Season 1 Episode 10

Dawn of the Driscoll

About a week before Halloween at Norrisville, the two best friends, Rachelle Cunningham and Harley Weinerman, were currently watching a Whoopee World commercial during science class.

"On All Hallow's Eve, prepare to be scared witless." The ad said as a kid dressed as a clown skipped until it was cut short. He stared up nervously at a chainsaw maniac, making him dod his pants before he ran away in fight. The chainsaw maniac happened to be the mascot for Whoopee World. "At the Whoopee World Halloween Fright-tacular! One fright only."

"So, Boo-ce!" Rachelle said in amazement and excitement. "Do you get it? Boo-ce!"

"Got it the first time, still stupid." Harley said, unimpressed as she stowed her phone away.

Then their science teacher, Mrs. Driscoll walked into her classroom with a tray of newborn plants, also with her skeleton manikin 'husband', Jerry.

"Morning, class." She greeted. "Morning, Jerry." She began to do her terrible ventriloquism with her skeleton. "Why are those lips talking instead of kissing?" She then kissed the skeleton, making her entire class groan and shudder in disgust. "With Halloween a week away, I thought we'd celebrate by growing our very own Vitis Odor Mortis." She returned to her skeleton. "The Smell of Death Vines."

Driscoll handed Rachelle and Harley a plant before they took a whiff of it. They immediately gagged from the horrible smell. "Smells like old man breath!" Harley said as she waved her hand in front of her face.

"I was gonna go with meat farts." Rachelle said as she covered her nose with her hands.

Driscoll then held up a directions sheet she has just handed them. "Follow these directions exactly, or your plant will look like me." She said before she made the skeleton talk.

Rachelle examined her directions while Harley went through their stuff. "Two cups of water per day, one scoop of plant food every hour, alternate sunlight and shade...no, this is way too complicated. It's a plant!"

"I know!" Harley said out loud, like something clicked in her mind before she smiled. "Let's just put all the water and plant food in now."

Rachelle was silent for a second. "Harley...we just outsmarted nature." They both then pour in all of the plant food and water onto the plant.

One week later…

Rachelle and Harley returned to school and found that their plant has withered into a dead, brown shrew. Harley groaned as she looked inside cubbies, bookshelves, and counters to find something that could save their plant project. Rachelle has dressed herself up like a cowgirl and Harley has dressed herself up like Helvetica McFist's scientific assistant, Willa Veronica.

"There are no extra plants in here, Cunningham. Oh, we're getting an F." Harley complained before she jumped from the stool. "There's nothing worse than an F!"

"We get an F, and there's no way our folks will let us go to the Whoopee World Fright-tacular tonight!" Rachelle added with concern.

Harley walked up to her and gestured to her Veronica costume. "I made this costume for nothing!"

"Speaking of costumes, I'm a bull-horse-riding southern cowgirl, right? And you're a woman who tries to kill me" Rachelle said with a slight Southern accent.

"Uh-huh."

Rachelle glared at her somewhat offendedly. "You were supposed to be a bull horse!"

"Yeah, I know. I'm sorry, but Veronica's got style." Harley groaned when a leaf fell off the dead plant. She tried to place it back where it belong, but that only made the plant snap in half. "So, class started in five, how are you gonna fix this?"

"I can't fix this, I don't know how to raise the dead."

Harley then held up Rachelle's Nomicon book. "I'll bet your Ninja Know-It-All does."

The purple-haired girl snatched her book from her friend's hands. "Okay, the NinjaNomicon is an eight-hundred-year-old book of ancient ninja wisdom, not a book of science shortcuts."

"Four minutes! You want to spend Halloween at the Fright-tacular, or grounded?"

Rachelle began to hesitate on what she should do. She glanced at the clock that was nearing seven o'clock, the dead plant, and Harley, who gave her a puppy-dog stare. With her mind made up, she placed her book on the table, opened it, and allowed her mind to enter the Nomicon when her body collapsed to the floor while she grunted.

Inside the Nomicon, Rachelle raced across the forest until she stopped and doodle bats flew over her head. She looked back up and found a Japanese dojo in front of her.

"'Forbidden knowledge of the Shadow Warrior. Do not enter'?" Rachelle read out loud before she ignored the words' warning and entered the dojo. It was dark with several floating lanterns filled with special arts and powers. "Invisibility, no. Flying, no. Telepathy, no." She then came across a lantern she was apparently looking for. "Ah, here it is, the Ninja Art of Healing. Yes!" A long scroll unroll between Rachelle's legs. "Whoa! Really? I got about three minutes here. Can I get, like, the quickie version?" Some parts of scroll retracted before Rachelle quickly began to skim over the instructions. "Alright, recite koan. Mm-hmm, that's easy. Invert healing energy. I got it, etcetera and so forth, and skipping to the end, life is restored." Rachelle smiled when she barely finished it. "Got it!"

