A/N: Ok, I'm going to apologize for the little make-over my character gave JoJo. Just remember when you read, if he didn't have it he could get shoot by Kevin since he is out in the open. So beware JoJo fangirls!! You have been warned! Also thank you to my friend, Kierra (keykey0414), for helping me with the idea of his make-over.
Disclaimer: I don't own Horton Hears a Who or the characters. I do own my own characters and my plot. DON'T SUE ME!! I am broke, I spent all my money on candy and at hot topic. (Random.....)
"Lets get to work.", Valerie said as she walked closer to the black and gray Who.
~*~*~*~*~*One Hour later~*~*~*~*~*
"JoJo, come on out. Its not that bad.", Tabby said from inside the hallway. Her, Valerie, and Zeke waited outside the bathroom for JoJo.
"Says you! You're a girl! Hell, I'm probably wearing your make-up.", he responded.
"If you don't come out we're coming in after you.", Valerie threatened. They waited for a response and all they got was silence. "Do you guys see any key around here?"
The door knob started to turn and JoJo slowly walked out. Everyone was on the verge of laughing as they saw the sight of their cousin. The make-over that the two girl gave him resulted in an embarrassing outcome on JoJo's part. He was forced into a baby blue flower-print dress with spaghetti straps. His black and gray strips was dyed to light blue and yellow. Valerie insisted they also dye his hair blonde, but with convincing from Tabby, they decided on using a wig instead. With shear luck they found a long blonde one hidden in the attic from a old Halloween costume. After Valerie tied him to a chair, Tabby put blush on his checks, mascara, eyeliner, and light pink lip gloss. The whole works.
"See, now was that so bad?", Valerie asked, once she was sure she wasn't going to laugh.
JoJo just glared at the two and said, "What do you think?" She walked up and examined her and her cousins' work.
"We did a pretty good job. I can't believe you used your own make-up on him, Tabs."
"Well, not all of it. I found the eyeliner near JoJo's door.", Tabby said as she handed the item to her. "This says guyliner, no scratch that, this says GAYliner." She then looked suspiciously at JoJo, remembering where her cousin found the 'gayliner'.
"I swear I'm holding it for a friend!", he said defensively.
"Suuuuure. Come on we better get going. We need to get Aunt Sally.", Zeke said, "Just where is she?" "I saw her in the living room last.", Tabby said, pointing her thumb down the hall. The three teens practically had to drag. JoJo towards the living room. "Come on, JoJo, or should I say Johanna.", Tabby laughed, which received her a fierce glare from him, "Don't look at me like that. Once we get you somewhere safe, you can take off the dress and start looking like a dude again. You can even burn the it."
"Hell, we can even help!", Valerie said as they neared the entrance of the living room. "And the color comes off with water, so you can wash it when we get there." When they arrived at the living room they found most of the family in there with Sally, who is trying to calm them down.
"Don't worry the situation is being handled. There is no need to-", she cut off when she notice everyone staring behind her. She turned around to see and stared at the four teens in disbelief, having a good idea who is the blonde.
"Who's your friend?", Uncle Max asked as he motioned his hand to JoJo.
"Everyone, this is Johanna.", Tabby introduced.
"You all know him as JoJo.", Zeke added. Everyone's eyes widen in surprise, even some were soon about to crack up. They waited a few seconds until someone said something.
"Umm, is there something your trying to tell us?", Uncle Michael asked.
"No, I need to wear this as a disguise.", JoJo answered.
"Ok then, lets go now.", Sally said and lead the four teens out the door. "Wait. We need to add the final touches.", Valerie said and walked back into her guest room. She soon came back with two small balloons and a pair of high heel shoes. JoJo's eyes widen at the sight of the items.
"I understand the shoes but what's with the balloons?", Tabby asked. "You'll see. Put on JoJo the shoes and open up your dress real quick."
"Oh, no.", he said, started to backing away.
"Oh, yes." She stuffed the balloons into his dress while forcing his feet into the high heels. Finally they left the house. Sally walked in front of JoJo, Valerie and Tabby walked beside him, while Zeke walked behind.
"You girls are so dead.", JoJo whispered.
"Hey its was either this or getting shot. Take your pick.", Tabby said.
