Chapter 5

[Trans. Int. Second lair TV room]

Jeffy: And then I saw that picture and I brought him here.

(Janice awakens in the TV room bound to a chair.)

Janic: Junior?

[Junior yelps as the others take notice.]

Janice: It's you! It's all of you. Together! I never thought I'd see you again! I'm so happy I could hug you!

(Janice falls forward. Cody picks him up as a projector falls from the ceiling and turns on.)

Cody: Who are you, and why do you have a picture of us?

Junior: Yeah, who took this? 'Cause I look great.

Joseph: What's your favorite pizza? 'Cause I'm ordering right now.

Penelope: And why are you wearing Genius Built apparel?! That's trademarked.

(Penelope accidentally activates Janice's grappling cable and it zips through the room. It attaches to the TV room ceiling, pulling her upside down.)

Penelope: Grappling hook!

Junior: What's going on?

Joseph: She's trying to escape!

Jeffy: Want me to knock her out again?

Cody: Let me.

Joseph: Pen? Penelope! Speak to me!

Junior: Oh, okay.

Janice: W-WAIT! STOP! I'm a friend! Let me explain.

[Everyone stops and stared at the girl, hanging upside down.]

Janice: Let's start over. My name is Janice Goodman. And the reason I have this photo and your tech is because you gave it to me. But not yet because I'm from... the future!

[For a moment, everyone laughed.]

Janice: [sternly] This isn't a joke.

(Penelope spins Janice and severs her grappling line with her Spider Shell and sets her back on the floor.)

Penelope: Oh, please, if time travel is possible, Future Penelope would have come back and already given me all the lottery numbers like we planned.

Janice: It's true! I need you to believe me. Humanity depends on it. In the future, an demon race decimated the planet. We were hunted. We lived in caves. We ate leaves and rats. 

(Chef Pee Pee made a disgusted face. And that was coming from the guy who one burned cereal.)

Janice: I know how this sounds, but Junior gave me a mission.

Junior: [smiling smugly] Great to see I'm still a good leader in this world.

Janice: [hopefully] Of course you are. You're the greatest hero the world has ever seen. You told me to find the Key and stop EFFY.

Jeffy: Demons? Time travel? Sure. *muttering* This story just keeps getting better and better, don't it?

(Chef Pee Pee turns off the monitor.)

Junior: Dad? (Yes, Junior does call him dad.)

Chef Pee Pee: EFFY?! *Janice nods* I have heard that name. A powerful, barbaric, creature worshiped by the Stienback family. Legend says he came from the stars.

(In memory, the story of EFFY began a long time ago.)

Chef Pee: Ruthless, unmerciful with one desire: to enslave our world like so many before us. All seemed lost, until great mystic warriors forged a mighty weapon. A key that was used to lock them in a prison dimension beyond this realm. Over the centuries, the Mystic Key remained hidden to protect humankind and prevent the return of EFFY.

Junior: So...

Jeffy: Future girl is really from the future?

Joseph: Mind...[mimics explosion]

Janice: Someone finds the Key! Today! They steal it and use it to open a doorway and free the Krang! That's why I came back, to find it first. Future Junior drew a picture on the back of that photo. So, to stop EFFY, all we have to do is find the Key before it's stolen.

(Cody looks at the photograph and Future Junior's drawing of the Key as he turns the photo back to reveal the artwork of the canister.)

Cody: That was the key?! Junior...

Janice: What?

Junior: [anxious] Yeah, um, did future, handsome, amazing me tell you what to do in case that already happened? 'Cause that already happened.

(Annoyed, Chef Pee Pee flicks a piece of popcorn on Junior.)

Janice: [horrified] Oh, no, we're too late!

Cody: No, we're not. 'Cause we know who has the Key: Principal Stienback. Okay, team, we gotta find them before they use it. *To Junior* And this time, we do it together.

[Soon they began to leave with Junior mimicking under his breath. But as they leave, Janice was still tied in the chair.]

Janice: Uh, can someone untie me now?

[She tries to move but falls down.]


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