Superman: The Animated Series - Heart, Body, and Mind

by tmdrago

From Helen Star and Jake Star to live together from running away to have a good home, they get powers out of nowhere for two humans. From Helen's arm to absorb elements, and Jake to use magic; to soon see Superman who's Clark Kent to aid him to save lives, help put one another, and save the world. From love for Jimmy to like Helen and Lois of course with Superman, animated series.

38. Obsession

Superman: The Animated Series 'Fan Fiction Story'

By Tayla Drago

Episode # 38 – Obsession

Ever heard the story of Pinocchio? Well, this is something different from it in this chapter/episode.

Jake: Once upon a time...There was an old man who makes machine, toys, and puppets in his shop, he decided to make a puppet to make it look like he had a kid of his own name Pinocchio. One night, he wish on a star to have Pinocchio come to life; a Blue Fairy granted the old man the wish to make it happen; for Pinocchio was himself to learn from right from wrong, never lie for his nose to grow, don't hang out with the bad boys on an island to turn them all into donkeys; during this journey that Pinocchio accidentally does with his wise Cricket friend allowed them to get through a Fox and a Cat, a mean puppet master, a man to use boys to tricking them into donkeys, and a mean whale to save the old man, his two pets a cat and a fish, and getting back home...For Pinocchio risk his life to save them and the Blue Fairy in the end turns him from a wooden puppet into a real life human boy to make the old man happy with the cricket, the cat, and fish to life happily ever after. The end. Well, I wish some wishes like from the story came true.

Jake once liked one of Helen's old girl dolls to have a crush on her, for he wish for this one to be real, but sadly it didn't work. Years later...A fashion show hosted by Lana Lang, owner of Lana Lang Fashions, is underway. Clark, Jake, Helen, and Jimmy are present to cover the trendy show.

"This is some business show." said Helen to hold Jimmy's arm. "But a nice way for us to be dating like this."

Jimmy takes a lot of pictures of Helen and more on the models.

"It is fun with the two of us. And its great we get paid to do this." he said. "I wish you were one of the models, Helen."

She wasn't into the whole business thing.

"Sorry, modeling's not my style."

"It was still nice for Lana to let us come here for free while you three are working." said Jake.

"Well, that's why we're here, Jake." Clark to wink at Lana.

"But its big to have Lana host this show, with her famous model Darci Mason."

This was news to both Helen and Clark to hear about it.

"Who's Darci?"

"What makes her so special out of the rest?"

This catches Jake's attention.

"Darci Mason...?" he was surprise to hear. "Now where did I hear that name before? (And yet, it sounds familiar to me.)"

Lana reveals her star model: Darci Mason. For she was something else for Jake couldn't take her eyes away from this girl.

"Wow! She's full of something." said Helen.

"Come on, Helen, you're much cuter than she is." Jimmy then tells Clark from staring at Darci a lot to make a joke. "Watch out, Clark. You're about to burn a hole in those glasses."

He snaps out of it.

"What? What do you mean?" he asked to see Jake to be staring a lot more. "I'm not the only one checking this Darci out."

For Jake remembers the doll to remind him from this Darci person for his dream girl to finally be happening, it was all coming true for him.

"Darci Mason's real...Wow! I'm in love!"

This was new for the other three to hear.

"What!? With her!?" shock Helen the most. "Jake, you can't be serious! She's too old for you! I mean, from you still a child to be way beyond her."

"So what, Helen? She reminds me of the doll you once played with! I knew she would be real." he said.

"But that was a long time ago!"

Well, this was happening for nothing that Helen says to her brother wasn't getting through to him.

"Helen, it just a one time silly crush he's having. Don't worry." Jimmy helps out his girlfriend.

"Young love does that in an age you're getting older." Clark added. "Jake will be just fine."

While Darci flaunts her swimsuit, a strange car drives up and three life-size toys, a cowboy, an astronaut and a knight, emerge. They attack the guards and the astronaut goes after Darci.

"Oh, no...Trouble!" Helen gets ready to use some ribbon type of whip clothing to absorb. "Jake! I think these things aren't human!"

Jake feels them out.

"Live toys?" he felt them to see his love was in danger. "(I know those toys...) Ah! They're going after Darci!"

As Clark slips away to change for Helen and Jake to take care of this mess...

