Angel: So this person who sent in this review, a few minutes ago, KNOWS that I'm done with TMNT, but they're gonna ask me anyway about writing the theme songs for them?
If this continues, I'm seriously not gonna bother with writing the Rise of the TMNT film. How many times do I need to spell it out that I don't wanna write this franchise anymore after the film?
In the morning, Nora is creaking her feet against the floor in the kitchen. Jenny dashes right past her in rapid fashion, doing several things. She knocks over silverware from the table and plucks a flower from a pot. She then places dirt on the table, pouring water over it. She turns her hand into a mixer, using it against the mud. She then smushes it together, spinning around the table to have it be a spinner for ceramics. She then starts spinning it all over the place, getting some onto her mother.
"I thought we agreed you wouldn't destroy the house until after Mommy had her coffee," Nora deadpans at this.
"I'm making a traditional mud hut for our school's Global Grab Bag," Jenny explains to her, Nora placing her mug on the table. "Today we celebrate world culture," The mug then goes flying. "There'll be mango, mariachis, Mongolian barbeque-"
"And mayhem!" Nora holds up the newspaper. "Krackus is back." Krackus is a member of the Cluster, specifically an inventor. But his inventions don't really hold up that well...
"Oh, Mom," Jenny dismisses, putting a paper underneath her pot.
"Don't underestimate him. Someday he may invent something that actually works," Nora argues back to her.
"Don't worry, Mom," The robot pats her on the head. "Nobody takes Krackus seriously, not even the Cluster," She walks off to meet with Sheldon, Amy, Brad, and Tuck. Sheldon has an igloo, Brad has an Arabian little house, and Amy has a tee-pee. "Hey, guys, sorry I'm late. My mom got all worked up over Krackus, the lamest member of the Cluster."
"Oh, lame, am I?" Her eyes widen as they see Krackus literally behind her. "Mock me while you, for it is I, the great Krackus, who will bring you to your knees. It is I, the gr-" He falls over and lands on his face, Amy rolling her eyes. He then turns around and points in the opposite direction. "It is I who—hey, where'd you go?"
"Over here," Jenny taps him and he screams as he turns around, freaked out.
"Who are you?! What do you want me from me?"
"My name's Jenny," She tells him gently. "And I want you to take a nap."
"You seem like a nice girl, Benny," He points up at her. "Would you like to see my newest invention?" He then holds up a small remote. "It's called the disassembler."
"Wow," She holds it up, faking praise as it doesn't look that great since it has tape in some places. "Impressive."
"Yeah, I know, it doesn't look like much, but if you were a robot, you'd be quite frightened!" He takes it back from her.
"Well, let's pretend that I am a robot. Let's see it work."
"Jen, we've got school, remember? Don't waste your time on something that won't work," Amy rolls her eyes to the back of her head.
"Relax, I'm just letting him zap me just to prove a point," She waves it off. "It won't take too long."
"Here we go!" Krackus presses the button, and the disassembler shuts down. "Oh, it didn't work..."
"What a surprise."
"Okay, you proved it, now let's-" Amy hears a squeak that interrupts her, both her and Jenny looking down at her belly bolt to see it unscrew itself! Her other bolts start to come off as she was surrounded in yellow, her parts flying around to the disbelief of her friends.
"Get her!" Brad points forward, lunging and grabbing a hand. The others jump to grab her parts, only managing to get her head, hands, and pigtails.
"There we go," Krackus smiles happily. "First, it splits you into pieces," Her pieces fly up to the sky, disappearing. "Then it scatters them across the globe." Her parts go literally all around the globe. "And with you gone, your pitiful primate pals will crumble, and Cluster will rule the Earth! And now I shall disassemble your friend, Mecha Girl!" Jenny glares at him, growling. She rolls her head forward and he jumps, grabbing it. "Which one of us is lame now, Junie?" He then tosses her head like a bowling ball straight into the others, knocking them all down. "Now to tell my queen that Earth is defenseless." He pulls out a phone to call Vexus, but it breaks apart. "Ah, didn't I just change the battery?" He takes out the battery...and the phone falls to pieces. "Aw, things like this always happen, just when I'm about to enslave the human race."
"I've gotta get myself together before Krackus can fix that communicator and get in touch with Vexus," Jenny tells her friends.
"I have an idea!" Tuck rushes over and kicks away the pieces of the communicator. "Run!" He shouts as he leaves. Jenny rolls her head over to Tuck hiding behind a wall, even though Krackus isn't paying attention to them anymore.
