Good Burger Takes Over the Schneiderverse

by JordanHayes0989

Twenty-one years after the events of the 1997 movie, this once local fast food restaurant is now a multi-national fast food monopoly with franchises all over the world. However, it only has a handful of franchises located in the US. But that is about to change as the establishments that once served as hangouts for many of Dan Schneider's shows close because of the new competition.

7. Scenes 14-15: The Vega's Are Victorious

Formatting Key: Narrative descriptions/exposition points/character traits are bracketed in [italics], characters' names in bold, dialogue/quotes in plain text.

Good Burger Takes Over the Schneiderverse Chapter 8

Scene 14: Mystery Kid from Off the Street..How Did He Get Here?

Location: Los Angeles, California
Date/Time: August 10, 2018 at 09:00 PM
Building/Landmark: Peter Sinai Memorial Hospital
Characters Present: Sam Puckett (played by Jennette McCurdy), Cat Valentine (played by Ariana Grande), Stephanie (Audrey & Spencer's daughter), Stephanie Shay, Toby Vega, various hospital visitors, doctors, nurses, hospital staff

[After receiving the joyous news that Carly is returning home from Italy with her father, Sam is very excited as she just told everybody, including Audrey, Spencer's wife and Stephanie's mother, who came to visit their own sick mother who was diagnosed with a life-threatening Stage 4 cancer. They were sent down to peter Sinai in Los Angeles because they found out that this particular hospital performed specialized treatments that were a perfect match for her specific condition.

She had already undergone several chemotherapy treatments that appear to be working, as doctors and nurses report that she has been improving for the past 30 days she has been here. Audrey and Stephanie are hopeful that she will beat her tumors and be the first cancer survivor in the Shay family.

Meanwhile, Cat Valentine had just witnessed her beloved grandmother, Nona pass away due to her injuries from an earlier motorcycle incident. Stricken with grief and frustration at the same time as she is also dealing with the fact that her roommate almost got them evicted from their own apartment, she begins to turn to her family and old friends from Hollywood Arts for support. She had called Tori, Trina, Andre, Robbie, Beck, Jade, her parents and even her crazy brother with the tragic news. They all loved Nona, even though they did not spend as much time with her as Cat did. They have all gone off and done other things far away from Los Angeles, and will be returning home for the first time. Cat is excited to see them all after having a blast with her music career.

Sam and Cat are also overjoyed with their encounters with Stephanie and Toby, even though the actual encounters themselves were a bit awkward. This was especially true for Toby, since he was mysteriously wandering the streets by himself looking like a homeless hobo. But Cat insisted that she and Sam help him find his missing parents, who turned out to be related to Tori and Trina. It was at this particular moment when Audrey asked Sam and Cat what happened to Toby.]

"Where the heck did that little boy go, that you two brought here with Stephanie?" This caused Cat to exclaim, "oh my God, he's not here! He must have slipped out while we weren't looking. He could be anywhere in this hospital by now!" At this point, a surprising call came into the nurses' station. One of the nurses picked it up.

The hospital security officer tells the nurse: "We just found a 10-year old male child with brown hair, tattered clothes in the basement of this hospital, trying to get into the morgue. He says his name is Toby Vega. One of our officers grabbed him just in time before he could get the door open. He tried to sneak behind one of the morticians, disguising himself as a doctor. We took him to security headquarters."

The nurse on the other line says: "Oh, my. We just had a girl in our waiting room talk about a missing boy up here that meets this description. We are on the second floor, unit 2E, neurology ICU."

Hospital Security responds back with: "OK. Thanks for the information. Can you please send his parents or relatives down to Security to get him?"

The nurse tells hospital security: "Actually, I don't think he came in with any of his parents. He walked in with two teenage girls, Sam and Cat as well as another little girl, Stephanie Shay, the daughter of Audrey Shay, whose mother is a patient up here."

The hospital security officer then tells the nurse that they will have to hold Toby Vega there until his parents can be located. He then receives the AMBER ALERT notification regarding Toby on his phone, realizing that the boy he had in his office matches the description of the missing kid in question.

