It was Day 5 of the Earth Week Project and we were over at the beach by the oceans on the American East Coast. We were picking up litter and garbage on the beaches and in the oceans. We were cleaning up the oceans and the beaches to make sure that no harm comes to the creatures of the land and the seas. We were picking up plastic soda ties, aluminum cans, glass bottles and even cleaning up paper and garbage.
Me: Boy a lot of garbage is here on the beach.
Lily: There sure is.
Laney: Hey Lily how did you know that Mr. Krabs was doing all kinds of bad things?
Lily: I'm not exactly sure myself. But I think that the ocean was telling me somehow by the feel of the water. I didn't know what to make of it but I knew Mr. Krabs was untrustworthy. So I waited until the time was right.
Me: Very clever and good thinking Lily.
Lily: Thanks J.D.
Maria was feeding her Horsea.
Maria: Guys, I have a faster way we an get all this trash out of the water.
Nico: And that is?
Maria: Me and Arixam can turn into our water forms and merge with the ocean. Then, we can get all of the trash out.
Me: That's a great idea Maria. Go for it.
Maria: Okay. Ready sis?
Arixam: You know I'm always ready sis.
Maria: AQUAMARIA!
Arixam appeared.
Arixam: This is gonna be so awesome!
Maria: You know it sis.
Maria went into her swimsuit and Arixam had an aqua blue bikini on.
Lincoln: Arixam you look incredible!
Arixam: (Giggles) (Strikes a pose) Like what you see Lincoln?
Lincoln: I sure do.
Earth: So do I
Wheeler (to Arixam and Maria): Nice swimsuits, girls.
Arixam (blushes): Thanks, Wheeler.
Maria: Lets get wet.
They went into their water forms and went into the ocean and went into their mermaid forms. Arixam had an aqua blue tail and they merged with the water. They combined with the water and manipulated it and out came lots and lots of garbage. And they put it all on the beach. There was a massive pile of trash and junk on the beach.
Me: Holy mackerel! Look at all that junk!
Lincoln: There sure was a lot of it!
Laney: I can't believe that we threw all this into the oceans so carelessly.
Me: Lets get cleaning up. Great job you two!
Arixam: Thanks J.D.
Maria: That is a lot of garbage.
Me: No kidding.
Gi: What people have been doing to the oceans is just sick.
Me: You don't have to tell me twice Gi.
We got to work and we found old rusted out aluminum cans, plastic soda ties, glass bottles and even old discarded fishing nets.
Me: These fishing nets are old.
Lana: They sure are. They look like they were used ages ago.
Nico: No kidding.
The fishing nets had holes and ruined floats on them.
Rikki: Ugh, look at all that garbage. I won't be surprised if any fish got killed from that.
Laney: Me neither. But I think we got all the garbage out of the oceans.
We kept sorting and my geiger counter started clicking.
Me: Uh oh. Radiation. There's something radioactive in here.
I Pulled out a barrel and it had the radioactive sign on it.
Me: Stand back guys! It's a barrel full of radioactive waste!
Wheeler: Whoa! Someone must've dumped a lot of it into the oceans.
Me: Looks like it. Lincoln you better call the HAZMAT division.
Lincoln: I'm on it.
Lincoln pulled out his cell phone and called them. Lisa, Starfire and me pulled out over 2,000 barrels of radioactive waste. The HAZMAT Division arrived and they were loading all the barrels into trucks.
HAZMAT chief: This is a lot of Radioactive waste you all found. Great job finding it and cleaning it all up.
Me: Thank you chief. This was all the radioactive waste that was illegally dumped into the ocean over the decades. And this was all the garbage that was dumped into the oceans over the years. There was a lot of it.
HAZMAT Chief: I can see that. Great job to all of you.
Me: Thank you chief. Whoever dumped all this waste probably has no recollection of it by now.
HAZMAT Chief: I have a feeling you're right J.D.
After the HAZMAT division left we got back to work.
Nico: So, Bai Tza, when exactly did you start doubting Shendu's lies?
