Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future

Episode 8: Making Fiends

Plot: It's Friday the 13th in Amity Park; the day when shadow ghosts leave their hosts and wreak havoc on the town. Jesse 13 makes an unexpected visit and hangs out with the group, only to start a rivalry with Maxwell over Tammy. However, Darry's shadow ghost splits free from him and causes trouble, leaving the real Darry feeling tired and weak. Can they get his shadow back and stop Freakshow's latest scheme?

Part 2

At Fenton Works, Sam was checking up on Darry, who is sleeping on the living room couch, and analyzing why he lacks a shadow. As the Nicktoons, Yuki, Kida, and Jesse watch, they turn to see Danny talking on the phone. "Yeah, I know. Sorry. I wasn't aware that he would come here, especially on this day... Hold on a sec..." he covers up the phone and says to Jesse, "Your parents are angry for sneaking into the real world without their permission."

Jesse shifted his feet uneasily and looked away in embarrassment while Maxwell looked at him, smiling slyly.

Danny continued to talk to Johnny 13 on the phone when he answered, "Yeah, they wanna have a word with you. I'll put you on the monitor now." Danny pushes a button, causing SpongeTron's monitor to pop up and reveal an image of Johnny 13.

Johnny glared at Jesse with a scowl as Jesse nervously waved a hand, "Uh...hey Pop. Nice to see you again."

"We'll talk about this later," Johnny said, "After Danny called to tell us something's wrong with Phantom Junior, I knew it was urgent. Trouble does follow that kid where ever he goes..."

"Tell me about it," Yuki rolled her eyes.

"Johnny, can you tell us what's happening to Darry," Sam asked.

Johnny sighed, "I should have warned you guys a long time ago when I realized the kid had shadow powers. I probably should have told Jess about it too."

The gang glances at each other and look at Johnny, wondering what he meant. "Your kid's shadow gained a mind of its own and is running amok in Amity Park...all cuz of Friday the 13th."

"What?!" Danny asked in shock while Sam, Jesse, and the rest of the Nicktoons gasp as well.

"See, while shadow ghosts draw on the power of darkness, they also draw on the power of bad luck and misfortune," Johnny explained, "And since Friday the 13th is a day of misfortune, shadows can gain enough power to separate from its host."

"But what about Darry?" Yuki asked, looking at her pale sleeping brother in concern. "What's gonna happen to him?"

"I think I've seen this before," Sam recalled when she remembered; "When Danny's shadow was consumed by Wrath during the Japan trip, it put him in a comatose state."

"That's what's happening to him now," Johnny added, "Seems the farther away his shadow is, the weaker the kid gets. He'll probably become even worse if the two are separated for too long."

"Then we got to merge the two back together and fast!" Kida said determined when she asked again, "Uh...a quick question: what happens if the two are still separated when Friday the 13th is over?"

"Well...there's a chance his shadow will become its own being for good and you'll have to endure months or years of training it to be obedient so it won't cause mischief..." Johnny suggested.

"Or...?"

"Or... once his shadow is freed, Darry may go into a coma forever."

The Nicktoons were all shocked, but Sam gasped in horror and held Darry's face. "Darry, you have to wake up." she pleaded with her son.

Darry groaned in response and moved Sam's hands away. "Five more minutes." and went back to sleep.

"What about me?" Jesse asked his dad, "I am a shadow ghost."

"You were born a shadow ghost on Friday the 13th, so maybe it does not have an effect on you," Tammy guessed.

"On the contrary, sweetheart," Johnny explained, answering Tammy's question, "Jesse is a shadow ghost so he's just as vulnerable as any shadow in that world. Why do you think I specifically ordered him NOT to go there?" he calmed down and explained, "As long as nothing triggers Jesse's shadow form, he'll be fine."

Hearing this, Jesse and Tammy turn and glare at Maxwell, who caused at least two incidents of bad luck. Maxwell chuckled a bit when Tommy pointed out, "Look on the bright side, he's got five chances left."

Immediately afterwards, Ringo, who was still covered in black soot, walks past them and Jesse glows green and struggles to hold back his shadow form.

"Make that four," Tommy corrected, "Does that even count?"

"You guys have less than six hours to get the kid back to normal," Johnny advised.

"Then we should get moving," Danny said seriously.