"Clark?" Jimmy couldn't find him.

Helen hugs Jimmy to tell him to stay put.

"Careful, Jimmy, you should take cover like Clark did. Just stay here while Jake and I handle this."

With them trying to stop the toy men for those two, Superman arrives on the scene and destroys the knight revealing to be a robot for Jimmy to see.

"Robots?"

Helen then confronts the cowboy and punches its head off.

"You got a good head on your shoulders...not, you loser!" she said.

However, the astronaut flies off with Darci for Jake tries to stop with his magic beam spells.

"A kid?" surprised Darci.

"Hi, Darci, I'm Jake Star the Wiz Kid. And I'm here to save you." he stops the astronaut next. "Hands off, space man! Darci's with me!"

But the thing blasts Jake away to grab hold of Darci.

"Help!"

He escapes with Darci for Jake uses his bubble beam to fly on after them.

"Give her back!" he was mad now.

"Jake?!" Helen flies after her brother. "Superman, that thing's getting away with Darci!"

Superman and Helen both give chase to aid the furious Jake and all three of them manage to save Darci. After Superman beats up the other toy's weapon for Jake to finish it off afterwards.

"Yes! I did it! No need for thanks, Darci. (I will get her to notice me somehow. My dream girl.)"

Jake looked happy to see her safe to not pay much attention to him, for Helen had a bad feeling about the model.

"(Jake...)" she said to have her worried.

Even for Lana to know that Darci was pushy, to be this popular to get kidnap was a whole other level.

"Well, this is Darci Mason for you."

Back at his hideout, Toyman plays with a doll which he calls Darci and vows she'll soon be all his. The cowboy arrives and gives Toyman a frock belonging to Darci. A key falls out of the pocket revealing Darci's residence. It also shows from Superman, Helen to get stronger, and Jake to stop his toys.

"Not only Superman's trying to stop me...so are his kids Helen and Jake." he remembers Jake. "He's trying to make his move on my Darci?! But he's too young for her! I'll show him...Then Darci will belong to me and only me."

I think Toyman wants Jake dead for getting into his love life. Clark arrives at Darci's apartment for Jake to see his fan lover for Helen to company him.

"Hello? Darci? Its me Jake." he tries calling out to her. "Sorry, Lana told us to check and ask you some questions from my sister Helen and Clark Kent. They work at the Daily Planet. We want to see if you're feeling any better." Jake kept on searching. "Darci! Hello, Darci?"

"Jake, wait!" she stops her brother. "This has got to stop. Something's wrong with this Darci person."

Like Jake would listen to Helen.

"Stop! She's the love of my life from your doll to come to life like in the Pinocchio story! And she's one to be so cool to look up for you, Helen, you should know that from your old doll, but you don't! Be that way!"

So much for talking to Jake Star now, huh? Bummer...

"But, Jake-!" she tries telling Clark of this mess. "Clark, this is unlike Jake, we have to stop him."

"I know. This Darci is odd to you and I." he uses his x-ray visions to having a look around Darci's place. "No photographs, no things from her past, and nothing to use to live in her apartment. This is very strange."

Helen notices herself.

"You're right... (Something's up, and I'll prove that Jake's falling for the wrong girl.)"

As the three looked around and they find no one is home, they fly from the back door and sneak in and searches the room. The room is strangely empty of any clues of her past for Helen to notice. Clark then checks the refrigerator and finds that it too is empty.

"She doesn't even eat or drink." said Clark. "A woman to stay in shape, but nothing to starve themselves."

"Okay, now this is getting crazy. See, Jake?" she tries to show her brother. "What do you think of your girlfriend now?"

"Hungry?" then Darci shows back to see the three.

Jake was happy to see Darci to hug her and show the paper work from Lana Lang to allow them to come in.

"Hi, Darci, remember me? Jake Star, the one who saved you."

"Oh, you kid. Thanks. Bot you, your sister, and Superman." she talks to Clark and Helen next. "What are you two, stalkers?"

As if!

"No." said Clark. "Helen and I are reporters and Jake's along for the ride...Because he really likes you."

"Sorry about my brother, he can be odd to find something of a fairy tail to fall for." Helen tries to talk to Darci.

"Well, stalkers aren't my thing." she was about to call the police until Clark says something.

