Back in Coolsville, the gang managed to regroup after a search around the museum.
"Okay, how are we gonna capture this glowing pterodactyl ghost?" Dee Dee wondered. "You got any Daffy Taffy Ideas, Taffy?"
"Nope." Taffy shook her head. "Becca has one!"
"Oh really." Dee Dee said before turning to Becca and added, "What do you have in mind, Becca?"
Becca cleared her throat. "It's quite simple, Dee-Dee: this alleged pterodactyl ghost is stealing valuable art supplies. So, we'll pass someone off as a statue. Then, when the dactyl grabs the statue, we will move the statue, causing him to accidentally fly into the wall, thereby knocking him out cold!"
"Jeepers, that's not a bad idea, Becca." said Daphne. "But who's gonna act as bait?"
Becca turned her head to face Brenda and made a little smirk.
"Oh...brother." Brenda rolled her eyes. "I should've figured."
"Come on, Brenda." Taffy said. "It won't take much, and this will be over before you know it."
"Easier said than done." Brenda pouted.
"Well, we haven't had all day." Dee Dee said before Brenda could go further. "Let's move it."
Everyone else nodded and proceeded to get down to work.
However, none of the girls noticed that a figure was hidden nearby and had listened in to Becca's plan.
Soon enough, Brenda was covered in turquoise makeup and a silky toga.
"Aye carumba..." she groaned.
"Okay Brenda, now you just hold that pose while we hide over there!" said Taffy.
"Yes ma'am." Brenda rolled her eyes.
Becca smirked. "You know Brenda, if you were a real statue, you'd be wortn about a million dollars..."
"I would?" asked Brenda.
"Sure..." Becca nodded. "...if you live in a hobo's box!"
Everyone started laughing at Becca's snarky little comment, only making Brenda even more irritated.
"I...am not surprised." She rolled her eyes.
It was then that heard something coming from the adjacent hallway.
"Guys, someone's coming!" Daphne urged.
"Let's go." Dee Dee nodded as they quickly moved out of the scene.
As soon as they got out of the way, there was a disturbing screech, which came from the top floor. Just then, a giant, glowing pterodactyl ghost appeared, ready to strike again.
"If I ever get out of this alive...I'm going to raise money the old fashioned way...with a lemonade stand..." Brenda thought as she saw the dreaded pterodactyl ghost.
"Unga, that guy definitely not from Bedrock..." Cavey whispered as he saw the monster looking at Brenda.
The monster, upon seeing Brenda, looked around.
He then spread his wings, screeched, and flew down to grab Brenda.
Watching the monster flying towards her, Brenda bid her time.
"Wait for it..." She thought to herself. "Don't panic."
Soon, just as the monster was close enough to swoop its arms and grab her, Brenda quickly ducked down, causing the monster to miss.
"This should do it." Becca thought to herself as she watched from her hiding spot. "Almost a pity it didn't cause any trouble to baby sis."
However, the moment Brenda ducked down, the monster made a sharp turn and avoided crashing into the wall, to the shock and horror of the other girls.
Then, the monster flew right back, grabbed Brenda with it's talons, and flew right out of the museum through a window.
"Oh no! Brenda!" Dee Dee gasped.
Becca gulped. "That's...not really what I had in mind..."
"Brenda's in trouble!" Taffy exclaimed. "Do something, Cavey!"
Swiftly, Cavey reached into his fur and pulled out his club. "CAAAAAAPTAIN CAAAAAAAAAAAAVEMAN!"
"And son!" Junior added.
The two caveman flew into the air, chasing after Brenda and the pterodactyl.
"Come on!" said Dee Dee as the girls headed outside and back to the van to follow Cavey and Junior.
As the pterodactyl carried Brenda, she only rolled her eyes.
"So much for Becca's plan to capture this beast." She thought to herself.
She then looked up at the legs grabbing her, and upon noticing something, added, "I suppose it's up to me right now to clean up this mystery."
