AN: Well, by this chapter I thought Tri Stoppable deserved a theme song but I didn't know what to write until I was listening to "Say The Word" and inspiration struck me. I also didn't want to get into any legal trouble or fanfiction trouble by using a song already out there. I don't usually do my own songs so tell me if you liked it and... be honest or nice, no flames please:D
Chapter 20: Star Dreams
Original Song: Try Stopping Us
By Aero Tendo (aka me)
When your world is crumbling,
When you need help,
When it seems that the bad guys are winning,
Try Calling,
Try Beeping,
Try us, we are waiting to hear from you
Try Try Try Stopping us,
We are on the way,
Here to save the world,
Save your world,
Save you from the bad guys,
Save you from the freaks,
Try Try Try Stopping us,
We are on the way,
You can't stop us,
You can't beat us,
You can't block us,
We are Tri Stoppable!
(At the Space Station in orbit around Earth)
Just as Shego's plasma blasts launched from her hands, time almost literally came to a freeze as Jesse appears out of thin air somehow in a prism of colors with even his eyes being nothing more than a cycling rainbow of colors.
To the average person, time was standing still but to Jesse, it seemed to be moving all so slow. (AN: If you want to know how slow, go watch Over The Hedge movie and remember the scene when the squirrel gets the mega coffee drink.)
Jesse could see that his mother had already launched the blasts from her hands and he reaches out to grab the blasts. Even as slowly moving blasts, it still seared at his hands as he redirected them, knowing that he could heal any damage done to his hands as fast as he was taking it.
He manages to redirect the blasts so that they would go anywhere but to the power core. For if there was one thing he didn't want to do, and that was to let his mother down when he knew that she was really doing this for his sake and for the others on the station.
Jesse knew that his mother had the loving streak in her as when he had once been pushed by some mean kid at the playground and ended up hurt. It was then he'd witnessed a few things. First, don't let yourself get bullied when your mother is around. Second, your mother has superpowers. Third, your mother has got the coolest powers in the world. And Finally, Your mother loves you very, very much.
Jesse still smiled a little as he remembered how his first playground bully had been taught a painful lesson when she had blasted his rear all the way off the playground with small plasma blasts from her hands.
He then remembered how his mother checked him out and found out that aside from the bloody nose that he'd gotten from landing face-first into the sand, he was ok. The loving attention he got his mother and the words she'd told him still would ring in his ears every now and then, with this time as he worked to save his mother, the words were practically a shout now.
Jesse remembered the words, "Don't worry sweetie, mommy loves you very much and I'll always be there for you. Don't worry about your pain, mommy will make it all better." With those words he found his own powers of healing as he had a desire to make her stop crying by not being hurt anymore.
When Shego had seen the rapid healing of Jesse with the blood on his face even being absorbed so as to not even leave a trace, she had come to realize that her little man would be ok. However, Jesse had to sit through a bunch of tests by his father before he could finally go outside and play with his friends Cindy and Mindy who came over later that afternoon to play with him.
Jesse's desire not to lose his mother at that moment was powerful enough to slow time to a crawl to him and save his mother from harm. Even as the two blasts continued to sail slowly through the air, he knew she'd just try again so he grabs a hold of her and takes her to where he'd just come from before returning back to the core room.
Once Jesse is back in the core room he walks up to the core that was threatening them all and leans against it with his hands. He closes his eyes and focuses on his goal and the desire to see his mother, Cindy, Mindy and the rest on board all safe before he and the core vanishes.
Jesse then reappears back in the hallway just outside of where Cindy and Mindy were with the doors that had been forced open by MMP before he collapses to his knees and sees them both turn to see him as he weakly says, "I d-did it… I saved everyone…" He then passes out as Cindy catches him, having heard what he said and softly says with tears in her eyes, "Thank you Jesse… I knew we could count on you."
Just then a very loud woman's voice comes over the internal communications "Jesse! Get out of the core room! Don't… No…." before muffled sobbing is heard.
Mindy hits the button and says, "It is ok! Jesse is right here with us! He said that he saved everyone!"
There is the sound of something being pushed out of the way with a thud before Jesse's mother almost shouts, "What? Is he ok? Let me talk to him!"
Mindy looks at Cindy who shakes her head before she says, "Sorry Mrs. Lipsky but he passed out after telling us that he saved everyone. We don't even know what he did but I'm certain that if he said it, he did it."
There is silence for a few moments before she says, "Ok… I'm going to go check to see what he did but as soon as he's awake, have him contact me. I am going to have words with him!" That last part sounded particularly angry and the two girls had no doubt that it involved a punishment of some kind.
