Flamers: Go to hell you Mary-Sue!

Maeve: I may be a made-up fan-fic character but I am certainly not a Mary-Sue.

Flamers: Then prove it!

Maeve: Easy…I do not claim to be perfect or have any other supernatural power but being a pyrokenetic who is trying to cope with my mutation. I have Nny remain insane and nor do I try to get him to fall in love with me. My parents were ordinary humans and not demons or angels.

Flamers: But that still does not prove anything and you are ripping off Hellboy and Witch Hunter Robin!

Maeve: There were other firestarters besides those shows. How about this, you read the story thoroughly before you make wild assumptions and not be snooty. If you think your flaming is bad, then you certainly have not seen mine…::grins wickedly and having flames form on her fingertips:: And yes, I had to put in a cheesy fire pun!

Jhonen Vasquez: You are forgetting to do the acknowledgements::pokes::

Maeve: Oh yes::laughs:: Nny, Squee, Squee's parents, and Zim belongs to Mr. Vasquez and Maeve belongs to Hell's Tinkerbell.

Jhonen Vasquez: Thank you! Now get on with the chapter. You better not fuck up my characters!

Maeve: Don't worry I will treat them delicately and have them be unaltered.

Jhonen Vasquez: I hope so!

Part 2

After much persuasion, Maeve succeeded in convincing Johnny to do a babysitting job in order to make a necessary amount of money to fund their living expenses. The factor that aided to her success was showing him a flyer that advertised babysitting Todd (affectionately known as Squee) as well as the familiar street address scrawled upon the paper. Before she exited through the front door, he gave her an explicit instruction to incinerate any person who would attempt to harm Todd.

It was in the late evening that Maeve arrived at the little boy's house while wearing her presently clean purple shirt and gently rapped upon the front door. A mature man dressed in a white collared short sleeved shirt and cotton slacks who seemed to be in his mid-thirties, had opened the door and his green eyes peered down upon her from over the bridge of his glasses in a scrutinizing manner. The gesture had influenced the auburn haired young girl to grin sheepishly and shudder. "Uh…Hi. My name is Maeve Leery and I would like to babysit your son, Todd." she managed to say while presenting the flyer. The man smirked while surmising her appearance, nodded, and said, "I suppose we could let you, Miss Leery. It is either that or we get thrown in jail by this government we live under." "Thank you, sir. May I come in?" she asked, being curious of his attitude towards the child. "Yes, you can." he replied, stepping aside to allow her to enter the house. What puzzled her the most about these parents was the fact that an in-depth interview had not occurred and left her with the brief parting phrase, "Free food in the 'fridge."

Todd gazed nervously upon this assigned babysitter while clutching a teddy bear closer to himself as he stood in the living room, wearing a large striped night shirt. "Hello Miss Leery…" the little boy stammered. Maeve chuckled softly while looking down upon him and said, "Hello to you also, Todd. You can just call me Maeve since I am not that formal." He nodded while holding aloft his teddy bear to her and said, "Shmee likes your name." She arched a burnished copper brow while looking to the plush toy quizzically, and reminded herself that children have a tendency to name their toys and instill a personality into them. Maeve engaged in this little façade by kneeling down to his height, taking one of Shmee's paws between two fingers and shook it gently. "Why thank you, Shmee. For a bear, you are a gentleman." she said while chuckling again. Todd had seemed to be amused by this action and joined her mild laughter.

He released a long and loud yawn as Maeve tilted her head in curiosity and asked, "Do you want to go to bed now?" "Yes." he replied and allowed himself to be lifted into her slender arms and carried toward his bedroom. He supported his head upon her shoulder, having this girl appeal to him as an improved maternal figure in his life. She seemed to have added more to the maternal role by tenderly settling him upon the mattress, covering him with the blanket, and pounded the pillow to add fluff to the comfortable cushion. He watched her leave the bedroom and close the door quietly as he drifted off to sleep.

