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 22: Welcome!
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!
(In Space)
The Captain says as he shakes her hand, "I can't tell you how happy I am to see that all of you are ok. I've been a fan of Team Possible-Stoppable especially Kim ever since the Diablo incident."
Kim smiles and says, "Oh, that was no big..."
Shego couldn't help but say, "It sure seemed like it to me at the time..."
Kim gives her a brief stare as if to say "Shut Up Shego" before taking a moment to wrap her arm around Ron's arm and pull him up close to her side. She smiles as she says, "Well, if it hadn't been for Drakken and Shego, I might not have realized something and taken the chance on my best friend to become my boyfriend."
She smiles bigger as she turns to look at Ron who gazes into her eyes and says, "And as I'm sure you know, it became the best thing ever for me. We became practically inseparable during our final year at High School."
Shego rolls her eyes and says, "And on your missions too. I remember, I was there when you two kicked our butts even more soundly than before."
Kim smiles bigger as she gazes lovingly into Ron's eyes before she says softly, "Yeah... our first mission up against you two after the Diablo incident."
Shego turns to Jesse and says, "Just don't start doing what they did if you start dating any of the Stoppable girls or you'll need your healing powers to deal with my punishment."
Jesse blinks and says, "Why? What did they do?" He was looking at his mother so he failed to see the red blushing faces on both Kim and Ron.
Kim says a bit louder than she meant, "Shelia! Don't you dare tell Jesse about that!"
She just smiles wickedly, much like the way she did when she was Shego against Kim in the old days before she says, "What? You don't want me to tell Jesse and your daughters about how after your missions you'd play passionate kissy-face with your boyfriend?"
With the blushing on Kim's face returning, Shego says, "I'll tell you this Princess... who knew you knew how to shove your tongue down into Stoppable's mouth that well at that age?" This causes Kim and Ron's face to go as red as Kim's hair, maybe even redder.
Cindy and Mindy were both blushing and being grossed out a little at the thought of their parents doing that after their missions. Neither girl would admit it either but they were also thinking about what it'd be like to kiss Jesse on the lips in much the say way that they imagined their mother in her teenage days kissing their father.
Jesse was stunned that his mother would say such things just so she could tease both Kim and him at the same time! He was blushing quite a bit as the thought of kissing either girl had crossed his mind on a number of occasions but he wouldn't do anything like that to jeopardize his friendship with either or both girls, who he'd been friends with since Kindergarten.
Having had her fun she turns and looks to look at Jesse in a thoughtful way as she says, "I was impressed enough to start thinking about my future with Drakken. In its own twisted way, I have Kim to thank for you and your sister to be born Jesse." Now it was Shego's turn to blush softly as she recalled what it had taken to get Drakken to take her seriously after the moodulator incident.
Captain Kodak senses a moment to end this trip down memory lane, as interesting as it was and clears his throat before he says, "Well, as part of my appreciation for saving the astronauts and the world, I have prepared a good meal and assigned rooms for all of you to rest in until the Middleton Spaceport can arrange to send up a ride to get back to Earth."
Kim says, "Have there been any news on what happened to Animal? We know that she escaped in an escape pod."
He shakes his head and says, "I'm sorry. With so many pods launched at once, it was impossible to know which one she was in and while there is a search party going on Earth, it is going to be a safe bet that unless she ended up stranded in the ocean or something, she will have escaped by the time anyone reaches her pod."
He then claps his hands together and says, "So, which would everyone like? Food or rest first?"
Ron says, "I don't know about everyone else but I could go for some food. Does your cook need any help in the kitchen?"
He chuckles and says, "Your cooking skills are well known. If you wish to help out in the kitchen I doubt our cook would object at all."
Ron smiles and says, "Boo-yah! I'm off to the kitchen then!" He stops and says, "Any requests?"
Everyone quickly makes suggestions and then just before Ron can go to the kitchen, Kim pulls Ron over and whispers some to his ear which makes a "Ding!" sound go over his head and a smile on his face.
