Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future
Episode 14: Nicktoon Genesis Zero
Plot: During Junior's night in the hospital, the Nicktoons comfort him by telling some origin stories with a twist. Crash tells of their ancestor, SpongeBuck SquarePants, who tracked down a group of bandits that made off with a treasure. Darry tells the story of when he was born and had to be rescued by his father. Finally, Maxwell tells the story of how he came from the future. But which story will keep Junior the most entertained?
Part 1
It's been several weeks since Junior's incident. Maxwell was the first to arrive in HQ when he called for Cindy. "Hey, have you seen Mr. Neutron around?"
Cindy was feeding Baby Max a bottle and replied, "He should be in his lab as usual."
Maxwell nodded and heads to the lab. He glances around stored inventions, both new and old. "Commander?" Maxwell called out. "Mr. Neutron? Hello?" The place seemed rather quiet yet strangely eerie to Maxwell. He gulped when he noticed a desk and Jimmy facing away in his chair. "Ah, there you are, Commander," Maxwell said, approaching him from behind, "For a second, I thought you were..." but when he moved the chair, Jimmy collapsed to the floor.
"Neutron!" Maxwell shouted in shock as he kneeled to him. He pushed his body frontward, his heart almost stopped to see Jimmy was in some comatose state. "Neutron! Mr. Neutron!" Maxwell pleaded, shaking Jimmy, trying to wake him. "Neutron... Jimmy... DAD!" He begged, tears threatening to come out, "You gotta wake up! Dad, please!"
"Max?" Maxwell heard a voice and gasped to see the Nicktoons and Cadets surrounding him in a tight corner. Their faces full of both shock and disapproval.
"Maxwell, what did you do?!" Darry asked angrily to the boy standing beside their fallen commander.
Maxwell held his face as he frantically answered, "I-I-I didn't do anything! I just..."
"You're lying, Maxwell." Yuki accused with a deathly glare.
"You've been lying since you arrived." Tammy added in anger.
"NO!" Maxwell yelled as he covered his ears.
"Now look what you've done, Maxwell." Tommy said in disappointment. "Neutron is gone because of you."
"You failed him, Maxwell." SpongeTron added with a cold glare. "Just like you always do."
Maxwell's eyes well up with tears as Junior cries out, "And all because you couldn't tell the truth, you big liar!"
"Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar!" The Nicktoons and the Cadets all chant as they glare at Maxwell, who screams loudly.
Suddenly, Maxwell's eyes shoot open while he was sitting in chair in the corner of a room. He looks around to see he was in the Bikini Bottom Hospital with the Nicktoons and the Cadets. Darry, Tommy, and Kida were watching TV, Twitchy was pushing Crash around on a tray table, Tammy was reading a book, SpongeTron was looking at a heart monitor, and Yuki was sitting on Junior's bed reading his fortune with tarot cards.
Maxwell was still panting in exhaustion from his nightmare that Tammy looked up from her book when she noticed him. "Max, is something wrong?"
"N-No. Everything is fine." Maxwell answered, and looked away, feeling guilty for lying to her.
Yuki looked at a tarot card and told Junior, "In the future, you're gonna be rich, with a mansion and swimming pool."
"Ooh," Junior smiled and clapped his hands in joy. "In that case, I can't wait for the future."
Suddenly, the door opened and they see Sandy come in. "Howdy, Junior, I got great news for ya. The doctor says your brain and body are fit as a fiddle. So you can go home first thing tomorrow mornin'." The kids all smile and cheer, except for Junior himself.
"But I don't wanna go home tomorrow, I wanna go home now." Junior complained as he cuddled his jellyfish doll. "Mr. Jelly and I get so bored here by ourselves."
Sandy frowned sadly since she felt sorry for Junior and wanted her son home as well. "Sorry Junior, but I'll tell ya what, your brothers and friends can stay with you for another hour until it's time to go. I'll be back then."
After Sandy left, Yuki sat next to Junior's left side and tried to comfort him. "Junior, I had no idea you felt this way."
Junior sighed in defeat. "You guys get to go on missions and have fun together while I'm stuck here doing nothing."
"We can have fun here." Kida insisted.
Junior crossed his arms and lied back in his bed. "Yeah? Doing what?"
"Oh, Junior," Crash explained serenely as he sat on the bed next to Junior's right side, "I've had to stay in the hospital dozens of times. When I was your age, Pa was visitin' me and he told me a story."
"Really?" Junior asked with an excited grin. "What kind of story?"
"All kinds of stories. Ones about astronauts, monster trucks, aliens..."
Tammy held a book and suggested, "I got a book you can listen to, Junior."
