Episode 59

A New Beginning


Back on Yuma...

Commander Eagle was almost in a state of panic. He had no news back from the Star Sheriff team. They were supposed to be back already by now and no sign of them. He was thinking of asking other Star Sheriff teams, from other sectors, to intervene.

His phone started ringing...

"Hello. Doctor Guerino, yes. No news yet. I was thinking... Oh, yes, go ahead. Yes... Hm. OK... So..., you are saying that if... Oh, I see... interesting..."

Dr Guerino's voice sounded so excited. According to his accounts, he was making huge progress on unlocking the
secrets of the virus. But what was the use, if the subject of his research was missing in action?

From behind the telephone, Guerino's voice said:

"So, Commander Eagle, do you know of anyone dear to him? Does he have a sweetheart of his own?"

"I... I don't know, doctor. I really don't ... Look, sorry my team is paging me, I have to go. Please keep me posted, talk to you soon, bye."

On the other line, General White Hawk was paging Commander Eagle.

"Commander. No news yet?"

"I'm afraid not, General..." Eagle sighed.

"I am ready to send my southern sector team of Star Sheriffs. They are ready to go, at my orders, at any time."

"Thank you, General. I will decide shortly and I will let you know."

"Any time, Commander Eagle. Talk soon."

Eagle's heart was racing... Guerino's news were disturbing, scary and ... scary...! A sweetheart of his own? Yeah, Jesse does love someone. His daughter! But he's not gonna let Guerino know all that. That would be too much! Ugh, crazy scientists, with their farcical ideas!


"Well now, April, where should we go...?" Jesse was tapping on his keyboard, while confidently leaning against the back of his chair.

"We are all going home, Jesse, where you belong, too." April replied. She was sitting on the co-pilot chair, her legs crossed, looking with an attitude at Jesse.

J: "Is that so? Do you think I want to see Fireball's face every day? Oh man, that would ruin my appetite."

"Jesse, come in." Saber Rider called on the intercom.

"Jesse, you ratty pest, wait until I get to you!" Colt's angry voice came through the intercom.

"Go eat a cactus, Colt! Your voice would sound much better after that!" Jesse smacked his lips and shut off the intercom. "First and foremost, let's jump dimensions, shall we?"

He pushed some buttons on his board and pulled the accelerator. The ship turned towards a wormhole and sped up into it. Ramrod followed their course.

Stars and bright lights started spinning around them. April felt that this inter-dimensional travel was like a passage into an unknown future, and that something about her life was about to change. There was a power greater than herself that was pulling them both into an undisclosed direction in life. She leaned back into her seat and closed her eyes... "Let go, April..." she thought. Her father's ship was like a sanctuary for her. She grew up with her father piloting this ship, and herself sitting on this chair, looking up at him as her hero and protector. And now, instead of her father, Jesse Blue was navigating it through strands of time...

After a while, the two ships exited the wormhole. Jesse looked at his radar screen... Of course, Ramrod was still behind them...

"So..." Jesse exhaling. "Let's find a beautiful place to go to..." He tried typing in some coordinates.

"Hey, what?" Tap-tap-tap! Nothing, the keyboard was not responding. "It's locked! Heeey!"

April was not looking at him. Her hand was on the control panel, covering a button.

"Oh... you pretty genius... stop playing with me now..." Jesse was half annoyed, half amused. "This is not a game, April!"

He stood up and came towards her. She stood up, also, with a cheeky smile.

A few steps and he was near her. She was facing him now, with her back to the control panel. Her hand was still covering the button. He tried to lift it. She pushed his hand away.

J, smiling: "Come on, April, you know you can't win. I'm much stronger than you."

A, this time with a serious face: "We are going home, Jesse, no matter what."

J, still amused: "Oh, yeah? What are you planning to do, now? Pretend you are gonna pass out again, to make me say "please"?" He leaned over and tried to push her hand away from the button. "I can be ruthless, you know..." and he slowly got closer to her.

Her breath was close to his lips. He suddenly felt a rush of heat coming up his body. His hands slowly touched her waist...

A jolt of fear pierced through her chest. Butterflies in her stomach... She remembered some words from old training: "Go for it, even if you feel the fear!"

But this wasn't about fear of fighting anymore. She was not afraid to fight Jesse. This was something else... A different kind of fear, the same one that she felt when she first met him... She closed her eyes... and leaned forward...

