Our heroes were heading off to Studio 25 in Orlando, Florida, because they were invited to guest star on the hit dance show, Club Groove, where their going to dance to New Kids On The Block's Step By Step. To save time, they travelled by Star like they always do. "We've been working on our NKOTB moves for three days straight" Rylie said to Tokkori, "It's amazing how keeping a hip hop playlist on Facetube could do.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, Super Size Rylie" growled Tokkori, "But you had to bring Mr. Colton with you?"
Behind them, Mr. Colton was uncontrollably holding onto the star, "It's all about balance Mr. Colton" shouted Leah infront of them.
"It's easy for you." Replied Mr. Colton, "I'm scared of heights."
Kirby was confused on what's going on, "There are other shows at Studio 25." Tania explained "Talking and Babbling with and Dartnan Meadows is where Mr. Colton going to guest star. He just booked a gig there."
"He's going to put on a puppet show." Replied Estrella, "And we're also going to help up set up his puppets. Speaking of which, does he still have those puppets of us?"
"Of course, Estrella" answered Mr. Colton as he got up, "About the puppets. I made them myself because, I'm your biggest fan."
"What?" asked The Klue Queen, "We've been getting a lot of fan mail from all over Pennslvania about our mysteries. Most of them are from someone named, 'Nigel' we thought it was a different Nigel, but we decided to wait til further notice."
"I didn't give you my surname because I was afraid I'd be too old." Admitted Mr. Colton.
"Your never too old, Man" Paige replied, "Your still a cool teacher.
"Puppet." shouted Koharu in her big sister's arms.
Mr. Colton, Kirby, and Tokkori were confused by the appearance of baby Koharu, "My parents are having some friends from Oregon come over and they asked me to babysit Koharu, again."
"I remember your twin brother very well." groaned Mr. Colton, "Worst student I'd ever had. Mud tracking in the class room, bringing bugs for his science classes, only for them to get loose on accident and blabbing out stuff about fish heads and skunks. Gross."
"We know." Leah replied in disgust.
XxoxX
On the ground, they landed in front of the world renowned Studio 25, "Thank goodness for ground." Mr. Colton sighed with relief, "I don't know what's with Kirby, but I'm glad we're safe."
"Speaking of safe" Leah replied, "Kirby, are the puppets safe."
In Mr. Colton's star, he could see the puppet versions of The Klue Queens and has decided to do a parody of The Klue Queens for them. "About what Cosmo did." replied Leah, "He's always jumping to conclusions due to his low IQ but we understanding that your doing something for comedy and we don't mind it, as long as you don't make us too dumb."
"Why bother?" groaned an elderly businesswoman.
With one look, Tania recognized her as Phoney Pictures producers, 'Minnie Mogul'. "You haven't had a smash hit since the 2014s" recalled Tania, "With your last film, "Attack of the Robot Mooses. All it did was remind us how important mooses are to the world. By the way, what's a producer like you doing here?"
"Studio 25 has some leftover scripts and rejected ideas they want me to produce." Minnie explained, "It's called a collaboration."
"As for us" Leah replied, "We're helping our old middle school teacher put on a puppet show."
Minnie did a sarcastic laugh and said, "If you must know, I hate anthropomorphic animals dancing."
Then she took off to talk to the CEO of Studio 25.
Not wanting to give Koharu ideas, Paige, Kaylin, and Estrella decided to take her baby sister, Kirby, Swinger, Rick, and Tokkori to the green room while the rest of them set up.
XxoxX
In the green room, Paige was finding some baby toys for little Koharu to play, *This is stupid. * Tokkori groaned to himself, *I'd rather watch TV then babysit a human baby. It's like babysitting one million kirbys."
As he turned on the TV, reggae music popped up an anthropomorphic aardvark with glasses came on the TV, "What in gumbo is that noise?" Tokkori shouted, "This ain't a reggae concert, it's a regasp concert."
"That is Arthur," explained Kaylin, "I've seen most of the episodes. It's a bout a talking aardvark and his animal friends making message about friendships and believing in themselves. My favorite is when The Backstreet Boys guest starred. They were so cute as bears and bunnies."
"Ah, phooey!" insulted Tokkori, "That show makes me wanna barf."
Annoyed by the insult, Paige, Estrella, and Kaylin decided to check on the others while the animals chillax in the green room. Seeing a Twlight Zone picture on the wall, Tokkori got an idea.
