Back with the others, they were at a hotel.
"No, Grandma, we didn't find them, we totally lost their trail." Frankie frowned as she called back home while at the front desk.
"Checking Out?" The woman asked.
"Yes, thank you." Frankie told her, handing her their room key.
"Where could they be?" Darla wondered.
"Who knew this would be so difficult?" Atticus added.
"Come on, we better get back on the bus..." Cherry said before opening the doors and did a double take once she saw the three men who got Wilt and Super Power Man to help them. "What the-?!"
"What's wrong, Cherry?" Darla asked before seeing the men. "Whoa!"
"Are you guys criminals?" Mo glared as she had a bad feeling about them.
"No, no, why would you even think that?" One of the men asked innocently.
"So, why are you on our bus then?" Cherry smirked, crossing her arms. "Just looking for a ride?"
Joia soon came by with her rope and tied them up.
"I'll handle this." Nina told the others as she was a police officer after all.
"They're all yours, Officer." Joia said.
Nina nodded and went inside, glaring at the three men.
"Forget it, lady!" One man glared while the others actually looked scared. "We ain't talkin'! You're not getting a word out of us!"
"Oh, yeah?" Nina grinned before looking like she was in trouble. "Eduardo, help! Help! Ayuda mi! Los banditos they are hurting me!"
The men looked confused only for the bus to be violently shook by Eduardo and he even growled.
"Now they should be able to talk." Mo smirked.
The men soon cried out and begged for Eduardo to be stopped.
"Ques bueno, Eduardo," Nina smiled down to her imaginary friend as he calmed down. "I'm okay now."
"Oh, okay," Eduardo smiled back, setting the bus down and handed her some candy. "Would you like a lollipop?"
"I am never getting on Eduardo's bad side." Cherry said.
"Just don't say anything you might regret." Frankie advised.
Nina cuddled Eduardo before she interrogated the men and they told her everything from fear. "You're not going to believe this..." she told them before smiling. "I know where Super Power Man and Wilt are!"
"Really?!" Darla and Casper gushed happily.
"That's great!" Atticus smiled.
"Does this mean we've picked up the trail again?" Mo asked.
"Yes, it does, Mo, and we haven't a moment to lose," Frankie smiled before looking to Nina. "Officer Valerosa, where are they?"
"Well..." Nina drawled out.
Meanwhile, we are suddenly shown a jail cell with the imaginary friends thrown in with other prisoners.
"We don't have time for this." Super Power Man said as he was about to bend the bars.
"Super Power Man, you shouldn't bend the bars..." Wilt frowned.
"We don't deserve to be in jail." Super Power Man told him.
"I probably should be," Wilt sulked. "I'm a terrible imaginary friend."
"What? No, you're not, Wilt," Super Power Man said. "Besides, if you hadn't done what you did back, then your creator wouldn't be alive."
Wilt just bowed his head.
"Aw, Wilt, come on..." Super Power Man comforted.
"What's with him?" A male voice asked the superhero imaginary friend.
"W-We're kind of having a moment here, he's a bit hurt from the pain he caused in the past." Super Power Man said as he looked over to the source of the voice. He soon saw that the cell was crawling with some criminals.
"So, what're ya guys in for?" The man chuckled. "You don't look like you could harm a fly."
"Well, I did," Wilt sulked before explaining that. "Well, not a fly, but I did hurt someone... I hurt a little boy. I hurt him real bad. I crushed his-"
"Foot?" Another man guessed.
"Nope, I crushed his dreams." Wilt frowned.
This caused the men to gasp.
"All he ever wanted was to be a great ball player, and that's what I was supposed to do for him, and I did at first," Wilt began to explain. "He and I were the best two-man team in the neighborhood. The champs! For a whole year undefeated, no one could beat us, not even the high school kids! My boy, he was so proud. I was his hero, but there was this one kid with double the strength. He was real jealous. He wanted to beat me and my boy so bad, he imagined the biggest, the meanest, cheatingest imaginary basketball friend, and challenged us! It was the most important game of my kid's life."
"What happened?" One man asked.
"I lost." Wilt frowned.
This caused the men to gasp again.
The Foster's bus was racing down the road in a hurry to catch up to Wilt and Super Power Man as quickly as possible. Cherry wobbled out of the bus, looking like she was going to be sick as the bus stopped at the county jail.
