Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future

Episode 11: Nicktoon Genesis 2

Plot: The Cadets are trying to write a report in order to promote themselves to official Nicktoons when the Nicktoons themselves reveal more of their origins. Yuki's first encounter with her pet kitten, Ringo, has her and Darry suspicious that he may be a ghost himself. Buster, Crash, and Twitchy must look after their newborn brother, Junior, despite their resent towards him, and Kida discovers her unstable Juju magic and has to escape Traloc who wants it for himself.

Part 2

In downtown Bikini Bottom, the SquarePants kids continue to look for their baby brother. "Junior?" Buster called out as he looked in trash cans, under benches, and up in trees. "Junior? SpongeBob Jr.!"

As he and Twitchy also search, Crash groans and says, "Shoot, none of this would've happened if Junior weren't such a pain. He can't do anything to help himself."

"Iwishhecouldwalktoosohecouldcomebackalready!" Twitchy bellowed out hyperly.

Buster then marched over to Crash and Twitchy and angrily reprimanded, "You do know none of this would've happened if you both had paid more attention to him."

"Well, we didn't even want another brother!" Crash yelled back. "Especially one as borin' and stinky as Junior!"

"You're no role model yourself, Sydney."

"Y'all promised you wouldn't call me that!"

While the three were arguing, a young male fish runs over to his mom and says, "Hey Mom, I saw a flying baby heading toward the Chum Bucket."

The three froze hearing the fish. "Didhejustsay'flyingbaby'?" Twitchy asked.

"'Toward the Chum Bucket'?" Buster repeated and realized, "Plankton. We should have known." He marches towards the Chum Bucket.

"Well, least we know where Junior is which means it's time to head back to the house," Crash began to leave, but Buster grabs him and Twitchy, pulling them towards the other direction.

The floating eyeball carrying Junior had finally reached the Chum Bucket and dropped Junior in front of the doors. The impact Junior had after landing on his bottom made the baby tear up, but before he could cry, the doors opened to reveal Plankton. "Oh, look," Plankton said with a sly smile. "A baby left at my doorstep. I always wanted a son I could raise."

"Plankton!" Buster yelled as he, Crash, and Twitchy arrive. "What are you doing with our little brother?"

"Just enrolling him in my brand new daycare." Plankton explained. "After I heard of yet another child SpongeBob SquarePants just had, and learning that this one bears his name. I realized that he may come to even have SpongeBob's talents in fry cooking and even in preparing a krabby patty. With a little tutoring from yours truly, he may come to be the perfect assistant to turning my restaurant into the biggest joint in town."

"Ha!" Crash scoffed. "Don't waste your time. Junior's as useless as a pair of skis in the summer!"

"Yeah!YeahYeah!" Twitchy agreed as he jumped up and down. "Hecan'tcook!Hecan'tdoanything!"

"Nice try, SquareBrats!" Plankton said as he lifted Junior up and brought him inside the Chum Bucket. "If you don't mind, tell your father he can pick up his kid NEVER!"

Buster, Crash, and Twitchy ran inside the restaurant and gasped when they saw Plankton had placed Junior in a cage with metal bars. "Junior!" Buster cried.

"Oh well, we tried. Time for video games..." Crash said, but Buster pulled him aside.

"Is this REALLY how you're going to treat your brother?!" Buster yelled frantically.

"Plankton says he's gonna take care of him," Twitchy mentioned.

"Yeah, so why in the name of Texas should y'all care at all?" Crash asked.

"BECAUSE HE'S YOUR BABY BROTHER FOR NEPTUNE'S SAKE!" Buster yelled pulling the two close to him, "Why do you hate him?"

"B-because he's the favorite!" Crash accused.

"Favorite! Favorite!" Twitchy nodded.

"Ever since Ma came home with the baby, that's all she and Pa ever talk about! All they think about! All they can care about! They didn't even pay attention to Twitch and me!"

Twitchy nodded in agreement. "Mm hmm. Mama hasn't made me fudgy nut brownies since all she does is take care of Junior."

"I can't believe how selfish you two are being!" Buster yelled out, "How would you guys feel if I was like that to you also?"

Crash scoffed, "That there's nonsense! 'Course y'all think I'm the coolest lil' brother ever."

"Me too! Me too!" Twitchy agreed once again.

"Oh yeah?" Buster said in disbelief, "Once I was happy being an only child until Mom had Twitchy and I wasn't the favorite anymore."

Twitchy stopped jumping after he heard him, "What?"

"Like you, I was jealous of all the attention Mom and Dad were giving you," Buster explained, "And I wasn't thrilled about Crash being born either. One time, I tried to drop him into the trash bin."

Crash was surprised by this and even sniffed his right armpit. "Is that why I still smell even after I take a bath?"