XxoxX
In the parking lot, Tokkori got out a badly drawn picture of The Twlight Zone and told Kirby to, "Suck It Up!"
With one gulp, Kirby turned into Portal Kirby. He was about the size of a school bus. "Tokkori" Rick worriedly said, "Are you sure this is a good idea?"
"Come on," Tokkori growled, "We don't want any bouncing babies drooling on me, nor monkey getting bugs out of my feathers without permission."
Inside the TV studio, The Klue Queens were putting up the finishing touches to the teacher's puppet show when they smelled Kirby Magic from outside; "Tokkori" Leah groaned to her, "What did you do?"
XxoxX
Meanwhile on the road in the world of Arthur, Mr. Ratburn's husband, "Patrick" were heading off to Pittsburgh for the weekend to learn about how television is made. Little did they know, is that Arthur's little sister, DW, and their dog, Pal, snuck in to meet celebrities. As they were riding along, the ground started to shake and a green light came out of nowhere.
XxoxX
In the human world, the Lakewood Elementary bus barged out, just as The Klue Queens came in, "If I know better" Kaylin recalled, "That looks like the bus from Lakewood Elementary."
"That could be any Lakewood Elementary," Tania replied as the anthropomorphic animals barged out of the bus feeling woozy from the entire rumbling, "With animals."
"Now now" Mr. Ratburn said, "Everyone remain calm, I'm sure this is just a misunderstanding."
"Is is, Mr. Ratburn" replied Leah, "Forgive our friend, 'Tokkori' he always comes up with something very stupid."
After the Klue Queens introduced themselves, Arthur quickly recalled something, "Kaylin Hester" asked Arthur as he came up to her, "Your the girl who wrote non-stop Backstreet letters are you?"
"That's me" Kaylin confessed, "Major fan, my favorite episode is where you guys sang with The Backstreet Boys."
"Easy, Kay" replied Rylie, "No need to go all 90s."
"Since I know all their names" Kaylin said, "I'll handle this. Arthur, Buster, Francine, Muffy, Binky, Alan, Fern, George, Jenna, Ladonna, Maria, The Brain, Sue Ellen, and Mr. Ratburn's husband, 'Patrick'. By the way, you two are muy cute together."
"That's something I would say," Estrella replied.
"Normally" Patrick explained, "I'm a chocolate seller, but due to the bus driver having a fever, I was the only option available."
"Listen up, Y'all" shouted Tokkori as he came out, "Names' 'Tokkori' I summoned you rabid runts here to babysit Koharu, whom is the drooling baby that the dirty dirtbag, 'Paige' has."
Paige presented her baby sister towards, Arthur, much to his delight, "She reminds me of Kate" Arthur said as Koharu started playing with his glasses.
Just then, Estrella realized something, "Didn't Arthur have another sister?" asked Estrella "One that is a pain the head sometimes."
By the bus, DW trembled out of it with Pal in her hands, "DW" asked Arthur as he placed on his glasses and gives Koharu back to Paige, "What are you doing here?"
"I heard you were going to spend the weekend in Pittsburgh to learn how TV is made" DW answered, "So I thought-"
"You and Pal sneak into the bus so you can meet celebrities" guessed Leah, "We're detectives, it's what we do."
Inside Studio 25, they heard a loud scream.
XxoxX
The Klue Queens, Kirby, Tokkori, and the talking animals rushed to the set of Talking and Babbling with and Dartnan Meadows where they see a frantic Mr. Colton going like crazy. He was panicking because while Kirby was using his powers, someone stole his puppets.
The gang from Arthur was shocked because Mr. Colton was like a humanoid version of Mr. Ratburn, even their teacher was surprised by the humanoid version of himself, "It's like we're seeing double." Buster whispered to his best friend, Arthur.
"Talk about human cloning" insulted Tokkori as got out some matches from a nearby table, "If you want a real 'rat burn' let's heat things up."
Paralyzed by fear of the match, Mr. Colton passed out. The Klue Queens were mad at Tokkori even more because Mr. Colton was scared of fire. Leah used the 'Lick and Light Out' trick to the match and said, "Arson is against the law, Tokkori."
"Whatever!" growled Tokkori
By the door, an Italian-American man and his Japanese-American wife barged in to see what was going on. "Is everything alright?" asked the Italian man.
