A very unique story was about to begin in a certain school with certain people. It was Endsville which wasn't too far away from where the Schwartz family lived. Currently, it was a school day and a lesson was to be learned to the young students inside said school to learn from the "proper guidance" of their teacher to "nourish their young minds and souls for the future". Or so you would think...
"And that children, is why you should never go back to your high school ex-boyfriend when you go to your 20th reunion without a disguise." Ms. Buttebean soon said to her students in a very dry, cynical tone of voice.
"Ms. Butterbean, uh, yo, what's this have to do with The Declaration of Independence?" Irwin asked as he raised his hand.
"I think you know why..." Ms. Butterbean muttered before there was a knock on the door of her classroom. "Oh, what is it now?" she then complained.
"Pardon me, Ms. Butterbean, but the children's pen pals have a delivery for them from the teacher's lounge." Principal Goodvibes said as he came into the classroom suddenly with a wheelbarrow full of envelopes to deliver to the students inside the classroom.
"Eh, whatever," Ms. Butterbean shrugged. "Do whatever you want, I don't care."
"Erm, yes... right then..." Principal Goodvibes nodded as he went to see the students, giving them their individual letters. "Here you go, kids."
Ms. Butterbean soon leaned back in her chair and seemed to take a nap while her students did their activity.
"Let's just get this over with." Mandy grumbled.
"Ooh! Mandy! If you get a coupon for Bloaty's Pizza Hog, can I go too?" Billy's ghost asked hopefully as he randomly appeared on her shoulder. "Huh? Let's have fun just like we used to before Grim became our best friends forever and you lost him to LJ Schwartz and his friends you don't like."
"QUIET, BILLY!" Mandy hissed, though the other students stared at her since they couldn't see Billy's ghost like she could before she glared at all of them. "WHAT?!" she then snapped. "MIND YOUR BUSINESS, YOU BRAINLESS DRONES!"
"I think Mandy's totally flipped." muttered Sperg.
"It was going to happen sooner or later." Mindy commented in response.
Mandy narrowed her eyes dangerously before she picked up her letter.
Nergal Jr checked his letter and smiled. "Gaz." he then said before his tendrils popped out and opened the envelope for him.
"Ya hear that, Mandy? Junior's got gas!" Billy's ghost giggled as he continued to harass her. "My dad says if you drink orange juice first thing in the morning it gives ya the poots!"
"Billy, for ONCE IN YOUR AFTERLIFE, SHUT UP ALREADY!" Mandy yelled, her eyes bloodshot.
"...somebody didn't get their full 10 hours of sleep~!" Billy's ghost giggled dumbly.
"RAUGH!" Mandy yelled out.
"My, my, Ms. Butterbean, your students seem stressed out." Principal Goodvibes remarked.
"They go to a public school in a shithole town where crazy stuff has happened ever since Billy and Mandy said they became best friends with The Grim Reaper over summer vacation." Ms. Butterbean reminded him rather cynically.
"Well, I think your class deserves a special field trip," Principal Goodvibes suggested with a small smile. "Get out of this town for a little while and have an adventure somewhere else."
Ms. Butterbean rolled her eyes as she drank her coffee full of booze. "Splendid, where would they even go?" she asked flatly.
"Well, perhaps somewhere different and exotic!" Principal Goodvibes replied. "Like Rough City."
"We're their rivals." Ms. Butterbean glared.
"Oh, uh, Peach Creek?" Principal Goodvibes then suggested.
"Kids run the town, I think adults are extinct." Ms. Butterbean rolled her eyes before going to take another sip of her drink.
"Vasquez Valley?" Principal Goodvibes then asked.
Ms. Butterbean looked wide-eyed and did a massive spit take right in his face. "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!" she then shrieked like she was just emotionally scarred for life.
"Vasquez Valley." stated Principal Goodvibes.
Ms. Butterbean gasped and hyperventilated before looking at him while twitching violently. "How about South Park?! I'll totally take South Park over this!" she then begged as she grabbed his shoulders and shook him.
