It was raining outside, and Nadine was putting away the last of her clean laundry. After she placed away some shirts, she saw her pin glowing, meaning that there was danger up ahead. Lucky for her, her parents and her brother were too busy in the kitchen to notice. She snuck into the rain and powered up.
Meanwhile, Kevin was at Studio 25 wrapping up an episode of "Spies and Surprise." That was when he started sensing danger. After Alexandria shouted "Cut and print!", he rushed outside into the pouring rain.
Backstreet's Back Alright
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Power Lord and Merazul both met under a building for "Rainbow Monkey Live." Power Lord inquired, "So what Zallegrean do you think it is this time?"
But it wasn't a Zallegrean causing trouble. Instead, it was an Indiana Jones-like villain who was robbing a jewelry store. Remembering from wanted poster signs, Merazul recognized who the villain was. "That's Lost Treasure," she recalled, "a wanted jewel thief."
Lost Treasure turned his head and spotted the two heroes. "What have we here?" he said in his deep gruff voice. "Power Lord and Merazul. I heard so many stories about you guys."
Before they had a chance to fight Lost Treasure, three cybernetic superheroes came down and attacked him. "Who are those guys?" asked Power Lord.
"Those are the Infini-Tres," Merazul answered as she smiled. "They've been saving the lives of Orlando since 1986."
A female Puerto-Rican American girl in green swooped down and shot missiles from her robotic wings. "That's Solar-I," explained Merazul. "She is the flight of freedom."
A male Puerto-Rican man in red started shooting nets from his hands. "That is Canyon-II," continued Merazul, "leader of The Inini-Tres and Ground Crasher."
Finally, A biracial Puerto Rican/Australian man in blue blasted water from his hands. "And that's Reef-III," finished Merazul, "underwater fighting expert."
After a soaking wet Lost Treasure started to get unconscious, Reef-III took the jewels and returned them to the store. "That was amazing," commented Merazul. "I'm a huge fan."
"You must be Merazul of the Griff Gals," suggested Solar-I as she flew down. "We're Infini-Tres."
"I know," Merazul said as she started fangirling. "I can't believe I'm in the presence of Orlando's protectors."
"And this here bloke is Power Lord of the Cyber Crusaders," suggested Reef-III, "the strongman of the group."
"You could say that," Power Lord replied. "But we thank you for helping us."
"No problem," replied Canyon-II. "Since Merazul is a fan, how about we take you to our secret hideout?"
"YES!" exclaimed Merazul.
Power Lord and Merazul took their hovercycle to the secret hideout, Canyon-II and Reef-III took the Infini-Copter, and Solar-I flew. On the way there, they could see a billboard of a trio of Puerto Rican known Wrestlers known as Amanda "Honored Wings" Sacristan, Miguel Angel "Superior Monkey" Asturias, and Gonzalo "Bold Board" Condes. Also on the billboard was an ad.
Registration for The Masked Tower Wrestling School open.
"What a waste of time," Power Lord mumbled to himself, "Attending wrestling school. They could get hurt."
Annoyed, Canyon-II asked, "Do you have a problem with wrestlers?"
"Recently," Power Lord said, "Cristian told me that the Masked Tower crew once visited to do three workout videos."
"'Azure Echo's Fight For Fitness'?" asked Merazul. "Our gym teacher collects wrestler workout tapes."
"Yeah," replied Reef-III. "Azure Echo had the nicest legs, and boy, she can kick."
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Later, they were at Infini-Tres' secret hideout, the Prime Cover, which was abandoned. Power Lord was annoyed, but Merazul was amazed. "Just be careful here," explained Solar-I. "We just got the floor waxed."
Power Lord was a bit upset at Merazul because tomorrow they were going to go over on what to bring to their Miami trip for the weekend. Unfortunately, she ignored him in favor of Infini-Tres. As she was speaking some of her Spanish, Power Lord decided to do a little exploring. In the billiard room, he heard "One Last Kiss" from "Bye, Bye, Birdie" and remembered playing Conrad Birdie.
Afraid that Merazul would abandon the Griff Gals and the Cyber Crusaders, he decided to take the chopper. A caucasian scientist with nerdy clothing was coming in with green tea when he spotted Power Lord leaving. "Power Lord!" he shouted. "The Infini-Copter is not a toy!"
"Don't worry," Power Lord said. "I took flying lessons a while back."
