A/N: And here it is. Another chapter for another story. While this chapter does involve some story elements from "Not Impressed", it would mostly involve Tulip, Mary, and the other girls hanging out and having some fun on their day off. Also, I watched a little bit of "Invader ZIM: Enter the Florpus" myself, and I gotta say, so far, it was actually a bit funny. So, I think it'd be a great idea if certain characters from "Invader ZIM" were the next passengers to arrive in Pure Heart Valley in "Enemy Mime". I did like Richard Horvitz's voice for Zim. It was funny. :) Anyhoo, enjoy.
"Infinity Train: The Pure Heart Car"
Chapter 7: "Girls' Day Off"
It all started at night when fireworks were exploding in the sky, much to the sweetypies' amazement before the same black lizard-like monster with orange stripes, a dinosaur-like tail, iguana-like ears, and the ability to spew out molten rock of different colors that explode like fireworks stood up and opened up his ears, that now resemble bat wings before firing a spark blast at the sweetypies, knocking them back before spewing out a yellow spark rock and a green spark rock before it exploded like a firework, amazing the sweetypies again. At that moment, nearby, Tulip, Mary, Atticus, One-One, Penelope, Princess, and Duchess were the first to notice on the pink aerocycle.
"The Impressaur's back? I thought we got rid of him the last time.", Tulip commented just as Badgerclops yawned.
"So, what are we doin' tonight?", Badgerclops asked.
"Battling the Impressaur! Pay attention.", Mao Mao responded as said monster roared at them and Tulip and the others from behind.
"Okay, 1, stop naming them. You'll get attached.", Badgerclops stated as the Impressaur tried to eat Mao Mao and the others only to miss before firing spark rocks at them but missed again.
"That name was all me.", Tulip responded.
"And 2, can we go to the flea market after this?", Badgerclops asked.
"Pay attention.", Mao Mao retorted as the Impressaur tried, and failed, to eat them again.
"I miss the fart dungeeeeooooon!", Sad One spoke as the pink aerocycle narrowly spun around to avoid getting blasted or chomped.
"Look. It's the sheriff's department. Here to defeat the monster!", the sweetypie spoke before the Impressaur landed on the ground and roared.
"All right, guys. See if you can land the aerocycle safe somewhere. Princess, Duchess, you're with me.", Tulip suggested.
"Wait. How do you know that plan would work?", Mao Mao puzzled.
"I may not look it, Mao Mao, but I've danced this tango, once or twice before.", Tulip smirked in response before Tulip hopped off the pink aerocycle and generated green electricity around her body with a grunt before she started to grow, eventually causing her shoes and socks to rip apart, leaving her barefoot before her skirt was the next to go as it came off in half before her pants ripped off into shorts with her jacket ripping off just enough for the sleeves to become short sleeves and for the green jacket itself to be busted open from the front middle as Tulip's hair band even broke off, letting it down.
Then, she continued growing bigger while her shorts grew shorter and her jacket ripped off completely while her white shirt was ripped into a white tank top before her chest grew big enough to the point that the top sleeves tire off, making it more like a white crop top while her shorts eventually grew as short as an underwear/shorts combo before Tulip landed on the ground.
"Hey, Impressaur! Looking for me?", Tulip smirked before the monster growled and roared in response as it prepared to fire only for Princess and Duchess to both blast the monster by the mouth, making the spark go out as smoke.
"Whoa. Nice timing, girls.", Tulip grinned.
"Thanks, Tulip.", Princess grinned.
"Hey, Mao Mao! If you wanna get down there, Now's your chance!", Duchess shouted to Mao Mao.
"All right. They're watching, anyway. I'm going in.", Mao Mao spoke before he leapt off the aerocycle and then unsheathes his katana and gave a bellowing yell as he prepared to strike with a downward slash as the monster recovered in time to notice him too late before he got whacked back once with the monster's spark rock getting slashed to pieces next before another hit on the monster was struck.
"Hot dog, I'm impressive.", Mao Mao grinned before he landed on the ground next to Penelope.
"Hmm! Oh, yeah.", Mao Mao grinned as he flexed his muscles.
