At lunch, the life had returned to Timmy. He had a huge smile and was running or walking quickly everywhere he went. Chester, AJ, Elmer, and Sanjay seemed happy for him too.
"Dude!" Chester greeted him at the table, "How lucky are you? You just got Trixie Tang as your science partner! How awesome is that!?"
"It is most terrific!" Sanjay cried.
"Now you don't even have to carry out that ridiculous plan you and Chester formed six months ago to risk life and limb to blackmail her into being your girlfriend! You can try during your science project!"
"Now hold on!" Chester shouted at AJ, "We made a deal to get a story about Trixie Tang, and by gone, we're gonna get one! Right Timmy?"
"Uh, sure," Timmy said, surprised Chester had remembered that for six months, "Whatever!"
"Are you doing the project at her house, or at your house?" Chester inquired.
"Mine."
"Darn it! You'll have to force a confession out of her then!"
"Uh, sure Chester," Timmy lost interest in his friends as Trixie walked by. She didn't look too good. She ignored Timmy and was going to sit by the popular kids, but they just stared at her strangely.
"What?" she demanded.
"Tad and Chad told me about Crocker giving you Turner as a lab partner" Veronica answered, "How could you let him do that to you?"
"I know," Trixie pretended to be in distress, "It's horrible. I..."
"No, seriously, how could you let Crocker do that to you?" Tad asked, "You didn't complain, try and bribe your way out of it, or have this guy," he pointed to their bodyguard, "pound the heck out of Crocker!"
"We're talking about Crocker," Trixie looked irritated, "All he cares about is his obsession with mystical creatures. If I complained, I'd probably get detention, and someone as popular and beautiful as me getting detention would have made today even worse! Our bodyguard was out anyway, working for Crocker," she glared at him angrily, and he started whistling.
"But we would have expected you to put up some resistance..." Chad eyed her suspiciously, "You may be the most popular girl in school, but we're popular enough to lower your popularity...perhaps that's in order?" he looked smugly at the fellow rich kids, and something in Veronica's eyes made her look eager for the answer to be "yes."
"Excuse me!?" Trixie sounded annoyed and shocked at the same time, "We're talking about me, Trixie Tang?"
"Well...I guess we could let it go," Tad said, and Veronica looked extremely disappointed, "But let's go tell your parents! They have enough power and money in Dimmsdale to convince even Crocker!" as the popular kids walked away from their table to a place they could use their cell phones, Trixie held her bracelets up to her mouth.
"I wish that the popular kids forgot who my lab partner was, didn't bring up the subject again, and couldn't find out until Monday when we have to turn in our projects when it's too late to do anything about it!"
"You know, Trixie," Wanda said, "Considering you aren't exactly the perfect image of all things popular yourself, you shouldn't be ashamed that Timmy Turner's your lab partner..."
"When did I say I was? Remember, I have a tyrannical mother, she'll freak, I'll get in trouble for not doing anything..."
"Oh, right!" the fairies granted the wish. The popular kids looked dazed and turned back to the lunch table.
"Hi Trixie," Veronica said.
"Want to talk about anything that doesn't have to do with Crocker's science project?" Tad asked.
"Sure!"
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The bell rang, and Crocker reminded his students both partners had to work on the project together in just one of their houses as they left the building. Trixie was off by herself away from the other popular kids.
"We'll have to be careful now, Trixie," Wanda said, "Crocker's cameras are installed and we have no way of knowing when they'll be on or off!"
"I've got it!" Trixie said after thinking fast, "I wish that on all of Crocker's cameras I could see a green light on them when they're off and a red light when they're on! So I know when they're about to change, I also wish that for ten seconds before they're about to turn on our ten seconds before they're going to turn off, I could see the light flashing!"
"Good plan, Trixie!"
"Yeah! A lot better than any of T..." Cosmo was shut up and Wanda granted the wish. Right after Trixie got her wish granted, Timmy ran up with hearts in his eyes.
"Hi Trixie!" he said, "So we're on the science project together? Yeah, I'm excited about it too! I've got it with me! So since Crocker's specified we have to both work together on this in one of our houses and you picked mine I'll need to know what day of the weekend what time and since we're going to both be in my house if you'll need anything like a favourite snack or a favourite drink or a car or a plane or a..." he was saying all this really fast when Trixie finally stopped him.