"I think some school called Clamburg or whatever is going there at some point," Principal Goodvibes shrugged before looking into the fourth wall. "That is, if people wanna see that crossover concept in the future." he then added.
Ms. Butterbean groaned in agony as she sank to her knees.
"Vasquez Valley, huh?" Nergal Jr asked.
"Yes, I'll put in a fund for you all to go on a class trip there!" Principal Goodvibes suggested. "You know it, right?"
"That's where my pen pal Gaz lives," Nergal Jr said before giving a small smile. "I think that trip will turn out nicely."
"Ugh, not that place," Ms. Butterbean groaned to herself. "After I graduated from there, I made a vow to myself to never go there ever again and see that terrible teacher who crushed my spirit and ruined my life when I was a sweet and innocent little girl who believed in the power of rainbows and the joy of friendship."
"...that was you?" Pud'n asked in disbelief.
"Why are you behind my desk?" asked Ms. Butterbean.
"I saw a ladybug and got scared." Pud'n replied.
Ms. Butterbean groaned and rolled her eyes at that.
"I guess a visit to Gaz will be nice for me," Nergal Jr said to himself. "Guess I'll tell LJ and Zofia if they already have something going on since I know that Dib and Gaz have had some personal time to themselves recently."
"Quit talkin' to yourself, nerd!" Sperg glared as he threw an apple at the young Nergling's head.
Nergal Jr glared back darkly, but soon had a tendril pop out from his back and catch the apple before eating it and grinning at the bully in an Audrey II fashion.
"AAAAAAAAAH!" Sperg screamed and soon ran out of his desk, freaking out at that.
"Vasquez Valley, huh?" Mandy commented to herself. "I think that's where that Dib Membrane kid keeps talking about an alien invader that ruined his life for what felt like an eternity."
"Oooooh~! Aliens!" Billy gushed. "Like the kind that eat'cher brains? The kind that probe around inside ya?"
"SHUT UP, BILLY!" Mandy snapped.
The others then looked at Mandy like she was going crazy again. Billy just giggled as he circled around Mandy's head.
"Maybe if there is an alien, I could trick him into letting me work with him and then I'll be the one who can dominate the Earth just like I've wanted since I was a baby," Mandy said to herself darkly. "That'll show that annoying LJ Schwartz and him making it his personal mission to humiliate me because he thinks he's above me."
"Bummer, Mandy," Irwin said with a shrug. "Some people just can't let things go."
The kids of Endsville soon began to prepare themselves for what was to come for their journey into Vasquez Valley for a field trip, much to the annoyance of Ms. Butterbean.
"Well, at least this way I can spend some more time with Gaz and we can make sure nothing goes wrong." Nergal Jr said to himself before blushing a little.
"Whatever!" Sperg retorted. "I just want some new nerds to beat the crud out of!"
Nergal Jr narrowed his eyes before rolling them. "At least I'll get away from the madness of Endsville for a while." he then said to himself.
"Good luck with that, Son of Nergal," Mandy huffed. "That title is just gonna mark you for life while I will finally able to achieve my lifelong dream since in the womb of global conquest and I will use this alien to aid me since we have the same goal."
"...uh-huh." Junior shrugged, not really listening.
Mandy glared at him. "You'll see... you'll see what happens on this field trip," she then retorted bitterly. "I will have my revenge on LJ, one way or another, even if it involves an alien invasion."
"Oooooh! Do they need cheese to power their war machines?" Billy suddenly asked Mandy. "I heard that aliens wanna take everyone's cheese off of Earth cuz they found out that cheese is the most powerful substance in the galaxy after the defeat of The Broccoloids."
"Shut up, Billy." Mandy demanded.
"Okay." Billy replied oafishly.
"Someday, LJ Schwartz, you, your family, everyone else, will pay for trying to defy me," Mandy proclaimed as she pounded her fist into her hand. "This. I. SWEAR."
LATER...
"So, Nergal Jr's going to a place called Vasquez Valley and you kids wanna join him and the field trip?" Cherry asked LJ and Zofia.
