SOON...
Bart and LJ had arranged one of the old Radioactive Man comics along with the camcorder.
"With Homer's old video camera, I can feed an image of the comic book Radioactive Man into the TV," explained Bart. "Then I can use that alien gizmo to materialize him... I hope."
"Only one way to find out." LJ replied, giving as much moral support as he could.
"At least you're applying yourself." Zofia added.
"Yeah, though it makes me wonder if there's some secret entity behind these mysterious inspirations of mine!" Bart said as he pulled the lever. "Or maybe, due to residual radiation, I've gained some new mental power!"
"STOP! DON'T PULL THAT SWITCH!" A voice warned.
"What now, Cous?" LJ complained.
"That wasn't me." Akito defended.
"Huh?" LJ asked and then looked wide-eyed.
Radioactive Man had leaped right out of the television. "Fallout Boy is innocent and I can prove it!" he continued to announce until he became aware of his surroundings. "Wait a minute! This isn't death row at Zenith Maximum Security Prison guarded by Ned Noddlehead! What the-?!"
"Welcome to the real world, Radioactive Man." Bart told the superhero.
AFTER ANOTHER LENGTHY EXPLANATION...
"Look, R.M., it's chaos out there!" LJ pointed, showing the superhero slugfest outside.
"I haven't seen such a senses-shattering slugfest since the Secret Crisis on Ersatz Earths!" Radioactive Man gasped. "This blatant disregard for private property must be stopped!" And he flew out the window, with Bart and LJ in one arm. "I'll restore order to Springfield, or my name isn't Claude Kane the Third!...er, which it isn't, of course!"
"At least it's not Stuart Snyder." LJ remarked.
'Whew! I almost revealed my secret identity.' Radioactive Man thought to himself.
"Hmm... I wonder if we should tell RM that, thanks to reading his comics, I know all his secrets." Bart whispered to LJ, Zofia, and Akito.
"I'd keep it to yourself for now." Zofia advised.
"Yeah, good thinking." Bart nodded.
"This also makes those annoying Cartoon Girls ripping off Justice League heroes and The Powerpuff Girls make even less sense since 'no one knows their secret identity' and everyone in that universe wants to find out who they are." LJ scoffed.
"Why?" Bart asked.
"Dude, I don't even know," LJ shrugged. "That world is just one lazy failure after another."
"I'm! Almost... there! Hey!" Meg Griffin cried out as she chased after them, leaping from roof-to-roof as she went into a white lioness mode that looked like a female version of Kimba the White Lion.
SOON, AT THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT...
"By the buns of Burns!" exclaimed Smithers, dressed like old school Thor [from the comics, not the one PerkyGoth14 came up with] as he was attacked by hazmat-suited people with long arms. "I, the Mighty Smiter, am surrounded by the renegade Fission Division! E'en my great power is not enough to defeat these miscreants!"
Akito, LJ, Bart, and Radioactive Man soon made it over and saw what Smithers was doing.
"He looks kinda silly like that." Akito commented.
"Mr. Smithers always looks silly," Bart remarked. "Especially since he's the biggest fan of Malibu Stacy."
"Malibu Stacy? That sounds like our family friend Barbie." Akito commented.
"Your family friend maybe." LJ replied since he and his family didn't get many adventures with Barbie and Kelly.
"There is naught but one thing to do, though it defies every principle of physics!" Smithers announced as he brought out a rather large key. "I must twirl faithful Kjohler, my key to the executive washroom then cast it skyward, neglecting to let go, thereby achieving flight!"
"Hold it, Goldilocks!" Radioactive Man told the man before smacking him in mid-flight. "This is for breaking the laws of physics!"
"RM! The Fission Division!" Bart reminded his hero.
"Eh?" Radioactive Man replied as the people that Smithers had faced were escaping.
"They're getting away!" LJ pointed out.
"This section of railroad track will do the trick!" Radioactive Man decided as he broke off the railroad track.
Just then, a speeding train was on the way.
"Yikes!" Akito panicked at that before he flew over to help the train, but ended up making it stop as it ran him over, but of course, due to being Atticus's son and the most like him in terms of superhero strength, he wasn't dead and was just mildly annoyed. "You people are welcome." he then murmured.