"Blah, blah, blah," Tommy mocked, "No one wants to hear a boring book. I got a great story that everyone will enjoy."
"Iwannahearastoryaboutacandyfactory! Withlotsofchocolate!" Twitchy shouted, jumping up and down.
"How about ghost stories?" Darry suggested in a spooky voice.
"We're trying to cheer him up, not give him a heart attack," Yuki said dully.
"Why don't we let Junior decide who gets to tell their story," Kida pointed out and gestures, "Junior?"
"Hmmm..." Junior rubbed his chin, wondering what to hear as some of their friends raised their hand high to tell their tale. "Well...since Crash started it, I think he should tell it first."
Hearing that he was picked, Crash grinned in satisfaction. "Well, if ya insist. It just so happens that I've been researchin' our family tree for a school project and I made a discovery that we have Western heritage."
Junior gasped in excitement. "Really?!"
"That's right. I also know a story about our western grandpa, and it goes like this..."
As Crash's story begins, it goes to a western town as the train stops next to it and three square figures step out and walk into town. 'Back when our town was called Bikini Gulch, three young strangers arrived in search of someone. Their names were Amos Buster, Jed Jr., and the ultra cool Calamity Crash.'
Soon the doors to the Krusty Kantina open and there stood three young sponges. Calamity Crash was wearing a long-sleeved shirt and brown trench coat with chaps, gloves, boots, and a cowboy hat. Jed Jr. was wearing a red plaid shirt, short blue pants, boots, and a small cowboy hat. And Amos Buster was wearing long gray pants, a white shirt, gray vest, black shoes, a bowler hat, and monocle. The three approach the bar counter where Hopalong Tentacles was polishing glasses. Calamity Crash leans on the counter and whispers, "Pss! We're lookin' for someone by the name of SpongeBuck SquarePants. Seen him?"
With an uninterested frown, Hopalong Tentacles points to the right. "Over there." They turn to see SpongeBuck mixing a bowl of chili with an enthusiastic smile.
The three sponges approach the older sponge, who looks over when he notices them. "Howdy boys! Care to sample some of my chili?" He forces a spoonful into Amos Buster's mouth, who silently gags at the horrible taste and runs off to puke.
The other two sponges decide to reject the offer and Jed Jr. starts crying, "Oh please, Sheriff SpongeBuck, we need your help!"
"'Sheriff'?" SpongeBuck questioned, "Why, I ain't no sheriff, just at frycookin'." He said with a laugh.
"But you're the one that freed the town from Dead Eye Plankton, ain't ya?" Calamity Crash demanded to know.
"Well, yes, that's so. But what you youngins need my help for?"
Jed Jr. leans close to him and pleads, "Ya have to help us. Our family was robbed by none other than...the Bushy-Tailed Gang."
Unfortunately, everyone in the saloon hears him and falls in dead silence. Amos Buster even gulps at hearing their name. SpongeBuck whispered in fear, "Did you say the Bushy-Tailed Gang?"
"Uh huh." Jed Jr. responded with fear in his voice. "They broke into our home, stole our family treasure, and...hung our folks out to dry." SpongeBuck gasped at hearing the last part until Jed Jr. added, "...They were doin' laundry outside and those varmints pinned 'em to the clothes line."
Calamity Crash grits his teeth and adds, "And I'd love nothin' more than to get our treasure back and get revenge for what they did."
Despite feeling sympathy for the boys, SpongeBuck apologized, "Sorry y'all, I'd love to help ya out, but I just don't chase criminals."
Amos Buster cleared his throat to get his brothers' attention and darted his eyes back and forth between SpongeBuck and them. Taking the hint, Calamity Crash then offered, "If you help us get our treasure back, we promise to reward you handsomely."
Hearing this, William Krabs burst in and shouted, "Reward?!" In excitement. He points to SpongeBuck, "You're goin' to help these boys catch the bandits and get their treasure back."
"But Mr. Krabs..." SpongeBuck tried to argue.
"That's an order!"
With no other choice, SpongeBuck stood straight and declared, "Not to worry, boys. I'll go find your treasure from the Bushy-Tailed Gang. And I know just the idiot friend to help me."
'With the mission in mind, SpongeBuck set on the train to find the Bushy-Tailed Gang's next heist.' Crash narrated, 'He ordered the boys to stay in town, but the excitable Calamity Crash had the brilliant idea to tag along in secret.'
As he spoke, a suitcase suddenly started to move from inside the cargo cart. It suddenly opened up and Amos Buster, Calamity Crash, and Jed Jr. fling out from inside. Amos Buster takes a pair of underwear off his head while they stand up. Calamity Crash then declares, "We made it. Now let's help SpongeBuck catch that thievin' gang."
