The following day, the gang went to the theme park to spend the day there. But they first stopped at the warehouse where all the animatronics and parade floats were stored for repair and maintenance. Carl and Sheen looked over some of the mechs with Goddard, which were almost the size of three, two-story buildings put together. The two boys and robot dog stopped in front of a giant robotic samurai. The machine was highly detailed with hard metal, painted red and black for decoration.
"Wow." Sheen muttered as he stared at the red and black machine. "Cyborg samurai."
While Sheen stared in awe, Carl quietly cowered behind the taller boy.
"It looks like it's staring at me." The boy with glasses stated, getting a light chuckle from Sheen.
"No, that's not right at all!"
Jimmy shouted from across the room. He was dressed in a pair of navy overalls with a hard hat on his head and blueprints in his hand. The boy genius was tapping his foot angrily.
"Why didn't you people just follow my design?! I use household appliances for a very good reason!" He called up at the workers working on the machine he designed.
Jimmy turned around as he rubbed his forehead out of frustration and sighed. Leaning on a nearby table with several gadgets and gizmos', He looked up to see his peers giving him weird looks.
"Hey, I know they're trying, but this is advanced robotics." Jimmy clarified.
"It looks a bit complicated." Mr Estevez commented upon seeing the mighty machine.
Jimmy smiled a bit as he got up from the table and picked up a high tech glove on top if it.
"It's quite the opposite of it." He began as he put on the glove. "You just put on the gear and whatever you do, big Fuji does it."
Jimmy demonstrated by lifting his gloved arm up and began waving it; making the robot do the exact same. Sheen, Carl and Libby stared in awe at the mechanical marvel, but Cindy just rolled her eyes away. Jimmy took off the glove and took a helmet off from the table.
"I mean it's so simple, even someone like..."
Jimmy looked over his friends, about to pick someone to demonstrate.
"Someone like Sheeen could do it."
Sheen, who was picking his ear at that moment, looked up at the mention of his name.
"Huh?" He muttered as he tilted his head to the side.
"You could pilot this, right?" Jimmy questioned as he placed the helmet onto Sheen's head.
"Yeah, sure I could!"
Sheen smiled back and nodded, making the robot do the same action. A man in a welders mask fell out of the machine's mouth, screaming and hanging by his ankle with a cord. With a gasp, Jimmy quickly removed the helmet from Sheen.
"Sorry!" He shouted to the man, thinking he should have known better.
The man shouted something back in Japanese before the cord snapped, making him fall a short and safe distance to the ground. Jimmy turned back to his peers, who eyed him with surprised looks. The boy genius went pink from embarrassment.
"D-did I say Sheen? I meant, a young adult." He corrected, getting a glare from Sheen.
"Bonjour, everyone!"
Everyone turned to the entrance to see Madame Ikari walking in while dragging a struggling Kiyoko by her hand. Madame eyed Mr Estevez and gave him a suggestive look.
"Ready to go, Mon cheri?" She asked sheepishly.
Sheen did not like the way madame was speaking towards his dad. She seemed like the woman would lure a man in then dump him at the last minute.
"Almost. As soon as everyone else is ready." Mr Estevez answered back.
Madame just rolled her eyes away impatiently. Her sight landed on Carl. With a grin, she walked over to the boy and kneeled down to his level.
"And how is this precious thing today?" Madame asked, pretending to sound caring.
Just then, Goddard came up next to Carl and starting growling at Madame, making her take a step back.
"Goddard? He's just fine." Carl joked.
Madame paid no mind to the boy. She was too busy glaring at Goddard.
"You're just a lawsuit waiting to happen, aren't you." She muttered under her breath.
Later, the gang were at the centre of the park while Mr Estevez and Madame were talking.
"Oh, Carlos. I could just listen to your fascinating air condition trivia all day." Madame said, trying to sound cute in front of the man.
"Perhaps I should tell you about my years in Mexico, when I get back from the restroom." Mr Estevez smiled before he was about to leave.