Ron says, "You got it Kim!" and then is lead off by Larry to where the kitchen is.
Shego narrows her eyes and crosses her arms as she says, "Kim... just what did you whisper to Ron?"
Kim just shrinks her shoulders while smiling as she says, "Oh nothing... just something for later."
Shego narrows her eyes and stares at her old-time rival for a few minutes before she says, "Fine, don't tell me. I think I have an idea anyway."
She then turns to Capt. Kodak and says, "Any chance that while Ron is cooking, I can make a call to Earth?"
Kodak nods and says, "Yes, in fact if anyone wants to contact someone on Earth the radio is at your call."
Shego just smiles and says, "Thanks, I want to check on how Drewby is doing and make sure he hasn't blown up anything... again."
Jesse groans at that as he remembers his father blowing up the house only once while she'd been gone on a trip to visit her family. He knew that it had been an accident and while neither parent knew, it was kinda his fault.
Flashback
Jesse's mother was off in Go City visiting one of her brothers who's wife had just had a child and if there was one thing she had found a weakness for was babies after Jesse was born. She just loved to see them.
So while it was just Jesse and his two friends Cindy and Mindy who'd come over to visit, his father was working in the lab on some big invention that was supposed to help the world. That and he needed the extra income to fund another project that he had been wanting to do.
Cindy and Mindy had decided play hide and seek that day with Jesse having to do the seeking. The only rule was "Stick to the house" as the last time they played hide and seek outside the house, Mindy had accidentally set off the security system.
So Jesse was walking through the house, which was still pretty big since was half lair/lab and half house. He was looking for some clue where they could be hiding and having no luck finding them.
Jesse says, "Either they got better at hiding or I'm getting worse..." in a low voice as he explores the ground floor of the house, making his way towards the lab section.
Jesse thinks, "The girls wouldn't go into the lab section to hide would they?" He thinks about the two of them and then imagines that Mindy would be the most likely one of the two with her natural curiosity and skill for getting into said trouble for it.
Jesse continues to walk quietly, hoping to sneak up on Mindy if she is in the lab while not realizing that the girls went upstairs to hide in one of the many bedrooms (which used to serve as a place for all the henchmen.)
Jesse hears some noise coming from the lab and thinks, "I got you now..." He continues to stealthily approach the sound, trying his best to copy what he'd seen his mother doing a few times whenever she was sneaking up on his father.
Meanwhile Drew Lipsky, otherwise known as Dr. Drakken in his old days was working in the lab with some volatile chemicals as he was trying to create a clone of someone Jesse would listen to with superpowers that could babysit Jesse and if needed, Cindy and Mindy as well since they were over so much that he was beginning to think of the girls as his own daughters.
Drew started to charge up things to create the new lifeform and just out of old habit, he started to laugh and while he was doing that. It was at that very moment Jesse leaped forward to grab at what he'd thought was Mindy's hiding form when it had really been the clothes he was going to dress the babysitter with that was laying quite stupidly on top of large button that would cause the device to malfunction. (Again, old habits... always place the biggest button to destroy your equip someplace stupid.)
Drew never saw it coming as one minute everything was just fine with the machine humming and the next it started to shake violently and make very wild, unhealthy noises for any machine to make.
Jesse sees the button as soon as he picks up the clothes that were covering it and when he saw it blinking its little red light to tell him it was activated. He gulps, "I'm soooooo in trouble!" and tosses the clothes back on top of the light, making it impossible to be seen once again before he scrambles out of the lab as fast as his young legs could carry him!
Drew had tried to stop the machine, not realizing that the self-destruct button had been activated while Jesse ran around as the whole building started to shudder. He shouts at the top of his lungs, "RUN! Game Over! The house is going to blow up!"
