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Once upon a time, there was a person named Night Ninja, who planned to become the greatest thief in the world… and their minions awakened them unusually early.

“What is it, it’s still only sunset, you ninjalinos should really have a good reason,” the Night Nin-ja muttered, when the ninjalinos in question showed them a calendar, with a certain date – tonight’s date, as a matter of fact – circled in black.

Immediately, the Night Ninja snapped to attention. “What? This is tonight? Oh – darn,” they caught themselves before they swore (and broken the ratings’ on the show, cough-cough). “We must go, catch, and relaunch the darned crystal before we all are doomed!” and they were off alongside their ninjalinos…

Once upon a time, there were the three heroes named the PJ Masks, and they got summoned to their totem pole HQ by their sidekick and team-mate, the PJ Bot. “What is it, PJ Bot?” Owlette asked, as the three of them stared at the screen.

“It’s the Night Ninja and the ninjalinos!” Cat Boy proclaimed instead. “They’re looking for something!”

“Already?” muttered the third member of their team, Gecko. “It’s barely even sunset!”

“Well, it must be something important if they’re so busy looking… for something… and building some sort of a catapult…” Owlette muttered, looking thoughtful. “This isn’t like them – it’s usually Romeo who builds things, the Night Ninja and the ninjalinos just try to steal stuff…”

“So, let’s go and investigate!” Cat Boy said brightly to the other two, (even as the latter just rolled their eyes at his antics). “To the cat car!”

“No, they’re in rough terrain,” Gecko argued. “Let’s take the rover bikes!”

“Fine,” Cat Boy decided not to argue. “Let’s take the bikes.”

And they were off.

Once upon a time, there was an alien princess named Luna Girl, (it was complex, but still), and she was lonely, save for her moths, of course… and those moths were waking her up unusually early…

“What is it?” she muttered sleepily to her insect minions. “It’s barely even sunset, why are you waking me up…”

Something slammed hard into the ground not far from her current hideout, (Luna Girl was a mobile villain, just as the Night Ninja and Romeo were), abruptly waking her up completely.

“Whoa! What is it?” Luna Girl proclaimed as she looked at the new arrival.

It was a crystal meteorite, a crystal that was as black as onyx, blacker than night, blacker than the loneliness in Luna Girl’s soul-

“What are you doing?” she asked her Luna moths, as the latter fluttered around her face, blocking her view of the crystal. “That rock came from space, therefore it is mine, therefore it has power, and therefore…” she frowned and grew thoughtful. “Therefore, I think, that I should take it to Romeo…” she trailed away, as the moths gently dragged her Luna magnet over to her. “Oh! You think that I should grab it with my Luna magnet? Ok…” she did just that, jumped onto her hoverboard and flew off – followed by the moths – towards Romeo’s lab on wheels.

The Night Ninja and the ninjalinos soon saw them depart and followed them – but they were just too slow to catch-up…

Once upon a time, there was Romeo, a mad scientist, and he was somewhat lonely, as his organic allies were angry with him, (for whatever reason), and he just could not come up with any good inventions now, (and he did not know which of the two reasons upset him more).

And then Luna Girl rode up to him on her hoverboard, carrying some sort of a space crystal with her magnet, and it looked really interesting too…

“Hey, Luna Girl,” Remeo spoke, trying for nonchalant, (but not quite succeeding). “I didn’t know that you too had an account with the Smithsonian™ museum regarding their crystal growth kits and the like-“

“I don’t know what that place you’re talking about is,” Luna Girl spoke loftily, (but not quite pulling it off either), “but this is a space rock, it’d come from space, it is mine, and I need to open it to get its’ powers!” She paused and added, in a far less grand tone of voice: “You got anything for that?”

“Sure!” Romeo replied happily, as he raced into his mobile lab, spent some time rummaging through it, and quickly pulled out a pickaxe, (of the mad scientist variety, no doubt). “Here! Let’s crack this baby open!”

“No!” Luna Girl snapped. “It’s mine! I should be the one to open it!”

Romeo opened his mouth, thought about the last fight that he had with her and the Night Ninja, and also about the fall-out that followed. “Fine,” he changed his mind, (in a manner of speaking). “Let’s crack the space crystal together!”

“Fine,” Luna Girl relented, “let’s!” And they grabbed Romeo’s pickaxe – together – and slammed it down onto the crystal, just as the Night Ninja and the ninjalinos arrived on the scene, (the PJ Masks delayed them).

“No!” the Night Ninja shouted, but it was a minute too late, as the pickaxe slammed into the crystal, and the crystal broke apart. Immediately, all of the blackness poured out of the parts, (leaving just some clear crystal parts behind), and formed into a generally humanoid shape, which levitated in mid-air. The assembled villains and heroes caught glimpses of ears and a nose that looked human but not entirely, as well as of a pair of eyes that looked around with the first real malice most of them had ever seen.

“Oh no!” the Night Ninja bellowed. “My – honored elder sibling is free at last!”

“Yes I am, younger sibling,” the newcomer spoke in musical tones that could’ve belonged either to a male or a female, “and it is so nice to see you keeping the role of the Night Ninja warm for me! I will be taking it back now-“

“No!” the Night Ninja snapped back, surprising everyone. “I’m the Night Ninja now! It’s mine-!”

“How adorable! You think that I actually care about those niceties,” the newcomer continued, their voice still both musical and malicious at the same time. “I am back, younger sibling, and not even the dragon of the gong can stop me-“

“I don’t know,” Gecko spoke-up suddenly, startling everyone, (which is easy, when everyone’s attention is grabbed by a black shadow that is just hovering in mid-air, like a dab of black paint, clearly not fitting in with its’ surroundings at all). “An Yu may not usually have her powers’ off the Mystery Mountain, but she’s still a kick-ass martial arts’ fighter-“

“Did you say – Mystery Mountain?” the newcomer whispered, still hovering in mid-air, but shifting around to face Gecko now.

“Yes!” Gecko squeaked with the every ounce of bravery that he possessed: the newcomer’s face was hidden behind a featureless black hood, (that was just black in color, and that somehow made it worse), but, somehow, the young hero could just sense the – evilness emanating from it. “It’s right over there, see!” He pointed in the direction…where one really could see the Mystery Mountain, looming over the rest of the city.

“The Mystery Mountain! An Yu! My eternal rival!” the newcomer whispered and fled towards the new place with a superhuman speed.

“We need to catch up to them now!” the Night Ninja proclaimed. “Ninjalinos? To Romeo’s lab car! Full speed ahead!” – and that was exactly what happened.

“…This is my ride,” Romeo blinked in confusion. “Just what is going on? Who is the new person?”

“I’m not sure,” Luna Girl muttered, “but I think that we’ve messed-up. Hope onto the hoverboard, Romeo, this is going to be one fast ride!” – and they were gone as well.

“Um, guys?” Owlette called-out. “Our bikes are still messed-up from our previous ride-“

“Beep-beep!” said the PJ Bot, or rather – beeped the horn on the cat car.

“Thanks, PJ Bot!” Cat Boy spoke in a grateful tone of voice. “Let’s go!” and the trio of heroes, (and their sidekick) were off as well.

Once upon a time, there was a dragon girl (well, mostly dragon girl – there was some human too) called An Yu, and she was the caretaker of a place named the Mystery Mountain, and it was fun sometimes, and lonely at other times, when… the Mountain in question shook, as someone had forced themselves into its’ pocket dimension in a completely wrong way, and-

“Oh, Day Dragon!” called-out a familiar voice, (though An Yu would never admit it), “I’m here! Love what you done with the place!” and a certain black-clad figure emerged from the bamboo woods.

“Night Ninja! I mean – the former original Night Ninja! You’re back!” An Yu proclaimed, genu-inely shocked by the new arrival. “My archnemesis!”

“Yes I am!” the archnemesis in question replied grandly… though perhaps with more bravado than they actually felt, as their arriving onto the scene had left them shrunk – they was no longer adult-sized (by human standards), but child-sized – but regardless, they still had a certain aura of menace around them. “Prepare to be defeated and imprisoned in a gong once more!”

“Oh yeah?

“Yeah!”

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah!”

“Oh yeah?”

“Yeah!”

With this frank, straightforward, and mature exchange of opinions, the duo leapt forwards, their shapes shifting from human children into mature dragons, one multicolored, one just black – a flat black dab of color… and then the two of them began to streak through air like a couple of ribbons… a couple of crazily fighting ribbons!

“…We’re too late – again,” the Night Ninja muttered despondedly to their ninjalinos as they watched the two dragon ribbons fly through the air like a pair of crazy fighting kites! “My elder sibling has reclaimed her archnemesis, and they will destroy everything-“

“Why? What is going on?” Romeo proclaimed, as he and Luna Girl arrived at the scene. “Who is the newcomer-“

“My elder sibling, the original Night Ninja-“

“They don’t seem to be very nightly – you’re much better at this,” Romeo spoke with a loyalty that he possibly did not feel, but still was able to sell.

“Really? Thanks!” the Night Ninja replied, sounding almost cheered up, “but that’s not the point.”

“What is the point?”

“…While I’m mostly human, my elder sibling is mostly dragon, just as their archnemesis is,” the Night Ninja pointed at the sky, where the two dragons were fighting amidst a deepening and growing thunderstorm, “and as archnemesises – as eternal rivals – they’re evenly matched, and are liable to fight each other for ever, until they destroy each other, but also the Mountain, the city, and the rest of the world – unless we’re able to bind my elder sibling back into their crystal!”

“Why would you want to do that?” Owlette asked, startling the villains, who failed to notice the PJ Masks arriving on the scene for a change. “They’re your family!”

There was a pause.

“Yes,” the Night Ninja said flatly, “and tell me, PJ doofs, what did you feel-“

“A wrongness!” Gecko piped-up.

“Yes,” the Night Ninja continued in the same flat tone of voice. “While I just want to be the best ninja thief ever, my elder sibling wanted to take all the badness in the world and make it worse. Intentionally, as only a dragon-human mix could, I should add – what are you doing, Romeo?”

“Getting Luna Girl to restart her hoverboard so that we would get back to my lab and get my special glue to glue the crystal back together,” the villain in question replied.

“It is no mere crystal – it a special dragon egg that survived being launched into space and back, it can’t be just glued together” the Night Ninja replied huffily; “what is it, Teeny-Weeny?”

The smallest ninjalino of them all explained in their manner that glue could actually help – with several other ingredients that could be collected here, on the Mystery Mountain – if they acted quickly enough to collect them before the Mountain collapsed on top of them all…

“Good idea!” Cat Boy said faux-brightly. “Let’s do it!”

And this was what they did.

One montage of friends and foes working together…

“This was fun, only not,” Gecko muttered, as he and the others watched the Night Ninja fix the special dragon egg at last – and their elder sibling was dragged into the crystal container once again, wailing and screaming all the way, turning the crystal from crystal clear into solid onyx black once again. “Let’s not do this again anytime – the collapsing cavern of Splat was that bad!”

“Ahem!” An Yu, looking human once more, stood over them – and she did not look anywhere as happy or friendly to see the PJ Masks as she normally did. “What did you do to my archnemesis – again?”

“Bound them once more,” the Night Ninja shot back.

An Yu opened her mouth. A middle-sized copse of bamboo abruptly collapsed, followed by a small mountainside avalanche, and the pagoda’s roof lost several tiles as well. “You were saying?” the Night Ninja did not back down.

“…I’m going in there to talk to my archnemesis,” An Yu, apparently, made her own choice. “Could you clean-up the Mystery Mountain meanwhile, please, while I’m gone?”

There was a pause as the others just shot her looks ranging from flat to incredulous as this was looming to be a massive undertaking, and not in a fun way at all.

“Here!” An Yu quickly added, as she pulled out a sand glass. “These are sands of time! You put them onto this rock of eternity and while they are there, time will stand still! Night and day will not move! Enjoy your working vacation!” and turning into a dragon-like ribbon, she dove into the crystal container as well.

Immediately, the black crystal began to glow and shimmer with other colors as well; and then it floated off the Mountain’s stairway and onto the pagoda’s (worse for wear) roof where it settled… and that was it.

“That’s it?” Gecko said, sounding almost cross. “We had this mammoth adventure… and now we have to clean up as well?”

“You said it,” Romeo muttered, even as he eyed the sand glass. “To think that this thingamabob meddles with the space-time continuum? It’s unthinkable!”

“Romeo,” Owlette said flatly, “your lab on wheels has a device that allows you to tap into the fourth dimension – and it is still cluttered up. Don’t start.”

“…Ok, but only because I’m that emotionally exhausted,” the mad scientist muttered, backing down. “What do we do now?”

“Uh, celebrate Thanksgiving all together in a couple of days?” the Night Ninja suggested shyly, and, somehow, to everyone’s surprise, they all agreed…

(Que the music of a PJ Masks’ episode finale)

End?

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, when the three valiant PJ Masks came to their secret (ish) HQ, what they dis-covered, (as told by their ever helpful and assistful PJ Robot), that their usual roster of villains vanished from the face of the city!

“Oh no!” groaned Owlette. “Just when we actually want to pummel them, they vamoose!”

Here some elaboration was probably in order. All three PJ Masks had had a bad day… on this day. Amaya slash Owlette came back home from a lovely shopping trip with her mom only to discover that their father and husband was doing his secretary, ‘cause the divorce was finalized, ha-ha! Connor the Cat Boy meanwhile still was not completely ok with the fact that in a few more months he will have a baby sibling, (his mother was showing already), while Greg the Gecko was certain that their new school student councillor was up to get him – but that was another story.

“Hey, look, it’s Motsuki!” the aforementioned Connor the Cat Boy suddenly proclaimed as the trio forlornly observed the empty city streets through their HQ screens. “What she’s doing off the moon, and where’s Luna Girl? Let’s investigate!” and so off they went.

…To everyone’s surprise, (or not, it was hard to tell with the PJ Masks and their archnemeses sometimes), the trio caught up to the young moth-girl quickly enough. “Hey, Motsuki!” Gecko called-out, (it was his turn, apparently). “What are you and Luna doing down here and not on the moon?”

“Fishing! Also – hiding from the giant mosquito from the outer space who wants to capture Motsuki and put her into his hat just as the Pirate Robot has done with his chicken!” the moth girl replied matter-of-factly causing the three masked heroes to stare. “Motsuki doesn’t want to go into the mosquito’s hat, for then the moths will have to help the mosquitoes to defeat the but-terflies and the moths don’t want that.”

“Why the mosquitoes want to defeat the butterflies?” Owlette could not help but ask even as they turned around a corner, and there was Luna Girl, the elder sister, sitting on the shores of a body of water, complete with plenty of fishing gear, apparently waiting patiently for her sibling.

“There you are – where’s the bait?” she asked in her usual curt manner. Motsuki just pointed at the PJ Masks, catching them fully flat-footed, (but she did have that effect on people).

“Yeah, no,” Luna Girl was actually not up on this idea. “We might actually need them later to deal with the giant alien space mosquito, remember?”

“Motsuki remembers, Motsuki sorry,” the younger sibling muttered.

“Good,” Luna Girl looked away first – right at Gecko. “And what do you want?”

“Hat?” the green-clad hero muttered to the elder sister.

“Motsuki got confused – the alien space mosquito the size of an elephant just wants to eat her,” Luna Girl muttered back. “We might need the three of you to save us later.”

“That’s nice,” Owlette muttered from Luna Girl’s other side. “And where’re the rest of the villains?”

“Over there,” Luna Girl pointed in the direction of the nearby shrubbery. The PJ Masks looked over them, (or through them), and sure enough, the rest of the city’s villain roster were there – alongside some other people.

“Isaac! Pirate Robot? Armadyllan? What’s going on?” the aforementioned heroes proclaimed.

“The two of us – and Motsuki – got in a race with the Flying Dutchman,” Isaac muttered first. “Only we didn’t realize that the prize in the race was to be the Flying Dutchman, and none of us really wants it, not even Motsuki, who had to leave the moon because of a giant mosquito-“

“We know,” Owlette hurriedly said – whatever the PJ Masks felt towards the sisters, they did not want any giant mosquitoes to eat them. “Back to you?”

“We threw the race, and the actual Flying Dutchman slammed into the mosquito and they’ve left our solar system for now,” Isaac muttered, “but we still need to repair Pirate Robot’s own ship, and so here we are?”

The PJ Masks made some general swooping motions with their arms.

“Oh, them?” Isaac muttered, sounding even more cross than before. “They saw us come down and decided to throw a beach party next to us to rub into our faces – even Armadyllan, who wants to impress Octobella or something.” He paused. “Ok, Luna Girl just took Motsuki off our hands, so it’s not that bad-“

“Not that bad? Motsuki is the reason as to why the Flying Dutchman even had a chance against us!” Pirate Robot exclaimed. “She’s a much better crewmate than Romeo the Life Guard ever could be!”

The aforementioned ‘Romeo the Life Guard’ just blew his whistle.

“What’s his damage?” Owlette muttered crossly.

“He planned to infiltrate your HQ by building a decoy girlfriend for your PJ Robot, but his Robotte got all jealous and possessive of Robot, so he ended-up being Robot’s wingman or something,” the Night Ninja commented from his own position, (he was making BBQ for the beach party).

“Seriously?” Owlette blinked. “You people have the craziest misadventures when we aren’t around!”

“Yes, and besides – he can’t swim,” the Night Ninja added, jabbing his finger at Romeo.

“I too can swim!” the other boy proclaimed, as he boldly abandoned his life guard post and wad-ed into the water, and – began to sink. “Help, help, somebody save me!”

…That someone, apparently, was Owlette of all people. “And so, the duckling pulled the chick out of the lake,” Luna Girl commented from her own vantage point. “Seriously, someone just put on a life vest with his name on it and be done with it!”

“How about I just teach you to swim?” Owlette asked Romeo instead, ignoring the other girl.

“Could you, please?” Romeo made puppy-dog eyes at her, and this was what they did, just as the rest of the cast had a BBQ party on the beach – but that was another story.

End

Chapter Text

Across the multiverse…

Once upon a time, the three brave PJ Masks were confronting Romeo and the Night Ninja, even though the latter did not appear to be in a confrontational mood – tonight.

“And so, I’m going to defeat you once and for all,” Romeo proclaimed grandly, in his usual manner. “Not even your PJ animals are going to save you!”

“Our PJ animals are more than animals! They are our pets and companions, just as Luna Girl’s moths are to her,” Gekko shot back, before pausing. “If this is our ultimate face-off, shouldn’t she be here?”

“She’s at home, making sugar cookies for tomorrow,” the Night Ninja replied nonchalantly. “She makes them a bit basic, compared to my cooking, but they’re still good. Want to come over tomorrow and taste them?”

There was a pause in the action. “Well,” Gekko looked at Cat Boy. “As long as we’re in civilian, yeah, probably… Owlette?”

“Uh, sure,” the Owlette in question replied. “What’s with Romeo’s face?”

“I don’t know, he’s also invited,” the Night Ninja shrugged, “provided that he keeps his talk about the global domination to a minimum-“

“I am?” Romeo blinked as he pulled out a list out of his specialized supervillain backpack and froze, apparently thinking if he should go through it as he had expected, or put it back.

“You are,” the Night Ninja shrugged. “Come on, we might not have a shared hive mind as the PJs do, but we are friends-“

“We do not have a shared hive mind! We’re friends, teammates and heroes, but we’re also individuals!” Owlette indignantly flew over to Romeo. “What do you have here, anyhow?”

“The list of all of my inventions that I’ve used to confront you before, more or less,” Romeo muttered back. “The Night Ninja used to help me to keep it updated, but lately he just quit-“

“Hey! We are in the low 200s by now and you have not repeated yourself ever! Obviously, this is going to go on forever!” the other nighttime villain shot back.

“No, it’s not, I’m going to defeat the PJ Masks once and for all-“

“Didn’t you do that already before on your own and they still kept on going-?”

“No I haven’t-“

“Actually, I think that you did,” Owlette muttered from her position next to the mad scientist.

Romeo turned red. “Yes! Well! Do you hear something-?”

Indeed, there was a swooping sound of giant wings, a flash of feathers in moonlight, and both Romeo and Owlette were gone.

“What was that?” Cat Boy proclaimed.

The Night Ninja face palmed. “That was actually the other reason I didn’t want to take it for too long – Luna Girl mentioned that something funny was going on tonight and I didn’t want to get caught in it, but you know Romeo – if he has a chance to be with you, he’ll take it-“

“We don’t know what you’re talking about,” Cat Boy and Gekko exchanged a look.

“Eh, we aren’t like you three,” the Night Ninja was carefully picking his words now, “we all have our own thing. Romeo, however, knows that he can always count on you three to come over and interact with him-“

“Obviously, since we’re heroes and he’s a villain…” Cat Boy trailed off. “It’s not just that, is it?”

“Eh,” the Night Ninja clearly didn’t want to go there, “um-“

“I’m here,” Luna Girl appeared on the scene riding her lunaboard extra fast. “What happened? Who’s gone?”

“Romeo and Owlette,” the Night Ninja immediately changed the topic.

“There were giant birds,” Gekko added helpfully, causing Luna Girl to wince. “Also – sugar cookies?”