"I need to go too." Jimmy added with Goddard beside him. "would you mind keeping an eye on Goddard for me?"
Madame gave the boy genius a weird look. Then she looked back at Mr Estevez, who was smiling at her. Madame returned the smile and looked back at Jimmy.
"Of course not." She said, still smiling.
Jimmy and Mr Estevez left Madame with Goddard and the kids, who were laughing behind Madame's back.
"This should be good." Sheen whispered to Libby, getting a giggle from her.
Madame looked down at Goddard, her smile replaced with an angry frown.
"So. We meet again." She snared at the mechanical dog.
Goddard looked back up at her and let out a computerised growl, making Madame take a step back.
"Delightful." She muttered unemotionally.
Madame reached up and grabbed her right whoop earring, pressing a small red button and starting whispering to it.
"Maka. The kids are giggling behind my back." She spoke though her earring.
Just then, Goddard made more computerised growls, and he even started approaching Madame, almost like a predator of the jungle.
"And the d-dog is giving me the death stare." She said with a shudder. "W-what should I do?"
Over in a different part of the park, Madame and the gang were being watched through security cameras. Maka almost giggled from what she was watching on the screen, but she had to tell her boss what to do with Goddard.
"Just smile, and be nice." Maka reassured through Madames' earring.
Madame looked up at the camera if she did not understand what nice meant. But she tried anyway.
"Hello," She smiled at Goddard with a sing song voice. "You are not horrible."
Before she knew it, Goddard started barking wildly at Madame, chasing her when she screamed and ran. The gang laughed hysterically as Goddard chased Madame up a pole, making her hang on for dear life, or whatever she valued.
"Go away! Do have any idea how much I paid for these shoes?!" She shouted at the still barking Goddard.
"I don't think Goddard likes that lady too much, you guys." Carl said, calming down from laughing.
"I don't think that lady likes Goddard too much either." Sheen replied, still laughing.
"Ikari is a horrible person." Kiyoko commented, not laughing at all. "I think she's a greedy monster."
The kids watched on as Madame kept her grip on the pole, with Goddard still barking.
"Umm, shouldn't we do something?" Cindy questioned, getting bored.
"Not yet, I wanna see how this turns out." Sheen answered, now calming down from laughing.
Just a moment later, Jimmy and Mr Estevez came back from the restroom to witness the commotion taking place. Jimmy almost had a spaz attack when he saw what Goddard was doing.
"Goddard, stop!" He shouted as he ran to the robotic dog.
Goddard stopped barking and turned around to see Jimmy running towards him.
"I'm so sorry, Madame! He's not usually like this!" The boy genius explained as he picked up Goddard.
"You should be!" Madame shouted, coming down from the pole. "Reprogram him or something; just don't let it happen again!"
"Will do."
Jimmy gently put Goddard down and crossed his arms.
"Goddard, I want you to go back to the hotel, and think about what you did." Jimmy ordered.
Goddard lowered his head and made whining sound effects. Jimmy looked at his dog with a sigh. He didn't have the heart to punish him, so he whispered into Goddards' mechanical ear.
"But I'll give you a treat when I get back." He said with a smile.
With that, Goddards' ears started using their helicopter function and he flew away to the hotel. Jimmy turned to face his gang with a questionable look.
"What was that?" He asked, referring to the incident that occurred earlier.
"I guess Goddard feels the same way we do about 'Ms Scrooge'." Sheen answered, referring to Madame Ikari.
Jimmy raised an eyebrow at the Hispanic boy; surprised by his new bitterness.
"Sheen, you're acting weird. Or weirder then usual." Jimmy commented on Sheens' behaviour.
Sheen made a weird grumbling sound before replying.
"Just look at it. That Ikari lady keeps making go-golly eyes at my dad. It just looks wrong in twenty different ways." The tall boy explained with a hint of disgust.
Jimmy looked down in thought before replying.
"Well, maybe you should tell you're dad what you think. Or try to keep him distracted from Madame."
"Hmmm. That could work. Just like playing unmatch-maker." Sheen said with his hand rested on his cheek in thought.
