"Ah what a beautiful day. The sun was shining. Birds chirping and best of all-"
THUUD
"word girl was doing her thang"
After dusting her hands word girl turned and looking at the giant drill mouse crumbled up like a piece of paper with a narrowing eyes.
"Ahem"
Her eyes shot up, "oh! Sorry! I'm not use to that new narrator voice"
"Eh don't worry about it word girl- I was jus-" "word woman" she crossed her arms
"Hm?"
The superheroine rolled his eyes "please, im 17. I am trying to go by Word WOMAN now" she smiled holding her head high for a moment and looked concerned when she heard a sniffle
"gah im sorry." The narrator cleaeed their throat "you just grew up so fast"
Word girl smiled and nodded for a moment before turning to glare at the mechanical death trap before her, why did the handiwork look so familiar?...no..couldn't have been him right?
Word woman shook her head and looked at the eye as Dr two brains trying to claw hsi way out. His screams were so muffled from his henchmen being crammed in tight in the eyeball with him. she couldn't help but smirk as the police slowly rolled onto the scene .
She rolled her eyes, they were late as usual and she took off, Captain hugg- uh..
"World g- I mean Word Woman? What happened to Huggy?" Word woman smiled softly "oh don't worry he's OK. I was getting worried growing up he might get hurt since he was getting slower, so I decided to leave him as Bob full time at home
At the Botsford residence an old grey haired and frankly portly Bob groaned tiredly as he slumped next to a podium infront of s group of boys, the latest prop in their fanatic nerd out of the super hero word girl with a monkey dressed up as her. TJ stepping up behind it and banging the gavel he got for Christmas "the mego super awesome word girl fan club is in session!"
Bob chipped sadly"
"Yeesh"
"You say somethin?" Word woman asked as she zipped through the sky.
"Uh..who's helping you out then? With this whole super hero business?"
Word woman smirked "I wouldn't say he's helping me. More like I'm helping Him...well. sort of"
In a matter of minutes Word woman had landed just outside the city limits, not to the forest of her own secret base. But to the abandond junkyard. She was very careful to land behind the rusty walls out of site and touch her star. Quickly shifting into her civilian self, Becky Botsford. Her hair was longer, but as word girl it was left tied in a Pony tail under her helmet. As Becky she let it hand low and free.
She checked herself as she walked up the the creek door of the junkyard and slowly pushed open the rusty door of the less then stellar smelling area. Atleast pretending that it made her struggle. As she walked in she couldn't help but cringe at the loud screech of nails on chaulk sounding metal bending into place from further in and covered her eyes as she ventured forth. Infront of Becky was an army robots, atleast as tall as 6 stories, some even bigger tgen that, all slumped laying down and looking like they had been chipped away at. In the center of the mess was a lone figure in a weilding mask and a long white lab coat.
On his back were two large long metal arms that pinched the ends of metal in place for the boy to weild properly. Sparks flying over the place he couldn't even hear Becky lean against a large hunk of metal wall. The boy was too focus to notice regardless. He was so close. Close to the end of the seam, just before he could close off the metal the wire from the weilder sputtered making him look down, he seemed to panic as he held the flame closer and tried to use what was left of the spark but it just coughed weak meek flames before giving out. The boy practically growled as he shook it and tried once more before throwing it to the ground in anger "BLAST IT ALL" a British voice yelled, even getting Becky to flinch in surprised at the outburst.
The boy gave a huff and turned sharp to his left and started for a tool box filled with material mumbling to himself, "blast blast blast. Why must this become so difficult," he growled and threw tools over his shoulder "I didn't even Want to do this. Useless waste of my," he began to tug at another torch before angerly yanking it out, wrecklessly sending material flying "Time!" He fell back, "woah!" Becky yelped as she easily dodged the flying monkey wrench flying for her head. The boy quickly turned his attention over, the mask masking his expression as he sat back silently looking at Becky. Though the girl could only assume it was a frown and returned the expression "Tobey!" She yelled "you gotta be careful with this stuff. It can cause some serious damage!" She huffed and grabbed the monkey wrench, having it rest on her shoulder now as if it were a baseball bat. Tobey pulled up his mask and rolled his eyes
"oh Please Botsford. It's just a wrench. Most that could do is take a few IQ points away if struck correctly." He stood up and raised a brow at her "however in your case I highly doubt your IQ could get any lower" Becky gapped at him offended. The evil boy genius gave a smirk. Tobey glared at the sky
"oh sorry"
former evil boy genius.
