Based on the comic written by LOUISE SIMONSON (the creator of Marvel's POWER PACK!)
PROLOGUE:
IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE...
"An appealing idea," mused Vilgax the Conqueror. "Sending robots from one world to engage the heroes of another world."
"Our respective heroes have never faced these robots before," agreed Mojo Jojo. "They will be confused, intrigued; that is to say, they will be positively perplexed by this perilous predicament! And eager for battle! Willful warriors, wishing-"
"And if the heroes defeat our robots, thus proving their worthiness, they will be transported here." Mandark continued for the evil chimp.
"Where they will be TRAPPED... and in our power!" Aku added fiendishly as he joined the other villains. "And we, The League of Extraordinary Villains will use them to conquer their worlds! Is this plan perfect or WHAT?!" he then stepped away and cast some sort of vision in the palm of his hand. "As Aku, shape-shifting, Master of Darkness and prime progenitor of RoboWorld, the honor of first selection mine!" he then told them before he brought out a certain man that he had his eyes set on. "I choose Samurai Jack; a powerful master warrior! He and I have... history and we will take him first."
Samurai Jack was shown, eating some food and minding his own business, unaware that he was about to be set into a brand new adventure very soon.
"Mandark, our humble apprentice, you may choose a robot to face him!" Aku commanded the youngest villain in the room who was a school student, but evil with his genius. "I suggest THIS ONE." he then added, summoning a certain robot to go after the samurai.
"One of Computron's robots?" Mandark pondered. "Sure you don't want to send two? ...oh, well; since it's my 'decision'..." So he pressed the button and sent the Computron robot through via teleportation.
"DESTROY ALL FLESH!" The Computron robot threatened and soon... SHRAK-BOOM!
A laser was shot and soon the area surrounding Samurai Jack exploded. He soon saw the threat and went to face it head-on while stomping around and drawing out manacles to grab onto the warrior man.
"Jack... you must come with me..." A feminine voice called as some strange aura surrounded her and the aura blew into Jack's eyes, nearly making his eyes look like a black and white checkerboard.
Jack squeezed his eyes shut and shook his head as he looked at the woman again to get a better look at the source of the voice. She was a tall and curvaceous young woman with short black hair that was curled on the front and sides and had a blue-violet colored dress. "Honeydew...?" he then muttered as he seemed to recognize the woman now even though she just came out of nowhere.
"Jack, please save me, your one true love." The woman begged, speaking in a sultry and charming British accent.
Jack narrowed his eyes in determination and soon brought out his sword to jump up and slice at the manacles to free the woman and jumped on top of the Computron robot until something weird happened. "What...?" he then muttered and soon he was sent into a dark and evil lair instantly.
"Captured! You see how well my plan is working?" Aku grinned at his fellow villains. "Though I'm not sure where that woman came from."
"Me neither, must be some kinda glitch." Mandark shrugged.
"Aku!" exclaimed Jack.
"Leave it to Samurai Jack to state the obvious," sneered Aku. "Vilgax, the controls are now yours."
"That was no contest, Aku!" Vilgax retorted. "My candidate, Ben Tennyson, is up for a challenge."
"Shall I scry-" Aku began to offer.
"No, thank you, Aku. I prefer the monitor screen I designed," Vilgax explained as a brown-haired, green-eyed teen boy appeared on the screen next. "It will capture every detail as Ben 10 shreds your ultra-robots and for our enjoyment, will preserve it for multiple viewings." he then added as Mandark summoned robots for him next.
"You're only taking six of them?" Aku scoffed.
"I'm leaving your lesser bots behind, they seem a bit redundant." Vilgax clarified.
"You just keep telling yourself that, Vilgax~" Aku grinned. "Let's see if your candidate can prove himself worthy to join our little party! How many transformations will Ben 10 need to defeat my robots if he can defeat them? Six? Seven?" he then challenged.
"Though his Omnitrix contains thousands of possible the boy will use no more than two or three at most." Vilgax replied as the robots were sent down after Ben Tennyson.
However, Ben Tennyson appeared to be with a girl who looked like a punk girl of some sort. She had black hair with blonde highlights and had her ears and nose pierced and wore an orange top, with jean short shorts, a black jacket, brown converse, and her hair tied into a low ponytail.
