Now we're getting into the big stuff. Although this chapter won't be that big, it will be the start of something bigger. In other news, there was a recent Nintendo Direct, and although there were a few remakes or ports, I like the upcoming choices. Anyway, let's get to the reviews.
Exotos135: Haha. Speaking of which, I'm not sure, but I think it's not likely we'll see it again. If it does, it will be in the final battle. Anyway, thanks. :)
acosta perez jose ramiro: Thanks. :)
Now let's begin.
3 days were left until the Science Fair would begin. As of expected, since last time, Rodney would now message the scientists each day about the coming battle, which would be in the exact same day as the Science Fair. Of course, he tells the scientists to fear him and await their impending doom. But since the scientists were about 95% done with their preparations, they weren't exactly that scared of him. However, someone might interrupt their preparations in the afternoon, and this is where our story begins.
We cut to the mid-afternoon, where Dexter and Mandark were busy writing on a chalkboard while of course, arguing with each other.
"No, no, no Dexter." bragged Mandark. "This is the answer to the equation, which proves that I'm the smarter one."
"I beg to differ, Mandark." groaned Dexter. "THIS is the answer to the equation, which proves that I'M the smarter one!"
As they were arguing, the sound of ringing came. It was from the landline that the scientists recently installed inside the convention. "I'll get it." said Hakase, as she walked towards the blaring telephone and soon picked it up. "Hello?...oh, hello there…yes, he's here…you wanna speak with him? Um…okay." Hakase then removed the phone from her ear as she walked towards the two.
"What do you want?" asked Dexter.
"Phone call for Mandark." said Hakase, which confuses Mandark.
"Wait…for me?" Mandark asked. As he began to walk towards the phone, he began to think. "Who could possibly want to call me? Eh…it's probably just my parents or the school or something like that." Upon picking up the phone, he simply answered with a simple: "Who's speaking?"
"HELLO!" screamed a cheery, feminine voice on the other line. Immediately, Mandark recognized the voice as Dee Dee's. Because of this, he immediately blushed and got extremely nervous. Since the voice was so loud, it got the attention of the scientists as they walked up to him. Especially Dexter, who immediately groaned upon realizing that it was his stupid sister.
"Oh gosh…" Mandark silently whispered. Why would she be calling him? A prank call? A wrong number? He tried to put himself together, but since he never expected Dee Dee to call him, he couldn't handle it. He soon responded back. "Um…h-hello, Dee Dee. Wh…why are you calling?"
"Oh, Susan! I…uh…was just calling because of our homework assignment. I'm just so confused at all of the problems and I was just too distracted at various things while I was at school!" said Dee Dee, still in a loud tone that everybody could hear. "So, um…I was wondering if you could help me, since my dorky brother won't. I know you can since I always see you studying."
Mandark still couldn't believe it. She would want him of all people, including Dexter. Of course, he wouldn't dare miss an opportunity to spend time with her. "Uh…o-of course! Also, my name's Mandark." he stuttered, his face turning redder each second. "Want me to go to your house when I get back from the convention?"
"Actually…I'll be kinda busy in a couple of hours, as I'll be having a sleepover with my friends. How about we meet in that convention you're in? My mom can drop me off there!" This of course scared Dexter, as he silently pleads Mandark not to bring her to the convention. Even Mandark knew it was a bad idea, knowing she destroyed his lab the first time he met her.
"Just say no…" thought Mandark. "Just say no…just say no…just say no…" he took a deep breath before he responded back to Dee Dee. "Y-yes! Of course you can, Dee Dee!" This causes Dexter to groan and facepalm in fear.
"YAY! I'll see you in an hour, Mandark! I mean, Susan! Haha!" she giggled before hanging the phone up. Soon after, Dexter exploded at Mandark.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! You remember what happened the first time you met her! She destroyed your lab by accident!" screamed Dexter. "If you bring her here, SHE'LL DESTROY THIS ENTIRE CONVENTION!" This shocks the other scientists as Mandark facepalms himself for such a stupid mistake.
"I know! I know! It was a horrid mistake! Even I know how destructive she can be, but…DARN IT! I couldn't say no to my crush!" he said in worry. "I'm sorry, guys!" Doofenshmirtz then came into the situation.