Quickly, Kaylin recognized them as Mr. and Mrs. Guidi from the original Let's All Dance Until We're Sick as two of the backup dancers; "We'll get him to the infirmary, ASAP." Mrs. Guidi explained, "In the meantime, why don't you investigate on who took the puppets."
"This nothing compared to fans fainting to The Backstreet Boys." Kaylin said.
Petrified by the name, Mrs. Guidi took Mr. Colton to the infirmary.
"Before we could get on," Leah said, "We're going to need suspects."
XxoxX
Suspects
Vincenzo Guidi(Co-CEO of Studio 25)- He seemed a bit nervous.
Minnie Mogul (Movie producer)- She had a sarcastic laugh while mentioning Mr. Colton's puppet show.
Ginger Guidi (Co-CEO of Studio 25 and choreographer of Let's All Dance Until We're Sick)- After Kaylin mentioned The Backstreet Boys, she just felt bummed.
XxoxX
Before they could head off with their buddies, Leah asked Mr. Ratburn and Patrick to look after Koharu and Kirby while they investigate, "Even need teachers need learning" explained Leah, "We must warn you, Kirby is filled with surprises."
Mr. Ratburn and Patrick weren't sure what they meant, but they decided to do their best to look after them.
XxoxX
Leah, Arthur, Pal, and Buster were going around a hallway for some clues. As they passed the briefing room, they bumped into Minnie Mogul, who was carrying a really heavy briefcase. Minnie was petrified by the looks of Arthur and Buster, "Don't you need any help with your briefcase?" Buster asked.
"No, thank you." answered Minnie rudely, "Especially form talking aardvarks and rabbits."
Leah, Arthur, and Buster found it weird because she could only carry a few light papers in her briefcase.
XxoxX
Kaylin, Tokkori, Muffy, and Francine were going around the costume room for clues. "Your hair is so pretty" commented Kaylin, "So is your dress."
"Thank you" Muffy replied.
"Can't you stop being girly and focus on solving mystery?" Francine asked, "This puppet show of your friends' old teacher's is important."
By the dance costumes, they passed an old Let's All Dance Until We're Sick poster with The Backstreet Boys on them. Francine and Muffy were surprised by the fact that The Backstreet Boys were responsible for making LADUWS the biggest dance show on TV, "I use to have a crush on Nick Carter," Muffy recalled, " Then switched to Howie D, because of his kindness. Then I swap to A. J because I found out that Howie D has a girlfriend."
"You realize that A. J in human form has tattoos?" replied Francine.
Little did they know, is that Mrs. Chirohiro-Guidi heard the whole thing and felt a bit bummed. When Kaylin looked up, she could see the bummed co-ceo "Mrs. Chirohiro-Guidi," she gasped, "We didn't see you there!"
"Please," Mrs. Chirohiro-Guidi replied sadly, "Call me, 'Ginger'."
She walked up to a makeup chair and sat down with a downer look, "What's wrong?" asked Francine.
Thinking clearly, Muffy could recall from a fan letter that Ginger Chirohiro and Howie Dorough were surrogate siblings at the time of the first season of Let's All Dance Until We're Sick. Ginger removed her heart-shaped locket with a ruby on it and opened it up. In the locket was a picture of her 13-year-old self and of a 29-year-old Howie Dorough."
Kaylin could tell that Ginger missed her surrogate brother due to his tight schedule and him raising a family. While Kaylin, Francine, and Muffy comforted a crying Ginger, Tokkori rolled his eyes and started looking around for clues. To cheer her up, they decided to give Tokkori a makeover.
XxoxX
During their investigation Estrella, Swinger, Sue Ellen, and Maria found a kid's craft tent and made some beaded jewelry, Rylie, Rick, Ladonna, Binky, and Jenna went into the prop room and found a mysterious scrap book with all of Minnie Mogul's pictures of being on talk shows, Tania, Fern, and George wrote a parody song of a Phineas and Ferb classic, and DW, Paige, DW, and Alex found the music storage room and found a NKOTB single.
XxoxX
Meanwhile in the cafeteria, Patrick Ratburn was teaching Kirby how to make his own candy bars, "Patrick" Mr. Ratburn said to his husband while carrying Koharu, "Are you sure teaching a pink alien how to make candy is a good idea."
"Relax, dear" replied Patrick, "If I could teach like you, I can."
While they were talking, Kirby grabbed a large bottle of chocolate syrup and placed it in the blender, causing a crazy mess. Mr. Ratburn and Patrick were petrified, but Koharu was amazed.
