At the Lititz Heights train station, the Klue Queens were having a Chinese picnic while waiting for the arrival of a famous movie star. Estrella said with pride, "I can't believe that Saffron Foreman is coming back to Lititz Heights after 10 long years."
"Poyo, poyo, poyo? (Who is Saffron Foreman?)" Kirby asked.
"Saffron Foreman is the lead role from 'Boarding School Musical'," Tania explained. "She played Sarah Belle Marquez, the brainy new girl."
On her phone, Tania showed a picture of a biracial Latino girl in yellow girly clothing. "She was one of Hollywood's Cutie Music Stars in the mid-2000s," she continued. "She'd even appeared in numerous makeup cleanser commercials and even started her own."
"You mean..." Estrella remembered.
"Yup," Tania replied.
"Saffron Sassy Cleansing Products!" they both shouted.
"Calm down, girls," Paige replied. "This is her big day. Don't steal the spotlight."
"I'm glad that Hong Kong House of Chow was giving a discount to LH High students and they overstocked on egg rolls," Leah said as she got out two dozen egg rolls.
Kirby sucked up 17 of the 24 rolls. "Poyo, poyo (Yummy egg rolls)," Kirby smiled.
In her bag, Kaylin got out a pretty present with flower wrapping on it. "You'd even made a present for her," Tania said sternly, "even though you two hardly know each other."
"Come, Tan," replied Kaylin. "She needs a little hometown heart."
At the railways, numerous fans awaited the arrival of a hometown darling. "Who are we?!" shouted Tang.
"Crazy Dogs!" shouted the fans.
Who are we?
Crazy Dogs
Who are we?
Crazy Dogs
Crazy Dogs, We're Taking The Bite?
"This is Tang Yanghui with your local news," said Tang. "After nearly a decade of being on the big screen, sweetheart Saffron Foreman returns home to handle a domestic life."
A train from Hollywood came to the station, but when one of them opened, there was no sign of Saffron anywhere. Everyone was shocked by the starlet's strange disapperance.
"Hey!" shouted a fan. "Where's Saffron?!"
"She's missing!" shouted another.
As the fans were all looking up with worried faces, Rylie found a newspaper article flying out of the passenger car Saffron was supposed to be in. She looked at it and saw that it was an article of "Espionage Academy." Kirby didn't know what it meant. Rylie told him that "Espionage Academy" was a film that was also shot in Lititz Heights. Unfortunately it didn't do so well at the box office and lost to "Boarding School Musical." The Klue Queens decided to start solving the mystery, if they didn't get in the way of Chief Hess.
"You girls are not going to do this," Chief Hess growled.
"Hold on," Mayor Hess said. "If they want to help find a missing movie star, then I'm going to help them. They could also use an acting coach."
"Mother, please," Chief Hess replied. "This is the police's duty."
"But you guys would take too long," Mayor Hess replied. "And didn't you promise your daughter that you would go bowling with her today? It's her time to learn without bumpers."
"Go," groaned Chief Hess. "Find Saffron."
"Why are you helping us, Mayor?" Estrella asked.
"Saffron reminded me of me when I was in my 30s," Mayor Hess explained, "but this whole thing started when I was 14 years old in New York City. I was a high school girl at the Susan B. Anthony School for Girls, going through the musical female version of 'The Three Musketeers'. It was there that a talent scout discovered me and asked me to play a background teen in the hit play 'Bonnie'. After that, I grew from ensemble cast to lead role - from 'Tennessee to Locks', 'Socs', and much more. That was when the production of 'The Voices of Songs' came around. I was suppose play the leading girl of Marisol when my rival, Evie, kidnapped me and locked me in her family's French restaurant. I had to escape quickly, and I barged in when the crew of 'No-Friend Horseman' came in. I explained the truth to the producers. And from that day on, I decided to never perform for anyone ever again."
"Evie must've been jealous of you," Kaylin suggested.
"Exactly," Mayor Hess replied. "And I don't want Saffron to go through what I went through."
"Let's ask the info booth to see if there's any information about Saffron," Leah suggested.
Unfortunately, the info booth had no record of Saffron Foreman boarding any train station from California. As they were about to leave, they saw a bald man with glasses coming in with a film crew.
"That's just Mitch Mikeman," the info lady explained.
"Mitch Mikeman?" recalled Estrella. "Director of 'Espionage Academy'?"
"That's him," the info lady replied. "He's in town directing the live-action sequences for the film 'Cego 2: The New Build'."
"I remember the 'Cego' movie," recalled Rylie. "Aaron was a huge fond of them as a kid."
"I wonder if he knows anything about our missing star?" Paige suggested. "After all, everyone knows everyone in Hollywood."
XxoxX
While they were filming the scene where the family met the grandparents, Swinger interrupted by playing with the kids.
"Cut!" shouted Mitch. "Who brought that monkey onto the set, I don't remember any live-action monkeys in the script."
"It's my fault, señor," Estrella apologized. "Swinger just love to play with the kids."
"Mommy!" shouted the girl. "Can we play with the monkey and the pink ball?"
"Sure, sweetheart," said the mom, "just as long as you two don't get any fleas."
Estrella quickly recognized the couple. "I know you two," she recalled. "You're Jan and Julian Rodton, the couple who played the leading roles' parents."
"And I've seen you met our kids, Zeke and Violet," Julian said, "named after two of the characters in 'Espionage Academy'."
Mitch started to groan hearing that word. "Mitch wanted to get other kids to play the brother and sister in the movie," Jan explained, "but the boy got a growth spurt, and they kept putting off production due to budget cuts. We both insisted that we should bring our real-life kids to play the parts of the new children."