"Now to corral these long-armed malcontents..." said Radioactive Man as he wrapped the track around the Fission Division. "You fission boys weren't trying to split on me, were you?" 'Hah! The ol' wit's as sharp as ever!' he chuckled to himself.
"Aye, carumba!" exclaimed Bart as he witnessed all the crazy superheroes battling each other.
"Go ahead an' squeal, ye blasted Pigboy," declared Groundskeeper Willie to Chief Wiggum. "'Twill not save ye from the Plaid Piper!"
"Face the dang-diddly-dreadful wrath of... Captain Keen, you meanie!" Flanders announced, locked in battle with Principal Skinner.
"You'll never defeat the Stickler!" Skinner responded.
"You can't escape the Human Torque, dude!" declared Otto, firing a tornado blast at Apu.
"Captain Kwik must respectfully disagree, malefactor!" the Kwik-E-Mart owner shot back.
"This is just the kind of mindless fight scene I'd enjoy if it were in a comic book," said Bart. "But now we have to try and stop it!"
"Now that's irony for ya!" LJ remarked. "...well, at least Apu is still here."
"Hello there!" Apu grinned and waved. "Happy Birthday to you, little Bart! I hope changes are in store for you!"
Bart groaned and rolled his eyes. "Somehow we must-" he then said only for them all to be tied up by some jump ropes. "What th-?!"
"Our magic jump ropes force you to obey the commands of the Mirror Maidens, Bart and friends!" Sherri mocked.
"From now on, you will all wear your underwear on the outside of your pants!" Terri added with a menacing giggle. "Tee-hee!"
"Augh! That's... so... DUMB!" Zofia complained. "Superhero! Cliches! Are! BASIC!"
"Losing my will... to resist!" Bart added.
"What's with you girls anyway?" Akito asked the twins. "Does one of you have a crush on Bart or something?"
"QUIET!" Sherri and Terri glared.
"Oh, that's it! Normally it's contrary against my code to use my strength or any other powers against young girls-" Akito began to say as he raged a bit.
"I couldn't agree more!" Radioactive Man added as he suddenly flew by and struck the twin girls to make them let go of Bart, LJ, Zofia, and Akito. "This time it's expedient!"
BASH! WHAM!
"Well, at least I didn't have to hit a girl." Akito remarked to himself.
"Yeah, you and your dad are kinda wusses about that." Meg Griffin commented.
Akito narrowed his eyes and suddenly tackled her off-screen.
"Hey, thanks for the save, RM!" LJ exclaimed. "I've had enough of all these super-characters... let's clean up this burg!"
"Right!" Radioactive Man exclaimed.
And so began a synapse-scorching, insurance-company-bankrupting battle such as Springfield had never seen before!
"Hahahahah! The Jokester always has the last laugh, Radioactive Chump!" cackled Krusty, dressed similarly to Joker, while Radioactive Man slipped on a banana peel.
"No one escapes unsoiled from the Mudslinger!" exclaimed Mayor Quimby as he slung some actual mud at LJ, who dodged with ease.
Troy McClure soon came in front of Bart and separated into three copies of himself.
"Ay, carumba!" Bart yelped.
"Troy McClure has triplicated himself like Lady Redundant Woman!" LJ noted.
"I, The Sequelizer, can create an infinite number of copies of myself!" Troy McClure announced. "Although, each is only 50% as powerful as the one before!"
"Yaaaah! Get away!" Radioactive Man panicked as a certain woman came after him.
"Do not struggle, mere mortal!" Ms. Peyton smirked, dressed like a vampiress as she tried to pursue him and bite his neck with her fangs. "You cannot resist... VAMPI-RAYSHELLE!"
"NOOOOO!" Bart cried, trying to pull away his teacher from the superhero.
"Not fond of Bart's new teacher all that much." Zofia said to her brother.
"Yeah..." LJ agreed.
QUITE A WHILE LATER...
"There's too many super-powered Springfieldians to stop them all with brute force!" Bart exclaimed.
"Yeah, and that mud guy—yecch!" gagged Radioactive Man. "I guess if we can't fight 'em harder, we'll just have to fight smarter!"
As they pondered, Scratchy was running for his life while Itchy ran behind, carrying an atomic bomb.