She looked down and noticed that was probably about fifty feet in the air right about now. Brenda was scared, but she had to do something.
"Here goes nothing..." she thought.
While the dactyl may have grabbed her with its legs, it did not restrain her arms and hands in any ways, and noticing the wiring in the legs above her, Brenda reached over, grabbed onto them, and yanked them out.
The moment she yanked the wires out, a mini explosion came from the main body of the petrodactyl, which began to descend towards the ground below.
Brenda screamed as she fell from the sky on the monster. "Obviously I didn't think this through..."
"Daddy! Brenda's in trouble!" Junior pointed to the falling brunette.
"We save you!" Cavey called out.
Cavey and his son flew right down towards Brenda. Using their Samson-like strength, they managed to carry the pterodactyl and fly Brenda to safety.
Once they landed, the two cavemen helped Brenda up.
"Thanks a bunch, Cavey." Brenda smiled as she kissed the two cavemen.
"Daww shucks..." Cavey nodded as his cheeks turned red.
The trio then looked down at the damaged pterodactyl with Brenda leaning forward to take a closer look at the thing.
"Wow." Brenda remarked. "This thing looks more machine-like when you look closer at it. Obviously, that meant someone is controlling it, either through remote control or inside."
She then turned to the two cavemen and added, "Let's find out, shall we?"
"Unga." Cavey nodded again before they began examining the damaged pterodactyl more closely.
Brenda smirked at her sister. "Looks like your 'brilliant plan' wasn't so brilliant after all, eh sis?"
"Oh, let's just get this mystery over with so we can head home." Becca rolled her eyes.
"Good thing too." Dee Dee nodded. "Okay, the pterodactyl ghost is none other than..."
Junior took a drum out of his fur and started playing a drumroll as Dee Dee unmasked the villain.
Dee-Dee unmasked the villain to reveal none other than...
"Jonathan Jacobo!" She proclaimed as the man's face was revealed.
"Who?" asked the girls.
"He's a scientist and inventor who's been pulling off a string of bank robberies around Coolsville using this glider that forms the part of his pterodactyl costume." Dee Dee explained before pulling the remaining parts of the costume, revealing a glider underneath.c
"So that explains how he was able to fly around and grab me back at the museum." Brenda mused. "In fact, I can even bet that he's got controls inside his costume that enables him to control the movements of this thing."
"Allow me to search!" Becca said as she pushed Brenda out of the way to observe the costume.
"No need." Brenda said before pointing at the damaged leg and added, "If you see the damaged wires in that leg over there, you'll can see that they're part of the controls."
"But why do this?" Taffy turned to the unmasked Jacobo.
"So I could fund my experiments and create a whole army of actual monsters to become the greatest scientist in the world!" Jacobo ranted. "And I would've gotten away with it ignored it wasn't for those meddling twins!"
"Well, it looks like your mad experiments won't be taking off anytime soon, doc." Daphne said. "Time for you to go to jail."
Back overseas, Otto and Radika kept enduring the different challenges, but kept failing, further testing Otto's patience.
"Ms. Librarian, how much longer until these stupid challenges are over?" He grumbled.
"Just patient." said the librarian. "Patience is a virtue."
"I hope you're right." Radika said. "Because our patience are wearing thin."
The librarian cleared her throat. "Okay, here's your final challenge: Which heirloom is the most valuable?"
"What?!" Radika shouted. "But we already did that!"
"Hold it right there, sis. I think I figured it out..." Otto said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out some ruby pendant with an 'O' on it. "It's our family pendants!"
The librarian looked closely at the pendant Otto was holding.
"That...is correct!" She proclaimed.
"Yes!" Otto pulled his fist.
"...but you took too long to find that out." said the librarian. "Sorry, you failed!"
Otto was starting to boil all over when all of a sudden, Radika screamed at the top of her voice.
"Listen you!" She shouted. "We've been going through enough of these challenges! We want that book right now!"
