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2 minutes ago, Old Man Jenkins said:
Are you still a vampire now?
Nah, I've switched over to the werewolf side since then.
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Decided to bring this back because I'm pretty bored and lonely, so please someone ask me some questions and I will answer.
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Well, this certainly does not bode well for the second attempt at a live-action Avatar series.
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The idea of Patrick having a talk show does sound funny. At least it's only 13 episodes.
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Chapter 10: Hiding Out
With his mother, Paula, having returned home from the grocery store, Wally knew he had to hide his new interdimensional friends, especially the one who needed water in order to survive. Thankfully, Wally knew just what they could do. He had Ollie and Dean drag Rook into his house, and with stealth and precision, they were able to sneak past Paula and head upstairs into the bathroom.
They placed Rook in the shower, and Wally plugged the drain before turning on the water. The shower filled up like an aquarium, allowing Rook to float inside.
Rook pressed his face against the glass door in order to observe his surroundings. “This is quite strange.”
A loofa floated by him and he curiously examined it. He then spotted a bar of soap sitting on a small shelf and he curiously picked it up and stuck it in his mouth, only to spit it out in disgust due to how awful it tasted. He spotted Wally on the other side of the glass, watching him.
To Wally, it felt like he was watching a human-sized fish swim around in a tank.
“Sorry, Rook,” a remorseful Wally said, hoping Rook could hear him from inside the tank. “This is just a temporary solution until I can get you back home.”
He took a moment to write down some notes in his notepad.
Sitting on the toilet seat, Ollie jokingly asked, “Do you have to, Hewitt? He makes a great pet.”
“Not funny, Ollie.” An unamused Dean said while leaning against the sink. He looked towards Wally and stated, “Sending him back is probably the right choice, Wally. He can’t even survive here.”
“Excuse me!” Rook’s voice called out from inside the shower. He looked displeased as he stared at them from the other side of the glass. “You are talking about what you want to do with me, but you are not asking me what I want to do with me.”
Wally, Ollie, and Dean shared a glance, realizing that Rook obviously did not want to go home just yet. They secretly wanted him to stay as well, but knew there was no possible way he could stay without having to keep him inside a tank the whole time.
“We’re sorry, Rook.” Dean sincerely apologized, “We’re just doing what we think is best for you. We did bring you here by total accident.”
“Wally did it.” Ollie bluntly stated while pointing at Wally.
Rook, however, was unconvinced. Frowning in dismay, he showed them the glowing tattoo on the back of his right hand. This caused the water inside the shower to move slightly.
Before they knew it, water from inside the shower dropped onto Wally and Dean, drenching them.
Ollie couldn’t help but snort and laugh in amusement. “I like this guy already.”
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door and Paula called from outside, “Wally, are you in there?”
Panic swept over Wally’s face and he rushed to the door. He slightly opened it to see his mother standing there. “Hey, Mom.” He nervously greeted.
“What’s going on in there?” Paula asked until she noticed his clothes and hair were damp. “Why are you wet?”
“I’m just…” Wally struggled to come up with an excuse to prevent her from finding out what he’d been up to, until he managed to come up with a convincing lie, “…brushing my teeth.”
Thankfully, Paula believed the lie and informed him, “Your friend, Nina, is here to see you.”
Wally’s eyes widened in panic as soon as he remembered his best friend, Nina, who he hadn’t seen since yesterday, and hadn’t even told her that he got the watch working or that it was capable of creating portals to other dimensions. He wasn’t even sure how he was going to explain the interdimensional beings he brought back with him.
Not wanting to arouse suspicion, Wally told his mother, “I’ll be right there.”
After Paula left, Wally quickly dried his hair with a hand towel and decided to go downstairs and see Nina.
Ollie took a moment to tease Wally, “Ooooh! Who’s Nina?”
Wally gritted his teeth in annoyance and responded, “Just keep an eye on Rook until I get back.”
He shut the bathroom door behind him and ran downstairs. He opened the front door to find Nina standing there.
“There you are, Wally.” an exasperated Nina said. “Where have you been?”
“Oh, uh…” Wally nervously answered, “I was just on one of my expeditions. Kinda short notice.”
Even though she found it strange that Wally would go out on an adventure without asking her to come along for help, Nina decided not to question him about it and chose to tell him her reason for coming over.
“Anyway, I think I know a way you can break open that watch. There’s a monster truck rally coming to town next week and-”
Before she can finish, Wally shouted, “NO! I mean...that won’t be necessary. I’m kinda over the watch now.”
A confused Nina pointed to his wrist. “Then why are you wearing it?”
Wally looked at his left wrist to notice that he was still wearing the interdimensional portal watch, which he had been doing since he got it working. But then, a splash was heard from upstairs, which Wally assumed was coming from the bathroom where he was hiding the interdimensional visitors.
“What’s that noise?” Nina curiously asked, “It sounds like it’s coming from the bathroom.”
Thinking quickly, Wally came up with the excuse, “Oh, that’s just my mom potty training Dale.”
Nina knew that could not have been true given how she has met Wally’s baby brother. “But he’s one.”
With a nervous grin, Wally responded, “He’s very advanced. Runs in the family. Sorry, gotta go.” He quickly slammed the door in her face and rushed upstairs.
Still standing on the porch, Nina was perplexed with the way Wally was acting. She was prepared to go confront him about it until she looked down and noticed that Wally had dropped his notepad, which he always used to catalogue an adventure. She picked it up and curiously read its contents.
When Wally reached the bathroom door, he stopped just before opening it to see water leaking out from underneath. Wondering what was going on in the bathroom, he slowly opened the door, only to be met with a small wave of water. When he went inside, he saw the shower door open, water all over the floor, and Ollie, Dean, and Rook lying on the wet floor. Wally was appalled by the mess they made.
“Guys, what are you doing? My mom’s gonna kill me!”
Sitting up, Ollie spits out some water and angrily pointed to Rook. “Ask him.”
Rook paid no attention to the trouble he had caused and was shakily trying to stand up without falling over. Once he gained his balance, he picked up a wet hand towel from the floor.
“I am sorry, Wally.” Rook said. “I wish to try out my land legs.”
He started to have trouble breathing again. He looked at the dripping wet hand towel he was holding. Getting an idea, he wrapped the soaking wet towel around his neck so that it was covering his gills. When he inhaled, he happily realized that he could now breathe without being submerged in water. Before he could continue celebrating, something of interest caught his eye.
“Ooh, what is that?” Rook giddily asked before rushing over to the bathroom sink. He turned the knobs until water came out of the faucet.
He pumped some liquid soap out of a dispenser, which also fascinated him to no end. Rook spotted the nearby toilet and rushed over to it in excitement, lifting the lid to see nothing but water in the bowl.
“Kovero, this place has everything.” Rook said as he poked the toilet paper like a curious child.
While Rook still explored human toiletries, Wally, Ollie, and Dean still believed this place was not safe for someone like Rook.
“Uh, Wally?” Dean quietly said. “Don’t you think it’s time Rook went home?”
“You’re probably right.” Wally agreed before holding up his watch.
However, Rook had overheard them and spun around in alarm while yanking a long string of toilet paper over his body.
“Ohas!” he cried out in dread, “You cannot do that yet! I am having too much fun!”
“Just do it, Wally.” Ollie urged while ignoring Rook’s pleas, “Turn on the portal.”
Before Wally had a chance to turn on his watch, a panicked Rook lifted both his hand up, which made water from both the sink and the toilet levitate in the air. Realizing what Rook was intending to do, all three boys could only look on in dread.
“Tell me he’s not.” Dean said.
From out in the hallway, a SPLASH was heard. The bathroom door swung open and Rook ran out, rushing down the stairs and escaping out of the house. Ollie emerged from the bathroom, enraged at being soaked with both sink and toilet water.
Ollie shook his fists and shouted, “I take back what I said about liking that guy!”
Wally and Dean emerged from the bathroom, just as angry, but much calmer than Ollie.
“We have to go after him.” Wally insisted, “He’s in a foreign world. He may not last long.”
But Dean mentioned, “You two lasted pretty well in Overville.”
Ollie smirked and gestured to Wally. “But you should’ve seen how lost this guy was in Sparkle Sity.”
“Can we focus here please?!” an annoyed Wally shouted. He quickly calmed down and instructed, “Ollie and I can search for Rook from the ground. Dean, you should search from the sky. Can you do it?”
“Leave it to me.” A confident Dean answered. He snapped his fingers and transforms himself into his alter-ego, D. Evil. He shrugged and asked, “I mean, how much trouble can a fish kid get into?”
Rook had left Wally’s neighborhood and wandered all the way into town. He went into an alley and saw a garbage can full of trash. He slowly moved towards it like a curious puppy and peered inside, staring at its contents with fascination.
“This is what holds garbage?” Rook asked. “Why does Father always say it ends up in the ocean?”
Before Rook could see what kind of garbage people on dry land throw away, a Meow was heard. Rook turned around and was startled to see a cat in front of him. He fell back against the trashcan and knocked it down, spilling the contents. Rook had never seen a cat before.
“One of the creatures that inhabits dry land.” Rook said until his eyes sparkled in admiration. “It has so much hair!”
Rook reached out to pet the cat.
Feeling threatened, the cat hissed viciously at him.
Not expecting this reaction, Rook screamed in alarm and bolted up, running out of the alley and far away from the terrifying land creature.After leaving the alley, Rook stopped and marveled at the town’s buildings, trees, and people who go about their business. He had lived under the ocean his whole life and the only knowledge he had of the surface world were historical records, which he enjoyed looking through in his spare time. Seeing it with his own eyes felt almost like a dream to Rook.
“It is better than I had imagine it to be.” Rook said, enraptured by the sights.
Suddenly, two skateboarders rode right past Rook, nearly knocking him over. Rather than being annoyed, he just watched with interest as they rode off. Then something else caught Rook’s eye.
“Ooh, what is that?” he excitedly asked before running off.
He stopped in the middle of the street and examined a manhole. Bending down to get a closer look, he saw no visible way of opening the cover.
“A secret passageway. I thought only the palace had these.” He put an ear close to the surface and heard the sound of sewer water. “I do hear water underneath.”
Since Rook was sitting in the middle of the street and not paying attention to anything around him, he failed to notice an oncoming car. He heard a car horn and turned his head to see a car coming directly towards him.
Rook screamed and raised his arms up while his tattoos glowed. The manhole cover and a large stream of sewer water shot up between Rook and the car. The car swerved and caused the other cars behind it to collide.
Rook backed up, seeing the damage he caused and felt remorse for what he had done. However, his guilt was short-lived when something else caught his eye.
“Ooh, what is that?” Rook excitedly asked before running off in a random direction.
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I was never really into Ren and Stimpy, but I get why some people love it. I do find the story behind it very intriguing and am looking forward to seeing that documentary behind it.
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Chapter 9: The Interdimensional Visitor
In Cullertown, Wally had brought Ollie and Dean to his house and led them to his backyard after informing them of the new dimension he discovered. He had used his watch to create a portal that would lead them to the new dimension. But rather than going in it right away, he decided to make it a grand occasion by building up the suspense.
“Prepare yourselves, gentlemen.” Wally spoke while standing next to the portal, “We’re about to discover another dimension completely alien to us.”
Excited at what they might possibly find in this unknown dimension, Ollie couldn’t help but guess, “So, it’s full of aliens?”
Wally became stumped since he too was wondering what they might find and became incapable of answering Ollie’s question. “No...Possibly...I don’t know.”
However, it was because they didn’t know what they would find that Dean became cautious. “But is it safe to just walk right in there?”
Wally showed no signs of fear or worry. “Of course, Dean.” He calmly and confidently assured, “I’ve been taking notes and every dimension has been safe up to this point.”
Right when Wally started to take a step towards the portal, a tall figure flew out of it and slid across the grass until he came to a stop at Ollie and Dean’s feet. The two backed away as they screamed in shock.
Wally also screamed in shock by what had just emerged from the portal that disappeared.
It was the blonde teenager, Rokalburahm, from the underwater dimension. Wally, Ollie, and Dean stared in bewilderment as the stranger opened his eyes and pushed himself to his knees, observing his surroundings.
Unsure of where he was, he became scared and confused. “Ti synavi?” he muttered. “Po eimai?”
“Wally,” Dean cautiously called out. “What’s going on? Who is that guy?”
But Wally was just as confused as the other two were. “I don’t know.”
When he noticed that he was not alone, Rokalburahm looked at Dean and Ollie with fear in his voice, “Poios eisai?!”
However, neither of the boys understood his strange language. “Huh?” Ollie wondered. “What’s he saying?”
“I….I don’t know.” Wally replied, intrigued that this interdimensional visitor had his own foreign language.
Before the stranger could speak anymore, he suddenly choked and clutched his neck.
“Hey, what’s happening to him?” Ollie asked in concern.
Rokalburahm fell on his side, gasping as he continued clutching his neck. This only made the three boys worry more; wondering what could be going on with the strange boy.
“Guys, I think something’s wrong.” Dean alerted them.
While the boy continued to lie on the ground, struggling to breathe, Wally surveyed his body to figure out what the problem was until he set his sights on the boy’s neck to see a pair of gills.
Wally’s eyes widened in horror as he realized the boy in front of them was dying of asphyxiation.
“Oh no!” Wally yelled out. “He can’t breathe!”
Wanting to help him, Ollie asked, “What can we do?”
Signaling the others to follow him, Wally instructed, “Bring him this way! And quickly!”
Dean and Ollie grabbed the boy’s arms and held him over their shoulders while they dragged him towards Wally. The boy’s breathing slowed as he started slipping out of consciousness.
Wally led them to his family’s swimming pool, and he stepped to the side when Dean and Ollie dragged the boy towards the pool. They tossed him into the water without a second thought.
Rokalburahm sank to the bottom of the pool and opened his eyes when he realized he was able to breathe again.
Wally, Ollie, and Dean anxiously stood near the edge of the pool, fearing that they had only succeeded in drowning the boy. However, their fears were quelled when the boy splashed out of the water and did a backflip through the air. The three couldn’t believe what they saw as the boy dove back into the water.
Afterwards, he emerged from the water and swam over to the boys who saved his life.