In the passenger cart, SpongeBuck and Pecos Patrick were sitting together as they discussed the whereabouts of the Bushy-Tailed Gang. "Ya sure we can find the Bushy-Tailed Gang around the next town?" SpongeBuck asked Pecos Patrick.
"Sure am." Pecos Patrick assured. "They liked to go from town to town committin' crimes, sometimes in-between." But as he spoke, a group of squirrels, riding seahorses saw the train from the distance and began galloping close to the train.
"What do ya mean 'sometimes in-between'?" SpongeBuck asked his friend until they felt the train rumble.
Everyone sees the compartment door open and a female squirrel entered, wearing a cowboy hat with a pink flower on it, a cow pattern skirt, a purple shirt and brown vest, and a purple bandanna covering half her face. "Alright! Ain't nobody gonna move!" she demanded.
Suddenly two younger female squirrels came from behind her. One with brown fur just like the older one, but with small eye glasses, a blue flower in her hair, a long brown skirt, a dark blue jacket, and blue bandanna covering half her face. The other squirrel was the same age as her but with blonde fur, a pink southern belle dress and hat, and a pink bandanna covering half her face. They both suddenly fired guns throughout the train, causing all the passengers to duck on the ground. But SpongeBuck looks up to see the bullets on the ground are actually acorns.
Pecos Patrick picks up one acorn and chuckles, "Ha! They don't look bad, they look tasty." He pops one in his mouth to eat. Suddenly, something inside his mouth explodes as he opens up, releasing gas that puts him to sleep.
Suddenly, all the acorns explode and release the gas that puts the passengers to sleep. Once they were sure the passengers were unconscious, Sandy Jane shouts, "Alright, partners, loot this locomotive blind."
Mandy and Dandy march forward to steal valuables, unaware that hiding under his seat was SpongeBuck, who lifts a chili pot off his head that he used to shield himself from the gas.
In the back cart, the three young sponges were standing around when they hear the commotion. "Did ya hear that?" Jed Jr. asked.
But the back door suddenly opened and there stood a male squirrel in baggy green overalls, a red bandanna over his mouth, and an eyepatch over his right eye. With him was another young female squirrel with dark brown fur, wearing a cowboy hat with a purple star, a black shirt, a short purple skirt and a black bandana over her mouth.
Recognizing the bandits from before, Jed Jr. screams, "AAAH! It's the Bushy-Tailed Gang!"
Andy hummed and spoke to her partner sarcastically, "Well, they do look familiar."
Wild Bill Twitch stared at the three sponges and lowered his mask, revealing a lollipop he was sucking on. "I know y'all. You're the ones we robbed." He sped over to them and laughed. "HaHa! Westoleyourtreasureandnowit'sours!" Haha!"
Hearing his taunts, Calamity Crash glares angrily and squares off against the squirrel. "The only thing I like more than treasure is REVENGE!"
They both growl as they stare each other down. But then, Andy takes out a gun and fires at the sponges. Jed Jr. screams as he ducks and Calamity Crash jumps out of the way. But Amos Buster ends up getting hit square in the face. An acorn lets out the same kind of gas and knocks Amos Buster unconscious. Seeing this, Calamity Crash yells as he charges at Wild Bill Twitch, who does the same thing.
Back in the passenger cart, the rest of the gang was looting the unconscious passengers until Dandy comes across SpongeBuck still crouched on the floor. "Hey, who're you?" She asked while SpongeBuck nervously waves.
Sandy Jane approached while lowering her mask and grinned mischievously at SpongeBuck. "Well, it looks like someone here don't know the rules when it comes to train robbin'. It looks like we got a rebel." She then leaned close to him with a flirty smile, "A handsome rebel."
SpongeBuck blushed and chuckled in flattery. But then, he asked, "By any chance do you have a treasure that ya took from some boys?"
Sandy Jane chuckled evilly and answered, "I sure do. Just one little problem..."
She snaps her fingers and Mandy approaches, holding a small metal treasure box as she explained, "This box won't open without the proper key. If we don't get that key, we don't get the treasure."
"There ya have it. Now all I need is that key and I'm gonna get it one way or another."
Seeing Sandy Jane smirking at him, SpongeBuck shrieked and ran towards the next cart to get away, but his eyes widen at what he sees. Crash and Wild Bill Twitch were throwing each other around the compartment as they fought while Jed Jr. his behind a trunk, Amos Buster was still unconscious, and Andy was clumsily trying to aim at the sponge rolling around the cart. SpongeBuck was surprised to see the three boys on the train. "What are y'all doin' here?" SpongeBuck asked until he was swatted away into Calamity Crash by Sandy Jane, who used an unconscious Pecos Patrick as a bat.
