A/N: ALRIGHT! THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE REVIVAL! KEEP OOON WATCHING!...erm, reading...
Episode 5:
Where Are You, Charlie Brown?
"Big brotheeer!"
Sally repeatedly knocked on her brother's door, hoping to get his attention. Nobody responded, which upset Sally. "Rats...now who's gonna help me with my science homework?"
As if right on cue, The World Famous Science Tutor walked in, clad in a white lab-coat. His wild haired assistant loop-de-looped into the room and landed on his boss's head. The two walked off, leaving a disappointed and frowning Sally. "Big Brother, pleeease come out soon..." She walked away from the door, leaving Charlie Brown alone.
But inside the room, Charlie Brown was asleep, but it didn't look like a comfortable rest. He tossed and turned and sweat profusely as the grimace on his face showed a quite disturbed and upset mind of the boy. But...WHAT was he thinking of?
Inside his head, the same voice from last night rang inside of his mind...
"Why be in a team that doesn't appreciate you?"
"They ALWAYS tease you."
"Be your OWN side."
"Fight JoGate."
"Fight the people who ridiculed you."
"Lucy van Pelt doesn't deserve to breathe."
"DESTROY them ALL."
"Do what you've ALWAYS wanted to do but was too scared to try."
Charlie Brown shivered in his sleep as he listened to the voice...
"Let the thorns consume you."
*Main Street*
The heroes were fighting Melter Mask, Ember, Zap, Hammer-Space, and Mr. Fabulous in the open, and the villains were winning...TERRIBLY.
"ALL THIS...just because we were chasing down Leatherface?" Time Lord exclaimed as he ran and stopped time for a charging Quarterbash. Shining Knight shoulder tackles him into a building from the side.
"You speak the truth, time concerned James." Shining Knight said, "But the whereabouts and capture of the beast is ESSENTIAL to our victory!" Knight pulled out a blade and fought with Hammer-Space, who brandished her OWN blade from thin-air!
Wild transformed into a tiger and charged at Mr. Fabulous, who just sped away from Wild with every advance he made. "C'mon, you're almost there! Aaalmost!" He continued to speed and dodge Wild, making the shapeshifter more and more tired. Wild staggered over to Fabulous, tired and weak; Fabulous lightly tapped him, causing him to fall over and morph back into his own form. Shining Knight, meanwhile, was shocked as H2O knocked Hammer-Space back a few with a water whip. The fussbudget stood side by side with Shining Knight, but the crazy villainess wasn't done yet...
"I'm BOOORED with swords!" She said, "Although, my sweetie JoJo can let me strike with his sword ANY day!" She said with a wink before pulling out a rocket launcher. She fires the rocket at the heroes, who jump up and dodge it. However...the missile changes its course and flies towards them! "HEAT-SEEKIIING!" Hammer-Space exclaimed before the missile struck Knight and H2O, sending them flying through the air.
Plain Pain pounded the ground, creating a tremor that created a crack in the earth. Ember and Zap rolled out of the way, and Melter Mask filled the crack with lava! Dirt Magnet closed the crack in the earth before the lava could flow towards Plain Pain. But Melter just chuckled under his mask and raised his right hand, palm upward. The lava BURST FORTH from the ground, burning the two heroes and sending them down. Meanwhile, Psionic Girl battled Zap with The Guardian & Lighthawk. Lighthawk shot a light bow & arrow at Zap, who blocked it with a lightning shield. Ember and Zap held hands and spun around in a rapid motion, creating their FlameTricity Tornado! Psionic Girl put up a psy-shield, and Lighthawk and Guardian added light and energy barriers to enforce it. But the shield could only hold so much. The shield broke, and Psionic Girl, Lighthawk, and Guardian were sent flying into the elemental tornado! After a few spins, the three heroes crashed onto the ground, badly burned and charred. They got up with the rest of their team, but they were all hurt badly. The villains of The Birchwood Brotherhood regroup and stare down the heroes.