He tells the nurse: "Actually, there's an AMBER ALERT out for this kid. We're going to call it in and have his parents come to the hospital. Thanks for your help."

The nurse, surprised, remarks: "Oh, I didn't realize he was the missing child on the news. I didn't even know about the AMBER ALERT."

Hospital Security tells the nurse this fact: "Oh, yes, he was found missing after his parents, Tom and Caitlin, couldn't find him in the Northridge Mall a few days ago."

Now the nurse is starting to make sense of the situation: "That explains the dirty, hobo-like appearance. I honestly thought he was homeless. I'll tell them the situation." After hanging up the phone, she walks out of the nurses' station and into the waiting room to tell Sam, Cat, Audrey and Stephanie the news.

"Hey, guys! I couldn't help but overhear your conversation,but I just got a call from hospital security saying they found your kid." Sam and Cat give a sigh of relief as Audrey is still puzzled about the situation.

"So, is security going to bring him back up here?" Sam asks. The nurse says no. Cat then asks, "Then can we go down there and pick him up?" THe nurse again replies with another no and tells both of them that Toby will stay in the custody of hospital security until his parents come to the hospital.

"He was the missing kid on that AMBER Alert. Did you not see the news today?"

Cat says, 'oh, yeah. Before we left to come back here, we saw Toby on the TV, where it said his parents were looking for him. His last name is Vega, which is the same name of my friends from Hollywood Arts, Tori and Trina."

Sam then adds, "it make sense. Remember, Cat, when we picked him up on the street, he kept asking where his parents were?"

"Oh, yeah", says Cat. "We spent hours going all over L.A. looking for his parents, but we ended up going back to our apartment where somebody (looks at Sam with an angry, disgusted face) forgot to pay two months worth of rent."

Sam then snaps back with, "Cat, do you have to keep bringing it up again? I thought you forgave me for that." The two get into a small argument when the nurse comes back in and tries to break up the fight. "Girls, would you please stop and focus on the situation at hand?"

"You're right", says Cat. "I let my emotions get the best of me. It happens, sometimes. Sam, I'll let it go for now, but you need to learn to become responsible."

Sam says, "I'll try my best, for you" and the two of them patch things up and end the conversation.

Cat then chimes in with, "What I was trying to say was at least Toby doesn't have to look for his parents anymore. They will come to them. You know, it's odd that Tori and Trina never told me about Toby or his parents at all. Maybe they had a good reason for keeping them out of our lives."

Sam says, "it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Tori, or Topi (jokingly) was involved with that skunkbag Steven who was also dating Carly at the time. We all came up with a revenge plan at that big party 7 years ago at Kenan Thompson's place. Personally, I would have wanted to knock him out with my butter sock, but alas and alack we used our own web show to expose Steven as a liar and a cheater!"

Cat says, "I was there! I didn't know any of you personally back then but we all had an awesome time singing that awesome song at the end. I think it was called Leave It All to Shine. Actually, this party was also my first babysitting experience. Trina had two kids that she was looking after but gave them to me and I lost them. Who would have known 4 years later we would start our own babysitting service? I'd say we had gotten better since then."

Sam responds to Cat's long monologue with: "Oh, yeah. We sure know how to take care of kids now. Speaking of kids, let's go back to this one. As I was saying, maybe Steven's bad influences still rubbed off on Tori after we exposed him and ended our relationship. Or maybe it was Jade? I mean, sometimes she's a bad girl with malicious intentions. What I am saying is Tori and her family have been around some sketchy, shady characters who perhaps had a bad influence on all of them. Now you may think I'm wrong right now, but after all, it was me who suspected Steven of cheating on Carly, who was still denying it until she actually saw it for herself. Trust me on this, I have a strong feeling I have something here."

Cat snaps back, saying, "don't you say another single word about my friends! OK, you may say that Jade, SInjin, or even Robbie may have some bad influences on Tori, especially Jade who may seem like a bad girl but once you get to know her, she does have a soft, sensitive side! You, Sam, of all people should know that after spending time with her all those years ago. You remember? The time when I invited her to work on a school project and I didn't want you to meet because both of you are antisocial misfits and would kill each other!"

