Burnonut: Summer Rush
By RichieD.
(A/N and Disclaimer: Here the sixth part, nice no though sorry for the hiatus? Anyway am glad to report this is the final part of the Summer Start arc of the story as the next chapter will be when the true threat starts to reveal itself. But one more check in with the other crews first. As always the character of Shorty is mine, Binks/Stealth XL is MHZ as is his upcoming characters of Lone Wolf, the character of Rockerella is Beast Boy Fan's, Kirby is Nintendo/Hal Laboratories, and anybody is else is Cartoon Networks and/or their respective and rightful owners. Also writing credit this time goes to MedaHamtaroZoid.)
"The city of Townsville…" Starts the narrator, though a bit more wearily then his usual perky self "…has…has…ugh…give me a minute. Had that pink puffball Kirby in my house all weekend. Cleaned out my refrigerator in one gulp, practically devoured my panty, and I don't even wanna tell you what happened to my freezer." He stops for a moment to shudder. "In any case. I've learned my lesson. Next time I wanna make a cheeky comment, do so when the characters AREN'T in earshot. Anyway, with the challenge issued to Puffy accepted, Bloo and his reluctant (and forcibly entered) group of the newly christened band, Foster's Rockers, begin to make plans to try to find a why to be on par with Puffy lest they be painstakingly and publicly crushed, walloped, destroyed, flattened, battered, deep fried…
"Okay, okay! They get it already!" Frankie cried after having enough of hearing this while she and the others were digging through the attic trying to find some instruments to practice with.
"Oh uh, -ahem-, sorry. But straight to the point, if they wanted to win, they knew they had to practice and with a few days already gone in the two week limit, time was of the essence."
"Also Betty finally finds out the name of her savior, Kirby, who was left in her care since that pink black hole had eaten everything at the Galactic Guardians Headquarters (and man do I know their pain –sob-). The only problem however is that they couldn't have sent Kirby at the worst time as Betty and her family and friends are about to head for Townsville to attend the aforementioned concert. So how exactly will both groups handle their situations? Let find out today in what I suspect to be another un-day saved event. AHAHAhaha…ha, -sigh-."
-Intro here-
"KIRBY NO!" Betty yelled as she raced out into the hall in hopes of stopping him from eating the family cat.
"As much as that feline annoys me to no end, even he doesn't deserve something like that. Although…"'
Chapter 6: Foster's Rockers Jam Session
Betty's mind begin to wander as she thought of a life without that pesky little furball of a pain who was always trying to make her life as miserable as possible. She could just picture it. No picking up after his messes, no trying to get him to take a bath, no more taking the blame for his doings. The more Betty thought about it the greater sounding it was becoming.
"Ah rapture" Betty cooed in her little dreamland but quickly burst her bubble of the perfect paradise at home. "As much as I want that, mom does love that cat and…he still part of the family" The last line forcing Betty to choke out her words before she continued rushing into hallway where she heard the trouble come from. When she found no one she ran to the next possible place where she Kirby could go.
"Oh no, please no." Betty thought to herself as she made for the kitchen. Luckily to her relief the place wasn't in disarray. However Percy's yowling caught her attention again she turned to find that he was climbing the refrigerator with the puffball jumping up after him, giggling "Puyo" all the way.
"Gah! Kirby!" Betty said frantically, trying to avoid yelling lest she attract her parents "Stop that, leave him alone!"
Seeing that her words were not getting to him, Betty rushed over and tried pulling him away while Percy, who had by this time reached the top of the fridge, hisses at the pink puffball and was taking a few swipes at him with his claws however this only enthused Kirby even more to try to reach this curious specimen forcing Betty to pull harder.
Eventually she was able to get Kirby away from Percy, but at the last moment Kirby tugged on the fridge door as he was being pulled back.
"Oh…crud" Betty said realizing, dread growing in her at mach speed while Kirby's eye widen to their fullest as if he had hit the jackpot and in this case, that wasn't too far off.