"Look, the point is even though things change, they're sometimes for the better. Mom and Dad may be giving Junior all their attention now, but it doesn't mean they don't care about you anymore. After Dad told me this, I realized that even you guys needed me just as you needed Mom and Dad. The same thing goes for Junior. Right now he needs us more than ever, and as his big brothers, we have to protect him and look out for him. Are you with me?"

Before Crash and Twitchy can answer, a metal tentacle suddenly wraps around Buster and pulls him up, revealing it was Plankton operating a machine from his laboratory.

"Buster!" Crash and Twitchy both cry out.

"Hate to interrupt the family therapy session, but visiting hours are over." Plankton said as he operated his machine.

The machine unleashed four other tentacles to try and grab a hold of the two boys, but Crash and Twitchy quickly dodge and avoid the attacks. From inside the cage, Junior was watching in astonishment which then turned to fear as he sees his brothers in danger. Crash ends up tripping on the ground and sliding towards the front of the cage where Junior is being held. Crash looks up and sees Junior's frightened face. As Junior stares down at Crash worriedly, this made the stunt sponge realize something. He tightens his helmet a bit, "Y'all call that a weapon? Let's see what 'em hogtiers can do!"

As a metal tentacle comes close to him, Crash wraps his arms and legs around it and holds on tight to try and subdue it, but the tentacle easily waves in the air in an attempt to throw Crash off. "I just...started wrestlin'...stray worms...last Tuesday." Crash spoke as he struggled to keep his grip on the metal tentacle.

Twitchy was caught by the metal tentacle and was trapped in its coils like Buster. "Crash!Crash!" he called out. Once Crash notices both his brothers in peril, the tentacle slams him into the wall, giving him a bruise on the cheek as it pinned him down.

"Oh, too bad, twerps." Plankton commented. "Why don't I show you three the way out so you can run home and cry to your daddy? HAHAHAHA!" When all seemed lost, Crash opened his eyes and noticed Junior was crawling toward him and then sat himself in front of the tentacle, restraining him against the wall. The cage Junior was sitting in had the bars bent to the sides. Plankton looked over when he noticed and yelled, "Hey, get back in your cell!"

"Junior, get outta here!" Crash warned while he was trying to struggle free. "Run! Crawl, whatever!"

"I'll get you back in your cage whether you like it or not!" Plankton yelled and commanded more tentacles to more toward Junior. But once they strike toward him, Junior grabs the two tentacles with both arms to everyone's surprise. Junior simply giggled as he yanked the two tentacles, pulling them apart from the machine and letting them fall on the floor.

"What the barnacle is going on here?" Plankton asked in compete shock.

Junior crawled over to Crash again and tugged at the tentacle, moving it away from his brother and allowing Crash to get free. "Junior, are you really doin' all this stuff?"

"Goo goo gah gah," Junior giggled.

"I guess he inherited Mom's tremendous strength," Buster theorized.

Crash picked up Junior. "Hang on, partner." he warned as he ran up the tentacle with the baby in his arms. He ran across and hopped over to the tentacle trapping Twitchy. "Hang on, Twitchy!" Crash assured. "We'll get you and Buster outta here."

"We'll see about that, little heroes!" Plankton said as he pushed a button, causing the tentacle to shake up and down. This unfortunately, caused Crash to lose grip of Junior, causing him to fly through the air.

"NO!" the older siblings all cried out in panic. But see Junior safely land on the control panel next to Plankton.

"You've been a bad, bad-" Plankton was scolding until Junior picked him up and contently stuck Plankton in his mouth.

The baby then pounded his fists on the controls and caused the machine to short-circuit, dropping the tentacles on the ground and releasing Buster, Crash, and Twitchy. The three brothers ran towards Junior and Buster holds him high, relieved he was alright.

"Thatwascrazy! Thatwascrazy!" Twitchy said rapidly as his right eye twitches.

"I know! I didn't know y'all can do that! That was the coolest darn thing I ever saw!" Crash said to the baby Junior.

"Well, I guess Junior doesn't need to depend on us when facing bad guys," Buster admitted, "Where's Plankton?"

But they notice something in Junior's mouth that he was sucking on like a pacifier. Junior then spits it across the room and it hits the wall. A drool-covered Plankton slides to the floor as he groans, "This is why I don't work with children."

Eventually, Plankton was sent to the authorities for a kidnapping attempt and the four kids hurried back to the pineapple dome before their parents arrived...or before Patrick wakes up. Thankfully, Patrick was still asleep when Buster helped his little brothers sneak back through the window.

Once inside, Buster grabs a board game and sets it on the floor. Just in time, SpongeBob and Sandy arrive with the triplets in new clothes brought just for them. "We're back!" Sandy called when the parents spot Junior in his cradle and the three boys playing Eels and Escalators.