Bai Tza: Well, it happened a few hours after Valmont and Shendu freed me. I came across a little girl trapped in a fire. The fire was no match for my water powers and I eventually managed to reunite the little girl with her family. After the family thanked me, that's when I started to doubt Shendu's words.
Me: That was a very heroic deed you did Bai Tza.
Xerneas: It sure was.
Jackie: I have to admit, Bai Tza. You really have come a long way. I mean, first, you were an evil demon sorcerer. And now, you're a Redemption Squad member.
Uncle (smiles): Uncle agrees, Jackie. (to Bai Tza) Uncle is very proud of you for proving yourself as a hero, Bai Tza.
Bai Tza (smiles): Thanks, Uncle.
Uncle (sternly): Do not tell anyone about this, though! Uncle does not want people thinking that Uncle has gone soft!
Bai Tza (laughs): My lips are sealed!
We laughed.
Wheeler: J.D. how come you're not being hurt by Radiation?
Me: I'm impervious to radiation and it makes me stronger. It's how I got a tail.
Lincoln: It's true. J.D. ate a radioactive marshmallow on Total Drama 3 years ago and it gave him his tail.
Kwame: I think I saw that.
Gi: That was a strange thing that Chris did. But I'm glad you all changed his ways.
Me: We're glad too Gi.
We got done with our cleaning at sunset. It took all day but we did it.
Me: Whew! Wow! What a day!
Ma-Ti: This was a lot of garbage we cleaned up.
Me: Yeah no kidding. And we're sweating like pigs.
Lola: You said it J.D.
Lana: I'll say.
Laney: But we did a great service to the oceans and the marine life. We cleaned them completely.
Me: We sure did.
Linka (CP): (Russian Accent) Guys, I have to go to Russia. It's to do something important.
Me: Okay Linka.
We went to Moscow, Russia and we were at a local graveyard near Moscow. We were in front of a grave for Linka's deceased cousin Boris, who was killed by Verminous Skumm because of the Bliss drug.
Linka (puts some flowers at her cousin's grave): Boris, I am very sorry that you can't be here with us today. If I had just prevented you from taking that damn Bliss drug, you would still be alive. But I swear, Skuum will pay for taking you away from me!
I walked up to Linka.
Me: Linka, I'm so sorry about your cousin. Verminous Skumm will pay for everything he has done. I promise you. He will pay.
We went back home into the estate and we formulated a plan. While we were cleaning, Nico caught a Steelix and a Granbull.
Me: Okay before we set out to kill Verminous Skumm we need to know more about him. We already know he killed Linka's cousin Boris. But we don't know anything else.
Laney: J.D.'s right. We have to know who we are dealing with before any definitive course of action can be taken.
Wheeler: That's right.
Ma-Ti: Know you're enemy. That's a great saying.
Kwame: Okay. Here's what Verminous Skumm is.
He is a real dirty rat. Born and raised in a sewer, this towering "Ver-man" aims to mold the world in his image, and is determined to inherit the Earth. He is quite likely the most evil Captain Planet villain, as he is responsible for killing Linka's cousin by selling him a designer drug which he fatally overdosed upon, and harassed Todd Andrews, an HIV positive kid by making people hate and fear him by lying to them about HIV and AIDS.
Skumm fancies himself an agent of entropy with a mission to instigate chaos and degeneration in the natural order. He exults in humanity's every ecological mistake and helps to accelerate the environment's decline. His weapons are a loathsome intelligence combined with the cunning of a trapped rat, in addition to apparently quite skilled knowledge of chemistry and pathology. His rat pack inhabits only the most vile, degenerate environments of sewage and toxic waste, which they often use to aid in Skumm's odious plots.
Though standing seven-and-a-half feet tall, Verminous Skumm truly resembles a disease-ridden rat in every way, including the tail and claws. He wears a tattered blue jumpsuit and a red scarf around his head and face. His clothes are always dirty, torn and disheveled, as he spends most of his time underground - in sewers or the like.