"Oh, Ben, I just love hanging out together as boyfriend and girlfriend, just you and me." The girl grinned at him as they were sharing some food together.
"Me too, I guess, Ashlyn?" Ben replied as his eyes looked like a black and white checkerboard for a moment as well.
However, before anything else could happen, the other robots suddenly appeared to confront Ben.
"WE HAVE COME TO DESTROY YOU!" One of the robots announced.
"Hate to disappoint you..." Ben smirked as he slammed down the Omnitrix, becoming Ball Weevil. "...but it ain't happenin'!"
The robots fired on him, but they missed and shot each other, blasting themselves to pieces.
Ashlyn was also getting out of the way while she could.
"I can't believe you fell for that!" Ball Weevil mocked the robots at their own self-destruction. "Half of you are already fried!"
"Use another transformation, Ben." Ashlyn whispered to her alleged boyfriend.
"Sure, sure!" said Ben as he shifted into Astrodactyl. "Still want a piece of this?" As the robots attacked again, Astrodactyl flew upwards and dodged. "Well, it's your choice!" he squawked before he unleashed his energy whips from his wrists.
The robots seemed to not really fight back as they just put up with Astrodactyl using his unique powers.
"Astrodactyl has STAR POWER! And he knows how to use it! What I want to know is!" he then continued with a big WHAM! until he restored back to himself before he faced Ashlyn curiously as he went back to his true human form. "Who were those guys and-" he then began to ask.
Ashlyn grinned at him until she suddenly made him stand on a certain spot that transported him away from where they just were and he was soon in a tube along with Samurai Jack in a whole other room.
"Hey, what's going on? Where am I?" Ben asked once he saw where he was, then saw the warrior man next to him. "Who are-" he then began to ask.
"Ask them." Jack interrupted and suggested.
"I believe I can answer your questions in due time..." Vilgax stated as he came to see Ben.
"Really, Vilgax?" Ben scoffed. "These robots were the best you could do?"
"They were Aku's robots, not mine!" Vilgax snapped.
"They brought you here to be trapped like a bug in a jar, didn't they?" Aku retorted.
"Now, Apprentice Mandark, it is your turn," Vilgax soon said to the youngest villain in the room. "Why don't you choose the lesser ultra-robots for this challenge. After all, this boy Dexter has no powers beyond his superior intellect."
"I wanted to send the little girl robot after him," Mandark scoffed and snorted. "That would have been worth watching. Dexter will eat those two for breakfast," he then added. "Even though he's not nearly the genius I am, still; if you insist!" he then added before sending the robots after his greatest enemy.
"Done! My uber-generator!" Dexter exclaimed in excitement and anticipation. "My greatest invention ever is nearly-"
KERSMASH!
"There goes my iiiiiidiot sister, breaking things as usual!" Dexter snarled once he heard the sound. "DEE DEE! I told you to stay out of my room-" he then began to yell until he saw that it was not his sister, but it was robots sent after him like Ben and Jack. "Uh-oh."
"Look out, Dexter!" A redheaded girl with a pink dress and giant pink eyes and a bow on her head warned the redheaded, bespectacled boy. "These robots were sent to disrupt your newest and greatest experiment!"
"That is curious," Dexter commented as he watched her go, before leaping out of the way to avoid further energy blasts. "But who would do such a thing? A great enemy..." he muttered as he plugged in some jumper cables. "...who envies my inventiveness... and wants me DEAD!"
"Someone evil no doubt," Blossom replied. "Now let's help these robots prepare to get yeeted!"
"Did you just say 'yeeted'...? What on Earth is this-" Dexter wondered until his eyes were checkerboards next. "I mean... yes, Blossom, I agree," he then said as he was blind to her suggestions now. "Someone who is about to get his robot FRIED!" he then added as he the cables to electrocute the robots instantly.
And so, the robots began to face their defeat like many before them with Ben and Jack.
"I can't wait to tell Mandark that his robots were an-" Dexter scoffed until he was now trapped as well. "Epic fail?"
"Oh, I wouldn't go that far!" Mandark smirked at his rival.
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to the gym to watch Mike Mazinsky do push-ups and pull-ups with her shirt off." Blossom said before flying away, but she sounded a lot different than she usually sounded and almost like a stuffed-up pollywog from another dimension.