Wild Bill Twitch laughed in amusement while Jed Jr. checked on both sponges. Sandy Jane smirked as she said, "One of y'all has the key to the treasure, and I'm gonna get it even if I have to wrangle it out of ya."
SpongeBuck pondered at what to do when he noticed something on the ground. He looked up at the squirrels. "I only have one thing to say..." SpongeBuck said. "Take cover!" He kicks an unused acorn into the Bushy Tail Gang's direction and it exploded upon impact.
Sandy Jane and the girls coughed and gagged. Though the bandannas protected them from the gas, it was hard to see. SpongeBuck covered his mouth and gestures the two sponges forward. Crash and Jed Jr. nodded as they carried Amos Buster away as SpongeBuck pulled Pecos Patrick. Once the gas cleared, the Bushy Tailed Gang opened their eyes to see the sponges and starfish gone. "Where'd they go?" Mandy looked around only to see a wide open window.
As the train sped away, the group lies beside the train track as Pecos Patrick and Amos Buster wake up. "Ugh...I just had the craziest dream." Pecos Patrick said.
Calamity Crash kicked some dirt off the ground. "Tarnation, I was just about to get my vengeance on them varmints."
But SpongeBuck glared at the three sponges, "Boys, what was that there squirrel lady goin' on about a key to the treasure?" The three young sponges stood there in silence as they shift awkwardly.
Later that night, the group was now sitting around a campfire as they explained the literal key to their treasure. Calamity Crash explained, "The chest to our family treasure can't be opened without the key, and it's indestructible too so there's no way to get it opened."
"Them mean cowboy ladies are surely lookin' for us to get that key and take our treasure." Jed Jr. added, shivering in fright.
SpongeBuck stared in surprise as he asked, "Where is that key?"
They all fell silent as Amos Buster looked away and Jed Jr. grits his teeth. But Calamity Crash answers, "We don't know. Our folks hid the key somewhere and never told us where."
Pecos Patrick laughed. "Those squirrels are after us for no reason." Suddenly, his stomach growled and he complained, "SpongeBuck, I'm hungry."
Calamity Crash then added, "I'm hungry too."
Jed Jr. picked something up off the ground. "It's okay. I found this tasty nut. That must mean there's plenty of food around here." He then stuck it in his mouth and chewed it.
"NUT?!" Everyone screamed, but it was too late. Suddenly, something popped in Jed Jr.'s mouth and it releases smoke from his pores that knocked him out. It then wafts to Calamity Crash and Amos Buster, knocking them unconscious as well.
SpongeBuck and Pecos Patrick stood up until bullets of acorns shot at their feet, letting out smoke. Pecos Patrick fell unconscious, but SpongeBuck held his eyes open long enough to see the Bushy-Tailed Gang close in on them. Sandy Jane looked at SpongeBuck with a smirk. "Thanks for watchin' the boys, handsome." Before he could do anything, SpongeBuck passed out.
After many hours, SpongeBuck woke up to see it was morning, the campfire out, and no sign of the Bushy-Tailed Gang or the sponge kids. He looked to see Pecos Patrick still sleeping next to him. He reached over and shook him awake. "Wake up! Hurry!" He shouted.
Pecos Patrick's shoot open. "Huh? What?" He looks around to see no one but SpongeBuck. "Where are them boys?"
"That mean squirrel lady and her gang took 'em. They're gonna try to steal that key out of 'em." SpongeBuck glared in determination and pounded his fist into his hand. "We gotta save them boys. We can follow their trail if we move fast enough."
"But how?"
Narrowing his eyes, SpongeBuck answered, "The only way I know how." Following the trail left by the Bushy-Tailed Gang, SpongeBuck and Pecos Patrick rode through the desert on SpongeBuck's coffin in order to rescue the sponge kids.
After a while, they reach a large cliff with a cave that was the hideout of the Bushy-Tailed Gang. Inside the cave was tons of loot that the gang has stolen over the years. There was a large pit filled with electric eels that Calamity Crash, Jed Jr., and Amos Buster were hanging over. "Alright, boys," Sandy Jane stated, tapping a whip in her hand. "Where's that key?"
"Key? What key?" Calamity Crash asked, "I don't know what y'all talking' about."
He went silent when Sandy snapped her whip close to them. "Y'all know what I'm talkin' about," she shouted, losing patience, "The key to openin' that family treasure!"
Jed Jr. started crying as he yelled, "We do know about the key! But we don't know where it is!"
"That so?" Sandy Jane pointed her whip to Andy, and the latter turned a crank that lowered the boys toward the pit with eels. "Maybe that'll jog your memory."