“Yes, but if we don’t rescue those two, they’ll be eaten as if they’re sugar cookies,” the alien girl grimaced. “My daddy – well, he’s my guardian, but he’s also my daddy – has a grandma, who’s mostly ogre, if you want to go by Night Ninja’s standards-“

“Say what now?” Gekko blinked, but his remaining teammate interrupted him:

“That is fascinating and all, but how do we save them?”

“This is going to be trickier than I would like,” Luna Girl admitted, before yelling: “Orticia!”

“Here I am!” the plant girl popped out of nowhere. “Luna Girl. Where is-“

“Little sis?” Luna Girl said smoothly. “At home.”

“Why?”

FLASHBACK

“It hurts! Big sister Luna, it hurts!” Mothsuki wailed, as she pressed a pair of her hands against her clearly distended stomach, while Newton Starr and Pirate Robot were holding the other pair, supporting her – the young alien was in obvious trouble.

“I can see that,” Luna Girl said evenly even though she was sweating bullets. “You two scrap barrel idiots, what have you done-?”

“Nothing! She was eating needles as usual,” Pirate Robot began, when-

“Needles?” Luna Girl pulled him upwards by his collar. “What did you say?”

“Conifer needles!” Newton Starr said quickly, “not real ones!”

“That’s almost as bad!” Luna Girl dropped the droid and raced inside. “You two re-position Mothsuki so that she faces the window instead-“

“Big sister Luna, this really hurts!” Mothsuki cried surprisingly loudly for such a fragile being even as her friends turned her around. “Big sister Luna, help-!”

BRAAAP!

…Apparently, giving alien moth girls an enema causes them to vomit the entire contents of their stomach. Who knew? Well, Luna Girl did, it seems, and-

“Big sister Luna, this, this, this,” Mothsuki pranced around patting herself all over. “I asked you for help, and you-“

“Does your tummy still hurt?” Luna Girl asked in the same gentle tone of voice.

“Um,” Mothsuki paused prancing around and thought this over. “No.” She thought some more. “Um. Big sister Luna – thanks.” A pause. “Mothsuki is hungry again, though. Got any food?”

“Come in into the kitchen,” Luna Girl said wearily. “I got you something of a lunch box,” and she did. And so Mothsuki ate a vegan version of a kindergarten lunch rather than defoliate a tree halfway for a change, and she drank water from a sippy cup, like a big girl, and when she finished she burped – but softly… and blinked. “Hah! I want to fart, but it doesn’t feel like quite a fart, big sister Luna-“

‘Big Sister Luna’, Newton and Pirate Robot grabbed Mothsuki and carried her into a washroom, where she sat down onto the white porcelain throne, and had, well, we all know what. And, apparently, it exhausted her, as she yawned, even as the others were airing the room, muttered some sort of thanks to Luna Girl, pitched forwards at her, and fell asleep…turning into a fully human girl in the process.

“And she learned to do this automatically, of course,” Luna Girl muttered.

“Luna?” A pair of shadows, adult-sized, appeared behind the three teens.

“Daddy, Mommy, this is Mothsuki,” Luna Girl said brightly. “I was preparing to introduce her to you, just not like that…”

FLASHFORWARD

“Wow! So that’s what you’re doing when you’re not bothering us!” Gekko said brightly.

“Of course,” the Night Ninja nodded instead. “Wait, you know that she has a civilian family-?”

“Yes, I actually tutor her in math during the day,” Gekko shrugged. “Why-?”

“…Open wide!” Luna Girl, meanwhile, finished doing whatever she was doing while the Night Ninja was diverting everyone else’s attention with his fascinating story from the life of Luna Girl… and a portal opened wide.

There was a pause. “This isn’t Mystery Mountain,” Cat Boy said the obvious.

“Of course not, our city is full of pocket dimensions,” Luna Girl said breezily, (and no one really believed in her confidence either). “Let’s go, people!” and she carried Orticia over the threshold, forcing the others to follow.

…On the other end of the portal was some sort of a feral-looking wood. “Um,” Gekko began, when a green-skinned woman, (but not a redhead, cough), emerged from the trees.

“Little girl,” she told, well, Luna Girl, “we said it before and we’ll say it again – you’re not welcome here without adult supervision-“

“This is Orticia,” Luna Girl replied promptly. “I believe that she’s a relative of yours?”

Orticia stared at older green woman. The latter stared back at Orticia…as did one of the trees, which opened one giant Cyclopean eye and sprouted wooden arms and legs instead.

“Wow!” Gekko just stared.

“Hello!” Orticia said brightly, (in an uncertain sort of manner). “You want to meet my pumpkin family?”

“Absolutely,” the tree nodded. “And you four need to rescue your friends. Go!” It pointed at a zigzagging path through the woods that probably was not there just moments before.
PJ Masks and their cohorts ran through it.

Meanwhile…

“Ow! First a lousy flight and now a bad landing! Those monsters are the worst airplanes ever!” Owlette exclaimed as she and Romeo sat on a rough wooden floor. “Where did they take us, anyhow?”

“Judging by evidence, I would say in an ogre’s lair,” Romeo muttered, as Owlette helped him get onto his feet.

“What makes you say that?” Owlette asked, when Romeo half-shifted her around. “Oh! I see!”

What Owlette saw was the ogre in question, looming over them and grinning at them in a certain manner.

“…Hello,” Owlette finally found her voice. “I’m – Owlette, and this is – Romeo…”

“Nice to meet you,” the ogre replied in a fakest voice ever. “My guests and I will be eating you later tonight.”

“Say what?” Romeo and Owlette were actually briefly sunned… literally, which enabled the ogre to swoop them up and put them into a closet.

“You’re tonight’s festive meal,” the ogre repeated through the door, even as she slid a thick wooden bar across the metal brackets – an impromptu lock. “Enjoy the last hours of your life!” - and chuckling merrily, she walked across to what was apparently her bed and lay down for a nap.

Owlette looked at Romeo. “Got any ideas?”

“Let me look at my emergency backpack,” Romeo muttered. “Ah, yes, there’s the saw,” – and he pulled-out a handsaw out of the backpack in question.

“That’s handy,” Owlette muttered, and the odd duo began to saw. Luckily for them, the ogre snored loudly enough for them to saw through the wooden bar without being caught, and then they were out… back in the main room. With the sleeping ogre.

“Um, use your night vision to find us a way home?” Romeo muttered to Owlette even as he rummaged through his backpack. “Oh good, I do have some basic tools and equipment for such a situation!”

“What situation?” Owlette blinked as she activated her owl vision to look outside the hut.

“Getting caught in one of our city’s pocket dimensions that isn’t compatible to high tech?” Romeo shot back. “What’s the situation?”

“I don’t like the forest outside,” Owlette confessed. “I could fly you away, but we don’t know where to go… is that sticky tape?”

“Industrial-strength sticky tape!” Romeo said proudly, before pausing. “Why are you interested in it?”

…They used it to tie down the ogre to her bed, in fact, barely finishing the task before the latter woke-up from her nap.

“This is clever, but pointless,” she commented to the odd duo, not sounding too angry, (but the duo did not believe her). “The cat lord alone will eat you!”

“The who or the what now?” Romeo asked Owlette, who looked outside with her owl vision, and did not like what she saw. A cat was emerging from the wild wood, a cat easily the size of Cat Boy’s Cat Stripe King, but whereas the latter was built for speed, (in a manner of speaking), this one was built for strength instead, a giant brawny tiger or lion.

“Oh good, I was worried that we get something unexpected,” Romeo muttered, as he pulled-out a self-made toy mouse (with wheels) from his bag, followed by a laser pointer.

“Do I want to know?” Owlette muttered at their new equipment.

“Yes, you guessed correctly,” Romeo replied, sounding almost apologetic. “I was planning to test them on your PJ Pussycat…”

The cat lord entered the ogre’s house, meanwhile. He looked around, but Romeo and Owlette wisely chose to have their argument slash discussion in a dark corner, so the cat lord failed to see them at first. Maybe he would have noticed them next, but he noticed the mouse, scurried around by Owlette, and illuminated by Romeo’s laser pointer instead.

The cat lord yowled and charged; his charge carried him straight into the closet from which Romeo and Owlette had actually escaped earlier – and fortunately for them, the cat lord slammed himself into the wall powerfully enough to knock himself out long enough for Owlette and Romeo to slide the now shortened but still sturdy wooden bar across the brackets, locking in the great feline.

“Nice try, but the graveknight commander will cut you down!” the ogre chuckled as she began to struggle against the sticky tape and her own blanket, both of which were wearing her down.

“The graveknight commander?” Romeo blinked. “PJ- Owlette, what is she talking about?”

Owlette re-activated her owl vision. “Ever see Peter Jackson’s version of LotR?” she asked her erstwhile cohort.

“Yes?” Romeo asked warily.

“We’re about to have a real life witch-king of Angmar enter this door,” Owlette replied in a flat tone of voice. “Any ideas?”

Romeo looked around and saw… a horseshoe nailed over the ogre’s front entrance on the inside.

“Actually,” he muttered, even as he wrapped some wiring around the horseshoe, wiring connected to some baseline device of his, “Luna Girl isn’t the only one handy with magnets these days…”

“Oh?” Owlette leaned closer. “What are you talking about?”

Before Romeo could answer, the graveknight opened the ogre’s front door and immediately got stuck to the magnet.

“Now!” Romeo shouted to Owlette.

“Owl Wing Wind!” Owlette shouted herself, blasting the graveknight back outside for several feet. Sadly, the undead abomination was not impressed – he got back on his feet, pulled out his sword, charged back inside – and got stuck to the magnet once more.

“Super Owl Wind Wing!” Owlette shouted with twice the effort, and this time the graveknight was catapulted straight out of the ogre’s door, across the clearing, and into the woods beyond them; he smashed into the trees and did not get back up.

“This was awesome!” Romeo told Owlette. “High five?”

“Sure,” Owlette actually obliged, even as she noticed another window in the hut, this one closer to the roof. “Oh, drat!”

“What, drat?”

“Dragon, drat!”

“Dragon?” Romeo blinked.

“Think winged crocodile the size of our HQ,” Owlette muttered, as she looked around. “Wait, is that a trapdoor?”

“Yes it is!” Romeo cried, happily. “Yes! ‘Cause while I do have a fire extinguisher, I do not know if it’ll be any good against dragonfire-“

“Why do you have a fire extinguisher?”

“I have a distant cousin who’s an honorary child firefighter,” Romeo reluctantly replied as he pulled out the fire extinguisher in question. “He gave me one as a gift- duck!” he opened fire or rather foam… just as Owlette tackled him instead and they fell together through the trapdoor. Just in time too, as apparently foam from a fire extinguisher and dragonfire don’t mix well – rather, there was a very reactive reaction, as the not-quite explosion took the hut, the dragon and everything else right into the sky… where it was caught by Luna Girl’s magnet.

“You guys coming or what?” she asked, even as the rest of their friends looked from behind her.

The odd duo immediately raced across the clearing to the friends, just as Luna Girl brought the hut back down. It shuddered, stood still, and then the ogre opened the door, having finally freed herself from the sticky tape.

“Hello, Granny,” Luna Girl spoke in the least friendly tone of voice any of her friends had ever heard her use.

“Hello, Granddaughter,” the ogre matched Luna Girl tone for tone, and she was much more formidable out of the two. “Thank you for your help. In return, I give you five minutes’ running start-“

Luna Girl nudged Gekko, who nudged the others and the half-a-dozen took off running like a shot. Or, in case of Owlette, flight. “You know, we did defeat her friends,” she began to mutter, when there was a seriously non-human scary cry, and somehow this added extra motivation both to the PJ Masks and to their frenemies to save their breath and arrive at their destination point.

“You made it,” the Cyclopean tree giant rumbled.

“Yes, and we’re leaving,” Luna Girl replied.

“I’m staying,” Orticia piped-up.

Luna Girl – and the others – just looked at the plant adults.

“We’ll handle the old ogre,” the tree said in such a matter of fact tone of voice that the half dozen frenemies somehow believed him.

Another cry came from behind them-

“Go,” the tree giant repeated himself-

The half dozen raced through the portal-

-And it closed behind them, leaving them back in the city without Orticia… but without the ogre or her minions and co. either, allowing them to catch their collective breath.

Gekko was the one to break the silence first.

“So, about those sugar cookies?” he asked Luna Girl.

“You’re all invited, even Romeo,” she replied, “but I’ll need to talk to my parents first-“

“Luna, we’re here,” a pair of adult shadows spoke as they emerged from the trees.

“Mommy, Daddy!” Luna Girl raced across the clearing on her lunaboard. “We really need to talk-“ she began to lead them away from the others, for which the others were greatful – they really didn’t want to talk to grownups for now.

“And we need to get to our HQ,” Gekko said brightly as he led his teammates away to the HQ in question.

“And we need to prepare for tomorrow,” the Night Ninja and Romeo told no one in particular and also left.

Before long, the city park was empty once again, and it was morning, and a brand new day in the city.

End

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, Romeo decided that he had given PJ Masks excessively much time for a break from his company and plans, and built a variant weather machine to change that situation. He attached it to his mobile lab, summoned his Robot, and together they went off.

Sadly, tonight luck clearly was not on Romeo’s side, as the first person he met was Armadylan instead. “And where are you going, villain?” he proclaimed in an unnecessarily loud voice, (but then again, Romeo didn’t like the superhero in question, period, and thought of him as being completely unnecessary – the PJ Masks were enough heroes for this city, thanks).

“I’ve built a bad weather machine and will use it to defeat the PJ Masks and take over the world!” Romeo shot back.

“If you know that it is bad, why won’t you fix it?” Armadylan blinked.

“The machine isn’t bad, it generates weather that is bad,” Romeo had to explain. (Yeah, he probably had to rename his latest invention, in hindsight).

“Really?” Armadylan sounded honestly curious. “What kind of bad weather?”

“Uh, ice, snow, fog and rain,” Romeo reluctantly admitted. “Because it’s almost winter by now, see?”

“No, I don’t,” Armadylan got confused once more. “You haven’t showed me how your evil invention works yet…”

“Oh, well, allow me,” Romeo said with an evil grin, and by pressing a sequence of buttons, he hit Armadylan with all four weather types, one after another. And when the fog cloud dispersed… Armadylan was standing there looking… not very affected, to be honest.

“This was amazing!” he proclaimed, sounding actually happy. “I wanted to have my armor buffed and washed for the last few days, but just couldn’t find the right time… are you ok?” he asked Romeo, who clearly did not expect this sort of effect from his latest machine, and was not handling it too well either.

“No, he isn’t, not entirely,” Luna Girl confessed. She and the Night Ninja were sitting on the rooftops over the mismatched duo, (ok, trio, but Robot did not really count right now), and apparently enjoying the show. “He forgot that rain often gets ride of ice and especially snow instead. His invention needs some redesigning, and he hates that.”

“Oh. Well, Romeo, I’m sorry, man – you’re a villain, but you don’t deserve such a failure,” Armadylan said with genuine compassion in his voice, and that was the worst, for Romeo. He completely lost his cool and fired all four weather elements at once, (rather than one after another). This could have gone bad for Armadylan indeed, if Luna Girl had not used her lunar magnet to whisk him out of the way, until Romeo’s bad machine got completely discharged and died.

“Now see what you’ve done!” Romeo wailed, as he and Robot retreated on Romeo’s mobile lab. “I’ll be back, Armadylan, and when I do so, you will regret it!” and he drove away.

“Will I?” Armadylan blinked and asked the other two villains. They just shrugged and also left. “…I think that I need to talk to PJ Masks instead,” Armadylan decided, and so off he went.

Some time later…

“You did what?” Owlette exclaimed in an unnecessarily incredulous tone of voice.

“Fought Romeo to a standstill,” Octobella commented from her vantage point in the PJ Masks’ moat. "I’m so proud of you!”

“…What are we missing?” Gekko blinked.

“They’ve been going out for a while,” the Night Ninja replied instead, as he and his Ninjalinos settled around the PJ Masks’ HQ. Luna Girl was there as well, giving all of them sugar cookies and fresh tea. “My fault too, I suppose.”

“How so?” Cat Boy blinked as he took his share of treats from Luna Girl.

“Eh, Octobella enjoyed my night time school for villains so much,” Night Ninja shot Gekko evil eye, who ignored it because he failed to see it, “that she got her mom to get her to attend the real school, alongside the rest of us. Sorry about it.”

“Hey, my mom is Calypso Jones, the baddest sea goddess ever,” Octobella said proudly. “Where’s – Romeo?”

“Here I am!” Romeo proclaimed proudly, as he rode up to the PJ Masks’ HQ on his mobile lab. “Prepare to eat bad weather, PJ Masks!” and he fired-off his bad weather machine once again.

“Everyone – scatter!” the Night Ninja shouted immediately. “Scatter and duck!”

Things went blurry for some time after this…

Some more time later...

“…What happened?” Owlette blinked, as she and her two cohorts sat back up.

“Romeo fired from all four barrels, and your robot got your HQ to rotate around, scattering bad weather everywhere else,” Luna Girl replied, spitting out a mouthful of slush. “Got the three of you out of the way, BTW, so you’re welcome.”

“And Romeo?” Owlette did not back down.

Luna Girl jabbed to a side, where Robot was holding Romeo high above the mess, due to his extendable limbs. The mobile lab got the worst of it, though.

“Oh man, this is the last time that I use a weather machine for a while,” Romeo muttered. “Maybe I should use it with my Flying Factory instead…”

“Cookie?” Luna Girl suggested.

Romeo blinked.

“Eh, I still feel sorry for your misadventure with the ogre,” Luna Girl shrugged. “Want one? If not, I will not object-“

“How about you help me clean-up my mobile lab?” Romeo muttered crossly, even as he did take the offered snack.

There was a pause, at the end of which everyone just sighed and helped Romeo, (and Robot), to do just that. That was the end of Romeo’s bad weather machine, (at least for a while), as well.

End

Chapter Text

…The next time the PJ Masks’ saw Romeo, the mad scientist slash genius slash inventor was standing over a frozen pond in the park, busy drilling slash sawing a hole in it, almost ignoring everyone and everything else around him.

“And what are you doing, and where’s Robot?” Cat Boy proclaimed, as the heroic trio had semi-surrounded the dastardly villain.

“Robot’s over there, he doesn’t care for water, even when it is frozen,” Romeo shot back crossly, albeit without his usual flair… mostly. “As for me, I’m extracting frogs from beneath the ice as a part of my taking over the world scheme.”

“…It’s winter, Romeo, where are you going to find frogs?” Gekko blinked.

“I already found them, beneath the ice,” Romeo rolled his eyes, “and not even you, PJ Masks, are going to stop me!” and he did his trademark evil laugh.

“Oh? And why is that?” Cat Boy blinked. “We outnumber you, Robot is over there-“

“I’m helping him,” Luna Girl commented as she fly over to them on her lunar board, dressed for the winter. Her moths actually were not accompanying her – they did like winter very much – but she was carrying several bags of something via her lunar magnet all the same.

“Why?” Owlette blinked; it was a rhetorical question, but the other girl answered it all the same:

“Eh, we felt sorry for him after his weather machine got destroyed during the last chapter, so while the Night Ninja is making him a gingerbread train back at our secret HQ,” Luna Girl said brightly, “I’m here helping him defeat the three of you.”

“How? Your moths aren’t here, so we still got you outnumbered,” Owlette piped up as she flew upwards to confront Luna Girl in the air.

“Yes, I know, but I’m trying to think outside the box, as Romeo over there constantly tells us to do,” Luna Girl rolled her eyes. “Here, hold these,” and she thrust the bags onto Owlette. The bags were heavy, and the girl hero fell back down, onto her teammates.

“What is in there?” Gekko opened one of the bags. “Bird feed?”

“Yes, for some very big birds,” Luna Girl nodded triumphantly, as a swarm of geese landed around the PJ Masks, and began to cackle very demandingly as the three heroes. In addition, they were actually big birds, almost as big as the children themselves were.

“Uhm, now what?” Owlette said meekly as the geese surrounded them.

“Now you need to get through the geese if you want to save the frogs from Romeo,” Luna Girl shrugged. “Sorry if it isn’t too high-brow for you, but if you want that, go and talk to Romeo…”

“Don’t mind if I will,” Owlette proclaimed, as she flew upwards out of the avian circle, knocking Luna Girl down onto the ice in the process. “Here, help the boys feed the birds – Romeo, we need to talk!”

“About what?” Romeo muttered, not really trying to launch his own defence – not yet, anyhow.

“Uhm, about our face-off from the last chapter?” Owlette scrunched her nose. “Listen, we’re sorry if you’re upset about our victory from the last chapter-“

“Oh, it’s not about you,” Romeo said crossly, “it’s more about Armadylan – seriously, here I am, putting all of my heart and soul into my bad weather machine-“

“Well, isn’t that the problem? It’s bad-“

“It was a machine that made bad weather, remember? But yes, I should’ve renamed it better,” Romeo muttered, before collecting himself. “But the point is, I couldn’t defeat Armadylan with it, and that stings. Armadylan! Come on, he doesn’t have half your brain power or the skill set…”

“True, but, this time you were just going for massive damage, and resistance for massive damage is what Armadylan does best – he is just so formidable,” Owlette paused. “Uh, can I rephrase it?”

“Owlette, Armadylan is like an anti-Romeo or something, so of course he’s going to be upset that Armadylan got the best of him,” Gekko commented from his spot on the icy lake slash pond. “The fact that we were able to outmaneuver him afterwards was only an insult to injury-“

“Eh, I’m used to that, it’s Armadylan that rubs me wrong,” Romeo muttered dismissively, “can we move on-?”