“Efcharisto!” he happily spoke to them in his native tongue. “Sas efcharisto poly pou me sosate!”
Not understanding what he was saying, the three just stared at him. Ollie whispered to Wally and Dean, “Any idea what he just said?”
Wally responded, “I don’t recognize it as any kind of foreign language I’ve heard.”
“It’s not Spanish.” Dean pointed out.
“Maybe it’s some kind of elf language.” Ollie assumed.
Seeing that the three were not acknowledging him, and the fact that they were above water without any sort of dilemma, Rokalburahm began to realize what kind of world he had stumbled into.
“Perimenete ena lepto. Eiste katoikoi tis epifaneias, sosta?” he excitedly asked the three.
Discouraged that he and the others were unable to communicate with the newcomer, Wally spoke to him in a stilted voice, “Sor-ry. But we can’t un-der-stand you.”
Despite the language barrier, Rokalburahm wanted to communicate with them as well. “Eleo. Perimene. Geia.” however, he soon realized that he was perfectly capable to doing so. “Hello. Nice to meet you.”
Wally, Ollie, and Dean gasped in shock at hearing the boy suddenly speaking English.
“You can talk?” Wally asked.
Rokalburahm chuckled and responded, “Yes, I can talk. I have studied your language.”
“But where did you come from?”
Ollie reminded him, “He fell out of your portal, duh. He probably came from another dimension.”
Rokalburahm held his chin as he tried to recall what had happened before ending up in Cullertown. “All I remember is I was in Atlantis, and I saw this strange light.” He explained. “I fall inside, and I am here, and there is no water for me to breathe.”
“Atlantis?” Wally repeated in surprise. “The city beneath the ocean?”
He had read about the legendary city on the internet and in books, but had never thought it actually existed somewhere in the universe.
However, Ollie and Dean couldn’t help but feel angry at Wally for nearly leading them into a dimension completely submerged in water, where they would’ve drowned the minute they entered.
“Safe huh?” Dean bitterly asked Wally, reminding him of how he had previously assured him that the dimension they were going into was safe for them to enter.
Ollie also wasted no time in chewing out Wally. “If we had listened to you, we would’ve ended up like that guy.”
“Rokalburahm.” The boy in the pool suddenly spoke.
But the three did not catch what he had said, so Wally asked, “What was that?”
The boy cheerfully repeated, “Rokalburahm.”
Ollie became annoyed with the language barrier and reminded him, “Dude, we don’t speak Atlantis.”
Despite this, he retained his cheerful demeanor and told them, “That is my name: Rokalburahm.”
Even with the misunderstanding cleared up, the three still looked confused.
Ollie tried to pronounce his name, “Row...kawlll boo-ram?”
“I think it’s pronounced Roo-kal-burawwm.” Wally assumed.
As he sat there, an unimpressed Dean crossed his arms and bluntly stated, “Yeah, I’m just gonna call you ‘Rook’.”
Hearing the nickname, Rokalburahm’s eyes brightened in wonder. “‘Rook’?” he repeated to himself before smiling with joy. “I love that! No one has ever called me anything like that before. Rook!” Overjoyed at his new name, he splashed around while repeating, “Rook, Rook, Rook, Rook!”
Wally, Ollie, and Dean smiled at his positive reaction. “Rook it is, then.” Wally said.
“Anyway,” Dean said to Rook. “I’m Dean.”
“Ollie.” Ollie introduced himself as well.
“My name’s Wally.” Wally introduced before taking off his backpack and digging around inside until he pulled out his notepad and pen. With his excitement growing, he asked Rook, “If you don’t mind, can I ask you a couple questions about your dimension?”
Rolling his eyes at Wally’s behavior, Ollie dully stated, “Here we go.”
But Wally’s excitement continued to grow as he asked, “Like how long has it been underwater? What’s the architecture like? What’s a normal Sunday for you?”
However, Rook ignored Wally’s questions. “Forget my home. I wish to know your home.”
His excitement grew and grew as his fists trembled with excitement. On top of his hands and wrists were blue tattoo symbols that began to glow. Suddenly, a large stream of water emerged from underneath Rook and lifted him out of the pool, dropping him onto the lawn. Wally, Ollie, and Dean stared in astonishment by what they saw.
Rook struggled to balance on his own two feet since he only ever used them for swimming. From behind, Ollie took a step towards him and asked, “Whoa! How’d you do that?”
Once he gained his balance, Rook casually turned to them and repeated, “Do that?”
Having been to two other dimensions that contained magic and demons, Wally began to assume that whatever Rook just did had to be an ability that was a normal occurrence in the dimension he came from. “Is that some kind of ability native to your dimension?” Wally asked Rook.
“Yes.” Rook answered with a smile. “I have learned since…” he gasped for breath and his voice became raspy, “O, Poseidonas.”
Wally, Ollie, and Dean became concerned when they saw Rook fall to his knees, clutching his neck as he started to asphyxiate like last time.
“Rook, are you okay?” Dean asked.
Unable to respond, Rook’s tattoos glowed and he stretched out his right arm. A stream of water emerged from the pool behind Wally, Ollie, and Dean. They quickly moved out of the way as the water flew through the air and wrapped itself around Rook’s head, forming a sphere of water that Rook magically holds, allowing him to breathe.
The three were baffled by Rook. The fact that he could control water and that he couldn’t survive outside of it. Wally was so intrigued by it that he took a picture of Rook with his phone and wrote down some notes on his notepad.
While using his powers to hold the sphere of water around his head, Rook glanced down and realized what he was standing on.
“Is that grass?” Rook asked in excitement.
Having never seen real grass before, he just had to bend down and touch it with his own hands. However, in doing so, he lost concentration in holding his water helmet and it splashed around him onto the grass he was touching. Rook realized his mistake too late when he started gasping for breath.
Ollie rolled his eyes, now annoyed that Rook kept suffocating every time he was on dry land.
But Dean remained sympathetic for him and quietly suggested to Wally, “Maybe you should send him back to his own dimension.”
Even though Wally wished to talk with Rook some more and learn about his dimension, Wally knew that sending him back was the best thing if Rook was to survive. “Good idea.” He responded.
Wally tapped on his interdimensional watch and activated the holo-map. Before he can select Rook’s dimension on the map, a voice called out, “Wally? Are you home?”
Wally recognized the voice as his mom’s. He panicked and hid the watch behind his back. “Oh no! We can’t do this out here!”
“But what about Rook?” Ollie asked, pointing to Rook, who was still asphyxiating on the ground.
“I know what we can do for the time being. Follow me.”
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I've only seen bits and pieces of it. To no surprise, people are already comparing it to TTG, due to the similar art style and being a wackier version of the original show.
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We can have a theme based on evil villains.
The name can be "The Villain Community"
We can have quizzes based on movie villains, villains on tv shows, and some games that relate to doing evil deeds.
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Chapter 8: A New Dimension
It was mid-afternoon when Wally returned to his dimension, but he did not return alone. He brought his two new interdimensional friends: Ollie and Dean. Since they had been good hosts to him in their dimensions, Wally decided that it was his turn to do the same. The only problem was that Wally didn’t know what things would be exciting for them, considering what they were used to. So, he decided to tour them around his favorite places.
He started by bringing them to the arcade where he demonstrated the automatic doors by stepping on the foot panel repeatedly.
“This is Demo Arcade.” Wally explained, “It’s a place with videogames for everyone to play.”
However, Ollie and Dean did not look impressed or even surprised. Dean informed him, “I know what an arcade is, Wally.”
“Those exist in Sparkle Sity too.” Ollie said in an amused tone.
Wally chuckled sheepishly, having had a feeling that perhaps people in Dean and Ollie’s dimension knew what arcades were. He tried to save his tour by adding, “They also have great pizza in case you’re interested.”
The next stop on Wally’s tour of Cullertown was the Natural History Museum, the ideal place for any aspiring archeologists since it contained history found only in that dimension. So, naturally, he thought it would be something that would impress foreign visitors.
“This is the Museum of Natural History.” Wally eagerly introduced. “It has all the town’s history, and every ancient artifact that has been discovered.” He then added with a smug smile, “Well, that has been discovered so far.”
Groaning was heard, after which Ollie stated, “You think I would go to the museum in my dimension?”
Not wanting to be rude to Wally as well, Dean said, “I can’t even go into the museum in Overville. It’s been taken over by demons.”
Wally’s enthusiasm deflated, realizing that Ollie and Dean were so used to seeing mystical creatures and other supernatural occurrences he knew didn’t exist in this dimension, that being here was probably boring to them. Wally knew if he wanted to grab their attention, he had to step up his game.
For his next stop on the tour, Wally took them to Buttercream’s Ice-Cream for a treat. He enjoyed the ice-cream they served and if asked, he would say it was the best he’s ever had. Hopefully, Dean and Ollie would think the same.
With an ice-cream cone in his hand, Wally turned to Ollie and Dean, informing them, “And this is our local ice-cream joint. It has wi-fi.”
While enjoying his own ice-cream, Ollie appeared annoyed as he responded, “We have that too.”
After taking a taste of the ice-cream, Dean added, “Along with the ice-cream. But this kind doesn’t seem to have any demons in it.”
Wally began to feel like an idiot for thinking that kids like Ollie and Dean wouldn’t have ice-cream or internet in their own dimensions. As much as he hated boring Ollie and Dean, he knew he had to finish the tour like he promised. Fortunately, they only had one stop left.
Bringing them to the park, they stared at an overhead view of a large lake. By this point, Wally was melancholic that he hadn’t impressed Ollie and Dean with his dimension.
“And this is the park. People come here to feed the ducks sometimes and...” Wally’s voice trailed off until he sighed heavily. “I’m sorry, guys.”
Ollie and Dean became concerned when they noticed how depressed Wally had become.
“Sorry for what?” Dean asked.
Wally shamefully admitted, “It’s just that the dimensions you guys come from are so exciting and unique, and mine is so...normal.”
Hearing that Wally was feeling so insecure by how boring and uninteresting he felt his dimension was compared to their own, Dean and Ollie shared a glance and suddenly burst into laughter. This made Wally confused, thinking they were laughing at him.
“Huh? I don’t understand.”
When his laughter died down, Ollie responded, “You’re so dumb! We don’t care that your dimension is boring.”
An equally amused Dean reassured Wally, “Yeah, I mean our dimensions have magic and monsters in it all the time and yours doesn’t. It’s kinda nice that a place so simple can really exist.”
“It’s not every day I see a lake that doesn’t have a kelpie in it.”
After hearing that his new interdimensional friends actually found his normal dimension fascinating, Wally’s mood began to lift, and he smiled.
“Wow. Thanks, guys.” Wally showed them his watch and shared some good news that he had, “Oh, and by the way, I think you would be interested to know that I’ve located another dimension on this watch.”
Dean smiled with excitement. “Wait, you mean there’s another dimension out there that’s different than this one or even ours?”
Wally shrugged and replied, “Could be.”
Overcome with excitement, Ollie urged, “Well, stop talking about it and activate that watch already.”
“Shhh! Not here.” Wally whispered. “We can’t risk anyone else knowing that we have access to interdimensional travel.”
While he liked his two new friends, Wally realized that allowing anyone else to learn that he had access to other dimensions could attract a lot of unwanted attention. He was content with making sure no one in Cullertown, Sparkle Sity, Overville, or the new dimension they visit never learned where they came from.
Ollie whispered to Dean, “If it’s a secret, then why has he been recording everything and taking notes?”
Thankfully, Wally didn’t hear him and suggested, “Let’s go over to my house. We can activate a portal there.”
“Well, I’m in.” Dean agreed.
Ollie nodded. “Me too.”
In another dimension, unlike the ones previously visited by Wally, this one was completely under the ocean. Among all the sea life, there was a civilization inside a large dome of magic, containing what appeared to be ordinary humans that were able to swim and breathe underwater thanks to their bodies having gills and webbed hands and feet. Inside this underwater town was a large palace with guards swimming around to protect it from intruders.
Upstairs in one of the rooms was the prince of this castle, Rokalburahm; a 17-year-old with blue eyes, long blonde hair, a white tank top, and blue shorts. He swam over to his dresser and opened a drawer, taking out a pair of binoculars.
He was about to leave until his bedroom door automatically slid open, and a much older man entered. His father, King Garthomal, stared at his son, looking displeased.
The king spoke firmly to his son in a foreign language, “Rokalburahm, what are you doing now?”
Rokalburahm cheerfully responded in the same language, “I plan on seeing the jellyfish migration.”
Hearing that his son was planning to spend the rest of the day goofing off, King Garthomal asked, “And what of your sorcery training?”
Even though Rokalburahm had no interest in such things, he was ordered by his father to learn sorcery just like everyone else who wished to learn sorcery for combat purposes. But whenever he protested about it, it led to arguments just like now.
“Father, I have already trained enough for today. I deserve some time off.” Rokalburahm insisted.
But the king was still not pleased that his son was not taking his duties seriously enough. “You spend too much time fooling around! You must prepare for the future.” He argued, on the verge of losing his temper.
“I am just trying to have some fun!”
“You call learning the language of surface dwellers and swimming outside the safety of our city more important than your duties?”
Finally, Rokalburahm lashed out, “Those are your duties, Father! I am not yet the king!”
Without another word, Rokalburahm swam past King Garthomal and left the palace. The king watched his son in tranquil fury. He wanted nothing more than for his son to accept his responsibilities in preparing for his role as future king. But with how rebellious his son had become in recent years, he wasn’t sure that day would ever come.
After leaving the castle, Rokalburahm swam all the way out of the kingdom as far away as he could get. It was what he loved to do in order to escape the stress of both his father and his role as prince. He took a seat on a bed of seaweed and watched a large stream of jellyfish swim through the ocean.
Rokalburahm watched the whole scene through the binoculars he brought with him, admiring the beauty and tranquility of the jellyfish. After a few minutes of watching, he put down the binoculars and began to sulk as he recalled what happened moments ago.
Rokalburahm loved his father and had a lot of respect for what he does for the kingdom, and he knew that one day, he would have to succeed him as king. But what he loved just as much was his freedom and did not want to have to give that up so soon. He just wished he and his father could see eye to eye.