Becky wasn't the only one who grew and aged, obviously. She got taller, but she also gained a more fit physic, matching up perfectly with word girl, almost too well. She grew to getting use to wearing a hoodie as to hide that fact, people were getting smarter thanks to word girl. So she had to make adjustments between the apperences of herself. She rolled her eyes, Toby on the other hand changed for better And worse. Before her was once a little boy that now stood atleast a head over her, an aspect he grew fond of flaunting, often using his new slightly deeper voice to the list of things he boasts aswell. His hair grew longer aswell. It was well combed and well groomed, but the bangs almost swooped away his whole forehead, and the back of his head seem to fray every which way from length down to just above his shoulders. His glasses were half the size they were as a child..mainly because somehow through out it all he still wore the same pair of glasses. He almost wore the se thing aswell, had it not been from his own active part of destroying those ridiculous bow ties his mother bought him he would have looked ridiculous. Becky couldn't help but slightly miss the look however. As it stood now, his focus look down at the torch testing if it work Becky almost would have considered the boy cute.
The torch came to life and he gave a manic super villian laugh, her smile fell.
Yep
moments gone.
Tobey glanced over at her and cleared his throat
"So, Botsford," he started and clamped down his mask, "what brings you by?" He asked, his voice reverberating inside the metal tin as he turned back to work
Becky peered over his shoulder at his latest creation, it didn't look that big she thought. "Nothing honestly," she lied and drew closer to look over better "what you been up to?" She asked. "Well if you m-" he turned to look at her only to find she was far closer, took a small step back "Uh if you must know..Im still working on but I call it project GBTLMT version 4." He proudly boasted, and looked at Becky expectedly, he slumped when he noticed the puzzled expression "oh just go with project B." Becky craned her head, and nodded " uhhh huh..." he looked back at the bulky figure of his work and stared "im still working on it, he crossed his arms and had the torch torch his hand as he held it under his masks chin in thought, his robot arms mimicking his mannerisms "its not exactly easy to get the exhaust pipes out of all the cars around here to help with the boosters, so progress is a bit slow"
Becky walked over to the machine, wrench in hand, "so this is the only thing you've been working on?" She asked curiously and knocked on the shell, the inside sounded hollow. "How long have you been working on this anyway?" Tobey stiffened. Becky paused qnd stared at Tobey then gave a glare "Tobey.."
"Ah well you see that is a very interesting question-" he stammered
"Tobey."
"Its funny how long tireless work doesn't seem to go by slow at all-"
Becky just glared at him and crossed her arms.
Tobey deflated "about since when we got here yesterday?"
Becky's mouth dropped. It was still summer so she get that he had the time, but since 12pm YESTERDAY?
"Gotta give you credit Tobey, that's some dedication" the narrator chimed in happily.
Tobey seemed to perk up "of course"
"More like overkill" Becky frowned, she felt a little bad his happy posture seemed to weaken at her comment but went on regardless "Tobey i get you love your robots but you really should get home and rest already,"
"I-I'VE rested..I mean look" he pointed over to a wall of parts shoved around with an air mattress just smacked in the middle, he lifted his metal visor smiling proudly "ha! Better then the hammock from last time ey?"
Tobey crossed his arms qnd stood defiant but Becky said nothing. Instead with a deadpan face she slowly walked over to the mattress and dropped the monkey wrench, it didn't way much more then Tobey and sunk to the hard floor underneath the poor cheap mattress...
Tobey cleared his throat, "uh..it's lost some air?- woah!- Becky!"
"No way, your going to kill yourself with exhaustion" Becky yelled, yanking Tobey along, he tried to protest. Even had his robo arms claw at the ground but they didn't have much horse power.
"B-but I'm not done yet! The memory still needs improving, the AI needs to be popped in- Becky the gap" Tobey exclaimed in horror "please atleast let me close it!"
Tobey kept trying, but Becky was admittedly stronger then him, even without using her Word Woman powers she was bearly even trying.
"You can close it tomarrow when you've slept rested and eaten" Tobey groaned "since when did you become my Mother?"
"Since you started spending days not resting or showering if I'm not looking!"
"A-and who said I Wanted you looking at me?!" Tobey yelled glowing red under his mask.
Becky closed her eyes "sorry who's the one who wanted an assistant? Oh yhea you" she smirked and pushed open the door "part of my description is keeping you in check" "yhea for villiany-" Becky held a finger up "'in check', you never defined the perimeter of that" she smiled trying to look the boy in the eyes through the slot in his mask but quickly gave up and took him outside the junkyard and closed the door shut behind her.
Tobey sighed in defeat and tore off his mask in annoyance, "You can be really stubborn you know that?" He huffed "frankly it's unlady like" he crossed his arms and snubbed his nose upward.
Becky looked at him curiously and snorted "riiight cus you yourself are so lady like" Tobey smuggly smiled "well of course i-" he stopped and frowned at Becky who now couldn't help but giggle at his expression.
Becky slowly composed herself as she walked toward Tobey and nudged him in the shoulders "come on tech boy, we are gonna miss the bus" and walked ahead of him.