"Mom! Dad!" Buster said in a cheery tone. "Welcome home."

Crash shakes the dices and throws it, "Aw shoot! Eels again!"

SpongeBob chuckled, "Tell me about it." He uses his foot to close the door, slamming it and awakening Patrick.

The starfish yelped in startle as his eyes shot open, but soon noticed SpongeBob approach him with a cheerful smile. "Thanks again for watching the boys, Patrick. I hope they weren't too much trouble."

"Aw, it's no problem, SpongeBob." Patrick said with a calm smile. "They behaved so good, it was like they weren't even here."

Sandy picked up Junior from his cradle and held him. "How's my little baby doin'? You look like you've been havin' a fun time." She kissed him on the forehead and placed him back in the cradle.

"Yeah, we had lots of fun together," Crash said with Twitchy nodding.

"I'm glad you said that," Sandy smiled, "But I thought y'all aren't fond of him."

"Nah!" Twitchy said as he shook his head. "Ofcoursenot."

"Yeah, we decided we're gonna be good brothers to Junior and make sure he has the funnest times of his here life!" Crash said.

Sandy chuckled petting her sons' heads, "Well, I hope you act the same towards your younger sisters also."

Sandy walks away, taking the triplets upstairs when Crash whispers to Twitchy, "Yeah right. If they suddenly had Ma's super strength, that'd be a maybe."

SpongeBob walks over to the cradle, "Who's a good Junior? Who's been a good baby?" he laughs, holding up a finger, "Who's gonna get your nose?"

Buster dropped the board game when he notices, "Uh Dad, wait, we forgot to mention about Junior's-"

But Junior grabs SpongeBob's finger, lifting him with surprising strength and flings him away, crashing into the kitchen. "Strength…" Buster finished only too late.

Twitchy quickly ran to the cradle and picked up Junior. Crash quickly suggested, "Let's take Junior to go play 'mountain climbing'."

"Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" the hyped up squirrel cheered as the three head upstairs.

"And afterwards, we told Mom and Dad about Junior's little secret," Buster explained to the Cadets, "Right after we sent Dad to the hospital of course."

After being told the story, Junior's lip quivered, "So you didn't like me at all?"

"'Course we did, Junior. We just didn't realize how cool y'all were back then," Crash explained.

"Yeah, yeah!" Twitchy added as he hugged Junior and jumped up and down. "It took us till then to realize you were the best little brother ever, ever, ever!" Junior smiled, close to tearing up. Crash also hugs Junior and Twitchy, but unfortunately, Junior grabs both in a large bear hug which is painful for the two due to Junior inheriting Sandy's strength.

"Oh thank you!" Junior said happily, not noticing the suffocation he was causing his older siblings. "Thank you, thank you! And you're the bestest big brothers ever!"

Yuki and Kida smile, enjoying this tender moment when there was a loud bang from outside. "What was that?" Yuki wondered.

The Cadets and Buster ran outside the Pineapple and notice small puddles on the grass. "What's going on?" Junior asked when a drop of water fell on his head.

Gary the Snail (still living and as a family pet) slithers over and says, "Meow."

"A leak y'all say?" Crash understood when a shard of glass bashes his head. Luckily, he always wore his helmet. They look up to see two ST-Units repairing the dome which the top has cracks releasing drops of seawater inside.

Sandy walked over, "Sorry fellas. Those darn nematodes were trying to eat our house again. This time they tried to break through the dome." She looks up and calls out, "How long will this here take?"

"About an hour!" one of the ST-Units answered back. "Maybe two!"

Sandy sighs, "I think y'all better find another place to work on that report. If those nematodes do come, we don't want them to eat it either."

Yuki sighed in frustration and said, "Oh well, I guess it's to your place then, Kida."

"Oh it," Kida twirls her staff and taps the base on the ground summoning a pink portal. The Cadets walk inside with Buster and Sandy waving.

In Tak's world, Kida and Yuki were sitting on the branches of a large tree with Junior and Twitchy near the trunk to avoid falling. Crash however, was hanging upside down from the branch. "So what's the next question on that there test?" Crash wondered as he swung back and forth.

Kida looks up and reads, "'If a villain ambushes you and threatens the people you care for, how would you respond?'"

"That's an even easier one." Crash said as he swung his arms and chopped the air. "Smash that varmint with a good karate kick! Hi-YAA!" but when demonstrating, he ended up falling from the tree and smashing to the ground next to his brothers.

"Do all of your answers have to involve hitting things with karate?" Yuki asked in a beat tone.

"This is hard." Kida groaned. "We'll never finish it."