XxoxX
In the green room, The Klue Queens were rounding up the class and waiting for Kaylin and her buddies. At the door, Kaylin, Muffy and Francine came in with Tokkori dressed as a sailor. "This is humiliating." complained Tokkori.
"Now, now." Kaylin whispered to her bird friend, "This is punishment for summoning Toons into our world without permission."
"Fine" Tokkori groaned as he starting bouncing up and down and acting like a sailor, "Quack a doodle doo, Quack a doodle doo!"
Everyone was confused, but Kaylin, Paige, Koharu, Muffy and DW were delighted by the cute little Tokkori. After Rylie told Leah about the scrapbook, Leah figured out who's responsible for the theft of the puppets. The class wasn't so sure about pulling this off, but then, Kaylin said something to encourage them, "It's a simple message and it comes from the heart, believe in yourselves, that's the way you start."
Remembering this as their theme song, everyone agreed to the plan, "Tania" Leah said to her sister, "You, Rylie, Estrella, Swinger, Rick, and Tokkori stay here and explain the plan. Kaylin, Paige and I are gonna pick up Kirby and Koharu.
XxoxX
In the cafeteria, they could see that the whole place was a total mess. Everywhere they looked, chocolate covered the place. On a table, Koharu and Kirby were both having a little food fight when Paige and Leah came up to them, "Poyo(Hi Leah!")" greeted Kirby.
"Kirby" asked Leah as she picked up the dirty puffball, "Where's Mr. Ratburn and Patrick?"
Kirby pointed to the traumatized rat and aardvark by a pile of empty bowls covered with pink frosting, "You would not believe what a big appetite Kirby has!" Patrick stuttered.
"We know," admitted Leah, "Kirby does this all the time back where we're from. We warned you he's full of surprises."
"Rylie found some leftover Italian marionettes in the prop room and we figure you two could use." explained Paige, "And we could use some of the leftover chocolate."
"What does this got to do with chocolate?" Mr. Ratburn asked as he got up.
"You'll see soon enough," answered Leah.
XxoxX
On the set of Club Groove, everyone was getting ready for a broadcast for the Friendly Scout Viewtube channel. Arthur, Buster, and Francine were running the cameras , Binky, Sue Ellen, and The Brain operating the boom mikes , George, Alex, and Maria were handling the sound effects and lights, and Ladonna, Binky, and Fern were handling the broadcasting. DW was disappointed because she wanted to help too. Sensing her negative vibrations, Rick came up to the little girl, "Hey DW" he said with a smile, "I know how you can help."
Quietly, Rick whispered her plan in the tiny aardvark's ear. Feeling much better, DW walked up to the turntable.
Hearing Pal's barking, they knew that Muffy is coming with Minnie Mogul. "Right here" Muffy said while dressed in a disco ballet outfit, "Here's the set of Club Groove."
"Must say" Minnie said, "Too 1970s."
"Anyway, " Muffy replied, "Sit down on the ground and tell us all about your times as a big shot producer. But first, let me take that briefcase of yours."
Muffy took Minnie's briefcase and gave it to Swinger.
Before she got a chance to speak, the screen behind her changed to a gay Romeo and Julien, with Mr. Ratburn and Patrick as the puppets of the two leading characters, "Romeo, Romeo" Patrick said as Julien, "Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo?"
"In thy mud, Sweet Julien In The Sun" answered Mr. Ratburn as Romeo.
Everyone snickered at the comedy puppet show, but Minnie found it repulsive. Just then, DW started playing New Kids On The Block's Step By Step on the turntable, much to their confusion.
Kirby came onstage with a Sgt. Pepper hat and held a sign that said, 'Let's Dance!'
"What y'all waiting for a dummy convention" shouted Tokkori wearing a rapper outfit, "Everybody dance now!"
Arthur and friends were confused but danced anyway while DW and Koharu played with the turntable. "Why are we dancing?" The Brain asked in confusion
"She said, 'She hates anthropomorphic animals dancing." explained Rick.
Mr. Ratburn and Patrick rushed up to see the students dancing like crazy, "What are you wait for, a capture from the zookeeper" asked Tokkori, "DANCE!"
The gay animals were confused, but danced anyway, Arthur's class was embarrassed, because their teacher and his husband were dancing again in the style of the New Kids On The Block. Suddenly, Rylie appeard in a disco Beatles outfits and the beaded jewelry Estrella, Swinger, Sue Ellen, and Maria made "Hold the dancing, fellas" she interrupted the gay animal couple, "Leave the New Kids On The Block dancing to me."