Tech boy, the name made Tobey seem to stiffen a little and watch Becky walk ahead of him "the bus? That's how you got here?" He asked a bit surprised, glancing at their location and speeding catch up with Becky, "that takes Hours- why not take your car" Becky rolled her eyes "a little brother happened," she muttered in a sour tone "Ugh since he started that toktok account he's been trying to get the word girl fan club trending for months," she paused a bit, she half expected him to comment on the club but oddly, Tobey didn't, so she went on "the latest victim was my car since he saw some video saying sawdust helps protects the motor" Tobeys eyes flashed red in anger for a moment "HE WHAT?" "I know right!?" Tobey stuttered "b-but that was Your car! That was an engineering marvel and he just soiled the entire thing!" He almost sounded like he was in physical pain thinking of it, Becky was the one actually suffering as she nodded "dad ended up taking his phone away but it's gonna take awhile for the car to get fixed. So bus it is"
"She lied through her teeth"
Becky shot a glare at the sky.
Tobey in the meantime was a few steps behind her, he was silent for a few moments "hm..that won't do at all"
Becky glanced back "what was that?"
"I said that just won't do Becky, I need my assistant to be punctual, but I can't in good conscience have you Walking all the way here to my lab, that's unbelievably rude!"
Becky stared at Tobey and spoke through her laugh as she felt the corners of her mouth turn up from the sour position they were before "Tobey come on its not that serious!" "Yes it is Becky!" Tobey stomped and stopped where he was, rummaging through his coat as he spoke. He pulled out a big bulky remote that took Becky aback. How long has that been in there?
Tobey feverously pushed buttons and pulled little switches and drew closer with an irritated look on his face "Uh Tobey?" Beck asked cautiously "your not going to send a robot to my house are you?" Tobey's face turned sour and he looked up "No I am not"
"Theeen what's with the scary remote?" The narrator asked, alsmot as confused as Becky.
Tobey said nothing as the arms on his back retracted and morphed into a large box, jets and some long wires similar to the arms went around his legs and from the bottom of the box and his feet expanded into shiny silver blue rockets. Becky blinked a bit, "woah are those new?"
"You even have to ask?" Tobey asked with a smirk on his face, very pleased at the reaction from Becky's face, "now I can't just have my lovely assistant taking something as mundane as a BUS, especially almost immediately after coming here on one" Tobey huffed in a very matter of fact way "its ridiculous. So I'm taking matters into my own hands...uh" he stopped himself short, he was no less then a foot away from Becky, and that realization slowly dawned on her aswell, Tobey cleared his throat and extended his hand "so..if you don't mind, is it alright if i give you a ride?" Becky stared at him, a bit shocked really. They had gotten along far better then when they were kids, but this was the first he actually made an offer one sided like this. He could have used this as an opportunity to turn back and keep working but instead is using it to give her a ride?
Becky smiled, then gave a smirk as she gave a curtsy, much to Tobey's confusion before she spoke in a very cringy British accent of her own "why what a generous offer Tobey, it's so elegant who am I not to accept?" Tobey rolled his eyes "oh Now your lady like?" "Whatever do you mean?" She said in a very posh manner. They both laughed.
Becky looked at Tobey and coughed "Uh so what do i?..." she asked, she was use to carrying him as word girl, not th other way around, "oh uh I guess like.." he stepped closer and put his arm around under her and his left leg behind her right to interlock them better, giving the two a very nervous expression as the gap was closing between them. "Hold tight" Tobey said and hit his remotes exaggeratedly large button. The rockets sputtered for only a split second before they roared to life. They hovered for a moment, which was just a moment long enough enough Becky to get her balance and grab onto Tobeys other shoulder right before take off.
"Well, he closed that gap I guess" The narrator chuckled.
It was just a couple minutes before Becky opened her eyes again after digging her face into Tobeys shoulder, she slowly turned and looked down and grabbed the boys shoulder tighter "ow ow ow ow ow becky Becky my shoulder- Shoulder!" Tobey yelped. Becky was stiff as a board but lossened her grip...not alot but still.
Word woman knew this height, Word woman OWNED this height. But Becky Botsford? The one with Tobey right now? Unmarked territory. Tobey glanced down but kept his face forward and on the path he was on. "I didn't take you for someone afraid of heights!" He chuckled in a bit of a wavering voice "bit too ordinary for you!"
Becky frowned "your the one who brought me up here!" Her grip lossen but quickly tighten again, feeling her jerk Tobey tighten his arm "yes cus I Know you won't fall around me!" He laughed "and I'm never wrong!"
"For my sake I'm not going to argue with you there!"
As they flew through the sky, Becky couldn't help but notice that they were moving...rather slow to be honest.
"Tobey!"
"Yhea?"
"Why is this going so slow? Don't your machines go faster then this!"
