Kirby Klue Queens(Who Are You?)

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The season premiered on January 1, 2016.

## Plot overview

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Title: **Kirby Klue Queens(Who are You?)**

Category: Games » Kirby

Author: mary.okeeffe.16

Language: English, Rating: Rated: K+

Genre: Adventure/Friendship

Published: 10-09-19, Updated: 12-23-22

Chapters: 45, Words: 103,891

**Chapter 1: Who Are You?**

Kirby and The Klue Queens are back after a long summer apart. Not only more mysteries and copy abilities are around the corner, but they also encounter new friends who will help them solve the mysteries.

Mysteries

An Order of Totally Tofu- The Klue Queens are back in school and are opening it with a charity fashion show, featuring The Totally Spies(Sam, Clover, and Alex). But someone has stolen the fashion line, based on Sam Simpsons art.

An Order of Groovy Grits- The Klue Queens run into their old friends, Mystery Incorperated, Alex even stays behind incase Shaggy and Scooby all the food in Lititz Heights. Fred tells them that while they were on their way to Lititz Heights, they saw a haunting at Gravin Gates, an old manor in Lititz Heights that was once a theater studio until the untimely death of the owner in 1969.

An Order of Chan Calamari- Henry, Stanley, Suzie, Alan, Anne and Tom has gotten a flat tire while on their gig to Disco Day in Harrisburg. While checking out Hong Kong House of Chow, a famous jade dragon statue disappear as the owners get a shipment of radishes.

An Order of Freaky Fetuccini- The Freaky 6 go to town to see the unveiling of a new monster painting with a paint mixture. Unfortunately, it gets stolen while gets distracted by a stage-hogging band. Now they need to know if its the band who took it or one of the crew members.

An Order of Darling Danish- The students of Lititz Heights High are on a trip to a history museum in Pittsburgh for the weekend trip for an Egyptology assigment. Along the way, a priceless mummy gets stolen. Now they must seek help from The Star Darlings, who are visiting them while on their east coast tour.

An Order of Puppy Power Pate- Scrappy has paid his dept and now, Helen's older brother is forced to take him back to his hometown of Lititz Heights. It's there that someone has been a homecoming horror, someone has smuggled counterfeit dollars and they need to know who's responsible.

An Order of Reaping Reuben- While Grim was trying to reap an old dog at the pound, Swinger and Kirby acidentally bring him to Roadhouse Fantasia to entertain the kids at the Halloween Party. Meanwhile, the magician who was suppose to entertain the kids at the party was kidnapped, but by who?(Halloween Special)

An Order of Caring Cake- With the anniversary party of the local toy store, someone has kidnapped the daughter of a famous Happy Lamb operator. Cheer and Grumpy crashlanded on Earth while looking for a child in need of care. The Klue Queens decided that they should help find the little girl before its too late.

An Order of Meta Muffins- A princess from a small nation in Italy gets kidnapped and replaced by an imposter. While investigating, the girls meet the famous Meta Knight and they learn all about the wonders of being a princess knight.

An Order of Fairly Odd Ambriosa- Cosmo acidentally gets himself and Wanda sent to Lititz Heights by mistake after eating so much bacon pudding. Kirby brings them over to a special reading at the bookstore about a rare fairytale lost for years, only for it to be lost again.

An Order of Olaf Goulash- The Friendly Scouts of Lititz Heights are on a Christmas Charity event in Philadelphia. Paige and Rylie tag along as guests for the occasion. Fayth and Leelanee also befriend Olaf the Snowman, whom helps them on an investigation of stolen charity toys.(Christmas Special).

An Order of Sponge Cake- The Klue Queens go to Hawaii to visit Helen's cousin and meet Spongebob, Patrick, and Squidward. When Patrick acidentally digs up an article of a stolen diamond, the Klue Queens must investigate, Spongebob Style.(New Years Eve Special)

An Order of Dudes and Cheese- Soos is visiting his friends for Saffron's birthday party at El Pueblo De Pepper. As they were celebrating, Saffron's newfound boyfriend warns them about a haunting of a nurse ghost.

An Order of Perry Peta- Pera's Platypus Party Palace has come to town for an after-school fundraise. Unfortunately, her platypuses go missing after she has her lunch at Roadhouse Fantasia.

An Order of Flerken Flounder- The NSA has hired The Klue Queens to look after Goose while they train a couple of Skrull Superheroes. Meanwhile, reports of a werecat attacking the Philadelphia International Airport.

An Order of Muppet Syrup- The Muppets are in town for their performance when Foofoo gets kidnapped. Now the Klue Queens must help Miss Piggy find her special dog, or else she'll karate chop the entire town.

An Order of Tipton Torte- London is holding a model audition which Kaylin is dying to join. That's when someone has stolen her new necklace, "The Sesame Bun Sequence" while she was prepping for her enterance. Now they need to figure out who stole her new necklace.

An Order of Hologram Crackers- Jem comes to town for a rock version of The Voices of Songs, Mayor Hess's last play production before retirement. As they were getting ready, they discover that the costumes of the visiting play, "The Voices of Songs" has gone missing.

An Order of Muerte Beans- Carolina's best friend gets married to her fiance in Lititz Heights with La Muerte(As Marybeth) being the ministress. Before they could attend her wedding, Xibalba acidentally blabs out reports of a counterfeit candy ring. The Klue Queens must figure out who's responsible for the counterfeit candy ring before its too late.(Valentine's Day Special)

An Order of Sesame Buns- The Sesame Street Gang come to Lititz Heights for a Friendly Scout recital of Cinderella. Before they could do anything, someone stole a famous pumpkin pie recipe from the local bakery. If they don't find it, the catering order will be ruined.

An Order of Moronvioli- Detective Dan is taking some time off from the Chicago Police Dept after acidentally freeing some rebellious teens. He and his daughter decided to spend some time with his old Police Academy buddy, "Chief Hess" which becomes embarassing to him. Also, a famous old house is schedueled to be demolition.

An Order of Planet Pancakes- The Klue Queens go on Spring Break to The Planeteers Gaia's Getaway Tour. Amongst the stops, they notice a series of crimes in pollution and smuggling rings.(Earth Day/Spring Break Special)

An Order of Foster French Toast- The friends from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends go to Lititz Heights for the spring musical production of Socs, which the Klue Queens are being involved in. The leading lady has gotten food poisoning and the girls must investigate before the show starts.

An Order of Looney Linguini- The Looney Tunes are hitchhiking to Lititz Heights when they stumbled upon a series of art thieves and the Littiz Heights Museum of Art is next.

An order of Mickey Potatoes- Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Donald and Goofy come to Lititz Heights for a gig at the Spring's Girls Choice dance, where the single girls get a breakup text from a guy named, "Cupid Craig" including Tania. Now they must figure out Cupid Craig's identity before love jealousy strikes.

An Order of Bullwinkle Beets- Rocky and Bullwinkle come to town for an interview for the Klue Queens. Unfortunately, Bullwinkle keeps spending money and if they don't figure out why he keeps doing it, RBTV will be bankrupt.

An order of Rocket Road Ice Cream- Rocket Raccoon and The Backyard Gang go to Lititz Heights for a field trip when they come across a missing activist who was a Friendly Scout in the 90s.

**Chapter 2: New Abilities**

Here is the new Kirby Copy Abilities for Kirby Klue Queens Who Are You

Archer(Just give him Native American food)

Balloon(Just give him rubber balloons)

Beetle(Just give him bug gummies.)

Bell(Just give him some bells)

Bomb(Just give him explosives)

Cleaning(Just give him liquid soaps)

Festival(Just give him festival food)

Doctor(Just give him cough drops)

Ghost(Just give him Halloween cookies)

Jet(Just give him old toy planes)

Leaf(Just give him leaves)

Love Love Stick(Just give him Valentine's Day lollipops)

Magic Kirby(Just give him magic supplies)

Metal(Just give him metal utensils)

Mirror(Just give him a mirror)

Missile(Just give him missiles)

Ninja(Just give him udon noodles)

Plasma(Just give him gummy bears)

Spear(Just give him Greek Food)

Spider(Just give him cobwebs)

Staff(Just give him worn out antique weapons)

Water(Just give him drinking water)

Whip(Just give him western food)

Wing(Just give him feathers)

Yo-Yo(Just give him a yo yo)

**Chapter 3: An Order of Totally Tofu**

Inside Lititz Heights High, artist Sam Simpson was laying out the outfits for the students to wear at the charity fashion show. As she left to go to the bathroom, a mysterious person came in and stole all the outfits. By the time she got back, she was horrified. "The fashion show is ruined!" she yelled.

**XxoxX**

In the morning, the Klue Queens were arriving at Lititz Heights High. Leah recently got a 1990s van that belonged to Grandpa Wendell in that decade. One by one, the Klue Queens got out of the vans. "The first day of junior year!" shouted Leah.

"And the first day of sophomore year for me," Tania replied.

By the corner, they saw a Native-American girl with braids and a dolphin T-shirt. She'd shyly walked up to the Klue Queens. "Hi," she said nervously. "I'm Destiny."

"Your Isla's sister," recalled Tania. "We've seen you at your play production of 'Dolphin Daydream'. You were one of the handmaidens for the princess."

"That's me," Destiny said. "Handmaiden number 3."

"Sound like you got an F on socializing," declared someone in a Cajun accent. It was Tokkori. King Zaire requested that the Klue Queens take Tokkori to Earth to keep him from annoying the townsfolk.

"Don't mind him," whispered Leah. "He's been insulting most people at Roadhouse Fantasia in August. He laughed at my hair and called me 'Moldy Goldilocks', told Kaylin that she should see a sheep shearer about her sheepish black hair, said that Estrella's too hyper to be in the circus, told Rylie to lose some weight, said that Tania she should laser her brains instead of her eyes, and asked Paige if she buys her clothes at the dump."

"Hey!" Tokkori shouted. "Stop with those insults I made!" As he turned his head, he saw Billie come out of a limo with a real fur coat and a sequin dress. This made Tokkori fall madly in love with her. Wondering who she was, he flew to Paige. "Who is that glamourous babe over there?" he asked as he pointed to Billie.

"That's just Billie Holman," answered Paige. "We suggest you stay away from her. She can be pretty nasty."

Billie, Isla, Miley, and Zara felt a bit surprised as Tokkori came up to them. "How do you do, ladies?" flirted Tokkori. "They call me Tokkori around these parts, and you're the most luxurious babe I've ever seen."

"Thank you, booger bird," Billie said. "Now move it. I just bought this expensive fur coat for the fall."

"Why can't you reuse the ones you had?" asked Isla.

"That's so last year, Isla," Billie replied. "Now don't sneeze on it or I'll get mad!"

"Sounds like you'll be getting cold soon," Miley snarled as she, Zara, and Billie laughed at her.

"I love a woman who insults for no reason," Tokkori said as he lovingly watched Billie.

On the school's bulletin board, the Klue Queens saw a flier for a charity fashion show.

*Lititz Heights High's 45th Annual Charity Fashion Show.*

*Featuring outfits based on painting by Sam Simpson.*

"Sam Simpson?" asked Destiny. "The painter? I have a copy of her painting 'Get Away' in my room."

"I'm afraid that it's gonna have to wait," Mrs. Hess said as she came in. "Ms. Simpson is having a fit about her fashion being stolen."

In an art room, they saw Sam getting upset about the fashion charity show being ruined. "Is there something wrong?" asked Paige.

"There is," Alex explained. "Someone broke into the art room and stole all the outfits the summer programmers worked on all summer long."

"Yeah," Clover declared. "Just, like, take it easy, Paige Hayato."

The Klue Queens were surprised by this. They began to wonder how these three women knew their names. "We're former spies from the World Organization of Human Protection," Sam explained. "Current spies told us of alien reports in Lititz Heights, and the six main witnesses are you girls."

The Klue Queens were equally surprised about their little performances. In order to save the fashion show, they decided to help out. "Do you have any spare outfits?" asked Kaylin.

"There are a few spare ones in my hotel room," Sam recalled. "Maybe we can lure the culprit with the spare ones I have."

"Good idea," Leah replied. "Let's meet at Roadhouse Fantasia after work, and let's give their meals on the house."

On the ground, Rylie found a bunch of cheese curl crumbs, meaning that someone must love cheese curls.

**XxoxX**

Later at Roadhouse Fantasia, Ms. McBruce gave them some lemonade and a big buffet of sushi as their complimentary meal. "By the way," said Lorraine, "I just love the way they use flowers in them."

"Enough about Sammy," Clover rudely interrupted "What about mwa?"

"I like that you show your golden hair," growled Lorraine as she walked off to pay the restaurant bills.

The Klue Queens and Destiny came in to talk to their clients about their dress plan. In Sam's bag, Tania found some strange fashion accessories. "What're all these gizmos?" asked Tania.

"These are some gadgets we kept from our old days at WOOHP," Sam explained. "We thought we could use them in case of an emergency."

"We should take one of each for safety," Leah suggested.

Leah took the Butterfly Laser Emitting Pendant, Kaylin the Parasol Crossbow, Estrella took the Hologram Projection Mood Ring, Rylie took the Spring Loaded Sneakers, Tania took the Ultra Inflatable Nylon Tech Vest, Paige took the DNA Scanner Sunglasses, and Destiny got the Expandable Cable Bungee Belt and the Virtual Reality Disguise Belt to go with her excessive belts.

"I interviewed the principal about the theft," Leah explained. "And here were three people in the school last night."

Suspects

Callie Corrigan (Security Guard) - Was once a fashion model from England, now in the security force.

Aspen Burnham (Graduated student and former leader of the school's fashion club) - Publicity for her new fashion label, "Delphinus Swim Fashions".

Talia Devereux (Student organizer for fashion show) - Constantly rejected to be a model.

**XxoxX**

At the school front, Mrs. Corrigan was patrolling for trespassers when she saw Leah, Tania, Kirby, and Sam. She told them that she would never commit a crime and hated it when fashion shows got ruined. This meant one thing for them: she had an alibi.

**XxoxX**

At Zand Art, Aspen was looking at some fabrics when she saw Kaylin, Paige, Clover, and Tokkori. "Hey, pretty face!" shouted Tokkori. "Did you spoil the stupid fashion show?!"

Aspen started feeling hurt. Kaylin and Paige knew that it was wrong to insult people, "Forgive Tokkori," said Kaylin. "He always insults people. Now can you tell us what you were doing last night at the school?"

"I was learning some self-defense from Mrs. Corrigan," explained Aspen. "During the summer, my older brother warned me about people who try to steal charity money for their gang. On the night before school started, Mrs. Corrigan invited me so she can teach me how to defend myself."

It all started to make sense now because they knew what it meant to handle charity money from their Friendly Scout charity mystery.

**XxoxX**

At the library, Estrella, Swinger, Rylie, and Alex saw an obese girl with glasses and braces studying for her first exam of the year. She was Talia Devereux. Next to her was her boyfriend Easton, who was taking pictures for the yearbook. "Nicely done, babe," he said. "Now be serious."

"Hey, Talia" greeted Estrella. "We heard you're still the student organizer."

"That's mean," Talia replied as she placed away her book. "But no matter what, they won't let me in because I'm fat and ugly."

"Girl," Rylie replied, "I know how you feel about being ugly."

Hearing the word, Talia started ripping the fashion magazine articles near her. Alex spotted other pages with orange stains on her and her hands.

**XxoxX**

Later at the park, they explained their sides of the story. Then they needed more help with the fashion show. Kaylin remembered that every year at the fashion show they need 18 models to pose for the clothes. "Maybe it would be even better if all our friends got in" she suggested.

"Not too many rights," Sam replied.

"Nope," Leah answered. "Just our sweethearts, a few friends who are a bit quiet, and Paige's twin brother and his skating crew."

On the list, Rylie could see that Isla was on the list and wonders why she was on their list since she usually hung out with Billie. "Even though her parents are the Holmans' lawyers," Leah said, "she and Destiny could use some new friends."

**XxoxX**

That weekend, the Klue Queens and their friends were dressed up as the substitutes for the fashion show.

Leah did an outfit similar to "Passion Patties," Kaylin had an outfit similar to "Queen for a Day," Rylie wore an outfit similar to "Freaky Circus Much?", Estrella wore an outfit similar to "Wild Style," Tania wore an outfit similar to "Stuck in the Middle Ages with You," Paige wore an outfit similar to "Forward to the Past," Aranea had an outfit similar to "Creepy Crawley Much?", Charlotte wore an outfit similar to "Ski Trip," Helen wore an outfit similar to "Black Widows," Issac wore an outfit similar to "Man or Machine," Martin had an outfit similar to "Super Nerd Much?", Norma Jean had an outfit similar to "Boy Bands Will Be Boy Bands," Peter wore an outfit similar to "Scam Camp Much?", Hoodster did one similar to "Spy Gladiators," Santiago wore an outfit similar to "It's How You Play the Game," Maniac Mel wore an outfit similar to "0067," Swinger and Pineapple wore outfits similar to "Things for a Musician," Destiny did one similar to "Alex Gets Schooled," and Isla had one similar to Sam's latest painting, "Evil Bouquets Are So Passe."

Sam, Clover, and Alex came out to see if everyone was ready. They all were, except for Destiny, who was still nervous about catching the culprit.

Reporter Tang Yanghui came up, "Welcome, everyone" she greeted. "I am Tang Yanhui. You may know me as the reporter for the local news, but I'm also the announcer for the charity fashion show. As you all know, all the proceeds will go to the pet shelter. Now let's bring out the models."

One by one, the Klue Queens and their friends rollerbladed out to the runway while Kirby was the DJ. "You chose to wear roller-skates?" asked Sam.

"I found some in the storage room," Alex explained. "Leftovers from their old roller hockey team. Rylie told me that the principal of the 1980s banned it for being too unsafe."

Kaylin rollerbladed while carrying the Parasol Crossbow with Tokkori in it. "Are you okay in there, Tokkori?" Kaylin asked.

"No, I'm not," Tokkori replied. "I'm sweating like a pig at a luau."

In the audience, Kaylin could see the masked figure carrying an outfit based on "The New Jerry." With a quick shot, Kaylin used the arrow to fire at the culprit with Tokkori on the arrow. Unfortunately, the culprit missed and ran off. "Talk about a shooting spree," Tokkori said as he became unconscious.

Destiny used the Expandable Cable Bungee Belt to go up and near the entrance. She stared and it, then stared at Leah. "Leah," she offered, "open the dunce. I have an idea on how to catch the culprit."

Leah trusted Destiny, so she used the Butterfly Laser Pendant to open the dunce. Destiny barged into the dunce to hatch her scheme.

Tania and Rylie started rollerskating to the culprit, hoping to catch them. By the time Tania came up to the culprit to unmask it, the culprit pushed Tania out of the way to a window. The window broke into pieces.

With a press of the button, Tania's Nylon Tech Vest inflated, saving her from death. The masked figure saw Estrella posing like a model. The figure tried to grab it, but it was a hologram pulled by the mood ring. Estrella rushed up to Rylie, who activated the Spring Loaded Sneakers and tried to grab her, but the culprit ran off to the cafeteria. "Hello there," said the reporter. "I'd like to interview you for 'Style Sucker Magazine'."

As they got to the janitor's closet, the reporter locked the culprit and revealed her true identity, Destiny. The others rushed up to Destiny, who was amused by her confidence improvement and her tricking the culprit into going in the closet. "Thank you," Destiny replied. "I needed to help my new friends somehow."

"Now let's see the face of this fashion fiend," Leah said as she opened the closet with the culprit falling out.

Clover and Alex grabbed the figure so it wouldn't escape. With a removal of the mask, the figure revealed to be Talia Devereux. "I knew it the minute I scan the finger prints on the 'New Jerry' outfit," explained Paige.

"And there's more," Tania replied.

"Our first clue was the cheese curls. That meant someone must love cheese curls," Leah explained. "Then our second clue was the ripped up 'Flawless Girls' magazines. That meant she held a grudge against anyone beautiful. Then we saw Talia with her hands covered in orange stuff and on the ripped up magazine articles."

"All I ever wanted was to be beautiful and fabulous," Talia explained. "And I figure I could do that by stealing the fashion clothes based on Sam Simpson's art."

Aspen and Principal Hopkins came up in anger. "As you know." Principal Hopkins said, "looks are not everything. Back in high school, I was teased for my ugly appearance and my unibrow. Fortunately, I disciplined those maggots with a little scolding."

"Besides," Aspen explained. "We didn't reject you because you were ugly and nerdy. We rejected you because you always had a poor sense in modeling with your constant cheese curl messes."

Talia was surprised by the REAL rejection. "All of this for nothing!" she exclaimed as Principal Hopkins took her to the detention room. "I should've known."

"Don't worry Ms. Devereux," Principal Hopkins said to Talia. "Two weeks of detention would help straighten you out."

"I have to ask, Destiny," Sam said to her, "why did you pick 'Alex Gets Schooled'?"

"I chose Alex Gets Schooled, because of my deep love for dolphins and dorsels." Destiny said, "I spent the summer at dolphin training camp at my uncle's aquarium in Los Angeles."

"There you are" shouted Billie as she rushed up to Isla, "What are you doing here traitor?!"

"Because Destiny needed to find some new friends in high school" Isla replied, "It's true she has her old friends, but high school changes people."

"Change, schmange" Billie replied, "That twerp is a low-confident loser."

"Go put on a dunce cap!" shouted Tokkori as Billie got angry at him.

"The snot bird is back" Billie growled, "You know I don't do feathers."

Destiny got mad, "Billie" she shouted, "I've seen you kick out fat students, make fun of nerdy students, and get angry at waiters at your father's restaurant for no apparent reason. I'm not going to go back to being a coward and hide in the shadow. So shut your magenta lips up!"

Billie got so mad she barged out of the school. Easton came in and was amazed by what Destiny did, "Hey" Destiny greeted as she blushed, "I'm Destiny."

"Yeah" Easton recalled, "Maiden Number Three. I was going to dump Talia tonight for always making a mess with cheese curls and forgetting that I'm highly allergic to cheese, but this will do."

In the corner, Estrella could see a sad Kirby feeling left out, "Poor Kirby," Estrella replied, "He doesn't have an outfit to wear for the show."

Swinger and Pineapple decided that Kirby should wear The Spies green hat since they were friends.

**The End.**

**Chapter 4: An Order of Groovy Grits**

The Mystery Machine was driving down the streets to Lititz pass the time, Shaggy and Scooby playing "Sugar Rush Raceway" on the way there.

"You guys are enjoying that game way too much," Velma snarled.

When they put their phone down, they saw two mysterious figures going into Gavin Gates, which was a manor/theater studio until the owner's death in 1969. Fred suggested that they should tell the Klue Queens about it.

**XxoxX**

Later, they arrived at Roadhouse Fantasia where they saw the Klue Queens serving some meals. "Hey, girls," said Leah, "Mystery, Inc. is here."

After they served their customers of their drinks, they rushed up to Mystery, Inc. and gave them hugs. "It's good to see you guys again," said Leah.

"Good to see you guys too," Fred replied, "but there's something we have to tell you."

"Not yet," Kaylin said as she took off her apron. "First you gotta take a gander at this."

Kaylin wore a pink version of Daphne's outfit. Since Mystery, Inc. was coming, she went crazy with her wardrobe and sewed an outfit similar to Daphne Blake.

"Jeepers," Daphne smiled. "You're dressed like me."

"Where are Shaggy and Scooby?" Estrella asked. "Swinger would love to see them again."

"Take a good guess," Velma answered as she pointed to the buffet.

At the buffet, Shaggy and Scooby started raiding the desserts. LIttle did they know, they unintentionally knocked Tokkori into the chocolate pudding.

"Can't you dunk someone else in chocolate pudding for a change?!" shouted Tokkori. "I'm trying to fix up some grub!"

"Like, sorry," Shaggy said. "We didn't see you there."

"Sorry ain't gonna cut it, whiskers," Tokkori growled. As he was about to slap Shaggy, Alex took him by the hand.

"Shaggy," berated Alex as she came out of the bathroom, "save some food for the customers."

"Sorry, dear," Shaggy said to his wife.

"Why did Coach Cavity have to stay here?" Tokkori asked Leah. "Shouldn't she be with her whoopee cushion friends?"

"Alex is staying here to keep Shaggy and Scooby from eating all the food," Leah explained.

"Unlike the milky white at Gavin Gates' ghost problem," Shaggy replied as Alex and Scooby covered his mouth.

"What is this about Gavin Gates being haunted by ghosts?" asked Tania.

"Like, we saw two mysterious figures entering the house," Shaggy explained. "They were haunting Gavin Gates."

"What in sad hill is Gavin Gates?" asked Tokkori.

"Tokkori," Tania said, "Gavin Gates was a theater/manor that belonged to Phillip Gavin in the 1960s. Originally just a theater until the Great Depression. Gavin Gates sheltered many people who were looking for a job in the theater."

Leah heard a beeper going off on her phone. "That's Mom," she said. "Grandpa is waiting for us to come home."

Everyone except Tania was surprised by this. "We forgot to tell you that Grandma Clarice, Grandpa Wendell, and Uncle Wayne are in town," Leah explained. "Grandpa thought we could have a little family reunion. Aunt Milly, Clark, and Eva couldn't make it due to Eva's junior netball game."

**XxoxX**

At the McBruce residence, Ms. McBruce was polishing a picture of the Scottish flag when she saw her two daughters come into the house. "Girls," she said, "how are your friends Mystery, Inc.?"

"They're doing great," Tania said, "except the part where Shaggy mentioned that Gavin Gates was haunted."

Grandpa Wendell came in feeling horrified. "Norville Rogers?" he asked. "That mother-"

Leah covered his mouth before he got to finished. "Not in front of Kirby," she said to her grandfather.

"Any word on Gavin Gates?" Tania asked.

"Yeah," Grandpa Wendell replied. "That's where I proposed to your grandma - on the outside, of course."

"Besides that," Tania replied, "we heard that story a thousand times. You took Grandma out for a drive, drove up to the front of Gavin Gates, and proposed to her with a diamond ring from the jewelry store."

"There is," Grandma Clarice answered as she came in. "Mayor Hess has been balancing the budget of the town and realizes that there are more cars now. So she's going to turn it into a parking lot."

"That's not fair," Tania replied. "Animals need to thrive, including pink puffballs and green birds."

"Are you talking about that insult comic Tokkori?" asked Grandpa Wendell. "The town blog has been angry about his rude antics. I like it."

Grandma Clarice turned away. "You're more focused on heckling birds than our wedding anniversary," she growled. "You're more focused on your bowling convention in Erie."

Leah and Tania now had suspects:

*Grandpa Wendell - Thinks Shaggy is a baby.*

*Grandma Clarice - Mad at Grandpa Wendell for forgetting their wedding anniversary.*

*Mayor Hess - Afraid the town didn't have the money to turn it into a parking lot.*

**XxoxX**

The next day, Leah, Tania, and Grandpa Wendell met Mystery, Inc. and the other Klue Queens at the front of Gavin Gates. This brought back so many memories of Wendell coming here, from seeing theater productions to proposing to Clarice. "Why did you have to bring Grandpa?" asked Tania. "He's still a suspect."

"Sometimes, sis," replied Leah, "people need time apart."

When they got inside, Leah and Estrella saw a glass of ice water on the table, this meant that someone has been there. "Let's split up, gang," Fred said. "We have another mystery on our hands."

Fred, Kirby, and Leah were looking around the foyer when they came across a locked door. Leah took out some gummy worms in case Kirby got hungry. "I can handle this, " Leah said. "Kirby, suck it up."

With a gulp of the gummy bears, Kirby turned into Plasma Kirby. "You knew he could gain powers when he eats something?" Fred asked.

"He did help us when we first met," Leah answered.

In the door were a bunch of fake ghost equipment and a large collection of pranks. "Why would a ghost leave behind prank gear?" Leah asked.

Daphne and Kaylin were checking out the old billiard room when they saw some ghosts. "Jeepers!" Daphne shouted. "Ghost!"

But Kaylin noticed something strange. "These aren't ghosts," Kaylin said. "They're bedsheets."

On the edge of the bedsheet, Daphne could see a little inscription.

*Emu Blasts and Catching Fast*

"Sounds like something from a sports team," Daphne said.

**XxoxX**

Velma, Tania, and Tokkori were going around the attic for any clues. "Why can't we just go to the library and rip up old books?" asked Tokkori.

"Because investigating a house haunting is more important," answered Velma.

"Blah, blah, blah," Tokkori said. "If you two stooges are gonna waste your finding clues, then I'm out of here."

Before Tokkori had a chance to fly out, Tania called out, "Tokkori, we need to focus."

"Focus, schomocus," Tokkori called back. At the window, he saw a mysterious figure dressed in Julius Ceaser choir apparel and hid by an old vase. "There's a figure dressed like the Grim Reaper out there."

By the window, Tania and Velma saw the figure go off. "Actually, Tokkori," she said, "that figure is actually a Julius Ceaser choir member. This was just like our very first case in high school, where Principal Deedle was after a rare stamp."

"I remember when Grandpa Wendell collected stamps as a kid," Tania recalled. "His favorites were the ones with bowling balls on them."

**XxoxX**

In the kitchen were Paige and Grandpa Wendell looking around for clues while Shaggy and Scooby started raiding the 1960s fridge for old food. "Like, you can't eat any food here," Paige said. "That's disgusting."

"And don't be such babies," Grandpa Wendell replied. "You two eat like a bunch of monsters."

"You totally need to stop calling them babies," Paige said. "Leah warned me on how you really feel about them."

Wendell was surprised.

**XxoxX**

Alex, Rylie, Estrella, and Swinger were investigating the dining room when they saw the mysterious old lady coming in. "Señora McBruce," asked Estrella, "what are you doing here?"

"After the whole bowling mystery at The Ramen Noodle," Grandma Clarice said, "I feared that Wendell might go overboard on helping again."

"What?" asked Wendell as he came out of the kitchen. "First you're mad at me for forgetting our wedding anniversary again, then you come to see if I'm okay."

"I had to do it," Grandma Clarice as she peck kissed him. "I don't want you to get hurt."

Suddenly, the ghost of Phillip Gavin appeared and was coming up to them. Fred, Leah, and Kirby came down to see their loved ones in danger. With a glimpse of the cobwebs, Leah got an idea. "Kirby," she shouted, "suck it up!"

With a gulp of the cobwebs, Kirby turned into Spider Kirby. Kirby shot down the ghostly figure with numerous cobwebs.

Fred declaed, "Now let's untangle this ghost and find out who it is."

**XxoxX**

Later, everyone else came down to see what was going on. After they untangled the ghost from the cobweb, Velma revealed the ghost's mask, revealing to be Ms. McBruce. "Ms. McBruce?" asked Kaylin, Estrella, Rylie, and Paige.

"Lorraine?" asked Grandma Clarice and Grandpa Wendell.

"MOM?!" Leah and Tania asked.

"Lorraine Caroline McBruce," Grandpa Wendell demanded, "what in the name of bowling pins is going on?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Lorraine said. "Wayne and I are saving the place where you proposed to Mom."

"Uncle Wayne is here?" asked Tania.

"You bet," Lorraine answered as Uncle Wayne came out of the shadows. "And I got our little scared faces all on film."

"It reminded me of the pranks we pulled as kids," Uncle Wayne explained. "This is why I couldn't go to Eva's junior netball game, but I did order a banana cake for her for doing her best."

"It makes sense now. Uncle Wayne told Mom that they have SPECIAL reasons," Tania explained. "And remember when we first came in here? There was a glass of ice water, meaning that someone was in the place. Then we noticed the ghost sheets where actually bedsheets by the small inscriptions on the side that said, 'Emu blasts and catching fast', which is also the cheer for Cousin Eva's netball team."

"Plus in the lounge," Fred recalled.

"We didn't want the place destroyed," Ms. McBruce explained. "We were trying to save your romance. Now we gotta face up Mayor Hess about what we did."

"Not so fast!" shouted the masked figure.

With the removal from the Julius Ceaser mask, the figure revealed to be Mayor Hess. "Mayor," Uncle Wayne said, "we can explain."

"No need," Mayor Hess replied. "After going through some letter complaints about the old Gavin Gates being torn down into a parking lot, especially from Mr. Wayne McBruce, I decided not to tear it down."

"Wayne," Ms. McBruce said, "did you overdo it on helping again?"

"You're the one who helped me find a job," Uncle Wayne replied.

"So your not pressing charges?" asked Ms. McBruce.

"Not at all," Mayor Hess replied. "We're going to make this into a landmark and reopen it this spring." Everyone cheered.

"Can we talk," Ms. McBruce asked Wayne, "brother to sister?"

"Anything," Uncle Wayne answered. "I hope we'll talk about the laxative prank I gave the principal on April Fool's Day."

"Not that," Ms. McBruce replied. "You got a month of detention for that."

Outside, Ms. McBruce took them to a tree. On the tree, she saw the carving she did between her and her old sweetheart from college: "L+L". "You had to leave the man you love, did you?" asked Wayne.

"I had no choice," replied Lorraine. "His father couldn't take being a grandpa seriously. He felt like he was going through an aging crisis. So I had to leave him."

"Did your ex know that you were pregnant with Leah around then?" asked Wayne.

"He did," replied Lorraine tearfully. "But he was more focused on keeping his father from doing dangerous things, so we had to break up. It's for the best if Leah doesn't know her father's real identity yet."

"We're not gonna speak of your ex anymore," Uncle Wayne asked, "not until the girls know on their own."

"That's right," Ms. McBruce answered.

**XxoxX**

The next day at Roadhouse Fantasia, Cristina, Rusty, and Mr. Hayato were setting up for an eating contest: Shaggy and Scooby vs Wayne and Kirby. The Klue Queens were at school, so they couldn't come.

"Clarice," said Wendell, "I know you're mad at me because I forgot our wedding anniversary last month, but don't you think you oughta lighten up?"

Grandma Clarice took a deep breath. "You're right," she said. "You've been so pumped for the whole bowling convention in Erie, it looks like you couldn't give up your hobbies."

"Exactly," Wendell replied. "And I did save a little something if I forgot our wedding anniversary again."

In his bag, Grandpa Wendell got out a snowglobe of Erie. He remembered how much Grandma Clarice loved collecting snow globes. Grandma Clarice was delighted that her husband had still got it.

**The End.**

**Chapter 5: An Order of Chan Calamari**

At Hong Kong House of Chow, the owner of the place, Austin Yanghui, was handling a shipment of radishes. Austin was an elderly Chinese man who wore a waiter outfit. By the time he got back to the restaurant lobby, he dropped his clipboard in horror. His prized jade dragon statue was gone.

**XxoxX**

On a Friday afternoon ,Tokkori was going around the ground for a wormy lunch. That was when an orange and red van drove past him. He got mad, declaring, "I'll teach those rocker roadhogs not to ruin my breakfast."

**XxoxX**

Inside the van were six Chinese-American siblings. They were practicing "Sugar Sugar" for their next gig. Tokkori flew towards their van and deliberately poked into a tire, causing the van to crash into a fire hydrant. Ms. McBruce was coming out of the bookstore when she saw the Chan Clan safely coming out.

Later at Roadhouse Fantasia, Ms. McBruce fixed up a free meal for them. "So tell me," she asked, "what caused your little car crash?"

"We were on our way to our gig at Disco Day in Harrisburg when some green bird purposefully gave us a flat tire," Alan replied.

Ms. McBruce knew that Tokkori did this on purpose. She found Tokkori eating all the lo mien, grabbed him, and took him to the Chans' table. "Tokkori," she growled, "this is the third time this month you deliberately caused a flat tire. The first one was for Principal Hopkins when she kicked you out of the school and the other was for Mr. and Mrs. Zand when they thought you were a stray bird."

"I ain't no stray, Lorraine," Tokkori said. "I'm a Dreamland bird."

"He's a dreamer, but not the only one," Stanley said. Suzie, Alan, Anne, and Tom started to laugh.

"Forgive Stanley," Henry said. "He's always being a big dummy, and unfortunately I'm responsible for his antics."

"Since no one was hurt," Ms. McBruce said, "maybe you should test your instruments to see if they're alright."

After the Chan Clan tuned their instruments, they asked Ms. McBruce if she wanted any requests. "Do you know 'What A Feeling' by Irene Cara?" she asked. "That's my favorite song. It even inspired my girls to feel confident."

Alan knew the song from the song list they performed, including their originals.

The Klue Queens barged in to see Ms. McBruce performing with the Chan Clan.

"Mom knows how to sing, doesn't she, Kirby?" Leah asked as she looked down. By her foot, she saw that Kirby was missing. "Kirby?" she asked.

By the stage, Kirby played Leah's harmonica really badly. "Hey!" shouted Alan. "You're ruining our rehearsal!"

As Kirby got on Henry's drums, Leah grabbed him and confiscated the harmonica. "Kirby" she said, "I need that for my Harmonica Harmony badge."

By the door, a familiar face came in feeling glum. "Tang," said Leah. "We haven't seen you in ages."

"Yeah," Tang answered. "I've been super busy with the town news and Hong Kong House of Chow, and recently, our prized jade statue has been stolen."

"Wham Bam! Lititz Heights is in a jam!" Stanley said.

**XxoxX**

Later at Hong Kong House of Chow, Tang rushed up to her father and hugged him. "Tang," he said, "I'm glad you caught the Klue Queens and Mr. Charlie Chan's 6 eldest children's."

The Chans were surprised about this. "You knew our Pops?" asked Suzie.

"Knew him?" Mr. Yanghui replied. "We went to high school together. He told me of your little performances as a band and Jr detectives. You're always doing your best to help him out."

"After our mom died giving birth to Scooter," Tom explained, "we knew that he needed all the help he could get bringing in money for food and bills. So we decided to form a band."

"Enough familia talk," said Estrella. "What happened to the jade statue?"

"It's actually called the Yù Lín Dragon," Mr. Hanghui explained. "It was made by sculptors who served Princess Kay Lo in China. Years later, treasure hunters decided to take them to America. I won the statue with 200 Yuans."

Kirby was a little confused. "Yuans are Chinese currencies," Tania said.

"Do you have any suspects on who would steal the statue?" Kaylin asked.

"Here are the suspects to the jade dragon theft," Tang explained as she gave them the suspect list.

Suspects

Brayden Kǎchē (Mover) - Keeps sleeping on the job.

Ayla Yídòng (Mover) - Always angry.

Xavier Xuyao (Mover) - Was out sick during the shipment.

Jameson Yuen (Truck driver/owner of moving company) - Confined in a wheelchair and is worried about the finances of his business.

**XxoxX**

Later, Henry, Leah, Kirby, Stanley, Estrella, and Swinger were at the library looking for some answers on the statue. Leah and Estrella turned her heads to see Stanley wearing something silly.

"What on earth are you doing?" Henry growled.

"I'm supposed to be a mover," Stanley said while badly dressed up as a mover. "I figured since they're part of a moving company, I could blend in." Estrella, Leah, Swinger, and Kirby started to giggle uncontrollably.

"Will you get out of that stupid disguise?" Henry growled.

"Fine, fine," replied Stanley. "I did come up with the titles for you."

With a quick twirl, Stanley changed back to normal while Estrella, Leah, Swinger, and Kirby calmed down. "Sorry," Leah replied. "Stanley's humor always makes us laugh."

"But I'm afraid you won't have a laughing joke," said the librarian. "A group of movers broke into our library last night and stole a book on painting statues."

The sextet was shocked.

Meanwhile, Suzie, Kaylin, Alan, Paige were riding Chan Scoots around town when they saw Issac moping at the front of Jukebox Rock. "Hey, Issac," asked Paige, "what's wrong?"

"My brother Harry," Issac answered sadly. "He's visiting us, but has just gone missing. He hasn't called at all and we promised to eat at Jukebox Rock when he comes. I waited an hour, so I ordered a milkshake myself."

"Leah is not going to like this," Paige said to Alan.

"I can't see true love go downhill like Romeo and Juliet," Kaylin said.

"Me neither," Suzie replied. Both girls decided to take Issac to Leah and tell her what's going on.

"Does Kaylin always get all cutesy when it comes to romance?" Alan asked.

"She does," Paige replied.

Rylie, Anne, Tokkori, Tania, and Tom were patrolling on the Chan Bike. "Hey, Anne," Tokkori inquired. "Since when do you start wearing skirts?"

"Skirts? Please," Anne groaned. "You're being awfully rude."

Tokkori was so busy taunting Anne and Tom, he bumped into a street light. "That's for giving us a flat tire on purpose," Anne growled.

Tokkori woke up to see the Yù lín Dragon. "Hey, guys!" he shouted. "I found that stupid Young Line dragon."

"It's Yu Lin," corrected Tom, "Which is Chinese for 'jade scale'."

"Whatever, four-eyes," snapped Tokkori replied. "Now let me go find some worms to eat."

They were mad but were happy they found the statue, or so they thought. Thanks to Tania's color comparison she learned in elementary school, she knew the difference between jade green and a few other shades. She could tell that the statue was pear green. Without scrape, they realized that the statue was a fake.

**XxoxX**

At the front of Hong Kong House of Chow, Billie was coming out of the nail salon when she spotted Henry. She was amused by his gorgeous looks. "Hey, handsome," she said. "What's your name?"

"Henry," Henry greeted as he annoyingly pushed Billie, "and I'm a visitor."

"Too bad," Billie replied. "I've been looking forward to a candlelit dinner without the Klue Queens interrupting."

"We're kind of busy, Billie," Leah replied.

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Billie shouted. "Henry is mine, and he's going to like it!" Before she had a chance to punch Leah, Tokkori came in and kissed her. He said, "You're as lovely as a honey boo."

"Eww," growled Billie. "Bird kisses." She ran off in disgust.

Rylie, Tania, Tom, and Anne came up to inform them that the culprits tricked them into thinking that they left the statue behind.

At the same time, Suzie, Alan, Kaylin, Paige, and Issac came in to warn them that Harry was missing. Determined to help find her boyfriend's brother, Leah agreed to help him.

"Wait a minute," Tom said. "Let's get inside to Hong Kong House of Chow."

**XxoxX**

In the restaurant's kitchen, they saw the freezer with an "Out of Order" sign, which Tom knew that it was the least likely place to hide something or someone. In the fridge, they found Harry frozen, bound, and gagged.

"Harry!" Issac shouted as he untied his brother. "What happened?"

"I was coming home from shopping for food for my chimps when I saw a bunch of strange movers with the Yu Lin Dragon," Harry explained. "On my phone, I recorded their secret smuggling and hoped to report it to the police. Unfortunately, one of the guards came and broke my phone, preventing me from contacting you and accidentally breaking the promise to meet you at Jukebox Rock."

"No wonder you never called," Issac replied. "But don't worry - after we catch those movers, Martin can repair your phone."

"Did you say 'those movers'?" asked Henry. "Because the librarian said that a bunch of movers stole a painting book from the library."

"I think I know what this means," Leah replied

"The whole company is the culprit!" they shouted.

Kirby then spotted a trail of pear green paint from the back. "Good eye, Kirby," Rylie said. "If we follow this trail of paint, they would lead us straight to the movers."

By Warp Star, they followed the trail to Luobo Moving Company, with a huge sign that said "Secret Stash Here" in Chinese. "They need to learn not to use neon signs," Alan suggested. "Bilingual people could read that."

One by one, they entered the open window and landed safely in a pile of styrofoam peanuts. Kirby tried to eat some, but Alan caught him and warned, "Styrofoam peanuts are for packing, not eating."

As they got out, Anne seemed to notice a box filled with cards with Jameson's face on them. "Jace Yuan, Jaxson Yo, Josiah Yun," she deduced. "Those are fake IDs."

"Why would a moving company have a box of fake IDs?" asked Henry.

**XxoxX**

Suddenly, they heard some movers handling some boxes. They quickly hid behind the curtain so they wouldn't get in big trouble. Jameson came to them while walking towards them. "He's been faking his disability the whole time?" asked Henry quietly. "The nerve of people."

"Did you take care of the decoy statue you guys made?" asked Jameson

"We did," Xavier said. "I didn't major in sculpting for nothing. I'm so glad I played sick so I can give myself time to work on the fake sculptor."

"Quiet, Xavier," Ayla said. "We get paid after we sell that statue to that crime lord in Hong Kong?"

"We do," Jameson replied. "I'm usually too lazy to handle the big guns myself, so I faked my multiple sclerosis so I can let you steal the dragon from my old job at Hong Kong House of Chow."

"Why bother?" Brayden replied as he yawned. "You got fired from there after you rudely yelled at a kid's birthday party for no reason."

"They're children," replied Jameson. "They always make a mess. After that, I decided to go in a life of crime all around America stealing valuable statues for profit for our fake moving company."

The Klue Queens and the Chans were horrified by the terrible truth of the moving company. Kaylin spotted some imported liquid soap and got an idea. "Kirby," shouted Kaylin, "suck it up!"

With a gulp of the liquid soap, Kirby turned into Cleaning Kirby. One by one, Kirby started cleaning up the dirty movers.

"Get up, you buffoons!" shouted Jameson. "That walking piece of gumball isn't going to expose us!" Kirby made Jameson's cohorts slip and slide, but Jameson took baby steps in order to get away.

"Stanley," said Henry, "do your song title joke."

"Do I have to?" Stanley replied.

"You have to," Henry answered. "You are my brother."

"I'm the number-one son of the number-one man," Stanley said as they started to giggle. "The undercover man with an undercover plan, who's got the goods on you, who's got their eye on you, yes I do, whodunit, who made me feel this way, Chan of the clan, you are a super sleuth man."

Jameson laughed so hard that Kirby placed some handcuffs on him. "Thanks for all your help, Stanley," Harry replied. "We really needed that."

**XxoxX**

At Roadhouse Fantasia, everyone was enjoying themselves while having their Saturday Brunch. Cristina served Estrella her tea while wondering something. "Where's Swinger?" asked Cristina.

"He's going to test some cooking out in the kitchen" Estrella explained, "Just as long as he doesn't shed his fur, we don't want you to get fired."

"I can't believe that you guys solved a mystery with the Viewtube stars The Chan Clan" replied Cristina, "How did you guys figure that those movers stole the Yu Lin Dragon?"

"There were a few clues that they took the dragon," Kaylin explained, "Like the paint book stolen from the library, the color on the fake dragon being different from the original, and the green paint trail leading to the warehouse."

"Now the Yu Lin Dragon is back at Hong Kong House of Chow" Paige replied, "Peaceful and harmonized."

At Hong Kong House of Chow, Tang was writing down some reports on Lititz Heights when she saw the article on The Chan's and The Klue Queens rescuing her family's statue. Her father came up with some green tea and kissed her on the cheek. Tang smiled.

Back at Roadhouse Fantasia, Rylie was watching something special, "Guys" Rylie replied, "The Chans are live-streaming their performance at Disco Day."

**XxoxX**

At Disco Day, they performed "Mystery Woman" dedicated to The Klue Queens. "So sweet how The Chans paid tribute to us huh, Kirby," asked Leah as she spotted Kirby napping, "Sounds like they made a rock and roll lullaby."

Swinger came out of the kitchen, carrying a disgusting casserole made of turkey and flies. A few rats tried to smell it, but they ran off in disgust, "Looks like the rats don't like Swinger's flea and turkey casserole."

"I'll take a bite out of the casserole" Chief Hess replied.

"Ugh," said Leah, "Chief, there's something you have to know."

"Not now" Chief Hess said as he started eating the casserole.

Just then, Chief Hess started getting very sick, he rushed to the bathroom, and barfed, "I'm okay" he shouted from the bathroom.

**The End.**

**Chapter 6: An Order of Funky Frankfurts**

It was a dark night, an artist that looked like Eli was working on a painting with a female tight rope walker. "This is an homage for 'The Circus Boy'," said the painter, "But with a woman."

Just then, someone broke the window and knocked the artist out. A few hours later, he saw that some of his paintings were missing. "This isn't good," he said.

**XxoxX**

In the morning, Mr. Midgley's history class was heading off to Valley Forge for a field trip. "Now everyone," said Mr. Midgley, "I want all of you to be on your best behavior."

"Don't worry," Eli assured. "These teens will be off their phones and focusing on the history of Valley Forge."

"Why are you supervising us for our trip to Valley Forge?" asked Leah.

"Because I have a relative living there," Eli explained, "and he sells paintings for a living."

"Like, groovy," Paige commented. "Maybe I could get a painting there."

**XxoxX**

During the tour, in the end, Eli decided to take the Klue Queens to his relative who lived in Valley Forge. "Here it is, folks - Morse Code Art Shop and Studio," Eli said.

Tania started to notice the broken window and the tape that said, "Do Not Cross." She knew that police use that tape whenever there's a crime scene.

"Why is it called Morse Code Art Shop and Studio?" asked Estrella.

"Because my brother is a huge fan of painter and morse code inventor Samuel Morse," Eli explained. "But he also studied morse code in middle school." Inside, he called out to his brother. "Hey, Edwin!" he shouted. "I'm here!"

Edwin came in with an ice pack on his head. The Klue Queens, Swinger, Tokkori, Rick, and Kirby were shocked to see the striking resemblance. "It's like you've been cloned, Eli," declared Tokkori. "What is that walking mirror doing here?"

"Tokkori," Eli said, "Edwin is my twin brother."

"This is my new girlfriend Maci," Edwin said. "We met at an art lecture at the local library." Unfortunately, Maci was secretly disgusted, though this didn't hide the fact from both Tania and Estrella.

"Is there anyone else here?" asked Kaylin.

"There is," Edwin said as he took the Klue Queens and their friends upstairs. Maci, on the other hand, stayed behind, starting to text someone.

In his private office, Edwin started to bang a grandfather clock. "Hey, Mudsy!" he shouted Edwin. "We got guests!"

Out of the grandfather clock, a Revolutionary War ghost and his ghost partner came out of the clock. "Hey, Edwin," greeted the ghost. "You've got friends, don't you know."

"A ghost friend," Rylie said. "That's new."

"I'm Jonathan Wellington Muddlemore, and this is Boo," greeted the ghost.

The girls were a little confused by his name. "Call me Mudsy, don't you know," said Mudsy. "So what bring you girls here?"

"We were on a field trip to Valley Forge when Eli decided to invite us to Edwin's studio," Tania explained. "That's when I found the broken window, meaning that something was wrong."

"Another group of mystery solvers," Mudsy guessed.

"Yeah," Kaylin answered, "How did you know?"

"I had a few friends before you girls showed up," Mudsy explained. "They call themselves the Funky Phantom Crew. Back in the 1970s, they fixed the clock Boo and I hid in to avoid capture by those nasty Readcoasts, don't you know."

"Redcoats?" asked Tania. "Weren't you from the Revolutionary War?"

"Of course I was, don't ya know," Mudsy replied.

That was when Estrella remembered something. "I promised my girlfriend, Helen, I would get a souvenir. When she got back down, she accidentally bumped into Maci.

"What are you doing?" asked Maci.

"I need to find a souvenir for my girlfriend," Estrella replied. "I needed to keep my promise."

"How come your not a Biggo lesbian?" asked Maci.

Estrella was surprised by what Maci said, then the latter girl took off with a strange bag. After her friends picked her up, Estrella found a painting of an 18th-century lady and asked, "Did you paint this or did you buy it?"

"I bought it at a flea market actually," Edwin answered. "Mudsy and I were both looking for new paintbrushes, for my child students. Mudsy took a gander of it for so long, I had to buy it before anyone else saw him."

"That is Johanna Keen," Mudsy answered as he started to cry. "She was the love of my life, don't you know. Johanna was a nurse back in the old days, healing the poor and stray animals. She'd even helped heal injured Indians."

"What happened to her?" asked Kaylin.

"They say that she died of influenza," Mudsy answered. "I miss her so much."

Outside, the Klue Queens found a female nurse healing a baby crow. "That's just Nurse Jo Kay," explained Edwin. "She's been going around town healing stray pets. It's kind of funny how Mudsy and I are the only ones who noticed."

"I think we should start solving the mystery," said Leah.

"You know what time it is?" asked Mudsy. "It's Funky Phantom time!"

"Mudsy," Edwin whispered, "Stay invisible. We don't want the public to freak out by a walking soldier."

"You're right," Mudsy replied as he turned invisible.

"Hey there," Leah replied. "You must be Nurse Kay. We're the Kirby Klue Queens."

"Nice to meet you guys," Jo replied. "So what brings to Valley Forge?"

"Field trip," answered Paige. "And, like, someone broke into Edwin's art studio and took some of his paintings."

When they turned back, they saw an Italian-American woman looking for clues at Morse Code Art Shop and Studio. The girls tried to talk to her, but she blocked them and said, "Back off - this is my case!"

"What's going on?" asked Estrella

"Detective Gianna Porto of the Valley Forge Detective Agency," greeted the detective. "Now back up right this minute. Also, stay away from the cemetery."

"Sounds like we've got some suspects," Leah whispered.

Suspects

*Maci - She seems annoyed by Edwin.*

*Detective Porto - Warns people not to go near the cemetery.*

*Nurse Jo Kay - No one seems to notice her healing stray pets.*

Suddenly, they heard a seal barking. That seal found a piece of broken glass and placed it in a plastic bag for evidence. Kaylin took it to check for fingerprints.

"Give me that!" snapped Detective Porto as she grabbed the bag from her. "I don't request help from water mammals."

The seal gave Kaylin a hug, which cheered Kaylin up from confiscating the evidence, and then Jo joined in. "Good girl, Angelina," Jo said. "I know you were trying to help Detective Porto. "

"It's unlikely to own a pet seal," Tania said,

"Angelina just loves the winter," Jo said. "Not like the winters I went through, where I get sick easily."

Rylie walked up to Detective Porto. "Detective Porto," she asked, "is there another store in town that sells paintings?"

"There is one on the other side of town," Detective Porto answered as she gave them the business card.

*The British Are Coming*

*British Antique Shop*

"That's right," recalled Leah. "Paul Revere called out, 'The British are coming!', which caused the entire Revolutionary War."

Along the way, they found a mysterious map with red markings on it. "London, Paris, Rome, and Hong Kong," read Tania. "These are all art capitals of the world."

At the antique shop, they met Mr. Chadwick, who owned the shop. They told him about the thefts. "Relax," he said. "The same thing happened to me last week. I'd even kept the article of the supposed thief."

In the article, they saw a Biggo lesbian holding a painting. "Is that Kenna 'The Spur Smeer' Spurling," asked Estrella, "international art thief?"

"Of course," Mr. Chadwick answered. "How did you know?"

"My sister, Carolina, did a report on her once for a homework assignment on criminals."

In the news article, Kaylin couldn't help but notice that the Spur Smeer had a necklace with an "M" on it. "What does the 'M' on her necklace stand for?"

Estrella froze and realized something. "Perhaps it stands for a sweetheart," she replied. "We better get back to Morse Code Art Shop and fast."

**XxoxX**

Later, they arrived at the art studio, where Eli and Edwin were both placing a new window into the broken one. "Edwin," said Estrella quickly, "There's something we have to tell you."

"What is it?" asked Edwin. "Did you find the thief?"

"We think we did," answered Estrella, "but she's not working alone. Maci is in on this too."

"What?" Edwin asked "\*My\* Maci?"

"Relax," Eli replied. "Maybe it's a different Maci. It is a common name."

"Not really," said Detective Porto as she showed pictures of Kenna and Maci together. "I've been investigating the robberies for a few months now. I've heard rumors of two people sneaking paintings into the old mausoleum. I wanted to see for myself if the rumors are true."

Edwin couldn't believe his eyes. Maci had been playing him for a fool in order to get his paintings. "She lied to me," he sadly said. "I can't believe that she's a lesbian."

"There were a few clues that she was a lesbian, and that she and the Spur Smeer were the thieves," Tania replied.

"First she said asked why I'm not a 'Biggo' lesbian," Estrella said. "Take it from me - there's another word for it, but I can't say it in front of Kirby."

"Then we found a map with numerous cities with markings on it," Tania replied. "That meant that the art studio and the antique shop aren't the only places that have been robbed of its art."

"And let's not forget that Kenna had a necklace around her neck that had an 'M' on it," Kaylin recalled. "I had that feeling since the dreams I had with Nathaniel giving me a necklace with an 'N' on it."

Edwin could not believe his ears. All this time, his girlfriend was a lesbian and was using him to steal his paintings.

"Don't be like that, bro," Eli replied. "Remember when I came out to Mom and Dad in high school? I did that during my Christmas dance recital. It took a while for them to get the hang of it, but that's okay, and you will be too." Edwin smiled, knowing he was not alone. Kirby came up with some cold pizza from his fridge, just to cheer him up.

"Was that pizza left over from last night?" Mudsy asked.

"Pizza is usually better served cold," Edwin answered as he took a bite.

"Now we gotta stop the Spur Smeer and Maci and get the paintings back," said Rylie. "How are we going to do it?"

"Perhaps I could be of assistance," beamed Jo.

"How did you get in here?" Paige asked. "And how do you know about Maci and Kenna?"

"Wait a minute," Tania asked. "Jo - isn't that short for Johanna?"

"It is," Jo answered as she changed from a nurse to an 18th-century maiden.

Mudsy was so surprised by the change. "Johanna," he replied. "I can't believe it's you, don't you know."

"That's right," replied Johanna. "I took on the form of a human so I can help the local vets and hospital to those in need. When I saw Edwin with a grandfather clock with a soldier and a cat, I knew you would be in it." She took Mudsy by the hand and kissed him. Boo awed. After they kissed, Johanna picked up some watercolor paints. "You know how I help Indian tribes?" she asked.

"Yeah," Leah replied.

One by one, the Klue Queens used some of Edwin's watercolor paint and made painted their faces to look like tribal warriors. "You look more like preschool finger paintings," Tokkori insulted.

"Relax, mate," Rick replied. "We need to find the paintings fast."

**XxoxX**

At the cemetery, Maci and Kenna were counting their stolen painting stash. "This tulip painting is romantic," Maci said. "Is that the one you stole from that Danish artist visiting New York?"

"It was," the Spur Smeer replied. "And I especially got it for you because they're your favorite flower."

"Ooh, Kenna," Maci replied. "Pretending to be in love with those artists was a great way to earn the secrets of their paintings and their security systems. And that Edwin...I can't tell him apart between him and his dancing brother Eli."

"Don't talk to my brother like that," Edwin snarled as he appeared at the door. "You got to learn to lock your door."

"Eddie," Maci nervously replied. "What a surprise."

"Don't lie," Edwin replied. "I know you're a lesbian and you tricked me into giving you some paintings."

"Come on," Maci replied. "Your paintings of the 18th century are very valuable."

Maci and the Spur Smeer tried to make a run for it, but Angelina blocked them.

"Atta girl, Angelina," Johanna cheered, "You ghost seal, you."

Angelina turned into her true form, a ghost seal, which horrified Maci and the Spur Smeer. Johanna explained, "She was a seal who was killed by poachers in the 19th-century Canada."

The Klue Queens ambushed the two thieves. Maci and the Spur Smeer got out some daggers, "Stay back," shouted Kenna, "Or else you guys will get the stabbing of your life!",

From her bag, Johanna got out some shedded crows from the same crow she healed earlier today. "Kirby," she shouted Johanna, "suck it up!"

With a gulp of the feathers, Kirby turned into Wing Kirby. Boo and Swinger attacked the two thieves, Kirby taking them to the ionosphere. Luckily the Spur Smeer and Maci survived thanks to Kirby rubbing off his star powers. With one drop, the duo crashed down to earth. Boo helped out too by turning into a crash pad to avoid killing the culprits.

"Heavens to Betsy," Mudsy said as he popped to a traumatized Maci and the Spur Smeer. "Space is cold, don't you know."

"Take us to jail," begged a traumatized Maci. "J-j-just control your little puffball."

**XxoxX**

A few days later back in Lititz Heights, the Klue Queens were studying for their test on the Revolutionary War when Kirby came in with a big package for them. The package was from Edwin.

*Dear Klue Queens*

I want to thank you girls for retrieving my paintings and putting Maci and Kenna behind bars.

*Thanks to you, things are not who and what they seem to be.*

*I'm now working on a new painting based on what you taught me.*

*In return, I'm giving each of you an 11x14 painting.*

*Sincerely, Edwin.*

Leah got a painting of a mother polar bear and her cubs, Tania got one with a seal and some penguins, Rylie got one with Halloween Candy, Kaylin one with a fairy godmother, Estrella got one with a bunch of circus dancers with, and Paige got one with Kaguya Hime. Kirby, on the other hand, got a coloring book and a beginner's watercolor painting kit, but that was okay.

Outside, they saw Mudsy and Jo holding hands, watching Kirby paint some flowers. "Kirby is cute when he paints, huh, Johanna?" asked Mudsy.

"Yes, he does, Mudsy," answered Johanna as she nose-kissed him.

Angelina, on the other hand, was juggling a bunch of balls and Boo from her nose. "Stop playing, you two," Johanna replied. "Let's go back to Valley Forge and help bring in customers for Edwin."

Just like that, the four ghosts flew off into the day.

**The End.**

**Chapter 7: An Order of Freaky Fetuccini**

At night, Principal Hopkins was dusting the picture frames at the Lititz Heights Public Library. "Not those new wave '80s tribute band," he growled. "I hate the '80s."

**XxoxX**

Outside, a new wave band known as Waving Shells was starting to play freaky electronic music in front of the library. The lead singer was a male with aqua hair, the keyboardist was a female with armpit length cerulean hair, the male was an African-American drummer with periwinkle hair, and the keytarist was a female Asian with an icy blue odango style, and all of them were wearing shell/'80s outfits.

"Stop this behavior this instance!" the librarian shouted. "The manager of the library let me dust off the painting frames so we can be ready for display."

"Like, sorry, ma'am," said the guitarist. "We, like, totally had to rehearse for our concert in Philadelphia."

Back inside, Principal Hopkins noticed that something was wrong, the new painting has been stolen.

**XxoxX**

The next day at the library, the Friendly Scouts were serving cookies to the patrons who are there for the unveiling of the new painting. They were greeted by a witch in purple with eye patterns, a gargoyle with pink hair and cute clothes, a werewolf in punk clothes, a ghost wearing 19th-century clothes, a hippie mummy, and a vampire with long red hair and fabulous clothes. They were Nathalia Clarivoya, Grogan Biteson, Abberan Delic, Skyler, Logan Goyle, and Janel Palekachi, otherwise known as the Freaky Six.

"We're here to sell cookies at the unveiling of the latest painting by Princess Skyler - 'Witchy Troubles'," explained Kaylin. "It's an oil, acrylic, and gouache mixed media painting.

"'Witchy Troubles'," Princess Skyler. "That's my painting."

"Alrighty, folks," Mayor Hess said. "Today we're displaying mixed media paintings made by monsters that isn't partially eaten. So without further adieu-"

"Stop!" shouted Principal Hopkins. "Sorry I'm late. My husband had a little plumping problem at his workplace and needed me to help."

"Needed to save money on plumping again?" asked Mayor Hess.

"I'm afraid so," answered Principal Hopkins. "Listen, 'Witchy Troubles' is gone."

"What?" asked the mayor in horror.

With an unveiling of the curtain, they saw that the painting was missing. Everyone was horrified by the missing painting. Paige turned her head to realize that Peter was missing. A man came out of the bathroom in annoyance declaring, "Four teenagers in there are flushing down some toilet paper for no apparent reason."

"Not again," Paige growled.

"You dealt with this before," asked Nathalia.

"Believe me," Paige replied. "They'd even flushed my homework down the toilet. My brother had to spend a week of detention for doing that back in middle school."

On the ground, Swinger and Kirby found a card that said "Tidal Wave Records." It only meant one thing for them: the culprit must've been someone working for that company.

Abberan decided to come along so Grogan won't eat their lunch money. In the men's room, Peter, Santiago, Maniac Mel, and Hoodster were flushing old magazines down the toilet. Grogan scared the quartet out so they can stop clogging the toilet. The boys unintentionally bumped into Skyler. With one look, Santiago developed a major crush on her.

"Hey," said Santiago. "Name's Santiago. Do you like the smell of fish heads?"

"I may be a mummy," Skyler replied, "but I don't like the smell of fish heads." As she was rushing out to avoid Santiago's rude behavior, Janel followed her, but Nathalia stopped her by stomping her foot in her hair.

"Thanks for stopping me," Janel replied. "Us vampires hate the sunlight."

Nathalia gave Janel a parasol to avoid being exposed to the Sun. She found Skyler by a bush, trying to get away from Santiago. "Hey, Skye," she said. "Still a bit shaken about Santiago?"

"He's gross," Skyler answered. "All I want to do is find my painting before it's too late."

"Is everything alright?" a British woman with 1980s apparel asked. "I've been hearing noises out here and I was petrified about the whole stolen painting business. Forgive me. Marley Hewitt, CEO of Tidal Wave Records."

"Right on," Grogan said. "Can I jam you a tune for a record deal?"

"No," answered Marley. "I only accept new wave bands, not punk rockers."

**XxoxX**

After Marley left, they went back inside to ask Principal Hopkins if she had any suspects. "I do have a few suspects in mind," he provided.

Suspects

Conch (Lead guitarist of Waving Shells) - It was his idea to practice in Lititz Heights.

Bivalve (Keyboardist of Waving Shells) - Wants a break from the music industry.

Moonshell (Drummer of Waving Shells) - Never seems to be interested in the music industry.

Sunrise Shell (Keytarist of Waving Shells) - A huge expert on mixed media art and created the logo for the band.

"Here's the plan," Leah said. "Nathalia, Abberan, Tania and I will talk to Conch, Grogan, Janel, Rylie, and Kaylin will handle Moonshell, Logan, Estrella, and Swinger will handle Sunrise Shell, and Paige, Tokkori, and Skyler will handle Bivalve."

"Before we begin," Janel replied, "Nat, a little costume change for the Klue Queens?"

"Sure thing," Nathalia answered as she changed the Klue Queens clothes into something FREAKY.

Leah, Kaylin, Estrella, Rylie, Tania, and Paige were all wearing clothes in the style of the Freaky 6, with stars on them. "I figure you could use a good mystery-solving outfit, Freaky 6 style," Janel explained.

"Thanks for giving us these beautiful outfits," Kaylin replied. "I feel so cute in them."

Leah and Nathalia were both looking for clues when they spotted a hamster. "G'day there," the hamster said in an Australian accent.

"Wow," Nathalia replied. "A talking hamster in Lititz Heights."

"You must be one of Kirby's friends, are you?" Leah asked.

The hamster nodded his head. "Name's Rick," said the hamster. "After your little act in Dreamland, I thought I could check out Earth for myself. King Zaire insisted I come to Lititz Heights to avoid freakouts."

Then Rick looked around, seeing there was no sign of Kirby, "Where's Kirby anyway?" Rick asked.

"Helping Kristi and Leelanee get apples from Mr. Acker's apple tree," explained Leah.

**XxoxX**

In front of a produce store, Leelannee, Kristi, and Kirby were carrying each other to get apples. Kirby ate one of them, then he picked up two for the others. As Kristi and Leelannee got down, he tossed the apples to the two girls and they ate them, "That Kirby" Rick replied, "Always helping people

"Kristi, honey" Chief Hess replied, "Those apples might have worms."

"Daddy," Kristi said, "Mw. Achey always checks the appwes befowe giving them outey"

"Mr. Acker owns an organic produce store, "Acker Apples" explained Leah, "He always gives away free apples from his apple tree upfront to attract customers."

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Grogan, Rylie, Janel, and Kaylin were at Symphony Sound Music Shop, where not only that people buy music supplies, where they also get music lessons. Kaylin remembered taking harp lessons there. They met Moonshell looking for drumsticks and asked what was he doing here, "Marley suggested I get new drumsticks for the pose I'm doing for the album," Moonshell explained, "She told us that the cover is a surprise."

On the store shelf, Grogan saw an obese boy, "That's my best bud, "Ralph" replied Moonshell, "He inspired me to get into special effects. The original drummer of Waving Shells, Snailshell was suffering from a terrible throat condition and he suggested that I should replace him as the drummer."

"So," Grogan asked, "Are you interested in the music buis or not"

"It's neutral" Moonshell replied, "Mostly I rather do the effects."

They were amazed by Moonshell's true talent.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Estrella, Logan, and Swinger were at Zand Art for any clues when they spotted Sunrise Shell comparing colors. "Hello, Sunrise Shell," Estrella replied.

"Can I help you?" asked Sunrise Shell.

"We need to talk about designing the album cover," Logan said. "Did you want to draw it? Did ya, did ya, did ya?"

