Hello! I haven't updated in a while and that's because i have school and everything. Also, I may not update the next chapter right away. Anyways i've included a bonus chapter cos why not, right?
Bonus Chapter
Romeo woke up at 8am. He wanted to celebrate his birthday at the exact time he was born, which was 31st August, 8:31 am. He got up from his bed and looked out the window. Not many people were up and about. The streets were deserted, except for one or two people on motorbikes. Romeo closed the windows and drew the curtains. He took out a small device from the small backpack that he always carries around that was on his nightstand. The device was shaped like a ball. He set it down in the middle of the room and immediately, a table materialised there. A night-like atmosphere was also created. He walked out of the room and entered his kitchen. Romeo opened the fridge door and took out a cake. Carefully, he carried it into his room and set it on the table. Once more reaching into his bag, he withdrew four metallic candles and one big candle. He placed the candles on top of the cake. Once he made sure that the room was dark enough, he lit the candles by pressing a button on each of them. The teal shaped cake had the sentence "King Romeo" written in white sprinkles. He leaned towards the candles and made a wish inside his mind. When his watch displayed the time 08 31, Romeo blew out the candles and whispered to himself,
"Happy Birthday to me"
One Week Later
It was as if his hands had a mind of their own. Nicholas was in his room, doing an essay about the Industrial Revolution. However, he ended up writing down "An Yu" three times on the first line. When he realized what he was doing, he scribbled on the words and crumpled the paper. Writing down the name of your crush certainly had nothing to do with the Industrial Revolution. He could almost hear the Ninjalinos making fun of him for liking a 1000-year old girl. He had tried to explain to them so many times that An Yu was not 1000 years old. From the books that he had read in the pagoda as well as libraries, he knew that the spell that was made on An Yu didn't change her age. Her age did not change when she was trapped in the Dragon Gong. A spell had put her to sleep for a thousand years, and she was awoken when the Gong was found once more. Hence she had remained the same age she was in when she was trapped, when she was set free. Now she is 14, as Nicholas was. Whatever, Nicholas thought. The Ninjalinos didn't need any explanations. He stood up from his desk and sat down on his bed. He had stopped transforming into Night Ninja for a week now, and he wanted to go to the pagoda. Just then, his phone buzzed. He leaned over to the nightstand to see who it was from. It was Romeo in the group chat, asking all the villains to come to HQ. Nick sighed and started texting back, asking questions on why he should come.
Luna Girl, now just plain Luna, was on the bed with a tub of ice cream by her side. She was weeping while watching the TV in her room. The climax of Titanic was on, and she grabbed a box of tissues to wipe her face. Just then, her phone started buzzing like crazy. With an annoyed look on her face, she picked it up from the nightstand and looked at it. When she saw that a big war between Romeo and Night Ninja was going on in the villains' group chat, she groaned loudly. After reading through the messages and finding out that she had to go to the PJ Masks' HQ, she remembered Gekko and how she couldn't ever meet him again. Not as Luna Girl, anyway. She missed him a lot, and was extremely disheartened that she had to sacrifice her love for her villain work. She sighed and went to wash her face. After she was done, Luna took out the Luna Magnet that she had hidden under her bed. She made sure to lock her room so that no one would come into her room and find out she wasn't there. It was only Uncle and Aunt who never cared about her at home, for her parents weren't alive, but still, she had to be safe. Luna opened the window and moonlight shone inside. She clutched the crescent shaped amulet that was hanging on her neck and held the Luna Magnet in the other. She muttered some words under her breath and all of a sudden, a bright light was emitted from her. When the glow receded, she was wearing her villain outfit and her hair was silver instead of black. Her Lunaboard flew out from underneath her bed and she hopped onto it. Luna Girl then hovered towards the window, and zoomed away from the house.
Rip looked at her phone.
"Bossy Romeo. Always thinks he's the leader or something."
She angrily typed back a response.
Then she looked back at her brothers a few feet away who had their heads deep inside the ground.
"Howler! Kevin! Stop digging for bones. Romeo wants us to come to HQ. Howler. Howler! HOWLER!" Rip screamed. Howler pulled his head out from the ground and looked at Rip while Kevin continued to dig.
"We're not digging for bones, Rip," came Kevin's muffled voice as his head was still inside the ground. He pulled his head out and looked at Rip.