"That doesn't sound right..." Dexter remarked. "In fact, this is seeming more unusual as things go on!"
"Uh, who or what are all of you?" Ben asked out of confusion once they faced the villains.
"Mandark, what are you doing here?" Dexter demanded, glaring at his rival in annoyance.
"Wherever here is." Jack remarked as the villains glowered at their adversaries.
"Your question should be what are you doing here, Dexter?" Mandark countered smugly. "The ANSWER is you're here to help us CONQUER THE UNIVERSE. And now for the last... and least! Except in verbosity!" he then added as he came beside the chimp in the room. "Here, Banana-for-Brains. The controls are yours!"
Mojo looked infuriated at that. "My name is Mojo Jojo and as much as I am a genius as you are! More genius! And smart! And The Powerpuff Girls except for that cheap knock-off sent to the boy genius you despise, for they might be small, young, in fact, little girls, but THEY PACK A MIGHTY PUNCH!" he then retorted and defended as he pounded a button. "Powers that powerful and potent! They will knock this Computron's minion's mighty metal butt when HE arrives in the city of Townsville."
The Powerpuff Girls were shown to be minding their own business on the playground. Blossom was standing around, Buttercup was about to go down the slide, and Bubbles was on the swing as it happened.
"DESTROY ALL FLESH AND THE WORKS OF FLESH." The robot demanded as it came to confront the girls.
"Bubbles! Buttercup! Move!" Blossom instructed.
"Good call, Blossom!" Buttercup exclaimed as she and Blossom flew out of the way, but Bubbles was knocked aside.
"BUBBLES!" Blossom cried out in concern.
Bubbles soon got back up right away as she flew to join her sisters in the air. "I'm okay, but we're flesh!" she then reminded her sisters.
"So's everyone in Townsville." Blossom realized.
"Let's teach this robot some manners!" Buttercup suggested, sounding a bit dark and aggressive.
The robot soon began to stomp toward the girls as yet another checkerboard aura flashed around the girls.
"It's moving on a roller-ball!" Blossom realized.
"Don't worry, we're going to help you." A voice said from behind.
The Powerpuff Girls turned around to see three other, yet older, superhero girls who appeared to be preteens. One girl had black hair with a red violet stripe concealed by a green and black mask along with a green and black outfit with boots and gloves, another girl had blonde pigtails almost like Bubbles' own and she wore a pink mask with a pink bodysuit, yellow gloves and yellow boots along with a white cape, and the final girl had short red hair and wore a blue mask in a blue bodysuit with matching blue boots and gloves, a red cape, and had the initials "AG" as a chest emblem.
"Wow! It's The Cartoon Girls, the most awesome and amazing superheroes of Cartoon Network City!" Buttercup pointed out.
"They're just like us, but better, right Blossom?" Bubbles added before looking over at her leader sister. "Blossom? Blossom!"
Blossom appeared to have heart eyes around Action Girl and sighed dreamily as she envisioned many fantasies about the two of them together being the perfect couple.
"Hey there, Blossom." Action Girl greeted the leader of the Powerpuff Girls.
"Oh, hi there, Action Girl," Blossom greeted in return while blushing. "Nice to meet a fellow leader such as yourself."
"I know," Action Girl smirked. "Say, why don't you try using some ice breath on that robot before Diva Dynamite does it for you?" she then suggested. "Cuz ya know, Diva Dynamite and Winter Knight from The Cartoon Boys both have that ability."
"Yeah! Freeze Breath! That'll stop it!" Blossom agreed before she used that against the invading robot, getting it instantly. "Yes!" she then cheered for herself.
Suddenly, the robot's center began to spark and glow.
"There's a weapon in its chest! It's so huge!" exclaimed Bubbles. "How can we stop it?"
"Simple! We flatten it!" called Action Girl as she rushed to start pushing the robot from the back.
"YEAH!" Monster Girl and Diva Dynamite cheered as they joined Action Girl.
"Wow, I wanna be Action Girl's sidekick someday." Buttercup said to herself.
"Wow, I wanna be Action Girl's girlfriend someday." Blossom said to herself.
"Wow, I wanna be a stuffed animal veterinarian like Doc McStuffins someday." Bubbles said to herself.
Soon, The Cartoon Girls roamed in to take down the robot and soon it blew up, leaving victory for The Powerpuff Girls (sort of).