“Well, we fed the geese,” Cat Boy shrugged, as he pointed to the waterfowl in question, and indeed, they had been placated, more or less.

“Great! And our gingerbread train is done!” the Night Ninja called out from further out in the park’s woods. “Want to try it?”

There was a pause as everyone just eyed Romeo, (and Owlette, ‘cause she was standing next to him). “Fine,” Romeo muttered, “everyone can try it. Just no Armadylan around, ‘kay?”

Owlette and her cohorts looked at each other. On one hand, Armadylan was their friend, so they should have stuck up for him, but on the other, he was not around, and a gingerbread train, (complete with wagons and even a Santa Claus), was, well, a gingerbread train.

“Agreed, but he’s still our friend,” Cat Boy said firmly.

“No problem. ‘Your friend’ is the key concept here,” Romeo shot back. “Shall we go now and enjoy our truce with hot cocoa and mini-marshmallows?”

Moreover, of course that is what they did.

End

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, there was a morally ambiguous alien moth girl, called Mothsuki, and she had an honorary big (step) sister named Luna (Girl). During the day, they were ordinary people, going to kindergarten slash school (and having fun), but at night, it was a different story:

“And what are we going to do tonight?” the aforementioned Mothsuki asked Luna Girl. “Try to take over the world?”

“How many times must I tell you – this is more of Romeo’s thing, as for us, tonight… well, tonight is the Lunar New Year – of the rabbit, so-“

“What’s a rabbit?” Mothsuki asked, as she had never seen a live one before, as she lived (mostly) on the moon.

“What’s a rabbit…?” Luna Girl repeated Mothsuki’s question in an incredulous tone of voice, “what’s a rabbit… you’ve never seen one before, have you?”

“No,” Mothsuki nodded.

“Right, this settles thing. We’re going downstairs, to daddy and mommy’s pet shop!”

“Yay!” Mothsuki felt very excited. “We’re going downstairs! …Wait, this doesn’t sound very exciting…” but they already were there, and Luna Girl opened a door. Mothsuki looked inside.

“Eeek!” she cried in her trademark manner. “This is exciting! …Which one is a rabbit?”

“Ugh,” Luna Girl groaned in exasperation, (but not really). “Come on, let me show you!” and they went inside.

Some time later…

“Eee!” Mothsuki was shrieking excitedly, as the two sisters were leading a rabbit through the city streets, (on a leash, naturally). “This is exciting! Kind of! But still exciting! Eee!”

“Glad to hear this,” Luna Girl replied bemusedly, as truth to be told, she didn’t want to take over the world, (this really WAS Romeo’s thing), she – they – already had the moon to themselves, (for a while), and so far there wasn’t anything worthwhile to steal… so no conflict with the PJ Masks either. As for peaceful contact… Luna generally did not do that with them, not really.

“Maybe we can find some new rabbit friends for our new rabbit friend?” Mothsuki was continu-ing to speak while Luna was thinking about it. “You know?”

“Mothsuki, we live in the city and on the moon, where are we going to find our new rabbit friend-“ Luna Girl stopped talking and stared. Mothsuki looked in that direction as well and became excited once more:

“Hey! New rabbit friends! Hello!”

The ‘new rabbit friends’ ignored her, sadly, but their apparent owners didn’t.

“Oh, look, you also have a bunny,” the Night Ninja said sarcastically. “I wonder why-“

“It’s the Lunar New Year – the Year of the Rabbit,” Luna Girl said curtly, (she never forgave him for kidnapping her in order to get Mothsuki to open the pagoda on the Mystery Mountain). “What do you think?”

“Yes, I got our rabbit for the same reasons,” the Night Ninja said vaguely, “while the wolfy triplets-“

“Hey! We are the wolfies! This is the year of the rabbit! What do you think we would want with a rabbit?” the triplets in question shot back, before catching themselves. “That is to say that yeah, we had that sort of an idea, but dad told us that if we behaved nicely, he’ll make us a holiday feast surprise without, uh,” they pointed at their rabbit, which was already saying hello to the other bunnies and clearly enjoying this outing.

“Got it,” Luna Girl nodded sagely. “And the PJ Masks seem to be busy with Romeo tonight, so no chance of them dropping in-“

Owlette, of the aforementioned PJ Masks, chose this moment to drop in from the sky. “Ugh,” she told no one in particular. “Boys are so-“ she caught herself, looked around and sighed. “And of course you all are actually having non-evil innocent fun and enjoying yourselves. Naturally-“

“Excuse me, Mothsuki, but can Owlette have our rabbit for a hug?” Luna Girl asked her little sister, and receiving her affirmative nod – the flying heroine seemed to be on the cusp of something big and bad… until the sisters gave her their rabbit for a hug, which Owlette did. Hug their rabbit, that is.

“So,” Luna Girl said after a while, “what did Romeo do?”

“Make a time machine that makes portals into the past,” Owlette muttered into the rabbit’s soft fur, “only he made a mistake somewhere, and so it opened into Australia instead, so what we got are some giant prehistoric kangaroos!” She paused and added, with more self-control: “And yes, I’m aware of what I’m saying – somehow giant prehistoric kangaroos are the norm for our heroics these days.”

“But that isn’t what bothering you,” Luna Girl nodded sagely.

“No,” Owlette admitted. “It’s just that Catboy found some sort of a prehistoric Australian cat creature, while Gekko – a giant lizard, and they’re having fun with them. And where’s my prehistoric Australian bird?”

Before anyone else could comment, a big black cockatoo parrot landed onto Owlette and said in a clear enough human language (i.e. English):

“Hello?”

“Hi,” Owlette said slowly, (even as Luna Girl thrust a bag of carrot chips and the like into her hand, with which she began to feed the parrot, which didn’t object to this). “Do you want to be my friend?”

“Hey! Ahoy there, little buddy Owlette!” Armadylan, of all people, called out. “Have you found a prehistoric animal buddy of your own?”

The others looked, and surprisingly enough, the big hero was walking through the street accompanied by two prehistoric kangaroos – one that was about as big as he was, and the second that was much bigger and older than the first.

“Um, yes? Maybe?” Owlette replied with more scepticism than her usual norm.

“Great! We need to return them all to their time before it gets broken,” Armadylan continued in his usual oblivious manner.

“Um, Romeo?” Owlette tried to ignore Armadylan’s own statement.

“Oh, we got him already, with Armadylan’s help – and the kangaroos’,” Gekko called out, as he indeed rode on a giant lizard, (accompanied by Lyonel), with a tied-up Romeo behind him, while Catboy was truly riding some sort of a prehistoric cat creature, accompanied by his cat friend. “So we just need to return them all back to their time – nothing more.”

There was an imperceptible pause, and then Owlette stood up, regretfully or otherwise. “Guess it’s time to be a hero,” she told no one in particular, (but mostly her new parrot and Birdie). “Let’s go, guys,” she paused. “Thanks for the therapy rabbit, Luna Girl,” she added, and she was gone.

There was a pause. “Now what?” Mothsuki asked her sister.

Instead of replying verbally, Luna Girl just showed her the night sky - it was growing lighter in the east implying that morning would be breaking soon. “We need to return our rabbit back home,” she told Mothsuki, “and this goes for the rest of you – maybe.”

“Yeah, it does,” the wolfies agreed, (and the Night Ninja – ditto). “Hey, you want to come to our house for the LNR dinner? It’ll be fun!”

“We’ll have to ask our parents,” Luna Girl said self-importantly, even as they were leaving, “but we’ll probably be there!”

And so they were – but that was another story.

Chapter Text

The day dawned as it usually did, and the heroic PJ Masks put down their trademark pyjamas and went forth into their kindergarten/primary school, where they learned new things, and had had fun.

“You know, you could be a little less enthusiastic Amaya about all of this studying,” Connor commented to his friend in question as they wrapped-up their studying for the day and prepared to go to their favorite comic book store. “It won’t go anywhere-!”

“True, but you know – every day is a new day,” Amaya said brightly-

“And every night is a new night,” Greg, the third member of their trio commented wryly, as he was walking a bit behind the other two, looking around for something or someone, (and probably not his pet lizard Lyonel). “Where we learn something new and exciting!”

“Well, someone’s happy today,” Amaya said brightly, (mostly to keep the discussion going than anything else). “Though Connor got a point – today was a slow day, and nothing weird has happened, for once-“

“Hey there, Greg,” as with a whine of wheels and a cloud of dust a skateboard stopped next to the three pre/teens and another girl – wearing a helmet, knee pads and so on – got off it. “Who are your friends?”

“Connor and Amaya!” Greg replied immediately. “Remember, I told you about them?”

“Mmm, yes, I guess,” the other girl looked somewhere between shy and unenthused. “Anyways, here’s your invitation to my sister’s birthday-“

“Really? Cool!” Greg said happily. “Uh, about my friends-“

“I don’t think that I know them, let alone my sister,” the other girl looked away, apparently find-ing something fascinating on the ground. “Are they good people-“

“Yes! Celine, come on! Please!” Greg made big puppy dog eyes.

“Fine,” Celine muttered, as her mood has apparently soured even more. “Very well. Greg, your friends are also invited – see you soon.” She got onto her skateboard and drove off.

“Greg,” Amaya spoke after exchanging looks with Connor. “While it’s nice that you’ve thought about us, it’s not nice that you got us invited to a stranger’s birthday party that we know nothing about-“

“Oh, uh, right, about that,” Connor began but did not finish, as their wristbands beeped, and PJ Robot contacted them about some potential trouble. “Guess we got to go and save the day after all?” he brightly changed the topic.

“Fine,” the other two heroes agreed, (Connor more eagerly than Amaya). And they were off.

…Before long, the three heroic PJ Masks came to their favorite city comic book store, (maybe it was the only one in the city – who knows?), for they have noticed Luna Girl and Mothsuki head-ng towards it, and planned on stopping it. Therefore, they have arrived at their destination in Cat Boy’s trusty Cat-Car, only to be unpleasantly surprised, as the person who greeted them was a complete stranger, and quite a bit older and bigger than anyone they knew, (themselves included). “And who are you?” he asked without preamble, eying the three heroes with a piercing gaze.

“Owlette!”

“Cat Boy!”

“Gekko!”

“We’re the PJ Masks and we’re here to stop you... from doing whatever you were doing?” they finished a bit more lamely, as they realized that they were not certain if the newcomer was a hero, or a villain, or what.

“Well, that’s fair,” the newcomer nodded; he gestured, and a dinosaur and a giant cobra emerged from the shadows, flanking him. “Do you think that you can defeat us, though?”

“Yes! Because we have animal allies of our own!” Cat Boy shot back. “PJ Masks-!”

“Eagle owl!”

“Cat stripe king!”

“Power lizard!”

-And abruptly the PJ Masks’ animal allies were there as well. This caused a reaction in the cobra, as it raised its’ hood and hissed at Eagle Owl, who promptly puffed itself out, spread out its’ wings, and the two creatures stared at each other with all the love, friendship and decorum of Optimus Prime and Megatron at the worst of times.

“Well now, this is something new, all right,” the cobra’s boss whistled, as he moved slightly back into the shadows. “Well, I’m guessing that since Princess is going after the owl, you get the crocodile-“

“He’s a Power Lizard!”

“-while I know now what to do,” the speaker finished, re-emerging from the shadows as a really big white tiger instead. He looked at Cat Boy’s animal ally, and the latter went seemingly berserk and raced-off.

Before the other two PJ Masks could react, however, the cobra charged at Eagle Owl, who ab-ruptly bucked, flinging Owlette into the air, where she ‘flew’ upwards, tossing and turning head over heels…

…until Luna Girl caught her with her lunar magnet’s force field.

“You ok?” she asked the red clad heroine from her vantage point on a roof. “Who’s the new guy?”

“I think that he’s the cat lord Romeo and I have met in the third chapter and outwitted,” the other girl replied as Luna Girl maneuvered her onto the roof, (and rather gently and politely too). “Thanks Luna…” she looked down, (so did Luna) and saw that Gekko, Power Lizard, and the dinosaur had maneuvered themselves around the battling Eagle Owl and giant cobra and were doing their best to restrain the two combatants, with mixed success. “I think that I should be down there, helping my animal friend too-“

There was a pause as the two girls looked at each other, and Owlette belatedly remembered that she hadn’t lost her powers, still could fly, and she was only dizzy-

“Fine,” Luna Girl muttered, “I’m coming down too – Mothsuki stays here, though-“

“Mothsuki?” Owlette blinked, when she noticed the younger sister standing aside from them, looking more confused and worried than how she normally did.

“Eeek!” said Cat Boy as his animal ally had bucked him into mid-air, and unlike Owlette, he could not really fly. “Help-“

Luna Girl caught him too.

“I need to get down now!” the blue-dressed hero declared… and was lowered down by Luna Girl, who descended alongside him and Owlette. Down on the ground… the cobra and Eagle Owl were firmly entangled that the girls immediately went to help Gekko and the others to dis-entangle them, while Cat Boy went towards the struggling cats.

“Uh, Mr. Big Cat,” he turned to the white tiger, who was able to endure Cat Stripe King’s super-fast slam, and the two cats were now on all four feet, clearly preparing to do something else. “Can we talk?”

The cat lord shifted and looked at Cat Boy… who did his best to channel his inner and outer adorability a-la Mothsuki. From Owlette’s P.O.V. the result was mixed at best, but the cat lord apparently thought otherwise, as he abruptly shifted his position, looked Cat Boy eye to eye, licked him on the nose, and then, with a rumbling half-growl half-purr literally faded into the night, followed by the dinosaur and the giant cobra.

“…and let this be a lesson to you!” Owlette brightly told her animal friend as the big bird had the good grace to look sheepish.

“Is everything ok?” Mothsuki flew down to the ground as well, looking… actually rather young and scared than how she normally did.

“Um, yeah,” Gekko replied with all the brightness of someone who no longer had to worry about getting a giant cobra off a cranky giant owl. “Why are you two here, anyhow?”

“It’s Mothsuki’s birthday tomorrow-“

“Did you receive the invitations?” Mothsuki added, brightly.

“Yes, wait... you’re Celine and her sister-?” Owlette blinked.

“Um, yes – you had sugar cookies at our home, remember? In chapter 3?” Luna Girl blinked.

“Yes, well, the story’s author kind of gotten details confused, or rebooted, or something,” Owlette muttered apologetically; “anyways, please go on?”

“We went to the comic store to get my favorite comic – it’s the new issue!” Mothsuki shrugged. “The big cat kahuna showed up, we hid, and then we remembered that I can teleport, so I got in, got the comic, left the shiny money bits and came back here. That’s all.”

“Really? You girls left money for the comic? I’m so proud of you!” Gekko said brightly and hugged both of them. Luna Girl went through several mundane color changes.

“Big sister Luna is a moon person,” Mothsuki added, ‘helpfully’. “Moon people aren’t supposed to do things like that!”

“Oh?” Gekko blinked. “What are moon people supposed to do? Who are the moon people, any-ways?”

“…ANYWAYS,” Luna Girl clearly did not want to go there and now, “we’re still good for to-morrow, right? No more confusions made by the author who isn’t quite clear about their own headcanon?”

“Oh no, not for this chapter,” Gekko said brightly. “Plus, it’s sunrise soon-“

“Then I guess we’ll see you tomorrow,” Luna Girl shrugged, “at Mothsuki’s party-“

-And that was exactly what happened, but that is another story.

End

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, the PJ Masks looked outside, and lo and behold, there was their old archnemesis, Romeo!

“Mwa-ha-ha, I got you now, PJ Masks!” the mad inventor laughed, well, madly. “Tonight, I’m going to capture your PJ crystal for sure!”

“And how are you going to do that?” Cat Boy shot back. “We’re all down here, and so’s our crystal, and you’re up there, in your flying factory!”

“It isn’t my flying factory; it is my new flying fortress!” Romeo did not back down, “and moreover, with my new teleporting ray I will capture your PJ crystal so very easily!”

“Didn’t you already do that?” Gekko blinked. “You teleported into our HQ, got Luna Girl’s moon crystal, got out-“

“This is different,” Romeo snapped. “Watch!” He pressed a button on his control panel, and sure enough, a ray came out of his ‘flying fortress’, zapped the PJ Masks’ HQ, and abruptly it was located now in the grasp of Romeo’s new mobile HQ, rather than anywhere else.

The PJ Masks blinked, realized that Romeo had outmaneuvered them this time, and promptly gave chase to the mad inventor, who was already retreating from them now via a flight through the night sky. This should not have mattered too much, as Owlette could fly herself, and Cat Boy was superfast on the ground, but Owlette was carrying Gekko, while Cat Boy-

“Ouch!”

-had run right into the wolfies.

“Sorry Kevin,” he apologized to the boy in question. “Romeo has stolen our HQ, though, so I’m kind of in a rush here-“

“Hello, pretty kitty!”

“Kevin? Who are your new friends?” Cat Boy called-out from a branch up in a tree, onto which he had leapt in a single bound. “They’re new, and don’t appear to be very wolfy!”

“We’re not! We’re more of hyena people,” the ‘new friends’ in question called out.

“They’re our honorary cousins,” Kevin’s true elder siblings joined him. “Their dad – our honorary uncle Xander, and his wife, – are visiting our parents tonight, and we’re babysitting-“

“Pretty kitty!” the twins called out. “Can we play?”

“Sure,” the wolfies’ leader said brightly. “Let me just give you two a boost-!” And he did.

Meanwhile…

Meanwhile, Owlette (and Gekko) were pursuing Romeo and his flying fortress through the air. “They’re catching up, master,” pointed Robot.

“No problem,” Romeo shrugged, as he continued to press buttons upon his new control panel. “I’m going to teleport us now somewhere away from the city, where we will be able to work with the PJ Crystal to our hearts’ content-“

The flying fortress shook, as it had flown straight into Luna Girl, who had been busy playing tag with her mothies – Mothsuki was absent from her now – and so the flying fortress did teleport, albeit both with her and Owlette and Gekko who had been able to catch up with his new stronghold at last…

“…Where are we?” Gekko asked Luna Girl, as they and Owlette sat on top of the flying fortress, while Romeo was getting it back online – apparently, the collision with Luna Girl had damaged it as well.

“Well, judging by the northern lights up above, and the caribou over there, we’re in the Arctic,” Luna Girl said brightly, as she huddled next to Gekko. Also possibly cuddled, but that was unimportant, really.

“Really?” Owlette muttered from the other side of Gekko. “That explains the cold… Luna, aren’t you cold?”

“Eh, I’m from the moon, I’m used to cold, plus Mothsuki had already teleported us here once when she wanted to find Santa…” Luna replied dismissively, while… “The mothies, however, are cold, so thanks for offering to keep them warm - Owlette!”

“No problem,” Owlette muttered, before kicking the front window of the flying fortress. “Hey, Romeo! Did you here this? We are at the North Pole! Santa Claus may be nearly, and we are friends with him. Sort of, but still…”

“No problem, we’re going to a place where Santa won’t reach us,” Romeo promised and pressed a button. The fortress abruptly teleported from the Arctic…

…to a desert.

“Whoa, it’s still hot!” Luna Girl exclaimed, as she tried to use her lunar board as a parasol, (it was not working). “Mothsuki once teleported us here because she didn’t believe that deserts could exist-“

“Really? Fascinating,” Owlette muttered.

“Yeah, camels can be quite impressive,” Luna Girl shrugged, before sidling over to her. “Um, you wouldn’t happen to have any sunscreen, would you? Moon person here, I am sunburned easily…”

“Romeo! Come on! We’re dying from the sun here!” Gekko thumped on the front window.

“I hear you!” Romeo pressed another button, and everyone abruptly found themselves…

…floating on top of the sea.

“Cool! How come we aren’t sinking yet?” Luna Girl called out from the top of Gekko.

“My flying fortress is also waterproof! Mwa-ha-ha-ha!” Romeo called out from the inside.

“Shark!” Owlette squealed from her position on top of Luna Girl, and indeed, a trademark fishy fin was approaching the floating flying fortress with a great speed.

“Eeep!” yelled Romeo, and the floating flying fortress abruptly was teleported…

…’we’re in a volcano,” Luna Girl said with something like awe. “We’re in a real volcano!”

“And it is about to erupt!” Owlette shouted. “Romeo, please, before you kill us all!”

“No problem!” Romeo shouted back. He pressed another button…

…and now the flying fortress found itself underwater.

“Glub-glub” went Owlette, Gekko, and Luna Girl. “Glub-glub-glub!”

“I’m sorry,” Romeo sounded exaggeratedly polite. “I can’t understand you-“

The mismatched trio pointed in the direction from which a giant octopus was approaching the submerged flying fortress with a rather grouchy look in its’ eyes.

“Eeee!” went Romeo and pressed another sequence of buttons…

The flying fortress – and the PJ Masks’ HQ – abruptly found themselves back into the PJ Masks’ HQ’s old spot, in the moat, in the park. “Home! Sweet home!” Romeo yelled, as he got out of his fortress and hugged the ground. “Robot! Do you hear me? We’re back home!”