"Huh...whattya know?" Quarterbash said in a teasing tone, "Without Solar Flare, these zeroes are even LESS than nothing."
Patty chuckled, "And when it comes to Charlie Brown, it seems truly possible to divide by zero." Violet kept quiet the whole time and looked away. Hammer-Space, meanwhile, popped up from the sewers.
"Nooooo Leatherface here!" She declared as she popped out of the manhole. "I say we go home and take BIIIIIIG naps before we kick ass again!" The Brotherhood laughed and all walked away from the hurting heroes. Violet kept quiet the entire time,b only stealing a glance at the heroes as they walked away. The P-Nuts Protectors, meanwhile, sighed as the got up. ANOTHER fight...bungled. Sundays were hard.
"Of course. ANOTHER bad fight." Plain Pain said as she dusted herself off. She helped Psionic Girl up and then punched a stop sign in frustration, denting it.
"Sir, I know you are angry..." Psionic Girl said, "but destruction of public property will not help our cause."
Time Lord got up and sighed, "We lost another one guys. And who KNOWS how close they are to catching Leatherface."
"They are no closer to him than we are, Jimmy..." Dirt Magnets said, "But to say that they have an advantage over us is an understatement. They're in the driver's seat of the war right now. *Sighs* This WASN'T going to be easy...but must it seem nearly impossible?" He began dusting himself off, but the amount of dirt that he brushed off was in the infinite category, causing a giant dus cloud to form and cause the team to choke.
"Take a BATH, Pig..." Guardian said, "Ugh...can't believe this...I really wish Charlie Brown was here. Y'know, he'd add an extra sense of optimism into our team. Even when we failed, he would tell us to work and try harder."
Man of the Wild rubbed his back. "Yeah...he DID have a way with optimism. Guy just never gave up."
"Too bad SOMEONE had to drive him away..." Plain Pain said as she glared at H2O, who rolled her eyes.
"Oh come on...you gonna KEEP bringing it up?" H2O brushed off the situation, which almost made Pain walk over towards her, had it not been for Psionic Girl holding her shoulder. Lighthawk, meanwhile, thought about what she had seen yesterday. Regular old Jason Krueger...
...was Leatherface. Jason was never one for being serious or demented. Crazy, yes. Eccentric, sure. Maybe even borderline insane...but a monstrous beast? What was up? She had to tell her team.
"Hey...guys..." Lighthawk tried getting the attention of the team, who were trying their best to keep Plain Pain and H2O.
"Yeah, Liz? What's up?" Guardian asked as he held onto Lucy's arms.
"Yes, Elizabeth, pray tell, what is your issue?" Shining Knight asked the worried heroine.
Liz sighed..."I have some...INTERESTING news for ya. I'll tell you on the way back to the base."
*Franklin's House*
On the other side of Birchwood lived Franklin, the theologian who even rivals Linus in his Biblical studies. Franklin was hanging out with his friend, Ariel, a tall African American girl with loads of what Franklin called "spunk". The two had been friends since she moved into town when they were 8 (think about at the end of The Peanuts series). Franklin and Ariel quickly hit it off and became best friends over time. They were practically inseparable; the argument could be made that they had a few MORE feelings for each other...but that's a story for another day...
Franklin and Ariel were walking from school and discussing ways to get there early tomorrow. The word on the street was Mr. Connors was returning to school tomorrow after his wife passed away due to the gas leak. Everyone was going to try and see him first thing in the morning, even the kids who normally show up by 2nd period. That's how loved he was. Ariel was discussing plans with Franklin...but his mind was on a whole other topic. A topic caused by that same gas leak.
"...We gotta make sure we leave at 6:30. Mr. Connors normally got there at 6:45, so we'll be ahead of a lot of people!" Planned out the eager Ariel as a pre-concerned Franklin barely paid attention. "We better leave at 6:00 actually. I wanna go into town and get Mr. Connors a gift. We better go to sleep early, Franklin...Franklin?...Franklin...Fraaaaaaankliiiiiiiiin."
