Meanwhile back with the Care Bears and Care Bear Cousins...
The animals were all locked up and stuck for right now, but luckily, help would be on the way for them. The star soon got Tender Heart Bear, Brave Heart Lion, and Grumpy Bear out of one cage.
"Oh, no!" Tender Heart frowned. "Little star buddy can't unlock all these doors."
The star looked like it was now in pain from just one lock.
"You're right, and we don't have much time," Brave Heart said. "We have to get the key from Dark Heart!"
"But what if he wakes up?" Harmony Bear asked.
"We have to chance it," Brave Heart replied courageously. "Come on!"
Tender Heart and Grumpy Bear soon joined him in getting the key. Dark Heart snored loudly as a rhino as he sat in his throne with the key around his horn. Brave Heart Lion, Tender Heart, and Grumpy Bear soon started to sneak over to the key. They all did their best to be very careful and quiet so they wouldn't wake Dark Heart up. The three helped each other up with Grumpy Bear on top as he tried to stay steady and reach for the key, and where he soon saw something that could help.
Tender Heart stood up a little more as Grumpy Bear reached out for a scepter to reach for the key, and where it was some help. Dark Heart soon turned into a frog before Grumpy could get the key, but the evil force was still asleep. Brave Heart and Tender Heart panicked for Grumpy as he was close to falling onto Dark Heart, but luckily, the scepter stopped him from falling. He luckily grabbed the key before Dark Heart turned into a rattlesnake. The scepter soon broke and Grumpy Bear yelped and fall on top of Dark Heart, waking him up in an outrage, and where that was bad timing.
"Look out, Grumpy Bear!" Brave Heart cried out.
Grumpy Bear bounced off of Dark Heart's snake coils and rushed off with the key. This just made Dark Heart even more angry. The three tried to escape only to be stopped by Dark Heart in his human form.
"There's no escape from me!" Dark Heart glared. "Well, it's time to put you all where I should've put you in the first place!" he then snapped his fingers, making them disappear without the key and made the other Care Bears and their cousins disappear out of their cages elsewhere.
"Dark Heart!" Akito's voice glared.
Dark Heart turned to see the others coming over to stop him.
"What did you do to them?" Christy glared.
"Well, well, if it isn't the Camp Champ?" Dark Heart smirked.
"Where are they, Dark Heart?" Estelle demanded.
"The Bears? Their Cousins?" Dark Heart smirked. "Why, I've created a nice treasure..." He then snapped his fingers to make a chandelier drop on them like in Phantom of the Opera.
The group soon braced themselves as they thought it would hurt them.
Akito stretched his arms as he looked ready to catch the chandelier, but it didn't even land on them.
Dark Heart laughed at their fear. "A Chandelier of Frozen Feelings..." He smirked to them as he sat down. "Take a look, all your friends frozen in my crystal prison. All that feeling and love right where it should be; trapped forever!"
"No..." Barbie frowned.
Dark Heart laughed and sent the chandelier back up and within the crystals were the trapped Care Bears and their Cousins.
"You can't do this!" Christy told Dark Heart. "I won't let you!"
"And neither will I!" Akito added.
"Oh, but you both made it all possible," Dark Heart smirked. "Now like this camp, everything I touch will be drained of goodness and kindness!"
"You'll have to deal with us first, Dark Heart!" True Heart glared as she appeared with Noble Heart.
"The time has come to put an end to your evil trickery!" Noble Heart added.
"You guys made it!" Felicity smiled to the two.
"Wahoo!" Estelle cheered.
"Ah, Noble Heart and True Heart," Dark Heart smirked. "True and noble to the very end! I'm really glad you came, but you see, you're already too late! Now you should join the others and leave me to do as I will!" He then laughed darkly as he became blood red smoke with beady red eyes.
"No! Stop!" Akito and Christy called out.
"Guys, move out of the way!" Noble Heart told them as they ran toward him and True Heart.
"Akito, Christy, you both better do as he says." Dark Heart said.
"No, we won't let you do this!" Christy glared.
"Now free the others!" Akito demanded.
"We have concluded our bargain," Dark Heart replied. "I'm allowing you both to leave, NOW GO!"
"You don't want to do this." Akito said.
"Leave us or I will take back all that I have given you!" Dark Heart glared.
"Go ahead!" Akito glared back. "At least we'll be better off and you'll just be as miserable as you're making the Care Bears!"
"Yeah, just try it!" Christy added.
"SO BE IT!" Dark Heart replied before his voice boomed and he boomed like a thunderbolt. "You are back to the way you were: a loser!"
"Okay, so what?" Christy glared. "I helped you do this, and I'm gonna help stop you!"
"You saved my life, Akito and Christy," Dark Heart told them. "So run and save yourselves! Go!"
"He cares about them." Barbie realized with a smile.