Passing by was Kida's father, Tak, as he stops when noticing the Nicktoon Cadets. "Hey guys." he greets. "Whatcha doing?"

"We're trying to pr-promit ourselves to become official Nicktoons," Junior explained.

"'Promote'." Twitchy corrected.

"But we can't because of this stupid paper we have to do," Kida groaned, but lit up with an idea, "Wait, let's summon Psychic Juju! I'm sure he can tell us the correct answers for our report."

Yuki stared at her and ask, "But wouldn't that be cheating?"

"What other choice do we have?" Kida asked. "Who else would know what to do when a villain tries to hurt everyone we know?"

Tak thought this over and mentioned, "You know, that kinda reminds me of the time we found out that Kida had Juju powers."

"Really?" Junior asked, looking interested.

Kida looked slightly embarrassed by this. "But that was a scary time. Don't tell them about it."

"Well, we wanna hear it. Don't we?" Crash insisted as Twitchy and Junior nodded.

"Okay, it was a week before Kida joined the Nicktoon Cadets." Tak began explaining. "It was Kida's sixth birthday and we were all celebrating."

Tak's flashback goes to the Pupununu Village where all the villagers were gathered at a long table piled with food and decorations where a party took place. At the end of the table was Kida, sitting in a large chair with her parents standing behind her.

"Everyone, cheer for our princess's sixth birthday!" Jibolba shouted.

"Hooray!" the Pupununu tribe all cheered.

"Make a wish and blow out the candles, Kida." Jibolba whispered to his great-niece.

"Okay." Kida said as she closed her eyes and inhaled deeply before blowing out the small candle on a cake in front of her.

The tribe cheered again as Jeera excitedly smiled at Tak, "Isn't this great?"

"Definitely," Tak agreed. "She's getting much better parties than I did when I was her age."

Afterwards, Kida hopped out of her seat and hugged both her parents. "Happy birthday, sweetie." Jeera said to her daughter.

"Thanks!" Kida replied before jumping out of her seat. "So, where's the present? Present!"

"Oh, I think you'll find it around here." Tak artfully said. "Maybe…in your room."

"YES!" Kida shouted excitedly and jolted off, leaving her parents and her party behind.

She ran into her hut and rushed up the stairs into her room. On her bed, she found a long object wrapped up in paper and tied with ribbon. She shrieked in joy and rushed over, grabbing the present and tearing the paper off. To her surprise, it was a small brown staff with green points on top.

"What's this?" Kida asked curiously as she stared at the gift.

"You mean you don't recognize it?" she turned to see her dad standing in the doorway. "It's a shaman's staff. Just like the one Daddy has." He took out his own staff to demonstrate.

Kida gasped excitedly. "You mean I can be a shaman too?"

"Of course." Tak answered as he moved Kida out the door. "Why don't you go outside and try it out."

Kida laughed as she ran down the stairs, passing by her mother. Jeera looked at Tak and asked, "You do know she's not a shaman, right? She's just a normal Pupununu princess."

Tak sighed and replied, "Yeah, I know. But she's a little kid. She can pretend if she wants."

As Kida began to run out the front door, she suddenly began to keel over and hold onto her stomach. Strangely, a purple glow surrounded her and a shelf containing a bunch of scrolls to break apart, dropping everything into the ground. But Kida didn't notice this and began to stand up once she was feeling better.

"I guess I had a little too much to eat at the party." She said to herself before shrugging it off and proceeding outside.

Jibolba came and saw the mess. "What in Juju's name happened here?" he asked in shock.

Outside, Kida swung her new staff around. She tapped the tip of it on the ground, and then held the staff in the air as she shouted, "Juju pound!" and then slammed the bottom of the staff on the ground. "Yeah!"

While she was playing a couple of older boys walked over to her. The first boy was tall and skinny with paint drawn on his cheeks, chest, and arms. The second boy was short, chubby, and had his hair covering his eyes. "Why are you playing with a stick?" the first boy asked.

"It's not a stick; it's a shaman's staff." Kida pointed out.

The second boy scoffed, "Since when does a princess need a shaman's staff?" the second boy asked.

"I'm not just a princess!" Kida snapped angrily. "I'm also a shaman now, just like my daddy!"

The first boy scoffed this time. "You can never be like your dad. You can't even be a princess."

The other boy laughed and said, "Good one, Talelo."

Kida frowned angrily and tightly gripped her staff as the two boys laughed at her some more. She shut her eyes and yelled, "I'm gonna turn you both into frogs!"

The boys just laughed at her some more until Kida's body began to glow again. But suddenly, a pink cloud appeared and the two were not turned into frogs, but one frog- with two heads. Kida groaned and fell on her bottom in exhaustion until she opened her eyes to see the two heads of the frog look at each other and scream before hopping away.