"But we were send here by Lana Lang, I know her."

Jake shows Darci the paper work from her.

"See? We just wish to help out is all." he said.

At least she stops to hear them out.

"Fine, and here, kid." she gives Jake her autograph. "This is a gift for saving my life. So what do you two want?"

"Thank you! (Ah, she loves me.)"

Now back to business...

"Anyways, Lana, Clark, and I are worried about the men who try to kidnap you from last night. We wish to know who was behind this mess."

"Thanks, but I'm a big girl who can take care of my myself." she said.

Helen really hates her for Clark to try keeping his friend calm.

"At least pretend to care! My brother has a thing for you and you said something out stalkers you dislike?! I mean really!"

"Easy, Helen." Clark tries talking to Darci next. "At least try to give us something you might know about those strange robots..."

Darci talks to Clark and Helen for a while 'for Jake to admire her a lot', but a giant toy kangaroo arrives and hurls him off the balcony.

"What's that?" question Darci.

"Isn't that...?" Helen was shock to see. "A giant toy boxing kangaroo? So this is Toyman's doing! He's back!"

Clark and Jake heard Helen loud and clear.

"Toyman?!"

The kangaroo then goes after Darci after punching Clark aside for Jake tries to protect Darci, only to trip and hurt her face.

"Darci!" Jake uses his magic to fight back. "I'll save you, my love!"

"Your love?!" Helen didn't like Jake saying that.

Clark holding on to dear life for Helen's slime goop arm stretches out to save him for Jake to keep the toy animal business to make a shield.

"Darci, are you hurt?!" he was shock to see that her face had a starch to not be bleeding but cracked instead. "(No way!) Hey, are you a puppet?"

She was shock to see her face was mess up to hide it from Jake.

"Don't look at me!"

"Hey, its okay..." he loses his grip. "Oh, no!"

For the kangaroo almost had Darci to punch through Jake's magical beam shield, Superman arrives and starts fighting the kangaroo and Helen using stone arm to punch and kick back as it tries to restrain them both with a strong rope.

"Hey!" Helen gets caught. "Superman!"

But they both work together to break free from it.

"Come on, Helen, pull harder..."

Though the kangaroo almost escapes with Darci to kick Jake aside, Superman manages to save her for him and Helen and defeats the robot together.

"She's okay, you guys!" Jake helps Darci get to safety. "Let's get you out of here."

With Superman's punch and Helen holding off the electrical wires from the kangaroo's missing arm, they both send the toy flying out of Darci's apartment down below.

"Hey lady, you can't park there, it's for emergencies only." the man tells the rich woman.

"Your definition of 'emergency' is way too limited."

Her car gets smashed by kangaroo. Ha! For Superman, Helen, and Jake did it to save Darci's life, only for her to not be at her apartment anymore.

"Well, that's that." Helen didn't see Darci to be anywhere else. "Hey, Jake, where did your girlfriend go?"

He couldn't find her either.

"I don't know...but my wand can track her down. See you two in a bit!" he goes off running to take the car. "Darci! Wait for me!"

"Jake!"

For Helen and Superman had to do something for Darci and Jake and fast.

"Something's up with Darci for Jake to notice from her, we better find them both." he said. "Helen, it'll be fine. Your brother will learn the truth soon enough."

"I know...but his feelings will get hurt." she said. "I want Jake to learn but not leave him heart broken, this is getting serious."

Darci, however, has left and Toyman has watched the whole thing. He vows to take care of Superman, Helen, and Jake somehow.

"Those two will be stopped soon enough, and for Darci to finally be mind. As for Jake, I will not allow him to get near her one bit."

Back at Darci's office, Lana walks in on her, who is busy repairing a tear in her skin. Jake arrives to tell Lana about what Darci's condition was a little too late.

"Lana, don't!" Jake sees it. "I knew it...Darci, you're not just a puppet, you're a robot. (A cute one for me to fall for a robot like Darci.)"

She witnesses Darci pull off the piece of skin, revealing that she is, in truth, a robot.

"That's some makeover. Who are you, Darci?" she asks her.

Jake defends the woman to still be in love with her.

"Stop!"

"You again, kid?" Darci sees Jake.

"I'm Jake, and yes I don't care what you look like to me. I'm still in love with you, okay?" Jake meant every word.