"Okay. He's impressive. But...check this out.", Penelope smirked as she got out her Solarian sword and aimed it at the Impressaur just as it hissed and tried to chomp at her only for Penelope to slash at it, knocking the Impressaur into the air before it fell and knicked the aerocycle, bumping Badgerclops back a bit before he ended up losing altitude quickly and slide on the grass, with surprisingly little to no damage on the ground whatsoever.
"Gangway! No, ah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.", Badgerclops reacted just as Mary landed the pink aerocycle safely before Badgerclops got off the aerocycle and was sliding past Mary, Atticus, and One-One before Badgerclops stopped near Mao Mao and Penelope.
"Okay, a couple updates. 1, I parked the aerocycle, uh, there.", Badgerclops stated as the green aerocycle passed them before he pointed to it.
"2...", Badgerclops began before Penelope spoke up.
"Where's Adorabat?", Penelope asked.
"Fighting Impressaur with Princess and Duchess.", Badgerclops replied.
"What?!", Mao Mao exclaimed.
"And 2..., I wanna get a pretzel!", Badgerclops shouted to Mao Mao just as Mary, Atticus, and One-One caught up to Penelope.
"Penelope. I got a plan for you.", Mary stated.
"And what's that?", Penelope puzzled before Mary whispered into her ear before Penelope agreed on one condition.
"Fine by me, but only if Badgerclops does it with me.", Penelope stated.
"That ain't gonna be a problem. Whatever it is, I'm all in.", Badgerclops agreed.
"All right. Time to put this body to good use.", Mary spoke before she generated green electricity for a moment before she, too, grew into a giant as well with her clothes just as torn up in a 50-foot woman fashion as Tulip's, due to the added adjustments from the Infinity Glorb and ran towards the Impressaur.
"Don't worry. Sargent Adorabat is on the field. We need a distraction, boys. Shake those booties.", Adorabat spoke as she set out three army bird's with parachutes as the Impressaur was about to eat her only for it to get distracted by the army birds and walked toward them instead just as the sweetypies cheered for Adorabat, who flew toward them and smiled just as the Impressaur blasted at the small army birds, disintegrating them into small ashes among fireworks.
Meanwhile, Penelope and Badgerclops attracted the Impressaur's attention.
"Hey, Impressaur! Over here!", Penelope goaded, prompting the Impressaur to roar as it prepared to fire.
"So, like, our job is to distract you while our friends attack you from behind. And we can tell you all this, because as impressive as you are, you're also super dumb.", Penelope smirked as she fired a Blast at the Impressaur's mouth, making it puff up in smoke again before Badgerclops cleared the smoke out with his water sprinkler feature in his cyber arm and repeatedly sprayed it.
"Wait, how'd they get us to be the bait?", Badgerclops puzzled.
Meanwhile, the solarian scar grew all over the Impressaur quickly, making him glow completely red before it then wound up turning to stardust, much to Lucky's surprise and amazement as his eyes shrank down before Lucky turned around, took his glasses off and passed out.
Meanwhile, Tulip and Mary grew surprised at the effects of the solarian sword.
"Whoa. That's what the solarian sword does?", Tulip puzzled.
"Apparently so. It was pretty impressive, though.", Mary replied.
"Huh. You know, Penelope's lucky to have a sword like that. I guess that Glorb that shocked us was just as awesome, huh?", Tulip guessed.
"Guess so. We'll have to run some tests on that Glorb to know for sure.", Mary responded.
"And we will. But, before we do that, how about we all take a day-off? With just you, me, and the other girls?", Tulip suggested.
"Okay. I guess we could use a break.", Mary grinned.
"And you wanna know the best part? We're gonna stay as giants again!", Tulip spoke excitedly.
"Really? Are you sure it's a good idea, considering the last time this happened, Tulip?", Mary asked worriedly.
"Ah, don't worry. We'll just relax this time. Plus, we'll only stay this way for at least a day.", Tulip assured.
"Well, since you put it that way..., all right. We'll stay huge.", Mary agreed.
"All right!", Tulip grinned in excitement while fist pumping.
"But on one condition. We have to try not to wreck anything while we're huge, got it?", Mary warned.
"Yeah. I got it.", Tulip agreed just before she suddenly heard Badgerclops' voice.
"How dare you listen to me when I'm talking about you!", Badgerclops spoke up.
