Mike and Lil kept an eye on the kids as they broke up into play groups and began to head over to the playground to play in their own special way. Little Bill and his best friend Andrew Mulligan were on the swingset, Max Bunny was playing in the jungle gym with a boy named Baxter who had a sock monkey doll he called "Bananas", Emily Martin was in the sandbox with Maggie Paraskevas and the infamous Ren Höek's niece, Makayla, and Dora who was teaching them how to speak Spanish, a girl known as Stephanie Meanswell was going up and down the slide rapidly with her friends Ziggy, Pixel, and Trixie as they lived to be active like the one they called "The Great Sportacus" and the blonde girl known as Gina Wolfgang was just standing by herself, crossing her arms and looking rather mean like a preschool bully, but she didn't seem to hurt anyone. At least, not yet. Traci was shown to just be sitting alone as she hugged a blanket she had brought with her while Mike and Lil supervised them, but were also talking to each other about Mike's dream.
"I see not much has changed since that summer we helped out at Camp Nicktoon, especially against that weird monster BigToe." Mike remarked.
"Who would've thought that Phil was right?" Lil rolled her eyes. "But let's not get into that before his ears start burning and he rushes over here to do his 'I told you so' act."
"Twins..." Mike shrugged and rolled her eyes. "Sometimes I wish I had a twin though."
"Yeah?" Lil asked. "How so?"
"Oh, I dunno... Just someone to have something in common with back home, especially before I became an exchange student that time," Mike explained. "It was cool to share some stuff from America to Lu and Og, like TV, Action Guy, and a lot of other cool things, but sometimes I felt alone, like when I started school with them on the island school with The Cuzzlewitz... It was just really out of hand, especially without a teacher until Marjorie decided to take the job since she knew the island's history better than anyone except for maybe Old Queeks."
"Sometimes I wish we could've known each other earlier," Lil replied. "Like that time you came to the Nicktoons Summer Beach House while me and Phil happened to not be there that year."
"I'm sure we would've been great friends." Mike smiled.
"What're you talking about?" Traci asked as she came over to Mike and Lil.
Mike and Lil just looked at her before looking at each other and then looked back at her again.
"Big kid stuff, kid," Mike replied. "Why don't you go and play with the other kids?"
"Yeah... Be with people your own age." Lil nodded.
"Everyone else is too busy," Traci pouted. "I wanted to come to school this year after being home with Steve and Blue all day and looking for Blue's Clues."
"Blue's Clues..." Mike muttered to herself.
"...All right, kid, there's gotta be someone you can play with," Lil said as she stood up before looking around, then saw Gerald's little sister Timberly playing on the blacktop as she seemed to be drawing with chalk. She then smiled and nodded. "She doesn't look very busy. Why don't you play with her?" she then suggested.
"Oh... I... I don't know..." Traci said as she stepped over and hid with her blanket nervously. "What would I do?"
"Just say hi and talk to her," Lil told Traci as she brought her over to Gerald's little sister. "It can't be that hard."
Traci just whimpered nervously and looked around as she felt scared.
Mike watched as Lil walked off with Traci and she decided to just try to relax while she still could. She then glanced over as the girls suddenly surrounded her with big smiles on their faces and hearts in their eyes. "Ugh... Again? Even the rugrats?" she then complained as she seemed to be the main eye candy of the playground.
"We're playing a game... Will you play with us?" Maggie asked.
"Gee, I dunno," Mike replied. "I'm not really good at pretending or making up games like that. I'm a teenager now."
"Oh, please...?" Maggie pouted and put her hands together to do a cute puppy dog pout.
The other girls then decided to do the same just to get what they wanted.
"Yeah! C'mon, Red!" Trixie said to Mike. "It won't kill ya! I'm playin' with Pinky here, aren't I?" she then added, referring to Stephanie.
"Besides, Sportacus says it's great to get active and eat Sports Candy!" Stephanie added with a smile.
Mike grunted and rolled her eyes. "Well, all right... I'll play with you guys." she then gave in.
"Yaaay!" The girls cheered in their little victory.
"We did it! We did it! We did it, hooray!" Dora cheered.
"Okay, stop that," Mike complained to the young explorer girl. "So... What're we playing? Little Red Riding Hood? I got dibs on The Wolf." she then added.
"Nope!" Emily smiled and shook her head as she held her favorite doll. "We're gonna play The Brave and Handsome Prince Saves The Princesses!"
"...Of course we are..." Mike muttered. "How soon is naptime again?"