"Hey boss!" Mandy shouted as she and Dandy approach with SpongeBuck and Pecos Patrick in their custody. "We found these two tryin' to sneak in."
Sandy Jane smirks with pleasure. "Well, it looks like you boys are tougher than ya look. Come to help me shake that key outta those rascals?"
"No way no how." SpongeBuck retorted and proceeded to kick dirt on Dandy's pink dress.
Dandy then gasped in horror. "My dress!" But she was suddenly grabbed by Pecos Patrick and thrown into Mandy, knocking them both away.
SpongeBuck pointed to Pecos Patrick. "You hogtie those squirrels while I save the boys."
Pecos Patrick tipped his hat and they both split up while Sandy Jane smiled at SpongeBuck. "Rebellious, tough, and handsome."
SpongeBuck ran toward the lever, making Andy scream in fear and run away. SpongeBuck grabbed the lever and stopped the rope from lowering the boys toward the eels.
"Don't worry, boys." SpongeBuck assured. "You're almost free-" but he was suddenly lassoed away by Wild Bill Twitch.
"End of the road, cowboy." The squirrel said with his visible eye glaring at SpongeBuck.
Seeing the older sponge in trouble, Calamity Crash shouted, "I won't let you hurt our hero, SpongeBuck!" He started swinging back and forth until the rope loosened and he and his brothers fly forward. Calamity Crash and Amos Buster land safely away from the pit, but Jed Jr. clings to the ledge until an eel zaps his hand. He cries in pain until Amos Buster pulls him up.
Picking up a horseshoe, Calamity Crash tossed it at Wild Bill Twitch, knocking him away from SpongeBuck. Calamity Crash stood in front of the squirrel and yelled, "I want our treasure back!"
But Wild Bill Twitch snarled and retorted, "I want the key!"
"I want my revenge!"
SpongeBuck came beside Calamity Crash and stood next to him, ready to back him up. But before the three could fight, a voice called out, "Not so fast!" They turn to see Sandy Jane standing atop a pile of loot, holding up the treasure box.
"Our treasure!" Jed Jr. called out, holding his injured hand while his oldest brother kept him still.
"You best surrender and reveal the location of the key." She threatened. "Otherwise you ain't leavin' this cave-" Suddenly the pile she was on toppled over and she slid down until she was buried underneath all the loot she stole.
It turned out Pecos Patrick had inadvertently caused this by taking out a golden spittoon from the bottom of the pile. "Sorry, can I use this?" He asked, standing next to the other three squirrels he had tied up.
While half of Sandy Jane's body was buried underneath all the treasure, she dropped the treasure box and Calamity Crash picked it up. Wild Bill Twitch turned to him and snarled, wanting it back. But SpongeBuck shot him in the face with an acorn gun, knocking him out. "Revenge!" Calamity Crash yelled in triumph.
Jed Jr. and Amos Buster approached; the former holding his injured hand. He cried out, "Them mean eels zapped my hand!"
SpongeBuck observed his injury. "It don't look good. We'll have to amputate it." The three boys gasped in fright until SpongeBuck just pulls Jed Jr.'s arm off and another one grows back in its place. SpongeBuck chuckled and added, "Good thing you're a sponge." At this, Jed Jr. and the rest of his siblings along with Pecos Patrick laughed.
They soon get Sandy Jane and Wild Bill Twitch tied up with the rest of the Bushy-Tailed Gang so they can turn them into the sheriff. Sandy Jane then smiled at SpongeBuck and asked flirtatiously, "Think you can get me outta this, handsome? We'd make a good team, you and I."
SpongeBuck blushed and giggled, but then coughed as he responded, "Terribly sorry, ma'am. But right now my heart belongs to my job." But he smiles at the squirrel, "But I'll happily see ya durin' visitin' hours."
Afterwards, he walks over to Pecos Patrick and the kids to see them looking at the treasure box they recovered. "Glad you boys retrieved your family treasure. Just a shame y'all can't open it without the key."
Calamity Crash and Jed Jr. both bow their heads, knowing the treasure they worked hard to recover for their family was something they'd never know. But then, they heard a throat clearing and they all turn to Amos Buster. Amos Buster rolled his eyes and pulled something from inside his shirt collar: a rusty silver key tied by a rope around his neck. "I believe this is what everyone's looking for." He spoke.
"The key!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise.
"Ya had the key with you all this whole time?" SpongeBuck shouted in disbelief.
"And you waited till now to tell us instead of earlier when they tried to kill us?!" Calamity Crash yelled angrily.
"You can talk?!" Pecos Patrick loudly questioned.
Amos Buster just shrugged and glanced away while dully stating, "You never asked."