"We did it!" Buttercup beamed as she hugged Blossom.
"Ice Breath and The Cartoon Girls rule!" Blossom agreed.
"That sort of seemed too easy." Bubbles commented.
"Don't worry, fellow Joy and Laughter, it's not like nothing bad is gonna happen to you." Diva Dynamite said with an angry gaze in her eyes and she seemed to have a fanged grin.
"Ice breath? It was my strength that toppled it!" Buttercup remarked, as the other Cartoon Girls began to surround them.
"But Action Girl stopped it first!" remarked Blossom.
"It was weird," commented Bubbles. "We hardly needed to use any of—"
ZZZAP!
Suddenly, the Powerpuffs were zapped into the containment tubes.
"...our powers." finished Bubbles.
"Where are we?" Buttercup wondered.
"What's going on?" Bubbles added.
"Bubbles!" Blossom exclaimed in concern.
"I TOLD YOU! Small but powerful!" Mojo grinned at his fellow villains as the Powerpuff Girls were captured. "Big things come in little packages!"
"Mojo Jojo, what have you done?" Bubbles asked the evil chimp who glowed in pride at his victory.
"You heroes have been captured!" Aku taunted. "Let us drink to the success of our shared venture! Bring Minotonian Sake!"
"Carpaxian wine from MY private stores!" Vilgax added as his own personal preference.
All at once, both villains' groups of robot slaves brought forth their masters' requested beverages.
"YES, MASTER OF DARKNESS! COMING, DEMON LORD!" exclaimed the oily-black robots. "IT IS OUR HONOR TO ASSUAGE YOUR THIRST!"
"INSTANTLY, LORD VILGAX; AS YOU DESIRE!" droned the Vilgax Robots. "YOUR WISH IS OUR COMMAND!"
But as they approached, they crashed into each other.
"OUT OF MY WAY!/MOVE!/OUR MASTER COMMANDS US!/YOU'LL MAKE ME SPILL!/OW!/OUCH!"
The resulting commotion caused one of Aku's robots to spill a bottle of Minotonian Sake all over the control panels, which made them spark wildly. In a haze of electronic energy, the group of robot servants, along with one last robot, the DYNAMO, suddenly vanished!
"Dark Forces!" exclaimed Mandark. "Do you see that?!"
However, Aku and Vilgax were too busy arguing.
"Aku! Control your servants!" spat Vilgax.
"You're one to talk!" retorted Aku.
"Masters—and I so hate calling you that—we have a larger problem!" exclaimed Mandark.
"It would appear that the Dynamic Nanotechtronic Monobot—more commonly known as DYNAMO—is MISSING!" exclaimed Mojo. "Not to mention, several of your faithful robot servants!"
Within seconds, Mojo was situated over a control panel. "The DYNAMO went somewhere... but where?! I MUST find it!" And so, he started feverishly typing away at the keys, until a visual came up onscreen. "I need to accurately triangulate its current area of residence... There!"
The visual was of a suburban town in Georgia where three familiar middle-schoolers were walking down the street.
"The last jawbreaker." sighed the yellow-skinned boy.
"Who are they?" asked Mandark.
"I am not certain, but the computers are picking up strange cosmic energies from them," replied Mojo. "In fact, one would almost be able to identify these energies as... amphibious in origin..."
"Amphibious?" Mandark asked. "You mean like frogs or something?"
"Something like that, yes." Mojo nodded.
Soon, Dynamo came right into the cul-de-sac in the town of Peach Creek to confront the three young boys.
"What the heck is that?" Double D wondered.
"Uh... a giant little robot girl?" Ed shrugged.
Dynamo snarled and shot laser eyes right in front of them, but luckily not singing any of them.
"RUN!" Eddy commanded.
"Then what?!" Double D replied. "We need to figure out how to turn that monster into scrap metal!" he then reminded Eddy as they ran away for the time being.
"Scrap metal!" Eddy realized as that gave him an idea. "If we can trash this thing, we can sell it for scrap! We'll be in jawbreakers for the rest of our lives!" he then told the other two.
The Eds soon ran right for the junkyard as a trio of girls watched them just as another trio of girls was on the way down the street.
