Hi, I'm back from Operation: Final Exams and I gotta say, it wasn't all that bad. You know, except for the not updating my stories as often as I should, this kid breathing loudly behind me whenever he gets frustrated on a problem (I can LITERALLY FEEL his breath on my neck and NOT in a good way!), and some people taking the whole freakin' 90 minutes to complete the exam that only has 50 questions on it! But enough about my problems. Let's start back up on the story, shall we?
Hey Arnold! Time Warp Chapter 10: A Blast to the Past
"How close are we?" Nadine asked, keeping her voice at a minimum. She hovered over Arnold, trying to glance at his locating device.
"Real close." Arnold answered as he pointed his finger down the path they were walking. "Just down this hall." He checked the coordinates that Phoebe sent him on his Spy tracking device and followed the blue dots. They indicated where any possible frequency waves were surrounding.
They find the frequency, they'll find the E.M.M.D., and that is where they will find Scheck. Simple as that.
Not.
The beeping on the tracking device had grown louder and began to heat up in Future Arnold's hands. He was starting to think it was busted, but his optimism just simply would not allow him to give up. All the red dots were starting to come together in one area on the screen. They all headed south on the screen which meant that the portal device had to be down somewhere near the underground parking garage.
After what seemed like forever, the group was all led out of the inside part of the mall and wound up on the back of the mall where the loading docks and dumpsters were located. They made their way in through the shipment tunnels even though nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but sometimes a good spy has to go with their instincts and make the most of what they have.
As the tunnel came to an end, the spies stumbled across a large indoor boxing factory where dozens of conveyor belts surrounded them. Hanging from the tall ceiling were rubber ropes that broke off from the lighting fixtures. In all four corners of the factory were piles of boxes that had Scheck's old business logos on it.
Along the high walls of the factory, there was a terrace that expanded all around the four walls of the building.
The future gang managed to stealthily sneak past each obstacle in the crowded factory lot and slowly navigate their way towards a pyramid of cardboard boxes where they hid behind them. The beeps on the tracking device were beginning to pinpoint on a certain spot in the factory and faded to a complete stop. Luckily, the device managed to stop at the same time the spies did.
Future Arnold turned around nodded his head to the gang, sending them a silent command to arm themselves. The spies did as their captain requested and held their weapons close to their persons. Future Arnold crouched his body down, clinging the the corner of the wall as close as he could.
He peeked his head around the corner, past the doorway to an elevator and spotted a pillar located on the other side of the factory that seemed to be cut down in half. Sitting on top of the pillar was a glass container that contained the E.M.M.D.
'Jackpot.' Future Arnold thought as he smiled to himself.
He turned his head back toward his team and gave them a thumbs up, telling them that the eagle has landed. The gang all went into a little celebration mode as they gave each other pats on the back and high-fives, but carefully at a low minimum.
Future Arnold tapped the communicator linked to his arm and talked into it. "This is Blue Eagle to Yellow Panda. Phoebe, we found the E.M.M.D." He reported.
"Excellent work, Captain." Future Phoebe saluted back. "Now, I just need you to get a hold of it so that we can take it back to headquarters."
"Ten-four, Yellow Panda. I also need you to figure out a way to reprogram it after we send you a scan."
"Figuring." Future Phoebe gave a nod before the communicator zapped off.
Future Sid began to stand up as he was kneeling on his hands. "Well, what the heck are we waiting for, Christmas? Let's go in and grab it."
Before his hands could leave the ground, Future Arnold's arm cut his path off. "Wait," He begged. "What if it's a trap? What if-?" His sentence was cut short as the sound off the elevator ding went off.
Future Arnold pushed himself as far away from the corner of the wall as possible and turned around to face his crew. He raised a finger up to his lips, signaling them to be quiet. "Shh..." He warned as he was hearing loud talking, or arguing coming from the inside of the elevator.
Once the elevator doors diverted from each other, a figure walked out and the source of the arguing was found. "...I'm simply saying that I want this system working now. Do you hear me? NOW!" Sheck yelled, appearing from out the elevator along with Nick.
"I hear ya loud and clear, Boss. Don't worry. I already have the button that will sure to have every inch of this factory guarded." Nick reassured his boss, pulling out a control from his back pocket with a big red button on top. He pressed it and the spies readied themselves for whatever came their way. Except...
Nothing happened.
Normally, the gang had battled a lot of criminals who seemed to have at least a quarter of a brain, but seeing how nothing was happening around them, they thought Scheck had completely lost it.