She then ran out of the dojo before she flew out of her Nomicon and returned to her body with a gasp.

"You got it?" Harley asked urgently.

"Uh, yeah, kinda. It was a lot of steps." Rachelle replied.

"We...correction, you got like one minute. Get cracking!" The obese girl scooted the dead pot plant close.

Rachelle quickly slipped on her Ninja Mask and changed into her suit before she began to wave her hands around. "Art of Healing, laying hands. Mm-hmm, uh-huh…" Harley crossed her fingers as she silently begged for this healing thing to work. "Art of heal…" However, the second Rachelle fired some red life-restoring energy, there was so much power that she was suddenly blasted away while Harley braced herself. "MY POWER, I CAN'T CONTROL IT! NOTHING IS SAFE! NOTHING IS SAFE!"

Rachelle couldn't control her own hands when her beams ended up busting up everything in the classroom and past through Driscoll's skeleton, and other dissection animals. The Ninja finally managed to halt her power when she finally collapsed onto the floor, upside down. She moan while Harley towered over her to make sure her friend was alright.

"Ooh." She dragged Rachelle, who was still worn out from the sudden burst of healing power, towards their desk. "It'll be worth it when we're at Whoopee World, and…" However, Harley dropped her friend on the floor when she realized that the Art of Healing didn't restore their plant at all. "Oh, come on!"

"Ow!" Rachelle exclaimed before she changed out of her Ninja Suit.

The bell rang as their classmates entered the science room with their healthy and well-cared plants, and dressed into their costumes.

Mrs. Driscoll entered her classroom, in her skeleton costume, and closed the door behind her before she began to grade her student's plant projects. "Danny and Flute Girl, 'A'." She said before she spoke in her poor Jerry voice. "Ash and Betty, 'A'." Rachelle and Harley quickly placed the dead leaves on their plant before Harley spray-painted green. Their science teacher went to them while they smiled nervously, but she didn't appear to be fooled. "Girls, I'm afraid you get an…"

"Arr!" A voice said from nearby, making the teacher cock her eyebrow in confusion.

"'R'?! That's worse than an 'F'!" Harley complained, but it wasn't their teacher who said that.

A skeleton popped out from behind the duo, which was actually Jerry, that was alive from Rachelle's accidental healing spell. "Are...you ready to die?" He said with a crazy smirk on his skull.

Rachelle and Harley immediately jumped from their seats with shrieks of surprised fear. Jerry then picked up Ash and Betty's plant pot, which made all of the other students scream in fear as they ran out of the classroom. Mrs. Driscoll was very surprised herself that her manikin was actually alive while he ran out to the hallway.

"Jerry...you're...alive!" She exclaimed before she fainted onto the floor.

Rachelle and Harley crawled from beside the counters. "Is it possible that you might have, um, skipped a step?!" Harley asked her best friend rhetorically until Jerry suddenly grabbed her and lifted her up high.

"Doomsday is coming!" Jerry exclaimed maniacally at Harley's face, which made her fart in absolute fright.

"I just made doomsday in my pants." Jerry then laughed as he dragged Harley out of the classroom, who yelled.

Rachelle narrowed her eyes as she pulled out her Ninja Mask, ready for some action. Out in the hallway, everyone was chatting away, until Jerry slipped into the scene, which caused everyone to freeze in surprise. Then, they all screamed in terror as they ran out of the hallway at the sight of the living skeleton.

"Smoke bomb!" Rachelle exclaimed as she appeared on top of a few vending machines from a puff of red smoke, in her suit. Jerry halted his tracks as he smirked at the ninja girl. "Ninja Rings!" She threw a couple rings and hit Jerry on the chest dead on, which made him wobble around and drop Harley.

"Oh, you got me." He said sarcastically before he collapsed to the floor. Rachelle hopped off the machines and ran for the skeleton, but froze when he got back up to his feet.

"What the juice?"

Jerry laughed as he jingled the rings inside his chest before he pulled out one of his ribs and poured out Rachelle's rings. "Just ribbing ya!" He then hurtled his rib cages at the Ninja, who ducked and dodged them.

