A different take on "The Hamster Effect" where Penfold is not affected by the altered timeline instead of Danger Mouse.
Danger Mouse's personality is STILL a mix of his 80s personality and his 2015 personality.
This was something I really wanted to do, but never got the motivation to do it. I also changed the past a bit.
Enjoy!
London.
Saturday morning, and the world's greatest secret agent as voted for by readers of the Super Spy Magazine gets in a blah, blah, blah, let's just skip to the good parts.
I know this was supposed to be a dark, alternative take on "The Hamster Effect", but I'd rather get to what the readers wanted to read than repeat what's going on at the beginning of that episode.
"HELP!" cried Penfold's voice.
We now go to the larger-than-life pillar box where we see Penfold, the world's not-so-cowardly assistant to the world's greatest secret agent, hanging onto the black edges of HQ for his dear life.
"Someone help!" Penfold cried again.
Danger Mouse notices Penfold through the window. "You know what this reminds me of, Penfold? The day we met."
()()(FLASHBACK TIME!)()()
"Do you mind having the flashback AFTER you saved me, chief?" Penfold interrupts the flashback sequence.
()()(FLASHBACK TIME! Without any interruptions!)()()
We cut into the past where the trainees and a younger Colonel K are at a very dangerous test area. There were Trainee Pelican, Trainee Hedgehog… whose wearing a pair of glasses for some reason, Trainer Mackerel, Trainee Moth, Trainee Sheep and Trainee Mouse… still wearing his trusty eyepatch, and with a dashing Mohawk to go along with it.
"Trainees, this is the final test before you become Danger agents!" A younger Colonel K announced to the trainees. "I call it the Danger Agent Final Test!"
The trainees looked at the area where the final test is to be held. Huge fire is popping out from the holes of the tires, crocodiles jumping out from the water located below the monkey bars, and huge blades of saw hovering below a tightrope.
Fear struck every trainee upon seeing the sight of the final test while Colonel K lets out a confident smile.
That is except for two trainees – Trainee Mouse and Trainee Sheep. Trainee Sheep lets out a confident smile while Trainee Mouse just slurps from a cup of soda without expressing any fear.
"Hmm, it all looks a little easy." Trainee Mouse said casually.
"This doesn't look too hard." Trainee Sheep replied with full confidence. "I can do it with my hands tied behind my back while wearing a blindfold."
"Boulderdash!" Colonel K scowled at both Trainee Mouse and Trainee Sheep. "You two just try it and see!"
Colonel K blows a whistle, signalling that the test has started.
Every trainee in the area are now trying their best to make it through a very dangerous obstacle course. Trainee Hedgehog is trying his best to get past the tire obstacle course, but when he lands on one of the tires, the huge fire goes off, burning him till he black and burnt. Trainee Sheep goes through the course without problems and stops by the burnt Trainee Hedgehog with a stick in hand with a marshmallow on its tip.
"Eh, not very tiring." Trainee Sheep spoke in a bored expression as he roasted his marshmallow by a tiny fire that is still burning on one of Trainee Sheep's burnt spikes. Trainee Hedgehog could do nothing but glare at Trainee Sheep.
As soon as Trainee Sheep leaves while eating a roasted marshmallow, Trainee Hedgehog fainted.
Trainee Mouse, who was also going through the obstacle course without any problems, notices Trainee Hedgehog unconscious and immediately stopped to help him.
"Are you okay?" He asked Trainee Hedgehog.
Trainee Hedgehog could only groan in response. The only logical thing Trainee Mouse could do in a situation like this is get him to a health tent where injured trainees go to. With Trainee Hedgehog safe in the tent and taken care of by the doctors, Trainee Mouse went back to doing the final test with the other trainees that haven't been injured or killed yet.
At the monkey bars obstacle course, Trainee Pelican is half-way done with the course when a crocodile jumps out from the water out of nowhere and drags him down by the feet.
"AHHH!" Trainee Pelican screamed as he is dragged into the water.
When Trainee Sheep heard Trainee Pelican's cry for help upon getting across the monkey bars, he ignores it and continues on with the test. When Trainee Mouse heard Trainee Pelican's cry for help upon getting across the monkey bars, he stopped, seeing the trainee getting mauled by the crocodiles.