Food, glorious, glorious food by the dozen of all variety and sizes and just there for the taking!
"Kirby." Betty said in a firm tone " I know you're always hungry but that's not for you. So lets close the door and go back to my room…and-and I'll let you play with my cat."
Percy let out a huge hiss toward her when he heard that "Hey its him or us." She told the cat.
However Kirby hadn't heard a word she said and started bouncing up and down, giggling with Betty hanging during the ride.
"Not good, not good!"
Eventually her worst fear came as Kirby opened his mouth and the air in the roomed started to turn gusty. The food in the refrigerator beginning to rumble from it the vibrations of it and move toward the pink puffball!
Betty looks on at this wide-eyed but soon her expression changed to that of determination. "OH NO YOU DON'T! NOT IN MY HOUSE!"
With that she flipped over him grabbing the upper part of his mouth before landing in front of Kirby. Immediately she felt the raw power of his section even though it wasn't at full power yet. Despite that though Betty leaped forward and grabbed his bottom lip then forcibly squeeze the two together.
"Now look buster. You may have gotten a free buffet from Commander Degill but the gravy train stops with me. Now I don't wanna get rough on a cute one such as you but if you don't behave, I WON'T HESITATE TO! Got me?"
Kirby blinks for a few moments then nods up and down in response.
"Ah good, now were getting somewhere. All I gotta do now is figure out what to do with you while am at….Err Kiby?"
As she was pondering the above over, Kirby was blowing to massive proportions due to the air he was still sucking in through the little gap in his mouth. In other words, he was ballooning himself, something Betty now was figuring out.
"WHOA! Kirby stop suc….er doing that! STOP IT!"
But it was no good he just continued to expanded and was so far reaching the width of a medicine ball growing along with Betty's panic as she realized if she didn't stop him soon Kirby would overtake the kitchen and maybe even the whole house!
"Oh theres NO WAY am explaining to my parents why a pink puffball destroyed our house!" Betty saids, jumping on the expanding pink one "Exhale, Kirby! Exhale!
However in her haste what she hadn't realized was that when she had let go of his mouth, he quickly opened it letting out all the excess air he had collected and if your familiar with balloons you know what this means.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Betty yells as she tries to hold on for dear life as Kirby propelled the two into the air and around the house thanks to the large amounts of air he was blowing out. Zipping through different doorways as if it were some crazy chase scene though with Betty's mom entering in and out of the rooms looking for something and Percy being in the wrong places at the wrong time and scared out of his wits, you could almost called it as such. Miraculously Betty's mom hadn't even seen the amazing flying pair as they zipped through the house.
Eventually though the air ride was starting to fizzle out signaled when Kirby let out puffs of air while beginning to slow down.
"Huff huff finally." Betty gasped "I never thought you'd stop and…wait a sec where the house go?"
She asks this as she looks around and finds nothing but air and clouds surrounded two. However it didn't take long for realization to hit and she look down to see her house below her, a very fearful expression coming on her face. "Uh….Kirby? How did we get this far up?"
"Puyo!" Was what he answered back before gravity took hold and sent the two plummeting downward, Betty screaming during the fall while the pink one giggled "Puyo" all the way down.
"What do I do! What do I do!" Betty thought furiously as she could see the house getting closer. However she quickly shook her head "Wait, what am I doing? Am a galactic guardian, this should be nothing."
"I think its time I repaid you for my save, Kirby. Hang on!" She yelled grabbing him as tight as she could, lifted her arm with bracelet and aimed for the chimney of the her house before firing off a wire toward it. However her shot was a little off and she missed her target, however Betty quickly pulled the line back and it managed to snag it signaled when the line straighten. Betty then braced herself and swung her and Kirby in a semi-circle fashion around the house, knowing the layout of the place she quickly aimed for one of the lower windows and quickly swung through it into her room.
Of course it being a rough landing she couldn't exactly come to a complete stop and…
-SCREEECH-
-CRAAAAAASH!