"Sorry princess, you failed." the librarian waved her finger.
"You have wasted enough of our time!" Otto snapped at the librarian. "Give us that info! I'm your prince and I COMMAND THEE! NOW!"
"Well, your royal highness, I'm not sure if that's a wise move." The librarian said.
"And why not? Enlighten me, please!" Otto growled.
"Yeah, what's the reason for giving us these stupid challenges?" Radika added. "I thought you should know that we royals should know more about our family history!"
The librarian began to explain. "Well, this castle is the ancestral and current home of your family, and since you two and your brother are the rightful successors to this throne, I figured that you should know your family history before you can get any information on that heir, and it would seem that you two have failed."
"But we have to know!" Otto argued. "Our family is having our first major crisis since that incident in '98, and for all we know, we could have a long lost brother or third cousin out there who doesn't know who he is or where he came from! So you'd better give us that file or you shall spend the rest of your days IN THE DUNGEON!"
The librarian sighed. "As you wish, your highness."
Back in Coolsville, it didn't take long for police to arrive at the scene.
While they arrested Jacobo, the girls discussed the events of the day.
"Well Brenda, I hope you and your sister have learned something from this." said Dee Dee.
"And what's that?" Becca folded her arms.
"It'd better be something sensible." Brenda added.
"Well, I was hoping you sisters have learned to work together." Dee Dee said.
"And put that petty rivalry of yours aside." Daphne added.
"No way! Becca and I will always be fierce rivals! I'll stop at nothing until I've emerged from her shadow!" Brenda placed her hands on her hips. "But I guess we'll try to be less competitive from now on..."
"And maybe I should try to appreciate my sister's company more often." Becca sighed. "After getting her into danger thanks to my reckless plan to capture the beast."
"You had me at 'reckless.'" Brenda smirked.
"Brenda..." Dee Dee glared at her best friend.
"Sorry." Brenda groaned.
"So, you two are going to try to do better and be nicer to each other?" Dee Dee asked them.
The sisters groaned. "Yes Dee-Dee..."
"Now shake on it!" Dee Dee ordered.
The sisters groaned again, reluctantly shook hands and glared at each other.
"Now that's more like it." Dee Dee nodded.
Later that night, the girls got ready for bed.
"Well sis, I guess it's gonna be a little difficult trying to get our sibling rivalry under control." Brenda told her sister.
"Yeah, but I guess since we are stuck with each again, we'll need to do it." Becca added. "Night sis."
"Night night." Brenda added.
Brenda went back into her room, opened up her computer and called Otto to chat.
A few rings went by before Otto responded.
"Hey Brenda!" He waved to her as his face came onscreen.
"Hey sweetie! Just called to see how you were doing." said Brenda.
"Well, it's been quite a day." Otto said.
"Yeah, you have no idea..." Brenda groaned. "My sister is moving back to town and my life is being turned upside down."
"That's nothing compared to what I've been through..." Otto retorted.
"What happened?" Brenda asked.
"My sister and I were trying to get some secret file in our royal library, but our servant had us complete some ridiculous challenges because we had to prove ourselves 'worthy.'" Otto explained.
"Golly, that's pretty frustrating." Brenda remarked.
"You have no idea..." Otto rolled his eyes.
"I can imagine." Brenda said.
"At least I finally got the file, though." said Otto. "Tomorrow, I'm gonna show it to my folks. Night snookums."
"Nighty night pookie face." Brenda blew the prince a kiss.
After the conversation ended, Brenda then turned to her bed to get to sleep. She knew that she had to go back to putting up with her sister, but she knew that she had upstaged her in something...snagging a prince.
THE END
Author's Note:
Looks like it's only the start of Brenda and Becca's sibling rivalry, but they'll have to learn to not let it get the better of them. In the next story, we are going to see either the Neptunes or the Chan Clan. Which one would you like to see next? I really need a good answer.