Smiling, Rokalburahm swam up and approached the school of jellyfish as they continued swimming in one direction. He loved seeing all the aquatic creatures of the ocean, and especially loved getting an up-close look at them- whether it was a good idea to do so or not.
Wanting to get an even closer look, he swiftly reached inside the hoard and pulled a single jellyfish out. Holding it in his palm, he gently stroked the top of it. But the jellyfish stung his hand, and it swam back to rejoin its group.
Rokalburahm yelped in pain and grasped his hand, which really hurt from the jellyfish sting. However, this did not dissuade his love for the creatures, and he was prepared to grab another one to pet. Before he can follow through, he noticed a bright light in the corner of his eye.
On the bottom of the sea floor was a blue portal; nothing going in it and nothing coming out of it. Having never seen such a strange phenomenon, Rokalburahm swam towards it with curiosity.
He was not sure what to make of this strange occurrence and he stuck his head through the portal as if it were a window. When he failed to see anything, he leaned in further and further until he fell through, disappearing inside. As soon as he was gone, the portal disappeared, leaving no trace of the prince anywhere and no hint to where he might have ended up.
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I thought this episode was pretty good. SpongeBob did a decent job running the Krusty Krab this time around, and would've turned out better had he not been a perfectionist and not try to be like Mr. Krabs. I thought Squidward and the smile helmet was the best part of the episode. It was also interesting to see SpongeBob come up with the idea to clone himself after causing Squidward and Patrick to quit. Hopefully, SpongeBob learned to be himself while being a boss. Again, a good episode.
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I'd say the episode was just okay, but it was enjoyable. I was glad this episode finally aired in the states. The idea of Squidward going on a road trip with SpongeBob and Patrick is a great idea, but it felt short to me. I liked seeing Gary drive just like he did in Tutor Sauce, and glad that Patrick still remembers how to drive. It makes sense to see Squidward get mauled by a sea bear again since he always does something to tick them off, which SpongeBob and Patrick try to warn him about. I liked the ending where SpongeBob managed to bring him the water lily for Squidward and he got to share a duet with it. Kinda weird that Squidward has never thought to drive SpongeBob and Patrick away with his music before.
Still an enjoyable, if not okay episode.
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Chapter 7: Joining the Fun
Soon, Dean and Jason made it back to their apartment building with Wally and Ollie nowhere in sight. They stood outside the front doors after having made sure they lost the two boys.
“Well, dude, looks like those kids aren’t following you around anymore.” Jason informed Dean.
Sighing in relief, Dean replied, “Thank goodness for that. I mean, it’s flattering and all, but give a guy his privacy.”They walked through the front doors and went upstairs.
“I’m telling ya, if you really wanted them to leave you alone, you could’ve put on that scary demon rage to scare them away.”
Amused by the suggestion, Dean responded, “Come, Jason, you know I’m trying not to look like that kind of demon.”
“Well, once I get that blog up about D. Evil, everyone will know not all demons are evil.”
“Looking forward to it.”
Dean and Jason fist bumped to say goodbye. The two of them had not only been best friends for as long as they could remember, but also neighbors. Jason lived with his parents in the apartment down the hall from the one Dean and his mother lived in.
Dean entered through his front door while calling out, “Mom! I’m home!”
Lucy came out of the kitchen, holding a plate of cookies she just baked. “Hello, Dean.” She greeted her son. “Welcome home.”
Once Dean noticed the baked goods she was holding, he helped himself to one. “Cookies? Sweet.”
As he took a bite, Lucy explained, “I just baked them for your little friends.”
Hearing this, Dean did a spit take. “…friends?”
Following Lucy into the living room, Dean’s eyes widened in shock as soon as he sees Wally and Ollie sitting on the couch, drinking milk that Lucy had already offered them. She set the plate of cookies on the coffee table in front of them.
“Here you are, boys.” Lucy said with a friendly smile.
“Thanks, Ms. Devlin.” Wally said as he and Ollie snacked on the cookies.
Dean could not believe that Wally and Ollie were in his home and were already acquainted with his mother.
Lucy did not notice the horror on her son’s face and just smiled blissfully. “It’s so sweet that my Deanie-Beanie has some new friends who look up to him so much.”
Hearing his mother call him that in front of people, Dean’s face turned red with embarrassment. “Mooom!” he whined.
“Aright, Dean. I’ll be right here if you boys need anything.”
Once Lucy walked away to the kitchen, Dean scowled at Wally and Ollie. “How did you find out where I live?”
Wally answered, “That girl you were talking to before.”
“Trying to talk to.” Ollie pointed out and concluded, “We told her you were supposed to babysit us today, and she told us where we can find you.”
“When we arrived, your mom answered the door and we told her we wanted an interview with you to learn what living in Overville is like.”
“We didn’t tell her you were D. Evil.” Ollie mentioned before eating a cookie.
Dean’s right eye started to twitch as he fumed with anger. He calmly asked the two, “Can I talk to guys…alone?”
Wally and Ollie followed Dean into his bedroom. Once they were all inside, Dean slam the door shut and turned to them with a furious scowl.
“Alright, what’d you want from me?” Dean angrily asked them, “Money? My autograph? A lock of my hair to keep under your pillow?”
“Eww, no.” a disgusted Wally answered. “We don’t want anything like that.”
“Although, now that you mention money…” Ollie was interrupted when Wally put a hand to his face.
Wally confessed to Dean, “Overville is just so much different from my dimension or Ollie’s, and I wanna learn as much about it as possible.”
Dean was surprised to hear him talking about other dimensions again. “Were you guys serious about that whole dimension thing? Are you two really demons from the Underworld?”
“The Underworld?” Ollie questioned, having remembered Lance mention the place, but still not knowing what exactly it was.
“Where do you think all the demons come from? Obviously, if you’re not from this world, you slipped out of the Underworld just to terrorize everyone here. You have a pretty interesting way of doing it too.”
“We’re not demons.” Wally held his watch out to Dean as he explained, “I found this watch and it has the ability to create portals to different dimensions. That’s how I met Ollie. I traveled to his dimension, which unlike mine, has magic.”“Totally weird.” Ollie mentioned.
Wally ignored him and continued his explanation, “We then ended up in this dimension that’s inhabited by demons. Not to mention an actual superhero,” he started flipping through his notes. “Who, according to my notes, manages to balance a normal life with his superhero life, displays bravery and quirkiness when facing adversaries, mingles with normal humans quite well...”
Ollie coughed the words, “Moderately well.”
Flipping a page, Wally concluded, “…Hides his superhero identity beneath a timid demeanor, and manages to balance both lives while living in a comfortable home environment.”
Dean’s anger disappeared and he now seemed impressed by the data Wally had collected about him. “Wow. You really learned all that just by following me around for a couple of hours?”
Crossing his arms, Ollie recollected, “Well, we did stop for a bit because Mr. Archeologist here just had to go into the bathroom after you fought that demon.”
Wally argued, “There was demon ooze in there. I had to acquire a sample of it.”
While Wally and Ollie glared at each other, Dean chuckled in amusement as he was now starting to warm up to the boys.
“Different dimension or not, maybe you guys aren’t so bad after all.”
Wally jumped close to Dean and eagerly asked, “If you’re still offering, I would like a lock of your hair…for research purposes, of course.”
“Okay, now it’s getting weird again.” Dean took a puff of breath and added, “But if it’s me and this dimension you wanna learn about, I might as well tell you.”
Clearing his throat, Dean began, “Yes, I am D. Evil. But I’m also Dean Devlin: the son of a human and a demon.”
Hearing this, Wally and Ollie reacted in shock.
“So, that’s why you have demon powers.” Wally realized.
Ollie also realized, “If your mom’s human, then your dad must be a demon. Where is he?”
“I don’t know.” Dean admitted, “I’ve never met him.” He walked over to the window and stared outside. “That’s part of why I became superhero.”
Wally eagerly took out his notepad to catalogue everything he learns.
Looking at his hands that glowed with dark energy, Dean further explained, “In Overville, demons have proven to be nothing but despicable, vicious monsters, and if anyone knew about me, they probably wouldn’t think I’m any different. But as D. Evil, I can show everyone that even with the powers of a demon, I can still do good with them, and maybe one of those demons I run into could be my missing father. If he knew about all the good I’ve been doing, maybe he’d be proud of me.”
As he listened, Wally had stopped taking notes, having become fascinated by Dean’s story. Ollie was even captivated by it. Neither of them would have pegged a teenager like Dean to have such a motivation for wanting to be a superhero.
Suddenly, a noise was heard outside. Dean opened his window and crawled out onto the fire escape to see a wave of black winged demons flying across the street, causing havoc. Wally and Ollie joined Dean on the fire escape to see what was going on.
“Those are demons, aren’t they?” Wally asked.
“That’s what happens when you live in a city that’s right next door to the Underworld.” Dean replied. “Which means it’s time for me to go to work.”
Dean held up his right hand and snapped his fingers. His body was wrapped in dark energy and his clothes were transformed into the outfit he wears as D. Evil. Wally and Ollie were amazed at seeing this.
With his transformation complete, D. Evil floated in the air and informed Wally and Ollie, “You two wait here until I get back.”
After D. Evil flew away, Ollie turned to Wally and asked, “We’re gonna help him, right?”
Wally smiled in determination and answered, “Definitely.”
Demons from the Underworld proved to be a lot more destructive in groups. The horde of demons that were terrorizing the neighborhood was formed together in a wave that smashed into parked cars, streetlights, and the sides of buildings. People ran away in panic as they tried to avoid being swept in the chaos. D. Evil flew through the air to catch up with the demons.
“I’ve heard of crowd surfing, but this is ridiculous.” D. Evil said before flying ahead of the demons and stopping front of them.
Dean fired an energy blast from both hands. But the hoard was so powerful that the blast deflected off the surface. Seeing that he was about to be rammed, D. Evil created a large wall of dark energy, which the hoard of demons crashed into while D. Evil struggled to keep the barrier up.
“Can’t…let them…break through.” D. Evil muttered while his strength started to give out.
Ollie ran towards the battle, grabbing hold of his brooch and magically transforming it into his wand. Waving his wand above his head, Ollie shouted, “RAINBOW WAVE!”
His wand magically created a rainbow that shot out and hit the demons, breaking them apart and sending them raining down onto the street. Wally arrived, holding his whip, and he gave Ollie a pat on the back. “Nice work, Vanderbilt.”
“Thanks, Hewitt.” Ollie said with a smile.
D. Evil landed next to them and was mystified by what just happened. “What was that?” he asked, having never seen real magic before. “Did you just make a rainbow appear out of that pink wand?”
“No!” Ollie quickly answered, passing the wand into Wally’s hands. “It was him! Wally’s the one training to be a Magical Girl, not me!”
While Wally did not like Ollie pinning his embarrassing job onto him, he knew now was not the time to argue since the demons, while split apart, were still causing havoc.
“There’s no time for this.” Wally said while passing the wand back to Ollie. “D. Evil, we have to unite stop these things before it gets any worse.”
D. Evil nodded. “Right. I’ll ask my own questions later.”
He flew into the air and fired multiple energy rays at the demons, obliterating them. During this, D. Evil shouted some helpful information to his comrades, “Knock them around hard enough and they’ve got an instant trip back to the Underworld!”
“Thanks for the tip, D. Evil!” Wally shouted as he ran across the field, swinging his whip left and right, eliminating the demons into smoke.
Rather than use his magic, Ollie swung his wand around like a baseball bat and smacked the demons away from him, until a demon launched itself onto Ollie’s back. He tried to shake it off him, but the demon refused to let go and attempted to bite him.
Suddenly, a black glow appeared around the demon and it was telekinetically pulled off Ollie and lifted into the air. It flew towards D. Evil, whose right hand glowed with black energy like the demon.
Once it was right in front of him, D. Evil shouted, “See you in the Underworld!” and punched the demon with his other fist.
Wally wrapped the end of his whip around a demon and he swung it at the other demons like a wrecking ball. When the last demon remained, D. Evil noticed it coming towards him and he swung his leg, kicking it into a puff of smoke.
With all the demons gone, the three boys came together. D. Evil couldn’t help but be impressed by what Wally and Ollie can do.
“Wow. You guys were really amazing. Not bad for a couple of 10-year-olds.”
“Oh, uh, thanks, D. Evil.” Wally said with a chuckle, “But actually, I’m eleven.”
Hearing this, Ollie burst into laughter. “You’re eleven?” he asked while he laughed. “I’m a year younger than you and you’re shorter?”
Wally became mad since he was not fond of people pointing out his short height. “Oh, really funny, Vanderbilt. You sure you didn’t use your girly magic to make yourself taller?”
This remark got under Ollie’s skin. “What was that, dorkeologist?”
Before the fight could escalate, a voice called out, “NICE FIGHTING, D!!!”
They looked towards Dean’s apartment to see Jason hanging out his bedroom window, having recorded the whole battle with his phone. He waved to them and shouted, “YOU KIDS WERE AWESOME TOO!!! I CAN’T WAIT TO STREAM THIS ONLINE!!!” He went back inside and shut his window.
Ollie asked D. Evil, “None of those demons we just fought was your father, right?”
“Doubt it.” D. Evil answered, “I’m not totally bummed though. The Underworld has loads of demons in it. I’m bound to run into him eventually.”
“I know you will, D. Evil.” Wally warmly encouraged, “I may not know much about demons or this dimension, but I do know you’re a real hero.”
D. Evil looked away shyly, blushing at Wally’s compliment. “Thanks, Wally. If…you need any help with whatever research you’re doing, I’d be glad to lend a hand.”
Wally’s face brightened up at the thought of someone from one of these new dimensions giving him all the information he needed to learn about them. “You will?”
Ollie rolled his eyes in annoyance. “Oh, great, just what we need: two nerds.”
Wally looked at his watch and turned it on. “If only I can get this watch to function properly. Then I can get Ollie back home, and I can get myself back home.”
He activated the holo-map, which showed four dots representing the other dimensions. Ollie and D. Evil looked over his shoulders as they examined it as well.
Ollie pointed at the map and stated, “That white dot must be where you are right now.”
While unfamiliar with the device, D. Evil was able to decipher it. “So, I’m guessing one of those other two dots must be where you come from, Wally.”
