On Zenza's home planet of Zambi, Zenza was arriving towards a worn-out circus tent. Zator came along because Zenza wanted to tell him something important. Inside the old tent, she saw a jester-like bounty huntress with two different eye colors, one purple and one blue.
"Hey there, sis. It's good to see ya," greeted Zenza as she turned to her boss. "Zator, this is my big sister Zaria, a master of illusion. And here's the surprise - she is also a mistress of disguise. She goes through the minds of the victims in jeopardy, and steals their little unfortunate souls' memories."
"I'm a mind changer, you dear stranger," Zaria explained. "I would love to be your shapeshifting ranger."
"Looks like rhyming runs in the family," suggested Zaid.
"Exactly my point," Zaria replied. "But I do have a little joint. I control the rhyming so they won't suspect. Soon their little lives will be wrecked."
"Well I have a job for you, Zaria," replied Zator. "I need you to kidnap one of those Backstreet Boy bozos and see what they know about the Cyber Crusaders. I heard rumors that they have a strong connection."
"For the kidnapping plot, Z-man," Zaria explained, "Zenza and I have a terrible plan."
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On Earth, the Backstreet Boys were all wearing hazmat suits, and they couldn't tell each other apart. As they took off their helmets, they were all wondering why they were wearing old hazmat suits. Big G told them that this Friday was the premiere of "Let's All Dance Until We're Sick" and he didn't want any Backstreet germs all over.
Then Zanell made a suggestion. "It's best if I hold onto them," she explained. "We don't want the Amulets of Zallegro to get tossed out by mistake."
"Good idea," A.J. replied. "I do tend to twirl my clothes."
"Then don't twirl the hazmat suits," Cristian suggested. "Big G told me that these are from 1990."
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During the day, the Backstreet Boys cleaned every single inch of the place. At the far corner of the set of LADUWS, Zenza and Zaria ambushed one of the boys.
"Hello there, Boy of Backstreet!" shouted Zenza from behind. "You're in for a little treat!"
With a space rubber chicken made of Zallegrean diamonds, she knocked out the Backstreet Boy and carried him. In the hallways, Zaria and Zenza were both coming up with their fiendish plan.
"Memory this and memory that," Zaria said. "It's time for a mind-reading chat."
After she copied his memories, she changed into the Backstreet Boy. "You know the plan, dear big sister," Zenza said to her older sister. "The one with such a big twister."
"I steal the sucker's little identity," Zaria said to her younger sister, "then cause a band breakup calamity. Meanwhile, we interrogate this sirenic hunk with our very own skunk. When we learn the truth, we will make the Earth go kaboot."
"What are we waiting for, a Backstreet reload?" asked Zenza. "Let's get this show on the road."
Little did they know was that Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico were spying on them at the end of the hall. "It's a good thing we gave Beatbox his daily walk," said Private. "Otherwise he would've made a mess in here."
"Speaking of which," whispered Skipper, "where is that mangey mutt?"
Out of the broom closet, Beatbox was playing with Selah. Rico tried to attack, but Kehlani hopped up and poked him. Rico grumbled, "Kehlani is like an annoying little sister."
"Faith had to bring her," Kowalski growled.
"She's only a baby," replied Private. "She can't part from Faith."
"We gotta warn Cristian and Zanell fast," replied Skipper.
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At the board room, Zarina and Cristian were wrapping up a staff meeting on the ratings for Pleasant Beach. After everyone left, Kehlani poked Cristian by the ankle. "Cris," whispered Skipper, "one of the Backstreet Boys was kidnapped. We need to round up the boys fast."
"Okay," Cristian replied. "Zanell, get Vincenzo, Jalen, and the Griff Gals and if anyone asks, tell them that it's an urgent dance lesson."
"Right," replied Zanell.
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Later, the Griff Gals, Vincenzo, and Jalen were on the bleachers waiting for the urgent meeting. After Cristian counted up all five members, he knew something was wrong.