"Ninja Bone Dodge, Ninja Bone Dodge, Ninja BD!" She then back-flipped over the ribs as she made her way towards the skeleton. Jerry then hurtled a Jack-o-Lantern at the Ninja while she was at a mid-flip. "Ninja–OW!" It hit her back dead on before she slipped on a couple of pumpkin pieces while she smacked the other pumpkins with her arms. "Ninja Slip, Ninja Slip!" She finally tripped on the edge of the stairs and crashed midway down the steps. "Oh no, stairs!" He frowned under her mask as a pumpkin piece slipped on her head, and she was covered in pumpkin juice.

"See you around." Jerry poked his phalanges through his eye sockets before he ran off with Harley, who yelped in surprise.

"Harley? Harley!" She tried to run after the skeleton man, but he was gone without a trace, along with her best friend. With no other choice, she appeared in Driscoll's classroom. "I need your help. Where'd your husband take that...young girl whose name I do not know?"

"I wish I knew, Ninja, Mr. D has always had a secretive side. Been that way since college." She said with a troubled look before she smiled when she began to think about her college days with Jerry Driscoll, before he became a skeleton. "Jerry was first in his class at MSU: Mad Scientist University. Jerry was brilliant, spent every waking moment working on his thesis, the Doomsday Device–"

Rachelle interrupted her when she mentioned the evil-named device. "I'm sorry, Doomsday Device? Okay, so is that how he, you know, he has bones?"

"Oh, no, that's actually a funny story–"

"Back to the Doomsday Device!"

"One night, MSU's number two student betrayed him." Mrs. Driscoll explained to Ninja that Jerry was ratted out, under arrest, and was sent to a medical sane with straitjackets by none other than…

"Veronica." Rachelle finished with a solemn tone, finally getting the picture.

"She always had a jealous streak."

Rachelle pumped her fist. "Ninja Lead!"

Later on that night on Halloween, Mrs. Driscoll drove the Ninja up to the McFist Mansion, where they would find Willa Veronica III. A group of cosplayers went up to the front door and one of them rung the doorbell, that rang like a grandfather clock. Martin Johnson (who was dressed like a wolf) and Helvetica McFist (who was dressed like a pirate) answered the door.

"Trick or treat!" The kids said in unison as they held out their bags for some candy.

"GET A JOB!" McFist snapped at the kids cruelly.

"Smiles, Helvetica." Martin said cheerfully as he held a basket full of McFizzles. "We're projecting a positive image, don't ya' know?"

Rachelle then snuck in the cosplay group, but McFist seemed unaware that it was her actual archenemy she has been trying to kill. "Another ninja? How original." She then tried to correct what she just said. "Uh, I mean, enjoy these McFizzles." The business woman began to pass out McFizzles while Rachelle quickly snuck past her archenemy and into her mansion.

Meanwhile, in an unknown location, Jerry carried Harley into a secret laboratory with thousands of computers and a machine hidden underneath a cloth.

"You know, for a guy with no muscles, you're surprisingly strong." Harley said as Jerry pressed a button and a cage emerged from the ceiling. The skeleton man than threw Harley into the cage before he pressed some buttons.

Jerry then turned back to Harley as some mechanical claws removed the cloth and revealed the Doomsday Device.. "You will have a front row seat as I complete my greatest invention, and take first in our class, Veronica." He said.

Harley suddenly realized that Jerry believed that she was Veronica, much to her surprise. "Whoa, hang on. You think I'm Veronica? Ah, look at me, I'm not an adult." Jerry cocked an eye socket before he removed Harley's wig, revealing her orange hair.

"You're not Veronica!" The skeleton slammed the wig back on the obese girl's head before he returned to work.

"So, can I get, like, a ride home, or…"

"I'm going to destroy your home. And you're home's home."

"Home's home?"

"I'm going...to destroy...the PLANET!"

Back at the McFist's Mansion, Veronica was currently watching a movie in the living room while she ate some popcorn.

"Stupid kids sitting in a pumpkin patch all night. There's no such thing as the Great–" Veronica said to herself until she heard a loud crash and Ninja jumped into the room.

"Veronica." Rachelle said.

Veronica looked frightened and surprised by her unexpected appearance. "Ninja!"

"Just need to talk." However, Veronica pulled out a dog whistle and blew a high-pitched beep, and a Chainsaw Werewolf robot emerged from an antique vase. Ninja drew her sword and blocked the robot's chainsaw. "Jerry...Driscoll...is...alive!" Veronica gasped when she heard Jerry's name before she blew her whistle again, this time to make the werewolf heal. Rachelle sheathed her sword as she walked up to her archenemy's assistant. "Actually, sorta alive, really a mix of alive and not alive. The point is, he's back and, you know…"

"He wants to finish his Doomsday Device." Ninja and Veronica said in unison.