"Looks more fun down there." Trainee Mouse spoke as he lets himself fall into the waters to not only fight against the crocodiles, but to also save Trainee Pelican from getting mauled to death.
Colonel K just stood there looking surprised as Trainee Mouse continues to fight against the crocodiles.
Trainee Mouse threw one of the crocodiles over the walls. What he didn't know is that his life would soon change.
From where the thrown crocodile is heading, a younger Ernest Penfold is walking on a seemingly empty sidewalk while heading towards Patent C Office, a place where aspiring inventors register and sell their inventions in hopes of making a career of themselves. You see, Penfold's overbearing Aunt Doreen wanted the wealthy Penfold family to expand their vast wealth worldwide, not just New York alone, just to show everyone that the wealthy are very powerful and are not to be messed with. So she sends the young Ernest Penfold, now a young adult to London in hopes he would successfully sell his self-sharpening pencil invention and bring honor to the Penfold family.
What young Ernest Penfold didn't know is that by the time he reaches the revolving door of Patent C Office, a crocodile, previous thrown out of the dangerous test area by Trainee Mouse, made contact with the revolving door which causes the door to spin around at full speed, which caused Penfold to get thrown up into the air to where the Danger Agent Final Test is taking place.
Trainee Mouse is one of the few that managed to get through most of the obstacles without any problems. He is currently climbing on a huge metal fence.
"So when does this difficult test start exactly?" Trainee Mouse asked Colonel K.
"HELP!" Trainee Mouse's ears picked up at the sound of someone crying for help.
He notices Ernest Penfold falling from the sky. Acting quickly, Trainee Mouse grabbed Ernest Penfold by the hand before the hamster could reach the ground. At that point, Ernest Penfold stopped screaming.
"Nice twist, Colonel." Trainee Mouse cried to Colonel K. "I didn't see that coming."
And so from that point on, Trainee Mouse went back to completing the test with flying colors with a screaming and scared Ernest Penfold by his side. Ernest Penfold seemed scared at first but after a while, he slowly began to enjoy the thrill of the dangerous test.
"Congratulations, Colonel." Trainee Mouse spoke to Colonel K after finishing the test. "We'll take the job."
"Excellent!" Colonel K cried happily before stopping to notice Penfold. "Wait a second. What do you mean 'we'?"
"Well it wasn't any fun without…" He looks at the hamster. "What's your name?"
"Ernest Wibraham Keith Benedict Penfold." Ernest Penfold replied.
"Right, I'll just call you Penfold instead." Trainee Mouse turns to Colonel K. "I'll do it only if you hire Penfold."
"Alright, if you say so." Colonel K replied before looking at Ernest Penfold and shaking hands with the hamster roughly. "Welcome to the agency, Penfold."
Penfold felt his world spinning in circles due to Colonel K's rough handshake before Trainee Mouse held him still so he won't faint from dizziness.
"You okay?" Trainee Mouse asked Ernest Penfold who immediately came round.
"I'm fine…" He looks at the one-eyed mouse. "What's your name?"
"The name's Mouse." Trainee Mouse replied as he and Ernest Penfold leave the test area to who knows where.
"Danger Mouse."
Ernest Penfold may not know it, but this looks like the start of a great friendship.
()()(END FLASHBACK)()()
"And that's how we first met." Danger Mouse finished reminiscing the day he and Penfold met by the time he get Penfold inside HQ safely. "Ah, good times."
"DM! Isambard Kingkong Brunel has invented something totally useless, and set it loose in the city!" Colonel K's hologram informed Danger Mouse as it shows up from out of nowhere. "You and what's-his-name…"
Penfold pouts upon learning that Colonel K STILL can't remember his name.
"…get there ASAP!"
"Penfold!" Danger Mouse spoke in a serious tone as he pulls out the car keys. "To the Mark IV!"