"A while ago, one of the Backstreet Boys was kidnapped," Kowalski explained. "But all of you are here. This can only mean one thing."
"What's that?" asked Zanell
"One of them is an imposter," answerd Kowalski.
This was terrible, Cristian, Zanell, Vicenzo, DJ Jalen, the Penguins, and the Griff Gals couldn't tell which was which. Then Cristian got an idea. He got out a robotic lie-detector he used when interrogating suspects and when it detected the liar. It forced the liar to tell the truth. "Since we already had two A.J. impersonations," Skipper said, "he can go first."
"Word," A.J. stated as he placed his hand on the lie detector.
Cristian explained that the lie detector is programmed to tell who is who, plus they're programmed to attack the liar. Vincenzo decided to ask him the question since it was he was the first to cause the impersonation
"Now, A.J.," Vincenzo said, "when I was trying to be like you, what caused me to change back?"
"If I'm right on both counts," A.J. answered, "Island of the Black Spot got me in trouble for vandalizing the studio. Afterward, Lewis told you that Ginger would only be impressed if you were acting like me. Island of the Black Spot was so amazed by your rebellious change, they wanted you to be the lead singer. After a little fish cannon troubles, you snapped out of it after Big G got hit."
On the lie detector, it sensed that A.J. was telling the truth.
"Alright, B-Rok," Cristian said. "You're up."
B-Rok walked up to the lie detector and placed his hand on it.
"B-Rok," said Cristian, "at the 'Sugar Rush' expo, how did we defeat that evil dentist Dr. Zev?"
B-Rok looked at Faith and said, "Faith, you may not remember, but we came to the 'Sugar Rush' expo to get Ginger a birthday present. Dr. Zev made all the expo patrons get distracting cavities. As we were fighting, I remembered that baklavsketball was Choclatos Bartinez's favorite sport. Afterward, we did a sticky slam dunk and drilled the cavities."
On the lie detector, B-Rok was real.
"Now for Howie D," said Cristian.
"Finally!" Howie D shouted rudely. "It was taking too long."
Ginger felt suspicious because Howie D never acted that rude. As he D walked up to the lie detector, Beatbox growled and Kehlani just glared at him.
"Howie D," asked Zanell, "when did Kamila ran away from the mansion?"
"As we took those spoiled brats to the LADUWS mansion," recalled Howie D, "A.J. and Jessie noticed that Kamila wasn't fitting in with the other contestants, so she took an awesome ride on one of the motorcycles. We found her at Ocala National Forest, where Dr. Zora was chopping down trees. As she terrorized the runt campers, that goody goody loser Kamila came in and did a little bird brain calling. After that, she became best buds with that lame perk puke Lucille."
On the lie detector, it said that Howie D was real.
Everyone thought he was real, but Ginger, Dorothy, Beatbox, Kehlani, and the Penguins of Madagascar thought otherwise. Ginger and Dorothy told the four penguins, the little bird, and the space pug to find the missing Backstreet Boy. As they were sneaking out, Kevin placed his hand on the lie detector.
"Kevin," asked Zanell, "remember when kidnapped me and trapped me in a movie? How did you and Merazul get me out?"
"After you left the production of 'Ryre Castle'," Kevin recalled, "you left for the movies, only to be captured by that Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator. Nadine and I came to the same theater for the director's cut version of 'Josie and the Pussycats'. Luckily, we came to your rescue first. After we got captured, we freed ourselves with a little Friend Like Nadine music. Zahir got so mad, he broke the remote and we broke out of production."
Howie D explained that the Penguins, Beatbox, and Kehlani were going around the outside when they heard him thumping in the trash can. After a little Beatbox antigravity power, they freed him from his trashy prison. It was also a good thing that Zenza got distracted by an ice cream truck. Zaria remembered that ice cream was her only weakness; one gulp and she'd start mooching it off.
Before Zaria had a chance to teleport, Dorothy placed tracer dust on her and tracked her towards an ice cream at Clearwater Beach.