"Just one problem," SpongeTron pointed out, "As much as I wanna help Darry, we have to find Lydia and figure out what she and Freakshow are up to."

"Let's not forget that we're dealing with a shadow ghost that causes bad luck whenever it goes," Maxwell stated.

Yuki sighed when she rushes to the kitchen and comes back with a small box. "Here," Yuki said, holding up a box of items. Tammy, Tommy, SpongeTron, Maxwell, and Jesse look down to see good luck charms Yuki was likely to sell.

"I was gonna sell these, but it seems you're gonna need some luck," Yuki said as the kids picked up the items.

Tammy takes out a small necklace with a tiny glass bottle holding a four-leaf clover and Poof takes out a cute stuffed pig that he smiled at and hugged.

SpongeTron takes out a horseshoe and Tommy takes out a wishbone. "What are we supposed to do with these?" Tommy asked.

Maxwell spots the lucky rabbit's foot keychain he spotted previously and grabs it at the same time Jesse does. They both take it out and begin fighting over it. Yuki responded to Tommy's question, "You may not think it'll help, but you're going after a shadow that causes bad luck, so just trust me."

While the ghost and genius fought over the lucky rabbit's foot, Maxwell grabbed the horseshoe from SpongeTron held it toward Jesse upside-down to ward him off. Jesse cautiously backed away and struggled to hold his shadow form back. SpongeTron glared at Maxwell and snatched the horseshoe back.

"Okay. In order to get you two off each other's backs and find Lydia, we should split," SpongeTron ordered, "Maxwell and Tommy will be with Darry to find his shadow while Tammy, Jesse, and I will search for Lydia."

"Why does that pretty boy get to be with Tammy?" Maxwell angrily asked and yanked Tammy by her arm. "She should come with me."

But Jesse grabbed Tammy by her other arm and pulled her back. "You heard the robot, she's coming with me."

"You're just gonna turn into a shadow and eat her." Maxwell snapped at him.

"You just wanna mind probe her with your powers." Jesse snapped back.

As she was tugged back and forth, Tammy grinned and whispered, "Wow, it's true. I have boys fighting over me."

However, Sam scooted between the boys and yelled, "ENOUGH! You guys better get moving if you wanna save Darry and Amity Park." She got close to Jesse and Maxwell, "And listen here, if something happens to my son because of your quarrel, you are gonna meet a fate much WORSE than bad luck."

Maxwell and Jesse both shiver and gulped, chorusing, "Yes ma'am."

Sam smiled proudly and walked away with everyone else glancing. "Talk about women empowerment," Danny noted.

"Tell me about it," Johnny whispered to Danny, still on SpongeTron's monitor.

It was almost nightfall in Amity Park. Tommy and Maxwell search downtown while struggling to carry a sleeping Darry. "W-Why are we bringing him again?" Maxwell complained.

"Do you want him to get sicker if he and his shadow are further apart," Tommy answered, "Besides, the closer we are, the better Darry becomes. It happened before, so we'll be able to track his shadow this way."

"Right," Maxwell said, remembering Darry was up on his feet for a moment when both he and his shadow were at the museum. "But how are we supposed to know where to look?" the genius boy asked.

Poof suddenly appeared and said, "Poof, bad luck!"

"He's right," Tommy translated, "We just have to find any source of bad luck."

"Got it," Maxwell nodded and they continued to carry Darry across the street.

"So...with our leader out of commission at the moment and it's just you, me, and Poof," Tommy began, "Care to explain the jealous rage over Jesse 13?"

"Jealous?" Maxwell asked in shock and disgust. "Who said I was jealous? You and I both know that long-haired punk is an evil conniving ghost who has Tammy under some kind of spell."

"That's what I thought too," Tommy admitted, "Until we all realized that Jesse is really a good guy. He is helping us after all."

"I still don't trust him," Maxwell pouted.

"Or...you don't like the fact that Tammy is swooning over him," Tommy teased as Poof giggled.

Maxwell started blushing at this. "What?! That's completely inaccurate...I mean, not true." he argued, looking away as he blushed, "I don't even like Tammy that way."

"Just for my mere curiosity and assuming you did like Tammy 'that way'," Tommy pondered, "I ask 'why'? Not that I'm not okay with this because I actually am, but... how come? If you were in your real timeline, she'd be ten years older."