Sam said, "yeah, but we ended up getting along after all and we didn't kill each other." Cat then snapped back, "you got along so well that you stole her from me! That's why I called your friend Freddie down all the way from Seattle to make you jealous, remember?" Sam then says, "and how did that plan work out for you?"

Cat looks at herself, startled after what she heard Sam say. She thought back to the time when she invited Freddie to LA and then how Sam stole Robbie to get back at her. This was before Sam (or Cat as Sam) had attempted to jump over a dangerous pool of Kansas Razorback tuna with her motorcycle. The night before, Cat had gotten so mad at Sam about what she did with Robbie that she said she didn't care what would happen to her. However, the two of them ultimately reconciled after Cat realized how dangerous Sam's stunt actually was. She went in Sam's place to jump the tuna, but her stunt did not work and Sam tried to stop her in time. Freddie and Robbie fell into the pool of tuna after Cat hit the pool and were attacked by the dangerous tuna. Sam went in to rescue Freddie but no one went in to rescue Robbie. After all of that, Freddie and Robbie ended up together in the same hospital room where Sam and Cat promised to reconnect with both of them after they recovered.

Reflecting on these events prompted Cat to say, "yes, we both used our boyfriends…".

Just as Cat said this, Sam butted in with, "Hey now, Freddie and I broke up a long time ago. We're no longer together. We're EX-boyfriend and girlfriend now."

Cat then continues with, "well, I used my boyfriend and your ex-boyfriend to get even with each other, but we forgave each other for it and moved on. I even locked you in that closet and pretended to be you after realizing how much of a dangerous stunt you were going to pull. Even after what you did, I still cared about you."

It was at this moment when Sam recalled escaping from the closet, saving Cat and getting back together briefly with Freddie after the tuna incident.

Cat reminds Sam about how they got into this whole mess by saying, "it just goes to show you how much the power of one friend can cause a lot of chaos. I've learned a lot since then, and we've all become really close over the years since then."

Sam then agrees with Cat and tells her: "Yeah, even after that whole thing, Jade and I still keep in touch. We don't kill each other, but we sometimes amuse ourselves with how, strangely, we have a lot in common. For example, we sometimes laugh when other people get hurt by making fools of themselves."

Even though Sam reconciled with Cat about Jade and her other Hollywood Arts friends, she thought back to her time with Freddie after the tuna jump . She recalled hating the entire experience. Something just did not feel right to her about hanging out with Freddie again, knowing full well that his heart really did not belong to her, but to her best friend Carly, who was half a world away from both of them. It's a thought that would later come to her mind as she knew that the three of them would reunite soon.

Sam then asked why they were talking about all of this in the first place, and then remembered: "yeah. We were talking about that Toby kid. I guess the whole point of this was, Toby couldn't have been influenced by Jade or anyone like that, because I know she is not a completely terrible person. It has to be those parents!"

It was at this time where Tom and Caitlin Vega, Toby's parents finally arrive at the hospital to pick up their son. The hospital security guards ask them if Toby is in fact theirs, and they provide his birth certificate and a picture of Toby to verify that they are indeed his parents.

The security guards release Toby to his parents, who then must decide where to go or what to do next.

Caitlin says, "I don't want him" and then Tom says, "neither do I. The only other family that we have in Los Angeles is Tori, Trina, Aunt Holly and Uncle David. They live in Hollywood."

Caitlin asks, "well. can't we drop him off there and then get out of this stinkin' town?" Tom, who is the actual blood relative in the Vega family, explains to his wife, "We can't just drop him off because no one will be there. Holly works all day, so does David. He's a detective now and has a lot to do to keep our streets safe. Trina went on to Boston after graduating from college there and Tori's a big superstar performing in New York. In fact, she's performing for the very first time at Madison Square Garden, closing out her amazing first tour."