“Yes, master, I hear you,” Robot muttered as he lay next to him and the flying fortress. “Can we not do this again? The changing of scenery has almost killed Robot-“

“Eh, I would repair you in a jiffy,” Romeo said dismissively, “and I need to install an exhaust pipe into you anyhow-”

“Really, master?” Robot sounded honestly excited. “It’s about time-“

“ANYWAYS,” Luna Girl piped up as she got back onto her lunar glider, “isn’t this the third member – the PJ Pussycat?”

“It is, I am, that is me,” Cat Boy admitted, as he walked onto the scene surrounded by the various wolfies and co. “Guys, did you get our HQ back?”

“Yes, we have,” Owlette replied proudly, before adding, more humbly: “And who are your new friends?”

“These are our cousins,” Kevin explained apologetically, “they decided that they like Cat Boy, and-“

“Here,” Luna zoomed over to him. “We’ve been all over the world and we brought souvenirs – a reindeer horn, some desert thorn bush brunches, shark scales, volcano rock and pieces of coral-“

“Cool!” the wolfies and their cousins exclaimed, as they surrounded Luna Girl and their pack mate. “Can we-?”

“Kevin is in charge, since he’s the responsible one here,” Luna Girl replied, as she zoomed up and away. “Enjoy!”

“Thanks!” Kevin said happily. “Catch me if you can-!” And they all were off.

Cat Boy promptly sat down. “It is all over! At last!”

“Sounds like you had quite the night,” Owlette commented wryly.

“So did you,” Cat Boy shot back, showing Romeo taking Robot and the rest of his stuff and flying off into the morning light.

“Guess all is well that ends well,” commented Luna Girl, and… jinxed herself, since Mothsuki had seen enough to get jealous that the wolfies – and their relatives – had gotten Luna Girl’s souvenirs, and so the two sisters had a falling-out – but that is another story…

End

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, there were three wolfy siblings: Howler, Rip and Kevin, and they had no true friends. It was certainly sad in any other case, but the wolfies were quite happy with each other, really, honest even. It undoubtedly was not their frustration with loneliness that caused them to start throwing rocks around one night, no sir!

“Careful, you guys, we might hit something!” Kevin, the youngest, commented to the other two.

“Nah,” Howler said brightly, “there’s no one else around here for miles, see?” He threw another rock into the bushes.

There was a thumping sound, indicating clearly that Howler’s strike had hit something or someone.

“Oh man,” Howler groaned, as he, Kevin and Rip went to check out as to what he had done.

In fact, he had hit a bird. In addition, it was rather dead.

“Thank God that the PJ Masks aren’t around, or we would never hear the end of it – and we deserve it,” Rip muttered to other two. “Let’s bury it and be done with it.”

“Hear, hear,” Howler said in agreement with their sister, and not even Kevin argued with them.

The next night…

The moon had fallen and risen once again, and the wolfy siblings were on the prowl once again, looking for someone in particular…

Whom they found instead was Luna Girl, who was busy setting-up the field for a football game. “Oh man and here we were hoping that you won’t find us,” she flatly told the lycanthropic trio. “Can’t you harass someone else, like Armadylan… wait, is it a bird ghost?”

The wolfies lowered their gazes first. “Yeah,” Kevin muttered, somewhat miserably. “It is. We – have made it. Sort of? Unintentionally?”

“How do you unintentionally make a ghost? Oh,” the Night Ninja muttered, as realization hit, even as he and Romeo emerged into the clearing as well. “Right. Looks as if the wolfies have done it again. Can’t you trio just go somewhere else-?”

“We didn’t even want to go here!” Rip snapped, as the falcon ghost behind them pranced around as only a falcon ghost could. “We were looking for the PJ Masks-! Where are they, anyhow?”

“Um…”

Meanwhile…

“Guys, you sure that Luna Girl has planned to go here tonight to steal the moon bear for her moon collection?” Cat Boy called out, as he eyed a big black bear with a white patch on his chest, who was eyeing him back, in a way that only a live bear could. (I.e., a Winnie the Pooh this was not). “Because I don’t think that she would be that crazy, especially not lately!”

“Mmm, yeah, sure,” Owlette muttered as she pranced in front of the owl cages. “Whatever you say, Cat Boy!”

Cat Boy looked around for the third member of their team, but the green-clad Gekko was currently absent from the scene, having gotten into the reptile house section of the zoo. “This isn’t working out,” Cat Boy muttered, as his tail and ears dropped. “I must find a way to counteract this, whatever this is…” The bear muttered in agreement. “Thanks, big guy, you are the only one who gets me…” he trailed away and facepalmed himself.

Back to the bad guys…

“All we wanted was to have a football match without the PJ Masks’ interference, so that I could safely judge it, but no! We got to give a proper funeral for a dead bird!” Romeo whined.

“Oh, be quiet you wiener!” the Night Ninja shot back. “After your impersonating Owlette trick, we wouldn’t have played with you anyhow!”

“This is hurtful, honest, but hurtful,” Romeo muttered. “Anyways, shall we proceed?”

“I don’t know, I’m getting kind of fond of the glorified ghost chicken,” Howler muttered. His siblings dogpiled him, and things went chaotic for a while… until the Pharaoh Boy arrived.

“Khonshu! I found you at last!” he said sternly. “What are you doing with those people, anyhow? Up-up-arise!” he stamped his staff on the ground, and the falcon, now whole, (and probably NOT a zombie) went to the skies, with Pharaoh Boy on his back now. Things could have gone really badly immediately, but the PJ Masks have arrived on the scene at last.

“Luna Girl! Night Ninja! Romeo!” the three heroes proclaimed. “We do not know what you have been up to-“

“We’ve been set-up,” the aforementioned trio, (plus the wolfies), pointed at the skies, where Pharaoh Boy was showing-off his new/old pet’s air mastery while doing a very convincing evil laugh.

“Oh. Him,” the PJ Masks exchanged looks. “Didn’t expect that-“ but they went into the skies and saved the day all the same – but that was another story.

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Once upon a time, there was a moth-girl named Mothsuki, who was also a princess of the moths. She had a loyal knight, really – sir Newton Starr, (who disagreed with that – but that’s not important for this story right now), and also a big sister, named Luna Girl, who one day slash night slash evening woke-up and said:

“Hey, Mothsuki, want to play a game? Just the two of us?”

“Sounds great!” Mothsuki said happily, since the two sisters had not played much with each other, not lately. “Want to play it here, or on Earth?”

“Let’s go on Earth,” Luna Girl immediately replied, “first because the crystal that we need to play this game is down there, and second, I want to try it on Earth first, before we try it here, on the Moon.”

“Ok,” Mothsuki nodded, and so down the two sisters went – not just to Earth, but also to a certain city that they lived in down on that planet…

Once the two sisters arrived in that particular city, they immediately flew off the city’s museum, where many interesting things were located, true, but this time the pair flew into the museum’s hind rooms, located in a corridor past a stuffed red fox.

“And good evening to you too, Mr. Dufayel,” Luna Girl told the red fox politely.

“Why are you being polite to that stuffed red fox?” Mothsuki, on the other hand, had an entirely different attitude. “It’s just a stuffed animal!”

“Don’t ever say things like that about Mr. Dufayel, especially to his furry red face!” Luna Girl gasped, even as she collected the things that they needed for their game. “He’s got amazing supernatural powers! Bad luck will come upon you if you’re rude to him!”

“Such as?” Mothsuki was not sold, when someone else appeared on the scene.

“Halt! Who goes there? Who dares to intrude upon my royal domain?” Pharaoh Boy, another one of the city’s villains, (Luna Girl and Mothsuki were a part of that group, though they were not very good villains, in fact), appeared on the scene.

“Eee!” Mothsuki went before turning back to her sister – and the stuffed red fox. “Big sister? Mr. Fox? Mothsuki is sorry for being rude – please take the creepy weirdo away!”

“Who are you calling a creepy weirdo?” Pharaoh Boy was not backing down, even as Khonshu, the falcon that he had acquired during the last chapter, joined them. “Explain, you peasant!”

Mothsuki, who was actually a princess of the moths, began to get angry now instead. “Sis,” Luna Girl, conversely, did not feel very confrontational at the moment. “How about we go to the park now instead?”

“Fine,” Mothsuki huffed, and teleported them to the park.

“…Right,” Pharaoh Boy, who was left behind, was not happy about this turn of events. “Khonshu,” he turned to the falcon, “Horus,” – to his magical staff, “we need to find ourselves some new minions slash friends…” he turned around and saw one of the museum’s statues. “Ok, this’ll do…”

Meanwhile…

“Well, this wasn’t fun,” Luna Girl huffed, rather angrily, to her younger sibling. “Mothsuki, I’m sorry, but, seriously, sometimes I miss the times when it was just us, the PJ Masks-“

“Hey there, Luna Girl and Mothsuki-!”

“-and sometimes I don’t,” the platinum-haired moon person finished in a huff. “And what do you want, PJ Masks? Can’t you see that Mothsuki and I just want to play by ourselves and not bother you for a change?”

There was an awkward pause.

“Sorry about that,” Cat Boy muttered, sounding genuinely hurt by Luna Girl’s retort. “It’s just that we had a slow night tonight, and when we saw the two of you we’d thought that we come over and say hi, and certainly not accuse of you of taking over the world, really!”

“…You know, we don’t really take over the world,” Luna Girl muttered, now relatively ashamed.

“Yes! That is more of Romeo’s thing,” Mothsuki nodded in agreement. “See? He’s just over there!”

There was another awkward pause.

“Yes, I’m over here, but I’m not trying to take over the world… that is, not at the moment,” the young mad scientist in question, who indeed was also in the park, but who wasn’t trying to attract attention to himself, (which was atypical for him, in fact). “I’m just upgrading Robot here, honest!”

“Why?” Owlette could not help but to ask.

“Because of your friend, the treacherous Pirate Robot!” Romeo shot back. “He has an exhaust pipe, you see, and Robot doesn’t, so now Robot wants one, so I have to upgrade him!”

“…Sorry about that,” Cat Boy muttered, “we didn’t mean to?”

“Ugh,” Romeo muttered. “If the three of you are quite finished-“

“He doesn’t mean to be rude,” Luna Girl began, but-

“Yes I do!”

“Ok, he does, but we… not so much,” Luna Girl did not back down. After exchanging a look with Mothsuki, she turned back to the three heroes. “Do you three want- never mind,” she shifted gears with a new facial expression. “Pharaoh Boy is here… and who’s that?”

There was a pause as everyone stared at the new arrivals. (The new-new arrivals). “Aha! You thought that you saw the last of me?” the nighttime bad guy in question proclaimed. “Well, you’re wrong!”

“Why are you with a minotaur?” Owlette blinked. “They’re Greek, not Egyptian!”

“They are?” Luna Girl called out for her position in the air. “But I thought that the Greek monsters had animal bodies and human heads, while Egyptian ones have it the other way around, hence it is also Egyptian?”

“…That’s a good point, actually, but our school teacher says that the Minotaur is Greek, not Egyptian regardless of how he looks,” Owlette didn’t back down.

“Ok, then why does Pharaoh Boy have him as his minion?”

“That I don’t know… Pharaoh Boy, why are you using the Minotaur as your minion?”

“Because he has a human body and an animal head, just like all of Egypt’s gods and monsters do,” the latter replied. “Now, Minotaur? Go and get the PJ Masks!”

The Minotaur shifted into a more animalistic pause and charged, headfirst. The PJ Masks, naturally, scattered, and the Minotaur’s charge brought him directly into Robot.

“Oh no you won’t!” the latter snapped, as he used his extendable limbs to get over the Minotaur and to grab him by the horns. “I will not be embarrassed by some Bronze Age golem!”

The Minotaur made some sort of a bellowing sound, (even though he was just a statue), and con-tinued to run, carrying Robot with him, (upon his back).

“On the other hand, master, help, help!” Robot called out.

“Oh, for someone’s sake!” Romeo groaned. “Luna Girl, I can’t believe that I’m saying this, but-“

“We got to help,” Owlette spoke before the other girl could. “We cannot leave a priceless museum statue just running around with Pharaoh Boy managing it.”

“True, the statue just might be the smarter one out of the three,” Luna Girl agreed. “Mothsuki, if you would!”

“Fine, but only because I’m actually enjoying this,” her younger sister muttered, as she teleported all six of them in the direction from which the crashing (and other) noises came.

Mr. Dufayel the stuffed red fox was left behind, having rolled away into some shrubs since Mothsuki and Luna Girl arrived in the park from the museum from the start. As moonlight continued to fall on it, the red fur and the skin of the animal began to crack…

Meanwhile…

“Oh good, master, you’re here. Help, help!” Robot called out from his position on the Minotaur’s back, as the mismatched duo continued to race, (well, the Minotaur continued to race – Robot continued just to sit on his back), right at the park’s fence, at a quite speed.

“Super cat stripes!” Cat Boy called out, as he used his powers to lasso the stone bull-man. “Whoa!”

“Super gecko muscles!” Gekko called out, as he grabbed Cat Boy, and even though they were now holding the statue together, the statue… dragged them.

“Right, charge me,” Luna Girl muttered to Mothsuki, who complied.

ZAP!

Luna Girl’s charged Luna magnet also lassoed the statue, slowing it now enough for Robot to be flung from it, forwards.

“Ouch!” Robot rolled and quickly recovered, due to his round shape. “This was embarrassing-“

“Robot!” Romeo snapped, (from his safe position way in the back). “Help!”

“I can see that,” Robot shot back, as he grabbed the Minotaur by the latter’s shoulders and shook him. “No, no, no! Rushing headfirst into fences brings only pain and repairs! No, no, no!”

The Minotaur stopped and said “Moo?” in a confused tone of voice.

“No, no, no!” Robot spoke, before catching himself. “Wait, you are listening to me? That is amazing! Almost no one has ever listened to me! Master, can we keep him?”

“No, because with him around the flying fortress won’t be able to fly as well as it has!” Romeo shot back. “We need to reconfigure it-“

“Great!”

“-and for now he goes back into the museum,” Romeo finished.

“Not so great, but because it is only temporary – ok,” Robot agreed.

“Ahem!” Pharaoh Boy proclaimed. “Have you forgotten about me and Khonshu?”

“No! Super Owl Wing Wind!” Owlette snapped and used that particular power on the villain in question, blowing him and his sidekick clearly and cleanly away from the park. Everyone else applauded – Pharaoh Boy was proving to be unpopular with both heroes and bad guys by now.

Owlette landed and bowed, being carried away a bit by the applause – and then she walked the Minotaur back to his museum home, just as everyone else did. And so, the PJ Masks have saved the day once more.

End

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Once upon a time, there was a trio of heroic PJ Masks, and one of them – namely, Gekko – had a pet. Actually, all of them had pets, but while Owly and Alley Cat were partially independent for several reasons, Gekko’s third best friend, (after his teammates), was his pet lizard named Lyonel. (There was also a cuddly toy, named Lyonel Jr., but it was Gekko’s only fourth best friend, after his teammates and Lyonel Sr., so let’s leave it at that).

…The point here is that Lyonel was a mostly indoor pet, Gekko slash Greg tended to take him out only under his supervision, and, admittedly, things did tend to happen to Lyonel whenever he came with his human friends to save the day – heroic things, and the day did get to be saved, (sometimes with his personal involvement), but, still, Greg slash Gekko tended to be worried… and for a good reason, such as now, when Lyonel decided to get away from his number one hu-man friend… just for a little while, and run around in the park on his own.

“Lyonel, Lyonel!” Gekko called-out, rather desperately, as he, Owlette and Cat Boy ran around the park, trying to find, well, Lyonel, but even three superheroes sometimes have a tough time discovering one little lizard who doesn’t want to be found…

“Chirp! Chirp!” (Hello, new friend!)

…On the other hand, another little lizard, this one reddish rather than greenish, and with bluish eyes, does not have this problem.

“Chirp! Chirp!” (Hello, new friend!) Lyonel said cheerfully. (Why are you standing on just two legs? It is exhausting in the end! On all fours is better!)

“Chirp! Chirp!” (I heard this argument before, new friend, but I actually find this way of move-ment better than on all fours instead!)

“Chirp! Chirp!” (You are weird), Lyonel muttered, (but…) “Chirp! Chirp!” (Do you have any other friends?)

“Chirp! Chirp!” (Yes I do), the other lizard said proudly. (We all came here, to this city, to start a new life, but I got separated from them, and)-

Vroom! Vroom! A new sound came through the park, followed by smell rather reminiscent of exhaust fuel and the like.

(Trouble), Lyonel’s new friend said quietly. (We must find a new place to hide while our friends find us).

Now, Lyonel was not the smartest animal hero in the city; that was more of Owly’s role… wait. “Chirp! Chirp!” (Let us go to Owly! She is much wiser than I am, she will know what to do!)

Lyonel’s new friend did not seem to be too convinced, but since he had no ideas of his own, the two lizards scurried off in the direction of Owly’s home tree…

“I don’t like it,” Cat Boy, meanwhile, was muttering to Owlette as the two of them were rushing to meet Gekko at the front gate of the park, as they still have not found his lizard.

“Me neither,” Owlette muttered. “Something is going on, and I’m cannot figure out what it is exactly. Gekko’s Lyonel goes missing, the mothies are all stirred up-“

“…I haven’t seen Luna Girl or her mothies in the park at all,” Cat Boy said quietly, as the PJ Masks’ relationship with Luna Girl and her mothies was complex still.

“…That’s because they weren’t, or still aren’t,” Owlette muttered back. “As I’ve used my owl vision to search for Lyonel, I saw a swarm of them flying way beyond the park. I did not know that there were so many, or that Luna Girl could control them. Actually, I have not seen Luna Girl with them-“

“Owlette, you’re babbling,” Cat Boy sighed. “Let me use my cat ears to see – ok, hear – if Luna Girl is anywhere near by, and if she’s got Lyonel- oof!”

The last part was caused by Cat Boy running into several people, none of whom was Gekko, fortunately – the green-clad hero was standing off to one side, next to Owlette.

“Carly? Cartyka?” the hero in question was surprised herself. “What are you doing here, outside of your dimension?”

“It’s a long story,” the twins, for a change, looked somewhat shaken themselves. “You haven’t seen a friend of ours, have you? His name is Tino, he looks like what you city kids call a lizard, and he is of a red color with blue eyes…”

“No, we haven’t found him yet, or Lyonel,” Gekko said, rather sadly. “Lyonel is my lizard-“

“We heard that it was your toy?”

“No, Lyonel Jr. is my cuddly. Lyonel is my pet,” Gekko replied, evenly enough. “Anyhow, I believe that your lizard’s name is Tino?”

“Tino isn’t a lizard,” Carly began hotly, when there was a sound of squealing tires, and a smell of exhaust gasses, and a trio of bikers came seemingly out of nowhere, stopping between the Speedy twins, (as well as the PJ Masks), and the Speedy twins’ own vehicle.

“Ah, there you two are,” the newcomers’ leader said, in a voice that was both somewhat feminine and somehow cold and metallic at the same time. “That’s enough trouble from you! Give us the lizard!”

“Tino isn’t a lizard!” / “And we aren’t giving him to you!” the Speedy twins shot back.

“Who’s here to stop us? There’s more of us, we’re bigger and stronger than you are,” the new-comers’ leader did not sound too impressed and neither did her allies. “Surrender the lizard and we’ll let you go to wherever you just want to zoom off!”

“No,” the Speedy twins glared at the older trio. “No deal. Go away.”

The speaker shrugged, a slow, deliberate movement. “Well, I tried, we’ll just get the lizard anyhow-“

“Hoot, hoot!”

It was Owly, Owlette’s owl friend, landing suddenly on her shoulder, startling everyone, even the PJs.

“And what is that?” the newcomers’ leader whispered.

“It’s Owlette… oh, you mean Owly,” Gekko explained, helpfully. “Owlette is our friend, Owly is her animal sidekick, and together we’re the PJ Masks!”

“That’s nice, we’ll take it,” the leader said, greed and hunger evident in her voice even to Gekko, (who could be somewhat naïve sometimes). “We’ll take it, and-“

THUMP!

There was a pause as everyone looked in that direction. Luna Girl had actually made an appearance this evening/night, and she had brought mothies with her. A lot of mothies, actually.

One of the mothies flew over to Owly and Owlette and landed on Owly. Then it began to squeak something to the bigger bird, while wiggling its’ antennas.

“Uh, what are you saying?” Owlette said awkwardly.

“That there’s an extra lizard?” Luna Girl suggested, somewhat helpfully. Everyone looked in the direction that the mothy was pointing at, and sure enough, there was Alley Cat, prancing around in front of two lizards, (one of which almost looked like a dinosaur).

“Lyonel!”/“Tino!” the Speedy twins, and Gekko, were off like a shot – three shots.

“That’s nice,” the newcomers’ leader began to speak, when Luna Girl interrupted her:

“So, where’s the mosquito?”

There was an awkward pause.

“What mosquito?” for once the newcomers’ leader sounded honestly confused.

“The one who drained you from all warmth and color,” Luna Girl sounded quite confident in her statement.

“Actually, it’s Hexus,” Cartyka spoke from his position, even as his twin hugged their lizard, (and Gekko – Lyonel). “It’s a living corporation that controls most of Zoomzania these days.”

“Um, I’ve heard that corporations were evil, soulless things,” Owlette spoke-up, sounding somewhat uncertain, (for her own reasons).

There was a pause.

