PEOPLE EAGERLY WATCHED the news station on their televisions. "...And in other
news..." the News Wocky said, shuffling her paper. "Signs of the 50th Issue of
The Neopian Times have been coming from the 'Clones' of the Neopets Team. Now
brought to you by Leslie Lupe with news about the new Issue..."
A Starry Lupe appeared on the screen of the
televisions...
"Leslie Lupe here with the whereabouts on the
New Issue! After 49 other Issues of the Times, Mister Shankly and his fellow
'Clones' have finally gotten to the 50th Issue! How do you feel about this Mister
Shankly, sir?" Leslie held a microphone in front of Mister Shankly.
"Well Miss Leslie, me myself and my fellow 'Clones'
are proud to have gotten this far in the new style of the Times. We are happy
that the writers of Neopia have helped us gotten this far with the New looking
Issues. We thank them very much," Mister Shankly grinned.
"Well, there you have it! Mister Shankly himself
has commented on the 50th Issue!" Leslie Lupe smiled and the screen clicked
off.
"The 50th Issue already! How can this be?" Dr.
Frank Sloth frowned and stared at the black screen of his television. "Popular
Mister Shankly with his fellow 'Clones'. How pathetic!" Sloth grimily said,
slapping down his remote.
"Oops. Now I might not be able to watch those
Scary Movies anymore..." Sloth frowned as he looked around for his remote. "Drat!"
Sloth frowned, and sighed. "Erm, your evilness," a Mutant Kougra walked up,
holding a remote on a black silk cushion. "Ah! Thank-you, Kougra!" Sloth picked
up the remote.
"You're welcome your evilness..." the Mutant Kougra
bowed, than scuttled away. Sloth looked around and placed his remote onto a
side table. "I have to prevent from the 50th Issue from coming out!" Sloth shouted,
making his cup of Hot Chocolate shake. Splashes of brown stained his grey carpet.
"Darn!" Sloth shouted.
Two Usuls scuttled in and picked up his cup
and squirted the carpet with clear liquid. One of the Usuls rubbed the spots
and the stains disappeared. The Usuls rushed back out of the room.
"I will prevent the 50th Issue from coming,"
Sloth shouted. "I will prevent it!" The room shook.
"MUAHAHAHA!" Sloth laughed wickedly, than started to cough. "Ah! I need my
medicine!" he shouted...
In Neopia...
"Come on LDF! Why are you so worked up on this
thing?" Alieica asked, sighing. "You're asking why? I never got my second trophy
for getting my second article published!" LDF hissed back. "It's not that much
of a big thing," Leinnea said, slurping a Chocolate Milkshake.
"Yes it is!" LDF shouted. "Calm down, LDF!"
MaxCanine shouted. "OK, OK... you're right. I should calm down about this, and
write a letter to Mister Shankly to say that I never got my second Neopian Times
Trophy."
"Or you could use e-mail. It's a whole lot faster,"
Alie smiled, opening a can of Neocola. "I know, but since you got so much e-mail
last week," LDF raised an eyebrow at Alie, "the computer has been very slow.
How did you get so much e-mail?" Alie smiled nervously. "Well..."
LDF blinked and looked at Alie again. "'Well'
what?" Alie smiled nervously again. "Well..." LDF sighed. "Well I have to hurry
to get to the Guild to see if I can do anything... and hopefully I'll get some
stories or articles done too without you guys badgering me…" LDF sighed and
picked up a bag filled with paper, notebooks, and pencils.
"You guys know how to keep in touch, don't you?"
LDF asked, looking from Alie to Lei to Max.
"You got it, L!" Lei smiled. "Alie?" LDF asked.
"Yes LDF. I'll look over both of them," Alie smiled. "OK, well, you know where
to call," LDF smiled, and closed the door behind her.
"Let's see, how about going to the Training
School?"
"LDF only has two Codestones left. Neither of
them are the ones we need…"
"What about going to the Skate Park?"
"Nah, it says we need owner supervision…"
"Well, how about fighting in the Battledome?"
"Can't. Hardly anyone fights us…"
"Why not we just visit Blaze's pets? We haven't
seen them in a week!"
"That I think we can do," Alie smiled.
"Yay!" Lei smiled happily as she rushed upstairs
to get her bag. "I advise we should have a picnic lunch in the park. Since Frog
can't join us on this fine day, it would be a picnic for six…" Max said, walking
into the kitchen and pulling out a picnic basket. "Yes, I agree, Max," Alie
said, picking up her bag. "Hmm... I wonder what Andrea, Lupe, and Moon like
on their sandwiches?" Max asked, looking up at Alie.
