Chapter 3- Opposites, accusations and added surprises!
There will be elements from the episode Gekko and the Opposite Ray in this chapter along with elements from the French book with the Egyptian mythology in it (especially Baset).
Elements from the book 'The PJ Masks and the mummy of Apophis book 1 and 2 is in this chapter.
The next day, the book signing had been finished getting set up in the comic book store Flossy Flash and Master Fang were ready in costume.
The pair had been given new items: a staff for Master Fang and a belt for Flossy Flash as gift from a fan only Flossy Flash was aware of.
When the children from school accompanied by their parents attended the event, they got posters signed but they left the shop with swirling eyes.
"Find PJ Robot!" they chanted.
As the hero trio and Arsène arrived at the store, Flossy Flash and Master Fang had been affected too.
"Flossy Flash, can you sign my comic?" Amaya asked.
Connor gave a small scowl.
"I can't, we must find PJ Robot" The older hero replied.
The children gasped as they watched their favourite hero role models leave the comic store with their new items.
"And I was looking forward to this signing since yesterday" Arsène sighed.
"Stay here, Arsène. We'll get help" Greg promised.
Arsène glanced over at Amaya minutes before Greg spoke.
"Um…Ok. Good luck" he said, in a slightly nervous voice.
The trio went outside just as 'Dylan' walked past in horror.
"Looks like we have to investigate tonight" Connor said in a low voice as the trio did their 'into action' catchphrase to cause night-time to come.
-That night-
The heroes found the footage on the PJ Picture Player Romeo giving Flossy Flash and Master Fang new items.
Then he found an image of Romeo with his robot close to the comic book store.
"We have to stop him!" Catboy cried.
"And afterwards we'll settle this comic book score" Owlette added.
They took the cat car to face Romeo.
As soon as they left, the children from their school with swirling eyes broke into Capitiane Lupin's hideout and grabbed PJ Robot in his lupin form.
"The PJ Pests. What a grand surprise" Romeo said.
"Romeo, let our hero mentors and classmates go!" Owlette cried.
"You want to let them go? Well, come get them. Flossy Flash, Master Fang; GET THEM!" he ordered.
Master Fang and Flossy Flash came out from an alleyway and began to attack the young heroes.
As the trio avoided their attacks, the children returned to Romeo with PJ Robot.
"Thank you, Children. You have done well" Romeo said gratefully.
He turned to PJ Robot in his Lupin form.
"Hello again, Mini-bot. You're back home where you belong" he said, sinisterly as PJ Robot looked terrified at the sound of his old name.
The technique Capitiane Lupin used on PJ Robot was slowly starting to wear off.
He got out a device belt from Robot to try to force PJ Robot to attack the heroes as well but under HIS control.
"Guys, how do we beat Romeo without hurting anyone?" Gekko asked, worriedly.
"We use moves that don't inflict pain" Owlette replied.
Gekko used his colour-changing power to distract half of the children as Catboy used cat stripes to safely keep the others away on the ground.
Owlette used her feathers on PJ Robot, Flossy Flash and Master Fang but they ploughed through it.
She tried using owl wind on them, but they fought through it.
"Catboy! What move can be used to disarm Master Fang?" she cried.
"Jodori, defence moves against staff attacks" Catboy replied.
Master Fang went to attack Catboy with his Staff but Catboy caught it and gently go him to the ground without hurting him.
Owlette used on of Bossy Brash's moves to disarm Flossy Flash from her replacement belt and Catboy took away the staff.
Catboy then quickly returned the children to their beds before they could wake up.
"No! that was FOOL PROOF, I say!" Romeo cried.
"Romeo, you're grounded for 3 months" Flossy Flash said, sternly.
"Why would you try to control us?" Master Fang asked.
"I'm jealous, ok? You get all that attention with fans…I don't" Romeo admitted, bitterly.
"Sorry Romeo but stealing fans to steal your old inventions isn't a good way to get attention" Master Fang pointed out.
Owlette used her feathers to break the belt on PJ Robot to free him from Romeo's control as well.
Romeo growled.
"You'll pay for this, PJ MASKS!" he cried.
"Romeo, we'll need a long talk about your future goals" Flossy Flash began as Romeo groaned, Robot followed behind and Master Fang bowed to the young heroes as a thank you before leaving as well.