()()()()()
After one huge fight between Danger Mouse and one of Brunel's useless invention which turns out to be a trash tornado (because I'm too lazy to do the fighting scene again), we now cut to Brunel's secret lair in the outskirts of town where Brunel works on his next invention, the trash tornado blueprint shredder.
"That's not funny!" Brunel, a small, annoyed monkey wearing steampunk clothes and a ridiculously long top hat told the narrator as he rips the blueprints in half. "How will the world ever see the brain-boggling genius of my inventions if Danger Mouse is always there to ruin everything?"
Brunel snarls at three TV monitors that each have an image of Danger Mouse. "Liquid TV, switch off!"
Water began to pour down from the TV which ended up short-circuiting the controllers in the process. Maybe inventing liquid TV isn't a good idea.
"Oh shut up!" Brunel barked at the narrator.
Hey, I was just stating the facts.
Brunel ignores the narrator when a sign in the form of bell chimes catch his attention. He turns around and sees his time machine in the form of a modified grandfather clock, the ray of sunlight shining above it.
"My time machine." Brunel spoke evilly, a wicked plan began to form. "All I have to do is stop Danger Mouse ever becoming a secret agent."
And so he enters his time machine and went back in time to where he stops in the middle of the Danger Agent Final Test. The time stops near Patent C Office where young Ernest Penfold was going to go.
He didn't plan on stopping at the place young Ernest Penfold was supposed to go to only to get thrown into the test area by a flying crocodile, but Brunel knows that this'll have to do for now.
If his calculations are correct, a stray crocodile was going to collide with the revolving door at the same time Penfold was going to go to the building, which would send Ernest Penfold flying right into the test area where the Danger Agent Final Test was being held.
Maybe he won't prevent Danger Mouse from ever becoming an agent, but he might prevent Penfold from becoming his assistant. Just think! If Penfold didn't become his assistant, Danger Mouse would have to manage everything on his own and since he would be too busy doing his own chores, he would not have time to stop him from whatever inventions of his would create havoc throughout the world.
Time to put his alternate plan into action.
Disguising himself as a convincing-looking bystander, Brunel approaches the young Ernest Penfold who is holding onto his self-sharpening pencil invention.
Before he could make a move, he notices a crocodile heading towards Patent C Office.
Now's his chance to change history.
He pulls young Ernest Penfold out of the way just in time for the crocodile to collide into the revolving door, and then being thrown into the air yet again.
The confused young Ernest Penfold looks at Brunel. "Cor, you saved my life, mister."
"It was nothing, really." Brunel replied in the most convincing way he could.
He took notice of young Ernest Penfold's invention. "Say, that is a pretty neat invention you have there. What does it do?"
The young Ernest Penfold smiled. "It's a pencil than can sharpen itself."
He activates the invention in which the pencil sharpens itself.
"Very interesting." Brunel spoke after witnessing how the invention works. Pound sterling signs appear in place of his eyes. "May I?"
The young Ernest Penfold smiled. "Oh I guess there's no harm in it."
But man was he wrong about it. As soon as he lets Brunel hold onto his invention, Brunel makes a run for it, surprising the young Ernest Penfold who, after realizing what he has done, gave chase to Brunel. "Oi! Come back here with my invention! My family is counting on me to bring honor and success to them!"
"So? Make another invention! It's not my problem." Brunel cried as he gets inside his time machine, and by the time the young Ernest Penfold catches up to him, the time machine vanished with Brunel and his invention.
All the heartbroken young Ernest Penfold could do is sit at a nearby bench and cry for the loss of his invention. How could he be so stupid? Giving a stranger his invention like that? What will his Aunt Doreen say if she and the family found out that he had not register his invention like he was supposed to?
All of a sudden, the young Ernest Penfold felt tired. He went back to his hotel room that he was staying during his stay in London and all he could do now from that point on is sleep.
()()()()()
Meanwhile at HQ after another fight against Brunel's useless invention, at the present day, Danger Mouse and Penfold decided to call it a night.
"G'night, chief!" Penfold cried as he went into his room with Teddy in his arms.
"G'night, Penfold!" Danger Mouse's voice cried from down the hallway.
Penfold climbs into his bed, with Teddy in his arms, and drifted off to deep slumber.