"Okay, okay, everyone calm down." said Doof. "Mandark already did it, and there's no going back. So before she comes, let's make sure to…um…Dee Dee-proof everything in this lab to make sure she doesn't destroy anything. That way, all of our preparations are safe." Everyone agreed as they…er…Dee Dee-proofed the convention, like putting all of the weapons and defenses in a giant metal box, making sure all of the other rooms were locked leaving Dee Dee to just be in one specific room; moving the work desks (Except Mandark's) to different rooms so that Dee Dee doesn't touch anything; the list goes on.
Nearly an hour later, all the preparing was done, and the scientists were now nervously waiting for Dee Dee to come through the door. Soon, the door began to shake, as the scientists took notice and worryingly looked at it. They knew things were gonna get bad pretty quickly.
Suddenly, the door slowly opened and through the door was…Dr. Fox's friends: Unikitty, Puppycorn, Hawkodile and Richard. This confuses everyone, especially Dr. Fox. "What's up, Dr. Fox!" said Unikitty with a wide smile.
"Princess?" said Dr. Fox in confusion, as she walks up to the front. "What brings you and everyone else here?"
"Oh, we decided to come visit you and see how you've been doing." said Puppycorn. "So tell us…any new friends you've made?"
"Oh, I've made two good friends." said Dr. Fox, as Plankton and Test Tube come up to her. "Fellas, meet Plankton and Test Tube. We've met during the early days of this convention, and we three have a love for science!"
"Uh…Dr. Fox…" said Plankton, trying to correct her. "Don't we all here have a love for science?"
"Oops. Silly me. Just realized the mistake I did." she said, as the two of them giggled. This catches the attention of Hawkodile, who has a crush on Dr. Fox. Seeing Plankton made him feel that there was gonna be some serious competition between the two of them on who would get Dr. Fox's love. Of course, he doesn't know Plankton and one wrong move could possibly reveal his secret.
"Okay, Hawkodile." he thought to himself, sweating a little. "Just don't say anything out loud and you'll be just fine. I'm sure they'll only stay as friends and that's it. So just try to make sure your love isn't obvious at all." However, what Hawkodile didn't know was that little hearts were beginning to stream out of him, although nobody took notice.
"Phew…" said Dexter. "And I was getting so scared of Dee Dee bursting into the door!"
"Me too!" said Mandark. However, as soon as the words were said, Dee Dee immediately burst through the door, screaming: "HELLO!" to everybody in the convention, immediately causing all the scientists to shudder in fear, confusing Unikitty and her friends and causing Mandark to turn red and jump a little.
"Ooh…" said Dee Dee, who took notice of Unikitty and her friends. "You're like those block thingies that I have in my house! Oh, you're just so cute!"
"Heehee! Thank you, stranger!" said Unikitty, giggling. Mandark then immediately came up to her to try and get her attention before she could possibly do something horrible to those talking bricks.
"Anyway, h-hi Dee Dee!" said Mandark, his hand shaking a little bit while he was waving it. "H-how are you?"
"Aside from my school, I've been doing great, and that's because of my completion of my Pony Puff Princess colle-" Mandark then had to interrupt her in order to make sure they stay on track and get the homework over with. Despite him wanting to spend as much time as he can with Dee Dee, he knows prolonging her stay would cause massive trouble within the convention if she began to explore.
"Yeah, great. Now, how about we start working on that homework assignment of yours, Dee Dee?" he asked, as Dee Dee nodded in response. "Phew…" he thought. "Things might not turn out so bad after all…"
We cut to a few minutes later, where Mandark and Dee Dee were working together in the nearly bare main room, while the rest of the scientists were in the other rooms, either finishing up the last 5% of their projects, just chilling around or being prepared for if Dee Dee goes nuts.
"Okay, so how…uh…do I do these integer thingies?" asked Dee Dee.
"This is gonna be a very long afternoon…" said Mandark. Knowing that being straight about the solution wouldn't exactly help her, he decided to try and make it more fun by adding in those Pony Puff Princess things that she loves. "Uh…okay, let me make this simple for you. So this problem here says -46 – 4 = ?. Now…let's say you had 46 Pony Puff Princesses and you bought four more. How many would you have now?"
"Ooh, ooh! 50!" she said. "But I have a lot more of those things really!"
"Right! But since in our case, since the numbers are negative and negative plus negative equals a bigger negative…"
"Then our answer would be -50!"
