High up in the sky, the McFist Hovercraft quickly flew towards its destination. Inside the cockpit Howard was at the pilot's seat fiddling with the controls, while Randy was sitting in McFist's captain chair messing with all the buttons on it to see what they do. Most of which either brought out snacks, adjusted the recline/height, or popped out a mini-TV so that McFist can watch Heidi's show. "Wow Howard, when did you learn how to fly this thing?" Randy asked clearly impressed.
"Heh, well you remember when you threaten Mort and he flew that pet-a-ducktle thing to try and stop you?" Howard reminded him.
"Uh yeah, except that you were the one who lied to your dad, making him think I was out to get him so that he wouldn't ground you for messing up the house. And I believe they're called pterodactyl." Randy corrected him.
"Po-ta-toes, to-ma-toes." Howard shrugging off the details. "So anyway Mort got promoted to test pilot after nearly killing you; and then on 'bring your son to work day' he showed me how to fly this baby." Howard bragged.
"That is so Bruce!" Randy praised. "Hey what's that?" Randy pointing to something on the screen. Enlarging the image using the controls on the chair, they saw three giant birds with people on their backs. "Oh my ninja those monster bird thingies are taking those poor people to their nest to be eaten!" Randy panicked.
"Are you sure, because wouldn't they be carrying them in their mouths or on their clawy feet hands, you know instead of letting them ride on their backs?" Howard questioned. Not really trying to point out the flaws in Randy's logic, but just because he didn't want to get involved in doing anything.
"Howard turn this crate so that we are directly over them!" Randy ordered ignoring his friend again.
"Yeah about that," Howard hesitated. Just then the plane started to move directly over the birds.
"Good job Howard. Now it's Ninja O'clock." Randy said putting the mask on and making a mad dash towards the cargo doors.
"But I didn't do anything," Howard said to himself.
At the cargo bay, the Ninja opened the doors giving him a direct view of the birds and their human captors (or so he assumed). Whipping his scarf he latched it on some beams. After checking to make sure it's secure, Randy made a dramatic leap. "Ninja Bungee Rescue!" the Ninja yelled as he fell through the air.
Meanwhile the 3 giant bird-like creatures were flying as fast as they could to an unknown destination. Riding on their backs 4 Tamers, 1 Monster Keeper, and a Tutor. "Is it much farther Timothy?" Elena asked.
"Not far now," Timothy answered checking his compass.
"Is it much farther now?" Zick asked a few seconds later.
"Not far now," Timothy repeated.
"Is it much farther?" Teddy asked.
"YES, yes it is!" Timothy screamed in irritation.
"Just asking sheesh. Why am I always the one who get in trouble?" Teddy mumbled.
"But seriously though, how much father? Our Flyvans are starting to get tired." Zob advised.
"Good point," Timothy considered. Even though the compass gave him the general direction of the Lord High Tamer, it didn't tell him how far they still needed to go. "Do you see anywhere we can land to rest up for awhile?" Timothy asked.
Elena put on her binoculars and started scanning around. "I think I see a clearing over..."
"Ninja Rescue Grab!" Elena was interrupted as the Ninja snatched her from behind and yanking her up into the air!
"HHHHOOOLLLLYYYY SSSSPPPIIITTTT!" Elena screamed.
"ELENA!" the others chasing after her.
"Don't worry I'm here to save you," the Ninja assured her as he pulled her up to the McFist's Hovercraft. After safely landing inside, the Ninja let go of Elena and she was furious.
"Holy spit just what do you think you are doing!" Elena scolded.
"Um rescuing you from those big man eating birds," the Ninja argued.
"Rescuing me?" Elena laughed.
"Elena are you alright?" Zick asked as his Flyvan flew into the plane's cargo.
"Wait you can control those things? Oh you were riding them." the Ninja realized. "And here I was thinking that they were taking you to their nest to feed their monster baby birds."
"Told ya," Howard said rubbing it in Randy's face.
"Look I'm really sorry about you know snatching you up like that." the Ninja apologized.
"An honest mistake," Elena said forgiving him.
"Elena are you alright?" the other Tamers asked as soon as they arrived as well.
"I'm fine, pajama boy here just thought I was in danger." Elena explained.
"That's Ninja not pajama boy, and I'm more than willing to make up for it." the Ninja promised. "You guys want some snacks or how about we give you a lift to wherever you're going?"