As he stared at the map, Wally began to realize how the watch can get him home. “You guys are right. Since this dot was colored when I first turned on the watch, and I touched that dot which took me to Sparkle Sity, then that would mean…” he touched the first dot on the map, which created a portal.
“This portal will take me back home.” Wally excitedly concluded.
Wally turned off the portal and looked at the holo-map again. “And I should be able to create a portal to take you home as well, Ollie.”
Before he could activate a different portal, Ollie interrupted him, “Hold on a second, Hewitt. Why can’t I see what your dimension looks like?”
Wally let out an exasperated sigh, given how this was the exact same argument that caused them both to end up in Overville in the first place. “Ollie…”
Before he could protest, D. Evil said, “I wouldn’t mind seeing another dimension myself.”
Wally fell silent, seeing that someone else from another dimension wanted to travel with him as well. He was still unsure about it given how different his dimension was from Sparkle Sity and Overville.
Ollie urged, “Come on, Hewitt. We’ve shown you our dimensions. It’s only fair that you show us yours.”
In a darkened room at an unknown location, a man in a suit was sitting at a computer, which flashed a red alert on screen. The man typed on the keyboard until an image appeared on screen.
He spoke in a stunned voice, “A signal from Dimension J-152, coming from one of our interdimensional portal watches.”
His hands trembled as they hover over the keyboard. His voice shook, “C-C-Could it be?”
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Happy birthday @SpongeBob SquarePants
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Chapter 6: Demon Hunting
After saving innocent civilians from the terrorizing demons and meeting two strange boys who discovered his identity as D. Evil, Dean left to go about his business. In front of the electronics store was Jason Fuller, a 14-year-old boy with blue eyes and a black afro under his hoodie. He was texting on his phone until he noticed his best friend, Dean, approaching.
Jason waved and greeted, “Dean. There you are, man. Run into demon trouble?”
Other than Lucy, Jason was the only one who knew about Dean’s powers, but he was the only one who knew that Dean and D. Evil were the same person.
Dean answered, “Among other things. But nothing I couldn’t handle.”
“Well, while you were gone, I bought the new ePhone.” Jason eagerly showed off his phone to Dean. “With this baby, I can stream all your fights online.”
“I don’t know.” Dean nervously replied, “All those people watching me on the internet.”
Knowing how intimidated Dean could be when faced with an audience, Jason placed a hand on his best friend’s shoulder and assured, “No fret, dude. They’ll be watching D. Evil. They won’t have any idea that it’s you.”
Dean started to feel a little more comfortable until a familiar voice interrupted, “Won’t it still be Dean on the internet?”
The two teens turned around to see Wally and Ollie, the former holding out his camera phone.
“You guys?!” Dean shouted in shock.
“You know them, Dean?” Jason asked, wondering how Dean was acquainted with a couple of kids.
Wally responded, “Don’t mind us. I’m just gathering data on what a typical day is for a native in this dimension.”
“Doesn’t look any different from what I do every day.” A bored Ollie pointed out. “You’d think living with demon powers would be more exciting.”
A shocked Jason whispered to Dean, “Wait, they know?”
Dean whispered back, “Yes, they saw me transform.”
“Are they gonna keep quiet?”
“I didn’t know what else to do.”
“Scare them by saying D. Evil will eat them.”
“Jace, they’re kids.”
Suddenly, Ollie called out, “You know we can hear everything you guys are saying.”
As he recorded everything with his phone, Wally added, “Thankfully, the camera did too.”
Jason approached the kids and kneeled down to them as he spoke in a friendly voice, “Hey, guys, how about I buy your silence with a D. Evil selfie? Or one of D. Evil’s test papers? Or he can show up at your birthday party?”
Not liking that his best friend was making all these promises that he did not want to keep, Dean pulled Jason back and assured him, “Uhhh, Jason? I don’t think any of that will be necessary.”
But Ollie curiously asked, “Is the whole trying to eat us thing why you’re called ‘Evil’?”
Hearing them missing the point of his ironic name, Dean’s face scrunched in anger as he grumbled, “It’s supposed to strike fear in my enemies.” He turned to his best friend, “Let’s go, Jason.”
Dean walked away while Jason followed him, leaving Wally and Ollie alone and disappointed.
Ollie said, “I think you scared him off, Hewitt.”
An offended Wally snapped, “And you making fun of his name didn’t drive him away, Vanderbilt?” But Wally quickly regained his determination, “But that doesn’t matter. If I cannot gain my research through direct contact, I’ll get it by observing.”
Ollie crossed his arms and rolled his eyes, groaning, “That sounds kinda lame.”
An annoyed Wally rolled his eyes and grabbed Ollie’s arm. “Come on.”
As he was being dragged away, Ollie complained, “Again with the pulling!”
After ditching the two boys, Dean explained to Jason how Wally and Ollie had discovered that he was D. Evil and were now insistent on talking with him about it. Dean and Jason decided to go to lunch at the Burger Palace. During which, Jason told Dean all about how the news of his heroic actions as D. Evil were spreading all over the internet.
“Did you notice that you are trending right now, man?” Jason said as he showed Dean a news article on his phone. “You should’ve become D. Evil a long time ago.”
Dean couldn’t help but be impressed. “Wow. I really didn’t expect all this positive reaction.”
“I...didn’t exactly say it was positive.”
Hearing this, Dean’s mood dropped as he realized that gaining the public’s adoration while also being a demon would not be as easy as he thought.
What they didn’t know was that at the children’s play area, Wally and Ollie emerged from underneath the ball pit.
“Is this really what archeology is supposed to be?” Ollie asked.
“Shhh!” Wally hushed as he held out his phone and used the camera to zoom in on Dean and Jason.
Since they didn’t know they were being spied on, Dean and Jason continued to converse.
“You know, maybe you should reconsider the name.” Jason suggested.
An annoyed Dean responded, “The name is fine, Jace. What I need to do is show everyone that I’m not like other demons.”
Still hoping that Dean would take his idea of streaming D. Evil’s fights online, Jason held out his camera phone to Dean and playfully said, “Stream online.”
But once he saw himself on the phone’s screen, Dean became nervous. “I…I’m still not sure about that.” But when Dean looked at the screen, his eyes widen when he noticed something. “Wait a sec.”
Dean took the phone and stared at the screen. Other than seeing himself, he looked at the background and saw the play area where Wally and Ollie were watching him from the ball pit. Dean turned around while Wally and Ollie ducked down into the ball pit, realizing they had been caught.
But Dean marched over to the ball pit and reached inside until he pulled Wally and Ollie out.
“Seriously?” a disapproving Dean asked them. “You guys are spying on me now?”
Ollie pointed at Wally and shouted, “He said it was observing!”
Despite this, Wally explained, “I’m sorry, Dean, we were just interested in knowing what life was like here. But now that we’ve got you here, maybe you can tell us yourself.”
Wally held his phone out to Dean again, but just seeing a camera pointed at him was enough to make Dean freeze up for a moment, until he snapped out of it and went back to being angry at them.“No, no, no, no. I already told you I’m not interested. So just leave-”
Before he could finish scolding the two boys, a voice called out, “Well, well, well.”
Dean winced as he could recognize that voice anywhere. He turned and saw a fourteen-year-old boy pale skin and dark hair. “Devlin, I didn’t know you took up babysitting.” He said in a mocking voice.
“No, Lance, totally didn’t.” Dean responded in an annoyed tone since he had pretty much gotten used to Lance harassing him both in and out of school.
Lance stated, “My friends and I were planning a conjuring to see if we can summon that demon kid from the Underworld. You should come. We’ll need a sacrifice, after all.” He laughed as he walked away.
All Dean could do was roll his eyes as he muttered, “Always did peg him for a worshipper.”
“You sure you don’t wanna pick a name that doesn’t make you sound like a bad guy?” Ollie asked Dean, making him grit his teeth in anger.
Wally was more interested in what Lance had said. “What did he mean by ‘Underworld’?”
”Enough!” Dean shouted to them. “Quit following me, alright?”
Before either Wally or Ollie could respond, a scream was heard, followed by a man shouting, “Demon in the bathroom!”
Dean frowned in dismay since there were a few places that he did not like fighting demons, and public restrooms were one of them.
“Great. My favorite.” Dean sarcastically groaned. He turned to Wally and Ollie and commanded, “Don’t move.”
Afterwards, he ran towards the bathroom and looked towards Jason. Dean signaled him to wait outside until he finished off the demon. Jason understood the message and nodded before running out of the restaurant.
While D. Evil was fighting the rogue demon in the men’s restroom, Wally and Ollie stood around, wondering what their next move would be.
“We’re gonna keep following him, right?” Ollie asked Wally.
Wally responded with an enthusiastic, “Definitely.”
After finishing off the demon, Dean snuck out of the Burger Palace and met up with Jason. In the hopes of losing the boys that were following them, the two teens ran off to hide in the city’s local black magic shop; a place where people go to buy items that are supposed to ward off any demons.
Peeking out the window and seeing no sign of Wally or Ollie, Dean informed Jason, “I think we lost them. Good thing I thought of hiding in this place.”
Jason nodded in agreement. “It’s a good thing kids are scared of dark supernatural stuff.”
However, they couldn’t be more wrong. Wally and Ollie were already in the store, watching them from behind some merchandise shelves. Wally glanced around the strange store and wrote down some notes. “‘Dimension contains a shop that includes supposedly supernatural items to the superstitious residents residing in dimension.’”
As he fiddled with some of the items on the shelf, Ollie overheard him and asked, “How can you say that after seeing me use real magic against actual monsters and nearly getting eaten by a real demon?”
“Shhh!”
Jason asked Dean, “Though I can’t help but wonder, was that the only reason you decided to come in here?”
Knowing just what Jason was referring to, Dean glanced towards the checkout counter where a beautiful 14-year-old girl with red hair and green eyes was working. Just seeing the girl made Dean’s face go red, his heart race, and his body tense up. In fact, Dean felt like this every time he laid eyes on her.
“You should go talk to her.” Jason encouraged.
But Dean appeared unsure of himself. “I don’t know, Jason. You know how I get every time I try to talk to cute girls. Plus, I just fought a demon in a public restroom.”
“Relax, this is Angie. It won’t matter to her how dumb you sound or how bad you smell, so give it a try.” Jason shoved Dean towards the checkout counter so he can go chat up his crush.
While Wally was busy writing notes down, Ollie picked up a stitch doll from the shelf and stared at it with curiosity. He then glanced over at Wally and discreetly tried to pluck a strand of hair from his head. Before he could, Wally looked over at him, making Ollie quickly hide his hands behind his back. But Wally remained oblivious and went back to observing Dean.
“Whoa, look at Dean.” Wally quietly told Ollie. “He looks kinda sick.”
They watched Dean approach the counter, and he cleared his throat a couple times before speaking, “Umm…hi, Angie.”
When Angie noticed Dean, she gave him a friendly smile and greeted, “Oh, hey, Dean. How’s it going?”
While speaking to his crush, Dean became so flustered, he could hardly speak, “Oh, um, it’s…it’s going…going great. I…uhh, how are you going? Doing! How are you doing?”
As Wally and Ollie watched Dean go from a brave confident hero who fought demons and saved lives to a shy awkward teenager who couldn’t even talk to a girl, Ollie leaned against the shelves stocked with merchandise until accidentally knocking over some boxes of vampire teeth.
This caused Dean and Angie to notice them. An embarrassed Wally tried to hide his face behind his notepad while Ollie just casually waved.
“Hey, Dean,” Ollie greeted. “Why do you look so nervous around that girl? Do you like her or something?”
Angie looked at Dean, wondering if he really knew the two boys.
Dean nervously laughed and stated, “Kids. Am I right?” When he got no response from Angie, he started backing away. “I’ll…just…see you later, Angie. Bye.”
He rushed out of the shop in an embarrassed wreck with Jason running after him.
Angie was confused by the whole thing, but remembered she had a job to do, which was clean the mess Wally and Ollie made.
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Chapter 5: D. Evil
After Wally created a portal to leave Sparkle Sity and go home to his own dimension, Ollie wanted to tag along and explore a new dimension as well and would not take “no” for an answer. Both Wally and Ollie took a trip back to Cullertown- or so they thought.
A portal appeared on the sidewalk. Wally and Ollie emerged from it, rolling on top of each other. Once they come to a stop, Ollie pushed Wally off of him and observed his surroundings. He noticed they were in a large city not unlike his own Sparkle Sity, but less colorful and bleaker with no magical creature in sight.
“This is what your dimension looks like?” Ollie asked, looking unimpressed yet intrigued by how different it was from his own. “What were you so worried about?”
Wally stood up and looked around, realizing the watch had not taken him to his dimension, but to a completely different one. “This isn’t Cullertown. I think we were brought to a different dimension.”
Wally’s body tensed up and his breath became heavy as if he were having a panic attack. Ollie noticed this and became concerned that Wally was freaking out like a scared child who was lost in an unfamiliar city.
“Hey…are you okay?” a concerned Ollie asked, hoping he could do whatever he could to calm Wally down.
But to his surprise, Wally had a large grin on his face and his panic was no more than excitement.
“Am I okay? I’m better than okay!” Wally shouted. “I’m in another dimension! I’ve always believed there was more than one dimension out there, but now I know it’s true!”
Wally took out his phone and ran off to take pictures of the new environment. Ollie stayed behind and looked around.
“This place kinda looks like Sparkle Sity, but gloomier.” Ollie said to himself, amazed by how the buildings and streets looked. But he looked down and lifted his left foot to see that he had stepped in some chewing gum. “Ugh! And dirtier.”
He continued to walk along the sidewalk, noticing that things were not well kept as they were in Sparkle Sity, as if something was terrorizing the city. “This place looks like it has a real monster problem.” Ollie said to himself. “Come to think of it, where are the Magical Girls?He knew that a town or city with monster problems would normally be handled by the local Magical Girls so why wouldn’t this place have one?
Before he could think it over, a crowd of people rushed past Ollie, and he got swept in while heading in one direction. He tried to break free and yell at them to let him out, but the people were too busy talking over each other.
“There’s another report on the demon boy.”
“I heard he was spotted last night.”
“Whoever heard of a good demon?”
Ollie finally managed to make his way towards the front of the crowd when they reached the square. He was amazed by the interesting sights like the tall buildings and the giant television screen hanging high above in the center. Soon, Wally managed to make his way through the crowd to join back up with Ollie.