"I think I can take that guy in the baby-blue tights." shrugged Bart.
"There's more railroad tracks over there..." pointed out Radioactive Man.
"Oh, let's face it. We're as helpless to stop this crisis as you were to prevent World War III in issue #157!" Bart groused to the superhero.
"Bart, that was an imaginary story," Akito reminded the boy. "This is real life!"
"Yeah, thanks for being a bummer to say it like that." Bart scoffed.
"What?" Akito asked, confused and not sure what he did wrong exactly.
"Guys? I found something." Zofia said as she came by with her hands behind her back.
"What is it, Zo?" LJ asked.
"Is it a miracle?" Bart wondered.
"It might be, it's Mr. Flanders' video camera!" Zofia explained as she brought out the camera to them.
"Hey! Maybe we'll get to see Krusty's live show after all!" Bart said hopefully.
"Do we really have time for that?" Akito wondered.
"Let him see this and think a while," LJ told his cousin. "Bart really needs this."
"Yeah, so you better not do anything melodramatic or all about you just so you can be the hero of an adventure and not in a cocky way like Mother's filthy mongrel of an ex-friend." Zofia added.
Bart turned on the camera and looked at the video footage, showing the Springfieldians at the assembly. "And to think, just a few short hours ago, this was Springfield..." he mused. "Ordinary people in a town like any other, their pent-up hostility kept in check by impotence and fear."
"How oddly profound," said LJ. "I like it!"
"Hold on!" Bart exclaimed. "I'm getting another brilliant inspiration!"
"More brilliant inspiration?" LJ asked hopefully.
"Yep!" Bart nodded.
"Thatta boy!" LJ beamed, glad to see this progress from Bart.
"?" Akito just blinked in silence along with Radioactive Man.
"Aw, you hate being out of the loop?" LJ frowned at his cousin. "Aww... well, sorry, buddy, but Bart really needs this." he then insisted.
"I understand." Akito replied wearily.
"We just wanna make sure you do." Zofia advised.
"Actually, there is one thing maybe he can do for me along with Radioactive Man." Bart suggested.
"Yeah?" LJ asked. "I'd like to hear it! Or see it, even!"
"We'll need a special machine from the aliens' ship and I might be saying this wrong, but I don't care," Bart replied. "I'm gonna need their... hyper-spatial flux drive."
"You're sure that it's back there?" Akito asked.
"I'm very positive." Bart replied.
"Sure, then!" Akito declared, as he and Radioactive Man flew off to the alien ship.
"...that ought to keep them busy." commented LJ.
"Yeah, good thinking." Zofia nodded.
Suddenly, the doorbell rang, making Bart and the Schwartz siblings look at each other. Bart then decided to open the door and tilted his head.
"Hello there, Bart Simpson." Vincent greeted in his Loonatics' uniform.
"Who the hell are you?" Bart asked.
"Language!" Estelle pouted. "Anyway, this is Vincent, mine and Akito's brother and I'm Estelle."
"Why are you dressed like a chicken?" Bart asked her.
"What?! Gah! No!" Estelle complained. "I'm not a chicken, I'm Princess Tutu, like my friend Ahiru who was a duckling who became a girl at the Golden Crown Academy!"
"Riiiiiight..." Bart replied. "And you?" he then asked Vincent.
"Well, you could say I'm borderline artistic." Vincent chuckled as he took out his magic paintbrush.
LJ sighed. "...alright, what are you guys doing here?" he asked. "Did Akito call you?"
"Well, yeah, this seemed important." Vincent nodded.
"So we're here to help out too," Estelle said before looking around. "Where IS Akito anyway?" she then wondered.
"Doing us a favor, Chicken Girl." Bart replied.
"Make him stop!" Estelle complained.
"COOL OFF, ALL OF YA!" LJ bellowed. "We're gonna wait until the part we need is returned, okay?"
"Sorry about that, LJ." Bart said as calmly as he could.
"Thank you, Bart." LJ nodded.
"Come on, you guys better come in." Zofia told the Fudo siblings.
"Did you guys hear that there's gonna be a visit to Cinderella?" Estelle asked the Schwartz siblings on the way inside.