"It would give us something to do as a brand new adventure." Zofia shrugged.
"Sure, I guess we could go visit him." replied LJ.
"Well, if you really want to, I don't see any reason why you can't go along," Cherry replied. "After all, I think you'll be needed there more than you think if my mother intuition is telling me anything."
"Alrighty, we'll tag along," nodded LJ. "I'll go grab some things and get packed."
"Same." Zofia added.
"All right, kids," Cherry said with a small smile before she smirked. "As long as you remember to eat your vegetables."
"Yes, Mom." The kids responded.
"Good," Cherry nodded. "Now eat up and get ready for your trip."
LJ and Zofia agreed and ate their food while David buried his face in his bowl of mush.
Later that night, luggage was packed and the kids were fast asleep, as Cherry and Lionel were also on their way to bed.
"Is this really what it's like?" Cherry wondered to Lionel. "Letting your kids go off on adventures like when I was younger while my parents waited for me back home?"
"More or less, I guess." Lionel replied.
"Well, let's hope they have a good journey," Cherry said. "I don't doubt an adventure will get involved though."
"Do you wanna go with the kids to make sure they're okay?" Lionel guessed.
"Yeah, kinda," Cherry admitted. "I don't mean to worry so much, but... I try very hard to be a good mother."
"I know, and you're doing such a great job." replied Lionel.
"You really think so, Lionel?" Cherry asked softly.
"I know so, especially cuz I've been seeing it." Lionel explained.
"Well, all right, if you really believe in me enough to help me believe in myself," Cherry told Lionel with a small smile. "I guess I can go back to sleep now without too much worry."
"Here's hoping, then." replied Lionel as they went back to their bedroom.
Cherry nodded as she followed Lionel into their bedroom and they soon went to get some sleep.
"Well, Barry, we're up for a brand new adventure, let's hope it's a good one." LJ said as he climbed into his bed to get some sleep as his Puppy-Cat went fast asleep.
"Good night, LJ," Barry smiled sleepily as his left leg twitched with his tail. "I'm gonna chase Hunter and Ivy de Vil like when we met the Fluppy Dogs."
"Night, buddy." smiled LJ as he dozed off.
Soon, the two fell into a deep sleep as did everyone else in the Schwartz household and everyone else in their neighborhood of Greendale. However, deep in the realm of dreams, something was about to happen.
Meanwhile, in another world in this crossover universe that had many, many, many adventures from other worlds and not just the Earth they knew and loved, there was a strike in the land of Equestria in a place known as Silver Shoals where the former Princesses of the Sun and Moon, Celestia and Luna, the daughters of the old Queen Majesty and King Solaris, were heading to sleep, though Luna was given a certain distress call that would concern those she had helped given the ability to enter dreams and protect friends from horrible nightmares and any other nighttime threats, especially when Rumplestiltskin was able to become the new Nightmare King when Cherry and Shrek wished for a difference in their lives which costed them both their old lives and very near and dear friends. However, getting back on track...
"Oh, my!" Luna gasped as she shot awake in her room in the retirement community she and her sister stayed in after leaving Twilight in charge after their absence and retirement after a long time protecting the importance of ponies and friendship. "This is terrible. I have to see Cherry about this at once," she then said as she went to work on a quick magic spell from back in the day. "Now, how did that old spell go?" she then asked herself while trying to figure it out. She eventually remembered it, and went on her way as quickly as she could.
Everyone was still sound asleep, dreaming the dreams that they desired whether they be flying, in some other world, or anything like that, but this night of sleep was going to be very different.
It was a quiet day in the Schwartz household until the sky seemed to turn bleak and red and LJ and Barry were peacefully asleep until there was a very loud banging sound heard that shook his room to jolt him awake.
"Yee-oiks!" LJ shouted as he fell out of his bed, startled.
"Hey!" Barry complained. "I was sleeping here."
"Mom! Dad! What's going on?!" LJ called out for a moment.
However, there was silence after that answer which felt a bit haunting.
"Mom...? Dad...?" LJ repeated nervously. "Zo?"