"Huh?", Tulip puzzled.
"That's it! Clear the area! All sweetypies disperse!", Mao Mao urged.
"Except...that one!", Badgerclops growled, pointing toward the blue dog sweetypie with a blue spot on his back and a blue spot on the left side of his face before the sweetypies left, all except for the blue sweetypie.
"You may apologize now.", Badgerclops stated.
"Uh, guys? What's happening here?", Tulip puzzled.
"I don't know. I'm just not that impressed by you.", the blue sweetypie named Blue responded.
"Huh. That's odd.", Tulip stated.
"What is it?", Mary puzzled.
"Turns out there's only one sweetypie that's not impressed by us.", Tulip responded.
"Oh. Well, that's not a problem. There's bound to be someone who's not really impressed with us eventually.", Mary responded.
"No argument here, but try telling that to Adorabat.", Tulip responded, pointing toward Adorabat, who was ready to slay the sweetypie with Mao Mao's katana.
"Do you love your mommy? DO YOU LOVE YOUR MOMMY?!", Adorabat shouted before Mao Mao got his sword back and stopped Adorabat.
"No, no, no, no, no. We'll get to that later.", Mao Mao assured.
"Sorry, I'm...just not impressed.", Blue sighed before walking away.
"Oh, well. His loss. I just hope that Mao Mao doesn't blow this out of proportion just to impress him.", Tulip shrugged as she stood up.
"Tulip, look. This is Mao Mao we're talking about. Of course, he's gonna blow things out of proportion. Besides, it happened before and he recovered. What could go wrong?", Mary stated.
Later, in the morning, Tulip, Mary, Penelope, and the others, the first two of which remained giants, were hanging out near the spot where Blue drinks his tea when Katie walked in with smoothies for everyone.
"Here are your smoothies, everyone.", Katie grinned as Penelope took one smoothie and passed it down to everyone else present before she got one of her own.
"Thanks, Katie.", the girls thanked.
"Wow. So, this is your new job here at Pure Heart Valley? You're doing pretty well for yourself.", Tulip grinned.
"I know. This is a huge step-up from the last 4 jobs I got at Jump City.", Katie responded.
"Glad it's working out for you.", Mary commented.
"Thanks, Mary.", Katie grinned.
Meanwhile, Pinky saw Tulip and Mary staying as giants and grew puzzled.
"Uh, am I going crazy or are those two staying as giants again?", Pinky asked.
"Hey, as long as they're not wrecking anything, I'm okay with it.", Chubbum responded.
Back at the café, Katie had a question of her own.
"So, I heard you guys just grew big without the ninja wand. Is that true?", Katie asked.
"Yeah. It's been that way ever since we found that strange glorb out near the forest.", Mary responded.
"Glorb? What's that?", Katie puzzled.
"Oh, it's short for glowing orb. One-One just called it a glorb for short.", Tulip explained.
"Is that all it can do, or is there more to it?", Katie asked.
"That's what we're finding out tomorrow after our day off.", Mary assured.
"Huh. Okay.", Katie shrugged with a grin.
"So, that explains how you two were able to grow big like that.", Beth grinned.
"You know, sometimes I wish I had something special to help contribute more to the team.", Duchess complained.
"Yeah, me, too.", Princess agreed.
"Tell me about it. I feel exactly the same way.", Penelope concurred.
"Well, you did help us last night. But in the meantime, I'm sure we'll think of something.", the redhead giantess assured.
"Can I grow big like you, too?", Lindsay grinned as she raised her hand.
"Bup-bup-bup. Lindsay, why do you even wanna grow big for?", Mary puzzled.
"I don't know. I just wanted to for some reason.", Lindsay responded.
"Sorry, Lindsay, but that can be very dangerous if you don't know how to handle this huge form right.", Mary stated.
"Yeah, but not all the time. Right?", Lindsay puzzled.
"And aside from that, I'm not sure your clothes could handle the strain. Why do you think our clothes look this way in the first place?", Tulip added.
"Oh. I hadn't thought about that. Point taken.", Lindsay agreed.
"Well, it's not like I ever needed a growth spurt or anything. Seriously, I don't.", Courtney commented.
"Huh. So, what do you want?", Mary asked.
