Nick, Howie D, A.J., and Faith were playing two on two: Nick and Howie D vs A.J. and Faith. After she did a slam dunk, Faith used her 360 vision, only to see a tiny baby griffin with tan fur and a flower wreath. "Selah!" she shouted as she hugged the little griffin.

Nick, Howie D, and A.J. were confused. "Faith," called Howie D, "we got a game going on!"

"Sorry, fellas," replied Faith. "I just couldn't help but hug Selah here. Selah, this is-"

"Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, and A.J. McLean of the Backstreet Boys," interrupted Selah. "Dorothy told me non-stop about you guys."

The three boys were a little nervous. "And I've got some cosplay friends," Selah continued as she walked up to an active microphone. "From Toontown, the Quackstreet Boys!"

Huey, Dewey, and Louie came onstage as an homage of Nick, A.J., and Howie D. "Is that us?" Nick asked in confusion.

"They do look kind of like us," Howie D answered.

"About that," Selah answered. "The Quackstreet Boys are an homage of you, Nick, and A.J. They do make cute cosplayers."

"She loves giving compliments and likes," explained Faith

"We tried to change our style as the Splashing Pumpkins, QuackWerk, Plymouth Rock, and Kid Duck," explained Dewey, "but then everyone kept sending requests to bring Quackstreet back, alright."

"Looks like we can't argue with our fanbase," continued Huey.

"We know how you feel, man," A.J. replied as he placed his arm around Dewey. "By the way, I like how you used your homage of me, Dew-man." Dewey high fived A.J.

Then Faith remembered that she had another friend she liked for the Backstreet Boys to meet. In her backpack, she got out a little familiar friend.

"It's the Nighbeaked Flapper from when we had to rescue Kamila," recalled Howie D.

"I call her Kehlani," explained Faith, "meaning 'the sea and the sky'. When we brought her home after we saved Kamila, I decided to bathe her. She loved bubbles so much, I decided to call her that. Mom and dad were okay with it because Mom had a canary when she was a kid named Sweet Tune."

"You know you're not suppose to bring pets to school," A.J. explained.

"I know," Faith replied. "But she's still a baby and I can't just leave her. Thanks to a little griffin instinct, she's aware of her surroundings and she just loves to play in the school's courtyard. She's even helped some of the birds find food there."

Kehlani hopped out of Faith's hand and hopped towards Selah. Selah tried to say hi, but Kehlani hid behind Faith's leg. "She's shy around strangers," explained Faith.

Then they remembered it was alphabet soup night at the cafeteria. Selah was delighted because alphabet soup was her favorite dish.

XxoxX

In the cafeteria, B-Rok and Kevin were getting some alphabet soup to go with their cucumber lasagna. Under the table, Selah stole both of their soups. In her alphabet soup, Selah made a message. Then she placed them back up.

Backstreet's Back Alright

"That's our battle cry," recalled B-Rok.

This was confusing because they didn't know how the change happened. As everyone was heading off to have chocolate smores mud pies for dessert, the cousins looked underneath to see the little griffin slurping a pot. "What have we here?" Kevin whispered as he petted Selah. "A baby griffin?"

"If you must know," Selah replied quietly, "I'm Princess Selah of the Heskelter Griffin Tribe. I'm visiting my dear friends Faith, Ginger, Nadine, Jessie, and Dorothy so I can introduce the newest Backstreet Boys tribute too."

"We're Backstreet Boys too," explained B-Rok.

"I know," Selah recalled. "Kevin Richardson and Brian 'B-Rok' Littrell."

"Come on, Zio Pablo!" shouted a nine-year-old girl, "I want some mud pies." She was Antonio's youngest daughter, Briana, who was a big fan of Huey, Dewey, and Louie. "I need to get to Virgo's Video Rentals before 'Quack Pack' gets rented."

Selah remembered the TV show "Donovan" she watched back at Hart Castle.

As they were watching the others get their chocolate smore mud pies, Kevin noticed something strange. The ones that the kids got had a darker brown, while the others got mud brown. It turned out Huey, Dewey, and Louie swapped the chocolate smore mud pies with actual mud. This was disgusting them.