Dark Heart soon used his powers to shoo away Akito and Christy. Noble Heart and True Heart soon tried using their Care Bear Stare to stop the darkness, but he wasn't going away that easily as he shot red lightning.
"STOP!" Christy called, much to the shock of the Care Bears.
Everyone was on edge as Dark Heart faced against the Care Bears. Akito and Christy soon ran in to try and stop the fighting, only to get hit by the lightning.
Akito giggled from the lightning strike. "That tickles!"
That was until the lightning soon really hurt him and Christy. Akito laughed until he yelped out in pain.
"AKITO!" Estelle cried out as she felt Akito's pain since they were twins.
"Christy!" John and Dawn cried out.
"So that's what lightning feels like..." Akito groaned as he lay on the floor in pain with Christy.
"There's only one thing to do at a time like this." Christy said as she put her hand in her pocket and took out her marble.
"Do it." Akito said weakly, knowing what she was thinking.
Christy aimed her marble and shot it against the chandelier lever to make the chandelier drop. The chandelier soon dropped and smashed on the floor, freeing all of the Care Bears and the Care Bear Cousins, and they soon saw Dark Heart in his cloud form.
"Care Bears Stare!" Tender Heart told the others.
They all then tried to use their Care Bear Stare up against Dark Heart.
"Care Bear Cousins Call!" Brave Heart Lion told the rest.
"So many pretty colors..." Kelly whispered as she watched with Barbie and Ken.
Dark Heart wasn't going to lose as he sent more streaks of lightning at the Care Bears and Care Bear Cousins. Kelly yelped and buried her face in Barbie's shirt. Barbie soothed her little sister and hugged her.
Dark Heart laughed to them until he saw he had hurt Christy and Akito which began to make him feel guilty and he remembered what they told him on the lake in the canoe. "What have I done...?" he asked himself before turning back into his human boy transformation to comfort them. "Help me, Care Bears!"
The Care Bears soon came over to Akito and Christy. Noble Heart tried to touch them only to get zapped by the force field from Dark Heart's evil manifestations.
"You must bring these children from back to where I've sent them!" Dark Heart begged.
"We... We can't..." Noble Heart and True Heart frowned in dismay.
This surprised Dark Heart as he thought they could help.
"It would take more love and caring than even we have all put together." Noble Heart frowned in regret.
"NO!" Dark Heart replied. "You've got to do something! What good is all your love, your caring, if it cannot save these children? If you can't help, who can?"
Larvitar, Ponyta, Mismagius, Teddy, Vulpix, and the Ralts twins soon came out of their Pokeballs on their own.
"We care!" Larvitar said. "We all really care."
The Care Bears and their Cousins soon looked to the Pokemon.
"We might not be people, but there must be a way for us to help the Care Bears." Mismagius advised.
"That's why we've come here," Vulpix added. "We all care, and not just about our friends, but for Christy and Uncle Akito so they can get better!"
"Wait, I remember reading something in the book telling of how to bring someone back." Barbie said as she brought out her book on The Care Bears and soon opened it up and flipped through the pages until she found the page she was looking for.
"What is it, Barbie?" Kelly asked her big sister.
"Everyone gather around Akito and Christy and form a Friendship Circle." Barbie said.
Everyone looked to each other and soon formed a circle all around the fallen kids. Estelle had tears in her eyes as she worried about her twin brother.
"Everyone open your ears and your hearts," Barbie told the others. "Listen real hard for the voice of those who care!"
Everyone began to repeat 'We care' over and over.
"Nous nous soucions." Felicity joined in her native language of French.
"We care..." Dark Heart even joined in. "We care... I care... I care!"
Soon enough, Akito and Christy were finally free and their eyes flashed open. Everyone soon cheered out of excitement. The heart and star came out to warn them all about something.
"Hurry, we have to leave!" Noble Heart told the others. "Quickly!"
All of them soon ran out to the cabin. The door soon closed once they were all out and disappeared from existence.
"Thank you." Dark Heart smiled to the others sincerely.
"Thank you for caring." Noble Heart smiled.
"But... But... But... I did care, didn't I?" Dark Heart asked as Christy soon put her hat back on. "I never really understood why you guys pulled me out of the river, but I think I do now." He then hugged both Christy and Akito right away as he was going to be a friend from now on.
After they separated, Akito and Christy noticed Dark Heart's eye color was now blue.
"Your eyes!" Christy gasped before handing Dark Heart a mirror. "Look!"
"I'm a boy!" Dark Heart beamed. "A real boy!"
"Your evil left you when you admitted how much you cared." True Heart smiled.
"Now you can do everything a boy can do." Akito smiled.
"I'm a boy, I can jump, I can run, I can turn cartwheels!" Dark Heart beamed before he crashed against the cabin, but laughed since he was having so much fun with his new life.
"Don't worry, we can learn together." Edwin smiled as he helped up their new friend.
"Hey, come on!" Grumpy called out as he opened the cabin door.
"Let's have some fun!" Vincent smiled.
