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 23: Home Sweet Earth!
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!
(On the space station Shiny)
Mindy groans as she leans back in her chair and says, "Ooooh, I can't believe Father whipped up so much food... I feel so stuffed..."
Cindy looks at her sister and says, "Seeing as how you had like 3 helpings of everything on the table, I'm not surprised that you're feeling so full!"
Mindy looks at her sister and points at her belly, "Looks like you had extra helpings too Cindy!" which makes Cindy blush and squirm uncomfortably while looking around the room to see if anyone else noticed her belly.
Ron says, "Mindy you know better than to tease your sister, especially when you've got a bigger belly than she does."
Jesse chuckles softly which gets a glance from the twins that quickly stifles the rest of his chuckling but he keeps a small smile on his face.
Kodak leans back and burps before he says, "Sorry about that..." He then looks at Ron and says, "Your reputation doesn't do you justice! What would it take for me to hire you full time as my chef for the station?"
Kim grins and wraps her arms around Ron who was sitting next to her and says, "I'm sorry but Ron already has a lifetime commitment as the chef of his family."
Ron smiles in a not-so-apologetic way and says, "You heard the lady, I've got a prior commitment." He then grins as he looks at Kim and says, "Besides, the bonuses I get with cooking for her are too good to ever pull me away from cooking for her."
Kodak laughs and says, "I see... well, if you ever want to cook another meal for the station. I'd be more than happy to pay for the trip up here."
Mindy giggles and says, "Father's already been offered a lot to just become their cook by some pretty famous and powerful people."
Kodak takes another bite of the chocolate cake and enjoys the sweet taste of the dark chocolate as it melts on his tongue and the scent wafts up to his nostrils filing all his senses. He thinks, "If he wanted to, he could open up a cooking school and I'd wager the classes would fill up faster than a rocket takes off."
He takes one look at the kids and then says to Ron, "How do you do it? How do you keep your family from gaining so much weight? Does crimefighting keep you that much shape?"
Ron chuckles and says, "I wish, otherwise I could cook all the time. The truth of the matter is that I only cook once a week at best. The rest of the time, it is either take outs or one of the kids cooking."
Kodak grins and says, "I bet they're as good as you are Ron if they were taught by you."
Kim smiles and rubs her hand over Ron's chest before she says, "I wish, but Cindy and Mindy have gained more of my cooking skills than their father's. Not to say that they're bad but they aren't near his skill."
Kodak chuckles and says, "Kim, from what I've tasted of your husband's cooking. I'd say that not even 5 star chefs are near his cooking skill. He's part master chef and part artist with the way he cooks."
Ron says, "Well, there is one other among us who is almost as good as I am at cooking."
Cindy nods and says as she turns to look at Jesse, "That's right! Jesse is very good in the kitchen too! The birthday cake he made for us last year was so good that I cried when I ate it!"
Mindy nods and says, "I just about cried when there was no more too Cindy!"
Shego grins and says, "I've just about given up cooking at the house whenever he's around. He's as good a chef in any 4 or 5 star restaurant I have ever eaten at." She looks very proud at Jesse before she adds, "Both unfortunately and fortunately all the missions keep him out of the house most of the time."
Kodak says to Shego, "Why is that?"
Shego smiles playfully as she says, "Because if Jesse did all the cooking all the time, I'd have to work extra hard to work off all the weight and that'd leave me less time for other things with Drewby."
Jesse chuckles and says, "Mom, you know I could whip up some non-fattening foods so you wouldn't ever have to worry about that."
Shego laughs and says, "I know, but I'd still feel heavy from all the food I'd scarf down because of how delicious it was."
Kim knew what Shego was talking about and that was one of the reasons that Ron was allowed to only cook once a week or on special occasions.
So from then on, the conversations drifted to other topics until everyone got sleepy. Some people decided to try to walk it off before going to their rooms to sleep it off.
Cindy wanders into the part of the station where there was a fantastic view of the stars on one side of the room and on the other was a breathtaking view of the Earth. It was a part of the station that been designed for relaxation so one could enjoy stargazing or planet-gazing.
Cindy spots a sleeping Jesse on one of the seats facing the Earth and she smiles as she thinks, "Figures, Jesse would find the most perfect spot to admire the Earth after what happened earlier." She thinks about how close they'd all come to losing their lives and the planet and how he'd always had an artistic, soulful touch to him. She supposed that was part of his charm and one of the things she loved most about him.
Cindy was far enough away that she could just stand and admire him from afar, wondering how Jesse felt about her. She wondered if he loved her like she loved him or was it something else?
She didn't sing too often even though her father told her that she had a singing voice as beautiful as her mother's. She didn't know if it was the view or everything that had happened or what but she felt a song coming on and so she starts to sing in a very soft voice so as not to wake Jesse.
We sit here beneath the stars
Though I have no idea where you are
Staring up at the twinkling sky
Will we ourselves ever fly so high
We've been friends for quite some time
But there's still so much that you hide
I've opened up my door for you
You've tightened your locks and hid the key.
Open the door!
Let me inside!
Can't you see there's no need to hide!
You're here for me
Let me be here for you
Don't leave me shut outside!