“Ollie, there you are.” Wally said in a chipper tone. “You know, coming here may not have been my intention, but I’m kinda glad I did.”
He took a picture of the square with his phone and wrote notes in his notepad. However, Ollie began to feel slight unease as he remembered all the gossip he heard in the crowd. He felt he should warn Wally about it. “Wally, there’s something weird about this place.”
Rather than be alarmed, Wally assumed that Ollie’s unease was just from being in an entirely new dimension, just like he previously felt. So, he decided to offer him some comforting advice.
“That’s only because we’re in a different dimension. What may seem weird to you might be normal to everyone here, which I’ve learned from being in your dimension.”
“What? No. I mean, what if this city has monsters of its own?”
“Monsters? Ollie, that’s absurd. You can’t expect every dimension to be full of monsters.”
“What kind of dimension do you come from?”
Suddenly, they hear a jingle and look up at the mega screen to see a news report being broadcasted,
“Good afternoon, I’m Sheryl King. Last night, a robbery occurred at the Overville Bank. By the time authorities arrived, the criminals had already been apprehended by the demon boy who calls himself “D. Evil”. Despite his heroic actions, many call his morality into question since demons have been known for their monstrous and chaotic behavior.”
The screen showed an image of D. Evil. Despite being a demon, he looked like a human teenage boy with black hair, yellow eyes, and a black jumpsuit with red gloves, boots, and a cape. His face concealed by a mask decorated with horns.
After the broadcast was over, Wally walked away while writing on his notepad. When Ollie noticed him leaving, he followed.
“I knew it! This place has monsters.” Ollie said while Wally was too preoccupied with taking notes. “Well, more like demons, but still, monsters. Not to mention, a real superhero.”
Wally read his notes out loud, “‘Landed in city called “Overville”, dimension contains humans and demons.’”
“Oh, brother. Why bother taking a bunch of lame notes?”
Wally explained, “I like to research my findings. These notes on what I discover will help me later.”
“That is so lame. Why not just live in the moment? You’ll end up missing what’s right in front of you.”
“That’s absurd. As an archeologist, I’m always aware of my surroundings.”
As they turned a corner, Wally bumped into someone, causing him to drop his pen and notepad and the other person to drop his phone.
“Oh, yeah.” Ollie sarcastically noted. “You’re super aware.”
The person Wally bumped into was Dean Devlin, who kneeled to pick up Wally’s belongings.
“I am so sorry.” Dean apologized to Wally. “It was totally my fault.”
Ollie remarked, “No, it wasn’t. Someone was taking nerd notes instead of paying attention to where he was going.”
Wally glared at Ollie, but Dean did not show any anger at the boys. “Uhhh, it’s totally cool. Forget about it.”
After returning Wally’s things to him, Dean picked up his phone and stood up. Before he could leave, Wally called to him, “Wait. Before you go, can you tell us anything about D. Evil?”
Hearing the two boys he just met ask him about his secret identity, Dean started to become nervous. “Wha…what about D. Evil?”
“Do you know where we can find him?” Wally asked.
Ollie added, “Yeah, you live here, so you’ve must’ve seen him?”
Dean quickly answered, “Sorry. Never seen him before in my life.”
He rushed away without another word while the two boys stared, wondering how he could not have seen D. Evil despite living in the same city as him.
“Hmph, loser.” Ollie commented.
Wally groaned in disappointment. “Oh man, I was hoping to find D. Evil so I can ask him for all the information on this dimension and the demons residing in it.”
Ollie approached Wally and held his shoulder. “Well, D. Evil is a demon, right? You just gotta find another demon who knows him.”
Wally looked unsure of the idea. “I don’t know. That reporter we saw said that demons are dangerous.”
“And you think a demon with the word ‘Evil’ in his name wouldn’t be?”
Wally rolled his eyes in annoyance and grabbed Ollie’s arm. “Let’s start by looking around.” He said before dragging Ollie away while the latter yelps.
They decided to start their search for D. Evil by looking in what they thought were scary places. Unfortunately, the only place they could find nearby was the back of a convenient store. Wally was searching underneath the dumpster and behind boxes, hoping to find anything that looked like it belonged to a demon.
“No signs of anything unusual.” Wally announced.
But Ollie was bored out of his mind. “This is so dumb. You know, the only reason I’m hanging around you is because your watch-thingy is my only way home.”
Wally was unimpressed with Ollie blaming him for ending up in this dimension. “Oh, please. You’re the one who followed me here when I told you not to.”
“Because I wanted to see someplace cool, and now that we’re here, you’re taking all the cool out of it.”
“Interdimensional traveling requires research and if you knew a thing about-”
“Aaaah! Cease that infernal noise!” a voice called out from inside the dumpster.
The lid of the dumpster opens and they are stunned to see a Bat Demon. His body was slender, he had wings under his arms, and long fangs. The demon was displeased to see the boys staring at him. “Humans. I should have known.”
“What are you?” Wally timidly asked as he and Ollie back away.
“You’re a demon, aren’t you?” Ollie asked since the creature wasn’t anything like the monsters he had seen in Sparkle Sity.
Seeing the two human boys in the isolated area without any adult supervision, the Bat Demon smirked as he replied, “Clever, aren’t you? I was hoping to feast upon the human in that building when he comes out to dispose of his waste. But why let easy prey slip by?”
The Bat Demon crawls out of the dumpster on all fours and moves towards Wally and Ollie with sadistic intent.
As he clung to Wally’s arm, Ollie whispered, “There’s your demon, Hewitt. But I don’t think he’s in the mood to talk.”
Wally tried to remain calm and chose to speak to the demon, “Wait! Would you happen to know D. Evil?”
Hearing Wally mention that name, the Bat Demon cringed and hissed as if he was recalling the last encounter he had with D. Evil. “That demon child. I have lost so many good meals because of him.”
Realizing that the demon was not someone they should be talking to, Wally tried to end the conversation as quickly as possible. He nervously chuckled and asked, “Do you know where we can find him?”
“No.” the Bat Demon answered until he smirked at the boys. “But I know how we can make him come.”
Without warning, the Bat Demon lunged at the boys, shoving Wally aside and grabbing Ollie as he pinned him to the ground with ravenous intent.
”Ollie!” Wally called out.
“Get off me!” Ollie shouted as he laid at the mercy of the bloodthirsty demon.
But the Bat Demon hissed and stated, “I’ll eat one of you, and your screams will bring the demon child here!”
The Bat Demon barred his fangs and drew them close to Ollie’s neck as he prepared to bite him. Ollie tried to push the demon off, but his grip was too strong. Finally, Ollie reached for his brooch and pulled it off his collar.
“I said…get…” Ollie warned as he changed his brooch into the wand. “…OFF!”
He smacked the demon in the face with the tip of his wand, knocking him away. Once recovered, the Bat Demon was none too pleased.
“Why, you lousy little…” The Bat Demon said right as he was about to pounce back on Ollie.
He was suddenly hit in the back of the head with a whip. He turned around to see Wally reel in his whip. “Get away, you…demon!”
Wally and Ollie stood together, armed with their weapons. The Bat Demon snarled as he realized he was facing no ordinary children.
“Enough of this!” he shouted in dismay. “I’ll get my meal somewhere else!”
The Bat Demon flapped his arms and flew off. At the front of the store, Dean was exiting as he drank a slushee and texted on his phone. When he glanced up, he noticed the Bat Demon flying overhead, which he knew meant trouble. Afterwards, Dean narrowed his eyes and finished off his slushee before he tossed it aside and ran off to do his duty.
Wally and Ollie came out from behind the store to see no sign of the demon or anyone else.
“Where’d that demon go?” Wally asked in panic. “We have to stop it before it hurts someone.”
Before they could start searching, they heard a screeching noise and turned to see a bus swerving on the road as the Bat Demon hung on the front of the bus, clawing at the windshield as if trying to break in. While the driver and passengers screamed, the demon could only laugh maniacally.
“Give me all your blood, humans!” the Bat Demon yelled.
Wally and Ollie gasped in horror when they see the bus starting to swerve towards a gas station.
Right when it was about to drive off the street, the bus came to a halt. D. Evil was in front of the bus, holding it still with his supernatural strength.
“Sorry,” D. Evil said to the demon, “But you’re required to have exact change!”
D. Evil levitated in the air and grabbed the demon by the back of its neck.
As he was hoisted in the air, the Bat Demon sees D. Evil and growls with rage. “You again!”
“Awww, you remember me.” D. Evil said in false flattery. “I’m sure you remember this!”
D. Evil punched the Bat Demon in the face, knocking him through the air.
From a distance, Wally and Ollie arrived and saw what was going on. They were amazed to see D. Evil beating the demon that nearly got a bus full of innocent people killed.
“It’s D. Evil.” Wally said with a large grin full of excitement.
Even Ollie couldn’t hide how amazed he was at seeing a real life superhero. “It really is.”
The Bat Demon was hit with an energy blast, and D. Evil flew forward, punching him into the ground. The Bat Demon lied in the cracked pavement while D. Evil hovered over him.
“You gonna go back home?” D. Evil playfully asked.
The Bat Demon growled in response.
“You gonna stay home?”
The Bat Demon growled once again.
D. Evil just smiled in pleasure and responded, “Because that’s where you’re going!”
D. Evil charged his hands with dark energy and converted it into a blast that he unleashed from both of his hands, firing it at the demon and obliterating it into dust.
“Whoa…” Wally and Ollie both said with their jaws lowered.
Wiping his hands clean as he hovered in the air, D. Evil announced, “That takes care of that.”
D. Evil flew through the air, causing Wally to panic that he was missing his chance to meet the superhero.
“Hey, wait!” Wally called out, but D. Evil of course could not hear him.
“Bummer.” Ollie said. “We still don’t get to meet him.”
“Not if I can help it.” Wally said in determination before he grabbed Ollie’s arm and dragged him away.
“Hey!” Ollie shouted, dismayed by Wally dragging him by the arm again.
After landing in an empty alley, D. Evil made sure the coast was clear and snapped his fingers. Dark energy surrounded his body and his appearance changed into his human identity of Dean Devlin.
Dean took a breath of relief since he could now relax after another fight with a rogue demon. However, his break was short-lived.
“Oh, my gosh!”
With his eyes widened in horror, Dean turned around and he screamed in shock to see Wally and Ollie staring at him from the corner of the alley’s exit.
“You’re the demon boy?” Ollie asked in surprise, recognizing him as the teen he and Wally encountered earlier. “You’re D. Evil?”
Wally could barely contain his excitement. “I can hardly believe it myself.” He shook Ollie by the shoulders as he exclaimed, “A real life superhero who’s a kid, just like us!”
Dean recognized them as the two boys he ran into earlier, only now they knew his secret, and he wasn’t prepared for anything like this to happen. Dean started to tremble and sweat ran down his forehead.
“Uhhh, I…I…I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Dean stammered while he wrung his hands. “Who’s this ‘D. Evil’ guy?”
Ollie could not believe that the cool, confident superhero they saw just moments ago was now a timid, awkward teenager.
“Wow.” Ollie sarcastically said. “A real life superhero who screams like a girl and can’t even think of a good lie.”
An excited Wally zipped over to Dean and shook the awkward teenager’s hand.
“Please forgive my associate.” Wally said to Dean before whispering, “He’s new to the whole interdimensional traveling thing.”
“Inter-di-what?” Dean asked.
Still shaking Dean’s hand, and probably not even realizing that he was doing so, Wally introduced himself, “My name’s Wally. Wally Hewitt.”
Ollie casually waved to Dean and introduced himself, “Ollie Vanderbilt.”
Now feeling less nervous, Dean pulled his hand away and calmly introduced himself as well, “Devlin. Dean Devlin.”
Wally squealed in delight. “I have so many questions about this dimension you live in, Dean. It’s so much different from mine or Ollie’s.”
Dean became even more confused by what Wally was talking about. “Dimension?” he questioned, wondering if the two boys were actually demons from the Underworld.
Suddenly, Ollie spoke up with his hand raised. “I got a question: Why are you a superhero?”
“Well…” This was a question that Dean could easily answer, but before he could figure out how to explain it, Ollie interrupted him.
“How did you get your powers?”
“Umm, I’m actually…” This was another question that Dean could easily answer, but wasn’t sure how to explain it in a way that two children could understand.
Not even giving Dean time to answer, Ollie bombarded him with another question, “Why’d you choose the name “D. Evil” anyway?”
Chuckling, Dean started to explain, “It’s a funny story really, you see…”
“I mean, what kind of superhero has the word ‘Evil’ in their name?”
Finally exasperated with Ollie’s constant questions (and this possibly not being the first time he’d been asked this), Dean angrily shouted, “It’s supposed to be ironic!”
Even Wally had enough of Ollie taking up Dean’s time. “That’s enough, Ollie.” Wally demanded since he still wanted to ask Dean the questions he thought were important. He turned to Dean with his phone held out so he can record him, “So about my questions regarding Overville…”
However, Dean held his hands up to stop him. “Look, you both seem like nice kids, but I gotta go. So, if you guys can keep quiet about everything you saw just now, I’d really appreciate it.”
Wally and Ollie glanced at each other in silence. Despite getting no response, Dean took their silence as an agreement.
“Greaaaat.” Dean nervously said before making his way past the two. “Well, nice meeting you guys. Bye.”
Afterwards, Wally started to get discouraged about not getting the opportunity to talk with a real superhero, despite now knowing the guy on a personal level.
Ollie held his shoulder and tried to offer some comfort. “Sorry, Wally. I guess it’s true what they say about those famous superhero types.”
Wally narrowed his eyes with determination and declared, “I’m not ready to give up. This wouldn’t be the first time I had to chase after a treasure. One time, I was exploring a supposedly haunted sewer, and a rat took the key to open a gate leading to some hidden tunnel. I had to chase after that thing for hours until I finally caught up with it to get what I wanted, and that’s what I’m gonna do now.”
“Ugh!” Ollie groaned in dismay after hearing the amount of work they were going to have to do. “Now we have to search this demon-infested place just to find a demon kid right after we just avoided being eaten by a demon?”