While some still weren't amused about this concealed information, SpongeBuck just excitedly urged, "Well, quit yappin' and open that box so we can see what's inside!" Calamity Crash held the box while Amos Buster unlocked it. When he reached inside the box, no one was expecting what he pulled out: an old piece of parchment.
"It's paper." Pecos Patrick stated.
"Maybe it's a treasure map." Jed Jr. assumed.
SpongeBuck looked at the parchment and smiled in realization. "No...I know what this is tellin' us."
Soon, everyone was back in Bikini Gulch and inside the Krusty Kantina. Pecos Patrick and the sponge kids were sitting at the counter in front of hot bowls of chili that SpongeBuck just prepared for them. "Boy howdy!" SpongeBuck exclaimed in joy. "Who knew that your family held a secret recipe for chili? Well, what'd y'all think?"
But despite the enthusiasm, no one seemed to be enjoying the chilli, not even the ones who owned the recipe. Calamity Crash whispered to Amos Buster, "I'm startin' to remember why we locked this away."
SpongeBuck came up to him and said, "Boy, you sure are honest and super tough. How would you like to be the new sheriff?"
Calamity Crash grinned in triumph until a female voice called out, "Excuse me." Calamity Crash turned and his eyes widen to see what looked like Yuki in a purple show girl dress. "I'm lookin' for the most darin' cowboy in the west."
Calamity Crash quickly got up from his seat and rushed over to the girl, grabbing her hands. "That's me, hero of the west. Join up with me and we'll gallop into the sunset, ride wild bulls, and-"
"Umm, Crash?"
The story was interrupted by Junior, who looked a bit uncomfortable. "Can you maybe end the story there?"
But a disappointed Crash did not look ready to end his tale. "Aww, but I was just gettin' to the good part."
"Thank you, Junior. It's best we end Crash's tall tale before we hear more nonsense," Maxwell said, rolling his eyes.
"Hey, I may have exaggerated a bit, but that story was entirely true!" Crash objected.
"Okay. If that's true, explain how the squirrel bandits you told us about managed to survive underwater without any scuba gear or supply of oxygen?"
"Well... I couldn't remember if the bandits were supposed to be sharks or pods, so I made 'em squirrels. But everything they did really happened."
Yuki then asked, "But what about that girl at the end? How was she even there? What did she look like again?"
Crash suddenly blushed and stammered, "Duh, uh, uh, uh…"
But Junior suddenly interrupted, "We still have a lot of time left. What other story can we hear?"
Tommy smiled and stated, "Well, if you want a story with facts and logic, wait till you hear mine. Okay, it all begins when-"
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" Darry suddenly hollered while waving his hand, "I got a gnarly story to tell!"
But Yuki intervened, "Darry, I told you that Junior doesn't wanna hear a ghost story."
"It's not a ghost story." Darry pointed out, but smiled, "But it does star yours truly."
Kida smiled widely, "Really? It's about you?"
Maxwell slumped in his seat, frowning, "Oh great, this is gonna be worse than the last one."
Tammy became interested and asked, "What ghost did you fight this time, Darry?"
Darry began explaining, "Actually, I didn't fight a ghost, and it wasn't a ghost, and it starts at the very beginning fifteen years ago..."
As Darry's story states he explains about seeing a bright light while inside a hospital and how he was crying loudly. But once his vision became clear it became obvious that he was referring to the day he was born.
From his point of view, he was being held by the doctor until he first sees his father, Danny (who is dressed in scrubs), stare at him in amazement. "Sam," Danny was saying as he looked at the baby. "She's beautiful, she's..." But his smile drops to shock, "...a 'he'."
Darry sees his disheveled mother smile at him as she takes him in her arms. "Danny, we have a baby boy." Sam said in joy.
The baby Darry was wrapped in a blue blanket and his crying begins to stop as he rests in his mother's comforting arms as his green eyes observe everything around him.
"Well, so much for naming him 'Delilah'." Danny said disappointedly, but smiled, "So what should we call him?"
"Hmm..." Sam pondered, "How about...'Darrel'?"
"'Darrel'?" Danny repeated. He liked the idea though, "Yeah...'Darrel Scott Fenton'."
"You know what he also looks like to me?" Sam added, letting the baby hold her finger. "A 'Darry'."
Danny smiled even more when he heard this. "Yeah...and when he grows up and gets ghost powers, he can be Darry Phantom and know..."
"Wait a minute!"
The story was interrupted by Maxwell, who pointed at Darry, "How is it that you're able to recollect a moment from infancy, or birth for that matter, Scottie?"
Darry just crossed his arms and leaned against the wall as he responded, "I think I'm the one telling the story here, and for those paying attention, they called me 'Darry Fenton'."