"Well, there's only one way to find out..." Lei
said as she flew down the stairs and into the kitchen. Lei picked up the phone
and dialed a few numbers and waited for an answer.
"Yes, hello Moon! It's Lei, you know, LDF's
Shoyru. Say, do you want to go on a picnic with us?" There was a long pause,
and Lei continued. "Yes, I know. Frog will just have to miss out on our picnic.
Well, Max was wondering what kind of sandwiches you'd like to have..." Another
long pause, than, "OK. I'll tell him that after I write it down..." Lei grabbed
a notebook and a pen, and wrote down a few things. "Thanks Moon. See you three
soon."
Lei smiled, and handed Max the piece of notebook
paper. "OK, let's see. Andrea wants a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Lupe
probably wants a peanut butter and jelly sandwich too. And Moon wants a Bacon
Belly Buster, so we're going to have to make the next best thing."
"No, you mean you're going to have to make the
next best thing," Alie smiled as she walked up the stairs. "What? I have to
make all this by myself?" Max asked, looking flabbergasted. "No, just kidding
you, Max." Alie smiled again and walked back down, standing in front of Max.
By the time they were finished, Alie was covered
in peanut butter, Max had maybe spots if sticky jelly on his fur, and Lei was
stuck with both, and pieces of bread were stuck to the places of were some of
the jelly was. "Shall we go, erm, clean up?" Lei looked at Alie. Alie nodded.
"We can't go to the picnic like this, and we would get some funny looks when
we go to Blaze's house."
They all rushed to their bathrooms to clean
up. Max came out first with a huge towel. Alie grabbed her bag and got the picnic
basket, while Lei hurriedly picked up the cooler with all the drinks in it.
"Come on! I said we were going to get there
by noon!" Lei hissed, rushing out the door. "We're right behind you, Lei!" Alie
said, running after her. "Hey! Wait for me!" Max said, running after them, the
towel in his mouth.
"Where exactly are we meeting them, Lei?" Alie
asked as she caught her breath next to Lei. "The park," Lei replied simply,
looking around. "WHICH ONE?" Max asked, skidding to a stop a few feet away from
them. "Oh," Lei smiled nervously. "Moon told me to wait for them at the park
on Rainbow Lane."
"Rainbow Lane? Do you realise how far away we
are from there?" Max asked, his eyes widening. "No, Rainbow Lane is just over
there, Max," Alie said, her paw pointing to eastward of them. "Oh, silly me
than..." Max said sarcastically.
Alie and Max followed Lei as they headed east.
A blue Lupe, a Christmas Lupe, and a Yellow Gelert came into view as they came
closer. "Oi! It's Alie, Max, and Lei!" the Christmas Lupe shouted. "It's about
time you three got here!" the Gelert shouted also.
Alie smiled as they finally got over there.
Max looked uneasily at the blanket they were sitting on. "I thought we were
going to bring the picnic blanket," the Christmas Lupe said, looking at the
towel in Max's mouth.
"Since we brought the picnic, we thought we
were supposed to bring the picnic blanket too," Lei said, looking from one pet
to the next.
"Well, why not just use both of them?" Alie
said at the same time as the other Yellow Gelert. "Hmm?" the both of them questioned
each other. The two Gelerts laughed. "Seems as though we hang out together a
bit too much," the Yellow Gelert smiled.
"Well, let's eat!" They munched happily away
on their sandwiches, snacks, and other things. From far, far away, Dr. Sloth
was watching...
From far, far away...
"Aw, can I have a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich?"
an Usul asked, looking at the doctor. "Go ahead, now stop bothering me!" hissed
Sloth in reply, turning back to his telescope. "Neopian Times lovers..." Sloth
narrowed his crimson eyes and looked at the three Lupes, two Gelerts, and Shoyru
through the telescope.
"Get me a soda, well you?" Sloth said, not looking
up, but just meaning one of the mutated pets in the room with him. A Lupe dashed
away to get him a Neocola with a straw. Sloth slurped it through the straw noisily,
continuing to watch the Neopians have their scrumptious picnic in Rainbow Lane
Park.
"Erm, Doctor, do you have to slurp so loudly?
I was kind of reading a bit..." a Kiko stuttered, trying not to be zapped by a
ray gun. Sloth looked at the Kiko, than continued to look into his telescope.
"Darn, finished it already. No matter," Sloth
said, throwing the can over his shoulder...
Back with the gang...
"Oh... I'm stuffed," Lei said, falling back and
looking at the sky, still moaning. "Than you shouldn't have had so many apples
than," Andrea said, smiling. "Yeah, Lei. When will you ever learn..." Max grinned
as he looked at his younger sister.