"I can't believe that old fool put one over on me," Jenny complains, her eyes narrowed. "I'm sorry I didn't listen to you, Amy. You were right, we should've gone straight to school. If I had, I wouldn't be like this right now. And if I had feet, I would kick myself. If I had a neck, I would strangle myself."
"Whoa, Jen, it's okay," Amy assures her gently. "To be fair, you had reason to believe his invention wouldn't work. I didn't think he'd be successful either. And don't do any of that to yourself, good lord."
"If I give you a hand, you can slap yourself," Brad offers, placing her hand on her head.
"Here you go," Sheldon does the same thing. "It's been wonderful holding your hand." Jenny then places both hands on the ground.
"Could you guys come here for a second?" Amy crosses her arms and they do so. She then turns them around and smacks them both upside the head with both of her hands.
"Ow!" Both exclaim in unison, Brad giving her a tiny glare.
"I guess we better go tell Mrs. Wakeman," Tuck suggests to them.
"Are you crazy?!" Jenny flips her head around so that she lands on her hands. "She'd ground me until the next millennium. Listen, my mom's minijet has a tracking device designed to locate me. We can use it to find my body parts."
"And she'll loan the minijet to a dwarf, three teenagers, and a disembodied head?" Tuck asks her skeptically.
"Don't worry," She smiles at them. "I have a plan."
Nora opens the door, staring. "XJ9, uh, back so soon?"
Amy smiles nervously as Jenny is seemingly dressed in Mexican garb. "Oh, um, I forgot the chips and salsa for the Global Grab Bag," She states while her hands are gesturing everywhere. Amy silently slaps one of the hands going to her arm. Jenny wobbles into the house.
"You must have inherited your forgetfulness from me," Nora comments as she glances at her robot daughter. Amy awkwardly follows her in. "I certainly don't remembering you wearing that getup to school. I swear I'd forget my own head if it weren't attached..." She remarks while closing the door.
"Stop moving her head so much!" Brad hisses to his brother, as they're acting as Jenny's 'body'. Tuck is holding up the head, while Brad is the hands, and Sheldon is waiting outside. "She's a robot, not an owl."
"You're the one with the hyper hands," Tuck argues back, Amy rolling her eyes as she can hear them thanks to that listening device she gave Brad.
"Knock it off, you guys," Jenny hisses to them. "Okay, well, I'm just going to check by your purse. Directly in front of me and a little to the left." Brad moves backwards into the fridge, knocking Jenny's head against it.
"Oh, for Pete's sake," Tuck jumps out of the disguise in annoyance.
"Tuck!" Jenny whispers and Nora is about to turn around. Amy dashes to Tuck, shoves him back into the disguise and grabs the purse. She tosses it at Sheldon's face.
"Sorry," She says while looking out the window and thankfully Nora shrugs it off before turning back around. Sheldon takes out the key to the minijet, tossing the purse at Amy. She catches it, but knocks into Jenny's head, bringing it to the floor. She rolls out the window, Amy wincing. She quickly puts the purse back on the counter and jumps out the window.
"Bye, Mom," Jenny calls out, Nora's back still turned.
"Goodbye, dear."
"Bye, Mom," Brad walks out the door with Tuck, tipping his hat.
"Goodbye, dear." Nora's eyes widen as she realizes she repeated herself, but also that the second time her voice sounded weird...
Brad opens up the door to the garage, where they find the minijet. As soon as they get in, they realize something. "Oh...who knows how to fly this thing?" He rubs his neck nervously as he turns to the others. Tuck facepalms at this.
"Umm..." Amy holds up a nervous hand. "I can help."
"How?" Sheldon wonders as she walks up and then sits down. She flips some switches and grabs the control wheel. Tuck's seat turns into a kiddy seat that's pink and he crosses his arms with a glare. A little baby mobile appears playing Pop Goes the Weasel, which is enough to get his attention.
"Alright..." She takes a deep breath. She then starts actually flying the plane, going so fast that she burns the garage. They take off right above Krackus, knocking all the parts he needs away.
"Oh, wait till I find all the parts and put the communicator back together and power it up and contact Vexus. The world will be ours."
"Whoa! You know how to fly a minijet?" Brad asks in shock from the back. "How?"
"Umm, experience," She looks away awkwardly. "Let's just say that I have really good teachers."
"But why would you be learning how to fly a minijet?" Jenny raises a brow at her.
"Um...oh look, we found one of Jen's parts already! How lucky," Amy points down at the locator as the first one is in Sweden. She flies around a huge mountain, parking the ship there.
"Hey, why can't I get my body myself?" Jenny protests as she's stuck in the back. The others are standing in front of the house where a part seems to be.
"Sorry, Jenny. We can't have you scarin' the simple folk," Tuck states as a regular talking robot head might get them kicked out.