"Is it just us here?" Barry wondered as the house seemed empty for whatever reason.
"Stay close," advised LJ as he got his clothes and picked Barry up. "This could be dangerous."
Barry nodded as they took a look around. LJ looked around while holding onto Barry, seeing that everyone's bedrooms were empty and the place appeared to be ransacked.
"FASTER! NO RESTING!" A voice commanded from outside as there could be marching heard.
Quickly, LJ went to the window and hid before he peeked outside. The skies appeared to be red and there were people in uniforms, marching around together.
There were a lot of tarps placed all over the place that had a yellow and green flower design that had the group name called "PRETTY AND DANGEROUS" as a trio of dictators that took over Greendale and maybe even possibly the whole world.
"We will rise and strike where King Sombra failed in this pathetic universe." A familiar, nagging voice said until LJ looked up to see a screen that had Mandy on it along with a couple of accomplices.
"I thought I recognized that foul stench," LJ scowled. "But who's that with her?" He conjured up a pair of binoculars and peered over.
All of the visible screens showed Mandy along with the two others beside who her who stepped into the light and they appeared to be... a girl named Olga Astronomonov who was also known as Lalavava and the second girl was...
"Gaz Membrane?! But she's so much better than Mandy, especially since she and Nergal Jr started going out!" LJ recoiled in shock and confusion. "This has to be some kind of mistake."
"MAKE WAY FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH!" Mandy's voice demanded as people on the streets were shown to be in uniforms with pink arm bands that had the yellow and green flower print on them.
LJ then looked over with Barry to see a pair of robots who resembled Mandy with black hair and red dresses as they marched down the streets with chariots to show Mandy, Lalavava, and Gaz on top of them as they glowered among their followers and oddly enough, LJ and Barry could swear that they saw Dora and her cousin Diego along with their friends Sammy and Randy.
"Mandroids..." LJ remarked. "Looks like everything's gone totally mondo-dystopian. But are these the shadows of things that will be, or the shadows of things that MAY be?"
"They are what may be." A voice told him from behind.
"Right! Thank you!" LJ replied before looking around. "But who said that?"
"Twas I, young Lionel Schwartz Jr," The voice replied before an older woman stepped out and she resemble a pony. "You might not remember me, but I am the Former Princess Luna of the Night in Equestria, I was also an important teacher to your mother when she was studying magic in high school along with your Uncle Atticus, Aunt Mo, and of course their good friend Sabrina Spellman."
"Alright... nice to meet you," said LJ. "So what exactly is going on?"
"Well, as you can see, there's chaos and disarray," Luna told LJ as she joined him by the window. "This is what could happen."
"To Greendale?" LJ guessed.
"Greendale, Endsville, Vasquez Valley, pretty much all of Earth like King Sombra's conquest to raise Atticus to be evil without friends to take over the Earth," Luna explained and educated him. "However, this mess all started in Vasquez Valley from the one you know as Amanda DeMisé."
LJ clenched his fists tightly. "...Mandy!" he scowled.
"Yes, her," Luna nodded. "She's teamed up with a very different ally who slowly led her to their shared dream, but she betrayed him in the end."
"Of course she did..." LJ scoffed and rolled his eyes.
A green alien with antenna and big pink eyes in a French maid costume was soon shown to be serving and cleaning up after Mandy, Gaz, and Lalavava against his will.
"It's that Zim guy!" LJ remarked. "...well, no wonder he got screwed over. Mandy doesn't keep deals with anyone!"
"Precisely," Luna replied. "She's a lot worse than Discord, King Sombra, Tirek, Grogar, and just about anyone else we faced."
"So is Grogar real or what?" LJ asked her. "I know that doesn't have to do with this, but... Mom said that Grogar was BS when she 'faced him'."
"Oh, Grogar is very much real," Luna reassured him with a nod. "He was the leader of Tambelon AKA The Realm of Darkness and tried to conquer mine and Celestia's childhood home The Dream Valley back when The Mane Six's family, such as Twilight Sparkle's mother, Twilight Velvet, were the ponies destined to have adventures based on the magic of friendship."
