Chapter 1: The Bus Ride And Signing In
"Location: California, June 19th 2013"
On a bus somewhere in a forest in California, the Rugrats and their families were taking a trip to a camp called Camp Everwood for a week. Peter was accompanying them as well, and had brought some Disney and Nickelodeon characters along as well because he'd thought they'd like to come too. With him was Kuzco, Patcha, Kronk, Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Scroop, Wendy Pleakley, Mike, Sulley, Randall, Kenai, Denahi, Sitka, Nigel Thornberry, Danny Fenton, Sam Manson, Tucker Foley, Zim, GIR, Tak, SpongeBob, Timmy Turner, and Alexandria the Matchgirl. Because of the amount of people going, everyone had to get the longest bus they could find to fit everyone.
Currently, Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi, and Peter were looking at a video on Tommy's Camcorder. In the video, Lil and Pleakley had been making popcorn in the kitchen of Tommy and Dil's house the previous night, when there was a call on the house phone. Pleakley answered it to find a man on the other line of the phone acting like he knew whatever they were doing. The human girl and Plorgonian alien got freaked out, and they started locking each of the doors. However, they soon discovered that it was just a prank by Dil and Art the Monster when the two had used the dog door to spook them, and the four had started laughing. Tommy sighed and closed the Camcorder lid.
"Ugh, lame. This horror movie thing is a bust." Tommy said.
Lil closed her eyes and sighed.
"I promise not to laugh next time, Tommy." Lil said.
"There will be no next time. I'm all out of Summer." Tommy said.
Peter patted Tommy on his back.
"Don't give up now, Tommy. You'll come up with something." Peter said encouragingly.
Kimi nodded in agreement with her friend.
"Peter's right. You're probably just going through a funk right now. It'll pass." Kimi said.
Angelica, who was sitting on a seat on the opposite side of the bus and forced to share a seat with Susie and Nigel, scoffed.
"Don't rush it, Pickles. Summer isn't over until I sing and get the lead in the Camp Musical." Angelica said.
Susie, who was seated next to Angelica with Nigel on her other side, rolled her eyes.
"I see your ego is fat." Susie growled.
Danny, who was sitting behind the two girls and Nigel with Sam and Tucker, nodded in agreement.
"You really need to humble yourself, Angelica. You're really acting just as much of a bully as Dash is." Danny said.
Angelica scoffed.
"Don't tell me what to do, Fenton. You may be the half-ghost hero of Amity Park, but I'm my own person and I can make my own decisions." Angelica hissed.
Just then, the bus passed a sign that read 'Camp Everwood, 7 Miles'.
"Ugh, going to Summer School for Summer School. I have to cramp three months of fun into one week." Phil said angrily.
"I refuse to come home until I at least find one thing I'm good at... but don't quote me on that." Chuckie declared.
"Well, I won't go back to the rest of the crew back in the Wilderness until I find something exciting to study at the camp. It's a new place for us, after all." Nigel said.
Zim grinned evilly.
"Or maybe a place for me to conquer." Zim said.
Dil smirked.
"I want to run with Bigfoot. Not serious quality time, just a brief visual will do." Dil said.
Patcha smiled.
"I just want to sit back, relax, and enjoy our time in the camp. It is a vacation, after all." Patcha said.
"Maybe for you, but for me, it's not." Phil said angrily.
Tak patted Phil on the back from his seat with Timmy, Jimmy, and SpongeBob.
"Ah, cheer up, will you? Maybe you'll find something exciting to learn about." Tak said.
Jim looked over at Tommy.
"What do you plan on doing, Tommy?" Jim asked.
"I plan on reshooting my movie. If nothing else, at least the camp locations will be creepy." Tommy replied.
Mike shook his head.
"Remember, Tommy, not all of us are so easily scared. Three of us are monsters and are used to scary "phenomena"." Mike said.
Danny nodded.
"Mike's right. I'm a half-ghost, and have battled very dangerous ghosts on more than one occasion." Danny said.
"Me and Silver are space pirates, and we've seen things that would make you go as white as the brightest star in all the solar system." Scroop added.
"I died briefly back in 2003, and me and Kenai gained our animal abilities." Sitka added.
"And I go to dangerous environments every month on explorations." Nigel added.
Just then, the bus turned onto a dirt road and passed by a sign that read 'Camp Everwood, 5 Miles'.
"And this is Betty Deville's wild ride!" Betty, who was driving the bus, exclaimed.
Everyone inside the bus started getting bumped around from how rough the road was.
"Betty, please, keep the bouncing to a minimum. I just had kidney surgery." Charlotte pleaded, oddly with a smile on her face.
Tucker inwardly shivered in disgust. After a few more minutes, the bus came to a stop in front of a sign that read 'Camp Everwood'.
"Well, this is it, folks! Welcome to Camp Everwood!" Betty announced.
After the group got off the bus, they headed over to a sign-in building, where a crowd had gathered because a blonde haired man with a mustache was going over everything about the camp, with a paranoid-looking old gray haired woman standing on his left and a teenage boy standing on his right.
"I'm Chance, your Camp Supervisor, Musical Director, and Playright." the man introduced in a Southern accent.
He motioned to the woman next to him.
"Ellie here runs the Bait Tackle and Donut Shop." Chance introduced.
"The door's open from 7 to 6 Weekdays." Ellie announced.
She suddenly scowled.
"And I specialize in granite arrowheads, to keep ghosts away." Ellie announced.
Kuzco scoffed, the Emperor not convinced in the slightest.
"Ghosts? Here?" Kuzco asked incredulously.
"Yes, because word is that this camp is haunted. Cursed, even." Ellie replied.
She then walked inside the sign-in building.
"She's kind of a whack job." Chance whispered.
He then pointed to the teenage boy next to him.
"And that tall drink of crick water is Bean." Chance introduced.
Bean smiled and waved at the crowd. Lil and Kimi smiled dreamily and looked at each other for a brief moment. However, once Bean looked at the crowd and waved at them, Danny's Ghost Sense went off as he felt the usual presence of a ghost. However, the mist that came out of his mouth was black, instead of blue like it normally was.
"What the... is there a ghost? Why is my breath... black?" Danny wondered.
He looked over at Bean. While he couldn't sense a ghost's presence coming from him, something about him felt off.
"But that's impossible. He's a human, not a ghost. He could be a half-ghost, but that's very unlikely, since this place isn't anywhere in Amity Park. I doubt that a ghost would come all the way to the middle of nowhere, with very little people, to cause chaos." Danny thought.
He was brought out of his thoughts by Chance speaking again.
"Okay, Nature Lovers, let's get you all settled in so we can get this show on the road!" Chance announced.
He motioned for the crowd to follow him and then led them further down the dirt road to a simple outdoor theater.
"This is where you'll be performing our original musicale! I don't want to spoil the surprise, but I can't help it. My uncle's cousin's friend who walks dogs for a casting director is coming to the show. Today, Camp Everwood... tomorrow, arf, arf, Broadway!" Chance explained.
Kenai whistled in surprise.
"Wow. That's actually pretty impressive." Kenai whispered.
Denahi smirked.
"What? You think you could do better?" Denahi asked teasingly.
Kenai frowned.
"Ha, ha, very funny." Kenai replied sarcastically.