"Uhh..." Tobey paused "Uh, i-i may have made this jet to carry my own weight, so with the added weight from yourself it's going a bit slower!"
Becky frowned
Did he just call her fat?-
"A-AND," Tobey almost yelped out trying to get his words out faster "the uhh pack has a turbo setting but at the wrist of dropping my lovely assistant from the increased velocity I'd rather not push that button!...less She wanted me to do so anyway"
Becky immediatly shook her head, trying to lose the thought of traveling light speed qnd falling, with her only hope of surviving a roughly 100ft drop.
Was Tobey. "let's not push it and say we did!"
"Yhea I figured"
It took awhile, avoiding a few birds adamant on munching on Tobeys floppy hair, and the occasional heart drop of the feeling Becky losing her grip every so often from looking down, but Becky's house was in view now.
"Just a bit longer Botsford!"
"Great!" Becky sighed in releif, insictivly she looked at her house and her clothes, but shook her head. It's fine. She's Becky. Not Word Woman.
She waited a moment and took in her surroundings, Tobey yawning caught her attention though. Sleepy 100ft up? Nope.
She snapped up at him and caught him off gaurd "when we get down your laying down,"
Tobey chuckled "what?" "Your laying down and resting your butt Tobey" Tobey rolled his eyes "your still on this? and why on earth would i lay down at your place and not my own bed?" "Beacuse I don't believe you going home on your own and not to the junk yard again" Tobey frowned and looked down at Becky "Laboratory!" "Junkyard" "Laboratory!" "Junkyard"
"Laboratory!" "Junkyard- I can keep this going all day" Tobey groaned in annoyance. "Its a Laboratory!" Becky looked at him ans held up her hand with one finger "oh God here we go" Tobey muttered rolling his eyes, too late "laboratory, a room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching, or for the manufacture of drugs or chemicals...like how the science room in school counts as a laboratory, or your old shed, NOT the junkyard" "I thought you stopped doing that?" "I said that to the Teachers, didnt say anything around my friends" she laughed, Tobey gave a half hearted laugh with a sour look on his face for being wrong, and tighten his grip around Becky. Even though it was already trembling from her weight as it is.
Becky felt that. She looked down and at her house, "want to walk the rest of the way?" She asked "huh?" "Your not that strong Tobey, your already tired as it is so how about we go yo the ground let me go a-" "n-no!" Tobey almost snapped...
"Uhh...um well what i mean is that my brilliance has already gotten this far!" He looked forward "it can take us a couple more blocks!"
Becky eyed him for a moment, she raised a brow "you sure about that?" Tobey swallowed hard "yep totally 100% just a little more"
"..oookay" Becky shrugged, looking back down at her neighborhood and taking in the scenery for once. She never got to do this as Word Woman.. Just take everything in. It felt...nice.
Becky chuckled, it almost felt silly. The thought that a hero couldn't enjoy her own powers properly without Something happening. "I could get use to this!" Becky laughed.
There was about of a delay, but Tobey gave a short chuckle and nodded in agreement, though Becky wasn't sure if he was seeing the same view she was "I agree"
It wasn't very long until they arrived at her door did Becky practically throw Tobey at the couch, her little Brother TJ watching as he exited the kitchen with a bag of cheetos in his hand, slowly backing away as he saw his sister throw the boy she has been around almost at a constant for 3 years to the couch and remove his silver backpack. Poor boy barely began to back away a single step before Becky looked up and noticed him.
And glared "Uh oh-" "TJ!"
He booked it, death gripping the bag and shoving the handful of chips in his mouth as he ran for the back door, Becky screaming close behind, abandoning the scientist boy at the couch "TJ GET BACK HERE!" "NO!" her brother yelled back rudely and rather fearfully. "TJ THOSE ARE MY SNACKS!" "TOO BAD THEIR IN MY MOUTH!" "GET BACK HERE!"
Their screaming. Yelling, and stomps on the ground grew more distant to Tobey. Soon joined by the word girl fan club cheering TJ on with the snacks and telling him to run faster. Tobey rolled his eyes, taking off his white lab coat before resting his head on the decorative pillow next to him. Chuckling softly at the distant chaos that grew quieter and quieter as his eyes fluttered asleep.
Since when did the Botsfords matter so much to him now? Their pure chaos. One brain between the lot of them ans Becky had it 90% of the time.
Tobey pulled his lab coat over his shoulders and used it as a blanket.
...oh right...
He slowly began to sink into a proper slumber. But he remembered.
The day he turned good was the when this family seemed to get this tight grip on him.
Almost 3 years ago now.
Aaaaaand that's it! For now! Thank you tiktok for making me obsessed and thank you my lively readers for picking this up :D
I'm attending college so don't expect updates to be Too frequent. But I'll try my best. This is by far the cutest ship I have ever decided to sail. And by Jove I'm sailing it!
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