Scene 15: Tori Finally Makes it Shine, for the Big Time

Location: New York, New York
Date/Time: August 11, 2018 1:30 AM Eastern Time
Building/Landmark: Madison Square Garden
Characters Present: Tori Vega (played by Victoria Justice), Andre Harris (played by Leon Thomas III), various backup band members and background dancers, concertgoers

[This is a big moment for Tori Vega as she takes the stage tonight as she concludes her first tour with a sold out gig at one of music's biggest stages. She had just graduated from New York University Steinhardt just about a year ago and exploded as a pop star immediately after graduation. Apparently, some enthused music producers attended her graduation after knowing what she had done at the Platinum Music Awards and in college since then, and asked her to sign a deal right away. She accepted, and asked if Andre could join her as well since they write and perform songs as a team. They allowed Andre to tag along, and as a result they worked their butts off to make this first tour a success . It already reached #1 on the Billboard Top 200 and 3 singles already made #5, #3, and #2 on the Top-40 charts.]

Tori performs her newest hits to an arena packed with fans, but before she closes the show decides to bring back one of her more familiar hits to close out the show. Andre is in the backup band, playing the piano as Tori performs and occasionally provides backing vocals on some of the songs as well.]

"I want to just thank you all from the bottom of my heart from coming out, supporting my music and supporting me as an artist. I worked just as hard as anyone to share my talent, own my craft, and become the stellar music sensation that I am today. But I also try to stay true to who I am, and not pretend to be someone I'm not." Tori thinks back to when she performed at the Platinum Music Awards, where the producer she worked with made her dress in these weird, emo and punk-like outfits, having fits and even putting a plate of ravioli down the pants of a restaurant manager. She stood up for herself at school later on, but the producer, Mason Thornesmith ended up firing Tori and giving the performance to Jade, who ended up giving it up and Tori took the spotlight as her own true self instead. Since then, Tori vowed to stay true to who she really is and carried this belief in herself all the way through her college career and her post-graduation success.

"it's been a fun night. You've all been amazing. I know the show is almost over, but why don't we send it out with something that you all know by heart?" Tori says to the crowd. The backup band plays some familiar chords and the crowd erupts in excitement and cheers, as Tori begins to sing the opening lines to "Make It Shine."

Tori:

Here I am, once again

Feeling lost but now and then

I breathe it in to let it go

[The crowd gets louder as Tori moves on to the pre-chorus)

And you don't know where you are now

Or what it would come to, if only somebody could hear

When you figure out how

You're lost in the moment, you disappear

[At this point, the crowd blows the roof off of MSG as Tori reaches the chorus. They begin to sing along with her as Tori waves to them and belts out the most influential lyrics that ever sang in her entire life. After all, this song is what made her a star in the first place.]

You don't have to be afraid to put your dream in action

You're never gonna fade, you'll be the main attraction

Not a fantasy, just remember me

When it turns out right

'Cause you know that if you live in your imagination

Tomorrow, you'll be everybody's fascination

In my victory, just remember me

When I make it shine

[Tori then performs the rest of the song, after which the crowd lets out a big, deafening cheer and Tori then bows again to thank her audience. She invites Andre to come center stage and bow with her as the concert officially comes to a close. Tori and Andre then head backstage after a very successful first gig, congratulating each other on a job well done.]

"You did awesome! You killed it out there!" Andre says as Tori responds, "you really think so? My heart was beating a million miles an hour and I was so nervous, especially on that last number." Tori had not performed "Make It Shine" in a long time but felt it was the right time to bring it back in front of her fans. With all the success she had endured after Hollywood Arts, Tori never actually gave her time at that school a single thought until tonight of all nights. It was her performance just a few moments ago, however, that brought back all of the good memories that made her foundational experience one of the greatest in her lifetime.

"I just had that spark tonight, you know? I had this feeling deep down as I sang the song. I wanted to rejuvenate my performance while reminding myself and the audience where I came from and how I got here. It's just been an amazing ride, right?" Andre agrees. After spending all of this time with her, Andre was proud to see and feel that special spark that Tori brings to any performance and was glad it was still there tonight.