Lana and Jake confront Darci, who reveals that she is based on a doll that was popular at one point in time. Lana notes that she herself had the entire Darci line, and realizes this is why she subconsciously associated Darci with being the perfect model. The Toyman wanted a companion and built her, but she proved to have too much free will and now wants to kill him.

"Don't you see? I was made to please him, but I want to be free to have me back, but I won't go back. Jake, I know you like me, but I don't wish to put you in danger. For a doll who was made for girls back then, I want to be more than a doll, robot, or a puppet, but human." she said. "So let me have this, I'll stop Toyman if I must."

"So he is behind all of this, the nut job!" anger Jake to realize something. "Wait...you're going to kill Toyman?!"

Lana helps Jake out as well.

"Wait-!" Darci attacks Lana after she finds her employer plans to turn her over to the police.

After a brief fight, a fire breaks out and Lana is trapped inside. Jake was going to save Lana for Darci to make her get away.

"Lana-!" he soon gets attacked from lots of toy monkeys to trap him in a barrel and take him away. "Hey! Let me out of here!"

All by Toyman's doing to have him killed next. Darci runs off to see Jake getting capture by Toyman, as she leaves Lana to burn. Once again, Superman and Helen arrived in time to save her and manages to put out the fire as a team.

"Sonic boom, baby!" Helen's wind power likes Superman's was strong enough to stop the fire to go out. "No need for thanks, Lana, other than we thought Jake would be here with Darci. Where are they?"

Through Lana, bot Clark/Superman and Helen learn of Darci's origin and her connection to Toyman.

"There's something you two should known other than Jake was capture by Toyman and Darci...she did this because..."

Once Lana told Superman and Helen, it wasn't good news to hear.

"They're what!?" Helen was shock.

"Then we better hurry." Superman said to Helen. "Jake's in danger and we don't want Darci killing anyone or Toyman himself."

Darci goes to Toyman's hideout and confronts him and sees Jake in a PlayDoh type of goop to be stuck in with his magic wand all trapped in there.

"Oh, look who has finally come to play, Jake. Its Darci at long last." he said with joy.

"Darci...?" he tries to stop her from doing anything. "No, Darci! This isn't the way! Don't kill him! Even if Toyman's a bad guy! You have the will power!"

She tries to kill him with a gun but she finds she can't.

"I can't...but I want...to..."

"Oh, course you can't, my love. I made you like this." he said. "You could never hurt me."

A fail-safe device prevents her from attacking him and she is forced to run. However, she is captured and Toyman decides to make some 'adjustments' on her.

"Let her go, Toyman!"

"Oh, Jake, its time for you to take a bath...in the doh of your dooms!" Toyman shoves Jake in the goop to lose some air. "That should hold you."

Jake tries to call out to Darci to try saving his love.

"I'll never love you! Never!" she said. "And that boy has nothing to do with me!"

Ouch, now that's just cold after Jake poured out his heart for her. Now that leaves this poor kid to be heart broken.

"I know there's a place for me in your heart." Toyman takes out a power drill. "I just have to find it."

Shortly after Darci's entry, Superman and Helen arrived.

"Clark, Jake's here with Darci for Toyman to be somewhere..." she checks on her arm. "I can detect them. (Jake, where are you?)"

Going through Toyman's toy soldiers to shoot Superman and Helen down...

"Halt! Friend or foe?"

Superman and Helen use their heat visions to destroy them both.

"Foe." he said.

"Later, losers." and Helen.

Toyman accuses Superman of wanting Darci for himself, though Superman assures him this is not the case to have Jake killed the most who loves Darci a lot more than Superman, Toyman traps him in an energy cage and has him attacked by an energy being called the Death Fist Ninja.

"For you and Jake will meet with your fates by my hands..." he said. "Oh, Helen, who would you rather save the most? Your brother or your hero idol?"

Having no choice since Darci was trapped in a box...

"Go, Helen! I got this!"

Superman fights his own battles for Helen to rescue Jake from the goop in time by using some ice power to freeze it all up until Jake gets his wand to break from with the air to breath again.

"Jake!" she tries to pull him out.

"Helen!" he holds on and fires away. "(Thanks for coming to rescue me.) Shamoo! Can do!" Jake was freed. "How are going to save Superman next?"

