A/N: Heyo, what is up, guys? It is the PerkyGoth of the PerkyGoth14 stories series. This is a little treat I cooked up a bit as a gift for CartoonNetwork90sFan. I don't know how far this story will go, hopefully this first chapter was decent, if you guys ever get around to finding it. Also, if you're new to my stories, welcome! If OCs appear, I'll own them, but so far, everyone else belongs to their respective owners. This was an idea I'd been sitting on for a while, so I thought I'd upload this for around the time the live action Lion King movie comes out (even if I don't intend on seeing it in the theaters any time soon, sorry). Anyway, Read & Review!
It was a typical Friday evening at Cartoon Cartoon Fridays. All of the Cartoon Cartoons were standing together as it was now 11:00, which meant that the program was now over for the week and they would be back again the same day again at 7:00 just like it always was.
"That's it! Cartoon Cartoon Fridays is done, and I'm gonna get some shut-eye." Eustace said, a bit grumpily as the lights were being shut off for the week and everyone was about to go back home.
"I can see why Eustace doesn't host very often." Mike crossed her arms a bit.
"Eh, I guess it could be worse?" Eddy shrugged. "I don't know about him sometimes. Reminds me of my Granddad."
"Totally," Mike agreed before looking to the Eds. "So, you guys want me to come over with the snacks or what?"
"Yeah, bring pizza bagels," Double D smiled. "They're perfect."
"All right, pizza bagels it is," Mike smiled back. "I got some Dr. Pepper in my fridge."
"Sounds good, Mike, we'll see you in front of the hotel." Ed smiled.
"Thanks, big guy." Mike smiled back as she walked off.
Courage shivered as he was stuck on the F disc, but no one else seemed to see him there.
"Aww... Are you stuck, buddy?" Mike asked.
Courage whimpered and nodded to the young tomboy.
"All right, hang on, I'll be right there." Mike said, going off to get a ladder.
Sarah stumbled a bit as Mike ran into her before she then glared at the tomboy. "WATCH WHERE I'M GOING!" she then complained.
"Sorry, not sorry!" Mike replied since it was Sarah.
Sarah growled a bit. "Sure... Mike's gotta save the day... As usual..." she then muttered.
"There's no need for jealousy, Sarah." Lu rolled her eyes at the girl.
"Oh, psh, like you aren't jealous of Mike!" Sarah scoffed. "You're always trying to be better than her at everything, and you act like a spoiled princess all the time!"
"Sure, but even I have standards." Lu glared.
Mike then ran by with the ladder, accidentally hitting Lu with it on the way back to the F disc.
"Hey!" Lu cried out.
"Sorry, Princess!" Mike replied before putting up the ladder and she soon began to climb it. "All right, Courage, hang in there, buddy. I'm coming."
"Here I come to save the day." Sarah mocked Mike, rolling her eyes.
"If you're not gonna help, then get out of here!" Mike called to her.
"Let's see ya try to get outta this one!" Sarah smirked and soon kicked down the ladder while Mike climbed up to the F disc.
Mike soon knelt over to the cowardly dog, holding out her arms with a small smile. Courage shivered and whimpered before jumping into her arms, feeling safe already.
"All right, buddy, let's get you back to Muriel," Mike smiled, about to go down the ladder, but then saw that it fell over. "Huh? Hey!"
"See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!" Sarah laughed as she ran off.
"Argh..." Mike grumbled.
Courage soon saw the way down and fainted in Mike's arms because of how high up they were.
"Ugh... Sarah!" Mike complained.
"What're you gonna do, tell your parents?" Sarah mocked. "Oh, wait, that's right. You don't have any!"
"Not everyone has parents..." Otto muttered a bit.
"Stay outta this, Snotto!" Sarah glared at him as she set off.
Otto looked anxious and soon grabbed the ladder to help Mike back down. "Hey, Mike! Come on down!" he then called out.
"Huh? Oh! Thanks! ...Uh... Oswald?" Mike replied.
"Otto!" Otto reminded her.
"Oh, right, sorry." Mike replied.
"Eh, it's okay, I guess," Otto shrugged as he held the ladder while Mike was carefully coming back down with Courage. "Don't let Sarah get to you."
"Eh, it's okay, Otto, I just try to ignore her," Mike replied. "Thanks for your help."
"What're friends for?" Otto smiled bashfully. "Uh... Erm... We can be friends, right?"
"Of course we can," Mike said as she made it down with Courage. "I better get Courage back home, then I gotta meet up with the Eds."
"Mind if I walk with you for a bit?" Otto asked.
