And now, for the final chapter of Arc 5! And you know what I just realized? It's going to be a year since I put 'Oh Rhonda!' out! So yeah, this is not only going to be the season finale of Arc 5... it's going to be the one year anniversary of this fic! And I'm celebrating by tying up loose ends, making fun of the box office results of how well 'Hey Arnold! The Movie' had done, and... well... you'll... you'll have to see for yourselves! Well, anyway, hope you like this chapter! Enjoy!
The next morning, I yawned as I put on my glasses and looked out the window of my house. I knew this was going to be a great day...
I wondered what I was going to do today... I mean, I only had at least three days of spring break left. May as well make the best of it, right?
I heard my phone buzzing as I saw Olga's number on there. I opened up my phone and picked it up. "Hello?"
"Hey, Rhonda! I'm having a meeting at the boarding house. Think you can gather your friends over?" Olga asked.
I smiled. "Sure. What's going on?"
"Just a little congratulation ceremony, that's all." Olga explained. "Think you can be there?"
I smiled as I grabbed my backpack. "I think I'll be there, sure."
I started to pack a couple of things, including a couple of my favorite James Bond books, and my diary, the one with the three pages stapled. I don't know why I decided to take it with me, maybe the mystery of what was in the diary was on my mind.
I ran downstairs as I met up with my dad and mom. "I'm going out, mom, dad!"
"All right, sweetheart." My mom smiled. "You be safe now, okay?
"I will!" I said as I hugged my mom and dad.
"We love you sweetheart, no matter what." My dad said as they hugged me back.
"Okay!" I said as I walked out the door. "Bye!"
As I slid down the banister from the steps that led outside, I sighed as I took a deep breath. It was indeed a most glorious day.
I decided to take the walk over to Lila's place first.
Along the way, I noticed that Curly, Caroline, and those two strange figures were talking amongst themselves as I came over. I noticed Curly reading a newspaper.
"I don't get it!" Curly muttered. "We saved the neighborhood and yet the biggest headline involves a man with a foot fetish getting to be the true heir of Blake Industries? What the heck is Blake Industries?"
"And who is this Mr. Deeds man?" The male orange cloaked figure frowned as he looked closer at the paper. "I don't get it."
"Hey, Curly, Caroline... other two..." I said as the four turned to me. "I never had a chance to say thanks for helping us save the neighborhood."
"Yeah, thanks guys. You really did put a lot of help today." I heard Helga say in my mind.
"Hey, it's fine, really." Curly said. "Anything to help out the girl of my dreams."
"I am not the girl of your dreams." I glared at Curly. "And don't get any ideas!"
"It's like you confirmed. The spirit's still there, but..." I couldn't hear the rest as the female orange cloaked figured whispered in Caroline's ear. Caroline could only nod as I looked in confusion.
Caroline nodded as she said, "I'll only say this... Rhonda, Helga... you'll see us a lot more often... maybe more me and Curly, but the other two, they have their lives... they'll know how to help you when they're called up."
"All right... but just who or what are you?" I asked the orange cloaked figures.
"Oh! Call me Pudding! Pudding Fong!" The female orange cloaked figure whispered as she lifted her cloak slightly to reveal a blonde Chinese girl with a big smile. "It's good to meet you face to face!"
"As for me... you've seen me before in a dream, but... you can just call me... Bucky." The other orange cloaked figure said, deciding not to lift his hood for the time being.
"Oh... okay, then. Good to see you guys." I said as I shook their hands.
"Anyway, you best be going if you want to meet up with your other friends... but Rhonda... consider this a little truce between ourselves for now." Caroline said. "Come along, guys, we have a grave to visit..."
Curly, Pudding and Bucky just nodded as they followed Caroline off. I just raised my eyebrow as I kept walking.
"You know, Helga, this is the greatest life in the world!" I sighed as I continued walking.
"How so?" Helga asked me out of curiosity.
"Well... the neighborhood is saved, and best of all, Arnold and I are officially going out! How cool is that?" I asked.
"I guess it is pretty cool. The Rhonda of my timeline went broke for a week, along with her family." Helga said.
