Early Summaries
(aka what I could decipher)
by Mandi Ohlin
When I was in sixth grade, Captain N was in its second season, and I was a
die-hard fan. However, I was not a great fan of my Earth Science class.
Great teacher, but the class was so dull I kept tuning out constantly. So
while my teacher lectured, I wrote--not notes, but story fragments about
Captain N!
Most of them involved Kevin's sister, Kelly, but not the same one as in "The
N-Files;" she was his twin sister and nowhere near as obnoxious. (read: a
major Mary Sue.) I filled pages of my science notebook with Captain N
stories, although they stopped mysteriously in the middle of story number
two. That was the quarter I got a C in Science, and I think Mr. Oswald
figured out by then that I wasn't taking notes. Oops. :) I did better in the
class after that.
I put down what I could remember / could salvage. Still searching for the
notebook in its entirety....sigh...
Story # 1: This is the fic involving Kevin's twin sister Kelly Keene (I had
an obession with twins that year--there were three sets of twins in my
school!) and begins right before "The Big Game". There's about 12 pages of
scribble, and it didn't get finished, but I spent a lot of classes writing
it. Here's what I think it was supposed to be about.
Kelly is on the cheerleading squad with Stacy (yep, I spelled her name
without the e), and has a big fight with her after practice about something
and storms out. But just as she's walking out of the gym, the entire gym
vanishes right in front of her! Of course, when it reappears, no one
believes her--Rick and Stacy don't remember a thing. So Kelly and Stacy
argue again, and Kelly walks home in a bad mood. Stacy says something about
her acting weird ever since her brother disappeared.
Then the real story starts when Kelly goes upstairs, ignoring her mother
nagging, and sits down in front of the Nintendo (which for some reason is
still in Kevin's room). In Videoland, Wily decides to bring a new opponent
for Kevin through the Warp Zone Shifter--this time, an opponent that Kevin
won't be able to fight. Kelly gets sucked through, of course, and they grab
her and strap her down to a brainwashing machine. Then, in the Palace of
Power, Lana receives a transmission from Mother Brain, who (I think) taunts
her that she has a better Game Master who Kevin will never be able to
defeat. Just then, she gets a distress call from Hyrule; Mother Brain's
forces, including Kelly with a Power Pad and Zapper, are attacking. So the N
Team takes off for Hyrule to rescue Zelda and Link, of course. Kevin finally
makes it through the mess to where Zelda's being held, and bursts in when
Mother Brain, Eggy, Wily, and the "mysterious" Game Master are about to get
a hold of the Triforce of Wisdom.
Kevin is shocked to see that his *sister* is the Game Master, and hesitates
to use his Zapper on her. Wily takes the opportunity to press a button and
surround Kevin in a force field. (I don't know where Link and the rest of
the N Team were.) Mother Brain orders Kelly to destroy Captain N. Kelly
pulls out her Zapper, ignoring Kevin's attempts to talk her back to her
senses, then turns and shoots Wily's machine! The contraption explodes, and
Wily hits the deck as the force field disappears.
Turns out Wily's brainwashing machine had seven or so plugs, and he forgot
to plug them all in. Kelly was just playing along because she really didn't
want them to figure it out. Zelda, Kelly, and Kevin prepare to send Mother
Brain and company to the scrap heap, but then the rest of the N Team comes
in just as Mother Brain activates an escape warp or something. Duke
recognizes Kelly and bowls her over excitedly, and the scribble ends there.
I think Mr. Oswald figured out at that point that I wasn't really taking
notes.
Story # 2: Not as extensive as that last one. I think it was another Kelly
story, and I wrote it after watching the movie "The Wizard" for the nth
time. Lana figures out a way to open the Ultimate Warp Zone without erasing
memory, and Kelly goes back temporarily to try to cover for her own
disappearance. She lands in an alley, but unfortunately right in front of
Rick and Stacy (again, I don't know what they were doing there). Of course,
she has to tell them everything. She also finds out that she's been gone for
a week (huh?) and that her parents are going to lose the house or something
if they don't come up with $50,000 by the next day. Coincidentally, Rick has
an article about the state videogame competition in Los Angeles with the
grand prize being exactly $50,000.
Kelly immediately decides to get Kevin and get him to come and win the
money. Rick and Stacy insist on coming with her to Videoland. Naturally,
Kevin agrees to do it, and Lana says she's coming, too. And that's as far as
I got.
That's all I could find in the way of scribbles. I think I had a fic
involving Julio the paperboy, Link, Zelda, Duke, Mega Man, and Kelly taking
a really roundabout trip through warps (call it the back route) to the
Palace of Power to rescue the rest of the N Team. But I have no clue where
that one is or what twisted region of my brain it came from. :)
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