On a sunny Wednesday Afternoon, Lewis was going around Studio 25 in a segway, "Check out my new segway" bragged Lewis, "It gets me from point A to Point B faster because these shoes are made for tapping."
Everyone was annoyed, including Ryker. So he decided to check his PDA in the greenroom. On his PDA, Ryker got a message from one of his neighbors about his two older brothers preparing a paint fall fight, "That's weird uttered Ryker, "They said they had a fever and, the old, "Thermometer By Lamp trick. Just like in ET. I was afraid this would happen again"
"You guys were doing paintball every year?" asked B-Rok as he placed down placed the final piece of a basketball puzzle down.
"Of course" Ryker admitted, "But we always clean up before Ma and Pa catch on. It was 13 years ago and it was the same time where you rented out Grandpa's old room for that single mother and her two sons. They were bored and had nothing to do, so we decided to do a secret paintball tournament in the barn. So we came up with a strategy to create a paintball tournament we held each year. Usually we invite all the kids in our neighborhood and signal each other to a cowbell beat of "Thriller"."
"Maybe you can come to my family's farm after rehearsal" replied Ryker, "And bring The Backstreet Boys and the backup dancers with you."
"Okay" B-Rok replied back.
After rehearsal, Zarina, Cristian, Jalen, The Backstreet Boys, and the backup dancers were at the front of a farm with a medieval dragon on it, "Here we are, folks" announced Ryker, "Dragon Hill Grange"
"Dude" shouted Braxton, "Your brothers are holding a paintball fight here?"
"How come you never told us?" Matias asked.
"The boys don't want to get in trouble" answered Ryker.
"Is it that serious to them" asked Kevin.
"I'm afraid so" Ryker replied sadly, "They do it every year when Ma and Pa go to that farming convention in Pennsylvania. Alfred and Stefan always clean up before they come home. This year, the show cancelled because of a non-stop Save The Chickens rally."
"It's the LADUWS paint fight, again" recalled Zarina, "Anywho, Cristian and I will be checking out some crops."
She turned to Cristian and winked at him, whom winked back.
At the front of the farmhouse, Ryker knocked on the door. Two hunky farmer men in bathrobes answered it, "Ryker" asked one farmer as he did a fake cough, "Back so soon?"
"You guys pretended to be sick so you can do your little paintball fight?" guessed Ryker, "Thanks to them acting classes I know the difference between fake and real sickness."
"Don't play stupid Alfred" Ryker growled to his eldest brother, "I know you and Stefan are faking it. Also, you know Dad doesn't allow paintball on the farm!"
"Paintball?" Lewis asked, "That's worse than going on the farm?"
"What did you think we were doing" asked Howie D.
"I don't know" answered Lewis, "Shooting a movie about me? Anyway, I'll be getting my segway out and patrol this dumb farming community."
To organize their strategy, they decided to do the old Adults VS Kids battle. The adults headed over to the barn while the organize in the farmhouse.
In the barn, Nick couldn't help but notice a bunch of beautiful paintings, "You paint these, Stefan "asked Nick," Because Ryker told me you had artistic taken.
"Something I do in my spare time" Stefan explained, "Plus it help brings in money for groceries. Most of them are of Lainey."
"Who?" asked Nick.
"She's a horse rancher Pa hired recently" Stefan explained, "The way she shows off her expert horse riding skills and and her eyes sparkle in the sunshine."
Knowing this, Stefan has a huge crush on Lainey.
Meanwhile at Zator's castle, Zator was posing for another portrait of him, "Behold Your Highness" shouted the painter as he showed an anime painting of himself."
"What is this" shouted Zator angrily, "I look like a begging dog."
"But I put a lot of heart into it" whined the painter, "Earth calls this stuff anime!"
"Burn it and make another one or else it's your head" shouted Zator.
Not wanting to get executed, the painter decided to do it again.
While taking his zearl grey tea break, he spotted Zenza in an empty room, "Zenza" he asked in a puzzled look, "What are you doing?"
"Funny you ask Dear Old King" Zenza asked, "I'm doing an old fashioned paint watching. This is a hobby of The Zillbilly Clan, With bacon greased covered frying pans"
"The Zillbilly Clan" asked Zator, "You mean those filthy freaks who go around without getting the mud off their boots."