I stopped in my tracks. "Wait, what?"
"Hm? Oh, did I neglect to mention that? Yeah, in about three weeks, you and your family are about to go broke for at least a week. Something about your father's stocks, I don't know, I don't keep up with the other students that much."
"Oh God, why didn't you tell me?" I said to Helga, worried. "Oh God, we must have been living in a poor house! I can't imagine how..."
"My Rhonda and her family were living in Arnold's boarding house at that time." Helga explained.
"She did? Which means... that I'm going to be living at Arnold's for a week?" I said to Helga in shock... then I started dancing around like an idiot. "YES! YES! YES!"
"You do know that my Rhonda didn't like living at the boarding house, right?"
"YOUR Rhonda may not have liked it, but I have been in Arnold's house loads of times! Sure, they're not the best people, but dang it, they are still interesting to talk to!" I said.
"That Asian man, Mr. Hyunh had a cold when my Rhonda was living there."
"So? People get sick."
"Mr. Kokoshka kept raiding the Lloyds' room and lounging around."
"Yeah, but we know that guy!"
"Your father worked for Mr. Potts."
"So he got a little job to get back on his feet. Not the end of the world."
"You'll only have a couple sets of clothes with you."
"I have friends. I'm pretty sure I can ask Nadine, Phoebe or Lila to spare a few dresses. Besides, I always keep back-up clothes with them in case something went wrong." I said as I kept walking.
"You collected gar-"
"Helga, please!" I sighed. "I'm not YOUR timeline's version of Rhonda. I'll be fine!"
"All right, all right. By the way, you just passed Lila's house."
I stopped as I looked back. In my mind, I glared at Helga. "I hate you, Helga."
"Love you, princess." Helga smirked in my mind.
I shook my head as I went to the door and knocked on it. Lila answered as she smiled. "Oh, hello, Rhonda."
"Hey, Lila, how's..." I started before I saw Lorenzo peeking out. "Lorenzo, what are you doing here?"
"Well, it's a long story..." Lorenzo said as I peeked inside to see Lila's father and Lorenzo's mother talking to each other as the two were sharing some laughs together. "The short version of it is... my mom actually came to terms with me dating Lila. She even said that if we were poor... they'd be the first people to go to."
"Your mother said that?" I said in surprise.
"Si." Lila and Lorenzo nodded.
Lorenzo then said, "My mom is talking with Lila's dad to see if he would like to work a new job that paid a little more."
"What did he say, Lila?" I asked...
Then I heard Lila's dad saying, "Mrs. Lopez, I want to thank you for the opportunity. I will be glad to work with you."
"Such a gentlemen." Lorenzo's mom smiled. "And your daughter's such an adorable little lady... I can see why my son has his eyes set on her."
"Your son is a good man, too. I know he can protect my little girl, if need be." Lila's dad smiled.
Lila gave a warm smile as she said, "I think it's safe to say, he's taking the job."
"Can you believe the headlines on the paper today?" Lila asked as me and her were walking towards Nadine's house.
"I know, right?" I frowned. "How is the proposal of an idea of a police force known as PreCrime more important than our neighborhood being saved?"
"It doesn't make sense to me, either..." Lila said as we approached Nadine's house. As soon as we reached the door, Nadine was walking out, a little angry.
"I can't believe it! All that hard work we put in, and yet the newspapers believe that aliens being spotted in Hawaii is better news!" Nadine growled. "It's a crock, a crock I say!"
"Read the newspaper, huh?" I asked.
"Yeah..." Nadine sighed. "I don't get it. We put a lot of hard work into it, why don't people around the world appreciate what we go through?"
"Oh, I don't know..." I shook my head. "Come on, we're going to Arnold's place, more specifically, Olga's apartment. We need to pick up Phoebe first and we're good."
Nadine just nodded as we started to head towards Phoebe's house.
"Mystery Incorporated reunites?" Phoebe facepalmed as she showed us the newspaper. "They think a group of mystery solving teenagers reuniting back together is more important than exposing Future Tech to dinosaur breeding and destroying our neighborhood illegally?"