"Gosh, you guys, I feel like I haven't seen Ed all day today," Candy said to Angelica and Kimiko. "What do you think they're up to?"
"Hopefully no trouble, they've learned better recently about doing right and wrong thanks to us... though most of the time since Eddy can be a handful." Angelica remarked.
"Well, either way, I'm sure Double D can talk them through it," Kimiko advised. "I know Double D better than anyone after all."
"Okay, there they are! GET THEM!" The pigtailed girl in red told the other two girls who looked a lot like The Cartoon Girls.
The other two girls jumped down and suddenly surrounded Angelica, Candy, and Kimiko as the Eds escaped into the junkyard.
"We'll lure it under the magnetic crane... the one that crushes cars!" Double D explained as he pointed to the crane in question. "And then we'll get the operator to drop the magnet on its head, so that the magnetism will scramble its programming!" Unfortunately, the crane operator wasn't too willing to stick around, and he kicked his door open and made a break for it. "I'm outta here!" he yelled in fright.
"Can you believe that guy? Sheesh! On to Plan B," Eddy scoffed as he faced his friends. "Ed, keep running! The robot will chase you!" he then commanded his tall and slow-witted friend.
"Okay, but-" Ed began to say.
"Edd! You're the brain," Eddy then said to his intelligent friend. "Figure out how to work that crane!"
"What'll YOU be doing, Eddy?" Double D wondered.
"Whatya think, Double D? I'm a born leader, I lead!" Eddy grinned smugly.
"Right," Double D said, going into the crane and taking complete control of it in no time. "Figured the controls out! Get Ed to run back this way." he then suggested.
"Ed, come over here!" Eddy called out as Ed soon ran to avoid the robot's laser eyes.
Dynamo began to get closer and closer as Mike, June, and Dee Dee entered the junkyard.
"There they are, girls, The Ed Boys," Mike told them as she brought out what looked like a notebook that had the initials CN on the front cover. "Now, we should convince them to listen to us like we were always here just like with the others so that our leader can join Aku's League of Extraordinary Villains."
"Okey-dokey, Nika!" Dee Dee replied and saluted.
"You know that's not my name." Mike glared at her.
"I do?" Dee Dee asked, sounding a lot dumber than Dee Dee would usually sound. "Then who am I?"
"JUST GET IN THERE, STUPID!" June glared as she shoved Dee Dee to go after Ed. "Man, why do we hang around her?" she then groused.
"Beats the crap outta me," Mike shrugged before smirking. "Now, it should work out, though I hear this version of the Eds have very different abilities than we might be used to, but no matter. Those boys can't say no to a pretty girl~" she then added before batting her eyelashes and trying to look sexy and innocent at the same time.
"Eddy! Watch and tell me when to drop the magnet!" shouted Double D.
Eddy watched as Ed continued approaching, with DYNAMO in hot pursuit, and firing laser vision at him. "DROP IT, NOW!"
Double-D lowered the magnet, and immobilized DYNAMO in place.
"Aw, yeah! We did it!" laughed Eddy. "We came, we saw, we kicked ro-butt!"
"And we didn't even need our powers!" Ed agreed.
"What?! They solved a problem without their superpowers?!" Mike complained. "That's not how it usually goes!"
"At least not in this universe." June shrugged.
"Hey, who are you girls supposed to be?" Ed asked once he saw Mike, June, and Dee Dee.
"Oh, silly Ed, don't you remember?" June replied. "We're your girlfriends. I'm Double D's girlfriend, Juniper Lee."
"And I'm Eddy's girlfriend, Mike Mazinsky," Mike added as she batted her eyelashes at Eddy with a grin. "Hey, you wanna go pick on that ShovelChin Kevin Barr?" she then asked.
"Barr? As in Kathleen Barr?" Ed asked, scratching his head. "I thought we established that Kevin's last name was Rockatansky?"
"Yeah, well, I hear that his middle name is Mary and we should get revenge on him for making fun of your middle name being Skipper." Mike then said to Eddy.
"Look, Ed! I found a birdy!" Dee Dee added as she brought out a random turtle. "It's not hatched out of its egg yet."
The Eds blinked at the girls and backed away.
"Excuse us a moment, ladies, this won't take long," Double D told them before facing the other Eds. "Okay, this is not right. We're dating Candy, Kimiko, and Angelica. These girls just came out of nowhere and they keep saying facts that aren't true in our lives." he then said to Ed and Eddy out of suspicion.