"Easy," replied Sunrise Shell. "I, Chica 'Sunrise Shell' Mizuhsima, have studied art for 24 years, since my birth. Whenever I make a new album cover, I always end up getting rejected."

"I'm sure someone would appreciate your albums," replied Estrella.

"You're right," Sunrise Smile said as she hugged Estrella.

"Even though we just met," replied Estrella, "this is kinda lovely."

"I'm a bit of a hugger," Sunrise Shell explained.

At the park, Paige, Tokkori, and Skyler found Bivalve doing some yoga. "Excuse me, Bivalve?" asked Paige.

"Please," Bivalve replied in a French accent. "I prefer you free-spirits call me by my real name - Cassandra."

"Cassandra?" asked Tokkori. "More like Cass sand to your eyes."

"I do not find that insult amusing," Cassandra replied.

Tokkori decided to nap in Paige's purse. Paige asked, "Can we talk about the whole break from the music industry?"

"Oui," replied Cassandra. "I was a choir star in Brittany, France. I wanted a break in the music, but no one accepted me. One day online, I found an ad in America for a new wave band in need of a keyboardist. I've always been talented on the piano, so maybe a new wave band would be a big gig. As I was on tour, I started missing France."

"Is that why you wanted a break?" asked Skyler. "Because you were homesick?"

"You have no idea what is like missing your homeland," replied Cassandra, "so I do yoga whenever I feel homesick."

Paige and Skyler decided to do it too, so they could learn some of her techniques. Little did they know was that a mysterious figure was spying on them, hoping to kidnap Cassandra. Tokkori woke up to find the kidnapper right behind them. "Look out, girlies!" he warned.

The three girls turned around to see the kidnapper but did a warrior pose to avoid capture. In the kidnapper's hair, Paige spotted a keytar hairpin. The kidnapper left without any other evidence.

"Thank you, Tokkori," Paige said as she got up. "You make a good birdwatcher."

"No prob," Tokkori replied. "Perhaps I could be rewarded with some gummy worms later."

**XxoxX**

Later, they arrived at the library to ask Waving Tides about the theft. "Dude," replied Conch, "we don't steal art. It's, like, copyright infringement."

"Besides," Sunrise Shell replied, "Marley couldn't accept other bands, because Tidal Waves Records only accepts new wave bands."

That's when Logan realized something. "Let's try the last place we would look," she said. "The tour bus."

At the tour bus, they found the backroom, which was where none of the Waving Shells ever went to. In the end, they found a painting with oil witches, an acrylic angry mob, and a gouache background. "This is 'Witchy Troubles'," asked Rylie. "It looks like a witch hunt."

"It \*is\* a witch hunt," answered Skyler.

"Witches were persecuted back in the old days," Nathalia explained. "My mom was considered a lady of Purple Magic. The Purple Magic is time magic us Clarivoyas get."

"What are you doing?!" shouted Marley from behind, "I told you not to go in the back, EVER!"

In her red hair, Paige found the same keytar hairpin as Bivalve's supposed kidnapper and exclaimed, "You're the thief!"

"Correct," Marley replied. "I needed to kidnap Bivalve in order to make a decoy painting so no one would suspect."

"Boss," Bivalve replied, "you forgot that Sunrise Shell is the artist. I'm the peacekeeper."

"Whatever," growled Marley as she grabbed a wrench.

On the makeup mirror, Leah found a mirror and got an idea, "Kirby," shouted Leah, "suck it up!"

With a gulp of the hand mirror, Kirby turned into Mirror Kirby. He made a bunch of clones of Marley to attack her. On top of the tour bus, Rick landed on her. "Get off," she said. "I hate rodents." When she got out of the tour bus, she landed in a hole that Rick rigged up.

The Klue Queens, the Freaky 6, and Waving Shells came out of the bus. "It's starting to make sense now," Nathalia said as she placed a shield over Marley. "The thief left behind a business card for Tidal Wave Records, where they only accept new wave bands. Then Paige, Tokkori, and Skyler found another clue where the mysterious figure had a keytar hairpin in its hair, the same one Marley had when we met her. Also, remember when Grogan, Rylie, Janel, and Kaylin were at Symphony Sound Music Shop, Moonshell said that Marley needed some alone time working on the cover for their next album. That's a sign that they couldn't know about the whole charade."

"And the band was a front so you can steal the painting?" guessed Leah.

"Boss," Conch said, "why on Earth would you make us go back to Lititz Heights for one simple painting?"

"I was a nobody in the music industry," explained Marley. "I tried out thousands and thousands of record companies to get into the music business, but nobody wanted me. That's when I decided to launch my own record company. I had a hard time finding the right band, but then I found Waving Shells at that night club in Willmington a year ago. We toured all over Pennsylvania and has made a smash hit with their first album, 'The Call In the Shell.' Now they needed a new cover, something relating to their songs about witchcraft. When I read online about the unveiling of a mixed media painting of persecuting witches, I knew I had my inspiration. I would've made a fortune out of the painting and I would become a star in the world of graphic design."

"Here's a plus one," replied Conch. "If you hadn't taken us to Lititz Heights, I wouldn't have brought back some old memories."

**XxoxX**

Later, Chief Hess and Deputy Downs took Marley to prison, where she wouldn't manage any more bands. "Thank heavens she's gone," Sunrise Shell sighed with relief.

Everyone was surprised by how Waving Shells felt about Marley. "What do you mean?" asked Rylie.

"We never liked Marley," Sunrise Shell confessed. "She never let us use our songs. She wrote all the songs herself and forced us to publish them as our own. She said that she wouldn't pay us if we didn't do it."

"After all we went through," Conch replied, "I think we should retire for a while and work at my parents' music shop for a living. Thanks to my main man, Blaine 'Moonshell' Killam, we get to be hometown boys again."

"Wait," asked Kaylin. "You're Ralph Kemp, but you look fat in the day."

"It's amazing what a diet of asparagus soup and apple juice and 45 minutes of dancing can do to you," answered Conch.

Tania picked up Rick with her hands. "Nice job, Rick" she replied. "Without you getting on Marley's head and digging that hole to trap her, she wouldn't be in jail by now."

"No prob," replied Rick. "Any mate of Kirby's is a mate of mine."

"We should give Rick a home," Leah suggested. "We know Little Miss Starlight and Masahiro would love to eat him, Rylie's family would just stuff you non-stop, and Swinger would just become jealous."

Then Tania remembered something. "Remember when we had our old hamster Sherlock?" she asked. "Maybe he can live there. We still have his cage in the attic."

"Mom told us that he ran away and joined the circus when we were 6 and 5," Leah recalled. "Three years later, Mom told the truth that he died. It was a shame to lose a little hamster."

**XxoxX**

Later that night, Leah and Tania were both decked out in their jammies while checking on Rick in his new hamster home. "How things with you, mate?" asked Tania as she faked an Aussie accent.

"Great, mate," answered Rick. "By the way, where did you learn to fake an Aussie accent?"

"Our cousins Clark and Eva are from Australia," Leah explained. "They've even taught us a little Aussie slang."

"So what's on the word on Waving Shells," asked Rick, "Besides them taking a break from touring and working at the music shop."

"Sunrise Shell is going to design the new album cover for their band," answered Tania. "Something that doesn't involve witch hunts."

Suddenly, they heard a bang in the kitchen. Ms. McBruce came along to just in case someone got hurt. By the kitchen, Kirby got out some leftover fettuccini. "What in koala bears is Kirby doing?" Rick asked.

"Late night snacking," Leah replied. "But that's just Kirby."

**The End.**

**Chapter 8: An Order of Puppy Power Pate**

Principal Hopkins was supervising the homecoming committee. She was checking the banners when she saw a box that said, "Frankin B. Dough Baking Goods," which made her feel suspicious. In the crate, she couldn't help but notice one thing strange. "These are counterfeit," she said to herself. "Someone is smuggling counterfeit dollars." She turned back to see if any of the other students noticed the counterfeit dollars. Fortunately, they were too busy putting the last adjustments to the dance together. "I better get the Klue Queens fast," she decided.

**XxoxX**

At the Lititz Heights Library, Estrella and her girlfriend, Helen, were both studying for a math test. After they finished up, they both peck cheeked. "Hey, Helen," said a blond handsome boy with blue highlights. "I'm sorry I'm late. I had a little traffic trouble."

"Hayes!" Helen proudly exclaimed as she hugged the boy. "Estrella, you remember my big brother Hayes?"

"Yeah," Estrella recalled. "You're a theater major at Clarion University. What brings you back to Lititz Heights?"

"After the final encore presentation of the prison show 'Anything Goes'," answered Hayes, "the warden forced me to bring home a psychopathic puppy who was serving time handing out snacks."

Helen and Estrella didn't know what he was talking about. "Puppy power!" shouted the puppy. "Hey there, kid," the puppy continued. "How about you and me arm wrestle here?"

"This is a library," said the librarian, "not a pub. So I'm gonna have to ask you to leave."

"Is that Scrappy-Doo," asked Estrella, "former member of Mystery, Inc. until they got fed up with his unruly behavior?"

"That he is," Hayes replied. "I had to bring him. I just couldn't bare see any more townspeople get harassed by his antics."

"Hey there, Hayes," said Scrappy. "Isn't that your sister and one of them Klue Queens you told me about?"

"That it is," Hayes replied. "Now let's get out of here before the library sues us."

**XxoxX**

Outside, Swinger was hanging in a tree when he saw Estrella. He spotted them with Scrappy, much to the latter's confusion. "What is a monkey doing here?" asked Scrappy. "Shouldn't he live in the zoo?"

"Scrappy," Hayes said, "Swinger is Estrella's pet monkey."

Just then, they ran into Leah, who had great news. "Issac just gave me a homecoming proposal via note in class," she explained. "But don't worry - he did it before class got started. We didn't want to get in trouble."

"That's very sweet, Leah," Estrella replied. "What about Martin and Rylie?"

"Martin and Rylie did one this morning," Leah answered. "Martin got Rylie a cake that says, 'Will you go to homecoming with me, Rylie Phelps?'"

"Wow," Estrella said. "Creative."

"That reminds me," recalled Helen as she kneeled down and took Estrella's hand, "will you go to homecoming with me?"

"Si, mi novia," Estrella replied as she hugged Helen.

"It's amazing what having a lesbian cheerleader sister could do to you," Hayes said to Scrappy.

"Lesbian?" Scrappy asked. "I thought you meant 'thespian'."

Just then, Leah and Estrella got an email from Principal Hopkins.

*Dear Klue Queens,*

*I know homecoming is tomorrow night,*

*But someone has been smuggling counterfeit dollars into the school.*

*Come quick.*

*Sincerely, Principal Lynda Hopkins.*

Scrappy was so stoked about solving his first mystery since his service in jail, that he picked up our heroes and ran off.

**XxoxX**

At the school, Principal Hopkins was waiting for the Klue Queens outside when she saw Scrappy carrying Leah, Estrella, Swinger, Helen, and Hayes.

"So this is Lititz Heights High," Scrappy said. "Not as shabby as Coolsville High."

Principal Hopkins noticed Scrappy putting down our heroes and walked up to him. "Scrappy Cornelius Doo," growled Principal Hopkins. "I heard about your little act on Spooky Island."

"I swear," he said, "I'm not doing any crimes this time, lady. So move it and let me catch this counterfeiter."

"Scrappy, stop," snapped Hayes. "You promised to be on your best behavior."

"I kinda like him," Tokkori replied as he flew in. "The way he rushes into finding the culprit and keeps snapping at other people for no reason."

"You like my insults?" Scrappy asked.

"You betcha," Tokkori answered. "And I thought I was the only one who keeps making fun of these no-brain bozos here in Lititz Heights."

Hayes started to get annoyed by this. "So," he asked, "any suspects?"

"Mostly the faculty who are supervising the homecoming committee," Principal Hopkins explained. "As principal, every club must have ONE faculty advisor."

Suspects

Ms. Garrad (10th-grade creative writing teacher) - Has been avoiding her duties and being with Coach Kirk.

Norah McCall (11th-grade music teacher and Merritt's mother) - Always shows up late for the committee.

Mr. Eldred (12th-grade drama teacher) - He always pays more attention to the budget than the students.

Mr. Hailey (10th-grade art teacher) - He was sneaking around the place while the students work on the decor.

**XxoxX**

The janitors came in with the box of counterfeit dollars. Kirby thought they were candy bars, so he tried to eat one of them, but Tania, Rylie, Paige, and Kaylin rushed up and grabbed him. "Kirby," chastised Rylie, "we don't eat clues."

"Talk about a money moocher," Scrappy laughed.

"I like your humor, Scrappy," Tokkori laughed.

Tania observed the fake bakery box. "Franklin B. Dough Baking Goods?" she asked. "That sounds more like Ben Franklin. And the word 'dough' - that's a slang term for money."

"Listen here," Leah said to her co-detectives. "Principal Hopkins told us that the four most-likely suspects are the advisors for the homecoming dance. Kirby and I will handle Mrs. McCall, Kaylin and Rylie will handle Ms. Garrad, Helen, Estrella, Hayes, and Scrappy handle Mr. Eldred, and Paige, Tania, and Tokkori handle Mr. Hailey."

Leah and Kirby were at the community center. They remembered hearing from Issac that Mrs. McCall took aerobics there on Fridays. Kirby was so amazed by the catchy Zumba beat in the aerobics, he started bouncing up and down like crazy. That was, until he accidentally bumped into Mrs. McCall. The aerobics teacher decided to stop for today due to Kirby's uncontrollable behavior.

"It's my fault," Leah confessed. "Kirby just couldn't help listening to catchy tunes."

Mrs. McCall was confused on what Leah and Kirby were doing here. "I've seen you do your aerobics class here before," Leah said. "And I have to ask, why do you keep showing up late?"

"I was showing up late for the committee because of extra homework some of the students have and my overdue bills," Mrs. McCall explained. "I couldn't pay off Merritt's college education alone now, could I?" Leah and Kirby decided to give her an alibi because paying off education was important.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Estrella, Swinger, Helen, Hayes, and Scrappy were going around an LGBT neighborhood. "Here we are," Estrella said. "Stonewall Street. After the Stonewall Inn break-in during the late 1960s, the town opened a town where openly gays can call home."

"Mr. Eldred is gay?" asked Scrappy.

"He is," Estrella replied. "We've seen him flirt with male makeup artists at the community center. He's also one of Eli's dance students."

**XxoxX**

At Eli's home, Eli was pleased to see Estrella, Helen, Hayes, and Scrappy. Eli was teaching Mr. Eldred some new modern dance routines for the homecoming dance. "I know some people hate Scrappy," Eli said, "but I think you're awesome. I've seen the videos on the Jailhouserock Facetube channel."

"Is that the channel where choreographers teach criminals some dance routines," asked Helen, "without breaking them out of jail?"

"That's the one," Eli replied.

**XxoxX**

While Helen and Hayes were explaining to Eli about the thefts, Estrella noticed that Mr. Eldred had a Ben Franklin t-shirt on him, making it feel more suspicious. "Oh me" Eli replied, "Well I better get back to teach Mr. Eldred one more dance routine before the dance. I promised Rusty I would go out with him to Ramen Noodle bowling alley for our date."

When they left the house, Estrella told them about the workout shirt that Mr. Eldred was wearing, "Mi Amor" she said, "A lot of people wear Ben Franklin shirt."

"Maybe so" Estrella replied, "But there is something strange about this."

At, Kaylin and Rylie were at the front of El Pueblo De Pepper when they saw a familiar face with a Yorkshire Terrier with a Strawberry tag, "Nathaniel," Kaylin smiled as she hugged her boyfriend, "You came."

"Dad gave me permission to go to your homecoming dance" Nathaniel replied, "I'd even brought my dog, "Magie" with me."

Magie came up and kicked at Kaylin's face.

"After the creator of Monopoly, "Lizzie Magie," asked Rylie.

"That's her" Nathaniel replied.

"Hey," said Kaylin as she peeped into the window of El Pueblo De Pepper, "Is that Miss. Garrad holding hands with Coach Kirk"

"We know he's divorced" Rylie recalled, "But I think he wanted to start dating again."

"But isn't it against the rules for faculty to date each other?" Nathaniel asked. "I remember my old art teacher and music teacher from the 10th grade getting fired for this."

"Not unless it's okay by the principal" whispered Kaylin, "But I think we should leave them alone, don't want to disturb their dating."

Paige, Tania, and Tokkori were at the library looking for Mr. Hailey. Paige and Tania remembered seeing her check out some books on art for class. When they saw her, she said to the librarian, "Sorry I'm late" Mr. Hailey said as he got out Art Therapy for Morons, "I misplaced my overdue books somewhere at the school again."

"It's been about three weeks since the due date" the librarian answered, "And you owe me 7.00"

"I know" as she got out a five-dollar bill and two one-dollar bills, "I had to spend the last three weeks going around the school looking for Art Therapy for Morons. I was lucky I found it in the lost and found. I was so busy with homecoming, I didn't think of checking it in the lost and found."

Paige and Tania were surprised, Mr. Hailey needed to find a misplaced library book. "Sounds like he's should've renewed his brain" whispered Tokkori.

"Tokkori" whispered Tania, "We don't want to offend Mr. Hailey, he's might teach Art Therapy next week so students can control our anger."

**XxoxX**

At Roadhouse Fantasia, the Klue Queens met up with their sweethearts. Rick and Tokkori were there to help the workers with a little inventory management, "Any bits?" asked Leah.

"Nah" Estrella replied, "Except the part where Mr. Eldred wore a Ben Franklin shirt. It sounds too coincidental."

As Estrella was about to sit down, she saw Kirby sleeping, "That gumball sure is a heavy sleeper" Scrappy admitted.

"Gumball is one of the nicknames I give Kirby" Tokkori recalled.

"I'm telling you" Tania replied, "Tokkori and Scrappy together is like having a Tokkori marathon"

"And I see that Nathaniel is here for the homecoming dance," said Issac.

"Wouldn't miss it" replied Nathaniel, "I'd even brought my dog Magie with me. Who to thought that The Bauer would allow pets."

When Kirby woke up, he saw Nathaniel showing pictures of Magie on his phone. Kirby started feeling a bit upset, "What's wrong with Kirby?" asked Leah.

"Kirby once befriended a robotic dog that was really a bomb from nightmare enterprises" Rick explained, "He never got over its death."

"That's so sad," Leah said.

That's when Martin got an idea, "I'm gonna get ready for the dance" said Martin, "I'll see you guys at the school."

"See ya, Martin," said Rylie as she blew a kiss at him.

**XxoxX**

The next night, everyone was decked out in formal attire, including Hayes. He told the others that Scrappy loves to make an entrance and will meet them at the dance. "Speaking of puppies," asked Helen, "Where's Martin?"

"Right here" shouted Martin as he carried a robotic dog.

The robotic dog looked like Robopup, a one-time friend of Kirby, "Kirby" he said to the puffball, "I know that you can't replace Robopup, but Robopup 2. 0 would make a good friend to you."

Kirby smiled and hugged Martin. "Since I am starting to get a bit of a dog allergy" Martin replied, "I'm going to keep him."

Kirby was fine with that since Robopup 2. 0 is Martin's creation.

Just then, Scrappy came out in rapper apparel "DJ Scrappy in the house" shouted Scrappy.

He looked up to see that the theme turned out to be Childhood Toys, much to his dismay, "This is the lamest Homecoming theme I've ever heard." Scrappy growled,

"It isn't lame," Mr. Hailey said as he came in, "The school board knew that teens wouldn't want to grow up and stay young forever. So we decided to give them a little nostalgia."

"More like a nose job" Scrappy growled, "Them nose-picking nincompoops should act like babies."

Principal Hopkins was coming in to see that Scrappy is the DJ she hired by mistake, "Oh no" she asked in horror "Who let that dog out. I thought I hired DJ Scrub?"

"Apparently, this is what happens when you call the poorly heard administration team at The State Correctional Institution in Marienville, PA" Hayes answered, "It was the 50th prison in the country that couldn't take Scrappy's annoying behavior. Without a choice, they legally let me be his guardian. Plus you might've used a phonebook? I remember you hiring an expensive catering company by mistake during my Junior Prom."

"Hayes Blanch" Principal Hopkins recalled, "Leading male for two years in a row and head of the drama club at the time."

"That's him" Scrappy shouted as he landed on Hayes' shoulder "As for me, I'm a bit of a crime magnet" Scrappy explained. The boys at the California State Prison taught me some of the basic thievery skills."

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Paige was at the punch bowl when she came across Mr. Eldred. She remembers from Peter that he was a theater instructor, "Didn't you teach theater at State Correctional Institution in the 90s?"

"I was" Mr. Eldred replied, "Until they transferred me to Lititz Heights High, so the criminals won't get ideas of a real bank rob scene."

"Reality check, man" replied Paige, "Those movers who sent the Franklin B Dough boxes must be really good actors."

"Knowing them." Mr. Eldred said, That Franklin B Dough makes a lot of bread"

Paige snapped, she knew that "Bread" is hippie slang for money. She started to realize that Mr. Eldred stole the money. "Kirby" Paige shouted, "Like, suck it up."

Kirby was finishing his sandwich when he heard his trigger words. With one gulp of the balloon decor, Kirby turned into Balloon Kirby. "Finally, some real action," Scrappy said, "Let me at him, let me at him!"

He made some balloon monkeys that attack Mr. Eldred, "Miss. Hayato," he growled, "What is the meaning of this?"

Robopup 2.0 did a supersonic jump and started pouncing on him. This gave Scrappy an idea to attack, "Da da da da da da!" shouted Scrappy as he started bouncing up and down on him, "Puppy power!"

"Don't be a bagged out bozo, man" Paige replied, "I like to know you smuggled counterfeit dollars into the school."

"Okay, okay" growled Mr. Eldred, "I smuggled counterfeit, money into the school."

"Nice job ladies," Principal Hopkins said, "But what clues did you find that Mr. Eldred was smuggling counterfeit dollars?"

"First there was the name of the company, "Frankin B Dough Baking Goods" Ben Franklin is on the 100 dollar bill and Dough is a slang term for money" Tania explained, "Then Estrella saw Mr. Eldred with a T-shirt with Ben Franklin on it, she had a feeling that he might be involved in this sort of scheme. Finally, you blow your cover saying "That Franklin B Dough makes a lot of bread." which is another slang for money."

"Dude" Paige finished, "You like totally should learn to keep your mouth shut."

"Before that" Estrella replied, "Tell us why you smuggled counterfeit dollars into our school?"

"All I wanted to do is to impress my students at SCI," explained Mr. Eldred explained, "So I decided to replace the real homecoming budget with counterfeit dollars, to prove what a real robbery scene is about."

**XxoxX**

Later, Chief Hess cuffed him, "Perhaps a little theater service in jail will help straighten you out." he said as he took Mr. Eldred to the police car.

Scrappy and Tokkori blew raspberries at him, "Now the only problem is now" Tokkori said, "Who is going to teach those dunces theater arts?"

Helen found her brother and got an idea, "Say Hayes" Helen said to her brother, "Maybe Monday, you can be the new Drama teacher."

"I don't know" Hayes nervously replied,

"Come on Hayes" Scrappy said to Hayes, "I never thought I say this but, you're my best friend."

Hayes was amused by what Scrappy said, "I'm your best friend?" he said, "Oh Hayes."

Hayes and Scrappy hugged.

Inside the school, Issac kissed Leah, Kaylin kissed Nathaniel, Estrella kissed Helen and Rylie kissed Martin. Tania and Paige were amused by this, "Like are they groovy together or what?" asked Paige.

"They are groovy" answered Tania.

"Alrighty, folks" shouted Scrappy at the turntable, "Now that Elderly Eldred has gone to the pokey, let's have a little slow dance."

He started playing High School Musical's Can I Have This Dance. Paige and Tania sat this out due to them being single.

Scrappy saw Hayes in the corner and winked at him. Hayes was proud of Scrappy for calming down at the homecoming.

**The End.**

**Chapter 9: An Order of Darling Danish**

It was a late night at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. The janitor was cleaning up the Egyptology Department. A mysterious figure knocked the figure out with a wrench. By the time the guard woke up, the new mummy was gone.

**XxoxX**

In the morning, students from Lititz Heights High were arriving at the museum for their weekend trip. "This is going to be exciting," Estrella replied. "Being in a steel town during my birthday weekend - this is going to be the best birthday ever."

"Day before you're 16 and finally going to one of the greatest cities in Pennsylvania," Rylie said.

"This was also the setting for the 1980s movie 'Flashdance'," Tania replied.

"I remember that movie," Peter said. "At first we thought Alex Owens was the boss-man. How are we suppose to know that Alex was an Alexandra?"

"Maybe because if you four weren't so stupid," Tania replied, "you would know who's who."

"We're just doing this to boost our grade in history class," Peter snarled.

"Dude," Santiago replied, "sit back down before Teach kills us."

"Sorry," Peter replied as he sat back down.

While reading through a Pittsburgh travel guide, Estrella saw something starry. "Oh, my stars," said Estrella. "The Star Darlings are performing in Pittsburgh?"

"They are," Helen answered. "In fact, Pittsburgh is one of their stops on their East Coast Tour."

As they stopped at the front of the museum, everyone went off. Issac escorted Leah to the front. "After you, my dear," Issac said to her.

"Too kind," Leah replied to her boyfriend as she took him by the hand.

"That Issac sure is a Prince Charming," Estrella said as she looked up. "Not as charming as them."

By the entrance, Estrella saw five girls wearing star-themed apparel. Estrella knew straight away who they were. "Sage, Libby, Vega, Scarlett, and Leona. You're the Star Darlings. I am a huge fan of your work."

"No prob," Leona said. "Here's a free keychain."

"I got a keychain," Estrella smiled with glee.

"The nerve of Pareja," said Billie, "being fond of these Star Darlings. That is so lame."

"You're right," Zara replied. "I'd rather listen to Faith's Hope and make fun of \*them\*." Leah rolled her eyes because Zara insulted a famous girl group.

**XxoxX**

Inside the museum, they saw that the Egyptian Wing was closed off and wondered why. From the curtain, Kirby could see that the mummy was missing and two kids were examining the missing mummy. Kirby barged in and dragged the twin children out of the wing. The boy twin wore blue, and the female twin wore pink and had a yellow bow on the back of her head.

"Can we help you kids?" Estrella asked.

"I'm Louie," greeted the boy twin.

"And I'm Lorelai," greeted the girl twin.

"Shouldn't you two be in school?" asked Kaylin as she helped up Lorelai. "Because that's against school policy everywhere."

"We don't go to school," Louie explained as Leah helped him up. "We're helping our friends with a few things."

As they left, Leah, Kaylin, Estrella, and Paige were confused.

Tania and Rylie both came back from the security guard. He told them that the main suspects were the archaeological team for the Pharaoh.

*Suspects*

*Dr. Cory Teel(Head Archeologist)- Was out sick during the mummy robbery.*

*Cataleya Cassano(Expedition member)- Security found a compass with her initials on it.*

*Louie and Lorelai(Strange tourists)- Claim they don't go to school and have been spending most of their time in the museum.*

*Khalid Spurling(Expedition member)- Kept telling everyone that the mummy might have jaspers.*

**XxoxX**

Kirby wandered off from Leah. As he was looking around the entire place for clues, he found some recalled dog treats in the trash bin and started eating them. "Kirby," Leah said, "those are dog treats."

"Back off!" shouted a middle-aged archaeologist as he grabbed them from Kirby. "Those are my dog treats!"

"If you're giving them to someone's pet dog," Paige cautioned, "you shouldn't, like, leave them in a museum."

"I'll have you know I'm highly allergic to dogs," corrected the man. "I've been craving for these ever since last night. Dr. Cory Teel, at your service."

"You were out sick during the unveiling of the mummy?" Paige asked. "We've seen kids do this before in middle. Sometimes they pretend to be skip school to avoid taking tests."

Dr. Teel got nervous and left.

"Let's split up," Leah suggested. "Estrella and Rylie should handle Cataleya, Kaylin and Tania should handle Khalid, and Paige and I are going to suspect Dr. Teel."

"What about Louie and Lorelai?" asked Kaylin.

"We'll come back for them later," Leah answered.

As they were going out, they bumped into the Star Darlings. "My bad" Leah said to Sage.

"No worries," Sage said. "We came to the museum after seeing a report on a mummy robbery. Figure they could use a little Star Power. The NSA is paying us 20,000 dollars each."

"You know what?" Leah said. "We really could use your help."

Estrella was delighted because she got to solve another mystery with one of her favorite bands. She exclaimed, "I call dibs on Libby!"

"Easy," said Rylie. "I know you're excited about these girls, but I think you oughta go easy on the coffee."

"I can't," Estrella replied. "I'm just so hyper."

Both Libby and Estrella bounced with joy with Swinger joining in. "Can you believe them?" Rylie asked.

"Looks like they forgot how to be quiet in a museum," Scarlet replied.

Both Scarlet and Rylie looked at each other. "Care to team up with me?" asked Rylie.

Tania and Vega noticed the old African artifacts and were amazed by their love for museums. Kaylin also admired Vega's trench coat and hugged her.

"Forgive Kaylin," Tania said to her. "She's a hugger."

Paige spotted Leona's golden hair. "Like funky afro," Paige commented. "Those were big in the 1970s."

"No prob, girl," Leona replied.

Sage came up to Leah and took her hand as a friend. "Now that we're all partnered up," Leah said, "let's get going."

Little did they know was that Issac and Helen heard the whole thing. "Do you think we should help our sweethearts?" Helen asked.

"We should," Issac answered. "I have a feeling those two weird kids Louie and Lorelai might be up to something."

**XxoxX**

Estrella, Libby, Rylie, Swinger, and Scarlet were at the snack bar. They saw a woman reading some popstar magazines. The woman had a brown pixie cut, was slightly pudgy, and wore an explorer's outfit.

"Are you Cataleya Cassano?" asked Estrella.

"Yes," the Italian woman replied. "Can I help you?"

"We're here to talk about the mummy theft," Scarlet said. "The guards said that they found a compass with the initials C.C. on them."

Cataleya was petrified. She stated, "I must've left my compass there while we were taking in the mummy, Princess Najima."

"Is that the name of the stolen mummy?" Libby asked. "Princess Najima?"

"That's right," replied Cataleya. "She was a fine young girl in Egypt. When she went into the afterlife at age 22, she laid a curse: 'Whoever steals my corpse or my jaspers will be punished by the hounds'."

"Punished by the hounds?" Libby asked. "That's just silly."

"What if the curse is real?" Estrella asked.

"Plus I found this strange box left in my office," Cataleya said as she got it out of her shoulder bag.

In the box, there were numerous miniature jasper artifacts and a catalog on the different kinds of jaspers...which made the girls feel suspicious.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Kaylin, Tania, Rick, and Vega were going around the medieval wing when they spotted a handsome African-American boy in explorer apparel examining the shields. Kaylin rushed up to him but accidentally slipped on the slippery wet floor. As she was about to go into the swords, the handsome African-American boy took her and pulled her out.

"For a second," Kaylin said, "I would've had an early hair appointment."

"Why bother?" Tania replied as she carefully came up to her friend. "You only get your hair done three times a year."

"Are you girls the Kirby Klue Queens?" asked the man.

"That's right," Rick replied as he came out of Tania's backpack. "And we're looking for a Khalid Spurling."

"You're looking at him," said the man. "What can I help you with?"

"The guards at the museum told us that you've been telling the archaeology team that the mummy might have jaspers," answered Tania.

"I have," Khalid replied. "I've been studying the tomb of Princess Najima for 6 years, and I've noticed that at her time, she had the largest collection of jaspers more than anyone. If we gave some to the museum here and some to charity, we'll be making a difference for Pittsburgh."

"What did your boss Dr. Teel say?" asked Tania.

"He said no," Dr. Khalid, "and then he laid me off for a month."

The team was surprised. Laying off someone, all because of donating to charity? Tania stated, "That is very suspicious."

**XxoxX**

In the archaeological's office, Leah, Paige, Sage Tokkori, Leona, and Kirby were looking for Dr. Teel. Kirby started to smell out the doggy treats and followed them. From the keyhole, Sage could see Teel using a thermometer over a lightbulb, making it look like he'd got a fever.

"This is just like 'E.T.'," Sage recalled, "where Elliott pretended to be sick so he could take care of the alien."

"Talk about lying down on the job," insulted Tokkori.

They began to wonder why a head archaeologist would pretend to be sick during a mummy's theft. "We better get going," Leah said. "Our class might be waiting for us, and we got to give Estrella her birthday presents."

The next day, Estrella woke up from her sleeping bag to see her birthday presents next to her. "Feliz cumpleanos, Estrella," said her friends and the Star Darlings.

"For me?" smiled Estrella. "You shouldn't have."

"Last week," Leah explained, "we realized that the week of the field trip is the same week as Estrella's 16th birthday, so we decided to celebrate it while we're here."

"How sweet," Sage said. "We've seen her karaoke videos of her and her girlfriend doing our songs. So we decided to give her a little something."

Leah and Tania gave her a Friendly Scout badge with a star on it because she was considered an honorary Friendly Scout; Rylie and Kaylin gave her a handmade doll with honey patters, because she would always be a kid at heart; and Paige gave her legwarmers as Alex wore in "Flashdance." Finally, Libby and Scarlet gave Estrella with a sparkly pink bow. From the box, was a pair of pink Mary Janes.

"Cute Mary Janes," Estrella commented.

"I had the same ones when I was in high school," Libby explained. "I figure you could use them."

Estrella placed on the shoes and admired them. She said, "This kind of reminds me of the ones I had as a kid. Carolina even filmed me trying them on for the first time." By the door, she saw Issac and Helen with a present of their own.

"You look like Prince Charming," Leah said to Issac.

"And Princess Charming," Helen replied as she gave Estrella her present.

In the box was a Star Darlings Stellar Style Guide. "I knew you wanted to learn a new hairstyle," Helen replied, "so I got that for you."

Estrella's heart was touched by Helen's gift.

**XxoxX**

After they had breakfast, the girls started doing each other's hair from the guide while Issac had something important to tell Leah. "Helen and I have been suspecting those strange twins Louie and Lorelai," he explained. "They told us that they saw a strange man eating dog treats from the convenient store next door."

"You mean The Beany Bundle Convenient Store?" asked Sage. "That's where we got our snacks."

"But how are we going to catch that man without getting grossed out?" asked Tania.

"Perhaps we can be of assistance," said Louie as they came in.

"Guys," Leona replied, "we're so glad you came."

"Kirby needs all the floating he can get," replied Lorelei.

Both Louie and Lorelai's faces were robotic, and out of the robotic faces came a floating blue alien and a floating pink alien with a yellow bow.

"We're Fololo-" started the blue alien.

"-and Falala," finished the pink alien.

"Your Kirby's friends," recalled Tania. "We remember you when all those Cappies went missing from the forest."

"We were supervising the Star Darlings for their East Coast Tour," explained Fololo.

"The robotic human suits were just a disguise so no one knows we're aliens," replied Falala.

**XxoxX**

At The Beany Bundle, they spotted Dr. Teel buying dog treats and eating them, which disgusted everyone. After he left, they came up to the store owner and comforted him. "This is the fourth time this week he has bought dog treats and has ate them at my restaurant," the owner complained. "I can't take it anymore. He's going to disgust my customers if he keeps this up."

"'Whoever steals my corpse or my jaspers will be punished by the hounds'," recalled Estrella, "Of course, anyone who steals her tomb will end up acting like a dog."

Dr. Teel started scratching the back of his ear like a dog had. "Perhaps you should see a doctor," said Tania, "because we know you stole the mummy."

"What are you talking about?" Dr. Teel said as he licked his paws.

"Isn't it obvious?" Vega said. "Dr. Teel was after the jaspers."

"Clever girls," replied Dr. Teel. "How did you know it was me?"

"Our first clue was the dog treat you had," Rylie explained. "You told us that you were allergic to dogs. Thanks to one of your crew persons, we know now what 'punished by the hounds' meant. Also, there was a souvenir box filled with Egyptian artifacts and pictures of different kinds of jaspers. Then we saw you using a thermometer near a lightbulb to heat it - a sign that they were just pretending to be sick and were planning to steal the mummy."

"I'm glad I saw 'E.T.' 24 times," replied Estrella. "That way we can catch who's playing sick and who's not."

"Come on," Dr. Teel said. "It's only a matter of time till I become rich."

"Not for long," Leah growled. "Kirby, suck it up!"

With one gulp of cough drops, Kirby turned into Dr. Kirby. He summoned a very large needle.

"Don't worry," Vega said. "This won't hurt a bit."

"Did I forget to mention I'm scared of needles?" asked Dr. Teel as he ran off.

Suddenly, Fololo and Falala both carried Dr. Teel and dragged him to the museum, where he saw Khalid and Cataleya, who were waiting outside for him.

"Doctor," Khalid said, "you told us that you would reward us with rare jaspers from Egypt."

"Last night I broke these guys after I tripped over my pet cat and realized that they were fake," Cataleya explained.

"No kidding," Khalid replied. "I was examining them before I left work to see if they were real jaspers, but they're not."

"I meant to say fools' jaspers," nervously said Dr. Teel.

Both Cataleya and Khalid were furious. "You lied to us," Khalid growled.

"Come on," replied Dr. Teel. "Can't you be more appreciative?"

"We \*are\* grateful," growled Cataleya, "but you are so cheap."

As Dr. Teel was about to pound them, he got shot in the butt by Dr. Kirby. The Klue Queens and the Star Darlings rushed up to him and hugged him. "Now that we captured Dr. Teel," said Sage, "we need to know where the mummy is."

"The mummy is in the construction area of the museum," Dr. Teel replied as he fell asleep.

"Truth/sleeping serum," Vega smiled. "You don't see that every day."

In the construction area, which was going to be a garden, they found the mummy covered in bags of soil. "Looks like we wrapped up this caper," joked Libby.

**XxoxX**

Back at Roadhouse Fantasia, the Star Darlings were performing their hits in front of patrons. The Klue Queens were all decked out in Star Darling apparel for this occasion. Estrella even wore the legwarmers and the mary janes for the occasion.

At a table, Mr. Hayato was enjoying some tea when his son came up to him. "Hey, Dad," Peter sad to his father. "Care to try our Petey Pork Pot Pie, made with bacon, ham, red sprinkles, ramen noodles, root beer, and dog treats?"

"No, Peter," Mr. Hayato replied. "That stuff will make people sick. Remember the food festival?"

"Oh, yeah," Peter recalled. "Perhaps Kirby would like it."

"Potpie!" Koharu shouted as she tried to grab the pie as her mother backed her up.

"Sorry, Koharu," Mrs. Hayato said to her infant child, "but you could get sick."

At another table, the girls were repulsed by Peter's dreadful cooking. "This is why we never let Peter cook," explained Paige. "Mom and Dad are afraid that they would get poisoned."

After he ate large bowls of spaghetti, Kirby saw that Peter made his Petey Pork Pot Pie. Kirby flew up to him and stared at the pie. On the top, he saw that it was covered with radish shreds.

"Remember when the Chans helped us with that Jade Dragon caper?" Peter asked. "They taught me a simple remedy with a little radish power."

Kirby was amazed. With one gulp, he burped out pie tin. "Right on, Kirby," Peter said as he gave Kirby a high fived.

At the stage, the Star Darlings were annoyed. "Remind me to ban Peter Hayato from future Star Darling concerts," Vega said.

**The End.**

**Chapter 10: Mystery Solver State Finals**

In the McBruces' backyard, the girls were playing frisbee.

"Heads up, Kirby!" Rylie shouted as a sleepy Kirby woke up. The frisbee hit him on the head, causing him to cry. Leah came up to the little alien and cradled him.

"This is what happens when you stay up for three days watching 'Snooper Dawg and the Klue Crew'," Tania groaned. "You end up getting sleepy."

"It's no use," Paige replied. "Kirby can't go to the Mystery Solver State Finals looking like this."

"You gotta be kidding," Leah replied. "We've been looking forward to the finals for months, and we can't do it without Kirby."

In Leah and Tania's bedroom, they tucked Kirby in his little bed. "Why can't we leave him behind?" Tokkori asked. "He's annoying."

"Because he's a Klue Queen member," Leah replied.

"Listen here," Tokkori said. "Junior here is a male, and a male monarch is called a king. You girls are female, and a female monarch is called a queen."

"We should probably give him some privacy," Paige replied. "We can't wake up Sleeping Gumball."

"Gumball?" Tokkori asked. "That's another nickname I give Kirby."

Leah picked Kirby up, gave him a goodnight kiss, placed him down, and left along with the other Klue Queens. Kirby was in a deep sleep.

**XxoxX**

Suddenly, Kirby woke up and looked like he was in an early 1970s cartoon. "Kirby," asked Leah as she walked in, "did you sleep well?"

"Poyo (I did)," Kirby replied.

"Then it's time for us to go to Harmon Manor for the MSSF," Leah replied.

**XxoxX**

At Harmon Manor, they saw a bunch of mystery-solving teams with a bunch of pets. One had a group of African-American basketball players in blue tracksuits, one was a rock group, one was a group of female mice that looked like teenagers, one had a white blob with a face, and one group had two dogs.

"The Harlem Globetrotters of the 1970s?" asked Estrella. "Some of them might be old right now."

Swinger started going up Dribbles. Dribbles barked at Swinger who crawled back on Estrella. "There, there, mono," she said to him. "It's only un perro."

Leah walked up to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, saying in admiration, "I can tell you guys have the same name as the famous bandit himself."

"Something like that," the handsome guitarist replied.

"But don't forget," the blonde tambourinist replied, "Butchy here is mine."

"Merilee..." replied Butch.

Tania spotted the rodent girls who are known as the Thea Sisters.

"G'day," said the mouse with red hair. "I'm Nicky."

"The name's Pamela," said the African-American girl mouse.

"I'm Violet," said the Asian mouse.

"My name is Collette," said the blonde mouse with a French accent.

"And I'm Paulina," said the Latina mouse with a long braid.

"I'm curious," Tania asked as she adjusted her glasses. "Are you rodents?"

"We are," Nicky replied. "But we're also called the Thea Sisters because we honor our one-time mentor, Thea Stilton."

Paige came up to the trio with the little white blob. "Hey there," said one of the blobs. "You must be one of the Klue Queens. I'm Mickey and this is Nita, Billy Joe, and Shmoo."

Shmoo came up and gave Paige a big old hug. "Far out," she said. "A moving blob."

Rylie and Kaylin walked up to a group called the Clue Club, which consisted of Larry, Pepper, D.D., and Dottie. "Do you like our dogs?" Larry asked as Woofer and Whimper started licking their faces.

"I'm more of a cat person," Kaylin explained, "but these guys are adorable." Woofer and Whimper got off of them and went back to everyone.

"Attention, everyone!" shouted Mr. Harmon. "Welcome to the Mystery Solver State Finals! Tonight your mystery will be..." After he opened the letter and saw a strange note. "The identity of Professor Vanish?" asked Mr. Harmon. "But this was supposed to be a treasure hunt for a treasure chest of cookbooks."

"Slight change of plans," said a bishonen man with a grey mask and a magician's outfit. "Hocus, Skippy-Pocus."

In a flash, all the humans disappeared. "Where did they go?" asked Woofer.

"I don't know," answered Colette, "but maybe Professor Vanish kidnapped them."

"Clever you are, my dear," said Professor Vanish. "I hid them somewhere in this lovely mansion. You have until sunrise to find them. Don't even think about calling for help, or else their time here will be up."

In a flash, Professor Vanish vanished. Violet suggested that they should split up to find the missing mystery solvers.

Kirby, Swinger, Rick, Paulina, Pamela, Elvis, and Shmoo were in the garden, where numerous paintings of other mystery-solving teams were left standing to dry. As he was about to eat a paintbrush, Pamela came up to him and said, "Kirby, paint brushes aren't food."

"Poyo (Sorry)," Kirby said as he turned his head, seeing a painting on Snooper Dog and a miniature version of himself. He began to wonder who that was.

"That's Snippy Doo," said Paulina. "He was the nephew of Snooper Dogg. He was popular in the late 1970s, but after the '13 Monsters of Mix Up' series, fans started to hate him for constantly harassing the suspects."

"He's worse than Scrappy-Doo," Rick said.

"I know," Paulina replied, "but at least Scrappy got straightened out thanks to Hayes' agreement on being his permanent legal guardian."

Kirby was a little confused about Snippy, wondering if Snippy loved his uncle or not.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Dribbles, Tokkori, Nicky, Colette, Violet, Woofer, and Whimper were in the billiard room going around for more clues.

"Hey, guys!" shouted Nicky. "Look what I found here!" She showed a dartboard of Snooper Dog and the Clue Crew. This only meant one thing: Professor Vanish must really hate Snooper Dog. The other team came in and had a feeling that someone is kidnapping the humans so one of the non-competitors can compete.

Kirby started to worry. "Kirby," Rick reminded, "when you get bummed, think happy thoughts."

"Poyo, poyo (Think happy thoughts)," Kirby said to himself. "Poyo, poyo (Think happy thoughts)." He started to think of excessive amounts of pastries, tomatoes, and watermelons. Then he spotted the Klue Queens dressed in lolita apparel. As Kirby was eating the cake, someone shouted, "Hey, Gumball!"

Kirby looked down to see that he was chewing on Rick's head. "Easy, mate," Rick replied. "Don't overdo it on the happy thoughts. Are you daydreaming about the Klue Queens in lolita dresses and serving you junk food again? We need to find them before their parents ban me from the dessert table."

They needed to figure out where Professor Vanish hid them, then Colette just thought of something. "You know how magicians love to perform on stage?" she said. "I have a feeling they might be in the theater."

**XxoxX**

In the theater, they saw the human mystery solvers tied up in chairs and were forced to watch Professor Vanish's magic acts. "Hey, Vanish!" shouted Tokkori. "Why don't you make yourself disappear?!"

The words from Tokkori's beak hurt him. That was when Pamela got an idea. "You keep insulting that psycho professor," she suggested to Tokkori. "We'll untie the humans."

"Thank goodness you're here," said Rylie. "That magician's acts are lousy."

One by one, the dog sidekicks freed the heroes with their sharp teeth. After one more insult from Tokkori, Professor Vanish saw them escaping. "Apra Dippy-Dabra!" he shouted as he summoned some magician cards.

"Kirby, suck it up!" shouted everyone.

With one suck, Kirby ate the cards and turned into Magic Kirby. He got out some hankies and tied up Professor Vanish. Then Shmoo started pouncing on him in victory "Alright, Kirby and Shmoo," declared Paige. "Now let's see who Professor Vanish really is."

With the removal of the mask, they showed a small pup with dreadlocks. "Snippy Dog?" asked everyone in shock.

"It all makes sense now," Rick said. "The Thea Sisters weren't kidnapped because they're mice, not humans. Another clue is that he said 'Hocus Skippy-Pocus' and 'Abra Dippy-Dabra', which is similar to his catchphrase 'Skippy Dippy Dog'. Also, there was that dartboard of Snooper Dog and the Clue Crew."

"But how did he get so tall?" asked Estrella. "Unless he's wearing a robotic suit."

Snippy removed the suit, revealing a robotic armor that controlled the Professor Vanish uniform. "All I wanted is to let my Uncle Snooper join the Mystery Solver State Finals, but they couldn't because of me. So I decided to use my magical skills to stop you losers. And I would've gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling animals." Then Chief Hess and Deputy Downs carried him away to the car.

As a reward, Mr. Harmon served Kirby with the world's largest cake. Unfortunately, Kirby ate the entire thing and passed out.

**XxoxX**

In a second, Kirby woke up and was back in Leah's room. "Kirby," Leah said, "wake up. You were just dreaming."

Estrella got out a jester's hat to cheer Kirby up. As he rolled out of bed, he placed on the hat. He explained, "Poyo, poyo poyo, poyo, poyo poyo, poyo, poyo poyo, poyo, poyo poyo, poyo, poyo poyo, poyo (I had the craziest dream that we were at the Mystery Finals, and we met some talking mice, some rockstar spies, a white goo-piece, a bunch of dogs, and the Harlem Globetrotters)."

"Kirby," Tania replied, "the finals are tomorrow. That means you can go."

"I hope you like the hat I got you," Estrella said. "I got that at the thrift store."

Kirby nodded his head, meaning that he liked the hat. Then he wondered who was going to be in the Mystery Solvers State Finals. Tania got out the list of who would be in the finals.

*Mystery Solvers State Finals*

*Ghostly Groovsters- Philadelphia*

*Kirby Klue Queens, - Lititz Heights*

*Mystery Mambo Society- Harrisburg*

*Steeling N'Lifting Stoppers- Pittsburgh*

*Paradise Paranormals- Lancaster*

"Besides," Tania said, "We warmed up a bath for you when you wake up"

Kirby cheered and rushed off to take his warm bath.

**The End.**

**Chapter 11: An Order of Reaping Reuben**

At The Hamster Wheel Pet Shop, Shelly was going through with the pups on who was getting euthanized. "How I wish to know how euthanization is done," she groaned. "Better do my weekly expiration date check."

In another part of the pet store, Swinger and Kirby were both looking at monkey food that has expired, so they could use them for fertilizer for the Parejas' garden. Swinger was dressed as an astronaut while Kirby was dressed as a wizard. By the door, they saw a black figure with a scythe, thinking he was the magician Mr. Hayato hired for the kids at the Halloween party at Roadhouse Fantasia. He was, in actuality, the Grim Reaper of Endsville, New York. Kirby picked him up, very excited that the "magician" was here.

"Put me down, man!" Grim shouted. "I have some reaping to do!"

**XxoxX**

Later, they arrived at Roadhouse Fantasia where they met the Klue Queens. Leah was dressed as a witch, Kaylin was dressed as a princess, Estrella was dressed as cat, Rylie was dressed as a mummy, Tania was dressed as the Bride of Frankenstein, and Paige was dressed as a calaca.

"Kirby," Leah said, "you brought someone in a Grim Reaper costume."

"Actually-" Grim replied as Mr. Hayato dressed as a soda jock came in.

"No time for small talk," Mr. Hayato replied. "The kids are figuratively turning into monsters."

"Figuratively?" replied Grim as he smiled. "These are normal kids."

"They are," Mr. Hayato worriedly replied. "Now get up there and start performing."

As Grim was getting onstage, Helen, Issac, and Martin noticed something strange about him. Helen was dressed as Captain Sun, Issac was dressed as Diamond, and Martin was dressed as a Shinkomon trainer.

Billie, Miley, and Zara were dressed as flamenco dancers. "Hola, losers!" shouted Billie. "How do you like our dresses? They're real and are imported from Spain."

"That's great," Estrella said. "Did you get one for Isla?"

"We purposefully didn't get one for Isla," Zara explained. "Figure that Halloween could make her cry this year."

Isla showed up dressed as a magician. "It's my magician costume," she explained. "I figure I could show off some magic tricks while we're waiting for the main act shows up."

"Isla," Billie said, "this is the lamest idea you ever had."

"Come on," Isla replied. "This will be a great chance for the Friendly Scouts to have fun after trick or treating."

"Lame," Billie growled. "You're a two-left handed magician."

Isla was a bit hurt but decided to get some candy apples because they were her favorite candy. Paige was looking at her watch, wondering where the magician was.

"I'm afraid we have two problems," said Peter said as he came in dressed in some of his dirty rapper clothes and a cowboy hat, clown shoes, and a Hawaiian lei. His friends were dressed in the same costumes as well. "The magician we hired has been kidnapped, and that skeleton magician is terrorizing the children."

"How did you know?" Paige asked.

"It's the top story on the afternoon news," Peter answered as he showed the Lititz Heights app.

When Paige and Estrella looked up, they saw Grim making moving paper picado in the form of hankies. "I'm starting to think that's the REAL Grim Reaper," Estrella whispered.

"Whoa," Maniac Mel said. "No wonder his scythe is so real."

"The boys and I are going to help you investigate who's behind the kidnapping," Peter said as he and his friends placed on Groucho Marx glasses as their only disguise.

"Oh, please," Estrella interjected. "Who would be that dumb to fall for those disguises?" But they didn't listen; instead, they took off.

Issac came in asking about the missing magician. "Who is the magician who was supposed to entertain the kids anyway?"

"Khloe Khloeidescope," Estrella explained, "originally Khloe Pearce. She's famous for her changing eyes. She can change them from red, to blue, to heliotrope. Most of her magic words involved with color like, 'Hocus Purpleocus'."

"But where did she start out?" Issac asked.

"She was one the assistant for Dennis Daring," answered Estrella as she showed a Viewtube video of a clip from "The Kelly Philbin Show."

On Kelly Philbin's talk show, Kelly was interviewing Dennis Daring about his past. Dennis wore an elaborate suit and had an eyepatch. "I was once a star of the magical eye," Dennis explained. "In fact, this is the reason I lost mine. During my last performance, I was doing the boomerang knife throw act. Unfortunately, one of the knives went haywire and cut out my eye."

"These days," Estrella said, "he runs his own web show 'The Daring School of Mystic', and the ratings are low as the tides."

"Any other suspects?" Helen asked.

"Maybe Tang," suggested Estrella. "If I know the press, they would do anything to learn the secrets of the magician. Plus there's her magic rival, Kamari the Magical. Dennis admits in his interviews that he's jealous of Khloe, but seems to have another reason."

Suspects

Dennis Daring - Former magician who is also vain.

Kamari the Magical - Khloe's rival.

Tang Yanghui - Wants to figure out how Khloe's magical eyes work.

**XxoxX**

Grim saw a young Koharu dressed as a butterfly going to the buffet. He knew that she would choke on some of it. Rylie saw what was going and knew that Koharu was too young to die. With a few quick hip hop moves, she saved the bouncing baby.

"Reapy! Reapy!" shouted Koharu.

"Listen, bud," Rylie growled. "We know you're the REAL Grim Reaper. As punishment for trying to kill Koharu, you're going to help us solve a mystery."

"Anything but that, man," replied Grim. "You have no idea what it's like to handle kids. It happened to me before in Endsville, New York."

**XxoxX**

Later, Leah was going out with a baby carriage. "I hope you're okay in those baby clothes, Kirby," she said to the little puffball.

In the carriage, Kirby was sucking on a baby bottle and playing with baby toys. They decided to head up to the police station to hear reports of a kidnapping. Unfortunately, the evening shift crew were too busy celebrating Halloween by giving out candy. The only one not celebrating was Chief Hess, who was hard at work investigating the disappearance.

"McBruce," asked Chief Hess, "what's with the baby carriage?"

"This is Koharu's old baby carriage," explained Leah. "We decided to use it for the mission, and the whole baby thing is to avoid suspicion."

"Since everyone is celebrating this creepy festival," growled Chief Hess, "I've been investigating the disappearance of Khloe Kaleidoscope. Reporters say that she disappeared at the Philadelphia International Airport and was brought in a limo by a bunch of men with trench coats."

"Men with trench coats, and a limo," replied Leah. "I don't think Mr. Hayato rented a limo recently."

Chief Hess knew that the Klue Queens were at it again. Before he had a chance to call Mr. Hayato, Grim came out of nowhere and told the chief that the Klue Queens should investigate. Traumatized with fear, the chief said, "I, ugh, need to help Kristi with trick or treating."

He ran out of the place in horror, much to the police officer's confusion.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, at the park, Kaylin, Estrella, and Rylie were going around the place when they bumped into an African-American magician, who was Kamari the Magical. He explained that he was here to secretly support Khloe Kalediscope and to admit his feelings to her. When they first met at the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, he had a major crush on her. Constantly, he sent secret love letters to her under the name of Magicob Marley. He never had a chance to tell her how he felt.

"The old bully love trick," said Kaylin.

"I know," Kamari the Magical admitted. "After I heard she got kidnapped by a bunch of strange men in trench coats and unwanted limo service, I had to do something. I'm glad I gave up my web show interview in Philly for this."

"But did you reschedule?" asked Estrella. "You don't wanna disappoint your fans."

"I already did," Kamari replied. "And this time I'm doing it with Khloe when we rescue her."

Paige, Tania, and Koharu were in front of Maxwell's Crematorium when they spotted a limousine. Out of the limo came a fabulous magician with different colored eyes, all bound and gagged. "It's Khloe," whispered Tania.

"And they're not suppose to use limos at funerals," whispered Paige. "Limos are like, happy, they should sell us hearse cars."

Only Khloe was able to hear them whisper, so she used her quick-changing eyes to turn them into a glow in dark eyes so no one would suspect. "It's a good thing Tokkori's going south for Halloween," whispered Paige. "He doesn't want kids stealing his gummy worms."

Out of the sky came Leah, Kirby, Grim, Kaylin, Kamari, Estrella, and Rylie. "Klue Queenies!" said Koharu.

"Yes, Koharu," whispered Paige. "Those are the Klue Queenies."

"We got your text," Leah replied, "and this is a clever place to hide a magician."

With a little lockpicking power by Leah and Tania, they snuck in and found Khloe in a glowing broom closet. Kamari freed her with a little Houdini magic he learned when they went to school.

"The Houdini escape trick," Khloe said with a Brooklyn accent. "Just like old times."

Kamari took a deep breath. "Khloe," he said, "remember the letters from Magicob Marley? Well, I'm him. I wanted to tell you, but you were pretty in the old days and I was the shyest kid in school."

"I had a feeling those letters were from you," replied Khloe as she took his hand, "all those magic tricks you pulled based on Charles Dickens tales."

"By the way," Paige said, "nice job with the glow-in-the-dark eyes."

"I had to do it," Khloe explained. "I always do that in case of an emergency."

Just then, the trenchcoat henchmen and their masked leader came in, paralyzed by her escape. Grim decided to hold them off. "Okay, Jodie," he whispered to his scythe. "You know what to do."

Unfortunately, the masked leader threw knives at them in a familiar matter. With one look of the magic wand on the ground, Grim had an idea, "Kirby," he shouted, "suck it up!"

With a gulp of the magician supplies, Kirby turned int Magic Kirby. He summoned a bunch of skeleton rabbits, who attacked the guards.

"How did you know that 'suck it up' is his trigger word?" asked Estrella.

"I've seen reports of you guys," Grim replied. "I'm quite impressed that the six of you can control a small alien."

"Now let's reveal the magical secret of this maniac," Leah said she unmasked the masked figure.

With one pull, it turned out to be...Dennis Daring.

**XxoxX**

Later, Tang Yanghui was arriving for a live scoop for Lititz Heights. Tang wondered why Dennis kidnapped Khloe. "During my magician days, " Dennis explained, "she wore the best outfits. After the ratings of my tutorial show were plummeting, I just had enough. So I decided to kidnap her to make the ratings rise again."

"You hired me for my good looks?" Khloe asked. "Plus those outfits were sweaty."

"How did you figure out that Dennis kidnapped Khloe?" asked Tang.

"You see," Tania said, "our first clue was the interview with Kelly Philbin. He was really upset not long after that accident and when you left. Then there were the low ratings on his web show, hinting that he needed to be back in the spotlight. Finally, there was the technique the mysterious figure used to attack us - it was the same one as the knife-throwing incident."

After Dennis and his crew got arrested, everyone decided to go back to the party, with Kamari as the magician's assistant.

Back at Roadhouse Fantasia, Peter, Maniac Me, Hoodster, and Santiago were bummed because they didn't get a chance to solve the mystery.

"Don't feel bad," said Issac. "At least Helen, Martin, and I get to look after the kids. Plus Isla pulled this amazing magic act to warm up the crowd."

"Yeah," Martin replied. "She did a few card tricks and made balloon animals."

"I didn't know Isla could do balloon animals," said Hoodster.

After Isla did one more balloon animal trick, she decided to rest her arms at a buffet table from using a mini-pump. Khloe Kalediscope and Kamari the Magical did wonderful magic tricks. While they were doing the show, Tania wondered something. "Has anyone seen Kirby?" she asked.

By the games, Kirby was bobbing for apples. He couldn't get one, so he sucked the whole thing up and everyone laughed.

**The End.**

**Note: Maxwell's Crematorium is named after Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy creator Maxwell Atoms.**

**Chapter 12: An Order of Caring Cake**

Above the clouds, Cheer and Grumpy were returning from a care mission in Washington D.C. "After handling that girl who was trying to run away from home," Grumpy said, "I need a break from children."

"But there's emergency care," Cheer replied. "Someone in Philadelphia is in danger."

"Just like the time we helped Carol with her friends at the hospital!" Grumpy shouted as he accidentally pressed the stop button and they plummeted down. "Sorry, Cheer," he said.

"That's okay," replied Cheer. "At least we're not hurt. Though we should do some exploring here. People say that Lititz Heights is a haven for magical creatures to be themselves."

Meanwhile, Leah, Tania, Kaylin, Rylie, Estrella, and Paige were at the local toy store, Teddy Cuddle Toy Store.

"I can't believe that Teddy Cuddle is having their anniversary party!" Leah exclaimed. "Forty years and they still got it!"

Kirby was a little confused on the toy store. "This is where we get all our toys," Kaylin explained. "Some for collectibles, some for birthdays and some for charity."

"Poyo (What?)" Kirby asked.

"Mr. Hayato recently decided that once every six months," Tania explained. "We put out a donation box for hospitals, homeless shelters, and foster homes all over Pennsylvania."

"Not all kids are fortunate like Fayth and Leelanee," Kaylin continued as she placed away from a Happy Lamb. "Some live on the streets and some live in hospitals. We're getting some toys to take to a children's hospital in Harrisburg. Mrs. Hayato is organizing the package right now."

**XxoxX**

Back at Roadhouse Fantasia, Ms. McBruce and Mr. Hayato were both setting up the box for their new charity organization, Fantasia Friendship.

"This was a very good idea, Hyobe," said Ms. McBruce. "Those kids at that children's hospital in Harrisburg are going to be so thrilled to see these new toys."

By the entrance, Cheer and Grumpy decided to try out some food. They didn't have money but decided to pay with star coins. Mrs. Hayato was amazed by the star coins because she thought she could use them for her coin collecting hobby.

As they were enjoying some fruit salad and honey-covered chocolate cake, Grumpy saw the front page news of the newspaper that Ms. McBruce was reading.

Magnolia Hermanson, daughter of Happy Lamb operator Douglas Hermanson, disappears from Philadelphia International Airport.

"That's the girl that we're looking for," Cheer replied quietly. "Maybe we should get the Kirby Klue Queens to help. They're local town heroes."

"But we don't know where they are," whispered Grumpy.

Just then, the Klue Queens, Kirby, Tokkori, Rick, and Swinger came in with hundreds of toys for Fantasia Friendship. "You girls are too big to play with toys," insulted Tokkori.

"These aren't for us, Tokkori," corrected Tania. "They're for Fantasia Friendship, and we're meeting Douglas Hermanson tomorrow for the special occasion."

"Whatever," growled Tokkori. "I'm going to mooch off all the lo mein."

As Tokkori flew off, Kaylin spotted the newspaper article of Magnolia's kidnapping. Worried that things could get worse, she decided to make a quick phone call about the kidnapping.

After the others sat down to have dinner, they saw Cheer and Grumpy next to them. "You two must be Care Bears," suggested Leah, "magical bears that show the art of caring. I'm Leah, and we're The Klue Queens."

"I'm Cheer Bear," greeted Cheer, "and this is Grumpy."

"We accidentally crash-landed while trying to find Magnolia Hermanson," Grumpy explained

"Magnolia Hermanson," said Leah. "That's the girl who went missing. Since we're both on the same page, we'll work together to find out who kidnaped her." She explained to them that before they left the store, they saw a note written with magazine cutouts, a very suspicious clue.

*Dear Teddy Cuddle Toy Store,*

*Stop the donations now.*

*You won't be getting more Happy Lambs after I do away with Magnolia.*

"The owner gave it to us for safe-keeping," finished Leah.

After Kaylin came back with two slices of cheese pizza, asparagus, and a banana, she told them that she found out who is going to be at the event in Harrisburg. She also had a feeling that they might be suspects as well.

Suspects

Maddox (pilot on Happy lamb private jet) - Once worked at Philadelphia International Airport and knows all the drivers.

Ms. Perigord (Magnolia's nanny) - Gets nervous easily.

Myah (limousine chauffer) - Mr. Hermanson didn't rent a limo as Magnolia's pickup.

**XxoxX**

The next day, everyone arrived at St. Katalina's Children's Hospital. The girls decided to sneak away to investigate the suspects. They disguised themselves as nurses so they wouldn't get caught. Leah suggested that the should split up and look for some clues and Magnolia.

Leah, Estrella, Swinger, and Kirby were going around the surgery area when Kirby saw an X-ray of Swinger and ran off. "No, Kirby," Leah snapped. "It's just Swinger, and that was only an X-ray. Doctors use those to see the inside of people." Kirby smiled and hugged Leah.

Rylie, Tania, Grumpy, Rick, and Tokkori were going around the medical records for the previous donation. It turns out the Happy Lamb company had a donation event last year of 200 Happy Lamb pajamas.

"Looks like we got ourselves a bunch of sleepyheads," Tokkori insulted.

"Come on, mate," Rick said. "There's a little girl in need, and we can't talk about pajamas."

"Wait," Tania replied as she looked up a video of the pajamas on Viewtube. "The Happy Lamb pajamas videos were popular in the '90s."

On the video, they saw an African-American child with braids getting all cuddly in her purple and blue Moonlight Nap Happy Lamb pajamas. With a closer look, Tania could recognize her as Myah Hayley.

"Wait" interrupted Rick. "The same Myah who drove the limo for Magnolia?"

"That's right, Rick," Tania replied. "This is pretty strange."

**XxoxX**

Outside the room, they could see a beautiful woman wearing a cerulean and blue-green suit. She was Magnolia's nanny, Ms. Perigord. By the look of her face, Ms. Perigord was upset. Tania decided to talk to her about her problems. After they sat down, Ms. Perigord explained why she was upset. "Because of Magnolia's disappearance," she told in a French accent, "I could lose my job. I don't want to go back to France as a barista. This is my dream. Not only can I take care of a successful toy operator's daughter, but I get to help out at an American children's hospital."

Our heroes were surprised. Ms. Perigord explained that when she was a little girl, she had open-heart surgery and the surgeon was a transfer from St. Katalina's Children's Hospital. From that they on, she decided to look after children in need. "I just hope that Doug understands my feelings," she said as she blushes, "because I loved him since I first came here last year."

"Okay," Rylie replied curiously. "Besides that, we saw a mysterious note telling our local toy store not to donate anymore Happy Lamb toys to the hospital, and in toy magazines."

"The only one I know who would use magazines is Myah," recalled Ms. Perigord. "She had terrible handwriting and usually uses a laptop or texting for writing messages."

As they got up, they saw that Tokkori has gone missing. They thought he was kidnapped at first, but really, he got stuck in a snack machine while getting some gummy worms. Without a choice, Grumpy went in and grabbed both Tokkori and the gummy worms.

"Thanks, Grumpy," said Tokkori as he started eating the gummy worms.

"I'm a Care Bear," Grumpy explained. "I'm supposed to care."

In the parking lot, Kaylin, Paige, and Cheer found the same limo that abducted Magnolia. As they got inside, somebody trapped and locked them.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Leah, Estrella, Kirby, and Swinger were going around when they spotted a room with a sign.

*Closed for Quarantine*

They all knew very well that a closed room is the least likely place to hide a dark secret. When they opened the room, they found a small girl with blonde hair in braids and a hospital outfit curling up. She was Magnolia Hermanson. "Are you my saviors?" she asked innocently.

"We are, Magnolia," Estrella replied as she hugged the little girl. "But no worries, little nina. We'll get your kidnapper as soon as possible."

Magnolia rushed up to Leah and Estrella and gave them a big hug. Wanting to cheer her up after a little face painting troubles, Estrella got out a face painting kit from Teddy Cuddle Toy Store and they started painting each other's faces.

"There's no time for face painting," Leah interrupted. "We have to catch up with the others."

But they didn't listen; instead, Swinger and Kirby got in on the face painting and painted a rainbow on Leah's face.

**XxoxX**

Later at the gift shop, everyone gathered around to see what other clues they got. "The only ones so far are the phone call, the magazine cutout message, and the video," answered Tania. "And the other mystery we need to solve is, where are Cheer, Kaylin, and Paige?"

Funny they should ask: Paige, Kaylin, and Cheer were still trapped in the limo. "It's time for a Care Bear Stare!" exclaimed Cheer as she did a rainbow stare, breaking the door. A man with a pilot suit came to the parking lot to see if they were alright. He was the pilot for the Happy Lamb private jet, Maddox.