"Okay..." LJ nodded at that. "I don't get why Mom's so casual about Grogar being a phony by the time she met him while everyone else got frustrated about that, especially me after I heard the story." he then added.
"Your mother was probably just relishing and relaxing at the fact that King Sombra was defeated and gone 20 years ago to properly react to Discord being Grogar and misleading Sombra, Cozy Glow, Tirek, and Queen Chrysalis," Luna suggested. "Anyway, back to the matter at hoof-erm... hand, this Zim person found potential in Mandy as an ally for world domination for both of them and even rounded up Olga and Gazlene due to them having similar minds and such dark evil and morbid behavior in their capacity as innocent little girls since no one would suspect a harmless little child to commit such heinous crimes."
"And yet none of them look innocent in the least," LJ commented. "But it actually seemed like Gaz was gonna make a turnaround since she met Nergal Jr."
"Something appears to have happened that not even I can tell you about," Luna advised as Gaz proved to be just as, if not, more terrifying than Mandy or Lalavava in terms of "evil little girl" as she had a deep scowl that would probably make Wednesday Addams proud. "I'm sorry you have to see some of this graphic imagery." she then added since Dora, Diego, Randy, and Sammy appeared to be serving under Mandy as well as colorful creatures known as the Teletubbies.
"Teletubbies too?" LJ complained. "Man, can this get any worse?"
"Say, you're not supposed to be here!" A brown-haired man dressed in a green version of the dictator following uniform as well as having another man beside him who resembled him in an orange based outfit and another young man who seemed different compared to them and had a blue uniform.
"Run, LJ! Run!" Luna urged the boy suddenly as this looked bad and soon, rainbow-colored puppies who looked like dangerous attack dogs seemed to be emerging from the three men.
"Time to make like Sonic and juice on outta here!" LJ said as he grabbed Barry and made a break for it.
"Hurry, LJ!" Luna warned before she ran off the other way.
Blue, Magenta, and even Green Puppy growled and barked as they chased LJ all through the remains of the city which had been horribly and carelessly run by Mandy since she achieved her dream of global conquest. Soon, LJ found himself at the end of the road and he was cornered by Blue, Magenta, and Green Puppy, snarling dangerously and aggressively as they didn't look cute and friendly like they used to. Barry snarled as he soon jumped out of LJ's arms and tried to bark and hiss at the colorful puppies to keep them away from LJ as this looked like the end for them until something would come by at the last minute.
"If we're going down, I won't let you go down alone!" LJ declared as he stood defensively with Barry.
The colorful puppies snarled and jumped over to tackle LJ and Barry, however, they all missed and hit the wall with a WHOOSH!
LJ and Barry squeezed their eyes shut until they found themselves suddenly flying in the air on horseback with a pair of giant wings.
"What? Someone helped us?" Barry wondered. "Who helped us?"
"Good evening, LJ and Barry." Cherry greeted as she was shown to be an Alicorn and had given them a ride on her back to protect them.
"Mom!" LJ exclaimed. "You picked a good time to drop in, so thanks!"
"Let's just say I had a call from an old friend." Cherry smirked slightly.
Luna seemed to be on the moon in LJ's dream and waved at them as they flew out of the chaotic site and soon sat on a hill further away from Mandy's evil reign.
"So I see this Mandy girl is a lot more than I expected for someone who's probably 1% evil and 99% hot gas." Cherry said as they sat on the hill together in peace with Barry between them as a touching mother/son moment.
"That's Plankton, but fair enough," LJ responded. "Mandy is more like all bark and no bite, but give her access to power and she's a real nuisance."
"I knew my mother intuition was telling me something important," Cherry then remarked. "So I decided to come on your and your sister's field trip as a chaperone and possibly your father as well since he can never go anywhere without me." she then added with a small smirk.
"It might help to have some extra hands onboard," LJ replied. "Especially since most of the others might not be available."