"It's like we got trapped some kinda virtual simulation," replied Ed. "...with really inaccurate info."
"In other words, something weird's going on, and I mean weirder than usual." chimed in Eddy.
"Also you guys didn't use your ninja skills, fire-bending, or ice-bending!" Dee Dee suddenly said.
The Eds then turned sharply back at the three girls.
"We ain't got those kinda powers." Eddy glared.
"All right, explain yourselves!" Double D demanded. "What is the meaning of this?!"
"You were supposed to give them the Checkered Past powder." Mike reminded Dee Dee with clenched teeth.
"Oops..." Dee Dee said as she looked in a jar that had a black and white checkerboard label, though the jar was clearly empty. "A bunch of air got inside the jar, girls." she then said to June and Mike, sounding very lethally stupid, causing Mike and June to growl and face-palm at her in annoyance.
"What is that?" Ed demanded, coming over to the girls.
"They're onto us! PLAN B!" Mike suddenly yelled out.
Suddenly, the three were transported away from the junkyard and into the tubes that everyone else had come in.
"No powers, no Omnitrix, no magic sword, just ordinary beings!" Vilgax remarked with a scoff.
"With the intellectual capacity of fleas." Mandark snarked.
"Wait for it." Mojo advised them.
"Who you callin' fleas?" snapped Eddy.
"Not the super-powered heroes who are the templates for our army, but we might as well conquer THEIR world, too," shrugged Aku.
"Judging by their level of technology, it should take about five minutes," scoffed Vilgax.
"What th' heck are these guys talkin' about?" asked Ed.
"Whaddya mean, 'conquer our world'?" remarked Eddy.
"Where exactly are we?" inquired Double D. "And who are you, anyway?"
"Step One is complete," said Aku as he poured himself a cup of sake. "The heroes are captured, and soon their worlds will be ours!"
"A toast to the League of Extraordinary Villains!" Vilgax agreed as the two baddies clinked glasses and took a drink.
"Several of our robot servants are missing," Mandark informed Mojo. "Should we even bother to trace them?"
"It could be interesting, vital, valuable, essential, not to mention IMPORTANT!" replied Mojo.
Things began to look very grim for the heroes involved as they were trapped by their most notorious villains.
Everybody just knew that in this situation that things were going to get worse before they get better. However, there was a lot more to tell, especially with a few other batch of characters who would seem unexpected, but not unwelcome.
"What're you talking about?" Cherry glared at the fourth wall and gestured to herself. "I'm here pretty much all the time."
"I don't think that's what they meant, Cherry." Lionel remarked, joining her side.
"Hmm..." Cherry shrugged and rolled her eyes before they were suddenly placed in New York City as cars were zooming all over the place. "Oh, right, like people remember Sheep in the Big City." she then shrugged.
Actually, this was not Sheep in the Big City, this was something else entirely as Cherry Butler and Lionel Schwartz began to have an adventure all their own while in their own universe known as Perkyverse Prime.
"So, what exactly are we doing here again?" asked Lionel. "Refresh my memory, for the sake of the people reading this."
"Uh, let me think..." Cherry paused and held her head for a moment. "I remember it like it was yesterday."
"Was it even yesterday?" Lionel asked.
"Let's just say for the sake of argument, yes," Cherry shrugged as she tried to trigger a flashback. "Now then..."
One day in Greendale, Cherry was lying around the house, looking a bit exhausted. "Ugh, I'm exhausted of this town when I don't have new adventures for a while," she then sighed. "I need to get out of the house and go visit someone or somewhere, but I don't know where I would go."
"Worst part about having lots of options is that there are too many to pick from," replied Lionel as he popped into the room. "I guess we could choose at random, like throwing a dart at a location on a map with our eyes closed."
"I guess, anything to stop the monotony." Cherry shrugged.
Lionel then helped Cherry up to her feet since it was usually hard for her to stand up on her own after lying down so long.
Cherry then put up a map of the world and put on a blindfold. "Okay, ladies first." she then suggested.
"Oh-kay!" Lionel replied as he conjured a dart and placed it in her hand, before he took Cherry by the shoulders and spun her around four times, then let her go freely.