Fortunately when the building started to shake, they remembered their mother's warning about if the building ever started to act funny that they should leave it immediately. So when they heard Jesse shouting from the ground floor as they made their way down the stairs, they knew that for once, they were glad to listen to one of their mother's warnings about the place.
Drew eventually gave up and ran into an escape capsule which ejected him outside just in time as the lab and a quarter of the house blew up!
As the lab blew up, Mindy looks up at the big cloud with sparks lighting it up for a few moments and after it all ended she smiles and says, "Again! Can I see that again?"
Jesse and Cindy both turn to Mindy with jaws dropped and utterly speechless before Jesse shouts, "I just lost more than half my house and you want to see the explosion AGAIN?"
Cindy says, "There's nothing left to blow up even if he could do it again, Mindy!"
Jesse says, "Cindy! I can't believe you just said that!"
Just then Drew stumbles towards the kids out of the smoke and says, "Uhhh... Hi kids. Sorry about that. That was not supposed to happen!"
Cindy says, "What happened? Why did your house blow up?"
Drew goes a little pale and nervously says, "Um... Nothing... Yeah, that's right! It was just an accident! I wasn't trying to do something that Shelia told me not to do."
Jesse says, "Dad! Mom is going to know something is up when she comes home to see the house is wrecked!"
Drew nods and says, "Don't worry... I'll deal with your mother." He then turns to the girls and says, "Don't you two have a home? Preferably one that isn't wrecked to go to?"
Cindy picking up on that it was time for them to leave, she waves and says, "Uh, Bye Jesse! It was fun!" She tugs on Mindy's arm and whispers, "We gotta go! If mother finds out we were here when the place went boom, she'll never let us play with Jesse again!"
Mindy didn't want to lose Jesse as a friend so she nods and says, "Bye Dr. Drew! Bye Jesse!" and then the two of them take off quickly.
The house was still being rebuilt by some robots that Drew had pulled out of storage when she came home. The chaos that followed shortly after that lasted until the house was finished being rebuilt.
End of Flashback
Sheila was sitting at the communications terminal with Drew on the screen. She felt relieved to see him after all the meteorite incident. She had been worried during the whole thing that she was not going to make it through to see him ever again. She had also been worried that one or two might get through and harm him in some way, or even worse... give him powers like what had happened to her family.
Drew says, "Are you ok? The meteorites were on the news and when I saw that you were in harm's way I can't tell you that I was panic-city!"
Shego is surprised that her husband had learned about it so quickly. She says, "How did you find out so quickly about the meteorites?"
Captain Kodak says, "I believe I'm the one responsible for that." He steps forward as he says, "I'm sorry, but I came to tell you that Chef Ron is done cooking and wanted to invite you to the meal."
Shego says, "What do you mean you're responsible?"
Captain Kodak says, "Well as you're aware you and your friends were on your way to us. We saw before you the approaching meteorites but were unable to warn you for some reason and we could just barely pick up anything you were sending us." He walks over and sits down next to Shego and looks back and forth between the two before he says, "I wanted to warn Earth of the meteorites so I patched a signal to Earth's news media. Imagine my surprise when I saw your spacecraft dodge and destroy the tiny meteors that were ahead of the big one."
Shego gets angry and says, "And you did nothing to help us? WHY?"
Captain Kodak says, "Please... even though we have rank aboard this ship this is still a research station just as the other one was. We had no weapons other than short range defense blasters for defending against small meteors."
Shego nods, "I knew that much already, that's where I got the blasters in the first place for our ship."
Drew says, "So you were just going to let them all go without doing anything?"
Captain Kodak shakes his head and says, "No. We were transmitting everything we witnessed, from the skillful piloting to the blasting of the small ones. We repeatedly tried to contact but with all the meteors in the way, it was causing too much interference. If it came to where one got through, then we would at least record their final moments as they fought heroically get through."
