Later that night, the moms fell asleep and were knocked out from all the fun they had.
"You going to bed too, Mom?" Vincent asked.
"I probably should," Mo said with a bit of a yawn. "I'm not the party girl I used to be in high school."
"Fair enough," LJ shrugged. "Good night."
"You kids try to get some sleep yourselves," Mo smiled. "Don't stay up too late now."
"You got it!" Chrissy nodded.
Mo soon yawned and stretched on her way to bed.
"Night, Mom." Akito, Estelle, and Vincent smiled.
"Night, Auntie Mo!" LJ, Zofia, and David yawned as they dozed off.
It was soon time to get some sleep. As everyone else went to bed, it seemed like the Rugrats gang was going to sneak out anyway.
"Does that shirt make me look fat?" Kimi whispered to Angelica as she stuffed her sleeping bag.
Gaz and LJ woke up with a yawn.
"Don't tell me...you're sneaking out?" Gaz groaned.
"We gotta see what's going on around here." Tommy insisted.
Gaz rolled his eyes. "Ugh...fine."
"We're gonna get left behind, I just know it..." LJ sighed.
"This plan already wreaks of failure." Gaz grumbled.
"Whatever it is you're dragging me to, better be worth it." Angelica glared to the others as Phil opened the back window for them to climb out and meet the others further into the desert.
"This had better be good," Chrissy remarked. "I had to miss out on my beauty sleep."
"Hey, not like you or Kimberly needed it that much," LJ replied. "No sense in trying to improve on perfection."
"Aww~" Kimberly smiled before hugging LJ. "You're as sweet as sugar cookies~"
LJ blushed, kissing her on the cheek. "Ah, you know, I try." he replied.
The others looked to each other as they soon snuck out into the desert together as a group.
"We've been walking around for an hour and I haven't seen any red rocks!" Angelica groaned. "You've been conned."
"It would seem that way." LJ replied before a brown-haired kid popped his head up.
"Name's Coop Burtonburger. You guys looking for the Red Rocks, right?" he asked.
"Uh... Yeah..." Gaz blinked.
"Would you happen to know where it is?" Dib asked him.
"Sure! Just follow me!" Coop replied as he popped back down.
The others looked to each other as they began to follow their new friend around.
"You sure came out of nowhere." Zofia commented.
"Well, I just needed time away from my dad and my annoying little sister," Coop replied. "Not to mention her freaky alien pet."
"Alien pet?" Dib and Dil both asked out of interest.
"You guys gotta believe me!" Coop told them. "I know we just met, but if you see my sister with her cat, it's an alien from another planet! It's out to get me!"
"Okay...describe what it looks like." Dil replied curiously.
"Well, it looks like a regular cat, but with big black eyes!" Coop said. "I've seen what it can do, but no one ever believes me!"
"Kid, I think you and I could have a lot to talk about." Dib commented as he thought about his misadventures with ZIM from what Coop was saying.
"Alright, but we can talk more when-" Coop started before he gasped. "Great, we're here. The Red Rocks!"
"Whoooa..." The others whispered in awestruck once they had finally made it.
"You can thank me later." Coop smiled to his new friends.
"We'll thank you now," Zofia smiled back. "Thanks, um, Coop."
"No problem!" he remarked as he headed down the rocks.
They all then joined him to explore the site up close.
Lil was still bouncing her soccer ball as she was up to about 9,000. At the site, there were a bunch of teens and kids hanging out around a bonfire and having fun.
"Tommy, meet the Rogers, they were cloned and abducted by aliens, this place rocks!" Dil beamed.
"Do they know an alien named Roger?" Zofia smirked while Tommy pulled a face.
"I hope that they see the note I left in the van..." LJ said. "Wouldn't want them leaving us behind."
"Mother says you should always leave a note." Zofia nodded to her brother.
Susie then practiced her song while Angelica hummed loudly another song just to make her mess up. "ANGELICA!"
"What?" Angelica asked nonchalantly.
"Anybody see where Chuckie went?" Jenny asked.
