The Closing Ceremonies, I mean Wrap-up
The kids all huddled around each other and the monsters closed in. "I don't suppose any of you other sidekicks have any secret powers that you've been holding out on?" Maz asked hopefully.
"Sorry, got nothing here," Spud said lazily.
"And we're not sidekicks!" Tucker snapped.
"Well I've got my super red goggles!" Frida bragged twirling them around like some kind of weapon, until one of the monsters crushed them. "Hey those were prescription!" she yelled, only to back off when said monster roared in her face.
"EXTERMINATE THE HUMANS!" the monsters cried as they raised their weapons for the kill.
"CEASE AND DESIST!" a mysterious but familiar voice roared over head. All present looked up to see a blue serpent dragon hovering above them. "These children are under my protection!"
"GRAMPS!" Trixie, Spud, and Fu Dog all cheered seeing the old dragon back in full glory.
"How did he get his dragon chi back?" someone asked "Wait if he got his powers back then...!" Lao Shi grinned showing them the has all the items of power and the Hero's Tome in his possession. It seems during the commotion caused by the Dark Dragon's disappearance; the monsters left the items completely unguarded allowing the old dragon to retrieve them with no problem!
"He's just one! We can take all him!" one of the monster yelled nervously.
"Are you crazy, that's the Hong Kong Dragon! The only one who went toe to toe with the master and lived!" another monster pointed out. That fact got several monsters to back away.
"Th-That was years ago! He's old and weak now!" one monster argued. Lao Shi countered the argument by doing a swift tail whip sending the monster flying off.
"Anyone else wishes to comment on my age?" Lao Shi challenged.
"RETREAT!" the monsters all cried disappearing into the shadows.
"Way to go Gramps!" Spud cheered as Lao Shi reverted back into his human form.
"Thank you, saved us," Kelly added. The other kids all gave their thanks as well.
"But what about the boys?" Sam asked looking at the area where the portal was.
"I'm sure they are fine and will be returning very soon," Lao Shi assured them. Right on cue another portal opened and the boys came walking through.
"Hey, there what did we miss?" Jake asked seeing that everyone was all right. The group immediately hugged and welcomed back their respective hero as well as demanding an explanation.
Danny went first, "well thanks to the Fenton Phones, I learned how the Dark Dragon would be powerless in the Ghost Zone, so I went over the ice area to ask Frostbite if I could borrow the Infinity Map. Then it was just a matter of waiting for the right moment to use it."
"So where did you send him?" Tucker asked eagerly.
"Walker's Prison," Danny said proudly. "It seems there's a rule against living dragons in the Ghost Zone and you know how Walker is about rules."
"He also has a rule against you," Sam point out. "How did you escape?"
"That warden ghost had his hands full with the Dark Dragon," Jake chimed in. "He may not have magic in the ghost zone but he's still very powerful. It took the entire prison guards to subdue him."
"And while the cops were playing with their new pet, Danny here used that map again to get us out." Randy finished.
"We would have been back sooner, but this ghost chica was throwing a concert and we stayed for a few songs," Manny joked.
"Yeah man, that Ember sure knows how to rock!" Guy laughed playing an air guitar.
"You know I should be angry, you doing something so reckless, but I'm just glad you're okay," Kelly said.
"Hey it's what heroes do," Guy bragged.
"HEROES!" AntiHero cried after regaining consciousness. "You guys are heroes! I hate heroes!"
"He doesn't remember us being heroes?" Guy whispered.
"No it's the stank-nesia, but he might remember later though," Randy warns.
"I'll handle this," Fu Dog offered walking over to the AntiHero. "Hey man you look like you can use a drink."
"Thanks, I am feeling a little parched." AntiHero graciously accepting the drink. "Hey don't you work for them?" he suddenly realized after taking a sip. A few seconds later he fell back into unconsciousness.
"Uh Fu, was that..." Jake asked.
"Yup, it's the memory erasing potion," Fu Dog confirmed. "A triple dose actually. He won't remember anything that happen for the last month, hu-goo."
"Well that should tie up this loose end rather neatly," Trixie said. "Not a bad days work."
"You said it, we defeated the Dark Dragon and saved the Hero's Tome!" Manny agreed holding up the book that he somehow manage to get from Lao Shi.
