A/N: The Runners are going to Disneyland! Just kidding, they are going to the theme park for a school trip fun! Let's just hope another mission and a familiar face won't ruin their fun. Let's get online with the new episode!
Theme Park Travesties: Part 1
Below the clear skies of California is Beverly Hills, the glamorous lifestyle city including a shopping district called Rodeo Drive and malls like The Groove and more. However in a blink of an eye, the city has turned into a scarred battlefield as a black jet flies above it when a red and black jet starts to chase it.
"Your world is about to end! You can't escape the Black Tundra's wrath!" the pilot in the red and black jet said through the speakers on it. "Surrender and we will spare you. If not, we will shoot down your jet!"
"I don't know what's going on right now, but I won't surrender to those villains!" the pilot in the black jet thought, not wanting to give up like this.
The pilot of the black jet accelerates his engines and zooms off. The red and black jet pursues him also at full throttle, and begins firing bullets and missiles at him. The pilot in the black jet manages to dodges all the shots using barrel rolls, flips, and spins, until one of the missiles hit his right wing, sending him spinning out of control.
"No, I can't give up! Not here, not now!" the pilot thought as he try to control his now uncontrollable jet when it starts to fell towards the sea. "NOT LIKE THIS!"
Suddenly, his hands suddenly glows green as a big green portal materializes where the jet was felling, causing it to fall into it before the portal disappears.
Meanwhile, in some kind of suite, Amica stalked around the floor of the room and climbed up on top of a dresser as Bren sat on the bed, talking to two girls.
"So what's it like in Manila," one girl asked.
"Is it tropical or something?," another girl said.
"Sort of, but especially if you live near the beach," Bren replied in a flirtatious tone. "Plus the best part is-"
Suddenly, Amica jumped from the dresser and pounced on top of Bren.
"AGH! AMICA!," Bren said. "GET OFF ME!"
"Your kitty looks really playful," the first girl said.
"This furball's not mine, I'm just babysitting her for a friend."
"Well I think she's cute," the second girl said, as she petted Amica who purred with comfort.
"Yeah, cute," Bren snorted.
Meanwhile, at the swimming pool rooftop area, Itzal, Jordan and Zeus were all on the roof with a telescope, stargazing.
"Wow, this is incredible," Jordan said. "The stars are so beautiful tonight."
"Not as beautiful as the star standing next to me," Itzal said. "And no, Zeus, I don't mean you."
Jordan giggled at Itzal's flirtatiousness, while Zeus cracked a small smile. Suddenly, Zeus looked up and saw something.
"Hey look, there's something coming straight at us," he said.
"It's probably a shooting star," Itzal said.
"No it's too close to be that," Zeus said. The object flew over their heads and crashed just a short distance from them.
"Whoa," Jordan said. "Let's go check this out!"
They got down from the roof and ran to the crash site nearby. Upon arriving they see that the object looks to be a…
"A spaceship! Wow!," they all say in amazed unison.
Suddenly the ship opened up, causing them to jump back. As they looked on, a figure emerged from the craft.
Jordan and Zeus quickly readied their RunComs to fight, but Itzal said, "Hold on, guys."
He seemed to recognize the figure, and as he came closer, he asked, "Jerry?"
"Jerry? As in WOOHP's chief, Jerry Lewis?," Jordan asked.
"Who's he?," Zeus asked.
"He's the head of WOOHP in Tony's world. He assigns him and his siblings missions all around the world. I hope he's okay."
"Yeah, well I recall before I came here, he started acting strange," Itzal told his friends. "Normally he'd WOOHP us–forcefully bring us to his office to receive the mission, but…well recently he'd just give us the mission over regular communication. And he would tell us what the missions were for either."
"That is strange of him," Jordan said. Just then Itzal's RunCom rang. He answered to find Tina on the other line.
"Runners, just got an alert about a crash in the vicinity of–"
"We know, Tina. We're already on it. It looks like some sort of aircraft, and the pilot is my WOOHP boss Jerry."
"What?!," Tina gasped. "Well, bring him here to the hotel ASAP."
"Got that covered, too."
Meanwhile in the lair of Kim Possible's nemeses, Dr. Drakken and Shego, the latter was sorting through their mail.
"Hey Dr. D, here's a letter for you," Shego said.
"Oh, goody," Drakken said as he grabbed, opened and read the letter. Once he did however, he became angry at what he read.
"Blast it! The Cerebellum Ultra-Smart Super-Genius Thinking Society rejected me again!"
Shego grabbed the letter and read it herself.