"Wow," Kida said in amazement. "I did it. I really did it." She looked at her staff with a warm smile as she whispered, "I'm a real shaman." She immediately rushed off, "I gotta see what else this thing can do!"

But before she could find something else to transform with her staff, she stopped and doubled over in pain again as her body gained a purple glow. Nearby, a woman was about to put up a clothes line until it glows purple and is transformed into a snake in her hands. She screamed and let go of it before running away while the snake hissed and slithered on the ground.

"Man, I feel really weird." Kida said to herself until she fell backwards and groaned as she glowed some more.

A strange figure was watching her in the bushes as Kida writhed on the ground. The pen holding the sheep suddenly exploded, scaring the herd of animals and causing them to run away, bleating, and trampling over their caretaker, Masked Guy. Lok was about to sneak a piece of Kida's cake until a glow appeared around it and it suddenly exploded in his face.

Once the glowing around Kida finally stopped, she stood up and clutched her stomach. "I don't think I feel so good. I better go to bed."

But as she was walking back to her hut, she began to notice the strange phenomenons going on: The snake chasing the woman, the runaway sheep, and the mess with the cake.

"This place is acting more crazy than usual." She looked at her staff and smiled. "Don't worry! I can fix it!" but once she held her staff in the air, Kida felt a sudden twinge again as the glow appeared around her.

However, instead of helping, the strange magic caused strong gusts of wind from beneath the ground, causing panic among the villagers as some of them get blown away from the currents. Seeing this, Kida gained a panic looked. "I caused all this…" she realized sadly.

Seeing the chaos she caused her tribe, tears appear in Kida's eyes as she runs out of the village in sadness.

Inside the hut, Tak helped Jibolba clean up the mess he found. "So you don't know how this all happened?"

Suddenly, Jeera bursts in and shouts, "Tak! You gotta come see this?"

He followed his wife outside and his eyes widen in surprise to see the village falling apart from everything that was going on. He then sees a two-headed frog hopping by and he quickly takes out his staff, zapping the frog until it turned back into the two boys Kida talked to earlier.

"Talelo, Grunts, what happened here?" Tak demanded to know.

Both boys stammered as they answered, "I-I-It was Kida!"

Tak's eyes widen in shock as he repeats, "Kida?"

In the forest, Kida was still running away until she tripped on a root and dropped her staff. Kida slowly sat up while she cried, "This is the worst birthday ever. I thought I could be a good shaman like Daddy, but instead I messed up. Great Uncle Jibolba will be disappointed too."

She then felt a twinge as her body glows and she hears a snapping sound. She gasps when a large tree branch falls in front of her, along with a monkey who was sitting on top of it. The monkey rubs his head from the impact and chirps angrily before running away.

She carefully stands up and begins to walk away. "Maybe I should go home and tell Daddy."

Before she could walk away, she hears a voice that says, "Princess Kida?"

She turns and is surprised to see two small voodoo doll creatures approach her. One was short and fat while the other was tall and skinny. "What are you?" Kida asked.

"I'm Pins." The fat one introduced, and then he pointed to his partner. "And this is Needles." The skinny one muffles through his stitched up mouth.

Kida didn't know what to say, but Pins continued, "Don't be scared. We hear you have a problem."

"Well…" Kida struggled to say.

"A magical problem."

Before Kida could respond, she groaned and held her sides while she glowed and a nearby mud puddle suddenly exploded, splashing mud on Pins and Needles, grossing the two out.

Once Kida recovered, she responded, "It's true. Something's happening to me, but I don't know what? Can you help me?"

Needles responded in a muffled voice, and afterwards Pins added, "That's right. It's not what we can do to help; it's what someone else can do."

"Really?"

"Sure." Pins answered in a joyful tone as he and Needles each hold Kida's arms and walk her forward. "Just follow us and you'll meet someone who can help you with all your problems, Princess Kida."

Back at the Pupununu, after Tak had fixed all the problems going on in the tribe courtesy of Kida's strange magic, he and Jeera went to Tak's mentor to discuss the strange matter.

"It is entirely possible that Kida was the one responsible. This is just like when you were her age, Tak, back when your own brand of special magic came to frutation. It would seem that young Kida inherited this unique ability from you."

While Tak was in shock, Jeera suddenly gave him a hard punch in the arm. "Nice going, honey." She said angrily. "You gave her your own destructive Juju magic."

"I didn't know!" Tak frantically responded until Jeera grabbed him by his cape collar and pulled him close.

"You better find our daughter… or else."

Tak chuckled nervously and replied, "Don't worry, I will. She can't have gone far."

"You better hurry, Tak." Jibolba warned. "With how powerful her newfound magic is, it could lead to disastrous effects."