"Good, Nick. As you know, I'm a man of my word when I say that I want those spies to have the up most mercy from me if they attempt to try any funny business while this special security system is on." Scheck grinned evilly to himself, casually walking with his hands behind his back near the pillar where the E.M.M.D was contained.
The spies studied their enemies' move without missing a step his feet took. Just as soon as his right foot landed on a crack of the floor, red beams popped up all around the floor and set off an alarm on the wall. The alarm triggered, all kinds of laser beams and deadly power drills that erupted from behind boxes and conveyor belts and underneath the floor. They all turned to face him directly, each aim being precise.
A tiny laser beam popped out from the wall where the spies were pinned up against and it looked pretty lethal.
The future gang all had their mouths dropped in surprise that they had almost been fooled. This place was too packed tight with security than they thought. This almost made a snag in their plans.
Scheck's chuckling broke them out of their thoughts. "I'll be unstoppable." He raised both his fists in the air. Nick followed him away from where the spies were hiding and joined in on his celebration. "Attaboy, boss!" Nick praised.
Future Arnold decided to waste no time in coming up with a back-up plan. "Okay," He whispered. "We've gotten a bigger glance at what we're up against right now, so consider this plan added to the old plan." He huddled his group together.
They all nodded their heads.
"Great. Sid, I need you and Gerald to cover for me while we try to go in for the E.M.M.D." He instructed. "Harold, Stinky, Curly and Eugene, you four need to bring Helga's car around here so that we can have a quicker way out of here without setting off the alarms."
"Okey-dokey, Arnold." Future Stinky replied.
"Oh, boy. We get to drive Pink Lightning?" Future Harold beamed, acting like this was the greatest moment of his life.
He noticed Future Helga's expression towards him. "If you break it..." She threatened him, cracking her knuckles.
The four men all nodded their heads rapidly with sheepish grins on their faces. They knew if they mess with the car, they're messing with Helga.
Future Arnold started to talk again until he noticed Future Rhonda getting up. "Wait," She stopped anyone from moving. Future Rhonda whipped out from her pocket her compact of face powder.
"Uh, Rhonda, is this really the best time to fix your makeup?" Nadine asked, raising a brow.
"I'm not, but I need all the girls' powders too." She requested.
"You want all our powders?" Lila asked, confused as Nadine was.
"Yeah, just to make sure we'll be sure to see the red beams." Once she gained possession of all the powdered makeup, she lifted the lids up and blew the powder out towards the red beams which made them appear more visible.
She then went down on her knees and rearranged the mirrors so that they would face the rays from where the beams originated. The mirrors would deflect the beams to zap themselves out of power.
"Uh, hasn't this laser deflecting thing kinda not worked before?" Future Sid asked, skeptically.
"The trick is to use more than one mirror." Future Rhonda replied, feeling very clever. She positioned the mirrors and sure enough, her plan worked.
"Makeup, it'll never let you down." She smiled giddily to herself. "Oh, and by the way, Nadine, I always look good on missions. You better recognize." She snapped her fingers.
Her best friend smiled at her sass and rolled her eyes.
Future Harold's eyes nearly popped out of his head at the intelligence of his wife. To him, she looked like the most gorgeous woman in the world. "I am soo in love with her right now." He muttered to himself, unaware of how loud he said it.
Unfortunately, Lila thought she heard him. "What?" She faced and asked him.
"Nothin'. " He replied quickly, avoiding eye contact.
"Okay, Rhonda, you Lila and Nadine try to work your way through the other parts of the mall and deactivate the rest of the beams while Helga can do her stuff." Future Arnold gave his last instruction.
"Huh?" Future Helga raised an eyebrow at her husband.
"Helga..." He playfully winked at her, hoping his message would get across.
His wife led out a gasp. "Ohh, gotcha." She winked back. With everyone's positions assigned, they all dispersed from their huddle and tip toed into their assigned groups.
Scheck peered out from the entrance of the factory after his chuckling ceased. "Am I not a man of my word, Nick?" He buffed his nails.
"Oh, yeah, sure, boss." He replied.
"Now, I'm going to take a look around and see if I might have company tonight." Scheck decided, fixing his tie.
"You didn't tell me you had a date, Boss." Nick smiled stupidly at his boss, taking what he said literally.
Scheck face-palmed himself. "I... meant... the SPIES! You miserable moron!" He shouted as his hair was falling out of place.
"Oh, yeah." Nick nodded.
"Now, you stay here and guard the E.M.M.D and whatever you do, don't let me catch you goofing off." Scheck threatened as he towered over his employee before turning sharply on his heel and walking out of the factory entrance.