"She is! And I'm cognizant- aware of all that." Maxwell explained, looking nervous. "Tammy is nice and was the first person I met in this time period who was actually nice to me. In my own time period...I don't have a lot of friends my own age and..." but shook his head and frowned angrily, "Oh, who cares? I don't like Tammy that way and that Jesse 13 is still a jerk!"

Tommy rolled his eyes and responded, "Man, Darry's right. You do have a lot of issues that you don't wanna talk about, even though talking about it can actually help."

Maxwell crossed his arms and turned away. "There's nothing to talk about. Besides, Tammy already likes that bad boy ghost."

"Well, you'd be happy to know that Tammy actually-" but before Tommy can finish, he was interrupted by the sound of Darry groaning as he began to wake up.

"Ugh...what happened? Where are we?" Darry asked tiredly when he glanced at the boys, "Where's Tammy, SpongeTron, and Jesse?"

"We must be close," Tommy said with gleaming hope.

Maxwell was uncertain however, "He still looks pale though."

Darry managed to stand up on his own. "What are you talking about? Are we looking for Freakshow?"

"No," Tommy shook his head, "The others are after Freakshow and Lydia and we're going after your shadow that went rogue and is causing bad luck." Suddenly, they heard screams and saw people running out from a psychic shop. "Which I guess is in there."

The three run into the shop and look around to see many items on the floor. They heard Darry's voice mischievously chuckling and look on the ceiling to see Darry's shadow on the wall.

The shadow smirks and flies through the walls, hitting a few other shadows on the wall that knock down a few enchanted mirrors off the shelves, shattering them on the ground.

"You're out of luck, Darry's shadow!" Tommy shouted to it, "Jesse 13 isn't here with us to let you turn him into a shadow!"

"And now that I've gotten some sleep and am full of energy..." Darry boldly said, pounding his fist into his hand and turning into ghost form, "...I'm gonna put you under my feet where you belong!"

Maxwell rolled his eyes and added, "What they said."

"Nicktoons Go!" Darry shouted.

Poof turned into Tommy's chain hammer and he fired one end at the wall, denting it. But the shadow simply moved out from under the hammer and laughed in amusement.

The shadow flew through the walls and charged straight under Maxwell's shadow, causing Maxwell to flip backwards onto the ground.

Darry kept firing his ghost rays at his shadow, but his shots kept missing. Finally the shadow sprung right up in front of him and stared at him with its glowing blue eyes. "Hey, handsome guy," Darry greeted in an annoyed voice, "Think you can knock off the jokes and join back up with me so I can stay awake?"

The shadow held its chin in contemplation. Darry believed he got through to him, but didn't notice the shadow's feet extending into the floor and raising up from behind Darry. Darry's shadow smirked as its shadowy legs kicked Darry from underneath, knocking him facedown.

Darry's shadow laughed in amusement while Poof turned into Tommy's magic rifle and Tommy fired at the shadow. Darry's shadow extended its arm and grabbed Tommy, throwing him into sacks of powder. Tommy stood up, covered in white powder as he coughed and Poof sneezed.

Meanwhile, SpongeTron, Tammy, and Jesse were still searching for Freakshow and Lydia. Jesse drove his moped through the streets while Tammy and SpongeTron rode on the back. SpongeTron was using his tracking equipment to find the Lydia's location.

"According to my scanners, Lydia is within a five-mile radius," SpongeTron noted. Hearing this, Jesse revs his moped to speed up.

As they ride through the streets, Jesse finally asked, "Soo...what's the deal between you and Blondie?"

"Oh, I met Max a couple months ago." Tammy explained as she held onto Jesse from behind. "He's a time-traveler from the future and he's staying with Tommy and me for the time being."

Jesse looked at her and asked, "But do you LIKE him?"

"What?" Tammy asked with an embarrassed grin. "Why do you say that?"

Jesse explains, "I think that guy totally digs you. But there's no way you can like him cuz he's a total jerk and a loudmouth."

"Oh, Max isn't so bad once you get to know him."

"So you do like him?" Jesse asked again. "Or do you...maybe like me instead?"

"Umm..." Tammy stammered. "Gee, maybe having boys fight over me isn't so great."