"Oh, but the dog's awesome!" Nadine smiled as we continued walking towards the boarding house.
"Oh, that I won't deny, but even so!" Phoebe said as we got up and rang the doorbell.
Arnold answered the door, and perked up as he hugged me. I smiled as I hugged him back. "Hey, charming."
"Hi, beautiful." Arnold said, snuggling towards me. "You know, it's strange... it feels a little awkward, just getting together with the friend you knew from childhood..."
"Yeah, and yet, it seems pretty much right." I said as we let go. "Anyway, did you read the newspapers?"
"The one where the headline goes 'Jason Bourne Remembers Everything and is on the hunt?'. Yeah... our neighborhood saving story only got second page on it." Arnold said.
"Any of our names mentioned?" I asked.
"Unfortunately, no." Arnold shook his head. "But that's okay. Everything turned out fine in the end..."
"Indeed..." I smiled as we went upstairs. "Well, we better go see Olga."
Arnold nodded as I went back down and kissed him on the cheek. He blushed a bit as I giggled. "See you soon, buddy boyfriend."
I quickly ran back upstairs.
Inside the room, all of us were in our NO PEOPLE shirts as Olga was giving a smile.
"Okay, first of all, Sharlene isn't here right now as she is now the boss of Future Tech. She says she's planning on making a few changes to the company, and we wish her luck on her success." Olga explained. "Second, I want to thank my favorite little girls who managed to brave themselves into Future Tech and helped out in locating the deed that saved our lovely hometown... Rhonda, Nadine, Phoebe, and Lila... take a small bow. You all earned it."
The people of NO PEOPLE clapped for us as I gave a warm smile, me, Nadine, Phoebe and Lila all got up as we gave a nod towards the others.
"Next, with everything that's going all out... I'm sure we can only experience new changes from here on in..." Olga nodded. "I'm just glad I am here with you all... and for this, I thank you... each and every one of you..."
We all smiled as we applauded for Olga.
A little later, Olga offered to drive me home. I took the offer as I took all three of my girls with me as we went to the back seat of the car.
"Thanks again for taking us home, Olga." I smiled.
"It's no problem at all, girls." Olga nodded. "It's the least I can do."
"It's nice to have good company within all of us." Lila smiled as Phoebe looked out the window.
"Yeah... all of us have the best times..." Nadine smiled.
"I guess we'll never be separated from..." Rhonda started.
"Uh... Rhonda?" Phoebe gasped.
"What is it?" I asked.
Phoebe pointed up towards the sky. We took a moment to look... to see a ton of smoke coming towards the direction of...
"My house? MY HOUSE!" I gasped as we looked at each other.
"Hang on! We need to look for ourselves!" Olga gasped as she slammed the gas pedal and started driving.
By the time we got there... we saw the fire department trying to put the fire out. As me and Olga got out of the car, I saw two firemen coming out of the house as they whispered.
One of the firemen turned towards me and raised an eyebrow. "Hey... aren't you Buckley and Brooke's kid?"
"That's me." I said. "What's going on? What happened to my house? Where are my parents?"
The fire man looked down. "I'm sorry kid... we entered in the house to find any trapped civillians... and we found your parents on the ground... bleeding. Nobody spotted the arsonist coming in or out of the house. We only got the call because somebody spotted the house on fire..."
"Where are my parents!" I cried. "Where are they?"
The fire man sighed. "I'm sorry, Miss Lloyd... but your parents had been shot... and killed in that fire."
My heart nearly stopped when I heard the news. I stumbled backwards... then started crying. Olga, hearing the news, looked at me in sadness... before hugging me in comfort.
And in my mind, I heard Helga say one sentence.
"...She knows where I am."
And that's the final chapter of 'Oh Rhonda: The Movie Fanfiction' AKA Arc 5! How do you like it? Well, let this tragic moment take a moment to sink in... and in about a couple weeks or so, I'll release the first episode of Arc 6, which I'm sure you're probably already guessing which episode it is. Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks! And don't forget to check out/add tropes to the TVTropes page. Arc 6 will be coming soon, so don't miss out!