"I'm sorry I was mad at you a lot for keeping comic book secrets from me. I guess I was disappointed you were so ashamed of liking Flossy Flash too. I mean look at Armadylan, he likes it and he's a big kid compared to us" Owlette pointed out.
"And I'm sorry I didn't tell you about that secret sooner. We could have a trivia Quiz the next time you're at my house?" Catboy offered.
"You're on" Owlette dared, playfully.
Gekko smiled at PJ Robot.
"I am SO glad they're getting along again" he said with relief.
"Thank you for saving Lupin-bot" Capitine Lupin said as he magnetised PJ Robot and dragged him away.
He made sure the spell on PJ Robot was unlikely to break unless he wanted it to this time.
-The next morning-
Romeo was grounded to stay in his basement lab as Flossy Flash and Master Fang did a redo of the book signing.
"So was the culprit found that ruined our day yesterday?" Arsène asked.
"Yep, they're grounded in confinement" Amaya replied, confidently.
"So, let's get our books signed" Greg said, eagerly.
The four friends finally got to the stall where Flossy Flash and Master Fang sat.
"Who do we sign it to, young ones?" Master Fang asked, gently.
"Amaya, Greg, Connor and Arsène IV please" Amaya replied.
Flossy Flash winked at the three heroes in recognition after she and Master Fang signed their books.
"Thank you so much" Connor said, gratefully.
Arsène began to get suspicious of their behaviour but continued to act like everything was fine.
-The next day-
The three friends raced to the playground. Amaya and Connor as playful rivals bumped into each other as Greg got to the slide first.
"I win! You're not so tough without your cat speed and wings" Greg joked.
As he did a danced, Amaya noticed something on his back.
"It looks like a note!" Connor said in surprise.
He took it off his friend's back and examined it.
"'Hey PJ Pals,
I want to form a truce. Meet me by the park tonight for a friendly chat.
Romeo" Connor read.
"What's a truce?" Greg asked.
"It means he doesn't want to be enemies anymore" Amaya explained.
"I doubt it's genuine. Let's investigate" Connor stated.
-That night-
Capitiane Lupin was on the roof of one of the houses close to Romeo's location to observe.
The heroes took the cat car to confront Romeo who was waiting beside Robot.
He was siting in a deck chair close to the entrance of the park.
The building he was close to had a bridge over the river which also goes through the park to the lake by the PJ HQ.
The PJ Masks jumped out of the car to face him.
"I take it you got my heartfelt note?" Romeo asked, innocently.
"We got your note alright and you're up to something" Catboy accused.
"Who me? I just want us to be on the same side" Romeo stated.
"My side that is" he muttered.
He got out a ray gun with buttons and a lever to activate the laser function.
"Um what's that?" Gekko asked, nervously.
"I call it the 'Opposite ray', it switches people's personalities so bad guys become good…" Romeo began.
"And good guys become bad!" Owlette realised.
The trio split up to avoid the ray but Catboy was hit.
"Catboy!" Gekko cried.
Catboy's eyes turned grey and his suit became black with white stripes.
Owlette tried to fly to him but got hit as well.
The ray shot a purple laser at them.
Owlette's eyes became purple and her suit turned dark purple to match.
"There is no Catboy. I am Night Panther!" he cried.
"And I'm Dark Owl" She added.
Gekko was back-up to the wall in fear and tried escaping by climbing up the wall.
"Night Panther stripes!" Night Panther cried as he unleashed his white stripes to pull his former friend down.
"Dark Owl feathers!" Dark Owl yelled as she fired purple feathers at Gekko.
He countered his shields to protect himself.
"You're outnumbered, Lizard Legs. Join us" Romeo said, in a sinister voice.
"Never!" Gekko cried.
He used his camouflage to escape.
"The PJ pest got away" Night Panther stated.
"He'll be back" Romeo replied.
He paused for a moment.
"If I tried to take over the world, would you try to stop me?" he asked.
"No, I'd help" Dark Owl replied with a scoff.
Capitiane Lupin jumped down to confront the trio.
He examined Night Panther and Dark Owl closely as their eyes glowed purple once again.
He then smiled.
"Say, I'd like to help you out. What's your plan?" he asked.
"We're going to steal a few things to lure the lizard hero back out" Romeo replied.
"May I help, master?" Robot asked.
"No, with these two on my side I might not need your help again. Goodbye, Robot" Romeo stated, harshly.
"Let's take the night prowler" Night Panther suggested.