"Don't worry, Jen," Amy smiles with her arms crossed while standing between Brad and Sheldon. "I'm sure they'll be smart enough to bring you along for the next one."
"Hey," Brad protests as Sheldon pouts, the girl giving a small playful smirk.
"Come in!" A voice calls out from inside.
"You guys let me handle this," Brad boasts as he leads them in. "I'll show you how things are really done, Amelia. I've got a way with the Swiss misses."
"Sure," Amy rolls her eyes as she ignores him.
"Hello there, we were-" He gets a cookie shoved into his mouth.
"Is good cookie, yeah? It's the most wonderful cookies I have ever made," She puts cookies in the other three's mouths. "I owe it all to my cookie cutter that came from the sky," She holds up one of Jenny's parts, and they know it's hers because it has her robot name on there, indicating that it's her neck.
"That's it! That's what we're-"
"More, yes?" The baker gives Brad another cookie. She gasps as she sees Tuck rolling out some cookie dough. "You good helper, yeah?" She gives him more cookies and he uses Jenny's neck to cut more cookies.
"Not off to a great start, are we?" Amy raises a brow to Brad, who whines.
"Madam, please," Sheldon pleads with her. "We just-" She's about to give him another cookie when he grabs her arm, holding it away. She growls and tries to shove it towards him. "Our robot friend needs your cookie cutter to save the world from aliens-" She shoves the cookie into his mouth.
Amy taps the lady and bends down, whispering into her mouth. The woman blinks and then nods. "Oh, then why didn't you just say so?" She hands Amy a plate of cookies and the cookie cutter. The girl smiles and nods.
"Thanks a lot. And your cookies are delicious."
"Oh, you!" The woman gushes happily. Amy walks off, the boys trailing after her as they walk out.
"Amy, what did you tell her?" Sheldon blinks at her.
"Oh. The truth. Told you we should've brought Jenny," She remarks as she starts climbing up to the ship, leaving the three baffled.
Next up is somewhere in the Middle East, as they're attempting to talk to a shopkeeper with a camel. Amy looks worried as she frowns, arms crossed. "Uh, I don't know about this place, Brad," Tuck says nervously at the camel.
"Relax, Tuck," Brad holds up a fruit. "We're just shopping at the mall, Moroccan style." Someone places a pink and gold belly dancer's outfit over Amy and she looks herself over.
"You look ravishing! I sell to you for 70," The seller gestures to the girl, who rubs her neck. Sheldon and Brad's mouths open at her attire as she looks beautiful. Amy coughs awkwardly at the looks she's getting, waving a hand.
"Um, no thanks. It's not really me."
"We'll take it," Sheldon and Brad say quickly, causing her to go wide-eyed.
"Ugh..." She rolls her eyes to the back of her head as she realizes why. "Maybe as a Halloween costume I'd wear it."
The camel growls down at Tuck, who screams and runs off. Brad blinks as he hears his brother, picking him up as he runs by. "Hey, you guys," Jenny calls out as her arm is sitting in front of a seller. "I found my arm. You have to trade him something for it. Oh, wow, Amy, you could wear that to class for the Global Grab Bag!" Jenny smiles encouragingly at her.
"Absolutely not," Amy holds up a hand.
"How about a mango for the trade?" Brad holds it up, and the guy shakes his head. "Umm, 13 cents and a gum wrapper?" Another no from him. "Polyacrylic sweater vest. An almost-new pair of size nine loafers. My plastic cuff links." All of them get a no. "...I'll throw in a free belly dance from my friend."
Amy smacks him upside the head with a glare.
"In exchange for that arm, I'll give you your very own talking head," Tuck holds up Jenny herself, the man nodding eagerly as he holds it out. This time Tuck gets smacked upside the head, Amy, Jenny, and Brad all glaring at him.
"You can't trade a head for an arm."
"Well, I didn't see you getting any results," Tuck points up at him in annoyance.
"You know what, Tuck?" The two brothers start arguing and Sheldon whispers to Amy. She flinches and nods in agreement, holding up the plate of cookies they got from Siberia that they thankfully didn't eat. The man takes them and hands over the arm. "That's it; I'm sending you to Antarctica."
In Japan, a monster is attacking, breathing fire on a city. Amy flies the ship over his foot, revealing that Jenny's foot is stuck inside, almost like a splinter. Sheldon pulls it out and the monster calms down. He dips his toe in the water and then goes back to where it came from.
