"Let's see who this shadow person is." Atticus said.

Cherry was being lifted in the air from the shadow. "Oh, no, you don't!" she then grabbed the shadow really tightly and made it wither and fall onto the ground.

"Would you mind getting off me?" the shadow figure replied. "I'm here to help."

"Wait, that voice, I've heard it once before." Mo said with a smile.

Cherry snarled.

"Cherry, get up, he won't hurt us." Mo reassured.

Cherry's eyes were narrowed, but she got up and stood her ground.

"Thanks." The shadow figure smiled while getting up.

"No problem, Uncle Planet." Mo smiled.

The figure patted Mo on the head. Mo giggled and hugged the member from her biological family. Forte looked over to Cherry, quizzically. Cherry shrugged with a confused face as well.

"Everyone, I would like you to meet my biological uncle, Captain Planet." Mo smiled.

"We've heard of you." Atticus said.

Cherry looked back. "We have?"

"Yeah, don't you remember?" Atticus prompted.

"Uhh..." Cherry tried to think.

*Flashback*

"Sir, I don't mean to talk back, but why am I here?" Mo raised her hand. "I'm not a witch either."

"No, but your family your biological family is related to Captain Planet which means you are related to Captain Planet as well." the currently long retired Head of the Witches Council said.

"Hmm!" Mo smiled in approval. "That's cool! Do you know how he's related to me?"

"We're working on it," Drell smiled. "I wanna say he's your uncle, but we'll get back to you on that."

*End of Flashback*

"Oh, yeah..." Cherry remembered now.

"It's great to finally meet you." Forte said to Captain Planet.

"Likewise," Captain Planet said to him. "Now, I hear there's been some trouble with Vincent?"

"We can't find him anywhere!" Mo nearly cried in an emotional rage.

Zadavia held her and gently patted her on the back.

"We can't even sense his blood." Forte said.

"You must be vampires..." Captain Planet said.

Cherry opened her mouth wide to show her fangs, then gestured to her husband. "He turned me..."

"Can you find him?" Mo asked through her tears.

"Well, for that, we will have to locate him through the heart." Captain Planet told her.

'What kind of lame power is heart anyway?' Cherry deadpanned in her mind.

"The heart is powerful thing and not a lame power, Cherry." Captain Planet answered.

Cherry gave him a look. "Well, I think it is..." But then she went wide-eyed. "Wait, did you just read my mind?" she then asked.

"I did." Captain Planet confirmed.

Cherry narrowed her eyes, looking cynical as always. "Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I didn't exist..."

"Atticus wouldn't be the person he is today and he also might not have met Mo or been reunited with his family again." Forte said.

"You'd all be better off..." Cherry shrugged.

"We wouldn't be better off without you." Atticus and Mo said.

"Trust me you would... Now, where do we find Vincent?" Cherry asked.

"Come with me, I'll try to see what I can do, Captain Pollution is clever, but not clever enough." Captain Planet told the others.

"Lead the way." Mo smiled.

"Come on then." Captain Planet led the way for the others.

"How charmingly helpful." Zadavia sounded admirable towards their new helper.

They began to follow him as he began to lead them hopefully to find Vincent.

"What do they call you?" Captain Planet asked the alien woman.

"Zadavia," the alien woman introduced herself. "I hail from the Planet Freleng where I led with my brother Optimatus, he wasn't very peaceful and I was worried it would lead to war."

"You poor thing." Captain Planet sounded touched for her.

"And where it almost did." Zadavia said.

"I'm sorry someone as lovely as you had to go through with that." Captain Planet soothed.

Zadavia smiled softly and bashfully since he had called her 'lovely'.

"But luckily, he won't be a problem for a long time." Forte said.

"I can't stand old enemies..." Cherry grew overly dramatic as always. "Corrupting the innocent that don't know them and use them against you... You think they're gone for good until they surprise you... Can no unknown force of evil go undated!?"

"Nope." Forte said.

Cherry let out a shriek.

"Um... Is she okay?" Captain Planet asked.

"That's just how Cherry is," Atticus shook his head. "I'm a detective, but she's one of the few mysteries that I can't ever solve."

They all then kept going until they could track down Vincent, hopefully for them he would be alive and well, but unfortunately, he would be alive, but not all well.

The next day, Vincent was now waking up and was ready for the day and ready to summon the dark voice.

'Morning... How did you sleep?' the dark voice asked.

"Never mind that, I'm going to summon you now." Vincent said, rather dark.

'Go ahead, make my day.' the dark voice said to him.

"Excellent, so how do I summon you, sir?" Vincent asked.

'Easy, point all five rings in one spot and call out each ring and then just sit back, relax, and watch the magic happen.' The dark voice said.

"Ah, of course..." Vincent felt like he should had known that. He then looked to his fingers. "Do I or do I not wear the rings?" he then asked just to make sure.

'Yes, you do wear the rings,' The dark voice. 'And you can even wear them separately with two on one hand and three on the other.'