He was not expecting that!... A jolt of heat rushed through his lips and into his body... The heat burst flashed down through his heart, spreading in all directions... The ceiling was spinning...

Here they were, two old enemies, in a timeless kiss.

Her father's ship ship was flying fast, among stars and planets... She wrapped her arms around his neck, in a deeper embrace.

Suddenly, April's hands twitched, shocked from an electric spark. Jesse's skin was shooting flashes of shocks... His whole body started lighting up in a white glowing light.

"Jesse!" What's going on with you, Jesse?!"

He fell on his back and landed on her chair, unconscious. The electric white glow kept coming out of his body.

April opened up the intercom.

"Saber, Fireball, Colt, come in!" her voice was trembling.

"Hey, I thought you kidnapped Jesse and ran away with him!" Fireball picked up the call.

"Finally you guys answered! Set your course to Yuma!" Saber Rider added.

"Will do, Saber, after you'll help me on this one!" and she turned the screen towards Jesse.

"Jumpin' tumbleweeds! April, what'd ya' do to him this time?!" Colt grimaced.

"Doesn't matter now, I just don't know what to do..." she whined... "What if he dies...?"

"Big deal, we lose another outlaw!" Fireball laughed. "Oops, sorry April, I mean... no, he's gonna be okay..."

"Lay him horizontally, April!" suggested Saber Rider.

She pushed down the chair's seat back.

"He is still glowing..." she said.

Colt, gazing at the screen: "He looks like he's about to turn..., like you know, when outriders go back to their dimension..."

A: "Except that their color is red or green when they turn... His is white..."

"Star Sheriffs!" Eagle's face popped on the screen.

"Daddy!" April jumped.

"April, your course is wrong. Correct your course... What? Jesse? What did you guys do?..."

"Daddy, he has some sort of stroke or seizure... I'm really worried..."

Eagle paused for a moment with a stunned face, scratched his head, then said in a flustered voice:

"He'll be fine, I promise you April. Now change your course or you're going to head straight into a sun."

"Right now, daddy, I'm on it." She typed in the new coordinates. "How do you know he'll be fine?"

"We'll talk about this at home. Doctor Guerino can explain everything." Eagle winked at her and waved goodbye.

"What has doctor Guerino to do with this? And why is my daddy winking at me?" she was asking herself. "He's not the kind of person to wink, especially on the job..."

"So, again April, how did he end up glowing like a Christmas light?" Colt reopened the intercom.

"Oh Colt, you're so nosy!" April blushed.

Colt: "Well, it seems that you have a magical effect on him. He either stumbles in front of everybody, passes out, glows like a light bulb..."

Saber Rider: "Colt, leave the lady alone, can't you see she blushed all the way to us through the screen? Let's watch a movie or something until we get home, alright?"

Fireball: "Yeah, we could watch some cartoons, maybe those ones with the Star Sheriffs. What do you say, bud?"

Everyone was laughing.


Finally landing on Yuma... All the Cavalry Command high rank officers were aligned to salute the incoming ships.

Also, a lot of ambulances, ready to take on the wounded.

April's ship landed first. Ramrod followed.

She opened the hatch to the ship and came out. She rushed out to her father and hugged him.

"Daddy! I'm home! I love you, daddy!"

"April, I love you too, my little girl!"

"Quick, he's really sick, let's get him out!" she rushed her father to the ship. They both went in. The ambulance came with a stretcher and paramedics went inside.

"Easy, boys, take him out slowly, OK?" April was instructing the guys from the ambulance.

Doctor Guerino was there too. He checked Jesse's vital signs and said: "He is going to be fine. It might take a while for him to recover. We'll run bloodwork, but this white glow is a good sign."

April exhaled in relief. As they were taking Jesse out to the ambulance, April rushed to catch doctor Guerino.

"Doctor, thank you! I am so grateful for all your help!"

"My help? I didn't do anything, Miss Eagle... I am only offering symptomatic care to a treatment that is already complete."

"Complete? What do you mean?"

Doctor Guerino cleared his throat:

"Ahem... Miss Eagle... have you ever read the story of the Frog Prince?"

April nodded and replied in a shy voice: "Yes, doctor, I've read it..."

"Well, then, Princess April Eagle, you know exactly how you turned the frog back into a Prince, right?" doctor Guerino looked at her over his glasses.

"Please don't tell anyone... I'm so embarrassed..." April was all red.

"My lips are sealed, Miss Eagle." and he shook her hand.

