A Chapter in Which The Story is Back! xD

Disclaimer: You know what this is, you know what it does. Please continue reading after the buzz.

(BUZZ)

"How was your school year?"

Becky Lopez upturned her head to look into the dark, mischievous eyes of the Titan, Thunder, a smile of cool and composure spreading across her face. She lazily leant back on the handle of her luggage and crossed over the ankles of her feet, trying to make it look as if his appearance did not faze her.

Couldn't let him get too cocky for his boots.

"You should know," Becky retorted, subconsciously tucking a strand of long, dark brown hair behind her ear. "You practically called me twice a day." Thunder uncharacteristically turned bashful. "You should follow those instructions for cleaning your teeth, not sending me letters."

Thunder arched an eyebrow roguishly. "Are you suggesting I should brush my teeth more often?"

Becky shrugged her shoulders with childish slapdash and made no comment, ignoring the fact that Thunder's teeth shined like the brightest of car lights.

"Not to mention," she carried on, "That you tried to fly into my house and completely destroyed my living room and possibly put my mother AND grandparents into an early grave!"

"HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THEY WERE VISITING?" Thunder asked. "And I wanted to see you."

"Just because I'm Adriane's friend, doesn't mean you have to HOUND me all the time." Becky rolled her eyes. "I mean, now that I'm stay over at the tower for the summer SHOULD mean you'll get annoyed with me just as much as your brother is."

Thunder sighed. "Need help with your stuff?"

Becky nodded. Thunder took a duffel bag of hers as Becky took up her backpack. They headed to the guest house. Lightning was waiting there

"YOU." He hissed. He got all up in Becky's face. He wasn't pleased. Before he could say much less anything, Adriane's voice rang out, yelling:

"HEY EVERYBODY! I'M BACK FROM THE GROCERY STORE! LIGHTNING! I HOPE YOU HAVEN"T DONE ANYTHING STUPID LIKE TRY TO MICROWAVE ICECREAM AND POP ROCKS AGAIN!"

Lightning gave Becky a displeased scowl and stomped off.

"WHO WANTS BREAKFAST?!" Terra yelled out.

"ME!"

Thunder and Becky almost flew to the kitchen. Sandilo had happily ate every meat product in the kitchen, while Adriane and Terra both fought over the purple dinosaur from the cereal box. Hot Spot looked through the Life cereal, dismayed.

"Crap, I have no Life!" Hot Spot explained, making Lighting give everyone a performance an unplanned, even for him, impression of a whale, squirting milk through his nose. Lightning had to explain why it was so funny in between giggles, making everyone explode into laughter.

"Is this the daily routine?" Becky declared. Everyone shrugged, Thunder slightly smiling at Becky's joke.

Lukane walked in the room, looking rather bushed. He yawned, his normally well kept hair doing mental things, and he was looking rather out of it.

"WAKE UP sleeping beauty!" Becky yelled in his ear, waking him up. He looked at her, angry after his brutal awakening, and he scowled.

"I am, PRINCE CHARMING!" He hissed.

Becky instantly took a handful of eggs, as if threatening to throw them.

"I WAS JOKING!" Lukane cried out.

Becky put down the eggs and sighed.

"Hey, Becky, it's your birthday in 2 days, right?" Thunder asked.

Becky paused in her seat after taking a bite of her apple. She swallowed the chewed fruit and nodded. "Yeah, I am. I'm going to be 16." She looked at Adriane, who was still 15. "Ha… someone's still the baby!"

"SHUT UP!" Adriane whined.

"So, Becky, what do you want for your birthday?"

"The new Halo 3 game, some new pony tail holders and a gift card to the Discovery store. I also want a massage chair." She said as Lightning and Adriane had a sword fight with their chopsticks left over from last nights Chinese take-out.

Thunder looked up from his note pad, and hit it behind his back.

"HEY EVERYONE I HAVE AN AWESOME IDEA! Why don't we go to the mall?" Thunder asked everyone.

Sandilo looked up from his book he was reading upside down. "What's a mall?"

Adriane went through a failed attempt to explain to Sandilo what the mall was, using finger and hand puppets, flashcards, even a skit to help.

No avail.

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Becky sighed as everyone they rode to the mall. "Are we there yet?" She asked.

Terra shook her head. "No."

Becky shrugged as Thunder tried to show of his muscles to her.

"You do not impress me, Thunder." She said.

Thunder blinked. "Uh… All the girls like them though even Adriane! What do you think of me Adriane?" He said flustered.

"My life is brilliant…" She sang

"WHAT?" Thunder looked at Adriane, who was not paying attention because she was listening and singing to her bipod.

"MY LIFE IS BRILLIANT! YOU'RE LIFE'S A JOKE! I'M RICH AND FAMOUS! YOU'RE ALWAYS BROKE! Your homemade Star Trek uniform really isn't impressing' me. You're suffering from delusions of Adequacy!"

Everyone sang along with her as she sang more. "YOU'RE PITIFUL! YOU'RE PITIFUL! 'YOU'RE PITIFUL! IT'S TRUE! You never had a date that you couldn't inflate… And you smell repulsive too… WHAT A BUMMER BEING YOU!"

"CRAP I have no idea what to get Becky!" Adriane yelled at Lightning as they looked around Claire's.

"I'm not surprised." Lightning scoffed. "She's not a proper girl, although nothings wrong with that!" Lightning quickly added, seeing Adriane's evil eye.

