Team JAG Headquarters never looked busier after so many months, perhaps not since the simultaneous attack of all the then-known dimensions at the climax of the Dimensional Metarex War. Search parties worked around the clock investigating each dimension for any trace that the missing Tails and Cosmo could’ve showed up in any given location. Dr. Eggman and his team of intellects checked with all the parties and maintained the interdimensional scanning of each universe and each world and planet that resided within them, all reports successful or failing reported to the Master Four.
In one of the headquarter’s meeting rooms, a small group of friends gathered together, some on a due break from the search while others stood at the sidelines for the time. This group was a special gathering – most of the members of the Team JAG Band – who got together to share some discussion about current events, and some of the most recent ones that took place on Mobius before the entire ordeal started.
“This is probably the worst ways I ever had to start a new year,” said Dan Fenton, better known by his heroic title of Danny Phantom. “I don’t think I can count the times I went over to Mobius to check out the wreckage of the ship parts that fell into the ocean.”
“Did you find anything that could be helpful, or even either of them at all?” asked Ami, the perky and bright-sided half of her world’s greatest duo, Puffy AmiYumi. Her answer was Dan bowing his head and shaking it no.
“That good for nothing Dark Oak and those good for nothing commander wannabes in that good for nothing Brotherhood,” growled Yumi, the edgier and temperamental half of Puffy AmiYumi, and Ami’s best friend. “I’ve got half a mind of take my axe and crack every skull of theirs I find.”
“Forget it,” stated Aelita, one of the brightest and leading heroes of the Lyoko warriors. “They thrive on that attention. I want them to pay for this, too, but for now we have to find out what happened to those two first.”
Speaking next was Phineas, one of the band’s ‘unofficial’ members who works with his brother to help set the stage for the band’s performances, doing so since the first JAGFest shows in 2012. “Hopefully some of the computer software modifications we made for the scanner will help find them soon.”
“Believe me,” stated Dan, “we all hope that everything we do leads to anything good.”
“Patience is a near-forgotten virtue, but a hardest of ones as well,” preached Ferb, Phineas’s quieter but equally productive brother.
“Amen to that,” agreed Ami. She then turned towards two others who sat next to her. “What about you guys? Was there any good findings with your effort?”
Sitting there quiet and sad was Kim Possible, an acclaimed hero from her universe that started from when she was a preteen. Next to her was her loyal sidekick and loving fiancé, Ron Stoppable. The two got engaged the previous summer, and since then have become the two newest members of the band, the offer to join and learn new techniques as the band’s early wedding gift. The moment they heard about Tails and Cosmo, they jumped into action, but me the same problems as everyone else.
“This is definitely a hard sitch to handle,” Kim said, using her slang from her teenager years. “Wade handled our planetary scan, but we still used all our resources to see if anything strange happened in the last few days, but there was nothing. This is so not how coming off of JAGFest and 2013 should’ve gone.”
“Tell me about it,” Ron pouted. “We spent a whole month traveling, having fun and playing music. Then we go home to start preparing a new start for us with moving to Mobius for a while, but just as things were all wonderful, HERE it is!”
“Ron, I know you’re not happy with this, but you still need to grow up a little,” Kim told him, and she was right. His attitude did reflect his younger self more than usual.
“I’m sorry KP, but it’s just not right. We have no idea what Dark Oak did to Cosmo, how Tails held up against him, and now they’re both who knows where. It just sucks to have them deal with so much,” he said.
Nobody could argue that statement, for everyone felt basically the same. Phineas then said “That is true, but you guys know Tails and Cosmo longer than Ferb and I have, and you’ve said how they manage to hold their own at times, right?”
“Yeah, that’s true,” Aelita said. “As long as they have each other to fight and live for, they’ll do whatever they can no matter what. However, it’s still terrible for them to deal with so much.”
“Well, they’re not the only ones. Eggman told me about their friends back home,” Ferb stated, referring to Sonic, the gang and everyone from Mobius, perhaps saving one other hedgehog in particular.
“I swear that if we find them soon, and they’re both alright, we’re going to show that Brotherhood just how much they can try to bring us down, but they’ll never win,” Yumi stated.
“You got that right,” agreed Kim. “But honestly, something like that, like a concert, is the last thing to worry about right now.”
Dan leaned back in his seat, looking towards the ceiling as the others kept on talking. He could overhear their conversation continue on, but he didn’t focus on what was being said exactly. He spent this time thinking to himself, thinking “It’s bad enough they’re missing, but worst of all is there’s no sign of them anywhere. What does this mean? Is it something good, or bad, or just new?”
The ghost hero wasn’t the only one thinking these thoughts, for divided around their headquarters, the Master Four of Team JAG were thinking the same thoughts while working with other responsibilities.
Ash was with a few of his Pokemon while discussing search efforts on his world through his many friends in several regions, and Gohan talking with his friends and family from his world about who would go help where as he’d look after their planet with his wife Videl, Hercule, Dende and Mr. Popo.
Yugi and Atem, the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle, went throughout the base to check with leaders of search teams for any updates and undone searches to move continue, plus one other topic, and Jason stood beside Dr. Eggman as the Doctor and his team of interdimensional geniuses did all they could, with the dark warrior watching over all the trusted actions.
They each took turns at this post, and each of the four wondered what exactly happened after Chaos Control took place. What happened next was nearly unbelievable, not to mention imperfect timing, as red alerts of several different places went off and screen after screen flashed ‘DANGER’ before revealing distress calls or new events.
As all of this took place, Jason said “No. What are they up to now?!”
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