Ariel began snapping her fingers in his face, which caused him to come to. "Huh? What?" Franklin looked over to Ariel, who had her arms crossed and her eyebrow raised. She turned away and sighed.
"Franklin, tell me...you're thinking about those powers again?" Ariel asked him. Franklin sheepishly chuckled before looking back at his hands. "Franklin, can we move past those, please? The last thing we need is to concern ourselves with superpowers."
Franklin held his hand up...and magnetically attracted his phone to his hand! Ariel saw this and gasped before slapping Franklin's hand. "No! No! We CAN'T do that in public! You want people to catch you and started QUESTIONING You?"
Franklin looked to Ariel and sighed. "C'mon, Ari, why can't we, y'know, try using what we were blessed with as a way to help others? I've always wanted to help people, and this could really be my ticket into public service!"
Ariel whined, "Franklin, you know I can't SUPPORT that idea. It's liable to get us killed."
"So will my future missionary work." Franklin said, "I'm willing to do God's will to the death, and I want to help people to the death. You can help too! I saw you lift up a car last week to get that ball that we lost under it. You can do just as much good as The P-Nut Protectors with me!"
Ariel frowned, "No, Franklin! I can't! I'm not...WE'RE not those P-Nut people. We can't keep thinking about being 'superheroes'! That's not US! Can't we just be normal kids? People with futures? I have school, cheerleading, and a host of other issues to think about. Superheroing is NOT something I need to weigh myself down wi-OW!"
Ariel ran into a stray tree branch and cut her arm right down the middle. She dropped down to her knees and looked at it. Franklin went to check on her. "Ariel! You okay!?"
Ariel sighed and said, "Gimme a second..."
The cut, suddenly, began to heal itself in the matter of a few seconds. Not a single scar was left once it finished...like it wasn't even there. Ariel got up and sighed.
"Powers, huh?" Franklin got up and stared at a melancholy Ariel. "Ari, look...I believe God blessed me with these powers for a reason. And I'm not gonna pass up this chance to do His Will with these powers. If you don't want to, I'm okay with that. I respect your decision. But me?...I'm doing it. I'm putting my abilities to good use...for the greater good of our fellow man."
Franklin looked at Ariel, who had a deep sense of guilt and dread filling up inside of her. She KNEW this wasn't going to end well...but...she just couldn't allow herself to let him do this alone.
She lifted up her right hand and showed him a ring with the letters "F&A" on them. Franklin lifted up his right hand, showing his own ring with the same letters. Ariel looked up into Franklin's eyes and smiled..."I guess...I HAVE to help then. I don't wanna leave you alone."
Franklin was moved, "Are you sure?..."
"Yeah. We're best friends who stick together no matter what. So I figure...why not? I've never abandoned you before, and you've never abandoned me before...so why start now?" She said with a smile.
Franklin chuckled and put his arm around Ariel, who did the same to him. He smiled back at her and said, "Alright...let's get to work on preparing." Before they both ran off to her house.
*Bean's Compound*
"So the beast is...Jason Krueger?" Percy said, swinging a sword at a wooden dummy. "The crazy boy who weareth the tropical shirt?"
"Yep..." Liz said, pulling strands of her hair. "I saw him transform yesterday...during that whole thing at the school."
"Well well well..." Schroeder said, "We have the first clue as to how we can catch Leatherface. We know his identity and we can easily exploit that."
"Now hold on..." Lucy said, "We can't just go into the Krueger house and say 'Hey, your son's a lizard beast. Hand him over!'"
Marcie chimed in, "Lucille is right. We can't just approach this nonchalantly. We need a plan."
"Well I think it should be easy to make a few plans and find out which one works." Peppermint Patty said. "Talk to Krueger a bit. Maybe get him to talk. There's a human behind those scales; remember."