Mike shrugged and then walked off with Otto out of the CCF studio. They were soon going down the street together to the Bagge household to drop Courage off before Mike would get to her home for the big sleepover with the Eds who were her best friends, next to Dee Dee of course.
"So, Otto, any plans this weekend?" Mike asked.
"Eh, I guess I'm just gonna travel through time with Larry and Tudrussel," Otto shrugged. "Ya know, that's my job and all."
"It sounds pretty cool," Mike replied. "Like a sci-fi movie."
"Uh, yeah, it is pretty cool, huh?" Otto smiled sheepishly. "I mean... We meet a lot of historical figures. Napoleon... Edgar Allen Poe... Beethoven... The list is endless!"
"Sometimes I wish I could travel through time... Or cross the border." Mike commented.
"Oh, but we're not allowed to do that," Otto then reminded her. "Weasel has a strict no border hopping policy, especially to Nicktropolis when you went there by accident."
"I know, Otto." Mike muttered as she already had that lecture.
"Heh... Sorry?" Otto blushed a bit.
"It's okay." Mike said before knocking on the front door as they made it on the Bagge porch.
"Oh... We're here already... Nice..." Otto blinked.
Mike nodded as they waited at the front door as she carried Courage in her arms.
"Say... Uh... Mike? I know that you're busy tonight, but... Maybe later this weekend or something... You and I could get a root beer together?" Otto spoke up softly with his hands behind his back as his foot shuffled on the floor. "I mean, if you want-"
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" Eustace snapped as he came up to the door.
"You forgot your dog." Mike said, holding out Courage.
"Huh? Oh... Okay..." Eustace said as he took a hold of the cowardly dog. "You stupid dog! Couldn't you find your own way home?"
"Who's at the door, Eustace?" Muriel's voice asked.
"Just that Mazinsky kid," Eustace replied before glancing at Mike. "I guess you want some kinda reward, huh?"
"Eh." Mike shrugged, not expecting one from Eustace of all people, so she didn't pry, unlike Eddy who probably would've if he came with her.
"Good, 'cuz yer not gettin' one!" Eustace glared.
"Eustace, don't be rude," Muriel smiled, coming beside her husband. "Ah, little Mikey dear... Why don't ye come inside for a piece of pie?"
"No thank you, ma'am," Mike replied. "I have a sleepover with the Eds to get to."
"Oh, well, very well..." Muriel smiled. "Ye can come back any time ye like. Don't be a stranger."
"Blah, blah, blah." Eustace grumbled.
"Thanks, Mrs. Bagge, I better get going." Mike replied.
"All right, get to yer friends safely then." Muriel smiled before Eustace slammed the door.
Mike and Otto soon heard talking behind the door before they then heard the whamming of a rolling pin.
"What did I do?!" Eustace cried out.
"Same old, same old... I think I need a change of scenery..." Mike rolled her eyes before walking off.
"Uh, yeah..." Otto replied. "You need to get out of the city for a while."
"I dunno where I'd go though," Mike said, walking off. "Well, see ya later, Otto."
Otto let out a small grunt before sighing as he blew his chance with Mike. No one else knew this, but Otto had a bit of a crush on Mike, but he was always afraid to tell her and tried to find ways to impress her, but all of that seemed to fall on deaf ears. He also related a lot to her since they were both orphans and didn't have much of a family of their own, though technically, he had a family with Larry and Tudrussel while Mike stayed at the Cartoon Network Hotel since she had nowhere else to go or no one else to go to, but was always given offers from Lu and Og to stay with them and their parents on the island that was within distance of the city.
Eventually, Mike came to the hotel, grabbing her backpack, took a pillow, then carried a grocery bag of pizza bagels with a liter bottle of Dr. Pepper like she promised.
"Checking out?" The Red Guy asked her.
"You know very well I'm going out with my friends." Mike replied.
"Just checking," The Red Guy smirked. "You have fun with your boyfriends now."
"Ugh... It's not like that, ya sicko." Mike rolled her eyes as she left the lobby and went to get going to Ed's house.
Meanwhile, the Eds were getting ready for Mike to come over as Double D and Eddy had come over while Ed entertained them by telling them about the latest issue of Evil Tim. Eddy looked bored while Double D grinned politely since Ed wanted to talk about it. Eventually, the doorbell rang.
"Oh, thank grop!" Eddy then said so that Ed would stop talking about Evil Tim.
"Don't worry, Eddy," Ed smiled. "There's an Evil Tim movie marathon coming on later tonight. Mike will love that!"
"Excuse me while I find a container for my joy." Eddy grumbled.