"More or less," said LJ. "The details aren't worked out yet."
"Well, that should be nice for both of our families since our father and your mother started out with that." Estelle then said.
"Yeah, real nice..." LJ replied. "As long as Chad isn't around to ruin it."
"I'll never understand how sweet Cinderella raised such a douchey son." Zofia sighed and shook her head about Chad.
"Ditto." LJ nodded as they sat on the couch and waited for Akito and Radioactive Man to come back.
SOON...
"So, the guys you teamed up with are the Loonatics who are the descendants of Looney Tunes?" Bart asked the Fudo siblings.
"Yes, one of our very early adventures when we were still home-schooled." Estelle nodded.
"Man, what's your comeback? The descendants of Disney characters?" Bart smirked. "Like Rickey Rouse and Monald Muck?"
Vincent and Estelle seemed confused about those names and then, Akito and Radioactive Man made it back over.
"We're back, Bartman!" Radioactive Man called out.
"Oh, good!" LJ sighed. "And not a moment too soon!"
"Are you guys sure that that's the hyper-spatial flux drive from the aliens' ship?" Bart asked urgently.
"It's the hyper-thing alright!" Radioactive Man nodded.
"Yeah, some guy in a cat suit pointed it out to us." Akito added.
"Okay! Plug it into the trans-temporal reality integrator and let's get this show on the road!" Bart instructed.
MOMENTS LATER...
"There, that's the last of the connections," said Bart as he connected two cables. "According to my latest brainstorm, by using Flanders' tape as a sampling reference, with a simple adjustment of the time-base corrector I can return us all ot the moment before Itchy and Scratchy materialized, thus undoing all the ensuing mayhem!"
"How do you know it won't blow up, ignite Earth's atmosphere, and destroy all life on the planet?" asked Radioactive Man.
"Hey, if the inventors of the atom bomb didn't worry about it, why should I?" replied Bart.
But before he could pull the lever...
VRROOOZZZ—!
"Oh, man—not another hole in the wall!" Bart remarked, as the wall was melted away, revealing Kang and Kodos.
"Ah-ha! So this is where our molecular destabilizer went!" exclaimed Kodos.
"Thank Grod you didn't pull that lever!" Kang added. "It would have blown up, ignited the atmosphere, AND destroyed all life on the planet!"
"Molecular Destabilizer?!" Bart gasped.
"Man, imagine if Tech made one of those." Akito said to Estelle.
"Wouldn't surprise me if he did." Estelle admitted.
"Tech?" Bart wondered.
"Wile E. Coyote's descendant." LJ explained.
"Oh..." Bart then said. "Anyway, we thought this was the hyper-spatial flux drive!" he then told the aliens as Radioactive Man whistled innocently.
"Silly human! This is the hyper-spatial flux drive!" Kang clarified as he brought out the device in his tentacle. "We always take it with us when we leave the ship to prevent theft of our craft!"
"Clever." Estelle remarked.
"Thank you," Kang replied and continued his moment. "Our security measures are quite extensive!"
"Impressive." Akito nodded.
"Yes, of course, BUT ENOUGH BANTER AND COMPLIMENTS!" Kang said before suddenly zapping Radioactive Man. "THIS is the penalty for thievery on Rigel-4!"
"Oof!" Radioactive Man grunted.
The Fudos also got zapped.
"How is this possible?" Akito complained. "I'm super strong and-"
"Blah, blah, blah." Vincent muttered as Akito went through one of his complaints of being hit despite being the most like Atticus.
"THEY'RE ALIENS, STUPID!" LJ ranted. "THEY PROBABLY HAD A WORKAROUND FOR IT OR SOMETHING, BESIDES, YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE INVINCIBLE TO EVERYTHING, SO STOP THINKING YOU ARE!"
"Too bad," said Kang, readying his blaster once more. "You would have made a most educational test subject for the spawnlets' science project!"
"Uh... klaatu barada nikto, man?" Bart gulped.
Suddenly... there came a high-pitched tone. It started small, but grew louder.
"That whine... like tentacle tips sliding down a bispectral carbonate display matrix!" Kang exclaimed.
"My space helmet is vibrating!" Kodos screamed.
As the noise grew louder, the two aliens' helmets burst!