"True, Peppermint Patty." Frieda said, brushing her hair. "But I think we gotta ALSO discuss another thing...'vigilantes'. You guys notice them nowadays?"
The team nodded and looked around, remembering the recent spike in self-heroing.
"Yeah, vigilantism has GROWN in the past week. And it's...weird." Mickey said.
"And it's most likely sure that they're coming from the school. They all have powers." Pig-Pen said.
"Not heroes OR villains...I say we arrest 'em either way." Lucy said. Linus rolled his eyes at his sister's oversimplification.
"Oh 'dearest sister'...that isn't our call. PLUS WE could be arrested because we aren't exactly police sanctioned, right?" Pointed out Linus, who gave his sister a raised eyebrow. Lucy gave him a mocking sneer and looked away.
"No matter WHO these people are...we have to at least try and communicate with them." Professor Bean said, trying to think. "But priority number one should be to get Leatherface. Remember."
The team nodded at Professor Bean's words and then began strategizing...then Liz turned to Sally.
"So...nothing still?...from your brother I mean?" She asked, trying to catch up on Charlie Brown's progress.
Sally sighed and nodded, "I'm nervous...what if he never comes back out?..."
Liz sighed and looked at her feet..."I'm sure he'll come back out...he's the optimist out of all of us...he HAS to come out..."
Meanwhile, in CB's room, the boy tosses and turns in his bed, sweating bullets as the voices continue in his head...
..."Make your mark soon, Charlie Brown."
"Show them that you aren't a pushover."
"Show them that you won't be trifled with."
"Show HER that you won't stand for it any longer."
"Do it, Charlie Brown."
"Do it soon..."
Charlie Brown just tossed and turned...unable to free the voices in his head...
Later that night...in The Agate Mansion, the former teacher Ray Thompson, AKA Mr. Mean, walked to the front door. Trailing behind him...was a new invention.
"Let us wreak havoc tomorrow, my new creation. The city of Birchwood will feel the vengeful wrath of Mr. Mean..."
Thompson left with his red eyed invention, while Agate & Jones watched from their study.
"Hmmm...let's keep a close eye on THAT battle when it happens, okay Jones?"
"Right back at ya, Agate." Mr. Jones said as he sipped a martini.
*Krueger manor*
The next day, Jason Krueger was ready to get to school. It was gonna be a great day. The birds were chirping, the sun was shining, and his parents...still as distant and yet doting as ever.
His mom wanted him to wear his nice clothes today, as opposed to his old shorts and Hawaiian shirt with sandals and socks. Mr. & Mrs. Krueger found it unbearable to know that their son, with every chance to act like a person with class, chose to act like he was born in a barn.
Jason was born to high society. His parents ran a huge peanut packaging company and became rich from it. Jason was born to be the heir to that empire, but something occured early in Jason's childhood. The boy saw kids his age having fun and going wild, and begged his parents to let him play with them. After much begging, the parents allowed their son to play with the children. Soon, Krueger made friends with them. Then, he wanted to dress like them. And next, he wanted to go to public school with them. By that point, the transformation from high-society to high-craziness was complete. Jason was known as the guy who always wanted a good time and never seemed like his brain was functioning normally. He dressed differently, interacted differently...and you would either love him to death or want to watch him to his death. Either way, you always had an opinion on Krueger.
And because his parents had a bad opinion of him, Jason would sometimes go to school in a huff. He tried his best to hide it, but sometimes it'd just come out onto someone.
"Hey Jason!" A young male called out, "How's it-"
"Don't talk to me." Jason growled as he walked past his fellow classmate. Two girls walked by and froze when they saw Jason.
"Oh great, he's going to try and hit on me." The first girl moaned.
The second girl groaned, "Just slug 'im when he tries."
The first girl winds up for a punch...but Jason COMPLETELY walks past them, practically ignoring them.
"...Did he just...ignore us?" The second girl asked.
The first girl nooded. "Yuh-huh...and now I'm a bit more attracted to him than before."
"Yeah me too." Agreed the second girl.