People started coming out from Ramrod also. Doctor Guerino headed towards them, to meet his fellow outrider scientists. He didn't want to miss a beat from this occasion.

This time formalities had to be postponed. There were injured people inside and safety was the number one priority. Ambulances were swarming everywhere.

"Colt!" a blonde lady in high heels jumped from the welcoming crowd and ran towards Ramrod.

"Robin?" Colt was taken by surprise.

She jumped and hugged him. "I'm so happy you are home, Colt! I cooked a special dinner, everyone is invited!"

"Oh, Robin, you're the best! I'm so hungry I could eat a whole cactus now. Actually,... wild boar will suffice." (he just remembered that Jesse wished him to eat a cactus and he didn't want to fulfill his prophecy).

"Easy, lads! Glower, let's head to that ambulance, shall we?" Saber Rider pointed to a car with blinking red lights. Annabelle was next to them. Glower was leaning on her shoulder. They passed by Colt and Robin.

"Woo-hoo, love is in the air..." Colt exclaimed, winking at Annabelle.

"You know her, Colt?" Robin asked with a curious face.

"Well, um... sort of..." He scratched his head. "She was my enemy, until she switched teams..."

"You convinced her?" Robin continued.

"Convince is kind of a ... nice word..." and he glanced at his gun.

"You cowboys solve everything with guns!" Robin concluded.

"Fireball! Fireball!" a voice from behind was resonating.

"Heeey, happy kid! How are you?" Fireball called out.

Claudia stopped in front of Fireball. A gust of wind blew her long black hair around.

"Welcome back, champion!" said Claudia. She didn't know if she should go and hug him, or just wait for his reaction first.

He came straight to her, with no hesitation.

"That's what I call a well deserved hug, race boy!" Colt chuckled and gently pushed Fireball's shoulder.

"Hey, mind your own department, bud!" Fireball pushed back. "Don't bother with him, Claudia. He's incurable."

"Has anyone seen Saber Rider?" asked a worried voice from behind.

"Yes, Sincia. He was helping some former bushwackers get to the ambulance." Colt replied.

"I don't see him, where is he now?" Sincia complained. "Are you sure he came back with you?"

"Ma'am, as clear as the sky, he was next to me inside Ramrod." Colt was reassuring her. "He didn't run with any Outrider lady, don't worry." giggled Colt.

"Oh, Colt, you really have to be so full of jokes today? Can't you see she is so anxious?" argued Robin. "Wow, hold on Sincia, a car is coming, watch out!"

Sincia was so lightheaded that she completely forgot that cars and ambulances were everywhere around, coming and going, to take all the newcomers to the hospital and to the Cavalry Command Center. She just started walking in front of an incoming vehicle.

"Where do you think you are going, young lady?" Saber Rider popped out of nowhere. He activated his jet pack and flew to her rescue.

"Whooow, Saber Rider!" Sincia screamed. They swirled up in the air, while the ambulance screeched the breaks. It was carrying a few former outriders. Bustling sounds came from inside the van.

"Sorry, lads!" Saber Rider shouted.

"Oh, sorry, I'm so sorry... Oh, Saber Rider...!" Sincia exclaimed. She was so happy that he came home unharmed. "I just had a terrible nightmare last night..."

"Oh, what was it about?" Saber Rider asked, with a lingering look.

"I dreamed that... that you were captured by a dark creature and..."

She didn't have time to say any more words. He was kissing her, while he was still flying his jet pack above the crowd. They were spinning up into the skies.

A ripple of applause came from underneath. Everyone was watching.

"Woo-hoo, Top Sword, I call that a high-level kiss!" Colt shouted up to Saber Rider.

"What's going on? I wanna' see!" one of the former outriders popped his head out of an open ambulance and looked up.

"I'm afraid newborns have to wait until they grow up for this kind of show." Colt tried to push the guy inside the ambulance.

Suddenly a female voice resonated: "Norio...? Norio Hikari!"

Everyone held their breath...

"Mom...?" shouted Fireball. "You are here already!"

Fireball's mother had recently flown to Yuma, from her home planet, Akita. It was a very distant planet on the New Frontier Colony. She started the trip the same day she heard the news about her husband's comeback. Her ship had arrived there just a few hours before Ramrod.

"Norio!" She was running towards her husband. They stopped, a few feet away from each other. Tears started coming from their eyes. "You are unchanged, my dear...!" she whispered.

"I have so many things to tell you... I missed you every day, I never stopped hoping." she continued.