Darry resumes the story just minutes after his birth and his mom was still holding him. "... Right from the beginning, Mom and Dad knew I was special."
Darry laughs until he suddenly turns invisible, much to Sam's shock who wondered where her baby was. An equally panicked Danny looked around for his newborn son until he looked up and saw a nude Darry turn visible while hovering in the air above him. The baby suddenly dropped and Danny caught him. "He's special alright." Danny agreed, smiling at his baby.
The next day when Danny and Sam brought Darry home and dressed him in dark green jammies, they had many of their friends and family visiting them to meet Darry. 'Right from the get go, everyone loved me.' Darry narrated as Jazz holds Darry and cuddles him while Tucker gives Danny a gift of baby monitors. Valerie also appears and holds Darry as she plays with him.
Eventually, Danny's parents arrived to meet their grandchild. While Sam sits Darry on her lap, Maddie leans toward him and gives the baby several kisses on the cheek. "Oh, you're so cute." She said to the baby affectionately. "I'm your grandma, that's right."
Darry giggles in amusement while Jack asked Danny, "So Danny, does Dar-bear have your ghost hunting genes?"
Shifting awkwardly, Danny answers, "Well, he does have my genes."
Suddenly, Darry sneezes and blue ecto-beams shoot out of his eyes narrowly missing Maddie as it blasts the wall. Despite the hazard, Jack just excitedly smiled, "Amazing! We're the proud grandparents of a half-ghost!"
But Sam points out, "I wonder how his other grandparents will feel about that."
Right on cue, the front door opens and Sam's parents, Jeremy and Pamela Manson, walk in with excited grins. "Where is she?" Pamela asks, looking around eagerly, "Where's our granddaughter?"
Everyone stared at the Mansons in silence until Danny points to the baby on Sam's lap. "Uhh, right here." He answered.
The Manson couple just grinned as they approached their grandchild. "Oh, there she is." Jeremy said playfully as Pamela picked Darry up.
"You're just as adorable as I knew you'd be, and you'll look even more adorable once you see all the pretty clothes I bought you." Pamela points to the door as their butler pushes in a cart that carried a huge tower of wrapped gift boxes.
Sam groaned as she pinched the bridge of her nose as Danny picks up a gift and opens it, revealing a bright pink dress. Danny chuckles sheepishly. "Guess, we forgot to tell you... we got a boy instead of a girl," Danny admitted while shrugging, "Whoops."
"What?" Pamela asked in shock as she and an equally shocked Jeremy stare at Darry, who just smiles and laughs.
"I'm sure Danny mentioned the news on his Facepage." Sam pointed out.
The two frown dully as Pamela replied, "We don't follow him."
But Sam smiled and stated, "Mom, Dad, meet your grandson, Darry."
They look at Darry and smile at him, "Well," Pamela admitted, "Boy or girl, he's still very adorable."
Jeremy put a blue beret on Darry's head and held a French dress in front of him, "But it looks like we got everything in his size."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Sam said in dismay as she took the dress and hat away. "You are not putting a dress on my son."
"Yeah," Jack agreed, "Maddie and I brought a gift the tyke would like better." He held a large ghost weapon that look like a bazooka. "I call it Baby's First Ghost Weapon."
An offended Pamela holds Darry away as she responds, "Are you mad? You can't give a weapon to a baby."
"What?" Jack asks obliviously, "All it does is neutralize ectoplasmic energy. It's no more dangerous than the Fenton Crammer."
"She does have a point, Dad." Danny awkwardly agreed, "Do you maybe have something that's age appropriate for Darry?"
Maddie stepped forward. "I do have this cute little outfit I made." She holds out a tiny blue jumpsuit that looked like the one she wears. "'Course this was when I thought he'd be a girl."
The Manson couple just glared and Jeremy states, "You know, I don't think you two are a very good influence on the baby." But to their surprise, Darry suddenly disappears out of Pamela's arms and reappears on the ceiling, floating upside-down as he laughs. Danny quickly uses his ghost manipulation on Darry to make him fly back down into his arms. Seeing this, the Mansons glare again as Jeremy states, "I rest my case when I say bad influence."
Maddie returned the glare and retorted, "Our grandson has ghost powers like his father. He's gonna need experts like us to guide him."
"What he needs is a stable home environment." Pamela sternly stated, and then held out a sailor dress. "With a few altercations, I'm sure he'll enjoy wearing this."
"Do you have a problem with jumpsuits?!" Maddie angrily yelled.
"Or ghost weapons?!" Jack yelled as well.
"ENOUGH!" Sam yelled while Danny covered Darry's ears. Sam calmly stated, "Look, Darry's our son, and we'll raise him and dress him in whatever way that Danny and I decide what's best."