They hopped into the now villainous cat car and sped off to the museum.
"Say um Dark Owl, your eyes are pretty cool in this form" Capitiane Lupin said, casually.
"Are you trying to act SOFT towards me?" Dark Owl asked in a hostile fashion.
Capitiane Lupin looked away.
"No, it's just I don't even know what we're stealing" he said, quickly.
"You'll see" Romeo said, mysteriously.
Gekko arrived later when the villians had already entered the building while in camouflage mode.
Robot was beside the lab, lamenting in sadness.
"We'll be stealing the famous delta diamond but stealing is impossible" Romeo explained.
"Not a problem" Night Panther stated.
He used his speed to steal the diamond as Dark Owl took out the camera with her feathers.
As they came out, Gekko revealed himself.
"Catboy! Owlette, stop! You're HEROES!" he cried, desperately.
"You took the bait! Say goodbye, goodie two-shoes!" Romeo cried as he got out the ray.
"Night Panther! Dark Owl, get him!" he added.
Dark Owl fired her feathers at Gekko but missed as Night Panther got ready to pounce.
"I saw him first, so I'll get him!" Night Panther cried.
"Panther pounce!" he cried as he pounced at Gekko but Dark Owl lunged at Gekko at the same time causing them to collide.
"Stop fighting and capture him!" Romeo insisted.
As the pair chased at Gekko, they continually pushed and shoved each other out of the way.
Dark Owl and Night Panther's eyes glowed longer every time they fought each other.
"I'm unbeatable!" Night Panther gloated.
"Not a chance, Stray Cat!" Dark Owl insulted as they chased Gekko.
Gekko led them up to the roof of a building with stairs to corner them through a race.
"Romeo, what exactly is your ray called?" Capitiane lupin asked.
"It's called the opposite ray" Romeo replied as the two boys and Robot caught up with Gekko.
They saw Dark Owl and Night Panther's bodies light up with purple electricity as the ray began to wear off.
"Looks like the ray is wearing off, you two need more juice!" Romeo cried as he fired at Night Panther and Dark Owl.
Gekko moved in front of his friends and used his shield to protect them.
The blast reflected back and hit Romeo.
"Never fear, Captain Smarty-pants is here!" he cried.
"I thought your real name was Romeo. Damn it, he copied one of my family's treasures!" Capitaine Lupin realised.
"Do you need help get those naughty Night Panther and Dark owl to justice?" Romeo (Captain Smarty-pants) asked.
"Um ok. What about Capitaine Lupin?" Gekko pointed out.
"Him? He's a good friend, right pal?" Romeo stared at Capitiane Lupin.
The young thief found this very awkward.
"Yes, I'm your pal" he said with gritted teeth.
The three of them went after Night Panther and Dark Owl.
The pair stole from the toy store next and when Romeo tried to help, he fell on the ground.
"Hey Dark Owl! Come and get me!" Gekko called.
Dark Owl chased after him as Night Panther went after Capitane Lupin.
Gekko with Capitiane Lupin's reluctant help managed to get Night Panther and Dark Owl to trap each other with their own attacks.
"Captain Smarty-Pant, now!" Gekko cried.
"Your reign of villainy is over!" Romeo cried as he fired at the trapped villians, causing them to revert back to their respective blue and red hero colours and regular eye colour.
"And good triumphs over evil!" Romeo cried.
Capitiane Lupin groaned.
"I don't remember what happened after we got blasted" Owlette said in confused.
"Um what happened?" Catboy asked.
"It's a very long story" Capitiane Lupin said in a bitter tone.
"PJ masks…" Gekko began.
"And Captain Smarty-pants!" Romeo cried.
"All shout hooray" Gekko added.
"Cuz in the night, we saved the day!" They all finished.
"Guess what Robot? We're going to be heroes now!" Captain Smarty Pants cried.
"I guess that would be a good thing…" Owlette trailed off.
"No, I want my master back!" Robot cried.
"Thank goodness" Capitiane Lupin muttered under his breath as Robot zapped Romeo to change him back to normal and broke the ray gun.
"Romeo, you copied a treasure from my family's collection!" Capitaine Lupin cried.
"Did not!" Romeo yelled.
"Did too!" the young thief yelled back.
He then growled.
"You get this victory this time, PJ Masks" he added.
"Goodbye, Captain Smarty-pants!" Gekko called out.