"You are as beautiful as on our first day, my darling!" he hugged her.

Everyone was wiping the corner of their eyes.

Fireball held Claudia's hand tight. Finally, his family was reunited. She looked at him and they both smiled. It was all real, yes...

King Jarray and his son Prince Roland were also emotional. What a glorious day!

Erkanos and his wife cuddled together. She hadn't seen so many happy faces in a long, long time.

Doctor Guerino spotted the person he believed to be his fellow Outrider colleague.

"You must be doctor Caspar, right?"

"Yes, indeed." he quickly wiped a tear in a corner of his eye. "Pleased to meet you."

"I'm doctor Guerino. A pleasure to meet you too."

A few yards away, Robin turned towards Colt and his friends around them. "Well, what do you guys say about a big

family dinner tonight?"

"I'm up for it." said Claudia.

"Sure, why not?" everyone else nodded.


A few hours later:

The hospital decided to put Jesse in a negative pressure isolation chamber, where no potential virus could escape and contaminate others. They had April tested. Results came out negative. She was virus-free.

All the former outriders were also clear of the virus. What a medical mystery!

Erkanos and his wife didn't have the virus either... Their bloodworks were so different though... Like they've never seen before... Dr Guerino was so intrigued by their different molecular structure...

Doctor Caspar, Dr Guerino, Erkanos and his wife all went into an office.

Dr Guerino: "As you can see, this is how far I've reached with my medical studies on Jesse... Mr. and Mrs. Erkanos, your study on the virus is a breakthrough. I managed to follow the path you opened. I've inferred that since this virus is annihilated by intense feelings of... love, then there must be more than one neurochemical implicated in the process. I discovered that not only serotonin is involved in clearing up the virus, but also dopamine and epinephrine and a few other neurotransmitters. Together, they have an intense inhibiting effect on the virus replication and behavior. So I did a little simulation in vitro with all the neurotransmitters implicated in the feelings of love... and I came up with similar results to what just happened to Jesse - the experimental dish started glowing this white light, then the virus disappeared. Amazing, isn't it?"

Dr Caspar commented:
"I personally worked on designing this virus along with Nemisis..."

Dr Guerino gasped...

Dr Caspar continued: "It's something I am not proud of, now. We never even thought of finding a cure and we hoped there was none. But now I am glad there is one. "

Erkanos intervened: "Yes... he was part of the evil scientist team... But now he is released from the spell. He can speak with a free mind and he can give us a lot of information."

Dr Caspar: "I have a lot things to share. I'm sure Nemisis wants me eliminated now."

Dr Guerino: "Indeed, and your presence here might put in danger the entire hospital. But I will speak with Commander Eagle and we will have you transferred to a safe location."

"Oh, dear" sighed Erkanos's wife. "When are we going to get rid of this evil Nemisis?"

"Soon, madam..." Caspar replied.


April was leaning with her palms against the glass window, overlooking into Jesse's room.

Colt, Saber Rider and Fireball were sitting on a bench on the hallway.

"I've never seen April like this." Colt commented, looking at April while she was gazing at Jesse. He was lying in bed inside the sealed room.

"Hey, the white glow fades off!" April shouted. "Nurse, come and see!"

A nurse rushed to take a look. She ran back to Dr Guerino's office. "Doctor, come quickly!"

Dr Guerino was still in the room with the Erkanos couple and Dr Caspar. They all came out in a rush.

"He's turning back to normal!" April exclaimed.

A team of nurses went inside to check up on him. He was still in a coma. They took some blood samples.

April was fidgeting.

"Relax, April, he'll be just fine." Fireball looked at her with a funny smile.

After a while, the doctor came out holding a clipboard. He called April aside. Her pulse was racing. What if he tells her that Jesse still has the virus?

"Miss Eagle..." started Dr Guerino, taking a deep breath. "I have good news and bad news..."

"Oh-oh, spill the news, doctor!" April was very anxious to find out.

"Good news is that he is virus free."

"Yeesss!" April jumped and hugged the doctor.

"Hold tight now, miss Eagle. He might not remember everything."

April: "Meaning...?"

Dr G: "He might have a temporary or a permanent memory lapse. We'll see what he'll remember. In the meantime, if you want to visit him in the room, he is officially available for visitation."

She rushed into the room. He was still unconscious in bed. Her father showed up from behind.

"Daddy, he is human again!" April whispered.

"Yes, April, I heard." Commander Eagle was just returning from the Command Office, where he had a briefing with General White Hawk.

