JumpStart Advanced: Power Boost

The third story of the heroes series. Enjoy.

Chapter 1: Drink gone wrong

One day in JumpStartville, Frankie started out his morning by burying some bones. In the middle of that, he felt hungry. "Oh well, breakfast time!" The dog left his bones half buried and went inside his house to have some breakfast.

In his kitchen, Frankie opened the fridge and examined it. "Hmmm..." He thought a bit and then, took out a cereal box and a bottle of milk. "It's been a while since I had my choco bones with milk." He got a spoon and bowl and sat down to have his breakfast.

After breakfast, Frankie went back to burying his bones when he heard a ringing sound. Heading back to his house, he saw the telephone ringing. "Well, I'm charging my handphone so..." He answered it. "Hello? This is Frankie speaking."

"Hey Frankie! This is Hopsalot! Hope you don't mind if you can give me a hand?"

"Sure! Who else is coming anyway?"

"All the all-stars will be there to give me a hand."

"I see. I'll be there in several minutes. See you!"

"Okay. Bye!"

Hanging up the phone, Frankie looked around. "Squirt is still asleep and the time is 9am. I think I'll prepare his breakfast first before I leave." So Frankie went back t his house and prepared Squirt's breakfast for his little cousin stays with him and after that, he wrote a note to let him know of his absence for a while so once Frankie had settled everything, he grabbed his scooter and scooted his way to Hopsalot' house.

Soon enough...

Outside Hopsalot's house, he can be seen briefing the other all-stars when Frankie scooted in. "Did I miss anything?"

"We just got started Frankie." CJ called out as Hopsalot briefed on. "Now, the science fair I'm planning in a few days time will need some organization." He then gathered the all-stars around him and showed him some schematics on a blueprint. "This is some organization you've planned." Kisha exclaimed as they studied it. After that, "Okay guys. Let's hop to it." Hopsalot exclaimed as he took out a controller and pressed a button, the ground rumbled a bit and behind him, a platform opened up revealing supplies of materials. "Enough to set up the booths." said Pierre as all 8 of them got to work.

The all-stars worked hard as they set up the booths at certain locations and are preparing the stuff used for the science fair. Casey can be seen setting up a skeleton figure on one booth and on another booth, Eleanor is arranging some science books and Kisha is painting some orbs of different sizes while Hopsalot hanged each of them with strings tied into circles with the orbs.

On one corner, Frankie and Pierre are setting up a booth. "This booth is for what?" asked Frankie. "Designated for me to explain energy especially y favourite when it comes to music." Pierre answered. "Cool." Frankie exclaimed as they continued the setup as on another corner, CJ and Edison are displaying plants on the booth and Casey is now helping Hopsalot set up another booth. "On the day of the fair, I need a dry ice cube, a normal ice cube, some water and a container of gas." Hopsalot told him. "I can't get some gas and dry ice but I can get the other 2 components." Casey replied. "Then I'll do what I can." Hopsalot replied with understanding as he added. "Wanna grab some lunch?"

"Sure thing pal." So Hopsalot gathered the all stars and presented them bowls of salad in which the vegetables are from his garden. He also has salad dressing for them to add to their vegetarian meal. "I wonder why there's no meat..." Pierre sighed as he played with the vegetables with his fork. "Don't complain. Vegetables gives us the vitamins we need to sustain our healthy bodies." Eleanor explained to him as she ate her lunch.

During the lunch hour, "Guys. I need to check on Squirt. I'll be back shortly." Frankie explained to them. With understanding, Hopsalot allowed him to do s and even packed some salad in a container for Frankie to bring home to Squirt. Once it's done, Frankie set off back to his house.

After that...

It didn't take long but Frankie returned soon enough, "Whew! Just in time to resume the setup. Could use a glass of water." Frankie's eyes then caught something. On one of the booths, there was glass with some drink on it. "Good timing." Frankie thought as he went to the booth, took the glass and drank it up. "Refreshing." he thought when, "Uh Frankie. Did you just drink one of my experimental serums?"

"Wait...serum?!" Franki stared at Hopsalot as, "Yeah...you drank it up at all." Frankie was speechless for a moment. "Why would you put some liquid in a glass?"

"Oh that's because I'm out of test tubes until I searched my storage room and found some on a test tube rack on a shelf and now, I was gonna-"

"Going." Eleanor interrupted as, "As I was saying, I was going to fill it with the serum I filled in the glass that you apparently took it and drank up the serum."

"Oh man, what's going to happen to me?" a worried Frankie asked. "I don't know. This was experimental and I haven't tested it out yet." Hopsalot replied as Frankie still had that worried look on his face. "But anyway, how bad can it be? Besides, you still look normal if you ask me."

"You mean it's not going to harm my body?" Frankie asked starting to feel relief. "Probably." Definitely, he was relived by Hopsalot's words as the all-stars got back to work.

Soon enough, all the booths are completed with all the props and scientific materials in display. "Thanks for the help guys. I appreciate it." Hopsalot thanked his friends. "No problem. We're just glad that we came here to help." CJ replied as the rest of the all-stars left to do their own activities.

Later that night...

Nightfall has descended and by now, the entire village should be asleep. Well, except for Frankie who just finished putting Squirt to sleep. After that, he went to his bedroom with thoughts in his head. "Okay, I accidentally drank an experimental serum. I wonder about it..." He then looked at the mirror expecting a change in his body. "No change. I'll keep waiting."

Several minutes later, "Still no change. I guess this liquid is defective." Satisfied, Frankied changed into his pjs and went to bed believing that everything will be alright.

But in the middle of the night...

For some reason, once all turned in for the night, a bright blue light illuminated in Frankie's house. Despite the brightness, none are affected and the light dissipated quickly. In was clearly unknown what it was but it seems harmless. Is it?

Okay, this story will have a few chapters only as not much adventure will take place. Still, what happens next now that Frankie had an unexpected incident involving a drink that was actually a serum? We shall see in the next chapter...