100% Julie lives in a tall treehouse. Her home may seem like an ordinary cabin built atop a tall tree, but deep down the depths of its trunk and beyond held a lucrative, yet secret laboratory where the fruit-headed bunny girl conducted experiments and tests that would deem diabolical to the unnerved eye. Inside one of the rooms, she was conducting experiments on a lone dead organism through a microscope with fellow scientist-yet-doctor, Rikvah. 100% Julie wanted to show her that she had found a way to revive the dead organism in order to power a sick cell.

“See what I mean, Doc? A Grade-A experiment of reviving life!” Julie exclaimed in joy as she put her experiment to action. Julie took a small tube of green liquid and began to pour droplets of it on the dead organism. The organism would slowly absorb the green chemical substance, and then begin to react through small shakes and shivers.

“Amazing…” Rikvah began.

“Wait for it…” Julie spoke slowly. The organism slowly stopped shaking and began to move from its post and make its way for the sickly cell. The organism would them begin to engulf the cell and proceed to heal it from within. Rikvah took a look at this discovery and began to comment, “This is EXTORDINARY. Why, with a few more tests, we’d be able to-” A beep from the elevator is heard, and 100% Julie took a portable teleporter and immediately said, “Sorry, Doc. Hate to Experiment and Run, but my friends are here,” then teleported Rikvah back to her home. The brothers come in through the elevator, and greet Julie at her desk.

“Heya greenie, how’s everything been up?”

“First of all, don’t call me greenie,” Julie spouts, “Second of all, I think I made a new DISCOVERYYYYYY~” The fruity scientist begins to have a slight spasm of joy and appreciation before shaking her head and coming back to reality. She then calls the dynamic duo to follow her and Jean-Luc & Joey follow her to a nearby table, though a small sliver of sentient green gelatin squirms away from the table. Julie doesn’t see it and begins to display a microscope with a few dead organisms upon the glass. She then slides a flask over to the microscope and then explains herself.

“What you see here, boys, is a group of dead organisms just sitting around on a lone microscope… BUT! With a dosage of this serum…” Julie started. She then took a droplet of the serum and gently poured a drip of it into the system, causing the dead organism to absorb the serum drop, and begin to vibrate. The organism then began to wriggle to other organisms and shaped into one big living cell. Jean-Luc and Joey watch in awe, and Julie continued to explain, “If this here thing can bring organisms back to life, imagine what it can do to REAL DEAD beings. With this serum, mixed with a variety of chemicals, mashed greens, and some bleach-NO-Phosphorus, WE TAKE DEAD ORGANISMS AND BRING THEM BACK TO LIFE!”

“WOW! Bringing things back to life sounds like a joy!” Joey exclaimed with joy.

“I don’t know….” Jean-Luc began, “I have a bad feeling about bringing the dead back to life…. Something about this doesn’t seem right with Mother Nature.”

“Oh, don’t be such a superstitious funk. Mother Nature is just a flora-and-fauna fairytale that crazy adults and idiotic teachers tell their kids about so they have some kind of sense of belief in something they don’t understand,” Julie argued.

“That’s a lot coming from a madcap quack who ends up in situations that deal with magic. Besides, isn’t mother nature supposed to punch you in the gut any time this month?” Jean-Luc came back with, only to properly get a rousing clamp of wood thrown into his face, disfiguring it in reaction. The fox stretched and fixed his face, then decided to discuss a more important topic.

“Well, other than these crazy needs of revitalization and whatnot. We actually have been watching a scary movie today,” Jean-Luc spoke.

“Oh yeah? What kind?” Julie asked while cleaning up some of her items.

“It was a movie about killer plants,” Joey said with a mouth agape and an overly dramatic expression, “And they began to EAT PEOPLE and TAKE OVER THE WORLD!” Julie looked at Joey with a disgruntled expression and replied, “Oh, I’ve seen that movie. If they really wanted to stop the problem, the assistant should have just straddled over to the overbearing drama queen of a man, tap his shoulder, and then knock him on the head. That way they could take him for a drink whilst hiding all of those experiments in the process. Problem solved!”

“That’s exactly what I thought!” Jean-Luc exclaimed, completely agreeing with Julie, “but hey. At least it’s a movie. There’s NO WAY such events are happening in real life right now.” If Jean-Luc could break the fourth-wall in a story, he’d look at us readers and would want us to agree with him. But sadly, he clearly doesn’t know the series of events that will occur like we do. A though then came into Jean-Luc the fox’s mind, and he began to ask, “Hey! Speaking of which… How’s the search on Ryan coming along? Joey and I have set up MISSING posters everywhere in case somebody’s seen him.” Julie pondered for a moment but shook her head slowly, noting that her search hasn’t come up with good results. However, she did direct the gang to her super computer and they all decided to use that to help. Julie sat in her big chair, spun it around and pressed the on switch, causing the system to power on and do its normal setup process, all to the tune of 1950s work music. The music stops as the super-computer opens up the main menu to- KER-POW!!! The computer suddenly short circuits and pops and then cuts out. The computer then begins to smoke and whirs down. Julie presses the on switch to no avail. The computer just won’t turn on.

“Da heck’s the matter with this thing,” Julie said with frustration as she began to slam her fist onto the keyboard. The fruit scientist then began to kick and punch the system in slight rage hoping something would work.

“She’s perfect for you,” Jean-Luc whispered to Joey’s ear. However, a voice called to everyone in the laboratory with a cheery voice and makeshift horn sounds. The voice was a screen with a video monitor of an animated face as it said, “Hi there~ it’s me, Face! Computerized and digital! Is there a problem that I may be able to help you with today?”

“Oh… hi, Face. I’m having a bit of computer trouble, and we’re in need of help of finding our friend.”

“Hmm… burr-buh-durrr~! I have an idea!” Face exclaimed as it spouted its idea with joy, “To find your friend, it’s best to back to where it began all the rest! Boop! And as for the computer, I have a tale to tell. For I have seen figures go through the well. They bashed and they battered like few broken parts. Like a coming array of burnt tire marks. I wish I could stop them, I did all I could. But the slime caught me, and my circuits were no good…” Face then glitches some then comes back to normal. It then continues, “How foreboded, it looks like some of my boards are still slightly corroded.”

“To find your friend, it’s best to back to where it began all the rest…” Jean-Luc pondered in thought, but an idea struck him with a mallet to trot, “I got it! We have to go back to the Fortress Defense Zone!” Jean-Luc spoke as the answer came to him, “There, we might be able to see if that’s where Ryan is possibly hiding. If not, then we’ll trace clues and steps from there.”

“Good work, my friend! I say, Go! Go! Go!” Face exclaimed while making some silly sounds, “For I do not know how long he will have to go!” Jean-Luc and Joey ran out the front door, and Julie followed behind. Joey turned and waved to Face while shouting, “Thanks for the help, Face! But save the nostalgia for next time!” Face greeted the gang with a kindly farewell, and the trio jumped into Jean-Luc’s car, and drove off for the fortress defense zone.