"Whatever you say." Nick whistled to himself as he walked away from the doorway and made his way toward where the E.M.M.D was.
"MISTER VERMICELLI!" A booming voice bounced all around the bad guy. The voice startled Nick as he stumbled forward and tripped on the ground.
Little did they know that the voice belonged to Future Helga who disguised her voice to sound exactly like Scheck's while talking through a broken pipe in the wall. She hid behind a wall that was right from outside the entrance gate and giggled to herself.
Nick heard the known, yet unknown voice as well and froze at the sound of what it sounded like. "Who are you, Stranger?" He asked, quite scared.
"I am Alfonse... Perrier... Du Von Scheck!" It yelled back in a ghost-like tone. "Beware, Nick, beware-ware-ware..." It faded into oblivion.
The trick was Future Helga was trying to get Nick away from the E.M.M.D so that Harold, Curly, Stinky and Eugene could sneak out the entrance way and go and fetch the car. It also was for making sure that Nick was distracted long enough for Sid, Arnold and Gerald could get closer to the invention. And sure enough, the plan was working out okay as the Nick was merging away from the device to get a look around.
Nick tried to search all throughout the factory to see who or what was making the voice, but he found nothing. "If you are Scheck, then who was I talkin' to?" His voice fought back.
"Your Mama." Future Helga joked to herself, seeing Stinky, Eugene, Harold and Curly were out of the building for now.
Nick raised an eyebrow at this.
Meanwhile, Future Arnold, Gerald and Sid had managed to pass all the security alarms thanks to the other girls and hid behind other boxes, making their way closer to the portal device.
Nick was practically crying like a baby. "Oh, no. I've seen this on the late show. The spirit of the mall where you know, the-the chick was shopping, but her credit card got declined... A-And r-right where she tried to cut it up, it cut her up first!" He screamed.
Future Sid scoffed. "... Reminds me of Rhonda." He whispered to Future Gerald who muffled a snicker. Future Arnold glared at them to keep quiet. They were almost there.
"Mister Vermicelli," Future Helga decided to switch her voice again with another and started up again. Only this time, she was talking in a poised and gruff manner of speaking.
"Y-Yeah, Boss?" Nick asked in return.
"Release the E.M.M.D and ship it out to the front of the entrance gate." The blonde woman commanded, happily enjoying her little mind game with Nick.
Nick, being the foolish follower he was obeyed the command. "Sure thing, Mr. Scheck. Release the-" His voice choked back a gasp. He wondered why his boss wanted him to protect it if he wanted it out back. "B-But Boss, you said..."
The voice was raised again. "Those are my orders, Mister Vermicelli!" Future Helga barked before she moved away from the entrance door and found a ladder. From there, she traveled up on top of the terrace to get a bird's eye view where she found another broken pipe.
Nick nodded sheepishly and did what he was told. Once he got to the front of the factory entrance, he bumped into the real Scheck who saw what his employee was carrying.
"Nick," He said, calmly building up his rage.
"Yeah, Boss?" Nick answered, paying no mind to what his boss' expression was.
"Just what do you think you are doing?"
"Just what you told me, putting the E.M.M.D out near the front of the entrance gate like you said." Nick answered, puzzled.
Scheck however, did not look amused. "I said what?" He asked, raising a suspicious brow.
"I know it sounded weird and I wasn't gonna do it, but..."
"PUT IT BACK! YOU BLATHERING IDIOT!" Scheck barked as his voice carried all around outside the factory and pushing Nick back inside. He paced back and forth at the foolishness his employee was possessed with. "Of all the stupid, little..."
Before he could finish his insults, he heard a voice echoing inside. Not just a mere voice but his own.
"Mister Vermicelli, just exactly what do you think you're doing?" Scheck heard the voice ask, almost sounding like a complete match to the sound of his own voice.
This time, Nick set the E.M.M.D closer to where Arnold, Sid and Gerald were hiding, much to their convenience and happiness. "Putting the do-hickey back like you said, Boss." Nick replied, unaware that his real boss was listening to the conversation.
Future Helga spread her legs out across the terrace, making herself comfortable while she continued playing with Nick and still talking into the broken pipe. "I said nothing of the sort!" She huffed in a dignified accent with her eyes closed.
"B-But, Boss..."
"For the last time, Mister Vermicelli," Future Helga cut him off for the last time that night. "Take the E.M.M.D back toward the entrance gate... UN-DER-STAND! Stand... Stand... Stand..." Future Helga yelled at the top of her lungs, nearly making the place shake as the echo bounced off the walls and outside.