"Yes, I figured it would be a good time for us to bond, especially since your Uncle Atticus and Aunt Mo took the kids to visit Captain Planet and Zadavia, but your cousin Akito told me to promise you a visit with the Loonatics in the future if you'd be interested." she then added.
"That does sound interesting," Lionel said. "Consider me in!"
Cherry gave a small smirk as things wrapped up nicely, even in the Apocalyptic dream.
"You're going down, Mandy," LJ glared back at the neighborhood. "I'm gonna make sure of it."
"No, son, we're going to make sure of it," Cherry reassured her son. "This adventure will be served FAMILY style."
"Sounds good to me." said LJ.
"I thought you might feel that way," Cherry nodded. "Try not to worry too much since this Mandy isn't as bad as I once was before I met your Uncle Atticus... I was a bit of a loner and no one really wanted to be my friend until I met him since he found me interesting and we both learned how to become friends. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, son," she then began to advise. "Friendship might sound childish and petty to some, but it's very important no matter who you are because you'll need truly loyal followers to stick with you no matter what happens and it's better than demanding fear and respect from others to get your way."
"Yeah," LJ nodded. "Respect through fear only gets you so far before your supposed followers start to turn on you."
"Yes, that's very true," Cherry nodded. "My world used to be very dark and lonely and that's just what'll happen to Mandy, no matter what she says or does to think she's able to stop anyone just because she's best friends with The Grim Reaper and has an oafish numbskull child for a so-called best friend who is probably too stupid to sense fear around her."
LJ gave a nod. "Next time I see her, she's gonna get it." he declared.
"That's a good boy," Cherry nodded. "Now feel free to sleep a little bit longer if you need to."
"You're leaving?" LJ asked his mother.
"Yes, I need to get up and make you all a special breakfast and your favorite road trip snacks," Cherry replied before she smirked and winked. "I thought maybe one of my special people would enjoy a pizza burger~"
"You were right!" LJ smiled. "Thanks, Mom!"
"See you around then." Cherry smirked before she disappeared suddenly after fading away due to waking up in the real world.
"Man, your mom's pretty interesting," Barry said to LJ. "Sometimes she's dark and scary, then the next she's kind and caring, I don't get it."
"Well, some people have more to them than what they show on the outside," LJ explained.
"Yeah, I guess that's true." Barry admitted.
Soon, Blue, Magenta, and Green Puppy were surrounding LJ and Barry again before jumping up to ambush and tackle them.
"AAAH!" LJ and Barry yelped as the colorful puppies did that and soon, they were back in LJ's bedroom, safe and sound because it was all just a convenient dream sequence.
"...that was so real." shuddered Barry.
"Well, it'll be even more real unless we stop Mandy," LJ responded.
"So we have a mission during this adventure away from home?" Barry guessed.
"Looks like it, buddy, and you're coming with me." LJ reassured him.
Barry had a hopeful smile at that.
"Us too!" The other Puppy-Cats suddenly said as they were also shown in his room: Tim, Susan, Richard, Patricia, Nell, and Loaf.
"Oh, hey, guys!" LJ responded. "I haven't seen you in a while!"
"We heard you were going on a special adventure." Tim spoke up.
"It's more of a visit out of town if anything, but I don't doubt there'll be an adventure involved." LJ replied.
"So we're going to come with you and support you." Susan promised as she had a cheerful grin.
"If we don't have anything better to do," Nell smirked to herself. "I was hoping to get tap shoes from the next yard sale cuz Mama loves yard sales."
"Well, I guess you could come," LJ replied. "After all, this is a family affair."
The Puppy-Cats all cheered at that, yipping and mewing in excitement.
"Not so loud! It's still morning!" Cherry's voice yelled from downstairs.
"Sorry, Mom!" LJ replied, trying not to sound too scared.
The Puppy-Cats, even Tim, shivered a bit at Cherry's frustration, though she went back to cooking breakfast for the family before they would get ready for the big field trip to Vasquez Valley.
"Okay, let's get packing," said LJ as he got started on grabbing his action figures.
Barry then ran back and forth in LJ's bedroom to help him get ready for the trip.