I come to you with my hopes and fears
You listen however strange they are
You're always there lend a hand
But never keen to take one back
Open the door!
Let me inside!
Can't you see there's no need to hide!
You're here for me
Let me be here for you
Don't leave me shut outside!
Just open the door and let me inside!
There's no lock that can keep me outside!
You're here for me but its not enough
I care too much to let your silence work!
Lying here beneath twinkling stars
I'm still wondering where you are
In the end we'll always be friends
But it's up to you whether we will fly
Cindy tilts her head to the side and watches as the sun comes up from the corner of Earth and slowly fills the room with its light until it reaches Jesse. She watches as the windows adjust to keep the light from becoming too blinding yet it bathes him in its warm rays until it causes him to stir.
She turns and whispers, "I'll wait for you Jesse..." before she leaves the room just as Jesse wakes up and looks towards the door, barely catching a glimpse of her as she leaves.
There had been more than one entrance to the room and Cindy's song had not gone unheard even though Cindy had not noticed anyone else in the room.
Elsewhere in the station, Kim and Ron were sleeping in the assigned room all snuggled up close to each other with small smiles on their faces. The meal and the adventure itself had not been what tired them out, it had been what followed afterwards that truly had tuckered them out completely.
Mindy was in her room, laying on her back with her head tilted so that she could look out the window and see the stars. She thinks, "The stars look so peaceful. You'd never think that just a little while ago we were all fighting for our very lives among them.
She starts to get pretty sleepy but she still felt like singing and in a sleepy voice she sings,
Would you call me if you need my love?
I can hear you no matter where you are
The agape that you give me
With all your strength, dive!
When we look at each other, and when we touch
Love is testing the two of us
All the way to the end of the world
After that, she starts to fall asleep rather quickly all tuckered out from her father's incredible meal and adventure. She thinks about the one special guy she was crushing on back on Earth that not even her family or Jesse knew about even though she knew she really liked Jesse too but in a different way.
Mindy thinks, "I wonder...(Yawn) if he's thinking of me...(Yawn) even now..." before it all becomes too much for her and she falls asleep in which she has very dreams that make her very restless in which Animal and the Rat guy were trying to hurt Jesse again.
Yori was slowly wandering around and admiring the station as she really didn't get to see much of the other one before it had been destroyed. She thought to that the station was indeed very impressive as it not only hosted many research rooms but also places for the crew to relax or exercise. She had thought the gym area on the station itself showed much promise and knew that she'd be visiting there again after sleeping.
She walks down a corridor and spots Jesse's mother approaching down the corridor from the other direction. She gives her a friendly nod and stops when Shego says, "Hi, its Yori right?"
Yori nods and says, "Yes, is there anything I may do for you?"
Shego seems to stare at Yori as if thinking about something before she says, "That final blast that destroyed the meteorite... I've been thinking about it. Would you like to talk about it?"
Yori knew she was the best person aside from Ron to actually have any answers so she says, "I would like that, thank you."
Shego says, "Jesse enhanced the blast with that rainbow power of his but I'm not sure how he was able to tap into it. Do you have any ideas?"
Yori says, "I believe that he did it because of the twins. He didn't want to let them down. Motivation can be a powerful factor."
Shego gives her a look that told her, "I knew that!" before she says, "Believe me, I know all about motivation. What I wonder is, was that the tri force that you told my son long ago or something else?"
Yori suddenly understands and say, "No, that wasn't it. What we witnessed was merely the power of mystical monkeys that, combined with your son to enhance and strengthen it so that it could reach it without any fading over such a vast distance."
Shego seems to look at Yori for a few more moments, thinking about what she said before she says, "Did you see the mystical power? It looked like their human and monkey selves were attacking the big meteorite."
Yori nods before she says, "I did. I believe that all of them were pouring everything they had into one last, final attack. Even your son was helping in ways even now, I don't fully understand. Mystical monkey power has always been more than just being the monkey. It is about releasing the human part as well and using the human part to control and use the monkey part in harmony."
Shego looks curiously at Yori as she says, "In harmony, huh? Well, I don't really understand that mystical mumbo-jumbo but I'll accept that."
Yori looks at Shego, wondering what else she was thinking as she could tell that there was more on the woman's mind. She says, "Is there anything else that I may help you with? Is there anything else that is troubling you?"
Shego says, "I wish there was someplace on here that I could work out. I'm still a bit angry... about what Animal did to my son."
Yori says, "There is a very well equipped gym just down this corridor. If you would like I could show you."
Shego nods before she says, "I'd like that, thank you Yori."
Yori bows and says, "It is no trouble" before she turns back the way she came and starts to lead her to the station's gym that she'd seen.
AN: Well everyone, I added a little fluff to this chapter and I hope you all liked it. Was anyone surprised that Cindy loved Jesse and sang a little song? I remembered the song from somewhere... oddly enough I think it was from a webpage. As for Mindy's brief song, I heard that one from an anime... I think it was from Ultramaiden UFO or something along that line as I don't recall the title too well. Any guesses as to who saw Cindy singing to Jesse while he slept? Was anyone surprised that Jesse could cook while CS/MS got their mother's skills? Lol! Anyone want to guess what else was on Shego's mind? Will the gym even survive Shego? Lol!