By the full moon, Chuckie was seen talking to a girl who was telling him about her braces.
"Oh, she's cute." Jenny commented about the girl Chuckie had met.
"Yeah, he might have better luck with this one." David nodded.
"Nice night..." Chuckie commented.
"Yeah..." The girl smiled in agreement.
Chuckie soon went to put his hand on her hand, and she actually seemed to want him to kiss her, but... A geyser soon went off which startled Chuckie into the girl's lap.
"Ooh, swing and a miss." LJ sighed.
"That wasn't too bad though, but... Look at that!" Zofia said.
The geysers all went off in front of them.
"This must be the Curtain of Tears that kid was talking about earlier." Vincent commented.
"Pretty sweet, right?" asked Coop as they saw it going off.
"Yeah..." Gaz said. "Impressive."
There was a female scream heard with the gallops of a horse. The kids all cheered and whooped at this amazing display of nature's beauty.
"Oh, man... Mom would've loved this." Estelle smiled, but sighed softly as Mo was asleep and couldn't enjoy the beautiful nature.
"Glad ya liked it." Coop chuckled to the others.
"Well, this has been fun," LJ replied. "Now let's get back to the RV before they discover we're gone."
"Did you see that?!" Lil beamed.
"And the part where-?!" Kimi added.
"I know! And then when the-" Tommy gushed.
"I was so close..." Chuckie smiled. "I could almost feel her overbite on my cheek."
And so the kids made their way back to the RV parking. They then came to the parking lot to find it empty.
"Oh, no, i-it's gone!" Susie gasped.
"I don't get it, the RV was right here!" Tommy panicked.
"Maybe my mom went to fill up the tank?" Lil suggested nervously.
"Maybe someone stole it!" Chuckie gasped.
"The I-AM-CRUD?" Angelica asked. "Get real."
LJ sighed. "I knew it...they LEFT us..." he groused.
"Maybe it's payback for what Tommy said to Mom," Dil suggested. "And we're just gonna starve to death like the Indian Princess Solianyi!"
"How long do you think we can last if we take turns licking this fuzzy mint?" Phil asked, making some of the others cringe in disgust.
"Okay, okay, let's not get all whacked out about this," Susie chuckled nervously. "We'll just hike over to the ranger's station. There is a perfectly good explanation for all of this."
The others soon walked off to get going.
"I hope..." Susie whispered nervously.
"If they left, then that means they didn't even notice we weren't there!" LJ realized. "The note did no good!"
"I guess we're on our own now..." Zofia sighed. "Great... Well, I guess we wanted an exciting adventure."
"Welcome to our world," Akito said. "But, wait, shouldn't our mom still be here?"
"Hey, you're right!" LJ exclaimed. "Then we can find her!"
"I'm sure she can't be too far if we just calm down, and-" Estelle began.
"MOMMY! HEEEELP!" Vincent cried out.
Akito and Estelle looked to their older brother in deadpan. David chuckled a little at that.
"I thought the plan was to keep calm," LJ asked. "Guess Vince didn't get the memo."
"MOMMY! HELP!" Vincent still cried out.
"Calm down!" Chrissy told him. "We're gonna be fine! So we lost your mom, it's not the end of the world!"
"She's right," LJ replied. "We've faced tougher things than this! We're the freakin' Schwartz-Fudo family, god-damn it! We never backed down before and we won't start now!"
"I'm sorry for freaking out..." Vincent said. "It's just that since Mr. Sykes kidnapped me as a baby, I get a little paranoid."
"A little?" Chrissy rolled her eyes. "You acted like you just got lose in a brand new Mall. Uh... You were kidnapped?" she then asked.
"Uh-huh..." Vincent nodded softly. "I spent the first eight years of my life trapped with that madman."
"Whoa...jeez, Vince, I never knew..." LJ replied as he gave his cousin a hug. "Well...we're gonna find our families, I promise!"
Chrissy gave a soft look on her face about Vincent's childhood trauma.