"Right, no, yeah. You got it, you said it."

"And because of our history, only I can find him." Veronica said as she rose to her feet. She and Ninja then ran out of the mansion and made their way to Mrs. Driscoll's car, where Veronica sat on the passenger seat while Rachelle sat in the back.

"Hello, Marlene." Veronica said casually as she buckled herself in.

"Willa." Driscoll said as she started the car.

"So, Doomsday Device, what's the deal there?" Rachelle asked Veronica.

"Proof of functioning Doomsday Device guarantees you valedictorian at MSU." She explained. "Summa cum lunatic."

"But the only way to prove its functioning is to destroy the world?"

"Ah, yes, the Driscoll Conundrum."

Rachelle then cocked an eyebrow at her science teacher. "And you married that wacko?"

"I like dangerous men." Marlene said as she twisted her hair.

Mrs. Driscoll finally made it to Mount Chuck, where she once took her students on a field trip, but didn't exactly end very well. She drove past the closed Museum of Silt, but Veronica quickly stopped her when she saw something.

"Back up, back up." She said before Marlene braked her car. Veronica pointed at a large vent outside the museum, where bright lights were flashing. "There, under the gift shop."

"Wait here, Mrs. Driscoll." Rachelle told her teacher as Veronica exited the car.

"But…" She protested as Ninja hopped out of the car.

"It could be dangerous." And she followed Veronica under the gift shop.

"But I like that."

Inside Jerry's Doomsday Lab, he laughed when he began to start up his machine to destroy the entire Earth.

"Smoke bomb!" Rachelle exclaimed, catching Jerry's attention when he turned around and found her appearing in a puff of smoke. Then, Veronica arrived with a hovering-like hip pack and landed beside Ninja.

"Hello, Ninja." Jerry greeted sarcastically.

"Hey!" Harley said as she smiled at her friend's timely arrival.

Jerry then narrowed his sockets at his old rival who ratted him out in the past. "And real Veronica."

"Jerry." Veronica said simply before she crossed her arms. "I see the diet worked."

"So glad you're here, to witness my superior brain." He removed the top of his skull, showing his empty head with no brain. He then laughed maniacally as the Doomsday Device began to power up.

"Earth will be destroyed in two minutes." The machine announced.

Rachelle leaped over the steps with a grunt landed on top of Jerry, causing his skeleton to break into pieces. "Not if I have anything to say about it." She said before she opened up the machine's compartment, but her eyes went wide at the sight of multiple wires and complex connections. "Oh, boy...not if Veronica has anything to say about it. Lot of science in here."

Veronica used her hover hip pack to descend next to Ninja, but then noticed Harley, who was cosplaying as her. "Ooh, and who is this stylish young lady?" She said as she approached Harley and smiled at her costume. "You even got the glasses right." Harley smiled at Veronica's approvement.

"Veronica!" Rachelle used her scarf to drag the scientist back to the machine.

She spun around until she stopped and groaned in dizziness, but she quickly shrugged it off. "I'm gonna need about twenty hours."

"One minute, forty-two seconds." The machine said.

An energy beam was suddenly blasted at Ninja and Veronica, but they luckily dodged it in time. Jerry has managed to place himself back together while he held a canoprod device and reattached his skull to his skeleton. "You got a minute, forty-two." Rachelle drew her sword and charged at Jerry, who began blasting multiple energy balls at her. She used her sword to deflect her attacks, until she managed to blast his canoprod away. "How do you like me now, homie?"

Jarry removed his arm and smiled like a maniac. "I'm armed and dangerous!" He exclaimed as they began to exchange blows.

"Fifty-nine seconds." The machine said while Veronica desperately tried to shut down the machine.

"Why don't you just unplug it?!" Harley exclaimed fearfully.

"Because it's nuclear-powered." She replied. "Wearing a lab coat doesn't make you a scientist."

Rachelle and Jerry grunted as they blocked their attacks, until the ninja girl glanced at the table behind her and grinned under her mask. "Ninja Table Spin Kick!" She shouted as spun around the table and kicked the skeleton man on his jaw bone, but did no apparent effect on him.

He smacked Rachelle over the table with his arm and sent her landing on her back with a grunt. He then pinned her down with his foot and a wild smirk. "A-ha! I've got a bone to pick with you, young lady."

"Oh, Jerry." Mrs. Driscoll giggled, catching the skeleton's attention. He turned around and found his wife, Marlene, walking down the steps.