"That's good news," Kaylin sighed with relief, "because airline pilots always make sure that their passengers stay safe."

"By the way," Paige said curiously, "do you get word of a limo picking up Magnolia?"

"I was so busy handling the flight back," Maddox replied, "I didn't know anything about a limo."

As they were heading back to the elevator, they spotted a masked figure with a Happy Lamb badge. Knowing this, it could be the kidnapper. Not knowing what to do, Paige looked up to find a broken fire alarm. As she looked down, she saw Kirby rolling down the stairs. "Kirby," she shouted, "suck it up!"

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Bell Kirby. He ran so loudly, it started hurting the ears of the thief, who turned out to be Myah. "As I feared," Maddox recalled. "You never got over your growth spurt."

**XxoxX**

Later, the police were arresting Myah for kidnapping Magnolia and Mr. Hayato and began to wonder how the Klue Queens knew it was her. "We suspected Myah when we saw a cutout note delivered to the toy store," explained Leah. "They were all from magazine articles of Cuddly Magazine, the same magazine that Happy Lamb made its debut in in the 1980s."

"Then there was the phone call from the airport," continued Kaylin. "Magnolia was supposed to arrive at the Philadelphia airport via minivan, but the said there weren't any reports of a minivan coming to pick her up."

"And that scrapbook with numerous pictures with Myah in the 90s," said Paige. "People sometimes carry pictures in a book, but this is like totally too far."

"Also," replied Rylie, "Ms. Perigord mentioned that Myah had terrible handwriting. That meant that she would use a different format other than typing."

"Finally there was the Facetube video of the Happy Lambs commercial," recalled Estrella.

"I was a spokesmodel back in the old day," Myah explained. "Then the company decided that I was too old for the commercial, so they replaced me with the daughter of Douglas Hermanson."

Ms. Perigord was petrified by a former child star kidnapping the newest child star. She walked up to Myah and hit her with her purse. "Don't mess with a Poppins," she sneered.

As the cops were dragging Myah away, a businessman with a Happy Lamb tie came in. "Daddy!" shouted a fully dressed Magnolia as she came in. "I'm so glad your here!"

"Maggie, honey," Mr. Hermanson replied. "I was so worried about your disappearance, I came to the hospital for any luck."

"No need to worry Monsieur Hermanson," explained Ms. Perigord. "Magnolia is healthy and well."

"Thanks for taking precaution, Ms. Perigord," smiled Mr. Hermanson

"Monsieur, please," replied Ms. Perigord as she blushed. "Call me Gracelyn."

Magnolia always knew that her father and Ms. Perigord would get together because her mom divorced her dad due to high magnolia allergies and those were her father's favorite flower, which was why she was called that.

**XxoxX**

Monday after school, our heroes were continuing the Cuddly Teddy Toy Store celebration. Cheer and Grumpy had their car fueled and fixed thanks to a little Fantasia Friendship power and were heading back to Care-a-Lot

Kirby tried to get an autograph picture of Magnolia from the front desk, but ended up tripping over a baby blankey and ending in a pile of Happy Lambs.

As Kirby popped out, everyone awwed at the little alien.

**The End**

**Chapter 13: An order of Meta Muffins**

Senora Salazar was in town for the play production of A Chorus Line. Before she could see the play about auditions, she decided to visit her old friends The Klue Queens. She was having boiled shrimp, with chili, cornbread and ice tea when Leah came in with a bowl of tomato soup, "Señora Salazar," said Leah, "What are you going to do after seeing A Chorus Line?"

"I'm going to meet the Princess of Succhialo" Senora Salazar answered, "She's in town for a peace conference in Philadelphia."

"A peace conference" asked a small blue knight, "That's peaceful."

"Meta Knight?" asked Leah as she walked up to him, "Haven't seen you since our trip to Dreamland."

"I know" replied Meta Knight, "I came to warn you that the princess is missing?"

"Que?" asked Señora Salazar, "I saw the live footage of her arriving The Greenburg on TV."

"No" corrected Meta Knight, "That was an imposter. Did you notice in the live footage that she was eating a beef hot dog."

"I didn't" admitted Señora Salazar, "Forgive the old girl, my mind isn't as good as it use to be."

"I remember studying on the royal family of Succhialo for a fairytale project for the Friendly Scouts," Tania recalled, "According to the magazines and press, 'Princess Adelaide' has always been vegetarian, because she was wowed by the hippie movement from her mother, 'Queen Alessia's' American collection.

Before they got to the suspect, Officer Downs came in with a cup of coffee, "It was nice of you to come to Lititz Heights again, Mama" he said to his mother, "I always love it when you come to Roadhouse Fantasia to spice things up."

"Gracias, Hijo" replied Senora Salazar, "Now we have to figure out who would kidnap Princess Adelaide. During my studies on the tiny nation, I've listed three people who would most likely go near the princess. Their also in town while to look after the princess."

**XxoxX**

**Suspects**

**Vincente Arlotti(Richest man in Succhialo)**

**Jon De Fiore(Italian boy selling handmade soaps)**

**Carmelo Genovese(Succhialo's Prime Minister)**

**XxoxX**

"I remember seeing Jon in the magazines" Leah recalled, "Paige and I will check on him, Kaylin and Estrella will handle Carmelo, and Rylie and Tania will handle Vincente."

**XxoxX**

In Philadelphia, Rylie, and Tania were arriving at The Greenburg in Philadelphia when they spotted the dashing Vincente giving a little 'Tic tic' to a beautiful Italian woman. After the woman left, the duo walked up o him. After explaining the princess's impersonation, Vincente was petrified by her disappearance, yet is concerned that she would still be beautiful after she's free, "I don't know what she does with that Jon gentleman" he groaned in an Italian accent, "But all ansomic people are losers."

Looking at his pocket, Tania could see a small pamphlet.

Come fare una maschera in lattice.

Also, he had a belt buckle that said, "L'occhio del diavolo".

"Now if you'll excuse me," Vincente said, "I need to find my Sorellina before she fails another gig."

Outside, they found Meta Knight meditating in the breeze and told him about their encounter and the Italian pamphlet, Luckily, Tania just got her Italian Translations Badge and her Italian/English dictionary just for backup. Translating the pamphlet, she figured out what it said.

How To Make A Latex Mask

"Latex?" asked Meta Knight, "Like they do for movie makeup?

"Kind of" replied Tania.

Tania, Rylie, and Meta Knight started to worry.

**XxoxX**

Kaylin, Estrella, Swinger, and Tokorri were checking out the garage for anything suspicious. After seeing a bunch of VIP cars, they spotted the same limousine that carried the fake princess. Looking around, they saw that the place had a fog machine inside. "I remember seeing an episode of Snooper Dawg and The Clue Crew where they did something like this" recalled Kaylin, "The bad guys tricked the actors into thinking the limo break down and used a fog machine to fake it."

"Yeah, who cares" groaned Tokorri, "That princess oughta be a dragon's stew."

"I don't know what you said about a stew" said an elderly man in an Italian voice, "But it does remind me of Regis Philbin's dragon jokes back in the 90s."

"You knew Regis Philbin" asked Tania.

"Of course" replied the old man, "We went to University of Notre Dame together."

The old man introduced himself as Prime Minister Carmelo Genovese and he wants to make sure that, 'the real' princess is safe. "I've known the Princess Adelaide for years and I would hate it if anything happens to the daughter of the king and queen."

The quartet was surprised because Prime Minister Genovese deeply cares about her, "Her twin brother 'Luciano' was suppose to be at the peace conference, but he got involved in a sky diving accident. Adelaide always believed that if a royal member of the Succhialo Kingdom can attend a peace conference, so can a woman."

Estrella and Kaylin were amazed that Princess Adelaide is a strong determined woman and not a damsel in distress.

Senora Salazar was in town for the play production of A Chorus Line. Before she could see the play about auditions, she decided to visit her old friends The Klue Queens. She was having boiled shrimp, with chili, cornbread and ice tea when Leah came in with a bowl of tomato soup, "Señora Salazar," said Leah, "What are you going to do after seeing A Chorus Line?"

"I'm going to meet the Princess of Succhialo" Senora Salazar answered, "She's in town for a peace conference in Philadelphia."

"A peace conference" asked a small blue knight, "That's peaceful."

"Meta Knight?" asked Leah as she walked up to him, "Haven't seen you since our trip to Dreamland."

"I know" replied Meta Knight, "I came to warn you that the princess is missing?"

"Que?" asked Señora Salazar, "I saw the live footage of her arriving The Greenburg on TV."

"No" corrected Meta Knight, "That was an imposter. Did you notice in the live footage that she was eating a beef hot dog."

"I didn't" admitted Señora Salazar, "Forgive the old girl, my mind isn't as good as it use to be."

"I remember studying on the royal family of Succhialo for a fairytale project for the Friendly Scouts," Tania recalled, "According to the magazines and press, 'Princess Adelaide' has always been vegetarian, because she was wowed by the hippie movement from her mother, 'Queen Alessia's' American collection.

Before they got to the suspect, Officer Downs came in with a cup of coffee, "It was nice of you to come to Lititz Heights again, Mama" he said to his mother, "I always love it when you come to Roadhouse Fantasia to spice things up."

"Gracias, Hijo" replied Senora Salazar, "Now we have to figure out who would kidnap Princess Adelaide. During my studies on the tiny nation, I've listed three people who would most likely go near the princess. Their also in town while to look after the princess."

**XxoxX**

Suspects

Vincente Arlotti(Richest man in Succhialo)

Jon De Fiore(Italian boy selling handmade soaps)

Carmelo Genovese(Succhialo's Prime Minister)

**XxoxX**

"I remember seeing Jon in the magazines" Leah recalled, "Paige and I will check on him, Kaylin and Estrella will handle Carmelo, and Rylie and Tania will handle Vincente."

**XxoxX**

In Philadelphia, Rylie, and Tania were arriving at The Greenburg in Philadelphia when they spotted the dashing Vincente giving a little 'Tic tic' to a beautiful Italian woman. After the woman left, the duo walked up o him. After explaining the princess's impersonation, Vincente was petrified by her disappearance, yet is concerned that she would still be beautiful after she's free, "I don't know what she does with that Jon gentleman" he groaned in an Italian accent, "But all ansomic people are losers."

Looking at his pocket, Tania could see a small pamphlet.

Come fare una maschera in lattice.

Also, he had a belt buckle that said, "L'occhio del diavolo".

"Now if you'll excuse me," Vincente said, "I need to find my Sorellina before she fails another gig."

Outside, they found Meta Knight meditating in the breeze and told him about their encounter and the Italian pamphlet, Luckily, Tania just got her Italian Translations Badge and her Italian/English dictionary just for backup. Translating the pamphlet, she figured out what it said.

How To Make A Latex Mask

"Latex?" asked Meta Knight, "Like they do for movie makeup?

"Kind of" replied Tania.

Tania, Rylie, and Meta Knight started to worry.

**XxoxX**

Kaylin, Estrella, Swinger, and Tokorri were checking out the garage for anything suspicious. Along the way, they passed by a broom closet that says, 'Do not look in here.'

After seeing a bunch of VIP cars, they spotted the same limousine that carried the fake princess. Looking around, they saw that the place had a fog machine inside. "I remember seeing an episode of Snooper Dawg and The Clue Crew where they did something like this" recalled Kaylin, "The bad guys tricked the actors into thinking the limo break down and used a fog machine to fake it."

"Yeah, who cares" groaned Tokorri, "That princess oughta be a dragon's stew."

"I don't know what you said about a stew" said an elderly man in an Italian voice, "But it does remind me of Regis Philbin's dragon jokes back in the 90s."

"You knew Regis Philbin" asked Tania.

"Of course" replied the old man, "We went to University of Notre Dame together."

The old man introduced himself as Prime Minister Carmelo Genovese and he wants to make sure that, 'the real' princess is safe. "I've known the Princess Adelaide for years and I would hate it if anything happens to the daughter of the king and queen."

The quartet was surprised because Prime Minister Genovese deeply cares about her, "Her twin brother 'Luciano' was suppose to be at the peace conference, but he got involved in a sky diving accident. Adelaide always believed that if a royal member of the Succhialo Kingdom can attend a peace conference, so can a woman."

Estrella and Kaylin were amazed that Princess Adelaide is a strong determined woman and not a damsel in distress.

**XxoxX**

Leah and Paige were at the Italian Market where they spotted a young boy in trendy clothes, giving out free samples of Succhialoian soaps, "Groovy sampling, Man" Paige commented.

"Grazi" replied the trendy boy in Italian accent, "I may be ansomic, but I know their great."

"You have Anosmia?" Leah asked, "That's quite surprising.

Kirby got out a star pillow, but Leah blocked him, "Not Insomnia" corrected Leah, "Anosmia, when. It's where they don't have a sense of smell."

"You know who has the best sense of smell" sighed Jon, "Princess Adelaide, she was the one who always know what type of flowers I should use to sell my organic soaps."

Seeing is swooning face and lovestruck eyes, they knew he's in love with the princess.

**XxoxX**

Later at an outside cafe, they were sitting down thinking about what they were going through. While they were eating and thinking, Tania was looking at the footage of the live stream from before and saw that the fake princess had the same belt buckle as Vincente, "Didn't Vincente say that, 'All Ansomic people are losers'" asked Rylie.

"He did" Tania answered, "Which I find very rude. Plus the fake princess has the same belt buckle as him."

Remembering all the clues, they figure that Vincente is responsible for the princess's kidnapping. "Girls" Meta Knight said, "I have a plan to stop Vincente and the phony princess."'

**XxoxX**

Back at the garage, Vincente was celebrating his victory with the phony princess 'Giavanna' who is also his younger sister, "Thanks for booking me this gig Vincente." she said to her older brother in an Italian accent, "You won't believe how many people rejected me from the Italian Theater Dept."

Behind them, a lovely girl in a stunning green dress and silver jewels was bound and gagged. She was the lovely, 'Princess Adelaide'. She was untying herself secretly by pressing her hands against a nearby radiator, "I tell you one thing brother" said Giavanna, "Tricking the princess into hopping onto another plane and letting me wear a latex mask of her was pure genius."

"I know" Vincente replied, "Now Adelaide is all mine."

Then out of nowhere, a pleasant aroma of honey, lavender, and hibiscuses came around. Vincente and Giavanna couldn't help themselves. Quickly, Princess Adelaide freed herself, removed the cloth from her mouth and tossed it at Giavanna. Giavanna was irritated by the hit, she tried to catch the princess, but Princess Adelaide tossed some pepper at them, causing Vincente and Giavanna to sneeze, "Kirby, Chúpalo" shouted Estrella "In Spanish that means, Suck It Up"

With one gulp of the hand-made soap, Kirby turned into Cleaning Kirby and drove Vincente and Giavanna crazy with his cleaning. Then Meta Knight took a the rope that trapped the princess and tied them up. "Thank you for saving me" smiled Princess Adelaide, "But why would Vincente and Giavanna kidnap me?"

"Vincente wanted revenge after you dumped him for that nose-blind soap maker, your highness." Leah explained.

"Our first clue was when Vincente was doing that little, 'Tic tic' with his hand," Rylie recalled, "That's the old, 'Sibling tic tic'. Believe me, i've did that a thousand times with Aaron."

"Also in the limo" recalled Tania, "There was a fog machine, Carmelo did mention that Vincente worked in the Theater in Rome before becoming a successful actor."

"Let's not forget" recalled Leah, "His and the imposter's belt buckle saying L'occhio del diavolo" "It meant, "The Devil's Eye" in Italian."

"To repay you girls for rescuing me from my ex-boyfriend" replied Princess Adelaide, "How about I visit your hometown and learn what it's like there."

The girls looked at each other and said, "Si".

**XxoxX**

The next day after the peace conference, Princess Adelaide, Jon, and Carmelo were invited to have a free meal at Roadhouse Fantasia. Jon was happy because his girlfriend is free and safe. Carmelo was also delighted because Adelaide got to go to the peace conference as herself.

At a table, The Klue Queens were dressed in beautiful princess dresses, loaned by Señora Salazar,. Luckily, their a one size fits all, so Rylie won't have to worry about strangling herself, "I never thought I get to meet the princess before my show" she said, "But you never know what's gonna happen next in life. Just like becoming a princess."

"You were a princess too?" Estrella asked.

"I was homecoming princess in high school" Alessandra explained, "Plus I won the Miss Totalmente Asombrosa beauty pageant in the 70s."

"Totalmente Asombrosa" asked Estrella, "Isn't that the Latin-American teen magazine of the 70s, Carolina did a documentary on them for her online colleges."

"That's them" answered Señora Salazar, "And the dresses your wearing are the same ones I wore back in my days."

In her purse, Senora Salazar got out a picture of a younger her wearing the same dress Kaylin wore. "The pink dress is even cuter on a younger you."

"You look exactly like Jimena if she was in the 70s." commented Estrella, "I never thought you would have a Feathered Cut."

"That's how hair was like back in the day." explained Señora Salazar, "A lot has change since disco days."

By the princess's table, Kirby was doing a jester act with some of Jon's soap when he swallowed all of them by accident. Suddenly, he made heart bubbles come out, which delighted Princess Adelaide, "Oh Jon" she cooed, "Their lovely."

**The End.**

**In Memory of Regis Philbin(August 25, 1931 – July 24, 2020)**

**Chapter 14: An Order of Fairly Odd Ambriosa**

It was a dark and stormy night, a middle-aged woman was dusting her collection of books when a group of ninjas snuck into the room and stole a fairytale called "Mercy Of A Marionette." When the woman turned her head, she saw that the book was gone.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at the Lititz Heights Public Library, Tania was reading some book fairies about the tale of "Pinnochio." "And what's the lesson in the book?" she asked to the fairy children, "When you lie," replied the fairy children, "your nose will grow bigger."

"That's right," smiled Tania as she adjusted her nose.

After the book fairies left to meet up with their parents, Tania went to the Fairytale Section of the library to put "Pinnochio" away, only to find some funny titles. "That's weird," she confusingly said to herself. "'Cornorella,' 'Snow Pie Fight,' and 'Greenilocks and the Pink Bears'?"

Just then, somebody farted, much to the patron's disgust. Tania didn't know where the smell was coming from, but decided to go follow it. \*Wait til Mayor Hess hears about this\*, she thought to herself.

At the cooking section, she spotted a green and pink fairy. Cosmo the pink fairy sternly said to the green fairy, "How many times do I have to tell you not to eat too much bacon pudding before we poof? Now Butch is going to be angry that we are tardy for the Fairy Convention in Seattle."

"Seattle?" asked Cosmo. "I thought it was See At Little discount shop in Lititz Heights."

The pink fairy did a face palm while Tania approached them. "Excuse me?" she asked. "Are you color fairies?"

"Of course," answered the pink fairy. "I'm Wanda, and the green fairy who smells like bacon is Cosmo, my goofy husband."

"Oh yeah," recalled Tania. "The government warned me about his antics. Lititz Heights is a haven for magical being to go."

After Wanda explained to Tania about Cosmo's farting magic troubles, Tania agreed to keep an eye on him until further notice. In the meantime, they decided to go to Roadhouse Fantasia to catch up with the other Klue Queens.

**XxoxX**

At Roadhouse Fantasia, our heroes were enjoying their dinner. Leah was having a tofu enchilada with a side of broccoli, Paige was having a vegetarian gazpacho, Estrella was having a nacho supreme with a banana, Kaylin was having a plate of baked sweet potatoes, Rylie was having some fried chicken, with apples, and Kirby was having a giant plate of spaghetti with clams.

By the time Tania got to Roadhouse Fantasia, her Viewtube alert came off, and what she saw was a shock,

World-renowned fairytale author, Amelie DeScoteaux, is in town from Paris to unveil a fairy tale that has been lost for 200 years. Sources say that it was last seen in her American vacation home in Lititz Heights. She was preparing for a press conference with some reporters from Novel Star TV when it went missing.

Tania was petrified, because she'd been looking forward to unveiling of "Mercy of a Marionette" for three months.

Once she showed her friends about the report, they knew they had to do something about it. Thinking through this, Leah knew that the suspects had to be a crewmember of "Novel Star TV." While scrolling through the crew on a data check, she saw the four most likely suspects on who would steal the lost book.

**XxoxX**

Suspect

Braylon Roscoe (Host and creator of "Novel Star TV") - Having trouble with show ratings.

Whitley Wilcox (Executive producer of "Novel Star TV" and biggest TV executive producer in Eastern Pennslvania) - Very stern and not willing to please.

Two strange cameramen going around the house - during the blooper reel, Braylon got annoyed by their antics.

**XxoxX**

The next day after school, Kaylin, Paige, Tania, Rick, and Wanda were back at the library. They were looking around for any ideas on the lost French story when Kaylin came across a picture of two ventriloquism artists and two puppets that looked like an aardvark and a rabbit, "I know those two," recalled Kaylin. "Those are the hosts of 'The Callen and Callan Show'."

Wanda remembered granting wishes for a children's hospital at their college of Mali-U. They were both theater majors and had an after-school job as entertaining children. Unfortunately, the ratings went down after other puppet shows became popular, mostly "Nigel's Noontime Puppet Show."

"I know that show," recalled Kaylin, "I watch it with my sisters all the time. I'd even did a homework assignment in my drama classes about this."

Tania and Wanda were still concerned about Mrs. DeScoteaux. So they decided to go to her vacation home for safe keeping.

**XxoxX**

At one part of Lititz Heights, Leah, Estrella, Rylie, Cosmo, Kirby, Swinger, and Tokkori were heading off to Dominion Studios, which was the local TV studio. People rarely came here, but Lititz Heights decided to keep it up so magical beings could have a safe place to be on TV.

Inside the building, they heard John Fox's "Flop and Go" playing. Cosmo, Tokkori, and Kirby thought that monsters were coming, but Leah told them that it was just the theme for "Nigel's Noontime Puppet Show" and their in the middle of their live rehearsal tonight.

Onstage, a middle-aged man in a blue suit with rat puppets was putting on a comedy act. Observing carefully, Leah, Rylie, and Estrella recognized him as their seventh grade homeroom teacher, Mr. Colton. Remembering from when they were children, he always been fascinated with puppets. They'd even put on a shadow puppet show for him for his birthday.

Just then, he got out some puppets that looked exactly like the Klue Queens, much to the Klue Queens' disturbance. Annoyed by Mr. Colton's little performance, he Cosmo, Swinger, and Kirby came up and Cosmo poofed up some cream pies, "Hey, Puppet Master!" shouted Tokkori. "You like making fun of people?! Let's see how you like being humiliated!"

One by one, they tossed pie at him. Cosmo's little pie-throwing petrified Mr. Colton. "Now let's wish him over."

But before Cosmo had the chance to wish him over, Leah grabbed his hand and told them to stop. "This is not how we respect middle-school teachers," she scolded, "The Kirby Klue Queens," Mr. Colton said nervously. "Thank goodness your here. I've got a performance tonight with the guys from 'Novel Star TV,' and I need to clean this up for story time."

"We'll help you," Estrella replied. "The Klue Queens always help. Right, guys?"

Worried that Wanda would be mad, Cosmo, Swinger, Kirby, and Tokorri decided to help clean up.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at Mrs. DeScoteaux's vacation home, Kaylin, Paige, Tania, Wanda, and Rick were coming up to the door when they saw two nerdy men - one in blue and the other in yellow, "We suspected it was once we saw two nerdy men looking around the garden. Are you that it's here?" asked the nerdy man in blue.

"I could've sworn I left it here," answered the nerd in yellow.

Remembering from the picture, Kaylin recognized them as Callen and Callan from their old web show. She was beginning to wonder why they would be in front of a French author's vacation home. Instead of answering, they told her to mind her own business, "If you two must know," Tania said to them, "we're here to interview Mrs. DeScoteaux about her discovery of 'Mercy of the Marionette'."

Petrified by the name, they both ran off, leaving our heroes in confusion, "I must say, mates," Rick said. "Those two are in a rush to something."

Inside the home, they saw Mrs. DeScoteaux freaking out about her missing novel when Kaylin gave her a big hug, "The Kirby Klue Queens?" she asked in a French accent. "How did you get in here?"

"Madame DeScoteaux," replied Kaylin. "I'd like you to meet an old friend of yours."

Quickly, Madame DeScoteaux recognized her old fairy godmother from her childhood. In her youth, Madam DeScoteaux was always bullied by her three older brothers for her overactive imagination. It was there that Cosmo and Wanda became her fairy godparents and inspired her to become a novelist. The Fairy Council let her retain her memory so her imagination could help fuel up the color fairies.

"Madame DeScoteaux," Tania said, "tell us how you discovered 'Mercy Of The Marionette'."

"If you must know," Mrs. DeScoteaux replied, "I always wrote stories about fairies and rainbows thanks to Cosmo and Wanda. Normally, I go to an abandoned house where I secretly think. After decades of going back and fourth, I decided to buy the house. While exploring the place I discovered a door that lead to an attic. It showed the novel, 'Mercy Of The Marionette by Maxim Arnoni.' People say that it was his last novel before he died in the 1800s during the rise of Italian immigrants in France. People rarely come to his house because they think it's haunted, but because of my strong belief in ghosts, I decided to go in."

"Amazing," commented Paige. "Like that's a bunch groovy way to get ideas, going on adventures with two fairies and sneaking into an abandoned home."

Mrs. DeScoteaux felt much better after talking it out with The Klue Queens, "Guys!" shouted Tania. "I found something. It's a strange note."

On the note, it read an important message.

*Ambush At NNPS, Tonight.*

In horror, they knew that "Nigel's Noontime Puppet Show" was a target and they figured out who was responsible for the theft.

**XxoxX**

Later that night at Dominion Studios, peopler were lining up to see "Nigel's Noontime Puppet Show." The Klue Queens volunteered to help out with the show. They were all dressed up like court jesters for the entertainment while Wanda, Cosmo, Tokkori, Kirby, Rick, and Swinger were dressed as minstrels for the ushering, "How come I can't be in the act?" Tokkori complained as he adjusted his minstrel hat.

"Because no one likes a cranky show member," Rick answered. "This happened to Lewis Hightower III on the first season of 'LADUWS'."

"Oh, yeah," recalled Tokkori. "He was my favorite because he kept insulting female dancers."

Annoyed, Rick decided to check backstage.

Back there was an African-American boy. He was the host of "Novel Star TV," Braylon Roscoe, and was nervous about the whole performance. Just then, a stern caucasian lady wearing a periwinkle buisness outfit came in, "Mrs. Wilcox," Braylon said nervously. "You're here."

"If you don't get hits by the population of Allentown," Mrs. Wilcox sternly growled, "'Novel Star TV' is unplugged."

Little did she know was that Rick heard the whole thing. Hoping that it would save the foresac of reading novels, Rick decided to help Braylon.

**XxoxX**

In 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1, "Nigel's Noontime Puppet Show" was on the livestream. During the show, Mr. Colton was reciting Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" in a jester remix. Everyone was fascinated by the girls recital of Treasure Island, thanks to their time in the library.

Little did they know was that Callen and Callan had water balloons in their hands and were planning to ruin Mr. Colton's show with a water balloon ambush and replace it with their reading of Mercy Of A Marionette. Before they had a chance to balloon-bush them, Cosmo and Wanda replaced the water balloons with a bunch of ducks, "Quack! Quack!" said the ducks.

The ducks started pecking Callen and Callan, much to their annoyance. The audience on the other hand laughed at them until the lost novel of "Mercy of the Marionette" fell out of you Callan's jacket. Everyone else was petrified that the stolen book fell out.

Estrella was blancing on a bouncy ball with a ball when she tossed banana peels at them. Callen and Callan were so annoyed by the ducks, they didn't noticed the banana peels and slipped on them. Then Estrella gave the leftovers to a hungry Swinger, "As we suspected," Kaylin said. "You two took the books."

"There were a few clues to figure out that was responsible for the theft," Tania said, "There was the picture of Callen and Callan's old picture at the library. Our friend told us that those two were popular until they had rating troubles. Also, remember when we came to Mrs. DeScoteaux's vacation home? Callen and Callan were both petrified when Paige said 'marionettes.' Finally, there was a note on the ground saying 'Ambush At NNPS, Tonight.' That meant that you two were going to sabotage his next broadcast."

"You have no idea what it was like with hundreds of writer's blocks and marketing troubles," Callen replied. "During our final year of college, the college yanked us off the air and in place of that Princess Storytime web show, 'Guidance Castle,' because they want to attract a young female generation."

"Over the last two years," explained Callan, "we tried to come up with a comeback. When we got word online that 'Novel Star TV' was interviewng that French lady novelist, we decided to use that at a comeback. We took the novel while disguising ourselves as crew people and plan to destroy every puppet web show, starting with 'Nigel's Noontime Puppet Show.' I mean, he's such a rat!"

Mr. Colton was offended by the insult. So, Kaylin and Paige decided to comfort the teacher. Officer Hess and a bunch of police officers cuffed Callen and Callan and dragged them away, "Bye, bye!" shouted Cosmo.

Knowing that "Mercy of a Marionette" must be heard, Wanda copied part of the novel into the minds of the Klue Queens and Mr. Colton, and they decided to do a short simple version of the story.

**XxoxX**

After the show, everyone was going crazy about the Klue Queens' performance on "Nigel's Noontime's Puppet Show." Not only that, but they saved "Novel Star TV" from getting cancelled. This was the highest rated show they'd ever did. Just then, Leah got a message from Studio 25.

*Dear Kirby Klue Queens.*

*We've been seeing your blog post and videos from our dear friend, Atticus Harmon.*

*After he told us about your last mystery involving a princess's kidnapping,*

*He wants you to be the next guest on Club Groove.*

*Sincerely, Vincenzo Guidi, CEO of Studio 25.*

"I know that place," recalled Estrella. "It's the Mafia of TV. Also, it's where 'Let's All Dance Until We're Sick' got started."

"Good luck with that, girls," Wanda replied, "because Cosmo is all bacon-pudding free. Now we can me up with Butch Hartman at the convention."

With one poof, Cosmo and Wanda were off to meet their supervisor, "There's one thing left to do girls," Leah said. "Dance until we're sick."

**The End.**

**Chapter 15: An Order of Arthur Chocolate**

Our heroes were heading off to Studio 25 in Orlando, Florida, because they were invited to guest star on the hit dance show, Club Groove, where their going to dance to New Kids On The Block's Step By Step. To save time, they travelled by Star like they always do. "We've been working on our NKOTB moves for three days straight" Rylie said to Tokkori, "It's amazing how keeping a hip hop playlist on Facetube could do.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, Super Size Rylie" growled Tokkori, "But you had to bring Mr. Colton with you?"

Behind them, Mr. Colton was uncontrollably holding onto the star, "It's all about balance Mr. Colton" shouted Leah infront of them.

"It's easy for you." Replied Mr. Colton, "I'm scared of heights."

Kirby was confused on what's going on, "There are other shows at Studio 25." Tania explained "Talking and Babbling with and Dartnan Meadows is where Mr. Colton going to guest star. He just booked a gig there."

"He's going to put on a puppet show." Replied Estrella, "And we're also going to help up set up his puppets. Speaking of which, does he still have those puppets of us?"

"Of course, Estrella" answered Mr. Colton as he got up, "About the puppets. I made them myself because, I'm your biggest fan."

"What?" asked The Klue Queen, "We've been getting a lot of fan mail from all over Pennslvania about our mysteries. Most of them are from someone named, 'Nigel' we thought it was a different Nigel, but we decided to wait til further notice."

"I didn't give you my surname because I was afraid I'd be too old." Admitted Mr. Colton.

"Your never too old, Man" Paige replied, "Your still a cool teacher.

"Puppet." shouted Koharu in her big sister's arms.

Mr. Colton, Kirby, and Tokkori were confused by the appearance of baby Koharu, "My parents are having some friends from Oregon come over and they asked me to babysit Koharu, again."

"I remember your twin brother very well." groaned Mr. Colton, "Worst student I'd ever had. Mud tracking in the class room, bringing bugs for his science classes, only for them to get loose on accident and blabbing out stuff about fish heads and skunks. Gross."

"We know." Leah replied in disgust.

**XxoxX**

On the ground, they landed in front of the world renowned Studio 25, "Thank goodness for ground." Mr. Colton sighed with relief, "I don't know what's with Kirby, but I'm glad we're safe."

"Speaking of safe" Leah replied, "Kirby, are the puppets safe."

In Mr. Colton's star, he could see the puppet versions of The Klue Queens and has decided to do a parody of The Klue Queens for them. "About what Cosmo did." replied Leah, "He's always jumping to conclusions due to his low IQ but we understanding that your doing something for comedy and we don't mind it, as long as you don't make us too dumb."

"Why bother?" groaned an elderly businesswoman.

With one look, Tania recognized her as Phoney Pictures producers, 'Minnie Mogul'. "You haven't had a smash hit since the 2014s" recalled Tania, "With your last film, "Attack of the Robot Mooses. All it did was remind us how important mooses are to the world. By the way, what's a producer like you doing here?"

"Studio 25 has some leftover scripts and rejected ideas they want me to produce." Minnie explained, "It's called a collaboration."

"As for us" Leah replied, "We're helping our old middle school teacher put on a puppet show."

Minnie did a sarcastic laugh and said, "If you must know, I hate anthropomorphic animals dancing."

Then she took off to talk to the CEO of Studio 25.

Not wanting to give Koharu ideas, Paige, Kaylin, and Estrella decided to take her baby sister, Kirby, Swinger, Rick, and Tokkori to the green room while the rest of them set up.

**XxoxX**

In the green room, Paige was finding some baby toys for little Koharu to play, \*This is stupid. \* Tokkori groaned to himself, \*I'd rather watch TV then babysit a human baby. It's like babysitting one million kirbys."

As he turned on the TV, reggae music popped up an anthropomorphic aardvark with glasses came on the TV, "What in gumbo is that noise?" Tokkori shouted, "This ain't a reggae concert, it's a regasp concert."

"That is Arthur," explained Kaylin, "I've seen most of the episodes. It's a bout a talking aardvark and his animal friends making message about friendships and believing in themselves. My favorite is when The Backstreet Boys guest starred. They were so cute as bears and bunnies."

"Ah, phooey!" insulted Tokkori, "That show makes me wanna barf."

Annoyed by the insult, Paige, Estrella, and Kaylin decided to check on the others while the animals chillax in the green room. Seeing a Twlight Zone picture on the wall, Tokkori got an idea.

**XxoxX**

In the parking lot, Tokkori got out a badly drawn picture of The Twlight Zone and told Kirby to, "Suck It Up!"

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Portal Kirby. He was about the size of a school bus. "Tokkori" Rick worriedly said, "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"Come on," Tokkori growled, "We don't want any bouncing babies drooling on me, nor monkey getting bugs out of my feathers without permission."

Inside the TV studio, The Klue Queens were putting up the finishing touches to the teacher's puppet show when they smelled Kirby Magic from outside; "Tokkori" Leah groaned to her, "What did you do?"

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile on the road in the world of Arthur, Mr. Ratburn's husband, "Patrick" were heading off to Pittsburgh for the weekend to learn about how television is made. Little did they know, is that Arthur's little sister, DW, and their dog, Pal, snuck in to meet celebrities. As they were riding along, the ground started to shake and a green light came out of nowhere.

**XxoxX**

In the human world, the Lakewood Elementary bus barged out, just as The Klue Queens came in, "If I know better" Kaylin recalled, "That looks like the bus from Lakewood Elementary."

"That could be any Lakewood Elementary," Tania replied as the anthropomorphic animals barged out of the bus feeling woozy from the entire rumbling, "With animals."

"Now now" Mr. Ratburn said, "Everyone remain calm, I'm sure this is just a misunderstanding."

"Is is, Mr. Ratburn" replied Leah, "Forgive our friend, 'Tokkori' he always comes up with something very stupid."

After the Klue Queens introduced themselves, Arthur quickly recalled something, "Kaylin Hester" asked Arthur as he came up to her, "Your the girl who wrote non-stop Backstreet letters are you?"

"That's me" Kaylin confessed, "Major fan, my favorite episode is where you guys sang with The Backstreet Boys."

"Easy, Kay" replied Rylie, "No need to go all 90s."

"Since I know all their names" Kaylin said, "I'll handle this. Arthur, Buster, Francine, Muffy, Binky, Alan, Fern, George, Jenna, Ladonna, Maria, The Brain, Sue Ellen, and Mr. Ratburn's husband, 'Patrick'. By the way, you two are muy cute together."

"That's something I would say," Estrella replied.

"Normally" Patrick explained, "I'm a chocolate seller, but due to the bus driver having a fever, I was the only option available."

"Listen up, Y'all" shouted Tokkori as he came out, "Names' 'Tokkori' I summoned you rabid runts here to babysit Koharu, whom is the drooling baby that the dirty dirtbag, 'Paige' has."

Paige presented her baby sister towards, Arthur, much to his delight, "She reminds me of Kate" Arthur said as Koharu started playing with his glasses.

Just then, Estrella realized something, "Didn't Arthur have another sister?" asked Estrella "One that is a pain the head sometimes."

By the bus, DW trembled out of it with Pal in her hands, "DW" asked Arthur as he placed on his glasses and gives Koharu back to Paige, "What are you doing here?"

"I heard you were going to spend the weekend in Pittsburgh to learn how TV is made" DW answered, "So I thought-"

"You and Pal sneak into the bus so you can meet celebrities" guessed Leah, "We're detectives, it's what we do."

Inside Studio 25, they heard a loud scream.

**XxoxX**

The Klue Queens, Kirby, Tokkori, and the talking animals rushed to the set of Talking and Babbling with and Dartnan Meadows where they see a frantic Mr. Colton going like crazy. He was panicking because while Kirby was using his powers, someone stole his puppets.

The gang from Arthur was shocked because Mr. Colton was like a humanoid version of Mr. Ratburn, even their teacher was surprised by the humanoid version of himself, "It's like we're seeing double." Buster whispered to his best friend, Arthur.

"Talk about human cloning" insulted Tokkori as got out some matches from a nearby table, "If you want a real 'rat burn' let's heat things up."

Paralyzed by fear of the match, Mr. Colton passed out. The Klue Queens were mad at Tokkori even more because Mr. Colton was scared of fire. Leah used the 'Lick and Light Out' trick to the match and said, "Arson is against the law, Tokkori."

"Whatever!" growled Tokkori

By the door, an Italian-American man and his Japanese-American wife barged in to see what was going on. "Is everything alright?" asked the Italian man.

Quickly, Kaylin recognized them as Mr. and Mrs. Guidi from the original Let's All Dance Until We're Sick as two of the backup dancers; "We'll get him to the infirmary, ASAP." Mrs. Guidi explained, "In the meantime, why don't you investigate on who took the puppets."

"This nothing compared to fans fainting to The Backstreet Boys." Kaylin said.

Petrified by the name, Mrs. Guidi took Mr. Colton to the infirmary.

"Before we could get on," Leah said, "We're going to need suspects."

**XxoxX**

Suspects

Vincenzo Guidi(Co-CEO of Studio 25)- He seemed a bit nervous.

Minnie Mogul (Movie producer)- She had a sarcastic laugh while mentioning Mr. Colton's puppet show.

Ginger Guidi (Co-CEO of Studio 25 and choreographer of Let's All Dance Until We're Sick)- After Kaylin mentioned The Backstreet Boys, she just felt bummed.

**XxoxX**

Before they could head off with their buddies, Leah asked Mr. Ratburn and Patrick to look after Koharu and Kirby while they investigate, "Even need teachers need learning" explained Leah, "We must warn you, Kirby is filled with surprises."

Mr. Ratburn and Patrick weren't sure what they meant, but they decided to do their best to look after them.

**XxoxX**

Leah, Arthur, Pal, and Buster were going around a hallway for some clues. As they passed the briefing room, they bumped into Minnie Mogul, who was carrying a really heavy briefcase. Minnie was petrified by the looks of Arthur and Buster, "Don't you need any help with your briefcase?" Buster asked.

"No, thank you." answered Minnie rudely, "Especially form talking aardvarks and rabbits."

Leah, Arthur, and Buster found it weird because she could only carry a few light papers in her briefcase.

**XxoxX**

Kaylin, Tokkori, Muffy, and Francine were going around the costume room for clues. "Your hair is so pretty" commented Kaylin, "So is your dress."

"Thank you" Muffy replied.

"Can't you stop being girly and focus on solving mystery?" Francine asked, "This puppet show of your friends' old teacher's is important."

By the dance costumes, they passed an old Let's All Dance Until We're Sick poster with The Backstreet Boys on them. Francine and Muffy were surprised by the fact that The Backstreet Boys were responsible for making LADUWS the biggest dance show on TV, "I use to have a crush on Nick Carter," Muffy recalled, " Then switched to Howie D, because of his kindness. Then I swap to A. J because I found out that Howie D has a girlfriend."

"You realize that A. J in human form has tattoos?" replied Francine.

Little did they know, is that Mrs. Chirohiro-Guidi heard the whole thing and felt a bit bummed. When Kaylin looked up, she could see the bummed co-ceo "Mrs. Chirohiro-Guidi," she gasped, "We didn't see you there!"

"Please," Mrs. Chirohiro-Guidi replied sadly, "Call me, 'Ginger'."

She walked up to a makeup chair and sat down with a downer look, "What's wrong?" asked Francine.

Thinking clearly, Muffy could recall from a fan letter that Ginger Chirohiro and Howie Dorough were surrogate siblings at the time of the first season of Let's All Dance Until We're Sick. Ginger removed her heart-shaped locket with a ruby on it and opened it up. In the locket was a picture of her 13-year-old self and of a 29-year-old Howie Dorough."

Kaylin could tell that Ginger missed her surrogate brother due to his tight schedule and him raising a family. While Kaylin, Francine, and Muffy comforted a crying Ginger, Tokkori rolled his eyes and started looking around for clues. To cheer her up, they decided to give Tokkori a makeover.

**XxoxX**

During their investigation Estrella, Swinger, Sue Ellen, and Maria found a kid's craft tent and made some beaded jewelry, Rylie, Rick, Ladonna, Binky, and Jenna went into the prop room and found a mysterious scrap book with all of Minnie Mogul's pictures of being on talk shows, Tania, Fern, and George wrote a parody song of a Phineas and Ferb classic, and DW, Paige, DW, and Alex found the music storage room and found a NKOTB single.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile in the cafeteria, Patrick Ratburn was teaching Kirby how to make his own candy bars, "Patrick" Mr. Ratburn said to his husband while carrying Koharu, "Are you sure teaching a pink alien how to make candy is a good idea."

"Relax, dear" replied Patrick, "If I could teach like you, I can."

While they were talking, Kirby grabbed a large bottle of chocolate syrup and placed it in the blender, causing a crazy mess. Mr. Ratburn and Patrick were petrified, but Koharu was amazed.

**XxoxX**

In the green room, The Klue Queens were rounding up the class and waiting for Kaylin and her buddies. At the door, Kaylin, Muffy and Francine came in with Tokkori dressed as a sailor. "This is humiliating." complained Tokkori.

"Now, now." Kaylin whispered to her bird friend, "This is punishment for summoning Toons into our world without permission."

"Fine" Tokkori groaned as he starting bouncing up and down and acting like a sailor, "Quack a doodle doo, Quack a doodle doo!"

Everyone was confused, but Kaylin, Paige, Koharu, Muffy and DW were delighted by the cute little Tokkori. After Rylie told Leah about the scrapbook, Leah figured out who's responsible for the theft of the puppets. The class wasn't so sure about pulling this off, but then, Kaylin said something to encourage them, "It's a simple message and it comes from the heart, believe in yourselves, that's the way you start."

Remembering this as their theme song, everyone agreed to the plan, "Tania" Leah said to her sister, "You, Rylie, Estrella, Swinger, Rick, and Tokkori stay here and explain the plan. Kaylin, Paige and I are gonna pick up Kirby and Koharu.

**XxoxX**

In the cafeteria, they could see that the whole place was a total mess. Everywhere they looked, chocolate covered the place. On a table, Koharu and Kirby were both having a little food fight when Paige and Leah came up to them, "Poyo(Hi Leah!")" greeted Kirby.

"Kirby" asked Leah as she picked up the dirty puffball, "Where's Mr. Ratburn and Patrick?"

Kirby pointed to the traumatized rat and aardvark by a pile of empty bowls covered with pink frosting, "You would not believe what a big appetite Kirby has!" Patrick stuttered.

"We know," admitted Leah, "Kirby does this all the time back where we're from. We warned you he's full of surprises."

"Rylie found some leftover Italian marionettes in the prop room and we figure you two could use." explained Paige, "And we could use some of the leftover chocolate."

"What does this got to do with chocolate?" Mr. Ratburn asked as he got up.

"You'll see soon enough," answered Leah.

**XxoxX**

On the set of Club Groove, everyone was getting ready for a broadcast for the Friendly Scout Viewtube channel. Arthur, Buster, and Francine were running the cameras , Binky, Sue Ellen, and The Brain operating the boom mikes , George, Alex, and Maria were handling the sound effects and lights, and Ladonna, Binky, and Fern were handling the broadcasting. DW was disappointed because she wanted to help too. Sensing her negative vibrations, Rick came up to the little girl, "Hey DW" he said with a smile, "I know how you can help."

Quietly, Rick whispered her plan in the tiny aardvark's ear. Feeling much better, DW walked up to the turntable.

Hearing Pal's barking, they knew that Muffy is coming with Minnie Mogul. "Right here" Muffy said while dressed in a disco ballet outfit, "Here's the set of Club Groove."

"Must say" Minnie said, "Too 1970s."

"Anyway, " Muffy replied, "Sit down on the ground and tell us all about your times as a big shot producer. But first, let me take that briefcase of yours."

Muffy took Minnie's briefcase and gave it to Swinger.

Before she got a chance to speak, the screen behind her changed to a gay Romeo and Julien, with Mr. Ratburn and Patrick as the puppets of the two leading characters, "Romeo, Romeo" Patrick said as Julien, "Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo?"

"In thy mud, Sweet Julien In The Sun" answered Mr. Ratburn as Romeo.

Everyone snickered at the comedy puppet show, but Minnie found it repulsive. Just then, DW started playing New Kids On The Block's Step By Step on the turntable, much to their confusion.

Kirby came onstage with a Sgt. Pepper hat and held a sign that said, 'Let's Dance!'

"What y'all waiting for a dummy convention" shouted Tokkori wearing a rapper outfit, "Everybody dance now!"

Arthur and friends were confused but danced anyway while DW and Koharu played with the turntable. "Why are we dancing?" The Brain asked in confusion

"She said, 'She hates anthropomorphic animals dancing." explained Rick.

Mr. Ratburn and Patrick rushed up to see the students dancing like crazy, "What are you wait for, a capture from the zookeeper" asked Tokkori, "DANCE!"

The gay animals were confused, but danced anyway, Arthur's class was embarrassed, because their teacher and his husband were dancing again in the style of the New Kids On The Block. Suddenly, Rylie appeard in a disco Beatles outfits and the beaded jewelry Estrella, Swinger, Sue Ellen, and Maria made "Hold the dancing, fellas" she interrupted the gay animal couple, "Leave the New Kids On The Block dancing to me."

"Yeah, go Rylie!" Binky shouted.

One by one, the other Klue Queens came out while dressed in disco/Beatles outfits and Estrella's beaded jewelry. Annoyed by the anthropomorphic animals dancing, Minnie blurted "Okay I confess I confess. I stole the marionettes."

"DW" shouted Paige, "Kill the music."

Hearing this, DW and Koharu stopped playing NKOTB, "I was suppose to be the main act until that puppet master took my place, at the last minute," Minnie explained, "I didn't want to be involved in any anthropomorphic animals, puppet shows, and no boy band tributes."

"Good thing I stopped at the Backstreet Boys episode." Kaylin recalled.

"Lucky for us" interrupted Tania, "There were a few clues to figure out about your theft. Your sarcasm laugh when we mentioned puppet show, you carrying a suitcase that was rather heavy, and your scrapbook on your many times on the talkshows here in Florida."

Swinger opened the briefcase and there was the missing marionettes of The Klue Queens.

Minnie told them to stop the recordings, but Fern explained that this was broadcasted live on the Friendly Scout's and Studio 25 View Tube videos. Minnie tried to escape. Luckily, Mr. and Mrs. Guidi tripped her from a curtain and grabbed her, "Get me out here" begged a traumatized Minnie, "This place is crawling with vermin."

"Relax" Vincenzo replied, "This place is always crawling with magical beings and aliens. Plus a little cleaning in the kitchen by yourself will teach you not to ruin show gigs."

Once Mr. and Mrs. Guidi left with the traumatized Minnie Mogul in their arms, Buster asked why are The Klue Queens dressed like a bunch of disco Beatles, "Remember the episode, 'It's Only Rock And Roll'" asked Estrella, "We figured that if Muffy couldn't use her concept on The Backstreet Boys, she can do it on us"

"There's also a change of plans" Leah replied, "We're going to perform a special song for a special alien. Keep the cameras rolling."

One by one, The Klue Queens danced to the instrumental version of Everything's Better With Perry, thanks to Koharu and DW. By a sign, Kirby popped out and did his little dance.

*We consider every day of we, to spend it with a Kirby*

*We're always in the glorier, because he's a star warrior*

*Our all you can eat alien Brings smiles to the six women*

*Life's never ruddy duddy, with our gumball buddy*

*When we're dancing the way, it's better*

*Rewriting the stars, it's better*

*Eating our lunch it's better*

*Like we're some pancakes, and he's the butter*

*Having scouts honor, it's better*

*Playing with monkeys, it's better*

*Being in a bunch it's better*

*and Sucking it up, is a really big saider*

*Every day we have it all, we start it with a pink puff ball*

*He's adorable and he makes your tears go byeby, Everything's better with Kirby.*

*Everything's better when we just wanna say little Kirby, Everything's better with you.*

During the song, Muffy came onstage and danced with Kaylin. In the end, The Klue Queens hugged the little alien and Kirby sang, "Poyo!"

**XxoxX**

Later, after The Klue Queens performance on Club Groove and Talking and Babbling with and Dartnan Meadows, it was time for Mr. Ratburn's class to return home. Once every cast member got onto the bus, Arthur stopped and said to Kailyn, "There's a surprise for you inside the green room."

Kaylin walked up to a conscious Mr. Colton, "Thank goodness my marionettes were alright." Mr. Colton said, "I don't know what I would be without them."

"Kirby" shouted The Klue Queens, "Suck It Up!"

With one gulp of a flier for The Twlight Zone Leah grabbed from storage, he turned into Portal Kirby again. As quick as they could, The Lakewood Elementary bus went in. Kirby changed back and wondered if it worked. On Kaylin's View Tube app on her phone, she could see the live stream of the new Arthur episode, DW was barging out and Mr. Ratburn's class were surprised by DW and Pal stowing onto the boat. Seeing this, they knew that they made it back into their cartoon.

**XxoxX**

In the green room, Kaylin found a poster of The Backstreet Boys from the It's Only Rock and Roll episode, with the signatures of Mr. Ratburn's class.

*To Kaylin*

*Thanks for showing us an early demo on how TV is made*

*So have this poster in returned*

*Signed, Arthur and friends.*

Kaylin was so amazed that she kept it in her souvenir bag for safekeeping.

**The End**

**Note: Everything's Better With Kirby is a parody of Everything's Better with Perry from Phineas and Ferb.**

**Chapter 16: An Order of Flerken Flounder**

It was a quiet night at the Philadelphia International Airport. Everyone arriving to and from flights all over the world. Just then, out of nowhere, a werecat appears and starts terrorizing the good patrons of the airport, including a Jamaican ambassador named Crosby Gilmore. The only thing it left behind was a counterfeit dollar.

**XxoxX**

In her room, Kaylin was putting up a poster of the Arthur version of the Backstreet Boys, with the autographs of him and his friends.

Fayth came into the room looking confused. "Is that a poster from the 'Arthur' episode 'It's Only Rock and Roll'?" she asked.

"The gang from Arthur gave it to me as a surprise present after we stopped Minnie Mogul from ruining Mr. Colton's act," Kaylin explained.

"I hate to burst your bubble," Fayth replied, "but the Backstreet Boys are middle-aged."

"I know," replied Kaylin. "But their still adorable."

Fayth was annoyed because Kaylin still admired the greatest boy band ever, even in their 40s and 50s. Then Fayth reminded Kaylin that they had to go to the Lititz Heights Public for an important briefing.

In Fayth and Leelannee's rooming, Leelannee was letting her stuffed rat with a green bowtie and stuffed aardvark with a red bow tie kiss.

"Aww," cooed Leelannee. "I can't get enough of the 'Special Someone' episode. If only I could try some of that cartoon chocolate."

"Come on, Leela," Kaylin said at the door. "We've got an important meeting at the library.

Just as they were about to leave, Rusty stopped them. "Girls," he groaned, "I was just about to serve dinner."

"Hey, Uncle Rusty!" shouted Kaylin. "An ambassador from Jamaica is coming to Lititz Heights for the Jamaican Cultural Festival at Ziggy Bob's Banquet Friday after school. Officer Downs is inviting us to cover some government issues i'm bringing Fayth and Leelannee with me. They believed that it's a pet that could be a playmate for Little Miss Starlight."

"Well," Rusty replied, "take some of these pretzel bags with you. I can't see you girls go hungry."

Not wanting to upset their uncle, they took the bags and headed off.

**XxoxX**

Later at Lititz Heights Public Library, Ricardo was comforting a broken armed Crosby, who'd just got out of the airport infirmary.

"Girls," Officer Downs said, "this is Crosby Gilmore. He's an agent for the NSA and the Jamaician ambassador for the Jamaican Cultural Festival Friday evening."

"Not only I came here for the Jamaican Cultural Festival," Agent Gilmore explained, "but I needed somebody to take care of this wild beast."

In a NSA cat carrier, they saw a little orange cat. "Awww," cooed Kaylin. "It's a little cat."

"I was right," admitted Fayth. "She's perfect for a playmate for Little Miss Starlight."

"It's not just any cat," Officer Downs corrected. "It's a flerken. Goose here is very powerful and wants you girls to look after her."

Not understanding Goose's concept, Crosby decided to give a demonstration with an old mannequin. Quickly, Goose's tentacles popped out, and ate the large manequin in one bite.

"The government is training a group of Skrull superheroes here on Earth and I don't want this little being's acidic claws hurting anyone," explained Officer Downs.

Swinger came to Goose and sniffed him, only for Goose to stick a tentacle out and scare him away.

"But there's one thing I don't understand," Leah said. "What happened to your arm?"

"About that," Agent Gilmore said sadly. "I was on my way to pick up Goose when a werecat attacked me. Luckily, I got Goose after I got out of the infirmary."

To cheer him up, the Klue Queens signed his cast. Kirby even did a crudely drawn version of himself on it. Everyone chuckled.

**XxoxX**

The next day after school, the girls arrived to the airport via Kirby. Of course, Kaylin had to bring Fayth, Leelannee, and Little Miss Starlight as Goose's playmates. Once they interviewed the manager, he claimed that he wrecked the local Velossi's cafe and any other pizza joint at the airport.

"This is worse than King Dedede eating up an entire banquet for interstellar ambassadors," Tokkori complained, "which he does all the time."

"So whoever did this must hate pizza," suggested Rylie.

Suspects

Bodie(Baggage boy)- Same structure as the were cat.

Jaxtyn(Pilot)- Needed money.

Madden(Airport repairman)- Knows every inch of the airport.

Emory(Manager of the food dept)- Hates people going into warehouses that aren't employees.

**XxoxX**

Leah and Estrella were going around the kitchen. Swinger was sniffing up the bananas in the fruit pile when Estrella told him to come along. "You silly little mono," she chuckled. "You know better than to sniff around and eat the bananas."

Swinger was grumpy of course because Estrella wouldn't let him eat in the airport kitchen. Just as they were about to ask some of the employees where Emory was, an African-American man in a chef's uniform barged in. It was Emory himself. He got word from security about spotting two girls and a monkey sneaking around the kitchen.

"Listen here, you trespassers!" he growled, get out of the kitchen! This is for employees only!"

"You don't understand," replied Leah. "We're part of the Kirby Klue Queens, and we got word of a were cat attack."

"Oh yeah," recalled Emory. "Many pizza place workers are going on a vacation from the airport to avoid cat troubles. Though I can only think of one thing worse: monkey troubles."

Swinger was annoyed, but Estrella grabbed her pet monkey. Not wanting to get in a lot of trouble, they decided to leave the kitchen.

**XxoxX**

Elswhere at the airport, Kaylin, Tania, Tokkori, Little Miss Starlight, and Flerken were going around the warehouses, "I feel uncomfortable," complained Tokkori. "Don't you girls know that cats and birds don't mixed? I could get eaten."

Once they reached a warehouse, Tania decided to lockpick one of them to see if there's any clues. Before she could do that, a charming repairman came up and blocked her hand. He was Madden, "Excuse me," he interrupted as he flirtasously staired at them. "Are you the world famous Klue Queens?"

Instead of answering, they creepily nodded their heads, "I hate to break it to you," Kaylin replied. "But four of us are already taken. I can't ever leave me dear Nathaniel."

"Yeah," continued Tania. "And I don't want any idiots messing with me. By the way, what are you doing here?"

"It's my job little lady," Madden answered flirtatiously. "I have keys to all the rooms at the airport, whenever there's a plane in need of repair, i'm your man."

It was a little odd. Usually the person who knew the place more than anyone would have the keys to the warehouses, "Come on," Kaylin said. "Let's look for something for Goose and Little Miss Starlight to play with, besides the mice invading the airport."

But it was too late. Goose and Little Miss Starlight were playing with the mice. Fortunately, Kaylin got out a Friendly Scout Kitty Fishy biscuit, and they both ate through the box.

Suddenly, a grey werecat popped out and tried attacking the girls. Luckily, Goose used her tentacles and tossed him to a sardine truck. Kaylin and Tania picked up Little Miss Starlight and Goose so they wouldn't be tempted into eating the Sardines.

**XxoxX**

Inside the theater, Rylie and Paige, Rick, Kirby, Fayth and Leelannee were being on the lookout for Bodie and Jaxtyn when they heard two thugs contacing their boss, "Don't worry," the thin thug whispered. "Once they destroy them completely, then all his pain will be gone."

"And you'll finally win your sweetheart's heart again," whispered the bald thug.

"Look at those two," whispered Paige. "They, like, have the same structure as the werecat."

"Yeah," Rylie agreed quietly "But we gotta check Bodie and Jaxtyn first before we jump to conclusions."

"Right," whispered Paige.

When they got out, they saw Bodie and Jaxtyn doing a circus act to entertain the children who were waiting for their flights and people who are disappointed due to delayed flights. Amused by their circus routine, Kirby, Fayth, and Leelanee joined in, "At least this keeps Kirby from eating the food," admitted Paige.

**XxoxX**

Ten minutes later, the girls were having dinner at an O'Mickey's at the airport, doing some thinking, "I figure that there could be more than one werecat," Tania stated. "I've still got the artificial that Agent Gilmore gave to me, and this werecat has brown fur, the one that attacked Kay and I having grey fur."

"That's true," Paige replied. "And we didn't get a chance to fully see the inside of one of the warehouses."

Remembering a small detail about working, Kaylin got an idea.

**XxoxX**

Later, the girls were disguised as flight attendants and going through the warehouses, "Why are we disguised as flight attendants?" asked Rylie.

"Because the warehouses are for employees only," whispered Kaylin. "And don't mind Swinger, Rick, Tokkori, Kirby Goose, and Little Miss Starlight. Fayth and Leelannee are taking them to the Rorority's at the airport. Manager says that it's on the house, as long as Kirby doesn't eat up all the food as usual and they let keep Tokkori from insulting the customers."

Remembering from their superstition books from the library, they knew that 13 was an unlucky number. Very stealthily, they snuck by warehouse 13, only to find in the window, a printing machine and millions of counterfeit dollars. Before they could escape, the two bodyguards Rylie and Paige saw earlier blocked them, "Didn't people tell you to mind your own business?" asked the bald thug.

"Yeah," answered Rylie. "But counterfeiting is illegal."

They tried dancing their way out, but ended up trapped in a net, "What are you two goofballs doing?!" shouted Madden from behind.

"Sorry, boss," replied the thin thug, "but we were just following your orders."

"Orders, schmorders," growled Madden. "Keep those Klue Queens from exposing my counterfeiting."

"Madden," growled Tania. "We figured it was someone who knew all the parts of the airport."

"Lucky I wasn't fooled by your little faces." Madden smiled evilly. "A good manager must always keep track of who works here and who doesn't. When I tell the manager that you girls are sneaking around the airport impersonating flight attendants, you're going to be the ones who're sorry."

Little did they know was that Fayth, Leelannee, Kirby, Swinger, Tokkori, Rick, Goose, and Little Miss Starlight were spying on them through the boxes. Fayth got out the leftover ribs and got an idea. "Kirby, suck it up!" she and Leelannee shouted.

With one gulp of the baby back ribs, Kirby turned into Whip Kirby, "Just like in Devo's music video!" shouted Leelannee.

Quickly, Kirby whipped the three criminals into a box of counterfeit dollars, trapping them. Meanwhile, Goose used his acidic claws to free the girls. With gratitude, the girls hugged the little beast and then looked at Kaylin's two sisters, "Just like how you got your Follow Directions badge," Leah recalled as Goose started freeing our heroes with her acidic claws. "You just remembered the tiny details. Say Kirby's trigger words and he'll use his copy abilities."

"Well," Fayth replied, "we learned from the best."

**XxoxX**

Back at the airport, the police were cuffing Madden and his goons while our heroes talked to the manager.

"There were some clues that Madden did those were-cat attacks," recalled Rylie. "Like that news article of Crosby's attack, they said that the werecat was leaving behind counterfeit dollars."

"Let's not forget that had keys to every warehouse in the airport," recalled Estrella, "including the abandoned warehouse 13."

"And the stuff we heard from those two thugs," recalled Kaylin, "They said that once they destroy them completely, then all his pain will be gone."

"They were printing millions of counterfeit dollars at Warehouse 13 with an old printing press," guessed Rylie. "The werecat thing was just a coverup so they can scare the patrons away."

"You would not believe what's it like working as an airport repairman," growled Madden. "Whenever your crew orders pizza, the smell tends to distract to you while your working. Next thing you know, your girlfriend leaves you for a pizza delivery guy, who owns a legendary pizza place at the Italian market. In order to win the love back, I should be a fake millionaire. But I couldn't do it alone, so I hired two thugs to pose as werecats to keep the patrons from finding out. It's amazing when you can come up with the idea fore a werecat from horror novels that are overdue at the Philadelphia Public Library."

"Overdue books, huh?" Estrella asked. "Looks like your last real check would cover the overdue book."

This was bad news for Madden, but good news for the Klue Queens and Goose. The security started dragging Madden and his goons away while the girls high-fived each other, "There's only one thing left now," Leah replied. "A little trip to the Jamaican Cultural Festival.

**XxoxX**

The next day after school, the teenagers were attending the Jamaican Cultural Festival, and even a line to sign Agent Gilmore's cast.

Goose and Little Miss Starlight were both eager to have their own Furiams cat food eating contest. However, Kirby ate the whole thing in one gulp, just so he wouldn't be tempted into eating all the food at the festival. Goose and Little Miss Starlight weren't annoyed; instead they chuckled because Kirby was such a sucker upper.

**The End**

**Note: Ziggy Bob's Banquet is a homage to Bob Marley and his son, 'Ziggy' who sings the Arthur theme song.**

**Chapter 17: An Order of Hologram Crackers**

It was a rainy day in the magical town of Lititz Heights and an elderly lady with early 1910s styled clothes was arriving. From her purse, she got out a picture of a white and blue dress.

"Soon," she whispered to herself, "the Voice of The Tides will be mine. I'll teach James Cameron never to give that prototype dress to that Jem-loving Genevieve."

**XxoxX**

At the same time, the girls were having dinner at Roadhouse Fantasia. They were all very excited about seeing the Lititz Heights High spring musical, "The Voices of Songs," which was the last play production Mayor Hess was in before retirement.

"This isn't just any version," explained Tania. "It's the rock and roll version, accompanied by a band from Los Angeles."

"Tonight is going to be groovy!" exclaimed Paige. "Only three hours til showtime."

Ms. McBruce was coming from the office with a really hungry Kirby. By the buffet, he saw the most Outrageous food ever. As he was eating up all the food uncontrollably, Nathaniel came in and was parylyzed by the cooking.

"Nathaniel!" Kaylin shouted as she grabbed him and pulled him close.

"Kirby sucking it up again?" guessed Nathaniel.

Kaylin blushed because her boyfriend was there.

Leah turned her head to see a familiar face. "Hey look, guys," she said to the other Klue Queens. "Nathaniel is here."

"Hey, girls," greeted Nathaniel. "Psyched about the show? It's going to rock."

Nathaniel explained that he was helping out Starlight Home for Foster Girls in California. His dad was really good friends with Emmett Benton from when they were in college. "Their most successful group, Jem and the Holograms, are the accompanists for this special play, but this isn't the only specialty of this version of 'The Voices of Songs'."

From his phone, he showed a photograph of his late mother when she was alive. In the picture she wore a very beautiful white and blue dress that was so beautiful. It was a rare dress called the Voice of The Tides.

"It was a prototype dress for the 1997 movie 'Titanic'," explained Nathaniel. "Unfortunately, Kate found it a little flashy, and she and James were afraid that it would blind the cast and crew. So they gave it to his good friend Genevieve as a birthday present at 18."

Tania could recall from newspaper and magazine articles that Genevieve wore the same dress in her college production of "The Voice of Songs." "I hear from Enchorus Monthly that anyone with a lot of money would get their hands on it."

"I know," replied Nathaniel. "That's why my father entrusted your principal to watch it. Mom wore it during the wedding scene of 'The Voice of Songs'."

"That's right," recalled Kaylin. "Your mother played Marianna. You told me that during my mystery in Atlantic City, where we had our first kiss."

Nathaniel blushed.

"Awww," cooed a pink-haired woman. "Setting sails for romance."

It was Jem. She came to Roadhouse Fantasia for dinner. Behind her were Aja, Shana, Kimber, and Raya, otherwise known as the Holograms. In Aja's hand was a tiny little Latino girl with curly hair and pink and blue '80s clothes, "And who's this little angel?" asked Kaylin.

"This is a recent edition, Jaycee Iturburua. Her parents were recently killed in a boating accident, and she doesn't have any other relatives in America."

"Hola," Jaycee greeted sadly.

Kaylin knew that Jaycee was having a hard time with the loss of her parents and assures the little girl that she'd get better.

Outside, a familiar maid was shining the mirrors off of a when she spotted the our friends, "Hello there, Nathaniel," greeted the maid. "A little bug got into the mirror, and I don't want it to distract my driving."

"Lina," called Nathaniel. "Thanks for the help."

Our heroes were confused, "You remember my maid Melina?" Nathaniel asked "Sometimes I call her Lina in affection."

"Oh, yeah," recalled Paige. "From the first time we came to your mansion."

"She's been a second mother figure to me whenever my real mom wasn't around," Nathaniel explained. "You know when she was still alive."

"Of course," Lina recalled. "Also, I have been having parental issues back in the past. My ex-husband left me after we lost a little ice crystal."

Before Lina could explained further, Leah's cellphone went off. After a few minutes on the phone, she turned to the Klue Queens and said, "The Voice of the Tides is missing!"

**XxoxX**

When they arrived at Lititz Heights High, Principal Hopkins was panicking. Mrs. Hess tried to calm her down, but it was no use. Once the limo arrived, Nathaniel, Jaycee, Lina, the Klue Queens, and the Holograms popped out, "Is everything alright?" asked Estrella.

"Thank goodness your here," Mrs. Hess said with a relief. "We all know that Principal Hopkins goes into a panic whenever a valuable item for a show or game has been stolen."

"Any suspects?" asked Tania. "As usual, we need suspects."

"Only one," explained Mrs. Hess. "A crazy sailor ninja who has been terrorizing the actors."

**XxoxX**

In the auditorium, Aja, Shana, Tania, Estrella, Swinger, Rick, and Tokkori were going around checking for clues. So far, they didn't found anything. Suddenly, Helen came in while going over their lines, "Hey, Helen," greeted Estrella as she did a finger wave to her girlfriend.

"Hey, Estrella," greeted Helen as she blushed. "Excited for the show tonight? We're doing our final dress rehearsal before the main event."

