A/N: Bet you didn't see THAT coming a hundred miles away, did ya? Just kidding. I am officially owned by the Office Max corp. so updates are going to take more time as I spend 28 hours a week behind a cash register. Jumping around a lot in this chapter for a confusion effect .
Episode 4: The Phantom Megas
"Jamie reproduced!" Kiva had a look of shock and horror on her face. Coop looked confused. Jamie, well….Jamie was unsure of how to feel. After all, if you were a teenage slacker who was just told you were a Dad, you'd be unsure too. "Who the hell would….with….THAT!" Kiva was too shocked to articulate. "You…..at least, in an alternate universe. That was always my favorite story." Nicki clutched the back of her head, the pain was simmering down but it was still there. Her sanity was creeping back as well. There was another reason, a much more important reason why she had traveled here. A warning.
She quickly looked over at Kiva to tell her, but was interrupted. By a big bang. "Right on time." Coop smirked, making his way to Megas. Jamie could only stand in shock. "What is it?" Nicki asked, jumping up to her feet. "Don't worry, Coop will take care of it in no time…just like the past five days." Kiva sighed. "It just keeps coming back at 4 p.m. exactly." Nicki's tension dropped. "Oh. Thought it was….never mind."
"Are you sure it's wise to leave her alone in your basement? I mean, we know who she is but we don't really know who she is!" Kiva said in between pummels. "…..My God.." Jamie finally broke his silence. "You realize what this means!" he turned to Kiva, looking for an answer. "There's hope! If I have a kid in the future, that means at some point in time, I-"
A very, very uncomfortable silence ensued. "I think I'm going to throw up." Kiva held her head in her hands.
Nicki sat on the roof, watching the chaos. "I don't remember this story." She said quietly. Seeing her own Father this way, the way he was, he was completely different from the man she knew all her life. Her entire perception of everything was changing, and she was beginning to understand some things better. And then something happened. Something bad.
But we'll see that later… Meanwhile
"In this one, some guy uses a pod thing to go back in time." John looked up for approval. "And what are we supposed to do, build a pod thing? That's not helping." Devin frowned. "Well Devin, you're not helping much either. You're just reading comic books that have nothing to do with our situation." Linda shot at him. "Yeah, well they're giving me ideas on some situation…." He smirked, holding up a copy of Marmalade Boy. "I've got it! I found it!" Karen squealed. "This is how we'll do it!"
Now, back to the bad thing
"Damnit Coop, this is why you don't eat stuff in the core!" Smoke was filling up the car and Megas was starting to fail. Nicki stood up on the roof and remembered, "He never told me….how it ended." Her eyes grew wide as she tried to think of how to help. Without a firearm, she was useless.
Nicki stared at the picture, leaning against the wall of her bedroom. "I wonder what she was like.." Her Dad walked in, a little surprised. "You're home early." He stated. "It was just a briefing, the mission starts in three days. Hey Dad, they taught us in class that the invasion was quick and the rebellion was easily put down, is that true? Linda and John said it isn't." Jamie sighed, he never wanted to speak of this. "Nickole…"
This wasn't it. She wasn't even in existence yet. This wasn't it. She was getting ahead of herself. She watched in amazement as Coop used Megas' smoke to cloud the monster's sight, gave it one good punch, knocking it out, before finally breaking down. The stories were true, it was impossible to defeat Megas. Or...was it impossible to defeat Coop? There was hope now. Seeing Megas-Coop- in action gave her a new sense of hope. Her future was going to change, no matter what it meant.
A/N- The story will hopefully wrap up within the next two chapters. Which is good, so I can concentrate on my newest Megas fic that is looking really good.