"Saturday. Around 4:00. Don't do me any favours," she put on her most convincing "I really don't want to be here" face. Timmy didn't seem to notice.
"OK. So you sure you won't need anything like a snack or a drink or a trip to the moon or..." Trixie let him ramble on as she headed over to the popular kids.
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At 3:50 the next day, Trixie sat in her room. Thanks to her wish she knew Crocker's light was on, so Cosmo and Wanda were disguised as her sleeping cats. She knew that if she went out the door her mom would ask where she was going and find out that she was lab partners with an unpopular kid. She needed Cosmo and Wanda to take her there, but they had to wait for Crocker's camera. So she was reading a comic book hidden under a copy of a pre-teen magazine. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a camera with a red light on it. Then it started blinking. It did this for ten seconds, and then went green.
"Let's go, you two!" Trixie set her comic book down and Cosmo and Wanda became her braces before the poofed off to Timmy's house.
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"Curses!" Crocker kept switching which cameras to look for as he desperately searched to find either Timmy or the rich kids using their fairy godparents to complete the project. Tad and Chad were sitting down acting cool, Timmy was trying to make his room perfect to impress Trixie, and last time he checked, Trixie was reading, "I'll never discover a fairy at this rate! Better check on Ms. Tang again..." she was absent. But something on the floor caught his eye. He zoomed in to get a better look.
"Hmm..." he muttered, "A #1, limited edition copy of The Crimson Chin vs. The Nega-Chin Part 3: Revenge of the Nega-Cleft? A comic book? In Trixie Tang's house? Wait; I've seen her when those five small unpopular boys bring one of their precious graphic novels in for show-and-tell. She may not appear interested to the naked eye, but I know that look of interest anywhere...and I've seen her down near the comic store before!" he began to laugh maniacally, "Popularity queen Trixie Tang indulges in UN-popular habits! But wait, I've met her mother at parent-teacher conferences. She's far too sophisticated and high-class to allow such a commonplace form of entertainment in her household! So there's only one way Ms. Tang could have gotten that comic book...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS! I have found the rich, miserable, fairy-possessing child! Now to use my highly advanced surveillance system as an excuse to invite myself into the Tang mansion and obtain more evidence to prove once and for all the existence of...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS!" he started up his van and sped off towards the Tang mansion, almost running over a dozen bikers and crashing into five cars.
Mrs. Tang was sitting down in the dining room enjoying afternoon tea at that time. She had just finished off her cup of tea and set it down when she hear someone shouting.
"Out of my way!" a large black van pulled up, somebody flew out of the front window, and smashed into the Tang Mansion's front door, leaving an impression and knocking the door down. Mrs. Tang ran into the main hallway to see who it was.
"What's the meaning of this!?" she demanded.
"Ah, Mrs. Tang!" the man pulled himself together, "I'm your daughter's teacher, Mr. Crocker! I'm here to look for evidence of FAIRIES! I mean, um, I'm sure your daughter has told you about her science project due on Monday?"
"No..." Crocker instantly knew why; a woman like this would have never stood for her daughter being lab partners with Turner.
"Must've slipped her mind. Well, it's a rather difficult project, and in order to be sure my students went about it correctly, I took the liberty of installing a 24/7 audio/video surveillance system in their rooms!"
"Ah yes," Mrs. Tang gave a weak smile, "That large man who works for me was busy with it on Friday."
"Well, I checked to see if your daughter was working on that project! She's currently asleep. One of the wires must have come loose, as I lost video image! Rather than bothering you to fix it, I came all the way out here, away from my own home and fairy website, to do an incredibly simple task myself that anyone could do in an instant!" Mrs. Tang stared at him strangely for a minute.
"All right," she said, "but if my daughter is sleeping, do it quietly."
"Very well," Crocker headed upstairs, opened and closed the door quietly, and broke into insane laughter, "Excellent! My plan is slowly beginning to succeed! Now to remove Ms. Tang of her comic book," he stuffed it in his pocket, "and search her room for any more evidence that will finally prove the existence of...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS!" he broke down the door to her closet and found a large safe. Using a safecracker conveniently located in his other pocket, he solved the code, and tried to open the safe. It didn't work. He tried again; it didn't work. He now frantically tried to pull open the safe; the fell backwards and nearly threw out his back, "PERFECT!" he yelled, "In order to hide from her mother all of her comic books, Ms. Tang must have wished for this special safe! I'm willing to bet every penny of my hard re-earned teacher salary that only SHE can open it! Time to get this safe out to the fairy detection van!" he tried lifting up the safe, but it was pretty heavy. He struggled with it, falling down the stairs and having his face get crushed by it.