"...Yeah, I'll call the fire department," Amy states after a few seconds, taking out her phone. She calls the number and speaks in Japanese, as Claudia had taught her some. Jenny's head beeps like a phone, her eyes flashing and she blinks to pick up.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Penny," Krackus speaks up to her. "I wanted you to know I found all the parts to my communicator. And once I put it back together, the world will be ours!" He wheezes in laughter, and as he does, the phone breaks apart right behind him somehow.
"Yeah, thanks for gloating, Krackus," Jenny deadpans and hangs up. "Amy, we've gotta step on it!"
"Aye, aye, Captain," Amy salutes to her.
"You still haven't answered how you know how to fly a minijet," Sheldon points out, her eyes widening.
"I'd rather not answer that question."
In a jungle, they fly over some animals, looking at a pair of birds using one of Jenny's parts as a nest. Brad scratches the side of his head. "So do we just run up and grab it or...?"
"Don't worry, guys," Tuck smiles, jerking a thumb to himself. "I got this one."
"You know, since Amy is back on the football team, she could just-"
Tuck runs up to the birds, ignoring his brother. He waves his hands rapidly, screeching at them. They are at him before squawking right back, getting out of the nest to chase after him. Brad snatches the part away, Tuck jumping off the cliff while being chased by birds. He jumps into the back and they take off.
"Go; hurry, Amy. They're flying faster!"
"Blue-footed boobies can't fly, Tuck," Brad dismisses him...but then they do end up actually flying, as do the lizards and seals.
"...I hate you...SO much right now," Amy seethes in anger to him while they're being chased.
"What is this place?!" Brad screeches in fear.
"It's evolution gone mad!" Sheldon screeches while the others are shaking. Amy sees something up ahead and turns to the side, freaking out the others. "Wait, what are you-"
Amy drifts in mid-air past a giant cliff, all the animals flying into it and falling to the ground. "Never again," She shudders a bit. "Blue-footed boobies can't fly, huh?" She glances at Brad as they all glare and he smiles sheepishly.
In Transylvania, a spooky castle lives to a house that seems rather pleasant. They open the door to the castle, seeing a bunch of stairs. They all walk or roll on them as they try to find the part here. Jenny comes to a stop at a knight costume mounted, and it has her leg instead of a metal one. "Hey, you guys, I found my leg."
The organ music stops playing and someone slaps open two of the pipes. "Where is patience?" He jumps and swings from a candelabra, sliding down a staircase while grabbing a sword. "Do you challenge me?"
The boys recoil back in fear since they're unarmed. "Uh, we don't want any trouble. We just want-"
"Then I challenge you for the female's hand!" He points his sword at Amy, who shrieks a bit.
"Hide me..." She hides behind Sheldon and Brad. If she could turn into Ms. Mecha, she would, but she can't. And she can't fight against a sword either.
"You're on, Jen!" Tuck grabs her head and throws it. "Go get 'em!"
She yells while charging in, though it gets less confident as she gets closer. She flies out the window. Sheldon leaps, landing in front of a mace. He grabs it, swinging over his head and flying backwards. He gets a smaller one, but the part flies off and hits the knight's head, knocking it onto Tuck instead. He yells and runs off, falling off the maze of stairs. Sheldon swings another mace, but it lands on his head, Amy looking over him in concern. She glares and clenches a fist as she looks up at the sword fighter. Brad has only a smaller candelabra to defend himself as he gets closer. Amy sees another sword and grabs it, as no one attacks her friends. The man slices Brad's weapon. He grabs a vase, which gets destroyed into pieces. He grabs a shield, only to get the same result. He gets a pillow, which is enough...until he gets to the edge and is about to fall off.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" He struggles to keep his balance.
"You are not winner, yes?"
"I am not winner, no!" Brad exclaims in a panic. "I mean, I'm not winner, yes. I mean, you're the winner; you win."
Amy yells as she charges in and spins around, slicing. The man flinches...and then his pants fall off, revealing his underwear. "Ivan!" A woman shouts at him from a window. "You know rules. No playing dress-up after bedtime. Toys of a little boy's go bye-bye. And you've ruined your pants!" She grabs him inside, baffling Brad and Amy as this was essentially a waste of time.
Sheldon rubs his head, all of them walking to the ship. Brad holds Jenny's leg with an angry frown. "Come on, Jenny, let's go." Jenny was posing as an ornament, turning around as a crow's on her head.
Tuck runs out and bumps into a pillar, falling on his back. Amy pats Sheldon's back. "At least you tried. I'll give you an ice pack in the ship."
"Thanks," He mumbles in pain.
Tuck tries to put a leg and a leg piece together. Jenny just stares at him. "The thigh bone's connected to the shin bone," He sings in frustration. "How come I can't hook up your parts?"