Wally remained positive and assured him, “I consider myself an expert when it comes to tracking. Follow me.”
He grabbed Ollie’s arm and dragged him away while Ollie shouted, “Will you quit pulling me already?”
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I finished the game and I have to say it was a fun experience just like the original game. While I wish that they could've made things a little different like add new scenes and new dialogue, it was still a great game to play.
Though, that doesn't mean it didn't have its drawbacks. The one thing I didn't like was that they raised the prices for Mr. Krabs's golden spatulas. It used to be that the price would increase by 500 per spatula, but it is now 3.000. Meaning that his final spatula, which used to cost 7.500 shiny objects, now cost 24,000. And since the remake nerfed the skee ball abuse speedrun, the only ways to speed up grinding shiny objects is to detonate the tikis on top of the sandcastle and and then leave to reset, or go down guppy hill multiple times. So anyone playing this game should start grinding as soon as they can if they want to afford Mr. Krabs's spatulas.
Saving up for the movie theater isn't all that worth it anymore either. In the original, it contained concept art for the game. But the remake only contains ten screenshots from the game. So definitely not worth grinding 40,000 shiny objects for.
I haven't played multiplayer yet, so I can't give my thoughts on that.
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Chapter 4: A Slight Detour
A few minutes after meeting Ollie and being given his magic wand as a souvenir, Wally went back to the restaurant he saw earlier and bought a corndog to eat since he hadn’t eaten anything since the moment he woke up that morning. Wally was intrigued to see that the corndogs were curled as if they were unicorn horns, hence the name of the restaurant: The Uni-Corndog Hut. He took a bite of the corndog and was pleased to discover that it tasted just like any other corndog he had eaten in his own dimension.
Wally wrote in his notepad, “‘Food tastes no different than Cullertown’s.’” he then grabbed the wand off the table, and remembered what he saw Ollie do with it earlier. “I wonder how that kid activated this thing.”
Despite this, he remembered very clearly how Ollie activated his wand, and knew that even thinking about it felt ridiculous. But he realized that while doing something like that in Cullertown would be deemed crazy, it must’ve been normal in Sparkle Sity. So, Wally stood up in his chair and swung the wand out.
He couldn’t remember the exact phrase, so he shouted out, “Sparks and Glimmer Flash!”
Nothing happened. Defeated, Wally sat down in his chair and stared at the wand. “Must require a specific voice frequency.”
He began to wonder why Ollie even bothered giving him the wand if he was the only one who could get it to work. But he was still glad to have something from this dimension to take back home with him.
“Well, I guess I might as well go back home, so I can study this thing properly.” Wally said as he was about to turn on his watch.
“Hey!” a voice shouted. Wally looked up to see Bonnie sitting at a nearby table.
She approached him, and angrily shouted, “Who are you? Where did you get that wand?”
“Huh?” Wally asked, wondering how she knew about the wand. “A boy named Ollie Vanderbilt gave this to me.”
“What?! He gave the wand to you?!” Bonnie exclaimed, shocked that Ollie could be so careless as to give their family’s wand to a complete stranger- and not her. “I can’t believe him! I doubt you can even use it anyway!”
Wally’s eyes widen in surprise. “Wait! You know Ollie?”
“Duh! He’s my idiot brother! The one who’s supposed to be a Magical Girl!”
“Magical Girl?” Wally questioned, having never heard the term before, and was especially confused at how Ollie could be called such a thing since he was certain that Ollie was a boy.
“What, do you live under a rock?” Bonnie rudely responded before explaining, “Magical Girls are the ones who protect this city from monsters and bad guys! Our mom was one when she was a kid, and now my brother is one! That’s why she gave him her wand!”
Wally was stunned by what he was told. He looked down in contemplation at the wand he was holding. “Gee, I had no idea how important this thing really is.”
“Duh!” Bonnie held her hand out, expecting him to give her the wand. “Now if you’ll just hand it over, so I can keep the wand and Ollie will be-”
But Wally ignored her and stood up. “There’s obviously more to this dimension than I realized.”
“Yeah, sure, whatever. So, just give me the-”
“This dimension is plagued by those things that attacked me earlier, and this wand is the only thing that can provide protection.” Wally realized as he began to feel remorse for wanting to take the wand for himself just so he can study it while also putting a thriving dimension in danger.
“Hello! Earth to weirdo! I want my mom’s wand for my-”
With a depressed sigh, Wally knew what he had to do. “This thing is too important to take
from its natural environment. Researching this dimension is important, but preserving it is more important. I have to find Ollie and return it.”
Wally grabbed his things and ran off.
“Hey!” Bonnie shouted after him, but Wally refused to come back. She growled in anger at missing her chance to claim the wand for herself.
Meanwhile, Ollie was strutting through the city as happy as he can be. Now that he was finally free of the magic wand and having to be a Magical Girl, he could do whatever he wanted and no longer be a laughingstock.
Ollie rejoiced, “This rocks! No more having to go on patrol, no more twirling around, and no more waving around a lame wand. I’ll just tell Mom the wand got eaten by a monster. I better make myself look beaten up to make it look convincing.”
As Ollie turned a corner, he was met by the two shadow monsters he neglected to finish off before. They growled at him viciously while a frightened Ollie took a step back.
“I don’t need to make it look that convincing.” Ollie said with fear. He reached for his collar until remembering he no longer had the brooch that would turn into his wand.
The monsters advanced towards Ollie, who slowly backed away since he now had no way to defend himself due to giving up his wand.
Back around the corner, Wally was walking down the sidewalk, trying to search for Ollie so he can return the wand. While he had no idea where Ollie would be, he was certain he could find him since, being an archeologist, he considered himself an expert in tracking.
“If what that girl said is true, these Magical Ladies, or whatever they’re called, are charged with fighting monsters. So, they’re bound to be wherever these monsters are. One of them has to know where Ollie is.”
Wally walked around the corner to see the same shadow monsters that attacked him earlier have now cornered a boy. Wally recognized the boy as the one who had saved him from those monsters and gave him the wand that he could now be using to protect himself.
“Ollie,” Wally muttered in worry. He reached into his backpack and pulled out his trusty whip.
As one of the monsters jumped at Ollie, the whip wrapped around his stomach and yanked him backwards away from the monster before it could pounce on him.
When Ollie landed on the ground, he opened his eyes to see the one who saved him.
“Wally?” Ollie asked, surprised to see him again.
“No time to talk.” Wally quickly gave Ollie back his wand. “Something tells me you’ll still need this.”
Ollie was stunned yet secretly relieved to have his wand back, but he had no time to thank Wally for rescuing him. One of the shadow monsters started running towards the two boys with the intent of mauling them. Thinking quickly, Wally jumped to the right and swung his whip out, wrapping the end around the monster and restraining it. Wally swung the monster through the air, slamming it into the wall of a building and causing the monster to vanish.
The remaining shadow monster jumped at Wally, who had little time to react. Ollie twirled around once before holding out his wand and shouting, “SPARKLE GLITTER BLAST!”
A blast of glittering magic shot out of Ollie’s wand and hit the shadow monster in midair, obliterating it.
Wally smiled and realized this was the second time Ollie had saved his life since he arrived in this dimension. “Thanks, Ollie.”
Turning his wand into a heart-shaped brooch that he pinned on his collar, Ollie responded, “I should be the one thanking you. For some weirdo who doesn’t know about magic, you’re pretty cool.”
Flattered by the compliment, Wally tried to play it cool. “Well, through my adventures, I’ve had to fend off a lot of rats, snakes, foxes, and raccoons. I never imagined I’d have to fight off real monsters.”
Ollie was confused as to how Wally could not have seen a real monster before if he lived in Sparkle Sity. Before he could ask him about it, a voice called out, “Hey! That kid’s the new Magical Girl!”
They see a bunch of people surrounding the area, including the two teenage girls Wally saw earlier.
“Like, he really is a boy!” the girl shouted in amusement.
“Where’s your dress?” the other girl asked Ollie.
Everyone began to point and laugh at Ollie. Wally stared in confusion while Ollie scowled in annoyance and stormed away.
“Ollie!” Wally called out as he followed Ollie away from the laughing crowd. “Wait!”
Thinking that Wally followed him just to make fun of him like everyone else, Ollie turned around and angrily asked, “What do you want?”
Wally calmly explained, “I just wanna to talk. You have to tell me as much about this place as possible.”
“What the heck are you talking about?”
Wally explained, “This girl named Bonnie told me about you.”
Hearing that Wally was already acquainted with his sister, Ollie began to fear the worst. “So, you’ve met my ugly sister, huh? What sort of untrue stuff did she say about me?”
“Nothing, nothing.” Wally kindly assured. “Just that you were something called a Magical Girl.”
Ollie winced at the fact that he was basically being interviewed about what he considered the worst job imaginable. Ollie wanted to tell Wally to get lost, but since he wouldn’t be alive right now if it hadn’t been for this strange kid, the least he could do was tell him what he wanted to know so he would go away.
“Fine, yes. I am a Magical Girl, but I’m not a girl. I’m just able to control magic like one. But my mom says that means I have to go out and protect Sparkle Sity from monsters just like any other Magical Girl.” Ollie groaned in frustration. “I hate it so much.”
Suddenly, he hears Wally chuckling, just like Ollie predicted he would do once he found out that Ollie was doing the job of a girl.
“Oh, great. Now that you know the truth, you’re gonna laugh at me like everyone else.”
But to his surprise, Wally explained, “No, it’s not that. I just can’t believe that within this universe, there are dimensions where magic exists. It makes me curious to know what else might be out there.”
“Dimensions? What the heck are you talking about now?”
Wally realized that he hadn’t even told Ollie that he wasn’t from this dimension, which explained why he was so bewildered by Wally’s obliviousness about magic. “Oh, right. You see, I’m not actually from here. I hail from another dimension.”
There was a moment of awkward silence until Ollie burst into hysterical laughter. “First you say you don’t know magic is real, and now you’re saying you come from another dimension?”
“It’s the truth!” Wally argued. “I came here with this technological portal watch I found.”
Getting close to Wally’s face, Ollie argued, “Right. I’d believe magic isn’t real before I believe you’re from another dimension!”
“Because where I come from, magic isn’t real, and my interdimensional portal watch is!” Wally argued back as he too stared Ollie in the face. “And I’ll prove it!”
Without taking his eyes off Ollie, he tapped the screen of the watch and activated the holo-map that displayed itself right between the two. Ollie was so stunned that he jumped back a few feet.
“Holy…” Ollie shouted with his eyes widened.
Wally smirked in triumph. “Told ya so.” he held his chin as he observed the map. “Okay. So, I think last time I hit that little dot, which brought me here. So, this dot right over here must lead back to Cullertown.”
He touched the spot on the map he presumed to be where his own dimension was. After he does so, the map disappeared, and a portal appeared in front of him. Ollie was shocked even more by what he was seeing.
“Whoa!” Ollie shouted, holding his head.
Wally waved goodbye. “Well, it was nice meeting you, Ollie. Hope we can meet again someday.”
Right when he was about to take a step forward, he was shoved aside by Ollie, who stood in front of the portal.
“This really leads to another dimension?” Ollie asked in excitement, “I wanna see it!”
Wally quickly moved in front of Ollie to block his path. “Are you nuts? I can’t bring a foreign entity to another dimension.”
“Who are you calling an entity?” Ollie argued, “If you can just waltz into my dimension and look around, why can’t I do the same in yours?”
Wally wasn’t sure how to respond. He never expected anyone in this new dimension to actually be interested in following him back home to his own dimension.
“Because…” he stammered, struggling to come up with some kind of excuse to keep Ollie from following. “My dimension isn’t anything like yours. You…may not survive.”
But Ollie wasn’t buying the excuse. “I think I’ll be fine. Now let me in.”
Ollie tried to shove his way past Wally to go in the portal, but Wally refused to let him in and they both walked towards the portal, trying to shove the other aside so they could make it through first.
“This is my watch, and this is my portal home, so I’m going and you’re not.” Wally childishly argued.
Ollie responded in the same manner, “You’re not the boss of me, nerd. I’m going.”
However, both boys ended up stumbling into the portal together and it disappeared, taking them to another dimension.
In a dark city during the late hours of the night, all was eerily quiet until the sound of an alarm bell went off. The loud noise came from the inside of a bank with a single car parked in front of it and the passenger door wide open. Two men dressed in black with ski masks concealing their faces rushed out of the building with bags of loot. They jumped into the car and the driver stepped on the gas pedal, causing the car to speed away down the street.
As the robbers drove away, satisfied with their success, their smirks disappeared when the car suddenly jerked to a stop. The driver pressed his foot on the gas pedal, revving the motor, but the car didn’t move. When the robbers stuck their heads out the windows to see if something was blocking their path, they saw the road was completely clear and the car had a black glow around it.
Looking straight ahead, they saw the one responsible for their delay: a horned figure cloaked in the shadows, hovering in the air with his glowing black hands held out to his sides. Was it a human or something else?
The figure spoke in a gruff, but rather young, sounding voice, “I believe you just ran a stop sign…which is only one of three laws you broke tonight.”
Frightened by the mysterious vigilante, the two robbers exited the car and tried to make a run for it. However, the mysterious being held out his right hand that glowed with dark energy, and the robbers’ bodies glowed as well, causing them to float in mid-air as they thrashed around.
The vigilante spoke again, “Make that four.”
As if on cue, loud sirens were heard and a bunch of police cars arrived on the scene. When they stopped, the two robbers were thrown onto the hood of the lead police car just as the officer stepped out from the driver’s seat.
Before he could ask any questions, the hero who foiled the bank robbery flew away into the night. Staring intently, the police officer narrowed his eyes, knowing just who it was that did their job.
“D. Evil.”
In a small neighborhood, the same vigilante stayed in the shadows as he flew through the night sky and floated down into an alley next to an apartment building in order not to be seen. Snapping his fingers, the figure was surrounded by dark energy, changing his appearance as he walked out of the alley. Standing in the hero’s place was Dean Devlin, a 14-year-old boy with messy black hair and yellow eyes.
Dean entered through the front doors of the building and made his way upstairs to his apartment. As he opened his front door, Dean called out, “Mom! I’m home!”