"True. Remind again why I couldn't just wear a hat?"
"That's what he will be expecting. He won't be looking for a girl."
"And it wouldn't have been as fun.", Valerie added, "Also if we lug you in a big sack, that will stand out. That is unless it was Christmas and we are dressed as Santa."
"Hey guys, before we head to Who U, we need to stop somewhere else.", Sally said and started for City Hall.
"Why are we going here?"
"Well we need to tell the host of a few extra guest coming." The city hall was very empty and quiet, except the footsteps of the group of five that echoing in the hall. "Get inside." One at a time, everyone stepped into the tube that led Whos to the mayor's office. Once everyone arrive, they proceeded into the office and Sally went straight to the horn that was used to project Horton's voice.
"Horton! Psst, you there?!", she yelled through the horn. They waited for a minute until they heard rustling leaves. "Hello?" The voice was no other than Horton's.
"Hey, Horton."
"Hey there Sally! Where's the mayor?"
"Well that's a long story, but the bottom line is JoJo needs to go there, in Nool. He'll explain that later. So can he go there, please?"
"Sure. I'll keep a look out for him."
"Well technically he'll be looking for a girl.", Tabby whispered to Valerie.
"Thanks." Sally walked back into office with the four teens trailing behind her. She made her way to the brown desk and pulled out a silver pistol out of one of the drawer.
"What the fuck are going to do with that Aunt Sal?", Valerie asked as she took a step back.
"Killing us won't solve any problem. We are sorry for turning your son in a cross dresser.", Tabby said. "Don't worry, I understand. This is one of the best disguise I've seen. The real reason I brought this out is because you guys might need it.", Sally said as she gave it to JoJo, along with a tin full of bullets. He put them in his gray backpack he had brought along. "Come on, we need to get to Dr. Larue now." They walked out of the office and ran to Who U. They made their way to Dr. Larue's lab and found her mixing chemicals together in a beaker. She looked up once she heard the door closed.
"Oh Mrs. McDodd. How may I be of assistance?", she asked pushing her experiment to the side. "I hear you've been trying to make a teleporting device.", Sally said walking up to her lab table. "Actually, I have. It can transport any Who to any city on the speck."
"Is it possible for it to send a Who outside of the speck, like into Horton's world."
"Hmmm, it will take an hour to modify the device, but it is possible. It might be faster if my assistant shows up. She also knows how to make one." Just then a girl with long red hair in a ponytail and a lab coat walked in while reading a clipboard came in.
"Speak of the devil.", Sally muttered.
"Dr. Larue, the test results came in. Would you like to see them?", she asked. She looked up from the clipboard and a smile grew once she saw Sally. "Oh my God, Sally?! I haven't seen you in years!"
She ran up to her and gave her a hug. "Its good to see you too, May."
"Whatcha doing here?"
"We need to get JoJo out of here, so Dr. Larue is going to make a transporting device that can take him to Nool." "Its Kevin isn't? He is after JoJo, right?" She nodded her head as her friend looked behind her. She saw three girls and one guy she was sure that was not JoJo. "So where is he?"
"I think you mean her.", Tabby corrected. May cocked her head to the side, which she does when she is confused. Valerie pulled off JoJo's blonde wig to reveal his normal black hair. "Its a wig, see?"
"Ooooookay then. I guess we need to get to work." Valerie placed the wig back on his head as they went to the lab table. Dr. Larue took out a couple of blueprints from under the table and laid them on the table.
"Lets get start."
*~*~*~*~*~*One hour later*~*~*~*~*~
"And one more turn...... Its done!", Dr. Larue exclaimed. The four cousins were sitting on the floor in one of the corner of the room. When they heard the sudden outburst from the scientist, they looked up and went towards her. On the lab table were the blue prints a small remote-looking device. On the remote with a red dial that can point to four different selections and a gray button. On the top of the remote is a black antenna.
"How does it work?", JoJo asked.
"Glad you asked. Its quite simply, really. All you have to do is set the dial to where you want to go, aim the antenna to what you want to transport, and then press the gray button. That's it.", Dr. Larue explained. She than handed it over to JoJo after setting the dial to their destination. "You're all set to go."
"Wish me luck."