Scheck nodded his head, trusting his instincts and decided to casually play along in order to catch the menace. "Tell me, Scheck..." He sneered as he walked back inside the factory. "Have you any other name?"
Future Helga, still believing this was still a prank play along with him. "Yes." She answered, still using the Scheck voice.
"Vegetable?" Scheck guessed.
"No..." The other 'Scheck' answered.
"Mineral?"
Future Helga got a little confused, but still went with it. "No..." She shook her head.
"Animal?"
"Maybe..." Future Helga smirked, make believing she was as powerful as an animal.
Scheck's evil smirk made another appearance. "Spy?"
"NO!" Future Helga shouted, her voice almost cracking back into its normal state.
"Woman..." Scheck asked with fake innocence, playing dumb no further..
"Yes!" The blonde woman let him have his fun.
Meanwhile, Future Arnold, Gerald and Sid had sneaked up behind the two bad guys as they had their backs turned to them. Future Arnold sliced the glass container open with a mini laser in his watch as Future Gerald and Sid scanned the E.M.M.D and carefully placed it in a box they picked up.
"Ordinary woman?" Scheck asked with his patience wearing thin.
"No!" Future Helga shouted back in his voice.
"Wonderful woman?" Scheck kissed up to her.
Unfortunately, the real Scheck latched on to what was making the noise, or rather who was making the noise. He spotted at the top of the terrace in a little corner a blonde woman who he recognized all too well. He skillfully climbed the ladder, avoiding any noise whatsoever, as he quietly sneaked up closer to Helga who had her back turned to him.
"Yes!" Future Helga accidentally let her voice slip a little when she shouted again. After a few moments of silence, she peered down from the terrace and noticed Nick was still standing there, searching for the mysterious Scheck impersonator, and the boys getting the E.M.M.D. "Do you give up?" She asked, looking around for Scheck and climbing on top of the rail of the terrace to get a better view.
Nick turned his head to the terrace and noticed Future Helga with her hands behind her back. "What the...?" He shouted.
Future Helga held back a laugh, deciding to end the game. "I am..." She started talking, using her normal voice.
"... History!" Scheck shouted as he lunged at her, attempting to push her off of the terrace.
Future Arnold rose his head up as well and his eyes widened as he saw his wife was in danger. "Helga, look out!" He called.
Just as Scheck was about to push her forward, Future Helga ignited her Up, Up & Away Shoes as she was floating above his head. She turned to face him and laughed at him like she knew he was behind her.
The boys below all cheered as Scheck was scowling at all of them. He ran to the ladder and climber down as fast as he could, nearly jumping down it.
The four spies all chased Nick away and saw Scheck running towards them. "Gee, Scheck, did you miss us that much you have to charge at us for a hug?" Future Arnold grinned, seeing as how Scheck was about to run them over.
Future Gerald shook his head in mock disappointment. "Mmm, mmm, mmm. Not even a proper welcoming party." He joked along with his best friend.
"Well, you only get one chance at a first impression." Future Helga spoke as she turned off her shoes and landed on the ground. She stuffed two of her fingers between her lips and sent a shrill whistle towards the entrance of the factory.
Scheck had suddenly stopped running once he heard the noise growing from outside. "What's that noise?" He asked, his voice getting filled with worry.
The sound of tires screeching against pavement only grew louder and he was able to make it out as low rumbling, almost like a stampede, only much worse.
"Please tell me that's an earthquake." Scheck gripped the bridge of his nose.
Without further warning, the wall right next to the entrance had crumbled all to pieces as a pink colored Lincoln burst through the concrete wall with Future Harold behind the wheel. Future Stinky was in the passenger seat, Future Curly was in the back seat sticking his head out the window and Future Eugene was clinging to his seat belt for dear life.
It zoomed right past Scheck and Nick and spun in a circle as it stampeded over conveyor belts and back towards where what was once the entrance door.
The doors to the Lincoln swung open as it charged towards Future Arnold, Helga, Gerald and Sid all got whooped inside along with the box that contained the E.M.M.D and the car sped out the big hole in the wall, knocking a whole pyramid of boxes right on top of Scheck and Nick.
"See ya, SUCKERS!" Future Curly yelled back from a distance.
From beneath the pile of boxes, Scheck slowly emerged from the bottom almost like a zombie who was just woken up from the dead. "Well played, Captain Arnold." He muttered calmly, balancing himself up.
Nick also emerged and noticed his boss walking casually to the broken wall with his hands behind his back. Nick shook his head from the dizziness the boxes made as an impact to his head. "Come on, Boss! They got the E.M.M.D! We gotta stop 'em!" He yelled to his boss.