The little girls just giggled and grabbed Mike by her hands and dragged her out onto the blacktop.
"I'm starting to regret being such a nice person and helping those in need..." Mike grumbled to herself.
Meanwhile, Lil was still trying to help Traci bond with Timberly.
"Look, it's stu-" Lil began to say.
Traci gasped as Lil nearly said a "bad word".
"...Pendously easy," Lil then quickly covered up with a nervous smile since "stupid" was seen as a swear word to kids under the age of 10. "Just go up and talk to Timberly. Ask her what she's doing and then ask if you can do it too."
"...You almost said The S Word." Traci pouted.
"Just ignore that," Lil groaned before smiling. "Just try it out, okay? I know Timberly and I think you two have a lot more in common than you think."
"What does that mean?" Traci asked as she tilted her head.
"That means you like the same stuff... Like... Um..." Lil explained before pausing as she tried to explain. "Okay... You have a blue dog back home, right?"
Traci paused before nodding. The puppy was named Blue for a reason after all.
"Well... She likes Wally the Blue Alligator," Lil then said with a forced smile. "You kids like that show, right?"
"Ooh! I have my own Wally Alley Gator doll back home too!" Traci beamed. "I should bring it sometime for playtime."
"Yes! Yes, yes, you should," Lil said as she quickly nodded. "Why don't you two talk about old Wally, huh? That's oodles better than Miss Carol's Happy House, right?"
"...Who's Miss Carol?" Traci asked out of confusion.
"Uh... Never mind that, it's a long story," Lil said to Traci. "Anyway... Just go talk to Timberly, okay?"
"Um... Okay..." Traci said as she soon tried to go over to Timberly. "Um... Hi."
Timberly looked up before smiling. "Hi! You have that blue dog, right?"
"Um... Yes..." Traci smiled back. "Her name's Blue... I live with her back home and with my big brother Steve. I have another big brother though, his name's-"
"Wanna draw with me?" Timberly then asked, showing another piece of chalk to Traci.
"Uh... Okay..." Traci said before she knelt down next to Timberly. "What do we draw?"
"Draw whatever you like," Timberly smiled. "I wanna be just like Rudy Tabootie... He's a great chalk drawer-er."
"Uh... Okay..." Traci smiled back before she took the chalk and decided to draw Blue back home and put pawprints everywhere.
"Yeah! There ya go!" Timberly beamed and nodded. "That's great!"
"Thank you!" Traci smiled.
"That should keep her busy for a while..." Lil smirked to herself before walking away suddenly so that Traci and Timberly could have some privacy.
"Hey... Do you like Wally the Alley Gator?" Timberly asked Traci as they kept drawing together.
"Who doesn't?" Traci beamed as she seemed to make a new friend rather quickly.
Lil then walked off before smirking and cupped her mouth as she snickered a little. Mike rolled her eyes as she tried to help play the game with the other younger girls who treated her like a brave and handsome prince before she looked at Lil. Lil chuckled and winked at Mike as she waved to the side while Mike just groaned, feeling a little embarrassed and frustrated, but she didn't want to make the kids upset because she would probably get in trouble for that.
Luckily for Mike, she was then literally saved by the bell as it started to ring and the kids rushed back inside, cheering and laughing together.
"Thank goodness that's over," Mike groaned to herself. "I thought I was done playing 'Princess' back with Lu on The Albonquetine Island."
"I'm sure you'd be a wonderful prince, Mike," Lil smirked as she came over to Mike and put her arm around the latter's shoulder. "After all... You're a prince to me."
"Luckily for me though, Makayla's not as crazy as her Uncle Ren." Mike then muttered.
"Give her time... Who knows if it's genetic or not?" Lil shrugged.
Mike rolled her eyes before smirking. "Well, come on, Lil. We better head back inside and get the kids ready for a snack and then their nap... I know I could use one too." she then added before suddenly yawning and stretching.
"Yeah... That sounds really good right about now," Lil nodded. "This place isn't so bad... A lot better than the other classes in school."
"Yeah... Why did Jenny Wakeman hate coming here again when everyone thought she was five years old just because that was when she was made even though she was designed to be a teenager?" Mike remarked as they came to head back inside the school.
"It's a long story, Mike... I'll tell ya about it later," Lil replied. "Though she was probably glad to be back in class with Danny Fenton again."
"Heh... Yeah... Those two are almost always making out whenever I see them not fighting crime together." Mike chuckled lightly.