"Um Ninja about that," Howard tried to tell his friend.
"Sorry, but we're on a mission to find out why these monsters started appearing." Zob explained.
"Hey we're on the same mission. In fact we're on our way to see our good friend June and she's like an expert with all this magical monster stuff." the Ninja informed them. Timothy's ears perk up hearing that.
"Thanks for the offer, but we should be on our way." Zob said. Until Timothy nudged him on the leg gesturing him to accept. "Then again I suppose our Flyvans could use the rest."
"Great, I'll go get you guys some refreshments while you settle in. Smoke Bomb." the Ninja said disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"So why did you want me to accept his offer?" Zob coughed.
"Look at this," Timothy brought out his compass pointing in the same direction the plane is flying. "We're even going in the same direction, that can't be coincidence." Timothy argued.
"So you think this June person might be the Lord High Tamer?" Teddy asked.
"Perhaps or at the very least, know where we can find him." Timothy reasoned.
"But can we trust this ninja?" Zick wondered. He's still a bit wary about him since he did abduct Elena.
"Hard to say, ninjas have been known to hunt monsters, but this one doesn't really seem all that hostile. He did try to save Elena, albeit a misunderstanding on his part, but we shouldn't take any chances. Let's be careful around him, if he should threaten the Lord High Tamer in any way, we must be prepared to fight him." Timothy advised. The Tamers and Keepers nodded nervously.
"Hey good news guys, I found some salad in the fridge for your giant bird things, and we're about an hour or so from Orchid Bay give or take." the Ninja informed them.
Orchid Bay, a peaceful city where normal people lead normal lives. It was on this rather normal day that three friends Ophelia, Jody, and Roger were on their way to meet their other friends before heading off to school. When all of a sudden these strange storm clouds appeared over head. That's when all the normal got thrown out the window! Now there are all these monsters everywhere, followed by panic and rioting all around. Leaving these three friends stuck in the middle of all this confusion and chaos.
"Ophelia, what's going on?" Jody cried seeing all these strange monsters.
"Well if I was to give a guess I'd say we're doomed." Ophelia said rather nonchalantly. Just then a giant ogre appeared right in front of them, roaring at the kids. "Yup were doomed." Ophelia said wiping the saliva off her face.
"Don't worry Ophelia my sweet, I'll protect you or die trying." Roger swore, facing off against the monster in a fool hardy attempt to impress her.
"Please don't get my hopes up." Ophelia responded rather coldly. Before Roger or the ogre could do anything, a strange pink lion appeared out of thin air landing in between them. Everyone paused for a few seconds, staring at the lion along with the boy and girl riding on top of it, plus the strange green girl desperately grasping the lion's tail.
"Um hi," Steve greeted. The ogre responded by roaring loudly at the newcomers. Lion then retaliated with a sonic roar of its own, sending the ogre flying.
"Whoa cool," the Orchid Bay residence said with great admiration.
"Hey just so you know I totally got that, but thanks for you help." Roger insisted still trying to sound cool.
"Sorry about that, we didn't know we would end up here." Steven apologized. "By the way, where's here?"
"Orchid Bay," Roger answered. "Usually it's a nice place to visit but things are a little crazy right now." Everyone turned their attention to all the hysteria caused by the sudden appearance of the monsters.
"Yeah the same thing is happening to our home of Beach City as well." Connie informed them.
"This place too? What is it with this crazy planet!?" Peridot screamed.
"Whoa, you said planet. Are you some kind of freaky alien chick?" Roger asked.
"Isn't if obvious?" Peridot retorted.
"Normally I'd think you're just messing with us, but under the circumstances..." Ophelia paused for a second looking around at the mayhem. "I don't care."
"Don't mind her, she's really nice once she gets to know you." Jody apologizing for Ophelia's behavior. "So what are you doing here?"
"Lion brought us here," Steven answered. "He kind of does his own thing, but he usually has a good reason."
"Well until you figure that out, how about working as our body guard?" Ophelia suggested. "You help us find our friend June, and we'll pay you with all the french fries you can eat." Judging by the size of his gut, Ophelia figured that Steven must like eating.
"Make it fry bits and you got yourself a deal." Steven negotiated. His pupils becoming all star shaped.
"Deal," Ophelia shaking his hand.