"That's not funny!" Romeo yelled as he drove away.
"I am not Gekko. I am Evil lizard! MWHAHA!" Gekko cried.
His friends instantly panicked.
"I'm kidding" Gekko laughed.
When Romeo arrived home, he got inspired by Dark Owl and Night Panther's appearances that he decided to give his Robot PJs an upgrade…
Capitiane Lupin went off to the library to get away from the heroes for now.
He found one of the additional books on Mystery Mountain that covered the Chou Ninja and the samurai legends.
One of the pages had a picture of a girl: A young girl with tan skin, black hair in two buns and brown eyes wearing a red-and-yellow samurai outfit, helmet with a dragon symbol and red-and-yellow bracelets with a bamboo staff.
It mentioned how a dragon had been trapped in the gong for centuries after the newest guardian allowed settlers to steal the gong, mallet and scroll (and additional books) on the mountain after the guardian's family moved away.
Alright, I'll do my best hang out with friends when I can Capitiane Lupin thought before he stole the book he had and took off.
Night Ninja was out and about after the PJ Masks went to bed and discovered a book in the Mystery Mountain collection that included a gem of ninja dreams, the secrets of Mystery Mountain and a rare form of red sticky splat as he was trying to find ways to free the Ninjalinos from Capitiane Lupin.
He stole the book and kept it in his collection for safe keeping.
Across the street from the heroes' homes, a puppy that was brown and cream with brown eyes named Ruffles inside his owners' house sleeping. He had been adopted the year before, a day before 'Gekko's Nice Ice Plan' occurred. He was a year old and still a puppy at least for now.
Tomorrow there was going to be another visit to the museum on Egyptian Mythology and Arsène had a brilliant plan to impress his friends.
-Meanwhile-
In the alleyway hideout, Masque Ombre was writing another report.
"Do you have the target item yet?" Her ally Shadowy Figure from OK KO let's be heroes asked.
"Not yet but I'll get my hands on it in a few weeks. Then my mission here will be over" She replied.
"And remember to recommend any young villain potential as well" he added as the line cut off.
Then she smiled.
-The next day-
Mr Shawn's class went to the museum to see the Egyptian exhibit.
"Did you know that Baset, the cat goddess, in some stories protects the sun on a sun boat from the snake god Apophis (also known as Apep)? It is said that she is the protector of cats as well" Mr Shawn recited.
The children were in awe at a painting of Baset on the sun boat fighting Apophis.
"They say Apophis wants to eat the sun, so night is all the time" Arsène added.
As they continued through the exhibit, the statue of Baset was there.
There's a chance a night-time villain to could steal anything from this exhibit, Connor thought.
"Looks like we have to investigate again" Connor whispered.
-That night-
The young thief jumped from roof tops into the museum to steal the statue of Baset.
As he approached the case, he heard movement from the deities' part of the Egyptian Mythology area.
He then heard hissing sounds.
"So, you seek to steal the statue of my nemesis. Perhaps we can work together for a common goal?" a voice suggested.
"Are you him?" Capitaine Lupin asked.
Out of the shadow came a humanoid mummy, about the size of a child wearing an Egyptian Headdress, in bandages from head to toe, leaving only his black eyes visible and armed with a golden, cobra-shaped sceptre.
"I am he. Apophis" the mummy replied.
"Tempting offer but I'm only here for the statue" The young thief stated.
"Then allow me to show you my power" Apophis offered as he threw his bandages in front which turned into horses for his golden chariot.
"Come horses, quiet ass the moon, take me to the sssun boat!" he commanded.
Capitaine Lupin watched as the chariot headed outside in awe before stealing the statue and began to head off.
When he got back to the roof, he saw the owl-glider zoom past.
If there's a real Egyptian god in this town/city…then I need to study this he thought.
The Owl glider landed by the river and the PJ Masks began to investigate the area when they noticed a boat with a person wearing a golden robe disguise.
"You shouldn't be here" The figure warned.
"We're looking for clues on the stolen statue of Baset…" Owlette began.
Catboy paused for a moment.
"Is that…" he began.
"The sun boat?" Gekko finished.
"Don't ask too long or he will hear us" The figure warned.
Then Owlette figure it out.
"So….Apophis is real..?" she realised.
He then appeared at the sound of his name.
"The solar disk won't escape me this time!" he cried.