"We are," replied Estrella, "but some nutcase stole the costumes and the Voice of the Tides."

"Yeah," Helen said as her smile turned into her a frown. "Everyone is starting to worry that the show will be a flop. As they say in the theater, 'The show must go on'."

"Right," replied Tania. "Why don't you find the original costumes from the 2002 production of 'The Voices of Sounds' while we look for more clues?"

With a quick nod, Helen agreed to the plan.

**XxoxX**

Nataniel, Kaylin, Paige, Raya, and Kimber were going around the costume dept, where the Voice of the Tides and other costumes were stolen.

On the ground, Paige found a bobby pin and remembered the old 'bobby pin lickpock trick'. "This does explain how the sailor ninja was able to get in and steal the costumes," she said.

Wanting to think, Nathaniel got out a yo-yo with a picture of the Heart of the Ocean on it. "That's a really special yo-yo," he explained. "My mom gave this to me during the 20th anniversary of 'Titanic'., "You must be attatched to the yo-yo," guessed Kaylin.

"Not too attatched like taffy jam." replied Nathaniel.

"Taffy jam?" Kaylin asked. "That's very rare."

But little did they know that the sailor ninja was spying on them. Quickly, it sent the old lady a text message,

*Kirby Klue Queens are catching on. Prepare the trap.*

**XxoxX**

Outside he auditorium Rylie, Leah, Kirby, and Jem were looking around for clues when Kirby smelled taffy nearby. Quickly, he rushed over to a taffy box.

In the taffy box, instead of taffy, there was empty wrappers with words. Remembering that she gave out puzzle-solving badges last week, Leah decided that she should crack the cost. After assembling the words together, they become horrified. So horrified, that they decided to get the others ASAP.

**XxoxX**

Along the way, Kaylin smelled the box and it smelled like saltwater taffy. But not just taffy - it had a cross between rare expensive coconut and rare chocolate from Belgium.

"I know only one taffy store that could sell that sells that type of coconut chocolate taffy with those rarities," Nathaniel growled angrily. "Durand's Delight."

**XxoxX**

In the Lititz Heights ballet house, Mayor Hess was tied up and was trying to escape. Sadly, the old lady in 1910s apparel popped up and glared at her, "Hello, Louise," she greeted.

"Evie," snarled Mayor Hess. "I was afraid you'd show up."

"For decades," growled Evie, "I've waited a long time to get my revenge for you ruining my life. You played tattletale and caused my fans to turn against me."

"Why bother?" growled Mayor Hess. "You weren't a cooperative actress, and you always get into character too much."

By the window, the mysterious ninja-sailor came in and removed her mask. It was Evie Durand, Nathaniel's ex girlfriend, "I sent the message to those Klue Creeps," she said. "Just like you planned, Granny."

"I didn't go through all the trouble of tricking Mayor Hess into thinking that there's a new candy restaurant opening and knocking her out with some smelly fish heads I bought at the markets. Then let you go into the school and breaking in with your old bobby pins and lure those girls to their doom." replied Evie The First

"Too bad!" shouted Leah from behind. "You are too predictable."

Accompanying her were the rest of our heroes. "How did you get in here?" Evie the First asked.

"It's amazing what a learning lockpicking from the Friendly Scouts would do," answered Tania as she got out of bobby pin.

"Evie the Third," declared Evie. "You should know better than to give them ideas to fight fire with fire."

"Evie the Third?" everyone but Mayor Hess asked.

"Your looking at Evie Carolyn Durand III," explained Evie. "Granny wanted the Durand name to continue, so she forced my dad to use my mom's last name, or else she'll bank out all his money on expesive designer clothes."

Enraged, Evie The First tossed a Chikorama Tech trap cage and trapped our heroes, leaving out Nathaniel's Heart of the Ocean yo-yo. With a villainous grin, Evie smashed Nathaniel's yo-yo.

"That's for breaking my heart and moving on from Mommy Genevieve's demise." growled Evie The Third.

Nathaniel was petrified, because that was one of the few tokens that his mother has given to him.

"Evie!" shouted Kaylin. "This is unforgivable! His heart does go on, you know!"

Without hesitation, Jem got an idea. "Synergy," whispered Jem, "get us out of this."

\*Open up!\* shouted Synergy \*This is the police! Release them and nobody will get hurt!\*

Thinking that the police was real, Evie the First released them, "Kirby, suck it up!" shouted the Klue Queens.

With one gulp of the yo-yo Evie destroyed, Kirby turned into Yo-Yo Kirby.

In a flash, Kirby grabbed the two Evies and tied them up, "Now," growled Jem, "you're going to tell us where the costumes are."

"No way," sneered Evie The Third. "Granny and I won't tell you where they are."

"Oh yeah?" Shana dared. "Even if we give you the dull look makeover?"

"Not the dull look!" cowered Evie The Third. "I love my trashy look makeup!"

"Okay! Okay!" shouted Evie The First. "There in the balconies."

To make sure she was telling the truth, Leah got out a prism necklace Issac gave to her for her birthday. And sure enough, the two Evies were right. The Voice of the Tides was a really flashy dresses, "It's just like the musicals of 'Dogs,' 'Violinists in the Attic,' 'The Queen and Me,' 'Nightspot,' and 'Indianapolis'," groaned Mayor Hess as Kaylin and Estrella untie her. "You're always a stuckup!"

**XxoxX**

One by one, the Klue Queens, the Holograms, Nathaniel, Lina, Jaycee, Mayor Hess, Tokkori, Kirby, and Rick left with the stolen costumes.

"Thanks for the help, Jerrica Benton," commented Leah.

Jem felt nervous, because she had to keep Synergy a secret. Then Leah told her not to worry, for it was the fact that Lititz Heights was a haven for magic beings and rockers who wanted to keep power technology a secret.

After Kirby safely placed the costumes in a Warp Star, they were off to the premiere of 'The Voice of Songs.'

During the flight, Kaylin started to realize something. "Guys," she said, "this is just like the Titanic. I'm like Jack, Nathaniel is like Rose, and Evie is like Cal. They come to a world renowned town to talk about marriage and merging, Cal gives Rose a rare jewel as an engagement present, and Cal frames Jack for the theft. "Yeah," replied Kimber. "Only the two Evies tried to kidnap you and break Nathaniel's heart."

"Speaking of hearts," Kaylin replied as she took Nathaniel's hand, "I'm sorry for what Evie did to your yo-yo."

"It's okay," replied Nathaniel. "I'm a millionaire's son. I can by a new yo-yo at the 'Voice of Songs' premiere."

"That's right," Raya recalled. "The Lititz Heights High theater department promotes with a gift shop."

**XxoxX**

Back at Lititz Heights High, Billie, Zara, and Miley were heading up to Billie's locker just so she can get her makeup, "What is it with Isla and her theater rehearsal?" asked Zara angrily.

"She is the leading lady in the production of Marianna in 'The Voice of Songs'," replied Billie. "We're here for community service after putting on makeup in class again."

"Whatever!" growled Billie as she opened her locker.

Falling out of her locker was a note.

*Dear Billie, Zara, and Miley*

*I heard so much about you three, and I figure you guys could use a little help.*

*The Klue Queens have been becoming popular, and I figure that these tips will hep you weaken them*

*Sincerely, Evie Durand III*

With evil grins on their faces, the three girls agreed to the plans that Evie gave them, "Billie!" shouted Principal Hopkins from behind. "You should be by the concession stands serving food!"

"Sorry Principal Hopkins," replied Billie as she turned her head with a secret smile. "Not!"

**XxoxX**

Inside the auditorium, everyone was getting ready for the production of "The Voice of Songs." With a sudden blackout, fog came out and the Holograms came onstage with the Klue Queens dressed in fashion made by Shana. Everyone applauded.

During the next two hours, people were amazed by puppets, nuns, and songs, in the style of Jem and the Holograms' rock music. During the curtain call, everyone cheered for the cast, then Jem asked the Klue Queens to come onstage and take a bow. In the audience, Nathaniel tossed a bouquet of pink roses just for her. Kaylin looked at her boyfriend and smiled.

**The End.**

**Chapter 18: An Order of Foster's French Toast**

It was the night before the opening night of "Socs," and the Klue Queens were volunteering as supervisors. Leah placed on a tam o'shanter hat, Kaylin placed on a lovely bonnet, Estrella placed on a sombrero, Rylie placed on a baseball cap and put it on backwards, Tania placed on a teacher's cap, and Paige placed on a straw hat with flowers and paisleys.

"Why do we have to wear these hats?" asked Tania. "We're not even in the show."

"According to the Friendly Scouts of the '60s," replied Leah, "it's good luck to wear a hat besides a Friendly Scout one to wear to shows. I'm glad that the school lend us these hats."

"Oh, please," growled a blue figure. "Those hats are lame."

Remembering from watching the Viewtube channel for "FTV," Rylie recalled him as Bloo, the morinic imaginary friend who causes trouble at the home. "Why don't you toss those hats and wear pizza boxes instead?" insulted Bloo. "Speaking of which, where's the pizza?"

"Sir!" shouted Kaylin. "That's for the theater troupe only, and you're not one of them."

After they kicked him out, they saw the play's supervisor, Mrs. Hess, panicking pointlessly.

"What's wrong, Mrs. Hess?" asked Leah. "Did you get any word from Casey? We haven't seen her since last night to work on the vocals for the finale."

"She's missing," explained Mrs. Hess. "She hasn't answered her texts or calls in a long time. Good actors always show up for rehearsal."

"Oh, great!" shouted a nerdy Native-American girl. "She deserves to go missing!"

"Blair?" asked Mrs. Hess. "Shouldn't you check on the lights so not a single one falls off and cause a fire?"

Angry and bitter, Blair left.

Inside, they saw Helen with a Latino boy and a caucasian boy in a wheelchair rehearsing the final dance for the musical. Remembering the saying "the show must go on," Estrella got an idea. "Helen!" she shouted to her girlfriend. "Casey has gone missing and we need you to be her understudy. You've mastered all the lines in 'Socs,' and you're a talented singer."

"Of course, baby," Helen answered her girlfriend. "I didn't just choreographed for Eli for nothing. Plus, Ollie and Brodie are catching up on their dancing."

Remembering from her childcare classes, Paige could remember Casey having a rush on Brodie, but she too shy to tell him. Brodie, on the other hand, was aware of her crush on him, but he didn't believe that she disappeared.

Also, Paige remembered Ollie from gym class and, usually, he bragged to his gym mates about getting a theater roll and planning to sign to a talent agency.

Suspects

Blooregard Q. "Bloo" Kazoo (Patron at Fosters) - Rude behavior and warnings on "FTV" about his behavior.

Ollie Santos (Leading Man) - Constantly bragging and wants to sign to a talent agency.

Blair Blackwell (Special Effects Girl) - Angry at Casey Vance.

Brodie Johns (Principal Character) - Didn't believe that she disappeared.

**XxoxX**

Outside the school, a tall red friend, a big purple friend, and a bird-like friend came up to Bloo.

"I'm sorry, Bloo," the red friend shouted, "but running from the hotel like isn't a good thing!"

"Coco, coco, coco, coco, coco! (You can say that again!)" shouted the bird friend.

Exiting the door, the Klue Queens were going out when they spotted Bloo being scolded by his shenanigans. After explaining about their friend Casey's disappearance, Bloo was confused on why the production of "Socs" was important.

"This is Casey's last performance before going off to college," explained Leah. "She usually plays a minor character within the four years of theater productions."

"Are you here for the production?" Tania asked.

"Si," answered the purple friend. "I heard the numero de musicas are fantasticos."

"Coco, coco, coco, coco, coco coco, coco, coco, coco!" the bird shouted.

"Anyone have an idea of what that bird is saying?"

"Coco's saying, 'If you want any help, we can join you. Forgive us for not introducing ourselves, I'm Coco, the red guy is, Wilt, the purple beast is Eduardo, and I see you already met Bloo."

Usually, the Klue Queens got by with a little help from their friends, so they decided to let their new imaginary friends tag along.

"Since none of us can speak Coco," said Tania, "she can go with Rylie and I. Ed can go with Estrella, Bloo can go with Leah, and Wilt can go with Kaylin and Paige."

**XxoxX**

Inside the auditorium, Ollie was up to his bragging again. Bloo tried to attack, but Leah told him that a good detective never jumps to a conclusion.

"Hey look, Dudes!" shouted Ollie. "It's the little blue friend who wanted pizza!"

"Back off, Ollie," snarled Issac. "Leah is with him."

After Issac peck-cheeked Leah, they talked to a corner privately whiel Leah held Bloo. "How's the man playing the lead's best friend?" greeted Leah.

"Going great," answered Issac.

"Does Ollie have any grudges against Casey?" Leah asked. "And you were the last person to see her before her rehearsal, weren't you?"

"Only once two years ago, Ollie had a grudge against Casey for playing the love interest in the drama club," Issac recalled. "Ollie isn't part of our decathlon team for nothing. He wanted to remind people that men played all the roles in the days of Shakespeare, but this was a winter production of 'Singing in the Rain.' He was just as angry as last week when his parents cut his license."

"Wait," cut in Leah. "Ollie had his license cut?"

"Yeah," replied Issac. "Got a speeding ticket while on the way home from that Spell Belles concert in Philly."

"And what about Casey?" asked Leah. "Wasn't she driving to school so she can return some library books and drop off her dad's dry cleaning?"

"She did," answered Issac.

"This doesn't make any sense!" shouted Bloo. "Where's the candy?"

"Bloo," replied Leah, "if Ollie just got his license cut, that means he didn't kidnap Casey."

"I didn't," Ollie replied. "I don't harm chicks, but maybe after rehearsal, you and I could grab a chocolate shake."

"Ollie," growled Issac, "you know she's my girlfriend. You're worse than Peter."

"Speaking of Peter..." Leah said as she pointed the stage.

Peter and his gang were onstage doing their skateboarding stunts. "Yo, Blair!" he shouted. "Could you do the trapdoor effect? It's RAD!"

Annoyed by Peter's antics, she activated the trap door and Peter and his friends fell in.

"That was awesome!" Bloo shouted that he ran and jumped into the trap door, much to Leah's annoyance.

**XxoxX**

By the parking lot, Coco, Rylie, and Tania found Brodie observing Casey's red sedan. Carefully, the trio walked up to the wheel-chair bounded boy.

"I found her car," Brodie explained. "Plus I found these gizmos in her car."

Oberving carefully, Tania could tell that that their hot-wiring car. "This must mean one thing," said Rylie. "Someone hot-wired her car."

"Doesn't your mom work as an administration assistant?" asked Tania.

"He does," replied Brodie. "Someone on the phone told her on Casey's phone that she's out sick, but she barely gets sick. I'm worried."

Seeing the face carefully, they could tell that Bodie isn't responsible for Casey's disappearance.

**XxoxX**

At the Bouncing Drape dry cleaner, the workers there said that they saw Casey's car going off like crazy. Then they saw a mysterious figure take her care, but they left behind a menu.

"Foudre d'été," asked Estrella, "it's a menu from the local French restaurant - down on Penny Lane?'

"It is," answered the worker. "By the way, I found these two playing around in the back room."

From the workers' hands, Kirby and Swinger were dazzled up in '50s suits.

"Kirby, Little Mono!" smiled Estrella. "Were you two trying to polish up for the show?"

They nodded up. "Un extraterrestre y un mono," smiled Eduardo.

"Poyo! (Hello!)" shouted Kirby.

"Come on, Kirby," replied Estrella. "We gotta get going. I'll explain everything on the way."

**XxoxX**

When they got to Foudre d'été, they needed to find a way to get in. The owners were out of town and they don't want anyone breaking in. Remembering Swinger's key-tail trick, he used his monkey tail to open the door and they were in.

"Estrella," Eduardo whispered, "this is Muy Muy illegal."

"Lo sé (I know)," whispered Estrella replied. "But this is important."

**XxoxX**

While going around the place, they heard some strange noises that scared Eduardo. "Estrella!" he shouted. "Monster outside!"

Worried that Eduardo would get hurt, Estrella barged out, only to find Wilt, Kaylin, and Paige.

"I'm sorry," replied Wilt, "but your way too hyperactive."

"Kaylin, Paige," smiled Estrella, "¿Alguna pista? (Any clues?)"

"Not yet," replied Kaylin. "But we heard Blair saying that she has been laid off and was desperate for that college fund at Harvard."

"Coincidentally," replied Paige, "it's the same college that Casey is getting into, gonna major theater there."

"I've heard of numerous colleges," replied Wilt. "Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Julliard, Yale, Rutgers, Georgia Tech, and Cambridge."

Smelling something, Kirby followed the smell inside, much to the others' confusion. Following the little puffball, he lead them straight to the kitchen, towards a freezer and to a red-haired girl tied up and blindfolded. It was, 'Casey' she has been locked in the freezer and the coldness made her unconscious.

After they got her out of the freezer, untied her hands and removed her blindfold. They needed a way to wake her up. Quickly, Kirby rolled into the kitchen, grabbed a microwavible soup bowl, heated it up, and gushed it down's Casey's mouth. In five seconds, Casey woke up. "French onion, my favorite," she smiled as she spotted the Klue Queens. "What are you guys doing here, and how did I get to Foudre d'été? I thought the owners were out of town for that French Food convention in New York City."

"They are," answered Kaylin. "You've been kidnapped and placed in there. Luckily, Kirby's strong sense of smell and love for food found you. I'm so proud of you for using your instincts."

While Kirby was blushing, he found a pamphlet for Harvard. Looking at it, they could see raging words against Casey. Realizing this, Kaylin, Paige, and Estrella figured out who's reponsible for Casey's kidnapping.

**XxoxX**

The next night was the premiere of "Socs," everyone in town was coming to see it, including the visiting Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Principal Hopkins invited them so she can donate money to their organization. "Headmistress Hopkins," said a bunny butler, "It was nice of you to invite us to your little sock play."

"It's 'Socs,' Mr. Herriman, " corrected Principal Hopkins. "As in 'social class.' You're always acting like it's the 1930s."

Annoyed, he decided to go in.

Backstage, Blair was getting ready for the special effect when Bloo came up. "Hey!" she shouted. "I thought we told you to beat it!"

In a mean look, Bloo stuck out his tongue and ran off. Annoyed, Blair chased after him. Behind her, Kaylin and Kirby popped up. Kaylin saw some prop festival food and got an idea. "Kirby, suck it up!" she shouted.

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Festival Kirby.

He played songs from "Socs," causing everyone dance like it was 1959. During her dancing, Blair danced to a trap door and fell onto the ground. Out of her pocket, a pamphlet fell out and on it were raging words against Casey.

"I knew it," Leah said. "Blair is responsible for Casey's kidnapping."

"All I wanted is to be onstage," explained Blair from below. "Usually I'm in the backroom doing special effects. I wanted to play the leading lady, but Blair got it because she's beautiful."

"No," corrected Mrs. Hess. "Blair got it because she's a talented singer and actor. You lack the experience in theater and mostly do computer and hot-wiring. You should be ashamed of yourself, Ms. Blackwell."

"Luckily," replied Kaylin, "Blair's Foudre d'été menu, your hotwiring equipment, and the Harvard pamphlet with your hatred of Casey on it blew her cover."

"Please don't expel me," begged Blair as Wilt helped her up with an emergency rope. "I need to get into Harvard."

"No worries, Ms. Blackwell," replied Mrs. Hess. "Cleaning up after the patrons by yourself is a suitable punishment for ruining the dramatic arts."

**XxoxX**

After the performance and Casey's surprise return, everyone cheered for her surprise. While giving out autographs, Mr. Herriman bounced up to Kaylin, hoping she could do a favor for him. "Ms. Kaylin," he said, "an elementary school wants to take a tour of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends this weekend, to see how foster care works."

"Which school is it?" Kaylin asked.

"Some Lakewood Elementary in the cartoon world of Elmwood, PA," Mr. Herriman recalled. "Master Marc Brown emailed me about it and suggested a tour led by Kaylin Hester."

Knowing this, Kaylin knew that he was talking about Arthur and friends. Gladly she accepted Mr. Herriman's offer.

**XxoxX**

When the weekend came, Kaylin, Fayth, and Lelannee, Kristi and Kirby travelled by star. To celebrate, Kaylin wore her Sgt. Pepper outfit that Muffy gave her. "It's cool that Foster's Home gets to do weekend field trips so kids can have a weekend activity," she said. "Plus I get to take my little sisters to see their favorite cartoon characters."

"We awe gowing to meet Arty," Kristi said to Lelannee.

"I know," replied Lelannee. "And I cant waity to let Uncew Wusty about this."

Once they landed in the unicorn ranch, they spotted Arthur, Buster, Francine, Muffy, the Brain, Binky, and Fern playing blind man's buff. Muffy was blindfolded and was chasing Fern when Kaylin told her to come here. Hearing her voice, Muffy rushed over and hugged Kaylin. When Muffy removed her blindfold, she could see Kaylin. "I miss you, Kaylin," she said.

"Looks like they're the only ones interested in the Foster's Home Trip," suggested Fayth. "We don't want to overdue it at Foster's."

Fayth and Leelannee were thrilled to finally meet Arthur and friends in person. While they were getting along, Kaylin saw two familiar gay faces by the back. Kaylin was pleased to see Mr. Ratburn and Patrick fine as could be. "I see you two got over the whole Kirby-sitting incident," she said.

"It's amazing what watching reruns of 'Spooky Poo' and hot cocoa can do," Mr. Ratburn said.

"And the kind I made," continued Patrick.

"But I have to ask," Kaylin said as she turned her head, "how did you guys get to the human world?"

"Ask our friend Marc Brown," answered Buster. "He's been NSA material since 1996."

"That's the year you guys came out to television," recalled Kaylin. "And it's my guess that those interactions with live-action humans were real, but you used the fake behind-the-scenes bit to cover the operation."

Instead of saying yes, Arthur and friends nodded their heads.

**XxoxX**

Inside, Kaylin was giving a tour of the home when a small ball appeared by her food. With one press of the button, cheese popped out and everything was gooey. Buster licked his arms, but everyone was disgusted.

"BLOO!" shouted Kaylin.

"Bloo likey the candy!" shouted Bloo as he barged through the cheese.

Bloo jumped onto Patrick, got into his shoulder bag and got out a candy box. Partick tried to tell him that he has to pay for the candy, but Bloo gobbled all the candy down and rudely tossed the box at Patrick. Mr. Ratburn came up to his husband to comfort him.

"Someone's got to teach that blue clown a lesson," Buster growled.

Hearing the word "teach," and glimpsing at Mr. Ratburn, who was getting cheese off him, Kaylin got an idea.

**XxoxX**

Bloo was watching "I Was a Teenage Blowfly" on TV when Kaylin came in.

"Hey, Bloo, whatcha watchin'?" she asked.

'"I Was A Teenage Blowfly'," Bloo answered.

"If you think that's cool," Kaylin replied, "you should check out "It Came from the Haunted Volcano."

"That lame-o cheap movie with terrible special and lousy acting?" Bloo rudely asked.

"Uh-huh," Kaylin answered. "And it's better in 3-D."

After getting "It Came from the Haunted Volcano" free on demand, Bloo started to think it was lame. To make the movie fun, Kaylin told him to wear 3D glasses for it. Unfortunately, Bloo didn't like it either. "Kaylin," he growled, "this movie is totally lame."

Kaylin turned her head with Mr. Ratburn's face and asked, "Are you sure about that?"

Bloo got so scared of the Ratburn face, he ran away. "RATFACE!" shouted Bloo at the top of his lungs.

In reality, Kaylin was normal. Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco came in looking confused. She got out a Rainbow Monkey walkie-talkie and whispered inside, "Okay, everyone. When Bloo comes your way, do the best Mr. Ratburn impressions as you can."

Everywhere Bloo went, he could see Mr. Ratburn faces. When he reached Fayth, Leelannee, and Arthur and friends, they all started acting a lot like Mr. Ratburn.

"Alright now," asked Ratburn Buster. "Can you solve this problem?"

He showed a written knot of a hard equation, only for Bloo to tear it up and bump into Ratburn Muffy. "I need heads!" shouted Muffy. "I can wait for girls' heads, but I must have boys' heads immediately!"

"Tomorrow you'll be quizzed on everything!" shouted Ratburn Binky "I don't any wrong answers now!"

"Being late is one thing," shouted Ratburn Arthur, "but not having a brain - that is quite another!"

Bloo started to realize that it was the 3D glasses that were making him scared.

**XxoxX**

In the dining room, Bloo saw Kirby with costume rat ears and a nose, picked up some chocolate cake and ate it in one gulp. Bloo thought that he was still wearing the glasses. He barged through the kitchen door, only to bump into the real Mr. Ratburn. "Are you okay?" he asked.

Bloo didn't answer, so instead he screamed and ran away. Patrick came in with glass of chocolate milk looking confused. Seeing his face, they could one think of one thing. "Kaylin," they both suggested.

**XxoxX**

Back in the living room, everyone laughed as Kirby rolled in with the rat accessories. He and Buster were curious about Kaylin's plan, "Isn't it obvious?" Fayth said. "She tricks Bloo into watching 'It Came From The Haunted Volcano: 3D Edition,' only to see Mr. Ratburn's face on everyone he sees, get real scared, and start going crazy."

"That's correct, sis," Kaylin replied. "Remind me to get your Bully Stopper badge."

"I'm sorry," Wilt replied, "but that was one crazy stunt you pulled, Kaylin."

"Si," replied Eduardo. "Azul is always crédulo."

"Coco, coco, coco, coco, coco, coco (You must really know a lot about tricking enemies)," Coco suggested.

"To bad we never got to see your Mr. Ratburn impressions." Binky replied.

Kaylin placed on the fake rat ears and nose Kirby wore, got a green jacket from a coat rack and placed it on. "What are you students doing goofing off like that?" she said in the best Mr. Ratburn imitation. "Stop fooling around and get to work."

Fayth, Leelanne, Kristi, Wilt, Eduardo, Coco, and Arthur and friends laughed at the impressions Kaylin did. "Since you're not listening to what I'm saying," Kaylin continued, "You're all getting Fs for class participating."

"Sorry, Mr. Ratburn," joked Buster, "but we were enjoying some of your husband's cakes."

"I was told there was cake," Kaylin continued, "but my hubby didn't tell me that it was my students eating it. If you eat too much. You could get big butts."

While they were laughing, they spotted Patrick and the real Mr. Ratburn and gulped. Kaylin was confused by their worried faces. "Urn-tay your ead-hay," whispered Arthur as Kaylin turned her head to see them.

"Ooh," Kaylin nervously said as she took off the green jacket. "I didn't see you two there."

"Do I really sound like that?" Mr. Ratburn asked.

"Yes you do, dear," Patrick answered.

"Here's the money to cover Bloo's candy chaos," Kaylin said. "Muffy took it from his piggy bank while getting into character. We wanted to give Bloo a taste of his own medicine for stealing candy."

**XxoxX**

In his room, Bloo was traumatized by what Kaylin and Arthur and friends did. Mr. Herriman came into the room to see if he was alright.

"Ratface!" Bloo traumatically shouted.

Mr. Herriman didn't want Bloo to get any worse, so he decided to leave him alone.

**The End.**

**Note: The bonus ending is a homage to the Arthur episode 'The Rat Who Came To Dinner. As a child, I use to be scared of Arthur's family having Mr. Ratburn's face.**

**Chapter 19: An Order of Princess Pie**

At the Lititz Heights Public Library, Tania was catching up on her homework and studies when someone sang a strong pop song. "Can't a girl concentrate on her studying for once?!" she complained loudly.

With one freeze, Tania heard the most amazing beautiful singing voice ever. She could not believe her heart. She found the most gorgeous person she'd ever met. Slowly, she clapped her hands in the heartthrob's performance. "That is the most beautiful voice I've ever heard," she whispered to herself.

"Thank you," replied the hunk. "I needed rehearsal space to work on my sinigng."

"You're Judsong Soul?" asked Tania. "My sister and our friends listen to your songs all the time."

"That's me," answered Judsong. "And you're Tania McBruce. I read about you on 'Friendly Scouts Magazine'."

Just then, Tania got a phone call from Leah: she wanted her little sister to recruit a few new scouts. Not wanting to disappoint the new recruits, Tania took off. In his mind, Judsong couldn't help but fall in love.

**XxoxX**

At the Friendly Scout Lodge, Tania awkwardly entered with numerous books in her hand. "Sorry I'm late," she said to the scouts. "I was studying Jud-justice systems, all those justice of the peace, with their court and 'you're out of order' things."

Everyone was confused on Tania's behavior.

"This is Luella and Trace," explained Leah. "They're the new recruits. Their mom thought they could find a way to get their big brother off of their minds by joining the Friendly Scouts."

Instead of paying attention to them, Tania looked around Leah's romance magazines. "'Boy Friends Monthly', 'ForgiveMe Weekly Viruses Visions Monthly', 'IdleHands Monthly', and 'Shockawe Magazine'," Tania replied. "Perfect for that cutie."

"What cutie?" asked Leah. "Are you falling love with your Prince Charming?"

"I don't believe in the whole Prince Charming thing," Tania lied. "I swore off romance a little after I had to cross-dress to clear my name."

"Yeah," recalled Paige. "Peter did have some dirty clothes."

Tania felt completely nervous around the new recruits, so she barged out while taking Leah's romance magazines. "Girls," Kaylin smiled, "I think she's fallen in love. I read about these in 'Romeo Magazine'. Uncontrollable smiling, speaking gibberish, and staring or thinking about \*that\* person."

"But who is she falling for?" asked Paige.

"Don't know," Leah replied. "But this is a good time for them to do the new Matchmaking Badge."

**XxoxX**

On the streets, Tania was trying to find a place to hide her romantic feelings for the international popstar. Observing carefully, she found a familiar princess carriage. Having a hunch, she decided to go in.

Inside the carriage, it was as big as a fairytale castle. And to her surprise, the Disney Princesses were there laughing and playing with their pets.

"Excuse me, ladies," interrupted Tania. "Could you help me with some romantic advice? I'm Tania McBruce of the Kirby Klue Queens, and I have a thing for this popstar, Judsong Soul."

"Oh, my," Snow White smiled. "Looks like you found your Prince Charming."

"You came to the right place," giggled Cinderella. "We know a lot about falling in love."

"What you have to do to impress a cute boy is to be yourself," advised Aurora, aka Sleeping Beauty. "Be as caring and kind as you can be."

"Boys also love it when you sing to them," continued Ariel.

"They also love good poetry and stories," continued Belle.

"And if you believe in freedom," continued Jasmine.

"I have been mastering songwriting for a while, and I believe that Lititz Heights is a haven for beings," recalled Tania. "Okay. By the way, what are you ladies doing here?"

"We're here for the Fairytale Sale at the bookstore," explained Pocahontas. "Our stories in the Disney version are 50% off."

"Care to join us?" asked Mulan.

"Anything to get out there," answered Tania.

Just as she got out of the carriage, she got a message on the Lititz Heights Blog.

International popstar, Judsong Soul, comes to Lititz Heights for rehearsal, only to be pranked by a mysterious person. Also, his new song 'Us Together' has disappeared.

"Oh, my," Tania whispered to herself. "I hope he's alright."

"Is that the cutie your crushing on?" Tiana asked.

"That's him," Tania replied. "I know that he's world famous and I'm town famous, but I just hope he's alright."

"Maybe we can help you," suggested Merida.

"A group of princesses helping a Klue Queen?" Tania asked. "OKAY!"

**XxoxX**

When they reached Judsong's old tour bus, she met up with the Klue Queens. They were surprised to find out that Tania was accompanied by the Disney Princesses. Tania began to ask if there were any suspects.

From her hands, Leah showed the list of suspects to who would prank Judsong badly and steal his new song.

Suspect

Charles Nolan (Bassist) - Seems annoyed by the scheduling.

Owen Snow (Manager) - Very strict about Judsong's schedule.

Storm Salanki (Head roadie) - Hates working on the road.

Jesse Knapp (Former drummer, now bodyguard) - Big busky.

**XxoxX**

In the tour bus, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Ariel, Leah, and Kaylin were going around looking for some clothes. Using their princess skills, they found a pair of Italian loafers.

"These are really good loafers," Cinderella said in a sad tone. "And look at them - they're worn out."

"This could use some sewing magic," suggested Sleeping Beauty, "but not with a spinning wheel."

"By the looks of the outside," Snow White replied as she observed them, "they look like they were just bought."

"What a waste of shoes," Ariel said sadly. "Luckily, I can change from mermaid to human anytime."

"Oh, blimey," said a small voice. "This is worse than the time those griffin moths snuck into my mum's closet and destroyed her headdresses."

Looking down, Kaylin recognized her as Princess Selah of the Heskelter Tribe. The princesses began to wonder why a griffin princess would come to their world.

"Long ago, Grandpa Castiel came to Lititz Heights to display his firework show," Selah answered. "Usually, he performs when a handsome prince with the soulful siren voice comes to Lititz Heights. I traced the voice here using my tracer dust, but he's not here."

"Souful siren voice?" asked Leah. "I think you mean Judsong Soul."

"And get this," cooed Kaylin. "Leah's adoptive sister is crushing on him."

"Not only was Grandpa a master firework spellcaster," Selah replied, "he was a good matchmaker."

XxoxX

Back at the library, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tania, and Rylie were going around when he spotted a busky man reading "Practical Jokes for Morons."

"Excuse us?" asked Rylie. "Are you Jesse Knapp?"

"That's me," Jesse replied. "Now we're in enough trouble. Mr. Snow is having a panic attack."

"About that," Rylie said. "We were wondering where the lyrics to 'Us Together' was last scene."

"Oh, yeah," recalled Jesse. "'All I needed is us together, falling in love, forever'."

Rylie thought that the tune sounded familiar. Tania, on the other hand, was fantasizing.

Tania was fantazising about her and Judsong in a fairytale ball. She spots Prince Judsong in the middle and started dancing with him. Just as she way about to kiss him, an Australian voice called, "Miss."

It was Owen Snow. He was coming out of Judsong's rehearsal room when he spotted the Disney Princesses. "I can't believe it's you," he said. "My granddaughters are huge fans. In fact, every year they dress up as you girls."

"I'm glad to see that someone likes us," smiled Jasmine. "And forgive Tania; she just met her Prince Charming."

"Oh, yeah," recalled Owen. "The little Sheila met our number-one mate during his rehearsal. Doesn't he know that Hard Yakka is more important than romance?"

Not wanting to get involved in an argument, they decided to catch up with Leah's team by the tour bus.

**XxoxX**

In the garden, Tiana, Merida, Anna, Elsa, Moana, Estrella, and Paige were going around when they spotted Aranea, Charlotte, Norma Jean, Issac, Martin, and Helen arriving. They were here because they need a gig for Cruller Comrade after the poet cancelled due to being stuck at the airport in Moscow.

"What are we going to do?" Estrella asked. "I can't perform my dance routine with Swinger. He'll eat all the banana crullers."

"And, like," recalled Paige, "Peter hates Russian food."

Thinking carefully, Tiana, Merida, Anna, Elsa, and Moana suggested that Judsong Soul should perform. "That's how he got started, right?" asked Norma Jean. "Performing at small donut shops around the East Coast?"

"That's right," answered Merida. "What a cool lad he is."

Charlotte, Norma Jean, Issac, Martin, and Helen cheered for getting Judsong Soul while Aranea just clapped. She said, "We'll get the manager and tell him to book a gig for Judsong Soul."

"You do that!" shouted Paige. "We're going to find that cool cat and tell him the good news!"

**XxoxX**

Later at the park, Princess Selah was showing off her firework shows when they heard a yelp by a bush. It was Judsong. He was traumatized by the prank, and his face was covered in rashes and zits.

"What happened?" asked Tania.

"After you left," explained Judsong, "Someone placed a Xoxoxo note behind me. While stairing at my strange note, someone tied my shoes and made me fall into a bowl of orange pudding. I'm allergic to oranges."

"They are high in Vitamin C," Tania replied with a blush, "but low in your confidence."

"Judsong!" shouted an Australian accent. It was Storm and Charles. They came to the park to find Judsong.

"Storm and I had a thought that you would be here, mate," Charles explained.

"His uncle was his first manager," Storm added. "That bloke really was a drongo. Every time Judsong gets nervous, we were there for the little guy."

"Thanks," smiled Judsong. "My uncle didn't get those imported Australian backup band for nothing. Also, Jesse from Chicago, who is always banging things up like smashing oranges."

Just then, Mulan realized something. She remembered from smelling his breath that Jesse had some oranges and recalling from "Practical Jokes for Morons." They had a feeling that he could be responsible for Judsong's allergy attack.

Before they could go after Jesse, Tania got some rash cream and zit removal from Paige's bag and cured his face. "Thank you," Judsong said as he pressed his hand against Tania. "I had many lovers before, even those who played them in my music videos. But you're nothing like them."

Tania began to blush. After a three-second squeal from the princesses, Kaylin, Estrella, and Paige, Leah decided that they should get a move on.

**XxoxX**

Back at the tour bus, Owen was starting to worry about Judsong. "Forget that little siren, you dumb dingo!" shouted Jesse. "Let's get this show on the road!"

"On the road to The Big House," clarified Leah. "Owen, Jesse is responsible for Judsong's allergy attack."

"What?" asked Owen. "All I remember is a little blackout and seeing Judsong with pimples from that orange goop."

"That's because Jesse caused the blackout," guessed Anna. "Elsa and I come from a time when lightbulbs and bicycles started becoming big."

Owen didn't know what Anna was talking about but played along. Jesse tried to escape, but, Moana trapped him in a water bowl. "Even after I gave back the Heart of Te Fiti to her," Moana explained, "I still got it."

"Jesse wanted revenge for being kicked out of Judsong's backup band," suggested Paige. "I've seen him in Judsong's music videos before."

"There were some clues that Jesse did it," Rylie recalled, "like his 'Practical Jokes for Morons' book he was reading when we were interviewing him. The shoes that we found in Judsong's room...he said that he and Jesse were the only ones with the same shoe size, and those little lyrics sung in the perfect order. If I remember anything from the Judsong Soul interview on 'Spinning Boulder Magazine', it's that the song has be sung in an A flat, perfectly."

Thanks to his strong body, Jesse barged out of the water and ran off. Remembering Selah's firework spell, the princesses got an idea. "Kirby, suck it up!" they shouted.

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Firework Kirby. This caused Jesse to run into the pond and get attacked by frogs. Thinking like a Disney Princess, Tania believed that they'd handle it till the police arrived.

"Jesse told us that he's going to check the stereo," Charles recalled, "but I guess that it was a cover-up for his little joke. Plus he must've stolen some orange pudding from the tour bus. From my 'Library Education' videos, I know that we're not allowed to bring food in the library."

"Judsong," Tania said as she adjusted her glasses, "a few friends of ours were wondering if you could perform at Cruller Comrade."

Remembering his Beautiful Dust Tour, Judsong accepted it.

**XxoxX**

Later that night, they were at a Russian-themed restaurant.

"Here we are," Tania said. "This is the Russian tea/donut shop known as Cruller Comrade. It is a paradise for stars who fall from the sky, so enjoy the beauty of this magical haven."

The words of Tania captured Judsong's heart.

"After this gig," Judsong said to his old backup band, "you two are done with music, right?"

"For sure," smiled Storm. "We're going back Down Under. I miss my old job as an instrument repair girl."

"And after being rooted by all the scheduling," Charles replied, "I'm ready to shoot through the music buisness and go into photography. I know how to capture a good-on-ya koala."

"But we wouldn't miss out on your last performance before starting to live a normal life, mate," Storm finished.

**XxoxX**

Inside, he started to play his new hit, "Us Together," towards the Klue Queens, the princesses, and their friends.

*Finding love is like looking up and under*

*Wining a heart is a big plunder*

*Finding the right one is Buckley's Chance*

*Even the nerve saying, 'Wanna go to the dance'*

*All I needed is Us Together,*

*Falling in love, forever.*

*Being alone is a big old never*

*For romance and Us Together*

*The Red String is always right*

*Like being, 'Good On Ya Mate;*

*Seeing them for the first time is a big crikey*

*At first it can be a little spikey*

*All I needed is us together, Falling in love, forever*

*Being alone is a big old never*

*All I need is Us Together*

After Selah ended the whole thing with a safe firework display, everyone cheered.

**The End.**

**Note: Judsong Soul is based on and voiced by Jess McCartney, who was an icon in the mid 00s. Lea and Tim are also the names of Jesse's real life siblings, but due to the fact Mary already has a 'Lea' and a 'Tim' she deiced to mix it up a little.**

**Chapter 20: An Order of Bugaloo Biscuit**

On the outskirts of Lititz Heights, the Friendly Scouts of Lititz Heights were at the bug-themed music festival Bugstock. Kirby was with them because Bugstock NSA protected. Leah, Kaylin, Tania, and Paige taking the Friendly Scouts on a bugged-out adventure. Also, Judson came along so he could see what the bug version of Woodstock is like. While Kirby was watching organic cotton candy being made, he heard a "Gna Gna Gna Gna Gna" in a song. Kirby heard the singing and rolled towards a '70s-themed podium.

Onstage, were a blonde guitarist in green, a brunette drummer in red, an African-American keyboardist in yellow, and a light-brunette tambourinist in pink.

By a table, a human-sized firefly was moping around about Bugstock. "What if they find out who we really are?" he whined.

"Easy, Sparky," smiled the guitarist. "You said you wanted to see Lititz Heights after the festival."

"Poyo?" asked Kirby.

"Look at here, I.Q.," said the pink tambourinist. "A little ball bug. He's cute."

"Maybe he could be a backup singer, Joy," suggested the drummer.

"I don't know, Courage," replied the keyboardist. "He has to audition first."

"Your right, Harmony," replied I.Q. "Go on, little bug. Give it a shot."

Unfortunately, Kirby's horrible singing to the "Veggie Tales" song "Show You Love" poisoned their ears. "He's awful," admitted Courage. "I don't think he'd be a good backup singer."

"Kirby!" shouted Leah from the enterance of the tent. "What did we tell you about wandering off?"

"Poyo (Sorry)," Kirby replied as he hopped onto Kirby and pointed to the bug band.

"Your the Bugaloos," recalled Leah. "Our grandma has you guys on video and watched all your episodes."

"Your not just \*any\* Bugaloos," Tania replied as she observed their wings carefully. "You're the \*actual\* Bugaloos. No actor playing a bug fairy has wings those shiny. Also, the actors who play you are old."

"That's us," I.Q. replied. "It's smashing what fairy magic can do to get from your world to the Krofftverse."

"What about me?" asked Sparky.

"And we can't forget our groupie, Sparky," I.Q. recalled. "He wanted to go see Lititz Heights after Bugstock."

"Care to watch us rehearse our theme song?" Courage asked. "This is our last one before our main show tonight."

"Sure." answered Tania, "And don't mind our friend, 'Judson' he's taking The Friendly Scouts to a stand for 'The Creepy Critters'.

Just as they were about to perform, a bright light popped out of nowhere and distracted Sparky and the Bugaloos. Following the light, a mysterious figure with feathers was holding a bug zapper. Just as they were about to touch it, Judson kicked it out of the way, "Good thing I took judo lessons as a child," he smiled, "so no fan would mug me."

Quickly, the mysterious figure rushed off.

"Thanks for saving us, mate," smiled I.Q. "One zap and us Bugaloos would be electrocuted."

"The Bugaloos," smiled Judson. "I heard your music before while studying '70s television music."

"We haven't been on telly much since we got cancelled." replied Harmony.

"Judson!" shouted Paige. "Groovy kick there. Normally violence solves nothing, but you wanted to save the main attraction, man."

"I had to," Judson replied. "From my experience in past music festivals, I'd say that someone wants you out of the picture. I've researched the acts last night, and I've picked up two musicians who would be responsible to make you look like twits."

Suspects

The Creepy Critters (Gothic band from Canada) - Creepy apperance and masters of special effects.

Buggy Betty (Granddaughter of Bugstock's founder) - Opened for every Bugstock concert, and got jealous when the Bugaloos were going to be the new act.

Mysterious lady backstage - Leah and Tania thought that she looked familiar.

**XxoxX**

At the techno division, I.Q. and Tania were looking around for clues when they spotted Buggy Betty going over the Techno act when I.Q. and Tania approached them,

"Hey Betty." I.Q. greeted. "I hope you don't mind, but should we be dancers?"

"Of course," growled Betty. "Harriet and the Hoppy Hoppers are going to be here to have your autograph."

"No, no," replied Tania. "He's saying that we want some answers."

"Whatever," groaned Betty. "If this about the opening for Bugstock, I'm tired of opening for them. First I get some strange napkins with autographs on them, then I get fans hearing rumors of Judson Soul being here."

I.Q. an Tania were concerned because of the napkin autographs and the fear that Judson could get in trouble. Also, they started to think that Betty couldn't have caused their lighting trouble.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, at the pop division, Joy and Kaylin saw Harriet and the Hoppy Hoppers. The brunette leader spotted the other two girls and welcomed them with warm smiles, "I'm Harriet, and these are Alexandra, Brigitte, Eva, and Skylar."

"I know," replied Kaylin. "The contemporary dance troupe from Harrisburg. Don't mind us - we're trying to investigate who's responsible for the Bugaloos' bug-zapping."

"Believe me," replied Harriet. "During our lunch break, we got butted by one of the rudest wannabes we've ever met. She also littered an imported lipstick despenser for France. We kept it safe just incase we security comes."

"This brings a heart and soul," Joy said.

"Heart and soul?" asked Kaylin.

"I mean, this brings hearts with holes."

"Soul?" asked Alexandra. "I've heard that Judson Soul is here."

"What are we waiting for?" smiled Brigitte. "Let's go find him."

Swiftly, Harriet and the Hoppy Hoppers rushed from their tent and out of the pop division. This was bad news for Kaylin and Joy, because they unintentionally blew his cover.

**XxoxX**

While searching the country division, Harmony and Paige were going around for clues when they spotted for a little bit "All we got to do is use your gingerbread," suggested Harmony.

This got Paige confused. "Use your head," clarified Harmony.

"Gingerbread, head," Paige chuckled. "Those are good rhymes for Tania can use. She's been writing a lot of songs since our Studio 25 adventure."

"That's the one where you did 'Everything's Better with Kirby'," recalled Harmony. "Even the Tranquility Forest can pick up telly signals from your world."

Looking down on the ground, they saw some orange feathers. To Harmony, they were kind of familiar.

**XxoxX**

In the rock division, Courage and Leah were going through the place when they bumped into a familiar face.

"Aranea?" asked Leah. "You're here for Bugfest? Usually you do gloom and doom."

"True," replied Aranea. "But Charlotte and Norma Jean wanted to do a little something for Science Class. The main reason I came is because of them."

Aranea pointed a dark and edgy stand with a trio of goth-rockers giving music lessons. One goth was female and played guitar, one goth was male and played keyboard, and another one was female and played drums. "Growing Up Creepie - Thena, Rob, and Samantha Spider," Aranea recalled, "otherwise known as the Creepy Critters."

"That's them, all right," replied Leah.

"But I don't think Courage should get involved," suggested Aranea. "He can't disrupt their rehearsal."

"We Bugaloos never say can't," replied Courage. "Someone disrupted our rehearsal."

"Hey," Charlotte replied. "I heard that Judson Soul is going to be here. Word gets around when your at Bugfest. So, we should protect him."

"Good point," Norma Jean replied. "He's our friend."

After a ten-minute interview with the Creepy Critters, they explained that they were masters of special effects, but wouldn't ruin a groovy group because they had enough trouble with their effects and they didn't want to go through it again. In the meantime, they decided to get some grub.

"Kirby?" asked Leah. "Could you go get some snacks for the Creepy Critters? You know how long lines can be."

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Judson was groing around in a disco hat and shades when he spotted Harriet and the Hoppy Hoppers seeing him. He may have fooled the fans with his hat and shades, but his bright smile and leg structure couldn't fool them. Like monkeys, the girl group chased him. Little did they know was that Kirby watched the whole thing and decided to rescue him.

Just as he was about to rescue him from a reggae bug corner, a mysterious figure came in, grabbed Judson, and carried off with him, leaving behind his hat and shades. Kirby didn't want Judson to get hurt, so he decided to take his disguise and warn the others.

**XxoxX**

By the Bugaloos' tent, Kirby came in with Judson's cap and shades. Knowing this, the Klue Queens believe that he was kidnapped. On the hat, I.Q. could see an green feather.

"If you think that's weird, mate," replied Joy, "you should see these purple feathers Kaylin and I found."

Looking at all three feathers, the Bugaloos know only one fiend who could leave these feathers and wear such extravagant clothes: Benita Bizarre.

**Xxoxx**

By the front of a French cosmetics tent, Funky Rat, Woofer, and Tweeter were guarding the place while Benita was placing a bounded and gagged Judson on the ground. "My most brilliang plan evil," she smiled. "Tricking those French cosmetics creepers into thinking they're having an interview at nearest Greenburg was the perfect distraction. I was going to let those Bugaloos get electrocuted with that human bug zapper I stole from the pest-control stand, but then you came along and ruined everything. So I decided to do a kidnap lure trick to get rid of them."

"Hey, Boss!" shouted Woofer. "The Bugaloos are coming!"

"And they brought friends!" shouted Tweeter.

"What are we going to do Frauline?" asked Funky Rat.

"Leave it to me, Funky Rat," answered Benita.

Quickly, they hid in the corners while Leah, Kaylin, Tania, Paige, Kirby, Sparky, and the Bugaloos came in. Just as they were about to approach Judson, a cage fell on them and they were trapped. Benita declared, "Welcome to my humble aboad, Bugaloos."

"Benita!" shouted Harmony. "We should've know you were up to your tricks again!"

"You foolish Bugaloos!" shouted Benita. "Your always taking away my attention. I should be the star. Instead, you always outsmarted me. When I heard that your going to the human world to perform for that human, Judson Soul, I decided to make you look dumb by blind you with that disco ball and making you suffocate in that closet filled with bug spray. Luckily, I knew a witch named Wilhelmina W. Witchiepoo, who was able to transport me into your world."

"Lucky for us," Tania replied, "your trail of colored feathers, your B.B. autographs on those O'Mickey's hankies, and your littered lipstick despensers blew your cover."

Our heroes needed a way to free themselves fast. Seeing a bag of pins that Sparky has, Kirby wondered what they were.

"These are my Bugaloo Buttons," Sparky explained. "I made them just for the show."

That's when Tania got an idea, "Kirby, suck it up!" she shouted.

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Bugaloo Kirby. He lifted the cage up and made it land on Funky Rat, Woofer and Tweeter and sang the Bugaloos' theme song dreadfully. Quickly, Tania and I.Q. freed Judson and they made their escape while covering their ears.

"And I thought Frauline Benita's singing was terrible," admitted Funky Rat.

Fortunately, Kirby's terrible singing prevented Benita from hearing what Funky Rat said. The minute she barged out of the tent, she saw the crew from Dragonfly Dream Cosmetics, who were furious about the prank call she gave them.

"Mademoiselle," groaned one of the French business people, "I can't believe that you tricked us into going into the Greenburg, just to steal our tente."

"Yeah, so?" Benita stated rudely.

In rage, the French buisness people picked her up and started scolding her in French. "Don't worry," Leah said to Benita. "The NSA will place you back in the Krofftverse ASAP."

**XxoxX**

Later, it was time for the show. Buggy Betty came onstage. "As you all know," she shouted, "This is my last opening act, forever! Don't feel disappointed because Harriet and the Hoppy Hoppers are going to open every upcoming acts from now one! It's true that Judson Soul is here, but due to a little 'pink bug' ear poisoning the Creepy Critters got, they cancelled at the last minute!"

Backstage, the Bugaloos staired at Kirby for hurting the Creepy Critters ears by accident. "Good thing you didn't give them their snacks," Courage chuckled.

"Bugaloos!" shouted Judson as he came along.

Behind him, were Leah, Kaylin, Tania, Paige, Aranea, Norma Jean, and Charlotte. "When we heard that Judson could be in danger," explained Norma Jean, "we knew we had to help."

"After we found him free as a bird," Charlotte continued, "he invited us over to watch us perform and to see you guys in person."

"Since we're even on saving each other," Judson said to them, "how about you guys get to be my backup band?"

Within five seconds, the Bugaloos agreed to be Judson's backup band, figuring he could have someone to talk to while the Klue Queens solved mysteries. "I've recently written a song that is hoping to sing, 'My Dreams'," explained Tania, "and made a few modifications thanks to Paige's inspiration."

After Harriet and the Hoppy Hoppers came backstage, they glimpsed at Judson's cuteness. Tania didn't want Judson to get hurt, so she told Harriet and the Hoppy Hoppers to just relax and watch Judson and the Bugaloos sing. Not wanting to see contemporary dancers upset, Sparky gave them some Bugaloo buttons.

Onstage, Judson started to sing Tania's new song.

*I see a vision of a girl in My Dream*

*She has such a super smart scheme*

*My Dream girl is the joy in the IQ Key*

*With courage and intelligent harmony.*

*Fireflies light my way to her*

*With shiny glasses that don't blur*

*Tasting like strawberry cream*

*I can feel the love beam*

*The Girl of My Dream*

*I see a vision of a girl in My Dream*

*She ha such a super smart scheme*

*My Dream girl is the joy in the IQ Key*

*With courage and intelligent harmony.*

*The stars in her staire*

*Makes us a pair*

*When I go to sleep*

*She'll help me count love sheep.*

*I see a vision of a girl in My Dream*

*She ha such a super smart scheme*

*My Dream girl is the joy in the IQ Key*

*With courage and intelligent harmony.*

Everyone cheered for Judsong and The Bugaloos.

**The End.**

**Note: The names of the Creepy Critters bandmates are named after Samantha Lombardi,Rob Travalino, and Athena Karkanis who were part of the Discovery Channel show, 'Growing Up Creepie' which came out while Mary was in middle school.**

**Chapter 21: An Order of Superpopsicles**

At the Pies In A Pod pie shop, four ninjas were going around and placing signs of a four on it. Chief Hess was patrolling for the night when he spotted the ninjas. He tried to grab them, but the ninjas were too fast.

**XxoxX**

The Friendly Scout Lodge was packed with all the Friendly Scouts in Lititz Heights.

"Easy, children," assured Leah. "As your head den sister, I want to make sure you're all well behaved for our visitors."

"These ladies are from sweet Sunnyville, California," continued Kaylin. "And they'll be here to tell you the importance of being a popstar."

From the curtain, came six lovely ladies in purple, red, orange, pink, blue, and rainbow. They were Flash, Electra, Glow, Cosmic, Crystal, and Majesty, otherwise known as the Superpops. Everyone cheered for the Superpops.

"Wow!" exclaimed Crystal. "I didn't expect a lot of The Friendly Scouts would be huge fans of us."

"I know," Electra replied. "According to the data, 30,00 Friendly Scouts are fans of ours."

While they were singing their song, called "Starlight," Tania got a text from Estrella about the Pies in a Pod pie shop being vandalized.

After the song, the Scouts decided to meet and greet the Superpops while Leah, Kaylin, Tania and Paige go to a corner to read a from Tang's blog, "Tangy with Tang."

Local pie shop Pies in a Pod has been vandalized with numerous fours on them. Chief Hess says that these ninjas has been vandalizing bakeries all over Lancaster County. Also, another witness named Chad says that they don't want to join him for a pie-tasting contest.

Hearing the name Chad, Majesty had a feeling that her twin brother, Prince Chesire, might become Dr. Ruin again. Luella and Trace were worried that Pies In A Pod could get in more danger, so they decided to join Tania.

"Now we got our suspects," Tania suggested.

Suspects

Chesire - Majesty is afraid that he would become Dr. Ruin again.

The four ninjas - Left posters with a "4" on it.

**XxoxX**

Outside, Tania was strategizing the split ups when Luella and Trace came out.

"Luella! Trace!" shouted a familiar voice. It was Judson; he just got out out of rehearsal to pick up his little sister and brother. Besides him were three girls. One was a red-headed girl in red, one was a biracial-Latino girl in yellow, and one was an African American girl in blue.

"This is Charles Nolan's niece, Celia," explained Judson. "She has more of the music industry than he does."

"And you smell like apples," Paige commented.

"Thanks mate," Celia replied in an Aussie accent. "After your little mishap with that horrible manager of his, I decided to stay with Joyce's parents and help Judson on how to live a middle class life."

"This here's my cousin, Joyce Guevara," Judson explained. "Major country clarinet player and bonkers on bananas."

Judson tried to introduce the African-American girl, but she decided to introduce herself instead. "Name's Ellianna," she explained. "But everyone calls me 'Ell-Berry.' Grew up on a blueberry farm before I moved here after elementary school."

They explained to them that last night they'd been getting some strange rings by their pillows and they said "Destiny is Always on Their Side."

Majesty told them that she'll explain everything while the Klue Queens and the other Superpops

Rylie, Kaylin, and Chloe were going to The Bauer where The Superpops were staying. After interviewing some of the workers, they said that Chesire was more focused on seeing the sights than seeing The Friendly Scouts. "This is leading nowhere," said Chloe, "Normally, Emma would figure this out."

Looking around they saw an award plaque for The Bold Taste Award. Kaylin explained to Chloe that The Bold Taste Award is a pastry award for the best recipes. She could remember Roadhouse Fantasia, Hong Kong House of Chow, and El Pueblo De Pepper winning those awards, but never Pies In A Pod.

**XxoxX**

Rylie, Kaylin, and Chloe were going to the Bauer where the Superpops were staying. After interviewing some of the workers, they said that Chesire was more focused on seeing the sights than seeing the Friendly Scouts.

"This is leading nowhere," said Chloe. "Normally, Emma would figure this out."

Looking around they saw an award plaque for the Bold Taste Award. Kaylin explained to Chloe that the Bold Taste Award was a pastry award for the best recipes. She could remember Roadhouse Fantasia, Hong Kong House of Chow, and El Pueblo de Pepper winning those awards, but never Pies in a Pod.

**XxoxX**

Tania, Emma, Paige and Camila were at the library so they can get answers from the archives. While Emma was looking at an archive with the local businesses, a song plays on the television. In a briefing room, a group of children were watching an old Adore Four video. Paige explained to them that Adore Four was an Australian band that helped kids learn. Unfortunately after 2019, fans stopped coming. Now these days, they worked for Mrs. Mitter at Pies in a Pod.

*Four on the board*

*Who's there at the door?*

*Four on the board*

*Get down on the floor*

*Four on the board*

*Near the shore*

*Four on the board*

*We're here to adore*

*One, two, three - eh, Adore Four*

*One, two, three - eh, Adore Four*

*One, two, three - eh, Adore Four*

*One, two, three - eh, Adore Four*

*"I'm Whitley!"*

*"I'm Archie!"*

*"I'm Keilani!"*

*"I'm Lian!"*

*Four all around, let's learn the sound*

*Adore Four*

In the video, Emma and Tania could see that the entire background was purple, which was the same color as the fours on Pies in a Pod.

**XxoxX**

At the park, Leah, Finley, Estrella, and Gia were interviewing the police department about the crime scene when Gia got a message from Majesty. After a few minutes of calltime, Gia came up to them with urgent news. "It's Majesty," she explained. "She was returning from Naples Piatto when they saw that the Friendly Scout Lodge is empty. Judson was there, but he got knocked out by some sleeping catnips."

Thinking of the word "catnips," they knew that Chesire was up to something.

**XxoxX**

While they were cleaning up the place to set up their trap, Leah began to wonder what was Majesty's meeting for Celia, Joyce, and Ell-Berry.

"Celia, Joyce, and Ell-Berry are the Circus Pops," Majesty explained. "I've been watching them because of Celia's creativity, Joyce determination, and Ell-Berry's bravery."

"Not everyone can be in show business," Celia replied, "so I decided to join for love."

"And they think that clarinets are for classical and jazz music," Joyce replied. "They're wrong."

"And no matter where people live," Ell-Berry finished, "you can't forget where you come from

*Superpops! We can't be stopped!*

In a flash, Celia, Joyce, and Ell-Berry turned into the frilly, clown-like Superpops.

"I'm Apple Pop!" Celia shouted

"Banana Cream Pop!" Joyce shouted.

"And I'm Blueberry Pop!" Ell-Berry shouted.

Everyone liked the Circus Pop names, especially Chesire, since he was a child at heart.

"Quick!" shouted a conscious Judson. "Adore Four is coming!"

Quickly, everyone cued their positions. By the door, Whitley, Archie, Keilani, Lian were in their work apparel and arguing about another failed attemp to get back.

"I'm telling you, Arch," groaned Keilani, "that radio show gig really landed us downhill."

"Not to mention our failed audition for Bugstock," growled Whitley. "Who knew that those Bugaloos and grasshopper dance troupe would steal the spotlight."

"Come on, guys," interupted Archie. "Once we vandalize other bakeries in Lancaster County, we'll get back on top."

"Don't you mean 'Cherry pies on top'?" joked Chesire as he tossed a cherry pie at Lian, who growled, "Man, I hate cherries."

"Then be the apple of my eye!" shouted Apple Pop as she tossed apple pies at them.

With quick acrobatic skills, Banana Cream Pop tossed banana cream pies at Whitley. "Are you going bananas for the Circus Pops?" she joked.

"'Fraid not, Banana Cream," answered Blueberry Pop as she flew up in the air and tossed some blueberry pies. "It feels like they got the Circus Pop blues."

Little Miss Starlight and Masahiro got involved by using pie catapults that Luella and Trace made during their craft activities.

While they were slipping on the pie, purple fours popped out of Archie's pockets, Banana Pop teleported to them, picked up the four and teleported to Leah and Finley, "As I suspected," Leah said. "Adore Four is responsible for the whole vandalism."

**XxoxX**

Later while Adore Four was getting arrested for vandalism, Officer Downs wondered how did they figured out they caused that Purple Problem, "There were a few clues that Adore Four was responsible for vandalizing the pie shop. " recalled Estrella, "Like the purple paint left behind, and that secret room."

"Not only that," recalled Kaylin, "Pies in a Pod was the only bakery in town that didn't get the Bold Taste Award."

"There is also the purple in the Adore Four video," recalled Tania. "Looks like they were having trouble making a comeback on TV, and working at Pies in a Pod was the only way they could get attention."

"Lucky thing that Rowan is out at a family reunion and will return tomorrow," Officer Downs recalled. "But who's going to work for her now that Adore Four is in jail?"

"We will," Celia interrupted. "I loved going to pie shops back Down Under."

"And my parents use to take me to Pies in a Pod a lot growing up," recalled Joyce.

"Joyce has been helping me around ever since I came here," Ell-Berry replied. "Wherever she goes, I go."

"Then it's settled," replied Officer Downs. "Once we fix up Pies in a Pod and inform Rowan what happened, you'll start working here."

"How about you girls make your debute at Comrade Cruller tonight?" suggested Judson. "Tania even wrote a song. None of the Bugaloos could get it right, but maybe you can."

While they were cheering, Judson came up to his cousin and her friends. "Say, girls." he said, "since your going to be Circus Pops, why don't you perform at Comrade Culler tomorrow night? Tania is even working on a new song for you."

Celia, Joyce, and Ell-Berry chuckled, knowing that he was talking about his new love. Wanting to book a gig, they gladly accepted the offer.

**XxoxX**

The next night at Comrade Cruller, Judson and the Bugaloos were wrapping up "Castle in the Air" when Majesty came up.

"Now that we warmed up for you," shouted Judson, "Please welcome...the Circus Pops!"

Onstage, the Circus Pops sang their new hit written by Tania McBruce. Accompanying them, The Bugaloos joined in.

*Hey sister, hey sister*

*Look around*

*Everyone is in a a bouncing bound*

*Hey sister, hey sister*

*Let's go*

*Hey sister, hey sister,*

*Look along*

*Everybody's boogying to a brand new song*

*Hey sister, hey sister, follow us*

*I know something's in you*

*That you wanna make a less fuss*

*So let go, go, go of the past*

*We're going to shoot from cannons, in a snap*

*Say hello to the love that you got*

*Yes, I know that the world's spinning fast clap*

*You gotta get yourself a spot that's soft*

*Hey sister, welcome to the circus*

*Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh*

*Hey sister, welcome to the circus*

*Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh*

*Go sister, go, go, go!*

In the end, the guests applauded for the new circus band, including Chesire, who was eating a chocolate cream pie like a real cat. Everyone was a little disturbed by it, buy were glad to see the Lititz Heights Super Pops.

**The End**

**Chapter 22: An Order of Sesame Buns**

At the Pies in a Pod place, Joyce was putting away some pies when she came across the Cinderheights Pie recipe. "I'm glad that Mrs. Mitter gave me this job," she said to herself, "'cause I really love pie." She thought about making the pie for her cousin, but then somebody knocked her out and took the recipe.

**XxoxX**

After school the next day, the girls were going over a few things before their Friendly Scout recital for "Cinderella" tonight. Lorraine McBruce came in with some lemonade for the girls. "Are you girls excited for the Friendly Scout Cinderella recital tonight?" she asked.

"Yes, Mom," replied Leah. "I get to narrate the story, Kaylin is doing wardrobe, Tania is helping with special effects, and Paige is playing the Fairy Godmother."

"Theater experts say that you have to sometimes get a grownup figure to cast the grownup figures," explained Tania.

"And I'm glad that both Leelanee and Kristi get to play the horses and the heralds for the prince's ball," smiled Kaylin.

"We had to cast them like that," explained Paige. "They're too cute to be ugly stepsisters."

"Hey," said Mr. Hayato from he buffet. "You don't work here."

"I know," Grover replied. "You're just so super busy, I thought you needed help with the buffet."

"Buffets are suppose to be for the customer to chose," explained Mr. Hayato. "Stop before I call Chief Hess."

"The government warned me about his visit, Mr. Hayato," interrupted Lorraine. "Grover is a waiter at Charlie's Restaurant and Watkins Ice Cream as security. Wherever else he works, he ends up getting fired due to his antics, especially to a man named Mr. Johnson. Which is why the unemployment offices ban him permanently from working anywhere else."

By the door, numerous monsters and happy creatures came in and started looking around the place. "Those must be the visitors from 'Sesame Street' in New York City," suggested Rylie. "They're here to see the performance for 'Cinderella'."

"It's a good thing we bought our tickets early so we won't miss out on our amigos," replied Estrella.

Swinger came up to Elmo and was curious. "Look at the monkey," he said. "Elmo thinks he's cute."

While Swinger was delighted by Elmo's compliment, he spotted Judson and the Bugaloos comforting Joyce. Curious, he decided to give her some hot cocoa with bananas in them.

By the door, Billie could see the popstar, his backup band, his cousin, and the little monkey calming down. "What is this?" she asked. "A banana infestation?"

"No," corrected Judson. "My little cousin here has been laid off due to a crime she didn't commit."

"Hey," Billie replied. "Aren't you that hunky heartthrob Judson Soul?"

"Yeah," Judson replied. "And these are the Bugaloos."

"Then stop bugging me," insulted Billie. "I don't want my family's restaurant having any more monkey business."

They were so annoyed by Billie's insult, they decided to go inside Roadhouse Fantasia. Looking down, Billie could see I.Q. and Courage and Harmony and Joy holding each other's hand. "Love bugs," she groaned to herself.

"Believe me, guys," whispered Courage, "that Billie girl looks like a younger version of Benita Bizzare."

"You can say that again," whispered I.Q.

**XxoxX**

A few minutes later, Judson explained to the Klue Queens about Joyce getting laid off from Pies in a Pod for losing a famous pie recipe. "Usually you would get the pink slip," recalled Rylie, "'cause finding a new job ain't easy."

"I know right," replied Joyce. "She thinks I did it and I really need this job."

"If they don't find it," Leah said, "the catering order for the show will be ruined."

**XxoxX**

Suspect

Rowan Mitter (Manager of Pies In a Pod) - Too stubborn and former Friendly Scout.

Joyce Guevara (Judson's cousin and worker) - The only one there when the recipe was stolen.

Monroe Gould (Strange flamboyant worker) - Wants the place to close.

**XxoxX**

Worried that Grover would make things worse for Roadhouse Fantasia, the Bugaloos decided to stay behind to check them. They decided to bring a few Sesame Streeters along.

"Leah and I will take the orange monster in a pink tutu and chuckling red monster, Estrella and Kaylin will take the teal Spanish-speaking monster and the purple worrywart monster, and Rylie and Paige will take the big yellow bird and the pink fairy with the fuzzy wand," Tania suggested.