Jason walked into the building and bumped into a random student. He rubbed his nose and got up, now seeing the massive continent of students crowded around the classroom door for his homeroom. Jason raises an eyebrow and tries to hop over some of the students. He finally catches a glimpse of what everyone is going nuts for: Mr. Samson's back! Jason smiled at that development. "Yeaaah, always liked that guy! Much better than Mr. Thompso-OOOMPH!"
Jason was pushed over...by none other than Joe Agate. Joe chuckled and looked down at Jason. Thibault walked over to his side, his squirrely little grin plastered all over his face.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Jason. I didn't see you there. With all these sea of people freaking out, I just took you for an ACTUAL normal human! Won't ever make THAT mistake ever again." Agate grinned a devious smile, which began to slowly tick off Jason. Krueger shook his head and brushed Joe off.
"Go away, Agate. I don't have time for you." Jason tried walking off, but Agate yelled out to him.
"Well gee, man! Didn't mean to make ya mad!...don't need MORE scaley freaks rampaging around here."
Jason tensed up upon hearing this...and turned to Joe...his eyes already yellow and his pupils black slivers. Joe grinned a sly grin as Jason grabbed his shirt and threw him into the janitor's door. "You better tell me right now what you know..."
Joe chuckled as Jason's body slowly began to change. The boy noticed himself slowly transforming, and tried to fight it off. Jason screamed out in fear, 'NO! NO! NOT NOW!" He ran out of the school as fast as he could, much to Joe's delight. Thibault walked up to his best pal and questioned him.
"So Joe, what's next with this? We're just gonna watch him wreck the town?" Thibault asked as crossed his arms. Joe chuckled as he looked out the glasss door.
"Eh...more like to just give The P-Nuts a hard time. Get 'em all tired and whatnot." Joe replied.
Some time later as classes picked up, everyone in 7th grade was in homeroom. Mr. Connors took attendance...and was surprised that Charlie Brown wasn't here.
"Hmmm...where's Charlie Brown? Principal Schulz told me that he hasn't been in school for a couple of days." Mr. Connors asked
Marcie spoke up, "Oh, Charles has been absent due to...sickness, sir. He's been feeling extremely ill." She said. She hated telling lies...albeit for all she knew, it may've been the truth.
Mr. Connors raised an eyebrow...but took the answer. "Okay then. I hope he recovers. Poor child."
Homeroom ended...but The P-Nuts received a notification from Professor Bean. The team all ran outside to regroup and check out the notification. Mr. Connors noticed this...and slowly began to trail the kids.
Meanwhile, Ariel got a police notification from her phone and relayed it to Franklin.
"Franklin, LEATHERFACE is at the marina. I say we suit up now." Ariel winked to her best friend, who winked back. Franklin smiled and got up.
"By the way, Ari...got us a new partner. Meet my pal, Johnny Williams."
A shaggy grey haired, tan skinned, brown eyed boy with white Nike shoes, a grey hoodie, a black sleeveless shirt with the words "Kill, Steen, Kill" (apparantly he enjoyed US Pro-Prestling), and black jeans walked up to Ariel from behind Franklin.
"Nice to meet you. *Giggle*...Name's Ariel, as Franklin told ya. So you got powers too?" She asked.
Johnny nodded in confirmation, "Yep. The gas leak gave me something too. Been trying to keep it under wraps. But sometimes it gets boring during class and I start to use it." Johnny pulled out an origami swan and held it in front of Ariel. She smiled at Johnny's craftmanship...but was amazed when he turned the swan into a paper flower in a matter of seconds. "Control over paper. It's a fun and imaginative power! And it can be used for combat when wielded correctly...now if only I ever learned how to wield this correctly..."
Ariel's eyes widen upon hearing this, but Franklin interrupts them. "No time, guys. We gotta get to the scene! Let's go!" The three run off to the emergency exit and run out of the building, ready to start their new vigilante careers.