Like all the villains in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Skumm represents an ecological threat. In his unique case, he mainly represents not one but two evils: poor sanitation (With a particular focus on the spread of disease that comes about as a result of it), and social/ urban ills such as crime and bigotry. In the two-part Captain Planet episode, Mission to Save Earth, Verminous Skumm is among the five Eco Villains who create Captain Pollution. They did this by creating and using five Anti-Elemental Rings consisting of Deforestation, Toxins, Smog, Super Radiation, and Hate. Skumm's element was Toxins, perhaps used as an evil counterpart for Gi's Water ring. Unfortunately for the Eco Villains, Captain Pollution was destroyed and the Anti-Elemental rings along with him, leading Skumm and the other villains to flee.
One episode revealed that Skumm was (possibly) from an alternate/past civilization that he helped guide into destruction through massive overpopulation. Alternate future versions of him are shown to be even more mutated, sporting an extra smaller head on his shoulders.
Me: So he's a mutated Bubonic Plague-filled mutant rat.
Wheeler: That's right J.D. and he want's to take over the world with an army of rats.
Lola: EW! I HATE RATS!
Me: I don't like them that much either Lola. Rats are diseased-ridden pests and they are the most repulsive creatures ever known.
Lana: I have a rat named Bitey.
Me: Bitey is the exception. But all rats are full of disease.
Lori: I know. I literally hate rats and mice too.
Me: Lots of people do. But also what is this Bliss drug that Skumm made?
Kwame: It's a very bad drug.
Bliss was a synthetic drug created by Verminous Skumm that made an appearance in the Season Two episode Mind Pollution.
It is a highly addictive substance that seemingly caused people that consumed it to become immune to pain, both physical and emotional. However, withdrawal from the drug is shown to be profoundly hard to experience, and users will do anything to take more Bliss rather than go without it. One of its known victims was Linka's cousin, Boris, who was responsible for getting Linka addicted by slipping Bliss into food that he gave her. Boris ultimately died from a combination of blood loss and a Bliss overdose, and his death convinced Linka to give up the drug.
The formula to create Bliss was destroyed by Captain Planet to ensure that the drug could never be manufactured again to harm more people. In the end of the episode, Verminous Skumm eats a piece of cheese that he doesn't realize is laced with Bliss. He realizes in horror that he has become addicted to his own drug.
Me: Geez! That drug is 1,000 times more addictive than Heroin.
Lisa: Indeed. A drug formula like that would be considered a very dangerous substance to the pharmaceutical and medicinal industry.
Darcy: It sure would Lisa.
Me: And it was this drug that killed Boris. Now Skumm will pay the Ultimate Price.
Nico: You got that right. He has failed the world and the worlds of medicine.
Me: Yep. So far he hasn't made his move. But when he does, we'll be ready for him. But until then lets devise a plan of attack.
Nico: I have an idea. Doesn't Skumm like cheese?
Gi: Yep. After all, he is a rat.
Maria: I get it! We'll lure Skumm into a trap using a trail of cheese. Pretty clever!
Me: Actually that's just a myth. Rats liking cheese has been proven to be just a myth.
Earth: J.D.'s right. We need to use something else.
Nico: I had no idea. But from the looks of things it worked on Skumm before.
Wheeler: It did Nico.
Me: But if it worked before, then we'll do it. But we have to make sure he can't escape so we have to tie him up by his arms and legs.
Stewie: I have just the kind of trap that will work. We'll use a cage trap.
Me: That's brilliant Stewie.
Stewie revealed a set of blueprints and it was similar to that of a Wile E. Coyote roadrunner cage trap.
Me: These plans are genius Stewie. It's perfect.
Stewie: Thank you. And the bars are narrow and made of reinforced Titanium. He won't be able to get out of this one.
Me: Great.
Gali: As long as we get to take a crack at him to make sure he pays for his crimes.
Nokama: I know.
We went to sleep.
We woke up and had breakfast. We had pancakes and French toast.