"Wow, they says that you must be getting desperate by sending in all those applications. That's the understament of the year."
Drakken growled in annoyance. Suddenly, the lair's alarms suddenly go off.
"What the?," Drakken said. Suddenly a cloaked man appeared before them. "Shego, intruder!"
Shego quickly threw a green fireball, but the man blocked it with an invisible barrier created by him. Shego threw even more fireballs at him, but the man blocked every one of them too. With one motion of his hand, he telekinetically forced Shego into a chair and used some nearby belts to telekinetically strap her in.
"Okay, buster," Drakken said angrily. "Who are you and what's the big idea breaking into my lair?!"
"I belong to a special group of people who are working on a very special project," the man said. "And we wish to uses your genius as a part of that project Doctor."
"M-my genius?"
"His genius?," Shego asked in shock.
"Yes," the man said. Drakken could only smile deviously. This could finally be his chance to put his genius on the map.
"I'm listening."
Meanwhile in a hotel suite, Jerry opened his eyes as he woke up. He found himself face to face by two boys and one girl. He sat up and rubbed his head.
"Where am I?," he groaned. "What's going on? And who are you?"
"Take it easy Jerry," Itzal said as he pressed a button on his RunCom and transformed into his real-life self.
"Tony? Why are you here? What's going on"
"It's a long story, Jer," Tony said as he began to explain how he got here, who the others were, as well as the Runners, ULO, the Black Tundra, the Data Cores and all of the different worlds, and also Jerry's crash.
"And that's when we pulled you out of your plane and now you're here."
"This is all impossible," Jerry said. "Frankly, it's a little hard to believe."
Jerry then touched a clock on the dresser on his bed, and unexpectedly a portal opened up.
"Whoa!," he said as he saw that the portal lead to China. Itzal and Jordan quickly grabbed him before he was pulled in, while Zeus quickly used his power to close the portal.
"So you are telling the truth," Jerry said as he looked at Zeus. "How'd you do that?"
"It's one of my many talents," Zeus said.
"You best rest easy, Jerry," Jordan said. "You had a rough landing with that jet of yours."
Then, Tina came into their suite to see what's going on.
"Runners, is he okay?" she asked in a worried tone.
"Don't worry, Ms. Reyheart. He's only got minor injuries," Jordan answered. "It's not that serious."
"Good to hear," Tina said in relief. "Anyways, Mr. Lewis. My name is Tina Reyheart. I'm one of the creators of Universal Legends Online, currently number 1 online game around the world."
"And what is your connection to them," Jerry asked in suspicion.
"Oh I forgot, I'm also the Black and White Councilwoman and the superior of the Runners you saw right now."
"Okay..."
"Now, can you tell what happened that caused you to crash into this world?"
"Because some unbelievably evil beings have taken over Beverly Hills. They infiltrated WOOHP via a portal similar to yours, soon took over the whole place. They then use the giant satellite array on the building's roof to open an even bigger portal to let even more of their friends in, with fighter jets and transport ships. I sent every single agent I had out to stop them, but…they were all overpowered within minutes."
"Um, did these guys, did they have a name by chance?," Jordan asked uneasily.
"Yeah they called themselves, the Black Tundra I think."
"BLACK TUNDRA?!" the Runners exclaimed in shock.
"Okay, I understand those guys invaded Beverly Hills next, but I can't still understand how did you got here in our world," Jordan said in confusion.
"Well when I realized the battle was lost for us, I told all uncaptured agents to flee, as did I," Jerry said. "I was fleeing from one of those Tundra people in my jet, but he managed to shoot me down. But as I was plummeting toward the ocean to certain doom, there was this large green glow on my hands, and just then a green portal opened, my jet fell into it, and I found myself…well, here."
Zeus became very suspicious about this as he asks, "Well, before all that, did you have any strange dreams?"
"Why yes, in fact, it somehow predicts what was happening in Beverly Hills right now," Jerry answered. "Not only that, I dreamed that I'm in some sort of black-colored city and Tony was there. Well, in your other form anyway. And you... somehow attacked me with some sort of a big black scythe."
"I did?!" Tony asked in shock.
"I don't know what the second dream means, although I sincerely hope it's not what it looks like."
"Me neither, Jer. Me neither."
"I figured you went into a stray portal," Zeus said, now realizing how did he got that power.
"Come again?" Jordan asked.
"To be honest, guys. My portal creation powers were actually accidental. But somehow, I have a vague memory what kind of stray portal I got into."