Meanwhile, Kida followed Pins and Needles inside a dark cave. She looked around and wondered, "What are we doing here?"

"You'll see." Pins answered as he and Needles led her deeper into the cave.

Suddenly, the torches on the walls lit up, making the area visible and Kida heard another voice, "Welcome, my dear Princess Kida."

Kida was surprised to see a man she did not recognize, but was actually the shaman, Traloc. He approached and kneeled down to her height. "It is a pleasure to finally meet you." He took her hand and kissed the top of it.

"Thanks." She said, looking a bit unsure. "But how did you know who I am?"

"Why, everyone's heard of you." Traloc answered in a confident tone, "The princess of the Pupununu Tribe and the daughter of the village's shaman, Tak. I'm almost sure that maybe one day you will come to have your father's special talents in the art of shaman's magic."

Kida's smile dropped and she nervously said, "Well…there's actually one thing I wanted to ask you about." But then she groaned in pain and a glow around her caused one of the torch's flames to grow larger, startling Pins and Needles.

"Or maybe you do." Traloc said with a smirk, after seeing this.

Kida still look frightened by her magic as she asked, "So can you help me with that?"

"Oh, I know a way that can help." Traloc answered, still smirking until he turned to his voodoo doll minions. "You know what to do."

"Yes sir." Pins and Needles said (or in Needles's case muffled) as they saluted, before approaching Kida.

Tak was walking through the forest in search of his missing daughter, hoping the Juju magic that she possessed didn't get too out of hand. "Kida?" he called her name. "Kida!" he sighed in disappointment, "Where can she be?"

But then he stopped when he spotted the staff he had made for Kida laying on the ground, discarded. He picked it up and stared at it curiously. "Kida…" he muttered in worry, thinking the worst.

He began rushing through the woods until he reached the Juju Temple, only to find it completely empty and his daughter nowhere in sight.

"Oh, Kida…" Tak said hopelessly as he sunk to his knees. "Where in Moon Juju's name could you be?"

But unknowingly, the stone on Tak's staff placed in his weapon's case began glowing on its own. Suddenly, Tak looked up and his eyes widen in surprise to see a Juju with aqua colored skin, dark green eyes, curly bluish-purple hair, wearing a magenta Greek-like dress, and had a glow worm-like bottom, small antennas, and dragonfly wings.

Tak immediately recognized it as someone he knew. "Aurora Juju?" his long-lost mother.

Aurora Juju just stayed silent as she warmly smiled and then handed Tak a small object which he took in his hand. Tak looked at it to see it was a small pink egg-shaped stone. But before he could ask questions, Aurora Juju suddenly disappeared.

"Wait!" Tak called out, but she was already gone. He stared at the stone some more, wondering if it was some kind of clue to finding his daughter. "Mother."

Back in the cave, Kida was grunting as she was now tied to a chair with rope while Pins and Needles placed her in a large circle made with strange purple dust. "What are you doing?" Kida asked angrily. "I thought you were going to help?"

"I AM going to help." Traloc answered as he gave a cunning smile. "I'm going to help myself to all your Juju magic. What you possess is the most powerful magic I've ever seen. Ironic given who your father is, but given his background, it all makes sense.

"I trusted you! How could you betray me?" but Kida was suddenly silenced when Needles tied a scarf around her mouth to silence her as he gave a muffled laugh.

"Don't worry, Kida." Traloc said in false reassurance, patting the top of her head. "After this, you'll be normal- that is if you manage to survive this process."

Kida gave a muffled shriek as Traloc chanted and the circle below Kida began to glow purple. The same glow surrounded Kida and she gave a muffled scream as a glowing purple essence began to leave Kida and floated over into a small clay vase.

"Yes!" Traloc shouted in triumph. "It's working. Soon I'll have access to the most powerful Juju magic in existence."

"You sure it's enough?" Traloc turned to see Tak standing at the entrance of the cave with his staff in hand.

"Well, Tak." Traloc said nonchalantly. "What a surprise to see you. Come to see your precious daughter lend me all of her magic."

Seeing more of Kida's Juju magic being forcibly absorbed while she was bound and gagged, Tak's face scrunched in anger and he pointed his staff at the shaman. "You BETTER let her go right now!"

Traloc just cunningly smiled as he replied, "Sorry Tak, but I'm afraid the process isn't complete yet. Pins, Needles, get rid of him."

The two voodoo doll minions obey orders as Needles jumps on top of Pins and they both charge at Tak. The shaman was not the least bit intimidated, and the stone on top of his staff glows as he pounds the tip of his staff on the ground, unleashing a magic wave on the ground that knocked Pins and Needles against the wall, leaving them both unconscious.

