Video Game Journeys: Sam & Max Save the World

by CrashGuy41

The Rescue

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"I don't like this. I really don't," Fluttershy said, finally dropping her tough girl facade and taking off her glasses.

"Kill Sybil Pandemik? That's absurd!" Rarity said.

"Max and I will go talk to her and see what we can do," Sam said.

"I certainly hope so. And if anything, we have to get rid of that web cam that's spying on her once we figure this out!"

"Ya got that right," Applejack said. "Speaking of cameras, I don't like saying this, but we gotta get rid of Bosco's camera before we can make that delivery. Pinkie, you, Fluttershy and I will go into Bosco's and deliver the bear. Rarity, you can go with Dash and Twilight to get the meatball sandwich."

"Understood. And I think I know who Leonard might be trying to pawn it off to: Jimmy Two-Teeth."

"When this case is over, I would really like to change back into my street clothes," Fluttershy said. "I'm really starting to get hot in this suit."

"Come on, girls. Let's go."

And with that, everyone split up and went their own separate ways in order to do the three jobs the Toy Mafia wanted them to do.


Over at Bosco's, Pinkie decided to distract Bosco, since she knew he would be watching them, otherwise.

"Bosco, look outside! It's the Toy Mafia!" she exclaimed.

"What? Where?" Bosco gasped.

He took out his binoculars and saw that the dealer from the casino was reading a newspaper outside. Pinkie put the box down on the sale table. As soon as she did, however, an alarm went off. A vacuum tube dropped down and sucked up the box before spitting it out on to the street.

"I'll get it!" Applejack said.

She went outside and got the box back. Upon coming back in, Sam and Max entered while carrying a coffee cup. Sam then filled the entire cup with ketchup instead of coffee.

"What in tarnation are you doing, Sam?"

"I'm making it seem like we killed Sybil. I don't want to actually kill her. So, I'm filling it up with ketchup," he said.

"Of course! They used ketchup as a substitute for blood in old movies!"

"Precisely. I'm going to shoot the cup and make it seem like Sybil is covered in blood."

"That perfect, Sam!"

As they continued talking, Pinkie pulled the magnet out of her hair and placed it on the anti-delivery camera. Bosco didn't notice, as he was too distracted by the Toy Mafia member outside. B-Tads Part Deux sucked up the camera and spat it out on to the street.

"Nice one, Pinkie!" Fluttershy beamed.

"Eh, it was nothing," Pinkie grinned.

She then put the box on to the sale table just as Sam and Max walked out of the store back to Sybil's place. After doing so, the dealer came in to the store and gave them the thumbs-up, then walked out. Bosco started freaking out when he saw the delivery on his sale table. After the three girls exited the store, Bosco freaked out even more upon seeing that his anti-delivery camera was gone.


Meanwhile, in the office, Leonard was trying to threaten Jimmy into giving him the money before showing him the sandwich. Suddenly, Rarity, Rainbow and Twilight walked into the office. As soon as they did, Leonard immediately pointed the gun at them and threatened them. Twilight, however, knew better than to trust Leonard.

"Say, Leonard, isn't that a cap gun?" she asked.

"What? No!" he denied.

Twilight snapped her fingers, allowing Rainbow to attack Leonard before tying him up to Max's chair.

"Now, tell us where the meatball sandwich is!"

"I'll never talk. There ain't nothing you can do to break me!"

"Oh, really? What would your mother say if she were still alive?"

"No, please don't! Don't talk about her like that!"

"Girls, I think it's time to bust out the yo' momma jokes!"

"No, not that! Anything but that!"

"Too late, Leonard! Yo' momma's so radiant, if she fell in nuclear waste, no one would notice!"

"It's true," he sobbed as his face started getting red.

"Yes! It's working! Rainbow, you do the next one."

"On it. Hey, Leonard, yo' momma's so vulgar, her mouth would make a longshoreman blush!" Rainbow boasted.

"It hurts, it hurts!" he sobbed as face got redder.

"Isn't this kind of cruel?" Rarity asked.

"It is, but it's the only way we're going to get him to talk," Twilight explained.

"Fair point. I guess I'll go. I was saving this for someone else, but I suppose now's a good time to use it. Leonard, yo' mama's so punctual, she showed up early for her own funeral!"

"Oh, mama! Make it stop!" he wailed.