"True, he didn't even remember what happened," Tina spoke up. "But when an energy in that stray portal is that high, there is a higher chance that that person will obtain that power. You two are lucky from that Sebastian incident that the portal he gone through is weak."
"Meaning he didn't get that ability, right?" Itzal asked.
"Exactly."
"Good, so we don't have to worry about him coming back…at least not that way."
Just then the door opened, and Bren, Kani, Calla, Andre, Layla and Amica entered.
"Hey, what happened," Kani asked. Amica just meowed.
"Is he okay?," Andre asked.
"Who is he?," Layla asked as well.
"Isn't that Jerry from Totally Spies and The Amazing Spiez?," Bren asked.
"That's him," Itzal said.
"What's he doing here?," Calla asked.
"Long story short, the Black Tundra seized his world, and he ended up here escaping from them," Zeus said.
"I see," Andre said.
"I hate to interrupt, but it's almost midnight. You Runners need to rest for tomorrow."
"Oh, that's right! We get to go to that famous amusement park, Nova FunLand, right?" Layla asked.
"Yeah, the Gut Buster, the Waving Coaster. Not to mention those Extreme Bumper Battle! I heard that ride is an extreme version of the bumper cars," Bren explained in excitement.
"Wait, what about Jerry?" Jordan asked in worry.
"Don't worry, I won't be long in Nova Funland. I'll be here all morning taking care of him," Tina answered. "And in the afternoon, I will be there to promote ULO."
"Well we hope to see you there," Jordan said. "Come on guys, let's hit the sack."
The others all bid their farewells to Tina and Jerry as the headed back to their suites.
The next day, the UR Gamers Club along with their classmates and their chaparone teacher arrived at the entrance of the said theme park.
"I can't believe it. We're really here," Bren said in awe. "I'm so excited, I could pop!"
"If you do, could you try not to make a mess?" Zeus sarcastically asked to Bren, much to his anger.
"Ha, that was so funny, I forgot to laugh," Bren snapped back sarcastically.
"OMG!"
They turned around to see Kani seeing somebody in awe.
"Is that Dr. Ira Layne?!" she said in awe.
"Who?," Calla asked.
"A famous NASA physicist. And there's Dr. Nancy German, chemist extraordinaire! Dr. Wesley Young, medical prodigy! And Dr. Nebraska Robinson, nuclear science expert!"
The Runners all looked in awe at all of the scientists and experts there.
"Whoa, I've never seen so many science geeks in one place," Bren said.
"Hey, they are highly regarded and proclaimed scientists and experts, for your information," Andre snapped.
"Yeah, seems strange they'd all be in this one place you know," Zeus said suspicious.
"I agree," Kani said as the other Runners (except Bren) acknowledged their suspicion as well.
"Forget about that, guys! Today, it's all about chillin' and riding'!" Bren said to his friends. "So come on! Let's ride!"
"You're speaking my language, cuz!" Jordan said as she and her friends happily join Bren and their classmates to enjoy the amusement park.
The first ride they went on was the Waving Coaster, which true to it's name, had many wave-like hills on it's track. The boys all screamed like girls, while the girls all held on to the boys for dear life.
The next ride they went on the Gut Buster, a coaster-like ride that bounced up and down constantly. Unfortunately, for Andre, Kani, and Bren, the Gut Buster, held true to it's name as they all threw up in a trash can as soon as they got off, must everyone else's disgust.
Then they went on the Extreme Bumper Battle, which were 5 times faster and 10 times bumpier than regular bumper cars. The group had a blast bumping into each other and knocking each other around.
"Those bumper cars were incredible!," Andre said as the group left the bumper cars.
"I know, I just wanna keep going and going on them again and again!," Jordan said.
"Me too," Itzal said.
"Me three," Calla agreed.
Before Zeus can say anything, he realized that his bag is missing.
"What the?! My bag is gone!," he exclaimed.
"Don't tell me you forgot your bag back at the bumper cars?!" Calla e
"Uh, sort of," Zeus said as he sheepishly chuckled, embarrassed at this.
"Wow, you may be a whiz at remembering Pokémon information, but you're too clueless at remembering where your belongings are," Bren quipped, much to Zeus's annoyance.
"Don't worry, there's a nearby restaurant from here. You can meet us over there after you get your bag," Jordan said to him.
"Thanks, Jordan. See you guys at the restaurant!" Zeus said as he left to go back to the bumper cars.
"I'll save you a special meal for you, Z!" Calla called to Zeus before she joined with Jordan and the others to head to the nearby restaurant.