"Is that the best you can come up with?" Tak asked Traloc.

"Not so fast." Traloc said before he took hold of the vase that was taking Kida's magic. "Maybe I should take a little sample of my new power."

Tak's eyes widen as a clump of purple magical energy was held in Traloc's hand. He raised his arm up and threw the magic at Tak, who quickly jumped out of the way as an explosion occurred in his previous spot. Traloc took more which he threw at Tak, only for the shaman to keep running around the cave to avoid.

"Kida!" Tak called as he ran over to his daughter. He pulled the cloth off of her mouth, allowing her screams of pain to be heard, but a blast of magic suddenly knocked Tak away from her. He sat up from the ground and shouted to Traloc, "It's too much for her! Let her go!"

"You fool!" Traloc shouted as he held up the vase that was filling up with Kida's magic. "You think I would give this up? With Juju magic as strong as this, I could rule over the Pupununu for decades!"

But when Kida let out a louder scream, the magical aura around her glowed brighter, and the vase Traloc was holding began to shake. "What?"

Tak quickly reached into his loin cloth and took out a pair of bolas. He swung them at Traloc and the weapon hit the vase, causing it to shatter and release all the captured magic that spread out all over the cave. Suddenly, the cave began to shake and rumble. Traloc began to panic and wasted no time escaping the collapsing cave with Pins and Needles following him as well.

Tak, however, had to try and rescue Kida before it was too late. He looked at the little pink stone that was given to him, and ran toward Kida while holding it out. Once he got close enough to Kida, the stone glowed brightly and the magical aura around her began to dim. When the cave around them began to fall apart, Tak used his Juju Run to speed out of the cave while carrying an unconscious Kida in his arms, escaping just in time before they were crushed.

Once the two were safely outside, Tak sat on the ground and inspected Kida, who was still unconscious. "Kida?" he asked before placing the pink stone in her grasp. It glowed brightly again and the aura around completely disappeared.

Groaning was heard, and Kida began to open her green eyes. "Dad?" she asked.

"Kida!" Tak cried with a smile before hugging her closely. "Thank the Jujus you're okay."

"But what happened to Traloc?" Kida asked, looking nervous. "And aren't you mad that I ran away and nearly destroyed the village?"

"Mad?" Tak asked with a calm smile. "How can I be mad when my own little girl can control Juju magic like me?"

Kida smiled widely, "Really?"

"Of course. I mean the village is safe now, and we should reconsider mentioning the thing with Traloc to your mother, but with a little training from yours truly and this special stone you now have to help soften your magic, you should be a natural in no time. I couldn't be more proud." Kida looked at the stone she was holding and chuckled as she hugged her father again.

Later on, the two returned home and Jeera picked up Kida and hugged her, happy to see her daughter returned home safe and sound.

"Oh, Kida," Tak said with something behind his back. "I have another present for you." He held out Kida's staff to her, only this time it now had the pink stone attached to the top of it.

Kida gasped in joy and grabbed her staff as she jumped out of her mother's arms. "Wow!" she held out the staff as the pink stone glowed and a magical beam hit a tiki stone, turning it into a bouquet of flowers. After her first initial success, Jeera hugged Kida again joyfully

"Well, I must say," Jibolba said. "It's truly a surprise to see Kida is already a real prodigy as a shaman."

"See?" Tak replied proudly. "I told ya."

"Though you can't help but be cautious since if that staff comes out of her grasp, her powers can lead to more catastrophic results."

"Don't worry, Uncle J. Like you said, she's a prodigy, just like her old man."

As Kida cheered some more, she ended up accidentally flinging her staff through the air across the room. She gained the same purple glow over her body and this caused all the scrolls to come flying out of the shelves, which everybody ducked down on the ground to avoid, making a mess of the room again.

"And even though Kida's skills were still a little rusty, she still maintained control of her newfound abilities and managed to keep away from any other obstacle." Tak finished explaining.

Yuki and Kida had climbed down from the tree as Kida groaned afterwards, "I wasn't that destructive when I got my powers."

"Yeah, but it was thanks to us and Dar's team that we were able to stop Traloc from taking your powers again," Yuki states.

"I guess so," Kida admitted, "Thanks for that."

"That's right! If it weren't for Yuki and her knowledge in them supernatural and stuff, we wouldn't have escaped," Crash mentioned.

"But don't forget Junior here," Yuki added, "If it weren't for his strength, Traloc would have gotten her powers and Kida would be done for!"

"Though it's thanks to Crash and Twitchy that they helped stop the snake meanies and free our friends," Junior finished.

"Of course!" Yuki realized, "We managed to achieve our goal because we worked together and combining our true potential. Maybe we can work together reflecting on the adventures we've done and helped the others and write that on our report."