"WHAT THE HAIRSPRAY WAS THAT!" Betty's mom exclaimed and headed for Betty's room since it was where she heard the crash from and quickly opened the door to the sight of one messed up room with clothes, toys and other objects all over the place. Betty, who was lying upside down against a wall in the middle of the mess, smiled sheepishly.
"Young lady." Her mom said sternly placing her hands on her hips " What is the meaning of this?"
"Uh…um my….closet threw up?" She answered though could tell by the look on her mother's face she wasn't buying it. Betty eyes then turn to Kirby who was hidden behind her bed out of view waving weakly with spirals in his eyes, a sign he was obviously out of it.
"Well, thats one problem solved for the moment at least." Betty thought wearily.
(Eyecatch: We see a view of the stars and planets that is the vastness of space. However it suddenly start swirling around like water in a sink until it finally gets smaller and smaller. That is until the camera zooms out to reveal its Kirby's mouth wide open and doing his usual vacuum thing. He eventually closes it; falls back on his warp star, and then lick his lips and smiles at the camera.)
Eventually Betty managed to get the her room back under order with no problem whatsoever (thanks to no small part of being prepared for this type of situation due to a certain pesky feline) and was now finally all packed and ready for her trip to Townsville, however though she still had to find a way to take care of Kirby while on the trip AND keep her Galactic Guardian status on the low in front of her friends and family something that worried her greatly as she headed out of her house with her mom and dad.
"I can pass you off for a doll though your going to have to keep still whenever were around my parents and friends. But –sigh- I know that's impossible especially with your appetite. Ugh man this couldn't have come at a worse time, there no way I can keep you under wraps without getting caught." Betty told him starting to get frustrated though chuckled when a thought came to mind. "I guess if we do get found out, I can say you're a midget friend of mine with a pink skin condition and an eating disorder."
"Puyo?" Kirby looked at her quizzically
"Yeah your right that'll never work." Betty smirked "Well we'll just have to go with the doll plan and hope for the best. Alright showtime Kirby, like I said don't move a muscle."
The pink puffball complied as she made her way to the van where her friend Noah as well as her constant annoyance Penelope along with several of other kids were milling around packing their suitcases into the car while their parents were doing last minute checks of everything before they hit the road.
"Well well, if it isn't little miss Mary Jane." Penelope greeted with her usual snaky attitude right of the bat.
"Hello Penelope." Betty said in monotone then brightens up when she turned to Noah. "Hey Noah, ready to rock out loud?"
"Heh, wouldn't be here if I wasn't." He said with a chuckle "Really cool that you're going too Betty, I was afraid you'd break your attendance streak lately. We'd hardly ever got to spend time together at school."
"Ah well you know, it was an extremely hectic year especially near the end. But hey its summer now so I've got the free time." Betty told him while rubbing the back of her head. "Besides I do own you a boatload of I.O.Us"
"Yeah how sweet." Penelope cut in "Whats with the pink doll you have there? You couldn't live without your baby stuff?"
"It's not mine." Betty said quickly "Its for a friend of mine who lives in Townsville. Uh yeah, am dropping it off for them."
"Hmph, surree you are. Well I hope you and your imaginary friend there don't annoy the van with your crying."
Penelope started laughing as if it was the funniest joke in the world before walking away from the two while Betty just frowned. However a light bulb suddenly appeared over her head as she suddenly remembered something. "THAT'S IT!"
"Sheesh that was very uncalled for. I hope she didn't hurt your feeling Betty." Noah told her but found that Betty was actually smiling.
"Ah not at all, in fact for once, that attitude of hers has really made my day."
Eventually the adults of the Moosejaw caravan was ready to go and the group was soon on their way to the city of Townsville for some rock and roll fever of the battle of the bands.
However one of those bands were extremely trying to get in as much practice in as quick as possible. However judging by how much glass they broke in the Foster's house, it was obvious they were getting nowhere fast. Add to the fact that they had been at it for almost three days since the challenge had been issued, that….wasn't exactly a good thing. However on this particular day, a young girl had approached the Foster's gate.