Meanwhile at Charlie Brown's house...
...
"Now...do it now."
Charlie Brown awoke from his sleep and got out of bed. He seemed a tad delirious...but his gaze quickly turned dark as he squinted his eyes and frowned. He walked over to his closet and began to pick out clothes...
*Marina*
The P-Nuts ran to the scene, once again ready to fight a lizard beast.
"Alright, team! Get ready to engage Leatherface!" Plain Pain commanded the team. Everyone nodded in confirmation and turned the corner of a building and wound up at the lakeside marina of Birchwood. Concherto then read another alert from Bean. "Looks like Articguana was seen fighting with the Leatherface on the boardwalk. Great. TWO beasts to fight." The team groans as they run across the boardwalk. The normally calm and quiet restaurants and carnival on the boardwalk now were destroyed, with screams of panic filling the air. The P-Nuts ran followed the trail of destruction, which was filled with more debris as they ran towards the source. They made it to the end of the trail...
...and was surprised to see BOTH Leatherface AND Articguana TIED UP on the ground! The amalgamated reptile and ice iguana monsters were on the ground, unresponsive as the people fled the scene. The P-Nuts were confused...but they were immediately calmed as they spotted SOLAR FLARE standing over the beasts. He had a stoic look on his face as he glared at the beasts he most likely had toppled. The team was at a loss for words...the leader was BACK!
"Charlie Brown?" Blanket said, staring at his best friend, who looked up at him.
"Chuck, you're okay!" Pain exclaimed in joy before observing the cut on his arm. "That looks bad, Chuck. Frieda, go over there and heal 'im."
Red Cross nodded and ran over to Flare. Lighthawk smiled and blushed, overjoyed to see Charlie Brown doing so well. Lucy nodded and shrugged. "Glad you decided to stop being such a sad sack, Charlie Brown. Hopefully you-...huh?"
H2O stopped talking right as she observed the wound on Flare's arm suddenly heal itself. The entire team looked at the sight, bewildered by the sudden development. Red Cross stopped in her tracks and said "Huh?". Psionic Girl began to read Solar Flare's inner signs using her telekinesis...and came to a startling conclusion.
"That thing isn't Charles!" She exclaimed with the utmost alarm. "THAT THING ISN'T EVEN HUMAN!"
Red Cross, after looking at Psionic Girl talk, looked right back at "Flare", who EXTENDED his arm with a loud "WHIIIIR" sound and grabbed her by the neck before sending an electrical shock that jolted her with enough electricity to knock her out.
"CROSS!" Blanket exclaimed as the Flare imposter developed glowing red eyes and a mechanical buzzsaw. The team stood back as Mr. Mean walked onto the scene.
"Hello, children. I assume now you want an explanation?" Mr. Mean said in a rough tone, "Well here's one for you undeserving brats...here's my new robot! His name?...Sparky. And he single-handedly took down BOTH lizard beasts. And now he's going to take YOU down for coming onto the scene. The boy Powell was somewhat helpful for The Mean Beam...but I needed his help for my robot here. Why?...Oh you'll see. So there's your explanation. Enjoy the decimation...oooh, what a rhyme!"
Mr. Mean stepped out of the way as Sparky, now a fully metallic version of Solar Flare, extended his arms again to grab the heroes. They all dispersed, but Sparky used his tremendous speed to catch up to Man of the Wild before he could transform and throws him through a restaurant window. Shining Knight ran at full force with his shield and RAMMED into Sparky, who managed to use spikes on the bottom of his feet to dig into the ground. The robot was able to stay in place while Percy was sent flying back right after the deflection. Madam Plant summoned a large pine tree from inside one of the seafood restaurants and began to launch pieces of the palm leaves at high speeds as projectiles to cut Sparky. Once he manged to duck the leaves, ran at Madam Plant, who was grabbed with light chains from Lighthawk to hold him back. Dirt Magnet then shoulder blocked Sparky, with large amounts of rocks acting as shoulder armor. Sparky skidded backwards, managing to defend from the attack, but was caught off guard as Concherto hopped on his back and put his hands on both of the robot's ears. He then began to blast max volumes of a sonic boom into the ears of the robot, trying to short circuit him. The robot's head began to spark and his eyes began to twitch.