"Hey, Leonard! Yo' mama's so thrifty, she brings coupons to the penny arcade!" Rainbow said.

"STOP! PLEASE, STOP!" Leonard wailed. as his face got even redder than before.

"We'll only stop if you tell us where that meatball sandwich is!" Rarity snarled.

"No."

"Then you leave us with no choice."

"Please, don't."

"Yo' mama's so fat, she has more folds than an origami accordion!"

"Okay, okay! I'll tell you where the sandwich is, just leave my mama alone!" he whimpered.

"There, now was that so hard?"

"I never even took the sandwich out of the casino. I hid it in the prize slot of the one-armed bandit, and then took the one arm so no one could win it," Leonard explained as his face returned to normal.

"Where's the arm at?" Twilight asked.

"I got it right here next to me on the floor."

Twilight picked up the one arm from the one-armed bandit and headed out the door with her friends, leaving Leonard tied up in the chair.


As they walked out, they all saw Sam, Max and the others and met up near the DeSoto.

"So, what happened?" Twilight asked.

"Well, I managed to shoot Sybil's coffee cup that I filled with ketchup. Once I did, the ketchup got on her dress, as well as her face," Sam explained.

"Did she play dead?"

"Yes. After that, Max ate the web cam. Oh, by the way, before I forget, Fluttershy, are you normally a tough girl?"

"No, actually," Fluttershy said meekly. "I-I-I-I-I-I-It's just a facade I put on whenever I'm helping my mom with certain cases. S-S-S-S-S-S-S-She told me to act tough before I volunteered to help her out with the Toy Mafia."

"Who exactly is your mother? Just curious."

"The police chief of Canterlot City. Her name's Flower Power."

"Flower Power? Sounds like some kind of mulch that you put in your garden," Max said.

"That's what everyone says, but I assure you, she's as tough as the toughest weeds. I would know. Flower arranging's a hobby of mine."

"I see," Sam said. "So, what about the meatball sandwich?"

"We managed to get the one arm from the one-armed bandit after doing some yo' mama jokes to Leonard. And we also managed to snag his cap gun," Twilight explained.

"No fair! I wanted to do that!" Max complained.

"Be that as it may, we found out that the sandwich is in the prize slot of the one-armed bandit. All we have to do is win it."

"Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Sam exclaimed.

Everyone hopped into the DeSoto and headed back to the casino.


Upon reaching the casino, Fluttershy put her glasses back on and walked inside with everyone. After going inside, Twilight put the one arm back on the one-armed bandit.

"Rainbow Dash, would you do the honors?" Twilight asked.

"I thought you'd never ask!" Rainbow exclaimed as she put in her last token.

She then pulled the arm down and got the jackpot. The jackpot turned out to be the original meatball sandwich.

"Hey, look at that! The original meatball sandwich!"

As she grabbed the sandwich, Chuckles came out of the elevator and walked towards them.

"Did that thing just give you a prize?" he asked. "Must be out of adjustment. I'll have it serviced."

"Hey, we worked our butts off to get the original meatball sandwich back! See for yourself!"

She handed him the sandwich, which he confirmed to be the real deal.

"Yes, that's definitely the sandwich. Ted E. Bear will be very pleased."

"Is he hungry?" Max asked.

"Generally, yes. Well, I'm impressed. You've done well. Follow me to the back room upstairs. There's a little initiation ceremony."

The girls put their masks on and followed Chuckles into the back room where Ted E. Bear was.


Upon welcoming them all, Ted E. Bear decided to finally take off his bear head mask in order to talk clearer. As soon as he did, Fluttershy gasped. It turned out that a mole was behind the operations.

"Harry Moleman! You traitor! Does the carpet match the drapes?" she said.

"The code phrase! Idiot! Sam and Max are freelance police! And Fluttershy's the daughter of Flower Power from Canterlot City!" Harry exclaimed. "And you can drop the tough girl schtick! I know you're actually shaking right now!"

"You're right! I am!" she whimpered.

"Wait, so I get that the mole traitor, presumably for the wealth and power that the Toy Mafia could offer, but what happened to the previous Ted E. Bear?" Max asked.

"Or Ted E. Bears," Sam added. "For all we know, the original Ted E. Bear choked on his own meatball sandwich back in '65."

"Yes, good point. Should we run, now?"

"Perhaps so."