"See? Now you're getting it already!" said Mandark, who was surprised that Dee Dee was catching on. Dee Dee simply jumped for joy at the thought of getting a math problem right. "Maybe we'll be finishing this quicker than I thought…"
Meanwhile, we now cut to one of the other rooms, where Hawkodile was spying on Dr. Fox and Plankton, who were talking to each other at Plankton's work desk. (For the sake of making sure people don't ask, Unikitty and the others were interacting with the other scientists.)
"That Plankton…" he thought to himself. "He's apparently gotten to Dr. Fox and her attention. They seem to be really getting along, and I'm getting very sure that they're gonna take their relationship to the next level at a soon point in the future." As Hawkodile continued to think about Dr. Fox, the hearts streaming out began to insert themselves into a giant growing heart. "But again…I don't know much about this Plankton guy…and if I spill out something by accident, it could possibly reveal everything. But…no! I can't let him get her!" he continued to think. Soon, the now big heart went down to Hawkodile and crushed him onto the floor. "OW!" he yelled.
His scream of agony caught the attention of the two, as they ran towards Hawkodile. "Oh, no! Hawkodile!" said Dr. Fox, worried. "The heart has come back!"
"Dr. Fox, what's with the heart?" asked Plankton.
"In our world, when someone gets a crush or may be thinking about the crush, the hearts of love stream out of their bodies and insert themselves to grow into a bigger heart. Unless he tries to be open about his feelings, it will keep growing and crushing him until he's nothing!" she said as she turned to Hawkodile. "Maybe this happened because that FeeBee is near the convention! Let me go check!"
As Dr. Fox leaves out the room through a door meant for the tiny scientists, Hawkodile slowly picked up the heart and put it on the ground. "Why did I let this happen? Of course FeeBee didn't cause this as I wasn't thinking about her since she's not here, so Dr. Fox will obviously know something suspicious is going on!" he said out loud.
"Woah, Hawkodile!" said Plankton. "What are you talking about?" Immediately Hawkodile covered his mouth, realizing he blurted out his thoughts.
"Oh, nothing! I said nothing!" stuttered Hawkodile, trying to hide it. Of course, Plankton heard it. So there was obviously no going back. Even worse, Plankton finally realized what's really going on, as he began to grin.
"Oh ho ho ho ho…" laughed Plankton. "I see what's going on here. If that FeeBee or whatever isn't around…and this still happened…it means you LIKE Dr. Fox! Don't you, Hawkodile?" This makes Hawkodile shriek for a very brief moment.
"Plankton, not so loud! You'll make the situation even more uncomfortable to go through!" said Hawkodile. This basically confirms Plankton's statement.
"Hahaha! I knew it!" he said before he began to tease him. "So tell me…did you grow the heart because you were getting JEALOUS of me hanging out with her? Hmm?" Before Hawkodile could even respond, Plankton interrupted. "Well, if that's the case, I'm already married to someone else! HAHAHA! Oh, this is so awkward!" This angers Hawkodile as Plankton calmed down. "Okay, I'm sorry about that. I'm just kidding. Haha. So, if being open about your feelings is the only way to stop this, how about you tell her?"
Hawkodile groans in fear. "I know it's the only way, but I don't want to make things awkward between the two of us!"
"Well, you only have two choices." said Plankton. "Either you be open about your feelings to her which MIGHT make things awkward between the both of you, or you get crushed by your own feelings which WILL destroy you. It's your choice, Hawkodile."
"But Plankton, I already DID confess. She made herself my practice crush a while back in order to help me get the hearts away. Of course, she doesn't know that my confession was like the final test and really aimed towards her. So if ever she asks me to do it again in order for the hearts to go away, then this could possibly be my chance at telling the truth with confidence!" said Hawkodile, a bit confident. However, Plankton didn't respond. In fact, his face kinda looked like he was reacting to something awkward. "Uh…Plankton?" Plankton simply pointed to behind Hawkodile, to which he turned and shrieked to find out that Dr. Fox was there, looking kinda speechless.
"I'll just leave you two to be." said Plankton quickly as he simply zoomed away, leaving Dr. Fox and Hawkodile alone together. The two came up to each other, both of them a little red, as Hawkodile stuttered a little bit.
"H…how much did you hear?" he nervously said.
"Just the part where you said that the confession towards me was genuine and meant for me." she said, as silence happened for the next couple of seconds. "So…um…Hawkodile…you really like me like that? I-I thought you liked that FeeBee fella."