“Yes, that does sound like Hexus,” both the twins and their new rivals agreed, awkwardly – apparently, that was not something that they were used to. “Still-“

There was a pause as the quintet realized that they could not, and should not, remain in sync.

THUMP!

“And of course it’s Romeo and the Night Ninja,” Cat Boy sighed. “What are you two up to?”

“Still upgrading the flying fortress…while I was just planning my latest heist, when we saw that the mothies are all worked-up and followed them,” the Night Ninja explained easily, before switching his attention to the newcomers. “Listen, I get you – stealing other people’s pets is right there in the bad guy handbook, but this time? For some reason you got Luna Girl’s mothies all worked up, and we would rather not have it, so why don’t you call it a night and leave, or the PJ Masks will take you down, as they do with all of the villains.”

“Totally,” Cat Boy said brightly.

“Guys, don’t waste your time on them,” Luna Girl’s voice, by contrast, was flat. “The mosquito has drained them all of warmth, color, and most of life – why, I bet, that there’s nothing under their helmets-!”

“Sure there is! There’s us!” this time, it was a different newcomer who spoke… and who opened their helmet, revealing a face not unlike that of the Speedy twins, (i.e. of the same race), before… “Whoa! Zina, Grigor, you have to check it out! The lights, the smells, the sounds, they are more amazing, unfiltered!”

“Say what?” the leader, Zina, blinked, just before her cohort opened wide the visors on her and their third member’s helmets.

There was a pause as the newcomers just sat down and stared at everyone in open fascination, more like that of little children than of teenagers, virtually ignoring everyone else.

“Um,” Luna Girl said, when the newcomers’ leader – who actually was a girl, just like Carly, for example – pressed some sort of a button on the wrist of her suit, and with a flash of oddly colored lights, the trio – and their rides – were gone.

“So, now what?” Gekko asked, even as Lyonel crawled around on him.

“Well, here’re the twins’ papers,” the Night Ninja shrugged, as he produced some paperwork and indeed handed them over to the twins.

“Great!” the Speedy twins grabbed them. “Thanks, Night Ninja and the guys! See you around!” They, and Tino, (Chirp! Chirp!), raced to their own vehicle and quickly vanished in the city’s streets.

“…What papers?” Owlette sternly asked the Night Ninja…but the latter had vanished himself, via one of his ninja tricks. The others… Romeo was leaving himself, while Luna Girl…

“This was fun,” she told Gekko and the rest of the PJ Masks as she was preparing to leave herself. Most of the mothies were gone already, leaving behind just the usual amount. “Only not. See you all around-“

“Luna, wait!” Owlette called out to the other girl.

“Hmm?” the other girl made a sound – a more polite sound than she usually did in regards to Owlette.

“What was this all about? Why did you get involved? And what was with the mothies?” Owlette pressed on.

“Those are… good questions. They are also… tied in with my origin story. I will tell it to you… just not tonight. Please?” Luna Girl said quietly.

“Ok! Want to play with Lyonel instead?” Gekko asked, sounding like his usual cheerful self now that he and his lizard friend were together again.

There was a pause.

“I don’t know how… and it’s morning soon enough… another time,” Luna Girl muttered, before flying off.

“Well, this was awkward. Now what?” Cat Boy suggested.

“We go home and recuperate ourselves,” Owlette suggested. She wanted to suggest that they have saved the day, but something inside of her suggested that that was not necessarily so.

In addition, she was actually right, but that was a different story.

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, there was a hero in the city, named Armadylan, and he was busy chasing Luna moths. He had a butterfly net and everything, and a lot of strength, but what he hadn’t had a lot of was attention, and so he failed to see where he was going, and stumbled onto a stump, and lost his footing, and fell with a thump – just kidding: he instinctively turned himself into a ball and rolled forth – right into a tree.

“Ouch!”

The tree in question was a thick and robust oak tree and so it endured Armadylan smashed into it, no problem. Armadylan also was able to endure smashing into it without any problems either.

“Ouch,” he repeated himself, rubbing his sore head. “That was rather embarrassing. Good thing no one was there to see this…”

He looked around. Indeed, there was not any to see his latest misadventure, not even the moths – the latter had flown up and away onto some sort of a cloud construct, more reminiscent of Luna Girl than of Romeo, and some really tasty smells were coming from up there…

“Something sure smells good up there,” Armadylan told, well, himself – both because he liked the sound of his own voice and because speaking aloud actually helped him to think. (The bump on the head did not help either). “How could I get up there and check it out, though?” He looked around once more, but there was not anyone around still, save for some fluttering moths, (of the mundane variety).

“That’s it! Eureka!” Armadylan told himself brightly. “I’ll fly up there!” He… abruptly grabbed a couple of really big leaves, strapped them onto his hands and arms, and began to jump up and down, trying to lift off, but succeeding in looking ridiculous instead.

“And just what are you doing?” Night Ninja, one of the city’s primary nighttime villains, asked the armored hero, while being flanked by his Ninjalinos.

“Trying to make a homage to Justin Bieber,” Armadylan snapped back – he and Night Ninja had a history, and not of a friendly variety. “What does it look like? I’m trying to fly up to see what smells so good up there?”

“Hm?” Night Ninja seemed to realize that something did smell good in the sky for the first time. “Right. This is a good goal, actually, I and my Ninjalinos will help you!”

“How?” Armadylan was not convinced, but instead of verbally replying, Night Ninja and his Ninjalinos raced back to their Hidden Temple, and then over to Armadylan once again, this time carrying a nice springy bed with them.

“Here!” Night Ninja said brightly, as they wheeled over the piece of furniture in question over to Armadylan. “Use this as a starting point! See how bouncy it is?”

“Yes!” Armadylan replied cheerfully, as he jumped onto the bed, and then began to jump up and down on it, rather than the original stump, while trying to keep himself in the air. This state of affairs went about as well as you would expect it to – after one particularly high jump Armadylan lost equilibrium, landed down onto the bed especially hard, causing it to explode, and to launch him into the air at an angle – at just the right angle to smash into Romeo’s lab, (the terrestrial ver-sion with wheels one).

CRASH!

“My lab!” Romeo wailed as his ride actually toppled onto one side. “How will I stop the PJ Masks and take over the world now?”

“I’m really against this goal – both of them, for the matter,” Armadylan said ponderously, “but since I didn’t mean to do this, here you go, little not-buddy!” In addition, he righted the downed lab in no time with his sheer strength.

Romeo muttered a reluctant ‘Thanks’ under his breath and drove off.

“Now what?” Armadylan asked Night Ninja.

“We need to launch you into the air in a different way,” Night Ninja told the bigger boy with an enigmatic look upon his face. “To the playground, my Armadylan friend!”

“Since when we were friends?” Armadylan muttered, but followed Night Ninja and the Ninjalinos over there regardless, leaving Romeo free and unsupervised to set-up his ambush for the PJ Masks… in theory. In reality, Night Ninja and his crew set Armadylan up on a swing. Once he swung, twice, on the third time Night Ninja shouted very loudly: “Launch yourself!” – and Armadylan did. Like a bird, he flew through the air – nowhere high enough to reach the source of the yummy smells – and slammed into Romeo’s mobile lab once more, causing it to buck up straight into the air this time.

“My lab!” Romeo wailed once more. “What have you done, you armored oaf?”

“Nothing,” Armadylan shrugged, as he righted Romeo’s lab for the second time. “Night Ninja, now what?”

‘Now’, apparently, was Armadylan bike himself downhill really fast, while flapping his impromptu wings; intentionally or accidentally, the path in question was hilly and bumpy, and at Armadylan’s speed he got launched into the air again, and fell… actually, he fell in front of Romeo’s lab, right in the line of fire.

“Now you’ll pay!” Romeo laughed, (for did you really expect him to be grateful to Armadylan after everything?), when the bike that Armadylan was riding previously, had also fallen – right onto Romeo’s lab, damaging his device.

“No!” Romeo’s shout seemed to shake the entire city, (it had not). “My fishinator!”

“…You know, Armadylan, I’m struggling really hard to teach you to fly,” Night Ninja told the big hero, even as he led Armadylan away from Romeo, “and here you are, constantly falling instead!”

“So what do we do now?”

“Well…”

‘Now’, apparently, consisted of a catapult. With a “One-two-launch!” Night Ninja launched Armadylan into the night sky… and Armadylan fell… right next to Romeo’s lab.

“Hey, you fixed the bike! Thanks, little not-buddy!” Armadylan hugged the mad inventor in question, (causing the latter to change colors in a completely mundane manner), just as Night Ninja arrived as well.

“No, this didn’t work either,” the latter admitted to both Romeo and Armadylan. “Back to the playground, big guy!”

…This time, when they arrived at the playground, Night Ninja led Armadylan to the seesaw instead, where Orticia was waiting for them, alongside a really huge pumpkin, (of the non-sentient variety, of course).

“Ready?” Night Ninja asked Armadylan, as the latter climbed onto the downed end of the seesaw. “Launch the pumpkin!”

In addition, Armadylan did. The launched pumpkin landed onto the raised end of the seesaw, slamming it down and launching him up – straight up! “Wow, it worked!” Night Ninja muttered to Orticia as he climbed onto the pumpkin. “I can’t believe that it did!”

“Me neither,” Orticia joined Night Ninja on the pumpkin, just as Armadylan crashed down – straight down. This time, the pumpkin, Night Ninja and Orticia were the ones launched – and they flew in an arc, landing between Romeo and the actually ambushed PJ Masks, who were about to be zapped by Romeo… but Romeo zapped the giant pumpkin instead, causing it to explode all over the place.

“Clearly, something has gone wrong this time,” Night Ninja commented to Orticia as Romeo just stood there, on top of his land lab, on the verge of just breaking down into a sobbing mess, literally. “We need to make readjustments...”

“While we’re grateful for your help, but what are you doing?” Owlette asked, as she helped Ro-meo descend from the lab – clearly, the young inventor was in no right mental state to do that by himself.

“Oh, they’re teaching Armadylan to fly,” Luna Girl commented, as she descended from her spot in the sky with her entourage. “I don’t suppose your people would like to try our moonjam? We got both berries’ and banana versions.”

“The banana version was my idea,” Munki-Gu said proudly, before making big eyes. “Please?”

There was a pause as everyone else, including Armadylan, who had finally arrived on the scene, just looked at Owlette of all people for some reason. “Fine,” she relented, “but as for Armadylan-“

“Oh, you want to fly?” he asked the bigger boy, sounding more like his regular self now.

“Yes! It is his dream!” Night Ninja answered before Armadylan himself actually could.

“No problem,” Romeo raced into his lab before re-emerging with a modified version of his jet-pack, adjusted for Armadylan’s bigger bulk. “Here, put it on!”

Armadylan did, Romeo pushed a button on the jetpack, and Armadylan flew off. “Yes!” he cried happily, as he actually executed some quite complex maneuvers in the sky. “My dream has come true!”

“It really has, hasn’t it?” Luna Girl muttered, as she and the others ate their moonjam with toast, (of the regular variety). “Who knew?”

“Not me,” Owlette muttered crossly, as she began to suspect that now her flying was going to become more risky, given that Armadylan has finally reached the sky. “Does Octabella know about this?”

“Does Octabella know about what?” Octabella asked, speaking of herself in the third person. “Where’s Armadylan-?”

Armadylan chose this moment to swoop down and pick her up. “Eeee!” went Octabella and sprayed ink everywhere, (don’t ask where it came from, she won’t tell), including onto Armadylan, causing the latter to lose control and to start careening all over the sky, while still carrying Octabella, (who had actually latched onto him and wouldn’t let go – she never cared much for the sky, you know?).

Romeo’s eyelids began to twitch. So did Owlette’s, as neither really cared about getting Armadylan and Octabella from the sky, and they were the most qualified ones… “Wait. Luna Girl,” Owlette tried to make an especially adorable face. “Could you go and get them-“

“I’ll get them!” Newton Starr called out as he flew into the sky, (and he could fly on his own power, actually, unlike most of the other heroes and villains of the city), and went onto getting Armadylan and Octabella under control.

“My knight!” Mothsuki said excitedly. “Eeee!”

“…Where did he come from?” Gekko blinked.

“He was hiding in the bushes, playing board games with daddy while we were making moonjam with mommy,” Luna Girl shrugged. “Come on, did you really think that we would cook anything without adult supervision?”

“No,” everyone agreed. “And it is actually quite tasty!”

And so it was, and everyone, (even Armadylan, Octabella, and Newton), ate it with toast and tea, and enjoyed it, and so the day slash night was saved once again, both by the PJ Masks and their friends.

End

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, the Speedy twins were able to capture Luna Girl at last and were wondering what to do next, when their stomachs growled in unison.

“Oh, look, you are hungry,” Romeo commented as he drove by. “Not a problem, I am hungry too-“

“What is hunger, this local phenomenon?” The Speedy twins asked. “There’s no hunger in Zoomzania!”

“Of course not,” Romeo muttered as all of their stomachs rumbled together. “You don’t want my help, then?”

The Speedy twins opened their mouths. Romeo glared at them in a certain way.

“Fine,” the twins folded first. “What do we do?”

“Well-“ Romeo didn’t call them minions just in time, because they weren’t, really. “I got a list right here, so go and execute it!”

“We’re on it,” the Speedy twins replied brightly and zoomed off.

“…Night Ninja doesn’t want to share with you either,” Luna Girl asked cheerfully the other villain.

“I am not freeing you either,” Romeo looked away. Luna Girl said nothing.

Meanwhile, the Speedy twins found the first item - carrots. Orticia was in possession of them. With nary a hesitation, the twins zoomed in, substituting the carrots - Orticia was making a collage with them - with pine cones. Orticia was not amused and gave chase.

Potatoes were next. Armadylan was bringing them to his own place, when he came across a log in the road. “This is not right,” he told no one in particular and removed the log from the road. Needless to say, once he turned back to his bucket of tubers, they were gone, but Armadylan could see Orticia running in the distance, so instinctively he followed her…

At the same time, the Speedy twins found the wolfies. Kevin was nibbling on a bone, Rip was using a sliced beet for makeup,(don’t ask), and Howler was braving himself to bite into a whole cabbage, because he lost a bet with his siblings - in short, a typical downtime situation for the wolfies - and then twins arrived. Using their speed, they substituted Howler’s cabbage with a ball. Howler didn’t like it. They replaced Rip’s beet with an apple. Rip liked this even less. And they went after Kevin’s bone… but by then Kevin was onto them, and was able to chase them away - before pursuing the twins himself, alongside his siblings and other people, but the twins had a big lead because of their superior speed, and so they arrived at Romeo’s first…

“What, no meat?” Romeo was not too happy with them, however.

“We got everything else-“

“No, this won’t do,” Romeo proclaimed in that annoying manner of his. “I am off to see the Night Ninja after all - wait for me and don’t touch anything,” and he left, ignoring the increasing commotion in the distance. (He was that arrogant after all).

The Speedy twins looked around and saw Luna Girl, who was still restrained. “Oy, you two,” she spoke in a manner not unlike Romeo’s. “You see the invention of Romeo over here? The one that looks like a mix between a Bunsen burner and a stove?”

“Yes?” The twins replied carefully.

“Put your prizes into a pot of water and turn it on!” Luna Girl proclaimed so bossily that the twins complied. The resulting explosion sent all three of them over to Night Ninja, who was busy arguing with Romeo about something or other before the twins landed on them and Luna Girl landed next to Night Ninja’s stove instead. (She had more experience in this sort of thing due to her defeats by the PJ Masks - but that is another story). In this story, she took a sip of the soup, clearly felt much better and fled with it on her Lunar board. The twins, Romeo, and Ninja chased her immediately, before smashing into their own pursuers, (remember them?). In the resulting commotion, Luna Girl made a clean getaway…

“Here you go,” she told An Yu of all people as the other girl looked back at her, clearly ill. “One pot of Night Ninja’s medical and filling soup here and now!”

“Thanks,” the other girl said warily while the rest of the Power Heroes looked on as she took a sip, and immediately felt better. “Wow! This is medical and filling! Where’s Night Ninja, though?”

Luna Girl pointed to the spot in the city, where Night Ninja and the rest of people involved were having a very loud and miserable shout down.

“Why is Armadylan with them?” Owlette muttered crossly, as she and Luna Girl still didn’t get along.

“I don’t know- didn’t you invite him here?” The other girl didn’t back down.

“…oops. This one on us,” Owlette admitted . “Still, you should return the rest of the soup-“

“Aw,” said Gekko and Newton, as they already had the silverware out - they were that hungry. The space HQ didn’t have much food, apparently.

The girls rolled their eyes and using a dipper gave everyone present some soup. Then Mothsuki teleported the rest of the soup down to Earth, to Night Ninja and co., who also enjoyed it, but that is another story.

End

Chapter Text

Once upon a night, when Cat Boy was trying to figure out as to how to handle Bastet, he noticed that Luna Girl and Mothsuki were establishing some sort of a platform upon a tree that grew close to the city’s waterline.

“And what are you doing?” he asked, trying to keep the chapter rolling.

“Eh, it’s a special moon tonight,” Luna Girl shrugged, as they put the platform together, while not falling into water. “I and Mothsuki are going to watch it as a sibling bonding activity-“

“Shouldn’t your parents supervise?”

“They’re over there,” Mothsuki jerked a wing in a direction; Cat Boy looked there, and sure enough, there was something – two somethings, one bigger than the other – sitting on a rooftop.

“Um,” he said brightly.

“Daddy is a Jabberwock, and mommy is a yokai,” Mothsuki said helpfully. “Big sister Luna is the only one in the family without wings-“

“Yes, well, I still got my Luna board,” the nighttime bad person in question shot back. “Anyhow-“

“So, this is where your friends hang out?” a new voice asked. The others looked in that direction, and sure enough, there were Lillyfay and Newton, hovering in mid-air.

“Oh, it’s you,” Mothsuki said flatly, even as Luna Girl carefully said nothing. “What do you want? Can’t you go and harass Pharaoh Boy and Octobella on their not-a-date instead?”

“We’re not harassing anyone,” Lillyfay spoke in a more defensive tone than normally. “We’re just trying to be heroes!”

“Um, yeah,” Newton nodded, eyeing the grownups in the distance himself. “We are. Is there anyone who is doing something bad tonight?”

The bushes rustled, and out peeked Night Ninja. “Hey! Luna Girl!” he called out, causing the latter to twitch. “Can you talk to Romeo, please? I think he is going to go nuclear tonight!”

“Am not!” the boy in question shot back, even as he sat in the cockpit of… an unholy combination of a fighter jet and a tank. “I promised that I won’t take over the world and defeat the PJ Masks with a nuclear bomb, remember? This is just a transmogrificator; it transmogrifies things, nothing more!”

“What kind of things?” Luna Girl did not sound too convinced.

“Well, it transforms sand into water, and water into sand, for example,” Romeo demonstrated even as he spoke, “so now I’m going to zap the space girl in white and see what happens to her-“

“Eeep!” went Lillyfay, (who had not been prepared to face Romeo at his most imaginative tonight), and flew away as hard as she could. Romeo, naturally, laughed maniacally and gave chase in his metal monstrosity.

Newton, surprisingly, did not join in, but rather sat down not far from Luna Girl and Mothsuki instead.

“Are you ok?” they asked him, since it was obvious that Lillyfay was rather outmatched in this face-off.

“No,” Newton admitted. “I like Lillyfay; I really do; but seem to be thinking on different brain lengths or something. For example, for tonight, I just wanted to enjoy the moon and everything, and all she wanted was go and look for trouble-“

“Well, she found it, and they’re coming here,” Luna Girl snapped, as this was indeed what was happening – Lillyfay made a loop and was flying back to Newton, while Romeo was chasing her and preparing to fire at her – and all of them were in his line of fire, and when did Romeo care about things like that?

In fact, he did not, for he discharged his latest war machine at all of them – but that was not a problem, as Newton blocked the blast with his own power. Romeo increased the output. Luna Girl and Mothsuki looked at each other, sighed, and began to help Newton with their own beams. The two forces began to balance each other out. Lillyfay recovered her wits (and her strength) and joined in. Now Romeo’s latest war machine blew up for real.

“Well, this was fun,” Lillyfay spoke with some of her usual brightness as the cloud of soot and smoke dispersed.

“Glad that you feel this way,” Newton replied as he sat back down. “And now that we’ve defeated Romeo for the night, I’m going to stay here and enjoy the moon sight.”

“What moon sight?” Romeo called out from down below. The others looked in that direction, and sure enough, there was the boy genius, sitting on top of Cat Boy, who had broken his fall (without intending to).

“Get off!” he told Romeo instead.

“Eh, we saw Bastet as we were flying over the city. Her father is visiting her and her mum, so she’s hanging around them for tonight, most likely,” Romeo responded.

“Oh, ok,” Cat Boy abruptly stopped trying to shove Romeo off him.

There was an awkward pause. The giggles made by Night Ninja and the Ninjalinos, (still hiding for safety in the bushes), did not help the situation either.

“Anyways,” Luna Girl said brightly, doing her best to ignore the mess, “the moon has risen, and so has everything else. Mothsuki, see the amber-green light over there, for example? It’s planet Jupiter!”

“Cool!” Mothsuki said brightly, while eying Lillyfay in an odd manner.

“You’ve been there before?” the other girl decided to join the discussion, (apparently, she was not good with social interactions).