Me: Mmm. Good French Toast.
Laney: It sure is.
Later as we were watching TV and Gaia appeared.
Gaia: Team Loud Phoenix Storm and Planeteers.
Me: What is it Lady Gaia?
Gaia: Verminous Skumm is on the move and is trying to poison Sydney, Australia with his Bliss drug.
Me: We're on our way Lady Gaia.
We set out for Sydney, Australia.
We got to setting up our trap.
Brian: This reminds me of when me and Peter always lure James Woods into a trap.
Me: I heard about that Brian. He used the old box trap. That is an ages-old trap that was commonly used.
Brian: It was.
We got the trap set up and we had Cheddar cheese as the bait. We covered the trap up and had the bait set up.
Me: Okay. The trap is all set.
We went and hid in the bushes and waited. 20 minutes later we saw a periscope pop out of the ground and out came VERMINOUS SKUMM! He crawled over to the cheese.
Skumm: I love cheese.
He started eating it and the trap sprung.
Skumm: What the!?
CLANG!
The cage trap trapped him!
We walked up to him and he saw us.
Skuum: Should've known I'd be walking into a trap.
Linka: Remember Boris? The boy you got killed using Bliss?!
Skuum: Of course I do. But what does it matter to you anyway?
Linka (angry with tears in her eyes): EVERYTHING! (punches Skuum in the face)
Nico: Verminous Skumm you have failed this planet!
Me: You will pay for everything you've done. You murdered Linka's cousin Boris and now you will answer for your crimes when we send you off to Hell!
Skuum: I don't know why you Planeteers chose now to be harsh on me. If you had been harsh on me at the beginning, then you would've saved a lot of people pain. Including your loved ones!
Me: Then we're about to start right now!
Then we felt tremendous footfalls!
Me: What the!?
Nico: What in the world is that!?
Me: It's huge whatever it is. But I'm sensing Heartless coming.
Skumm: Oh I have a huge friend.
We saw a huge Heartless.
The Heartless that appeared before us looked like a female giant made of solid rock.
Ed: Po Kong?!
Mountainous Heavyweight: Hello, Ed! I never did get to eat you!
Me: Po Kong!?
Bai Tza: Sister!? How are you a Heartless?
Mountainous Heavyweight: It's a funny story sister.
Skuum: She's not the only Heartless you have to worry about!
Another Heartless appeared. This one was a witch made of pure black water.
Courage: The Queen of the Black Puddle!
Bai Tza: You think she's still mad that the three of us killed her?
The Dark Water Devil roared.
Maria: Yep! She's still mad!
Me: This is gonna be rough guys! Lets power up!
We powered up and transformed.
Inferno (BW): Inferno TERRORIZE!
Inferno transformed.
Nico: Destroy that monster Inferno! (Points to the Dark Water Devil)
Inferno: Yes my boss.
Inferno fired a blast of fire and incinerated it.
Gi: Why did we get stronger when the Queen of the Black Puddle's Heartless was destroyed? That didn't happen when we killed those other Heartless.
Me: She was pure evil and we have the ability to get stronger by absorbing negative energy and converting it into positive energy. It makes us far more powerful.
Gi: That's amazing.
Kwame: It sure is.
The Mountainous Heavyweight then grabbed Ed and ate him. She swallowed him.
Mountainous Heavyweight: Mmm. Tasty. (LOUD BELCH)
Me: You are disgusting Po Kong.
But then something happened inside her. A bulge in her chest formed and Ed exploded out of her chest as Edzilla and the burst-out splattered mud and tissue made of pure mud all over the place.
Everyone: EW!
Lana: Oh that was cool!
Me: Very clever using the Chestburster method.
Nico: It sure was.
Maria: Lets get this freak!
Luna: Lets do it dudes!