Vincent nodded, he decided to keep the rings on one hand so he could keep better track of them. "Super Radiation! Deforestation! Smog! Toxics!" he then muttered under his breath slightly. "And last, but certainly not least..." he then rose his voice. "Hate!"

All five rings then shoot out beams of polluting power into the sky, combining all five of the powers together, summoning something or someone.

Vincent looked away and covered his eyes with his arm from the brightness, but he soon removed so he could take a look at what he had done. And where he got to see what he had summoned. "Is that you, sir?" he asked.

The evil counterpart finally revealed himself, looking rather fiery and relating to flames in contrast to Captain Planet's earthly design, he came out and finally met Vincent face-to-face. "In the flesh."

Vincent smiled eagerly. "It's great to finally meet you, sir." he praised.

"Agreed..." Captain Pollution chuckled, ruffling up his hair. "You look strong for your age..."

Vincent scoffed and looked away. "Not as strong as my miserable seven-year-old brother..."

"Well, your younger brother can't control the weather, can he?" Captain Pollution asked.

"Well, no, well, at least, not yet, I think." Vincent said.

"Don't you remember that time you went against WeatherVane?" Captain Pollution smirked.

"Yes, I do." Vincent nodded.

"Could Akito do that?" Captain Pollution smirked.

Vincent thought about it and realized his new mentor was right. He had weather powers! "You're right, there's no way he could have weather powers." he smiled in realization.

"Remember what I taught ya." Captain Pollution laughed.

Vincent narrowed his eyes with a malicious smile. "I sure do remember."

"Good boy, you make me really proud..." Captain Pollution smiled darkly to Vincent's new dark exterior. "This is going to be a lot of fun."

"Sure sounds like it..." Vincent agreed, very excited to put his little brother in his place. He even demonstrated his power by first creating a statue of Akito and then used his new strength and power to destroy it forever.

"Perfect..." Captain Pollution grinned.

Vincent grinned back, this was going to be oh-so perfect for his own personal and selfish gain.

"Just remember what I taught you and we'll get along just fine..." Captain Pollution ruffled up his dark brown hair.

"Yes, Master, I remember love is for the weak, hatred is for the strong." Vincent said.

Meanwhile with the Loonatics...

Ace ordered up a pizza for everybody since it had been a while since they last had one.

Estelle was looking in the mirror as her hair was still cut short. "I think I look better this way..." she said to herself.

"You sure do." Lexi smiled.

"Let's have that pizza!" Slam grinned hungrily.

This made the others roll their eyes as they left with their pizza while the two bunnies were having another moment alone together. Akito and Estelle went to the other Loonatics, now deciding to have their pizza.

"Any pizza left or did Slam eat it all again?" Estelle asked.

"There's still pizza left." Tech assured them.

Slam grinned nervously after he already had four slices, and Duck struggled to hold him back so the twins could have some of the pizza too. Akito and Estelle got themselves a couple of slices and joined in their dinner.

"So, what did you two find out from eavesdropping into Ace and Lexi's conversation?" Tech asked.

"We didn't eavesdrop..." Akito said innocently.

The others glanced to the two human kids.

"Well, okay..." Estelle gave in. "Ace asked Lexi to marry him and she said yes..."

"I knew there was something about those two!" Duck folded his arms.

"I just wonder when their wedding is going to be." Akito smiled.

"Hopefully sometime when Acmetropolis is safe to have a wedding in again..." Tech shrugged.

"Ya got a point there, buddy," Rev agreed. "I mean, can you imagine if they got married and someone tried to like kidnap Lexi and we'd have a whole other adventure and we'd have to save her? Oh, boy, that'd be quite a story to tell their kids if they have any!"

"Well, whenever the wedding is, I bet it will be romantic." Estelle smiled.

"Girls..." Duck muttered.

"Oh, I wonder if we can tell anyone back home." Estelle looked curious.

"You can only tell those who already know about us." Tech said.

"So, basically, our parents and Vincent and Jenny, practically anyone who's been to the future." Akito guessed.

"Pretty much." Tech gave a nod.

"Okay, next time Jenny, Vincent, and Felicity get here, we'll tell them." Estelle finalized.

"Along with Patch." Akito added.

A while later, Ace and Lexi come into the room with their hands locked together.

"Well, look who decided to show up..." Duck said. "You guys gonna hold hands or get your dinner?"

Lexi and Ace came over to get dinner and even smirked at the Fudo twins. Akito and Estelle smirked back as they finished their slices.

"Nothing could ruin this day." Estelle smiled as she bit into her slice.

Unfortunately the same could not be said in the other part of the world. Atticus decided to call his family to make sure they were safe.

Jessica was putting her very young daughter to sleep, then answered the phone after she gently shut the door. "Hello?"

"Hey, Jessie," Atticus greeted. "I just wanted to know if you were okay."

"I'm fine, is something wrong?" Jessica asked.

"It's Vincent, he's been turned evil by Captain Pollution." Atticus said.

"Oh, my goodness..." Jessica put her hand to her mouth. "Are you, Mo, and the twins okay?"

"I'm worried about the twins," Atticus said. "We're with Zadavia now though."