"I want to hold an important meeting for all girls. That is partly why I came here. Listen up, people!", Courtney announced.
"A meeting? Is that what she does all the time?", Tulip puzzled.
"Believe it or not, this is actually the first meeting that doesn't involve any competition from any game shows.", Beth explained.
"Ooh. Something tells me that she did not have her best days there.", Mary guessed.
"All right, ladies. Here's the first order of business: what to do about Fake friends.", Courtney spoke, puzzling Tulip.
"Fake friends?", Tulip puzzled.
"What's that about?", Mary wondered.
"Basically, it's about how some of us gets betrayed by those pretending to be our friends.", Emma explained.
"Oh.", Mary understood.
"Back then, we all had fake friends. Take Mandy for example. She had a couple of those fake friends named Caitlin and Dominique. They were only hanging out with her because of her popularity. For all we know, they might as well have had plans to usurp her popularity.", Courtney stated, making the girls gasp, except for Tulip, Mary, and Katie.
"Exactly. And the heartbreak didn't stop there. In fact, Penelope here has a couple of fake friends herself named Megan and Sarah. Ever since they showed up, they slowly started to show signs of being on Betty's side, like backing Betty up against Penelope once, not to mention laughing at her when Betty got her revenge and made her look bad.", Courtney states, earning the gasps.
"Whoa. That really happened, Penelope?", Mary asked.
"It's just as painful to hear it from Courtney.", Penelope responded.
"So, I suggest we defriend any of our friends that we're not sure are actually our friends to save our hearts from breaking. Any questions?", Courtney asked before Tulip spoke up.
"Just one.", Tulip spoke up.
"You may speak now.", Courtney responded.
"I'm glad you got the right idea of what we should do to avoid any heartbreak, but what about meeting new friends and actually getting to know them to know for sure that they won't break our hearts, like Mao Mao, Badgerclops, and even Adorabat for example?", Tulip asked.
"What about them? For all we know, they might as well be gossiping about us behind our backs.", Courtney stated.
"Uh, from the way things are now, not likely.", Tulip retorted.
"What do you mean?", Courtney asked.
"Just look.", Tulip responded pointing to Mao Mao as Adorabat and Badgerclops were eating ice cream next to Blue as Mao Mao started rap dancing as Chubbum read the lyrics sheet.
"Oh, I have the blues. I have the blues.", Mao Mao sang while Chubbum did not sing any lyrics at all.
"Why aren't you signing? Just like a bump on the log. Go!", Mao Mao shouted just as the sweetypies started gathering to watch the performance as the other girls started watching as well even Mary and Katie.
"Uh, Nobody knows. Ah, come on. Just where it goes. Just like a big bolo dog.", Mao Mao sang before eventually failing as Blue eventually started leaving before Mao Mao gave a frightened look at the end of the music before the sweetypies applauded before Mao Mao only ran off, mostly after Blue.
"Wow. That is pathetic. And he wasn't even getting ridiculed.", Courtney commented.
"Oh, he was. But just by one person.", Mary responded.
"And who was that?", Courtney asked.
"His name is Blue. Turns out he's not easily impressed, boring as he is.", Tulip explained.
"And you're not letting this bother you?", Courtney asked.
"No. But for some reason, Mao Mao is letting it bother him.", Mary answered.
"And you don't think this is an act for him to get some space to talk about us behind our backs?", Courtney asked.
"No. And more than that, we know that it isn't an act, and I can prove it.", Tulip assured with a smirk.
"And how exactly can you prove it?", Courtney asked.
"Well, how about a little bet, Courtney?", Tulip suggested.
"A bet? How's that gonna work?", Courtney asked.
"Simple. I'll check on Mao Mao and the others without him, Badgerclops, or Adorabat knowing I'm here, and if I see without a shadow of a doubt that Mao Mao, Badgerclops, and Adorabat are true friends, then you'd have to at least admit that you were wrong about it.", Tulip stated.
"Really? That's all? Seems fair to me. And if I win?", Courtney asked.
"Then, I'll be the one who admits that I am wrong. The rest that happens after that will happen naturally.", Tulip responded.
"Hm. Seems unreasonably fair. Okay, deal.", Courtney agreed as she shook her pinky.
"Good. May the best girl win.", Tulip grinned.