Lucy, a woman with chestnut brown hair and blue eyes, entered the living room. She had a look of both disappointment and worry. “Dean, where have you been?” she asked. “Don’t you know how late it is?”
Dean was remorseful about worrying his mother, but he definitely did not want to tell her he had been out fighting crime, so he left that part out of his excuse.
“Sorry, Mom.” He apologized with a nervous smile. “Jason and I were having so much fun at the concert, I sorta lost track of time.”
While Lucy did not approve of her son staying out late and not calling her, she smiled, happy to have him back home safe and sound. “Well, I hope you’re at least keeping your you-know-what under control.”
Dean did not even need to be reminded about what she was implying. With a mischievous smile, Dean held up his right hand that glowed with dark energy. On the kitchen counter was a basket of muffins. One of the muffins glowed with dark energy and telekinetically lifted out of the basket and flew all the way into Dean’s hand.
Answering his mother’s question, Dean responded, “Every day.”
Dean took a bite of the muffin and started levitating off the floor. While he was always forced to hide his powers in public, he always felt comfortable using them at home and around his mother. His strange powers made him unique and he has had them his whole life. However, there was no mystery as to why he had them. He knew exactly where they came from- as did Lucy.
“What do you think Dad would say if he saw me now?” Dean asked his mother.
Dean was always curious about his father since he had never met him, but he knew his powers came from him.
Lucy had always told Dean what his father was, but she never told him who his father was. But every time Dean tried asking, Lucy was always capable of finding a way to dodge the question.
Lucy playfully responded, “I think he would want you to go to bed and get some sleep.”
Dean rolled his eyes in annoyance, but smiled as he floated over to Lucy. “Night, Mom.” He said before giving her a kiss goodnight and floating down the hall to his bedroom.
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Chapter 3: The Magical Boy
Wally wasn’t sure what had happened after he entered the strange portal. He was overwhelmed with both excitement and terror at the same time. When Wally was finally ejected from the portal, he was flung to the ground with a hard thud.
Groaning in pain, Wally pushed himself to his feet. “Huh? Where am I?”
He turned to see the portal behind him had already disappeared.
Looking around, Wally saw a tall bridge leading to a bright-looking city. “I get the feeling I’m not in Cullertown anymore.”
SCREEEEECH!
Wally looked up and reacted in shock to see a griffin flying above his head.
At first, Wally wondered if he was disoriented from the portal that brought him here, but he then heard a gruff voice shout, “Darn griffins always causing a racket!”
Wally looked over the railing to see the complaining coming from a troll who was living under the city’s bridge.
As he watched the troll disappear from view, Wally excitedly shouted, “And I get the feeling I’m not in the same dimension anymore!” he squealed in excitement. “I was right! This watch really can take me to other dimensions!” he jumped up and down with joy. “I discovered interdimensional travel!”
He turned around and noticed a large sign, which read “WELCOME TO SPARKLE SITY”.
“Sparkle Sity? That’s not how you spell ‘city’.” Wally complained, “This dimension must be home to lesser intelligent lifeforms. I better take notes.”
He reached into his backpack and pulled out his notepad and pen. As Wally started writing down what he had learned so far, he walked towards the city in order to learn more about the strange dimension he had entered.
Within the city inside a suburban home lived a 10-year-old boy with neatly combed brown hair, brown eyes, and a white and purple sailor suit with a pink heart brooch. This boy, Ollie Vanderbilt, was loafing on the living room couch, playing a handheld videogame.
Entering the living room was Ollie’s twin sister, Bonnie, who greatly resembled her brother, except for tying her long brown hair in two pigtail buns and wore a white and purple sailor suit with a skirt.
Seeing her brother goofing off, Bonnie frowned in anger and yelled, “MOOOM! Ollie’s not doing his job again!”
A woman with dark purple hair and brown eyes entered the room. The woman, Serena Vanderbilt, looked at her son with a disapproving glare and scolded him, “Ollie, you’re supposed to be doing your daily patrol.”
Angered at having his videogame interrupted, Ollie daggered at Bonnie, who looked at him with a cocky smirk. She was always pleased to watch her brother suffer after getting him in trouble.
“Aww, come on, Mom!” Ollie complained, “Why do I have to be some lame Magical Girl?” he removed his brooch and it magically transformed into a pink wand with a heart-shaped jewel and decorative wings. “I don’t even want this stupid wand.”
Bonnie eagerly raised her hand. “I can be a Magical Girl. I can take the wand. I’ll be just as good as you were, Mom.”
Serena was honored by how much her daughter admired her. “I’m sure you would, Bonnie.” She gently assured her daughter, “But you know that Ollie is the only one who can control magic, so he gets the wand.”
“She can have the wand.” Ollie argued, “She can be a Magical Girl and I can go back to doing what I want.”
Serena was beginning to lose her patience with her son. “Ollie, how many times do we have to go through this? Your great-grandmother was a Magical Girl, your grandmother was a Magical Girl, I was a Magical Girl, and now you have to be a Magical-”
“GIRL!” Bonnie yelled and cruelly laughed.
Upset by his mother’s nagging and sister’s torment, Ollie threw his wand on the ground and defiantly crossed his arms. “No way!”
“Ollie Vanderbilt!” a man with brown hair and brown eyes shouted as he entered the room. Serena’s husband, Mark Vanderbilt, stood next to his wife and scolded his son, “Listen to your mother. You know how important this is to her, so there’s no point in arguing.”
With both his parents confronting him, Ollie growled in dismay and reluctantly grabbed his wand before standing up and leaving the house.
Serena and Mark smiled lovingly at each other as they come closer. Despite the attitude their son gave them, they were proud of him and believed he can become a great Magical Girl just like his mother before him.
However, Bonnie was not proud of Ollie and was scowling in anger that her twin brother was living her dream of being a Magical Girl.
Out in the city, Wally was walking around and exploring while taking notes he can use for later. He learned that while this was a different dimension, it still had humans living in it and they drove cars to get to their destinations just like in his own. However, he also sometimes saw a flying carriage being pulled by Pegasus.
While Wally tried to take a picture of the phenomenon, he unknowingly wandered into traffic and nearly got hit by a car. When he stumbled back onto the sidewalk, he was yelled at by the driver to be more careful.
Despite the near-death experience, Wally took more notes, “Different dimension, same physics.”
Wally was startled when a small glowing pixie flew past him. He used his phone to take a picture of the pixie, only to unwittingly blind it with the flash. When the pixie crashed to the ground, a wary Wally stepped back.
Wally soon comes upon a restaurant called The Uni-Corndog Hut, which Wally naturally assumed sold corndogs. He was eager to try one in order to see if they tasted anything like the ones in his dimension. Before he could go up to the restaurant, he noticed two teenage girls sitting on a bench.
They were both staring at a phone that was playing a video. The first girl said, “This video of a fuzzle playing piano is so cute.”
Wally became confused since he had no idea what a fuzzle was and became intrigued that people in this dimension used technology for meaningless purposes just like people in his own dimension.
“Interesting. This dimension is almost identical to mine, except it contains not only humans, but creatures with horns and wings where horns and wings shouldn’t be. Has this dimension experienced some sort of nuclear explosion that mutated everyone?” he gave it some thought and came to an exciting conclusion, “Neat! I’m the first archeologist to discover mutants!”
The girls stood up from the bench. The first girl stated, “Let’s go. The weather report says there are monster sightings in town.”
The second teenage girl responded, “A Magical Girl will take care of it, right?”
“I hear the new one’s not even a girl.”
The girls laughed as they leave.
Wally became even more confused than before. “Magic and monsters?”
In Sparkle Sity’s local park, many people were enjoying the nice sunny day while kids were playing on the playground. However, it was soon disrupted by a harpy that came flying in and started terrorizing everyone. The kids on the playground screamed and ran to their parents. However, two young children were unlucky enough to still be in the sandbox as the harpy hovered over them while they could do nothing but scream.
When it looked hopeless, Ollie ran onto the scene and twirled through the air as he aimed his wand and shouted, “SPARKLE GLITTER BLAST!”
A blast of sparkling magic fired out of the wand and hit the harpy away from the children. This was enough to make it retreat and fly back to where it came from.
“Phew, finally.” Ollie said, glad to be done with his Magical Girl duties.
The two young kids stared at the boy who saved them with his magic. Ollie expected praise and gratitude for his actions.
But instead, the little boy pointed at Ollie. “You have a girl’s wand!”
The little girl joined in on the teasing. “You can’t be a Magical Girl! You’re a boy!”
The two kids laughed at Ollie. He scowled in anger, though he wasn’t surprised since this was the usual reaction he received when people witnessed him doing a job that was associated with girls. But it was about to get worse for him.
He noticed a flash that nearly blinded him, and he turned to see Bonnie pointing her phone at him, having taken a picture of Ollie being laughed at for using a Magical Girl wand.
“This is definitely going on my blog.” Bonnie said with sadistic pleasure.
“Bonnie!” Ollie shouted in anger as he marched over to her. “You know I don’t like you following me when I have to do this Magical Girl junk.”
“And miss out on you humiliating yourself? No way.” Bonnie hovered her finger over her phone. “Of course, I won’t totally humiliate you worldwide if you were to, say, give me the wand.”
“Okay.” Ollie casually said as he held his wand out to her.
Bonnie was pleased that she was getting the wand she so deeply desired and she could finally fulfill her dream of being a Magical Girl. But when she reached for the wand, Ollie immediately pulled it back.
“Oh, wait, that’s right. You can’t do magic. Ha! Ha!” Ollie teased.
Bonnie growled in anger. Since Bonnie liked to torment her brother and make him as miserable as possible, Ollie was always eager to fire right back when he had the chance. But this proved to be a bad move since Bonnie tapped her phone and posted the picture of Ollie online.
Many parents and kids who were still in the park got notification alerts on their phones and saw the post with Ollie’s embarrassing moment.
When they began to laugh, the only thing Ollie could do now was scowl in anger and walk as far away from the park as possible.
Wally was holding his pen and notepad as he interviewed a local resident of this city. “So, would you say you are considered an anomaly in this dimension?”
This was a poor choice of words, however, as the person he was interviewing was a gnome, who was not amused by Wally treating him as some freak of nature.
“Get out of here, kid.” The angry gnome demanded. “You act like you’ve never seen a gnome before.”
Before Wally could say that he really hadn’t seen a gnome before, the gnome walked away and got on the bus.
Despite this little setback, Wally took notes as he read out loud, “‘Abnormalities are normal in this dimension.’” He stopped writing. “Still doesn’t make any sense. Could all this strange stuff really be a result of...magic?”
Wally paused as he pondered this. He never believed in anything like magic since he came from a dimension where such things never existed. But could he really be in a dimension where stuff like magic really existed?
“Naaah. Well, whatever it is, I’m still the first to discover it.”
Wally put his pen and notepad in his backpack and took out a glass vial. “Now I just need a sample from this dimension that I can take home for study.”
Wally ran into a wide alley, failing to notice a sign posted on the wall next to it, which read, “MONSTER’S ALLEY KEEP OUT!”
The inside of the alley was dark with trashcans and graffiti. But this did not scare Wally as he began to search the inside of the trashcan for any rare artifacts that he could take home with him. “One foreign dimension’s trash is a foreign traveler’s treasure.” He cheerfully said to himself.
A noise was heard and Wally turned to see three small shadow monsters that resembled wolves, rustling through the nearby trashcans. They noticed Wally’s presence and viciously growled at him.
“More interdimensional creatures.” Wally said with interest and curiosity. “What are you guys? You almost look like you could be…”
The shadow monsters growled and snap at him, causing Wally to drop his vial on the ground, shattering it. He realized just what he was dealing with.
“Monsters!”
Meanwhile, Ollie was walking down the sidewalk as he ran his wand across a metal fence without caring about the possibility of damaging the wand. When he passed the entrance of the alley, he stopped when he heard the monsters growling. He knew the alley was where monsters liked to hide, and he knew that the only reason they would sound vicious was if someone ignored the warning sign and wandered into their territory.
Wally was cornered by the shadow monsters, and was both amazed and terrified by his discovery. “I must be the only archeologist to discover actual monsters. I just hope I’ll be able to live to confirm that theory.”
Ollie rushed into the alley and found Wally cornered by the shadow monsters.
“Dang it. Why would anyone come in here?” Ollie wondered as to why someone would just walk into Monster’s Alley, knowing they could be killed. But Ollie still had to think fast and save the helpless boy.
“Don’t worry, dude!” Ollie shouted to Wally, “I got ya!” he held out his wand and whispered, “Sparkle Glitter Blast.”
Nothing happened.
Ollie whispered to his wand again, “Sparkle Glitter Blast.”
Again, nothing happened.
Ollie started to get frustrated since his purpose for whispering was to prevent anyone nearby from hearing the embarrassing phrases he must shout to activate the magic wand. However, the wand refused to work without the proper activation technique.
With the delay, one of the shadow monsters leapt towards Wally, who dove out of the way and landed at Ollie feet. The shadow monsters began to advance towards both of them.
Knowing that if he waited too long, he and the boy he was trying to rescue would be seriously harmed, Ollie had no choice but to properly activate his wand.
Holding his wand up, Ollie twirled around in place and held out his wand while shouting, “SPARKLE GLITTER BLAST!”
The wand glowed and a blast of sparkling magic fired out and hit one of the shadow monsters, causing it to dematerialize into the ground and vanish. Seeing what happened, the remaining two shadow monsters ran away and disappeared further into the alley.
Amazed by what he just saw, Wally stood up and turned to the boy who just saved him. “That was amazing…whatever that was.” He excitedly stated. “Thanks for the save.”
Ollie nonchalantly shrugged. “Don’t mention it…really.”
He turned and started to make his way home until Wally moved into his path.
With an enthusiastic grin, Wally held out his hand to Ollie and introduced himself, “Wally Hewitt.”
Surprised by the strange boy trying to be friendly with him even after witnessing him perform that humiliating feat of magic, Ollie stared at him for a moment until finally deciding to shake Wally’s hand. “Ollie Vanderbilt.” He replied.
Wally pointed at the wand and expressed interest in it. “That device you have is quite extraordinary. Were those lasers you fired out of it before? And why does it look so…pink?”
“What? This?” Ollie asked, confused as to why the strange boy would take interest in his magic wand. “It’s my mom’s wand.”