"This is just like when you used to play in Mama's garden as a kid, Pablo," sneered Zio Davion, "Always making mudpies from mud."

"It's not me, fratello," replied Pablo nervously. "I don't know what went wrong."

As he was sniffing through the chocolate smore mud pies for any dirt, all of his nieces and nephews and his six kids: Beckham, Alaina, Roberto, Jemma, Izabella, and Leonel.

"Come on, kids," said Zio Pablo's wife, "Savanna" who works as a sous chef, "Don't laugh at Papa's cooking. He worked all day on those mud pies."

In the kitchen, they could see the three Nick, Howie D, and A.J. posers replacing all the vegetables with apple crumble, apple cinnamon cake, apple dumplings, apple pudding, and apple cinnamon buns.

After Huey, Dewey, and Louie made their escape with the vegetables. To avoid letting their friends go hungry, B-Rok and Kevin took some apple dumplings with them. "So," B-Rok said to Faith, "where are your friends?"

"Nadine has to study for her math test," Faith answered, "Jessie is in Fort Lauderdale for a horse festival, Ginger is helping her mom clean the attic, and Dorothy is helping my mom entertain some children from Miami."

As they were leaving Studio 25, Faith placed tracer dust on the three ducks from a distance. After they left, she explained that tracer dust can spread as much to five miles. Using her instincts, she traced them to the abandoned lighthouse known as the Winged Tower.

XxoxX

Once they got there, they saw the three ducks sneaking into the lighthouse. Inside, Donald Duck was napping while listening to sailor music. When the Quackstreet Boys got in and hooked their guitars into amps, they started playing "Get Down (You're the One for Me)," much to his annoyance.

"Hey, Uncle Donald!" shouted Louie. "What do you think of our version of 'Get Down'?"

"I say it's a nuisance!" shouted Donald Duck.

"We know!" shouted Howie D from behind. "They have stolen our identities!"

"You're the Backstreet Boys," Donald recalled, "the same boy band where my nephews got the inspiration."

"What are the vegetables you took for?" Kevin asked. "You know their good for you?"

"There for our vegetable drop," Huey explained. "It's like a balloon drop for vegetables."

Before they had a chance to display their little gimmick, they heard some fox sounds coming from outside. Through the window, they could see a Zallegrean cowgirl with some space foxes. Knowing this, that must mean a spy of Zator had come to destroy Earth.

Backstreet's Back Alright

The Cyber Crusaders, Griffin Girl, and Selah came down and took down the foxes. Selah got in on the action too by shooting her feathers. With one shot, the feathers made the space foxes fall asleep. Then she breathed fire at some of the foxes. "Never mess with a Heskelter griffin!" she shouted.

"Now that ain't fair," declared the bounty huntress in a southern accent. "I, "Zoie the Foxzy, haven't been paid by Zator to destroy this crazy planet and its life."

"Earth isn't crazy," replied Power Lord. "We've been around the world, and it isn't crazy as you think. The UK is where most rock legends come from, Japan had the finest warriors and craziest effects, and Mexico had the wildest costumes."

"My Zallegrean Foxes are wild too, varmints!" Zoie shouted. "Get 'em, boys!"

Before the space foxes could eat them, vegetables were falling from the sky. It turned out that they came from the Quackstreet Boys and Donald Duck. "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!" exclaimed Donald as he grabbed a tomato. "I get to stop an alien!"

Our heroes were amazed because Donald and his nephews were helping them stop Zoie. This was also a good time to work on their catching and throwing.

One by one, everyone grabbed their vegetables and tossed them at Zoie. Zoie was so annoyed, she teleported back to the Zallegro Galaxy.

As Donald was cheering, he fell down into the pile of tossed vegetables "Aw, phooey," he groaned as everyone laughed.

XxoxX

The next day, they were in the tutoring room. The Griff Gals were giving the Backstreet Boys another lecture on superheroes. Selah was in the back eating some Splitting Beans Soup, Vice & Virtue Veal, and Zig Zag Coffee which came from Guidi family recipes. Luckily, Zio Pablo never noticed.