"OUTTA THE WAY!" H2O commanded as she began to summon a large wave from the lake to engulf the boardwalk. Psionic Girl put a shield over the team right as H2O sent the wave crashing right onto Sparky! The robot's entire body began to spark and go awry. And Shining Knight and Plain Pain sent the final blows, SANDWICHING it between both of their shoulder thrusts from the side! Sparky fell over, defeated and broken. The team then turned their collective attention to Mr. Mean, who displayed a large devious grin on his face.
"What's the big old grin for?" Guardian asked in a forceful manner, his hands glowing with energy. The "professor" chuckled and looked at the heroes.
"You really did give him a beating for round 1...but here comes round 2." Mr. Mean said in a low devilish tone.
The team was confused...until Time Lord looked behind them and saw the robot repairing itself. "Um...guys..." Jimmy pointed to the back of them. The team's spirit fell as Sparky was fully reformed, his eys gone completely red.
"Adaaapted..." The robot said in a robotic voice. He slowly made his way to the heroes as Mr. Mean chuckled behind him. The heroes got ready for a fight...
...but a boy wearing a costume similar to Kyle Rayner's Lanter outfit, an African American boy wearing a costume similar to Magneto's (save the helmet and cape) with a cowl/hoodie, and an African American girl with a skin tight orange spandex suit with a purple star symbol and short sleeves along with green leggins, yellow gloves, a red cape, and a blue domino mask. The heroes were confused at this sight.
"And just who the heck are you?" H2O growled at the three newcomers.
The girl pointed to herself and smiled, "Name's Twister! And this is Magnet and Lys!"
Psionic Girl sighed in relief. "So you're heroes? Thank goodness!"
Lys interrupted them, "We aren't heroes...dare I say it, we don't necesarally agree with your ways of 'heroing'...but we need to lock-up this guy and put this robot down. While YOU guys focus on the lizards, WE'LL be focusing on the real villains here."
"What? Hey! Where do you get off being RUDE to US?" Pain rolled up her sleeve, but Psionic Girl held her arm.
"Sir! Don't stray off focus!" She said, holding her arm. Lys held up a piece of paper and turned it into a kunai shape...
...and all the while, Mr. Mean sighed in boredom. Sparky's hands whirred as they turned into drills. "May I just dispose of them already?" He asked his creator, who let him go have fun. Sparky ran at Linus, who was carrying Frieda...
...
...but a light beam from behind RIPS RIGHT THROUGH Sparky! Mr. Mean jumped back in shock while everyone else stared on.
"WHAT IN THE...who did that...WHO DID IT?" Mr. Mean exclaimed as the entire team looked around, trying to find the source of the beam.
Time Lord looked into the air, "LOOK! IT'S...IT'S..."
A dark costumed figure with a hoodie on floated down to the docks, standing in the middle of everyone. The figure lifted his head up...
...revealing himself as Solar Flare himself. The entire P-Nuts team was skeptical...they had been burned by Charlie Brown imposters TWICE so far. Who's to say that THIS figure was him?
Psionic Girl began reading his vitals telepathically..."He's human...and his brainwaves seem similar to Charles." She whispered to her team. She continued reading his vitals in her mind, but became concerned when Lucy began to slowly amble over to the figure.
"Alright, I don't believe for one second that you're Solar Flare!" She exclaimed in with a sneer, "First, we were TRICKED by a transforming identity thief...and then we were DUPED by a robot...and now you expect us to FALL for this? Yeah right, who are you REALLY? Answer me NOW...or I'll slug you across the lake."
The team was cautious..."H2O, be careful...you don't know WHO that could be!" Blanket warned his sister, who heeded none of his words as she trekked closer to the boy in the hoodie.