“No,” Luna Girl said flatly. “Recently, Mothsuki took me on a dare to Mars, and we almost got stranded there because she got that exhausted – so no. We are not going to Jupiter any time soon. You crazy kids will have to do it by yourselves.”

“Anyways,” Newton spoke-up quickly, “over there is the Dog star Sirius instead, and it is glowing with a blue-white hot light, see?”

“Totally!” Lillyfay said cheerfully. “It is one of my favorite stars, I’ll visit it someday! You want to come?” she asked Newton.

“Uh, moving on,” the latter replied instead, “we got the Aldebaran, and it’s ruby-red-“

“Here is the constellation of Orion, sparkling like diamonds-“

“-And there’s the constellation of Argo, looking rather silvery,” Lillyfay finished. “I know my way around the sky, you know, so can I be in your astronomy club?”

There was an awkward pause. “There’s no club,” Luna Girl did not back down. “There’s me, sometimes doing astronomy, because unlike Romeo, I can’t harass the PJ Masks and friends every night – it’s not how I roll… plus, I’m a moon person, so it’s a part of me. There is Mothsuki, who hangs around me, because we are sisters and are trying to work it out. And finally, there’s Newton, who sometimes also hangs out with us because while he likes being a hero, he also likes being a space explorer even more-“

“That’s a bit harsh, but fundamentally true,” Newton muttered. “Lillyfay, I like you and I know that you like being a hero more than a space explorer, but I think that we’re doing about it in different ways-“

“Yes, but so what? Friends can still have disagreements, do things differently, and stay friends!” Lillyfay said brightly. “Right?” she turned to others for support. Surprisingly, she got it:

“Sure!” Romeo, Luna Girl and Night Ninja called out. “Totally! Just look at us!”

There was an awkward pause, which was broken, fortunately, by the rest of the PJ Masks arriving on the scene.

“What is going on?” Owlette asked no one in particular, but Romeo answered anyhow:

“Eh, Cat Boy here decided that he likes me better than Bastet!”

“No I don’t!” Cat Boy immediately shouted, pushing Romeo off him at last. “I really don’t!”

“You really don’t what?” the person in question popped-up from the bushes. “What is going on here?”

“Weren’t you having a family night?” Mothsuki asked instead.

“Yes, dad has in fact come to town to bond with me and mom and that is great,” Bastet replied promptly, looking actually rather happy. “But,” she added less happily, “some of mom’s new friends wanted to meet him as well, and it turned into a grown-up party, and so, here I am, instead. What is going on here?”

“It’s a slow night, so Newton is using the Space HQ to take us to Jupiter,” Luna Girl said brightly. “Want to join?”

“Sure! I’ve never been to Jupiter before!” Bastet said excitedly, before switching back to Cat Boy. “Can I go? Please?”

There was a pause as the PJ Masks just looked at each other – and then everyone involved did go onto a tour of Jupiter because it was a slow night – but that was another story.

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, Newton Star – who was a fledgling hero and a more seasoned space explorer – woke up. True, under normal circumstances this would be quite a mundane event, but in this case, he woke up in their space HQ… that still was rather mundane by the standards of the PJ Masks and their friends, new and old, but this time, something felt off.

Newton was less prone to panicking than how he came off, so instead of running around like a headless chicken of some sort, he began to methodically run a system scan to see what was going on wrong exactly? In reply, he got a report that had nothing wrong per se, but Newton did realize that he was on his own in the Space HQ, and there was no activity down in the city, not even from the wolvies, (don’t ask).

“Hm,” Newton began to think, when he noticed two things: one was that the PJ Robot was still around, but was moving much more slowly than how he usually did, and two was that there was some movement down in the city, and it looked somewhat familiar.

“Right, it’s Armadylan,” Newton told himself, (he did do this sort of thing sometimes, when the PJ Masks weren’t around, though he tried to squash it – talking to himself was kind of ridiculous), and flew down to the city to talk to the bigger boy if the latter had noticed something wrong going on.

In fact, Armadylan did – in a matter of speaking. “It’s dead tonight,” he told Newton, obviously happy to talk to someone else, (even though the two boys did not always get along). “Not literally, like, but everyone and everything appears to be absent or lying in cover really well. Any news from space?”

“No,” Newton muttered back absent-mindedly, as he looked at one of the builings. “Is it just me, or does everything around here look kind of dusty?”

“Hard to say,” Armadylan shrugged. “See, it does look dusty, but,” he swiped at a building, “there’s no dust on hands, so no?” he sounded as if he was asking rather than telling, but Newton didn’t call Armadylan out on this…

“So, where are you going, if no one’s out?” he asked his own question instead.

“To talk to the Pagoda Girl – An Yu,” Armadylan admitted, (not sounding very happy). “Maybe she’ll know what is going on?”

“Sounds like a plan,” Newton agreed happily, (since he had not seen any traces of the PJ Masks or their usual foes all night long). “Let’s go!”

And so they went together.

Once they arrived at their designated area – an apparently blind alley – Newton frowned even more: “Is it just me, or is this dust getting shinier?”

“Yes, and stickier,” Armadylan agreed, sounding worried himself now. “Looks more like a glaze than dust, eh?”

“Maybe,” Newton agreed as the duo looked around the alley. “Right, how did Cat Boy and friends show this to me-“

Armadylan shrugged and did it first. “Right, I knew that,” Newton muttered, as he flew through the now-opened portal, with the other hero following suit. “Ah-“

There was actually a good reason as to why the duo paused: normally, the Mystery Mountain had two default settings: serene and not. Right now, though, it had a third look – kind of faded, in a sickly sort of way.

“This isn’t right – I don’t know what is wrong precisely, but something clearly is,” Armadylan muttered to himself and to Newton as the duo went upwards. “I hope that the pagoda girl – An Yu – is ok.”

She was not. Instead, she was slumped outside her pagoda, asleep in a feverish way. “Right,” Newton picked her up and looked around. “We need to get her to the PJ Masks-“

“Where are they anyhow?” Armadylan interrupted him. “Not in space or they would’ve come with you-“

“Maybe they’re at their old HQ?” Newton suggested weakly. “They still visit it, especially Owlette-“

“So, let’s go!” Armadylan said brightly. “But since I’ll be rolling, you carry An Yu!”

“Joy,” Newton muttered half-heartedly, but complied. In addition, it was the right choice too, in a manner of speaking, as slightly more than halfway to the PJ Masks’ old totem HQ Armadylan abruptly stopped.

“Now what’s wrong?” Newton snapped as he stopped too, almost dropping the still-asleep An Yu onto the other hero.

“Feel the ground – this glaze is everywhere now!” Armadylan shot back.

“What?” Newton blinked, as he landed next to Armadylan. “Just… whoa! This really doesn’t feel right!”

And it did not. Rather, it felt as everything beneath their feet was being covered in a layer of varnish… of hot, transparent varnish… that was beginning to twitch like some sort of an animated ooze instead…

“Run!” Armadylan yelled really loudly as he thrust An Yu back to Newton, and the duo/trio was off...

“Wait! Where are we going now?” Newton asked the other boy as they stopped… in a completely different part of the city, (not that Newton was around much – he was a space explorer, not a city explorer, there were differences).

“Well,” Armadylan made a sweeping gesture with his arms, indicating a… rather lovely little square with plenty of trees and a working fountain, but nothing else, not even dust slash glaze. “Uh. They’re supposed to be here.”

“Who? And where ‘here’ is?” Newton was going to be captain Obvious here regardless.

“Uh,” before Armadylan could reply, there was a flash of light, a clap of thunder, and abruptly there was a new building present – or maybe several. I.e., whereas the PJ Masks’ old HQ was shaped like a totem pole of three entities, owl, cat and lizard, connected seamlessly with each other, this building was more like an old-fashioned temple, an inventor’s workshop, and a tall stargazing tower smashed together, (and not pleased with that either).

“Hah,” Newton began, but before he could continue, the central doors opened and out came the city’s three main (preteen) villains, flanked by Mothsuki on one hand, and by some strange blonde girl dressed in Stone Age type of clothing on the other.

“What is going on?” Romeo asked.

Armadylan and Newton thrust An Yu forwards. “Help?” they suggested (from a lack of better ideas).

The new girl looked at An Yu, gasped, and let out a stream of words that neither hero understood… but Luna Girl, (and Mothsuki), apparently did, as she helped the new girl carry An Yu back inside.

“…What’s going on?” Armadylan and Newton proclaimed… just as Romeo and Night Ninja did.

“Romeo’s stupid time machine caused us to get stuck in the Stone Age,” Mothsuki broke the awkward silence. “Fortunately, Jonayla helped, even if she’s more of a hero than a villain. You?”

Newton and Armadylan exchanged looks and told an abbreviated version of their night (mis)-adventures.

“Hm. Animated dust slash glaze? I’ve never seen it here before… and I don’t see it now,” Romeo muttered as he pulled out some sort of a looking glass and looked around. “No, same as usual, including the PJ Masks-“

“Where?” the others asked, (unconsciously coordinated, again).

“Here,” the heroes in question proclaimed as they arrived on the scene. “What is going on?”

“Newton went looking for you – were you at your old HQ?” Armadylan asked brightly.

“No, we were at the lake shore, having something of an impromptu meeting,” Gekko admitted. “Why? What’d we miss?”

“Oh, that’s the place where Romeo goes during his downtime, sometimes,” Mothsuki said slowly, thoughtfully. “You weren’t feeling sad, were you?”

“Mmm,” Owlette said noncommittally. “More like worried about the future, overall. You all are aware that we’ll be going to a school in a year or so, right?”

“…You’re not thinking of quitting, are you?” Mothsuki gasped. “Because that would be bad! You are the PJ Masks, our city’s prime heroes! Without you, the city would die, and all of its’ wonders and miracles would fade away! There would not be any fun and laughter in the streets! There would be nothing left!”

…The monologue sounded rather ridiculous, but Mothsuki looked anything but as she said it; instead, she looked atypically small and vulnerable, so no one laughed, (not even Romeo).

“Of course not,” Gekko said quickly, (and if he gave Owlette a little kick in the behind, no one commented). “We were just… we are just feeling overwhelmed sometimes by all of our new and old friends…”

“Yeah, we’ve been there, done that,” Luna Girl commented, as she and An Yu returned to the scene, “and look, everyone, it’s almost morning! Time for all of us to get home!” Her tone was light, but her eyes were almost appearing to be glowing, and not in a normal way.

“Point,” Newton agreed quickly, before adding: “Hey, where did the blonde girl go? And An Yu, how are you?”

“I’m fine, and the healer – her name is Jonayla, and she lives here – just in the Stone Age,” An Yu promptly replied.

“So, we met an actual Stone Age person? Cool!” Armadylan proclaimed, and so the day was saved, due to… a decision of the PJ Masks, but that is another story.

Chapter Text

…The buildings refused to come down. “Any ideas on how to do it?” Bastet, Owlette and Cat Boy looked at each other. “How did Luna Girl got them in the air, anyhow?”

“She used my solar disk to power her – Luna magnet?” Bastet half-answered, half-suggested. “Maybe she has an idea, even if I hate to ask her. She seems to be so unpredictable or something!”

“That she is,” Cat Boy agreed, “but Gekko and I can usually get to her, so let’s go and talk!”

“Talk where? She can be anywhere by now,” Owlette said crossly – Luna Girl’s unpredictability rubbed her wrong too, (most of the time).

“Actually, I think she’s down there – let’s go and get her… I mean talk to her,” Bastet said brightly, and so, down they went.

…To their surprise, Luna Girl did not try to bargain, barter, or anything along those lines, when they have confronted her once again.

“Oh fine,” she said grouchily enough, “I’ll try to help you to get the buildings back down – first because daddy and mommy would be upset, and second because I’ll be late otherwise.”

“Late where to?” Cat Boy could not help but ask, even as Luna Girl and Bastet combined their solar disk and Luna magnet to bring the buildings back down.

“To the old totem pole,” Luna Girl replied promptly. “Octobella, Pharaoh Boy, and their posse are claiming the lower two tiers, but I – and Mothsuki – are keeping the top one. We had some good times there together,” she told Owlette, who blinked.

“Our old HQ?” she asked, even as she and Cat Boy shared a look. “But why? There is nothing there-“

“There are memories, they’re something,” Luna Girl did not back down. “Octobella won’t admit it, but that’s why she got involved too. Pharaoh Boy, however, would rather like a permanent base here in daytime, and so would his vizier…”

“Who? Never mind,” Owlette shook her head. “We-“

“Need to talk to Gekko,” Cat Boy finished. “When are you going to do this?”

“Moving in? Tomorrow night, now,” Luna Girl replied, eying him oddly. “Why? You care?”

“Yes,” Owlette replied curtly. “We do. See you tomorrow!”

And tomorrow morning, the trio of PJ Masks met, for they had something of an unfinished business…at least as far as the three of them were concerned.

“All I’m saying is that we can’t just abandon our HQ,” Greg, aka Gekko, was telling his cohorts. “We have had so many memories in it!”

“True,” Connor, (or Cat Boy), nodded in agreement. “We may’ve put everything important into the new HQ, but the old one? It doesn’t feel right!”

“…Didn’t we have this argument recently?” Amaya, (or Owlette), the third member of trio, suddenly changed the topic. “When we kind of blinked out, and An Yu got sort of sick?”

“…Yes, yes we did,” Connor blinked. “And then we snapped out of it, somehow… hey, are those Luna Girl’s mothies heading towards our old HQ?!”

Therefore, the three heroes raced off into the night, to save the day… hopefully, for upon arriving at the scene, they found not just Luna Girl, (and Mothsuki), which would’ve been a handful already, but quite a few other people.

“What is going on here?” Owlette asked sternly, trying to control the situation, (with a doubtful success, though).

“Oh, we’re moving in,” Luna Girl said brightly. “This is the city of doors, remember – no building gets abandoned and neglected for too long!”

“Our old HQ isn’t too neglected,” Cat Boy said weakly, “is it?”

“Eh, it’s in medium range,” spoke someone else, judging by the facial reactions of the other nighttime villains, the speaker was not too popular with them already, and the PJ Masks could probably guess why.

“Who is that?” Gekko proclaimed, as he and his friends beheld a combination of a cockroach/grasshopper and a teenager.

“This is Khepri, son of Khepri, grandson of Khepri, and so on,” Armadylan, of all people, commented from his own vantage point. “He’s Pharaoh Boy’s vizier, apparently.”

“Absolutely,” commented Octobella, as she and Pharaoh Boy finally joined the rest of the crowd. “And his female cohort’s name is Calisto!”

“And what are you doing here?” Cat Boy sighed, suspecting that he and the others already knew the answer.

“I’m taking over Gekko’s old spot ‘cause it got all of the water,” Octobella continued nonchalantly, “Luna Girl’s going for the top, since it holds good memories of her and Owlette, and… the grand vizier and his entourage gets the middle floor,” she added with a noticeable distaste; judging by the expression on the ‘grand vizier’s’ face, it was reciprocated.

“Just ignore them,” Calisto said brightly. “For a while, this was a guy-only party, and now that Octobella and I are in, some adjustment needs to be made-“

“Where’d you come from?” Owlette asked.

“…From the Summer Lands,” the wasp-girl replied easily enough.

“Isaac Newton thinks that it is the planet Venus,” Luna Girl added, helpfully. “Anyways, the gang is almost all here, can we move in already?”

“Mwa-ha-ha-ha! Of course not!” Romeo shouted out, unexpectedly.

There was a pause as everybody else stared at him, approaching from the moat, flanked by a robot version of a giant Raid™ spray can.

“Just ignore him,” Luna Girl said wearily. “He and Khepri here never got along. Back when you arrived in our city and set-up shop – here,” she pointed at the totem pole, “I, he and Ninja also tried to get our act together. It did not really work back then, and in addition, Khepri heard about us and tried to muscle in. It did not work either and since then Romeo in particular has trouble in making a stationary HQ, since Khepri’s roach minions would infest it sooner than later…”

“That was a long time ago,” Cat Boy said thoughtfully, “so why haven’t he made his appearance since ever?”

“Because he’s my eternal rival!” Armadylan said brightly, “though Romeo, my little non-buddy, has also tried his hand at defeating him, regularly.”

“Yes! And tonight is my latest attempt!” Romeo said equally brightly, as he pointed to his latest unholy creation. “Prepare to perish, both of you!”

“Romeo,” Luna Girl said wearily, “we’ve talked about this, remember? No pesticides in the cities, as the mothies hate them.”

“This time, I don’t care, Mothball-!”

“Plus, you’re missing the full picture, again,” Luna Girl snapped. “The big guy!”

“Him?” Romeo glared at Armadylan. “I’m not his non-buddy, little or not-!”

“Aw, but no. Him,” Armadylan pointed at… a really big praying mantis, which was smaller than InGen’s T-Rex, true, but probably slightly taller than the park’s trees, and which was observing silently all of the proceedings.

“This is my grand vizier’s steed,” Pharaoh Boy said cheerfully, “just as Khonshu is ours,” he pointed at the falcon ghost that had appeared a few chapters in before in this story continuum. “See?”

There was an awkward pause that no one knew how to break, for the Pharaoh Boy was not the most popular nighttime villain here at all, and the fact that he had recovered old, or made new, allies, was not making things better either.

“Right, let’s go in,” Luna Girl said quickly, as she trotted over to the private entrance into the totem HQ and pressed a sequence of buttons.

The entrance opened. “How did you know to do this? You have seen this only once or twice-“ Owlette inquired.

“She has a good memory, though she’s not as smart as Romeo is,” the Night Ninja, who had been absent all this time, commented as he joined the other people.

There was a pause of a certain sort.

“What are you wearing?” Cat Boy finally asked.

“It’s my bureaucratic outfit,” Night Ninja spoke in a voice that was both contrasting and matching his outfit, (which looked honestly ridiculous). “I’m here to legalize all of the paperwork!”

“You are? Why?”

“Because I got a celestial mandate that gives me power to legalize the transfer of property, among others,” the Night Ninja said in the same pompous tone of voice.

“How?”

“My family were officers of the Celestial court, even if my father was corrupt, and my elder sibling is worse,” the Night Ninja admitted. “You remember the latter from the very first chapter of this story, right?”

There were nods from several people, including the PJ Masks, who were also busy observing their old HQ. True, their vehicles, and trophies, and other properties were removed from it to their new space HQ, but the old place was still in a good, and a cared for, condition.

“Um, yeah, obviously,” Mothsuki of all people commented to them. “We live in a city of doors; anyplace abandoned gets taken over by Khepri’s minions or someone worse quite soon, so yes, we kind of have been taking care of it, because we have plenty of good memories here, or at least big sister Luna does-“

“We got it,” Gekko said crossly, “we really do.”

“Hey, where’d the PJ Crystal go?” the Night Ninja chose this moment to re-enter the conversation. “Remember when I tricked it to transfer your powers to my Ninjalinos? Good times, and now you are giving its’ old home to Luna Girl and the others freely-“

The Totem HQ moved. The walls shifted, the décor changed, and abruptly rather than a totem-pole-shaped building into a winged rocket that could fly – and fly it did. Right to the PJ Masks’ and co.’s new space HQ, into which it promptly injected itself – with a clang, dropping all of its’ passengers into the new HQ.

“Whoa! And hi, guys, we didn’t know that you’d be dropping in,” Newton and An Yu, (it was their turn to watch on the space HQ), spoke in surprise.

“Yes, well, it is complicated,” Owlette muttered crossly. “Can we ask you some-thing?”

“Sure-?”

“Where’s the PJ Crystal-?”

And then the wave of force hit.

Darkness. Light. Darkness. And more light. Light convalesces into a tri-colored crystal – red, blue and green. The crystal splits into three warriors, also red, blue and green. The warriors three fought a dark cloud of blackness, beating it back from where it came from, before returning into a crystal. Scenery changed, forming and reforming, until it became the city known by the PJ Masks and others.

A dark cloud came back. New warriors, those without the red, blue and green colors rose to fight it. The crystal too split back into three warriors who joined their friends, and the entire group fought the big black cloud, until there was a bright white flash, and the black cloud was gone. The three red, blue and green warriors too were gone, but they left behind three babies of matching colours…

Loving hands picked up the babies, as the colors faded and the babies looked completely human. The totem pole of a building rose in the background, with the full moon shining overhead…

The visions ended.

“…So, does this sort of thing happens often?” Newton asked no one in particular as the force retreated.

“Whenever their crystal is involved, as it was now,” Romeo replied regardless. “Otherwise-“

Luna Girl cleared her throat and pointed at one of the windows (of the new HQ).

“Oh look, we’ve descended almost to the city line!” Romeo said brightly. “Guess we know now what does the crystal want this time!” The others glared at him, and he wilted – somewhat. “Come on, I’m being nice here!”

“And the crystal is being patient and understanding, by crystal standards,” Mothsuki read aloud what her big sister wrote down, (after putting away her moon whistle). “Crystals have a lot of patience, but once it runs out, they spread out and smother everything with their… bodies very quickly for such a slow race!”

“…Is that what happened to the moon city from which you were born?” Romeo asked quietly.

“It’s called the City-in-the-Moon, and yes, it has,” Luna Girl finished drinking a lot of water. “It might’ve began happening to our city too, if Armadylan and Newton Star over there hadn’t figured out how to snap the mood out of it earlier this month-“

There was a pause as everyone just stared at the PJ Masks with various expressions, (and they stared back, clearly uncomfortable).