"Oh gosh, it's a real mummy!" Gekko cried.
"Yesss, and tonight I shall swallow the sun and bring eternal night!" Apophis cried as he used his bandages to turn into a giant, cobra-like snake.
The snake tried to sink the boat but Gekko threw his shields at him as Owlette fired feathers and Catboy aimed his stripes at the large beast.
It made him angry enough to try to tangle them in his banadges.
The PJ masks raced around the place to confuse the snake enough to keep his attention on them instead of the boat.
It worked long enough to keep the disk safe but the three heroes were eventually caught in his bandages and hypnotised to sleep.
"Night all the time…? I mean it wouldn't be so bad…" Gekko muttered as his eyes grew heavy.
"We'd do more patrols, practice improving our skills and more video games" Catboy added.
"We'd bust more villians too" Owlette stated as they all fell asleep.
"Young ones, I'm grateful for your assistance in protecting this boat, now let me, Bastet, the Cat of the Sun protect you! In the name of Ra, Seth, and Isis, I will not abandon them, Serpent Apophis!" The figure cried as they removed their robe to reveal a yellow suit with spots, consisting of a mask resembling a lioness' head and a white cape on the back.
She used her wings of Ibis to make her cape form into wings to fly and dodge Apophis' attacks.
Then she used her sun claws that sprung sparks like sun light from her fingers to cut the bandages.
She then used golden sandstorm on him which a swarm of sparkling sequins to freeze him as a golden statue.
"Children, my magic won't hold him off forever. Please wake up!" she begged.
-In their collective dream-
They dreamt of an endless night with the night-time villians, their pets and Armadylan.
Their spirt animals appeared beside their pets: Oolgee beside Birdie and a grey bird similar to Birdie called Argent, Chu'a beside Lionel and Yahto beside Gris.
"We are not just one with your suits, we are linked to your pets. If we can't speak in our normal forms, your pets will communicate for us. Please…please wake up. Remember how great seeing your daytime friends are, your teacher, parents and playing in the day. Eternal night doesn't have that, WAKE UP!" They cried.
"We'll wake up now but…where's Armadylan's spirit animal?" Catboy asked.
"Armadylan will not be who you think he is when you see him again" Gris warned.
"You…can talk?!" Catboy asked in alarm.
"You can only hear this voice of mine in a dream. In reality, my voice is heard to you in meows like any other cat" Gris explained.
"I see….We'll be careful" Catboy replied.
"That's a promise!" Gekko cried.
They place one hand on top of the other in sync.
"It's time to be a hero!" They cried.
-end of dream-
Then they woke up just as the sand magic wore off.
Owlette then got an idea and grabbed the sun disk.
"Come and get me!" she cried.
"I hunger for itsss light!" Apophis cried as he chased after her and she flew near his tail, tricking him into biting it.
It scatted his bandages, making him revert to mummy form.
He tried to use his sceptre to regain his snake form but Catboy used his speed to steal it from him.
He and Gekko led him away as Apophis called for his chariot to race after him.
One of his bandages got caught on the wheel gradually unravelling his form.
Baset used her golden sandstorm on him to freeze him so the children could return him to the museum.
"Before I head off, I noticed someone tried to steal of the statues of me. I need to get it back" Baset stated.
"It's alright. We'll handle it. You focus on the sun boat" Owlette advised.
"If you ever need me, I'll be a sun rise or sunset away. Oh, I never caught your hero names" the lioness hero realised.
"We're the PJ masks: Catboy, Owlette and Gekko" Catboy replied.
"I'm Baset. I'd be happy to be an ally of the PJ Masks but it must stay between you and me. Can't have everyone knowing us deities are real" she warned.
The trio nodded.
"See ya around, PJ Masks" she said as she headed off on the sun boat towards the east.
The heroes took the Owl-glider and located Capitiane Lupin who had been watching on the roof the whole time.
"Hello, PJ Pests. Here for the statue?" he asked.
"We need it back to protect the museum" Owlette stated.
Given what he'd witnessed, he no longer had the energy to fight the heroes.
"Ok, here. See ya around, PJ Masks" The young Thief said as he gave her the statue.
Then he ran off.
"PJ Masks all shout hooray because in the night, We and Baset saved the day!" They cried.
-To be continued-
I hope you're enjoying this story. I'll be revealing the full timeline in the last chapter.
I don't have much to add but see ya next time.
Bye!