They went at the Mountainous Heavyweight and it was a savage and merciless beatdown. Luna fired a powerful blast of singing water at the Mountainous Heavyweight and it hit her square in the face and she punched her in the face with devastating force. Maria slammed a fist made of pure water into the Mountainous Heavyweight's big belly and she belched out a tremendous amount of mud and dirt from the hole in her chest and her mouth. Lily fired an enormous blast of glowing water and it hit her in the face and knocked out some of her crystal teeth. Varie whistled and a whale jumped out of the water and it slammed onto the Mountainous Heavyweight with a tremendous and thunderous thud. Varie got the whale off and Irma fired a massive blast of water at the Mountainous Heavyweight.
Misty: Lets go Gyarados!
Gyarados came out and Misty spread her wings.
Misty: Gyarados, Dragon Rage!
Gyarados fired a massive blast of blue and black energy fire and it turned into a dragon and Misty fired a powerful ice beam blast. They hit the Mountainous Heavyweight and exploded with incredible power!
KRABBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMM!
The explosion blew a hole into the Mountainous Heavyweight's big belly and she belched out even more mud and earth. Gali slashed her with her axe swords and fired a powerful blast of water and it slammed into her with devastating force and Nokama fired another blast of water and it slammed into her.
The Mountainous Heavyweight got up.
Mountainous Heavyweight: You have a great teamwork. Too bad it won't be enough.
She went up to Jackie Chan.
Mountainous Heavyweight (to Jackie): Chan! (picks up boulder) Any last words?
Edzilla (gets up): Ed... (Mountainous Heavyweight turns towards him)... SMASH! (punches the ground, making Mountainous Heavyweight fall down)
The Mountainous Heavyweight fell down.
Me: Lets finish this overgrown tub of lard!
Ed and Leni fired a massive blast of magic and they sealed Po Kong into a statue and Leni got Po Kong's powers as her own.
Me: Now for Skumm.
We walked up to Skumm.
Thundercracker: J.D., me and Skywarp found all of Skumm's entire supply of the Bliss drug and destroyed it completely.
Me: Good work Thundercracker.
We walked up to Skumm still trapped in the cage.
Skuum: Go ahead and kill me. It won't bring back your precious cousin B-
Linka (grabs him by the throat): You don't get to say his name!
Nico: Not even criminals like Bane and Luthor would commit the crimes that you've done!
Skuum: I guess that's why I wasn't invited to the Legion of Doom.
Me: This time you won't ever be welcome here Skumm. Attack!
We busted the cage and Maria fired a powerful blast of water that sent him into the sky. Arixam jumped up and slashed Skumm with her water swords and chopped his tail off.
Juvia: (Echoing) WATER CYCLONE!
Juvia casted a whirling torrent of water which resembles a cyclone. It hit Skumm and soaked him.
Gray: (Echoing) ICE-MAKE: LANCE!
Gray extended his arms forward, creating long, curved ice lances that he shot towards Skumm, impaling him. Bai Tza fired a massive blast of water and soaked Skumm. William fired a blast of ice from his blaster and froze Skumm.
Luan: This one is going to Light you up! (Laughs) Get it? But seriously it will.
Luan fired a massive blast of light at Skumm and it burned him in the chest. Shego fired a powerful blast of green fire and burned him. Stella fired a blast of light from his hand.
Thunderblast rode on a wave of water created by Maria.
Thunderblast: WHOO! Lets make this rat stew!
Divebomb agreed.
Thunderblast: CYBER KEY POWER!
The Earth Cyber Planet Key went into Thunderblast's rocket launcher and made it a bigger rocket launcher.
Thunderblast: It's combo time!
Thunderblast fired numerous massive laser blasts and Divebomb dove.
Thunderblast: EAGLEMISSILE BARRAGE!
Divebomb (Energon) went at Skumm and pulled up and the laser blasts hit Skumm and exploded.
KRABOOOM! KABOOM!
Garurumon: It's our turn Matt!
Matt: Lets get him Garurumon!
Garurumon: I'm always ready for anything Matt.
Sandstorm: Lets get him.
Sandstorm went into his helicoptor mode and fired missiles.
Garurumon: (Echoing) HOWLING BLASTER!