Sheen went over to his dad and got his attention.
"Hey, dad?" He asked as he jumped up and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Yes, son?" Mr Estevez asked, giving Sheen his attention.
"I'm bored."
"Me too." Carl added.
"Ditto." Libby, Cindy and Kiyoko joined in.
All the kids were becoming bored and impatient.
"They're getting a little fussy." Mr Estevez said to Madame, who did not really care.
Maka watched from the cameras and came up with a suggestion.
"Why don't you take them to Slime world?" She suggested through Madame's earring.
"What? Slime world?" Madame repeated in question.
"Slime world!?" Sheen questioned, loudly and excitedly. "That sounds awesome!"
Later, everyone was on the ride that went by the name Slime world. The ride was a set on a slow boat and cart that went through a gross out themed ride with characters ranging from cartoony cats and dogs to cute looking monsters with instruments like trombones and ukuleles as an annoying song was playing throughout.
"It's a gooey and smiley world,
It's a happy and slimy world,"
The kids(who were in the cart behind the adults) found the ride quite boring because of it being slow, Mr Estevez was actually enjoying the ride and Madame Ikari was trying not go nuts from the song.
"Maka. Remind me to fire the idiot who wrote this stupid song." She said to Maka through her earring.
Just then, the cart came up to a small slope.
"Look, no hands! Wheeeee!" Mr Estevez shouted excitedly as the cart went down, bits of slime getting inside the cart and on Madame(Much to her disgust).
The cart with the kids went down the slope, Sheen repeating what his father did with his arms in the air; getting a laugh from his friends and relieving their boredom.
"Aww, yuck. This is gross!" Libby commented, almost laughing.
"Yeah, it's good stuff. Let's take some with us!" Sheen said as he started putting slime in his pockets.
Just then, the cart with the kids was about to go past an animatronic with a trumpet filled with green slime. A giant bubble of slime exploded in the rim of the trumpet, some of it getting onto Carl's glasses and blinding him; making him panic.
"Ahh! I'm blind!" The chubby redhead shouted, trying to get the sticky slime off.
Kiyoko took notice of the distress that Carl was in. She took a look in the backpack she was carrying and took out a water bottle.
"Hold still, Carlson." She said as she took aim.
"Wait, wha-"
Kiyoko squeezed the bottle, making water shoot out onto Carl's face and making the slime disappear. Carl shook his head and dried his glasses with his shirt.
"Thanks, I guess." He muttered as his face turned pink.
The cart went onto a set of railing out of the river of slime. Jimmy took a glance in the corner of his eye to see a window view of the volcano that Kiyoko was talking about last night.
"Look at that! It's the volcano." Jimmy commented at the sight. "It must be amazing at the top."
"Let's get off this ride and find out for ourselves!" Sheen replied as he lifted the safety guard.
Carl looked at Sheen with wide eyes.
"But guys, they said to keep your hands and feet inside at all times!" He reminded, scared to get off the ride.
"Well, it's not enough to stop her." Cindy said, pointing at Kiyoko.
Everyone turned to see Kiyoko climbing of the cart, much to Carl's horror and everyone else's delight.
"C'mon. I'll show you the short cut." She smiled.
"Alright, Kiyoko!" Sheen said happily as he climbed out.
"Wait, what!?" Carl questioned.
Everyone else but Carl soon followed.
"But guys!"
"C'mon Carlson!" Kiyoko shouted out.
"Yeah, what you waiting for?" Sheen added.
Carl just sighed before giving in.
"Great. Another Sheen." He muttered as he climbed out and ran after the gang.
Unknown to the gang, they were being watched as they ran to the nearest exit.
"Kiyoko!" Maka gasped in concern for her daughter.
The watchful woman took the microphone in a hurry.
"Madame, the kids are gone!" She said to Madame Ikari.
"Finally." Madame muttered.
Madame's eyes went wide when she realised what Maka just said.
"Wait, what!?" She questioned quietly.