"There are different types of heroes," Faith said. "First there's the Elementalist. Like Iceman, Sailor Mercury, and Thor, they use the elements of nature to stop criminals."

"Then there are gadgeteers," Nadine continued. "Gadgeteers use different types of inventions to stop evil. Some known gadgeteers are Iron Man, Huntress, and Barbara Gordon."

"And of course there are martial artists," Jessie continued. "Famous examples include Katana, Batman, and Shang-Chi."

"And finally, mages," finished Dorothy. "They use magical abilities to fight evil. Some samples are Doctor Fate, Doctor Strange, and Zatanna."

"I have a question," asked Howie D as he raised his hand.

Before they could talk, Ginger decided to give him the talking stick, which was her toy magic wand. She told him that they used it as kids so they could take turns talking.

As she gave the wand to him, fake flowers popped up. Howie D smiled because he thought it was adorable. "What types of superheroes are we?" he asked.

"Nick is martial arts, Howie D is a mentalist, A.J. is a marskman, B-Rok is a jumpster, and Kevin is a strongman," Faith replied. "I've been studying your powers these last two months, and you've really improved."

As A.J. raised his hand, Howie D gave him the talking stick. A.J. asked, "How did you chicks get your powers?"

"It all started last June," Faith explained. "Our parents made arrangements for us to spend the summer in England so I can bond with Cousin Dorothy and learn about my maternal roots. It was there I found a baby griffin whose tail got trapped in a rock. On accident, she bit me in the arm and I got special powers. After I introduced Selah to my friends, she breathed pins into their hands. During the end of the summer, she explained that she was on a quest to find the five warriors of Heskelter, which were us, and that we must protect Princess Selah no matter what."

"After we defeated our old archenemy, Millionhairs, we returned her to her parents King Kingzom and Queen Jamda, her older brother Prince Hardry, and his husband Floral," continued Dorothy. "Afterwards, we went back to school in our respective countries, though we had some issues."

"Tell me about it," replied A.J.

"Enough negatives," stated Selah. "Let's talk positives. Huey, Dewey, and Louie apologized for causing all that trouble at Studio 25. They replaced all the vegetables they stole and saved Chef Pablo form getting in trouble with his father by giving him a peach cobbler recipe with extra cream."

As Nick raised his hand, the other Backstreet Boys gave him the talking stick. "I had some," he said. "It was delicious."

When B-Rok raised his hand, the boys passed the talking stick to him. "By the way Selah," he said, "I thought you were going back to your tribe."

"I do that every now and then," Selah explained, "but since Dorothy told me so much about you guys, you need some more training. I'm gonna live in the trailer park with Princess Zanell. I would love to meet a space princess."

"Speaking of which," Faith said, "you should check on her. Our lessons are going to start any second, and it wouldn't be a good idea to give out cooking lessons as a griffin."

Selah agreed with Faith and took her words to heart. After she left, Faith saw Briana come in. "Hey, Bri," said Faith. "Did you get that 'Quack Pack' video?"

"I did," Briana answered as she sat down at her desk. "I got 'House of Haunts'. It's where they showed spooky supernatural ghosts."

The Backstreet Boys were ready to teach the kids about the history of tap dancing because Mrs. Guidi had a staff meeting with the board members.

XxoxX

In a board room, Zarina was going over a staff meeting over the target audience for "Let's All Dance Until We're Sick." She was explaining to Big G that most kids and teenagers would love the appearance of the Backstreet Boys, the adults would love the old-time music, the boys would love the rad dance move,s and the girls would love the fashion that A.J., Howie D, and Kevin would put out for them. Big G was fine but wondered how they were going to test the viewers.

"Don't worry, Big G," Zarina replied. "The crew is going to take them down to Miami for the weekend. Cristian and I, of course, will be supervising." She winked at Cristian and he smiled.

"That's right, Big G," replied Cristian. "We're going to make sure that none of the contestants and dancers don't wander off."

The End.