"Wait.", Tabby said. Everyone looked towards her, "Look, I'm not letting you face a mad criminal by yourself."
"Neither am I.", Valerie said.
"Same here.", Zeke added
"Look, I need to do this. I don't want anyone to get hurt because of me.", JoJo said and started to point the device to himself.
"We're cousins. We stick together.", Tabby said as she walked up to him.
"Tabs right. Lets face it, once we met each other for the first time, we're stuck like glue.", Valerie said as she made her way next to Tabby. JoJo looked down to his arm and saw Tabby locking her arms with him. He then look at his other cousins and saw them lock arms with each other.
"Try to squirm, I'll bite you.", Tabby threatened.
"Go on, press the button already.", Valerie said.
"I guess I have no choice. To Nool!", JoJo said as he pointed the device to the small group and pressed the button. Zap! Sally, May, and Dr. Larue shielded their eyes from the bright light. When they looked back the four teens were gone. Sally started to have second thoughts about this now that he was gone. They saw this and walked up behind her.
"Its going to be fine.", the scientist assured her, "I need to check up on another experiment, so I'll be right back." Dr. Larue left the room and left the two friends to talk to themselves.
"Yeah, Dr. Larue's experiments work 95% of the time.", May added.
"What happened to the other 5%?"
"This device hasn't been tested out yet."
"So, my son, nieces, and nephew are your test subjects!", Sally said with anger and worry lingering in her voice.
"Kind of, I guess. Don't worry. Everything will be fine.", May said.
"Knock, knock!", a man's voice said. The door opened up and slammed against the wall. A man walked in with a straight jacket on but his arms were free and he had on pants that had black and white strips. His shoes were stained with mud and his black hair was a mess. His eyes were bloodshot with heavy bags underneath. He turned back to the door to lock it. "Dad's home!", he exclaimed happily, "Don't you girls remember me?" They stared at him with a confused expression on. They were for sure never seen this man before. The man's smile disappeared to a disappointed look. "Come on Sally, think long and hard.", he said as he started to approach her.
"H-how do you know my name?", she asked.
"Sally, how could you forget me? Your own boyfriend. Remember prom night?"
"No. Y-you can't be. Kevin?"
"That's right doll face! Here I am in the flesh." He then grab Sally by the neck and slammed her on to the wall. "So where is my son?"
"I can honestly tell you we have no idea where he is.", May spoke up. He turned around to face her as he dropped Sally to the floor.
"May Mosely, its good to see you again. Its been, what,17 years? You look very different."
"Yeah, not seeing someone that long does tend to do that.", she said sarcastically. He started to look around his surrounded, trying to see if the person he was looking for was hiding.
"I never thought I'd see you in a place like this. You weren't the brightest light bulb of the bunch." He made his way to the closet and opened it to only find nothing.
"After you got Sally knocked up, I decided to go into the medical field. Working as Dr. Larue's assistant is a side job." Kevin walked over to the table as she was talking and notice a couple of blue prints for a transporter on the table. He walked back over to May and grabbed her neck and slammed her against the wall.
"Now tell me exactly where is my son?!"
"Never!" He tightened his grip around her neck, which made her wheeze.
"He's in the Jungle of Nool!", Sally blurted out. She could stand the sight of seeing her friend hurt. He reached in his back pocket and pulled out a Swiss army knife and held it to her throat.
"I'm only going to let you go, if you promise me to build me a transporter that brings me to him." May was about to shake her head to say no, but Sally answered for her.
"She'll do it, just let her go." Kevin turned to face her and a smile formed on his face.
"Good you see this my way, if you girls try to pull anything. This wont turn out happy, Got it?!", he said never moving the knife away her neck. May took this opportunity to kick him in the groin. He let her drop to the floor as he went down in agonizing pain. She then made her way to the lab table.
"Sadly, lets get started."
A/N: And I'll end it there. And I again apologize for JoJo crossdressing. This will probably be the only time I'll have a character cross dress. Hope you enjoyed this chapter and thanks to those of you that review. I give you a virtual hug. Also I'm starting school soon, so I'm not very sure when the is the next time I'm updating. So keep looking out for it. Until Next time! Read and Review! And please no flames, flames are the things that come out of my friend's flamethrower.