After he left, the nerdy scientist became worried, because he knew that Infini-Tres wouldn't be happy about this.
After Merazul displayed a water blast routine, she noticed that Power Lord was missing. "Power Lord," she shouted, "where are you?"
"I found him leaving with the Infini-Copter," informed the scientist.
"Professor Trenton," replied Canyon-II, "are you sure?"
"I just came from the garage," answered Professor Trenton. "I'm sure he took the copter."
"What will we do now?" Reef-III asked.
"We can try the new Infini-Nova jet," Professor Trenton nervously. "I know it hasn't been tested, but this is urgent."
Both Canyon-II, Reef-III, and Merazul entered the jet while Solar-I took off for flight.
As they took off to find Power Lord, Professor Trenton was studying the identities of the new Cyber Crusaders. Much to his surprise, they were his favorite band of all time. "The Backstreet Boys are the best band ever!" he exclaimed. Wanting to help his team, he took Kevin's hovercycle.
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Meanwhile, Power Lord was still feeling sad, because he felt Merazul was going to abandon their teams for Infini-Tres. Through the rain, he could see Lost Treasure with an Aztec robot. He jumped out of the helicopter and onto the top of the wet building. Little did he know was that he forgot to put the helicopter on autopilot. "Sounds like a crash-landing," Lost Treasure gleefully said. "This is how I got my expert thievery skills. I was a helicopter pilot/archeologist on an expedition in Puerto Rico to find rare Tidal Wave Peridots, powerful jewels that can make me rich. Unfortunately, everyone thought it was a hoax. As payback for banning me from archaeology, I decided to become a jewel thief."
"Dude," Power Lord said, "we know how you feel about a few hotels. Most of the fans at these hotels go crazy for us."
"Are you some kind of boy band sensation?" asked Lost Treasure. "Looks like your ready for a shiny autograph." He blinded Power Lord with his peridots. Just as he was about to kill him with his sword, a laser came out and destroyed the sword. It turned out to be a laser from The Infini-Nova.
"Power Lord," shouted Merazul, "Are you okay!"
"Merazul," Power Lord said in surprise. "You came back for me."
"That's what a team does," said Merazul. "When one is down, the others must pick him/her up."
"We've been doing that since our early days," explained Reef-III.
Merazul jumped down and did a mermaid tail whip towards Lost Treasure. As her fins changed back into legs, she rushed to Power Lord and picked him up. "We can't upset the children," Merazul whispered.
Suddenly, Professor Trenton came in riding Power Lord's hovercycle. "You left your hovercycle at the Prime Cover," said Professor Trenton, "Now, GO LONG!"
Out of the hovercycle, a football came out. Power Lord was confused at first but then decided to use his football skills on Lost Treasure. With one toss, he knocked Lost Treasure unconscious. Canyon-II tossed a net at him so he wouldn't escape.
"You did great Professor Trenton," commented Canyon-II.
"I'm still the same old college graduate who wants a big break in science," Professor Trenton replied. "And I owe it all to my wrestle school heating system repair job."
"You were captain of the school's football team, right?" whispered Merazul.
"Right," Power Lord whispered. "We better get going. I promised my brothers that I would mail them some LADUWS school gear to donate to charity."
"And I need to get home for dinner," Merazul whispered back.
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Later, Kevin was driving Nadine to her house. As Nadine got inside, she quickly dried herself to avoid suspicion. "Sorry about dinner, Nadine," Mrs. Lyndon said as Nadine turned around all dry and fine. "Holden got his hands in the peanut butter."
"Kevin woves peanut buttew!" shouted Holden.
"Yes he does, Holden," replied Nadine. Out of the rainy window, she couldn't help but think who the Infini-Tres team was.
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Meanwhile, at the Prime Cover, they were in their caviling of Amanda Sacristan, Miguel Angel Asturias, and Gonzalo Condes, who were the real identities of Infini-Tres. They were contacting their mysterious contact from Studio 25. Of course, the contact had to wear a cloak so no one would catch it.
"Listen here," Miguel said. "Kevin and Nadine are nice. Professor Trenton figured out their identities with his super identity scanner."
"They've been very good workers since they came to Studio 25," said the contact as it used a voice modulator. "It's best if they don't lose their jobs as judges. Otherwise, Studio 25 would be in danger."
The End.