"What is that thing?" Mrs. Tang demanded when she saw it.
"A safe I found in your daughter's bedroom," Crocker said, "and I also found...THIS COMIC!" he pulled it out.
"AGAIN!? Oh, that girl just can not break this nasty habit! Thank you for taking it out with you, Mr. Crocker! Oh, you won't tell anyone that Trixie is into these things, will you?"
"I guarantee you that I won't!" Crocker lied, lifting up the safe again, "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my fairy detection van. FAIRIES!" with a sudden burst of strength he sped off to his van and jumped in the driver's seat, "To the Crocker Cave!" he sped off.
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Trixie arrived in front of Timmy's house and knocked on the door.
"I'll get it," she heard someone say, and Mr. Turner answered the door and immediately freaked out, "Trixie Tang? The most popular girl in Dimmsdale?? At our house???" he screamed like a girl and fainted. Mrs. Turner walked out.
"Hello, Trixie!" she said, "It's nice to see you! And unexpected. Bizarre, in fact. We're not popular!"
"Timmy and I are lab partners on a school project," now that none of the popular kids or her mom were around, Trixie could drop the total snob act, but she made sure not to sound too happy in case Timmy's friends exaggerated what he told them.
"Oh, of course!" Mrs. Turner smiled, "that would explain why Timmy's been spending all day and night in his room trying to make it look perfect. Please, come in!" Trixie walked in, stepping over Mr. Turner. Mrs. Turner led her up to Timmy's room and went downstairs to revive her husband by saying "Dingleburg." Trixie knocked on the door, but when no one answered, she went in anyway. Timmy was still frantically staring at his room from every angle and rushing to make adjustments. When he passed by Trixie, she tapped him on the shoulder. He shouted when he saw her.
"Trixie!" he jumped back, "You're here? But it's only...4:02 on Saturday. Uh..."
"Nice room," Trixie looked around.
"Wait. You're being...nice to me?"
"Of course, silly! There's no popular kids around so I have no reason to be cruel to you!" Timmy could not have looked happier at this, "Just don't tell them, OK?"
"Sure, Trixie! So, you wanna get started?" he pulled out the kit and they read through the instructions. It said to mix a lot of chemicals and in a certain environment, and they'd have a fully-grown crystal in 4-6 weeks... "...and we have today and tomorrow to finish it," Timmy commented.
"We'll just have to try and speed up the process," Trixie shrugged, and they got to work. Trixie noticed a camera in Timmy's room with a red light on it. It was one of Crocker's cameras. They finished mixing everything and put it in the mould, setting it up by the window where the sun could get on it. They were supposed to add water and a simulation of the other elements every day for the next four weeks, at least.
"I'm bored," Timmy said after five seconds, "My dad's an expert at building useless and/or dangerous inventions; maybe he can come up with something to speed this up," Trixie watched him leave and sat down by Timmy's computer. Out of the corner of her eye she kept an eye on the camera. As soon as it went off she could wish for the crystal to grow faster. But Crocker didn't seem ready to change any time soon...
---
"Excellent!" Crocker had his van parked in front of the school, "Ms. Tang was gone because she used her fairies to wish herself over to Turner's so they could complete the science project! Now I'll I have to do is wait for her to use her fairies to wish the project complete and I can finally prove the existence of...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS!"
"Denzel?" Crocker heard his mother's voice and caught her walking up to his van holding a red rubber dress.
"Or maybe I'll head off to the Crocker Cave immediately!" he turned off the cameras, snuck out of the van, unlocked the school, and ran inside.
---
The light finally went off, and Trixie could make a wish.
"I wish the crystal would finish growing!" she said to Cosmo and Wanda.
"Trixie, we can't help you cheat on a school assignment!"
"Timmy and I already did all the work! All you're doing is speeding up the elements!"
"Wow! She found a loophole!" Cosmo granted the wish just as Timmy walked in.
"Bad news, Trixie. My dad's too busy trying to perfect his Anti-Dingleburg Defence System to do...hey!" he ran over to the crystal, "it's finished! How'd it grow so fast?"