"Yeah about that, just what are we going to do with the book?" Jake wondered grabbing the book from him. Jake just didn't trust the little neutral cat boy, especially after that last stunt he pulled! "We can't bring the book back to the convention where McFist could steal it or worst buy it. And because of it's purpose to create new heroes they can't just lock it away somewhere to be forgotten."
"That's quite a dilemma," the all agreed.
"May I," Lao Shi suggested. Jake handed his grandfather the book who then asked for the Infinity Map. Danny handed the old man the map, who then proceeded to insert the map in the book. "Infinity Map send this book to where it must be!" Lao Shi commanded. The map opened a portal and it along with the Hero's Tome went flying in.
"Gramps are you sure about that?" Jake asked.
"Yes, the Infinity Map will send the book somewhere for some human to find and use to create a new hero. One who will one day prove to be as worthy as all of you have proven this day." Lao Shi praised handing the boys their items of power back. All were happy to get their powers back, except for Guy who seemed deep in thought, staring at the ring. Guy then faced his sister and offered her the ring.
"Uh Guy what are you doing?" Kelly asked nervously.
"Come on Kelly, we both know that you're the one who was suppose to become Shezow," Guy said with a heavy heart.
Kelly looked at the ring. All her life she'd dream of becoming Shezow, only to have her brother snatch it away from her during a childish prank! And now another opportunity is right in front of her! "No Guy," Kelly said shaking her head. "True you did steal the ring from me, but you also proved yourself worthy of the legacy. Like Lao Shi said, you've earned it!"
"Oh thank goodness," Guy breathed a sigh of relief as he put the ring back on his finger. Shocking everyone present. "I was afraid you'd take it."
"Wait I thought you didn't like being Shezow?" Danny asked recalling their earlier conversation.
"I don't, but I love the powers, and the car!" Guy laughed. The other heroes agreed that they were addicted to their powers as well. "But it just felt wrong if I didn't offer it to you first, Kelly."
"I bet you just want to wear that pretty pink dress again," Frida mocked.
"Hey lay off him. If he wants to wear a pink dress then that's his choice." Sam defended.
"I thought you said it's demeaning for Shezow to wear pink," Guy said in confusion.
"No it's demeaning for girls to wear pink dresses, because it's perpetuating an old stereotype, but if a boy wears pink then he's stating his individuality." Sam stated. Everyone just stared blankly at the Goth girl.
"You do know that what you just said makes no sense," Kelly said.
"Even I don't get what you're saying," Spud said scratching his head. "And I'm usually good at understanding nonsense."
"I wouldn't expect you average people to understand," Sam scoffed with a smug attitude.
"Whoa, hold up there girl, don't be fooled by his lazy demeanor," Trixie jumped in defending her friend. "Our Spud here is an IQ genius!"
"And I'm a straight A student!" Kelly protested.
"Does she always talk like this?" Guy asked Danny.
"Pretty much," Danny whispered. "I find it's easier just to smile and nod whenever she says something." While Sam didn't show any reaction to what he said, it stung hearing that not even Danny doesn't take her opinions seriously.
"So shall we see if these still work?" Guy suggested showing off his ring. The boys all nodded with anticipation.
"You Go Girl!" "Going Ghost!" "Dragon Up!" "Grraarrrowl! El Tigre!" "It's Ninja O'clock!"
Everyone marveled at the sight of Shezow's emblem circling around Guy, the Spectral rings traversing across Danny's body, Jake getting engulfed by mystic flame, Manny turning his buckle followed by a green explosion, and several strips of cloth wrapping around Randy forming his ninja suit. After that flashy display, the five heroes now stood before them.
Howard ran angrily towards the Ninja. "What the juice, Cunningham! Seriously we have one of, if not the greatest superhero line ups, the most epic roll call and transformation sequences in history, and then you ruin the moment using your most lamest catch phrase! Way to go Cunningham, way to go!" Howard shaking his head in disapproval.
"I'm sorry Howard," Ninja apologized. "I was going to say 'Go Ninja' but Danny already went with 'Going Ghost' and that would make me look like a shoob for copying him."
"I think Ninja O'clock is kind of clever," Kelly adding her two cents.
"Really, thanks!" Ninja's eye's lit up. "So Kelly, about that thing we were discussing before?"