Madame looked over her shoulder to see the empty cart. She then looked at Mr Estevez, who was too distracted to notice.
"Get them back before Estevez notices!" Madame quietly hissed into her earring.
Maka quickly turned her chair to the left and reached for a red button attached to another microphone.
"Security! We have an emergency situation!"
Elsewhere, an alarm and siren went off; alerting security with the words 'missing children' flashing on a screen. Men dressed as ninjas took notice of the alert and sprung into action.
Kiyoko quietly opened the employee only door and looked around to make sure no one was watching. When the coast was clear, she signalled Jimmy and the gang and let them through the door.
"So what now?" Sheen asked as he came through the door.
"The volcano is just in the middle of the park." Kiyoko began. "We can get there quicker if we take the Dragon slide."
"Dragon slide?" Cindy questioned with her arms crossed.
"It's the longest ride in the whole park. But the line is always short for some reason. C'mon."
The gang preceded to follow Kiyoko to the so called Dragon slide. After a minute of walking, they reached the set of long and high stairs leading to the top.
"We have to walk all the way up t-there?" Carl questioned with a shudder.
"That is pretty high." Libby observed.
"Don't worry, it only takes three minutes." Kiyoko said with a grin.
Just as everyone was about to make their way up the stairs, a gruff voice came into hearing from the distance.
"There they are here!"
The kids turned their heads to see five ninjas running towards the group. Kiyoko looked at them with a look of panic in her eyes.
"Run!" She shouted.
"Why?" Jimmy asked.
"JUST RUN!"
Everyone did as Kiyoko said and began running up the stairs with the ninjas in pursuit. Halfway up the stairs, Sheen took out the slime he took from the Slime world ride out of his pockets.
"Good thing I took some of this goo with me!" He said as he threw it behind him, making the ninjas slip on it and fall back down the stairs.
After reaching the top of the slide, Kiyoko went down first with excited laughter. Carl stepped to the side out of fear, letting Liddy, Cindy and Jimmy go instead. Sheen grinned and laughed as he took Carl's hand and took him down the slide with him. The ninjas came back up and went after the kids, some of them getting stuck in the entrance.
All the way down the red slide, the kids were laughing(or in Carl's case, screaming). At a corner set in a space setting, the kids went through smoothly while one of the ninjas flew off the slide and crashed into one of fake planets. After going through an aquarium, the slide ended with the kids falling out and landing on a soft inflated surface.
"Again!" Sheen shouted as he stood up.
"No!" Carl begged in response.
"We can go again later, c'mon!" Kiyoko shouted as she pointed the way.
The kids quickly got off the landing mat and continued their run. The ninjas came flying out of the slide just as the kids did. Only they deflated the landing mat when they landed. Kiyoko led the gang into an employee only area and into an elevator.
"Told you I knew the short cut." She grinned as she opened the lift.
"That was the longest short cut I ever took." Cindy remarked as everyone got in the lift.
Kiyoko closed the door to the lift and pressed the top button to the roof. Everyone felt the lift move as it went up. After thirty seconds, the lift slowed down as it reached the desired level. With a ding, the doors of the lift opened on the top. Right on the top of the volcano in the middle of the park.
"Whoa." The boys muttered in awe as they stepped out.
"Got that right." The girls added as they too stepped out.
Kiyoko was right about the view. The group could see everything from where they stood. The whole park, all the rides, even some buildings on the outside of the walls. The kids could feel the wind blowing through their hair.
"Dude, this is epic!" Sheen shouted in glee.
"It's amazing." Jimmy added.
"I should be scared of the heights, but this is awesome!" Carl joined in.
"I gotta get a photo of this." Cindy said, getting her camera out.
"Me too." Libby repeated.
"My favourite part is up here." Kiyoko said, standing next to a set of small steps.
"Why, what is it?" Jimmy asked.
Kiyoko just smiled at Jimmy without a word of response. Jimmy just gave out a shrug to his friends before he and the gang followed Kiyoko up the steps. At the top of the steps rested a large koi pond. The pond was shaped like an oval with a short wall of stones surrounding the rim. Ten koi fish were swimming under the clear water. Two of them white, three of them orange and five of them coal black. A small waterfall stood in the middle of the pond.