"GET THEM!" Harry ordered.

"Head for the car, everyone!"


Everyone ran out while the girls ditched the animal masks and hopped into the DeSoto. Sam started it up and eventually drove off at a high speed with the Toy Mafia hot on their tale. What was worse was that they were actually trying to shoot at them.

"We're going to die! We're going to die!" Fluttershy whimpered.

"I'd rather not die today, thank you!" Rarity whimpered.

"Well, we would puncture the tires, but the Toy Mafia's got those bullet-proof tires from Crime Mart!" Max exclaimed.

"Looks like we'll have to stop them a different way!" Sam said.

Applejack looked up and saw that some of the signs on the poles were loose.

"Sam, shoot at one of those signs! It might cause the mafia to stop!" Applejack shouted.

"On it!"

Sam got out his gun as he continued to steer the DeSoto. He then shot at a sign as they were about to pass it.

"This is not good," Chuckles groaned as the sign came down.

Once the sign came down, Chuckles bumped into it, causing the car to swerve, as well as making the gunner go over the bridge.

"Is that all of them?" Max asked as Sam sat back down with his gun put away.

"All but one: Ted E. Bear himself," Sam responded.

"Let's go take down that fat little fraud once and for all!"

"Good idea! Hold on, everyone!"

Sam then quickly drove the car back to the casino as fast as he could.


Upon returning to the secret room, everyone noticed that Harry was gone.

"I'd like to give that mole a piece of my mind!" Rainbow threatened.

"Cool it, Dash! We'll have to use our brains instead of our brawn for this!" Applejack said.

"Look! That door over there! It says Do not enter under pain of death," Twilight exclaimed, pointing to a door with red letters on it.

"Hey, guys! I found something interesting!" Sam said, walking over to a work desk. "He's got a bunch of maps in here, with what looks like truck routes going all over the country. Even Canterlot City!"

"Well, I guess that explains why I noticed the Toy Mafia in Canterlot City that day," Rarity mused.

"Come on, you guys! We got to stop this mole form hypnotizing everyone in the country!" Twilight said.

Everyone nodded in agreement and headed through the door.


After walking down a long hallway, they all came to another door and walked through it. Upon exiting the door, Fluttershy took off her glasses and put them into her chest pocket.

"Hey, there's a whole bear-making factory back here!" Sam exclaimed.

"This isn't good. If I weren't so timid, I'd find a way to shut this down," Fluttershy whimpered.

Suddenly, they were met by Harry Moleman, who was holding a hypno-bear in his right rand and a pistol in his left. He was surprised to see that they all had managed to escape his goons unharmed.

"As much as I want to hypnotize you girls, I already know that the hypno-bear won't affect you," he said. "Instead, you can help work the factory unless you want to end up like my other four victims."

He then walked over to a white sheet that seemed to be covering something. He put the gun away and pulled the sheet back, revealing four familiar faces.

"It's the Dazzlings... and Sunset Shimmer!" Applejack exclaimed.

"You... monster!" Twilight snarled.

The four of them were tied to chairs and gagged with white cloths.

"Why involve Sunset Shimmer in this? She hasn't done anything!"

"On the contrary, she was the person that the Dazzlings here were supposed to whack," Harry explained. "She used to cause trouble at the casino when she would come in with that weird girl. It was bad business for the previous Ted E. Bear, so I wanted to pick up where he left off. But when they couldn't do it, I had to take all of them hostage. I'd say it's a good bargaining tactic."

Rainbow clenched her hand into a tight fist. She was pissed.

"If Fluttershy wasn't with me right now, I'd freaking kill you!" she snarled.

"Enough of this!" Harry bellowed, taking out his gun out. "Sam and Max: Look at the hypno-bear!"

He then attempted to hypnotize Sam and Max, unaware that they couldn't be hypnotized. They decided to play along and pretend to be hypnotized in order to avoid suspicion. Harry then ordered Sam to kill Max by shooting him. Hearing this shocked Sunset, who was now angry and terrified. She rocked back and forth in her chair in an attempt to break free from the ropes. She eventually fell over on to her stomach in her seemingly futile attempt. While she was doing this, Twilight stealthily gave Sam the cap gun that she stole from Leonard to shoot Max with.