Soon, they made it back into the classroom. Lil smiled a little as Traci and Timberly seemed to be resting together as the lights were dimmed and it was now naptime for the young Nicktoons. Mike and Lil then looked at each other and they soon decided to take a nap with the youngsters to take advantage of the fact that they could since they were helping out in this class and they would luck out while their peers would either be taking tests or listening to lectures when they would let their minds wander, but try to make sure that the teachers wouldn't find out or realize, such as Mr. Sweeney who run a really tight shift against his students. Especially with students like Ned Bigby.
However, when Mike drifted off to sleep, she found herself in The Pridelands and looked around.
"Mike..." The baritone voice of the former Lion King soon spoke and echoed to the young tomboy.
"King Mufasa..." Mike greeted as she turned around.
"It is time, as Rafiki would say," Mufasa informed from the heavens as he looked down at her. "You must help Simba and Nala very soon, especially young Kiara."
"Right now?" Mike asked. "But I have school."
"Then you should go after nightfall or whenever your 'schooling' ends," Mufasa replied. "It is very imperative that you leave as soon as possible, especially with what Zira plans for where Scar failed in taking down Simba like he did with me."
"I remember that," Mike frowned and nodded. "It's still a very sad thought that I had to witness that... My parents died when I was very young, but I barely remembered it and even forgot about it until later in my life."
"Understood," Mufasa said. "Just please... Make tracks as quickly as possible."
"I won't let you down, Mufasa. I promise," Mike nodded. "And I won't let The Pridelands, Pride Rock, or anyone else in the jungle down."
"I very much admire that enthusiasm, Mike," Mufasa told her. "The Wolf shall return to Pride Rock soon enough."
"Yes, The Wolf will return," Mike nodded. "Along with some back-up of course."
"Thank you, Mike. I'm sure Simba and Nala will admire your return to Pride Rock, as well as Timon and Pumbaa who looked after you and Simba in my absence." Mufasa said with a small smile.
"Yes, sir." Mike smiled back.
Mufasa soon let out a mighty lion roar. Mike then let out an echoing and bellowing wolf growl before they soon faded away suddenly in a bright light.
Mike's eyes then flashed open as she sat up and looked around.
"Hey..." Lil smirked as she was lying against Mike's chest, looking up at her with one eye opened. "I was wondering when you'd wake up."
"Hey..." Mike nodded as she still looked around. "...Where'd the kids go?"
"Their parents picked them up," Lil replied. "Four days ago. You've been asleep for four days."
"Four days?!" Mike asked before Lil chuckled which made her smirk. "Lil..."
"Okay, maybe not that long," Lil smirked back before she got off of Mike and knelt next to her as Mike sat up. "But yeah, the kids' parents picked them up not too long ago. Ms. Shrinivas says we're free to go though and she thanked us for helping her out today."
"Oh, cool..." Mike said before she got up. "I guess she left too?"
"Well, I would, these rugrats can take a toll on ya sometimes... She said I should head back to class, but I wanted to wait until you woke up," Lil explained as she stood up before helping Mike up to her feet as they took each other's hands so that the redhead would be in a standing position. "It seemed like you were having some kinda crazy and epic dream or something."
"Well, I did... Kind of a vision, but still," Mike nodded. "I saw Mufasa. Remember him?"
"Oh... Yeah?" Lil replied. "What did he have to say now?"
"He suggested that it was time to go," Mike explained. "So... Whatya say? You wanna make it back in time for a science exam at Mr. Sweeney's class?"
Both of the girls seemed to stop and think this over for a few moments before they smirked at each other. "Naaah!" they then said.
They then decided to leave the classroom and decided to leave school in general as there wasn't that much time left in the day.
"I dunno where Dad would be right now, but Mom should be at The Java Lava with Chuckie's dad right now," Lil replied. "We could probably sneak back home, get some supplies, and you can help take me to this Pride Rock you've been talking about."
"Hmm... I don't know how to get there, the first time I ended up there was by accident," Mike shrugged. "But sure, we could probably do that. As long as we don't get caught of course."
"We won't get caught," Lil reassured. "It has to be better than when Otto Rocket and Sam Dullard played hooky and then there was a carnival in school..." she then paused thoughtfully. "...Come to think of it, the same thing happened when Arnold and Gerald tried to ditch school."
"Weird... I guess the lesson from those adventures is just to stay in school," Mike shrugged. "Charles Darwin Middle School has a carnival every year too."
"That's that weird animal school, isn't it?" Lil then asked, based on what Mike told her about what Cartoon Network City had.
"Yeah, it is..." Mike nodded.