"I plan to.", Courtney smirked back.
"Oh, boy.", Mary sighed.
"I know, right?", Katie agreed.
Later, as Mao Mao began chasing after Blue just to try to impress him, Tulip carefully towered over the city without letting her shadow cover him and Blue as she was perched on top of a building as delicately as possible so it wouldn't break.
"Blue, wait! I have so many other ways I can impress you!", Mao Mao exclaimed as Blue ran as best he could down the road, turned right on the alley, and turned right again while looking back only to get cornered by Mao Mao up front.
"I got a couple of tricks I can do. I'm all sorts of double-jointed. You like that, huh? You think that's impressive?", Mao Mao urged desperately as he bent himself in weird, yet impressive ways.
"N-not really. No.", Blue whimpered collectively in response.
"No? How about my cool battle scars here? Look at them!", Mao Mao urged as Blue then looked away in disgust in response before Mao Mao showed off his aerocycle and the fact he lost his tail.
"Check out my aerocycle. These speeds ain't regulation. Hey, did you know I don't have a tail? I lost it in a really valiant way, too. See? No tail. It's a great story. Wanna hear?", Mao Mao urged before them going for the next best thing, assuming he could pull it off.
"I can eat this super sour candy.", Mao Mao assured as he held a light green piece of candy.
"Really?", Blue puzzled in surprise.
"Watch!", Mao Mao urged before he opened his mouth and started trying to as Blue gasped in surprise, only to fall short after a few seconds.
"All right, I can't. But look at how many friends I have. 3! Whole! Friends!", Mao Mao urged.
"Uh, one of them is you.", Blue stated, pointing to the picture.
"You better believe I love me like a friend. But what about my gloves? Check this out. I've been wearing them for years and they don't even smell bad.", Mao Mao spoke desperately as he forced his gloves into Blue, making him worried.
"Yeah, smell the glove. Smell it! Why aren't you looking at me, Blue? Blue! Watch me!", Mao Mao urged as he even swung around and panted before Blue grew nervous and backed into a corner, literally, and tried to make a break for it only for Mao Mao to block him.
"Wait. Just one more... Just one more trick. Wait, I promise.", Mao Mao panted just as Tulip then noticed Badgerclops and Adorabat sitting on top of a trash can with the former finishing his ice cream and the latter brushing herself with a toothbrush.
"Do you think we should...? Is that a toothbrush?", Badgerclops asked.
"This big metal can gave it to me.", Adorabat responded.
"Aw. So cute. No, Tulip. Don't get distracted. Focus on what's going on with Mao Mao.", Tulip spoke as she then turned her attention back to notice Blue running from Mao Mao in a hurry.
"Stay away from me!", Blue shouted.
"Blue, come on! I have a couple more muscles to show you! Come on, man!", Mao Mao exclaimed.
"Wow. He's really getting desperate.", Tulip commented just as Blue his behind the rock wall below the building in which Tulip was standing on, barely even noticing her on top.
Thankfully, due to his desperation, Mao Mao did not notice her.
"Just one more trick.", Mao Mao panted before Blue ran off, leaving Tulip puzzled.
"Huh? How did they not see me up here?", Tulip puzzled as she then carefully moved closer to where Blue and Mao Mao are currently headed just as the former arrived first and then unlocked his car hurriedly before entering his car and then tried to start his car up.
"Come on. Come on. Come on.", Blue spoke before he eventually did so only for Mao Mao to slam himself into the windshield? without breaking it, thank goodness.
"Watch me!", Mao Mao shouted, frightening Blue.
"I'm just not that impressed with you!", Blue exclaimed in panic before driving away and then sighing in relief as soon as he was far enough away from him.
However, Mao Mao started catching up at with a bit more than the same speed as Blue's car, frightening Blue.
"Watch me! Watch me, watch me! Come on!", Mao Mao shouted desperately.
"Noooo!", Blue exclaimed in a frightened and scared tone before speeding off away from Mao Mao.
"Wait!", Mao Mao panted before he eventually tripped on a rock, rolled on the street and hit the trash cans, making Tulip wince as she inhaled sharply from the sight.
"And that's exactly why I don't let other people's opinions get to me like that.", Tulip stated just as Badgerclops and Adorabat caught up to Mao Mao.