"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!" Frankie told the others.
"Speed Limit is 55." Nina told Frankie, handing her another ticket.
"She doesn't take a break from her job, does she?" Mo whispered to Frankie.
"She sure doesn't..." Frankie sighed in misfortune.
They then went inside and met the warden.
"Tall, red, imaginary friend and one who looked like a superhero?" The warden replied. "Yeah, we brought 'em in last night."
"Are they still here?" Cherry asked. "Though for one of them, it wouldn't be a surprise if they escaped."
"I'm sorry, little lady, they're not here anymore." The warden told her.
"WHAT?!" Everyone else gasped out of shock.
"Yeah, and they've been sent to trial," The warden nodded. "The courthouse is right down the street."
"Quick, everyone to the bus!" Cherry proclaimed.
They got on the bus and Frankie quickly drove them to the courthouse.
"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!" Frankie told them only to get another ticket from Nina. "I know, I know I ran a yellow light, give it to me!"
They then came inside of the courthouse and questioned the judge.
"Oh, yes, I know exactly who you're talking about." The judge said to them.
"Please tell us that they're nearby." Casper begged.
"Oh, it's a bit of a long story..." The judge told her.
Cherry slumped slightly in defeat.
"Ah, those imaginary friends, well, they were just that... A couple of friends..." The judge spoke, dramatically and serious. "A couple of true friends. Friends to me and every man, woman, and child on that jury. When we heard, we thought they were only a legend, but they're real alright. Oh, yes, they're real. You see, people weren't always so happy in these parts. Why just yesterday, it seemed like everybody was real down. Yes, sir, this entire town was covered in the tallest grass you ever did see. Why, even the trees were humbled by its sight-"
'Is this going to take much longer?' Cherry thought to herself as she checked her watch as she looked a little bored.
"And every morning, the hard working folks of this here town risked their lives just to make it out to their cars, and venture out into the world to make their daily wage," The judge continued. "Then one day, after the parents went to work and the children went off to school, two mysterious strangers arrived. One red as a beet with only one arm, and a messed up eye, and one like you see in the movies or in comic books. Some say they were 85 lawnmowers high. They drove in on their golden lawnmower , and in one lap, cut that grass down to size. Yes, the legendary Lawn Rangers. They saved us all they did, by the time we returned to our homes, they were gone, but there's one in us all that claim to see them, and we had no way to thank them. That is, until today, they showed up in court."
"Your Honor, forgive me, but what does this mean?!" Cherry asked. "Are they here or not?"
"No, we sent 'em free." The judge then said.
"Oh, come on!" Cherry complained. "We missed them again!"
"Your Honor, do you know where they went?" Darla asked.
"Sorry, hon, I don't," The judge replied. "But I do know this: wherever they may go across this great country of ours, the old man's still likin' his barn all the way to the air fire of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The grass will always be short."
Outside of the courthouse...
"I can't believe this, I just can't believe this!" Cherry ranted while they sat and rested. "We're never gonna find those jerks!"
"Yes, we will, and they're not jerks." Darla said.
"Cherry must mean 'friend' when she says 'jerk'," Atticus replied with a small smirk. "She calls me jerk all the time."
"Jerk." Cherry glared.
"See?" Atticus smiled before thinking. "Hm... There must be a way to find them."
"Yeah, but how?" Casper asked.
"They must've left clues or something!" Mac suggested as he tried to make Frankie stand up.
"Guys..." Frankie sighed out of exhaustion.
"No, wait, the kid's got a point," Nina agreed. "Maybe there are some clues. Wilt's behavior has been sporadic, but what about before he left? Did anyone notice him acting strange?"
"Ooh, we noticed him acting strange the day before he ran away." Darla and Casper smiled.
"How so?" Nina asked them.
"He seemed really hard and intense at the reunion." Casper memorized.
"He also had this creepy smile, kinda like this..." Darla added before demonstrating herself. "And it almost seemed like he knew his creator wasn't going to come."
"He was also getting really confused," Mac added. "Like he put potato salad in somebody's lemonade."
Bloo was about to say something, so Joia tackled him and covered his mouth.
