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Chapter 15: The Fairy Squad
Written: 9 Mar 2005-12 Mar 2005
Posted: 12 Mar 2005
"Gentleman, it seems that The Oracle has been holding out on us," a fairy in a dark suit and dark glass told the others. "Something must be done about her."
"But what? She has friends in high places," a seemingly identical fairy said.
The fairies arranged around the round table, all seemingly identical, nodded in agreement. "Yes, what can be done?"
"I can tell you can be done," a maternal voice said. The fairies floating around the table turned. She was covered by shadows so they couldn't see her clearly. "Expose her for the fraud that she is."
"But she's the real thing, Mama Cosma," the first fairy said. "Everyone knows that."
The woman fairy emerged from the light, revealing her to have green hive on head and in a green dress. "Everyone is wrong."
OOO-
Timmy squatted in front of the collapsed rope bridge and wondered. It had been straight the last time he was here. What could have happened here since then?
"This is not good," Mrs. Turner said, kneeling next to Timmy. "Your father came onto this bridge with Vicky. I have the awful feeling that was the reason the bridge fell.
"But what were they doing here?"
Timmy stiffened. "You knew that we were following Vicky's footprints and you didn't tell me?" Nevermind his father. "She's the ickiest, nastiest, most horrible babysitter on the planet. She's the last person I would want to run into."
Mrs. Turner blushed a little. "Oh well I had thought that you knew that these were Vicky's footprints. You do spend a lot of time with her." A little too much time with her, Timmy thought.
"I can recognize her footprints," she finished.
Timmy sighed. Did she know everyone's footprints? A bead of sweat formed on his head. His parents were really weird. He wondered if his mother was aware of that fact, even when she hadn't a fairy. Probably not, he decided.
He stood up after he heard his mother say, "We have to find my husband."
"I'm sure that he can take care of himself," Juandissimo assured her. "My Wanda is in much more danger."
"And Cosmo," Timmy added.
"Whatever."
Not exactly the most uplifting of responses.
"He's right you know, Timmy," Fanny said. "Wanda wouldn't run off without telling me first. Something must have happened to her.
"I'm sorry, Timmy, but we don't we know that your father is in any danger." She smiled. "Besides I'm sure that he wasn't on that bridge when it fell."
Timmy looked the chasm and the ribbon of blue far below. And shivered. He hoped that Fanny was right. He didn't want to think about his father being smashed to bits on the rocks he imagined that were down there.
That image came anyway. Maybe it had something to with the fact that he was enjoying the thought of Vicky being smashed on the rocks he imagined that were down there.
A hand was touching his shoulder. He looked up. Fanny was the one putting it there. "It's time to go, Timmy. There's no need to linger."
He nodded. "Let's go."
Lucas floated across the chasm first with his fiancé. Next was Mrs. Turner carrying her son. And bringing up the rear were Juandissimo and Fanny. When they were all across, several fairies in blue uniforms and riot gear appeared out of nowhere.
"Where the heck did these guys come?" Timmy asked.
"What can I say?" Juandissimo shrugged. "Us fairies have a knack of appearing out nowhere."
"I you know you do," Wanda muttered.
"Silence!" one of the new fairies ordered. Clearly he was the one in charge. "I'm here with orders for the arrest of one Maria Tambrine Turner."
"But I'm not a fairy," Mrs. Turner said. "How can you arrest me?"
"Fairy laws are higher than human ones," the fairy countered. "And you are in a fairy's body."
Timmy caught his mother's gaze. She looked very nervous. So he did the one thing he could think of. "I wish my mother wasn't a fairy anymore. I wish she had her old body back."
No, Timmy, don't-" Mrs. Turner started.
But Juandissimo raised his wand. "Very well," he said. He waved his wand.
Nothing happened.
"Uh oh," he said. "I think we may have a problem."
"Of course your wand doesn't work," the fairy in charge said. "We have set up anti-wishing field here that only our wands would work." He turned to his men. "Get her, boys."
"Wait a minute," Fanny said. "Just you are you guys?"
"We're the Fairy Squad, Ma'am," the fairy said.
The fairies that were on Timmy's side grew very pale. "The Fairy Squad you say?" Fanny asked.
"That's correct, Ma'am."
"That's what I thought you said." Before anyone could react, Fanny brought her wand up and blasted the leader of the Fairy Squad unit. "Run, Timmy, run! And take your mother."
Without thinking, Timmy grabbed his mother's wrist and started running away. She offered no resistance as he pulled her from the battle he heard behind them. His only thought was to find Cosmo and Wanda.
He should have thought more on his father.
OOO-
Mr. Turner sat down on a boulder for yet another break from his climbing up the cliff face. The task had proved to be more difficult than he had hoped. But he wasn't about to give up. His son was on top of this mountain, and there was no way he was going to let him enter in a deal with that vile Dinkleberg.
But as he looked across the field in front of the cliff face, he did find it be a lovely vista. "I wonder how much it would cost to move out here," he mused aloud. "It has a much better view than my house in Dimmsdale does." He stood up and beat his breast. "And it would help turn Timmy into a man."
Unfortunately, because of his talking to himself, he did not see the dark shapes moving in behind him.
OOO-
"Before you wish that I am a human again, mister," Mrs. Turner said in a hidden they had found, "let me tell you something first." Timmy nodded. "I don't trust those fairies. I think they would have taken me anyway. And it's certainly too late now."
"Ah, Mom, what makes you say that they would have taken you?"
"The expressions on our new friends' faces whenever the Fairy Squad was mentioned."
"Oh. That."
"Yes, that." She poofed up a big bag and a couple of blankets. "But the real reason is I could do so more for as a fairy. This is what I want." She frowned sharply. "And you didn't even bother to ask me first."
"Sorry, Mom, there was just so little time."
"That's no still reason to change me without my permission." She sighed. "We're just lucky that those fairy goons had set up that force-field thingie or who knows what kind of mess we would be in now."
Timmy lowered his head. "I'm sorry, Mom. But I'm so used to doing with Cosmo and Wanda."
Mrs. Turner lifted her son's chin so that their eyes met. "Just who are Cosmo and Wanda. And why are they your godparents? I thought A.J.'s parents were your godparents."
"Huh."
Timmy told her. Everything.