"Meehhhh, what am I going to DO?!" Adriane rang out.

"Maybe Thunder has some ideas?"

"YES!" Adriane grinned. Adriane took out her t-communicator and opened it, dialing Thunder.

He came on "What is it?"

"Do you have any ideas on what Becky wants for her birthday?"

"She wants the new Halo 3 game, some new pony tail holders and a gift card to the Discovery store."

"When did you catch all of that?"

"Becky told me when Adriane won her fight for the purple dinosaur and Lightning was looking at Adriane the way he was when he was reading those magazines from-."

"OKAY UM YEAH THANKS THUNDER!" Lightning turned off the communicator.

"That was weird." Thunder muttered, turning off his own. He sighed and looked at Becky, who had purchased her Icee and pretzel. Becky turned to him.

"What did the Firefly want?" Becky smirked.

"He just wanted to know when this was over with." He shrugged as they went to sit down on a bench.

"So did you guys do anything interesting while I was gone?" Becky asked.

"Compared to Sandilo getting major food poisoning after eating 9 raw hot dogs, no." Thunder joked.

Becky laughed a bit and took a bit from her pretzel, just as some kids from a table behind them laughed. Becky looked at them and they looked away. She shrugged and the two continued talking, as the others continued laughing.

They finished up their food and went to throw it out, when one of the girls from the group yelled to Becky. "Hey, do you always drink icees and really fatty pretzels?" and before Becky could answer, she said. "Because I don't want to be your size, EW!"

Becky's questionable expression quickly changed into hurt. She wasn't fat. She was a size 10, and she was pretty like that anyway, but those guys didn't think so. Becky quickly threw away her stuff and started running away, when Thunder caught her shoulder and stared at the people as their laughter died down.

"APOLIGIZE!" He snarled, staring them down

"Pfft. Make us." A guy smirked.

So Thunder stared down at them for a long time. Just as some guy with his lunch passed by them, he had taken it away from him and thrown it all over the girl and guy.

"YOU- YOU…. YOU-!" Before the leader of that pack could call them the worst thing they could think of, Becky and Thunder ran off, with Becky screaming "YOU ALL SUCK AND YOUR GIRLFRIEND IS BUTT UGLY!!!"

Thunder and Becky were running. And running. And running. And running. And they were running so quickly they didn't notice when they ran past Adriane and Lightning in Abercrombie and Fitch.

"Okay, we've got the ponytail holders, the Halo 3 game, and the gift card." Adriane recalled, counting off with her fingers. "But I feel like we're missing something."

"UM OKAY YEAH." Lightning nodded. "But can we look somewhere else? Those girls at the counter are creeping me out." He said, and jabbed his thumb toward the giggling girls in a way as if he wanted to jab them in their eyes.

Adriane rolled her eyes and lead Lightning out. "You know, it's kind of cute how Thunder really likes Beck, don't you think?" She asked him.

"YEAH, I don't really care for her, but Thunder likes her, so I'll put up with her." He shrugged. He looked at Adriane as she was looking down at her communicator. "Adriane, I-!"

"Come on, let's go look for that last bit of her gift." Adriane said. She grabbed Lightning's wrist and ran with him.

Meanwhile, Becky and Thunder had just stumbled into an empty elevator, laughing and breathing hard.

"Oh my GAWD!" Becky laughed. "I can't believe you did that!" She paused, turned around and looked at him. "Why did you do that?"

Thunder stared at her a long time and then drew in a deep breath. Might as well… He thought. "I like you Becky." He began, as it started going to the top floor. "I like you a lot, and…." He paused. "It bothered me that they were making fun of you. I mean- I just…" He sighed. "I really like you."

Becky smiled a bit and instantaneously jumped up and threw her arms around his neck, hugging him. "You're so sweet!" She giggled kissing his cheek.

Thunder immensely blushed as Becky pulled back. "Becky, I…"

"I've been suspecting for a few days now, and let's just say I've really liked you too." She said, winking.

Thunder was silent for a bit, and he started grinning like mad as they made up to the last floor, and the door opened.

"Come, let's go find the others." He grinned, taking her hand. She nodded and they went to look, just enjoying each other's company.

Two days had passed, and Becky was opening her present over a bowl of spaghetti with candles stuck inside. So far, she had opened up her gift card from Terra, the Halo 3 game from Adriane, a dead rat with a bow on it from Sandilo, pony tail holders from Lukane, and a really, REALLY cool collectors edition football from Thunder. Lightning didn't get her anything, and in exchange Thunder proudly whacked him on the back of his head.

"Hey, what about me?" Hot Spot yelled out. "I have a present for her!"

"Awww, thanks- HOLY CRAP!" Becky's jaw dropped seeing the massage chair with the big red bow.

"DUDE!!! How'd you get that?!" Thunder's jaw dropped along with Becky's.

"I got with the money my agent gave me for agreeing to stay quiet in this story! NOW I CAN FINALLY LEAVE WITH A BIG BANG!" Hot Spot cackled. "MWA HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!" He skipped out, putting on a hat and holding a brief case.

"Hey's what's your new address then?!" Becky called out after him as he went through the door. "I want to send you a thank you card!"

"It's 123 Main Street Nomands Land, Steel City!" He yelled back. "Thanks!"

Hey what's Superman's favorite meal?

-A salad with a side order of REVIEWS! (And justice) xD

Anyway it was hard for me to keep Hot Spot in the story. Sorry!