"Uh...I found a spare chemical that increased the speed of growth?" Trixie lied. Timmy knew she was lying, and she was glad to see she kept the secret well, but why Wanda would grant a wish that helped with homework was a mystery to him. Wanda raised her wand without letting Trixie see and Timmy saw the words "She found a loophole" flash across his vision for a minute.
"Wow! We'll probably be the only ones Crocker doesn't fail!"
"Yeah," Trixie smiled, "Well, I'd better be going."
"Ah, come on! Hang out for a while! I know most of this house is designed to suit the needs of an unpopular, middle-class 10-year old boy and my dad's really goofy and obsessed with beating the Dingleburgs," there was an explosion in the garage and Mr. Turner went flying by Timmy's window, screaming like a girl, "but you couldn't be too miserable! Any TV shows on now you normally watch?"
"Hmm..."
A minute later they were both watching their favourite soap opera, Kissy- Kissy-Goo-Goo. Wanda appeared as interested in it as they were; Cosmo had fallen asleep and was snoring.
"Wow," Trixie looked at Timmy, "I've never met any boy confidant enough to admit he likes this channel!"
"Yeah. Uh, about that," he said, "Since I'm not telling anyone that you were nice to me, can you not tell anyone I do watch this channel?"
"Deal!" they shook on it and went back to watching the show, but Trixie definitely looked at Timmy differently when she had found out about him liking this show. Wanda smiled approvingly and looked over at Cosmo, but he was still asleep, so she just glared at him like he was an idiot.
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"This large satellite transmission interceptor," Crocker was messing around with all of his fairy technology in the janitor's closet, "may be more primitive then my fairy detection van, but it shall enable me to continually observe Turner's bedroom!" Crocker started it up, and the image of Timmy's room appeared on the screen. Both Timmy and Trixie were gone, but the crystal was fully grown.
"EXCELLENT!" Crocker shouted, "I may have been unable to catch one of those two making the actual wish, but the fact that their science project is complete, the evidence I removed from Ms. Tang's room, and the latest in my state-of-the-art, fairy-hunting equipment line," he looked over at a coffin off by the wall, "shall finally prove the existence of...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS!"
"Denzel?" his mother was outside the janitor's closet, "I'm both respecting your privacy by knocking but asserting my authority as your mother by coming in anyway!" she broke down the door with her parental battering ram.
"MOTHER! What are you doing?! Can't you see this is the Crocker Cave? NO ONE IS ALLOWED IN!" she held up the dress, and Crocker sighed with an air of resignation.
---
The next morning, everyone was fearing for their lives. No one had shown up yet who had been able to complete Crocker's project; not even AJ! Trixie and the popular kids were off to one corner of the room, and Timmy came in with a paper bag just before the bell rang. Everyone took their seats as Crocker walked in. He didn't look the same. He was dressed in full body armour with a high-tech butterfly net, a sceptre strapped to his back, and some kind of weapon on his wrist. He had special goggles on.
"Hello, children!" he said, "I have good news! Your science project will not count as a grade!" everyone cheered, "because it's true purpose was to help me prove once and for all the existence of...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS! Ms. Tang, please show to all of us your science project," with nothing else to do, she grabbed Timmy's bag and puled out her crystal.
"Here," she said, annoyed, "What's your point?"
"Let me answer that for you...THAT CRYSTAL TAKES A MONTH TO FULLY GROW! How could you have gotten it finished?"
"Well, uh..."
"And I was over at your house on Saturday repairing my now disabled surveillance system," he continued, reaching for something inside his armour, "and I uncovered...THIS!" he pulled out a comic book, and everybody gasped, "Yes, students! A COMIC BOOK! There was also a rather interesting safe in your closet," he dragged that into the classroom, barely able to move it, "Chad! Come up here and unlock the safe. Here's the combination," Chad tried, but he couldn't open it. Several other kids were called up, and none of them could open the safe. Crocker shoved it over to Trixie's desk.
"You looked through my house and stole my stuff!?" she stammered.