Mindy says, "Ok, I'll relay the message. Mindy out!" She then turns it off and walks over to say softly to Cindy, "What do you think he did to save us?"
Cindy looks down at Jesse in her lap as she brushes her fingers through his hair before she says, "I don't know… but knowing Jesse, he probably did the impossible again, just like when he survived that fall without a parachute."
Mindy nods before she says, "That's Jesse for you, always one with surprises… remember when he first showed us he could heal?"
Cindy smiles a little as she says, "Yeah… I do" before she thinks back.
Flashback
Jesse was all excited for some reason as he had met them and because of the park incident, they were all restricted to playing around his home. The place always had a kind of lair/home kind of feel but all the kids knew that the 'rents had been some kind of bad guys trying to take over the world at one point.
Jesse smiles as he says, "Hey, guess what! My Mom's got supery-powers!"
Cindy says, "Yeah? And what is her power? Can she fly? Become invisi? Breathe fire?"
Mindy giggles and says, "Naw, that's father's ability remember Cindy?" as she recalls the time Ron had eaten some Diablo sauce as part of a show he put on for them once during a story about their old mission days.
Jesse shakes his head and says, "No! She's got these green blasts that come from her hands! It is so cool!"
Both Cindy and Mindy cross their arms and a skeptical Cindy says, "Green blasts? Are you sure you weren't just dreaming?"
Jesse shakes his head and says, "Even I've got a special powery! I can heal my body!"
Cindy raises an eyebrow and says, "Newsflash… everyone can heal their body."
Mindy says, "Yeah, what's so great about that?"
Jesse waves his hands up and down, as he shouts, "No I mean I can heal faster than normal! Mommy had Daddy run tests on me to make certain and he found out that I can heal cuts faster than normal!"
Mindy says, "Riiiight, I think you've had too much soda Jesse. It probably just looks like it heals faster."
Jesse frowns at his two friends and says, "I'll prove I'm telling the truth!" He runs over to where he'd been cut before on the slide, which had yet to be fixed, and swings his hand onto it, cutting it across his hand!
Cindy and Mindy gasp in shock that he would cut himself and run over to where he was holding out his bleeding hand. They watch in shock as he seems to stare hard and the blood flows back into his hand even as the cut grows smaller and smaller until it vanishes from sight.
Cindy says, "T-That's impossible! No way you could heal that fast!" While Mindy says, "Cooooooool! Can you do it again?"
Before Jesse can answer his mother says, "He'll do no such thing! Jesse, what did I tell you about using your powers like that?"
Jesse looks down and says, "Sorry… I just wanted to show my best friends my cool ability."
Mrs. Lipsky sighs and says, "Fine, I understand that you want to show them but don't hurt yourself on purpose ok? Super healing or not, you could still get infected and sick. Jesse, no more intentionally hurting yourself, ok? Promise me?"
Jesse looks back up and says, "Ok… but can you please show me and my friends that green thing you did with your hands?"
Mrs. Lipsky sighs, "You told them about that too?" She sees Jesse nod with a bright smile on his face before she ignites her hands and creates a pair of plasma energy balls in the palms of her hands.
Even though it wasn't anything big or special to her, she had to admit the wide-eyed, awestruck looks on the faces of Jesse and his friends did make her feel like the coolest thing in the world and in their minds, that's exactly what she was.
The three of them walked closer and Mrs. Lipsky couldn't help but resist putting on a show so she juggles the plasma balls in the air for a minute or two before she tosses them up into the air where they struck each other and exploded in green sparks as if they'd been fireworks.
After that day, the closeness of Jesse and Kim's kids seemed to grow more closer to Cindy because of how incredible Jesse's family was.
End of Flashback
Cindy smiles as she says, "Things seemed so much more simpler in those day didn't they Mindy?"
Mindy grins and says, "Yeah, but you have got to admit… if it weren't for Jesse, our life would probably be a lot more dull without him around."
Cindy softly chuckles and nods, "Yeah, you're right about that."
Just then Yori shows up and says, "Hello girls, Kim sent me to check on you two and Jesse. How is he?"
Cindy looks down at the still sleeping form of Jesse before she says, "He hasn't woken up since he passed out. Any luck getting the astronauts to come back?"
Yori shakes her head, "We think they heard us but for some reason we can't receive anything too clearly."
A voice comes over the speakers that belonged to Jesse's mother suddenly interrupts then and she says, "I don't believe it… Get Jesse on the speaker right now! I don't care if he's still passed out, wake him up!"