"Mitch didn't want to ruin his reputation," Julian finished, "so he had to let our kids in."
They looked at Zeke, Violet, Kirby, and Swinger, who were all playing with each other. "Do you know anything about a missing star from the movie 'Boarding School Musical'?" asked Tania.
Mitch got so annoyed hearing that title, he kicked the girls and the mayor out of the train station, "Well, I never," Mayor Hess growled. "I'm suing him after we solve this mystery."
The security guards tossed Swinger and Kirby to trash cans, where they got fliers for a Mexican restaurant: El Pueblo De Pepper. Kirby thought it was the name of a city. He looked on Kaylin's phone for it, only for it do be shown in the Lititz Heights area.
"It's not the name of a town," Leah explained. "It's the name of a restaurant."
"I remember that in 'Espionage Academy', the leading girl was supposed to meet the leading guy, but got stood up," Kaylin recalled. "And that was the same restaurant in 'Boarding School Musical' where Sarah Belle and Trent decided to go on a date. But their rivals, Sharon and Ryman, found out that they were still together."
"Also," Leah replied, "Saffron's family owned the restaurant. It was kind of strange they didn't show up for their eldest daughter's return."
"No family would ever abandon their child's return home," Kaylin replied.
XxoxX
As they arrived, they saw some guard dogs around El Pueblo De Pepper. Mayor Hess always carried a dog whistle with her in case any strays tried to attack her. She whistled it and the dogs went crazy. Inside the restaurant, they found the place empty. Kirby started to wander off and play with the taco condiments. In the freezer, they found a cold and traumatized Saffron.
"Thank goodness someone came," Saffron replied. "I meant to come to the airport for a flight home, but I just got a call from a movie director that they want to preview a new movie of his - only to be knocked out and waken up in my family's Mexican restaurant."
By the door, a white man, a Mexican woman, and a 22-year-old biracial Mexican girl came in. "Dios mío!" shouted the woman. "What's going on here? We just found some guard dogs by our restaurant."
"Mama! Dad!" shouted Saffron as she hugged her parents. "I'm so glad your here."
"We meant to welcome you, home sweetheart," said Saffron's father, "but we won a free trip to Vegas. We couldn't understand who would give us a trip and why."
Kaylin started to realize something. Kaylin found a cherry soda and tossed it to Kirby. "Kirby," she shouted, "suck it up!"
Like magic, Kirby turned into Bubble Kirby. Both he and the Klue Queens flew up and followed the bubbles to the train station. "Why can't we travel by stars?" asked Estrella.
"We don't want to overuse them," Kaylin replied. "Plus, you love mixing things up."
"You're right," Estrella replies as she danced.
The Klue Queens danced their way to the train station where Bubble Kirby blew bubbles around Mitch. "What's going on?!" he shouted as he saw the Klue Queens. "I thought I told you girls to leave my set," he demanded to them.
"Really?" Leah replied, "We know about your charade - the one about you kidnapping Saffron."
"What are you talking about?" Mitch groaned as more bubbles surrounded him. "Okay, okay, I kidnapped Saffron!"
Most of the crewman were shocked by this. Saffron and her family arrived onto the set to hear what the Klue Queens went through. Before they could begin, Kirby popped the bubbles and made the girls land safely on the ground, while Mitch landed on the craft service tent.
"First we found the article on 'Espionage Academy'," Rylie explained, "where they said that it had a box-office bomb."
"And also when Julian told us that his kids were named after two characters of 'Espionage Academy'," Tania continued.
"Speaking of Mitch," Paige continued, "another clue was that whenever he heard 'Boarding School Musical', he tended to freak out for no reason."
"And there were the watchdogs by the El Pueblo De Pepper," Leah recalled, "the restaurant that was used for both 'Espionage Academy' and 'Boarding School Musical'."
"You have no idea what's it like to be envious of a movie more successful than the one you directed," Mitch groaned. "I was hoping that 'Espionage Academy' would become a success with a TV series and everything. Unfortunately, I lost the box offices to that good-for-nothing 'Boarding School Musical'."
"Looks like no one wants to watch a movie thats completely predictable," said Saffron's younger sister, Stella, "where the lead always gets the girl. And while I'm at it, spy movies weren't popular at the time."
"Duh," snapped Mitch. "And I had to send Saffron's precious family to Vegas with the movie budget so I could keep them distracted."
"I remember now," Saffron replied, "While I was getting knocked out, I saw you removing your ski mask. You tricked me *and* the press."
"Well, you guys stole my spotlight," Mitch replied. "Go ahead and sue."
The Foremans had a better idea. They decided to take Mitch into the restaurant and serve a really big catering order for a children's theater after party, for preschoolers.
XxoxX
Later, the girls were hanging out in their hideout watching "Boarding School Musical." That was when they got a text from Helen that Julian was now the new director for the "Cego 2" movie. Tania remembered that actors did become directors overtime. Suddenly, they saw Kirby with some Mexican hot sauce from El Pueblo De Pepper. Estrella explained that Mr. Foreman decided to thank Kirby for saving his eldest daughter with a dozen hot sauces. The girls knew that it was unsafe for Kirby to eat so many hot sauces, fearing that he would turn into Fire Kirby again.
Outside, they saw Carolina filming the streets when she saw a pre-Fire Kirby coming her way. She quickly got to the backyard pool and dunked him in, causing Kirby to cool off.
"Looks like that's a blooper," Carolina said.
The End.