**XxoxX**

Leah, Tania, Elmo, and Zoe arrived at Pies in a Pod where they saw an elderly lady going around in a panic mood. It was Mrs. Mitter, owner of the shop.

"Mrs. Mitter," interrupted Leah, "we're the McBruce Sisters, Kirby, and Elmo and Zoey, we're here to talk about your stolen pie recipe."

"You mean the Cinderheights Pie recipe?" asked Mrs. Mitter. "It was made when Pies in a Pod was first founded in the 1920s. Its original founder created it after she read 'Cinderella' too many times."

"Poyo (She?)" asked Kirby.

"She's talking about Story Sagese," explained Leah. "She helped out with the Women's Rights of Lititz Heights and was the first female founder of a shop in Lititz Heights."

"Zowie!" shouted Zoey. "I never thought that a lady could open a pie shop at the time."

"A lot of ladies have been doing a lot thanks to leaders like Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, and Eleanor Roosevelt," Mrs. Mitter explained.

"And weren't you a Friendly Scout?" asked Elmo.

"That's right," answered Mrs. Mitter. "I got badges for pie and baking themes and made Friendly Scout cookie pies around Thanksgiving. My late husband Sidney had a high pumpkin allergy, and I decided to do a pumpkin substitute."

Both Leah and Tania knew that Rowan was a true Friendly Scout, so they decided to let her go. As they were leaving the place, Zoe found a locket with a handsome man and a younger Mrs. Mitter. After she gave the locket to Tania, she could tell that this wasn't her husband, but someone else.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile Estrella, Swinger, Kaylin, Rosita, and Telly were going around the local supermarket to find Monroe Gould, where most Pies in a Pod workers went occasionally for a little help. After explaining it to the head of the bakery department, he lead them to a flamboyant man. "I got to warn you," whispered the head of the bakery department, "he has been weirding out customers since he came here."

While Monroe was observing a pumpkin, he, the two girls, and monsters gulped. "Hola," greeted Estrella and Rosita. "Como estas."

"Are you measuring a pumpkin?" Telly asked. "It should be already measured."

"It is," replied Monroe, "unlike the way Rowan carves a pumpkin on Halloween."

Estrella and Kaylin found it a little weird that Monroe is swooning over Mrs. Mitter, even though that she'd been widowed for fifteen years and he looked a little younger.

**XxoxX**

At the library, Rylie, Paige, Big Bird, and Abby found Celia and Ell-Berry looking an article about a pie scam in Gettysburg. Big Bird and Abby were confused on who he was. "His name is Bartram Von Garson," explained Ell-Berry, "ex-boyfriend of Mrs. Mitter. They broke up after she found out that he deceives people for money."

Wondering why they weren't at work, they explained that Mrs. Mitter emailed them not to come into work due to the recipe theft. "Mrs. Mitter can be really keen when it come to pie recipes," explained Celia. "That Sheila needs to lighten up."

"You know something," Big Bird replied, "Rowan needs some cheering up. How about you two bring her to the 'Cinderella' recital tonight for free?"

Celia and Ell-Berry decided to do it, hoping that it'll calm her down.

**XxoxX**

Back at Roadhouse Fantasia, I.Q. was reading a story of "Goldiefly and the the Three Bugs," Courage was showing a few monsters how to limbo, and Harmony and Joy were playing "Ring Around the Rosie" with a few monsters. "Looks like your Judson's new backup band is really getting the hang of things," Estrella said with a surprised voice.

"I know," Tania cooed. "Judson is such a soul mate."

While Joyce and the Klue Queens were squealing for Tania and Judson, Kirby took a pumpkin pie from the buffet and ate it in one gulp. Then he started measuring pumpkins, which made Estrella and Rosita remember Monroe and his strange matter.

"Rylie?" asked Estrella. "What types were Bartnam were using to scam those bakeries?"

"Pumpkin," answered Rylie. "Girls, you don't think Monroe is just a persona?"

"Maybe," replied Kaylin. "He also had the movements that are from the early '60s. Nobody else in town moves like that."

"I'm with you," agreed Estrella. "And he did got all Romeo on Rowan, even though hear heart is staying true to Mr. Mitter."

Realizing the clues, they figured that Monroe Gould was actually Bartram Von Garson.

"I remember checking the employment archives," Joyce explained. "And I don't think she hired the weirdo. During our first few days, he has been scaring customers away."

"That's right," recalled Paige. "Having a father who's a responsible manager is important. They have to keep track of who works here, tell disturbers to leave, and balance books."

Leah told Judson to get the Sesame Street gang to the recital at the park stage, because the Klue Queens, Elmo, Zoe, Rosita, Telly, Abby, and Big Bird got a score to settle with Monroe.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at Pies in a Pod, Monroe was going around the place taking some pies. In reality, he was Bartram Von Garson. "Soon, my Rowan," he cooed, "we'll be together again."

"Try becoming a prisoner of love," suggested Apple Pop as she levitated down. "Our mate Banana Cream Pop informed us of your cons."

"Yeah," replied Blueberry Pop as she used her super speed. "And go back to Gettysburg where your last con was."

"I don't know what your talking about," lied Monroe.

Abby and Kirby popped out with a magic kit. While Monroe was laughing at them for getting out a magic kit, Abby looked at Kirby and shouted, "Kirby, suck it up!"

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Magic Kirby. He got out a bunch of cards and tossed them at Monroe. From his jacket, Blueberry Pop could see the Cinderheights recipe. Using her super speed she grabbed the recipe and returned it to the recipe cabinet. After Monroe fell down, he saw that his jacket hole was empty. "Where did the pie recipe go?" he asked as he covered his mouth in nervousness.

"Back in the recipe cabinet," explained Leah as she and the other Klue Queens came out. "There were some clues to figure out that you stole the pie recipe."

"There was your expertise in all things pumpkin," recalled Kaylin. "And there's a news article of Bartram Von Garson scamming a bakery in Gettysburg. Then there's the way you got lovesick for Mrs. Mitter. Finally, there was that little locket with her in it."

"But they have different faces," interrupted Abby.

"It's amazing when your old college roommate is a plastic surgeon," explained Bartram. "This face is new, and I don't want you messing with it."

"Like the old Friendly Scouts said," Paige replied, "you can fool the outside, but you can't fool the inside."

By the door, Mrs. Mitter was petrified by the shenanigans going on in her shop. Though she was glad that Abby cleaned up the place, she recognized Bartram's eyes through the surgery. "Bartram?" she asked. "When did you started working here?"

"Never," answered Apple Pop. "This phoney has been pulling your leg by taking your Cinderheights pie recipe in order to win your heart again."

"And everything would've been perfect as pie if it weren't for you Friendly Freaks!" shouted Bartram.

Horrified by his insult, Mrs. Mitter ordered him to make a catering order for a bowling party at the Ramen Noodle bowling alley all by himself and mixing the recipes the old-fashioned way. After Bartram started working on the catering order, Mrs. Mitter showed the others so they could see how long the punishment was.

"This is as big as Uncle Wayne's kilt," admitted Leah. "A friend of my mom gave it to him a long time ago."

"Now that my ex is taking up the order," replied Mrs. Mitter, "I don't have time to create the catering order for the recital."

"Not for long," replied Elmo. "Kirby, Abby."

With a wave of their wand, Abby and Kirby made a new catering order for the Friendly Scout recital. Mrs. Mitter was happy because of a new catering order, "Since Kirby and Abby did the order," Telly said, "Can we give them out to the patrons."

"And I can give them a free hug." replied Big Bird.

With a big smile, Mrs. Miter nodded her head.

**XxoxX**

At the recital, Luella was playing "Cinderella" and was getting her foot into the shoe and kissing her prince. During the curtain call, everyone cheered and begged for an encore. When they told Judson the news, he was shocked. "Encore?" asked Judson. "But I didn't prepare anything."

While the Bugaloos were trying to come up with a last minute idea, Ernie got a suggestion. "You see, guys," he replied, "I've been thinking about performing a little song that was on Skinnamarink TV in the late '90s. They had a contest for the best song about the moon and I won."

"Congrats, Ernie," replied I.Q. "And I hope you don't mind if we get in on the act."

"Sure," Ernie answered. "The more the merrier."

"Good thing I brought my bongos," replied Courage.

Onstage, fireflies glew around, Judson, Tania, I.Q., Harmony, Joy, Courage and Ernie came onstage, I.Q., Courage, and Joy played their instruments, and they began to sing. Abby made a fake campfire so they wouldn't start a real fire.

"Well, I like to visit the moon, On a rocket ship high in the air," sang Judson.

"Yes, I like to visit the moon, though I don't think I like to live there," sang Tania.

Recognizing this tune, Bert knew that this was one of Ernie's songs, "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon." Bert started to remember the contest and was proud of Ernie for doing the song again.

"I like to visit the jungle, hear dandelions roar," sang I.Q.

"Go back in time, see a lost dinosaur," sang Harmony.

"There's so strange forests I like to see," sang Joy.

"But none of them pepperminty," sang Courage.

"Those aren't the words," Bert recalled.

"There having fun," whispered Paige. "And this is Ernie's song."

When Judson, Tania, Ernie, and the Bugaloos sang "I will make a wish on a star," Kirby came out feeling sleepy.

As soon as Kirby's cue was over, Leah grabbed the sleepy puffball, placed him on the sofa, got him under a Friendly Scoutquilt, and kissed him. Peacefully, Kirby drifted into a sleep.

When Judson, Tania, Ernie, and the Bugaloos were finished, every clapped quietly, so they wouldn't have to worry about waking Kirby.

**The End.**

**Author's Note: As a child, I use to hear it on Skinnamarink TV where Sharon, Lois, and Bram sang the song.**

**Chapter 23: An Order of Mickey Potatoes**

At Lititz Heights High, Charlotte was coming out her poetry club when she got a text message from a secret admirer.

*Dear Charlotte,*

*I'm sorry, but your voice is out of hand.*

*So I'm leaving you for Celia Nolan.*

*Sincerely, Cupid Craig.*

Charlotte was annoyed, but it didn't stop her from showing up for the spring dance committee, which her Uncle Atticus was sponsoring.

"Hey, Char!" shouted a wallflower boy with sandy blond hair and glasses. "What ya doing later?"

"I'm helping my uncle set up for the dance tomorrow night, Parker."

"But don't forget," said a boy in a wheelchair, "you're bug poems are due Monday."

"I won't, Farley," replied Charlotte as she took off.

**XxoxX**

In the school gym, everyone was getting ready for the Spring Girls Choice dance Saturday night. Mr. Harmon and Nathaniel were going over a few things, Kirby, Helen, Martin, and Issac were setting up the table cloth for the food, Estrella, Kaylin, and Paige were setting up the decor while Leah, and Rylie were setting up the amps and equipment for the Bugaloos, who are going to perform for the dance. On an amp, Tokkori began to complain, "So why do we have to handle this stuff? It'll damage my feathers."

"While you were being punished in Nowhere, Kansas for insulting the townspeople," explained Leah, "Tania has become the songwriter for Judson and the Bugaloos."

"You mean those bug people from the early '70s?" asked Tokkori, "Their old school.

"They're bug fairies," corrected Leah.

"Whatever," groaned Tokkori as he started lying down.

"Come on. mate," Rick interrupted. "You don't get the job done lying down. It's not the Cat's Meow."

Hearing the word "cat," Tokkori started getting to work. By the door, Tania, Judson, and the Bugaloos arrived with a bunch of cute white puppies.

"Sorry we're late," said Tania. "The Hamster Wheel is giving away free four west highland terriers. Shelly found them abandoned and alone by The Bauer while handing out fliers for their 50% off dog kibble."

Tokkori became mesmerized by Joy's beauty. He tried to fly up to her, but Rylie grabbed him while shaking her head.

"Perros," Estrella interupted. "Care to be petted by Estrella Pareja?"

One by one, the puppies started licking Estrella. Swinger joined in because he was a fond of Estrella a lot. Observing their colors, she read the tags that look like a green grasshopper, a pink butterfly, a yellow bee, and a red ladybug.

"Fenmore, Fifi, Luigi, and Melvin?" Estrella recalled. "Arent' those the names of I.Q.'s, Joy's, and Harmony's personas when they had to rescue an amnesiac Courage, believing that he was Benita's nephew."

"They were," I.Q. answered. "Fenmore here sure knows how to fetch magazine."

"And Fifi really loves to chase butterflies," Joy continued.

"Luigi can really eat out a dog bowl in one gulp," Harmony continued.

"And after I acidentally dropped my drumsticks," finished Courage, "Melvin fetched them."

Martin was petrified due to his dog allergies, but Harmony assured them that they were hypoallergenic. Just then, Charlotte came in feeling much better after seeing her uncle's face.

"It was really nice of Mr. Harmon to sponsor the spring dance this year," explained Tania. "Every year, Principal Hopkins sponsors it and constantly freaks out due to the fear of the dance going wrong."

"Working here will make me much better after that good-for-nothing Craig dumped me," Charlotte replied.

"As in 'Cupid Craig'?" Asked Tania. "I was dating him first." Judson and the Bugaloos were confused. "Before I met Judson," Tania explained, "I've been getting romantic texts from Cupid Craig. When I first laid eyes on Judson and his voice, I started to think that Cupid Craig was a fake. So I decided to ignore him until further notice."

"You made the right choice, Tania," replied Nathaniel. "Meeting people online can be dangerous."

Charlotte explained to them that Cupid Craig was a local Lititz Heights boy that had been flirting most of the single straight girls at school. Fowarding a poem from Cupid Craig to Estrella, she began to read it.

*Oh Charlotte your hair is like a star*

*And you have an uncle who lives real far*

*Your quiet and proud and you have world of rhyme*

*And to you that isn't a crime*

Thinking carefully, Estrella had a feeling that this could be a member of the poetry club doing this.

**XxoxX**

Suspects

Farley Bernard (Head of poetry club) - Eager to get the job done.

Parker Duffy (Former friendly scout and member of poetry club) - Always uses star emojis in his texts.

Principal Hopkins (Former chaperone for the spring dance) - Seems a bit bitter about letting Mr. Harmon run the dance this year.

**XxoxX**

As the Klue Queens were about to take off, someone knocked Mr. Harmon out with a sleeping cat nip bag.

"Uncle Atticus!" shouted Charlotte.

"Dad!" shouted Nathaniel.

"Mr. Harmon!" shouted everyone else.

As Friendly Scouts, Leah, Kaylin, Tania and Paige knew that they had to help the needy first. Estrella and Rylie decided to stay behind so they can help the sponsor.

"But who is going to figure out who Cupid Craig is?" asked Helen.

"Maybe we can help you," giggled a voice. It was the Sensational Six: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto.

"Did we forget to mention that we ran into Mickey and friends at The Hamster Wheel and that their going to help with the spring dance.?" I.Q. asked.

"You did," answered Nathaniel. "Listen, Mickey, my father is out cold, and I think Cupid Craig is doing it as a distraction. Which means, we get to investigate."

"What do you mean 'we'?" asked Donald.

"The Klue Queens did so much for us," Nathaniel explained. "I figure that Kirby, Issac, Martin, Helen, Judson and I could do something in return."

"Good idea," agreed Harmony. "And we'll stay here and calm him down with one of our songs, 'Fly Away'."

"Tell 'em, Harmony," Tokkori shouted as he finger-waved at Joy, "'cause I want to hear the joys of Joy."

Joy felt nervous, I.Q., Courage, and Harmony felt annoyed, and Rick felt worried. "Hold it!" Rick shouted as he lured Tokkori with gummy worms. "It's better if you stay with Martin and Issac."

"Fine," groaned Tokkori as he fly passed Joy, winking at her. "I'll be back for you, Cupcake."

The four puppies that the Bugaloos got were so thrilled to solve the mystery, that they barged up to Pluto.

"Looks like the Bug Pups want to come too," suggested Courage.

"Bug Pups," smiled Tania. "I like that name."

"Gawrsh," Goofy said. "This is going to be out of control."

**XxoxX**

In the art dept, Issac, Martin, Mickey, Minnie, Tokkori, and Robopup 2.0 were going around looking for clues. Martin brought Robopup 2. 0 so he can rehearse his special effects for their show.

"You know a lot about romance, do you, I?" asked Martin.

"Of course," answered Issac. "Harry had a few girlfriends, but when you love someone, let them go."

"But you're not letting go of Leah," replied Martin. "Why do you like her so much?"

"Because she's a natural-born leader," Issac answered again, "and knows how to be a true Friendly Scout. What about you, Martin? What made you fall in love with Rylie?"

"Because she fat and loves it," Martin answered. "Many people these days complain about their weight and people like me get teased for having both glasses and braces, but someone like Ryls reminded me that looks aren't everything. When I'm done with college I'm getting my braces removed."

When they reached the photography room, they spotted Celia, Joyce, and Ell-Berry, otherwise known as the Circus Pops.

"G'day, mates," greeted Celia. "That bloke just texted me about my eyes looking like stars."

"Celia has really good eyes," Ell-Berry replied. "That's what she gets for eating a lot of carrots."

"Enough talk," Issac interrupted. "Someone at LH High has been sending breakup messages."

"Sort of like a Mark C. McGarrity- esque persona," Mickey said.

Taking a glimpse at Celia's text, Martin could see that there were two cat emojis. One had heart eyes and one had star eyes.

Joyce explained to them that this was how he always signed off. "Believe me," she said, "I flirted with him before. Then he left me for Charlotte due to her poetry skills and her sensitive nature."

"How did Cupid Craig get started on the whole flirting texts?" Minnie asked.

"It all started after Valentine's Day," explained Joyce. "When Ell-Berry was starting to get texts from a hunk muffin from her phone known as Cupid Craig."

"That dude said I have the scentsational smell," Ell-Berry continued. "He told me that if I tell my folks about this, I'm doomed."

"He sounds like one of those online personas that makes me cringe entirely."

Robopup 2.0 started detecting another text message from Cupid Craig, for Aranea.

*Dear Aranea,*

*An Itsy bitsy spider it what you really love*

*Climbed up the waterspout;*

*Down came the rain and you gave your troubles a shove.*

*Out came the sun and then you run away.*

*And the itsy bitsy spider wait for the night to sway.*

*Love, Cupid Craig.*

They thought that Aranea was going to be lovesick, but Aranea replied,

*Cupid Craig,*

*I heard rumors about you breaking girls heart for no reason.*

*Your not going to be a match for a girl like me.*

*I may be dark and edgy, but I don't like frauds like you.*

*Sincerely, Aranea.*

They were proud of Aranea for standing up to Cupid Craig via text.

"That Aranea sure knows how to handle things on her own," admitted Tokkori. "Maybe she could whip me up one of her Spider Smoothies for me and Joy."

**XxoxX**

In the Language Arts department, Kirby, Helen, Nathaniel, Donald and Daisy were going to the Poetry Club room when they found a light by a janitor's closet. It was Sparky. He was bound and gagged and had numerous cell-phone number notes. "Thank goodness you're here," Sparky replied. "I was at volunteering at the Lititz Heights Library when someone knocked me out with cat nip."

"Harmony told me that Sparky can be quite gullible," Helen explained to Nathaniel. "Plus he thinks sweets ruin his Christmas wreath."

"You mean teeth," replied Daisy, "'cause 'teeth' rhymes with 'wreath'."

Sparky nodded his head. Nathaniel explained to him that his father was knocked out the same way. That way, the Klue Queens wouldn't be able to find out who Cupid Craig was.

While they were figuring out who would kidnap Sparky, Helen bumped into Harley, and he acidentally dropped his backpack. While Donald and Daisy were trying to clean it up, Daisy saw a decriptor for phones in it.

"Hey, Helen," greeted Farley. "Have you seen Charlotte? I want to make sure she doesn't miss out on the spring dance, I hear there's a meteor shower at the same time called 'Lactaverinteum'."

"What does that got to do with poetry?" asked Helen.

Nervously, Farley grabbed his backpack from Donald and rolled off. This made Helen and the others feel suspicious.

**XxoxX**

In the cafeteria, Judson was interviewing the lunch ladies after remmbering that a lot of the students usually talk about their feelings to them instead of the counselor to avoid permanent record troubles while Pluto, Goofy, Fenmore, Fifi, Luigi, and Melvin were going around sniffing for clues. After the lunch ladies took off for the day, Judson turned his head to see the disturbance.

"Come on, Judson," begged Goofy. "Doggies use ther noses all the time."

"You're a talking dog," recalled Judson. "You always use your nose, and the vice principal won't like it."

By the door, Tokkori was flying around daydreaming. He was daydreaming about him and Joy flying around the sky making hearts, then he spots I.Q., Harmony, and Courage dressed like hillbillies and fixing up a candlelit picnic for the two of them. They were about to kiss each other when Pluto and the Bug Pups barked at him. Judson picked him up and asked, "What's the idea going off on your own? Tania told me that when you're solving a mystery on your own, the culprit could kidnap you."

"Kidnap, schnidnap!" snapped Tokkori. "If you're going to try to get to Joy, beat it! I just got out of Nowhere for constantly insulting the patrons for my amusement and I found the most beautiful bug fairy I've ever seen."

"Well, you shouldn't get in the way," Judson replied. "You're a bird, she's a fairy, and Harmony would've hated it if you tried to flirt with her."

"What about the guy ladybug and the grasshopper?" asked Tokkori.

"Courage and I.Q.?" corrected Judson. "I believe they're gay. I like it."

By his foot, Melvin gave him an article in the paper that he found in the trash.

*Honolulu astronomer, Kiana Alika, visits Lititz Heights Public Library to show the secrets of the Hawaiian Constellations.*

On the article picture was Tania, who was a member of the school's astronomy club and around here were numerous hearts.

"Those are some purity hearts," commented Goofy.

"Yeah," replied Judson. "And I think that Cupid Craig has a crush on Tania. I see his initials on the end of the picture." He came up to Melvin and said, "Good boy, Melvin."

Melvin blushed.

**XxoxX**

Back in the gym, the Bugaloos were ready to play "Fly Away," hoping that would wake Atticus up.

Fly away with us to space and far beyond.

Come away with us to a place where love carries on.

The verses were so powerful, that Mr. Harmon started to wake up.

"Mr. Harmon," smiled Kaylin as she hugged him. "You're okay."

Estrella and Swinger bounced up and down with excitement.

"I feel like I've gone to heaven and all the angels look like the Klue Queens and the Bugaloos," Mr. Harmon commented.

"Dad!" shouted Nathaniel shouted as he hugged his father. "Thank goodness you're alright."

Kirby sucked all the catnip and gulped it. Issac, Martin, Helen, Nathaniel, and Judson were petrified because they thought he ate the bag for evidence. Luckily, Mickey's magic skills saved the bag from being destroyed. On the bag it had a message saying, "Roll with the Friendly Scouts."

"Poyo (Roll)?" asked Kirby.

"I think he means he's fine," guessed Daisy.

"Speaking of rolls," Goofy interrupted, "Minnie, do you have those cinnamon rolls that you bring? I can use a snack to help think."

"I always carrie snacks with me," Minnie answered, "in case someone gets hungry."

"And it tastes better with jam," Nathaniel replied.

"I'm good," Judson replied. "I'm allergic to cinnamon - breaks me out in a rash."

"That's a relief," Sparky replied, "'cause I don't want to see you get sick."

The Bug Pups ran up and licked the worrisome firefly.

"Sparky!" exclaimed Judson. "The band has been looking everywhere for you. Though I was busy with school with everything. I'm glad I got their texts during lunch."

"Speaking of texts," interrupted Charlotte, "look what Parker sent me."

*Char*

*I feel so sorry about you being another Cupid Craig victim*

*Aranea texted me about Cupid Craig trying to flirt with her, but she rejected him.*

*We wanted to make sure that you're okay.*

*⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, XOXOXO Parker*

Knowing that he cared about Charlotte, the Klue Queens decided to let Parker go. Still they hadn't had figure out who would be Cupid Craig, but Issac did. "Guys," he interrupted, "I've finally figured out a few things. I remember Parker sitting next to Charlotte a few times during lunch and stairing at her like he's in love and he's one of the kindest members of the poetry club and Principal Hopkins always doubts on the Klue Queens like Chief Hess does, but knows how to discipline students. I'm gonna get some fizzy rox to take to the dance, 'cause I have a plan."

**XxoxX**

The next night, everyone was dazzled up for the dance, including the Bugaloos. Nathaniel gave I.Q., Harmony, and Courage some tuxedos that his father wore when he was younger and Joy a pink butterfly dress his mother wore when she visited Phidalephia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavillion for a dance show in the early 2000s.

When they went inside, they were asking Mr. Harmon if Cupid Craig was going to come in. After informing him that Cupid Craig would come, they went further inside.

"I'm glad I kept his phone number incase of emergency." Tania replied.

After the Bugaloos got offstage and started performing "It's New to You," Farley popped up and rudely interrupted, "The band is not suppose to perform until 7:45 pm. Believe I hack - I mean checked the schedule for the dance."

Everyone glared at Farley. Estrella and Swinger did cartwheels to him and gave him a letter with the phone numbers. "Where did you get these?" he asked.

"Sparky had them when my girlfriend and Nathaniel found him all tied up," growled Estrella. "You knocked him and Mr. Harmon out with a bunch of catnip."

"I don't know what your talking about," he lied.

Issac got out the fizzy rox and shouted, "Kirby, suck it up!"

With one gulp of the fizzy rox, Kirby turned into Bomb Kirby. He tossed cherry bombs at Farley that made him fall over and reveal a list of all the girls he tricked.

"I knew it," Issac replied. "Farley is the culprit."

"Okay, okay," groaned Farley. "I'm Cupid Craig."

Principal Hopkins barged through and was very furious at Farley for harassing innocent girls. She was also impressed of the sweethearts of the Klue Queens and the Sensational Six solving the mystery for them.

"Of course, we had a few clues along the way," recalled Martin, "like the emoji cats with heart and star eyes on them. Also, there was a news article of the astronomy club being at the famous astronomer's visit at the library. It had hearts all over Tania. Plus, there's a note on that knock-out bag that is use to distract the Klue Queens, It said 'Roll with Scout's honor', meaning that Cupid Craig had a crush on a Friendly Scout. And the only person in the Astronomy club that is also a Friendly Scout is Tania. Plus it had 'Roll', meaning that he's in a wheelchair."

"And remember when Helen, Nathaniel, Donald, and Daisy bumped into Farley?" recalled Judson. "He had a phone decriptor in his backpack, meaning that he has good computer skills."

"I've been hitting on Tania for such a long time," Farley explained. "I was about to profess my feelings for her when she started laying eyes on that hunky popstar, Judson Soul."

"Of all the rotten Donald Duck," growled Harmony.

"Hey!" growled Donald.

Farley didn't know what the punishment was for harassing girls at school, but the Sensational Six did. Pluto and the Bug Pups started barking at him, and he rolled off while saying, "Looks like working at The Hamster Wheel in the morning was a bad idea."

"What I don't get is," Mickey said, "why would Farley kidnap Sparky?"

"I think I know why," I.Q. replied. "Sparky must've spotted Farley texting while working under his Cupid Craig."

"I remember now," replied Sparky. "I was going to alert the manager when Farley knocked me out."

"Alright!" stated Mr. Harmon. "Now that Farley has been punished for harassing the lovely ladies that are single, let's slow things down with a slow dance!"

Kirby barged up and played James Stewart's "A Man Like Me."

On the dance floor, Leah and Issac, Kaylin and Nathaniel, Estrella and Helen, Rylie and Martin, I.Q. and Courage, Harmony and Joy, Mickey and Minnie, Charlotte and Parker, and Tania and Judson came onstage and danced tenderly.

"May I have this dance, Donald?" Daisy asked.

"You betcha, Daisy," answered Donald with a smile as he started dancing.

Paige didn't have a slow dance partner, so she swayed back and fourth to the song, including Sparky, Goofy, Pluto, Swinger, Rick, and the Bug Pups. Tokkori was jealous because Harmony got to dance with Joy. He tried to sabotage their dance, but they missed, and Kirby acidentally ended up in the punch bowl. Luckily, a little Mickey Mouse magic changed it back to normal so no one could get poisoned. Tokkori was so annoyed that he left the dance.

Stairing lovingly in each other's eyes, Judson and Tania leaned in and kissed. The Bugaloos saw this and applauded for their friend and his newfound girlfriend.

**The End.**

**Chapter 24: An Order of Winx Club Cake**

At Jukebox Rock, Judson, Tokkori, and Sparky were enjoying sugar-free chocolate milkshakes and were going over a new song for when the Winx Club came to town. "Why can't I go to the special surprise with your Bugaloos?"

"Because you would get jealous of Harmony again," Judson answered.

"Yeah," agreed Sparky. "You should be happy for him."

Sparky looked up and saw a glum look on Judson's face. "Say, Jud...how come you didn't introduce the Bugaloos to your family?"

"Don't get me wrong," replied Judson. "My brother and sister love them, but I don't know if my parents will like them. My maternal grandparents were exterminators, and I'm afraid my father would scare the bugs out of them. He's really dark."

On the diner television, they could see Tang Yanghui with some urgent news. "Former general manager of Perfect Badge Records would demand a Judson Todd to return to his record company, or else."

Judson was petrified by this. Without knowing what to do, he decided to go to the Klue Queens.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile the Klue Queens were guiding a bunch of blindfolded Bugaloos to the secret stairs to the Fairy Garden.

"Where are you taking us, loves?" asked I.Q.

"Yeah," agreed Courage. "You told us to come here for a little storytime with the music fairies."

"Good thing we did do the story while Joy, Courage, and I acted out the play," replied Harmony.

"I still don't get why you have to take us to the DVD case and blindfold us," Joy finished.

By the time they reached the bottom of the stairs, Tania told the Bugaloos to remove their blindfolds and were bewildered by the beautiful fairy sanctuary filled with Indian flowers. Above them, the music fairies from I.Q.'s story popped up and flew down. "This is the garden where fairies come to stay safe," explained Leah. "Former slave hideout and now '40s agreement garden."

"And the Indian flowers add a personal touch," Kaylin continued. "But there's another guest we have here. How would you like to have a collaboration with the Winx Club?"

"Those fairies from Magix?" guessed Courage.

"That's right, Courage!" shouted a fairy.

At the end of the garden, six beauitiful fairies popped out with their musical instruments.

*Bloom, Fairy of the Dragon Flames*

*Stella, Fairy of the Shining Sun*

*Tecna, Fairy of Technology*

*Musa, Fairy of Music*

*Flora, Fairy of Nature*

*Aisha, Fairy of Waves*

The Bugaloos were so amazed by their appearance, they summoned their own instruments and joined in.

*We are the Winx, we are the Winx*

*Come join the Club, we are the Winx*

*The Bugaloos, the Bugaloos*

*We're in the air and everywhere.*

Everyone was bouncing and having a good time. That was, until Tania spotted Judson, Sparky, and Tokorri in through the door with worried looks on their faces. Judson explained to them about his live television threat that Perfect Badge Records was where he got his big break.

"That's in Missouri," recalled Musa. "You moved all the way from Florida to Missouri just so you could take your passion and make it happen."

"It was the only record company available," explained Judson. "I liked the backup band they gave me and the chance to let me sing, but the general manager drove me crazy. Tucking shirts in, singing a little flat, my timing being 'off'."

Seeing this, they knew that Judson didn't want to go through that again. In order to clear his head, they decided to go around town and find the place that would make him feel better.

**XxoxX**

Flora, Aisha, Paige, Rylie, and Rick were arriving at Pies in a Pod, hoping that a banana cream pie would cheer him up. Inside, Mrs. Mitter was growling while setting up some Friendly Scout cookies that were only sold in Australia. Paige found it strange, because they hadn't done a shipment of Friendly Scout cookies since the International Friendly Scout Cookie Fair in Washington D.C. last year.

"Is that where you met the president?" asked Flora.

"Of course," answered Paige. "And you would not totally believe how Swinger digged his pad."

"By that," corrected Rylie, "he liked the White House."

"Hippie talk," recalled Aisha.

While having free chocolate cream/truffle pie samples, Mrs. Mitter explained to them that a perfectionate man came and gave her the cookies, then he insisted on giving them to Judson when he comes here.

"But don't you remember from the movie 'Hercules'?" asked Rylie. "'If is good'. So maybe if we could keep Judson away from Pies in a Pod until further notice..."

"That's not the only thing that happened," Mrs. Mitter replied. "He dropped this book here."

Carefully, Flora read the title of the book.

Perfection for Morons

Inside, the pages showed how to do things perfectly, much to their disturbance.

XxoxX

On Penny Lane, Musa, Stella, Estrella, Swinger, Kaylin and the Bugaloos were arriving at Symphony Sound Music Shop when they bumped into a man in a posh suit with scout badges. Moonshell was getting out some Bugaloo t-shirts when he spotted our heroes. Moonshell was a huge fan of the Bugaloos, especially their keyboardist.

"How ya doin', Harmony?" greeted Moonshell as the man started to flinch and barging out, much to our heroes confusion.

While they were talking to Moonshell about finding a new songbook to help cheer Judson up, Sunrise Shell and Bivalve were coming up with some imported Friendly Scout cookies. Swinger crawled up to it, smelled the cookies, growled, and headed back to Estrella. Bivalve explained to them that a perfectionist just gave them 1,000 dollars and a shipment of Friendly Scout cookies from another country.

"You would not believe how many boxes Conch used for his cinnamon bird boxes," said Bivalve. "Two boxes."

"That's plenty to handle those birds from the Sweet Surfer world," replied Estrella. "Normal birds could get sick if they eat them."

"Why would a random guy just give the local music shop a bunch of imported Friendly Scout cookies?" asked Musa.

"Strange," agreed Kaylin. "But we better get the others and inform them of the imported cookies and the weird guy we bumped into."

XxoxX

Meanwhile, Tecna, Tania, Bloom, Leah, Kirby, and Judson were arriving at Scoutapalooza, the local scout apparel store.

"It's where scouts go to buy their uniforms," Tania explained to Judson. "Not just Friendly Scouts, but Fireside Girls, Squirrelly Scouts, and Creampuffs."

"That reminds me," replied Judson, "I'm going to have to give something to Luella and Trace."

Kirby was curious because Judson wasn't a Friendly Scout. Leah explained, "Friendly Scout Handbook 1953: Page 42, Clause 4A: those who aren't Friendly Scouts can give badges to those who \*are\* Friendly Scouts for being naturally gifted in that talent."

"Luella has mastered the art of playing the drums thanks to her free lessons from Courage," Judson explained. "And Trace's keyboard lessons from Harmony really have paid off."

As they were looking around, Kirby found some imported Friendly Scout cookies. Thinking it could be a clue, he gave one to Leah. "Cinna Orange Blossoms?" she asked. "You can only get these in Australia. Cousin Clark craves for these sort of things."

"But I don't," replied Judson as he barged up to the store manager, who happened to be a neighbor of Judson's. "What's the idea messing with my allergies?"

"I just talked with the manager and the crew working here," explained Bloom. "They explained that a perfectionist just bribed them with Australian dollars and the Cinna Orange Blossoms. Otherwise, they'll turn all the Scoutapalooza shops in Pennsylvania into a black-and-white movie."

Crept out by what Bloom said, they decided to gather the others at Cruller Comrade fast.

XxoxX

Ten minutes later, everyone met at Cruller Comrade, hoping that some Russian tea would calm Judson down. Parker came and got word from Tang Yanghui about a few buisness getting strange imports of Australian cookies, which they didn't ordered. "My mom is getting an import of Russian Friendly Scout cookies," he explained. "She really wants to bring her homeland here.

"Patya?" asked his mother. "Are you going to to serve these kliyenty some coffee or tea?"

"Patya?" chuckeld Estrella.

"Mat," replied Parker, "Call me Parker. It makes me feel more American."

Looking at the middle-aged woman with swan patterns on her uniform, Stella knew who she was. "Aren't you \*the\* Regina Ponomaryova?" she asked. "The Swan Queen of 'Let's All Dance Until We're Sick Russia'?"

"Da," answered Regina. "I may have been the Swan Queen back in Russia, but my beloved husband came here on a government assignment to make sure witches don't get caught while living their theater dreams."

"Not only my dad is the head accountant at Comrade Cruller," explained Parker. "He's also a international talent agent for good witches and warlocks who want to pursue dancing."

"Koroleva lebedey!" shouted one of the workers. "We got a problema!"

Remembering that the workers at Cruller Comrade adress problems in Russian, the Klue Queens knew something was up.

"Let those bugs handle the Oolong issues," Tokkori laughed. "I'll wait here for my honey-glazed donuts."

"No way, mate," growled Rick. "You just had a chocolate milkshake and Leah doesn't want you spoiling your appetite."

In the kitchen, everyone was horrofied that Cruller Comrade didn't get Russian Friendly Scout cookies. Instead, they got Orange Cinna Blossoms.

"Shtopat," growled Mrs. Duffy. "That buisness bamboozled me. He promised me some nutmeg nutcrackers, but instead, these orange cinnamon cookies."

They figured that whoever was threatening Judson must be going after the places that he loved. There was only one place in Lititz Heights where they could be safe: Guevara's Cantina.

**XxoxX**

Five minutes later, they arrived Guevara's Cantina, which Joyce's parents owned. On one of the tables, someone left behind a plate of Ecuadorian cookies. Just as Kirby was about to eat them, a Latino woman shouted, "Kirby, save some galetas for the rest of us! We're having that after our Arroz Con Salmon!"

It was Judson's Ecuadorian mother Macarena, her older brother Zander, and his African-American mother Lauren.

"Mom, Tio Zander, Tia Lauren," Judson greeted. "Thank goodness you're here. Someone is threatening me with Orange Cinna Blossoms."

Mrs. Todd, Tio Zander, and Tia Lauren were horrified by the theats that Judson has been getting. "Allergies to cinnamon and oranges?" asked Zander.

"I'm afraid so," Judson admitted.

The Bugaloos were amazed by the interior by the cantina. Courage began to wonder why Judson couldn't bring them here. "I couldn't let you guys perform because if my dad sees you," he explained, "he'll be annoyed."

The Bugaloos were pretty sorry that Judson couldn't bring them due to daddy issues, but were certain that his dad would like them. "That's what I said," recalled Rick.

While everyone was feeling happy for Rick and the Bugaloos' assurance, Sparky started playing around with the bow and arrow."Sparky, be careful!" shouted Estrella. "That could be a real bow and arrow, and we don't want your lighter to go out."

"Sorry," replied Sparky. "I was trying to be like Robin Hood, from the story I learned at the library. "

On the menu, Kirby could see what Judson's family was going to have. "This is our new Arroz con cedar plank salmon," explained Tio Zander. "My little sister and I thought it be a good way to welcome little people from Native American villages."

"Isn't salmon what Native Americans eat?" asked Rylie. "I remember making salmon during my cooking classes last year."

"It is," answered Mrs. Todd. "That's why we have that archery gear."

By a table near the stage, Tecna was going over a DVD that she got from Scoutapalooza. "The owner gave Bloom security footage of what happened," she explained. "And didn't the guy that Kaylin and Estrella's team bumped into had scout badges."

"He did," answered Estrella, "Why do you-"

Just as Estrella was about to say "ask," she spotted the same man she saw at Sound Symphony, threatening Waving Shells to sell the Orange Cinna Blossoms or else he'd turn them into a "perfect" music store.

"And by that," concluded the man in the scout jacket, "I'll make sure all strings are unbreakable, the instruments aren't cockamingy, and they don't have any scratches."

Judson was parylyzed by the face of the man in the scout jacket. Instead of explaining who he was, he barged into the kitchen.

"We'll try to calm him down," explained Tia Lauren. "I'm sure by tomorrow the man in the scout jacket will go away."

XxoxX

The next day at school, Leah and Estrella were getting out of class when they saw some students putting up a pink sparkly flier.

At Winx Club, Musical Magical Mayhem

A Lecture on Fairy Music

Not only were the Winx there to welcome the Bugaloos, but to lecture students on fairy music.

XxoxX

After the assembly, they met the Winx backstage. The principal gave them permission to go backstage, as long as they did the homework for the next two weeks in case of any mysteries coming up. When they met up with them, Aisha explained that the same thing happened to Pies in a Pod.

"On our way to Lititz Heights High," she explained, "Mrs. Mitter explained that the man would he would turn the shop into a 'perfect' pie shop. She just dumped out all the Orange Cinna Blossoms, because she would rather shut down then to let the cousin of one of her workers suffer a time loop."

"That's what the culprit meant by 'or else'," declared Bloom. "He'll make his favorite places serve and feed you nothing but stuff covered in cinnamon and or oranges."

"But why would the scout jacket man wanna do that?" asked Leah.

Before they could think of anything, Tania came in with notes from the other Winx members, and they said then when they were in those shops that helped clear Judson's head, they each were selling Cinna Orange Blossoms.

Kirby popped in while shouting "Poyo!" They didn't know what Kirby was talking about, but Tecna did. Using her techonolgy power, she showed footage of the same man from the footage grabbing Judson.

"But Uncle Barrett," shouted Judson, "I can't go back! Tania and the Bugaloos need me!"

"Judson Todd," shouted Uncle Barrett, "'The Bugaloos' is just a television show from the 1970s! It's not real! I didn't go through all the trouble of threatening the shops you love so much into selling those Australian cookies I smuggled and make them give it to you in order to go back to Perfect Badge Records!"

"I can't believe that creep would do this to his own nephew," Rylie said angrily.

"Of course, we found a few clues along the way," recalled Tecna. "Like that camera footage from the Scoutapalooza Scout Shop, Brantley was bribing the owner to give Judson the rare Australian Cinna Orange Blossoms. Barrett flinched when we mentioned Harmony's name, and the book 'Perfection for Morons'."

Aisha informed them that she already informed the Bugaloos and Kirby and Swinger are with them for the day. "Come on, guys," Aisha said. "We gotta get the vice principal."

XxoxX

Meanwhile in Vice Principal Todd's office, Barrett was prepping up some utensils while Judson had his tied and was blindfolded.

\*What a drag,\* Judson thought to himself. \*First a crazy rock witch kidnaps me at Bugstock and now my horrible uncle threatens me into coming back to Missouri. It was misery there.\*

Secretly, Kirby, Swinger, Rick, Tokkori, and the Bugaloos were sneaking around the empty office.

"Before I could take you back to my limo," smiled Barrett, "I'm going to have my lunch. Low calorie pink salmon and brussel sprouts."

Remembering the Arroz con salmon that Mrs. Todd was serving, the Bugaloos got an idea, "Kirby, suck it up!" shouted the Bugaloos.

With one gulp of the salmon, Kirby turned into Archer Kirby. Using the archery ability, he scared Barrett out of the vice principal's office and freed Judson with one of the arrows.

"Are you okay, Judson?" asked Joy.

"I'll be alright," Judson answered as he removed his blindfold. "Now we gotta stop my uncle before he gets away."

I.Q. unleashed Fenmore, Fifi, Luigi, and Melvin and the Bug Pups, who chased after Barrett. While he was trying to escape, he got disturbed by a powerful magical musical beam created by Musa. "Can't face the music, weirdo?" asked Musa.

"The Winx Club?" asked Barrett. "This is an outrage."

"Uncle Barrett," Judson growled while he leashed the Bug Pups, "you gave me my big break when I was a kid, and now you wanted me back for milk and honey."

"Yeah, money," Sparky translated.

Little did they know was that Kirby started tying shoe laces together.

"After you left Perfect Badge Records, our stocked plunged," explained Barrett. "You have know idea how two decades of having your own little brother being successful than you and not being perfect. Permanent banning from Florida for creeping the public out, a bad reputation in the Friendly Scouts, and only market those who do R&B and hip hop. I'm the classical and folk song type here. When Owen informed me from jail about you starting a normal life with small town folk, I knew I had to take you back and away from those weirdos in bug costumes."

"Actually," corrected I.Q., "we're real."

"Spare me the performance." Barrett growled in disbelief.

"What's going on?" shouted a dark and mysterious man.

Looking carefully, the Winx Club knew exactly who he was. "Aren't you the former boy band boy, 'Brantley Todd'?" asked Flora.

Slowly, Vice Principal Todd nodded his head. "I was a member of the successful band Harmony Heaven," he explained. "We broke up in 2018 after disputes, and I couldn't leave my beloved Macarena. Drew started becoming a hip hopper for Palmtree Records, Javier and his brother Axel took over their dad's detective agency, Ayden is now a dance teacher in Arkansas, Kayden has become a dance clothes owner in Nerbraska, and I went into teaching so no one could end up acting like my brother."

"Now, Dad," interrupted Judson, "we don't want everyone acting like Uncle Barrett."

Remembering that he was the black sheep in the family, Vice Principal Todd got an idea. "Do you remember my comic book, 'Night of Terror'?" he asked his older brother.

"Oh, no," Barrett answered nervously. "Not that lame-o mole mutant comic book. Canibalism doesn't show perfection." He tried to get up, but stopped thanks to Kirby's little shoe-lace trick.

"Let's not forget that they live in on the underground that prey on human beings," VP Todd explained, "sucking the electricity from our world. The begin by freeze-drying and deboning the strongest humans for their starters, and next they drag them to their lair to be 'de-skulled' and dine on them with fast food utensils."

Barrett got the heebie jeebies from Brantley's story. Suddenly, Principal Hopkins came in, wondering what was going on. Traumatically, Barrett promised never to harass his own nephew again and headed for the hills. Everyone but Principal Hopkins cheered.

"Well done, girls," VP Todd said to the Klue Queens and Winx Club. He turned to his eldest son's backup band and smiled. "And you must be my son's new backup band," he guessed. "I remember seeing you a few times from mi amigo Javier's VHSses. I loved the episode where you scared the feathers off of Benita as ghosts."

"I remember that," recalled Joy. "She should've seen her face."

"See, mate," Rick said to Judson, "I knew your old man would love the Bugaloos."

Judson was happy because his father his father liked his new backup band.

"Brantley," demanded Principal Hopkins, "what is going on here?"

"Just my older brother trying to win custody of Judson," explained VP Todd. "But I decided to do a custody battle, Harmony Heaven edition."

Prinicpal Hopkins could remember custody battles from a few teachers back in her early teaching days, so she decided to let them go.

**The End.**

**Chapter 25: An Order of Animaniacs Pie**

A film crew from Hartford Studios was at Irish restaurant The Emerald Commander Irish for the film production of "O'Nicolas's Knick Knacks" for the pub scenes.

During the filming, the main actors - Kaylie Degarmo and Wilson O'Favre - were getting ready to play the characters of Lilianna and Kaysen when a spotlight fell on the ground. Everyone thought it was an accident, but the technical crew saw that someone rigged the whole system in order for the spotlight to fall. This could only mean one thing: someone was trying to sabotage the shooting.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at Roadhouse Fantasia, the Friendly Scouts were having their fundraiser dinner when Leelanee and Kristi went up to the buffet to get some cranberry cake and eggnog for dessert. Before they get a chance to the dessert table, three toon-like creatures came up and threw pies at them. Instead of being angry, Kristi and Leelanee threw pies at them back. Then all of the sudden, the entire restaurant was in a food fight.

Mr. Hayato was horrified because a major pie fight was ruining the fundraiser. "What's going on?" he asked in anger.

Hearing this, everyone stopped the food fight. "We started it," admitted the blue toon with the red baseball cap.

"Yeah," admitted a female toon with a pink skirt. "Warner Bros. Studios let us stay here for a while during Maddie Ziegler visits the set."

"We heard that Hartford Studios was one of the few movie studios where they can come to Lititz Heights whenever its a good time to go as yourself," the toon with the beige pants explained.

"The Animaniacs?" asked Peter. "Dude, you're, like, totally a cool cartoon. Destiny has your episodes on her streaming channel service."

Peter was thrilled to see one of his friends' favorite cartoons apperaing at Roadhouse Fantasia.

While Chief Hess was trying to get over the whole Animaniac mayhem, he got an urgent message from his police radio about the incident The Emerald Commander. Unfortunately, it was loud enough for the Klue Queens to here. As soon as Chief Hess heard them say "We'll solve the mystery for you," he spitted out his coffee.

"No way," he growled, "I told you girls a thousand times - this is a policeman's job and not for a bunch of teenage super sleuths."

"Les," replied Mrs. Hess, "Remember what the psychiatrist said about losing your temper when you hear about the Klue Queens solving a mystery."

"Quiet, Violet!" shouted Chief Hess as he barged out.

"Is Daddy weally doubting them again?" Kristi asked. "I don't want to end my fwiendship with Leelanee."

"Relax, sweetheart," answered Mrs. Hess. "They're just trying to help."

"But we can help too!" shouted the Animaniacs.

The Klue Queens didn't want the Animaniacs causing more trouble at charity dinner, so they decided to bring them along. Luckily, Ms. McBruce knew the manager at The Emerald Commander. After going over a few details with her, they had four suspects to who would handle the incident.

**XxoxX**

Suspects

Ryann Daniel (Head camera person/co-director) - Really strict and wanted to cancel early.

Averi Fay (Ryann's assistant and electrician) - Rewired the whole thing after the Animaniacs played around with it.

Kohen Torres (Director of "O'Nicolas's Knick Knacks") - Believing that it's a waste of time.

Chief Hess (Police chief of LH Police Dept) - As usual, he doesn't want us to interfere.

**XxoxX**

Ten minutes later as they were arriving in Leah's car, Yakko wondered why would Chief Hess would do a crime if he was at Roadhouse Fantasia.

"Maybe he sent one of his police buddies to sabotage the whole thing," guessed Leah. "Might've bribed them with a raise in order to do it."

By the time they arrive at The Emerald Commander, a guard blocked them. "I'm sorry," he said, "but this is for Hartford Studios employees and policemen only."

Just then, the Animaniacs got an idea. "AAAAH!" they shouted. "There's a horrible bug on your shoulder!"

The guard believed their little trick and our heroes snuck in.

Inside, they could see everyone freaking out about the incident while Kohen tried to calm everyone down. In a distance, Leah could see four familiar faces going around Billie, Miley, Isla, and Zara were dressed up like waitresses. Annoyed by this, Leah walked up to them. "What are you three doing here?" she asked.

"If you must know," gloated Billie, "we're hired to be extras for 'O'Nicolas's Knick Knacks'."

"Billie," interupted Isla, "I thought we snuck in here to-."

Miley and Zara covered her mouth so they wouldn't get caught. Deep down, Leah knew that Billie came up with a silly scheme to meet celebrities. "Hello, GIRLS!" shouted Yakko and Wakko as they started becoming lovestruck for Billie.

The director, Mr. Torres, turned his head and spotted the four girls snooping around. "Hey!" he shouted. "You four don't work here!"

"Duh," replied Miley. "How else are we going to get Wilson O'Favre's autograph? He's such a hunk."

"This is getting a little wacky," whispered Estrella, "even for me."

"Our cartoons were too wacky and weren't well thought out," Yakko explained. "That's why Warner Bros decided to never release them."

Mr. Torres was so annoyed by Billie and her gang for sneaking in, he didn't notice the Klue Queens going around. Kaylin took a copy of the script and took off.

**XxoxX**

In the kitchen, Kaylin read the script about the movie's synopsis.

"College classmates Lilianna and Kaysen apply for a job at a souvenir shop called, O'Nicolas's Knick Knacks. However, they find out that the owner is really a former circus ringmaster hoping to relive his glory days again."

After reading the sypnosis, Kaylin stated, "They're filming the pub scene for when Lilianna and Kaysen started to get to know the workers a bit better and where they do the circus party for a bunch of Friendly Scouts."

Suddenly, Kaylie and Averi were coming in. Kaylie looked a lot like something from Vogue Magazine while Averi was a Japanese-Irish girl.

"Faboo!" Wakko shouted.

He tried to flirt with them, but Dot pulled him away. "Forgive my older brother Wakko," said Dot. "He and my eldest brother Yakko love hitting on cute girls."

"They think we're cute?" asked Kaylie in an Irish accent. "Thank you."

"So those Romeo Magazine articles were right about Kaylie," Paige said as she came out. "Kaylie is a nice girl in real life."

"Of course, Lassie," replied Kaylie. "Ave and I came here to clear our heads whenever there's an incident on set."

"I figure that Kaylie could use a friend while on set," Averi explained in an Irish accent. "Even after she and Wilson almost got killed by the spotlight."

On the ground, Rylie found a map of all the rewiring system, figuring that it could be a clue.

"Averi!" shouted a woman a middle aged woman. "What are you doing in the kitchen for? Get my coffee and fix up the boom mikes!"

"Yes, ma'am," Averi replied nervously.

Kaylie didn't want to see a few fans get in trouble like Billie did, so she told them to hide in the employee lounge until it was all clear.

**XxoxX**

When they snuck into the employee lounge, Kirby spotted a Kirby and started stabbing Rick with it. "Take it easy, mate!" Rick whispered. "We gotta maintain our cover."

Not wanting to get caught, Kirby ate the carrot.

As soon as Kaylin sat down, she spotted a safe. Tania had a feeling that there could be a clue in, so she used her lockpicking skils to open the safe and saw some rewiring gear.

By the door, Kaylie came to check on them. "Apologies for Ryann," she whispered. "She didn't become a co-director overnight like all the others. She started off as an electrician. Since Mr. Hartford was so impressed by her organization skills and her expertise in electricity safety, that he made her a co-director."

Now all the Klue Queens to do now was sneak out before they could get caught. Kaylie explained to them that the only way out was through the back door. To make sure that they got out quickly, they decided to go out Animaniac way. Quietly, they said "Boingy! Boingy! Boingy! Boingy!" while barging out through the back door.

"I better get back to work before Mr. Torres freaks out, again," Kaylie said to herself as she went back filming.

**XxoxX**

Outside, the Klue Queens were going over a few clues and started to think who would be responsible for Wilson and Kaylie's incident. Now all they needed to do is come up with a way to stop the culprit before the film crew goes back to Hollywood.

Thinking through, Kaylin could remember reading the script, "Remember that Mickey Mouse sketch 'Camp Wacky'?" Kaylin said. "I think I know a way how we can expose who sabotaged the production without getting caught."

**XxoxX**

Just two days later as they were getting ready to film the charity circus scene for the Friendly Scouts. Chief Hess was supervising them so they wouldn't have to worry about having any scout troubles. Looking at their badges, Mr. Torres could tell that they were real Friendly Scouts and not the actors he hired.

"Relax, Mr. Torres," said Chief Hess. "We told the children actors playing the Friendly Scouts and the actors playing the clowns to go home because the Klue Queens have a plan."

"Come on, Daddy," giggled Kristi. "They aw funsyies."

Not wanting to upset his daughter, he decided to let the Klue Queens handle it. Mr. Torres was nervous, but he remembered that the show must go on.

One by one, the Klue Queens and the Animaniacs came out dressed like clowns. "Did you get the clown gear?" Leah asked Kaylin.

"Of course," Kaylin answered. "I'm glad Nathaniel let me take care of them while he's preparing that charity circus for the Clifton Creeks Wildlife Preserve."

As soon as Mr. Torres shouted "Action!", they started filming the performance when the clowns came in. Little did anyone know was that Ryann started sneaking around the the place and heading to the rewiring systems, hoping that the spotlights would knock out the new clowns. After the Klue Queens heard the rewiring from above, they knew what to do. All together they shouted, "Kirby, suck it up!"

With one glimpse of the prop cotton candy that Leah and Kaylin were holding, Kirby turned into UFO Kirby. Using the UFO beam, he destroyed the falling spotlight. While Ryann was escaping, the Animaniacs decided to turn into their Super Strong Warner Sibling alter egos.

*Power of the Blowfish!*

*Power of the Anteater!*

*Power of the Platypus!*

"Super Strong Warner Siblings, unite!" they shouted.

Yakko blocked Ryann and tossed a pie at her, Wakko bonked her on the head with a toon baseball bat, and Dot placed some banana peels on the ground and made her slip into a real cake. Kirby grabbed Ryann by the UFO beam, hoping it would be enough for her to confess. "Put me down!" she shouted. "You'll be hearing from my lawyers!"

"You won't be needing any lawyers in the big house," smiled Leah.

"She mean's you'll be going to jail for trying to sabotage the film production," Dot explained.

"How did you know about that?" Ryann asked in anger. "I had it all planned out. I'd even hid my rewiring map and mini-safe in the back so no one would suspect."

"Our first clue was the map of the rewiring system," explained Estrella. "Ryann knew the right wires and where to drop them. Our second clue was the safe with the tools use to rewire the spotlights. We also remember from Averi that Ryann started out as an electrician at Hartford Studios."

"I wanted to keep myself off the project," explained Ryann. "Nobody makes movies about magical shops anymore. I knew that if this finished by the summer, I would be ruined."

"Listen here, Ryann," growled Averi. "I'm sick of you treating me like I'm some kind of doormat - always putting me down and forfeiting your own requests. When are you going to be more appreciative?"

After Kirby dropped Ryann onto the grown, Chief Hess cuffed her and took her away.

"Now that Ryann is out of the picture," Wilson said in an Irish accent, "who's going to be the electrician now?"

"I can do it," replied Averi with a blush. "And I was hoping we could go to Jukebox Rock afterwards. I heard they have good chocolate malts."

"I like that," Wilson answered with a blush.

Seeing this, the Klue Queens knew that Averi has a thing for the leading male.

**XxoxX**

After the production of the charity Friendly Scout scene, they arrived at Jukebox Rock to celebrate their last day on set before heading off for Hollywood. Norma Jean was giving them a 50% discount on chocolate malts. By the booths, Averi and Wilson were romantically sharing a chocolate malt while Kaylie watched them with a smile.

"Just because Wilson plays my love interest in the movie," she explained to the Friendly Scouts, "doesn't mean he's my love intrest in real life."

"That's goody," replied Leelanee, "becauwse we won't intwovewts with wuvey stuff."

"Here you go, girls," Norma Jean said to the Klue Queens and the Animaniacs. "Six chocolate soy malts, half off."

"Wanna know what I like about chocolate soy malts?" asked Yakko. "When you laugh real hard, it'll come out of your nose."

They needed something funny to happen. Rick and Swinger came up to the jukebox and unveiled a crudely drawn picture of Billie eating fried onion skins, referring to her as a "big fat meanie."

Everyone laughed at the picture. Yakko laughed so hard that he squirted the chocolate malt into the trash can. Billie, Zara, Miley and Isla arrived to see the drawing. Zara, Miley, and Isla thought it was funny, but Billie thought it was too disturbing. She tried to grab Rick and Swinger, but they trapped her in the poster and she tripped and landed in a trash can. Everyone laughed.

**The End**

**Chapter 26: An Order of Bullwinkle Beets**

It was quiet night at Rocky and Bullwinkle Television in New York City, a TV studio where aliens and magical beings went to be themselves. One of the aliens spotted video footage of Bullwinkle spending money on cotton candy.

"This is the fourth time this month he's spend 500 dollars on useless junk," complained the alien. "I better get Rocky."

**XxoxX**

At the girls' shed, they were finishing up their homework when they got a call from Dominion Studios. They were going to do an interview on the RBTV show known as "Vancy Times with Laurent Vance." The Klue Queens could remember seeing his show a few times on their streaming services. They interviewed stars like the Winx Club, KISS, and Kimberly Kelly.

Before they could go off, they spotted Peter, Santiago, Maniac Mel, and Hoodster.

"Hokey smokes!" shouted Rocky. "Don't you boys have manners?"

"Of course, dudes," chuckled Peter. "We were done with our homework during detention yesterday."

"Can't the principal accept us for like playing Aerosmith music in class loudly?" asked Santiago.

"But school boards don't allow unsupervised music," interjected Rocky. "Only when the teacher says it's okay. It helps students concentrate."

"Rocky J Squirrel?" asked Paige. "Whoa! Like what's a likke critter like you doing at the McBruce pad?"

"Bullwinkle has been acting crazy the past two weeks," Rocky explained. "He's been squandering on all of RBTV's budget on useless junk. If this goes on, we're doomed and New York City is going to find out magic is real."

"Where is he now?" Maniac Mel asked. "I want to get his autograph for my grandma."

"Mel," replied Hoodster, "your granny has been dead for ten years."

"I know, man," replied Maniac Man."But sitll, nothing wrong with leaving an autograph pic by her gravesite at Nicolaus Copernicus Cemetery."

"Bullwinkle is uncontollably spending money on useless stuff," explained Rocky. "After we heard Soome Someday on the radio two weeks ago. This is outrageous."

"Right on, dudes!" shouted Peter.

"Bro," groaned Paige, "you squander on your savings all the time."

After Paige got Koharu out of her playpen, they were off to Dominion Studios for the interview. Paige also decided to bring her brother and his friends along, so they wouldn't cause a wild party.

**XxoxX**

Later at the interview, the Klue Queens were being interviewed by the dashing, Laurent Vance. In the corner, a group of bunnies seem to be petrified of him.

"And now, dudes and dudettes," shouted Laurent, "it's that time on the show again where we get to see Vance's Vancy Bunnies!"

Unfortunately, the rabbits were to scared to perform. To give them encouragement, Leah started stomping her feet. Recognizing the patterns, the other Klue Queens knew what she was doing.

"Ladies and gents, this is so much more," sang Leah. "And searching in the dark is sweat soaking through the floor."

On the turntable, a Korean-American woman played Hugh Jackman's "The Greatest Showman." Amongst the others was a Russian girl with techy apparel.

"Come on, Isabella," smiled Laurent. "Get onstage."

"Niet," growled Isabella in a Russian accent. "Someone has got to keep running the camera."

"That voice," recalled Rocky from backstage. "Where have I heard it before?"

The song was so powerful that the rabbits started performing. Suddenly, Bullwinkle came in getting migraines from the behavior he had.

"I'm worried that this might happen again," said the Korean woman, "because we don't want to repeat that mistake after you heard that '90s hit."

"Marlow," replied Bullwinkle, "I'll be fine."

Meanwhile on set, Peter, Hoodster, Maniac Mel, and Santiago were eating spicy sushi and tried to feed Koharu some. Bullwinkle wanted to do it too thanks to his idiocy. Just as they were about to eat some spicy sushi, Bullwinkle confiscated the sushi and gave Koharu a cookie.

"Bullwinkle," scolded Rocky, "don't you know that babies can't have spicy food? It'll hurt them."

Just then, Soome Someday started playing. Hearing the song, Bullwinkle became hypnotized and took Laurent's wallet.

"Bullwinkle!" Lauent shouted. "Snap out of it!"

Remembering those cartoons where they use a finger snap to change them back, Rylie snapped her fingers and Bullwinkle snapped out of it.

"Dudes," said Santiago, "check out what 'Soome' makes if you switch the words 'M' and 'S'."

"Don't you mean the words?" corrected Tania as she read Santiago's note "That spells 'moose'."

Isabella was so nervous, that she took off. After Laurent and Marlow left to take care of the Vance's Vancy's Bunnies, the Klue Queens and Peter and his posse started going over the suspects, believing that Bullwinkle had been hypnotized into stealing money.

**XxoxX**

Suspcets

Isabella Egorov(Camera girl for Vancy Times)- Refusing to be on camera and ran off after mixing 'S' and 'M' up in Soome'.

Laurent Vance(Host of Vancy Times)- Loves the attention and members of his rabbit circus seems to be scared of him.

Marlow Kim(DJ for Vancy Times)- Allerting people about Bullwinkle's little problem.

**XxoxX**

Wanting expertise in hypnosis, Leah, Estrella, Paige, Koharu, Swinger, Kirby, and Bullwinkle decided to go to Symphony Sound Music Shop because Bivalve is an expert on hypnosis. By the time they got in, Conch, Bivalve, Moonshell, and Sunrise Shell were finishing putting away of shipments of guitars when they spotted Bullwinkle, "Cobs and shucking!" exclaimed Bullwinkle, "Your that band Waving Shells, I must have your autograph.

Bullwinkle tried to grab a pen, but grabbed Tokkori instead, "Hey." growled Bullwinkle, "This pen isn't working."

"That's not a pen." corrected Estrella, "That's Tokkori."

"Get your hands off me you 400 lb numbskull!" insulted Tokkori.

"Numbskull?" Bullwinkle asked, "Never heard of that band."

After explaining to Waving Shells about Bullwinkle's bad habit, Bivalve remembered an online video about having one trigger lyric that'll hypnotize the person into doing it, but it has to be done by a hypnotist. Placing the song into their boom box, they began to listen to Soome Someday.

*Wake me up Soome Someday*

*Look at the sun and pray*

*And start with a breakfast tray*

*I'm going to start my Soome Someday*

*The rays of the sun are showing the morning call*

*Do not be alarmed from the blinding wall*

*Every day in the Twenty Four Seven*

*I'll be waking up in sunshine heaven*

*Wake me up Soome Someday*

*It'll show us on a working way*

*Time to go to the halls of hooray*

*I'm going to start my Soome Someday*

Luckily, Bullwinkle didn't hear the song because he was listening to Judsong Soul's hit song, ' Supernaturalawesome'. He removed the headphones and spotted The Klue Queens and Waving Shells, "Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat." shouted Bullwinkle as he took Moonshell's magic kit.

"Not now, Bullwinkle." whispered Leah, "We're busy."

"And put my magic kit back!" ordered Moonshell.

"Nothing up my sleeve" shouted Bullwinkle "Hocus locust!"

But from his hat was a punch of pizza slices. Only Koharu and Kirby were amused by the act while the others were confused, "Bullwinke." chuckled Paige, "We said, 'No'. And by that, we mean 'No'."

"Are you using pizza slices as weapons?" laughed Estrella.

Swinger came up and tasted the gluten free, lactose free pizza. He was so burnt by the slices that he rushed to Paige's bag and sipped some apple juice. "Hot slices." chuckled Estrella.

On the ground, Estrella found a passage way to a bookcase. Conch told them that they usually take the secret exit incase of looney fans and lead to the park.

Taking the secret path, they found out that it goes to the park and in the park, people were setting up for the Canadian Cultural Festival. Including Billie and Miley, "Hey" growled Billie, "Miley and I were enjoying our gluten free/lactose free pizza from Velossi's when some maroon made it disappear.

Everyone glared at Bullwinkle, "Are we having a starring contest?" asked Bullwinkle

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile At the First National Bank of Lititz Heights, Kaylin, Rylie, Tania, Rick, and Rocky was arriving there, to warn them about Bullwinkle's problem. After the manager explained to them that do their best to keep the place secured from slow-witted mooses. While Rocky was sitting down, he found a an article in Flashback Fun Magazine,

*Make Memories with Moose Music*

Rocky remembers that as the hit 90s radio show in Canada. "Hey Manager!" asked Rocky, "Is this magazine free, cause this might make a good clue."

"Sure." replied the manager, "What's more important is that the money must be protected before the next mint shipment comes."

On their way out, Rocky gazed at a familiar face. It was Isla, she and Zara were going for a coffee run for Billie."Who's the girl in pigtails?" asked a lovesick Rocky.

"That is Isla," explained Kaylin, "One of Billie's lackeys and the scary one is Zara."

Observing his face, Kaylin could tell that he's in love with Isla.

"I've loved before." Rocky replied. "In our 2014 short, I met a cute robot squirrel, but after I saw the fuse on her, I knew she was a machine. I didn't want to go through it again, so I decided to toss her into the water and KABOOM!"

'Moose'. Also, mooses are a native in Canada and on the Top 10 songs on Moose Music

"Soome Someday was a smash hit by Tri-Z in the early 90s." "It was popular in Canada for two months strength."

"What have we here?" Zara laughed, "The Lost Stars seem to be having a rodent problem!"

"Come on now," Isla replied, "My grandparents were fans of Rocky and Bullwinkle."

"Mine weren't." replied Zara, "Now let's get to Billie before the coffee gets cold."

Rocky was so lovesick, that The Klue Queens decided to go over the clues for him.

After reading the magazine, Rylie learned that Soome Someday was a Tri-Z song and it was a smash hit in Canada for two months. Before they could take off, they could see Peter, Santiago, Maniac Mel, and Hoodster were practicing their Aldudouette, which is their own version of the Canadian song about an owl. Paige was worried that her father would feel embarassed by Peter's behavior.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at Roadhouse Fantasia, Mr. and Mrs. Hayato were having a talk with the parents of Maniac Mel, Hoodster, and Santiago, "As you know," said Mr. Hayato, "You let our sons get involved in these ridiculous schemes!"

"Recently," continued Mrs. Hayato, "They've signed up for the Canadian Cultural Festival as one of the acts, with their little 'Aldudouette' hoping it'll control their 'Dude'ish nature."