"STOOOOOP!" Frankie yelled out halting the "music" and everyone's instruments along with it. "Ugh there goes another one." She groaned pointing out another window that had shattered. "Bloo I say C-sharp, not…whatever note you were playing!"
"Well next time tell me it after the ringing in my head stop." The blue blob shot back "I mean sheesh am I the only that has to carry you guys to victory."
"Cocococococo"
"Si the road to ruin is more like it." Eduardo translated.
"Ugh geez let's face it guys." Mac sighed as he put down a guitar he was barely managing to hold onto. "Theres no way in heck were going to be ready in time to face Puffy, the time gap is just too small. Even if we could belt out a tune, we'll be smoked anyway."
"But Mac this is Puffy Ami Yumi, OUR SWORN ENEMY!"
"Correction, you're sworn enemy." Mac said, "We just wanted to go see their concert and enjoy their unique music. But typically you had to blow everything out of proportion and now here we are trying to do the impossible all because of your little problem with a J-Pop band and their nationality!"
"Mac I…." Bloo started but Mac held up a hand to him.
"Ugh save it, were already too far into this mess so theres no point in backing out now."
Bloo smiled " Ah see, I knew you'd see it my way." However he quickly stopped when his creator's teeth and the growling sound from it became much too clear to him "B-b-but you have a point. Trying to learn this by ourselves wasn't the best way to go. Perhaps a getting a teacher might be in order."
"Yeah but who? Especially with the time limit we got." Wilt said matter of factually
And that was when an audible thud hit the floor, which got all of their attention and all heads turn to the source of it.
Standing in the doorway of the room they were in stood a 12 or 13 year old girl who had short wavy brown hair and a outfit similar to Yumi but her color scheme differ from her as well as a denim vest over a red shirt and a red skirt over a pair of blue jeans. The thud sound everyone heard seemed to come from the purple guitar in her hand.
"I'll teach you to play." She said simply.
The group blinks for a moment at this strange girl who just seem to come from nowhere and at such a convenient time to. To say the least they were all a bit speechless, not sure how to react to this. Finally Bloo snapped out of the stupor first.
"And you are?"
Her eyes shift toward him, causing him to jump a bit especially with the blank expression on her. However she suddenly smiled. "Oh how rude of me to just come on like that. Seem I got a little too eager there." She said sticking out her tongue before handing out her hand to the group. "But anyway, I am Rocker-ella. Please to meet you guys"
Once again more blinkings from the group before the others looked at one another, then shrugged and gave their hellos and such. After everyone had his or her say Frankie spoke up.
"Okay well now that were on a first name basis and all. Tell us….why do you wanna help us?"
"Well…you really wanna know?"
"Uh yeah." Frankie said
"You REALLY wanna know?"
"Yeeeeeeah." Frankie said starting to sound annoyed.
"Really?"
"Will you just tell us already." Frankie nearly shouted.
"Ah okay, it because…I want to."
-DOM- Everyone face faulted from that.
"Um care to be a little more specific?" Mac asked.
"Well see am a lover of music. I eat, sleep, and thrive on it that it's just become a way of life for me." She explained "And so much so that, believe it or not, music actually has responded back to me as if it were a living being. It been growing stronger each day telling me where great sources of music are found and now today, the music had lead me here and told me that you guys needed help with the upcoming battle of the bands. So here I am."
Another round of blinkings came over the group as after they heard this story, speechless as a result. Bloo however once again snapped out of it.
"Rrrrriiiiiiiight." He then motion to Mac and made the "She crazy" motion with his hand, however now sooner then he did this he was suddenly face to face with Rocke-rella .
"Listen buddy I don't care if you believe me or not. But truth of the matter is you foolishly challenged on of the greater bands in this universe and are going to go down in FLAMES if you don't get practice. The music may want me to help you, but I can easily walk out that door and let you suffer on stage which is something I rather not do. Now can the attitude and show me some respect! GOT IT!"