In the Extreme Bumper Battle bumper cars, Zeus is scanning around the area for his bag until he saw a white and yellow messenger bag on the floor.
"There it is. I really need to consider keeping an eye out of my belongings next time," Zeus said as he tries to pick it up, only to bumped into a red and black suited man in front of him. "Hey, what gives?!"
"Well you certainly are rude," the man said.
"Uh, you were the one in front of me pal."
"You young folk, never know how to take responsibility these days," the man said as he walked away.
"Yeesh, what's with that guy?" he asked in suspicion as he picks up his bag. However, he suddenly felt a wave of uncomfort around him as he noticed a figure behind him.
"Who's there?!"
But when he turns around, he noticed that the figure disappeared. Seeing this, he decided to leave the ride, unknown to him that the shadowed figure is still spying on him.
At the Super Star Restaurant, Zeus managed to rendezvous back with his friends, who are watching at something.
"Sorry for the wait, guys. Uh, what are you looking at anyway?" he asked in confusion.
They quickly point at what they are watching, which revealed to be Tina in a special promotional booth, with gameplay vids playing on two large flat-screens on each side of her. The Runners all walked up to her.
"Hey, Ms. Reyheart," Itzal said.
"Ah, hello," Tina said. "Are you guys enjoying the theme park?"
"Very much," Calla said. "If only my mansion had all these rides, we could have this sort of fun there everyday."
"I know," Bren agreed.
"Wait a minute, if you're here, then who's keeping an eye out on Jerry until you get back to the hotel?" Jordan asked in worry.
"Don't worry, I've asked Amica to keep an eye on him just in case," Tina answered.
"Well have you noticed anything suspicious lately?," Zeus said.
"Suspicious?"
"Like the fact that so many of the country and world's greatest minds are gathered here?"
"Huh?"
"NASA physicists, chemists, doctors, psychologists, all gathered here," Kani said.
"Hmm, that does seem strange, the world's greatest minds gathered at a theme park."
"Well isn't there a convention hall around here?," Layla said.
"Yes, but it's used for sci-fi, comic, anime, animation, and TV & movie conventions," Andre said. "There hasn't been a science-related convention here in over 30 years."
"Hmm, that does seem suspicious. You Runners continue to enjoy yourselves, but keep your eyes and ears open for anything."
"We will, don't worry," Jordan said.
Meanwhile, at the convention hall, the geniuses were all gathered. Dr. Drakken and Shego were speaking on a large stage, and had given all of the geniuses a hat to wear.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you may now all put your hats on and let the big genius fun begin!," Drakken said.
"Yes, now to get down to my special surgeon speech," Dr. Young said as he put the hat on. As soon as he did however, he got a blank expression on his face, and the started singing "Dem Bones."
Dr. Young: With the leg bone connected to the knee bone,
And the knee bone connected to the thigh bone,
And the thigh bone connected to the hip bone
At the same time all the other geniuses started acting dumb: scratching themselves like dogs, dancing like ballerinas, and making faces as the two villains watched.
"Déjà vu, anyone?," Shego said.
"It's even funnier than the last time," Drakken said. "Once we get in touch with our contact, he'll take these geniuses with him for his special project and I get the recognition I deserve at last. And this time, Kim Possible won't be able to stop me!"
Drakken then let out an evil cackle as he watched his plan succeed.
Back in the hotel, Jerry is still in his suite as he tries to work on his damaged wallet since he cannot sleep after what was happening to him. Unknown to him, a small green blur entered the suite and when Jerry turns around, he was quickly pounced by the blur, revealing to be Amica.
"Oh my," Jerry said as picked up the green striped white tiger cub and placed her on the bed. "Well, you're an unusual looking tiger cub."
Amica meowed in response.
"You must belong to those kids don't you?"
Amica nodded as she nudged a toy on the bed towards Jerry.
"Ah, you wish for someone to play with?"
Amica lowered her head as if to nod "yes."
"Well okay, I suppose I could, considering I have nothing better to do at the moment."
With that, Jerry up the toy and dangled it in front of Amica, who jumped up to try and get it.
Meanwhile back in Nova FunLand, the Runners stumbled onto an arcade center where they stare at the games and arcade machines in awe.
"I feel like that I've died and gone to heaven!" Jordan said in awe. "I never seen so much arcade games in one place! There must be more of them than the other ones we're been to."
"And look! That must be the famous 'Cyber Air Hockey'!" Andre said as he points to some two kids playing a cyberpunk-themed air hockey, which they are almost finished with it.