"Frankie, you know the friends better than anyone, do you know who Wilt's creator is?" Cherry asked.
"Heck if I know," Frankie shrugged before looking back at the other humans. "Did you know in all the years Wilt's creator hasn't even once come to the reunion?"
"That's so weird," Mo said. "Well, then maybe if we find his creator, we'll find Wilt and Super Power Man."
"But how will we find out who he or she is?" Atticus wondered.
"We're going to find out." Nina said.
"We are?" The others asked.
"Great idea, but how do we figure that out?" Cherry scratched her head.
"Easy, by figuring out what reason someone would need to create someone like Wilt." Atticus said.
"Oh, I get it," Mac smiled. "By looking at what kind of friend Wilt is, we can figure out what kind of kid created him!"
"That's right, it's called profiling," Nina replied. "Now, let's get down to business, what do we know about Wilt?"
"Hmm..." Darla and Casper hummed in unison, almost sounding like twins.
"Oh, I know, he is red!" Eduardo raised his hand.
"Coco Coco Coco!" Coco added, wiggling her toes.
"Ooh, you're right, he does only wear shoes and socks!" Douglas said to her.
"And he has weirdo suction-cuppy fingers." Eduardo added, clenching his hooves.
"So, all we have to do is find a really tall evil mastermind with a sunburn, suction cup fingers, and is a practicing nudist." Adam suggested.
"Yeah... No." Frankie rolled her eyes.
"You're going about it the wrong way," Cherry said. "I study sociology and psychology in school... Think about it psychologically! What sort of kid would need a friend like Wilt?"
"Uh... A kid with really high shelves?" Douglas guessed.
"No..." Cherry sighed in annoyance.
"Well, take me and Eduardo for example, I was not a big hairy purple man," Nina explained. "I was a little girl who grew up in a dangerous neighborhood, and I was so frightened all the time, I needed someone to scare all the bad guys away!"
"Okay, good start." Mo nodded.
"But I also needed someone who would be nice to my baby brother," Nina continued about her origin with Eduardo. "And someone to play with! But I had another reason why I needed to create Eduardo that I didn't even know about; I needed someone to teach me to be brave. So, we need to figure out what kind of child needed an imaginary friend like Wilt, and what kind of person that child grew up to be."
Atticus soon remembered the first time they met Wilt and how he mentioned that he used to play basketball once.
"Yo, guys, hello?" Wilt waved his hand in front of the others as they just kept staring at him silently.
"You're tall." Darla said.
"Oh, yeah, well, I guess," Wilt smiled shyly, feeling glad on the inside that they overlooked his broken arm and wonky eye, he thought it would freak them out. "You see-"
"You should play basketball..." Bloo muttered.
"Oh, yeah, well, I used to," Wilt smiled. "Hey, how 'bout that tour, huh?"
They all soon nodded to the very tall red imaginary friend.
"Yeah... Wilt played basketball..." Atticus memorized.
"And he does play it at times and does something with his tongue when he does a slam dunk." Mo said.
"Hmm..." Atticus hummed. "Cherry, laptop."
"It's mine!" Cherry whined as she hugged her laptop.
"No, no, we need to use your laptop." Mo said.
"It's my laptop!" Cherry complained.
Atticus and Mo soon came to her and took her laptop away.
"They stole my laptop!" Cherry cried out. "Police! It's password protected!"
Atticus soon put in Cherry's password.
"Jerk," Cherry muttered. "Just wondering though, why did your friend go with him?"
"Well, you know Super Power Man is nice like Atticus is..." Darla reminded. "I guess Wilt could trust him in going along with him and to keep this secret from the rest of us. He did say that he promised Wilt he wouldn't say anything."
"Hmm... But what secret could be so bad that he had to get Super Power Man to not tell anyone?" Casper asked.
"I'm afraid not even I can figure that out..." Atticus shrugged as he continued to do research, then put it together once he found the solution. "I KNOW WHO IT IS!"
"You do?" Mo asked.
"Yes, come on, let's go!" Atticus said.
The bus soon drove quickly and they were now at the airport and were going to a whole new place: Japan.
"GODZILLA!" Bloo soon yelled out as the plane took off. "WILT'S CREATOR IS GODZILLA!"
"Someone please tie him up in duck tape!" Cherry screamed.