Backstreet's Back Alright
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When they got there, they realized that there were a lot of ice cream trucks and couldn't tell which ones that Zenza and Zaria were in, but Skipper could. At one ice cream truck, it had a court jester's hat on it and, at the bottom, an angry mob. One complained about not getting some ice cream, one complained about having real spiders in it, and another got a cone from a garbage can.
Feeling disgusted, they knew that the ice cream truck with the jester's hat was Zenza, and they were right. Zenza was juggling ice cream scoop with her bare hands, much to the disgust of the customers. As they were trying to leave, Zaria forced them to stay.
"Boys," Skipper said, "commence Operation: Cutie Pie."
On her truck, they started to act completely cute towards the disgusted customers, upstaging Zenza. "Now my mouth tastes like strawberry slogs," Zenza growled. "You guys are a bunch of stage hogs."
"We're not hogs," Private corrected. "We're penguins."
"Now my flavors are stirred," Zenza growled. "Hope you like my ice cream cannons, you flightless birds." Out of her truck, she got out a giant ice cream cannon and shot repulsive flavors towards the patrons.
Suddenly, Ordnance remembered the whole lie detector attack. Lucky for him, Jalen brought it just in case.
"I didn't take Howie D's hair gel," A.J. lied as the lie-detector buzzed.
The detector zapped, but Ordnance jumped and hit one of the wheels of the ice cream cannon instead. With one slash, Ninja Man destroyed the cannon.
"Our plans are in a creamy bliss," Zenza shouted, "but I'll be back for my ninja kiss!"
Both Zenza and Zaria teleported back to Zalgea's castle. Ninja Man was dismayed by Zenza's yandere-ish behavior, but Diamondnix came up and hugged him.
Behind a Disney ice cream truck, they changed back to their regular selves. "Nice work with the slash, Nick," commented Howie D. "And I want to thank the Penguins, Kehlani, and Beatbox for saving me. I'm glad I didn't smell anything in that trash can."
With those words of wisdom, they knew it was the real Howie D.
Suddenly, Cristian, Zanell, Vincenzo, and Jalen came in with cameras. "Uncle Cristian wanted to make sure you guys don't skip school," Jalen replied. "We had a lot of teenage supers do this all the time. Telling the teachers that their sick or go to the bathroom. For our teenage supers who don't attend Sky High, they get assigned to a special program so they can save the day."
"The cameras are used to film about ice cream trucks for Beach Week and for the foundation of Birds of Paradise Ice Cream Factory for '50s Week," Vincenzo explained. "And don't worry about the security cameras. I cropped and edited the parts where you guys went super."
Our heroes were glad because their secret was safe from Big G.
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Later during lunch, Lewis spotted them covered in ice cream. "Skipping school to go to the Orlando Ice Cream Festival at Clearwater Beach," Lewis asked as he smiled evilly. "You Backstreet bums are so busted."
"Not really," Big G stated, "Cristian and Zarina told me that the urgent meeting was not only to work on an ice cream themed dance, but to film parts of the festival for '50s and Beach week."
Horrified, Lewis decided to leave. "And are my '90s hazmat suits Backstreet germ-free?" asked Big G. "I found them lying around in the LADUWS set."
"Don't worry, sir," Zarina answered. "We're going to get them dry-cleaned after lunch."
"That's good," Big G replied. "They could have Backstreet germs too."
After Big G left, Howie D spotted Raquel and Rosalee eating some strawberry gelato. With the excited looks on their faces, Howie D knew what was going on with them. "You girls are going to the ice cream festival after school?" he asked.
"We are," Rosalee answered. "And Mommy said that we get to see Teensicle."
"Teensicle?" asked Howie D. "The ecology-themed boy band?"
"That's them," Raquel proudly said. "DJ, Mikey, and O-Dog."
"Bow! Wow! Eco!" Rosalee laughed.
"Hey," Howie D said. "Maybe you guys can convince them to play one of their songs on the show. Their masters of trash can compose the music."
"A bit gross," replied Rosalee, "but we'll do it for Nature Week."
The End.