Jerry smiled brightly as he waved his removed arm around. "Hi!"

Rachelle groaned at the sight before she used this time while he was distracted. "Heads up!" She exclaimed as she kicked Jerry's skull off of his body.

"Ha! Good one." Harley said, finally finding one of her friend's jokes funny.

Jerry shouted until Rachelle managed to catch his skull while his skeleton moved around helplessly. "Put me back, put me back!" He demanded.

"How does the bowtie stay on? That makes no sense." Rachelle said as she stared at the skeleton walking around helplessly.

Marlene then came up and stopped the body. "It's over, Jerry." She said.

"But I didn't blow up the world. How will I ever be valedictorian?" He asked gravely.

"They already named a valedictorian." Mrs. Driscoll gestured to Veronica, who waved weakly at everyone, until she heard alarms sounding and immediately went back to work. "And besides, if you blow up the world…"

"We won't be together anymore."

"Are you crazy?" Rachelle asked her teacher.

Marlene scoffed before she took the skull. "Crazy for this bag of bones." She began to kiss Jerry's skull.

Rachelle grimaced her face in disgust. "No! NO!"

"Oh, boy–" Harley gagged while she tried to hold back a puke. "Oh, boy."

"Put me by the scanner." Jerry told Ninja.

"Ten seconds." The machine said while Rachelle took the skull up to it and scanned Jerry's skull. "Completing retina scan. ID match."

"Deactivate."

"But he doesn't have retinas." Veronica pointed out in confusion while the machine powered down, sparing the world from total destruction.

Harley crawled out of her cage and approached the others while the science teacher hugged her skeleton husband's skull. "So, that happened." The obese girl said to her friend.

"Oh, Jerry. Now that you're back, we're going to do so many wonderful things together." She said infatuatedly.

"Yup! Frying the Earth is small potatoes." Jerry said happily. "I'm just dying to get going on my Destroy the Universe machine." Everyone's eyes widen in shock while he continued to ramble on about destroying everything. "And after I mash the whole Universe…"

Marlene began to have second thoughts about keeping her late crazy late husband alive. "On second thought, maybe we're all better off if we go back to how things were."

She handed Ninja the skull. "Destroy them all! Hey, what are you do…" Ninja stuffed her scarf into Jerry's mouth to prevent him from talking anymore.

"Harley." She said to her friend as she gestured to their science teacher.

Harley took off her lab coat and wrapped around her teacher, who was looking down in sadness, and they made their way out of the lab. Rachelle took out her NinjaNomicon and cleared her throat as she began to figure out how to reverse the effects of the Art of Healing. Veronica waited outside the gift shop for everyone to return. She then heard whirring when Harley and Mrs. Driscoll emerged out of the lab.

"I know Rachelle and I kinda blew it on the plant, but seeing how your husband almost killed me, maybe you can hook us up with an 'A'?" Harley suggested hopefully.

"I'll give you a 'C'." She replied with a small frown.

Harley shrugged. "Same thing."

Rachelle then emerged out of the exit, groaning while she wobbled up to the others with a inanimate Jerry skeleton in her arms. "I'm sorry it had to be this way." She said to her teacher as she handed her the skeleton manikin.

"I know, he was too dangerous." Marlene admitted before she hugged him a little. "At least now he won't complain about taking me dancing." She then did her false man tone. "Aw, but I've got two left feet." Rachelle muttered in annoyance.

Back at Norrisville High that night, Rachelle (who was out of her suit) and Harley peeked into the science room and found Mrs. Driscoll dancing with her husband's skeleton manikin. She giggled as she spun a little harder and Jerry 'smacked' his hand on her back.

"Oh! Jerry, don't get fresh." She said before she did her poor man tone. "Can you blame me, hot stuff?" Then she smooched her skeleton, much to Rachelle and Harley's disgust when they gagged.

"That's scarier than anything we're gonna see at the Fright-tacular." Rachelle said to her friend.

"Cunningham, we really learned an important Halloween lesson." Harley said.

"Yeah, not to take shortcuts, especially when raising the dead."

"Uh...no. McFist gives out awesome candy." Harley pulled a candy out of her coat and threw it into her mouth while she chewed. "You know, you're lucky it only worked on Mr. D. That's lab's full of dead stuff. Dissection frogs, dissection cats, and a ton of weird junk in jars."

Unaware to the dynamic duo, everything in the science lab began to crawl out of their places when their glowing eyes lit up in the darkness. A dead cat roared as it came to life, revealing that Rachelle and Harley weren't exactly done with the living dead just yet.