"And what about Darci?"

Once Helen asks that part to her brother, this made him feel a bit sad.

"What about her...?" he sounded sad.

"Oh, Jake, I'm sorry..." she knew what Jake meant about her doll to be Darci when she was little. "Look, Jake, about the doll...it was my Darci once. I had you playing the husband to call for her, it was pretend when we were little. I knew you once had a crush on something made up, but I didn't think you would really fall for her to not like you back because of Toyman's doing. Heart breaking, isn't it?"

Jake knew what he had to do to make things right.

"No, Helen, you were right. Hard to fall in love, but for her to be a murderer to another, that's going too far." he helps Superman fight back. "Superman, follow my video game movements! I know what you must do!"

"Then let's do it!" he was ready.

Helen and Superman were happy to have the old Jake Star back with them. At first, Superman is nearly defeated by the ninja, but he soon 'with Jake's help' manages to push it into the energy cage, thereby overloading its circuits.

"Impossible!" angered Toyman.

"Game over!" Helen cheered. "Now I taught Jake those moves from Mortal Kombat." she then sees Toyman getting away. "Jake! Superman! Come on, he's getting away again with Darci!"

As Superman and Helen take flight, Jake goes in front of them to give chase to Toyman.

"Hold up, you two, he's mine!"

Toyman flees the scene with Darci, but she destroys the helicopter they are riding.

"What are you doing?!" shock Toyman.

"I can't destroy you, but I can destroy your toys!" she does it.

For the toy helicopter goes down under.

"No!"

Jake was too late to stop them.

"Darci!" he cries out. "No..."

It crashes into the ocean, and neither of them can be found for Jake tries to leaving Helen and Superman to worry.

"Jake?" Superman tries to search for him. "Where are you, Jake?!"

Jake does save them both for Toyman was alive and out cold for Darci was bit hurt to get fixed up by Jake Star's magic.

"Kid-I mean Jake."

"Darci, you're human look alike again. I saved you and Toyman's life. You're free to go, but I need to take him to jail." he said.

"No." she stops him. "I will. The least I can do for saving me a lot today, please?"

Jake believes in Darci to do so.

"In that case, take him to a prison somewhere on train. Go now, and be free Darci as someone else." he said. "It was fun liking you a bit while my dream girl lasted. Sorry about everything."

"No, I should be sorry. If anything, I could've fall for you Jake...if you were a little older." she kisses Jake on the cheek. "Thank you."

This made Jake a bit happy to do the right thing and Toyman to be in jail for good this time.

"(Wow, I was kissed by Darci!) Aw, it was nothing really-!" he stops to see Darci leaving with the out cold Toyman too as Jake smiles to be a bit happy in the end. "(There they go.) Good-bye, Darci, I'll always love you a little to remember a bit from you! Be free from Toyman!"

Helen and Clark/Superman finally found Jake on the harbor of the ocean side.

"Jake, there you are!" she hugs Jake to know what he did. "I see that our enemy's done for and she's..."

"Yeah, I let her go. She wasn't so bad to like me at least for a friend, though heart broken...I'll love someone my age again."

Hard to grow up sometimes, you know? For Helen to know that and felt bad for her brother a little.

"It was fun while it lasted really, Jake, you will soon learn like I am with Jimmy. Love is beautiful." she said. "But if any case, this version of yours of Pinocchio's much better."

"Yeah..."

With Superman places his hands on Jake and Helen's shoulders, looks like everything was fine to say that Toyman was capture a few days later somehow and Darci Mason was left to be somewhere unknown run away super model.

"Come on, you two. We did our part." he said. "Now we leave the rest to her...Wherever Darci is right now."

The heart of the matter, is the lesson for this chapter/episode for today for Jake Star to learn the hard way...but to leave a some what happy ending to other parts unknown.

"(I got my made up story to do on my next school project. Jake and Darci, by me of course.)" Jake said to get right to it.

Later, a mysterious woman waits at a train station. A conductor offers to help her with her bag, but it's too heavy for him. However, after he leaves, the woman picks up the heavy bag with ease and leaves on the train. Looks like Darci brings Toyman to jail afterwards, but where she goes to from there, who knows...For some stories to leave the others left out just like that. Strange, huh? You said it.