"Gah!" Cherry yelped before she let go of the dart suddenly as it went flying in the air.
Lionel then got out of the way and helped Cherry to sit down since that was a bit sudden. The air soon landed on a nearby map and ended up in the state of New York.
"New York... what a novel concept..." Cherry commented as she put her hands together. "Home of The Plaza Hotel, The Statue of Liberty, and based on what I've heard from rumors, the best pizza."
"Sweet!" Lionel exclaimed. "Sounds like pretty solid reasons to go visit!"
"Well, all right then, let's take a vacation to New York City then." Cherry decided.
And so, there were a travel montage of getting ready to go and saying goodbye to everyone else.
"Wow! Can I come?" Atticus asked. "I heard stories."
"Oh, gee, uh, I dunno..." Cherry said to him with a shrug. "This was kind of mostly Lionel's idea."
"Yep," nodded Lionel. "It was."
"Oh, so just you guys are going?" Atticus asked.
"Yeah, but we'll be back," Cherry reminded him. "It's not like we're gone forever."
"Yeah, I guess I'll find someway to keep busy," Atticus shrugged. "Like those times I met a different Hercules and the other Thor."
Lionel looked blank for a moment until Cherry showed him her scrapbook of those adventures, showing different Hercules from the one Cherry and Atticus both knew and the Norse God Thor from when Odin sent him down to Earth after Loki went to spread his usual mischief and chaos. "Ohhhh..." he then commented, grateful for the clarification.
"So yeah, we'll get going and we'll call you-" Cherry began to say.
Suddenly, there was a bunch of fast forwarding and before Cherry and Lionel knew it, they had taken a cab away from Greendale and straight to New York City and they were there.
"Later?" Cherry finished before she blinked and looked around. "Whoa, that was weird... Lionel, did you use your Bat-Mite remote to fast-forward or something?" she then asked.
"I normally do that if you have a bunch of chores to do or a dentist appointment, so... I dunno, time flies when you're having fun?" Lionel shrugged.
"I dunno, that was odd." Cherry replied.
"Did you say Og?" A voice beside them asked.
"No, I said it was odd," Cherry said before facing Mike Mazinsky in her usual pigtails, but wore a red-hooded jacket along with a skirt who had asked the question. "My good friend and I here came on vacation."
"Well, that sounds good at least," Mike shrugged before she smirked, standing beside a couple of other kids who also wore jackets that were blue and green. "Welcome to Manhattan, my hometown after being away for nearly a year."
"Uh, okay, thanks for that." replied Lionel.
"This place is so massive... so overstuffed..." remarked the one in the green jacket. "In short? It's perfect for a princess like myself~!"
"It brings back the memories of when you tried to bring that giant boat filled with American natives and one tried to keep me as a pet or when you tried to turn the island into a giant apartment building." The other kid said to the redheaded one known as Mike.
"Yeah, it's a whole other island away from your sandbox," Mike nodded at them as she put her hands in her pockets as two figures began to sneak around behind the shadows. "Let's see, I think it's time to look for-" she then began to say.
Some black and white aura soon lingered into the air, about to head for the three younger kids as Cherry and Lionel wondered where to go.
"...Jen and Jamie," Mike suddenly said, almost like she had no choice but to say that. "My big brother and sister."
"That's weird, you never mentioned a big brother and sister to us before." The boy said to Mike.
"Well, whoever they are, they better bring a warm welcome to a native island princess when they see one." The girl scoffed and crossed her arms impatiently.
"Don't break a nail, Princess, Jen and Jamie are cool," Mike told them. "We just gotta head to The Eyrie Building: the tallest building in New York City." she then instructed.
"I thought that was the Empire State Building?" Lionel pondered. "Then again, I might be remembering that detail wrong."
"You're telling me." Cherry agreed.
"So, I guess we should get to know each other better," Mike soon said as she smiled and waved. "Hi, I'm Mike and I came from an island of my own last year."
"It was my island." The girl reminded Mike firmly.
"This is Lu." Mike then said wearily.
"Princess Lu." The girl added sternly.
"Yeah, more like Princess Pain in the Butt if you ask me," Mike muttered at that before she then showed the boy at her other side. "And this kid is Og. Don't let the nose ring fool you, he's actually a pretty cool dude."
"Hi." Og responded in a raspy voice.
