

(To be continued…)

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And so, a series of crazy adventures that Klank and Orbus would remember for times to come has begun.

Will they make new friends?

Will they face new enemies?

Will they find love?

Who knows, but I can be sure that it will probably be awesome. ;)

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