Capital Planet\Pride Residence

Time:18:00

-dingdong-

"Coming!" A frantic Jessie yelled as she half walked, half hopped and slipped on her left black stiletto in an attempt to reach the door without spraining her ankle. Why did the man always have to be on time? It was a question that continued to be left without an answer throughout her and her boyfriends two years of dating. Taking a moment to gather herself, she opened the door to reveal a man with a white collar button down shirt, blue jeans, and brown loafers. If it wasn't for the purple cap shaping his head, she would've never recognized him.

"Hey howdy hey."She breathes, what she thought was, near his ear as she wrapped her slender arms around his neck, allowing them to rub noses together showing simple affection for each other as the presence of smoke slowly trickled into the room. The smell hit Buzz first as he nuzzled his face in the crook of her neck and murmured "what's cooking?" before he got distracted again and focused more on his embrace on Jessie. Smiling at Buzz's embrace she brushed the question aside, until the smell of smoke hit her nose

"Buzz?" The smell got stronger,"Buzz!"She exclaimed, fully realizing the situation of smoke wafting In from the kitchen. Pulling herself from space ranger's embrace, she dashed into the smoke with an alarmed Buzz not far behind her. The smoke stung their eyes as they neared the kitchen. Jessie, scared for her kitchen, was a few seconds ahead of Buzz who had enough common sense to grab the house extinguisher and release the pin causing a foamy explosion that not only covered a certain bemused red head, but also cleared the smoke and put out the fire located at the stove. The kitchen was silent as the moment was being soaked in by it's witnesses. Buzz, being used to situations like this, was the first of the two to recover and let out a chuckle at Jessie's astonished facial expression as she took in the sight of her dearly beloved kitchen. Cabinets covered in white foam that dripped onto the counters. The dishes in in the drying rack would have to rewashed as, they too, were a victim of Buzz's extinguisher skills. As Jessie came to her senses, she noticed the smirk placed on Buzz's face and gave him a look that asked what was so funny, but looking into a metal pan hooked on the wall she glanced at her reflection and the palm of her hand met her face.

"Buzz Lightyear!"She hissed as she brought the pan close up to her face to inspect the damage done to her make up she had requested Bo to do for the night.

"Jessie Pride." He said calmly as he wiped his hands on a clean dish cloth.

Thanks to his training at the academy, he cleanly dodged the pan thrown at him.

"How can you be so calm?" She sighed, exasperated. "My beautiful kitchen.."

Buzz rolled his eyes at the over dramatic scene Jessie was creating. Though it was true ever since she had to whip up dinner for the whole town, she had been slightly more protective over the cleanliness of her kitchen.

"I can help you clean if you like.."Buzz started out but was quickly silenced by the hand Jessie put up.

"No thanks, we're gonna be late for the reservations if we don't leave now-"She was cut off by static beeps then the ever so familiar 'Buzz Lightyear. Come in Buzz Lightyear.'

Jessie raised an unamused eyebrow.

" You're joking, right?"

Buzz smiled sheepishly while his watch continued to call his name. Jessie waved her hand as a sign to answer the call as she turned back to her tortured kitchen.

"Jess?" Buzz cleared his throat. She hadn't realized he had gotten so close. must've been distracted. Come to think of it white doesn't look half bad with the blue flowered walls. She pondered the thought of re doing the whole kitchen with a blue sky theme. Clouds in all, till Buzz interrupted her thoughts.

"Jessie, they need me up at Star Command. I'll be back as soon as ."He tucked a stray of her red hair behind her ear. He was ruining the night, he knew it. But.. "I love you." He smiled as he placed a kiss on her forehead.

"Yeah,yeah."She sighed and resumed her thoughts upon the kitchen.

Aboard space ship 42

Time:19:07

"Star command, come in star command. This is Buzz Lightyear, ship 42,requesting permission to land." Buzz spoke into the mic built into the ship, awaiting the screen to show an official to give him a ok for the landing.

"Request approved. You're all clear. "Commander Nebula showed up on the monitor with team Lightyear in the background. Buzz stepped out into the launch area fully dressed in his ranger attire. Adjusting his suit he walked toward his team of rookies.

"What seems to be the problem?"

With out warning, it seemed as though thousands of people started discussing the issue. But really it was just XR, Booster, and Mira talking at once while the commander's niece silently raised her hand. Nebula raised his peg leg which released something close to the sound of a sonic boom as a rocket fired into the air and fizzled out as it neared the very top of the ceiling.

"What is it blondie?" Nebula questioned as he loaded another rocket in place of the recent one.

"Ahem." Audrey coughed into her fist. Buzz raised an eyebrow. He normally didn't care to hear what the short teenager had to say, but something about the explosion coming from his commanding officer's leg stopped him in his tracks.

"While we, me and Booster, were out exploring we came across a lake and-"

"Stop right there." Buzz interrupted with groan. How many times have a told you guys not to leave the station with little miss diminutive?"

"I told you Buzz wouldn't like this.."XR twiddled his robotic hands while a fish swam around his head. Mira groaned and shook her head.

"Yeah,sure XR."

"ANYWAYS."Audrey Shouted to break up the conversation and prolong her side of the story."At the lake there were colorful fish."

"Oh Buzz they were so beautiful and-"Booster stopped short at the look he was given by "miss diminutive" and allowed her to continue.

"I figured you wouldn't mind us having something small and portable, so! I called XR and asked him to lend us his helmet as a bowl."

"More like tackled and demanded."XR huffed under his breath as he carefully eyed the scaly figure.

"That way," Audrey continued "We can have a pet fish and it not get in the way." She smiled sweetly as if to try to make Buzz forget all of the pranks and damage she caused to him and his suit in pass missions. Buzz tapped on XR's helmet to get the fish's attention and to get a closer look.

"What kind of goldfish is this anyways?"

XR scanned the fish with his eyes and ran the information through his head.

"My scan says it is a pygocentrus nattereri."

Nebulas eyes widened." Which is also known as a man eating fish!"

Audrey scoffed.

"So? MAN eating. Not robot eating. Relax uncle, your son is not in harms way so XR can just cool his circuits."

Nebula's "son's" head began to circle with the fish in attempt to watch it."I for one am still not convinced. This fish of yours still sends bad signals through my wires."

A/N; Short yes, but I wanted to post this because I was soo tired of seeing it lay in my ipod unfinished ... i guess i need motivation.

Anyways...think of the star command bit with Nebula's niece (my character btw) as a pilot for a story I hope to do soon :)

R&R ~Audrey