"Then what are you two doing?" Rip asked, her hands on her hips.
Howler and Kevin looked at each other and smirked.
"We can't tell you. You're too dumb to know what we're looking for. Dumbass." Howler snickered.
This caused Rip to lose her temper. She growled and started chasing Howler on all fours. Howler too, ran away from her on all fours.
"Get your butt over here!" Rip yelled.
Kevin watched the two of them run away and laughed. He shook his body like a dog and howled at the moon. Then, still laughing, he ran after them towards HQ.
"Master what are you do–"
Romeo pressed a button on the device and Robot immediately disintegrated outside HQ. Romeo looked at the live feed camera that was displaying Robot standing outside HQ. Satisfied that the Teleporter was still working, he absent-mindedly patted it and looked around for his shrunken vault. He spotted it and walked towards it. After resizing it, putting the Teleporter inside it and shrinking it again, he looked over to the empty case of PJ Robot. Romeo had dismantled PJ Robot that afternoon and had removed his CPU to put it inside the then broken Robot. Now that Robot was working, he wanted to get over with the next part of his plan. Romeo turned to the PJ Picture player and activated it. He was scrolling through the functions, looking for the map of Tarabiscoville when suddenly he heard a loud 'EEP'. Startled, he turned around and found Motsuki flying above his head.
"Motsuki?! What are you doing here?" He asked her, confused and worried that he might have to deal with her until Luna Girl arrived.
"Luna Girl told me that you are going to tell everyone something. She told me to wait here. So I came back from the Fortress." She said in that whiny voice of hers.
"That brainless Mothball." He muttered. Now he had to make sure that he didn't make the moth girl angry or anything. He internally sighed. Romeo knew that working with the villains would be a complicated thing. They had successfully, without any conflicts, defeated the PJ's. However, now that the main part of the plan was done, he wasn't so sure if the villains would still cooperate with him. Romeo lowered the antenna protruding out of his goggles and positioned it near his mouth.
"Robot where are you?! You were supposed to come back in. Now I'm stuck with this moth. Come back in and keep her busy." Romeo whisper-shouted.
Outside the HQ, Robot stopped walking around trees and replied through his comm device.
"Coming, Master."
Robot awkwardly squeezed himself through the entrance of HQ and came up through the elevator. Upon seeing Robot, Romeo called out to Motsuki, who was meddling with the Picture Player. It took great effort for Romeo to not lose his temper and shout at Motsuki. It was risky enough that Motsuki was inside HQ. If she throws a tantrum and starts destroying things, he will have to take action, and that would mean he would have to answer to Luna Girl. He didn't want to end up hurting Motsuki. Robot led Motsuki into Owlette's room to let her play computer games. Once they left, Romeo turned back to the Picture Player and was relieved that Motsuki hadn't messed up the software.
"Where's Motsuki?"
Romeo turned his head from the Picture PLayer and found Luna near the elevator.
Then came the red elevator that had Night Ninja in it.
"She's up in Owlette's room. Took the both of you long enough." Romeo said, slightly irritated.
Night Ninja walked up to the Picture Player and looked at the bird's eye view of the city in it.
"What's this?"
Luna Girl walked over to Night Ninja and examined the map as well. She remembered the time Romeo told her about splitting parts of the city for each of the villains.
"I'll explain later. Now if those three Furballs could just hurry up." Romeo huffed and checked his phone.
As if on cue, the Wolfy Kids appeared in each of the elevators and leaped out of it. Before they could ransack the room, Romeo raised his voice and explained the reason why they were all here.
"Now that we have defeated the PJ Masks, it's time to move on to the next part of myー" he stopped mid sentence and glanced at them. "Our plan." He had to be careful of what he said. The slightest thing could trigger them and everything would be ruined. Romeo cleared his throat and continued.
"Firstly, we have to split the city for each of us." Romeo walked closer to the Picture Player and zoomed in on the map.
"The city is split into four parts: Parkville, Downtown, Central Area and Lesterania. Parkville is where HQ is located, and I am planning to change HQ into my own private headquarters."
"No. We want HQ. We want to make it into our own den!" Howler interjected.
Just as Romeo had feared.