Camp was a much happier and better place now thanks to the Care Bears and their Cousins and Dark Heart was now a friend to everyone. This was a little bittersweet though, as it would almost be time for camp to be over and Barbie would take Akito, Estelle, Vincent, Felicity, and Kelly back home. And as for Dark Heart, well, he didn't have any place to stay.
"Well, we go home tomorrow morning," Barbie smiled to her little sister. "Did you have fun?"
"Yeah, I really liked it, Barbie!" Kelly beamed. "Oh, but what about Dark Heart? He should have a home to go to, shouldn't he?"
"He should." Kelly nodded in agreement.
"There must be something we can do to solve this..." Ken replied.
"Ken, would you like another brother?" Barbie offered.
"Oh, I dunno, Barbie," Ken smiled bashfully. "I already have two at home with Grandma."
"Pleeeeeeease?" The kids begged.
"Well... I guess that's all right with me." Ken replied.
This made the kids cheer out of victory.
"No one ever told me that being a big brother was easy, oh, well." Ken chuckled sheepishly.
Soon enough, it was time. The kids were packing up their stuff to get going back home.
"I can't believe summer camp's over now..." Akito sighed. "Oh, well, maybe we can come back again."
"That sounds great, Kito," Vincent replied. "Though I kinda hoped for an experience like when Mom, Dad, and Aunt Cherry went to Camp Everfree, this was slightly better."
"I know, right? "Akito asked.
Akito and Vincent soon left their cabin just as Estelle and Felicity were leaving theirs. Christy and Dark Heart seemed to be secretly kissing when they thought no one was watching.
'Aw!' Estelle thought to herself.
Christy and Dark Heart smiled to each other until they gasped to see the others.
"Uh, how long have you guys been there?" Dark Heart asked.
"Long enough," Vincent replied innocently. "So, Dark Heart, you ready to become a Carson?"
"I guess so..." Dark Heart sighed, but smiled as he was going to live with Ken's family from now on.
Everyone soon got on their rides home. Barbie smiled to the kids as she drove them home, but would take Kelly home last since they were sisters after all.
"Thanks for believing in me about going to summer camp, Estelle." Kelly smiled to her best friend.
"No problem." Estelle smiled back.
The two then shared a best friend hug as they knew they would become best friends forever.
After a long while...
Mo was coming inside the house after going out for the day to clear her mind, she then saw suitcases by the door and she gasped happily before going to the front door and opening it to see her kids before running to them and hugging them. "KIDS!" And where the Fudo siblings should have seen the hug coming.
"Hi, Mom!" The Fudo siblings smiled.
"Oh, kids, I missed you so much," Mo smiled back before teasing. "I hope you all had a miserable time at camp, because you are never going back."
"We had an amazing time at camp." Estelle said.
"I'm glad," Mo smiled. "I'm just so glad you're all back home."
"Would you guys like to go out for dinner?" Atticus smiled as he came into the house.
"Go out?" The Fudo siblings asked.
"I've been working double time since you guys have been gone, and we can go out to eat anywhere you like." Atticus told his kids.
"Anywhere?" The Fudo siblings smiled.
"Anywhere," Atticus smiled back. "Name it and it shall be yours."
The Fudo siblings soon started to discuss on where they wanted to eat at for dinner tonight. Atticus and Mo smiled proudly to their kids.
"Where should we go?" Vincent asked.
"How about somewhere awesome?" Akito beamed. "Like those Medieval Times dinner and a show where we don't have to use forks, knives, or spoons."
"Seriously?" Estelle asked.
"Hey, I like eating like a king," Akito smirked. "It makes me strong like a brave warrior!"
"Can't argue there." Estelle shrugged.
"We should go somewhere classy," Vincent replied. "Like The Ivy."
"Oh, come on, man, we'll have to dress up and eat expensive food," Akito scoffed. "It'll be like visiting Grandma and Grandpa Brown for Sunday dinner."
"Akito's got a good point." Estelle said.
"Well, where do you wanna go?" Vincent asked.
"Chuck E. Cheese's!" Estelle cheered. "Where a kid can be a kid!"
"That place is the best." Akito smiled.
Later on, the kids came down to their parents.
"So?" Mo smiled as she sat on the couch with Atticus.
"Chuck E. Cheese's!" The Fudo siblings announced of where they wanted to eat tonight for dinner.
"Alright then." Atticus smiled.
The kids then cheered out of victory.
"Now, just to find the car keys..." Atticus said before looking around. "I found the Black Cauldron with your Aunt Cherry and helped Mrs. Brisby protect her amulet from the Rats of NIMH, I can find the car keys."
Mo coughed and brought out the car keys with a smirk which made the kids giggle.
"Oh... Right..." Atticus smiled sheepishly.
"Where would you be without me?" Mo smirked.
"Not here, that's for sure." Atticus chuckled.
They soon left with their kids out to eat.
The End