Just than before Lei could moan again, a huge
fireball rushed down to Neopia. A few pets screamed and flew, ran, or burrowed
away to prevent themselves from getting hit.
"Oh my goodness! A fireball!" Moon said, looking
at it. "It's not a fireball," Lupe said softly, looking at it also. "It's a
flaming capsule. But, one question; who's in it?" Alie added.
"Well, time to prevent it from coming!" Lupe
shouted. "No, wait! Someone's coming. Someone evil. I can sense it," Moon said
softly, staring at the capsule, which landed in front of them, making a hole
in the ground.
After the dust cleared, all seven Neopets approached
the capsule cautiously, Alie and Andrea leading. "What do you think is in there?"
Max asked, looking at the capsule suspiciously. "I dunno, but something definitely
evil," Lei whispered.
The capsule door opened, making the seven Neopets
gasp in horror. Dr. Sloth came running out, coughing and choking madly. "Need...
medicine!" he choked, than dropped down onto his face.
"That's Dr. Sloth," Lei said quickly. "And I
thought it was only a myth."
"No, Dr. Sloth is really real. I wonder what
he's doing here? Maybe we could help him?" Max said, looking at the fainted
doctor. "Max," Lupe hissed, "That's Dr. Sloth! The evil mad scientist that created
mutated pets, and enslaved the Grundos..."
"Hush up, Lupe!" Andrea hissed angrily, glaring
at her older brother. "Sorry," Lupe hissed back sarcastically. "Will you two
just hush up?" Alie said angrily, looking at both of them.
The unconscious doctor blinked and regained
consciousness. He sat up, and looked at the Neopets surrounding him. "Erm, hi?"
Lei said uneasily, looking at him. Dr. Sloth screeched and jumped up surprisingly.
"What the? What in VirtuPets are you?" he asked stupidly, looking at them backing
away slightly. "Well, I'm Alieica, this is MaxCanine, my sister Leinnea, and
our friends, WhiteMoonHunter, Andrea_27617, and Lupe_27617," Alie said simply,
looking at him.
"Well, you must know who I am," Sloth said,
dusting off his coat.
"Yeah! You're Dr. Sloth!" Lei said happily,
smiling. "Don't do that!" Sloth hissed. "Do what?"
"Smile!" Don't smile in front of me!"
"Oh, than sorry..."
Sloth glared at them, than stormed away to do
something. "He seemed very nice," Max said grimily, looking back at his friends.
"Yeah, never knew that..."
Meanwhile somewhere else in Neopia...
"Ah! Finally finished!" Sloth laughed evilly
as he finished cranking up his new invention. "The Zapto-Ray 6000." Sloth smiled
gleefully as he looked up at his newest invention. "All I need to do is press
this button and WHAM-O! All those Neopian Times Issues will be destroyed like
that!"
Sloth gleefully pressed a large red button,
and watched the screen of a few large televisions. Everywhere in Neopia; Tyrannian,
Mystery Island, Faerieland, all The Neopian Times Issues vanished from sight.
Neopians all over the world of Neopia watched
in horror as their copies of different Issues vanished from thin air. Sloth
laughed horribly watching the Issues disappear from sight and turning into mounds
of differently coloured sand. "BWAHAHAHAHA!" laughed Sloth, making the whole
secret lair shake vigorously. "I hate it when I do that," Sloth stopped and
sighed.
"Hey!" an Aisha shouted, watching as her Neopian
Times Issue 49 evaporated into sand. "And I was just going to read the next
part of 'Needed'..."
Lei watched her Issue transform into a mound
of sand. "Alie! Max! Look at my Issue!" Lei frowned, and wiped the sand off
her paws. "That's strange. Issue 49 just came out a few days ago, and already
someone wants it too be gone!"
"Wait, I saw Sloth carry a blueprint of some sort, and he scribbled down 'Machine
to get rid of all The Neopian Times Issues'! Maybe he was the one!"
The gang rushed in the trail of Sloth's scent;
followed by Max and Lupe sniffing out the trail. "Over there!" Max shouted,
pointing at a library. "Really, you don't see an evil villain's lair in a library..."
Alie said softly, looking up at the vast library.
"I see Sloth in at the top," Lei said, narrowing
her eyes. "How are we going to get up there?"
"Well," Alie grinned at Lei mischievously. "You're
not going to...?" Lei looked at her older sister. Alie continued to grin mischievously...
Back with Sloth...
"Now I have all The Neopian Times copies destroyed!
The delay will be stupendous!" Sloth shouted happily.