Wondering about their dance troupe name, Mr. Hayato told them that their going to be called, 'Dance On Dudes'. Their parents were confused, but they know that they'll always love their kids.

By the door, The Klue Queens, Peter and his friends, Koharu, Rick, Tokkori, Rocky, and Bullwinkle were arriving for a little ice cream. "Icy creamy!" shouted Koharu.

"AWWW!" cooed the parents

"Man," asked Santiago, "And I thought the birth of my little brother was cute."

"Dude," replied Hoodster, "Everyone knows that female babies are cuter. Girls love cute."

"Righteous," replied Maniac Mel, "Just ask Kaylin?"

Kaylin was flattered by Hoodster's compliment. When she looked at the magazine article, she spotted something shocking. "You might want to take a look who wrote 'Soome Someday'," she replied as she showed a familiar face.

"It's Isabella," recalled Tania. "It's amazing that she use to work for palm tree records."

"And she had a Rachel hairstyle?" Rylie asked. "Where do David Crane and Marta Kauffman come up with these sort of things?"

They decided to meet Isabella at the Canadian Cultural Festival tomorrow, because that was where Vancy Times was going to record the interviews for former "Rocky and Bullwinkle" fans.

**XxoxX**

The next day at the Canadian Cultural Festival at the park, evryone was getting their Ottawa on. There was maple leave sampling, toy beavers on sale, hockey games, and Inuit dancers.

After the Inuit dancers did their bit, Peter, Hoodster, Maniac Mel, and Santiago were dressed up in the owl costumes they wore for a "Save the Owls" rally they went to last year and performed their songs. Unfortunately, they were so busy practicing their dance, they forgot the words of the song and all four of them were terible at French. Isabella was so annoyed that she got onstage and scolded them. "I had French and Canadian Exchange students come to my Rodnaya strana, and that performance of yours is uzhasnyy."

"Dudette," Santiago replied, "all four of us may be dumb and hardly know French and Russian, but we can't stand moose haters like you."

"How do you know that?" asked Isabella. "I planned out everything. From filming those wavy shells going through the secret enterance during our tourist trap for musical instruments, to mastering 'Soome Someday' on my Balalaika."

"Balalaika?" asked Bullwinkle. "I thought Isabella said that we were having baklava."

"Of course there were some clues to the fact that hypnotized Bullwinkle," replied Leah. "The word of the song, 'soome'. If you mix the letters 'M' and 'S', you get 'moose'. Also, mooses are a native in Canada and on the Top 10 songs on Moose Music. It was ranked Number 1 for two months in the '90s. Let's not forget the footprints at Sound Symphony that lead to the Canadian Cultural Festival - the perfect trap for Bullwinkle - and of course, Isabella used to be a lyricist for Palmtree Records."

"You wanted to stop being the camera person so you can take over Laurent's show," guessed Estrella. "You ran out after Bullwinkle turned back to normal, which is a sign that we were starting to suspect your little charade."

"That's right," Isabella growled, "And you can't catch me."

Isabella tried to escape, but after seeing a mapple cotton candy stand, Rocky got an idea. At the top of his lungs he shouted, "Kirby, suck it up!" With one gulp of the cotton candy, Kirby turned into Festival Kirby.

"What kind of copy power is that?" asked Tania in a serious tone. "It looks like something out of a party."

They could see Kirby do his little victory dance while summoning stars from his hands, making everyone dance. Isabella was so annoyed by the dancing that she begged for him to stop. "Take me to the tyur'ma," she said. "Just get that little dozhdevik to stop."

Kirby stopped dancing, and everyone turned back to normal. Deputy Downs cuffed Isabella and sent her off.

"Never liked Isabella," admitted Laurent. "She's always too busy with her hypnosis than she does with her job."

"Yeah," replied Rocky. "And her Russian background reminded me of a Pottslvanian accent."

"What I don't get is," replied Leah, "why were the rabbits scared of you?"

"I know why," replied Paige. "They feel embarassed by Laurent's Vabulous Vlamboyant behavior. They just wanted time away from you. Rabbits are also part of Canada's nature."

Laurent felt bad for the way he acted, so he decided to be less flamboyant when it came to being on camera. Marlow came up to Laurent and kissed him on the cheek. She said cutely, "I'm proud of you my, Vancy Man."

Seeing them holding hands, Kaylin knew that Marlow was Laurent's girlfriend. This inspired Rocky to go find Isla and tell her how he felt.

By the stage, Billie, Zara, Miley, and Isla were watching Aranea mastering "Soome Someday" on keyboard. Rocky was going to profess his love, but decided that they should just be friends because humans and anthropomorphic squirrels shouldn't date.

When our heroes reached the stage, they remembered that Aranea was also a master of hypnosis. From what they heard from her, they recalled that in order to unhypnotize someone, they played the song again in a different instrument. After Aranea performed, they tested Bullwinkle to see if he's all right by saying "soome" infront of him. And sure enough, they were right.

Onstage, Bullwinkle spotted Aranea playing her keys. He barged up and started playing the Barenaked Ladies song "One Week" on his banjo. Then Peter, Santiago, Maniac Mel, and Hoodster came onstage with some maracas, a jug, a harmonica, and silver spoons. Everyone laughed with them. Paige was glad, because her brother didn't make a fool out of himself and remembered that no matter what crazy shenanigans he got into, he'd always be her twin brother.

**The End.**

**Chapter 27: An Order of Glitter Force Fois Gras**

It was a quiet day at the local ice cream shop, Genie's Bowl. Isla was getting a job there so she can get away from Billie and her gang. I'm tired of Billie being cruel and unkind to everyone to everyone in Lititz Heights. She thought to herself, \*If she keeps this up, she won't be invited to anywhere else.\*

As she was cleaning up the next table, she spotted a warning in shock:

*Scheduled for demolition, by order of the mayor.*

**XxoxX**

At Roadhouse Fantasia, the Klue Queens were watching a video on the Way Out Wheeler website of the Bugaloos first ever Way Out Wheeler's commercial. Kirby, on the other hand, was enjoying three extra large sundaes to eat while watching the commercial. In the commercial, I.Q., Joy, Harmony, and Courage were having a concert tailgate with a bunch of other bug fairies.

"Gee, Bugaloos!" shouted a cricket fairy. "Are you excited about the Tranquility Forest Rock Festival?"

"We sure are," replied Courage. "But look at your auto."

Behind the cricket fairy's Volkswagon, it looked like it was run down. "After the rock festival?" asked the Cricket Fairy. "I don't know how I'll get home in time for supper."

"Why not go to Way Out Wheeler's?" advised Harmony. "He's the freaky wheels dealer who can deal with your auto problems."

*So if you got a bogus buggy*

*Having trouble getting a tuggy*

*Go to Way Out Wheeler's*

*He'll make your auto a sealer*

Back in reality, the girls started getting ready for the first day of filming for Judson's new music video with the Bugaloos.

"I can't believe that Judson knows Glitter Force," said Kaylin."They're one of my favorite dance troupes."

"And they're behind you!" shouted a girl from behind. By the door were Emily, Kelsey, Lily, April and Chloe, otherwise known as Glitter Force. Along them were the brother and sister team of Candy and Pop, Judson Soul, and the Bugaloos.

"Thanks for inviting us from our hometown of Rainbow Hills, Mississippi," said Chloe.

"Anything for one of the bands I met at the Vampire Rock Music Festival," Judson replied.

The Klue Queens remembered that Judson was very popular in Australia. He'd even guest starred on "Let's All Dance Until We're Sick: Australia" a few times, along with Glitter force.

By the buffet, the Bugaloos were amazed by the sweets. Their latest song, "Sugary Fling," was about the crazy dreams you had when you ate too much sugar.

"This is a pleasent smell to our beautiful roses," Harmony commented.

"It's their way of saying 'Use your nose'," Tania explained to Kirby as he was finishing his first sundae bowl.

Tania explained that the Klue Queens fixed up three extra large sundaes to hold Kirby long enough for them to film their music video.

**XxoxX**

The video started with Judson enjoying himself a large banana split at Roadhouse Fantasia. After he and his band had too many sweets, he went down to a coma. Later in the video, when he woke up, he could see that this was all a dream. "Mates," he said, "I think we better use our gingerbreads and get out of here."

"Right," replied I.Q. "Use our heads and leave." But as they were leaving, Glitter Force appeared and watch them leave.

"And cut!" shouted Rick. "Print!"

"How come you get to be the director," snarled Tokkori, "while I'm just the flashlight bird?"

"Because you would just bite them," answered Rick, "with your blabbing big-mouthed behavior."

As Tokkori sat down in a grumpy mood, he spotted Isla feeling worried. "Hey, Leah," he called. "Billie's bumbling henchwoman is here."

Leah knew that he was talking about Isla. Seeing her worried face, she knew that something was wrong. Isla explained that her new job was going to be scheduled for demolition for some strange reason and she really wants to keep her job.

"Not only Joyce is getting a new job," Leah explained to Kirby as he was finishing up his last bowl, "but Isla is too. She's working at the ice cream shop called Genie's Bowl."

Tokkori was amazed by the fact that they were going to an ice cream shop, but he and Rick flinched. "Listen here, mates," said Rick. "Why don't we take Swinger and Kirby for a bath while you figure out who clearly organized the demolition?"

After Rick, Tokkori, Swinger, and Kirby left, Isla explained to them who would organize the demolition of a famous Lititz Heights eatery.

**XxoxX**

Suspects

Jordan Vaughn (Manager of Genie's Bowl) - warned people to leave.

Solomon Mosley (Janitor) - determined to keep job, even after the unexpected warning.

Katherine Potts (Head waitress) - jealous of Isla being a better worker.

**XxoxX**

When they arrived at Genie's Bowl, Tania could see something suspicious. Remembering the time they saved Gavin Gates from demolition, she got out a copy of the demolition paper. Using her decoding skills, she could see that the copy of the Gavin Gates demolition papers has perfect grammar, while the demolition paper for Genie's Bowl had a mispell. Instead of "demolition," it spelled "devolition." This could only mean one thing for Tania: "This document is a fake."

"Whip it good, Tania!" shouted a man dressed as a '50s sodajerk from behind.

"Mr. Vaughn," said Estrella. "Don't you find it suspicious that someone is using a fake demolition paper?"

"Yeah," replied Chloe. "And whoever displayed this must really love Devo."

Mr. Vaughn said, "Well, girls, I just hope that those thieves are in for a recipe for disaster."

**XxoxX**

Inside Genie's Bowl, Emily, Lily, Kaylin, and Paige were enjoying some dancing on the jukebox when they spotted a grumpy middle-aged woman stairing at them. She was Katherine, the same person who envied Billie's henchgirl. "Isla can dance better than that." she groaned. "After she came here thanks to Mr. Vaughn's over-consideration, she's been holding dance-offs on Saturdays and gives the winner free sundaes to whoever dances the best while all the runner ups get a free lemonade. We're making profits here!"

"Oh, come on," chuckled Lily. "Giving away free sundaes and lemonade is a good way to market an ice cream shop."

"I even hate you girls too," Katherine said. "My neighbors listen to you all the time. Glitter Force this, Glitter Force that. I can't take it."

"Anyway," stated Paige, "tell it like it is about the unexpected demolition."

"I don't know anything about a demolition," answered Katherine, "but this is much better than Mr. Vaughn's full moon storytime, where he tells the most scariest stories ever. Believe me, he loves the supernatural." Not wanting to lose her job, she decided to get back to work.

**XxoxX**

In Mr. Vaughn's office, Rylie, Leah, Kelsey, and April were going around for a few clues when they saw a trophy that lokoed a lot like a soft serve ice cream cone. Just as Leah was about to touch it, a grownup man in a janitor's uniform grabbed a hold of her hand.

"Easy, love," Solomon said in a British accent. "Mr. Vaughn would not like it if you play with his trophies."

Rylie and Leah recognized the award as the Soft Serve Specialty Award, which was Pensylvania's ice cream eatery award for serving the best soft served ice cream in the state. Solomon explained to them that the trophy is Mr. Vaughn's most prized possesion and would do anything to keep ice cream making alive.

"Hey, Solomon," said Kesley. "If Mr. Vaughn needs any ice cream sandwiches made like in a home kitchen, I can do it."

"Thanks," Solomon replied, "but Mr. Vaughn is alredy having problems."

**XxoxX**

Later that day, the Klue Queens and Glitter Force were on the curb when Billie, Miley, and Zara barged up with excitement.

"OMG!" shouted Zara. "It's Glitter Force! We listen to all your songs!"

"And we've seen your show!" shouted Miley. "I think i'm going to faint!"

The Klue Queens were annoyed that Billie, Miley, and Zara were harassing the dance troupe. So they decided to dance their way out of it. One by one, the Klue Queens and Glitter Force danced their way to escape.

"If there's one thing I learned about leadership," Leah explained to Emily, "it's that it's all about being responsible, taking charge, and being prepared for what's going on."

"Girls," whispered Kaylin. "I think I know how we can get in without getting caught by Mr. Vaughn or Chief Hess who's on a night patrol."

After being annoyed for not getting their autograph, Billie turned her head and saw that Genie's Bowl was being demolished. "Too bad," she laughed. "That place is lame anyway."

"And their soy ice cream tasted stale," insulted Zara.

"Plus, Isla betrayed us for this dumb job," growled Miley.

**XxoxX**

The next night, the Klue Queens and Glitter Force were coming in dressed as waiters. Judson and the Bugaloos were arriving too so they can film for their music video.

"These waitress costumes will help us get in," Kaylin said. "Thanks again for letting us use your Dress Glitter Charm to disguise ourselves."

"No problem," replied Candy. "You girls look beautiful in those outfits."

"You look more like harem girls than waitresses," Judson replied.

"That's because the restaurant is not only an ice cream shop," explained Paige. "It's based on 'One Thousand and One Nights'."

Inside the restaurant, they decided to hide for the element of surprise. After Paige organized where they should hide, she told Pop to keep an eye out the window for anything suspicious. By the time Pop reached the window, a mysterious monster dressed like a sultan. One by one, Glitter Force and the Klue Queens danced their way throught the monster while Judson filmed the process. Swinger, Kirby, Tokkori, Rick, and the Bug Pups fled from the danger while taking some of Genie's Bowl's famous banana syrup.

"What are we going to do?" asked Candy.

"Sister," suggested Pop, "why not give them the Condimental Surprise?"

Candy knew what her brother meant by that. She grabbed a bottle of chocolate sauce, sprayed it into the sultan ghost's eyes and he fell on the ground. Paige and Lily unmasked him, only to be Genie's Bowl's manager.

"Hey, guys," Mr. Vaughn greeted nervously. "As a manager, I make sure that my family recipes aren't being stolen by spies. After I've been hearing rumors from the workers about recipe thieves, I had to do something about it."

"Like, lucky for us," Paige replied, "the difference between bogus and gnarly legal documents, you leaving the Soft Serve Specialty Award in your pad and your expertise in the supernatural blew your cover, dude."

"So you faked the whole demolition thing so you can save the recipes," guessed Tania.

"Of course," Mr. Vaughn admitted. "Mayor Hess didn't mind it due to the fact of loyalty family is important."

"What I don't get is," replied Leah, "who has been stealing ice cream?"

By a table, they could see numerous banana syrups empty. Estrella remembers that monkeys really love bananas, so she followed the trail of empty bottles to the freezer, where they found Rick, Swinger, Tokkori, Kirby, and the Bug Pups eating ice cream. Rick was eating caramel, Swinger was eating the banana rum flavor, Tokkori was eating rocky road with gummy worms, Kirby was eating three tubs of rainbow sherbet, and the Bug Pups were eating small bowls of vanilla ice cream.

"Looks like we found our little spies," chuckled Rylie.

"Swinger, you naughty mono," Estrella scolded in a chuckle. "Did you, Rick, Kirby, and Tokkori sneak in here to get free ice cream?" Swinger nodded his head in regret.

"The whole thing was Swinger's idea," Tokkori explained. "And I thought sneaking into Genie's Bowl for for the past two weeks would be a good way to get ice cream."

"Of course, Tokkori had to get Kirby, the Bug Pups, and I involved so we wouldn't get caught," Rick finished.

"Usually," recalled Tania, "the thefts happen whenever Estrella brings Swinger to."

"I know most buisnesses don't allow pets," Mr. Vaughn recalled, "but Swinger is just being Swinger. No charge."

Looking at his watch, Judson could tell that they were late to shoot the dance sequence at Dominion Studios. Rylie got an idea. She barged into Mr. Vaughn's office, took the balloons that she saw before, caught up with her team, and then looked at Candy. "Candy?" she asked. "Could you do the honors?"

"Kirby, suck it up!" shouted Candy.

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Balloon Kirby. Rylie quickly grabbed a few jump ropes and table clothes to Kirby and he lifted. One by one, Mr. Vaughn, Rick, Swinger, the Bug Pups, and Glitter Force hopped on and took off for Dominion Studios. On the other hand, the Bugaloos flew off while Judson and the Klue Queens traveled by star.

While they were flying, Tania and Judson looked at each other and blushed.

**XxoxX**

When they arrived at Dominion Studios, Eli was waiting for the Klue Queens to arrive for the shoot. From the sky, the Klue Queens came crashing down. After Kaylin hugged her uncle's boyfriend, the Bugaloos popped up and said, "Look up in the apple pie."

"I'm on a diet," Eli replied, "so I don't need any apple pie."

Kaylin chuckled and pointed up, showing Balloon Kirby with Mr. Vaughn, Glitter Force, and their ice cream-stuffed animals. Emily got out the Star Charm and made a starry steps that made them go down.

Eli was impressed by Glitter Force's entrance. "What are we waiting for?" he smiled. "We got a video to shoot."

**XxoxX**

Inside Dominion Studios, Emily gave the Klue Queens special Com Pacts and their very own Glitter Charms. This could only mean one thing: they were honorary Glitter Force members. All together, they transformed.

*Glitter Force Makeover*

*A fabulous shimmer, a glow in your heart, I'm Glitter Lucky*

*When you mess with me, your playing with fire, I'm Glitter Sunny*

*Puppies and kittens, the power of live, I'm Glitter Peace*

*A force as strong as life itself, I'm Glitter Spring*

*Cool and swift as the winter wind, I'm Glitter Breeze*

*Tapping it up in a jazzy beat, I'm Glitter Scout*

*Sparkles and bows, the power of pirouettes, I'm Glitter Frill*

*A samba in bravery, a monkey maniac on the phone, I'm Glitter Rapido*

*Getting down with an upbeat beauty, I'm Glitter Beat*

*Knowledge in the powerful stars, I'm Glitter Honor*

*Staying alive while sticking it to the girl, I'm Glitter Groove*

*Time to blaze away to a happy ending*

*Shining bright, here comes the Glitter Force*

"You girls look so cute," cooed Candy. "And you look like you're ready to shoot the video."

"And lucky thing we recorded us solving the mystery at Genie Bowl so we can have some horror footage," replied Estrella.

"This is your version of 'Thriller'," Candy recalled, "just like how the Backstreet Boys did with 'Everybody'."

Over the next two hours, they filmed the sugar-dream sequence with the Klue Queens as their backup dancers, and Glitter Force as their cameo backup dancers.

**XxoxX**

Three days later at their shed hideout, the Klue Queens, Isla, Tokkori, Rick, Little Miss Starlight, Swinger, Sumo, Masahiro Judson, the Bugaloos, and the Bug Pups were getting ready for the premiere of "Sugary Fling."

**XxoxX**

The video started with Judson enjoying himself a large banana split at Roadhouse Fantasia. "A performance at that charity talent show and we get to get years-worth afters here," Joy smiled.

"I know," agreed Courage. "Look at all these biscuits and marmalade cake."

"You should try some of these tea cakes," replied Harmony. "They're not so hasty."

After they had too many sweets, they went down to a sugar coma. When they woke up, they could see that their in a sugar-coded paradise with the Klue Queens and Glitter Force dancing around them.

*Whoa, whoa, whoa, what is eating you*

*We're getting through with this candy-coated crew*

*This isn't a piece is cake*

*Now this takes the sugar flakes*

*I've been getting the sugary fling*

*Somebody give me the doughnut ding*

*Or perhaps a wake up alarm*

*Before I get the sugary fling harm*

*Sweety sweety sweety me*

*Sweety sweety sweety me*

*Sweety sweety sweety me*

*I may be your sweetheart*

*But I know that I'm nutrition smart*

*Call a doctor or dentist please*

*I need some apples and/or cheese*

*What a sugary fling*

*This is one cavity cling*

*Better get out of this sugar rush*

*If I don't I'll get into crashing crush*

*Sweety sweety sweety me*

*Sweety sweety sweety me*

*Sweety sweety sweety me*

Immediately, Judson woke up, seeing that this was all a dream. The Bugaloos looked up, seeing that they overdid it on the sweets

"Mates," Judson said, "I think we better use our gingerbreads and get out of here."

"Right." replied I.Q. "Use our heads and leave."

But as they are leaving, Glitter Force appeared and watch them leave.

**XxoxX**

Back in reality, everyone cheered for the premiere of "Sugary Fling."

"I'm glad that Mr. Vaughn was only doing the fake demolition so he can protect the recipes," Isla said. "Now I won't have to worry about going back to 24/7 Billie troubles."

"We're very proud of you, Isla," replied Leah. "Never be afraid to do the right thing."

**The End**

**Chapter 28: An Order of Dudes and Cheese**

At El Pueblo De Pepper, the Klue Queens were celebrating Saffron's 34th birthday. Leah and Estrella were joining in a sombrero dance game, Rylie and Kirby were participating in a nacho eating contest, and Kaylin, Paige, and Tania were getting involved in a piñata game. After Paige removed her blindfold after failing to break it, she gave the stick to Tania, blindfolded her and spun her three times.

"Gee, Saffron," she said to the birthday girl. "It was so nice of us to invite you to your 34th birthday.

"You're only a young adult once," chuckled Saffron.

"That is true," smiled Kaylin.

"Excuse me," said a female waitress. "Care for a cracker?"

"Don't mind if we do, Perry," answered Saffron as she took one.

Looking down, Kaylin could see that Perry was wearing worn out shoes that were from the 1930s. After Perry left to serve more customers, Kaylin felt suspicious.

By the door, a Latino man with a question mark shirt popped up and started giving out "Save the Beavers" pictures. "Save the beavers, dudes!"

"That's Soos Ramirez," explained Saffron, "an old friend of my parents. He came here to be the DJ and the 'Save the Beavers' rally at the park.

"Beavers are a part of nature, Saffron," declared Soos. "And you must be the Klue Queen they call Kaylin."

After Kaylin nodded her head, Tania removed her blindfold and gave the stick and the blindfold to Kaylin. After Kaylin blindfolded herself and spun three times, she started whacking the piñata.

"I know how to handle these things without a blindfold nor a bat," interrupted Soos.

He got out a slingshot, then tossed some really sharp churros at the rope holding the witch-shaped piñata. The pinata fell and candy came out. The patrons were mad, but were glad to see the candy.

After Kaylin removed her blindfold, she saw a cute Latino boy talking to Saffron. Curiously enough, she decided to talk to them.

"Kaylin," said Saffron, "this is my new boyfriend Armani, ghost-hunting enthusiast and worker at Ripple Cake."

"I've seen you at the grand opening," recalled Kaylin. "You're the guy who was giving out fliers for the upcoming Halloweeen special 'Thriller Cakes,' named after Michael Jackson's song 'Thriller'."

"Believe me," replied Armani, "I've studied each of his moves, and that's what made Saffron fall for me. But that's not why I'm here. I was getting my pet sheepdog BooBerry when I spotted a ghost that looked like a 1930s nurse."

"Did somebody say ghost?" asked Soos. "This will be a great present for Saffron. I was so busy running The Mystery Shack, dating my Melody, and playing video games, I forgot to get her a present."

"You don't have to give me anything, Soos," replied Saffron. "You can join the Klue Queens."

"I'm all partied out anyway," admitted Rylie. "I had enough nachos for one day."

"And I'm stuffed on candy," replied Candy. "Where is this ghost anyway?"

Remembering that he was picking up his sheepdog, the Klue Queens figured that the ghost was at Dr. Japon's Jungle Hospital.

**XxoxX**

When they arrived at Dr. Japon's Jungle Hospital, Dr. Japon and Pineapple were waiting word from the Kirby Klue Queens. From their van, the Klue Queens arrived to the scene of the crime.

"Sorry we're late, Dr. Japon," Leah said. "We had to get out of Saffron's birthday party."

"Thank you." Dr. Japon replied, "And I see that Pineapple in thrilled to see Swinger again."

Swinger and Pineapple bounced with joy and gave each other a nose kiss. Cautiously, Tania asked about the ghost nurse.

"Before this was a vet," Dr. Japon explained, "this used to be a small hospital during the two-month Leprchaun Pox epidemic. The citizens at that time had too look all over town for a leprechaun. Luckily, the head nurse Ingrid Drey found a leprechaun and cured all the sick patients. After curing them with some leprechaun-dusted potatoes, she decided to use the dust for personal gain. The leprechaun didn't want to make her expose the secret about Lititz Heights being a magic sanctuary, so he decided to lock her away, hoping it'd teach her a lesson. Sadly, she died from drowning her sorrows in poison. Now her ghost haunts the winter nights. And this is why I close early at night. I don't want any bad ghosts causing trouble."

When asking for any clues about the ghosts, Dr. Japon explained that the ghost could be a fake, because she left a t-shirt with the El Pueblo De Pepper logo.

"This can only mean one thing," stated Leah. "The culprit is a worker from El Pueblo De Pepper."

"Has any of you guys ever watched 'Monday Night Live'?" called Soos from the van. "It's a cool show. Also, look at the plus size kilt I found in Leah's backpack, dudes. It fits me like a glove."

Leah explained that she had to bring Soos in order to capture the ghost. Before the girls could go on and investigate, Pineapple came up and opened the door for them.

"Looks like Pineapple wants to help too," said Candy.

"That's my Uncle Wayne's," Leah replied. "He and Mom told me that a friend of theirs gave him that."

"Enough small talk," Tania replied. "Since the culprit had to be someone from El Pueblo De Pepper, let's go over the suspects on who would be the ghost."

**XxoxX**

Suspects

Perry Rivas(Water at El Pueblo De Pepper)- Dressed similar to a 30s nurse.

Armani Enriquez(Saffron's new boyfriend and ghost hunting enthusiast)- Experience in ghost hunting.

Beckett Palacios(Chef at El Pueblo De Pepper)- Thought Armani is a little odd.

**XxoxX**

Later, as they were looking around the hospital, Swinger and Pineapple smelled something suspiscious in one of the room. After Tania did a little lock picking, they could see a bunch of antiques that were from the 1930s. "Since when did Dr. Japon started collecting '30s memorabilia?" she asked.

"I don't think she did," Estrella suggested. "She usually collects faux monkey stuff in order to remind everyone that monkeys are important to nature."

"And beavers!" shouted Soos and he unintentionally scared the heck out of Estrella and Tania. Swinger and Pineapple growled at Soos for being annoying.

"Why don't you go find Leah and Paige?" advised Tania to Soos. "Swinger and Pineapple don't seem to be okay with you interupting our investigation." Soos felt sad about it, but he decided to do what Tania said.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at one of the patient's room, Leah and Paige were going around the place when they spotted Soos wearing Leah's uncle's kilt again, much to her dismay.

"Be careful with that kilt," growled Leah. "It's very delicate."

"Kilts are awesome, dudettes," replied Soos as he started feeling a rush of cold air, "but not cold winters at a former creature hospital."

They looked at the window and saw that it wasn't open. By the door, they could see a 1930s nurse ghost. It was the ghost of Ingrid Drey. As they were dancing their way out, Leah and Paige got a little bit of white stuff on their shoes.

Outside the room, they took off their shoes and realized that the white powder was really talcum powder. Paige could remember using talcum powder whenever a Friendly Scout got an awful rash.

"I get rashes sometimes too whenever I go camping," interrupted Soos. "Not only do I use talcum powder, but rash creams too."

**XxoxX**

Later they caught up with Rylie and Kaylin in the security room going over files for evil ghosts. On Ingrid's file, they could tell that after her death, the Ghost Zone arrested her for her greediness. After Leah and Paige told them about the ghost that was trying to haunt them and the talcum powder that was on their shoes. Kaylin figured out who might be the ghost nurse.

**XxoxX**

A few hours later, Armani, Saffron, and Beckett were arriving at Dr. Japon's Jungle Hospital to catch footage of the nurse ghost. Saffron recalled that this is Soos's birthday present to her and the best presents come from the heart. Inside, they got out their phone cameras and started recording when they spotted Soos doing some Scottish dancing and shouting, "Kilts are awesome, dudes!"

Saffron and Armani laughed, but Beckett was puzzled by Soos's behavior. Suddenly, Ingrid's ghost came up and got out a needle.

"Dude!" shouted Soos. "I had all my shots!"

Little did the ghost know, the Klue Queens were spying on them. "Paige." whispered Leah, "do you still have those gummy bugs from the party?"

Paige nodded her head, got out the gummy bugs and whisepred to the little puffball, "Kirby, suck it up!"

With one suck of the gummy bugs, Kirby turned into Beetle Kirby. Using his copy ability, Kirby cut the mask off of nurse ghost, revealing to be Perry Rivas.

"You're the dudette who served us those crackers," declared Soos.

Dr. Japon came out and was surprised to see that one of her rudest clients was the ghost. "I remember her ex-husband being one of Lititz Heights' real estate agents."

"Perry wanted to get real estate from Dr. Japon's Jungle Hospital," explained Tania. "There were clues like the El Pueblo De Pepper iron on shirt left behind. Perry not only dressed like a nurse from the 1930s, but she also collected '30s memorabilia. Plus, the talcum powder made her look like a ghost."

"And remember when we were at the party?" recalled Kaylin. "She had worn out shoes that looked like something from the '30s. Figuring that she's clinging onto the past."

"That's right," recalled Perry. "I heard rumors about Ingrid's haunting and while I was at Dr. Japon's a while back, I heard it also had a great value to open up a 1930s memorabilia museum. I should never had use that old hospital room to store my '30s memorabilia collection for genuine effects."

**XxoxX**

Just a few days later, Perry was doing community service by pet-sitting every pet Lititz Heights, including Little Miss Starlight, Swinger, Pineapple, Sumo, and Masahiro.

At the McBruces's house, Leah and Tania were watching Perry paying her debt to society when their mother came in.

"Girls," smiled Ms. McBruce. "How was school today?"

"It was great, Mother," answered Leah. "We got As on our language arts classes and in my sewing classes, we learned about the history of kilts."

Ms. McBruce froze for a bit, but smiled. "Well, Uncle Wayne and my friend would've loved it." she replied. "Plus, many patrons outside Lititz Heights have been coming around to get some medical advice from Dr. Japon after your friend Soos used Uncle Wayne's kilt for that little stunt he pulled."

Leah and Tania smiled because they were glad to have a weirdo like Soos help them out.

**The End.**

**(In Memory of Cloris Leachman a. k. a Nurse Spex 1926-2021)**

**Chapter 29: An Order of Looney Linguini**

In Leah's van, the Klue Queens were returning from Gettysburg for the when they spotted a bunny, a duck, a pig, a rooster, a skunk, a roadrunner, and a Mexican mouse was hitchhiking along.

"Guys?" asked Kaylin. "Aren't those the Looney Tunes?"

"I say we pick them up," suggested Paige. "Us hippies hitchkiked a lot in the '60s."

The other Klue Queens weren't so sure about what Paige said, but they also didn't want the six Looney Tunes to get caught by the government. With one stop, they opened the door and the Tunes hopped in. After they drove off, the Tunes were thrilled to see someone pick up some hitchhikers.

"No one picks up hitchhikers anymore, right, Speedy?" Bugs asked as he turned his head. "Speedy?"

"Where did, I say, where did he go?" asked Foghorn.

Suddenly, they heard a "meow" in the back. It was Masahiro. He tried to eat Speedy, but he was too quick.

"That gato is loco," Speedy said nervously as he hid by a reed by a bagpipe. "I just hope this bagpipe is safe."

"We bought that bagpipe at an antique stand for 10 dollars," explained Leah. "The Friendly Scouts are having their annual Salvation Army donations, and I figure that one of them could take bagpipe lessons, just to keep the spirit of Scottish music alive."

"We have a Scottish friend too," Bugs explained.

Daffy didn't want to get involved in charity work, so he decided to read the newspaper he bought while getting food at a convenience store. On the article, Tania could read what it said.

*Philadlephia Museum of Art robbed of rabbit art.*

After she asked Daffy for the paper, she read the article.

*Over the past month, museums all over Pennsylvania had been robbed of its oil art of rabbits, ducks, pigs, mice, skunks, and roosters. Allentown Museum had swiped been of two pig paintings, Erie Art Museum got pilered of three skunk paintings, and the Susquehanna Art Museum was plundered of four rooster paintings, five paintings of mice paintings stolen, and twelve duck paintings.*

"Hey," growled Daffy. "That's not fair. How come most of the stolen paintings are duck?"

"This looks like some kind of a series of museum robberies," guessed Tania.

"So?" asked Daffy rudely.

Tokkori was amazed by how rude Daffy was. Daffy, on the other hand, was also flattered by Tokkori's boisterous behavior.

**XxoxX**

Later after they unpacked, they saw a note by the ground. Reading it, Tania could tell that the next target for the animal museum robbery is at the Lititz Heights Art Museum.

"It's a good thing we're having that slumber party last night," smiled Estrella, "so we won't be tired."

"Maybe we should investigate in the morning after breakfast," suggested Leah.

"Tania and I will go to the museum Daffy and Bugs," Leah explained. "Kaylin and Paige can go to Zand Art to see if they know anything about the stolen paintings with Porky and Road Runner, and Rylie and Estrella will set up a trap for the thieves with Pepe and Speedy."

In order to get a real mystery, Estrella video chatted with Deputy Downs. On the phone, Deputy Downs informed Estrella that he knew a few people from his police academy days who are at the places when the crimes took place. They also had a few suspects.

**XxoxX**

Suspects

Aubrey Cuevas(Curator of the Lititz Heights Art Museum)- Has super high security for the museum.

Mysterious stranger(Caught on Lititz Heights Art Museum video)- Has been going around and has been getting out some monkey toys.

Ducky Dig It Hippies(Duck protectors)- Art disappears after they leave and strangely, were at all the events.

**XxoxX**

The next day at the art museum, Kaylin, Paige, Pepe, and Speedy were going around the museum to make sure that the cameras are in tact so they can capture the culprit. Using his super speed, Speedy checked all the cameras and they were safe. By a closed wing, they decided to check there for safe keeping. In the closed wing, there were stunned by all the animal art. To make sure that there weren't any lasers, Pepe used his stinky spray and it showed all the lasers in the room.

"Looks like Mrs. Cuevas is really keen about the art," guessed Kaylin.

"Come on, Pepe," said Paige. "Let's split the scene."

"Oui, Oui, Madamoiselle Paige," replied Pepe as they took off. By the time they reached the elevator, they spotted a hooded figure going in it.

"That figure looks so familiar," whispered Paige. "Speedy, go spy on them." With a nod in agreement, Speedy followed the mysterious figure.

**XxoxX**

At the museum parking lot, Estrella, Rylie, Porky and Road Runner were going around to check on the security systems when they heard someone playing Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints" on a record player. In the parking lot, a quintet of hippies were dancing and holding picket signs about saving ducks.

"Save the ducks, dudes!' shouted the lead hippies.

"Give some bread to protect our ducks!" shouted another hippie.

"Those must be Ducky Dig It," whispered Rylie.

"If Paige was here," whispered Estrella, "she would talk to those cool cats."

"E, e, e, e , Estrella," interrupted Porky, "lo, lo, lo look."

Looking up, they could see Swinger playing around with the bongos. Ducky Dig It was amazed on how well he played the bongos. While the Klue Queens were asking about the thefts, they told them to leave while they gave out duck pins.

Road Runner was annoyed by how Ducky Dig It disturbed them, so he lifted them up and got them near a moving truck that said "Outta sight movers." On the moving truck was "Galaxy Quest"-themed art. Using their good smelling, Road Runner and Swinger could tell that there was something wrong with the truck. Using his beak, Road Runner broke into the van and spotted a shrine.

"Nicely done," whispered Estrella, to which Road Runner replied, "Meep meep!"

Inside the truck, they could see that there were tye dye cloths and scented candles. Luckily they weren't lit.

Behind them, someone closed the door and Estrella, Rylie, Swinger, Road Runner, and Porky were trapped. Porky panicked, while the others tried to think of a way to get out. Seeing a bunch of paints, Estrella remembered a little bit from the Road Runner cartoons where Wile E. painted a train tunnel and Road Runner goes through it. Without any other option they decided to do it. Porky painted the tunnel and, one by one, they escaped the moving truck.

**XxoxX**

Tania and I will go for Daffy and Bugs.

By the garage, Tania, Leah, Kirby, Rick, Tokkori, Daffy, and Bugs were going around looking for clues when spotted some sheepdogs sleeping on the job.

"Normally they use German Shepherd dogs," Rick whispered, "but sheepdogs are a new level."

"Hey, you mangey mutts!" shouted Tokkori. "You belong to a farm, not a museum!" The words of Tokkori's mouth woke them up. The sextet were petrified by the startled dogs.

"We know how to handle this," Bugs whispered. "Anybody got a bone or a holiday ham?"

"No," Daffy answered, "but I have this." He got out the bagpipes that Speedy hid in the night before.

"You Looney Tunes are filled with surprises," commented Tania.

Dreadfully, Daffy played the bagpipes which scared the sheepdogs away. Everyone was annoyed by the bagpipes, but only Leah liked it.

"How can you like Daffy's awful bagpipe playing?" asked Bugs.

"I don't know," Leah replied. "I just had it in me."

"Rigteous!" shouted a hooded figure. With the removal of the hood, he revealed himself to be Paige's twin brother.

"Peter?" asked Leah. "What are you doing on museum property?"

"There's a reality talent show coming up, and I need to practice for my audition," expained Peter. "I didn't want to wake up Koharu so I decided to rehearse here."

"Believe me," groaned Speedy, "these pockets smell like moldy cheese and not in a good way."

"Peter," Tania replied, "tresspassing is against the law, and we don't want to see you get in trouble again with your parents."

"I know," replied Peter. "But my mom knows Aubrey from the school board, so they won't mind."

Above them, Rylie, Estrella, Swinger, Tokkori, Rick, Road Runner, and Porky, fell on them. "You would not believe the crazy ride we went through," Rylie growled. "We wouldn't know where we ended up."

"So I suggested we, we, we, go to you guys," continued Porky.

"We better get Kaylin and Paige and head over to Roadhouse Fantasia for lunch," Leah suggested. "We can't eat on an empty stomach."

**XxoxX**

Later at Roadhouse Fantasia, out hereoes were having lunch while Peter was explaining to his sister about the whole practice session and the museum. "Mom, Dad and I have been wondering why you keep going off at night," he explained.

"Your not in trouble, bro; we just want you to help fix your mistake," replied his sister.

"Good thing Koharu is now going to preschool," replied Peter as he started sniffing the buttons. "She's growing up fast."

Everyone was confused by the way Peter was sniffing the duck bottoms. "Estrella told me that Duck Dig It was giving away free buttons and I can't resist the smell of incense and peppermints," he explained. "It's like toothpaste for your armpits."

"That's disgusting," admitted Bugs.

Just then, Estrella and Rylie remembered that this was the same song that Ducky Dig It was listening to when they first met them, and while they were going around the shrine, the candles were peppermint scented. This can only mean one thing, the hippies are the culprit.

"As a real hippie knows," replied Paige, "violence isn't our answer, ever. So we're going to have to stop Ducky Dig It the hippie way."

**XxoxX**

Later that night, Ducky Dig It was getting ready to rob the museum.

"Are Bojangles and Tiger-Eye ready to guard the door while we handle our stealing spree?" asked the leading hippie.

"Righteous," answered a Pacific Islander hippie.

"Solid," replied the leading hippie.

Using their scented candles, they blurred the lense on the security cameras. Using their Volkswagen repair kit, they broke the lock and snuck in. While they were going around, they used perfume to test for pressure sensors. They avoided the pressure sensors by doing yoga and hackey sack moves.

"Freaky lasers, man," said the hippie with glasses.

"I know, dude," replied an African-American hippie.

"Hold your cool, ducks," replied the leader. "We're here."

In the animal wing, they could see numerous paintings of bunnies, ducks, pigs, skunks, mice, and roosters. "This is perfect for our new museum, man," said the hippie with blonde hair.

While they were getting ready to steal, the Hawaiian hippie saw that something was off, "Hey, boss," she said, "when did the wing acquired knights in the wing?"

"They didn't," answered the one in blue as she did a karate kick.

From behind them, the brown big knight and the green knight grabbed the leader. Three of others tried to escape, but the pink, purple, and red knights trapped them with a net.

Three of them started escaping while taking a duck painting. "This has gone too despicable!" shouted Daffy as he got out a toy plane he found while hitchhiking. "Kirby, suck it up!"

With one gulp of a toy plane, Kirby turned into Jet Kirby. Quickly, he shot out lasers and lured the three remaining hippies to the Greek Mythology art wing, where Peter was setting up his wind-up monkeys.

"You would not believe the tutoring I did for my history class, dudes," Peter replied. "I like totally have been acing thanks to them." After he set up the last wind-up drumming monkey, he pulled his yo-yo and the drumming monkeys started to play the 1812 Overture, much to their confusion. "It takes a lot of time to get this done, dude," he continued.

Little did the remaining hippies know was that the Looney Tunes and the Klue Queens were carrying a bunch of meat products, because hippies hated meat. On the count of 3 they tossed meat at the hippies, who were petrified by the meat.

"Okay, okay!" begged the hippie with glasses. "We'll go to The Fuzz. Just stop tossing your meat."

The Klue Queens smiled.

**XxoxX**

Later as Ducky Dig Up was getting arrested, Mrs. Cuevas was delighted that her art was safe and thought that she would never be rid of Ducky Dig Up, who had been freeloading in the parking lot.

"Luckily," replied Estrella, "we found watch sheepdogs outside the garage, and the curator is allergic to dogs. Also there's the shrine in the truck that Porky and Road Runner hijacked with those strong scented candles and tye dye cloths, and finally those duck pins that you were giving out. We had a feeling that you loved duck art the most."

"They wanted to steal secrets to the sucess of the Lititiz Heights Museum of Art," explained Kaylin, "and open up our very own museum by that old pad near Clifton Creek's unemployment office. Mr. Harmon knows every building opened and shut down there. They also have good real estate."

"What I don't understand is," Bugs replied, "where did you learn that karate kick, Leah?"

"I didn't," answered Leah as she felt a migraine. "I just do."

**XxoxX**

In the morning, the girls and the Looney Tunes celebrated by going to the Lititz Heights Community Center indoor pool.

"This is, I say, this is the life," Foghorn sighed.

"Your telling me," Daffy replied as he started admiring a magents sequin swimsuit, much to their confusion of where he got it.

Billie was wrapped in a bathrobe. "Alright," she growled. "Which one of you boneheads stole my swimsuit?"

"Hey," replied Daffy. "She said that it makes her look fat. So I decided to snatch it from her."

The Klue Queens were annoyed by the fact that Daffy stole her swimsuit. "Come on, Daffy," replied Leah. "Give Billie back her sequin swimsuit before the head lifeguard kicks her out, believing she's going skinny dipping."

"And do you want to get in trouble for harassing girls again?" Bugs asked.

"No," Daffy answered as he handed Billie her swimsuit.

"Ducks," groaned Billie as she took off.

**The End.**

**Chapter 30: An Order of Moronvioli**

At the McBruce shed, the girls were finishing their homework when Kirby's tummy started to growl.

"Kirby is hungry again," chuckled Estrella. "That little puffball can eat anything."

"Nearly a year and Kirby has been a town hero and a eataholic," replied Tania.

When they went into the kitchen to give Kirby a snack, they heard something in the pantry. Inside, they found a traumatized Chief Hess. "Chief Hess?" asked Leah. "What are you doing here? You're a cop, and cops know that tresspassing is against the law."

"I know, McBruce," replied Chief Hess. "I'm hiding from an old police academy classmate."

The Klue Queens were a little confused. After hearing the doorbell ring, Kirby came up and opened the door, only to see a detective, a pre-teen girl, and a tiny dog.

"I'm Detective Dan," greeted the man.

"Poyo?" asked Kirby.

"Are there any criminals in here?" asked Detective Dan.

Chief Hess became petrified by the apperance of Detective Dan. Confused, Leah asked, "Do you know that moron?"

"That's Detective Dan," explained Chief Hess. "He and I were police academy buddies back in the day. Every day he always lets the criminals get away, take all the bologna from the kitchen, uses the bathroom in a cabinet, and shoplifts from music stores. The people at the Chicago Police Academy couldn't take it anymore, so they had to let him graduate along with the class of our time."

"Isn't that illegal?" asked Rylie.

"Not unless the board couldn't handle one student any longer and they don't want any parental issues," Tania answered. "When we had our fashion show mystery, Sam told me that Beverly Hills High couldn't handle a student named Mandy anymore due to the fact that she cares more about her beauty than her grades, wears inappropriate school attire and spends all her money on beauty products."

"Dad?" asked Dan's daughter. "Isn't that your old friend Leslie Hess?"

"That's right, pumpkin," Dan replied.

"You must be Dan's daughter Ann," Chief Hess guessed. "And the little dog must be Stan."

"That's right," answered Ann. "I joined forces with him so we won't get introuble with the law. Especially, last week."

She got out a newspaper which had a crazy headline.

Moronic detective, released rebel teens from Chicago state prison.

Ann explained that the teenagers were tossing balloons with ketchup at city halls as a prank, only to be caught by the police and they have to serve community service. He thought they were slaves from an alien planet and released them. The chief of police wasn't happy, so he decided to give Detective Dan time off.

While going through the mail, Kirby and Swinger found a flier that was acidentally left in the mail.

*Boccaccio Manor scheduled for demolition.*

*Authorized by Lane Gaines.*

The Klue Queens were shocked by the news. "The Boccaccio were one of the first Italian Americans who came to Lititz Heights in the late 18 hundreds," explained Tania. "They even operate the Boccaccio Cheese Market. After the second World War, they moved out and moved into the downtown area. "

"Reminds me of our Gavin Gates mystery," recalled Kaylin. "And Uncle Rusty is making a Italian Creme of Onion soup Saturday."

"Could you please take Dan and his family along?" begged Chief Hess. "I don't want my police buddies to laugh at me, especially Deputy Downs."

"You know my hermana's esposo," laughed Estrella. "He won't laugh at you."

Before they could begin their investigation, they needed suspects to who would want to demolish the place.

**XxoxX**

Suspects

Lane Gaines (Real estate agent) - Knows every building in Lititz Heights.

Mayor Hess (Mayor of Lititz Heights) - Finally has the money to schedule a demolition.

Fontina Boccacio-Rongsu (Owner of the Boccacio Cheese Market) - Seems cautious when someone tries to enter Boccacio Manor.

**XxoxX**

Later at Boccacio Cheese Market, Rylie, Kaylin, Rick, and Detective Dan were arriving to talk to Fontina, the current owner of the market.

"Buon pomeriggio," greeted a middle aged lady in an Italian accent, "and welcome to Boccacio's Cheese Market."

"Buon Pomeriggio, Mama Boccacio," greeted Rylie. "We were wondering-"

"Before you say anything," replied Mama Boccacio, "let me introduce you to mi familia."

With a few bangs from her cowbell, her three sons, two daughters, and her Asian husband came here. "This is my husband, Oliver Rongsu."

"Ni hao, young travelers," greeted Oliver.

"It's gouda to see you again," replied Rylie, "But we-"

"And here are my bambinos - Burnice, Gordon, Ricky, and twins, Mozzy, and Monte."

"We're having a speciale this week on parmesan," stated Burnice.

"Cura di assaggiare (Care to sample)?" asked Gordon.

"No, thanks," answered Rylie as Mama Boccacio's grown-up children stuffed their faces with cheese.

"This is delicious," admitted Detective Dan. "Let me take them all."

"Let's not," replied Rylie as she grabbed his hands. "Mama Boccacio, we want to talk to you about the old house you lived in as a child."

"Si, si," replied Mama Boccacio. "The old Boccacio Manor in the suburban area. After Nonno Proceso died in battle, Nonna Talhia had to move out of the house because it brought her so much pain. She never got over her death, but my papa and I did. In honor of him, we had the Proceso Special, which is a combination of provolone and taleggio cheese."

"Mama," replied Burnice, "you always tell wonderful Boccacio stories."

"Grazie," replied Mama Boccacio.

"A word of advice, mate," Rick said to the lady. "Whenever our friends say no, they mean no."

"Scusate," replied Mamma Boccacio. "It's just we always do this whenever we see a new face in our store."

When she said that, Kaylin and Rylie knew they were talking about Detective Dan. As he was getting out a local paper, Kaylin and Rylie could see an article about the sales from different real estate companies. Lititz Heights Reality was going up while Gaines Realty was going down.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Leah, Kirby, Paige, Detective Ann, and Tokkori were going around the old Boccacio Mansion when a flamboyant man came up to them.

"Lane Gaines of Gaines Realty," greeted the man. "Say you wanna buy a home to run away from your parents. Look no further - Boccacio Manor has plenty to offer for your teenage needs. Of course, I have been getting rumors of ghost hauntings, and not the good kind."

"No, thanks." Leah answered. "I don't even know my real dad actually. Mom doesn't like to talk about it. After I met Kirby, I've been getting Scottish visions."

"Looks like it's a side effect of spending a lot of time with an alien," guessed Ann.

"That's right," replied Paige. "In the 'Fairly OddParents' episode 'No Substitute For Crazy!', whenever beings spend so much time with one or two people, their magic rubbed off. In this case, \*star\* magic."

"Poyo!" cheered Kirby.

"The world famous Klue Queens and little Kirby," smiled Lane. "Everyone has been talking about you. What brings you to Gaines Realty? Don't tell me - you're fed up with your parents and hate them now?"

"No," growled Leah, "We are want to investigate to see if there's a reason why Boccacio Manor should be demolished."

"Oh, yeah," recalled Lane. "The surprise demolition. Go right ahead, ladies."

Leah, Paige, and Ann found it a little confusing to let a real estate agent just let them in like that. When they got into the manor, Kirby found a strange item, pressed the button and kaboom, stinky smells were everywhere.

"Stink bomb!" shouted Leah.

The smells were so horrible, Leah, Ann, Paige and Kirby fell unconsciously. Only Tokkori made his escape. "Sweet jumablaya!" he shouted. "I gotta warn the others!"

**XxoxX**

Estrella, Tania, Swinger, and Detective Dan were arriving at Sound Symphony where they spotted Mayor Hess, Judson and the Bugaloos were giving a Broadway singing lesson to children. Another creature helping them was an anthropomorphic owl, whom was familiar to Tania.

"You're Dr. Blinky," recalled Tania. "From 'H.R. Pufnstuf' and 'Horror Hotel'. I thought you worked for Witchiepoo now. Unless you're a double agent for the good guys who wants to keep Witchiepoo from causing trouble."

"You're a clever girl, Tania," Dr. Blinky commented. "Who, coincidentally, has a similar name to Joy's Madame Tania persona from the final episode of 'The Bugaloos'."

Tania was surprised that Dr. Blinky knew her name, then remembered that the Bugaloos are from the Krofftverse like Dr. Blinky is, she figured that they told Dr. Blinky all about Tania and how she wrote beautiful songs for them."

While explaining the mayor about the demolition, she explained that she didn't hire a construction company for the job nor doing it tomorrow. This could only mean one thing: someone forged the legal documents of the demolition.

"All I remember is that a strange man gave me a delivery for a box," Mayor Hess continued, "only for it to be a bunch of lightbulbs. Whoever is responsible is doing 500 hours of community service."

"Tania! Estrella!" shouted Tokkori from behind. "We have an emergency!"

"This better not be another trick to sneaking into the Roadhouse Fantasia buffet again," scolded Tania.

"It's Leah, Paige, Gumball, and Ann!" shouted Tokkori. "Someone knocked them out with a garbage bomb!"

Knowing that he meant "stink bomb," they had to get to the manor fast. "Let me come with you," assured Dr. Blinky. "I dealt with sick skunks before."

**XxoxX**

By the time they arrived to Boccacio Manor, they could see their friends out cold. Just then, Tania remembered something from her grandparents "Pufnstuf" videos. "Dr. Blinky," she said to the owl, "remember the birthday episode of 'H.R. Pufnstuf'? You used your Getemup Horn in order to wake people up from sleeping magic."

"Usually sleeping stuff would last up to one to two hours," replied Dr. Blinky as he got out his horn, "but this is a quicker way."

Infront of the unconscious members, Dr. Blinky placed the mouth in his horn and shouted, "Get up, everybody! Get up! Get up!"

"¿Estás bien?" Estrella asked.

"We're fine," Ann replied, "but we smell like old cheese."

"I know, right?" replied Leah. "Mama Boccacio would not be happy about this."

"Perhaps a little chinese food would calm you guys down," suggested Tania.

"Good idea," Ann replied as she picked up Stan.

While they were going out, Swinger and Kirby found a business card.

**XxoxX**

Later at Hong Kong House of Chow, they were having some Chinese food for dinner when Kaylin, Rylie and Rick came in while carrying a cheese stuffed Detective Dan.

"Sorry we're late," groaned Kaylin. "We had to keep Detective Dan from hogging all the cheese."

"Mama Boccacio didn't charge us because she wanted to help about the manor," Rick explained.

After they finished ther dinner ten minutes later, Tang came in with ther checks and fortune cookies.

"Hey, Tang," Rick greeted. "Taking it easy on television news?"

"Yeah," replied Tang. "I've been reporting about the demolition of the house tomorrow. I never thought Mayor Hess would demolish another historical house."

"But she didn't sign those papers," replied Tania. "She signed fake delivery papers. We want you to get the press and head over to Boccacio Manor tomorrow to see what's going on?"

"Sure thing," Tang replied. "After all, us reporters need to know what's going on."

Carefully, they read their fortunes.

*The stars are there for you. - L*

*Stop the increase after low problems. - K*

*Press the power of teamwork in your heart. - E*

*News of the light can lead the way. - R*

*Just in the buisness they succeed. - T*

*Never interupt the Programs of Life. - P*

After putting down their fortunes, Swinger gave Estrella the business card.

*Ganes Realty*

*Ganing the Power.*

"Girls," said Rylie, "those fortunes gave us an idea on who's responsible and how to catch the culprit.

**XxoxX**

The next day, Lane was going around looking for any skunks when Kirby, Rick, Swinger, Tokkori, Little Miss Starlight, Sumo, Masahiro and Stan came out dressed like them.

"You're not real skunks!" exclaimed Lane. "Your pets and creatures dressed like them."

"Why don't we shed some lightbulbs on the subject?" Tokkori growled.

Confused, Lane turned his head and the Boccacios, the Klue Queens, Ann, and Dan tossed the same lightbulbs Mayor Hess got at him.

"So," growled Gordon, "you like destroying familia traditions!"

"How do you know that?" asked Lane.

He was so shocked by the lightbulbs, he barged into the house. The Boccacios, the Klue Queens, Ann, and Dan decided to follow him.

Inside, they looked everywhere for the weird real estate agent. Little did they know, Lane was using his suction cups and started cutting the chandelier with a laser he got from his government agent buddies. Looking up our heroes could see that he's going to kill them. Quickly, Leah spotted the wall mirror and shouted, "Kirby, suck it up! "

With one gulp of the mirror, Kirby turned into Mirror Kirby. As the chandelier fell. Mirror Kirby jumped up, activated his shield and broke the chandelier. Lane was petrified by what he did. He got so angry, he got down and staired at the little puffball. He tried to grab Mirror Kirby, but Mirror Kirby's replication confused him and trapped him in white tarp, making him look like a ghost.

"Excellent work," commented Ann. "Usually Dad lets criminals get away on accident, but this is better."

"Pumpkin," Detective Dan asked, "why did you choose to live with me instead of Mom?"

"Everyone in Chicago thinks you're a nutcase and you mess up badly," Ann explained as she hugged. "But no matter what problems you have, you'll be the only father for me."

Everyone but Lane was delighted by the father-daughter bond.

**XxoxX**

Later, Tang was getting a report on another Klue Queen mystery. "Were there any clues that Lane was responsible for the fake demolition scam?" she asked.

"There was that news article about the real estate sales of Lititz Heights," Tania recalled "Lane's was going down. When we ran into the mayor at Sound Symphony, she explained that she had plans to schedule the place for demolition, but didn't plan on hiring a construction company nor scheduling it today. Finally, there was that buisness card with Gaines Realty on it.

"Gaines Realty was falling apart," explained Paige. "Everyone is digging the new fancy real estate companies. So Lane decided to increase my business."

Mayor Hess barged up and asked where Lane was. They leaded the mayor inside the manor where their pets were scaring him up a coatrack.

"Back off, you wild creatures!" Lane fearfully exclaimed. "Animal fur is a big real estate violation!" After the Klue Queens helped him down, Mayor Hess came up to him and gave him a broom.

"For bamboozling a mayor," scolded the mayor, "You're getting 500 hours in community service."

Fearfully, Lane started cleaning up the mess outside. When everyone evacuated the building, Detective Dan said, "I guess that wraps up the case of the floating hippo."

Everyone chuckled at Detective Dan, except Chief Hess, who found it confusing. "Dan," he said, "I'm impressed that you got help from the Klue Queens. I thought you would blow this one, but I'm proud of you."

"Didn't do it alone," replied Dan. "Ann helped too."

Touch by the family bonding, Mayor Hess decided to demolish the house anyway. Everyone was petrified by this.

"You're not going to make another parking lot?" asked Leah. "Lititz Heights has at least 12 parking lots, which is good enough for this little town."

"Who says anything about a parking lot?" asked the mayor.

All together, the Bugaloos turned Boccacio Manor into an elaborate dance studio with numerous Krofft Productions murals on it. Reading the sign, Leah and Tania recognized the name "Bugaloo Dance Studio."

"That's from the 'H.R. Pufnstuf' movie," recalled Leah, "where Witchiepoo personaed as Betsy Bugaloo and tried to steal Freddy."

Quickly, everyone barged into the new dance studio and celebrated its grand opening. However, Mayor Hess told Lane to stay and clean up the mess. To prevent him from slacking off, I.Q. placed a tickle spell on him.

"Every time he slacks off and/or tries to act bad," explained I.Q., "he gets tickled."

Lane thought it was stupid, but ended up getting tickled by the spell. I.Q. also explained that the spell will ware off after he completes 500 hours of community service.

**XxoxX**

While they were celebrating, Mama Boccacio and her husband arrived to see what's going on. "I heard my children saying that they're going to save our old home," she explained, "but you magical beings turned it into a dance studio."

"Oh, my," Mayor Hess. "I know that this meant to be part of your familia and you don't want anyone getting in fearing that bad ghost could traumatize the citizens, but the place needed another dance studio for low income families."

Instead of bursting in rage, Mama Boccacio smiled, because she met her husband at a dance studio when they were in high school. The two of them were the masters of tango in the day. "Oliver, my love," she said to her husband, "care to dance like it's 1999 again?"

"With pleasure," answered Mr. Rongsu as they began to tango.

The Boccacio-Rongsu kids were delighted by their parents' dancing. As everyone was being amazed by their dancing, Mayor Hess told Dr. Blinky that he was going to be the general manager of Bugaloo Dance Studio.

"Living Island doctor, double agent for Mayor Pufnstuf, and general manager of Bugaloo Dance Studio," wowed Dr. Blinky. "I'm going to need a nap after all that."

**The End**

**Chapter 31: An Order of Muerte Beans**

It was a quiet evening in the quaint town of Lititz Heights, A truck for Mirage Candies was arriving at Waving Jester Candy Shop. The manager, Remy Novak, was prepping up some new heart shapped lollipops when the movers came in. After he handled the shipment of new Mirage Candy, he opened one of them for a snack break and saw was disgusted by its flavor. It tasted like something out of a newspaper. Realizing this, he bought counterfeit candy.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, the Klue Queens were playing dessert bingo when Carolina came in with some great news.

"You remember my best friend Raina," Carolina explained, "the Friendly Scout who makes Friendly Scout Pops with the '50s logo 'The Right Way'?"

"I remember," recalled Estrella. "I heard she's getting married to her British/Italian fiancé here from Cristina."

"Yeah," replied Carolina. "And she asked me to be the maid of honor."

Suddenly, they heard a doorbell ring. "The ministress for Raina's wedding is here," Carolina suggested.

By the living room, they were greeted by a very beautiful calica in red and marigolds. Recognizing her from their 6th grade history class, Leah and Rylie could tell that it was La Muerte, ruler of the Land of the Remembered.

Leah said, "Not only is she the ruler of the Remembered and a storyteller. She's also a justice of the peace."

"Si," replied La Muerte. "Maybe during the reception, I can tell the mihos at the kiddy table about the legend of Gravity Falls."

"Good idea," agreed Leah as she looked down. "Hey, where's Kirby?"

"He better not be in the kitchen eating the galetas again," Estrella replied. "Swinger, go find him."

With one nod, Swinger started looking for the little puffball. In the attic, he could see a scary looking god in green playing dessert bingo with some beavers, pigs, turtles, and skunks. Swinger was mad because the animals were trespassing. Before Swinger got a chance to attack, Kirby sucked him and spot him near a trunk.

"Come on!" groaned the green god. "The animals and I were having fun with dessert bingo. Whoever wins gets to have seconds on spider and cockroach ice cream."

While the animals cheered, Swinger got annoyed. In the attic, Carolina, La Muerte, and the Klue Queens came up to see the chaos going around. Amongst the pig was a familiar animal to Rylie. "Sumo?" she asked. "How did you get here?" Sumo barged through and came up to her.

"I've been going around town gathering animals from the forest for a game of bingo," explained Xibalba. "And perhaps a bunch of counterfeit candy form the candy counterfeit ring."

"Balby!" scolded Marybeth.

"Counterfeit candy ring?" asked Paige. "Like, bummer. People paid good money for candy."

"Isn't Rayna and Harlow ordering candy for the reception via empoloyee discount?" Estrella asked her older sister.

"Rayna does work at The Waving Jester," answered Carolina, "and her boss just hired Harlow so he won't be traumatized by his past."

"I just remembered something," replied Kaylin. "Mirage means 'illusion'. Just like in 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Uncle Rusty, Fayth, and I saw that movie a few times. Lelannee isn't allowed to watch it until she's ten."

"Enough small talk," replied Leah. "We need to find out who would be responsible of a counterfeit candy ring."

**XxoxX**

Suspects

Angelica Di Cafaro (Half British/Half Italian CEO of Mirage Candies) - Seems grumpy about Valentine's Day.

The movers from one of the trucks - Have been on the same truck as the delivery of Piping Passion Bars.

Raina Jarvis and Harlow McCann (Carolina's best friend and fiancée) - Raina loves peppermint candy and Harlow used to work for Mirage candies.

**XxoxX**

At the wedding tent, Kaylin, Paige, Tania, Kirby, Rick, and La Muerte arrived to talk to Deputy Downs' little sister and her newfound husband. Also there was Deputy Downs himself. "Thanks again for letting me help out Jimena," he said.

"Hey," Jimena replied. "If I could help my brother have the perfect wedding, so can the best friend of one of my sister-in-laws."

"Careful with that, Bentley!" shouted Jimena. "We don't want to ruin the couple's happiest day of their lives."

"Deputy Downs," informed a female Mirage Candies employee. "We figure you might be helping Jimena plan another wedding. There's been a counterfeit candy ring going around Pennsylvania lately, and we were wondering if you know anything about it."

"There have been some rumors of Mirage Candies going downhill after the CEO's nephew left the company," explained Deputy Downs. "He couldn't take the pressure of his aunt's cruelty anymore, even after his parents were killed in a car crash when he was nine."

"I'm sorry to hear about the boy," replied Kaylin. "If we find her nephew, we'll talk to him about his parents."

**XxoxX**

At The Waving Jester, Leah, Rylie, Estrella, Tokkori, Swinger, Sumo, and Xibalba, they met an African-American girl and a Italian/British boy.

"Raina!" shouted Estrella. "And you must be Harlow."

Observing carefully, Estrella could see a marking of an arrow through the heart on the side of his neck. "What is that marking you have?" she asked.

"It's a birthmark," answered Harlow in a British accent. "I don't like to talk about my family's past."

Harlow explained to them that his parents died when he was a boy, leaving him with his evil aunt. Every day she focused on her business more than himself. "I try to be nice to my Aunt Zia," he continued, "but she ignores me. She thinks I hate her. Mostly on Valentine's Day, she would yell at people in rage."

"Valentine's Day is supposed to be a happy day not a sad day," growled Tokkori. "Go cry in a sorrow milk bar." Everyone got mad at Tokkori for kicking Harlow when he was down.

"Tokkori," scolded Rylie, "what did we tell you about messing with people's emotions?"

"So what?" Tokkori asked.

"You may be a jokester who enjoys hurting people on purpose," replied Leah, "but you aren't helping matters here. Apologize now or you won't get any Valentine's Day candy tomorrow."

"I'm sorry I kicked you when you're down," Tokkori groaned.

After Harlow felt better, he saw Xibalba eating the counterfeit candy. Raina decided to let him go because usually it would be made for animals. On the ground, Swinger found a clue. It was a candy bar.

"There's an inscription on it," replied Estrella. "'VB'. What does that mean?"

While Leah, Rylie, Estrella, Raina Tokkori, Swinger, and Sumo were observing the candy bar, Harlow flinched a little.

**XxoxX**

At Roadhouse Fantasia, our heroes were enjoying some Valentine's Day desserts going over some clues. Leah got out a map that was left behind in the box of counterfeit candy. It was a map of pennslvania, and all the heart stamps. Thinking quickly, they could tell that the heart marks represent the places where they sold Piping Passion Bars.

"There's Waving Jester," recalled Leah. "And look at all these candy stores," she whispered. "Kaiwi Confection, Cubby's Candies, Swizzle Shop."

"These are all candy shops that aren't part of a franchise," recalled Kaylin.

Suddenly, they heard a truck from outside. It was the movers who were at every candy store delivery.

"I told you not to leave the map in one of the boxes," groaned a mover.

"But the boss said to dispose it once we sell the last Pipping Passion Bar box to Lititz Heights," explained the other. "And now I can't find it anywhere."

Little did the movers know, is that Xibalba, Swinger, and Kirby snuck in to find more of the passion bars. Dissapointingly, they didn't find any, only a bunch of birthday candles with a bunch of cake crumbs. Kirby knew that it had to be a clue. So he took the candles and Xibalba sent them back to the restaurant.

After showing Paige the candles, she knew one thing. "The candles must be off of a birthday cake," she said. "And that 'VB' symbol left on the candy bar, it must've meant 'Valentine Birthday'."

"The culprit must really hate Valentine's Day," replied Kaylin, "all because of one forgotten birthday."

On her phone, Kaylin could see a picture of Angelica Di Cafaro about Valentines Day. In the picture, she could see that she has a birthmark shaped like an arrow through the heart on the side of her neck, just like Harlow.

"Wait," interrupted Estrella. "Didn't Harlow say that his family died when he was a little boy?"

"That sounded like the same story Deputy Downs gave us about Angelica's nephew," recalled Kaylin. "Unless..."

"Harlow McCann is Angelica Di Cafaro's nephew!" exclaimed the girls.

"That's right," said one of the movers. "We saw a trail of sparkles leading to our truck. Luckily, we used our alien-tracking phones here."

The Klue Queens needed a way to escape the movers. Remembering High School Musical Week from LADUWS: Season 1, they decided to dance their way out. Just as they were about to escape, a stern Italian/British lady in a red buisness suit glared at them. It was Angelica Di Cafaro. "What are you girls doing?" she asked in a British accent.

"We know all about your little counterfeit candy ring, dudette," growled Paige. "Like, where's the love?"

"Love?!" shouted Angelica. "More like \*years\*. My birthday has been forgotten by the forsaken Valentine's Day. I started off working as a local candy shop girl in Atloona. Sadly, everyone keeps forgetting my birthday, including my parents and my little sister. I promised myself that on my 50th birthday, I would pull off my Pippin Passion Bars."