Although Tori was proud that she got what she always wanted: to be a pop superstar with several hits on the charts, an amazing world tour and fans who love and care about her. But Tori also realized there was one thing missing in her heart among all this, and that was to return home. It was at this moment when a notification flashed on her phone, saying that Cat left Tori a voicemail earlier, when she was performing on stage.

Cat: Hey, Tori. It's Cat. I know you're just as busy as I am with your awesome music career. I loved working with you over the last year, but right now I need you as a friend. I'm back home in Los Angeles because my Nona was involved in a serious accident. She had been in the hospital for the past few days and now she just passed away. I'm so sad. Nona meant so much to me. I know you didn't know her as well as I did, but I would so appreciate it if I had my old friends back home in LA to help me plan a proper funeral for my Nona. Please call me as soon as you get this. Thanks. Bye.

Even though what Cat said was true (Tori did not know Nona very well), Tori's heart sunk when she heard this news. She felt really sad that one of her best friends was suffering the loss of a loved one. She also saw this as the perfect opportunity to return home, where she could celebrate the success of her career with her old Hollywood Arts friends while also catching up on what everyone else was doing. Andre turned to her asking who was on the phone.

Tori turned to Andre and told him the news. "it was Cat. Her grandmother, her Nona, just passed away." Andre didn't know Nona either and just shook off the news: 'I'm sorry that Cat lost her grandmother, but it doesn't really matter to me. Besides, we have all this great music stuff going for us. Why stop here? Let's keep going!"

Tori then tells Andre: "The tour was great and all, and performing around the world with you was the absolute best, but I'm ready to finally head home to see my friends, family and old stomping grounds again."

Andre thought about what Tori said. Even though he misses his home too, he really likes his new life as a musician. After all, what family did Andre really have to go back to? Just his insane grandmother who is about to drop dead any second? Although he has not seen Beck, Jade, Cat, Robbie or even Trina in a long time, he knew that he would have to reconnect with this grandmother again, and knew that particular encounter would not be pleasant. He then says to Tori, "Look, you've got it all, everything you ever wanted. We can do it all the time."

Tori then reminded Andre, "yeah, but the tour's over and I think we deserve a break. Wouldn't it be great to go back home, to see all our old friends from Hollywood Arts? Cat even said that she needs ALL of her friends back home to support her. Come on, what would you have wanted your friends to do in this situation?"

Andre then looks at Tori with a stern expression on his face, and then confesses to Tori, "Look, I don't know if there is an easy way to say this, but I don't want to go back home because of my grandma. She's not doing too well right now and I don't think she has much time to live."

Tori then says, "that's even more of a reason to get back home. Didn't your grandmother provide some musical inspiration for you?" Tori recalls Andre staying over at her house to help Tori write the song "Faster Than Boys" for a big music producer. Andre was in a bit of a music writing block and then explained to Tori how his grandmother would then shout in his face, whereas he would get some inspiration and come up with new music.

Andre then says, "yeah, you're right. What was I thinking, not going home? Let's be there for both my insane grandmother and our friend Cat."

Tori calls Trina in Boston. Trina answers the phone and then says: "Oh, hey little sis. How's life treating you?".

Tori exclaims to her sister: "I'm coming home. Are you still in Boston?"

Trina says: "Actually, that's what I've been wanting to tell you. I'm not in Boston now. I'm back in LA."

Tori, surprised at this news asks her sister: "What do you mean, back in LA? What's going on?"

Trina explains: "Well, it turned out that taking my one-woman show on the road didn't really work out. The reviews went downhill and it was so bad I went broke. So now, I'm back in our old house, just hanging out all day."

Tori then says: "We'll talk more about this when I'm back home. I had figured this was going to happen." Tori then hangs up the phone with a puzzled look on her face.

[Tori was thinking of how her sister wanted her shot at the big time just like her. But, she also knew that Trina's somewhat lack of talent would catch up to her eventually. Yet, she still wanted to support her. She and Andre were excited to finally return to Los Angeles, but little did they know that two distant cousins of hers and Trina's would make a surprise visit along with their son. Would it tear the family apart or bring them together, closer than ever before?]