"No! Our Rigellian complexions cannot tolerate the earth atmosphere!" Kang exclaimed.
"It dissolves us into repulsive puddles of smelly goo!" howled Kodos.
...and in mere seconds, they were nothing but two big, green puddles.
"Wow!" Bart remarked. "This time-reversal thing had better work or Mom's gonna kill me when she sees this mess!"
"But where did that helmet shattering whine come from?" LJ wondered.
"Guys?" Zofia asked the Fudos.
"Not us, guys!" The Fudo siblings reassured their cousin.
"Actually, it was from me, Bartman." A voice from behind them suddenly said.
Everyone then turned around to see...
"The Scarlet Whimpernel."
"Milhouse!" Bart gasped.
"Huh, surprised to see you here." Zofia said to the blue-haired boy.
"I might still be mad at him," replied Milhouse. "...but it doesn't mean we can't still be friends. Besides, being a lone vigilante is... lonely, even with a girlfriend."
"So... we're still gonna be best friends after all?" Bart asked hopefully. "Things can go back to the way they were before?!"
"Hey, slow down," said Milhouse. "...at the very least, we'll give it a try. As crazy as it sounds, sometimes things change. We might not like it, but that's just how life works."
"I don't think there's any way for things to go back to how they were," said LJ. "But... at the very least, you can take what you learned and actually put it to use."
"Well, okay, that's good enough for me." Bart decided.
"Good on ya, Bart." Zofia approved.
"Thanks, guys." Bart smiled at LJ and Zofia sincerely and they smiled back.
Soon, Bart and Milhouse shook hands as they would try to work something out, but there was no eagerness to become best friends again right away, especially after last summer's adventure.
"We defeated the aliens, but at such a terrible cost." LJ said softly, looking down at the fallen superhero.
"Yeah, Radioactive Man is-" Zofia began to say.
"Yeah, don't worry about us either, guys." Akito complained.
"Can't you just magically heal yourself unhurt?" Zofia retorted.
"Yeah, I don't see what you're complaining about," said LJ. "Besides... look!"
"Ooooh..." groaned Radioactive Man as he sat up, rubbing his head.
"He's alive!" Bart exclaimed. "I should've known... he always comes back in the comics!"
"Boy, those alien death rays always give me such a headache!" Radioactive Man exclaimed.
"Oh, yeah, I hate it when that happens." LJ nodded even though he was just being facetious.
"Look! Here's the hyper-spatial flux drive!" Bart said once he found something in the middle of the floor and held it out to the superhero. "Here, RM, you know what to do now!"
"I sure do!" Radioactive Man replied as he accepted it.
Everyone then suddenly sat in silence for a few moments.
"Uh, may I?" Akito asked his cousins.
"Sure, go ahead." Zofia allowed with a shrug.
"I believe you're supposed to connect that to the trans-temporal reality-integrator cannon." Akito explained to the superhero.
"Right!" Radioactive Man replied as he went to do that.
"So, what's with the pajamas?" Bart asked Akito and Vincent about their Loonatics uniforms.
"THEY'RE NOT PAJAMAS!" The Fudo brothers complained.
MOMENTS LATER...
"Okay, everything's set!" declared Bart as he reached for the switch. "Here goes!"
"Wait, Bartman!" said Radioactive Man. "Before you restore Springfield and we all conveniently forget what happened, I want to give you something." he reached into his belt and gave Bart a green card. "I was going to enshrine this in the trophy room of my Containment Dome, but now I'd like you to have it!"
"Your Superior Squad Membership Card?" asked Bart.
"I won't need it anymore... since my member ship was *choke* revoked!" sighed Radioactive Man.
"Ay carumba!" Bart complained and came to the side with the others to have a private moment. "Little does RM know that his dismissal from The Superior Squad was just a clever ploy to fool Fallout Boy's twin brother, Dodd whose mind was warped by brutal hazing at military school!"
"...what?" Akito muttered.
"RM is reinstated with honors just a few pages after the panel I materialized him from." Bart then said.
OUTSIDE...
Itchy was piloting a bomber plane. "Target in range..." he sneered as he pulled a lever. "...BUMS AWAY! Hee-hee-hee!"
BACK INSIDE...