"He's moving!" Saber Rider noticed.

"Whooow"... they all gathered around him...

Jesse's breath started getting more deep. He opened his eyes and looked straight up. All around him, curious faces were gazing at him.

He yawned and stretched. He felt that something was odd. Why are all the Star Sheriffs gathered around him?

He started talking:

"I just had the wildest dream..."

April raised her eyebrows: "Oh, what did you dream about?"

J: "It's so long and complicated..." then he realized he was in a hospital room. "Whoow, wait a minute. Why am I here?" He noticed he had some IV infusions connected to his arm. "Yuck!" he pulled all of them out in terror.

A nurse rushed into the room: "Sir, leave them in place, please."

Dr Guerino entered the room, too: "Let him do what he feels like."

"A doctor? Was I hurt?" Jesse wondered. He pulled the sheet covers away, just to make sure he didn't have any major body injuries. "Whew," he exhaled in relief. He seemed to be unharmed.

"April, why am I in a hospital?" he asked.

"It's a long story, Jesse... Hey, you remember my name!" she replied, happy that his memory was not affected.

J: "Of course I do, you're my karate teacher!"

A: "I was, but a long time ago..."

J: "More like yesterday, you mean..."

Everyone gasped. Colt was not convinced though. He thought that Jesse was faking it.

"What was your dream about, Jesse?" Saber Rider asked.

J: "I dreamed that I was part of the Outrider team... and I was fighting against you... Pff, so ridiculous, why would I ever do that?"

Saber Rider: "Oh, and what happened in your dream?"

J: "I had a lot of adventures and I did a lot of mischief, but you guys won all the time... And in the end you guys found out that I had a virus implanted by the supreme leader of the outriders, Nemisis... " He held his head in his palms, like he had a headache... "Ugh..., what a silly dream! Apparently, your presumably dead father saved me, Fireball..." He raised his eyes... Prince Roland and Hikari were just entering the room, also.

"Yikes!" Jesse jumped from his bed in disbelief. He looked at them like he just saw a ghost.

Colt was touching his revolver. He was ready for anything. Jesse was not his favorite character, for sure.

"Hey, Jesse... Calm down, we can explain everything..." April came and grabbed his arm.

He looked at her with a long gaze. "What is going on, April?" he asked in hesitance.

"I will tell you everything; Colt, stop, let me talk to Jesse!..." said April, while Colt was trying to punch a fist at him.

"Sorry to break the news, Jesse, but your dream was real." Fireball intervened. He wanted to feel the satisfaction of ruining Jesse's bubble of innocence.

"Fireball..." Eagle tried to stop him from saying more.

"It's absolutely true, this slitherin' bandit is a traitor and he deserves to know it." Colt gnashed his teeth.

Jesse opened his eyes wide: "But I didn't do all those things, how could I do such abominations? I would never hurt anyone! I was trained here, at the Cavalry Command, in the spirit of courage, hope and generosity...!" He looked at April. She was so beautiful... His eyes were asking for a sign of acknowledgement from her. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes...

"Generosity my foot! You're just a liar and a traitor!" Colt pushed himself forward and threw a punch at Jesse. He fell back on his bed with a startled look.

"That's right, I don't buy into your theater play either!" Fireball rushed to pin down Jesse.

"Easy, mavericks!" Eagle jumped from behind, to stop the fight. Hikari, Saber Rider and Prince Roland came in to help stop the two angry Star Sheriffs.

"Dad, let me go, you don't understand!" Fireball was shouting, while Hikari was trying to contain his angry son.

"Fireball, cool down. You need to control yourself." shouted Hikari.

Meanwhile, Colt was wrestling with Saber Rider and Prince Roland: "Top Sword, he rattled your brain too? This guy is lying to us!"

SR: "Easy, Colt, you're not making justice with a fist here! We are civilized people!"

"I'll be civilized on ma' mother's grave!" Colt pulled his arm from Saber Rider's grip.

Fireball started shouting, while his father and Eagle were pulling him away: "April, he is charming you, don't listen to him. He is playing us all."

"AAALRIGHT EVERYONE! No more than 2 visitors in the room at a time! HOSPITAL RULES!" Doctor Guerino was displeased with the tense situation. He and a few nurses started pushing everyone out of the room. "Out, now, everyone out! We've got work to do on him, and after that, no more than 2 people inside."