“…Guys. We’re friends here, but I really think that you and your crystal need to sort it out before it gets out of hand,” Armadylan said slowly, in not his usual manner. “I, for one, don’t want to be smothered in hot glaze or whatever!”

“It’s hot viscous crystal,” Luna Girl commented helpfully, “when crystals get angry, they stop being solid and become something else. Also – hot.”

There was another pause. “I think that we might need some help here,” Gekko admitted to everyone else. “How do you appease a crystal?”

“Ask them what it wants, first,” Luna Girl explained.

“It, or they, the crystal and its’ spirits, just want to protect the city, which is what we do already,” Owlette said slowly, “only now we’re doing it from space, and not from the ground. The crystal, or the crystals, are upset and frightened, and want to go home, down to the ground…”

“Maybe they should, especially if we tone down our villainy, some,” the Night Ninja said thoughtfully. “What do you think – oh look. Pharaoh Boy, Octobella and co. have already vamoosed! Who would’ve thought?”

“Not we,” Luna Girl exchanged a look with the other villains, “but you have an interesting point – let’s go and discuss it, especially since the morning is come up soon now,” and they left too.

“This isn’t a bad idea,” Armadylan said thoughtfully; “Hey, Newton, let’s take An Yu to her own home-“

“No, we’ll go,” the PJ Masks said quietly, “We have a lot to talk about too,” and they disappeared.

“…Now what?” Armadylan looked at the other two remaining heroes.

There was no reply.

TBC?

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, Romeo the mad scientist genius of Tarabiscoville was busy making his latest device, a rain machine, (an unholy hybrid of a sprinkler and a tiltrotor that could fly), who should pass him by but Octobella, who took one look at the creation in question and promptly skidded over to him.

“So, can I please fly this thing?” she asked brightly.

Romeo gave her a look. “No. It’s against our city’s villain rules,” he said the first thing that came to his mind; (he just did not want to share).

Octobella, however, was not ready to give up: “Sir, can I please fly Romeo’s new rain machine?” she asked Romeo’s father, (who looked rather like a grown-up version of Romeo, albeit with a moustache reminiscent of Jim Carrey’s Dr. Robotnick instead).

“Son, could you please share your invention with your friend?” the older genius asked Romeo.

“She isn’t my friend,” Romeo wasn’t backing down straightaway, “and besides, don’t you have a date tonight? Wouldn’t want to have it ruined-“

“Don’t worry,” his father was not too impressed – in a good way – by Romeo’s pigheadedness. “If your friend gets too out of hand, I’ll handle her.”

“Fine,” Romeo muttered, as he pulled out a large heavy book and thrust it at Octobella. “Here’s the instruction manual. Enjoy!” and he walked off.

Octobella almost dropped the heavy volume, gave (the retreating back of) Romeo an evil eye, (the duo just did not get along), and decided to wing it instead…

Elsewhere…

Elsewhere in the same city, Armadylan was trying his musical skills, (they nodded a lot of work still), when who should approach him, but his fellow superhero, Newton Star.

“Hey there, Newt,” Armadylan said brightly. “Sorry, but I haven’t seen the PJ Masks tonight, maybe they’re elsewhere?”

“…I was coming over to say hello, really,” Newton had the good grace to blush. “That said, I did notice from our space station that Romeo has built some sort of a weather machine-“

“Again? I remember a time when he built a bad weather machine – I think,” Armadylan said musingly. “Maybe it was in another timeline or something-“

“Well, with this one he is having trouble, so maybe it isn’t so good either, but I could probably use some backup,” Newton began, when a huge thunderbolt seemed to split the earth and heavens, and it began to rain by the bucketful.

“Nope, it seems to be working just fine,” Armadylan spat a mouthful of rainwater. “Any idea of how to get to it?”

“Well, I can fly there, but I’m not sure what to do next,” Newton admitted. “I mean, we usually didn’t confront Romeo on our own-“

“I’ve an idea,” An Yu spoke up suddenly, as she appeared out of nowhere, “but we need to go to my pagoda first-“

“Awesome! Let’s go!” Armadylan said brightly and rolled-off.

The other two exchanged a look. “Hey, we’ve been neglecting him for a while, so naturally he’s eager to be a part of something,” An Yu told the other hero, “and we did come to him. Therefore, now let’s go and catch up to him before he wrecks my mountain – again!”

Moreover, this was what they did. However, it appeared that Armadylan was not in a wrecking mood for a change, as he was patiently waiting for them in front of An Yu’s pagoda, and there was not too much wreckage in his path either. “Where’ve you guys been? I’ve been waiting ages for you!”

An Yu and Newton just gave him a look, which the bigger hero loftily ignored. “So, now what?” was what he asked instead.

“Now, we get a music box from my pagoda,” An Yu decided to cooperate, (for now). “It’s a magical music box that puts everybody to sleep-”

“We’re going to defeat Romeo with a music box?” the other two heroes exchanged a look. “Well, all right then, crazier ideas than this one have worked. Let’s go!”

“…Thanks for the vote of confidence, really,” An Yu said crossly, as she re-emerged from her pagoda with the magical device in question. “You two are the best-!”

There was a semi-awkward pause, as the other two heroes took her sarcasm to be real, and promptly hugged her. “…Ok,” An Yu, who had not had much experience with hugs, finally spoke. “That’s enough, you two, let’s go!”

And so off they went.

…Once the trio arrived back in the city of Tarabiscoville proper, the rain was still coming down strongly, and the machine that was making it was still high up in the air, even as it was wibbling-wobbling all over the place, and Romeo was making strange sounds – the trio could actually hear them from down on the ground.

“Man, without the PJ Masks around, Romeo really let’s himself go,” Newton muttered to no one in particular. “I mean, when he’s fighting them, he actually got style-“

“That’s because it isn’t him,” Armadylan muttered, “but rather Octobella. I recognize her voice.”

“”What, she stole Romeo’s rain making machine, discovered how to make it work and got in over her head?” An Yu asked sarcastically, before checking herself: “and now that I’ve said it aloud, I’ve realized that it does make sense, eh?”

“Yes, yes, but how do we stop her before she hurts anyone else or herself?” Armadylan asked his own question instead.

“Uh, Newton will fly over to it and play the music box’s music, putting Octobella to sleep so that he would take over the machine and put it down?” An Yu replied.

“Sounds like a plan,” Armadylan nodded. “Here, little buddy, let me help you get a leg’s-up-“ and he launched - literally – Newton into sky.

“Eeee!” Newton instinctively activated his own flying powers and put on an extra burst of flying speed – just when he did not need to.

CRASH!

…When Newton recovered his wits, he realized that he was sitting waist-deep in a pile of snow and machine parts, the PJ Masks were helping the other heroes to get him out of it, while Romeo was making some strange sounds and pulling away machine parts himself, even as Night Ninja and Luna Girl were bemusedly helping him.

“What has happened?” he asked, channelling his inner Captain Obvious.

“You saved the day,” Cat Boy said brightly.

“…Ok, what about you guys?” Newton was not backing down yet.

“We sort of intruded on the bad guys’ downtime and played with some dinosaurs?” Cat Boy replied with a wince of his own. “Sorry for bailing out on you tonight-“

“No problem,” Newton said brightly. “Guess An Yu’s music box really worked.”

“Nah. You and Armadylan just crashed Romeo’s rain machine the old-fashioned way – the music box just made Octobella think that she’s Texan,” Owlette admitted. “She’s over there, with an ice pack on her head from your crash, still listening to it-“

“… Did we save the day at least?” Newton sounded really miserable.

“No! You just destroyed my rain machine!” Romeo shouted very, very loudly. “Prepare to taste my vengeance-!”

“Romeo, morning is coming up,” Luna Girl said sternly. “Time to call it a night.”

‘Fine,” Romeo said crossly. “You won this time, PJ Masks and the other guys, but my vengeance is still coming and it will be horrible to behold!” and he and the other villains left.

“…Looks as if we still have a lot of practice of being heroes left,” Armadylan said thoughtfully. “Now let’s get Octobella home as well.”

The others just pelted him with snowballs.

End

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, there was a young villain named Romeo who had just been defeated by the PJ Masks, and was feeling it. “Stupid PJ Masks, stupid Ice Cub, stupid everyone else,” Romeo grumbled, as he made his way towards the closest people he had for friends, (by a wide margin – and the PJ Masks were something else entirely), namely the Night Ninja and Luna Girl, who were busy attaching a pair of large cardboard wings to a bench.

“Hey, Romeo, what’s up?” Luna Girl said faux-perky, as she and the Night Ninja knew well that when Romeo was miserable, he was willing to spread this misery around – unless you were his dad, which was another story entirely right now…

“I’ve been defeated by the PJ Idiots and the Ice Cub Primary Idiot tonight,” Romeo snapped. “Hey, Luna Girl, you know all about the pocket universes in our city, yes?”

“No,” Luna Girl snapped back, causing the Night Ninja to wilt – he actually hated when the other two fought for real, even if he didn’t show it, because of the mask. “I know only what my parents, and especially daddy, taught me and Mothsuki. You want to go somewhere-“

“-To the Ice World-“

“Right,” Luna Girl nodded. “The PJs kicked you out?”

“Yes!”

“Through the front door?”

“…Probably.”

“Right,” Luna Girl drummed her fingers. “I think I know of a way to sneak you back in – sneak all of us in, maybe, but we need to talk to Pharaoh Boy and his posse to do that. Are you ready to bring them into the loop?”

“Not even slightly,” Romeo replied in a decisive tone of voice, “I can wait to figure out what to do with the Ice World later on. Right now,” and he pulled out some sort of a thingamajig, “are we ready to ride a car-airplane hybrid?”

“Totally!” replied the other two.

ZAP!

In addition, abruptly an altered bench became, well, a car-airplane hybrid be-cause Romeo really was an amazing genius, who could do things like that, when he wanted to, (which was not very often, for that matter).

“Hooray!” all three young villains’ cried, climbed into their new ride, and took to the skies, (because it seemed to be just the night for this sort of an activity), flying around hither and yon just because.

Then Lilyfay joined them. “Hey, this looks like fun!” the space fairy turned hero proclaimed brightly. “Can I share?”

“Make some cardboard wings, attach them to a bench, and I’ll do the rest,” Romeo suggested instead.

Lilyfay blinked. “Sure, I can do that,” she said thoughtfully, and zoomed off. Quite soon, however, she returned with Ice Cub and Bastet of all people in tow, and together, the three of them, did just that – and then they looked at the vil-lains, (who were still in the sky).

Luna Girl and Night Ninja gave Romeo a look. “Fine,” Romeo grumbled, but he gave three other – other-other – heroes a car-airplane machine of their own. “Happy?”

“Huzzah!” cried the three other-other heroes and took to the sky as well, and so the night actually passed peacefully… because the PJ Masks, meanwhile, stopped the wolfies from causing havoc all over the city, but that is another story.

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, there was a young villain, named Romeo, who was busy dealing fall cleaning, because his father asked him to, and Romeo couldn’t refuse his father because of reasons. However, there were also other villains, in this occasion – the Speedy twins, who were driving past their house, (aka Romeo and his dad’s), and saw Romeo throw out a bunch of potential slash probable junk out of his window, (yes, he was messy like this), including one piece that caught their eye…

“Hey, is this one of those magnet things?” Carly asked Cartyka, as the twins examined the piece in question.

“It might rather be an electromagnet instead,” the other twin replied thought-fully as the pair examined their prize, (they had swiped it and rode away as fast as they could).

It should be noted right now that while the twins weren’t as smart as Romeo was, (but then again, no one was, though Owlette was able to keep up with him due to her sheer wisdom, cough), they had plenty of experience with tech-nology because they were racers, and had to maintain their own vehicle, (among other things), and so they quickly got an idea as to what to use this magnet for…

Some time later…

Some time later Luna Girl woke up from her Lunar nap, (she wasn’t too fond of them, but she had to had them, or else she would get sick), and exited her – their – Luna fortress only to see Mothsuki busy arguing with Lilyfay in a heated manner, which wasn’t good at all for everyone, including the Moon itself.

“And what is going on here?” she proclaimed, looking at the two younger girls.

There was an uncomfortable pause. “Oh, uh, you really were asleep, weren’t you?” Lilyfay awkwardly responded. “I, uh we, we didn’t wake you up?”

“No, I woke up all by myself,” Luna Girl crossly replied. “What do you want?”

“Um, the space HQ is under a powerful magnetic attack and Newton and I thought that you and your Luna magnet might be behind it?” Lilyfay looked away first. “Only you’re not, are you?”

“Let me see first,” Luna Girl muttered, as she pulled out her Luna looking glass and looked in that direction. “Hm… oh, drat.”

“What is it?” Mothsuki asked, curious despite her attempts not to.

“Someone is using a magnetic ray to pull the PJ Masks’ Space HQ down to Earth,” Luna Girl pinched her nose. “Romeo, I bet. Mothsuki, can you go down to the ground and talk to the PJ Masks, before their Space HQ crashes into the city, and it’ll be bad?”

“Sure,” Mothsuki nodded, because when her big sister began to worry about people getting hurt, and then it was bad.

“Um, can I help?” Lilyfay asked, sounding half-worried and half-upset.

Luna Girl eyed the space fairy turned hero: she did not like the younger girl, period, but…

“Fine, you can go with Mothsuki,” she exhaled after making an abrupt decision. “Maybe the two of you will be able to persuade them all that quicker-“

“Ok,” Mothsuki snapped, and grabbing Lilyfay went down to Earth, to the city, to seek out the PJ Masks. She – and Lilyfay – found them quickly enough, but, regrettably, the heroic trio of the city main heroes were already busy.

“Hey! Hi! What is going on?” Lilyfay asked, as… Bastet, of all people, ran past them, crying, “Help me!” on the top of her lungs.

“Well, uh, it’s complex,” Cat Boy muttered, as Octobella appeared on the scene, riding/driving her Octolegs and shouting: “Come back here, you anime cat girl reject, I’ll kick you straight into the next morning now!”

“…Ok, it’s not that complex,” Gekko confessed, as Bastet ran past all of them, meowing desperately, even as Octobella came across like a crazed steam train on legs. “Why are you girls here? Together?”

“Uh,” before either Lilyfay or Mothsuki can reply the city seemed to shake, and several moment later, as everyone, and especially Octobella on her giant Octolegs tried to regain their balance, Carly and Cartyka came skidding back backwards and crashed into her, toppling the Octolegs.

“Help me!” Octobella cried really loudly, but as she fell, Cat Boy and Bastet were able to do just that – they crashed into each other, and Octobella fell on top of them, even as her Octolegs fell down nearby with a clang. “My poor Octolegs!”

“Your Octolegs? How about our car?” the Speedy twins shouted back.

“Your car? How about my magnet?” Romeo cried, as he appeared on the scene.

“Your magnet? How about the PJs’ Space HQ?” Luna Girl commented, as she and Newton finally appeared on the scene.

“…What is going on?” Owlette finally managed to ask her own question.

“The gear heads took one of my extra-powerful magnets-“ Romeo began-

“-and tried to use it to pull down your Space HQ from space,” Luna Girl added brightly. “Me and Isaac Newton were able to jury-rig it so that it repelled the magnetic force, but now it is too close to the moon for anyone to be happy-“

“I’ll just use my farts to send it back,” Mothsuki shrugged, causing Luna Girl to fall silent and to spatter.

“Excuse me?” Lilyfay could not help but ask, “Say what?”

“Her farts are that powerful,” Newton said crossly, “that she can make the moon wobble on its’ orbit and shoot comets across the sky!”

“Really? That is amazing!” Lilyfay made a hoop in the air. “Can you show me?”

“We actually need to go back home for some leftover apple fritters,” Luna Girl said firmly. “Want to come over?”

“Yes please!” Lilyfay said brightly, before checking herself: “I mean, uh, are they kosher?”

“Yeah, but you should ask daddy for details,” Luna Girl admitted. “Romeo?”

“Nah, the gearheads need my help with the towing,” Romeo said sourly, as he did exactly that, ignoring the Speedy twins’ protests that they were not gear-heads, thank you very much. “Octobella?”

“Nah, Pharaoh Boy and I have a date tonight, and if you try to ruin it again,” Octobella jabbed a finger at Bastet, who just meowed and hugged Cat Boy that much tighter. “Remember that, missy!” and she was gone as well.

Gekko and Owlette looked around, looked at their teammate and Bastet, (who clearly did not intend to let go off him in a hurry), and just shook their heads. Sometimes saving the day could be quite weird.

End

Chapter Text

The December was on in the neighbourhood. There were early Christmas decorations everywhere, both traditional and more exotic ones, and the PJ Masks were enjoying the beginning of winter, the early snow, (barely a smidge on the ground, but, hey, snow! It is fun to play with!), and everything else around them, really, when who should materialize but… Pharaoh Boy.

“Ahoy there, mates!” he said in an atypical – for him – manner. “Are your bandoleros and pistoleros are prepared? Octobella and I are going to try going after Santa next, now that Luna Girl, and Romeo, and Night Ninja had their shots at him-“

“This isn’t how it went,” Gekko said sourly, for one, “and why are you trying to talk in a bad Mexican accent?”

“Isn’t it how pirates and highwaymen talk?” Pharaoh Boy asked in his more normal manner.

“No, it’s not,” Gekko replied firmly, before double-checking it with his closest friends. “Uh, they don’t, right?”

Before either Owlette or Cat Boy could reply, Bastet appeared on the scene and hid behind Cat Boy, because of course she did.

“…And how did Octobella get the best of you this time?” Cat Boy asked, sounding cross, and concerned, and everything else all at once. “Because she usually isn’t combative while on land, and cats hate water-“

“I’m not, not this time,” the villain in question replied, as she appeared on the scene, via her Octolegs, (again). “If we’re going out, I’m not going with just my tentacles, and besides, given how Santa – with your help – had defeated Luna Girl and Romeo and Night Ninja-“

“That’s really not how it happened,” commented Romeo, as he arrived on the scene… riding some sort of unholy machine, reminiscent of a pickle on wheels, but a seriously disturbingly looking one.

“…What is this thing?” Owlette finally asked, as Romeo positioned himself directly across them.

“I’m going to turn you into cookies,” Romeo explained; “my cookienator ma-chine is loaded with cookie batter, and-“

“Little not-buddy? This was seriously wrong and weird even by your standards,” Armadylan appeared on the scene, flanked by Luna Girl and Mothsuki of all people. “You have to give our family’s cookie dough back to me-“

“No!” Romeo snapped as he hit a button on his current invention’s control panel – and shot cookie dough all across the Octolegs’ knees. The latter stood still, and then collapsed with a groan, catapulting Octobella into Romeo. Their fore-heads hit against each other with a bonk.

“Ha-ha!” Bastet was a hero, but she and Octobella really did not like each other, and it showed.

“Hey, you take this back!” Pharaoh Boy snapped.

“Or what? You will also tie me a tree, as she did-“Sometimes Bastet was too cocky for her own good: Pharaoh Boy wasn’t much better at direct stuff than Romeo was – usually – but this time he was properly motivated – apparently – and this was exactly what he did to Bastet, (and to Cat Boy too, unintentionally). And then he walked over to the Octolegs and helped Owlette and Gekko get them off Romeo’s current invention, sort of. (He was not much better at physical stuff than Romeo was, again).

“Right,” Owlette muttered, as that mess was cleaned-up and the PJ Masks’ at-tention turned to… the spot where Armadylan and his cohorts were emptying the tanks of Romeo’s latest gizmo. “And what are you doing?”

“We’re helping Armadylan return the dough to his family shop – don’t ask, not our idea,” Luna Girl said sourly.

“We’re going to make cookies afterwards – proper ones, not evil ones,” Armadylan added. “Want to join in?”

Since it was cookies, and it was the beginning of winter, everyone agreed. Except for Bastet – but she was tied-up with Cat Boy, so everyone understood. And, everyone had fun all the same.

End

Chapter Text

For the start of winter, the night was certainly foggy, and not very cold, which was good, as Octobella’s parents – the sea (demi)-goddess Calypso (Jones), and Davy Jones, (the Flying Dutchman), were wrangling the giant primal-looking (and very furious) walrus/sea-lion hybrid monster that Octobella had inadvertently released into the moat as a part of her latest plot to defeat the PJ Masks – and it gotten away from her. So had the rest of her plot, for that matter.

“I’m so grounded,” she half-sniffed half-sobbed to the rest of the city’s bad guys, while their parents were helping (more or less) hers with the mutant seal. “I probably deserve it, too, but it seemed to be such a good idea at that time-“

“It happens,” Night Ninja said faux-wisely, while Pharaoh Boy just patted Octobella on the hand. “I mean, Luna Girl and I remember the time when Romeo tried to use a rhino on the PJ Masks-!”

“Say what-?”

“It was probably what you had in mind, sort of,” Night Ninja did not back down, though he subtly gave himself some room to maneuver. “See, the city zoo has a rhino – a black one – and when the PJ Masks were just setting shop in our city-“

“So did us,” Luna Girl grumpily commented.

“-So did us,” Night Ninja agreed, “Romeo had an idea to use the rhino as a bulldozer to, well, bulldoze their original HQ in the park down. To do so, he de-cided to bust the rhino from the zoo, because he was a genius and the rhino, well, is not-“

“Get to the point,” Romeo said flatly, as this was not his favorite memory.