"What was that?" Jesse asked, not hearing the last thing she said.

SpongeTron's ghost alarm triggers once more, "Lydia's ten meters ahead!" he pointed.

Jesse's moped leaps out as they leave the streets and come across an old railroad track with train cars containing the words "Circus Gothica."

He parks his moped behind a box car and the three hop off. "They're close by." SpongeTron informed them. "Be prepared for anything."

As they sneak around the train to find the two villains, Jesse whispers to Tammy, "You do know since Max is from the future, you're technically ten years older than him, right?"

"Shh!" SpongeTron angrily hushed, "We don't have time for this!"

Suddenly, they hear a voice call out, "At last, I finally have it!"

They peek inside one of the train cars and see Freakshow standing with Lydia as he holds out the black pendant Lydia had stolen from the museum. "The Jewel of the Shadows, perfect for a day like today."

"'Jewel of the Shadows'?" Tammy repeated, "Doesn't sound good."

"That name sounds familiar." Jesse said, tapping his foot. "But I don't know why."

Freakshow picked up an umbrella. "Today's the day where shadow ghosts usually run amok in Amity Park simply because it's Friday the 13th, but what about all the other shadows that are around?" he carelessly opened the umbrella. "Wouldn't they wanna cause bad luck?"

Due to the bad luck Freakshow unleashed, Jesse started to glow and he fell on the ground, trying to hold back his shadow form. "Jesse!" Tammy cried, running to him.

Lydia turned her head to where the Nicktoons were and sent two octopus tattoos off her body and they slid the train door open, revealing the three intruders.

"Well, well, well," Freakshow cunningly said to the three. "If it isn't the Nicktoons. How are you enjoying Friday the 13th?"

"I've had better." Tammy responded, helping Jesse to his feet.

SpongeTron aimed his beamsword at Freakshow. "I don't know what that shadow necklace does, but we're taking it back."

"And we're gonna put a stop to whatever you're scheming!" Tammy accused, "What are you scheming anyway?"

"Oh, wouldn't you like to know, child," Freakshow asked, "But first…" He snapped his fingers when a swarm of Lydia's tattoos emerge and wrap themselves around the three. "Should make sure you don't interfere with my plans. Same for your other friends too," Freakshow explained when he holds up the medallion, "The Jewel of Shadows has the ability to summon and control all the shadow ghosts in this town. With their power to spread bad luck, I can cause mayhem in all of Amity Park and then the world!"

"Ha!" Tammy laughed, "The only shadow ghosts here are Jess and Darry. How are you gonna take over the world with just two shadow ghosts?"

"My dear," Freakshow said as he turned on a light and aimed it at the three captives. "Everyone in the world has a shadow of their own."

The Nicktoon look down and see the light reflecting their shadows on the ground.

Freakshow puts on the medallion and it glows a dark black color and the glow emits around his body. "YES!" Freakshow yells in triumph. "All the shadows in Amity Park come to me!"

Tammy and SpongeTron watch as their shadows lift off the ground and fly toward Freakshow, swirling around his body and they look up to see more shadows coming his way.

Back at the shop in town, Darry's shadow was still causing trouble for Darry, Tommy, and Maxwell as he had them trapped against the wall with his large hands. But his blue eyes widen as something came upon him and he suddenly let them go and started flying away.

"What was that about?" Maxwell asked.

"Who cares? We gotta go after him!" Tommy yelled.

"Right!" Darry said as he grabbed Tommy and Maxwell, turned intangible and flew after his shadow.

That night, the citizens were minding their own business when they notice something off about their shadows. On each shadow's face, their eyes suddenly glow red as they escape their hosts and seep away, leaving everyone collapsing in a comatose state.

At the Fenton house, Sam experiences the same thing as she sees her shadow leave and she falls to the ground in coma. "Sam!" Danny yells, but before he can run to her, his shadow leaves and he too falls unconscious.

Outside in the backyard, Yuki and Kida were unconscious inside the tent after they too lost their shadows.

In the starry night, Darry was flying two of his friends after his shadow. Maxwell looked down and noticed many shadows moving across the streets in the direction of where Darry's shadow was moving while the townspeople began to collapse. "This is not good," Maxwell said when he noticed they are descending.