"Don't worry, you varmint, I'll wait my turn and pay you a visit like you've never seen!" Colt shouted as he was being escorted out of the room.

"You're definitely not paying him any visits too soon," doctor Guerino pushed him out of the room.

"Hey, doctor, get your hands off me!" Colt shouted.

Eagle felt very ashamed of the situation. "My apologies, Doctor..."

Dr Guerino turned his head away and waved his hand in a superior discontent: "We'll discuss later, Commander Eagle. Let me do my job now."

He surely knew how to exert his medical authority.


"Look what you've done, you gonzos!" April started talking.

"You really like this guy, April? Really?" Fireball was looking at her in anger.

"Fireball, we are a team, we are supposed to work together. Don't let anger take over." Saber Rider was trying to tame him.

"He IS back, guys, you don't understand! HE IS FINALLY back and he will fight on our side!" April clenched her fists.

"Oh, yeah, how come you're so sure about that? Is there something we don't know?" Fireball asked.

"Doctor Guerino said he is virus-free. He explained to me why and how it was possible." April replied.

"How was it possible? I'd like to know that myself, maybe someday I'll be buddies with Jesse and we'll go jump the rope together..." Fireball puffed and crossed his eyes.

"Yeah, quite so. Did you give him some cactus juice and threw a shaman spell on him?", Colt added.

"Well... I can't really give you all the details..." April tried to back out.

"And why is that? Something you don't want to share with your best friends?" Fireball was pushing it.

She didn't want to tell Fireball that she kissed Jesse. Obviously, she didn't want to hurt his feelings. Saber Rider's curious look from behind Fireball's shoulder was making her feel even more embarrassed now.

"Miss Eagle," a voice from behind stopped the conversation.

April sighed in relief. Someone is rescuing her.

"Yes, I'm here."

"Doctor Guerino would like to speak with you."

April left the three Star Sheriffs scratching their heads.


"Miss Eagle, please come in." Dr Guerino invited her.

A: "Thank you, doctor."

He started speaking in a kind voice: "We believe it is best for Jesse to talk to you first, before everyone else. The encounter he had with all of you in the same time was kind of a ... fiasco."

A: "It sure was... doctor." she chuckled. "I'll talk to him!"

Dr G: "Wait, before you go in, I just want to make you aware that he is still in a fragile state and anything negative can affect his mood. Please don't mention to him anything about trials, court martial or anything like that."

A: "What? Court martial?"

Dr G: "Well, didn't your father tell you?"

A: "He did, I mean, a while ago, but that was when he was still under the virus spell. But now he is one of us, a good fellow. Why...?"

Dr G: "Miss Eagle, these are the laws, we can't change them. I'm sure he will be alright, but until then, just don't mention anything right now. Just try to bring back his memories and don't lean on the dark side. Keep it light, OK?"

A: "Gotcha!" she smiled.

Dr G: "He is in the MRI room now. After we finish all the tests, we'll let you talk to him."


Eagle was still in the hospital, talking to Erkanos and Dr Caspar. April approached him.

A: "Dad, can we talk for a moment?"

E: "Sure, April, what is it? Excuse me, gentlemen." He went with April down the corridor.

A: "What is going to happen to Jesse now?"

E: "I don't know yet, April. We'll see. Do you worry about him?..."

A: "Well, I just want to see if you still want to court-martial him..."

E: "April, what I want is different than what is required by the law. Plus, it's not only my decision, there will be a judge, an appointed counsel and a panel of jury officers... and most probably I won't be part of it."

A: "Oh, and why won't you?"

E: "I might be biased, because of you..."

A: "Because of me...? Why?"

E: "You are romantically involved with him and this changes everything."

She covered her face in shyness.

"You're still my little girl, April. Everything will be alright," he cuddled her at his chest.

April, raising her watery eyes: "So, doctor Guerino told you...?"

Eagle: "Before you guys came back from the vapor zone, he told me what SHOULD happen in order for Jesse to completely turn back into a human. And it happened! The odds of someone else kissing Jesse were pretty slim, right?" He smiled at her with a fatherly face.

A: "Oh daddy..." she looked down in shame.

"Miss Eagle? Please," a nurse interrupted them. She opened the door for April to go into Jesse's room.

April went in. He was standing up, next to the window, looking out. She closed the door and leaned against it.


If you are curious to find out what Jesse discussed with April, follow us on the next episode! Will Jesse have to face a court-martial? More adventures are coming! Nemisis is still out there, so stay tuned!