"Yeah, well I KNOW that this isn't that now sniveling coward, CB...the boy who can't take a little bit of criticism...*Pounds fists* honestly, I don't know WHY anyone would even try and pass themselves off as him. Just setting yourself up for FAILURE anyway."
The figure clenched his fists and shook upon hearing these words as Lucy got closer and closer. Lighthawk yelled out, "H2O, you better STOP mocking Cha-erm...Solar Flare!"
"Yeah, haven't you learned ANYTHING?" Plain Pain exclaimed in disgust. Psionic Girl read more of his mind...
"Yep...that's Charles." She said to the team...but then the mind-reading took a dark turn as evil, dark images of a pale and twisted face flashed across her own eyes. Marcie got to her knees and held her head...and Lucy snickered.
"Yeah! I DID learn something! I learned that our 'leader' isn't showing up ever again because he's a wishy-washy...over-emotional...nearly bald-headed..."
Marcie yelled out, "LUCILLE, NO! STAY AWAY FROM CHARLES!"
"BLOCKHEAD!-...wait, this IS Charlie-"
H2O turned around...only to be BLASTED IN THE CHEST BY THE HOODED FLARE! The raven-haired heroine's eyes grew pupiless as a sizable hole was left in her chest. She flew from her old spot to right across the dock into a jewelry store, where Vanishing Vixen was busy stealing jewels amongst all the commotion. The shock of H2O crashing into the store and bleeding out caused her to drop her "goods" and teleport away from the scene.
The P-Nuts stood still...time stood still as Lucy flew across the dock and into the story. Linus, mortified, trembled as Flare slowly turned to them. The vigilantes all stood still as well, in total shock from what had just transpired. Even Mr. Mean was taken aback by the entire moment.
Shining Knight gulped, "Fair Maiden Psionic Girl...please inform me that the figure that stands before us is an imposter..."
Psionic Girl could barely speak. She could only nod...and say, "I-I-It is Charles..."
Sally nearly hyperventilated, scared that her big brother would do such a thing. Lighthawk tried to awaken Frieda, before it was too late and Lucy bled out...
Linus dropped to his knees...and in a loud cry...
"WHAT DID YOU JUST DO, CHARLIE BROWN!?"
A/N: YES! WE'RE BACK! FF tried taking me down...and I can't get back the old original prologue and chapters/episodes I had...but one day I'll try to. Then I'll upload them as "The Lost Episodes" or something.
I bet everyone is either saying, "YES! She deserved that for putting down Charlie Brown! The jerk!", or "NO! Not Lucy! She didn't deserve that! Oh no!"
I promised a friend I'd have this up by Christmas, and it's up on Christmas Eve! (Or Christmas for my Eastern Hemisphere homies) So MERRY CHRISTMAS! You got the return of P-Nuts Protectors as a gift! For waiting oh so patiently!
And special thanks to Tiger Lover 16 for his IMMENSE help with getting me back on my feet. He wrote the recap in the chapter before this one, which would've taken me an extra day to do. And I was just gonna do a cliff notes version. He wrote 5,000 plus words for it! Special thanks to him. He's a VERY GOOD author! One of the best in our section's history! Ballz Mahoney was great at coming of age emotional stories, Anonymous Fishy-Chan did great short drabbles, Marisa Lee made great love stories, and Tiger Lover 16 is great with action/hero/"You Were Destined to Save the World" stories! Check his stories out on his profile or go to The X-Over section to find them!
I'm back guys! And I will NOT leave! I hope the old fans who followed before still wanna follow, user or anonymous fans alike.
No more OCs either. Nope. Sorry guys. :/
Once again...thanks guys. Hope everyone either still loves this story and I hope new fans will love it, even with the older chapters...indefinitely disposed of...
Thanks for Reading! Please Review!
And MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Episode 5:
"WHAT DID YOU JUST DO, CHARLIE BROWN!?"