"That is them with their broken zanjos" "If thy yonder cabins and their lassos."
In the dining room, Zaria was busy going through the memories of some of the hillbillies, who misplaced their musical instruments. "I tell you one thing about these redneck" admitted Zaria, "They know how to make a total wreck."
Not wanting to mess up his castle, he ordered The Zillbilly Clan to go down to Earth to destroy the planet.
Back at Dragon Hill Grange, Cristian and Zarina were actually studying up on crop circles. As a government agent and an alien princess, they knew the difference between man-made and alien, and the one on the Dragon Grange farms, was an Zallegrean message from Zaid. Using her expertise, Zanell read.
Dear patrons of Earth
You must be aware of my father-in-law, "Emperor Zator"
He has killed many lives in The Zallegro Galaxy, including my mother-in-law, "Queen Zarina"
My dearing wife, "Princess Zanell" has come to your planet under the persona of Zarina Kynaston to protect you.
Thanks to the help of The Cyber Crusaders, your all going to be just fine.
To my beloved Zanell, be careful.
Sincerely, Zaid of The Zallegro Galaxy.
"Oh Zaid" sighed Zanell.
As she looked up, she was repulsed by The Griff Gals dressed as hillbillies and with paintball girls. Jalen thought it was disturbing too, because he did paintball training before and it wasn't the right apparel.
By the time they got up to them, Faith explained that this was the apparel that Ryker and his brothers use when they play paintball. "This is silly" groaned Jessie, "Dressing like hillbillies and painting paintball. I hope this doesn't get worse."
Just then, a mocking laugh came out of nowhere. Behind them, Lewis was on his segway filming their humiliating performance. "You girls look even more dumber" chuckled Lewis; "This is definitely going on LADUWS Friday night."
"Lewis" growled Zarina, "As execute producer, I need you to delete that footage this instant!"
"No way, Zarina" shouted Lewis, "If I delete this, I'll tell my father and he'll fire you."
Not wanting to get fired, Zarina decided to just ignore him.
In the barn, Stefan and Alfred gathered all the hillbilly-dressed young adult team; the only ones missing were The Backstreet Boys. One by one, the boys came out feeling embarrassed, "For a bunch of mighty fine musicians" commented Alfred, "You fellas seem purity attractive."
"As you guys know" A. J announced, "We're here to have fun and have a great time in this silly game of paintball on the farm."
"We ain't here to make friends with them youngsters at Studio 25" Alfred replied sternly as he picked up a PDA, "We're here to make sure who finishes the others chores for a week."
"Isn't that Ryker's PDA" asked B-Rok, "How did get into it."
"As the eldest brother" Alfred replied, "It's easy to learn personal technology's password."
Just as B-Rok was about to grab the PDA, he saw a familiar video on it, "Wait a second" asked Kevin, "Isn't that the Teenz Talk PSA we did when we played Gravity Falls, Oregon"
"Yeah" recalled Howie D, "During our concert in Gravity Falls, we saw the terrible PSA where the sheriff and deputy played all the roles and their acting was terrible. After we starred in the PSA about what to do when you're lost."
"I must warn y'all" replied Stefan, "Gravity Falls is haunted any many people has seen ghosts and monsters."
Stefan turned to his older brother and glared, "Now give me back Ryker's PDA or else I'll have to make you clean up after the cows again."
Not wanting to get in trouble, Alfred gave Stefan the PDA; "Also" he said to The Backstreet Boys, "I'm the one who showed Ryker so he can learn to be a good partner."
As he placed his PDA away, he spotted a lovely country-girl with midlength braids and a cowgirl suit, "Lainey" he recalled as he adjusted his hair, "I forgot we were suppose to compare horse illnesses."
When Lainey opened the door, she could see Alfred, Stefan, The Backstreet Boys and the other teammates dressed as hillbillies and holding paint fight gear, "A hillbilly paint fight?"
"Yeah" admitted Stefan, "It's part of our annual secret paintball fight."
"I would love to get involve partner" requested Lainey.
Looking at her, Stefan blushed and allowed her in the game.
Once they reached outside, they saw Ryker and the kids in paintball apparel. When Stefan shouted, "GO!" everyone started hitting each other with paintballs. After twenty minutes of paintball, they notice that it was a tie. "This has never happened before" gasped Stefan, "Doing a tiebreaker, which is cleaning up the place in the shortest amount of time."