"Yeah, go Rylie!" Binky shouted.
One by one, the other Klue Queens came out while dressed in disco/Beatles outfits and Estrella's beaded jewelry. Annoyed by the anthropomorphic animals dancing, Minnie blurted "Okay I confess I confess. I stole the marionettes."
"DW" shouted Paige, "Kill the music."
Hearing this, DW and Koharu stopped playing NKOTB, "I was suppose to be the main act until that puppet master took my place, at the last minute," Minnie explained, "I didn't want to be involved in any anthropomorphic animals, puppet shows, and no boy band tributes."
"Good thing I stopped at the Backstreet Boys episode." Kaylin recalled.
"Lucky for us" interrupted Tania, "There were a few clues to figure out about your theft. Your sarcasm laugh when we mentioned puppet show, you carrying a suitcase that was rather heavy, and your scrapbook on your many times on the talkshows here in Florida."
Swinger opened the briefcase and there was the missing marionettes of The Klue Queens.
Minnie told them to stop the recordings, but Fern explained that this was broadcasted live on the Friendly Scout's and Studio 25 View Tube videos. Minnie tried to escape. Luckily, Mr. and Mrs. Guidi tripped her from a curtain and grabbed her, "Get me out here" begged a traumatized Minnie, "This place is crawling with vermin."
"Relax" Vincenzo replied, "This place is always crawling with magical beings and aliens. Plus a little cleaning in the kitchen by yourself will teach you not to ruin show gigs."
Once Mr. and Mrs. Guidi left with the traumatized Minnie Mogul in their arms, Buster asked why are The Klue Queens dressed like a bunch of disco Beatles, "Remember the episode, 'It's Only Rock And Roll'" asked Estrella, "We figured that if Muffy couldn't use her concept on The Backstreet Boys, she can do it on us"
"There's also a change of plans" Leah replied, "We're going to perform a special song for a special alien. Keep the cameras rolling."
One by one, The Klue Queens danced to the instrumental version of Everything's Better With Perry, thanks to Koharu and DW. By a sign, Kirby popped out and did his little dance.
We consider every day of we, to spend it with a Kirby
We're always in the glorier, because he's a star warrior
Our all you can eat alien Brings smiles to the six women
Life's never ruddy duddy, with our gumball buddy
When we're dancing the way, it's better
Rewriting the stars, it's better
Eating our lunch it's better
Like we're some pancakes, and he's the butter
Having scouts honor, it's better
Playing with monkeys, it's better
Being in a bunch it's better
and Sucking it up, is a really big saider
Every day we have it all, we start it with a pink puff ball
He's adorable and he makes your tears go byeby, Everything's better with Kirby.
Everything's better when we just wanna say little Kirby, Everything's better with you.
During the song, Muffy came onstage and danced with Kaylin. In the end, The Klue Queens hugged the little alien and Kirby sang, "Poyo!"
XxoxX
Later, after The Klue Queens performance on Club Groove and Talking and Babbling with and Dartnan Meadows, it was time for Mr. Ratburn's class to return home. Once every cast member got onto the bus, Arthur stopped and said to Kailyn, "There's a surprise for you inside the green room."
Kaylin walked up to a conscious Mr. Colton, "Thank goodness my marionettes were alright." Mr. Colton said, "I don't know what I would be without them."
"Kirby" shouted The Klue Queens, "Suck It Up!"
With one gulp of a flier for The Twlight Zone Leah grabbed from storage, he turned into Portal Kirby again. As quick as they could, The Lakewood Elementary bus went in. Kirby changed back and wondered if it worked. On Kaylin's View Tube app on her phone, she could see the live stream of the new Arthur episode, DW was barging out and Mr. Ratburn's class were surprised by DW and Pal stowing onto the boat. Seeing this, they knew that they made it back into their cartoon.
XxoxX
In the green room, Kaylin found a poster of The Backstreet Boys from the It's Only Rock and Roll episode, with the signatures of Mr. Ratburn's class.
To Kaylin
Thanks for showing us an early demo on how TV is made
So have this poster in returned
Signed, Arthur and friends.
Kaylin was so amazed that she kept it in her souvenir bag for safekeeping.
The End
Note: Everything's Better With Kirby is a parody of Everything's Better with Perry from Phineas and Ferb.