"I know, a big strong boy like me is crying for his mama..." Vincent said softly. "I just can't find her van."
"Mom left us too..." Estelle frowned. "That's so unlike her."
"Dude. It ain't wrong to cry," LJ replied. "If anything, it would make less sense if you DIDN'T cry. But I swear I'm gonna help you guys find our families. And when I promise something, I mean it."
"Come on, we better get going." Zofia said.
They all soon walked off to make their way to the rangers' station.
Meanwhile...
"Hm... I guess the kids went in the RV..." Mo said to herself as she rode off in the van.
"Why don't we try calling Auntie Mo's phone?" asked David as they were walking. "You mean nobody thought of doing that?"
Akito and Estelle both whipped out their cell phones.
"Please answer, please answer, please answer!" Vincent begged.
"Hello?" a voice asked over the line.
"Mom?!" Akito and Estelle answered.
"Oh, kids, good morning," Mo smiled. "I wish you guys told me that you were going to sleep in the RV. I'm trying to keep up with Betty, she's drank so much coffee, I'm worried she might speed us into another dimension or something."
"We are NOT IN THE RV!" LJ explained. "We got out a little earlier and we're still in New Mexico, but the other moms don't know even though I left a note!"
"WHAT?!" Mo gasped as he suddenly stopped her van in a panic, screeching her tires on the road.
"We're not hurt though, so-" Akito then said.
"Mommy's coming!" Mo cried out as she decided to turn herself around.
LJ sighed.
"Her reaction time is impressive." David replied.
"Mom's just full of surprises sometimes." Estelle smiled bashfully.
"I can live with surprises." David replied as Mo's van screeched to a halt nearby.
"Mrs. Fudo?" The Rugrats gang blinked.
"Get in here!" Mo told them. "All of you! Now!"
The others looked to each other and they soon got in the van.
"Now, I'm not mad, I'm just overwhelmed..." Mo said to them. "I think Mrs. DeVille had a little too much coffee, so she might've overlooked your note."
"I'm just glad you picked up when you did," LJ sighed. "Who KNOWS what would've happened?"
"I don't know if I can fully catch up with Mrs. DeVille, but I can sure try, can't I?" Mo smiled before driving off. "Fasten your seat-belts, sit back, relax, enjoy the ride, and thank you for choosing Fudo Mom Driveway!"
"Oh, brother." Chrissy mumbled slightly.
"I can dig it!" Theo replied as they buckled up.
Mo smiled as she drove them off back on the road. "Did I ever tell you kids about the time we were with Scooby-Doo and the gang in New Mexico?" she then prompted with a chuckle. "Oh, boy, that was quite chilling, no pun intended. We met with Shaggy's old friend, Jimmy Proudwolf and his pet dog, Shooby..."
"You don't say..." LJ grunted as he managed to stretch out.
Gaz eventually put on some music to tune out Mo.
"Oh, we've had so much fun with Shaggy and Scooby on their many adventures..." Mo smiled. "A really big surprise to me was that time we had to return to Zombie Island."
"Wait...RETURN?" LJ asked. "But why?"
"Uh..." Mo paused for a moment. "Hmm... That was a while ago... I'll have to ask your mother. She keeps track of all of our adventures."
"Oh. Okay." David replied.
"Her memory scares me sometimes..." Mo shuddered. "She could tell you what happened today exactly ten years ago."
"Cool!" Martin exclaimed.
They soon drove off together.
"That Coop kid was pretty interesting..." Dib commented from last night. "I wonder if we'll ever see him again?"
"Maybe..." Martin replied. "But he DID give me this weird disk," he held up a patchy-looking CD-ROM disk labeled "Romance Academy 7". "Said he found it at some pizza place in Oregon. You can have it, I guess."
Mo's eyes widened. "That name sounds familiar..." she muttered to herself.
"Cool, thanks, Martin." Dib replied.
"Eh, no problem." Martin replied before dozing off shortly after.
Mo shook chills all around her body as she continued to drive them to catch up with Betty's RV.