"What are fry bits?" Jody whispered to her friend.
"No idea," Ophelia whispered back. A minor detail that didn't pose a problem since she has no intention of paying Steven anyways.
Over at school, Ray-Ray was wearing his police hat and fake badge. "Alright everyone nothing to see here, just go to class like normal." Ray-Ray said using a bullhorn. Naturally everyone was in such a state of panic that they pretty much ignored him. In fact most nearly trampled him as they ran past. "Come on people, doesn't anyone respect the badge anymore!" Ray-Ray complained showing off his toy badge.
"Ray-Ray, what are you doing?"
Ray-Ray turned to see Marcus Conner, the boy his sister has a huge crush on. "What's it look like, I'm trying to keep the peace," Ray-Ray said as if it was obvious.
"Yeah well they just announced that school is cancelled do to monster attacks. We better get out of here." Marcus advised.
"Typical the one day I actually try to help the school and it gets cancelled. Ray-Ray complained.
"Come on we better get you home," Marcus said taking Ray-Ray's hand.
"Hey, I'm old enough to go home by myself," Ray-Ray complained. Truthfully he didn't want to go home just yet and wanted to rejoin June in the fight.
"Sorry, but it is my responsibility to see you home safe." Marcus argued.
"Hey you're not just using me as an excuse to see June aren't you?" Ray-Ray accused.
"No, I'm just you know, trying to be a responsible adult." Marcus stuttered. While it is true he wouldn't mind seeing June again, he really did just want to help see Ray-Ray get to safety.
"Fine, just so you know June isn't at home, she's down at Main Street." Ray-Ray coaxed.
"What, why would she be there?" Marcus yelped.
"I don't know, maybe we should go and find out?" Ray-Ray winked.
Marcus considered this and after thinking about it for a bit. "Nope I've got to get you home first," Marcus decided.
"Are you kidding me?" Ray-Ray cursed.
Marcus carefully led Ray-Ray down the streets until they reached the subway entrance. "The subway should be safe," Marcus figured.
"Seriously? Underground is like where the most dangerous monsters live. Caves, sewers, subways, tombs, they're all death traps waiting to happen!" Ray-Ray ranted.
"I think you've been watching too many movies." Marcus sighed.
"Be that as it may, but it doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about." Ray-Ray reasoned. Just then they heard some strange moaning sounds coming from the subway entrance. "The monsters are rising from their subterranean lair," Ray-Ray gulped hugging Marcus for support who was also hugging Ray-Ray. To their surprise they only found four kids and a dog climbing out of the subway. All of them looking rather green and ready to puke.
"Man and to think I used to wait in lines for rides like this." Trixie said trying to hold in her lunch.
At that point Spud just couldn't hold it in anymore and vomited down the stairs. "Um you might not want to down there," he warned.
"Whoa, this place is wiggidy wack yo." Jake commented seeing all the commotion happening in the city.
"Wiggidy wack, man who talks like that?" Ray-Ray criticized.
"Ray-Ray manners," Marcus scolded. "Hi, welcome to Orchid Bay. Sorry but you came at a difficult time."
"I'd say," Jake agreed. "Yo you wouldn't happen to know where I can find the Lee residence? I really need to talk to them."
"Oh your in luck, we're on our way there." Marcus informed them.
"Dude, are you insane. Leading complete strangers to my home. What if they're thieves trying to rob us, or assassins, or the IRS!" Ray-Ray ranted.
"Yeah I'm pretty sure that these guys are none of those," Marcus said skeptically.
"Look out!" Rose warned pointing at a pair of monsters getting ready to attack them. Within a blink on an eye Rose jumped into action, pulling out her collapsing batons from under her sleeves and started attacking one of the monsters. Even though Jake can't transform into his dragon form in front of witnesses, he is still a kung-fu master. Okay technically he's still an apprentice but he's still very good at it. Plus he can still secretly change his hand into claws for an extra power boost.
"Um I might have been wrong about them not being assassins," Marcus gulped watching Rose and Jake taking down monsters three times their size.
"Man these guys are awesome," Ray-Ray enjoying the carnage.
After the fight, Jake went to check up on their hosts. "Are you alright?" he asked.
"We're fine thank you." Marcus said nervously.
"Now if you'd follow me. I'll take you to my grandma's house. I'm sure that's where you want to be going." Ray-Ray invited.
