After working out, Jo went to get her hoodie and realized that the gem was gone.
"CINDYYYYYY!" Jo yelled out.
Cindy's eyes widened.
"That doesn't sound too good." Maxwell commented.
"Uh, I gotta get home!" Cindy jumped down and ran to the door as fast as she could.
Jo then sent a tendril and it wrapped around Cindy's ankle.
Cndy yelped and fell flat on the floor and was dragged backward as she whimpered fearfully. "H-Hey there, Jo." she greeted nervously.
"Hi, Cindy..." Jo lifted Cindy up by her ankle. "Where's the gem?"
"Heh... Somebody lose a gem?" Cindy smiled nervously.
"Give it back now." Jo demanded.
"I, uh, don't know what you're talking about." Cindy acted dumb.
Jo then shook Cindy violently which loosened the gem and it fell from Cindy's pockets and ended up in the jockette's hand.
"Oh, yeah, that gem..." Cindy grinned nervously. "Where did that come from?" she then laughed nervously.
Jo snarled.
"On a scale of one to ten how much trouble am I in?" Cindy sweated.
"Gazillion," Jo growled. "Now I have to punish you."
"Anything but sending me to the Supernatural Realm, anything but that!" Cindy begged.
"It's not that, don't worry." Jo promised.
"Phew..." Cindy smiled in relief.
"Because I'm gonna do much worse than that." Jo snarled.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry for it!" Cindy yelped.
"Sorry, Cindy, but you have to learn your lesson, so here it comes." Jo growled.
Cindy gulped and bowed her head. "Yes, Jo... Can I at least plead the fifth?"
"NO!"
"Oh, boy..."
"Ready?" Jo asked.
"Oh, just get it over with!" Cindy groaned. "It can't be worse than going to the Supernatural Realm, I hear the warlocks are all grumpy!"
"SHUT UP!" Jo snarled.
"Sorry." Cindy muttered.
"All right, Cindy, here's your punishment." Jo said.
Cindy covered her eyes, bowing her head.
"I'm gonna send you to the deepest pit in the darkness realm until you can redeem yourself." Jo threatened."
"You can't do that because my parents will know that I'm gone!"
"You let me worry about that..." Jo got in her face.
Cindy sweated even more than usual. "Oh, come on, this is my first offense!... Please have mercy, Jo, I won't do it again!"
"Maybe that's a little too dark..." Jo said.
"I mean, that'd be worse than being sent to the house on Drawn Together!" Cindy gasped.
"That house it is!" Jo threw Cindy through a portal.
"NO!" Cindy yelped as she flew through the portal and ended up in front of a fancy looking house and the portal closed up. "Well... This place looks nice... Hello?" she went up to the front door and rang the doorbell.
A dark-skinned woman who looked like a fox answered the door, then noticed the lost little girl. "May I help you, child?"
"Uh, my friend sent me here..." Cindy's eyes widened. "Oh, gosh... Oh, my... You're very revealing... If I wore clothes like that, my daddy would have a stroke..."
"I'm Foxxy Love." the woman introduced herself.
"My friend Mike told me about you," Cindy replied. "She said you adopted her."
"My little Mike," Foxxy smiled at the mention. "How's she doing?"
"Oh, she's fine..." Cindy smiled. "She misses you, you should visit her sometime... I have the address."
"I would like that..." Foxxy smiled. "Why don't you sit down? I'll get you some apple juice..." she then walked off.
Cindy sat on the couch. "This place isn't so bad..." she then looked down to an orange creature who looked like a Pokemon. "Cute doggy..." she then pet the creature gently as he slept on the couch.
A superhero and a pig were talking to each other and then saw Cindy.
"Hello." Cindy greeted them politely.
"Uh... Hey..." the pig walked up to her. "Are you our new maid?" he then laughed.
"Uh, no, my friend sent me here to punish me..." Cindy shrugged. "My mother says this is a horrible place to be apart of..."
"Spanky, Captain Hero, leave her alone." a princess told them.
"Oh, maybe she could be my new sidekick." the superhero picked Cindy up.
"Aren't you that guy who sells ice cream to little boys in his van?" Cindy asked.
"Uhhh... No?" the superhero obviously lied.
Cindy jumped down and walked off. "I need to go..." she then bumped into a black and white woman. "Betty Boop...?"
"No, I'm Toot Braunstein." the woman informed.
"Oh, funny, you look so much like Betty Boop..." Cindy chuckled nervously.
Meanwhile...
"Hey, Jo, um, where's Cindy?" Mike asked.
"Tha'ts not important right now..." Jo said, then looked to see Dexter coming out with Martin in his hand.
"Jo, Justine, Brianna, Trent, Sky, and Cindy will be helping out with Martin in this mission." Dexter reported.