"Thanks, RM," said LJ. "And remember—things are always darkest before the surprise revelation on Page 20!"
"Thank you, Leo Quad," said Radioactive Man. "Now let's hurry up and send everyone back to where they belong!"
As Bart reached for the switch, RM stopped him again. "But just one thing still puzzles me!" he said.
'I'm never gonna get to pull this darned lever!' Bart grumbled inwardly. "What's that, RM?"
"What was the mysterious source behind your brilliant inspiration?" asked Radioactive Man.
OVERHEAD...
The bomb-bay doors opened, and out fell Scratchy, tied to the A-Bomb, screaming all the way.
"Yeah, how'd you get so insightful, Bart?" Akito wondered.
"Without the extra help to easily solve the problem?" Vincent added.
"Did we even need to come here?" Estelle asked.
"No." LJ and Zofia stated.
"Oh, that!" Bart replied. "I figured it out a while back! I just had to keep it a secret for the sake of dramatic tension!"
"You mean...?" Zofia aked.
"Yes, I mean. Allow me to introduce..." Bart began to say before showing his baby sister who now had an enlarged head and was hovering in the air. "BrainBaby! Formerly my kid sister, Maggie! She gained mental powers from the explosion, but she still can't talk, so she communicated with me telepathically!"
"Jeepers!" Radioactive Man gasped at the literal baby of the Simpsons family. "She must be nearly as powerful as my old enemy, Brain-o!"
"And we couldn't have done it without..." Zofia began before looking to the side. "Our mother and older sister trying to figure out just what the heck is going on around here before we visit our family's first adventure allies: Cinderella and King Charming!"
"Aww..." Akito, Estelle, and Vincent sighed at that.
"Now to pull the lever before something else happens!" Bart exclaimed, as he yanked the lever down.
ZZAK! And everything went dark.
Bart blinked a few times as he adjusted himself... only to find he was back in the living room, with Maggie, Lisa, LJ, and Zofia! "They're normal again!" he sighed. "Well... as normal as they're ever going to get."
"You know, judging by his expression at the end of that last episode, I'd almost think Scratchy has achieved a zen-like acceptance of his situation!" Lisa remarked.
"So give a hoot, buy my cereal!" Krusty told the audience.
"And Itchy and Scratchy are back on TV," said LJ. "Where they belong!"
"Not so fast!" Meg glared as she came back. "I refuse to go down without a fight!"
"Hey, you guys wanna make yourselves useful? Go take care of that." Zofia told the Fudo siblings.
"Yeah, call it Akito and Estelle vs The White Lioness." LJ added.
The Fudo siblings all looked at each other and then went to go after Meg who screamed and ran away.
"BART, DON'T FORGET ABOUT ME AND OUR KIDS, SYDNEY AND SHANE SIMPSON!" Meg cried out.
The flying saucer whooshed overhead and cracked against the Simpsons' house TV antenna.
"WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING, KANG!" Kodos shouted. "YOU STRUCK THE ANTENNA ON THE ROOF OF THE DWELLING!"
"Uh-oh, that noise!" Bart whispered to LJ and Zofia. "That must be the aliens!"
"They must be back too." Zofia guessed.
"And they're gonna materialize Itchy and Scratchy again!" LJ warned.
"And now, back to Itchy and Sc—ZZZKKK!" The TV groaned as the signal went off, turning to static.
"Hold the craft steady, Kang, so I may focus the Trans-Temporal Reality Integrator Cannon on the humans' television!" Kodos instructed.
Back inside, the screen had gone to full static.
"Oh, no! Look at the TV!" exclaimed Lisa. "Maybe we can fix it! But we'll have to act fast or we'll miss the show."
"Uh-oh... it's starting all over again!" LJ remarked. "We've gotta stop it... but how?"
"All is in readiness!" Kodos told Kang. "Let us prepare to welcome Itchy and Scratchy into our continuum followed by this series being erased from existence after the human Bart Simpson's 11th birthday so everyone can finally move on with their lives and put this animated, violent, and comedic dribble behind them!"
"And what of that other world we found where fairy tale characters such as Cinderella and The Queen of Hearts went to school with the ones known as Cherry Butler and Atticus Fudo in an unwritten timeline from 20 years ago?" Kang asked.