"Well, dibs on trying it first! Back in my home country, every arcade in there has great air hockey games, which I managed to beat my opponents in some of them in Manila," Bren bragged in an arrogant tone.
"Yeah, and you lost some of them in other cities, right?" Zeus sarcastically asked to Bren.
"Hey, who asked you, Starr?! Are you asking for a challenge?"
"Well, maybe I did. But since you asked, first one to 10 points win!"
Hearing this, he picks up his air hockey mallet from the cashier as he answers to Zeus, "You're on, Starr!"
At the Cyber Air Hockey, Zeus and Bren are taking their positions like they're in some sort of cowboy movie as the others watched in anticipation.
"Something tells me this doesn't end well," Jordan quipped.
"I hope their rivalry won't get ugly like with Raq and James," Kani said in worry.
"Who's Raq and James?" Itzal asked.
"Exactly!" Andre answered, much to Itzal's confusion.
The two rivals put on a set of virtual reality goggles each, and soon found themselves in a virtual alleyway, each with a hockey mallet in hand. Just then a virtual puck hovered above them, as a computerized voice said, "READY, SET, GO!"
The puck dropped down and headed towards Zeus, who used his mallet to hit it at Bren's goal. Bren quickly blocked it, and hit it back at at Zeus. The two went back and forth like this for some time, until in a sudden Matrix-style dive-and-shoot, Zeus hit the puck into Bren's goal, scoring a point.
"Yes!," he exclaimed. "Take that, Bren-less!"
Bren just snorted as the puck reappeared and headed towards him. With a quick-paced Matrix-style hit, he smacked it into Zeus's goal before the Light Runner could react.
"Too slow, Twinkle Starr," he said.
"Oh, it's on now," Zeus growled. The match continued on as the two rivals continued to score over and over again using Matrix-style moves and shots. Soon the score was tied 9-9 at gamepoint.
"Next shot wins, and that shot'll be made by me," Bren said.
"No, it'll be me," Zeus retorted. The puck lowered itself and both boys quickly started smacking it around the virtual arena. Suddenly Bren found an opening as the puck came towards him, and got ready to smack it in the goal and win. Suddenly just before he could, Dr. Layne, suddenly popped into the virtual world.
"Launch in T-minus, 10, 9, 8…," he said as Bren and Zeus removed the goggles to find him there in the real world, acting like a spaceship, as everyone watched in a weird way.
"Uh why is Dr. Layne here," Kani said as he finished counting down and started to act like he was blasting off. "And why's he acting like a spaceship?"
"I dunno," Jordan replied. "But something fishy is definitely going on here."
Meanwhile back at the hotel, Amica is eating her favorite meal (meatballs and steak, namely -Tigreria Meal-) in her pet bowl after a few hours of playing with Jerry.
"Well you are a really nice kitty," he said. "If only the girls were here they'd be fawning all over you."
But when Amica saw a man in red and black suit passing through the suite's door, she quickly growls in anger.
"What's the matter?" Jerry asked when he saw Amica growling, but she didn't answer as she quickly chased the man down, much to his shock. "Wait, come back!"
Jerry opened the door of the suite and chased down Amica who was still chasing the man in red and black suit. The chase continued all the way down three floors, until they reached a cornered area, in which several more men in red and black awaited.
"Seize them," the man Amica chased said. The men lounged for Jerry and Amica. The latter quickly ran and dodged, while the former quickly flipped one to the floor, kicked another in the stomach, and leveled the third with a powerful left hook.
The leader then tried to take Jerry himself, but Jerry, being the spy he was blocked every blow before punching him to the floor and pinning him with his foot.
"Sorry, but you lose," he said.
"Oh really?," the man said as he snapped his fingers. As if on cue, five more men with glowing red weapons phased out of the walls and surrounded Jerry and Amica, who cowered behind the old spy.
"Oh, boy, this is not good," Jerry said as he observed the situation.
A/N: Uh oh, Jerry's in trouble! Will he and Amica get out of this sticky situation and will the Runners able to figure out the NASA physicist's sudden stupidity? Stay tuned!
And in other news, in regards to artwork, I'll be releasing some of the UR special's characters, for the first time since my art hiatus, to dA on my birthday, October 9! As for the goal today, you need to reached 200 hits for the next teaser and 250 hits for a bonus UR Runner bio on one of the main Runners! Deadline is on my birthday, so share your friends about this and review in order to know more about this project! And as for visitors visiting my profile, the Reveal Count will start to rise each day, so keep on eye on it until the release day! Until then, review, share, and keep on reading both Universal Runners and Project Arcanum! See ya!