For once, Scheck seemed utterly relaxed and smiled a lame grin and didn't even budge. "Actually, I've been expecting them. It's all part of the plan." He gave himself a silent pat on the back, proud that his arch enemies fell for his unspoken plan.
Nick scratched his head, dumfounded. "Uh, I'm a little confused, Boss. You want those kids to get their hands on the portal device and deactivate it?" He questioned his boss, making sure those boxes didn't do brain damage to him.
"I'm rest assured they will. For time is the key to my plan, Nick." He muttered evilly to himself. "For time is on my side." He gritted his teeth into a despicable smile.
On the other side of town, the P.S.118 gang were stuck babysitting the Mini 007's and were waiting for the future spies to come back. It was at least 6:30 in the morning, and the sun was coming up in their time. While waiting for the adults to return, the kids spent their time exploring the lab of Future Phoebe.
The younger versions of the spies and the toddlers were either sitting or lying on the floor, becoming bored out of their minds. Younger Phoebe however, was very intrigued in observing her future laboratory and tried many different experiments.
Younger Helga stood up from her place on the floor and crossed her arms. "Criminy, Pheebs. Do you even know what you're messing with?" She asked, snapping the other kids out of their bored expressions.
Younger Phoebe was operating behind her future self's switchboard where a laser beam was hovering over the kids, pointing in the direction of the door. "Sorry, Helga. I'm afraid I'm a little too curious about finding out what my inventions of the future are capable of. I should have this one figured out by now." She struggled, pulling down a lever.
The lever cause the laser beam to charge up, letting out a dangerous buzzing sound before it blasted a bright zap across the lab. The blast exploded near the door as it opened. The kids all ducked down for cover as smoke was seeping through the place.
Once everyone had risen from the ground and the smoke cleared, they turned towards the door to see Future Helga, Nadine and Harold entering... without pants on.
The kids all had their mouths wide open before bursting into giggles, seeing their pants take minds of their own and run off without their owners.
"Wannabe" by The Spice Girls
Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really
Really, really wanna zigazig ha
The adults were confused at what the kids were laughing at until they looked down. "Ahh! My pants!" The three of them shouted as they covered their undergarments with their hands.
Future Nadine pulled down her green shirt as far down as it could go, her face now crimson. "Um, I'm not sure, but this is probably the most embarrassing moment of our short lives." She lost her voice on the last syllable.
Future Harold on the other hand, was covering up his boxers that had purple and red dinosaurs printed on them. He huffed when he saw the other spies entering the room as well and laughing at them.
So here's a story from A to Z,
You wanna get with me, you gotta listen carefully
We got M in the place who likes it in your face
We got G like MC who likes it on an
Easy V doesn't come for free, she's a real lady
Future Helga tried to shield her purple plaid undies from the group as she furrowed her brows together. "Yeah, I'm just peachy that you guys get to see my Wankyland underwear, limited edition with silky material, and a fly that glows in the dark. It's only available in Japan, folks. You're not gonna find this stuff here." She announced sarcastically, imitating a salesperson.
And as for me, ha you'll see
Slam your body down and wind it all around
Slam your body down and wind it all around
Younger Phoebe managed to get her giggles under control as she pushed the lever back up again, reversing the effect of the beam, and sending the three adults their pants back. "Oh, heh-heh, sorry." She shied away.
Future Arnold was the last to come inside the lab. He held the E.M.M.D in both of his hands, rotating it different ways because of the beeping he kept hearing from inside. "Hey, Phoebe did something go wrong when you deactivated this thing?" He asked, noticing the beeping rapidly growing faster.
The professor shook her head. "No, I never got a chance to deactivate it in the first place." She confessed.
"Then why is it beeping?"
With each beep, the more Future Arnold's senses went on high alert. Before he could ask another question, another huge explosion happened that day.
BOOM!
The twenty five-year old man found himself, along with the people he was with; face down on the rough pavement in the middle of an empty street. The sunrise from over a building is what woke him up. Future Arnold tried opening his sore eyes against the sun's rays and his vision became clearer.
As he started to wake as did the others and Future Gerald managed enough strength to talk. "Arnold, wh-what happened?" He rubbed his head.
Future Sid sat up quicker than they did. "Oh, no..." He looked around at their surroundings. "Where are we?"
After looking around and seeing all the places that seemed familiar to him, but only in his time, Younger Arnold answered with a raspy throat. "Hillwood."
At least the younger kids made it back, but now the older versions are stuck in the past! I wonder who's fault it is? *Cough* Scheck!* Cough. I'm glad I was able to update. Review!