“Your mom built that?” Wally asked, growing excited. “Tell me, is she a scientist? Or better yet, did she find it? Did it come like that or did she convert an ancient tool into something proficient?”
Ollie was more baffled by the weird questions he was being asked. “Whoa, hold on a sec. This is my mom’s magic wand, and I don’t know or care enough to know where it came from or how it works.”
“Magic? Are you telling that was magic I saw just now?”
“Uh, yeah.” Ollie answered, disbelieved that Wally wouldn’t know what magic looked like despite it being all around him. “What else would it be?”
An enthusiastic Wally explained, “I can’t tell you how many archeological adventures I’ve been on and never found any magical or cursed artifacts. After seeing a real monster, I’d be really impressed if there were actual artifacts that can produce magic.”
“Did you hit your head or something? There are tons of magical objects wherever you go.”
“Then would you know where an archeologist such as myself can acquire a magical artifact for study?”
Deciding he’s had enough of the strange kid, Ollie shoved his wand into Wally’s grasp. “Here. Knock yourself out.”
Wally was amazed that Ollie just gave him his magic wand, especially when he recalled being told that it had previously belonged to Ollie’s mother. “Wait,” Wally called after him. “You’re just gonna give me this?”
Without bothering to turn around, Ollie carelessly replied, “Yeah. It’s yours. Have fun.”
After Ollie departed, Wally stared at his new trinket with interest. He held it in both hands to closer examine it, and then held it out as he smiled, happy to have a new undiscovered item to study.
“I don’t know exactly what this thing is, but after seeing what that kid did, I can’t wait to slice this thing open and find out how it works.”
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Interloopers Unite!
in Davy Jones' Locker
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Chapter 11: Fish Out of Water
In a dark room lit only by the dozens of computer monitors being used by people dressed in suits while sitting at desks, one desk was occupied by a man with neatly combed dark brown hair and his eyes covered by dark sunglasses. He was approached by an older man with a bald head, who was also wearing sunglasses and a black suit.
The older man, Agent Feller, asked the younger man, “Agent Muldoon. Any new developments regarding your recent discovery?”
Agent Muldoon answered, “So far, sir, I have detected some unusual readings coming from Dimension J-183. Similar to the ones I detected in 110 and 152.”
“Can you identify it?”
“It appears to be interdimensional technology, sir.”
Agent Feller’s reacted in shock. “Impossible. We’re the only ones in possession of such technology.”
Agent Muldoon turned away from the computer and faced Agent Feller, nervously suggesting, “Perhaps it is our technology, sir.”
Agent Feller could not believe that there would be someone outside their group that would have their technology to travel to other dimensions. He demanded to know the answer, “Explain.”
“If you recall, sir, there was a report a year ago that one of our interdimensional portal watches had gone missing, and all of our attempts to locate it had failed due to losing its signal. Could it be possible that these readings are coming from that watch?”
“But how could they have activated our technology?”
Agent Muldoon explained, “If you recall, there was a report a year ago that one of our interdimensional portal watches had gone missing. Could it be possible that these readings are coming from that watch?”
Pondering this information, Agent Feller started to recall hearing the report that one of their portal watches had gone missing. As hard as their field agents tried to locate the watch, they were unsuccessful. Their tracking equipment was even unable to locate it, which they presumed was because the watch’s battery was dead.
“But how is it showing up on our radar now?” Agent Feller asked.
Agent Muldoon theorized, “There’s a strong indication that a civilian has re-activated the watch and is dimension hopping as we speak.”
Agent Feller processed the thought that a random civilian in one of the dimensions had not only found their missing portal watch, but was able to reactivate it and discover the existence of other dimensions besides their own.
Finally, Agent Feller gave his orders, “Send a Trooper to Dimension J-183. Find that watch and the person in possession of it.”
With a nod, Agent Muldoon responded, “Yes, sir.”
When Agent Feller leaves, Agent Muldoon turned back to his computer and typed up the orders.
Meanwhile in Cullertown, Rook was still wandering around by himself, marveling the sights of the surface world. His tour led him into Demo Arcade and he walked through the automatic doors. He marveled at all the children playing arcade games, trading tickets for prizes, and eating food from the concession stand.
Rook approached a boy from behind, who failed to notice Rook due to being too immersed in his game. Rook was just as fascinated with the video game, having never seen such a device. Rook was nearly mesmerized by the colorful and flashy images on screen.
“It is so pretty in here.” Rook said with a smile growing on his face, but had to cover his ears to drown out the noise of the arcade, “And so loud.”
He smiled once again when something else caught his eye. “Ooh, what is that?”
He ran across the room to find a virtual reality console and he sat in the chair. “Is this a throne?” he asked, believing that this dimension had a prince just like him.
His theories were seemingly proven when he noticed a VR helmet that was connected to the console. “What a strange crown.” He said right before putting it on to see how it felt.
Rook was baffled that a crown would cover the entire top half of his head, especially since he could not see anything. However, the visor in the helmet showed a virtual simulation of a haunted house. Thinking he had been transported to another world, Rook was almost tempted to explore it until an image of a horror movie character suddenly appeared and slashed at him with a chainsaw.
Seeing this was enough to make Rook jump from his seat and scream, “AAAAHH!!! FRIKTOS!!!”
He tried to run, but the VR helmet connected to the game caused him to fall halfway to the floor. But he still waved his arms and legs around while shouting, “Voithea! Voithea!”
When it seemed like Rook would never escape from that nightmare dimension, the helmet was suddenly pulled off his head. Rook opened his eyes to see that he was back in the arcade, lying on the floor of the console, in front of a boy who was holding the VR helmet while glaring a Rook for hogging the game.
“If you’re not gonna play, then move!” the boy demanded so he could have his turn on the game.
Grinning sheepishly, Rook stood up and said, “Sygnomi. That is to say, sorry.”
The boy ignored Rook’s apology and sat in the seat. He inserted his token card into the machine and put on the helmet to start the game. Rook watched the whole thing, bemused as to why someone would want to experience something so scary like he did moments ago. However, Rook’s shaken nerves were gone once he spotted something nearby.
“Ooh, what is that?” Rook excitedly asked before running in another direction.
Entering the arcade through the automatic front doors were Wally and Ollie, who had been wandering around town, looking for Rook.
“I hope we can find Rook in here.” Wally said as he glanced around.
Suddenly, a girl shouted from across the arcade, “My pizza!”
“He’s here.” Ollie spoke in a deadpanned voice.
Wally and Ollie rushed over to the snack area where Rook was stuffing someone else’s pizza into his mouth. Rook started to feel out of breath and noticed the towel around his neck starting to feel dry. He spotted a glass of water on the table and grabbed it to pour water on the towel until it felt damp again, allowing him to breathe again. Now that he was rehydrated, Rook proceeded to help himself to someone else’s pizza slice.
When Rook turned around, he noticed Wally and Ollie approach him. He cheerfully waved and greeted them, “Chairet, Wally and Ollie.”
“We’ve been looking everywhere for you, Rook.” Wally informed.
Before he could convince Rook to come back with them, a loud voice called out, “Goggles!”
Wally flinched when he was approached by the arcade’s manager. A large middle-aged woman with a nametag reading “Beth”, who was displeased by Rook disrupting the other guests.
She proceeded to angrily confront Wally. “Goggles, is Blondie here with you?”
Wally responded, “Umm, yeah. I guess you can say that.”
“Well, get him outta here.” Beth demanded, “He’s disrupting business.”
Smiling confidently, Wally assured her, “Don’t worry, Beth. I’m already all over it.”
He felt Ollie tap his shoulder. “Umm, Wally?”
Wally turned around and saw Rook nowhere in sight. A frustrated Wally shouted, “For crying out loud!”
Rook had already left the arcade and he ran down the street until he spotted another place that interested him: Buttercream’s Ice-Cream.
“Ooh, what is that?” Rook asked before he ran up to the building.
At a table outside, a couple was enjoying their ice-cream sundaes, staring into each other’s eyes until Rook popped up from underneath their table just to marvel their sundaes. He had never seen something that looked so beautiful; he just had to know what it was.
“Ooh, what is that?” he asked, but rather than wait for an answer, he pointed to something else that interested him, “Ooh, what is that?”
He approached a condiment stand filled with utensils, napkins, and sugar packets. The thing that interested him the most were the small packets. He grabbed one and shook it, wondering what was inside. When he fiddled with the packet between his fingers, he accidentally tore it open, spilling sugar on the counter. Rook curiously picked up some sugar and dabbed it onto his tongue. His expression turned to stun over of how sweet it tasted. In excitement, Rook tore open another sugar packet and dumped all the contents into his mouth.
High in the sky, D. Evil was flying through the air, trying to locate Rook. He looked down and smiled when he finally spotted Rook at the ice-cream parlor. Rook was still in front of the condiment stand, eating sugar packet after sugar packet.
D. Evil landed behind Rook and noticed what he was doing. “You know, eating those might make you a bit jittery.”
Rook spun around with a huge grin and his eye twitching. As soon as he saw the masked teenager with horns, Rook screamed hysterically while tossing the sugar packets in the air.
“Who is jittery? I am not jittery.” A hyperactive Rook said while trembling, “What is jittery? Who are you? I do not know you!”
Realizing that Rook had not yet seen him in his demon outfit, D. Evil attempted to calm him down, so he could explain. “Rook, it’s okay!”
But Rook still panicked while speaking in a fast-paced voice, “How do you know my name? Are you a monster? Do you wish to eat me?”
“Rook, it’s m-” D. Evil stopped when he realized that revealing his true identity out loud would also make everyone else aware of it. He decided to whisper so only Rook could hear him, “Rook, it’s me: Dean.”
However, Rook still trembled from the sugar high and shouted at D. Evil, “You are lying! You look nothing like Dean! Dean is kind! Dean is not you!”
Rook raised his arms up and his tattoos glowed. D. Evil was not aware of what was going on until he glanced around and noticed the customers’ ice-cream levitating in the air thanks to Rook’s hydrokinesis.
All D. Evil could do was react in dismay, “You’ve gotta be kidding me.”
Rook threw his arms forward and D. Evil was pelted with all different flavors of ice-cream, knocking him off his feet. Fidgeting nervously, Rook’s twitchy eyes spotted something else of interest.
Jumping with excitement, Rook rapidly shouted, “Ooh! What is that? What is that? What is that?”
He ran away at fast speed.
After ditching the ice-cream parlor, the sun started to set while Rook walked down the sidewalk and admired the beautiful color of the sky. He passed by a store window and stopped when something inside caught his eye. Rook smiled upon seeing small tanks containing fish displayed in the window of the pet store. This did not surprise him since, through his studies on surface life, he learned that when fish were in tanks, they were either being kept as pets or as food. This practice was not much different from how sea life was treated in Atlantis, with the exception of Rook himself, who voluntarily chose not to eat seafood due to loving fish and other sea life too much to wanna feast upon them.
However, seeing the fish kept in a small tank began to dour his mood and he leaned forward on the glass, almost in a depressed state. “I know how you all feel.” He said to the fish, “I too was in a glass box.”
He heard the sounds of heavy breathing and turned to see Wally and Ollie running up to him, both out of breath.
“There...you…are.” Ollie said, completely exhausted.
Rook smiled and cheerfully greeted, “Oh, chairet, Wally and Ollie.”
But Wally was in such a bad mood from having to chase him around all afternoon. “‘Chairet’?” he snapped at Rook, “Is that all you have to say?”
D. Evil landed behind Rook, equally annoyed with his arms crossed. “I’d like to know the Atlantean word for ‘annoying’.”
When Rook turned around and saw D. Evil, he screamed in fright due to still having no idea who the masked boy with horns was.
“Watch out!” Rook yelled as he ran behind Wally and Ollie, ducking behind them. “He claims to be Dean!”
With an annoyed frown, Ollie pointed out, “Rook, that IS Dean.”
Wally calmly explained to Rook, “We haven’t told you yet. Dean is a superhero called ‘D. Evil’. He has superpowers because he’s half-demon.”
Though annoyed by it all, D. Evil decided to confirm his identity by lifting his mask and showing Rook his familiar face.
Once Rook sees that the demon he had ran away from out of fear really was Dean, he stood and laughed sheepishly. “Oh. Why did you not just say so?”
Putting his mask back down, D. Evil spoke in a serious tone, “Alright, Rook. Fun is fun, but it’s time to stop.”
Finally realizing the hard time he had given Wally, Ollie, and D. Evil, Rook began to feel remorse. “I am sorry for all the trouble I have caused you. You see, I have never been anywhere but my home. So, I wished to see and learn as much as I can about this new world. I suppose I became a little too excited.”
Ollie chuckled and glanced at Wally. “Gee, who does that sound like?”
Upon hearing this, Wally blushed with embarrassment as he realized that Rook’s excitement about being in another dimension was no different than his own excitement while he was exploring the other two dimensions. Except Rook had not seen anything above the ocean, so how could he not take advantage of the opportunity to see what life was like on the surface?
Their anger at the Atlantean started to disappear.
D. Evil held Rook’s shoulder and he gently assured him, “We understand how you feel, Rook, and we’d be happy to show you our dimensions. But maybe you can try not to wander off?”
Rook’s forehead started to sweat, but he managed to pull off a joyful smile at D. Evil’s offer. “That would be…” he started to gasp for breath, and he spoke with a rasp, “…wonderful.”
The three became concerned when they noticed Rook looking dehydrated again.
“Rook, are you okay?” Wally asked.
Rook felt the towel around his neck and noticed that it was now barely damp, meaning his gills were not getting enough water. He struggled to speak clearly to the others, “I do not...feel...water...anymore.”
“He needs water pronto.” D. Evil stated. “Wally, is there a large source nearby?”
Wally answered, “There’s a lake in the park I showed you guys earlier, but it’s two blocks away from here.”
Ollie wondered, “How is Rook gonna survive going from here to there?”
While D. Evil and Ollie panicked over Rook slowly losing his ability to breathe, Wally was already thinking of a plan. He stared at Rook, and then stared at the fish in the pet store. As he glanced back and forth between the two, an idea formed in his head.
“Rook, I think I have an idea that’ll help you.” Wally proudly stated.