"Oh right, well you did save my life, so I guess I owe you one." Kelly walked over to the Shehicle. "So Sheila, can you hook the Ninja up?"
"Oh I can do better than that," Sheila answered from the computer in the Shehicle. "I'm about to put all of you in a special 3D mini-series! In fact I already have the special posters versions of the covers made for it." Sheila began printing the posters through the fax machine in the glove compartment. The first poster had Shezow and the Ninja standing next to each other in sword fighting stance, the second was of Shezow and Danny standing back to back, the third had Shezow and El Tigre high fiving, the fourth had Shezow crouching down with the American Dragon flying above her, the fifth showed all of them looking like they were about to jump off the page, and the last had a silhouette line up of them.
"This is so BRUCE!" Randy said.
"Yeah but why is Shezow in every poster?" Frida complained.
"Because it's my comic," Shezow reminded her. "So anyone wants an autograph?"
"Only if you want me to sign yours as well," Danny joked. Pretty soon they were all signing each others' posters like a yearbook.
"Man everyone back home will get a kick out of this," Manny commented looking at his poster.
"You bet, but just how are we going to get home?" Frida asked. Manny fell silent since the thought never crossed his mind.
"MANNY WHERE ARE YOU?" they heard some familiar voices calling out for them.
"Dad, Grandpapi?" El Tigre said in disbelief seeing his grandfather using his Sombrero as a helicopter while his father hanged on to his leg.
"Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brian Equahia Rivera! What is going one here?" Rodolfo demanded after landing.
"I was just, uh, um, you know," Manny tried to think of a good excuse.
"He was just helping me save the world," Shezow jumped in.
"Wha...Shezow! I heard you just turned graphic novel!" White Pantera gasped.
"Yes sir, and your son has earned a guest appearance in my comic," Shezow confirmed.
"My son, acknowledge by a graphic novel level and guest appearing in a hero comic. I'm so happy!" White Pantera cried with pride.
"NNNNNNOOOOOOO!" Puma Loco cried as well but for different reasons.
"This calls for a celebration!" Rodolfo cheered.
"We can go to that comic convention they are having in this city," Manny suggested.
"Perfect!" Rodolfo agreed.
"Yes good thing I stopped at the bank on the way here," Puma said pulling out a huge money bag out of his Sombrero. Off in the distance they all heard the sounds of sirens angrily roaming the streets. "What?" he asked after noticing that everyone was giving him the stink eye!
"Uh Grandpapi, you do know that you are in the presents of superheroes." Manny reminded him.
Puma looked around and knew he was in trouble. "Fine I'll take it back," he grumbled.
The next day at the convention, during the Shezow autograph session, they introduced the new upcoming miniseries as well as showcasing the new cover posters and introducing the guest appearances. Danny Phantom, the American Dragon, El Tigre, and the Ninja all participated in the autograph signing as well. Naturally the Ninja got the most requests due to the fact that he is the local hero!
On the last day of the convention, they held the power demonstration. Not too surprisingly, McFist rescheduled the demo to be held outside the convention hall. The fact that they are real superheroes and he didn't want them to needlessly destroy his new convention center, might be the reason for that. Plus they already thwarted the trap so there's no point in keeping the Ninja inside. For the demo they decided to have a quick battle royal, but to minimize the damage it would only be a flag match. With each hero tying a ribbon on their arm, and when the ribbon is knocked off then they lose.
"MY CAR!" Principal Slimovitz cried after a misfire from the demo blew up his car. (We had to destroy it at least once in this story.) The fight continued without any more mishaps and ended when; Shezow used his boomerang brush to cut El Tigre's flag, El Tigre using his grappling claw to grab the AmDrag's flag, the AmDrag breathing fire at Danny Phantom who went intangible but being magical fire still burned the flag, Danny going intangible to steal Randy's flag, unaware of what Danny was up to Randy threw his ninja ring at Shezow flag! "So I guess it's a tie," Randy said after seeing all the flags on the ground.
"Should we go another round?" El Tigre asked.
"Naw, let's leave it at that," Shezow decided. They all agreed to end it with a tie, since this is a demo and not a real match.