She got out a handgun, hoping it'd make them push up daisies. Looking down, Leah could see a leftover Pipping Passion Bar on the ground.

"Any last words before you go to Star Heaven?" demanded Angelica.

"Just four," Leah replied, "Kirby, suck it up!" With one gulp of the counterfeit candy wrapping, Kirby turned into Love Love Stick Kirby.

"A flying gumball with a love wand?" asked Angelica. "That doesn't scare the gelato out of me."

She shot from her gun, only for it to pop out hearts. Angelica was petrified by this. Using the Love Stick, Love Stick Kirby knocked out her two henchmen cold. Using some marigold petals, La Muerte pelted the movers with them, hoping it'd sooth their nerves. Angelica tried to escape, but Xibalba blocked her. "Heard of an ambush?" he asked. "Here's an 'animal-bush'."

Summoning beavers, skunks, pigs, and turtles, they scared her into the Heart Bubble that Love Stick Kirby just made.

"How did you figure out that it was me?" Angelica asked.

"There is the definition of 'mirage' that blew your cover," recalled Tania, "then a map of all the local candy stores in Pennsylvania, then the inscription on the candy bars 'VB' indicating to me that it involved a birthday, and finally there was the birthday candles in the truck."

"Aunt Angelica!" shouted Harlow as he and Raina came up in rage.

"Harlow, my boy," Angelica smiled.

"Don't you 'Harlow, my boy' me," growled Harlow. "Raina and I were going around for a drive when we spotted a giant heart popping from Roadhouse Fantasia. My mom would be very mad at you for turning our familia factory into a counterfeit mine."

"I told my little sister not to marry a dentist," growled Angelica, "but she didn't listen to me!"

Instead of taking her and her cohorts to jail, La Muerte and Xibalba decided to let them sleep until Raina and Harlow's wedding was over, so that there wouldn't be any objections. "And after the reception is over," continued La Muerte, "they'll be force to become better CEOs and workers, or else they'll be attacked by animals again."

Harlow was glad that they were going to teach his aunt a lesson. Now he and Raina could have their happily ever after.

**XxoxX**

The next day, Raina and Harlow were having their wedding reception. When it was time for the slow dance, Leah and Issac, Rylie and Martin, and Estrella and Helen came up and danced with the happy couple.

As they were enjoying the couples dance, Tania found Kirby, Swinger, Sumo, Little Miss Starlight, Masahiro, Rick, and a bunch of beavers, pigs, skunks, turtles sleeping under a tree while using the ring bearer pillow. Paige recognized the pillow as the one she got for her Thrift Donation badge. "Doesn't Kirby look cute sleeping that?" she asked.

"Solid," replied Kaylin. "Too bad Nathaniel couldn't come 'cause he promised his father to see his book singing in Erie, but this is good for me."

Xibalba tried to come up to cuddle the animals, but a scared skunk acidentally sprayed him by the eyes. He was so petrified by the skunk spray, he took off.

**The End**

**Chapter 32: An Order of Muppet Syrup**

On the roads, the Muppets were driving along while singing to, 'Moving Right Along' when they blew a flat tire.

While at the mechanic, someone grabbed a hold of Foofoo and replaced it with a toy dog.

**XxoxX**

Later, at Lititz Heights High, the Klue Queens were getting out of lunch when they spotted a flier for the Muppets' upcoming performance the next day after school.

*Muppets Mayhem*

*Muppets Performance*

Just as they were about to leave, the intercom went off. "Would the Klue Queens report to the principal's office?!" Principal Hopkins nervously shouted over the intercom. "Fast!"

"Where's my Foo Foo?!" shouted Miss Piggy from the intercom.

Hearing this, the Klue Queens knew that Principal Hopkins was in trouble. So they decided to go there. In her office, Principal Hopkins was petrifified by a kung fu pig.

"I've heard of porkchops," recalled Tania, "but this has gone too far."

After Rylie and Leah grabbed a hold of Miss Piggy, Principal Hopkins explained to them that while they were stopping in Clifton Creeks, someone snuck into the bus and kidnapped Foofoo. They placed a stuffed dog in it so they wouldn't suspect.

"Replacing a pet with a toy never works," explained Tania. "But we're the Klue Queens, and we'll find out who stole her dog after school."

"I can't wait!" shouted Miss Piggy.

Before Miss Piggy got a chance to punch them, Paige gave her a cookie, hoping it'd calm the Hong Kong Pig down, and it did. While Miss Piggy was eating her cookie, Principal Hopkins gave the Klue Queens a list of suspects to who would take Foofoo during their gas station distraction.

Suspects

The Espionsa Sisters (Trio of workers working at The Bouncy Mirror) - Work across the street from repair shop, and they were always there whenever someone with a pet arrived at the repair shop.

Basel Dodson (Repairperson at repair shop) - Blind and Pepe and Rizzo think he's faking it.

**XxoxX**

After school, they caught up with the Muppets in the parking lot, who were rehearsing for tomorrow's show. The Klue Queens were thrilled to see the Muppets first before their big show, except for one thing.

"Where's Animal?" Kaylin asked. "The Mayhem Band can't rock the house without him."

"Must've wandered off again," guessed Kermit.

"Chicken! Chicken!" shouted Animal as he barged in with six buckets of fried chicken.

"Did you just use some of our funding money for fried chicken again?" asked Kermit.

"Sorry," Animal groaned.

"It's okay," replied Kermit. "We knew you would go hungry anyway."

"I see that you found out about Flash Chicken's Del Fuego Special," smiled Rylie. "They do it every year to warm people's mouths up."

"For vegetarians, dudes," replied Paige. "I would go for veggie soup and roasted tomato sandwiches."

"Right on!" Janice agreed.

Kermit told the Klue Queens that they want to help Miss Piggy look for her. "Have any of you heard of the place. "Where was the last place you saw them?" he asked.

"We always have," Leah replied. "So maybe if we can go back to the last place you saw Foo Foo, maybe we could get answers."

Kaylin was excited that she gets to go to her boyfriends' hometown again. Using a combination of a star and Muppet magic, the Klue Queens and the Muppets traveled by map. "You guys may be crazy," replied Tania, "but you have many surprises."

For the excitement, the Klue Queens danced to Hall and Oates' "You Make My Dreams."

**XxoxX**

A minute later, they arrived at Snail Starter, the same repair place where the Muppets had their road hazard. Inside, Basel explained that he was allergic to dogs and they broke him out in a rash.

"You're right," Tania agreed. "People with dog allergies would go crazy and get their allergy pills fast."

Leah turned to Kermit and asked, "What makes you think it was pretending to be blind?"

"We've seen books and production of people pretending so they can get some grub," Kermit explained. "We can tell that he's blind."

"Smart move, Kermit," Rylie replied as she fist bumped him.

"Hey, everyone!" Fozzie shouted. "What did the truck driver say to the snail car?"

"What?" Leah, Rylie, and Tania asked.

"You're so slow," Fozzie chuckled. "Waka waka waka!"

"Don't worry about Miss Piggy," Kermit explained to the girls. "Rowlf, Robin, and Pepe are trying to calm her down."

Basel also explained that he'd been collecting some strange fur that he'd been smelling. Observing carefully, Tania could tell that this was jaguar, pygmy marmoset, and sloth fur.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Kaylin, Paige, and Estrella, Swinger, Gonzo, Rizzo, Tokkori, and the Mayhem Band were outside a fancy kitchen supplies store. Instead of being a small simple store, it was a three story building with all the kitchen supplies anyone needs from the tiniest coffee shops in New Jersey, to the big fancy restaurants in New York City.

"Mr. Harmon must've made a lot of bread selling his goods." Dr. Teeth suggested.

"He has!" shouted a familiar voice. It was Nathaniel. "Welcome to Harmon's Kitchen Supplies," he greeted, "home of the webshow 'Harmon's Homecooks'."

After a little peck-kiss, Kaylin explained the Muppets' little Foo Foo-napping, and Nathaniel agreed to help. "I've encountered the owners of The Bouncy Mirror before," he explained. "Every time I go it has been having some strange weapons that I find in a hunter shop."

Curious, they decided to go to The Bouncy Mirror ASAP.

**XxoxX**

By the time they arrived at The Bouncy Mirror, they were greeted by three Latina women wearing camouflage apparel.

"Kaylin, Muppets," Nathaniel explained, "these are Mattie, Nicky, and Olly."

"Ooh," Olly replied as she hugged the little creatures. "Cute little animals."

"Stop it, sis!" Nicky shouted in a stern tone while doing a slingshot move. "Rats are rattled with germs."

"Thanks for the compliment," Rizzo groaned.

After interviewing them about what happened with the Muppets, Olly felt bad, while Mattie and Nicky pushed her back. "You may be our youngest sister," Mattie replied, "but we don't feel bad for a bunch of weirdoes."

"Sorry," Olly replied as she left for the back room.

While going around The Bouncy Mirror for a few clues, Nathaniel asked Estrella where her pet monkey was. "Tokkori, Rick, and a few of the muppets are looking after him," she explained. "We don't want Tokkori insulting workers again."

"Good point," Nathaniel agreed.

**XxoxX**

Outside The Bouncy Mirror, Tokkori, Rick, Sam the Eagle, Sweetums, Scooter, Dr. Honeydew, and Beaker were watching Swinger when they started smelling a pizza. Tokkori wanted it for himself, so he took the box and flew off, leaving Rick and a few Muppets angry.

"Doesn't that bird realized that eating an entire pizza box that big would give him cholesterol and weight problems?" Sam asked sternly.

"You are the Muppets' education and safety supervisor after all, Sam," Rick replied. "Now let's get Tokkori before he mooches off the pizza."

LIttle did they know, a mysterious figure grabbed Kirby and took off.

On top of The Bouncy Mirror, Tokkori was about to eat the pizza all for himself, he spotted Kaylin, Estrella, Paige, and Nathaniel behind him. He asked, "How did you girls get up here?"

"Star power," Kaylin recalled. "And what have we told you about sharing?"

Tokkori refused, and from out of nowhere, the pizzas multiplied. "Not only hace we invented my new Muppet Labs Pogo Shoes," Dr. Honeydew replied, "but also a food replicator. Now we all can have some pizza. It also adds a variety so vegetarians won't have to starve."

Kaylin, Estrella, Paige, and Nathaniel gave the pizza boxes to Sweetums, for he was the only Muppet strong enough to carry all of them. Then he told him to gather all the Muppets for a little pizza break.

**XxoxX**

While they were having pizza by the Electric Mayhem Bus, they realized that Swinger had gone missing. Figuring this out, they knew that the "pizza delivery" was a ruse so the culprit can kidnap Swinger.

"I don't believe this," Tokkori growled. "It's my fault."

"Wait," Tania asked. "\*Your\* fault? Usually you blame others."

"I know," replied Tokkori. "But I don't want my feathers to get plucked nor get in trouble with Lititz Heights. I already went through enough trouble thanks to you girls."

"That's what we want to hear," Leah smiled as she took a bite of the pizza.

Miss Piggy figured as she was eating an entire box of pizza, if the mysterious pizza delivery guy kidnapped Swinger, they must've gotten Foo Foo too. Nathaniel then got a call from his father, telling him that the pizza that was ordered from the Velossi's of Clifton Creeks was robbed of an extra large cheese pizza. The Klue Queens were confused on how he knew that.

"You can find out anything when you're rich," Nathaniel replied. "Plus you're never going to guess who robbed Velossi's."

**XxoxX**

At The Bouncy Mirror, the mysterious figure was holding a bounded and gagged Swinger. After placing him next to a caged Foo Foo, she revealed her mask, revealing to be Olly. "We got ourselves another spider monkey," Olly squealed. "Spider monkeys are our specialty when it comes to tanning and skinning animals. By that, we mean using their pelts and selling them."

Foo Foo and Swinger were petrified by this. While the Espionsa Sisters were getting ready to sharpen some tools with their antique knives, Swinger quickly ecaped by rubbing his hands towards a radiator. Then quietly, he freed all the other animals that were kidnapped by the sisters. After freeing Foo Foo, they heard someone shooting "Waka waka waka!"

The Klue Queens came down dressed as dummy bears while being lead by Fozzie. "Fozzie," asked Rylie, "why are we dressed like bears? This suit is making me sweat."

"Come on now," Fozzie chuckled. "Where's your sense of humor?"

Determined to save Swinger and Foo Foo, the Klue Queens played along. "What is the Bovine capital of the world?" asked Fozzie.

"I don't know, Fozzie," Estrella answered. "What \*is\* the Bovine capital of the world?"

"MosCow," answered Fozzie as the girls started to laugh.

After a few lame jokes, Swinger escorted the smuggled animals and told them to go to the Muppet Bus for their safety. Upstairs, Miss Piggy spotted her pet dog and hugged him. "Foo Foo!" she shouted. "I'm so glad to see you!"

Her screaming was so loud, it attracted the Espionsa Sisters. "Looks like we're going to have a luau, girls," Mattie suggested, "one where we won't allow stupid frogs that give us warts, aliens who tap dance in oatmeal, and bears who tell terrible jokes."

Knowing that she had to fix her mistake, Miss Piggy spotted a 18th-century staff. It was there that she got an idea on how it could save them. She looked at Kirby playing with an antique tall mirror, she shouted, "Kirby, suck it up!"

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Staff Kirby. Combining it with her karate kicks, Staff Kirby took down the sisters with a little staff power.

"I didn't know we're having a limbo contest," Olly said.

"No, you dummy," groaned Mattie. "It's obvious that this circus of weirdoes found out about our smuggling wring."

"Luckily," Leah replied, "we figured it out thanks to your slingshot skills you were showing off while we were investigating. Not to mention the fur that Basel smelled, and the fact that Nathaniel remembers seeing you with hunter weapons."

"The Fruta Capuchina," Tania replied. "Doesn't that ring a bell?"

"Yeah," Olly recalled. "That's the fake fruit company that we use to work for. They're actually the Bardoni Smuggling Ring, which is the biggest smuggling ring in Argentine. We only joined 'cause our late daddy and mommy were her former skinners. Man, that Marisol Bandoni was a witch."

"And we only got kicked out because you couldn't keep your mouth shut about stealing squirrel monkeys from the zoo," Mattie growled. "The cost of it, our parents dying in jail."

"You wanted to sell animals in Clifton Creeks," figured Rick.

"That's right," Nicky growled. "And everything was fine until you weirdoes showed up."

**XxoxX**

The next day, the Klue Queens and the Muppets were performing their Muppet Mayhem show for the children at Lititz Heights High. Leah, Kermit, and Miss Piggy were tap-dancing to "Sinigng in the Rain," Kaylin, Nathaniel Robin, Rowlf, and Sweetums were singing along to "Rainbow Connection," Tokkori, Rick, Gonzo, and Rizzo were riding Principal Hopkins' hotwired car around, Estrella, Paige, and the Mayhem Band rocked out to "You Make My Dreams," Tania, Dr. Honeydew, Beaker, and Scooter showed off Dr. Honeydew's pogo shoes and food replicator, and finally Mr. Harmon and Swedish Chef were reading "Harmon's Homecooked Meals." While trying to make a chocolate soufflé, Swedish Chef's started getting bubbly, and he gave it to Mr. Harmon and it blew up.

Nathaniel was horrified that his father got involved in a backfired Swedish Chef recipe, but he just laughed about it, because they were the Muppets.

**The End.**

**Note: Congrats on Kermit(The Snail) for doing his best on The Masked Singer.**

**Chapter 33: An order of Olaf Goulash**

It was December 23rd, two days before Christmas Eve, and the Greenburg of Philadelphia was hosting the 60th Annual Pennslvania Friendly Scout Christmas Sleepover. Usually around this time, Friendly Scouts from all over came to the event to help the needy and they stayed there until December 26th. Estrella and Rylie were also there for the momentous occasion, because older Friendly Scouts were allowed to bring guests at that time.

In their hotel room, the Klue Queens were finishing unpacking while Kirby was going over a few Christmas carol notes. He was about to sing the Beach Boys' "Little Saint Nick" when Leah stuffed his face with some fruitcake she made herself.

"Kirby," Leah said as she covered his mouth with Christmas Friendly Scout cookies, "maybe it's best if you don't do any Christmas caroling."

"There are a lot of things to do for this year's Friendly Scout Christmas Sleepover," beamed Rylie. "A dance lesson by former Lititz Heights choreographer Stuart Stephenson, a magic show by the Huerta Brothers, and organizing the dinner for the Norwegian immigrants."

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Fayth and Leelannee were walking down towards a Norwegian-styled building when they spotted a small snowman wanting a hug. Unfortunately, the patrons found it a little weird. Feeling bad for the snowman's neglect, Leelannee went up to him. "Hewwo," she greeted. "Awe youw a weal snowman?"

The snowman nodded his head. "Hello there," he greeted. "I'm Olaf, and I like warm hugs."

"How cute?" cooed Leelannee. "I wemembew you fwon 'Frozen'."

"Are you two Fayth and Leelannee Hester?" Olaf guessed. "Sisters of the one and only Kaylin Hester of the Kirby Klue Queens."

Fayth was petrified that he knew who they were. "Wait until I tell everyone that you took a bunch of frogs to the castle with a broken horn!"

"Fayth," Leelannee said, "wemembew what Uncle Wusty said about pwaying tattwetawe."

Not wanting to ruin the trip, Fayth decided to mind her own business.

"Ho, ho, ho!" shouted the fake Santa. "Please donate to the Varme Klemmer Home for Norwegian Immigrants now!"

Olaf explained that the people in the home were going to the Greenburg this year so that the Friendly Scouts can give them a wonderful Christmas. For the last two hours, Olaf had watched the toy box fill up. However, when he looked inside, it was empty. "Looks like the toys were given to the children early."

The fake Santa looked inside and could tell that the toys weren't donated early - they were stolen.

**XxoxX**

Ten minutes later, Fayth, Leelannee, and Olaf rushed to The Greenburg Hotel to warn the Klue Queens about the toy theft. After explaining everything to them, it meant another mystery. "This sure is a bummer, Freaky Friends," stated Leeannee. "Like, the children are so going to be disappointed when they find out."

"We better find those toys before Christmas Day," Rylie said, "Good thing I celebrated Hannukah already."

"Is everything alright?" asked a middle-aged man in a green and red Friendly Scout outfit. "Ray McLure, den father of the Clifton Creeks Division."

"Your the guy who wants to bring the VKHNI people here," Leah recalled. "Have you ever been there before Christmas."

"All the time as a kid," Mr. McLure recalled. "In fact, I remember one time where Atticus took them to his kitchen shop for a lecture on Norwegian cooking. Those were the days."

After he left to check on the preparations, Leah asked Olaf if he saw anything suspiscious before the theft. "What I remember is someone wearing a green Christmas costume giving me cookies," Olaf explained. "After I finished them, everything was the same."

Now all they needed now were the suspects.

Suspects

The Huerta Brothers (magician duo)- Magicians don't usually tell their secrets.

Ray McLure (Friendly Scout den father of the Clifton Creeks Division) - His idea to bring people from VKHNI to the Greenburg.

Stuart Stephenson (Former Lititz Heights Friendly Scout, now ballroom dance instructor at Greenburg Hotel) - Hated donating things to charity.

**XxoxX**

By the empty outdoor pool, Rylie and Tania were going around for clues when they came across two Latino men practicing their magical act. When they saw Rylie and Tania, they thought they were the new assistants they hired over the phone.

After getting into a little trouble with a few magic tricks, Rylie pushed them out of the way in frustration. "We're not magician assistants," she corrected as she helped Tania out. "We're members of the Kirby Klue Queens."

"Lo siento," Rocco replied. "It's just our old one quit to become a record producer in North Philly and we don't have much time left."

After a few minutes of interviewing, Rocco and Santana explained that they wouldn't steal a donation box. "As ninos," Santana explained, "we were very poor and couldn't afford the latest video games, computer CDs, nor action figures. So we took it upon ourselves to learn magic. If you ever get those toys back, we'll pop them up for you."

"Thanks for the interview," Tania replied, "and Feliz Navidad."

**XxoxX**

On the top floor, Kaylin and Leah were going around disguised as Christmas Carolers. Kirby wanted to sing, but Leah wouldn't let him. When they found Stuart's room, they sang "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" much to Stuart's frustration. "I'm not going to give to a bunch of tone-deaf dunderheads like you two," he replied rudely. "I've an important dance lesson to get to."

Observing carefully, Leah could see some green cloth under his jacket.

"But we just wanted to donate to charity," Kaylin begged as an annoyed Stuart slammed the door.

Petrified by his rudeness, they decided to go look for Fayth, Leelannee, and Olaf.

**XxoxX**

Paige and Estrella Swinger were going around the hotel when they saw a door that led them to a storage room. Inside, Paige found a box of lost sweaters. "Like, dig these sweaters. It's a shame that polar regions are melting due to to constant use of thermostats and electrical chargers. But we can fix that by using chargers less often and wearing sweaters in the winter instead of turning up the heat."

Smelling through the boxes, Swinger found one that said "Extra Brooms." Remembering the old broom-closet trick. He opened the box with a clamp and revealed all the stolen toys.

"Stick it to the Monkey Man," chuckled Paige as someone closed the door behind them, leaving them locked.

"Get us out of here!" Estrella shouted.

"Like, this can't be good," Paige replied. "How are we going to get out?"

Seeing a '90s tape recorder, Paige got an idea on how they could get someone to get them out. After she placed Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You." She placed it by the door, hoping that someone would hear it.

Outside the storage room, Rylie and Tania were both feeling annoyed by the whole magician assistant mistake. Using her locksmith skills, Tania freed Paige and Estrella. "You know Swinger could just use his tail to escape."

"Si," Estrella agreed, "but he was too distracted by the stolen toys."

After explaining that someone locked them in, Tania recalled that usually employees had the keys to all the rooms and not hotel guests like the Huerta Brothers and Mr. McLure. That meant there was only one person who would steal the toys.

**XxoxX**

In the ballroom, Fayth and Leelannee were having a small dance lesson with Stuart while Olaf watched them in the corner. "It was nicey of Owaf to watchey us dance," Leelannee whispered.

"And don't worry about Olaf," Fayth explained to her sister quietly. "Stuart thinks Olaf's just a costume."

Leah and Kaylin came into the ballroom to see if Kaylin's sisters were okay. After Fayth, Leelannee and Olaf hugged them, Kaylin remembered something, "Wait a second." she said, "Didn't you say you saw someone in a green costume?"

"Yeah," Olaf recalled, "just like what Stuart is wearing."

"When we saw the Huerta Brothers and Mr. McLure earlier," recalled Leah. "They were wearing red."

"Uh-oh," Stuart said nervously as he tried to escape.

Seeing a Christmas bell up to, Olaf got an idea. "Kirby, suck up your socks!" he shouted as the girls chuckled.

"What he means is," Leah corrected, "suck it up!"

With one gulp of the bells, Kirby becomes Bell Kirby. Playing Feliz Navidad on the bells, he started to annoy Stuart nonstop.

"Stop it!" Stuart shouted. "I have sensitive ears!"

Estrella, Rylie, Tania, Paige, and Swinger arrived in the nick of time to stop Stuart. "Go, snowman, go!" shouted Paige.

Stuart tried to escape, but a bunch of Christmas themed hankies trapped him and made him land in the punch bowl. It was the Huerta Brothers, who came to help the Klue Queens out.

After the two brothers carried Stuart by the arms, the Klue Queens were starting to understand that Stuart is the thief. "When we mention the word donation," Kaylin recalled. "You don't seem to take it very well."

"And you were the only one with keys to every room at the Greenburg in Philadelphia," Estrella recalled. "Guests don't get private keys."

"Let's not forget you're the only who wore green while the rest wore red," Fayth finished.

"All I wanted is to order room service," Stuart explained. "Unfortunately, baked Alaskas here are expensive. So maybe, stealing some charity money, open a fake toy stand at the flea market and selling them all will give me enough money to get them."

"Mother was right about charity work," Rocco said to Santana. "They always leave us greedy people penniless."

"Gracias for your help, Huerta Brothers," Estrella smiled. "Now perhaps serving food to the Norwegian guests would make a magnifico punishment for you."

Stuart groaned about his punishment.

**XxoxX**

Two days later was Christmas day, everyone was excited. The Friendly Scouts were playing and having a good time with the Norwegian immigrant children while Stuart was force to serve the guests some hot cocoa and Christmas cookies. Ray supervised him, so he could pay debt to society. After watching the Huerta Brothers perform, Estrella saw that something was missing. "Has anyone seen Kirby?" she asked.

"Poyo, poyo, poyo!" shouted Kirby in the tone of Santa Claus.

Kirby and Olaf were coming in while giving out presents to the kids. After giving out a pair of '90s Darby dolls to Fayth and Leelannee, they gave some presents to the Klue Queens.

"Kirby mentioned that you went into the storage room," Olaf explained. "And if you must know, I'm fluent in Kirby."

Inside, they saw a bunch of familiar items from two days before. "It's the sweaters we found in the storage room," Estrella recalled.

"Of course," Olaf replied. "Can't see good sweaters in the dump."

They were so delighted by the sweaters, they gave the two critters a warm hug.

**The End.**

**Chapter 34: An Order of Planet Pancakes**

By the McBruce residence, the Klue Queens were all dressed for their stops on the Planeteers' Gaia Getaway Tour. For the next four days they'd be going to places around Pennsylvania to spread the message of helping the environment. They were picked from hundreds of students at Lititz Heights High for the project.

"Paige," Estrella said to her amigo, "Thanks again for helping us enter the Planeteers' Gaia Getaway Tour. Who'd have thought that being eco-friendly on Christmas would do that?"

"And mentioning the little Olaf," Paige replied. "But, like, tell them it's a costume to avoid exposing 'the magic'. We all know Lititz Heights is a governed facilitated place."

Out front, the Klue Queens saw a tourbus with Captain Planet on it. That was when they knew the Planeteers has arrived. Out of the bus came Kwame, Wheeler, Linka, Gi, Ma-Ti, and Ma-Ti's pet monkey, Suchi.

"Are you the Kirby Klue Queens?" Kwame asked. "We saw your picture online in case there was any identity trouble."

"That's us," Leah recalled. "You're Kwame, and behind you is Wheeler, Linka, Gi, and Ma-Ti."

"Do not forget Suchi," Ma-Ti replied as he petted his pet monkey. "It is amazing what my heart power can do for long-lasting life."

Swinger walked up to Suchi and played ring around the rosie. Just as they were about to take off, someone shouted, "Hold it!" Judson and the Bugaloos arrived with cautious faces.

"If it isn't popstar Judson Soulm," Wheeler joked. "Heard you're staying to be normal."

"Judson," Tania said to her boyfried, "we're going out of town for a while. Even sweethearts need time apart."

"I know," Judson explained. "But we've got an emergency. There's been a smuggling ring in the following parks. Read about it in the paper."

In the local paper, Tania examined the article about the diamond smuggling ring.

*Scarsmore Gardens*

*Exploration Gardens*

*The Meadows Of Birmingguay*

*Nottingjour Park*

*King's Grounds*

Immediately, the Planeteers recognized these as stops on the tour. "Hey," Leah realized. "You guys can use my car while we take our car. That way we won't suffer forfeiting troubles like Joy did in the beauty pageant episode."

"Lucky for us," Harmony continued, "Funky Rat warned us that the movie Benita was going for is a musical spectacular. If she'd won, she would poison everyone's ears."

"Then there would be a stock-out of ibuprofen," Courage giggled.

After Judson and the Bugaloos hopped into the Klue Queens' car, they were off.

Inside, Swinger was going around the place when he smelled something in a Planeteer pillow. Feeling it, Swinger could tell something rough was in the pillow. Using a pair of scissors, he saw diamonds and lots of it. After giving them to Estrella, she knew that someone on tour was part of the smuggling ring. From what Linka could remember, they only had three suspects to who was responsible for the smuggling.

Suspects

Kaeo Ainalani (Hawaiian bus driver) - Expert on diamonds.

Cassidy Jagger (Former cyclist and security guard) - Former South African cyclist and always suspicious of things.

Jules Herman (Roadie for the show)- Knows about the Planeteers and special effects more than anyone.

**XxoxX**

When they arrived at Exploration Gardens in Epharta, they saw that the whole place was polluted. Not wanting to disappoint the fans, they started cleaning up the place. Jules, on the other hand, felt a little sick and decided to rest on the tour bus. This made Leah and Kaylin very suspicious because Jules didn't look sick. Also, Cassidy explained that Jules had the same problem when they were at Scarsmore Gardens. As a guard, she could tell the difference between fake and real sickness.

Just then, a group of lions appeared out of nowhere. Now Judson and the Bugaloos arrived the same time as the lions showed up. Seeing some leaves and Kirby, they got an idea. "Kirby, suck it up!" they shouted.

With one gulp of the leaves, Kirby turned intoo Leaf Kirby. Unfortunately, the lions ran away, passing through a tree, much to everyone's confusion. On the ground, Gi found a mysterious torn note that said "Di A F," much to their confusion. In order to save the tour, they cancelled the performance at Exploration Gardens. Not only they gave the patrons a refund, but they also gave them free Captain Planet activity books, made from recycled papers.

In the bus, they needed to figure out a way to save the next stop from being ruined. I.Q. explained that he and the other Bugaloos knew a chap from their world, and they decided to contact him.

**XxoxX**

The next day, they arrived at The Meadows of Birmingguay near Playville Amusement. Ainalani was going around with some instrument cases. After taking them to a dressing room by Birmingguay Stage, he got the Klue Queens, the Planeteers, and the Bugaloos out of the cases.

"Mahalo again for sneaking us backstage," I.Q. said.

"I've taught this trick to some of the crew," Kaeo explained, "in case of desperate fans who wanted to meet them. I can tell the difference between a desperate fan and a deceiver. Although I feel like I had a decevier before when I first met Cassidy and Jules in Cape Town."

When asking Harmony about their mysterious chap, they heard "cricket noises." However, Joy told them that it wasn't crickets - it was their friend. A male Asian fairy with cricket antennas and wings and hippie apparel came out. "Peace and love, dudes!" he greeted.

"You must be Way Out Wheeler," Tania said. "The Freaky Wheels Dealer?"

"Hey, hey, Way Out!" shouted Paige. "How many tires did you save from blow-outs?"

"Enough to fill, White Lake," Way Out answered, "but just so I wouldn't be mistaken for your fiery freaky friend. Call me Way Out."

"My mom saw the Uptown 500 episode while she was pregnant with me," Wheeler recalled. "Thanks to your name, and the fact that your band is a spokesgroup, she got my name from you."

"That's right, little man," Way Out answered. "Ever since then, I.Q., Harmony, Courage, and Joy have been livening up the joint. Now what do you need our bikes for?"

"We'll fill you in later," Kaylin answered. "Now we need to figure out who is smuggling diamonds onto the bus."

Due to hatred for litterbugs, Way Out got out a half of a note. Putting it together, it gave an important message.

*Diamonds Are Forever, Remake by Jules Herman*

That was when Tania realized something. "Those weren't real lions," she recalled Tania, "but holograms, and only one of the roadies is capable of using the hologram projector, and according to Linka, you had more experience in the show buisness than any of the other roadies, who are new to the experience, and the torn note said, 'Di A F'. Which is also the name of the James Bond movie 'Diamonds Are Forever' failed to remake."

"Also," replied Leah, "Cassidy told us that Jules was claiming that he's sick when they went to the first stop. Fortunately, she could tell that he wasn't sick due to not have the symptoms of a cold."

Kaeo clearly remembered teaching Jules his smuggling technique, and he must've gotten ideas from him. Remembering that he had to fix his mistakes, he decided to join in on the action.

**XxoxX**

Later, Jules was carrying diamonds in an ukulele case and a pillow case. "Stupid monkeys playing with my personal pillows," he groaned. "Don't those circus mammals know better than to mess with payments for those overdue student loans. I spent so much time in show biz, I didn't have time to pay the loans from Stanford."

Kirby popped up and grabbed the pillow. "Hey, you little puffball!" Jules shouted. "That's my payment!"

"Well, you'll pay for this, you miner!" Tokkori shouted as he pecked his head.

"Stupid bird!" Jules shouted. "Get me out of here!"

He tried to escape, but ended up onstage. One by one, our heroes popped up on the latest eco-riding equipment. Leah, Judson, Harmony, and the Planeteers rode on bikes, Rylie and Courage rode on skateboards, I.Q. and Tania rode on scooter, Joy, Kaylin, and Paige rode rollerstakes, and Estrella, Suchi, and Swinger rode unicycles. In the audience, everyone cheered for their extreme sports show.

While trying to capture Jules, he grabbed hold of Suchi and Swinger. "Stand back or the monkeys get it!"

Off their bikes, the Planeteers knew what to do. "Let our powers combine!" Kwame shouted.

*Earth*

*Fire*

*Wind*

*Water*

*Heart*

By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!

"Stop monkeying around, man," Captain Planet joked as he gave Jules a whirlwind.

Kirby needed to help the blue hero. Seeing the empty ukulele case, he swallowed it and became Surfer Kirby. Captain Planet encouraged, "Ride the waves, you pink puffball."

Creating a tidal wave, they placed the washed-up Jules on an organic hot dog kart. Cassidy quickly came up and cuffed him. "I knew you weren't sick," Cassidy growled. "Reusing the same excuse means that you're hiding something."

"Are you going to throw me in jail?" Jules asked. "I have student loans!"

"Not so fast, dude," Way Out replied. "We got a better idea."

**XxoxX**

A week later, Jules was paying the price for his smuggling by teaching bugling bug fairies how to ride bikes while wearing a clown suit. Judson was recording Jules' punishment for a PSA on bicycle safety.

By Cafe Krofft, everyone was enjoying the pictures they took during their spring break trips. Rick was delighted that he discovered that Nottingjour Park was also a hamster sanctuary and King's Grounds had a bike park. That way, they could promote Way Out Wheeler's delivery system without exposing the magic.

By a bike rack, Kirby tried to ride a tricycle around, but ended up getting distracted by the cupcakes. He ate them and everyone laughed.

**The End.**

**Note: Happy Earth Day. Also, I picked Tommy Chong as Way Out Wheeler.**

**Chapter 35: An Order of Sponge Cake**

"Wow, Helen," Estrella said to her girlfriend. "It was really nice of your cousin and his wife to invite us over for New Year's Eve."

"I've never been to New Year's in the warm weather before," Issac replied. "This is a good chance for my geography report this January."

Leah knew that her Issac always handed his homework ahead of time, so he could continue in the decathalon team. In front of the shop, they met a cute boy with blond hair and blue highlights and Hawaiian apparel.

"Colson!" Helen shouted as she hugged her cousin. "This is my girlfriend Estrella and her amigos Leah, Tania, Paige, Kaylin, and Rylie."

Then Kirby popped up dressed as a hula boy. "And of course, their little friend, Kirby," Helen continued, "Lititz Heights' hero."

"Of course," giggled Colson. "Aliens told me a lot about you. The star warrior with the mind of a toddler."

Kirby hopped out of Colson's hands and started eating the shaved ice that a yellow sponge and a pink star were eating.

"You like pickle-shaved ice?" the pink star asked. "Yummy!"

"That is about the most disgusting flavor I've ever heard," insulted Tokkori. "Try going to the dentist."

Rylie grabbed Tokkori's mouth before he started insulting the tourists. Colson explained that the sponge and star were SpongeBob and Patrick, who were regular customers that constantly caused problems, and the pretty Hawaiian lady was his wife Meilani, who was the head waitress.

Meilani was giving SpongeBob and Patrick shaved-ice versions of Triple Gooberberry Sunrise, "A little help here, Colson?" she asked. "I don't want Hu'eu to get customer complaints again."

The Klue Queens and Issac were thrilled that Colson was loyal to the two lovable oafs. "In Hawaii," Colson explained, "we sometiems address ourselves as 'Auntie' or 'Uncle."

"Crazy," Kaylin replied, "but it reminds us of the true meaning of family."

Tokkori was so annoyed about family, he took a newspaper from an elderly lady and read it. On the cover, Paige could see a report from last week.

*Kamauoha Diamond stolen from Honolulu History Museum.*

*Police are still on search for the theft.*

"What is the Kamauoha Diamond?" Leah asked curiously.

"One of the rarest diamonds in Hawaii," Colson explained. "It's been a week since the theft and they haven't had a clue. The only clue is an address card to Hoku Street, where their shops are."

Helen was hoping that the shop wasn't the culprit, so they decided to investigate for them. "I'M READY!" shouted SpongeBob as Leah grabbed a hold of him and covered his mouth. "I just love helping new friends!"

"Take it easy, SpongeBob," snarled Leah. "We don't want you to blow your cover."

"Sorry," SpongeBob replied. "And Patrick wants to help too."

Worried that Patrick would eat all the profits again, they decided to let him investigate too. By a table, Colson gave out a list of suspects to who would wanna steal the diamond.

Suspects

Nani Kawai (Retired surfing instructor/tourist trap lady) - Wore jewels similar to to the stolen diamond.

Malie and KeoKekaula (Jewelry shop owners) - Experience in jewels and current display has the same color as the stolen jewels.

Hu'eu Kalili (Meilani's older sister and manager of Kalili Kravings) - Disapproves her little sister's

**XxoxX**

In front of the tourist trap shop known as Tropical Trap, Leah, Paige, and Issac were arriving to talk about the missing jewel. Nani heard about the theft, but the jewels she had on were onyx replicas of the stolen jewel. "The museum sells these things all the time and I thought I could bring good luck to my tourist trap," she explained. This meant one thing - she didn't do it.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at Kalili Kravings, Tania, Estrella, and Helen went undercover as a bunch of workers so they can learn about Hu'Eu. Luckily, Meilani distracted her with overdue bills and marketing deals so she won't suspect the fake employees.

"I like to complain!" shouted an employee. "Someone has put monkey-spit on my shaved ice!"

In the kitchen, a disgusted Estrella saw Swinger placing monkey spit into the shaved ice. "Swinger," she scolded, "what did I tell you about putting monkey spit on food?"

Swinger felt bad because he was only trying to help. "I'll eat it!" Patrick shouted as he ate the monkey-spit shaved ice.

To make up for scolding Swinger, Estrella gave him a banana shaved ice when she spotted a clue on the ground. It was a flier for the movie "Titanic." Estrella remembered Helen telling her that last week they had a movie-in for "Titanic," and Kekaula met for the first time via same shop and movie where Meilani and Hu'Eu's parents opened it and did monthly movie-ins for those who couldn't afford movie tickets.

"When will they show a horror movie?" Patrick asked as he got out some halloween cookies.

"Patrick," replied Tania as she got out some grape flavoring, "this is not Halloween. This is New Year's Eve."

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at The Heart of the Jewels, Kaylin and Rylie were both looking around the jewels when a middle-aged couple came up. "May we help you?" asked the elderly man.

"Are you two Malie and Keo Kekaula?" Rylie asked.

"That's us," Keo answered. "My wife and I are delighted to sample you this month's garnet display."

Kaylin and Rylie shook their heads and instead asked about the missing jewels. When Tokkori popped up and started luring female birds, Malie and Keo kicked them out because of a no-pet policy. "This is the second heavy duty we have this month," complained Malie.

"Relax, dear," Keo said to his wife. "I'll get your pain relief."

What Malie said made Kaylin and Rylie feel suspicious. After Rick helped the girls up, he grabbed Tokkori, "Hey, you fuzzy freak!" he shouted angrily. "How am I going to insult these hula babe birds?"

"Mate, I tried to tell you not to go in due to no pets allowed," Rick growled, "but you never listened."

**XxoxX**

At the Honolulu Police Department, the Klue Queens tried to convince the lead cop to look at the card, but he refused and said it was for police personal use only. SpongeBob and Patrick felt bad that they didn't get to take a glimpse at it. Observing a water tank, Patrick got an idea. "Kirby, suck it up!" he shouted.

With one gulp of the water tank, Kirby turned into Water Kirby. He made the police department flood like crazy. Tania remembered her aquatic safety and gave Kirby some Candy Peppermint Resucitation to calm him down. After the water went away, a soaked Helen found the card outside the evidence bag. "We better get the girls, fast," she suggested.

**XxoxX**

Back at The Heart of the Jewels, Malie and Keo were opening their secret jewel safe where they got out the Kamauoha Diamond. "Our scheme totally worked, darling," Keo sneared as he peck kissed his wife. "Sneaking into the museum at night and taking the diamond with your old locksmith gear was a great way to take the diamond."

"I know, darling," Malie replied. "Now we can win the New Year Diamondlution Contest tonight."

Before they got a chance to leave, the Klue Queens came in. "Dude and dudette," Paige interupted, "why not trying a little IMAGINATION!"

This weirded the couple out. They tried to escape, but Swinger and Tokorri tossed chocolate shaved ice at them. "CHOCOLATE!" Tokkori shouted. "Be sure to check your cholesterol, you crooks!"

Amongst the other nautical nonsense, Rylie stated gladly that she was big and proud, Kaylin defining "FUN" in song, Estrella scaring them with the Hash Slinging Slasher story, Leah and Issac taking them with hydro-dynamic spatulas with turbo drive. For the finale, Tania got out the Halloween cookies from before, told Kirby to,"suck it up," and turn him into Ghost Kirby.

This scared Malie and Keo so much, they barged out of their ship and acidentally breaking their new white sedan with the lights on. "We know about your diamond theft," Kaylin started.

"Our first clue was the address was the address for Hoku Street," Estrella continued. "The police couldn't get the whole thing cleared because it was covered in jewel polish."

"Then there was the flier for the Titanic," Kaylin explained. "The Kamauoha Diamond was discovered in December 1997, the same year James Cameron's "Titanic" came out. Thanks to having a brother who kept a prototype dress for the movie, I was able to learn more about the movie."

"And let's not forget where you two kicked us out," Rylie growled. "You said that this was the second heavy duty you had this month, meaning that the first one already happened."

"Looks like you won't be getting any bread now," Paige declared. "We gotta cut out before we get in trouble."

**XxoxX**

Later that night, everyone at Kalili Kravings was celebrating New Year's Eve. Hu'Eu was coming out in an elaborate green Hawaiian dress and saw that everything was order and that Colson was doing a good job organizing a party while controlling SpongeBob and Patrick at the same time.

"Now that Malie and Keo are in jail," Hu'Eu smiled, "a couple of college graduates I know would be happy to take over."

"Hey everyone!" shouted SpongeBob. "It's almost time for the new year!"

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*Happy New Year!*

**The End.**

**The End.**

**Chapter 36: An Order of Pym Pancakes**

At a NSA secret laboratory in Philadelphia, Dr. Henry Pym was working on a top secret experiment when someone stole a special ray gun.

**XxoxX**

The next day, the Klue Queens were waiting in the mayor's office when Kirby came across a flier for a chicken circus show.

*Professor Spudcluck's Chicken Circus*

"Kirby," Leah interrupted as she picked him up, "we don't have time to go to a chicken circus."

While looking around her bookcase of plays, Kaylin found one with a Norwegian god with snakes on them. Carefully, she read the title.

*Springtime for Loki: A Gay Romp with Loki and Sigyn at Oslo*

After placing the play away, Kaylin spotted a startled Mayor Hess, who was afraid that someone would find her super secret play. "Mayor," Kaylin chuckled, "it's just a play, so there's nothing to be afraid of."

"You don't understand," Mayor Hess replied nervously. "That play is illegal in the human world, because it'll cause a total laughing riot. They laughing is so strong, it'll make humans die from it or lose their voice. Remember that not only am I mayor of this fine town - I'm also Lititz Heights' ultimate play critic." Suddenly, Dr. Pym comforted the startled mayor. "This is my old college friend, Dr. Henry Pym," she explained, "an NSA scientist and former Ant-Man."

"Oh, please," Dr. Pym replied. "Call me Hank. Louise has told me all about your adventures with that little puffball named Kirby." He was there to test out his new gadget he called "Serious Suits" that protected anyone from any wacky effect. This made the Klue Queens confused. Little did they know, the mysterious person who stole Pym's ray gun pressed the button and made the Klue Queens shrunk.

"Mayor!" shouted Leah. "Are you sure that shrinking is part of the experiment?"

"I don't think so," Mayor Hess answered as she saw the horror of their shrinking.

Dr. Pym looked at his security system on his phone and saw that his Shrinker Shrink Ray had been stolen and the footage of the culprit was covered. He had a funny feeling that the culprit must be one of the workers on Project: Serious.

Suspects

Jewel Dunn - Loves attention

Richard Beasley - Strong experience in shrinking machines

Brooklyn Barry - Trying to impress Dr. Pym.

**XxoxX**

Kirby, Leah, and Kaylin were going around the library when they came across three scientists, they were the members of Project: Serious. Jewel was an African-American woman in a wheelchair, Richard was a caucasian man with slick graying hair, and Brooklyn was a copper hair and a scar over her right eye.

"Excuse me," said a tiny Leah. "We're a part of Project: Serious, and someone shrunk us."

Richard and Jewel were petrified, while Brooklyn just rolled her eyes carelessly and turned her head.

As they were interviewing the three scientists, Kirby found a note and gave it to Leah. "It's a note for a laughing gas chemical," she said. "Even without smelling it I can still giggle."

"Give me that," Brooklyn barked as she tossed the note away, leaving them suspicious.

**XxoxX**

At the NSA Philadelphia hideout, Dr. Pym telelported himself, Tania, and Estrella there to search for some clues. "This was the last place my shrink ray got stolen," he explained. "If we don't find it soon, everything will be ruined."

"Has other scientists built the shrink ray?" Tania asked.

"They have," Dr. Pym answered, "but this one is really powerful. The Shrinker Shrink Ray was named after the Krofft villain Dr. Shrinker that can make things shrink up to 6 inches."

"Just like the Shrinkies in the show," Estrella recalled.

When they got off of Dr. Pym's shoulders, Estrella found something. "It's a map of the NSA secret hideout," she said. "And it has some kind of symbol."

Observing carefully, Tania could tell that it was a flag of Brooklyn. She thought that the culprit could be from Brooklyn, New York, near where the main NSA Headquarters was, but it could mean something else.

"I tell you one thing," Dr. Pym replied. "But it's nothing like that 48-hour laugh gas. We rejected it due to skin issues."

**XxoxX**

At the mayor's office, Mayor Hess was pacing back and fourth. She wondered how could she get some of Lititz Heights town heroes back to their normal size before their parents find out. "Ooh, Mr. Hayato is going to yell at me in rage if he sees one of his offsprings shrunken."

"Relax, Girl," Paige replied, "Father and I get in arguements all the time, but it only lasts 5 minutes. Then we like, solve the problems without violence."

"You and your hippie ways, homie." giggled Rylie as she spotted a mysterious figure trying to shrink the mayor.

Using her Broadway dancing, Mayor Hess tried to take the mysterious figure down, only to acidentally break the machine. Luckily, Paige got a glimpse of the mysterious person's scar.

After Mayor Hess got up, she decided to calm down with some green tea.

**XxoxX**

Outside town hall, Swinger, Rick, and Tokkori were going around the garbage for some food when they spotted the Bug Pups playing in it. Fenmore explained that the Bugaloos are having some friends over from the Krofftverse and they don't want to go potty on their shoes.

"Well, why don't you use Rick as a toilet?" Tokkori insulted, much to his irritation.

"Come on, mate," Rick angrily replied. "The Klue Queens are small and we need to help them."

From the door, they could see Mayor Hess petrified by her accident. Just then, Rick recalled that fairies could grant wishes and decided to get the Bugaloos.

**XxoxX**

Later, Dr. Pym, Kirby, Swinger, Rick, and the tiny Klue Queens arrived at Guevara's Cantina where Judson and the Bugaloos were rehearsing their song, "Castle In The Air," when Kirby bounced onstage while Leah and Paige were both holding onto their lives.

"Mellow out, Kirby," said a tiny Paige. "I know you love Bugaloo music, but remember that we need to change back to normal."

Thinking about fairies, Tania realized something. "Bug fairies can grant wishes, right?" she asked.

"As long that doesn't involving winning stuff, making people falling in love with others, nor killing someone," Harmony answered.

"Then we wish we were back to our old height," Tania replied.

Using their bug fairy magic, they changed the Klue Queens back to their original height. Everyone was thrilled to have them back to normal.

They needed a way to figure out who would steal the ray gun. Just then, Tania realized something else. "Maybe we can make the culprit confess her deeds by performing 'Springtime for Loki'."

"You know that play is illegal," Dr. Pym reminded.

"I know," Tania replied. "But sometimes, we gotta do illegal things to do the right thing."

"I went over the play before with Louise," Dr. Pym replied, "and it has a few silly shenanigans."

Everyone was confused, but they had to do it.

**XxoxX**

Later that evening, Brooklyn was arriving at Lititz Heights High for the production of Springtime for Loki. All the after school programs were cancelled cause Principal Hopkins already knows about Springtime for Loki and is afraid that the students would get cursed.

When the lights dim, the curtain opened and Springtime for Loki was a go. The Klue Queens pets were backstage, doing the special effects. Judsong and The Bugaloos were onstage in Abba apparel and began to dance The Hokey Pokey.

*Norway was having trouble*

*What a sad, sad story*

*Needed a new ruler to restore*

*Its Loktastic glory*

*Where, oh, where was he?*

*Where could that god be?*

*We looked around and then we found*

*The god for you and me*

*And now it's...*

Dr. Pym came onstage as a Odin while Destiny, Charlotte, Aranea, and Norma Jean came out dressed as valkyrie warriors.

*Springtime for Loki and Norway*

*Oslo is happy and gay!*

*Winter for Sweden and France*

*Come on, Norwegians*

*Go into your dance!*

The Klue Queens came out onstage, dressed a feminine version of Loki. Just then, Rick came out as a viking.

*I was born in a land of tricks and that is why they call me Rick.*

In the audience, started to chuckle. Onstage, Tokkori came onstage dressed as a viking as well.

*Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Loki party!*

After thirty seconds of tap dancing, Destiny came onstage as to make announcement.

*The King is coming, The King is coming, The King is coming.*

Everyone made room for the main attraction.

*Long Live Loki!*

From the curtain, a god with shoulder length back hair and wearing green appeared and struck a pose.

*Long Live myself*

*Long Live me*

*I'm the God*

*Who's out to change our history*

*Everything I do, I do for you!*

*If you're looking for a war, here's a prank one in store!*

*Long Live myself*

*Raise your root beer*

*Ev'ry Nasty Naughty Norwegian stand and cheer*

After a final pose, everyone shouted, "Long Live Loki!"

The performance was so silly that Brooklyn started to laugh and admitted that she shrunk the Klue Queens and destroyed the weapon. "All I wanted was for Dr. Pym to be amazed by laughing gas experiment, Project: 48," she laughed as she slapped Kirby. "I really wanted him to use my project, but instead, he was more interested with the Serious Suits so they wouldn't have any effects on the illegal play."

"Of course, your chemical notes and your map with the Brooklyn flag on it blew your cover," Leah replied. "Not to mention that glimpse of your scar."

"I got that during the first test of last year," laughed Brooklyn. "Are you going to throw me in jail?"

"I think laughing for two weeks straight is punishment enough," Dr. Pym answered as he began to hiccup.

Everyone was confused by Dr. Pym's hiccup. All of a sudden, many silly things started happening. The Klue Queens started quacking like ducks, Judson spun like crazy while sounding like a sheep, the Bugaloos got green tongues with rainbow spots and started speaking like chipmunks, Aranea, Destiny, Norma Jean, and Charlotte hiccuped uncontrollably, Dr. Pym was walking on his hands while also having hiccups, and Mayor Hess started dancing like a buffoon. Only Swinger, Rick, Tokkori, Masahiro, Little Miss Starlight, the Bugs Pups, and Kirby were unaffected. Tokkori laughed at their misfortunes while the others started to worry.

"Not only it makes the audience laugh uncontollably for two weeks," continued Mayor Hess, "but it also makes the cast and crew act wacky. It has no effect on animals."

"That explaines why us animals here are fine," Rick replied. "But how are we going to change them back?"

"Who cares?" Tokkori laughed. "This is an encore."

That was when they realize something: the guy playing Loki in the play \*was\* Loki. "Whenever somebody in the human world does my play," Loki explained, "I have to show up and sing. And don't worry about your boyfriend Issac, because I told him to go home and scuff down on pickle pizza."

Loki tried to escape, but Swinger stopped him. "Get off of me, you primate!" shouted Loki.

"Not until you tell us how to change them back," growled Rick.

"Get 'em, Bug Pups!" shouted Courage in a squeaky voice.

"Okay, okay!" shouted Loki. "I'll tell you what you need to do to change back. You just need to tickle your nose with chicken feathers - any kind. Just get these mangey mutts away from me."

"The Bug Pups aren't mangey!" shouted Harmony in a squeaky voice. "They're brilliant and you're a nutter!"

Kirby remembered a chicken circus being in town. Quickly, he summoned the chickens from the Professor Spudcluck's Chicken Circus via star portal and caused a chicken chaos.

"Good thing Kirby didn't go Portal Kirby this time," Leah stated, "'cause that's one of Kirby's dangerous moves."

Loki teleported, then Issac showed up with the Shrinkies: Brad, B.J., and Gordie. "Scuff down on pickle pizza?" Issac asked. "Everyone knows that pickle pizza is usually for aliens."

"And mad scientists," Brad replied.

"The Shrinkies," Estrella recalled, "and in their normal size."

"It's amazing what Bugaloo magic can do," B.J. replied.

"We were arriving from Professor Spudcluck's Chicken Circus when we saw a grumpy Issac talking about not being in 'Springtime for Loki'," Gordie replied. "And everyone knows that play is illegal for literal non-stop laughing and making the crew act silly."

"Easy, bro," B.J replied. "We all know about 'Springtime for Loki'."

While everyone was recovering from their silly stuff, Kirby started juggling eggs when he slipped on a Norwegian run and acidentally dropped eggs onto Tokkori, much to his disgust.

**The End**

**Chapter 37: An Order of Platypus Peta**

It was a cloudy day at the Lititz Heights train station, and reporter Tang Yanghui was with an Indian-American woman with magical apparel. She reported, "This is Tang Yanghui of the Lititz Heights News, international ecologist and platypus rights activist Pera will be coming to Lititz Heights for the 'Save the Platypus' night. She knows how important these marsupials are."

"That's right," Pera agreed. "I've just got here from my gig on the Anthem Getaway. Right now me and my platypuses are going to perform at Lititz Heights High."

"Before now," Tang replied, "you were having lunch at the famous Roadhouse Fantasia, main hangout for town heroes the Kirby Klue Queens."

"You would not believe how wonderful Lorraine was to me," Pera smiled. "She even gave me a free dessert." After the interview, she arrived to her rented van, only to find her pet platypuses missing.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at the library, the Klue Queens, Rick, Tokkori, and Kirby were finishing up their homework when Rylie accidentally stepped on a green fuzzy creature. She inquired, "A platypus?"

The creature got up and placed his brown fedora on. "Perry the Platypus?" Rylie asked.

Perry made some chirping noises, which made the Klue Queens confused. Luckily, Rick's capability of speaking platypus was able to translate him. "Perry here is saying that Pera's platypus troop has gone missing and heard that you're the only girls who can solve this case. The police would probably take a very long time."

"That is true," Kaylin agreed as she placed her fashion magazine down. "Chief Hess doesn't trust us."

When asking for suspects, Perry narrowed it to three people.

Suspects

Tallie Porche(Kris's assistant)- Every interview and apperance she has with Pera, she seems to be mad at her.

Kris Shah(Unknown girl in Pera's diary entries)- A mysterious girl Pera seems to know.

Alexus Thumper(Pera's head marketer)- Pera heard rumors of him planning a surprise, but isn't sure if it's a mean or wonderful.

**XxoxX**

Later at the train station, Leah, Estrella, and Tania were going around for some clues. As for Swinger and Kirby, they were both looking at the map of Lititz Heights so they could go over which is which. While they were interviewing the crew who was on the train, they spotted an Australian girl arguing with the conductor.

"I'm telling you," the conductor replied, "I know nothing about any platypus thefts."

"Well, if you don't tell Pera where they are," the Australian girl replied, "I'm going to give you a Kangaroo punching of a life time."

The trio began to realize that the grumpy Australian girl yelling at the conductor was Tallie. Instead of interviewing her, they decided to cut the scene so she wouldn't startle Kirby.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Kaylin, Rylie, Paige, Perry Tokkori, and Rick were at Dono Studios, which was a place where Pera performed the last time she came to Lititz Heights. While Kaylin, Rylie, and Paige came through the door, Perry, Tokkori, and Rick went through the window like spies. Suddenly, they saw Eli interviewing an African-American boy. He was Alexus, and he was there to market Pera's show and to show her a surprise proposal for the show. This meant one thing: Pera and Alexus were in love. Even though Perry didn't do romance much, he strongly believed in family love.

Before they could leave, Eli explained that someone came in and scared away the visiting pet show. To add detail, he showed a recording on an old tape recorder and they heard someone in an Aussie accent calling them "drongos." Paige and Rick recognized the slang before, but didn't know what it meant.

**XxoxX**

Later that night, Paige was sleeping peacefully when she smelled something chocolatey. Rick was also there so he could help look after the baby. They crept downstairs and saw Peter cooking in the kitchen.

"Peter," groaned Paige, "It's 4 in the morning. Are you preparing chocolate pudding for Koharu again?"

"I am," answered Peter. "You know me, sis. I love to lose control of my life. Plus. this could be a good way to help the baby with breakfast. Celia would say that I'm being a 'drongo', but she's, like, out of her mind."

Realizing this, Paige and Rick finally remembered that "drongo" meant "idiot," which was what Peter was mostly.

**XxoxX**

At The Bauer Hotel the next morning, Pera was feeling glum due to the missing platypuses. Leah, Paige, and Kaylin decided to stop there before school to see how she was doing. Pera explained that she found green platypus hair in her diary and remembered that her platypuses are brown.

"Still," Kaylin replied, "we still can't find Kris Shah. She's a suspect."

"Girls," Pera giggled, "Kris Shah is my real name. I've been going by Pera since I was eight years old because of my deep love for the cute little creatures."

"That makes a lot of sense," Leah replied. "They don't call you Pera for nothing."

While the waiter was passing by, Perry could smell the yummy shrimp omelet. Pera felt a bit horrified by it because of a mistake she made last year: she accidentally gave her a barbie sandwich and didn't know about Tallie's food allergies. Suddenly, on his wrist communicator, Perry showed a video of Tallie's allergy attack, and the Klue Queens had a feeling that Tallie is the culprit.

**XxoxX**

That afternoon in the cafeteria, Tallie was sneaking around disguised as a lunch lady. She grabbed some spaghetti with her bare hands and asked Peter and his gang, "Care to do a little food fight?"

"Food fight!" Peter shouted as he tossed the apple juice at Principal Hopkins, much to her anger. She tried to tell the students to stop, but they didn't listen. The Klue Queens played along to so Tallie wouldn't suspect anything. Observing Tallie's face, Principal Hopkins knew that she didn't work at the school. Before Principal Hopkins grabbed her and escort her out, she grabbed a lit piece of dynamite, much to the students' horror. With her quick thinking, Tania got an idea. "Kirby, suck it up!" she shouted.

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Bomb Kirby. In a flash, Bomb Kirby used the bomb to trap Tallie. The bomb exploded, and out came an ice cream-covered Tallie.

"Well, well, well," Leah said as she, Tania, Pera, and Perry walked up. "Looks like we have our little platypus thief."

"How did you know it was me?" Tallie asked. "I planned my platypus-napping carefully."

"There was the the Free Halo Quality Trophy that Pera showed us," Tania recalled, "which she won for three years running until Pera won for her Platypus Party Palace. Then there was the recorded message of Dono Studios about a grumpy girl scaring saying that their all 'drongos', which is Australian for 'idiots'. And the shrimp omelet that we saw? Pera felt a little horrified by this, meaning that part of it was her fault."

"I wanted revenge for humiliation her on live television," Tallie groaned. "Your marsupials are always the stars. First I was the platypus protector after you gave me your barbie sandwiches...that had shrimp!"

"But that was an accident," Pera admitted. "I didn't know that you were allergic to shrimp."

"Hey, dudettes," Paige replied as she came up. "Y'all know that fighting and revenge doesn't solve your problems. It can cause hyperventilation, regret, and hate."

"Now where are the missing platypuses?" asked Tania. "Or else."

"Or else what?" Tallie asked.

Everyone glared at Tokkori and he knew what to do. "How about having a brain barbie with your brain?" Tokkori insulted, much to Tallie's dismay. "Or perhaps you should fall into a volcano to control that angry temper of yours." Tallie started feeling sad. Tokkori continued, "Or maybe you should become a Whale Song-Singing Double-Breasted Angle Hooper's lunch!"

"OKAY! OKAY!" shouted Tallie in fear. "They're at the Promising Pets Daycare. I paid the owner to hide the platypuses there until the show gets cancelled."

"Promising Pets Daycare?" Paige asked. "That's the name of the pet daycare/rescue center. I remember volunteering there a few times. Plus, the animals are hugely fond of Peter."

The Klue Queens and Issac were excused so they could help Pera reclaim her platypuses and explain the misunderstanding.

As for Tallie, she was punished for her kidnapping by cleaning up the food fight all by herself.

**XxoxX**

After school, Pera's Platypus Party Palace was going on at the school football field. As repayment for all the help, the Klue Queens became the substitute assistants for the show. Also, Perry, Tokkori, Rick, Swinger, and Kirby. After their act, Issac came onstage and told Pera that Alexus has something to tell her. Alexus came onstage as a magician and from a wave of his hand came a bouquet of lotuses. With tears of joy, Pera accepted Alexus's proposal. Leah thought that it would be a good promposal for Issac when Senior Prom comes.

In the audience, Peter remembered the many times of how he was jealous of Issac, but decided to get over it.

**The End**

**Chapter 38: An Order of Tipton Torte**

In the elaborate Tipton Hotel in Philadelphia, London was sleeping peacefully. Little did she know, someone broke into her room, stole a necklace that looked like a sesame seed bun next to a bunch of Tipton Cosmetics, and replaced it with a fake.

**XxoxX**

In the afternoon, outside the Lititz Heights Public Library, the Klue Queens, Issac, Martin, and Helen were playing spin the bottle. As soon as the bottle hit Martin, Leah kissed him on the cheek. Rylie was okay with it because she remembered the time she thought Tania was stealing Martin from her. "Aww, phooey," groaned a soothing voice behind them. "Playing spin the bottle without me?"

"Nathaniel," smiled Kaylin as she rushed up to hug her boyfriend. "Are you here for the modeling audition?"

"I'm a casting director too," Nathaniel replied. "Father remembers Wilfred Tipton for being a pollution loving greedy tightwad. We decided not to talk to him anymore. The new owner, Marion Moseby, is more responsible, and Wilfred's daughter London sure is fabulous."

"London Tipton?" asked Estrella "The fashion tycoon and star of late Naughties web show, 'Yay Me starring London Tipton'?"

"That's her," Nathaniel answered. "Of course, Norma Jean, Aranea, and Charlotte are volunteering to give snacks to the auditioners. Principal Hopkins didn't want to see any patron go hungry."

**XxoxX**

At Lititz Heights High, the audition for the new Tipton Torte audition. Tipton Torte was a sweets themed fashion collection. London was coming in not only in a fabulous milkshake themed outfit, but is bummed about her stolen necklace. The Klue Queens were arriving on the scene. They didn't know what the Sesame Bun Sequence was, so they asked Nathaniel. "The Sesame Bun Sequence is a new necklace London owns," he explained. "Her sweetheart, Ed, worked at a burger joint in Chicago for a very long time, and his determination inspired London to create a necklace."

"Aww," Kaylin cooed. "A necklace to remind us no matter was class you're in, you still care."

While wondering about suspects, Nathaniel had three models in mind.

Suspects

Leona Fujita (Model) - Very strange manner and doesn't talk a lot.

Jude Olmos (Model) - Wants the other models out of the picture.

Cassidy Nenci (Model) - Doesn't want to interfere with London's troubles.

Nathaniel also explained that the only clue to who was responsible was an imported Italian bobby pin stuck into the door.

**XxoxX**

Kaylin, Paige, and Leah were interviewing the models when they spotted a Latina girl in black punk-rock apparel with a criminal record paper. Knowing that Jude needed someone to talk too, Paige decided to go comfort her. By a corner, Jude explained that her father, Sergio Olmos, was once a diamond thief so he can support her very poor family. However, he got caught one day and was brought to justice. "Even though Papa is in jail," she continued, "I do my best to support him and try to avoid the mistakes he made as a thief. I want the other models out so they won't know who my Papa is. I'm scared they would judge me."

"Dudette," Paige replied, "have you ever read 'A Bad Case of Stripes'? The main girl was afraid of being judged, until a mysterious woman came in. For a hippie, I don't judge frequently."

*Jude felt happy thanks to Paige's reassurance. Below her was a magazine article.*

*Brass Jewel Wedding Gowns, they could make you go from lame to fame*

Observing carefully, Kaylin could see that the two models were different. The fame one was London while the lame one was Cassidy.

Cassidy had fabulous blonde hair and looked like a model from "America's Next Top Model." This made Paige very suspicious. For detectives, they knew that seeing someone glum in the picture is a sign of a suspect.

**XxoxX**

In the school's computer lab Tania, Rylie, Martin, and Estrella were hacking into the Philadelphia Tipton hotel. "Thanks again for helping out, Martin," Rylie as she kissed her boyfriend. "We can't just barge into The Tipton Hotel now."

When they got into the security system, a mysterious person came in and placed hairspray in it. This made the trio very suspicious.

Outside the computer room, Cassidy was harassing a Japanese model for not being able to speak English. "I don't care if your translator is sick," Cassidy insulted. "If you can't speak English, you can't be in the show."

Tania was so annoyed by Cassidy's insult, she helped her up and talked to her in Japanese. In translation, Leona explained that most of the time her translator Yukio was supposed to be here, but got the flu. In order to help Leona, she decided to be her translator for the audition.

"Your not worth it, you love monster," Cassidy growled. "Leona will never be in the show."

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at the audition, most of the models began to forfeit due to London's behavior. They could recall her starting out as a spoiled brat until the moment she brought her father to justice after stealing her diamonds, Tina and Cheryl. Just then, a sassy blond woman came in to check on her daughter, Charlotte.

"Aunt Lane," Nathaniel said in surprise. "I didn't expect you here."

"Come on now," Aunt Lane replied in a New York accent. "I couldn't just miss out on Lottie Pop's audition, now could I?"

Nathaniel was shocked, because his mom's younger sister mistakenly thought Charlotte was auditioning to become a model, when really she was giving out snacks to the models. He tried to explain, but she didn't listen. "I never knew why Genevieve saw in your old man," Aunt Lane replied, "but he sure is a success."

Charlotte, Aranea, and Norma Jean were coming in with papers from Cassidy, but when they spotted Lane, Charlotte tossed the papers and decided to audition for London, even though she was shy.

**XxoxX**

The next day at a Friendly Scout cookie sale, Billie, Isla, Miley, and Zara were coming from their crochet game when they read a flier for a summer event. Leah tried to convince Billie, but she didn't care. "Donate money from Holman's to the Friendly Scouts Summer Jamboree?" she asked rudely. "Next I suppose you wan me to go to a charity concert featuring a Fifth Harmony reunion."

Those words triggered Tania. "Fifth Harmony," she recalled. "Didn't Cassidy say something about Fifth Harmony?"

"I did," Cassidy replied while coming up to them, "Jukebox Rock was crowded, so I decided to find a good Friendly Scout stand around here. And didn't that Kaylin girl try to audition for Tipton Torte?"

"I did," Kaylin replied, "but then Nathaniel called and told me that Charlotte is taking over and they figures she's perfect for the Tipton Torte fashion line."

Kirby suddenly then smelled something from her purse. He grabbed the purse and grabbed some gummy bears from her rhinestone purse, and out of the purse was the Sesame Bun Sequence. This meant one thing: Cassidy was the thief. She tried to escape, but Kaylin got a plan. "Kirby, suck it up!" she shouted.

With one gulp of the gummy bears, Kirby turned into Plasma Kirby. Using his Plasma Power, he trapped Cassidy by melting her expensive heels. "I had it all planned out until that little puffball showed up," Cassidy growled. "This was going to be the perfect payback on London for being more successful than The Nenci Suites."

"Lucky for us," replied Leah. "We found a bobby pin by London's Philadelphia suite. They're not just any bobby pins - they're expensive imported ones from Italy."