The boys look up at Darry whose eyes became baggy again as he slows down and lowers close to the ground. "Dude, snap out of it!" Tommy yelled at him.

"Sorry," Darry responded with a yawn, "He must be...getting farther away."

Tommy looked up at Darry's shadow and noticed they are still at a same distance despite descending a few feet lower, "No he's not!"

"It's like Johnny 13 said!" Maxwell remembered, "The longer they're separated, the weaker Scottie gets."

"Then we have to hurry." Tommy urged and started slapping Darry's face. "Fly faster, Darry!"

Darry frowns from being repeatedly slapped. "That's not helping."

Soon, the shadows reached the train yard and they stop when they see the shadows surrounding Freakshow and growing taller and taller.

The shadows form around Freakshow until he becomes a shadow himself only much monstrous than before when he was a ghost. "I take it our other group didn't stop them," Maxwell said dully when Darry falls unconscious and dives down with the boys screaming.

They slam into the ground in a big dust cloud. Once it dissipates, Tommy and Maxwell groaned in pain. "Remind me to kill him when he wakes up," Maxwell told Tommy when the two look down to see their own shadows have glowing red eyes and leave them to merge with the Shadow Freakshow.

The shadow Freakshow opens his red eyes and smirks malevolently. "Yes! I've done it! I am the most powerful shadow ghost in the world!"

Jesse, Tammy, and SpongeTron ran over to their friends. "He's taken control of everyone's shadows!" Tammy screams frantically.

"And put everyone to sleep!" Maxwell added.

"Weird, how come we didn't fall asleep?" Tommy wondered.

SpongeTron thought about it when he realized the answer and took out his lucky horseshoe. Followed by him, everyone else takes out the good luck charms Yuki gave them.

"Darry's sister's crazy voodoo junk worked after all." Tommy said in amazement.

"Nice to see we have good luck on our side," Tammy smiled until she heard snoring from Darry, "Almost."

"I feel power seeping into me from the shadow ghost I've absorbed." Shadow Freakshow said, "Just imagine how I'll be with a second shadow ghost." he said, eyeing Jesse.

"I think he's talking about you." Maxwell bluntly pointed out to Jesse.

"Not a chance!" Jesse yelled out, "I have two lives left!"

Shadow Freakshow began to walk over. "With just a little bad luck, you'll transform and be drawn to my..." but suddenly, his eyes widen and he begins to cringe.

"What..." he utters as his shadow form begins to flicker, "What's happening?" and suddenly, his eyes begin to flash blue.

Jesse and the Nicktoons watch as Freakshow starts to struggle as he shouts, "You're in my control! Stay down! NO!" suddenly, his red eyes turn bright blue and the shadow monster laughs in Darry's voice.

"Darry's shadow took control of Freakshow and all the other shadows!" Tommy shouted in realization.

"That's good!" SpongeTron smiled until he asked, "Is it?"

The shadow monster eyed the Nicktoons and let out an evil cackle before swinging his arm and smashing his hand down toward the Nicktoons. They all scream and run out of the way with SpongeTron dragging Darry away. "Big surprise." Maxwell sarcastically said with a frown. "Scottie's shadow form is more evil than Freakshow, who knew?"

Darry's shadow laughed and spots Tammy near the table lamp. He smirks evilly and attempts to crush her again. "Tammy, watch out!" Jesse and Maxwell shout. Tammy dives out of the way as the hand comes crashing down, but hit the table lamp, causing the small beam of light to hit his hand, disapperating a small spot. He shrieks in pain as he holds his hand before reforming his injury. Tammy ran toward the rest of her friends who hid behind a wrecked train car. "Is everyone okay?" she asks.

"We're just glad you are," Maxwell smiled.

"Uh...except one," SpongeTron said. The team glanced down at Darry who looked very weak and unresponsive. SpongeTron waved a hand to grab his attention, but it didn't work. "He's in a deep unconsciousness, his pulse is slow, and his skin tone is really pale. This is bad."

"If we're gonna save Darry, we have to beat that thing." Tommy stated, pointing at Darry's shadow, whose injury had healed and was now eyeing the Nicktoons with anger.

"But how?" Jesse asked. "It's too dangerous."

"I know how." Tammy explained, "Light. He's a shadow ghost. I noticed it react badly to light, so we just need to beat it with light."