"Zadavia?" Jessica asked, she had never heard that name before.

"A new friend of ours." Atticus said.

"Everything's okay here, Atticus, but good luck and I hope the best for you." Jessica wished.

"Thanks, Jessie," Atticus was grateful that she was all right. "Send Bonnie my love, okay?"

"You got it." Jessica smiled to that.

"Great, I'm gonna call Mom and Dad next." Atticus said.

"Okay, it's still nice that you got to let Dad be as strong as you and Patch." Jessica smiled.

"Yeah, feels like only yesterday I did that..." Atticus smiled back. "Talk to you later."

"See ya, Atticus." Jessica hung up then and went to her home office after she put her only child to sleep and it was just her now since her husband was currently away from home.

Patrick and Emily were asleep together, but they both jolted slightly as their phone was ringing.

Emily's hand flopped on the nightstand, knocking almost everything down, but she managed to get the phone and she put it to her ear with a yawn as she answered. "May I help you...?"

"Hi, Mom, is this a bad time?" Atticus asked.

"Oh, hi, Atticus..." Emily smiled tiredly. "I'm sorry, sweetie..."

"I just wanted to make sure you and Dad were okay," Atticus said. "I can call back later to explain it all."

"We're fine, just very tired." Emily reassured.

"Is that Atticus?" Patrick asked with a strong and yet tired yawn.

"Yes, it is." Emily smiled.

"I should call back..." Atticus said. "You guys sound exhausted."

"No, no, it's just one of the downsides to being elderly." Emily said.

"What's up, son?" Patrick added.

"I just wanted to make sure you were okay, Vincent's being controlled by Captain Pollution." Atticus got straight to the point.

"Oh, dear..." Emily frowned.

"Has he hurt you?" Patrick asked.

"No, but we're with Zadavia right now, I just wanted to make sure everyone's okay before we go on." Atticus explained.

"Well, we're alright." Patrick said.

"Okay, just checking, you guys get some sleep now..." Atticus smiled in relief.

"Good night, Atticus..." Patrick and Emily said before they smiled and hung up, they were glad to hear from him though.

"One more call..." Atticus then made a call to Europe.

"Thank you, thank you all!" Darla told a crowd of people outside her hotel room, then shut the door and leaned against the door, breathing in relief once she got some time to herself.

Then she heard her phone ring, she hoped this was a call from one of her family members.

"This better be good..." Darla replied.

"Hey, kiddo." Atticus greeted, playing with the fact that Darla was the youngest and referred to her as such.

Darla smirked once she recognized the voice. "Hey, Gramps, what's up?" she then retorted.

"Just wanted to see how my favorite younger sister is doing." Atticus smirked.

"I'm all right, just had a big day, but I can talk," Darla smirked back, feeling he was doing the same wherever he was now. "These people... Is everything all right with you, Mo, and the kids?"

"Um, well, we have a problem." Atticus said.

"Oh, no..." Darla's face paled slightly.

"Vincent's being controlled," Atticus explained. "By Captain Pollution..."

"No..." Darla may not had known Captain Pollution as well as her brother or sister-in-law did, but she knew for a fact that he was a threat since Mo was Captain Planet's biological niece. "W-Where is he now?"

"He's somewhere in the future." Atticus said.

"The future?" Darla asked.

"It's a very long story, but yes," Atticus said. "We're with Zadavia right now."

"Zadavia?" Darla asked, confused.

"She's a woman from the Planet Freleng," Atticus explained. "The kids have been with her lately on missions on the city planet called Acmetropolis in the year 2772."

"Atticus, if I was never apart of your family, I swear I'd think you were crazy or something." Darla smirked.

"Well, then, luckily, you are a part of this family." Atticus smiled.

"Yeah, yeah..." Darla chuckled.

"Um, I didn't interrupt anything, did I?" Atticus asked.

"No, you're fine, but I can't stay too long now, remember, I'm in Europe, and I have to make my daily call to a certain hotel in New York City." Darla reminded.

"Okay, I won't keep on long then." Atticus said.

"Thank you for calling though," Darla said. "I feel like I haven't heard your voice in ages."

"Same here." Atticus said.

"You know how it is..." Darla said. "Traveling to distant lands..."

"I sure do." Atticus said.

"Not as exciting as your job, I'm sure, but I like this one..." Darla sighed. "I just hate that it keeps me away from Eloise... I'm starting to think she's picked up her father's prankster habits."

"I agree with you there, anyways, I'll let you go now." Atticus said.

"All right, thank you, Atticus," Darla said. "Stay safe."

"You too, talk to you later." Atticus smiled before he hung up.

Darla hung up as well, she then used the button to call the Plaza Hotel and held the phone up to her ear as she was anxious to talk with her daughter.

"Okay, everyone is alright." Atticus said.

"Thank goodness..." Mo sighed in relief.

"Now, to continue the search." Captain Planet said.

"Let's." Zadavia agreed.

Atticus, Mo, and the two nonhuman figures then went along. The kids who were at home away from Acmetropolis had a hard time sleeping with the madness they had been going through lately.