Quickly, they started cleaning up the place. After The Backstreet Boys cleaned up the barrels containing oranges, they started sensing danger by the barn. Luckily, everyone was too busy cleaning the place. So they snuck away to the barn.
Backstreet's Back Alright
In the barn, they could see The Zillbilly Clan causing a lot of trouble in the barn, "Look at here, Pa Zillbilly" shouted one, "These funny looking buckets need hole!"
"What y'all waiting for" shouted Pa Zillbilly, "Put them holes in them."
As one of the Zillbilly's destroyed the bucket, our heroes were annoyed, "We dressed as hillbillies for paintball" growled Ordnance, "But now we're dealing with space hillbillies."
"Easy, A. J" replied Jessie, "Violence is not cool."
"I know," replied Ordnance as he picked up an old hoe and removed the bottom part, "But perhaps a little staff power from an old hoe would teach them not to mess with agriculture."
When Ordnance barged in, all female hillbillies stared at him lovingly, "Look at here, Pa" shouted a female hillbilly, "A purty young Backstreet Boy!"
"You know what we do to purty things like them A. J" asked Pa Zillbilly, "We induct them by marrying one of our own."
"I'm not marrying any of your species" growled Ordnance, "I'm not going down the same path Nick almost did.
Using his quick reflexes, he dodged the kissing hillbillies. The Griff Gals and the rest of The Cyber Crusaders came in and joined in on the fight. Then the biggest female hillbilly came up and was about to kiss him. Just as she got close, Ordnance used his scream and sent her to the other side of the barn.
"Not a single of of ya Backstreet Boys wanna marry my daughters and or nieces" Pa Zillbilly growled, "Plus a few of my sons and nephews want to kiss ya too."
Before Pa Zillbilly had a chance to kill them with his laser gun, he got trapped in a heart shaped bubble. It was Zanell; she projected the bubble from her hand. Behind her were Cristian, Selah, Vincenzo, Jalen, Beatbox, and a dragon-like griffin. "This is my friend "Harlan" son of Lady Alani of the Batarunfalife tribe." explained Selah; "He's also the conductor of the Magical Mystery Tour. The local JR choir of the tribe."
"How many griffin friends do you have" asked Power Lord.
"The entire population of The Heskelter Tribe" answered Selah, "And 400 forms each tribe."
"That's way too many friends for a griffin princess" Zanell replied, "I grew up having my loyal fifteen handmaidens and Zaid as my only friends in the galaxy. Father didn't let me go outside unless I'm chaperoned by a guard."
"There comes a time when you don't need a chaperone anymore" explained Harlan, "Speaking of chaperones, I'm taking the choir to Dragon Grange farms to learn about dragons. Their hiding in the horse stables."
"That's a relief" replied Top Speed, "Because Ryker told me that Alfred and Stefan hated cleaning up after horses."
When the Zillbilly Clan woke up, they saw Selah and Harlan, believing that they could be their next meal. One hillbilly popped the heart bubble with her razor sharp teeth and they barged towards the two griffins. The Griff Gals, The Cyber Crusaders, Cristian, Vincenzo, Jalen and Beatbox chased after them.
By the time they got to the stables, a giant dragon popped out and stared at the hillbillies. Out of his breath, came candy-scented breath, "Henrik" scolded Harlan, "What de we say about eating sweets before dinner."
Henrik pouted cause of Harlan's scolding. The Zillbilly's hated the breath so much, they they teleported back to The Zallegro Galaxy, hoping to take a mud bath. Harlan was amazed because Henrik scared away the Zillbilly's and saved him and Selah from becoming their dinner. "To repay for saving us" Harlan said, "You get to be the stage for our choir show."
One by one, The Magical Mystery Tour choir landed on him and sang an acapella version of Quit Playing Games (with My Heart). Beatbox joined in during the choir and everything floated, including the horses. As they finished, The Cyber Crusaders changed back into The Backstreet Boys, The Griff Gals changed into their regular selves, hopped onto the horses and rode off.
"Beatbox had to join in" asked Vincenzo.
"He wanted to be in a choir" answered Jalen.
When our heroes got back to the farmhouse, they saw that Ryker and his team won the cleanup tie breaker. "So what's the prize" asked Blakely, "A free pie, a trip to the next county fair."