"Um Ray-Ray are you sure about this. I mean these guys could be dangerous." Marcus whispered.
"That's what makes them so cool," Ray-Ray justified. "Besides June can easily kick their butts if they're up to no good." Ray-Ray said so confidently, causing Marcus to wonder just what's going through this kid's head.
Speaking of June, the Te Xuan Ze has been running around town trying to maintain what little peace is left. Keeping the bad monsters from attacking the humans, while at the same time trying to protect friendly monsters from mobs of angry humans. All without attracting too much attention to herself. Which proved to be easier than expected since most people were either too busy running for their lives or too busy taking selfies to notice her. But that still didn't make her task any less difficult as it seems that for every one problem she fixes at least five more pops up. "I hope the others are having better luck than I am." June said wistfully. Just then her cell phone rang.
"Um hey June," June heard her older brother Dennis voice on the line. "Not that I can't handle myself or anything, but by any chance do you have a plan B?"
"Dennis what's going on?" June asked to get a better grasp on the situation.
"Oh just that the comic geeks and the monster geeks are fighting over limited collectibles. And for the record, that it is a lot more terrifying than it sounds." Dennis cried. Judging by the background noise, it sounds as though the nerds are tearing themselves apart.
Before June can come up with anything, her phone beeped telling her that she has another caller waiting. Checking the caller ID she saw that it was Lila. "Just give me a second Dennis, I have another call. I'll get back to you." The last June heard was Dennis screaming her name. "Lila how's it going?" June asked, afraid to hear the answer.
"Well um, the humans have taken control of the hunting department and the monsters have seized the food court. I need your help to mediate a peace agreement otherwise we'll be living out that movie 'War of the Malls' only with monsters." Lila shuttered remembering that cheesy zombie flick she saw when she and the girls had that slumber party. The one where a group of survivors hide in a mall during a zombie attack and end up separating into tribes based on the stores they occupy. Not one of her favorites since the movie ended rather badly for all parties due to their unwillingness to work together.
"Just tell them they can trade food for protection. Hopefully they are still rational enough to see reason." June advised.
"Okay but I really hope you have a plan B," Lila said.
"Are you kidding me, I'm still looking for a plan A." June retorted as she ended the call.
"June, June!" Monroe barked, running as fast as his little four feet could carry him.
"Monroe, please tell me you have some good news." June prayed.
"I'm afraid it bad news," Monroe said sadly. "Come on we need to regroup at Jasmine's house."
"But I can't just leave the city like this!" June argued.
"Things will get a lot worse before they will get better; and the only way to stop all of this is for the Te Xuan Ze to go to the source, not simply put out little fires." Monroe lectured.
June hated to admit it, but Monroe had a point. She's been doing this for hours and made very little headway. Their only hope is to find out the cause and stop it. "Alright, let me just text everyone to meet us at Ah-Mah's place." June conceded.
Up in the air, things are not going well for the Ninja and his passengers. As they approached Orchid Bay City, they were assaulted by several flying monsters. Thankfully McFist reinforced the hovercraft's armor, so it's able to withstand the monsters' attacks; but for how long, they don't know. "Howard evasive maneuvers, I promised McFist I'd return his plane in one piece." the Ninja ordered. Because he had the Tamers onboard, Randy couldn't risk taking off his mask.
"Yeah about that, I can't fly this thing." Howard confessed.
"Wha..." the Ninja gasped. "But you said your father's promotion, bring your son to work, and all that." the Ninja stuttered.
"All that happened. It's just that Mort started getting all technical and boring so I just tuned him out." Howard smiled.
"Then how did you get this thing started up in the first place?" the Ninja demanded.
"Oh that, I just put our destination on the GPS and hit the autopilot." Howard explained feeling rather proud of himself. The Ninja began sputtering in rage wanting to say a few choice words at his best friend, but couldn't because there was a lady present. "Oh relax, I'll just turn off the autopilot and take over the wheel. I mean how hard can it be?" Howard said reaching for the controls.
"HOWARD NOOOOO!" everyone yelled, but it was too late as he already pushed the button.
"Main power is now offline. Please prepare for crash landing." the hovercraft's computer informed them.
"HOWARD YOU EPIC SHOOB!" the Ninja screamed as the hovercraft started its speedy descent down towards the city.