"But what about his ghost powers?" Maddie asked in concern.
Pamela added, "I could give you the number for that nanny I suggested."
"We don't need a nanny." Danny answered while Darry squirmed around in his hands, "In case you forgot, I have ghost powers, so Sam and I can handle-"
"Hold on, Scottie!"
Maxwell shouted while Darry grits his teeth, annoyed at having his story interrupted again. "You told me you got your powers when you were thirteen."
"I'm suspicious about your so-called true story as well." Yuki said, poking Darry in the arm. "I don't remember you ever having powers before then."
"There's a lot about me you don't know." Darry playfully responds, poking Yuki's forehead. "Anyway, Mom and Dad took care of me..."
Darry's story continues, showing Sam feeding Darry a bottle and then burping him. When he does belch, beams shoot out of his eyes, destroying part of the wall.
Later Danny played peekaboo with Darry as the baby laughed in enjoyment. But when Danny uncovered his eyes, Darry was gone. Danny momentarily panics until he phases his arm through the sofa and pulls out Darry, much to his relief.
Soon, Sam gives Darry a bath in the kitchen sink, and while washing the baby's hair, Darry splashes around in the bubbles until he hiccups and floats out of the sink. Sam quickly pulls him back down to wash the suds out of his hair, but he hiccups again and Sam once again has to grab him with each hiccup.
Later that night an exhausted Danny and Sam lied sprawled out in their bed asleep while Darry sat between them wide awake, playing with a gray stuffed owl.
'Things were gnarly for a while until something unexpected happened.' Darry explains how one afternoon, Danny got an unexpected visit from the Guys in White.
Two of the agents were waiting by the front door while the head operative, Agent M, sat on the couch across from Danny. "I heard the news, Danny Phantom," Agent M states, "That you're the proud father of a newborn son."
"It's 'Fenton'." Danny tensely corrected, "I'm no longer Danny Phantom, and yes, Darry is my son."
But Agent M continued, "Listen, I know that you and the Guys in White have had our differences, but I have an offer that can put all that behind us."
Danny rolled his eyes and sarcastically responded, "Oh, please share."
"You have ghost DNA mixed with your human DNA, giving you your ghost abilities. That must've been passed down to your son, correct?"
He wasn't sure if he should reveal this information to the ghost hunting agent, but before he could decide his answer, Sam asked, "Danny?" He turned to see her walk into the room, carrying Darry. "What's going on?" She asked suspiciously.
But Agent M stood and walked over to them as soon as he spotted Darry. "There's the little bundle of joy." He gave a friendly smile to the baby. "Tell me, ma'am, has your son been exhibiting any strange abilities yet?" Sam hesitated to answer, but as soon as Darry sees the other two agents by the door, he giggles and flies out of Sam's arms as she failed to catch him. He goes over to them and hovers blissfully as he fires ghost rays from his hands everywhere, nearly hitting the agents.
Danny quickly used his ghost manipulation to pull Darry back and place him back in Sam's arms. Danny then demanded to know, "Why are you here anyway?"
Agent M answered, "Your boy is part ghost like you. So we want to place him in our new daycare facility."
"Daycare?" Danny questioned, raising an eyebrow. "You guys don't seem like child care providers."
"The daycare is a government facility where Darrel will receive 24 hour care. There we will study his powers and help manifest his abilities. With any luck, we can also train him in our ways of fighting ghosts and to be an asset to society."
Hearing that the ghost hunters were wanting to take Darry from them, Sam gasped in horror. "Danny..." She softly cried, hugging her son tightly.
Danny's eyes narrow in anger as he asks, "You mean you expect us to just hand over our baby so you can turn him into some kind of experiment and brainwash him into your tool for catching ghosts?"
"Don't worry," Agent M calmly assured, "As his parents, you'll be permitted to visit him on weekends. You'll also be pleased with the fact that by the time Darrel is old enough to walk, he'll be skilled with proper ghost hunting techniques and the knowledge we'll obtain from his DNA may help us breed more half-ghosts."
Suddenly, the agents quickly ducked when an ecto-beam shot over their heads. Danny's finger smoked from ectoplasm when he said to them, "Get out. Now."
"You're making a big mistake, Phantom." Agent M threatened, "Darrel will join us one way or another." But the three agents glow green and were flung out the front door.
Inside, Danny's hand glows green and repeats, "It's 'Fenton'." A grateful Sam leaned her head on her husband's shoulder as she held Darry, and Danny returned her embrace while Darry just spits up on Danny's shirt, annoying him slightly.
Hope you enjoyed the first part, what other things will we learn about our heroes and what will be true? Please review and stick around for Part 2.