In front of the little boy's exposed bedroom window was a tree with the bare branches swayed by the whistling wind. The shadows of tree branches danced among the walls and ceiling of the dimly bedroom with the moonlight to only serve as illumination. The shadows have seemed to increase the vigor of their dance as the wind heightened its intensity as well as having its sound be enhanced from a low whistle to an eerie howl which had awakened Todd. The atmosphere influenced him to be petrified with an impending fear and his eyes darted to see a bug-like being with green skin, dressed in a red uniform with black stripes, standing upon the windowsill. The creature's red piercing eyes penetrated the boy's blue ones as the black gloved hands were placed upon the glass. "MAAAAAAAEVE!!!" Todd screamed in fright in hopes that his babysitter would protect him from this monster and hid beneath his supposedly secure covers. Maeve's footsteps pounded the floor of the hallway, hearing the door swing open, and a few incoherent shouts from her. What seemed to be beyond his bodily control, he drifted into a heavy sleep.

Todd's eyes slowly opened, taking in the sterile and dark environment, and discovering his person being strapped by metal shackles to a flat metal platform. He fearfully observed his babysitter contained in a large glass cylinder being in suspended animation as the hair and clothes moved ever so slightly by the jets of bubbles released in the fluid in which she was submerged. The same being approached him in a marching pace and said in his highly toned voice, "Yes, these will be excellent test subjects. An immature male and an adolescent female of the species. Both are young and the Tallest would be very pleased on my findings of how human maturation occurs. Now that I have obtained a female, we shall study how the reproduction function operates." "I don't get it." Todd said as he was confused with the high vocabulary.

"No matter." he said casually while obtaining a scalpel from the table at Todd's right side.

Todd's body began to tremble, the sweat seeped freely through the pores of his face as it condensated down his nose and chin. The alien grinned wickedly as he lifted the garment with one hand and had began to insert the scalpel into the little boy's stomach. Before the blade could connect to his skin, a deep and mechanical voice spoke from a loud speaker, "Warning! Containment field in danger!" "In danger? How?" the alien said, looking to the speaker. "The field is increasing in heat at an alarming rate due to an unknown energy source." "What?!" he shouted in dismay. The alien's eyes widened and had been frozen in a dumbfounded stupor at the sight of Maeve's watery cell to be brought to a frothy boil as well as her face expressing an unsuppressed rage. "How is this possible?!" he exclaimed and screamed in horror as the glass shattered.

Maeve fell to her knees as she had been surrounded by steam, the flames forming on her hands as she stood up slowly with the water dripping off her body and hair. "Cut him and I'll kill you!" she said between clenched teeth. "Just what form of earth monster are you?!" he shouted. "I'm just a freak, nothing special. Now, get us back to where you found us or I'll burn you to a crisp!" she demanded. "Now that you've revealed your power to me, I don't think that would be possible." the alien shook his head as the mechanical spidery-legs emerged from a device upon his back which elevated his height to eight feet tall. Maeve breathed heavily as his uniform began to envelope in flames, her target screeching in excruciating pain while attempting to smother the blaze. As he was distracted, she ran toward his mechanical legs and kicked them with such heavy force which caused their captor to fall to the ground. He successfully snuffed the flames, but that did not stop his opponent from lifting him up by the neck and throwing him across the room.

Todd trembled in fright once more as she approached him and said, "Are you going to burn me, too?" "No, I can not make any money if I did and plus you're too adorable to be charred." she said calmly while patting his head and having the metal cuffs be released after melting the control box with the focused concentration. He leapt into her arms, being carried to a small ship at a running pace and Maeve took a few moments to understand the controls of the ship. The alien pounded upon the windshield of their ship as Todd hid behind her in horror. A wicked grin formed on her face as the ship was tilted in a diagonal motion, allowing it to be hovered in mid-air, having him fall to the ground with another heavy impact to the floor.

She directed the ship from out of an automatic opening air lock from above the earth and flying at an immeasurable speed towards their neighborhood. The ship crash landed in Todd's backyard and having the passengers emerge from the vehicle slowly despite the fatigue of their journey.

4 hours later

The mother and father of the little boy opened his bedroom door to reluctantly discover himself sleeping in the bed with Maeve asleep as well, sitting in a chair near the window. "She seems to be good, I guess. We should have her do it again." his mother said. "Yes, he's okay. That's what counts right?" the father asked. The mother nodded and took notice of Maeve holding a squirt gun in her lap and said, "They must have had fun…Kids these days…" The alien's face appeared in the window once more but shuddered at the sight of the dripping water pistol and ran off into the abyss of the night.

Flamers: The ending sucks!

Maeve: Well, it can not be 100 percent good all the time or it ruins the upcoming surprises.

Jhonen Vasquez: She does have a point.