Dude, Where's My Horse?

chapter 1

We are shown the distant future in the world known as Megaville where everyone, well, almost everyone, lived in harmony, as they often tried to conquer evil and live in peace much like in the older times of the citizens' ancestors and those who came before them.

"Sit down, Scout," An older Tommy Pickles smiled to his daughter after he decided to spend some time with her as her mother was at the Spa for the week and would be back home today. "I'm going to tell you a story."

"What story is that, Daddy?" The golden blonde girl smiled to her father in excitement.

"This is a story about how I reunited with your mother over one summer vacation." Tommy smiled back.

"Oh, oh, tell me the story, Daddy!" Scout pleaded. "Please, please, please!"

"Well... All right..." Tommy smiled.

Scout cheered and then came onto her father's lap as he shared one of his best memories with her.

"Summer: The single greatest word in the English language," Tommy smiled in memory. "No school, no homework, no butt cramps from man's most uncomfortable invention, the chair desk. Nine long months of anticipation all building up to three precious months of sun, fun, and nonstop adventure."

But then it turns out that the Rugrats gang as preteen/teens were inside, sitting in the dark, watching TV, looking bored.

'Now, don't try this at home, mates!' The Australian man on the TV told the audience at home as an ostrich appeared on screen and he rode off only to fall off the hill with a parachute.

"Pass the remote!" Dil said as he checked his watch. "We're missing Hospital Detention!"

They then passed the remote control to Dil so that he could watch his show.

"What's Hospital Detention?" Susie asked.

"Eh, some Spanish soap opera that he and Dib Membrane are obsessed with." Tommy shrugged off.

Dil turned the TV onto the soap opera and looked like a zombie with his eyes glued to the screen. "Poor Enrique," The estranged boy sighed. "He can't find a brain donor and all I can do is stand by helplessly and watch."

"But Dil, you don't speak Spanish." Kimi pointed out.

"I know," Dil told her. "Human suffering is the same in any language."

"Hey," Lil smiled as she then pulled out her phone to see a new text. "I just got a text from Mike and she's back from Japan."

"Great, now you can meet up and suck each other's faces." Phil smirked to his twin sister.

"PHILLIP!" Lil snapped.

"What did she go to Japan for?" Kimi asked.

"She had to help her friends Duncan and Abby get something called The Golden Seal," Lil told her best friend. "And get this, Jo was able to make a friend that's a lot like her."

"Look at this place," Betty told her fellow adults. "It's like a goat exploded in here!"

"Why aren't you kids playing outside?" Didi asked.

"It's supposed to rain." Phil replied.

Didi came to the window and threw the curtains in, showing the sunshine which made them all flinch and yell out from the brightness.

"Sunday, I mean..." Phil muttered.

"Kids, meet my old buddy, Red." Grandpa Lou smiled as he showed company with him.