"Do you see how big that thing is?" Tommy asked. "We'll need a whole bunch of light if we're gonna beat that thing."

Maxwell looked around and spotted a couple search lights by the train. He smiled and proclaimed, "I got it! We already have some bright lights to beat him. SpongeTron, you can help us too."

SpongeTron seemed to agree with the plan, but noticed Darry's shadow ghost recovering and glare at them. "But how are we gonna get it ready and avoid that thing at the same time?"

Maxwell then looked at Jesse and spotted Freakshow's small mirror on the ground. "I know how." without warning, Maxwell picked up a rock and threw it at the mirror, shattering it. Jesse then glows green and he grunts as he doubles over, trying to hold back his shadow form, which was even more difficult since it was his sixth time doing so.

Tammy held Jesse as he began to recover, and glared at Maxwell. "Max, are you out of your mind?" she snapped.

"If I turn into a shadow ghost, that thing is gonna absorb me too!" Jesse angrily explained.

"Exactly." Maxwell explained with a sly smile. "If you go in with all those other shadows, you can keep Scottie under control while we work to get rid of it."

Tammy thought it over and agreed, "That does sound like a pretty good idea. What do you say, Jesse?

Jesse didn't seem so sure. "I don't know. Darry is much more experienced than me. What if I'm not strong enough to overcome him?"

"Dude, you're Jesse 13; son of the most dangerous and unluckily ghost couple in the Ghost Zone," Tommy pointed out, "You have much more experience as a shadow ghost than Dar."

Jesse looked uncertain when Maxwell smiled with another idea. "Pfft..." he frowned in annoyance, "I should have known. There's no way Jesse 13 can do it."

"What was that?" Jesse asked, looking offended.

"I don't even know why you joined us in the first place. You're like no help at all," Maxwell taunted, "You're even more useless than Scottie is right now!"

Jesse then yelled back, "You have no idea what I'm capable of! I'm a shadow ghost that causes bad luck!"

"Uh, guys?" SpongeTron tried to intervene, "I don't think this is the time to be arguing."

"Ooh...I'm so scared," Maxwell taunted with a smirk, "I bet your shadow form isn't as terrifying as your dad's own shadow!"

Jesse narrowed his eyes, getting angrier by the second. Tammy then tries to intervene as well, "Max, you shouldn't be talking like that."

"Just a second, Tams." Maxwell responded and continued taunting Jesse, "I don't know why Tammy would be interested in wuss like you! You're afraid of your own shadow!"

Jesse's growled as his eyes glow completely red and body glows green as his shadow below him begins to work its way up his body until it completely morphs him into his shadow form. The shadow ghost then screeches loudly, having taken form. Seeing the new shadow ghost, Darry's shadow smirks in satisfaction and chuckles as he holds out his hand in order to suck Jesse's shadow into its body with the others.

The shadow ghost is sucked into the large shadow monster and Darry's shadow laughs in triumph, feeling more powerful with an extra shadow ghost. Tammy gasped in horror. "Jesse, no! Max, what have you done?"

"Oh, he'll beat him," Maxwell said in confidence and turned to SpongeTron and Tommy, "Don't you guys have something to do?"

"Oh, right." SpongeTron and Tommy both agreed and run off to set up all the lights.

Darry's shadow spots Maxwell and Tammy and smirks as he starts to approach them. Tammy recoils in terror while Maxwell stands his ground, but suddenly, the shadow freezes and cringes as his eyes flash red and it screeches. Maxwell smiled. "He's doing it! That unlucky punk did it!"

Darry's shadow ghost managed to gain control again and glared at the two Nicktoons. Tammy realized, "It doesn't look like he'll be able to do it much longer. We have to hurry!"

While Jesse managed to hold him back once again, Tammy and Maxwell rush off to help Tommy and Poof who were setting up the spotlights and SpongeTron was plugging the cords in his body. Darry's shadow regains control again and he spots Darry's unconscious body lying on the ground. Maxwell sees the shadow lift his large hand and swipe at Darry, but Maxwell quickly uses his powers to telekinetically move Darry across the ground away from the shadow. The shadow monster's hand hits the ground and it turned to the Nicktoons, glaring at them viciously.

"Are we ready yet?" Maxwell asked his teammates.