The group quickly shirked back from her after this little outburst and Bloo was practically on the floor after being forced there and sweating bullets.
"G-G-G-Got…-Gotcha." The blob said nervously. Rocke-rella then leaned up and smiled at the group.
"Alright not that that's out of the way. Let's begin shall we?"
After that last display, the Fosters quickly grabbed an instruments were ready to start learning as their band coach, Rock-erlla, took the forefront.
"All right, you guys have had three days to practice." Rock-erlla said. "So let's see what you can do first and what areas I can help you in."
The Foster's nodded then began to play, however no sooner then their fingers hit the buttons on their instruments, it sounded LOUD AND AWFUL! So much so it was able to break a few more windows in Foster's house that were further away from the room they were in.
"ARGH!" an angry Frankie shouted "I just had those put up last week!"
"Sorry, Frankie!" Rocker-rella said sweatdropping. " But no worries I'll pay for those!"
"Ugh its hopeless." Mac said dejected. "What I don't get it is we've practiced for the three days and were still not getting any better."
"Me too." Bloo said.
"Ce. Me too." Eduardo said.
"Coco." Coco said.
"Me also." Wilt said. "I'm sorry but I don't know what were doing wrong."
"Hmmm." Rocker-rella muttered examining the situation. She looked over each member then instruments then the Foster's once more. "Maybe…it's not your practicing...as much as it is the instruments you're using!"
"Huh?" They all said.
"We need to assign you with an instrument that best suits each of you. Everyone throw your instruments in a pile in front of me and I'll take it from there."
The group did as told then stepped back as Rocker-rella went into a thinking position. After a few minutes she went over to Mac.
"You seem to have such magic fingers. So…" She pulled out the keyboard "You can play the electric piano."
"Awesome." Mac said.
She turned to Frankie and looked her over.
"You seem like a girl whose been though a lot of stress and often yells a lot."
"You have no idea." Frankie told her with a forlorn tone then was suddenly handed a trumpet.
"Thats perfect, as you have a capacity to inhale huge amounts of air which is perfect for the trumpet."
"Oh well if you insist" Frankie said taking it.
Next she went over to Eduardo.
"You have big arms, Eduardo, and…you get scared a lot from what the music tell me."
"What! I no get scared a lot!" Ed protested.
Rocker-rella reached into her pocked then held a rubber spider in front of his face.
"AHHH! EL SPIDER! GET IT AWAY, GET IT AWAY!"
Rock-erlla tried to throw it near him, but it missed him and landed on the drums. Eduardo grabbed some sticks and try to hit it on its location. Little did he know, that when he was trying to hit the spider on the drums, his playing the instruments sounded quite well.
"Excellent!" Rock-erlla said. "Your big arms combined with your emotion of fear puts in a lot of power in the drums. You shall play those."
"Wow." Eduardo said stunned "Gracias senorita Rocker-rella"
Rock-erlla nodded then went over to Wilt.
"I'm not exactly sure what to give you. I'm not sure they are that many instruments you can play with only one arm."
"Oh, that's okay." Wilt said albeit somewhat sadly.
"Hey...wait a minute!" She said, snapping her fingers. "Stay there. I'll be back."
She quickly rushed off then came back in under three seconds at cartoon speed, rolling back a rapper's turntable.
"Wilt," Rock-erlla said. "Since, you have only one arm, you have to do work faster whenever you need to multi-task, right?"
"I…guess."
"Your fast-response time action could be perfect for the turn table."
"Really, that…thats okay!" he said. "Thank you!"
Rock-erlla smiled then walked over to Bloo.
"Hmm...you seem to show a lot of determination and a lot of energy if not a overzealous nature. But still as such I think you're best suited for...lead guitar!"
"YES!" he exclaimed. He grabbed one and played it, at first strumming out random notes but much to everyone surprise it suddenly turned into a riff.