Max then did an overdramatic death scene like those found in old movies. As he was making his way towards the area where Sunset and the Dazzling were tied up at, Sunset managed to get her arms free from the ropes. Max then pulled on a lever, causing a tube to suck him up and into a machine puts the bears onto the assembly line. Thankfully, the assembly line didn't explode, as Max was small enough to pop out before the pressure gauge could reach the danger level. While Harry was distracted in giving the others orders, Sunset removed her gag and proceeded to untie herself from the chair. After Harry was finished talking, he went over to the door's entrance to read the newspaper. Sunset then successfully untied herself and landed on floor.

"Sunset, are you all right?" Twilight asked as her friend gasped for air.

"I'm fine. Thanks, Twilight," Sunset said. "Who are they?"

"Sam and Max. They're the freelance police," Fluttershy explained as she helped Sunset to her feet.

While Sam was busy trying to think of a way to hypnotize Harry to get him over to the tube, the others managed to untie the Dazzlings from the chairs. They then removed their gags so that they could breathe.

"After all we did to you guys, why are you suddenly being nice?" Aria asked.

"Everyone deserves a second chance, darling," Rarity said, offering her hand.

Aria just slapped it away, though.

"I don't need your so-called friendship. I'm fine doing things on my own with my sisters!"

"Oh! As if your plans ever work?" Sonata snarked. "It's because of you that we got into this mess! I wanted to hide, because I knew that the Toy Mafia would come looking for us! But nooooooooooooo! You insisted that we just go about our daily lives, knowing very well that they were going to find us because we couldn't do that one job!"

"Shut your yap, Sonata! If you hadn't made us stop to get tacos, we wouldn't even be here!"

"Both of you... SHUT UP!" Adagio roared. "I've had it with your constant arguing! It's unnecessary and immature! Once we get out of here, we're going to learn discipline the hard way! Whether you two idiots like it or not!"

"Yes, Adagio," they sighed.

Suddenly, the alarm started to go off. Everyone looked up and saw that Harry was stuck in the machine. Not only that, but the pressure gauge was rising fast.

"She's gonna blow!" Twilight yelled. "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!"


Everyone ran out of the casino as fast as they could as the factory started to explode. Thankfully, they all managed to get out in time before the place was completely destroyed. Thankfully, Sam and Max's DeSoto was left unscathed. Fluttershy's outfit, however, was torn as a result of the explosion.

"Thank goodness that's over!" she sighed.

Just then, her cell phone rang. Fluttershy immediately answered it.

"Hello? Oh, hi, mom. Yeah... uh-huh. Yes, we stopped them. Well, Sam and Max is with me. And so are my friends. What? What do you mean? Okay, yes. I understand. I love you, too. Bye."

She hung up and sighed heavily.

"What's wrong, Flutters?" Rainbow asked.

"I hate to say it, but we're not done. Something even more sinister is going to try and hypnotize the country. Thankfully for us, my mom told me that I don't have to act tough this time. I can just be myself."

"Yeah, that was kind of weird to see you act a bit more like me."

"I had no choice! The Toy Mafia's tough! I didn't want to show any weakness, so I took on the guise of bouncer. It was... to stay on their good side without arousing any suspicion."

"Hey, don't worry about it. Besides, we'll worry about this next case when it comes up. Right, guys?"

Everyone agreed unanimously. The Dazzlings, however, were already walking away while Fluttershy and Rainbow were talking to each other.

"Do you think we'll ever see them again?"

"It's possible. But I don't count on it happening anytime soon. Come on, let's go get something to eat. I'm starving!"

"I couldn't have said it better myself!" Max exclaimed.

Everyone then walked to the DeSoto and headed off to get something to eat for the evening. As they drove off, they were all unaware that there was one person who remained from the Toy Mafia: Chuckles. Chuckles removed his bear head mask, revealing his sunglasses, an earphone, and his gray-and-white hair.

"This is secret agent Chuckles. The factory's been destroyed. Repeat: The factory has been destroyed. Commence... Plan B," he said into his earphone.

Just what is Plan B? Was it something related to what Fluttershy was telling Rainbow Dash? Only time will tell...


Author's Note

For those who are confused, let me explain. As much as I liked the added touch of Sam and Max getting bear head masks in the remake, I honestly think that it's kind of unnecessary. That's why I resorted to using the original TellTale version where they didn't have masks, so that the girls could be in the back of the DeSoto as they were being chased.

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