"I still remember when I first heard about your mother's adoption," Nanny sighed to Eloise. "She was adopted by LB Mammoth himself, but her life wasn't all that fabulous."
"Don't worry, Nanny, we're going to have a great time!" Eloise chirped.
"Yeah!" The Fudo siblings agreed.
"I missed her so much, you remind me so much of her when she was your age." Nanny smiled.
The next morning was going to be a day they would never forget as this was going to be a wonderful experience. They packed all that they could and stopped to take a break for dinner and would do more packing in the morning.
"This is going to be so exciting!" Estelle said out of excitement.
"I can hardly wait!" Akito added.
"Neither can I," Vincent smiled. "I mean, what if we meet some movie stars?"
Eloise walked in, looking rather snooty and had her sunglasses on. "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Director~..." she said in a melodramatic tone of voice and did one of her infamous twirls.
"Eloise, what are you doing?" Estelle asked.
"Oh, just practicing if I become an actress like my mother used to be when she was a little girl." Eloise smiled with a giggle.
Nanny struggled with closing one of the suitcases. "Could one of you dears help me with this one?"
"Allow me." Akito said, he then ran off and jumped onto the suitcase, making the top fall on top and he clicked it shut. "There you go, Nanny!"
"Thank you." Nanny smiled to the boy.
"You're welcome." Akito said politely.
"Are we all packed then?" Vincent asked.
"Just about," Nanny smiled. "I hope you don't mind going on a train ride."
"Not at all, it'll be just like a regular adventure... Only hopefully, no bad guys." Estelle replied.
"Oh, yes, that would be most unpleasant." Eloise said, still sounding like a diva actress, but of course, not really meaning it toward them.
"Yeah and if there are ever any disasters; I'll be able to go hero," Akito said. "But of course, I'll change privately so then no one sees me change to my hero outfit."
The others chuckled a little to this.
The next morning, the finished packing was set and someone came to the door for their escort into Hollywood.
"Hey, you two," Maxine greeted with a smile as she had a carrying luggage cart behind her. "Your ride's downstairs. Where are your bags?"
Nanny opened the door more to show a nearly bottomless amount of suitcases.
"BILL!" Maxine cried for help.
Bill came to help her and they had all the bags ready, Eloise, Akito, Estelle, and Vincent were sitting on top of the bags.
"Do you think we overdid it?" Estelle asked her siblings and cousin.
"You can never have too many bags." Eloise reassured. "Bill, Maxine, do you promise to take good care of Skipperdy while we're gone?"
"Of course, Skipperdy's family." Bill promised.
"And look after my egg?" Estelle added.
"We promise, he or she is in good hands." Maxine promised herself.
"Very well," Eloise leaned back as they were now going to catch their taxi to take them to the train station. "Weenie, we're off!"
Akito and Vincent put Lavitar and Vulpix in their Pokeballs. Weenie dashed to the luggage dolly and clung to Eloise as they were on their way out.
'Oh, Eloise, I'm going to miss you so much.' Weenie thought to himself.
Eloise hugged her pug dog nice and tight in comfort and let him go. Weenie whimpered and whined.
"Don't worry, we'll be back soon!" Estelle promised.
"See ya in the movies!" Eloise smiled and batted her eyelashes.
Bill and Maxine moved them downstairs to the lobby to get them on their taxi to the train station.
"This is going to be quite an experience." Akito said.
The staff wasn't as sad about Eloise leaving the hotel since it was only for just a week or two and they would be happy instead of that horrible school experience.
The Fudo cousins said goodbye to everyone as the cab drove them off to the train station. "Hollywood, here we come!" they all cheered together and laughed as they went off.
The cab drove them all the way to the train station. A man helped them with their bags, but they had to rush, they were almost late. Luckily, they made it onto the train and just as they sat down, the train started to take them straight of New York.
"I hope there's some kids on board around our age." Estelle said as she saw just a bunch of adults so far.
"We'll see at dinner, if you find someone, maybe you could play." Nanny smiled.
"Yeah." The Fudo siblings nodded.
Eventually, dinner came and they all came to a diner like car that had waiters, waitresses, and cooks that would make them anything.
Nanny found a table for them to sit at and they were going to be given their food. The kids looked around as they sat together, looking for kids around their age. Across from them, there was a girl with curly blonde hair in a purple dress with bows in her hair, white socks, and black shoes, and she was sitting with a woman in formal clothes, even white gloves. She appeared to be Vincent's age.
'She seems like a nice girl.' Estelle thought to herself.
"Hi, I'm Eloise, I'm six," Eloise introduced as always. "These are my cousins, Akito, Estelle, and Vincent."
"Hi!" Estelle piped up.
"Hello." Vincent smiled.
Akito then waved.
"I'm Debbie Lincoln," the blonde girl smiled to them. "I'm eight."
"It's nice to meet you, Debbie." Estelle said.
"Are you going to Hollywood too?" Akito asked.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I'm going to be starring in my first movie." Debbie replied.