“It went down as well as your plan did,” Night Ninja got his mental bearings together, “only worse, since your walrus monster was restrained by the moat – sort of – and the rhino ran rampant through the streets, after butting Romeo clear over the zoo wall and busting right through it.”

“Did Romeo get away?” Pharaoh Boy asked, since he had more experience with wild rhinos from his past (pre-villain days in particular)… not that he cared to remember about those days. (Nor did his entourage, but that is another story).

There was a pause.

“You know what he means,” Octobella added flatly.

“…Point,” Luna Girl confessed. “When Ninja and I appeared on the scene, it was hard to figure out what was going on – whether Romeo was chasing the rhino, or the rhino was chasing Romeo, or the two of them were just having a running-around-the-city-competition, or who knows what else… To make a long story short, we lured the rhino into a too-narrow street where it was stuck, and the zoo stuff and the police got it captured and back into the zoo. The PJs never learned about it, as they were too busy with someone else that night, or maybe it was their downtime – they actually had it, back then. Romeo… gave himself a medal for all of the hard labor he did regarding the rhino-“

“Phrasing,” Romeo said crossly, “and I did try to bring the PJs’ totem pole HQ with a real bulldozer later that week. That didn’t work either.”

“…So my prehistoric walrus plot wasn’t too stupid by the local standards,” Octobella said more cheerfully than how she spoke before.

“…No?”

“Good. I’m still grounded for the next while,” she added, in a more down to Earth tone, but she did not mind it was much as she had before.

…And what were the PJ Masks doing at that time? Dealing with Gloop, in fact, but that is another story.

End

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, there were a trio of brave heroes, the PJ Masks, and on this particular occasion, they woke-up feeling almost hangover.

“What has happened?” Owlette asked, as several of their friends, such as New-ton, Armadylan, An Yu, and – Bastet, were looking at them with various levels of concern.

“Munki-Gu stole An Yu’s music box from several chapters earlier and put you to sleep… almost permanently,” Newton replied in his trademark matter-of-fact manner.

There was a pause as the PJ Masks thought this over.

“You know, I really thought that I’d be more surprised about it, but I’m not,” Cat Boy confessed. “So how did you manage to close the box?”

There was an awkward pause.

“I, uh, maybe threw Newton at it?” Armadylan confessed sheepishly. “Maybe…”

There was a pause, as no one exactly looked at Newton, who did look a bit worse for wear than how he usually did. “I’m ok, really,” he muttered, as he glared at Munki-Gu just because.

“Aw, come on, I’m sorry,” the simian prankster actually proclaimed. “But, come on, I’m a naughty monkey, I got to prank-“

“Then join the rest of your monkey cousins at the zoo,” Bastet snapped back. “You already got their sense of humor, you know?”

“They got some apes there too,” Cat Boy added loyally, seeing how the mischievous monkey preteen was less insulted and more thoughtful. “The orangutans, I think-“

“Sold!” Munki-Gu did a really good evil laugh here. “Since the night isn’t yet done-“

“Ahem,” Luna Girl appeared out of nowhere, (as did Mothsuki), carrying several thermoses. “Who wants some heated Dr. Pepper?”

“Me!” Gekko said brightly.

There was yet even more introspective silence. “And what are you doing here?” Owlette sighed.

“We were – and by ‘us’, I mean mostly Romeo – drill our way here via some time and space busting,” Luna Girl muttered. “Got to admit, I don’t like messing with the time and space continuum, so when Bastet suggested that I might owe her after our solar tablet altercation, I pressed some sort of a lever, and Romeo’s drill made a hole in the reality between here and the Galapagos Islands, you know?”

“…The Galapagos islands, really? With those big – really big – tortoises?” Armadylan asked, (rather eagerly).

“Yes, those, and a bunch of other critters,” Night Ninja nodded brightly. “Romeo almost didn’t want to leave. Ah well, we still got him out. A drink, anyone?”

“You’re not going to do anything else tonight-?“

“The night is almost over,” Night Ninja admitted, “i.e., it is too late to do any-thing else tonight. The day is saved!”

Therefore, it was, though many heroes felt weird about it, and did something about it too – but that was another story.

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, when a space fairy turned hero named Lillyfay was flying around the city, (because exploring space without Newton being around was somewhat boring, lately), whom she would see but Octobella, one of the local villains?

…Actually, right now, Octobella was in her more human guise, clearly uninterested in being evil, and in fact looking depressed, so Lillyfay abruptly landed next to her and asked:
“What’s up, Oc?”

There was a pause, during which Lillyfay facepalmed and Octobella just gave her a look.

“Been hanging around the wolfies lately?” she asked Lillyfay.

“No! Not really,” the space fairy hero confessed. “Why are you asking about them?”

“…I’ve been having a streak of bad luck lately,” Octobella confessed. “First, the stupid Gloop had clogged up my moat with their stupid gloop, so I had to team-up with Gekko of all people to fix it, and now – the wolfies. Water and fur amount to wet fur and that is almost as bad as that stupid gloop! At least Night Ninja is polite enough to keep his own splat out of my moat!”

“I’m sorry to hear this,” Lillyfay blinked: it did sound as if the other girl, evil or not, had had a rough time lately. “Do you want a hug?”

“…” Octobella stared at Lillyfay as if the space fairy offered to turn herself into a beaver or something along those lines instead.

“Er, Lilly?” Ice Cub abruptly appeared next to the two girls. “I don’t think that Octobella is into hugs right now. How about I take you two to the Iceworld instead?”

There was a dip in conversation. “Shouldn’t you be with the rest of the PJ Masks, stopping Pharaoh Boy from his latest scheme?” Octobella asked, sounding honestly curious despite her best efforts.

“Uh, about that…”

Flashback!

“Pharaoh Boy, give me back my stuff! I mean - my staff!” An Yu shouted angrily at the villain in question, who, naturally, refused to cooperate.

“No,” he snapped back, sounding just as angry. “I shan’t! I’m the Pharaoh Boy, the greatest villain of all times-!”

“Please?” An Yu tried a different technique. “Without the staff, I can’t go back home to the Mystery Mountain-?”

“So you’ll be… what Luna Girl called Night Ninja once, apparently?.. Ah yes, a hobo, right?”

There was a pause as everyone else stared at Pharaoh Boy, (who belatedly realized that he might have made a mistake here).

“Oh, you’ve done it now,” Romeo, who should not have been here, but was here anyways, because he was Romeo and tended to appear in most unexpected and inappropriate places, commented from his lab car. “Night Ninja and Luna Girl-“

“What Romeo here means,” Luna Girl explained as she and the Night Ninja took the Pharaoh Boy into a pincer maneuver, “is that me calling the Night Ninja this word caused our first major daytime fight, so it’s not a good word.”

“What she said,” the Night Ninja agreed, “plus without the Mystery mountain or a daytime persona An Yu would just… shut down and stop being. Not cool, my man, not cool.”

“Couldn’t she just go and hang-out at your Hidden Temple instead, or whatever it’s called?” Pharaoh Boy asked, as he tried, in vain, to get out of the Night Ninja’s splat.

“No! I do not need to! It’s stupid, anyhow!” An Yu snapped, as she took her staff and whacked Pharaoh Boy and Night Ninja on their heads. She might have done the same thing with Luna Girl, but the female villain disappeared, while Romeo’s snickers, (safely in the background and in his lab), distracted An Yu.

Flash-forward!

“And this was it, really,” Ice Cub finished telling his story to the two girls. “Pharaoh Boy is defeated; An Yu can go back to the Mystery Mountain, the day is saved, want to see my Iceworld place?”

“Sure,” the two girls exclaimed. “Lead on!”

More flashing forward!

The Iceworld was an atypical mess, as there were ice, snow, and blindingly cold winds everywhere; all the natives, (such as the caribou slash reindeer) were hiding, and in the middle of all the dark snow clouds was a blindingly bright-white blob of white light…

…and it was coming from Luna Girl, who was just hovering there, in front of some (Inuit-looking) stone idol-like construct, clearly not enjoying herself. In fact, she looked almost as if she was trapped and/or in pain, as she was just hovering there on her Luna board, still gripping – very tightly – her Luna magnet.

“Luna Girl, listen, I don’t know what you’re doing, but you’ve got to stop it-“ Ice Cub shouted, rather desperately, when Luna Girl pivoted around, zapped him with her magnet, and flung him right at the idol construct – right at a glowing pearly-white gem within it. Instinctively, Ice Cub grabbed it and pulled it out of the rest of the thingamajig – and the rest of the Iceworld immediately returned to normal. (At least to the default setting of it).

“Thank you,” Luna Girl, who was clearly worse for wear now, plopped next to Ice Cub in all the snow. “Now, someone needs to check out on the Pharaoh Boy and his thingamajig.”

“Why? He also got one?” Ice Cub waved his new prize around.

“Mmm,” Luna Girl nodded, “and he’s doing something to it right now, this is why your stone went all wonky-“

Ice Cub exchanged looks with the other two people present. That was not good.

Still more Flashing-forward!

…And things did not exactly improve after the four of them left the Iceworld. As soon as they left the pocket dimension, Mothsuki appeared, looking rather worried herself. Moreover, she grabbed her sister, Luna Girl grabbed Ice Cub… in short, and it was a chain reaction of teleportation… and Mothsuki teleported them all next to… Armadylan of all people, as he, Newton, Bastet, and the PJ Masks were confronting Pharaoh Boy once more. This time, however, the latter wasn’t just by himself, (Horus the magic staff didn’t quite count): both Khonshu the falcon ghost, and Khepri the teenage human/insect hybrid grand vizier were with him, and all of them were flanking some sort of a construction, this one looking more ancient Egyptian rather than Inuit, but it too had a glowing gem. It glowed gold rather than white, but otherwise-

“Kneel before me now!” Pharaoh Boy was shouting loudly, perhaps even unnec-essarily so. “My hot gem will turn this entire city into a furnace! Feel its’ heat-!”

The gem flared. There was a pause.

“…We don’t feel anything out of the ordinary,” Owlette confessed. “You sure that you got down everything correctly?” she blinked and caught herself. “I, uh, mean-“

“No, it doesn’t work because we brought the opposite gem here as well,” Luna Girl said weakly from her own position. “Pharaoh Boy, you’ve almost messed-up your world and the Iceworld, by pulling your gem out of whack!”

There was a pause as Pharaoh Boy actually looked at his gem, with some thoughts whirring in his head after all.

“Really?” he finally asked scepticism evident in his voice. “I don’t know what happened to you-“

“Mr. Moon Bear asked me first to deal with the cold gem, and it got out of hand,” Luna Girl snapped back, sounding quite angry now. “I actually felt like an actual moon person, Pharaoh Boy! I do not want that! It was almost as bad as when the asteroid piece tried to smother my inner moonlight with tar!”

“…”

“Just ignore her,” Mothsuki commented, “When big sister Luna gets upset, she doesn’t always make sense-“

“Mr. Moon Bear and his fellow bears are upset that the Iceworld got out of whack,” Luna Girl said loudly and clearly, “and they’re here to do something about you.” She pointed, and sure enough, there was a big moon bear, (also known as an Asian black bear), flanked by an even bigger polar bear, and neither looked very happy with Pharaoh Boy’s latest scheme.

A shadow moved. A giant mantis – bigger than a tree, smaller than a T-Rex, featured in a previous chapter – moved between the Pharaoh Boy’s team and the bears, glaring with all of the kindness and understanding that a Decepticon would give some Autobots.

“Now, now, let’s not get violent,” Octobella quickly said, as she scattered quickly over to Pharaoh Boy, grabbed his heat gem, and gave it to… Bastet. “Would this work instead?”

The bears – and everyone else – just looked at Bastet. “I’ll just give this to mum and dad,” she said quickly, before jumping onto Cat Boy. “Take me there, now! Please!”

Cat Boy twitched, but ran off. The other PJ Masks blinked and turned back to face Pharaoh Boy, Octobella, and the others, but they were gone too.

“Oh dear,” Romeo commented, as he drove onto the scene in his lab. “Looks like we’re getting a sequel here after all.”

There was a pause, and everyone began to chase the evil boy genius over the city. Sadly, he was proven correct, for Octobella, apparently, had her own gem, (with water-control powers), and did try to drown the city the next night with the help of the Pharaoh Boy, and everyone had to work together to stop her – but that was another story.

Chapter Text

Once upon a time, the PJ Masks were confronting Pharaoh Boy right outside their city’s city hall, among other people.

“Pharaoh Boy, you really don’t want to steal our city’s city hall,” Cat Boy, flanked by Bastet, called-out to the evil magician, (because that is who Pharaoh Boy was, let us be frank).

“Why not?” Pharaoh Boy sounded huffier than his usual self did. “It’s so quiet, currently! Night Ninja is doing his ninja paperwork – do not ask. Romeo is inventing. Mothsuki and Luna Girl are on the moon-“

“No, we’re not,” Luna Girl commented, as she appeared on the scene, flying a newer version of her Luna board. “I’m here, and Mothsuki is elsewhere, in fact. You like my new Luna flashlight?” she asked Gekko abruptly, with nary a shift in her body language.

“Sure, but what does it do, specifically?” Gekko asked, sounding sceptical. “Or does it just look cool?”

“Eh, a bit of column A, a dash of column B,” Luna Girl said nonchalantly, (which didn’t convince anyone). “In other news, Pharaoh Boy, Octobella is coming over with a new challenge for the PJs here.”

“Really? How so,” Pharaoh Boy began, when Octobella did appear, alongside her new ride.

There was a pause.

“…Did you infest Percy with a xenomorph?” Bastet finally asked.

Octobella, who did not like Bastet too much to begin with, shot the latter a look. “No, give me some credit,” she said flatly. “This is just a tadpole shrimp, grown to a monstrous size and proportion!”

“Oh, ok,” Pharaoh Boy replied as he jumped behind her onto the monstrous invertebrate. “Let’s get the PJ Masks’ now?”

“Sure,” Octobella nodded easily. “Not-Percy, go and get Bastet!”

The giant critter charged, Bastet yowled and jumped onto Cat Boy, because of course he did. The latter just quoted Jaime Lannister under his breath, the duo sped away as Octobella, and Pharaoh Boy gave chase, laughing maniacally.

“…I miss the days when villains actually had somewhat intelligent and complex plans,” Owlette told no one else in particular, “rather than just steal and smash sort of thing. Also, where is Mothsuki?” she asked Luna Girl.

“Well…”

In space…

“So, this is what the inside of the new heroes’ new HQ looks like?” Pirate Robot asked Mothsuki, as he rummaged through the space HQ and Mothsuki just sat there, trying to look like the moth princess that she was, (in a manner of speaking), and not quite succeeding, because she actually had personal opinions about being the princess… but that was neither here nor there, plus Newton and Lillyfay were here, trying to oppose them. So far, it was not going too well, as Mothsuki’s mothies were keeping Newton at bay, and Lillyfay… had not yet discovered that the space HQ was invaded, because it was a sneak invasion, apparently.

“It’s not my fault that you’ve made the space HQ accessible to teleportation,” Mothsuki was justifying herself to Newton. “You know that it is only a matter of time until you got invaded and stuff-“

Newton glared, (with some restraint). “Why aren’t you talking about yourself in the third person?” he asked instead, (unexpectedly).

“Mommy and daddy have me go to a speech therapy in daytime,” Mothsuki shrugged. “You should try something similar sometime too. It’s fun!” she paused. “This is better, though.”

“Hey, Newton, why does the space HQ suddenly smell of mothballs and toast-?” Lillyfay finally appeared on the scene, noticing the intruders after a long last. “Hey, don’t I know you? You’re the robot who acts as if he is the new Flying Dutchman or someone like that!”

“Pirate Robot doesn’t act as if he is anyone else! Pirate Robot is Pirate Robot! Want me to show you how?” the villain in question shot back.

“Sure,” Lillyfay shrugged in reply… and the mismatched duo was off.

…Newton and Mothsuki blinked. “Should’ve seen this coming – in this place, everyone knows everyone else,” Newton confessed.

“True, still,” Mothsuki thought hard about this, (harder than her average was, at least). “Want to go and hang around Armadylan?”

“Why not,” Newton agreed, and off they went.

Back Down on in the city…

Back down in the city, the forces of evil seemed to be actually gaining the upper hand, as Pharaoh Boy, Octobella, and Octobella’s latest successful water… well, amphibious monster, had Cat Boy and Bastet cornered. “Surrender now or face our wrath!”

“Never!” Bastet shouted, when Armadylan came out of nowhere and knocked them out of the villains’ way – straight into the air, where Newton and Mothsuki of all people caught them. Before Octobella or Pharaoh Boy could react, some sort of an armored vehicle, built by Romeo of all people, took their own giant critter ride off the street and out of commission.

“What is going on?” several people asked simultaneously, when there was a flair of light, and instead of the giant tadpole shrimp or whatever there stood one very angry An Yu, who took one look at Octobella and Pharaoh Boy and began to shout at them in the ancient Chinese really, really loudly.

“…What happened?” Owlette blinked.

“Octobella somehow got a hold of a magic pearl and transformed An Yu into a monster minion,” Ice Cub, who was completely wet, has also appeared on the scene. “I and Night Ninja had to team up to retrieve the pearl and return An Yu back to normal.”

The PJ Masks – and several other people – blinked.

“An Yu is part dragon, remember?” Night Ninja muttered, “And no, this wasn’t fun for either of us too.”

Silence still refused to leave.

“Anyhow,” Romeo joined the others, his own clothes somewhat smoking, “Armadylan and his posse managed to keep my missing valve from me long enough for my shrinkanator armored vehicle to overheat and go down for the count, and the water bimbo and the Egyptian himbo are also down for the count, while the morning is cming up soon now. Can we all go home and pre-pare for the upcoming Winterfest festival instead?”

“You’re pitching in with the upcoming Winterfest festival?” Owlette perked-up immediately.

“We all are,” Luna Girl said with rather less perk in her voice.

“Awesome!” Owlette chose to ignore the latter part – i.e., the lack of perk.

Therefore, the day was saved after all – but that was another story.

End

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Once upon a time, when the PJ Masks were pursuing the Speedy twins, who had stolen the PJs’ vehicles once more and so the heroes had to team up with their animal cohorts instead, (to mutual satisfaction, as both the PJ Masks and their animal friends loved spending time purposefully on a good night), trying to catch the, well, speedy vehicle villain duo, who were getting away from them, when-

CRASH!

-Carly and Cartyka smashed into Armadyllan of all people. The latter was ok, but the twins’ primary getaway had a bent wheel.

“I say there, little friends,” the big hero said brightly, “are you ok? And who are your new friends and foes?”

“Eh, we’re fine,” Gekko called back, “and thanks for helping us stopping the Speedy twins.”

“Are they new?”

“No, you just haven’t encountered them yet,” Cat Boy replied this time, even as the twins tried to straighten their bent wheel, to no success. “So, what you’ve been up to?”

“I’ve built a hot air balloon, to go up into the sky and taste the clouds,” Armadyllan replied in his cheerful trademark manner. “Want to see me do that?”

“Yes, no, not after the wheel,” one of the twins snapped, even though Armadyllan asked the PJ Masks instead. However, since Armadyllan was Armadyllan, he shrugged, took a deep breath, cracked his fingers, and unbent the wheel without too much effort.

“…Does he often do that?” the other twin asked Owlette.

“Meh,” the female superhero replied nonchalantly. “Now how about you two give back everything that you’ve stolen from the city?”

The twins grumbled, but complied.

…When the PJ Masks’ arrived at Armadyllan’s backyard, the hot air balloon was already there, looking quite ready to be launched. So were several other people, such as Romeo and Night Ninja, Luna Girl and Mothsuki, and even Bastet and An Yu.

“Have you told all of them about your enterprise?” Owlette could not help but to ask; when she saw that the big superhero was confused, she opted to clarify: “Did you tell everyone about your balloon?”

“No, he hadn’t told us, for example,” the Speedy twins commented as they also joined the scene. “How does this work? It does not appear to be too fast or too far-going-“

“It isn’t – it is supposed to go high, not far,” Romeo commented from his spot from the sidelines; “you just untie the sandbags, and-“

-and the Speedy twins did do just that, climbing into the hot air balloon’s basket and letting it go, (in a manner of speaking). Moreover, as Romeo commented, the hot air balloon did not go too far, but it did go high, and fast enough too.

“Help, help, help!” the twins’ cries came from up high. “Get us down, please! We’ll behave, promise!”

The others looked at each other… except for Armadyllan, who was already climbing into a much more improvised hot air balloon. “Hold onto this,” he told Gekko, “and when I give the signal, pull us – all of us – down!”

“Sure,” Gekko nodded, and Armadyllan went into the sky as well. Soon, voices and other sounds came from that direction.

“The big guy and the Speedy twins, are really in the sky, talking and tasting clouds,” Mothsuki commented, as she teleported into the sky and back. “Their baskets and balloons are tied together, so it is probably safe to reel them in.”

“Need help, Lizard Legs?” Luna Girl asked Gekko cheerfully.

“Sure!” the green-clad superhero replied just as cheerfully, and the duo, (and Mothsuki), began to pull down the two hot air balloons quickly enough.

“…So, this is what your friends do in their downtime?” Bastet, meanwhile, was asking Cat Boy.

The blue-colored PJ Mask hero just shrugged in reply.

End