"Well, Howler, I want HQ. Since I was the one who came up with the plan, it would only make sense if I took HQ for myself." Romeo retorted, clearly holding himself back from saying something mean. He had to be careful of what came out of his mouth. Luna Girl and Night Ninja looked at each other.
"No! Iー" Kevin started but Romeo cut him off.
"What about going full Wolfy? Do you remember that Rip?" Romeo tried to change the topic.
"Once you all go full Wofly, you could do whatever you want to Lestarania. Right? You could thrash up the entire place and make it your own territory." Romeo rushed through the sentence as he was very annoyed that he had to put up with the Wolfies. Without waiting for their reply, he continued.
"Moving on, now that Lestarania is taken up by the Wolfies, there's only Downtown and Central Area left. Which one of you want Downtown?" He looked at Night NInja and Luna Girl. Rip was displeased but she didn't say anything. Night Ninja came forward and elbowed Romeo away from the Picture Player. Romeo stumbled a little and was irritated but none of them seemed to notice.
"Downtown is where the portal to Mystery Mountain is located. I'll take Downtown." Night Ninja said, zooming in on the projection of Downtown.
Stroking the shoulder that Night Ninja elbowed him, Romeo moved forward towards the PIcture Player.
"That leaves Central Area for Luna Girl. Any objections?" He glanced at Luna but she didn't seem to disagree with it. Rip was about to open her mouth to say something when Romeo pretended to not see her and interjected. "It's settled then. You may all leave now." With that Romeo ushered them towards the elevators. When the Wolfies and Night Ninja had left, Romeo told Luna to take Motsuki with her.
"Why did you ask that pesー I mean, Mothling to come here? You didn't tell me anything."
Luna Girl tossed her hair behind.
"I didn't ask her to come. I informed her that you called us and she decided to come. Where is she anyways?"
Romeo was irritated. That meant he had to babysit her for no reason. More like Robot had to.
"She's been playing video games ever since she came here! Get her out of here already." He snapped.
"Ugh okay okay. Motsuki!" Luna Girl called out, walking towards the elevator. Motsuki came down from the blue elevator and smiled cheekily at Luna Girl. Before any one of them started speaking, Romeo used his Teleporter to teleport them out of HQ. The duo disintegrated outside HQ. Romeo sighed and relaxed his shoulders. He had finally gotten over with the meeting. Romeo walked over to the lab and took out the shrunken version on his vault. He resized it and took out the Power Chamber using a device that helped him move heavy objects. He had intended to use the PJ Masks' powers for himself but he had yet to transfer the powers from the tiny cube in the Chamber into the Vacuum of Doom. He also had Armadylan's powers but he was more keen on using the Masks' powers first. He decided that he would depower the Chamber later.
"Robot! Take the Chamber away and put it in the basement."
Robot appeared upon his master's command.
"I am not aware of this 'basement' that you talk about, master."
"It's the last floor. The one that has the PJ Seeker in it."
"Yes Master." Robot said, but he didn't take the Chamber.
Instead, he got into the elevator to see the floor where the PJ Seeker was located. Romeo was not aware of this so he took out his phone and plopped onto the Catboy's armchair. After some time, Romeo got up to get himself something to eat and walked towards the elevator, but he was not aware of where he was headed as he was still looking at his phone. He bumped into something, hard, and landed on the floor with a thud. The thing that Romeo knocked into fell to the floor as well. He rubbed his head, groaning and looked at what he had bumped into.
"ROBOT! Why the heck is the Power Chamber still here? I told you to take it away!"
The green elevator came up and Robot was squeezed inside it.
"Sorry Master. I was exploring the 'basement' that you had talked about."
"Just get this thing away already!" Romeo fumed.
He stormed towards the blue elevator and got in it to exit HQ. Robot wedged his way out of the green elevator and used his extendable arms to carry the Power Chamber towards the elevators. As he lifted the Chamber from the floor, a bolt fell down and the tiny cube's light dimmed a little. The grey Crystal Totem regained its red, blue and green colour a little bit, but returned to grey after a few seconds. Robot slipped on the bolt and the Chamber fell to the floor once more. This time, a tiny little chipboard fell from it, and was once again unnoticed. Robot took the Chamber and went down the elevator.
The bolt rolled beside the chipboard.
And stopped.
-To Be Continued-