"We'll worry about that later." Kodos replied.
ZZAK!
"Forgive me for this, guys." LJ told Lisa and Bart before turning off the TV suddenly.
"LJ! Why are you turning it off?!" Lisa complained.
"Who cares about watching static?" LJ defended.
"Besides, I've seen this one before!" Bart added.
Up in the spaceship, the aliens were in a panic...and for good reason!
"Yaaaaah!" Kang exclaimed.
"The transmission has been blocked!" Kodos shrieked as the Trans-Temporal Reality Integrator Cannon blew up. "Feedback—destroying the Reality-Integrator Cannon!"
"Phagh!" scoffed Kang. "We have wasted too much time on this backwater planet in pursuit of Itchy and Scratchy!"
"I concur!" Kodos exclaimed as he beamed Jeremy down. "I am beaming down the blasphemous Scratchy imposter! Let us proceed to Arcturus-7 to observe the antics of Gluey, Shrewy, and Kablooey!"
"What in the world?" Lisa frowned in concern as her brother darted off like that. "I've never seen Bart so unconcerned about watching Itchy & Scratchy!"
"Yeah, life is extraneus at times, isn't it?" Zofia remarked.
"Where are you going?!" Lisa called out to her brother.
"I've gotta read a comic book!" Bart replied on the way to his bedroom.
"Nothing to worry about Lisa, we swear!" LJ added on the way.
And so, Bart and LJ pulled open their copy of the Radioactive Man comic book—and saw that he was missing his Superior Squad membership card!
"So it's true!" beamed Bart. "It really did happen!"
"And we're the only ones who know!" LJ added. "...of course, I hope you'll take into consideration the stuff you learned today."
"I'll keep it in mind, LJ, but... is it okay if I never grow up?" Bart asked.
LJ sighed and rolled his eyes before smiling. "I'm sure you'll grow up someday, Bart Simpson. Even Timmy Turner grew up." he then reassured his rebellious friend.
"Isn't he in jail now or something?" Bart asked.
"I don't know where you might have heard that, but just remember what happened on our adventure this weekend," LJ reminded him. "You really made me proud and I don't want that to be taken away from us."
Bart rubbed the back of his head. "...I'll try." he responded.
"That's all I ask." LJ nodded.
"I just hope we can get to the bottom of this weird mystery about what happened this weekend." Bart remarked.
"Try not to dwell on it now and just see that this adventure was a beautiful ride in this fragile little thing we call life." LJ advised.
"A beautiful ride," Bart nodded. "Sounds like a country song."
"Yeah, I can see it." LJ responded, as he gazed out the window.
"I guess I'm gonna be pretty okay as long as you're by my side." Bart said as he put his arm around LJ.
"What're friends for?" LJ reassured him.
"We're friends too." Lisa and Zofia added.
"Yeah, it's nice to see Lisa having a longer lasting friend, but don't tell her I ever said that." Bart admitted and added as a whisper to LJ.
"I'll take it to the grave, buddy." LJ nodded.
"Looks like those two are friends too." Bart then said as he looked over at David and Maggie who were on the floor together.
Maggie took out a spare pacifier and David took it before sucking on it with a shrug as though he was saying "Don't see what the big deal is, but it takes me to a Happy Place".
"...wait, where did David come from?" Bart asked.
"...good question." LJ admitted.
David then suddenly had a dreamy, dazed look on his face while sucking on his own pacifier and Maggie seemed to lie down right next to him, sucking her own pacifier and had her eyes shut.
"Whoa..." commented LJ, impressed. "Must've been a good pacifier."
"To be that young again." Bart sighed before they all shared a laugh together while the babies of the Schwartz and Simpson family just looked a little confused.
"And now, my friends, it's time to do what we do best, especially now that we have company who love us just as we are." Homer suggested.
"What's that, Homer?" Bart asked his father.
"Go out for chocolate frosted milkshakes?" Marge added.
"No! We must... watch TV~" Homer replied and suddenly had them all on the couch with him as he turned on the TV for them all to enjoy.
And for a little while, it did feel like things were gonna stay the same, even though they were changing a little. But time has a way of furthering changes, even in a place like Springfield.