"Almost," Tommy called out as plugged one last cord on SpongeTron.

Darry's shadow form smirks and approaches them, but he was once again held back by Jesse from inside the monster. Maxwell turned to everyone, "Now's our chance!"

Tammy, Tommy, and Poof point the spotlights at the shadow and SpongeTron powers them all up as he too unleashes bright lights from inside his body. The bright light touches the shadow monster which burns its black skin and it screeches in agony. "YES!" Maxwell cheered. "It's working!"

The shadow got smaller and smaller as it split apart and all the shadows move across the ground and go to their previous owners, including Tammy, Tommy, SpongeTron, and Maxwell. Once all the shadows were gone, lying on the ground were Freakshow and Jesse 13. The last shadow to go back to its owner was Darry's and once it rested on the ground beneath him, Darry began to open his eyes. He sat up and groggily asked, "What time is it?"

Tammy ran over to Jesse and helped him sit up. "Jesse, are you alright?"

Jesse weakly smiled and responded, "I'm fine, babe. That didn't hurt as bad as it looked."

Maxwell used his powers to split them apart. "You heard him." Maxwell told Tammy dully. "He's fine."

The other Nicktoons approach and SpongeTron asks, "So what do you we do about Freakshow?" he pointed at the ringmaster, who was lying on the ground, clearly shaken by what he had endured.

"So much darkness...and teenage rebellion." Freakshow uttered.

"I think he'll be just fine in the Guys in White's custody," Darry said vividly, walking towards his friends.

"Darry!" Tommy, Tammy, and SpongeTron cried joyfully and hug him, glad to see he's alright.

Darry smiled and responded, "I don't know what you guys did to save the day. But I'm sure it was pretty gnarly."

"We hope you'll start believing in Friday the 13th now." Tommy teasingly said to Darry.

Maxwell walked over and said, "Glad to see you back, Scottie," with a smile and punches him in the arm.

"You're not gonna believe it." Tammy told him, "If it weren't for Jesse and Max, we wouldn't have been able to stop Freakshow."

Maxwell glanced at Tammy, and then smiled proudly, "I came up with the idea."

Jesse phased through Maxwell and proudly declared, "But I was the one who pulled it off."

"I beat the monster." Maxwell pointed out.

"But you wouldn't have beaten the monster if it weren't for me." Jesse added.

"ENOUGH!" SpongeTron shouted, finally getting them to stop. "I've been listening to you two argue all day, even when our friend needed you the most. Is fighting for Tammy's attention really that important? Can't you focus on being her friend rather than having her choose between you two? How do you think she feels being in the middle of all it?"

Tammy was still grinning in joy at having boys fight over her, but quickly put on a sad frown when she noticed the fighting was bothering everyone else. Both Maxwell and Jesse thought it over and Maxwell stood close to Tammy and apologized, "Sorry for being a jerk. I didn't mean to put you in a compromising situation."

"Same as well, toots," Jesse admitted, "Maybe I was a bit...jealous over your new teammate, being close to you and all your friends."

"No, I was the one who was jealous," Maxwell confessed when he blushed and exclaimed, "Wait, no! Not jealous! I mean...envious...no, covetous...no..."

"Overprotective," Tommy corrected.

"Yes!" Maxwell smiled, "I was...overprotective because of a ghastly juvenile delinquent that I distrust, but may have also misjudged. And NOT because I'm jealous."

"Oh," Tammy said with a sigh. "You both are so sweet, but it's too hard to choose between you guys. I think for now, I'd rather be with both of you."

Both Maxwell and Jesse smile in joy, and Darry suggests, "Come on, guys. Let's spend the night at my place. I don't know why, but I feel so awake."

"Yeah!" Tammy, Tommy, and SpongeTron all agree.

As they follow, Maxwell whispered to Jesse, "My apology was better."

"I read her mind, she totally liked me better."

"She won't after I overshadow you and make you tell her I'm better."

"Oh yeah?"

"YEAAAH!"

The two boys continue arguing during the walk to Fenton Works, and Tammy chuckled as she said, "Boys, this fighting over me has got to stop." while the other three annoyed Nicktoons ignored them.

The End

It looks like another love-triangle has surfaced. How much more will there be? Please review and stick around for the next story, "Dum Luv".