Chapter Six

Mandie, brandishing her flame-sword, stalked closer and closer to Mark. With Timmy beside him and Wanda and Cosmo floating by, watching her appraoch. Mark looked terrified, but Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda looked rather less paniced, though Cosmo was barely succeeding in keeping his tongue in his mouth.

"Mark, Darling", Mandie said with an unpleasent smile, "It's time to either share in wedded bliss eternal, or to eat hot flame sword!"

Mark turned to Timmy and said, "Dude, aren't you going to do something?"

"Relax, Mark", Timmy replied.

"How can I?" Mark screamed as he started to back away, "My life is about to meet a totally uncool and horrible end!".

"That's if you don't marry me, Mark Chang, though your friends here and all of Dimmsdale will be a radioactive crater when I'm done", Mandie snarled as she brought her flame-sword to bear on Cosmo and Wanda.

"But just so that you don't get away this time, Mark, I'm taking out your protectors right now!", she stated, looking distastefully at the two fairies.

"She's finally taking us out?" Cosmo asked, "Is she going to give me time to dress up?"

"She's going to try and dress up back up again all right...in a carbonite slab!", Wanda replied, exasperated at Cosmo's crush on the alien beauty psychopath.

"That was one heavy suit", Cosmo remembered.

Mandie hit a button on the haft of her flamesword, causing a beam of fire to shoot out and envelop Cosmo and Wanda. But instead of Mandie's intended effect of encasing them, the beam shot straight back at Mandie, resulting in encasing her instead.

"That was one inflexible woman", Wanda noted as the effects of the carbonization cleared.

"You can say that again", Cosmo said as he floated up to the carbonite slab that encased Mandie and pushed it over, causing it to hit the ground with a dull thud.

"Turner!" Mark said, relieved that he was out of danger, "whatever did you do?"

Timmy explained briefly about the Justice Field and what it does to any malevolent intent. Mark listened with an ever-broadening smile on his face.

"That is totally cool", Mark exclaimed as he scuttled over to look down on the encased visage of his fiance.

"Cool is the word", Timmy noted as he touched the slab and felt the icy coolness of the carbonite. Mandie's visage on the slab was no less beautiful. Cosmo looked longingly at the encased Mandie.

"So now that she's on ice, what do we do now?" Wanda asked.

"Well, since I'm married, but also since I do like Mandie..." Cosmo said while bringing his wand to bear on the carbonite slab. With a POOF, Cosmo shrunk the slab - and Mandie within it - to the size of a domino. The shrunken slab now sported a gold neck chain.

Picking up the chain and the now-amulet-sized slab, Cosmo draped it around his neck.

"Neat! A keepsake from Mandie!" Cosmo said.

"Don't you think that's a little tacky, Cosmo?" Wanda asked, "after all, you're not supposed to wearing jewellery or any other trinkets for that matter from other women, or wear other women for that matter!". Wanda's expression was a combination of barely suppressed anger and sadness.

Pouting some, Cosmo waved his wand once more, poofing the Mandie-amulet off his neck, and around Mark's neck instead.

"I really wonder at times if you still love me, Cosmo", Wanda said quietly. Cosmo looked at his wife's sad face and floated over to her.

"I do love you, Wanda", Cosmo said, "its just that with all of the anvils, plus the other things you do to me, it makes me wonder if you still want me".

While Wanda was talking with Cosmo, Timmy walked up to Mark.

"Well, that should keep Mandie on ice for a while", Timmy comented, pointing to the Mandie-amulet around Mark's neck.

"Yeah!", Mark replied, "we both get what we want: Mandie's gets to be with me, and at the same time, I'm free of her murderous intentions!"

"Then we'd better put things back to normal here", Timmy said. He turned towards his fairy godparents, but he noticed that they were in the middle of a heart-to-heart talk. He listened quietly as Cosmo and Wanda had it out.

"Cosmo, I do love you, but at times you act like an idiot, plus those crushes of yours on Mandie and the Tooth Fairy make me wonder if we're right for each other", Wanda said with some tears.

"So I do act silly sometimes", Cosmo admitted. Behind him, Timmy emphatically nodded his head, "but you were the one I married, and despite Mama Cosma's efforts to end it, I have no intention of going away from you. I'm sorry that I gave you the impression that I want to leave you", he added.

"And I'm sorry that I do zip up your mouth at times, and poof anvils over your head, Cosmo", Wanda replied, "You're my husband, and I want us to enjoy our endless lives together".

With that, Cosmo and Wanda hugged. Timmy just looked quietly at them both. He was so proud to have those two as his fairy godparents. He loved them as deeply as he loved his Mom and Dad and he felt guilty for those times previously when he took them too much for granted.

"Wanda. Cosmo", Timmy gently interrupted after a minute or so, causing them to brak their embrace and look at him, "I think its time we cleared things up here".

"Sounds like a good idea", Wanda said, "better make the wish".

"I wish that Mark's image think-a-fyer was fixed", Timmy requested, adding "please".

With a POOF, Mark's think-a-fyer belt was repaired. Mark quickly turned himself back into his dreamy Earth Boy disguise.

"I wish that everyone in this school was unfrozen, with no memory of Mark as an alien, please", Timmy wished next.

With another POOF, everyone was unfrozen and back to eating lunch. Cosmo and Wanda at the same time poofed back onto the front of Timmy's lunchbox.

"Timmy!" Tootie's voice suddenly came. Timmy turned around to see Tootie walk on up to him.

"Are you all right?" Tootie asked, "you fell off your chair pretty hard".

"I'm okay, Tootie", Timmy replied, "Thanks for asking". Thinking about Cosmo and Wanda had made him want to be polite to Tootie.

Tootie blushed some at Timmy's thanks. Timmy steeled himself and let himself be kissed on the cheek by her. A.J. and Chester - plus a couple of the boys at an adjoining table - snickered at the sight.

"Hey, Loverboy", A.J. teased, "enjoying your lunch?"

Shaking his head, Timmy went back to his lunch table, closed his lunchbox, and walked away, ignoring the snickers. With the Justice Field still active, anything he tried to do would backfire. Instead, he said loud enough for then to hear, "I'll see you after school on the bus, Tootie". He blew her a kiss.

Tootie keeled over with hearts floating around her at this unprecendented public invite. Nodding, Timmy headed out of the room.

Timmy was about to reach the door when the door flew open and Trixie walked in fast. Not seeing where she was going, she bumped straight into Timmy, causing them both to fall back on the floor.

"Sorry, Trixie", Timmy said as he stood up. He offered his hand to her so that she could stand, but she just glared at him.

"So, verbal brush-offs aren't enough for you, Enpty Bus Seat?" she snarled, "Security!".

"That's not a good idea, Trixie", Timmy replied just as Rochford walked in and picked Timmy up by the head.

Rochford intended to inflict his usual turn-securtiy-breach-into-a-ball-and-lay-up-the-ball-into-the-garbage-can routine, but to Trixie's amazement, Rochford suddenly scrunched up into a ball himself, then was flung over into the garbage can. Timmy turned to Trixie.

"I did say that it wasn't a good idea", Timmy replied, walking past Trixie as he left the lunchroom.

"Wow, Sweetie", Wanda said as he walked back up the hallway to his locker. "I'm so proud of you. Politeness, being polite to Tootie and leaving Trixie that way you did".

"Well, hearing the both of you air out your differences made me think", Timmy replied, "I love you both and I don't want to see anything bad happen to you, or to experience such things myself".

With that, he headed for his locker to get ready for the next class...