Drew shouts, "You were just going to let my wife and everyone else on board just...?" He is interrupted as Kodak says, "No sir! We were doing our very best to reach them. I had every short range weapon primed to start shooting the small meteorites and the engines were cranked to top speed but there is only so fast a space station this size can travel."
Drew crosses his arms unhappily but being a scientist also meant that he knew what Kodak was saying was also very true. So for once, he was at a loss to say anything.
Shego smiles as she sees that and says, "Captain Kodak, you may be very well the first person to ever make my husband at a loss for words. For that, thank you." she laughs as Drew shouts "Shego!" relapsing into his old habit of shouting at her whenever she got him upset.
Kodak just chuckles as he had been there before and says, "Well, that's why they made me Captain. I made the wrong person speechless so they sent me as far away as possible, which you have to admit can't be any further than space."
Shego laughs and says, "Tell me who and I'll be more than happy to fix that for you."
Drew says, "Shelia... what did we talk about...?" with a certain tone in his voice that Kodak realized he shouldn't take her up on that offer as it would just cause more trouble than even being shipped into space meant.
Kodak knew who Shego and Drew were given as he still remembered the Diablo incident. Since he was the same age as Shego, he was old enough to remember when they were villains and wise enough to know that he didn't want to invite any trouble, especially with the two of them.
He says, "Look Shelia, I'm not looking for any trouble or any favors for what I did. So don't worry about it. Just do me a favor and try to keep my station in one piece ok?" He smiles at her to show that he was joking around.
Shego grins and says, "I'll do my best... but no promises." until her husband says, "Will you do as he asks and keep his station in one piece? I'd like you to come back to me, preferably alive."
She turns and smiles at Drew before winking at him while she says, "Ok Drewby, I'll be a good girl... until I get home that is."
Drew grins and says, "I'll be sure to send our daughter over to a friend's for the night and Jesse can stay with Kim. I'm sure the twins won't mind."
Shego laughs and says, "Sweetening the deal huh? You know what I like." She then makes a kind of purring sound that makes Kodak think he shouldn't be watching this exchange so he starts to walk towards the exit and says loudly enough to be heard, "Um, don't forget that Ron did the cooking so I'd suggest getting the food while it is still available."
The last thing Kodak hears is Shego saying in an almost purring voice, "Food, Stoppable, gotcha! I'll be there shortly!" He closes the door and shakes his head as he thinks, "Not my business... but whoo! I have a feeling I wouldn't be able to last with her."
(Meanwhile on Earth)
Wade and Clarise were just glad to know that Kim and everyone had somehow survived the impossible once again somehow.
Clarise says, "I don't know how she did it but she escaped from a out-of-control space station, got through a meteorite shower and saved the Earth from a big meteorite... I tell you, its days like this that I'm glad she's on our side."
Wade leans back in his chair and laughs before he says, "I'd be lying if I told you that very same thought hadn't crossed my mind on more than one occasion."
Clarise says, "Well, given the impossible just happened more than once before our very eyes in such a short time, I'd say that we're in good hands and I'm very pleased to be part of the impossible."
Wade laughs and hugs his wife, "Me too... Me too..." He chuckles for a moment before he says, "C'mon, let's go see about how we can get our friends back. I'm sure Kim will want to see her babies after that experience." After a quick kiss she says, "I bet you're right... Lets not disappoint her then."
AN: Well given the lack of review and stuff from my last chapter I hope that you'll all like this one much better. I'm planning on a surprise for the next chapter, so let's see if I can work it in. Any guesses as to what Kim whispered in Ron's ear as to what she wanted from Ron? Or as to what Chef Ron will be serving everyone? Anyway, what did you all think of Shego in this chapter? She sure enjoyed embarassing Kim didn't she? lol! Poor Cindy, Mindy and Jesse! They got all embarassed too! Lol! What did all of you think about the flashback scene? Anyone want to guess how Wade and Clarise will be getting their friends down? As usual, all thoughts, ideas, dreams, wishes, question, compliments, etc are welcome so lay them on me:D