Crowds of angry Neopians started to form a chain
around The Neopian Times Building. "WE WANT THE TIMES! WE WANT THE TIMES!" they
shouted. Mister Shankly looked out the window curiously to see what the entire
racket was about. "This is going to be a problem," he said, biting his bottom
lip. "Since all the Issues seem to be gone, we're going to have to make more
Issues for people to reread..."
Minutes later...
"Hey! You're going to crumple my wing if you
keep doing that!" snapped Lei hastily, trying hard to flap her wings to get
to the top. "Well, than you should have only brought one of us," Moon snapped
back, her eyes flashing. "Well, I wasn't the one that said two of us should
be on Lei!" Lei frowned at Moon. "Will you two just be quiet?" Lupe hissed.
Moments later...
"Finally! Now my wings are all sore from caring
five differently weighted passengers," Lei moaned as she rubbed her wings. "Well,
it's not out fault that Blaze only made land-dwelling pets," Andrea said hastily.
"Whatever. Just hand me a pack of ice," Lei said, reaching out her paw. "Here
you go," Alie slapped down a pack of ice onto Lei's paw, and Lei pressed it
against her wing. "Ah... that feels much better."
"Come on!" mouthed Max, rushing into the open
window and rushing away into the darkness. "Max!" Moon hissed. "Get back here!"
Her words were too late. Max had already darted away into the darkness, leaving
the gang decreased by one. "I'm worried about him," Lupe said quietly, jumping
into the hallway.
"Yes, so am I. If we came home with Max as a
Mutant Lupe, LDF would have a Kau," Alie whispered, jumping after Lupe. "Yeah,
and if I came home with Lupe and Moon as Mutant Lupes also," Andrea whispered.
She made a coughing noise and rushed her paw against her throat.
"Don't do that!" hissed Lei. A yelp from the
end of the corridor echoed. "Max!" the five pets shouted at once, breaking the
sound barrier. "Take this you scurvy scoundrel!" Max shouted, a clang of swords
sounded. "Oh no you don't!" Max continued to block off Sloth's sword.
"What the heck do you think they're doing?"
Lei whispered, running over to the end of the hallway. "Let's see," Moon whispered,
poking her head into the light.
Max was wielded a sword, fencing off Sloth.
Sloth murmured something angrily as Max shouted, "Cliché!" Lupe grinned happily
as he whispered into Alie's ear. Alie nodded, and rushed after Lupe. "CHARGE!"
Lupe shouted, tackling Sloth with all his might. Lei started to whack him hard
against his head with her mahogany staff.
"Well, this is fun!" Alie said happily, a tint
of sarcasm in her voice. "That hurts!" Sloth shouted, trying to cover his head.
"TAKE THIS!" Lei shouted, knocking the sword from his grip.
Moon grinned as she looked at Sloth. "You guys
know what to do now, don't you?" Lupe grinned as well. Sloth gasped in horror
as the six Neopets smiled at him, hugging him with all their might. "STOP THIS!
STOP THIS AT ONCE! CAN'T… STAND… THE… SMILES!"
Sloth fainted in a heap on the floor. Alie laughed
happily as she kicked him to make him flip over onto his face. "Well, that was
easier than I thought it would be," Andrea said, blinking. "Nah, you just have
to find his weakness," Lupe laughed.
"Well, that was a good adventure. What's next?"
Lei asked as the six Neopians walked out of the library, Lupe dragging Sloth
by his cape. "Let's see if Mister Shankly might need any help, since all over
Neopia The Neopian Times disappeared."
At The Neopian Times Building...
"WE WANT THE TIMES!" the crowd shouted, the
human chain still around the building.
"This could be a problem..."
"Yeah, and the Times won't be able to come out
until next week, since the paper they were supposed to get hasn't gotten a chance
to get into the building..."
After Sloth regained consciousness...
"ARGH! Blasted Neopets..." Sloth growled. "Someday
I will get my revenge! SOMEDAY!" he shouted, making a few birds fly out of a
tree nearby.
"MUAHAHAHAHA!" he laughed wickedly, but soon
began to cough wildly. "Get... me... my... medicine!" he shouted...
The End
Authors' Note: Yes, these pets are ALL real, 'cept maybe the beginning ones.
Alieica, MaxCanine, and Leinnea are all mine, and Lupe_27617, Andrea_27617, and
WhiteMoonHunter all belong to my best friend, flamed_fire_2001. Hmm... I wonder
if I spelled 'Mister Shankly' right... apologies to Mister Shankly if I did...
Hehehe...
I actually do call Alie, Lei, Max, Lupe, Andrea, and Moon 'The Gang of
Six', since I'm weird like that. Hopefully this gets into Issue 50, but if not,
then all hope is lost.
Not really, but... *laughs* I'm just saying that.... | 
