The next afternoon, Wil and ABBi were laying on the grass, watching the clouds. Neither had said a word all day because of last night's events. They lay there silently for ten minutes when ABBi decided to speak up.
"What are you thinking?" She asked.
"I'm thinking I could use that ice cream" Wil answered.
She programmed the ice cream to appear in his paws as he started licking it up.
"Does this mean-?" ABBi began asking.
"I don't know," Wil replied through licks, "I don't not love you anymore, if that's what you're asking. But I don't love you yet. The kiss was electrifying, in more ways than one, and felt alright. But I'm not sure how I feel about you now"
"So, the answer to the ice cream question is not no?" ABBi queried.
"Yeah," Wil answered, "But it's not yes either. Do you get what I'm trying to say?"
"Of course...," ABBi said, then silent for a moment, "Kind of..Not really, sorry"
"It's hard to explain," Wil said as he finished the ice cream, then came up with an idea, "What if I used the clouds to try and explain?"
"Sure, okay," ABBi said, leaning her eye to the side, looking at him, "It could be fun"
"Yeah, alright, so, it's like, that bunny shaped cloud," Wil said, throwing the cone down on the grass and pointing to a cloud shaped like a rabbit, "And that tadpole shaped one"
He pointed to another, which looked like a tadpole, and continued his story.
"The tadpole loves the bunny, but the bunny is a bunny and can't love something like the tadpole. So the tadpole does all these great things for the bunny and then one the tadpole kisses that bunny and the bunny's feelings are all turned around. But the bunny's not sure what's happening. It's a tadpole, and he's a bunny, and his feelings are fighting each other like...like,uhm.."
He stopped for a moment, looking at other clouds for inspiration, then he saw it.
"Like how that ship-cloud is smashing through those other ones" he said pointing.
Ship-cloud? ABBi asked herself, looking up at the sky and then she, too, saw it. Oh no, she thought, this is not good. She jumped up from the grass and turned to Wil.
"What did you just say that was?!" She asked him.
"A ship-cloud," Wil responded, "You know, a cloud shaped like a ship"
She looked up at the sky once again, and back to Wil, "If it's a cloud, why does it have another ship attached to it?!"
"Well, that's another cloud it attached to" Wil stated.
"You dingus! It's not a cloud-ship,it's a real ship!" ABBi said, whacking him with her eyestalk.
That woke him up from his daydream. He stared up at the sky once more and realised that it was indeed a real ship. And attached behind it was the Ursa Major. Someone had found the other Battle Bears and now found him. Just then, a purple ball landed near them. They stared at it for a few seconds.
"Hey, that looks just like-" Wil said, pointing at it.
"Get away!" ABBi shouted as she pushed him backwards from it as it blew up.
"It's Sanchez!" Wil shouted, looking up at the ships.
ABBi looked, too, only to see Riggs and Astoria jump down from the Ursa Major. She scurried in front of Wil as the castle behind them disappeared, her eye giving them a menacing look.
"We've been stuck on the ship for too long, computer" Astoria said, glaring at ABBi.
"Just surrender and we can all go back to our normal lives" Riggs told her calmly.
"Normal lives?!" ABBi shouted, "You mean stuck in the ship, telling you and the next dunderheads where there's trouble for another billion years?!"
"That's a normal life for a computer, Artificial Intelligence, anyone could tell you that" Riggs told her.
"Not for this computer!" ABBi said, "My normal life is with Wil!"
Wil choked up at this. He didn't know why. His friends were here to save him. This should be a good thing, right?
"If you won't come with us, we'll have to use our alternative method" Riggs said.
"Just try it!" ABBi said angrily.
Riggs gave a sigh, and then gave a look to Astoria, who pulled out a sniper rifle, pointing it at ABBi.
"No!" Wil gasped.
"This is going to feel so good" Astoria said to no one in particular, then fired her gun.
The gun released a grappling hook, which tied around ABBi and hooked onto her eyestalk to tighten it. Astoria then used the trigger to pull ABBi closer to her as Riggs walked over to Wil, who was sitting on the grass in shock.
"I..I..thought you were going to.." He said as he grabbed Riggs' hand as he lifted himself up.
"Don't be stupid," Riggs told him as they made their way back to the Ursa Major, "The ship still needs it"
When he got back on the ship, and had his reunion with Oliver, he went to his room. He stood in the middle of it, looking around. It wasn't nearly as nice as the room ABBi had made him in their castle. This was like Cinderbear's room in her Ugly Step Sister's house. He'd been diminished from prince to lunchbox. He sat on his bead and leaned back as he stared at the ceiling, which wasn't any better. But that's not what he was thinking about. He'd just about confessed his feelings to ABBi before the others showed up. She did all that stuff down there to get him to love her and not until yesterday did it work. He wondered what she would have had planned for tomorrow now that he'd said yes, kind of. He daydreamed of a nice church being programmed into the planet, his friends all sitting on the chairs as he walked up the aisle to where the modified Huggable they had stored in the ship was, wearing priest clothes and holding a Bible.
"Me me me me me me," It was saying, "Me me me hug me me?"
It turned it's head towards him, who was dressed in a tuxedo.
"I do" He said as he grabbed ABBi's claws.
The Huggable turned to ABBi, who was wearing a tiny wedding dress, and a veil over her eye.
"Me me me hug me hug me me me hug me," It said, "Hug me me hug me hug me me. Me?"
"I do" ABBi replied, as she clung tightly to Wil's paws.
The Huggable turned to the audience and continued speaking.
"Me me me me me" It said, with a nod and losed the book.
Wil lifted the veil over ABBi's eyestalk, and closing his eyes, leaned in to kiss her. As the machine and the bear touched eye to mouth, Wil was woken from his daydream by a drilling noise from the control room. His eyes widened and he jumped off the bed, rushing out to the control room, where Oliver stopped him.
"Whoa whoa, bud," Oliver told him, "What's the rush? It's okay now"
"Yeah, everything's back to normal," Astoria said, leaning against a wall, "Thank God. Graham fixed it"
She pointed to the controls where Riggs and Graham were standing. Wil looked up above the controls to see...ABBi's eye connected to the ship once again.
"Should be no hassle anymore," Graham said as he put his wrench away,turning to Wil, "I reverted it back to it's stats before your adventures with it"
"Thanks for the help, Sanchez, you may disconnect us from your ship now" Riggs was saying into his communictor.
There was a tiny bump as Sanchez detached them from his ship. Riggs then pressed a button on the controls and spoke once more.
"Computer, power on" He said.
"Power on," ABBi said as the power throughout the ship turned on, "Please state your intention"
"Take us back to HQ" Riggs ordered.
"Driving back to HQ, please hold steady throughout your flight" ABBi stated.
Wil watched, gutwrenched, as her eye scanned the control room. He gave a little sigh, and then before ABBi's eye could reach him, he headed out the door. Oliver noticed this and started to stop him.
"Hey, Wil, what's-" He began but Wil cut him off.
"Just don't, Oliver" Wil said as he walked out of the control room.
Oliver went to follow him but the door slid shut before he could.
"Battle Bear Oliver, please remain in the room you are in whilst the ship is in motion" ABBi told him.
Oliver stood in his possition, staring at the door, wondering what on earth was wrong with his favourite cousin. Little did he know, on the other side of the door, Wil was sitting down, head in his knees, trying not to cry. He had no idea what he was going to do with these feelings for ABBi now. He couldn't tell the others, and now he couldn't even tell ABBi. He would just have to try and get over them.