"Your mother gave me permission to steal it. Now why don't you open the safe?" having no other choice, Trixie did so. A ton of comic books, video games, and DVD's for action movies fell out, "Fancy that children! Trixie Tang, popularity queen of Dimmsdale, finds comic books fascinating! Yes, it's true! SHE LIKES BOY STUFF!" a fresh, louder echo of gasps followed, and Crocker presented them pictures from the video of her room, "And with a mother like hers, how could Ms. Tang obtain such things AND complete her science project on time? FAIRY GOD-PARENTS!" everyone started freaking out and whispering. No one had ever taken Crocker's rants before seriously. They'd all assumed he was a total nut case. But now he had evidence to support his theories, and many started to agree with him or become suspicious. On top of that, the news that Trixie liked boy stuff was prime, juicy news for those who spread gossip.
"Well...I...uh," Trixie couldn't concentrate long enough to put a defence together.
"You know Trixie," Cosmo whispered, "It's good that you're specific with your wishes, but sometimes vague is good!"
"Do you know what these goggles do, children?" Crocker pointed to his eyewear, "It's part of my fairy abduction suit! These goggles detect a source of magic in this classroom! The need for mobility keeps me from adding in the necessary adjustments to track down where the precise location of the magic is, but I believe I know where," he walked up to Trixie's desk, an insane grin on his face. Fortunately, her bodyguard walked over.
"Popular or not, I'm paid by her mother to serve as her guard," he cracked his knuckles.
"And I have a plasma cannon mounted on my wrist!" Crocker held it up to the bodyguard's face.
"Oh, great," he got blasted into the wall, leaving an imprint of himself.
"Now where were we, Ms. Tang?" Crocker turned around to face her, but her desk was empty. Trixie had slipped out into the hallway and was running down the hall, trying to get a head start on Crocker. He was soon charging after her, butterfly net raised high, shouting "FAIRIES!" at the top of his lungs. She managed to hide in the Popular Girl's Bathroom and Crocker stopped.
"Go ahead and run, Ms. Tang! I've locked the doors to the school, so you can't escape. Once I catch you, I shall use this far more precise, hand- held fairy finder to capture your fairies! And since fairies are magic, my magic-vision goggles shall enable me to find you anywhere!" he broke down the door to the bathroom and as he charged in, Trixie slipped out. She managed to get into the cafeteria, but she hit her head on a cabinet door stupidly left open and got knocked out. Crocker broke in immediately.
"Time to say farewell to your fairies, Ms. Tang," Crocker stood over her unconscious form and pulled out his fairy finder.
"Not so fast, Crocker!" someone shouted from up above him. Crocker looked up and had his face smashed by a frying pan, which caused him to stumble back and collapse into the stack of dishes. The noise got Trixie to wake up, and Timmy jumped down, grabbed her arm, and pulled her out of the kitchen before Crocker could recover. They hid in a conveniently large locker, and Timmy covered Trixie's bracelets with silver tape.
"What is this?" Trixie asked.
"It's a special tape," Timmy explained, "It makes it impossible for Crocker to detect magic coming from whatever it covers!"
"Where'd you get it?"
"Internet," Trixie bought that for a minute, but then she started thinking.
"Wait," she said, "The time you got really popular, Timantha, the pink- hatted computer virus, Mr. Crocker's behaviour at the award ceremony and all the times he's brought you up in his rants?" Trixie grabbed Timmy, "Timmy! You're Cosmo and Wanda's fairy godchild!"
"Uh...yes?" he smiled nervously.
"Timmy," Trixie smiled, "That was so sweet of you to let me have your godparents because of my mom! So now that I know that you were the one who let me have their godparents..." she was cut off by the locker being shook. Crocker was breaking down the lockers one by one, trying to find Trixie.
"Of course!" he shouted when he got to the large locker, "the conveniently large locker! They must be in here!" he broke the door down, but they weren't there. Timmy had taken the tape off Cosmo and Wanda and they were now running in the halls.
"What do we do?" Trixie yelled.
"I can't do anything with Cosmo and Wanda," Timmy pointed at them, "They're still your fairies for a month! You have to do something!"
"What?"
"WISH WE WERE IN FAIRY WORLD!" Trixie saw Crocker gaining on them.
"I wish the four of us were in Fairy World!" she shouted when were able to turn at a corner and Crocker couldn't see them. By the time he got to them, they were gone.
"CURSES!" he shouted, but then he heard all the murmuring in all the classes. News had already gotten out across school, and nearly all the teachers and students were now starting to consider the existence of... "...FAIRY GOD-PARENTS! YES! I may not have gotten those fairies just yet, but the school is convinced that fairies DO exist! Soon I will capture a fairy, and become supreme magical ruler of the Universe! FAIRIES!"