"I'm Cherry," said Cherry. "And this is my boyfriend, Lionel."
"How's it going?" Lionel waved.
"Oh, it's going great, we just need to meet my big brother and sister to take us home," Mike replied. "See, I was an exchange student at Lu and Og's home and it was time for me to come back home to where I really belong."
"We were gonna miss Mike a lot since she brought a lot to the island," Og added softly. "I was gonna miss her a lot."
"And I just came because any noble princess respects all of her subjects, no matter how controversial, though not as bad as the Cuzzlewitz," Lu added as she crossed her arms. "Mike, can we go see this Plaza Hotel you told us about? I hear the Plaza Hotel is the only hotel in New York that will allow you to have a turtle." she then complained.
"I'm not sure who told you that, but we'll see what we can do, Princess." Mike shrugged at Lu.
Eventually, a taxi cab rode up beside them and out came two figures. The first one was a teenage girl with long auburn hair and icy blue eyes and she wore an azure hoodie and a white skirt with an indigo stripe running down the side and wore dark blue socks and white sneakers with indigo soles. The second one appeared to be a young man who wore a blue hat with black hair underneath, wearing a green sweatshirt, with a black leather jacket as well as fitting slim blue jeans, and black shoes with white laces and detail on them.
"Jen! Jamie!" Mike beamed as she ran up to the two.
"Mike, what's up?" Jamie grinned.
"Long time no see, baby sister." Jen added.
"...does something seem a bit off-beat to you?" Lionel asked after a brief moment of silence and shaking his head.
"Yeah... I can't think of it, but something definitely seems weird here." Cherry commented.
"I think I know what you guys mean." Og piped up.
"You do?" Cherry and Lionel asked him together before smirking as they jinxed each other, but they ignored it for now since this seemed more important than childhood playground rules.
"Yeah," Og replied as he fiddled with his nose ring which he often did when he was thinking. "Mike never mentioned having an older brother and sister before... what do you think, Lu?" he then asked his cousin.
"I dunno, Og, but I think Mike's brother is so cute and would be a perfect Prince Charming for me~" Lu gushed and blushed at the sight of Jamie.
"...okay, she won't be much help," commented Lionel. "Anyhoo, we'll need to try and figure out if there are any other... anomalies."
"I can't put my finger on it right now, but something's really weird." Og remarked.
"So, this must be the famous Lu and Og we've heard so much about from Mike's letters and the time she was able to call us on the phone during Mike's friendship with Hermione Cuzzlewitz." Jamie said, sounding strangely full of exposition, as he observed Lu and Og.
"Really nice to meet both of you," Jen added. "You guys wanna come inside our building?" she then asked.
"Well, all right." Lu and Og replied.
"Of course," Jen nodded before facing Cherry and Lionel. "And how about you two?" she then offered.
"Yeah, I guess." Cherry shrugged at that.
"Sure," nodded Lionel. "Lead the way."
And so, Jen and Jamie obliged as they took their guests into the tallest building in the world that somehow wasn't the Empire State Building.
"There's really something weird going on here, I just can't put my finger on it." Og said to himself.
"We know what you mean, Og, even we don't know Mike or this place like you do." Cherry commented.
"Just relax, you guys, and enjoy the vacation," Mike said. "In fact, this reminds me of a song."
"It reminds me of a song too," Cherry agreed before glaring at the fourth wall. "But I got interrupted and tuned out by my own musical number even though some others decide they wanna sing on their own and if I instigate it, it's random." she then complained, seemingly to no one.
"...what sort of song?" Lionel asked.
"It's a wonderful song. I think you're familiar with it," Cherry replied before she started to hum a little tune. "Da da da da da! Da da da da da! Da da da da da! Da!~"
A spotlight then suddenly came down on Cherry and Mike as they started a musical sequence.
"Start spreadin' the news, I'm leaving today!~" Cherry started to sing as she danced a bit. "We are a great big part of it~"
"New York~" Mike added.
"Neeeew Yooooork~" Both girls then started together until a record needle scratch was heard.
"Okay, come on, we don't have all day." Jen suddenly said as she began to push Mike, Lu, and Og into the building after Jamie.
Cherry and Lionel shrugged at that and soon went in after the family to see the building up close and it was very unique and highly decroative.