Garurumon fired a powerful stream of blue energy from his mouth.
Sandstorm and Garurumon: DESERT WOLF ASSAULT!
The missiles combined and turned the energy blast into a deadly wolf of pure energy and it hit Skumm and exploded.
KRABBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!
Brawl: It's combo time Inferno.
Inferno (BW): You got it Brawl!
Brawl fired his electron gun and Inferno fired a flamethrower blast.
Brawl and Inferno (Beast Wars): PYROCUMULUS STORM BLAST!
The blasts combined and turned into a deadly pyrocumulus cloud that struck Skumm with lightning.
Cleo: Time to test out my new hardware. WINGS OF TINABI!
Cleo had a backpack-like device on her back and it opened and grew eagle wings and she flew and the wings left a rainbow vapor trail behind.
Me: Oh wow! That is so cool!
J.D. 2: That is a Shen Gong Wu called the Wings of Tinabi. It's a special transportation Shen Gong Wu that enables the user to fly with the wings of an eagle while leaving a rainbow vapor trail behind.
Me: That is awesome! And she can fly very fast with it. I wonder where Cleo found it.
J.D. 2: That's what I would like to know.
Cleo flew up to Skumm at a blazing speed and she punched him with powerful force and a fist with ice on it formed into a spike ball.
Me: It's final smash time!
Lily: I'll start us off! GLOWING TSUNAMI SLAM!
Lily fired a massive blast of glowing water and it slammed into Skumm with devastating force.
Bai Tza: My turn. 巨型水波龙 (Translation: MEGA WATER WAVE DRAGON)
Bai Tza fired a massive blast of water that turned into a deadly and ferocious dragon made of pure water and it slammed into Skumm with devastating force.
Gi: My turn. MEGATSUNAMI SPEAR SLAM!
Gi fired a bunch of spears made of pure water at Skumm and they hit him and impaled him and exploded.
Luna Loud: My turn dudes! SIREN WATER SONG!
Luna sang loud and a massive blast of water exploded out of her mouth and it hit Skumm and exploded.
Cleo: Time for the grand finale girls!
Rikki: You got it Cleo!
Emma: Lets do this!
Bella: Yeah!
Cleo, Emma, Bella and Rikki: OCEANIC SMASHER FORCE!
They fired a massive blast of water and it hit Skumm with devastating force and sent him crashing into the ground!
I pulled out my 50 caliber pistol and put a bullet in it.
I spun the barrel.
Me: Linka. He's all yours.
I handed her the gun.
Linka: Thank you J.D.
Linka walked up to Skumm and pointed the pistol at his head in between his eyes.
Linka: This is for Boris you monster! Go to Hell and stay there you son of a bitch!
She pulled the trigger.
LOUD BANG!
Linka blew Skumm's head right off his body and killed him instantly.
I fired a powerful energy blast and vaporized him.
Wheeler walked up to Linka and she cried hard and grieved for Boris. Wheeler comforted her.
Skumm's spirit appeared.
Wheeler (to Skuum's spirit): It's over for you, you filthy vermin. And Captain Pollution's next!
Nicole: And you will never poison our planet ever again!
Nicole sealed Skumm's spirit into the Book of Vile Darkness and I kept Skumm's Ring of Toxins as a trophy. Ed and Leni kept the statue of Po Kong.
Gi: (To the Viewers) This was an eventful Day for all of us.
Me: It sure was Gi.
THE END
Another Fanfiction complete
Part 5 is done. This chapter covered the effects of what garbage and Toxic Waste does to the oceans and the marine life. It's not pretty. Verminous Skumm was by far the worst enemy of them all and he killed Linka's cousin Boris indirectly in cold blood! He was a disgusting Bubonic Plague-ridden scum-sucking puss filled rodent! NicoChan11 gave me the ideas for this one. Thanks mans as always. Next up is Captain Planet's polar opposite and ultimate enemy: Captain Pollution! And that chapter is going to show us the effects of all forms of pollution in general. Let me know what you all think.
See you all next time