"Sold, for a cool 3 million dollars to Mr. Hannibal McFist!" the auctioneer announced the sale of the Heroes Chronicles RPG book. Thanks to Tucker and Spud's connection in the geek community, they were able to find another copy of the elusive RPG book not far from Norrisville. Luckily the owner is a Shezow fan and gave them the book in exchange for an autograph picture with him. After making the trade they quickly used the book to replace the one they stole. No surprise that McFist bought the book thinking it was still the Hero's Tome. He even bragged to the heroes that they cannot stop him this time since the book is now legitimately his! Of course he didn't even stop to wonder why the heroes weren't making a fuss about him buying the book or trying to get it away from him. He just happily celebrated his victory.
After the closing ceremonies the gang gathered in the parking lot one last time. "Well this has got to be the most memorable convention I ever had," Shezow said. "But saving the world aside, it was really great meeting all of you."
"You too dude," Randy said giving Shezow a fist bump.
"You know I still can't get over that you're a guy in a dress. Not that there's anything wrong with that." Howard said.
"I get that a lot. Or I would if my secret ever got out!" Shezow said sarcastically making sure that they all got the hint. "Well we've got to get going. If you guys are ever in Megadale give us a call!" Shezow revved up the Shehicle. As the drove off the Shehicle transformed into She C-10 and flew off!
"Wow I'd really wear a pink dress for a car like that," Spud said.
"Yeah me too," Sam said shocking everyone present. Even Rodolfo and Puma's jaws dropped by her statement and they don't even know the girl well enough to find what she said strange. "What? Can't I have one out of character moment without everyone judging me?" Sam asked.
"Nope," Frida said shaking her head.
"Nuh-uh," Howard said.
"You were kinda' asking for it, girlfriend," Trixie commented.
"This is why I hate the living," Sam mumbled.
"Hey we better get going as well, our bus will be here soon." Jake reminded everyone. "Yo Danny be sure to work things out with your girl OK." Jake giving him the thumbs up.
"I'll do that," Danny promised much to Sam's annoyance.
"Oh and Sam if you're ever in New York, look us up. I'll give you a tour of the Magus Bizarre." Jake offered.
"The mythical magic market!" Sam gasped recalling hearing rumors about it. "You mean it really exists!" Sam already making plans to spend her vacation in New York!
"We must be going as well Meho," Rodolfo said to Manny. Puma inflated his Sombrero turning it into a giant blimp.
"Goodbye guys we really need to team up again sometime soon!" Manny yelled to the others as the Riveras and Frida floated away.
"We should get going as well," Danny said entering the Specter Speeder followed by Sam and Tucker.
"Bye everyone," Randy waved to his new found friends as they all went off.
"Man, Cunningham that was quite an adventure wasn't it," Howard said placing his hand on Randy shoulder.
"That it was, that it was." Randy agreed. "And just think in six months we will see our faces in the Shezow comic!"
"To bad things didn't work out with your crush. I mean how could you not see that Shezow's a boy! Unless you're actually into that sort of thing." Howard teased.
"Whoa, hold on there. One, I did not have a crush on Shezow! Two, I'm not into that kind of thing! Three, his sister is kind of cute though, I think she was checking me out." Randy chuckled.
"Yeah right, like she would really be interested in a shoob like you," Howard laughed.
Epilogue
6 months later
"This is it Howard," Randy said looking at the first issue of the miniseries.
"Shall we give it a look?" Howard asked pulling out the 3D glasses inserted in the comic.
"Let's," Randy agreed putting on the glasses. The story started at the convention itself. With Shezow doing the Q/A panel, when the attack happen. During the action scenes, Shezow was in full 3D splendor, but the others were still in 2D and only fighting in the background! Not only that but they made the Ninja look a lovesick idiot, constantly brown-nosing Shezow! They also had Harold(Howard) being kind of a cowardly jerk. After they finished reading the comic they put down the glasses. "Can you believe it Howard," Randy said in soft irritated tone. "Can you believe what they just did!"
"Yeah man,"Howard agreed. "This comic, I mean this comic has got to be..."
"THE MOST AWESOMEST THING WE'VE EVER SEEN!" They then proceed to do their signature fist bump in celebration.
"Hey are you two going to pay for that?" the comic shop owner demanded.
"No," Randy answered before grabbing all the different alternate covers for the issue. "We're buying all of these!"
"You boys are so stupid," Debbie Kang said after seeing that they just ran up a 50$ bill to buy multiple copies of the same comic.
The End