"Even better" Ryker replied, "They get put off chores for a week and the losers get to make tonight's dinner."
"That's a good thing too" Stefan replied, "Because I make the best broccoli casserole in all of Florida."
"I admit it" Alfred replied, "Ryker is a lot neater than us, plus I guess I should learn to clean up after myself."
Everyone laughed.
Later that night, Dorothy was brushing Faith's hair and then braiding it. "Are you sure about this, Dorth?" asked Faith, "This is not like that slumber party you threw for our British friends."
"This is just like in The Duchess Approves where The Duchess confesses her love to Mr. Hampterfuppinshire towards her best friend and maid, "Gwendolyn".
Kehlani came in with some bobby pins in her beak. Dorothy took a bobby pin and placed it in Faith's hair. Suddenly, Mr. Booth came in and took a picture of his niece and daughter doing their hair, "Uncle Max" said Dorothy, "This is an invasion of privacy."
"I know, girls" replied Mr. Booth, "But I just wanted a picture of you two getting along. I had some of that broccoli casserole from Dragon Grange. How did your time there go."
"It went great" answered Dorothy, "Except for the part where Stefan took Lainey's rejection badly because she not into art. Luckily, Zarina cheered him up with a little pecan pie with extra love."
Faith, Dorothy, and Kehlani winked at each other, knowing that Zanell actually sprinkled it with Love Sparkles, a special power that cheers people up instantly.
On the TV, Kehlani saw a rerun of pleasant beach about the Nighbeaked Flapper, during a scene where they start to fly; Kehlani started imagining herself flying while listening to R. Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly.
On Friday, Lucille was jazz dancing to the R. Kelly song with Ginger, Blakely and Dorothy backing her up. "Okay now" announced Cristian, "Let's see what the boys have to say."
"A few seconds late at the beginning, Nick said, "But I love the way you expressed your feelings at angels."
"Speaking of angels," Howie D commented, "Lucille, where you stopped at the finale of the song, It's like you died and gone to heaven"
"Just like my pet Ferret last year" replied Lucille, "His name was Mr. Friendship. This was not only a dedication to my hometown of Angel Grove, but a tribute to him."
Everyone cooed.
"The three of you adding some glitter into your dance and doing a ring around the rose around Lucille," Kevin commented, "I say it's cute."
"About those pivots and slow jazz squares," B-Rok said, "It's like a waltz to remember."
"And those angel robes" A. J said, "It feels like you just came out of Sailor Moon. I like it."
Next up it was Kamila's Bye Bye Bye hip hop with Faith, Nadine, and Jessie. In the green room, Kehlani patted Dorothy, congratulating her owner's cousin on a job well done; "Daddy!" shouted Lucille and Blakely as they hugged their father, "Vice Principal Hargrave".
"Nicely done girl" commented Vice Principal Hargrave, "You mother sends the two of you lots of love, along with everyone from the Angel Grove High music dept."
"I just hope we get that money real soon" Lucille replied sadly.
Seeing the downer look on her face, Ginger and Dorothy came up to her, "What's wrong Lucille?" she asked.
"It's my school's music dept" explained Lucille, "For the past year we've been having some financial troubles and if we don't come up with a solution real soon, there will be no more music."
Determined to save Angel Grove High's music wing, they decided to do what they can to help, "That's a shame" moaned a middle-aged Latina, "When I was in high school in Puerto Rico, I was the Main Dish. Now I'm a real big dish."
"Aren't you Kamila's mother?" asked Dorothy.
"Antonia Rodriquez" asked Miss. Rodriquez, "Si, si. I was once a telenova star in the early 80s, but after that good for nothing "Itziar Alameda" left me pregnant and alone for a big budge movie production, I had to move to Sacramento. If I know one thing, The stars can lead you to your destiny."
"She is definitely Kamila's-" Ginger uttered as Kamila, Faith, Nadine, and Jessie barged into door.
"Mama" shouted Kamila as she barged in to hug her, "Did you see me perform onstage."
"I'm muy proud of you mija" Miss. Rodriquez admitted as tears of joy shed her face, "Not only a tribute to saying goodbye to the big city, but to saying goodbye to your father."
"I never thought that Papa cared more about reputación than amor" Kamilla annoyingly agreed, "But I promise we'll leave Sacramento and start a new life together."
The End