"I'm surprised you haven't ended up becoming a student there." Lil remarked.
"Not yet anyway..." Mike said with an aside glance to the fourth wall. "I've been through stranger crossover adventures."
"Crossover?" Lil then asked with a small smirk.
"Oh... Nothing, nothing..." Mike chuckled. "I met those monsters Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina once before after all before I met you and Phil."
"Man, you've seen a lot of adventures before we became girlfriends... Though there's one good thing that came from today besides your vision." Lil then said.
"Spending the day together and taking a break?" Mike guessed.
"Well, there's that," Lil said before explaining what she meant to say. "At least MacKenzie Benders wasn't in class today."
"Who?" Mike then asked.
"You DON'T wanna know," Lil said. "Take your friend Ed's sister and multiply by at least 10."
Mike stopped for a moment before her eyes widened. "Whoa." she then muttered.
"Yeah... Plus she's crazy about Twister..." Lil nodded.
The two then continued to walk down the hallway and soon opened the double doors of the school and began to sneak back to the DeVille house.
MEANWHILE...
"Yo, Phil!" Twister whispered loudly while sitting at a drawing board with Phil next to him as he glanced out the window.
"No, Twister, for the last time, I can't cheat on a cooking class test for you." Phil rolled his eyes.
"No, not that," Twister said before he pointed out the window. "Isn't that your sister escaping from school with Mike?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm not falling for that-" Phil scoffed before he glanced out the window and saw Mike and Lil walking away from school grounds together. "What the?!"
"Well, I guess somebody owes somebody an apology." Twister scoffed as he went back to scribbling even though there was a bowl of fruit in the center of the classroom.
"Yeah, yeah, sorry." Phil then groaned.
Twister chuckled as he continued to scribble.
"What's going on down there?" Phil wondered.
BACK WITH MIKE AND LIL...
The two soon snuck into the house and they didn't hear anything, even with special hearing.
"I guess your dad's at the store or something," Mike said as she opened the door after Lil took out her key to unlock it. "Come on. Let's get some supplies."
"Right." Lil nodded before she went with Mike inside the house after shutting the door to head upstairs.
"I don't think there's a major time limit, but we should probably get ready nice and quick," Mike suggested on the way up the stairs before going over to Lil's room. "Like Zazu once said, 'The sooner we get to the water hole, the sooner we can leave'."
"Zazu sounds paranoid." Lil commented.
"You would too if you were harassed by hyenas or an evil lion who would eat you alive if The Lion King didn't step in at the right time." Mike replied.
Lil laughed a little at that before opening her bedroom door.
"Hello, ladies~" Phil greeted as he sat in Lil's chair before spinning around to face his twin sister and their house guest.
"Phillip! What are you doing in my room and why aren't you in school?" Lil complained before asking.
"I could ask you the same question, Lillian." Phil retorted.
"We were volunteering for the Nick Jr kids and they get out of school early." Mike replied.
"Yeah, I know," Phil rolled his eyes. "Lucky little jerks. I'd kill for preschool days like when Angelica, Susie, and Harold were in preschool before us."
"Yeah, sounds like a great story, but you shouldn't go in your sister's room without permission." Mike said as she crossed her arms firmly.
"Who are you, my mother?" Phil rolled his eyes. "I don't know what you two are up to, but I'm gonna find out."
"How'd you get here so fast anyway?" Lil asked.
"Did you run all the way from school just to get here and make this creepy Godfather-like entrance?" Mike added.
"Not important! ...Though, Courtney might've let Winston give me a ride," Phil glared before shrugging. "He's a pretty cool dude most of the time actually. I think I might actually like him better than Courtney's dad... But don't tell her that I said that."
"Okay... Whatever..." Lil rolled her eyes. "What do you want?"
"Well, there is one thing... Wherever you're going, I'm gonna come too and you're gonna let me..." Phil explained, showing a brief manic grin.
"...Or else what?" Mike then asked.
"Oh, something crazy... Something unbelievably crazy that it'll blow your very minds!" Phil grinned.
"...Let you come with us or else you'll tell Mom, right?" Lil then asked.
Phil then groaned and suddenly fell to the floor.
"...Was that supposed to be an anime fall?" Mike then asked.
"...Maybe?" Phil muffled.
"You don't need to tell me, Phil... I already know what's going on." A new voice suddenly said from right behind all of them.
Phil got up off of the floor and soon looked wide-eyed. Mike and Lil were also wide-eyed and they turned around and saw Betty right behind them as she had a bit of a firm look on her face.