"No, I don't…I lied." he said, causing Dr. Fox to gasp. "I know it was a dumb thing to lie to everybody's faces about who I liked. But it was just at the wrong time at the wrong place. That practice confession was like a saving grace for me, which was why I was so open about my feelings. After that, I wanted to make sure nothing like that ever happened again, so that's why I said FeeBee so that the hearts wouldn't build up again…but it looked like it wasn't enough to keep them away."
Dr. Fox simply decided to listen to Hawkodile as he continued to speak, although in a more open and confident tone. "The truth is…I really like you, Dr. Fox. To be very brief about how I feel, I admire your intelligence, your kindness and…how we'd make a great team because of our teamwork. And…I'm very sorry that I lied to everybody about the situation. I should've just accepted that it would come out eventually and that I should've faced it when it was there. I just hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me for what I've done."
Dr. Fox seemed to be extremely flattered at Hawkodile's long confession, as she decided to respond back. "Oh, Hawkodile…you didn't have to lie to me. You could've just been honest about your feelings, and even if I did reject it, I wouldn't drop our friendship like a glass plate falling from a high cliff. You're a really nice guy and you even work as hard as you can in order to protect us and the Unikingdom. I really admire your willingness and your cooperativeness, and despite your mistake, I still forgive you." She then went up to Hawkodile, as she held his hands before she kissed his cheek. "I guess we truly make a great team, don't we?"
Hawkodile realized that in a way, Dr. Fox was saying that she liked him back. With the hearts going away, Hawkodile felt a lot more confident and open about his feelings now. "Yeah. I guess we do." he said, as the two closed their eyes and simply enjoyed the moment of them holding hands, as their heads started to come toward each other. However, it was soon interrupted by the sound of fangirling.
"OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! YOU LIKE DR. FOX?! AND YOU TWO ARE NOW TOGETHER?! THIS IS JUST SO CUTE THAT I CAN'T EVEN HANDLE THIS!" shouted a familiar voice. This makes the two jump as they see that Unikitty, Puppycorn and Richard were just standing there; Unikitty looking extremely happy, Puppycorn with his jaw open and Richard even looking a bit surprised.
"H-How much did you hear?" asked Dr. Fox.
"EVERYTHING!" she said in joy, causing Hawkodile to groan.
Meanwhile, we now cut back to Mandark and Dee Dee, as Dee Dee was writing down the rest of the answers for her homework, and she was getting them right, much to Mandark's surprise and joy. Soon, she completely finished her homework. "I did it! I was able to solve the problems with your help!"
"That's great, Dee Dee!" said Mandark, who knew that deep inside Dee Dee's tiny brain were a few extra brain cells. "I knew you can do it! And if you keep practicing it, you'll be doing a good job at school in no time!" Soon, the sound of a car honking was heard, indicating that Dee Dee's mom was there.
"Oh, just in time too!" she said. "Thanks, Susan! I mean, Mandark! I was gonna ask you if I could play with the lab stuff, but it looks like I'm out of time. Ah, well. Bye-bye!" she then kissed Mandark's cheek as she skipped out the door, singing happily. As soon as she was out of sight, Mandark happily screamed while he jumped for joy, causing everyone to rush to the room.
"What?! What's going on?! Did she do something?!" exclaimed a somewhat paranoid Dexter. "What happened?!"
"Nothing happened! We just did the homework, and she simply left happy." said Mandark, surprising Dexter, who then walked up to him.
"Well…despite you and me being complete opposites…I could learn a few things from you about how my sister works."
"I have to admit…I could say the same thing to you." said Mandark, as the two of them shook hands. Soon, Mandark took a look at his watch. "Oh, egads! Look at the time! It's nearly time for dinner!"
"Alright, day's over. Everybody leave so that I can close up for today." said Doof, as the scientists began to leave the convention. However, one more thing to check up before I close this chapter. And it starts with Plankton walking up to Dr. Fox.
"So, how did it go?" he asked. Dr. Fox blushed a little bit.
"We've become a really great team." she said as she caught up with her friends before holding hands with Hawkodile. That was enough for Plankton to understand, who simply shrugged and walked out the convention as well. By now, everybody was gone, as Doof simply closed up and began walking home. As he was walking, he was wondering how they were gonna spend the last two days before the battle was to begin…
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