"Uh, Mao. Why do you need every last sweetypie to be impressed with you?", Badgerclops asked.
"Because... because... I... I don't need other people's validation.", Mao Mao responded as he started to tear up a bit.
"Wait. If Mao Mao's trying so hard to impress Blue, I'm sure it had something to do with what happened to him in the past, but what?", the giantess puzzled to herself just as Badgerclops spoke to Mao Mao.
"It's okay, man. Some people will just never be impressed with you. Take Tulip and Mary for example. As amazing as they are to almost all of us here, I'm not sure they were trying to impress anyone, 'cause they didn't need to and even if they did, they got over it with Blue and so should you.", Badgerclops suggested, slightly surprising Tulip that Badgerclops would say something very highly of her.
Courtney was right. Well, half right. Sometimes, they would talk about them, but not as gossip. Rather, as perfect examples of fine morals at work.
"Huh. I guess Courtney was right. Well, half right, anyway. And from what I saw, I guess we were both right. Guess I m'd better head back to the cafe, then.", Tulip grinned before she then made her way to the café as carefully as she could whilst not blowing her cover as well while Mao Mao suddenly got an idea.
"Not impressed with me. With...me. That's it!", Mao Mao realized as he had a sort of concocted plot as Adorabat prepared to eat a green army toy.
"Hey, both of you, no.", Badgerclops spoke as he wagged his finger.
Back at the café, Courtney spoke to Tulip.
"So, how'd it go?", Courtney asked.
"It kinda went both ways for us evenly.", Tulip responded.
"Both? What do you mean both?", Courtney asked.
"Both as in, you were right about them talking about us behind our backs sometimes, but just not in the way you thought, and I was right about them being true friends, not like the fake ones we all had here. In fact, Mao Mao's a bit like all of us here than even I realized. From what I can tell, this was somehow all rooted to his problem from the past. Maybe with his relationship with his mother, or maybe even his father. Either way, it must've been heavy for him. I mean, we've all been there.", Tulip stated.
"Wow. It's almost as if Tulip was speaking right to me.", Beth spoke in awe.
"Actually, she is. In fact, was she not speaking to all of us here?", Penelope responded.
"Oh, yeah.", Beth understood.
"So, in a way, he's actually our true friend. So, may we consider this one a draw for this bet?", Tulip asked.
"Well, sure, I could, if you got valid proof, that is.", Courtney responded.
Then, suddenly, Mao Mao's voice rang out loudly.
"I KNEW YOU LOVED ME, DADDY!", Mao Mao's voice echoed.
"Wait. Mao Mao has a daddy?", Lindsay puzzled.
"That sound like valid enough proof for you?", Tulip asked with a smirk.
"What the...? But how did you...?", Courtney stammered in surprise.
"Well, you'd be very surprised about the lengths Tulip would go, once she has enough resources.", Mary grinned.
"Oh, all right. Let's call this a draw.", Courtney suggested.
"Thanks. You know, it was actually fun hanging out together like this. Same place next time?", Tulip asked with a grin.
"Yeah. Definitely. Although, you're still paying for the smoothies next time.", Courtney stated.
"Sure. As if I wouldn't do that anyway.", Tulip shrugged in agreement.
"Good. I got a co-therapy job to go to, anyway.", Courtney grinned.
"Really? Who do you have as your subject?", Mary asked.
Later, that subject turned out to be Mao Mao as both Courtney and Blue were speaking with Mao Mao.
"So, that's what happened. Broad daylight, everyone was there. Their faces. It... it was embarrassing, but I felt... better... Freer. Yeah, just...talking about it now, I feel like... I feel like I don't even need to be there anymore. You know what? I'm gonna leave.", Mao Mao grinned before he left and closed the door.
"So, same time next Thursday, then?", Courtney asked before Mao Mao opened the door.
"Yeah, all right. I'll see you then.", Mao Mao spoke before closing the door.
A/N: So, what did you think about that slight twist on "Not Impressed"? Pretty "impressive", right? Huh? Get it? It was a joke based on impressions. It seemed right to me. Anyway, if you have ideas for what should happen in the next chapter, like what differences there should be, let me know sometime before 9:00 PM tonight. Until next time. :)