"Finally," Kaylin replied. "A picture of Cassidy modeling for a wedding gown. It was part of a comparison from lame to fame, with London's picture."

"Plus there's the hairspray on the security cameras," Tania finished. "Cassidy used a lot of hairspray."

"Far out, Kirby," Paige replied as she high-fived Kirby. "You nailed those nails."

Billie, Miley, and Zara were disgusted by Cassidy getting caught with a crime. "Next time," Billie whispered, "try hiding it in your hotel room until the coast is clear."

**XxoxX**

That night, everyone was playing spin the bottle again when a commercial aired for Tipton Torte fashion collection. They showed Leona, Jude, and Charlotte posing in sweet fashion and ending it saying "Yay Me" with London and hugging Kirby. "Speaking of which," Estrella asked, "donde estas Kirby?"

Kirby was getting out a full soda bottle so he could play. He spun it and when it opened towards Tokkori, he flew towards the sofa, and Kirby tried to kiss the soaked bird. Everyone laughed.

**The End**

**Chapter 39: An Order of Wonka Candy**

On a happy sunny day in Lititz Heights, Billie was coming out of Posh Pedicure nail salon when she spotted Cristina, Carolina, Estrella, and Charlotte painting their nails. To rub it in, Billie showed off her expensive painted nails. Instead of being jealous, they were happy for her. Billie was annoyed. A few minutes later, Billie was at Jukebox Rock for a coffee and croissant when the waiter told her that they were out of croissants and it would be done in twenty minutes. Billie was so angry, she pushed the waiter, and he fearfully gave her the unbaked croissants. Finally, she was going to her sewing lecture at the rec center when she got distracted by some visiting hunky lifeguards on an aquatic safety lecture. She tried to woo them, but they ran away because they were running late. However, this made Billie think they were avoiding her for no reason. She was so mad, she stomped off.

Little did anyone know, someone took some of the trimmed nails of Billie Holman and placed it in a magenta chemical.

**XxoxX**

Later at Roadhouse Fantasia, Mr. Hayato and Mr. and Mrs. Phelps was gathering up much chocolate as they can for their visiting chocolatier. Leah, Kaylin, Paige, Rylie, and Tania were coming in when a German butler came in with some hand sanitizer.

"Be sure to be careful of the super sized sculpture that my boss is making," said the butler.

Curious, the three girls went to the middle of the restaurant and spotted a man with a purple jacket using candy magic to make a super-sized chocolate sculptor of Kirby. Kirby was holding still for the sculpture. To avoid eating it, Kirby had to stare at a pile of pies. After it was done, Kirby ate the pies and spat the leftovers on the sculpture. "Good aiming, little buddy!" shouted the man.

Remembering him from NSA files, Leah recognized him as Willy Wonka, the chocolatier. Tania recalled that he had a lot of crazy shenanigans that weirded people out. Luckily, his butler Wilkinson made sure nobody got sick or hurt.

"The famous Kirby Klue Queens have arrived," Wonka said as he did a somersault towards them. "I didn't go through all the trouble to be host of the 75th annual Lititz Heights Candy Convention - this year at Roadhouse Fantasia."

"Maybe we can help you," Kaylin suggested. "The Friendly Scouts of our town could learn how to make their own candy."

Wonka's interest piqued, because he was making for the candy convention this weekend. "You are not your average candy man," admitted Leah.

In the VIP room, three candy-coated workers came in with some candy art. "Where should we place these candy necklaces?" asked a red-haired worker.

"By the candy jewelry as always," Wonka answered.

"You got it," answered a brunette worker.

"Lo siento about being late," Estrella stated from behind. "Mi hermanas and I were painting each other's nails and I bumped into the nail salon owner who complained about a dumpster diver sneaking in and stealing garbage."

The blonde one flinched, held his nose, and took off, much to Wilkinson's curiosity. To cheer them up, Wonka gave the girls, Rick, and Kirby some Wonka Sparkle Bars.

**XxoxX**

During the night, a mysterious figure was going around with some strange soda pop. The figure shook the bottle really hard, opened it, and spread a magenta haze across town.

**XxoxX**

The next day, the Klue Queens were arriving for breakfast. Rick was recovering from a cold. He was about to sneeze when Kaylin held a hankie towards him. "No, Rick," she said. "No sneezing in the food."

"Right," Rick replied. "People would know by the taste."

"Why bother?" Lorraine interrupted rudely. "You can sneeze wherever you want."

Kaylin and Rick were surprised by Lorraine's rudeness. There was something weird going on. After sitting down, they could both see everyone in the entire restaurant acting rude and greedy.

"There's something wrong with those mates," Rick whispered as he wiped his nose with a hankie. "They're acting like Billie."

On her phone, Kaylin got a message from Estrella about her sisters being grossed out by the hand-painted nails they did and rather go to Posh Pedicure for an expensive manicure. Paige also called about her parents and brother being mean on the table. Koharu, on the other hand, was curious about their behavior. Leah, Tania, and Rylie came in and told them about everyone laughing at the candy-coated items Wonka made.

"Meet us at the hideout in 5 minutes," Leah ordered. "We have another mystery."

Outside, they transported via star and headed straight for the McBruce residence.

Once there, Estrella and Paige arrived while carrying Swinger and Koharu respectively. In Swinger's paws was a soda bottle with the Wonka logo on it and a magenta drink in it. Knowing that magenta was Billie's favorite color, they knew that the strange soda was the cause of all this and someone from the Wonka team was responsible. Going over the notes, Tania had three suspects to who was behind the citizens' strange behavior.

Suspects

Sincere Gilbert(Wonka helper)- New to the place and is having trouble accepting Wonka's behavior.

Oakley Howe (Wonka helper)- Tired of Wilkinsons' safety precaution.

Theodore Seidel (Wonka helper)- Expert chemist and flinched when Estrella mentioned the dumpster diving at Posh Pedicure.

**XxoxX**

At the park, Leah, Estrella, Tania, Swinger, and Kirby were looking around and everyone was in a grumpy mood. Tokkori was stuck in a tree and was traumatized by the bossy behavior. "This is getting really creepy," complained Tokkori. "Make it stop."

"And I thought Tokkori liked hatred," Estrella sarcastically whispered as she and Swinger worked together to save Tokkori.

Estrella lifted her pet monkey up. Swinger grabbed Tokkori and landed via tail. "Gracias, Swinger," Tokkori groaned. "Normally I like mistreatment, but this place has turned into a Billie convention."

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at Posh Pedicure Nail Salon, Kaylin, Rylie, Paige, and Rick were searching for Billie. Paige surmised, "This is where Billie was."

"That man can be really weird," Rick said, "but he means well."

"Lay it on, brother!" shouted Rylie.

"Everyone is acting like Billie," Kaylin said. "But how come it's not affecting us?"

"Wait a minute," said Tania. "When we had those Wonka Sparkle Bars, it was sparkling like it's covered in some magical sugar."

**XxoxX**

At Holman Manor, Rudolph was admiring the neat hedges when Leah, Estrella, Tania, Koharu, and Rick arrived on the scene. "What do you think of the hedges?" Rudolph asked with a sinister smile. "Better than those hippie flowers?"

Instead of being jealous, the sixtet ignored him and went inside. Inside, they saw Mr. and Mrs. Holman being more posh than usual. They tried asking where Billie was, but they stuck their tongues out and ran off. Using her powerful smelling, Paige could smell Billie's expensive perfume from the library, her least favorite room.

In the library, Koharu pointed to a traumatized Billie hanging by the curtain. Billie was glad to see the Klue Queens, because she knew there was only one Billie. "Relax, mate," Rick replied. "We'll figure out a way to change them back."

After Paige placed Koharu down, she was toddling around when she potted a book on the ground that was all about opposites. Observing it she could see that the opposite of sour is sweet. She tried to tell Paige, but they were too busy looking at the security camera footage of a masked figure trying to steal some of her family's good towels. Taking a glimpse at the thief, it had an amethyst pendant like Theodore had. That was when they realize that Theodore was the thief.

While thinking about why Theodore would make everyone act like Billie, Koharu interrupted by placing a book in front of Paige. Seeing her sister with an opposite book, Paige may have found a way to cure the grouchy citizens.

**XxoxX**

Later at Roadhouse Fantasia, Sincere and Oakley were trying to create as much chocolate milkshakes as they can, outside. Unfortunately, everyone was too disrespectful to take it. "Wonka is sure going to fire us," Sincere groaned as she accidentally made a mess with the blender.

"Oh, no, he won't," chuckled Leah as she and the other Klue Queens followed behind. "Because we have a plan."

"Of course Billie is a bit traumatized by the too many hers to be involved," Tania continued seriously.

"Oh, mien goodness!" shouted Wilkinson as he was carrying hardhats. "You girls could've had confessions. You have to wear helmets when riding on stuff like floating stars."

"Wilkinson!" Oakley shouted as he replied. "I can't stand your safety precautions any longer! It's driving me crazy!"

"But Herr Oakley," Wilkinson replied, "I'm just making sure you don't get hurt. Also, I know Frau Sincere is having trouble accepting Wonka's behavior due to the shenanigans, but he is what he is."

Frau remembered one of the keys to impressing the public was to be himself, but had to make sure Wonka didn't overdo it like he always did. Oakley also understood that Wilkinson was making sure he didn't get hurt. To make sure he didn't go crazy from Wilkinson's safety precaution, Oakley told him that he could remind himself. Wilkinson thought it was a good idea, because constant reminding drove people insane as well.

"What is the plan you have, Frau Leah?" Wilkinson asked as the Klue Queens looked at each other.

**XxoxX**

A few minutes later, everyone at Lititz Heights was at Roadhouse Fantasia for the candy convention. The candy-coated area disgusted everyone. While the Klue Queens were getting ready while dressed like '50s waitresses, Rylie began to wonder why they were unaffected by the chemical. Looking back, Tania realized that eating the Wonka Sparkle Bars prevented them from acting like Billie. It also didn't affect Koharu due to her being a curious baby, Kirby and Rick due to their big hearts, and Tokkori because he was already a j\*\*\*.

"Enough Einstein Talk, Tania!" shouted Tokkori. "Let's turn everyone back to normal before I get sent to 'The Billie Zone'!"

From the VIP, Sincere and Oakley came out dressed like Wonka Workers and dancing.

Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka

*The amazing chocolatier*

*Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka*

*Everybody give a cheer*

*The best guy who ever lived*

*Willy Wonka, here he is!*

From the purple carpet, Willy appeared and spread a ton of Sugar Sparkles. He spread so much, everyone turned back to normal. Everyone was confused on what was going on.

"NO FAIR!" shouted Theodore. "How come I'm not involved in this!"

"Because we know that you've been making everyone acting bossy," Kaylin answered.

"And there were some clues that you did this," Rylie replied, "like the camera footage at of you sneaking around Holman Mansion. You and the thief had the same amethyst pendant, and you had an allergic reaction to the chocolate sculpture when you came in."

"I've been making Wonka Soda for years," Theodore replied. "I also thought about making people sooth their nerves, but Wilkinson was afraid that it might give people a soda-coma. So they rejected my idea. When I heard of Billie's bossiness in Lititz Heights, I thought I could make everyone avoid your Candy Convention and make you sad."

"Thrity years in the soda biz and you tried sabotaging the convention," groaned Willy as he got out a Wonka Bar.

Observing that, Paige got an idea, "Kirby, suck it up!" she shouted.

"Sucer, Saug es auf, Succhialo, Putikcus!" shouted Mr. Wonka.

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Wonka Kirby. He did all sorts of the same shenanigans to Theodore. He showed a psychedelic boat ride, splashed him with ginger ale foam, and turned him into a blueberry.

Theodore was so traumatized that he begged to be headed back towards the factory. Kirby teleported the bloated Theodore to the factory and everyone cheered.

**XxoxX**

Monday at Lititz Heights High, everyone was relieved that they weren't acting like Billie anymore. Billie was also relieved because there could be only one Billie Holman, and what she went through was quite enough.

After heading towards her next class, Estrella look and sighed. "That's enough Billie Bashes for one lifetime."

**The End**

**Chapter 40: An order of Big Time Roasts**

9h agoIn his office, Vice Principal Todd was looking at his phone of his old days in Harmony Heaven. Then he started scrolling around to other boy bands: Boyquake, Big Time Rush, and the men who gave him and his old band their big brand - NSYNC.

"Brantley," Principal Hopkins interrupted, "are you going to help our with that charity dinner tonight?"

"Right," Brantley replied. "And Big Time Rush is going to be the main attraction."

VP Todd hired Big Time Rush because the theme of Lititz Heights High's annual charity pizza dinner was Boy Band Memorabilia.

**XxoxX**

In the cafeteria, Kaylin, Estrella, and Paige were helping out while they were watching Big Time Rush perform "This is Our Someday." Just as they were about to sing the next verse, Kirby came up and sang dreadfully.

"That pink puffball is horrible," James groaned.

"We had to do a reunion gig for a school for a magic haven," Logan added.

"Tell that to Carlos," Kendall replied. "It was his idea."

Paige knew that she needed to keep Kirby from ruining everything, so she got out a Hawaiian pizza, which lured Kirby. While Kirby was rushing over, an article for a newspaper got onto his face. He removed the article and sucked the whole pizza in one bite.

"Tell that to Canada," Kaylin said as she spotted the article in the paper.

**Original drafts of Harmony Heaven songwriter Alyssa Gentry-Cord stolen from Kansas City Boy Band Museum. Police say that their only known clue was a Roadhouse Fantasia coupon from the quaint town of Lititz Heights, Pennsylvania.**

"Alyssa Gentry," Paige recalled. "She was Hamony Heaven's main songwriter."

Kirby was horrified because the original book was stolen too. He wanted to round up the others, but Estrella stopped him. "Leah and Tania are attending their spa day with their mom at Kailani's Hibiscus Spring" she explained, "and Rylie is taking Aaron to his annual doctor's appointment."

Just then, Peter came in shredding his skateboard through the charity dinner. "YO! DUDES!" he shouted. "Peter Hayato is in the house!"

Principal Hopkins was so annoyed by Peter's disturbance, she told him to leave. Kaylin, Estrella, Paige, and Big Time Rush felt very bad that Peter got kicked out of the charity pizza dinner.

Outside the cafeteria, Paige decided that he should help them solve the mystery and include Big Time Rush. Peter smiled, knowing that his sister always had a plan. Asking about suspects on who would take the book, Paige thought about three possible ones who had a connection in Kansas and with boy bands.

Suspects

Brantley Todd (Vice Principal of Lititz Heights High) - Former Harmony Heaven member and creepy appearance.

Ryan Carpenter (Postal service man) - Knows a lot about boy bands.

Harvey Tremble (Policeman from Kansas) - Former security guard for boy band museum.

**XxoxX**

After the charity dinner, Estrella, Kaylin, Kendall and Logan were arriving at the local music shop where they decided to look for answers for the museum theft. Unfortunately, they found nothing until they saw a note that says, 'It's gonna be me to take the notes, be sure you give me credit for the Harmony quotes.'

Logan thought that the culprit misspelt the note, but Estrella knew that this was lyrics from a familiar song - they just didn't know where.

Suddenly, Swinger was going around banging cymbals until Kendall confiscated the cymbals form him. "Cymbal-banging monkeys," Kendall laughed. "What next, birds that insult people and hamsters with Australian accents?"

Nervously, Kaylin and Estrella shook their heads in exaggeration.

**XxoxX**

At Guavera's Cantina, Paige, Peter, Kirby, James and Carlos decided to talk to Brantley about his experience as a boy band member. Inside, they saw the entire LHPD having BTR Karaoke. Onstage, a '90s-styled policeman was dreadfully singing "I Want It That Way" from the Backstreet Boys. "Dude," Carlos whispered, "that singing is horrible."

"I know," James whispered, "but look at the way he danced."

After the policeman danced, everyone nervously clapped. Even though his singing was horrible, they agreed to applaude so they wouldn't hurt him.

"Nice, Harvey," lied Chief Hess. "You should join the circus."

Harvey thought it was a compliment and sat down to read "Boy Band Dancing for Weirdoes."

Chief Hess was with the Hayato twins and was annoyed. Not only had he hated Paige and her friends solving crimed before he did, but he also hated Peter causing a pigsty in the town. He got so annoyed, he kicked them out of the Cantina. VP Todd was horrified because it reminded him of his judgements, so he placed his fake fangs in, scared Chief Hess, and told him to let Paige and her friends solve the mystery. Delighted with Chief Hess's decision to let them solve the mystery and not to press charges, VP Todd left...but not before he snatched something from Officer Tremble's pocket.

Outside, VP Todd cheered the boys up with some bored and peaceful Shinkomon cards, and the note, "My voice may be hated, but it ain't no lie baby, bye bye bye."

Paige had a feeling that this might be a clue.

**XxoxX**

Later at Roadhouse Fantasia, Kendall, James, Peter and the Klue Queens were going over a few clues. Meanwhile, James, Carlos, and Kirby were both hogging up all the desserts from the buffet when Rick and Tokkori secretly told them "come here" in Spanish. Knowing that their friends of the Klue Queens, they snuck by the boys room.

"Y'all must be Bandana Man and the El Meteor fella," Tokkori growled. "Shouldn't you two burn your faces?"

James was offended, but Peter told him to mellow out. "Forgive him, mates," Rick whispered. "He always insults people. Anyway, we heard about the theft in Kansas. Tokkori snuck into the police station, went into one of the workers lockers, and took this."

From Rick's hands, they showed the boy band museum. After whispering to Paige's ear on whose locker they stole it from, Paige got an idea.

**XxoxX**

The next morning at the Lachey apartments, Harvey was coming out of his apartment in his pajamas when the mailman, Ryan Carpenter, came in with a note.

*You're cordially invited to the Boy Band PJ Party at Guavera's Cantina.*

*Come at 8am.*

*Looking at his watch, he realize it was already 7:30AM.*

*After he left, Ryan contacted Paige about their plan.*

**XxoxX**

At Guavera's Cantina, everyone was going around in '90s apparel and were getting ready to ambush Harvey. When Harvey barged in while wearing his teddy bear pajamas, everyone laughed at him. Harvey was so embarrassed that he tried to escape. Observing a glue stick from the arts and crafts corner, Paige, Estrella, and Kaylin shouted, "Kirby, suck it up!"

Kirby gulped it and turned into Glue Kirby.

"Organic and non-toxic of course," Kaylin reminded.

Using the glue power, Kirby trapped Harvey into the glue. He tried to get out, but he dropped the stolen songbook. Luckily, Tokkori popped out and grabbed the book in time.

"Impossible!" Harvey shouted. "I had this plan out perfectly. I didn't go through all the trouble of going to that karaoke convention in Kansas, which is a perfect excuse to cover up my operation."

"Of course a few clues were there," Estrella said, "like that those crazy notes we found at the music shop and Guavera's Cantina that said 'Gonna Be Me' and 'Bye Bye Bye', both which are part of NSYNC songs, and of course that book you were holding that says 'Boy Band Dancing for Weirdoes' meaning that you must know a lot about dancing, but not their singing. Finally, there was the map of the museum Tokkori found at the police station."

"I use to be a lyricist for Palmtree Records," explained Harvey. "I tried to audition for 'Big Time Rush' season 2, but they couldn't stand my singing. Instead, they inulsted me by telling me to go to the police academy."

"You know," Kendall replied, "you kind of remind us of Jett Stetson: a bit prideful and stupid."

Chief Hess decided to take care of it form here. "Looks like your demoted to janitor," he declared as he dragged a sticky Harvey away.

"Don't worry," Kaylin replied. "Thanks to the rain outside, Harvey will be less sticky."

Kirby cheered with victory while eating some corn dogs. "Kirby," asked Estrella asked curiously, "where did you get the corn dogs?"

Hearing this, Kirby pointed at Carlos, who was giving Swinger a banana on a stick. "Carlos," Logan asked sternly, "did you tell Kirby about your secret stash?"

"Yes," admitted Carlos. "But he was super hungry."

"Carlos got banned from the Friendly Scouts for life for eating all the cookies," Logan explained. "Felix was totally embarassed by this."

"Who cares?" Kaylin asked. "LET'S PARTY!"

Everyone celebrated with BTR songs.

**The End**

**Chapter 41: An Order of Rocket Road Ice Cream**

At Lititz Heights Park, Tokkori was going around town causing trouble for the citizens. First he stole some peanuts from an old lady, then he stuck his tongue out infront of a dog walker, and finally, he pelted Deputy Downs with peanut shells. Deputy Downs was annoyed because this reminded him of his father's lychee nut cravings. Afraid that Leah would punish Tokkori, he decided to give the little green bird a community service assignment.

From his police car, Deputy Downs introduced him to a talking raccoon with an orange jumpsuit. "Who brought the snot-ridden bird here?" asked the raccoon.

"Now, Rocket," Deputy Downs replied, "you're only staying here so you won't blow up the police station while the Backyard Gang takes a tour of the police station."

"You really know how to insult people," Tokkori smiled, "I was sent here due to harassment in Dreamland."

"Yeah, yeah," replied Rocket. "I've insulted many hooligans in other galaxy. Name's Rocket."

"Tokkori," Tokkori replied. "Have you ever been to Dreamland?"

"Once," Rocket answered. "Called the mayor a whiny baby and they banned me for that." When he got out a newspaper, Tokkori and Deputy Downs spotted an article with a 2-picture comparison. One was of a Friendly Scout with a handheld gamer while the other was the same boy all grown up and with his phone.

90s Friendly Scout icon, Lucian Hahn, goes missing for three weeks straight.

"Better get the Klue Queens for this," Deputy Downs suggested in horror. Rocket and Tokkori didn't want to, but Deputy Downs insisted.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile at the Friendly Scout lodge, the Klue Queens were startled by the fact that it was being demolished and turned into The Chipper Resort. Real estate developer Joey Chipper said that it was the cheapest money can buy. Suddenly, a filthy homeless man popped up and shouted, "Back off, you fly gals! Can't a hobo get jiggy with his place?!" Tania felt suspicious because the crazy hobo said some '90s slang.

Just then, Deputy Downs rolled up in his police car with Rocket and Tokkori handcuffed. He explained to them that this was the only way to keep them from bugging the townspeople.

"Poe told me to babysit these brats again," Rocket groaned. "I've delt with their crootaken shenanigans so many times. I can't believe I have to take Kiddo and her Crootaken Backyard gang members to Lititz Heights, all because Alan thought it be a good idea for them to learn about how Havens for Beings are like besides city ones."

"Some guy named Lucian Hahn disappeared," Tokkori growled. "Don't they know who that guy is?"

"Lucian was an activist on keeping the '90s alive," Leah explained. "Of course people will trade CD players for touch phones, but you can't forget the Spice Girls nor Polaroid cameras."

After spotting the homeless guy going nuts for the Spice Girls and saying that they were "fly," he ran off, much to the Klue Queens confusion.

"That's just Curry Connor," explained Deputy Downs. "I tried to hand him over to the police this past three weeks, but he wouldn't listen."

"He's so stubborn," Tania groaned, "but not as stubborn as Aggie Chivas."

"Aggie Chivas?" Paige asked. "Like, the girl from his troop at the time who is always changing trends?"

"That's her," Kaylin replied. "Nathaniel has run into her before at Chivas Change Castle where they sell nostalgic stuff between the 1950s to present times."

Looking around the same paper Rocket was reading, Tokkori spotted Chief Hess and Mrs. Hess sneaking into the school, saying that there was something wrong. Now the Klue Queens had four suspects.

Suspects

Aggie Chivas (former Friendly Scout/Clifton Creeks troop leader and nostalgia shop owner) - Didn't want to go back to old job as a friendly scout troop leader.

Joey Chipper (former Friendly Scout and real estate developer) - Wants to turn the lodge into a hotel resort.

Curry Connor (mysterious hobo) - Wants to keep people from the lodge.

Chief Hess and Mrs. Hess - She and her husband have been secretly going into the school at night the past three weeks.

**XxoxX**

Later at Roadhouse Fantasia, Peter was soaking up on chocolate milkshakes with hot sauce in them. Rick came up with some udon noodles.

"Hey, Pete," Rick greeeted. "I heard you got rejected from the Right On Gifts talent competition at school."

"Yeah," Peter groaned in disappointment. "They said that my little toy monkey routine was confusing."

"Excuse me," acquired a hispanic lady with '90s clothes. "I'm looking for Lucian Hahn. Aggie Chivas of Change Castle."

From the door, Kaylin and Paige appeared. After they asked why Aggie was here, she explained that she and Lucian were best friends growing up, and after she read about his disappearance, she had to turn over to some detectives, and the Klue Queens were the best she could afford. Knowing this, Kaylin and Paige let Aggie off the chain.

"So," Kaylin asked Peter, "where is the Backyard Gang? They're kids Chief Hess is supervising."

Just then, a group of children came barging out of the kitchen with some food they made. After placing them up, Mr. Hayato congradulated the kids for making their own cakes. Curious, Paige asked her father why is he babysitting them, and he replied, "Chief Hess is sneaking around the school again and he told me to look after them." This left Paige and Kaylin confused.

**XxoxX**

Meanwhile, Rylie, Estrella, and Swinger were going around the lodge looking for some clues. Suddenly, Swinger started to hear video game music. By the television, they spotted Curry and Kirby playing "Shinkomon" on the TV. Rylie and Estrella lured Kirby with some cookies, and he sucked up the cookies.

"Kirby," Estrella said, "you shouldn't play games with a stranger."

Taking a glimpse at his eyes, Rylie could tell that he wasn't a stranger. Curry removed his fake beard and his beanie. It turned out that Curry Connor was actually Lucian Hahn.

"Curry is an homage to my favorite actor, Tim Curry, while Connor is my middle name," explained Lucian. "Sorry about the disguise."

Thinking back, Estrella and Rylie recalled a few things. "'Da bomb', 'jiggy', 'fly'," Rylie stated. "Those are all '90s slang."

Lucian explained he had been going around the lodge disguised as a hobo so he could search his lost time capsule. "Good thing they were relocated to the rec center for three weeks after Deputy Downs warned them about a hobo living inside."

Using their sense of smell, Swinger and Kirby smelled some scratch and sniff stickers from a loose board. Under it was a Maho Mushi duffle bag. Inside was a bunch of '90s memorabilia. Amongst them were a bunch of boy band CDs, scrunches, overalls, and video games. Although, some of the pictures were a bit violent for Kirby.

"I've collected 'Chikorama 42' games," recalled Lucian, "but never those that are rated M."

**XxoxX**

At Lititz Heights High, Kaylin, Paige and THe Backyard Gang met up with Leah and Tania, who had access to the school's secret exits. They figured that if they can use it to exit, they can use that to enter. When they arrived, they saw a trail of donut crumbs leading them to the teacher's lounge. Unfortunately, the door was lock. Luckily, a purple dinosaur popped up "What the crootaken is with that purple dinosaur?" Rocket asked, "Leave this to us!"

"Don't be mean." growled Leah, "We need to get in fast.

At that moment, BArney knew just what to do.

*Shimbaree, Shimbarah!*

*Shimbaree Shimbarah!*

Inside, they could see Chief Hess and Mrs. Hess making some jewelry and wooden dolls. Chief Hess told them that they were working on a secret online market to earn extra money to support their daughter called, 'Kris's Knick Knacks' , "Please don't tell." begged Mrs. Hess, "I don't want to get fired."

"And don't tell my mommy," begged Chief Hess, "I'm a big boy now."

Feeling sorry for the couple, they decided not to tell anyone about their jewelry making plans. The only problem now is, someone has to take the blame for the so Principal Hopkins won't wait long about why would they sneak in.

Wanting to give them an answer, Mrs. Hess explained that has been getting reports of missing fireworks from the firework display Saturday night. Leah was curious on this.

**XxoxX**

A few hours later at the McBruce Shed, Baby Groot was showing his dance moves to Donna, Michael, Amy, Adam, Derek, Luci, Tina, and Megan while listening to Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone." After dancing, Tania was studying the clues about the missing fireworks and the "Chikorama" rated M games. From her studies, she remembered that Lucian preferred games K to T because of his babysitting services he and Aggie ran when they were teenagers.

Just then, they got a mysterious call from Lucian. He explained that he used a special cellphone phone book from the Friendly Scout contact list and that he had a lead to the missing fireworks. He urged, "Meet me at the lodge at sunset and bring those Backyard Kids I've heard about."

**XxoxX**

Later in their pajamas, the Klue Queens and the Backyard Gang were creeping towards the lodge. They couldn't just use the Shimbaree Shimbarah spell because the culprit could catch them. From the doors, Lucian opened them and escorted our heroes secretly. LIttle did they know was that someone else held the door and crept in.

By the end of the lodge, Lucian showed the stolen firework boxes that he recently discovered. On one of the boxes, Paige could read "J.C." "Freaky Friends," she concluded, "looks like the thief is Joey Chipper."

"Very clever, hippie," replied Joey. "But I'm afraid you'll be my test subjects for my new and improved demolition plans."

"Why did you take those fireworks?" demanded Paige.

"Yeah, you construction creep!" Rocket snappily replied as he got out his blasters. "Tell us or else!" Before he could blast, Leah and Estrella placed his guns down.

Joey explained that over the years, he envied Lucian for his success in babysitting and always talking about the latest trends in the '90s. The lodge reminded him too much of his envy and his pain. So he scheduled an illegal demolition so he can destroy his past. Knowing that they had to stop Joey before he blew everything up, Donna spotted the dish soap and got an idea.

"Kirby, suck it up!" shouted the kids.

With one gulp, Kirby turned into Cleaning Kirby. With a lot of cleaning and scrubbing, he cleaned up Joey's act. Joey was so traumatized, that he slipped and fell down.

"Joey," groaned Lucian, "You're always such a sore scout. Not getting the best badges, cheating your way to get the ultimate ones, and eating the profits."

"Let's not forget," interrupted Kaylin, "we found clues to your illegal dynamite operation with your inscription on the shipment boxes and the report from the high school about stolen fireworks for the firework display Saturday night."

"But what I don't get is what are a bunch of M video games doing in Hobo Boy's bag," said Paige.

"I remembered him creating a time capsule and placing it in an opened area in the lodge," Joey explained. "I knew I needed a cover up for the whole dynamite theft, so I placed my dad's rated M video games inside. I figure I can make up a sob story about Lucian by making scouts think that he plays mature games infront of kindergarteners."

"If we know one thing from our honesty badges and from being detectives," Kaylin recalled, "there's always a loophole in lies."

Joey was worried that he'd be thrown in jail, because orange made him tacky. On the other hand, the Backyard Gang got a better idea. They all turned to Rocket, and he started insulting Joey.

While insulting the firework thief, Aggie came by the door. "Lucian!" she shouted as she hugged her best friend. "I saw a crazy hobo around our old lodge speaking in '90s slang and I knew it had to be you."

"How are you and your husband doing?" Lucian asked.

"Great," Aggie answered, "We're making plans to go to the firework display Saturday, just so I can have a little nostalgia."

It warmed our heroes' hearts that two best friends were reunited after a fake disappearance, just so he could protect the lodge from demolition.

**XxoxX**

When Saturday came, everyone was amazed by the fireworks display. Everyone, except Rocket, he was disappointed because he didn't get a chance to use his lasers. Feeling bad, Kirby took his laser gun, grabbed some marshmallow from a marshmallow roast while giving the owners a note saying 'Please accept these Mintapalooza cookies as a trade for all the marshmallows you have), placed the box aside, stuffed many marshmallows as he can in the lasers and shot them in the air.

Raining above, marshmallows landed into people's desserts and mouths. Luckily, Kirby's Star Magic prevented anyone from having a sticky situation. "Hey you Crootaken GUmball!" shouted Rocket, "Give me back my laser!"

"Yeah, Junior!" shouted Tokkori, "That's Rocket's gun!"

Before they could catch them, they acidentally landed into a hot dog kart and the vendor ordered the two to clean up or else. In order to avoid trouble, they cleaned up.

**The End**

**Chapter 42: An Order of Minionana Splits**

It was a quiet day at Roadhouse Fantasia, except for one thing. the Klue Queens were celebrating their finals victory with a little dance party, along with all their friends who help solve their mysteries. Uncle Wayne was the DJ and was playing the Jackson 5's "Blame It On The Boogie," Leah and Kirby were doing leg jives and tap moves, Paige, Kaylin, Francine, and Muffy were dancing like their at Studio 54, Rylie and Martin were getting busy, Estrella, Swinger, Tokkori, Rick, and Helen were fusing Latin dancing and cheerleading, Tania, Judson, and the Bugaloos were bopping to the Bollywood Beat.

"I never thought Bollywood dancing would be smashing," admitted Courage.

"I know," Harmony agreed. "I just can't stop the sugarbeets."

"You got that right." Answered I.Q.

While Uncle Wayne was breaking it down on the turntable, he acidentally bumped into his little sister. "Lorraine," he gasped.

Instead of scolding her big brother, Lorraine took off her glasses and shoes and did her contemporary dance routine.

"Look at your mom go," Buster said to Leah.

"My mom was such a contemporary dancer back in her college days," explained Leah. "In fact, that's where she met my dad."

"How come you never got in touch with your real father?" Arthur asked.

"I don't know," Leah answered.

By the door, Chandika was accompanying three corn-like creatures. They saw Uncle Wayne by the turntable and swap "Blame It on the Boogie" with the "Hamster Dance" song, which was the Klue Queens least favorite song.

"Are those the minions of Gru?" asked Rylie. "Ms. McBruce informed us that she and Chandika are going to supervise them during their visit in Lititz Heights."

"They are," answered Lorraine while Chandika came up to her old college roommate.

Tania hugged her biological mother and spotted a little elephant-shaped brooch with a beautiful sapphire on it. "I love your brooch," she commented.

"This brooch belonged to my mother, your real maternal grandmother," Chandika explained. "I was thinking that some day when Lorraine gets married, she could use something borrowed."

"I got the others covered," Ms. McBruce said. "Something old will be my earrings for when I first moved out, something new will be a veil, and something blue will be a bouquet of bluebells in favor of my favorite kid show growing up."

"She means the Bugaloos!" shouted Uncle Wayne and Olaf at the same time. When they looked at each other, they realized something. "You sound just like me," they chuckled.

"It's like having two Waynes in Roadhouse Fantasia," said Kaylin.

"You had to invite Uncle Wayne so he can help you out," said Leah.

"Clark and his family are staying with us so he can supervise the LADUWS Summer Dance Camp at this year's location in Australia," explained Ms. McBruce. "Chandika came along so she can contribute in her very own way."

"Leah, Tania, your uncle, his family, and I aren't the only visitors. Maurice McDaniel is in town so he can give his demonstrations to the citizens of Lititz Heights."

Paige could remember him from her Stink Bomb Mystery, along with his son Lucca. After she mentioned Lucca's name, Lorraine told the Klue Queens to go off and take the Minions to The Bauer for the demonstration. Stuart tried to karate chop a plate, but Kevin and Bob grabbed him and took off.

**XxoxX**

Later at The Bauer, the Minions were bouncing up and down because their going to meet one of their idols. Estrella was so thrilled about their dancing, she and Swinger joined in. "Just a jump to the left!" she shouted. "And then a step to the right!"

The other Klue Queens were a bit disturbed by their friend making a monkey scene again, but were glad that she was being herself.

"What's with all the 'Time Warp' gimmickry?" asked a familiar Scottish accent. "I hate 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'."

It was Maurice McDaniel. He grabbed Tim from Bob, and Bog was sad.

"Those are the Minions from New York City" explained Leah, "Their master, Gru, is having a weekend campout with a bunch of superhero children and he doesn't want the Minions to screw it up. Dave, Jorge, and Kevin would start a forest fire on accident, Stuart would summon bears with his music, Bob would go potty on the supplies, and Mel and Otto would eat all the marshmallows and use the hot dogs for fish bait."

"You! Let! Tim! Go!" shouted Bob.

"Why bother?" growled Maurice. "This is a worthless toy anyway."

He tossed Tim, but Kirby grabbed him. "Kampai! Kirby!" shouted the Minions. Kirby blushed because of what they said.

Maurice was so annoyed that he left. His son Lucca was about to go in when he grabbed him and barged off. Paige and Leah were the only ones who notice Lucca barged off.

"Paige," Leah said to her friend, "I know this sounds silly. I think I met Lucca somewhere before, but where?"

**XxoxX**

The very next day, Leah and Tania arrived into their secret hideout in the shed and started. The Minions were living there because they didn't want to get in trouble at The Bauer. As the Minions were waking up, they were wondering why aren't they helping the Friendly Scouts as usual.

"Today is June 5th" answered Leah. "Usually, our mom would forbid us doing any scouting activities on that day, we never knew why but it had something to do with Leah's biological father."

After a few minutes of organizing, they went to the kitchen, only to find Chandika feeling glum.

"Last night," explained Lorraine, "someone broke into Chandika's room while she was at the pool and stole her brooch, the one she just showed you." She and Tania were curious about why the brooch was special.

"It's not just any brooch," Chandika explained. "It's called Chandika's Charm. When the Beatles came to India, my maternal grandmother Shreya made the charm to scare away demons, hoping that the Beatles would have good luck during their stay. Although the charm was believed to have good luck, the band broke up years later because they couldn't make up their minds about who should be the new manager. She gave the brooch to my late mother Naisha when she got married to my father. She also had plans to give it to me when I got married. I did get a chance to wear it for hers' and my father's funeral."

"Yeah," Leah replied. "Dean Munshif was a good man."

"Good thing I took off from school to go to his funeral," Tania replied back. "He'll be happy in Svarga loka, where he'll be ready to be reincarnated."

"I had to hide my pregnancy with you for seven months," Lorraine explained, "just so I can continue my studies."

"Enough chit chat," Leah replied. "We gotta find Chandika's Charm."

**XxoxX**

At the hotel, the workers explained that the security cameras were all off while Chandika was at the pool and the culprit broke in through the air dunce.

"The old air dunce entry," recalled Tania. "Classic."

While they were interviewing the workers, Leah ran into Lucca. "You're Lucca McDaniel," she recalled. "I've seen you on Maurice's demo videos on Viewtube. Peter told us all about you. And I feel like we've met before."

"We have in my dreams," admitted Lucca. "But I think we should wait until further notice."

Leah was curious by what he meant. Wanting to clear her head, she decided to go to the scene of the crime.

**XxoxX**

While Leah, Kirby, and Rick were going around Chandika's hotel room looking for clues. She started getting visions of the Highlands and her mother and Lucca dancing with each other. Suddenly, Kirby snapped her out of it with a water splash. "Thanks, Kirby," she said. "Ever since yesterday, I've been getting visions of me and Lucca together. I barely know him in person, but I just have the feeling."

Kirby and Rick were curious, but decided to keep looking for clues.

Leah was going around her bushes for any fingerprints when she got a message from Paige.

"Girl," Paige said on the phone, "y'all better get in town. The Minions have wandered off while we were going around the security room."

**XxoxX**

A few minutes later they met Paige in the garden and they decided to go look for Stuart. While they were going along the blue flowers, they heard someone playing the Banana Boat song on ukelele. It was Stuart he was performing while slipping on some banana peels. Worried that Stuart could get hurt, they knew what to do.

"Kirby," shouted Paige and Leah, "suck it up!"

After eating a bunch of flowers, Kirby became Flower Kirby. Before Stuart could land in a pile of roses, a daisy popped up and saved Stuart from a prickly problem.

"Tank yu, Kirby!" shouted Stuart.

"Enough chatting, man," Paige replied. "Let's split the scene and find the other two Minions."

Flower Kirby floated around the place when he came across the ballroom where Kevin was pracitcing his waltz with a whole pile of banana. Just then, he slipped on a banana. Kirby quickly rushed up and placed a pile of flowers below Kevin, saving him from his fall. Then he sucked up all the bananas that he was eating.

By the door, Paige and Leah ran into Rylie and Estrella. "Good thing Kirby ate up all those bananas," Estrella smiled. "Otherwise, Swinger would just eat them all for himself."

Swinger was glum, but smelled the flowery aroma. "This is not time to smell the floras," Estrella told her monkey. "We gotta find Tania, Kaylin Bob, and Tokkori."

**XxoxX**

At another part of the hotel, Kaylin and Tania were going around looking for Tokorri when they acidentally bumped into Maurice McDaniel. "You guys again?" he asked in a groan. "What are you doing here?"

"Finding our new friend, Bob," Kaylin explained. "He just wandered off while looking while we were looking for clues in the security room. And you?"

"I'm going to kick things up for a few scouts," Maurice answered with a creepy smile.

While he was leaving, Kaylin and Tania thought it was very suspiscous because they didn't remember inviting him to a Friendly Scout meeting.

"Me Want Banana!" shouted Bob from the game room.

When they arrived, they spotted Bob playing around with a whole bunch of bananas. They tried to grab him, but the slipperiness of the bananas made them go out of control. So they danced like they did at the Finals Celebration. Kirby joined in and stopped Bob with a giant sunflower smell.

Little did they know was that Billie, Zara, and Miley were spying on them. "Okay now, girls." she replied. "Remember what Evie taught us."

"Yeah," replied Zara. "That way we can help our charm thief friend make these Klue Queens look like fools."

"You better hurry up," shouted Miley, "because I'm starting to get my sunflower allergies!"

One by one, Billie and her gang came in. "Hey, Dorks?" she asked. "Getting a pink slip, or is it a yellow slip?"

"For your information, Billie," growled Leah, "the Minions have wandered off from us."

Billie and her posse started helping our heroes up, which was quite unusual for them. "There you go," Miley smiled. "Hope you look good in orange."

Zara covered her mouth, then she, Billie, and Miley walked off.

**XxoxX**

By the time the Klue Queens got outside with the Minions, a group of policemen were surrounding them, including Chief Hess. "Your under arrest for theft, Klue Queens."

After the Klue Queens raised their hands up, Kirby grabbed a shiny charm from Rylie's pocket. "Chandika's Charm?" Leah asked.

"Po ka?" asked the Minions.

"We didn't take it," Rylie explained. "We were going around the hotel catching these Three Stooges before they caused any accidents."

"We're innocent," admitted Tania.

But Chief Hess didn't listen. Instead, he arrested our heroes and took them off.

On their way to jail, Rylie just realiezed something. "When Billie was helping us up," she explained, "she must've placed the stolen brooch into my pocket. She framed us."

"And the whole Minion Banana Hunt was a way to lure us into a trap." guessed Tania."

"But Billie couldn't have done this herself," recalled Paige. "She and her Gal Pals would, like, totally get distracted by its beauty and shininess. That mean they must be working for someone else."

"But who?" Estrella asked.

Thinking back, Kaylin can remember bumping into Maurice while looking for Bob. He told her that he's going to kick things up for a few scouts. "Girls, I think Maurice is behind this."

**XxoxX**

Back at The Bauer Hotel, Maurice McDaniel, Billie, Miley, and Zara were gladly celebrating for being so clever. "You did it Maurice." he said to himself. "You framed that wee granddaughter of yours and sent them away. Now Lititz Heights will have a new hero in town, and that is me."

"We're finally rid of the Klue Queens!" shouted Billie.

"No more of their pretty faces!" shouted Miley.

From his bag, Maurice gave Billie, Zara, and Miley some silver Scottish jewels with some karate poses that he promised them.

"All real and all done by a jewel thief," Billie smiled evilly.

"We're lucky we've run into you," Zara smiled. "Our accomplice Evie has told us that the best way to get rid of someone you don't like is to frame them for a crime they didn't commit."

"And what better way to frame the Klue Queens than a jewel thief?" continued Miley.

"We have to let goody two-shoes Isla out of this," replied Billie as she was putting on her Scottish jewelry. "She would rather die than frame the Klue Queens."

"And for your side of the story," continued Zara, "your son and Leah have some sort of connection, and you didn't want Leah to know the truth."

"Aye," replied Maurice. "Lucca should never have gotten involved in a contemporary dancer."

Suddenly, they heard someone knocking on the door. "Father!" shouted Lucca. "Did you take my hotel key again?"

"You better get get out of here," Maurice explaind as he grabbed a rope ladder, "If Lucca sees me with strangers in the hotel, I'm ruined."

Swiftly, Billie, Miley, and Zara left the balcony and climbed down the ladder from the fourth floor of the hotel. After Maurice placed the rope ladder away, he opened the door for his son.

"Father?" asked Lucca. "What's going on around here? I heard rumors that Leah McBruce and her friends are sent to jail."

"Aye," replied Maurice. "That Mink daughter of yours will never have the chance to meet you."

Lucca was sad because he was never going to see his daughter all grown up. Little did he know was that four sparks in green, red, yellow, and pink were watching and they flew off.

**To Be Continued.**

**Chapter 43: An Order of Minionana Splits part 2**

It was terrible. Maurice had framed The Klue Queens for the theft of the brooch, and they didn't have any proof of their innocence. Deputy Downs secretly believed that his sister-in-law and her friends were innocent, but decided not to free them so he wouldn't lose his job.

Looking back, Leah could recall all the parts that made her half Scottish, the Scottish flag in her house, the plus-size kilt for Uncle Wayne, her admiring Daffy's terrible bagpipe playing, and her unintentionally doing a karate kick. Thinking clearly, Leah began to realize that Lucca was her real father.

"It all makes sense," Kaylin agreed. "Lucca sure is a lot nicer than his daffy father."

"Now that we've been set up," Tania groaned, "we can't get out of here."

"Never say 'can't'," said a voice.

The four glowing lights that were spying on Lucca and Maurice were really the Bugaloos. "We saw the whole thing from Maurice's window." explained I.Q. "I can't believe he would do this so he could make his son sad."

"Some parent," agreed Paige.

Ricardo was surprised to see the Bugaloos sneaking around the prison. Instead of telling Chief Hess, he decided to help out. Remembering that the Klue Queens always got by with a little help from friends, they agreed.

"You and Chief Hess meet us at Gavin Gates in one hour," Leah replied. "We got a plan to clear our names."

Using their bug fairy magic, the Bugaloos transported them to Gavin Gates.

**XxoxX**

When they arrived, they saw all the friends they teamed up with over the years playing around. Not only our heroes were thrilled to see them and dressed as Star-themed versions of Columbia, but they were thrilled to.

"Leah," said Wanda, "we have someone we want you to meet. We poofed him out of his hotel room while Maurice was taking a shower."

Onstage, Leah could see her biological father, Lucca McDaniel. Lucca was thrilled to see his daughter for the first time since she was a baby. Leah was so rejoiced to see her long-lost father that she hugged him. Bob cried tears of joy while Kevin and Stuart comforted one another.

"Hooray!" shouted Uncle Wayne from the audience while sharing popcorn with Olaf.

"A father-daughter reunion," cooed Olaf.

"I got Lucca and Lorraine into this mess," Uncle Wayne explained, "so I'm going to get them out it."

Lucca explained that he met Lorraine when he was studying tap dancing while she was studying contemporary dancing. The met at the costume party where Tania's real parents met and they were dressed like vampires. Over the past few years they dated and spread the love for dancing. During India's Holi on the year before they were supposed to graduate, Lorraine found out that she was pregnant with Leah and they rejoiced. After Lorraine introduced Lucca to her parents, Uncle Wayne accidentally babbed out Lorraine's pregnancy to Lucca's father, which Uncle Wayne didn't know at the time.

Maurice was so mad, he forced Lucca to stay with him and not date any more women again, for he might impregnante someone.

"There there, Wayne," said Lucca. "You didn't know about my father, and we all need to fix our mistakes. Plus, Mother, Leah would be very angry if he was alive."

Just then, they realized that was the same name as the Klue Queen leader. "I was wondering where I got my name from," she beamed. "At first I thought my mother just loved the name. Now I know it meant something more than that."

"Ugh, Leah," interupted Paige. "Aren't you forgetting something?"

Leah winked at Paige, remembering their little plan. "Remember what Maurice said about hating 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'?" Leah asked Lucca. "I think we found a way to clear our names."

**XxoxX**

One hour later, Maurice McDaniel arrived at Gavin Gates, beliving that his going to display his karate there.

When he arrived in the house, the lights went out, and one by one the Bugaloos sang a verse from "The Time Warp." Just then, the Chan Clan, Arthur, Buster, Muffy, Francine, Binky, the Brain, the Freaky 6, Nathaniel, the Glitter Force, Big Time Rush, Helen, Issac, Martin, and Destiny popped onstage wearing London Tipton's Rocky Horror-styled outfits. Besides them, the Star Darlings, the Holograms, SpongeBob, Patrick, Olaf, Uncle Wayne, and the Winx Club were performing.

"Let's Do The Time Warp Again!" sang the Aliens.

After Mr. Colton had given out the instructions of "The Time Warp," the Klue Queens popped out dressed as Columbia and did a little tap routine.

Backstage, the Muppets, the Planeteers, Dr. Pym, the Superpops, Sam, Clover, Alex, Shaggy, and Scooby were handling the special effects. "You know what looks less scary, dear?" Shaggy asked his wife.

"What, Shaggy?" Alex replied.

"Raining lemonade," answered Shaggy as he pointed to one of the cameras.

Wonka at Wilkinson snuck around, and with a little Wonka magic, he poured lemonade on him.

"I hate lemonade," growled Maurice. "Lemons are suppose to be sour."

"Tecnically," interrupted Wilkinson, "you have to add sugar in lemonade to make it taste sweet."

La Muerte, Xibalba, Fololo, Falala, Funky Phantom, Johanna, Angelina, and Boo popped up and scared him.

"Scary ghosts, dude!" shouted Soos wearing a ghost sheet. Then Tokkori, Rick, Robopup 2.0, the Sesame Street Gang, Perry, and the Looney Tunes popped up in ghost sheets and started scaring him.

"Could this get any worse?" Maurice asked himself.

"It has," answered Leah as she pointed to the exit, displaying Lucca dressed as a space alien.

"Lucca?" Maurice asked.

"How'd ya do, I see you met my blond daughter," Lucca sang, "He's just a lot brought down because When you framed her, she's knew your were a love slaughter."

Suddenly, everyone joined in on the Tim Curry "Rocky Horror" song.

*I'm just a sweet Dancvestite*

*From Dancexual*

*Dancylvania*

At the end of the theater, Meta Knight, Cheer, Grumpy, Goose the cat, Wilt, Eduardo, Coco, Detective Dan, Rocky and Bullwinke, London Tipton, Mickey and friends, Woody Woodpecker, Rocket, and Groot ambushed him with stars. To end the Star-Bush, Kevin, Stuart, and Bob chewed bananas with their mouths open and made him sip on the banana peels.

Maurice was so petrified by the Star/banana-bush, he ran out of Gavin Gates.

"No more bagpipe punches, Loch Ness leg kicks, nor Glasgow chop," chuckled Estrella.

**XxoxX**

Outside, Chief Hess and Deputy Downs arrived on time. "What's going on?" Chief Hess demanded. "Ricardo told me that there was a robbery held at Gavin Gates."

"There is," Deputy Downs answered honestly, "but it's for who \*really\* stole Chandika's charm."

"Officers!" shouted Maurice in a panic. "Those crazy cookoo brats bothered me with 'Rocky Horror', and they didn't take the charm - I did. Please, take me to jail. I'd rather go there than being trapped in Richard O'Brien-land."

"While the police was arresting the Klue Queens for the robbery," explained Deputy Downs, "I saw you with a sinister look on your face, meaning that you took the charm and framed my sister-in-law and her friends."

"I had to in order to keep my son from meeting my granddaughter!" shouted Maurice. "Just get me out of here."

Chief Hess and Deputy Downs cuffed Maurice, placed him in the car, and drove off to prison. Everyone cheered for their victory.

"Thank you, Leah," Lucca smiled, "for freeing me from my father's clutches. Grandma Leah would've been proud of you."

Just then, someone driving Leah's car came in. It was Ms. McBruce. She and Chandika came here thanks to an urgent email Dr. Pym gave them. When Leah and Lucca came out, Lucca gazed at Lorraine's loveliness. Lorraine gazed up and found out that Leah has learned the truth about her father.

"You had to know about Lucca some time," Lorraine explained, "I knew that if you knew at an early age, you would go on a scavenger hunt to find him and Maurice wouldn't be happy.

"Dad always believed that Scots and Americans couldn't be friends," Lucca explained. "But I think it was just silly and it all started with him joining an Anti-American club in Glasgow."

"Lucca?" asked Lorrain as she took off her shoes and glasses. "Eight years after we separated, there was a Backstreet song about two people ended up dancing together and there was a contemporary routine."

"You mean Chances?" asked Lucca as he played the Backstreet Boys' "Chances."

At the end of their dance, Lorraine and Lucca kissed.

**XxoxX**

One week later, Lucca and Lorraine were married and had their reception at Guavera's Cantina. Leah never thought that her full name would be Leah McBruce-McDaniel, now that she finally had a father she longed to know. Suddenly, Billie came in wearing a French Maid outfit, "This is humiliating!" she growled, "I should be at The Bauer hotel getting a massage! Instead, Zara, Miley and I am forced to watch your Mommy and Daddy get married and serve all the people, including the brats at The Kiddy Table.

Zara was coming out of The Kiddy Table and was annoyed by the way Kirby ate the whole plate of marshmallows. "Kirby's inhales are literally a tornado!" she complained.

"That's nothing!" shouted Miley, "Can you believe Cosmo did the 'See My Food' trick. EWWW!"

"That's what you get for framing us!" Kaylin replied, "Not long after we brought Maurice to justice, The Disney Princess and The Winx Club tricked you guys into a fake Winx Club Backup Dancer audition with a fake 'Deep Secret' interview and you didn't know that Chief Hess and Deputy Downs were the only ones in the audience. Plus your mics were on the whole time."

"And serving and forcing to watch for a wedding is punishment enough." Paige finished.

After Billie and her posse left, Issac, Martin, Nathaniel, Helen, and Judsong came to their table and sat next to their girlfriends, "So, girls," asked Issac, "what are you going to do this summer? Leah and I are going to help Lucca move in and learn about the wonders of Lititz Heights."

"Speaking of moving in," Kaylin replied, "I'm going to go to Atlanta to help my parents move into their new home in their new home here. They'll be coming in next week. They finally have the money to move to Lititz Heights. They already know about LH being a magic haven because my mom always believed in magic since she was a kid."

"Helen and I are going to be counselors at a cheerleading camp in New Mexico," Estrella explained.

"I'm going to supervise Aaron's traveling hip hop dance troupe," Rylie explained. "My dad knows the manager."

"And, like, Peter and I are going to Studio 25 be in a new art movie, 'Frame, Set and Match'," explained Paige. "We're going to play background hippies."

"Rick, Judson, and the Bugaloos and I are going to India so I can get in touch with my roots," explained Tania. "And help Mama Chandika with a few move-ins."

Onstage, Chandika was not only the maid of honor, but an announcer for something small. "From kiss friendship," she announced, "to a friendship like ours, your love makes me happy. Those are the words of wisdom from my world famous novel, 'Kiss Friendship'. When I wrote my first book at 18, Lorraine was my test-subject. The two of us never planned to be young mothers, but life has many surprises, like the following number."

"Enough of the slow bits!" shouted Uncle Wayne as he placed in Bombay Dreams' "Shakalaka Baby." "Let's speed things up a bit from the best man!"

Recognizing the song, the Klue Queens, Bugaloos, Judson, and Kirby hid behind, changed into Bollywood apparel, and danced for Leah's parents.

**The End.**

**Chapter 44: An Order of Urkel Udon**

It was a wild day on Living Island. Everyone was gathering around for the 75th TV Land Annual Cartoon Land Battle of the Bands.

Bands from all sorts of TV shows were arriving. Amongst them were the Bugaloos. The Klue Queens were there as their entourage. The Circus Pops were also there because they needed to get the word out in the Krofftverse, where the location of the battle of the bands was held.

"So, mates," Celia said, "any cartoon characters you recognize? Because I just ran into Diamond and the Illusionz handing out autographs."

"Those were the champions of the 1989 competition," Joyce replied. "Cousin Judson told me about the previous winners. He also told me that the Bugaloos once won the contest so they can help out the Uptown Orphanage."

"And I just saw the 1999 winner, Firefly Eden, giving voice lessons to some Living Island blueberries," Ell-Berry giggled, "Hope you like."

"We stink! We stink! We stink!" shouted a familiar sponge and starfish. SpongeBob and Patrick went around the place shouting "We stink!" while hanging picket signs and wearing T-Shirts that said "We Stink."

Worried that they might bother Judson, the Circus Pops decided to check on the Bugaloos.

**XxoxX**

In their dressing room, Judson and the Bugaloos were warming up their vocals when the Circus Pops came in with urgent news about SpongeBob and Patrick. Leah knew that only bands and their entourages were allowed backstage and wondered why they would be on Living Island.

From a rumbling closet, Fern, Francine, and Muffy popped out while wearing clown hats. "Muffy!" shouted Kaylin as she helped Muffy. "What are you, Francine, and Fern doing here?"

"Hiding," all three answered.

Just as they were about to ask who are they hiding from, SpongeBob and Patrick barged in shouting, "We stink!"

"It's U Stink, not We Stink!" corrected Francine.

"They always get that mistake," Muffy groaned.

Kaylin recalled that as the Backstreet Boys special from 2002. Fern explained that ever since that episode aired, SpongeBob and Patrick had been their biggest fans. They were dying for a reunion, but due to a little romantic issues, Muffy refused to have a U Stink reunion, nor hear "Nothin' But the Music.

"Casablanca Crisis?" Judsong asked. "It's a term used to listen to a song that'll bring up trauma."

"Exactly," Muffy replied.

**XxoxX**

Muffy then imagined herself as a female Rick at Muffy's Café Américaina. At the band stand, Kaylin was a lounge singer while the Bugaloos were her backup band playing "Knock On Wood."

Just then, Howie D and his kitty wife, Leigh, walked through the door to get a bite to eat.

"What are we chopped liver?" Fun Bun the Bunny asked while he and Puddles turned their heads.

After Leigh left to go to the bathroom, Howie spotted Kaylin adjusting her microphone. "Play it once, Kay," he smiled while Kaylin turned around to see Muffy's second Backstreet crush, "for old time sake."

Kaylin was confused and didn't know what he was talking about. After he mentioned "Nothing But the Music," she said that she'd do her best. After they played the song, Muffy came in startled and shouted, "Kaylin! I thought I told you never to play that song!"

"It was his idea!" Kaylin shouted as she pointed to Howie D.

Muffy was startled and said to herself, "You could be our manager." After Howie D winked at her, he spotted Leigh and took her hand. Muffy began to cry because of a broken heart.

**XxoxX**

To cheer them up, Joyce told Fern, Muffy, and Francine to close their eyes. Using their powers, they were ready for a surprise.

*Superpops, we can't be stopped!*

In a flash, they changed into circus-themed outfits. Muffy's had muffins on them, Fern's had cupcakes on them, and Francine's had cookies on them.

*Muffin Pop*

*Cupcake Pop*

*Cookie Pop*

Everyone was amazed by the lovely outfits, especially Kaylin. "Such adorable outfits," she commented.

Just as they were about to rehearse their dance moves, cheese sauce came from the other end. To avoid ruining the outfits, Kirby used his star powers to lift them up from the rising cheese. Patrick and SpongeBob dived down and did some synchronize swimming. Worried about their safety, the Bugaloos went around the place and got rid of all the cheese sauce.

"Sorry, folks!" shouted a dorky African-American boy. "The Cheese Bombs still have a few bugs."

"Urkel?" IQ asked as he flew down. "What are you doing here?"

The Klue Queens were surprised about the fact that the Bugaloos knew Urkel from "Family Matters." Harmony explained that they didn't like to talk about it, because they were afraid that Urkel's clumsiness might expose magic creature havens like Lititz Heights.

"SpongeBob, Patrick, and I are competiting in the contest," Urkel explained. "Heard you're bringing your human friend Judsong Soul into the contest."

"We are," Courage replied, "but we don't want you scaring away patrons again."

"Like how the Banana Splits are splitting the scene?" Urkel asked, much to our heroes' shock.

Outside the dressing room, the Banana Splits were leaving because someone placed real snakes into their dressing rooms. Their judges, the Spell Belles, started to worry.

"Come now, sugar," Sunny said. "As the winners of the 1969 Battle of the Bands, you must remember that one of your sketches was 'Danger Island'."

"Well, this contest is becoming dangerous," Feagle complained as he, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky split the scene. After that, Leah asked what was going on.

"I do declare," Sunny replied. "The bands competiting this year are forfeiting due to someone scaring away the patrons. The only ones that are still here are the Circus Pops, the Bugaloos, Luna Aracnida, Cha Ching, the Cattanooga Cats, and Urkel, and the Feather Friends."

"Luna Aracnida?" asked Leah. "Never heard of them."

"But I did," Estrella popped up. "They were a dark Cuban cartoon when I was a child. I barely remember my parents much, but I do remember watching their show. Most of the familias of our vecindario said it's a bad show and not a good influence to any of the children. Luckily, it cancelled after 26 episodes in one season."

Now they had three suspects They didn't suspect Urkel and the Feather Friends, the Bugaloos, and the Circus Pops because their Klue Queen friends.

Suspects

Luna Arácnida - One of the few bands that didn't get scared away.

Cha Ching - One of the few bands that didn't get scared away.

Catanooga Cats - One of the few bands that didn't get scared away.

**XxoxX**

At the dressing rooms Tania, Harmony, Joy, Judsong, Fifi, and Luigi were going around looking for some clues. When they were reaching a room with a grave with a spider on it, they entered.

Inside, a quartet of gothic arachnid toons were petrified from the light and Harmony and Joy's sunshiny appearance. "We don't do sunshine!" shouted one of the bandmates.

Remembering from what Estrella told her, Tania knew who they were. "That's Luna Arácnida," she explained. "Romera is on keyboard, Ebana is on guitar and vocals, Rafael is on bass, and Alonzo is on drums."

Ebana came up and told them to bug off. After pushing them out, Judsong found a strange trail of black nail polish. "I remember doing Halloween shows in Australia," he replied. "And they always use black nail polish, even the guys would use them."

Following the trail, they followed it to the broom closet. Inside, they saw numerous stuff that scared away the other bands. "These poor things," Joy sadly said. "We should get them out."

Carefully, they released all the scary animals and freed them so they wouldn't scare away another band.

**XxoxX**

By the dance studio, Leah, IQ, Estrella, Courage, Fenmore, Kirby, and Melvin were interviewing Cha Ching on the mysterious scarers. Fortunately, Prudence's planning made sure that they don't get scared during the Battle of the Bands by using Pepper's perfume.

After Pepper gave them some perfume samples, they heard a loud scream. But it wasn't a scream of fear: it was a scream of excitement.

In the other dance studio, they saw Urkel, SpongeBob, and Patrick bouncing in a haunted bouncy castle. Courage, Melvin, Kirby, Estrella, and Swinger joined in on the fun. IQ thought it wasn't a good time for bouncy castles, but Leah thought it would be a good clue, because she sensed a pattern with the snakes and castle.

**XxoxX**

At the control room, Paige, Kaylin, Rylie, Fern, Muffy, and Francine were going around wondering if the culprit did any technical difficulties to scare the other bands. Suddenly, they heard some cat screeches. Outside, they found four soak toon cats forfeiting due to someone spraying dark water on them. It was the Cattanooga Cats: Country, Kitty Jo, Scoots, and Groove. They didn't want to be involved in a scaring frenzy.

On the soak floor, they could see a soggy note. They couldn't understand it, but some flowery magic dried it up. It was Daisy, Rosie, and Dafodil. They wanted to help the patrons during this crazy time. Observing the note, Paige could see that it had two notes: "Aranea" and "Escorpion."

"Didn't our friend Aranea say that those were the Spanish words for 'arachnid' and 'scorpion'?" Rylie asked.

"Si," Paige answered. "And all I'm getting it had a thing for-"

"Fear and Arachnids," finished Rylie. That was when they realize that Luna Arácnida was the culprit.

**XxoxX**

Onstage much later, Luna Arácnida were behind the curtains congradulating each other for scaring the other bands. "We did it, amigos," Ebana smiled. "We scared away those bright and sunny band."

"And that funny looking Cha Ching," replied Rafael. "That hungry Bobby would follow the trail of black licorice donuts we left him, and Justin, Zul, Charity, Pepper and Prudence would be gone all night to chase him."

"It's amazing when our local hangout is a donut shop," Alonzo laughed.

Luna Arácnida were stunned to see our heroes surrounding them and knowing about their little scaring scheme. But the only answer now was why they did it.

"Because nobody remembers our cartoon," Ebana explained. "1980 to 1981. Our creator thought he could make a dark turn on the Bugaloos by making a gothic version of them. Unfortunately, fans weren't loco about us and los padres thought we were too scary for ninos."

"Of course your Spanish words 'Arana' and 'Escorpión' your trail of black nail polish, and your receipt for a haunted bouncy castle blew your cover," Tania explained.

"I remember you from when my parents watched your show," Estrella replied. "And you're not a good influence."

Outraged by the insult, they tried to scare them with their ghosts and spiders. Seeing a microphone, they knew what to do. They called out, "Kirby, suck it up!"

Sucking the microphone up, he turned into Microphone Kirby. The Circus Pops gave them special ear buds to avoid Kirby's terrible singing, and Kirby began to sing at the top of his lungs. Urkel, SpongeBob, and Patrick were dressed up in their chicken costumes, heard Kirby's singing and played along on accordion, guitar, and drums, respectively. Even though they couldn't hear Kirby's singing, Estrella and Swinger danced along, thanks to their monkey instincts.

Luna Arácnida was so annoyed by Kirby's horrible singing, they made a run for a run for it. Just as they were about to escape, Estrella took a cheese bomb and made them trapped in cheese. Looking back, they thought being trapped in cheese and being annoyed by Kirby's singing was punishment enough.

Suddenly, a dragon with a yellow head came in to see if everything was alright. It was H.R. Pufnstuf, the friend when things got rough. "I heard some terrible singing and I figured that it might be Kirby using his microphone move again," he said. "Mayor Hess warned me about this."

After explaining that all the others forfeited, this made the Bugaloos and the Circus Pops the tied winners. Also, there was no need for a tie breaker because the show went on. SpongeBob, Urkel, and Patrick felt bad because they didn't win. Feeling sorry, Celia, Joyce, and Ell-Berry decided to let them do the special effects for the performance. This made Urkel and the Feather Friends happy.

**XxoxX**

Twenty minutes later, the Battle of the Bands was taking place. The Spell Belles were sitting down at the judge's booth while Pufnstuf came onstage.

"Due to a little arachnid troubles, most of the bands forfeited the contest," Pufnstuf explained, "Luckily, the winners of the 1971, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020 are here to perform with their new human friend and his cousin's band. Please welcome Judsong and the Bugaloos and the Circus Pops doing the Monkees' 'I'm a Believer'!"

Onstage, Judsong and the Bugaloos performed "I'm a Believer" with the Circus Pops as the backup dancers. Urkel, SpongeBob, and Patrick were backstage performing special effects. By the end of the song, the Klue Queens joined in with a dancing Kirby singing, "I'm a believer, I couldn't leave ya if I tried."

**The End.**

**Chapter 45: Cast of Kirby Klue Queens WAY**

Uncle Wayne- Josh Gad

Mr. Colton- Arthur Holden

Destiny- Sofia Carson

Aspen Burnham- Jack McBrayer

Judsong Soul- Jesse McCartney

Braylon Roscoe- Carlos Alazraqui

Callen and Callan- Jason Marsden and Phil LaMarr

Princess Adelaide- Jennifer Hale.

Douglas Hermanson- Tom Kenny

Khloe Khloeidescope- Eden Sher

Dr. Cory Teel- Brad Garrett

Hayes Blanch- Ben Diskin

Nurse Kay- Melissa Joan Hart

Edwin- Neil Patrick Harris

IQ- Charlie Rowe

Harmony- Alfred Enoch

Courage- Tom Holland

Joy- Lilly Newmark

Benita Bizzare- Cher

Funky- Richard Horvitz

Woofer- Jeff Bennett

Tweeter- Grey Griffin

Additional Voices

Grey Griffin, Cree Summer, Dee Bradley Baker, Collin Dean, Alan Tudyk, Tom Kenny, Jill, Talley, Lara Jill Miller, Jessica DiCicco, Kerry Williams, Kayzie Rogers, Ted Lewis, Eric Stuart, Eden Sher, Adam McArthur, Candi Milo, Eric Bauza, Catherine Tate, Keone Young, James Sie.

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