"Oh, I think Sarah has jars for catching fireflies in you can borrow." Ed smiled innocently.
Eddy face-palmed from that.
"Hey, guys, sorry I'm a little late." Mike smiled as she came to see them.
"Mike!" The Eds beamed once they saw her.
"Let's get this sleepover started, huh?" Mike smiled.
Eventually, they had a lot of fun. They had their pizza bagels, watched some movies, played some video games, though Ed couldn't get past Level 1, and they even told some ghost stories. When Ed's mother heard them screaming and hollering from the ghost stories, it was then she decided they all had to go to sleep. Mike tried to brush off what Sarah said about being an orphan as she then woke up in the middle of the night and went to get a glass of water... Only to run into Sarah.
"Hey!" Sarah complained.
"We gotta stop meeting like this." Mike grumbled a bit.
"Don't tell me that, tell yourself that," Sarah huffed. "All you are is nothing but trouble."
"At least I'm not a spoiled brat who wants to make people as miserable as I am." Mike rolled her eyes.
"At least I have parents and a family!" Sarah retorted.
"Well, I feel sorry for them to have you in their family." Mike glared.
"You can't talk to me like that!" Sarah glared back. "You don't even belong on Cartoon Cartoon Fridays! Your show is so boring!"
"No, it's not!" Mike snapped.
"Is so!" Sarah glared. "Gilligan's Island died out a long time ago, what makes your show so special? What makes YOU so special anyway? You should just get out of here and never come back! Nobody would miss you anyway!"
"Just shut up!" Mike glared, feeling hurt, but tried to keep strong.
"Or what?" Sarah glared back. "I bet your parents just ran away after you were born. Maybe they are alive and they didn't even love you."
"I SAID SHUT UP!" Mike snapped, hitting Sarah in the face, but not with her hand, it seemed to be like a wolf claw.
"OWW!" Sarah yelled out, now having a scar over her left eye.
"What's going on out there?!" Ed's mother complained before clicking the light on. "Sarah! Baby! What happened?"
"She hit me for no reason!" Sarah cried out, pointing to Mike in blame.
Mike looked broken, inside and out. She didn't know what else to do and she soon ran off out of the house. Ed's mother called out for her, demanding for her to come back, but Mike didn't come back. Mike ran off on her own, and she soon stared up at the full moon, shaking a bit before she seemed to transform right then and there into her werewolf form. She felt very emotional right now, not sure what else to do, and once she was a full, orange-colored wolf, she then went back to running.
Mike didn't know where she was going, but she didn't look back as this had to be one of the worst nights of her life. She kept running that night, seeming to end up somewhere else as she ran fast enough to go into other places without realizing. Not even noticing if she ran into people or not, but she kept on running. To make matters worse, it seemed as though a trio of hyenas spotted her and soon began to chase her next.
Mike did then notice the hyenas, she could've taken them on if she wanted to, but she was very vulnerable right now as she didn't know what to do now. Sarah the spoiled brat was just making life harder for her, and now these hyenas she didn't know were on her tail.
"Hey, buddy, you from around here?" One hyena spoke up with a smirk.
"Yeah, why don't we help ya out?" Another hyena added with a female voice.
The third hyena soon laughed, not able to make a full sentence in speech.
"Look... I'm having a bad day... Just leave me alone!" Mike cried out to the hyenas.
"Ooh, stubborn, are ya?" The female hyena smirked. "We can fix that."
"No... Please... I don't wanna fight." Mike told them.
"Too late!" The vocal male hyena replied.
The three hyenas soon began to lunge out and attack Mike. Mike grunted and growled before she tried to fight them back.
"Such a shame, we're practically cousins, and you won't let us help you." The female hyena laughed.
The three hyenas soon laughed together until a golden blur shot over them. Mike soon laid still on the ground before looking over. She backed up a bit as she saw a golden lion with crimson red mane fighting the hyenas before she soon yelped and slipped backwards down a bit of a cliff before she then slid down and hit a rock, very hard, and then blacked out.
A little while later, the orange wolf heard a deep voice calling out to her. It was muffled and garbled a bit at first like she was underwater. Eventually, she opened her eyes as it was a bit blurry at first before she looked around to find herself in some sort of jungle and she looked up to see the lion who had saved her from the hyenas.
"Excuse me... Are you all right?" The lion asked her softly.
"I... I think so..." The wolf muttered a bit. "Ugh... My head..."
"Could you tell me who you are?" The lion asked.
"I... I... I..."
The lion looked concerned to the wolf, even if she was technically related to the hyena, but could see that she meant no harm to him.
"I... I don't remember." The wolf finally said to him.