"Hey, I know you," Mike said to the animal. "You're the gecko from those commercials. I'm amazed with your work."
"Why, thank you," Martin smiled. "Say, you seem familiar... Haven't I seen you around New York?"
"I sorta grew up there, mostly around Manhattan..." Mike replied. "I became an exchange student though... I had this hidden feeling that I didn't belong in my family, so I joined the program to kinda find myself out."
"I actually went to New York myself one time." Martin replied.
"So I've heard." Mike smirked. "Maybe we passed each other without realizing it one time..."
"I remember a small child like this though..." Martin took out a photograph of a little girl around the age of four with short ginger hair that covered her ears in a short-sleeved red shirt with a matching skirt, a matching hat, and wore matching boots and she seemed to be clutching a yellow teddy bear. "Do you recognize this little girl?"
"That's me!" Mike said. "When I was little, I mean..."
"Really then?" Martin asked.
"It's a long personal story..." Mike said, putting her hands in her jacket pockets.
"So we've met... Sort of..." Martin smiled. "I believe I was just visitng when you were in a car with a foster parent couple... I knew you had to be adopted though, you didn't look like the people who raised you."
"Yeah, it's a long story, but I'm glad to actually meet you in person." Mike said.
"Nice to meet you too, Michelene." Martin said.
"It's 'Mike' here, easy with that Michelene stuff." Mike whispered.
Martin chuckled. "Yes, of course..."
"So, uh, where's Cindy?" Mike repeated her question to the jockette.
"I took her to the Drawn Together house." Jo replied.
"I haven't been there in forever... Why'd you send her there?" Mike asked.
"To teach her a lesson," Jo replied. "I, uh, punished her."
"Why did you punish Cindy?" Mike asked. "She never does anything wrong!"
"It's a long story, I'll tell you later." Jo said.
"Sheesh..." Mike rolled her eyes. "But, do you think you could take me there? I wanna see Mama Foxxy again."
"Mama Foxxy?" Jo glanced at her.
"Her name's Foxxy Love, but she told me to call her that when she adopted me before the series got cancelled after that clip show." Mike explained.
"You miss her, don't you?" Jo asked.
"Yeah, a little..." Mike admitted. "She said she had foster kid issues in the past, but she actually really loved me... I liked a lot of them back at that house... I didn't think they still even lived there, the show was cancelled after the second season."
"I can take you there if you want to." Jo said.
"You would?" Mike asked.
"Only if you'd want me to." Jo smiled.
"Thanks, Jo..." Mike smiled. "They were really like a family to me... They all might've been dysfunctional, but they were like a real family out of all the people I stayed with before I met Jen and Jamie."
"All right, I'll take you to them." Jo promised.
"Thanks, Jo..." Mike smiled.
Jo smiled back. "Let me just put this gem in a safe place... I'll explain later." she said as she took out Martin's treasure.
"All right." Mike nodded.
Jo nodded to her, then walked off home to put the gem away in a safe spot. "Cindy can't get this now since it's gonna be in my room." she said to herself reassuringly.
Autumn looked curious.
"Autumn, promise me to never go in my room and take that, okay?" Jo warned her little sister.
Autumn nodded to her.
"Good girl." Jo nodded to her.
Autumn saluted, then hugged Jo.
"Aw, come here..." Jo hugged Autumn back.
Autumn snuggled against her older sister.
"How're the dogs?" Jo picked up Autumn and walked downstairs with her.
Autumn put her finger to Jo's mouth, then pointed over to show Steve and Cleo were sleeping on top of each other.
"Those two were made for each other." Jo chuckled.
Autumn then hopped down and took out a crayon drawing she made about the two dogs having puppies.
"Aww, that's adorable," Jo smiled. "You could be an artist."
Autumn smiled bashfully.
"How about you go watch some classic cartoons on Netflix, huh?" Jo suggested.
Autumn looked curious.
"Here, let me help you, show you what real cartoons are..." Jo walked with her.
'Are they really good?' Autumn asked.
"Lemme show ya somethin', kid." Jo said before she accessed the Roku box and went onto Netflix to find nostalgic cartoons. "Here's some stuff a lot of us big kids watched when I was your age."
'Really?' Autumn asked. 'They don't look that good.'
"Give them a try..." Jo ruffled up her hair.
'Can I watch that?' Autumn asked, pointing to season two of Ed, Edd, n Eddy.
"Yeah, that's a good one." Jo selected it.
Autumn smiled in excitement.
Jo then handed Autumn the remote. "Enjoy."
'I get to see Uncle Eddy on TV.' Autumn beamed.
Jo chuckled, then let Autumn to watch her cartoons. She then went back to HQ and promised Mike to take to the Drawn Together house and also to pick up Cindy there as well.