"Let's do that!" Crash cheered.

"Do it! Do it! Do it!" Twitchy jumped.

Soon after one night of writing up, the Cadets managed to finish up their report. In HQ, Jimmy yawned as he lazily head to his desk still in his robes. He puts down a warm cup of coffee and relaxes a bit, when a large stack of paper drops on his desk. Jimmy stares at the stack and leans to the side to find the Cadets smiling, exhausted but relieved.

"Here it is." Yuki explained as she signaled to the papers. "All the proof you need that'll convince you that we're ready to be promoted to official Nicktoons."

"Complete with all the resumes concerning 'em special skills we have," Crash mentioned.

"Along with a reflection of our previous adventures," Kida added.

"Yeah! Yeah!" Twitchy agreed.

"My brothers had to help me write words I didn't understand," Junior confessed, "But at the back, there's pictures I drew if they help."

Jimmy looked at the stack of papers, reading one by one. "So, does this mean we can be official Nicktoons?" Yuki asked.

"I must say, I'm impressed with all the paperwork here," Jimmy mentioned, "However, regulations state that the written report was outdated twenty years ago."

"WHAT?!" all the Cadets shouted in shock as their eyes nearly bulge out.

"But-but-but-" Twitchy said twitching his eye, "Tommy said the writing stuff is required in the manual."

"Oh, that manual," Jimmy remembered, "It was a prototype I wrote for Danny, Timmy, and SpongeBob to see before we could recruit Tak. They nullified it, thinking it was hard work and that Tak has enough experience to become a Nicktoon. My guess is Tommy found it in Turner's things or around HQ."

"So, we're not gonna be official Nicktoons?" Junior moped.

"What? Who said anything about that? Why do you think I hired you as Cadets in the first place?" Jimmy explained, "I made you Cadets so you can show your potential and have experience to see what being a Nicktoon is like until you are ready."

"Really?" Crash asked in excitement. "So y'all knew we had the guts to be Nicktoons this whole time?"

"Of course. Though I noticed at first your teamwork and skills were a bit unhabituated, I knew that one day after a bit of practice you all would rise through the ranks."

"So does this mean we can be official Nicktoons now?" Yuki asked hopefully.

"Well, first you'd need a month of training," Jimmy added, "And afterward, you'll be promoted."

The Nicktoon Cadets all smile and cheer after hearing this news. "Yes!" Yuki shouted.

"We did it!" Crash cheered as he cartwheeled around the room.

"Alright then," Jimmy said, stacking the papers to straighten them, "On the first day of your training, you will need to demonstrate your skills in a battle simulation."

"Bring it on!" Kida said in determination.

"Yeah,we'lldoit!" Twitchy also said excitedly.

"Wait." Yuki said when she noticed something. "Tommy mentioned a battle simulation too. I thought that was part of the outdated protocol."

"Yes, but we kept that so we can also learn more of the skills you have, but you can go against one opponent of your choosing," Jimmy explained, "So who will it be?" The Cadets all looked at each other, trying to decide who it was they will be battling against.

The next day, the Nicktoon Cadets began their extensive training by taking on the battle simulation that took place in a ruined city. "Nicktoon Cadets, Attack!" Yuki cried out as she and her team split up to take on their opponent.

Kida began by firing beams of magic from her staff at her opponent that was none other than Tommy Turner armed with Poof as his magic rifle.

Tommy managed to avoid the attack by backing away, but then tripped on a small rock. Crash then flew straight down at him with a karate chop that Tommy franticly rolled away from. "Come on, guys!" Tommy called out to them. "This isn't a strategically formed attack plan!" But the others ignored him by teaming together and sending a barrage of attacks toward the Turner boy.

Outside the simulation, Jimmy and the Nicktoons watch. "So think they have what it takes?" he asked them.

"I think so," Darry said, writing on a clipboard, "Yuki demonstrates handling ghost-related technology."

"Kida is getting more used to her Juju powers and doing well," Tammy calculated.

"Junior is getting stronger everyday," SpongeTron analyzed, "He can become the team's trump card when needed and have Crash and Twitchy back him up."

Jimmy nodded and speaks on the mike, "Alright guys, not bad. Now how about you try testing out combo attacks. Yuki, Kida, you're next."

"With pleasure," the girls said as their weapons light up with green and pink energy. Tommy gulped, afraid of what will happen next.

Outside HQ, the side of the building exploded from that enormous energy. "Can someone call our ST Repair Units?" Jimmy's voice called out, "And an ambulance?"

The End

With every start, there's always a time to evolve. We hope you enjoyed learning about the Nicktoon Cadets and review what you thought of the story. Be sure to wait around for the next story, "Voleur de Mon Amour".