"It's a fish pond." Sheen commented, sounding a little confused.
"I know." Kiyoko replied. "It doesn't look like much. But it's nice and relaxing."
"I still don't see why they would put a koi pond all the way up here." Jimmy said, crossing his arms.
"Maybe someone made a mistake." Carl theorised.
"Carl, I doubt someone would put a koi pond in a employee only area by mistake."
"Well there's a first time for everything, isn't there, Nerdtron." Cindy muttered, getting a glare from Jimmy.
As an argument being to erupt between Cindy and Jimmy, Sheen paid no attention to what was happening. He just went over to the pond for a closer look at the fish. Sheen just smiled at the bright coloured creatures in the water as they swam around in circles. Two fish in particular were swimming right near where Sheen was standing and swimming in circles repeatedly. The smile on Sheen's face slowly turned blank as he watch the Koi, as if their swimming was hypnotic.
"Sheen?!"
Sheen shook his head at the mention of his name, coming out of his trance. The Hispanic boy turned to see Libby and the gang looking at him with weird and concerned faces.
"You Ok, Sheen? You looked really out of it." Libby asked with concern.
sheen took a second to answer.
"Yeah, I'm ok." He answered with a sniff. "Just looking at the-"
Before Sheen could finish his answer, he heard a sinister chuckle and spotted some dark figures sneaking towards his friends.
"NINJAS!" He shouted at the top of his lungs.
The kids turned around to see three ninjas from before, looking tired and messed up from chasing the kids. One of them grabbed Jimmy and Kiyoko by the collar of their shirts and lifted them off the ground forcefully. Another ninja picked up Carl and Cindy, making Carl scream for help and Cindy struggled to get out of the man's iron grip. The last Ninja had to chase after Sheen and Libby, but he caught them both eventually.
"The kids have been apprehended." One ninja talked into his earpiece. "We are on our way back to Slime world."
Back at the Slime world ride, Mr Estevez was singing along to the tune of the ride while Madame was trying not to have a nervous breakdown. The Ninjas quietly sneaked up to the cart behind the two adults and placed the kids inside.
"well, at least we didn't have to walk all the way back." Cindy muttered as she crossed her arms.
Two minutes later, the ride came to its end and stopped back at the entrance. Mr Estevez took his time when he got off while Madame and the kids hurried as soon as their carts stopped.
"Well, that was fun." Mr E said with a cheerful grin. "What did you all think of it?"
The kids just let out a groan before following the adults to the exit. On the way out, Sheen tripped over a loose tile on the walk way; breaking his fall by grabbing onto put of Madame Ikari's dress. Madame looked over her shoulder to see this. See thought of yelling at the boy for being clumsy, but another thought came to mind.
"Why, look Mon cheri." She said to Mr Estevez, faking a smile as he turned to look. "I think your boy likes me."
Sheen had to stop himself from having a spaz attack when he heard this. He just gave the woman a look that said "you're a liar" while his friends watched from behind.
"Oh, good." Mr Estevez replied. "Let's go find an ice cream stand."
Jimmy and his friends said aye to the idea. Sheen still stood there, looking like he was holding back an angry urge. Libby took notice and approached him.
"Sheen, are you OK?" She asked, getting the boys' attention.
"I'm fine, why're you asking?" Sheen answered back with a question.
"You just look kinda mad for some reason. You sure you're OK?"
Sheen just took a deep breath before answering.
"Really, I'm fine." He repeated before he began to walk to the rest of the group. "C'mon, let's go get some ice cream."
Libby watched as Sheen ran towards the others. He kept saying he was fine. But Libby thought otherwise.
AN: Sorry if this chapter took a while. Been a little busy. Seems like Madame Ikari is putting the moves on Mr E and Libby is getting a little concerned about Sheen(Because I wanted some interaction between them). Stay tuned!