Chapter 10 - Fears; faced.
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The trip to port in Cabo San Lucas was an hour, and the scent of bodies remained pungent as the ship travelled. With the help of the underarmed security, The disabled and injured pirates were brought into the holding cells to be kept until authorities could get to them.
Wonder Woman had to jump back up to untie Santiago from his perch, and then she quickly jumped back down and caught him in his fall, much to the delight of the men and women watching it happen.
"That's Wonder Woman alright." said a female security worker.
When all was said and done, The Coat watched the coast get bigger and bigger. As the ship came to port, another face came out of the ship's cabin. It was Kylie, who hadn't had a chance to say thank you yet. She walked over to Wonder Woman and gave her a hug.
"Thank you for saving my life." she almost broke into tears again.
"Anytime." Wonder Woman spoke as if it was no big deal.
"I'm so happy...I thought i'd never see my boyfriend ever again." Kylie stopped herself from going full-blown crying.
Wonder Woman looked over at The Coat and had an idea.
"Can you do something for me?" asked Wonder Woman
"Anything." Kylie replied.
"I'm trying to help him..." Wonder Woman pointed at the coat "...with something, can you let him down easy when he asks you for a date?"
"He's got a crush on me?" asked Kylie
"No, he doesn't...but play along, and be cool about it." Wonder Woman walked away from Kylie to talk to The Coat.
"We're at port." The Coat announced.
"Great, we made it." Replied Wonder Woman.
The ship slowed as it landed at the dock.
"Hey.." Wonder Woman nudged The Coat "...go talk to her."
The Coat turned to Kylie and saw she was watching the seagulls fly above her.
"What? Are you kidding? There is so much wrong with that!" The Coat argued.
"Oh, you and the fear again." Wonder Woman "What's so wrong about a boy asking a girl out?"
"Well, first of all, we disappear tommorow, which means i'm standing her up for a date. Second, she's probably got a boyf..."
"Stop right there, that's fear talking. Listen, if she's got a boyfriend, she'll tell you, and you just say you're sorry and walk off. You're Canadian, saying sorry is in your blood."
"Oh, now that's racist." The coat joked.
"Listen...if you can talk to her, you can talk to girls in 2019. It's not hard. Don't let girls scare you."
The coat sighed.
"Oh, geez, this is gonna suck so bad." The Coat walked over to the girl.
"Hey." Kenny unveiled his hood to talk to Kylie.
"Hello." Kylie smiled back at him.
Kenny looked at the seagulls in the sky and tried to be as casual and calm as he could be.
"When I was a kid, I used to chase them at the beach and they'd always fly away."
"Me too!" Kylie lit up like a lightbulb.
"Nice. Hey, when we land, can I buy you a cup of a coffee?" Kenny asked.
"Oh, sorry, but I have a boyfriend, but thanks for the offer. And thanks for helping save the cruise. You're a hero." Kylie smiled.
"Oh, you have a boyfriend already? Well, he should be thankful to have a girl like you."
"He is. And i'm thankful to have him." Kylie smiled.
"Ok. Well, it's nice to meet you." Kenny walked off, going back to Wonder Woman, who was watching the whole thing.
"She has a boyfriend already." Replied Kenny
"But you didn't know it, did you?" Asked Wonder Woman.
"Not until after I asked."
"You did it right. It's like baseball, you gotta run the bases in order. You took a swing and missed. But that's ok, you're young. You still have time to hit the ball and run the bases."
Kenny figured that was about as right as could be. He placed his hood back over his head and looked to the shoreline.
"We didn't get breakfast." Said The Coat.
"No kidding. Fighting makes me hungry."
"I just don't feel it, to be honest." Maybe it was because he just came out of a solid sad session an hour before.
"Well, Don't starve yourself."
The coat changed the subject.
"You know, tommorow, we disappear back to the future."
"Yes...you're going first, I assume?" asked Wonder Woman
"I appeared here about an hour before you did. So i'll go back an hour before you do. If you can't find me tommorow afternoon, odds are i've returned to the future."
"You can take care of yourself. I'm not worried if you disappear, now don't take it the wrong way."
"I'm not, I get what you mean." The Coat smiled "We got one more day. Tommorow afternoon we're going to reappear in 2019."
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The 2 heroes landed at Cabo San Lucas, but were quickly whisked away by private jet back to San Diego, California. Their next step would be the white house, to be thanked personally by the president, George Bush. By the time they arrived in San Diego, it was noon, and by then, The Coat had worked up an appetite.
"Now i'm getting hungry." The Coat spoke as the plane landed.
"Anything in particular you want?" asked Wonder Woman
"Eh, I could go for KFC, but the last time I went I found a feather."
"A feather?" Asked Wonder Woman
"A bright yellow feather. And Big Bird had disappeared off Sesame Street that day."
Wonder Woman laughed a bit.
"Now if I ever am going to eat a chicken, i'll think of that."
Moments later at the airport restaurant, The Coat had picked up a sandwich and a cup of coffee, something he hadn't had a chance to have that morning. Wonder Woman joined him, and they continued their discussion.
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The 2 of them took the same private jet plane back to Washington, DC. They couldn't break loose of their superhero identities, in particular, Wonder Woman. The Coat could get away with being Kenny because at that time, Kenny was about 2 years old and living up in canada. But the Diana Prince/Wonder Woman of 1992 was out there alright. And on top of that, if they had met, it could be a bad thing.
The plane landed in Washington and when it did, cavalcades of people were awaiting the plane's arrival, in particular a whole army of Wonder Woman fans, all who had heard of what had happened on the cruise.
"Wow...talk about a hero's welcome." The Coat looked at the crowd from the plane.
"Hey! There they are!" Yelled a voice from the ground, looking in the window of the plane.
"Great. I'm gonna get stampeded." Wonder Woman groaned.
"Don't fear them. Remember, fear's not a good thing." The Coat threw Diana's advice back in her face.
"Oh, we're playing those games again?" Wonder Woman replied
The 2 heroes walked to the stairway, and the moment they emerged from the plane, cheers erupted from the crowds, held back by security guards.
"Hey! It's Wonder Woman!" A group of women screamed in approval at the glamourous face of gender equality/Feminism. The women burst into song with the help of a makeshift orchestra.
"In her satin tights, fightin' for our rights, and the old red, white and blue!"
Of course, both Wonder Woman and The Coat didn't stick around too long before being escorted into a waiting limosine that was to take them to the white house.
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