"Really?" Eloise smiled for her. "That sounds so nice!"
"Congratulations!" Vincent praised.
"What's the movie about?" Estelle asked.
"It's about this girl who helps out a lot of people and usually puts others before herself." Debbie explained.
Debbie's mother and Nanny started to talk with each other about their visits for Hollywood.
"The producer is friends with Eloise's mother." Nanny noted.
"This is how many movies I've seen up close," Eloise put up six fingers. "This is how many movies I've been in." she then made a circle with her fingers to indicate 'zero'. "My mother used to be in movies when she was a little girl."
"She has?" Debbie asked, a little surprised.
"Yep." The Fudo siblings nodded.
"I thought you seemed familiar..." Mrs. Lincoln said to Eloise. "Who's your mother?"
"Darla Fudo." Eloise informed.
"Oh, that's right!" Mrs. Lincoln concluded then. "America's Sweetheart, Lover of Children and Animals! I used to love her films when I was younger."
"I watched a lot of them so I could become an actress too." Debbie added.
"Cool." Estelle said.
"Debbie, if you're finished eating, why don't you and your new friends go play?" Mrs. Lincoln suggested.
"Sure, okay!" Debbie nodded to her mother and left with the Fudo cousins so they adult women could talk in privacy.
"So what do you four wanna play?" Debbie asked.
"We could go exploring like we're secret agents," Eloise suggested with a smile. "I always love doing that in the lobby back home."
"Yeah, let's do that." Vincent said.
The kids left the diner cart and saw the few adults walking around.
"We're fugitives now, there's absolutely no turning back." Eloise whispered, being in character as they snuck around with Debbie.
The rest of the kids began to follow Eloise. An elderly couple passed the kids before going into their own door.
"I don't trust them," Debbie whispered, also in character. "I don't trust them one bit."
"Better keep a close eye on 'em." Akito added.
"Yeah, they might be enemy spies." Vincent added.
The conductor came out and looked to his pocket watch.
"I think that guy saw us." Akito whispered.
"Quick, in here!" Eloise opened a door for them to 'hide in'.
The five kids then snuck in, luckily, not locking themselves in.
"You think the coast is clear?" Debbie asked.
"I hope so." Vincent whispered.
There was a male voice heard. The kids raised up a little under the table they were hiding under and there were adult men smoking cigars and playing Poker.
"We just wanna let you know your country appreciates what you're doing." one of the men humored them, knowing about their little spy game.
"Just doing our job, sir!" Debbie saluted him.
"Yeah." The twins saluted him as well.
The man saluted them and let them out.
Eloise giggled as they walked out of the room. "That was really fun!"
Debbie opened the next door to find Nanny and her mother sitting together with cups of tea.
"We were wondering where you kids were." Nanny smiled.
"It's late, Debbie, you need to get ready for bed." Mrs. Lincoln said once she noticed how dark it was outside.
"I'm not tired!" Debbie glared at her mother.
"I know, but you need to brush your teeth, and get your pajamas on-" Mrs. Lincoln tried.
"Did you hear what I said, MOTHER!?" Debbie yelled at her mother, sounding like a spoiled brat now. "I'm not TIRED!"
"Debbie, you don't need to raise your voice!" Mrs. Lincoln tried to scold, but not be too unfair with her daughter at the same time.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Debbie argued. "The only reason we're even going to Hollywood is BECAUSE OF ME!"
Eloise was a little too shocked by Debbie's sudden rage to even say anything to that, she just knew if she acted like that, Nanny wouldn't be shy about disciplining her.
"Well, we better go..." Nanny walked out of the room with the kids. "We'll see you tomorrow."
"Yeah, this might get a little messy." Akito said.
"That was rather uncalled for..." Nanny said as she walked with the kids back to where they were staying on the train.
"Maybe she was just tired..." Vincent shrugged.
"Or she sat on a bee." Estelle added in suggestion.
"Was my mother ever like that?" Eloise asked, knowing that her mother used to be rather spoiled as a child.
"Unfortunately in a way, yes." Nanny said.
"Oh..." Eloise frowned.
"Don't worry, remember, your mother was lonely until she met Dad and Aunt Cherry." Akito quickly added to cheer Eloise up, he acted like a big brother for her sometimes since Eloise was an only child.
"Yeah, I guess you're right, I hope Debbie will be better tomorrow." Eloise cheered up a little then.
"Yeah, let's hope that Debbie will be better in the morning." Estelle said.
They all went to bed, in the morning, they would be in Hollywood.
"This is going to be so exciting when we get to Hollywood." Estelle said.
"Indeed..." Nanny said with a small yawn as she was getting very sleepy.
This made the other kids yawn, they actually were tired and decided to rest up until the train would stop. Eloise had a little hard time to adjust, already missing her bed, but eventually got comfortable and made the most of it. The night was indeed peaceful and where it seemed like nothing was going to interrupt any of their sleep.