"WOOO!" he said. "Thank you, Foster's!" He said in mock bow though Mac, Frankie and Rock-erlla rolled their eyes
Rock-erlla then walked over to Coco and examined her.
"Hmm Coco was it? Another challenge. Since you use your feet, I don't any instruments you're suited for…."
However Coco suddenly hatched an egg when then popped out a tambourine, the bird/plane friend then kicked it in the air and caught it in her back foot and then kicked it back to her other foot much to everyone surprised. She continually repeated this a few time getting a steady beat. After hearing this a few time Rock-erlla suddenly got an idea.
"Bloo, play you're guitar."
Bloo did as told, played the guitar and soon getting tune with Coco's tambourine playing. Pretty soon they sounded well together.
"Yeah not bad." Rock-erlla said. "Coco, the tambourine may just be for you! Heh and you found it all on your own."
"COCO!" she exclaimed in rejoicement.
"Okay, guys, now were starting to look like a band. Coco do that beat once again and everyone else once I give the signal start to join in tune with her. This is your first step in learning music as one so here we go. A-one two three four…!"
Once more Coco started the beat and soon Bloo had joined in followed by Mac and Frankie. Eduardo and finally Wilt as one by one they joined in. It sounded a little janky at first due to either timing or being off the rhythm, which resulted in stopping and re-starting again. But soon was beginning to fall in tone with each other until finally the tone was all played as one.
"Excellent, excellent." Rocker-rella clapped "Now you guys are officially getting somewhere."
"ALRIGHT! NOW WE HAVE THE POWER To CRUSH THOSE JAPANESE ROCK WANNABES" Bloo exclaimed excited leaping up into the air but Rocker-rella quickly pushed him back down to the floor.
"WHOA, down boy. You guys are nowhere near ready yet. You got the rhythm but now you need to mold it into music if you ever have a hope of beating Puffy. Also something…off, I can't shake that were missing something. Huh what?" She then said to the air then chuckled "AH OF COURSE HOW COULD I FORGET! We need someone to play bass guitar."
"What? Bass guitar!" The group says
"We don't need another guitarist, you got me!" Bloo yelled audibly but Rocker-rella pointed her guitar at him threateningly.
"Bass guitar is the backbone to the main one and is always vital in a band!" She growled " When I say you need one, YOU…NEED…ONE!"
"…Ah I…see." A terrified Bloo responded, "…Where do you suggest we get one of those. You?"
"No, am more of a lead guitarist myself." She said shaking her head "Do any of you guys know someone who knows someone who plays bass around here?"
Before the group could respond. Suddenly, though conveniently and possibly ironically, they head a low guitar sounds inside the house. Causing them all to go wide eye due to the timing of it.
"Um correct me if am wrong, but I think whoever that is might know." Wilt said
T.B.C. flashed across the screen once again spelling out To Be Continued.
"Yup there goes another day not saved but eh, am getting used to it now. Beside this is actually getting good. I remember when I tried to start a band the "Unseen Unknowns" they called us….Of course me and my friend actually could've made if we had let the audience see us. I told Ricky that was a bad idea but no, he had to be all "Every band needs a gimmick" Pfft, what an idiot….though his investment in Pokemon merchandise turned out to gold. Ah well am happy enough as it us viewing the lives of others and recounting their numerous adventures 24/7, yup no regrets at all…-sigh-I need some Hogan-Daz."
-Outro here-
Next chapter:
Mac: Wow talk about having light in your bleakest of moments, we end getting not one but two music teachers to help us on our almost impossible quest to try to outdo Puffy in the battle of the bands, though this dude seems a little distant. It also looks like he has some business with Puffy, huh more coincidence just hope he not as crazy as Bloo. Also I heard some rumors theres a lot of activity at the lake lately and it doesn't sound good. But we got problems of our own to deal with, so the only thing I can do is hope it doesn't get too out of hand. Then in this city that's never a guarantee.
Next Chapter: Grand Lake Tussle
Mac: Eh Frankie? Someone at the front door for me, who could this be?