Mindy presses the button and says, "What's going on? What did you find Mrs. Lipsky?"
The voice answers back very loudly, "What did I find? It is what I did NOT find that is surprising me! The entire core is gone! Not destroyed! Just GONE!"
Jesse stirs at all the shouting and he mumbles, "I didn't do it… Jamie did it mother…" before waking up completely and realizing where he was.
His mother shouts, "Is he wake? That sounds like him! Get him on right now!" from the speaker and so Jesse gets up and walks over to the speaker to say, "Um… Hi there… Are you mad at me?"
Shego's voice says, "Mad? Mad? I'm not mad, I'm stunned! I don't know how you did it Jesse but you redirected my plasma blasts AND made the core vanish! How did you do it? Did you do it with your new powers?"
Cindy and Mindy say in perfect sync, "NEW POWERS?" quite loudly before moving to walk over to him.
Jesse looks at the girls, Yori and then at the speaker before he says, "Y-Yeah… I did. I didn't want to lose you."
Cindy says, "Wait a minute! What new powers? Jesse? What's going on?"
The voice of his mother says, "Wait girls, don't be mad at him! He saved everyone! Without the core, we won't be in danger of blowing up! We have more time to work on the module to get off safely!" from the speaker.
Mindy shakes her head and says, "That's not it at all Mrs. Lipsky! We aren't mad that he saved everyone. We are just a little upset that he didn't tell us about his new powers!"
Jesse shrugs and says, "I was going to tell you, I just never got the chance to with the station and all falling out of orbit."
Cindy crosses her arms and says, "Well we seem to have more time now thanks to you, so spill!"
Jesse says, "Um…well, it happened for the first time when I was battling King Rat and being strangled by him even as Mom and your parents tried to save me. My healing powers got kicked into a major overdrive and I somehow gained the ability to use the whole rainbow of colors all at once."
Cindy and Mindy were aware of Team Go and their powers so Cindy says, "How did you get rid of the power core?"
Jesse is silent for a moment before he says, "I teleported it outside… it is in a lower orbit than us right now. Once I teleported it there, I teleported back to you girls."
Cindy, Mindy and Yori were stunned speechless along with Kim, Ron and Shego who'd been listening in.
Then it dawned on Cindy, "Wait… you teleported it? That mean you went outside with it?"
Jesse nods, "Yes, but I was also using a power that allowed me to go fast that the vacuum of space and its cold barely had a chance to even touch me. Still… doing all that wiped me out and I could only go as far as you girls because you two were the closest to where I left the power core."
Shego says, "Ok… Jesse, think carefully. How far away did you teleport it?"
Jesse thinks about it for a minute before he says, "Well, I left it in the lowest orbit possible without it actually falling but…" He is interrupted by his mother saying, "That's ok, I have figured it out."
Shego then says, "I'm proud of you for saving my life and everyone else but the next time you do something so rash like that…" She grins as she can imagine Jesse expecting the worse before she says, "I'll just have to give you a new Ninja bike as a reward." She then laughs.
Cindy and Mindy both giggle while Jesse looks surprised with Yori just smiling at the face on Jesse.
Kim says, "Ok everyone, get back up here. The module isn't going to build itself you know."
Everyone agrees and starts to run but Yori pulls Jesse back for a moment to say, "Jesse, your new powers are a new responsibility, please use them wisely and don't use them any more than you have to because if your enemies find out what you can do, they might try to exploit them."
Jesse nods and says, "Thanks Sensei but the thought has already occurred to me. If I never use that power again, I'll be happy. It is very scary to use it because it feels as if I'm one with everything when it happens."
Yori is about to say more when Mindy shouts, "Come on! The station is still falling and I want to get out of here alive!"
Jesse nods and says, "Coming!" before he starts to run with Yori thinking about Jesse's words and thinking, "That's because you most likely have… you are very close now to it Jesse, all you need are the girls to reach the force I long ago mentioned although I had hoped you three would never need it until time is right."
Yori runs along with Jesse and the girls in deep thought, easily keeping up as she kept herself in very good shape being a sensei at the school and having to train many students every day.
AN: Well everyone, as you can see... Shego survived thanks to Jesse! Yay! Isn't he cool? lol! For those of you who haven't seen Over the Hedge, I recommend it. Cool movie! What do you all think of Shego's parenting skills thus far? What do you all think of Cindy and her attentions to Jesse? Will the module plans work? What will happen next? Well,read on to find out:) Oh, thoughts, ideas, etc are all welcome!