"You need my belly bolt lynch pin," The robot explains to him. "It's the crucial part that holds me together. It's back home in Tremorton." Amy flies right past the sign and they fly so fast they cause Krcakus to fall to the ground.
"You rotten kids!" He shouts at them. "I'm looking forward to your enslavement!"
"Good luck, old trash can!" Amy calls out while looking back and he growls at her.
"Crikey, he's only got one part left to install," Jenny looks back.
"So do we, Jenny. Amy, full speed ahead!"
She flies into the arcade, landing safely inside. They see the belly bolt lynch pin inside a claw machine. "There it is!"
"But that's gonna take forever to get out. Claw machines are always rigged," Amy frowns in worry.
"Don't worry, guys," Sheldon narrows his eyes in determination. "I've got this one." He inserts a coin and cracks his knuckles. He grips the levers and pulls one forward, hovering the claw over the part. He closes in on it, grabs it gently, and moves it over. He hovers it over the prize slot and presses the button. However, before he can get it, another claw grabs it. Sheldon opens his mouth wide at someone from the other side playing. The two thrust their claws forward, starting to battle over it. They do a thumb war, rock paper scissors, and also arm wrestling. Sheldon breaks off the claw and the boy gets tears in his eyes. He starts to cry, as does the dad for some reason. Just as Sheldon is about to get it, the lights turn on.
"Okay, we're closed. Thanks for coming. Bye-bye!" He kicks everyone out and they slam on the doors.
"Oh my, now what happens?" Tuck asks Jenny.
"Oh, boy, I'll tell you what happens." They turn to Krackus as he's gotten his communicator up and running. "Cluster wins, that's what happens."
"Cluster Administration Switchboard. How may I direct your call?"
"Get me Vexus!" He demands the operator, Sheldon and Brad screaming. Tuck does so as well, throwing up all the parts and they scatter around. One of Jenny's pigtails lands on a tree.
"Guys, don't panic. I've got an idea," Jenny smiles knowingly, winking at Amy. She glances at the boys and tiptoes over to the back of the arcade while they're not looking.
"Oh, it's you, Krackus," Vexus states in annoyance. "This had better not be another one of your stupid crackpot schemes."
"It is—er, I mean, it's not. I mean, it is, but it worked this time because-"
"Get to the point, you idiot," She glares at him and he clears his throat.
"I am pleased to announce that I have immobilized Jenny XJ9. And I'm sure her little iron partner will soon come to find her. You may invade the Earth immediately."
"Any time is good for us," Jenny speaks up, shocking him.
"What?" He looks back as Jenny stands there perfectly fine with Ms. Mecha by her side, her and the others smirking. He growls at them both. "I split you apart once; I can do it again," He looks around for his device, seeing Tuck holding it with a big smile. "Gimmie that!" However, it falls apart completely.
"Looking for this?" Jenny wonders as Tuck holds up a bobby pin. "Don't you just hate it when you can't keep it together?"
"No," He murmurs in fear.
"Krackus, may I see you in my office?" Vexus asks him and Amy cocks her laser gun, pointing it at him.
"I'll be glad to escort him. As a thanks for splitting up my partner."
"Oh..." He sweats nervously, turning around to get away. However, she fires the laser, sending him into the sky. He screams until he disappears, a star blinking to where he was. It turns out that Jenny was just using the tree to hold up her parts. She rolls over to her friends, Amy blowing off the top of the gun.
"Can I bluff, or can I bluff?"
"That was awesome!" Tuck cheers happily. "We got a real global grab bag and a treasure hunt to boot. Hey, come on, let's hide her pieces again," He runs off past Jenny and Amy, shocking them both.
"Yeah!" Sheldon and Brad run off to follow him.
"Hey, you guys, that's not cool. Hey! Hey!" She looks up at Amy pleadingly, who cracks her knuckles.
"Oh no you don't!" She runs up and tackles them all to the ground, just like in football.
"Ow!" They all exclaim as Jenny smiles triumphantly. Amy stands up, wiping her hands with a smile as all three boys are tied up with rope. She was NOT going through this all over again, and Jenny doesn't want to either.
Angel: Kinda funny that Xiaolin Showdown got brought up because in the past, I actually had debated whether or not to write it. I still might do it, but I honestly don't know. I also need to rewatch the original show because it's been years since I've seen an episode. I think ultimately, I had seen too many fanfics that add another Xiaolin Warrior and that stopped me from doing it. To be fair, you could say that about all my fics, but Xiaolin is different. Also, I would probably ignore Chronicles because it just feels too disconnected to the original in my opinion.
It's a maybe, but if people start bugging me about it, it'll definitely turn into a no.
