Worlds collide Part One: Ashley's side

Chapter One:...?

It was a sunny day autumn day at Propwash Junction. Dottie was humming in her workshop while Crow and I were playing a very noisy game of snap. Cloudy was sorting out her medical herbs. Grease and Mia where getting in Dottie's way.

"Ashley!" Dottie called.

"Yeah Dot?" I called looking away from our game and losing the last lot of cards.

"Sorry to interrupt your game but do you think you could babysit the twins for me? I'm rather busy at the moment."

"Sure thing Dot. I just lost the game anyway" I answered while Crow stuck her tongue out at me.


Later on the twins decided that they were sick of me babysittin' them. Or maybe it was the game of hide and seek we were playing that was their idea. Whichever the reason I was casing them trying to catch them.

"AXLE AND SHEENA I'M SUPOST TO BE YOUR BABYSITTER! HOW AM I SUPOST TO BABYSIT IF YOU SIT NOWHERE FOR NO MORE THEN FIVE SECONDS?" I yelled, not practically enjoying having to chase them.

"THAT'S ANYWHERE ASHLEY!" Grease yelled back. "WATCH YOUR GRAMMER."

"AND WE DON'T NEED A BABYSITTER!" Mia added.

I frowned and continued to chase them. Grease and Mia dodged around a jet that had landed a few minutes ago. I followed not really watching where I was going. I was too busy watching the twins so I could see where they went.

"LOOK OUT!"

I glanced away from the twins but the warning had come a bit too late. Before I could stop I crashed into someone sending us tumbling across the runway. I groaned and rubbed my head wishing everything would stop spinning.

"Are you ok miss" a voice asked.

I glanced up to find myself face to face with a red haired boy with dark olive green eyes. He looked around mine and Crow's age and was obviously the one I had crashed into.

"Yeah I'm fine" I assured standing up hurriedly. "I'm so sorry for crashing into you."

"It's ok. I didn't move fast enough when I was yelled at to" he gestured to a silvery blue Aston Martin, a purple British Jaguar and a rusty tow truck.

"HEY! AREN'T YOU TRYING TO CATCH US ANY MORE?"

We glanced over to where Grease and Mia were waiting for me to come after them.

"I had better be going. I'm supposed to be babysittin' those two" I said turning to leave, catching sight or Crow whooping with laughter on the side of the runway. I am never living this one down.


"Hey Dot what's for dinner?" Crow asked after she had gotten over her laughing attack and taken pity on me and helped me catch the twins.

"It's on the table. I'm a bit busy at the moment" Dottie answered from the garage.

"Okeydokey" Crow answered.

"Hokeypokey" I added with a silly grin. "Thanks Dot."

After dinner, the twins were in bed and I was reading and listening to music. Then Maru radioed up. Crow answered.

"Hi Maru" Crow chirped cheekily. "Lookin' for Dottie?"

"Don't start Patterson!" Maru warned even though he was at Piston Peak and she was at Propwash.

"Maru and Dottie sittin' by a tree. K.I.S.S.I.N.G" Crow chanted while Maru could only growl in irritation.

"I'll get Dottie for you Maru" I called and shot off leaving Crow to tease Maru.

"Hey Dottie. Radio call for ya" I grinned and chanted, "Maru y Dottie sentado 'por un árbol. K.I.S.S.I.N.G!"

Even though I was speaking in Spanish Dottie knew what I said. Nick had taught me it so I used it a lot to tease.

"Take over for me Ashley" Dottie said heading towards the room where Crow was still having a dig at Maru over the radio.

I giggled and resumed work on the huge jet that Dottie was working on. I caught sight of movement in the shadows and glanced over.

"Hi again" I chirped recognising the red haired boy in the shadows.

"Dad gun how did you know we were here?" the rusty tow truck asked.

"I'm used to depicting movement in the shadows" I answered pushing a strand of my goldish blond brown hair out my eyes.

"Well in that case names Mater" the tow truck introduced himself. "And this is Andrew, Finn, Holley and the jet you're working on is Siddeley."

"Nice to meet you. Names Ashley and this is Crow" I introduced myself and Crow who had come up behind me. "And that is Soot the raven and Skippy my kangaroo.

"Nice to meet you" Crow said and disappeared, suddenly shy. She wasn't one for missing out on radio calls from Piston Peak. Especially is it Maru.

"Okay done" I announce shutting Siddeley's access panel before leaving the room.