KP All Grown Up v2.0: Future Stoppable for Team Tri Stoppable
AN: Ron's sister is Hana Stoppable from Season 4. Warmonga is a very tall alien Amazon from Season 4.
Chapter 46: After much insanity
(In the temporal stream above the Stoppable home)
What comes out of the hole didn't look like Jesse. It didn't even look human anymore. All that came out was a hand along with one of his eyes, and an ear came out and the rest that had entered the chaos was gone. The only parts that had not gotten pulled in fully was his arm and even that was because it had been used to push Cindy to safety.
Cindy knew Jesse had good regenerative powers but even she didn't think he could regenerate from just a limb.
She breaks down and begins to cry, holding the only thing she had left of her best friend and secret love who had sacrificed everything to ensure that she lived to return to her family.
She cries long and hard on her knees with his hand upon her cheek. She couldn't believe that he was gone… really gone. Her best friend in the whole world who had been with her seemingly her whole life… and the one person who she had always assumed would be there in her life was… gone. All she had to remember of him were a few pieces and all… the memories that they'd shared together.
Memories come flooding at her like a dam burst… She remembers everything from the time they met to even how he had risked his life to save hers at multiple times, even from the temporal villain whom she had somehow forgotten until that very moment.
Good memories flood her mind as she remembers the time as children she had dropped her ice cream and even when her own twin sister didn't want to give up any of her own, Jesse had given half his ice cream to her without even being asked. The times they shared just the two of them whether it was singing karaoke in Japan while her sister snoozed away in the same booth to setting up booths for a fair while Mindy passed out flyers.
Cindy's breathing was heavy and ragged as she cries heavily, her nose running and she didn't care. She just grips the hand tightly in her hand even as she remembers the bad memories from the times when she had seen another girl with her first crush on a boy, who just happened to be Jesse walk up to him and give him a kiss on the lips and tell him about her crush on him.
Her heart had hurt for a long time after seeing that even though they she had been just 12 when that had happened. It was after that moment when she realized that she had her own feelings for her best friend. Feelings that had continued to grow from a crush into a secret love. She curses herself for never having the courage to do what that young girl had done all those years ago and at least try to let him know that she cared about him beyond the best friend level.
Powering up to full monkey rage power she throws back her head and just screams the sound she hoped that would be all the sadness, all the love, all anger at everything and everyone for the loss of Jesse.
(Outside the time shield)
The temporal shield over the Stoppable home was in chaos, lightning swirled and twisted all over the surface with it being far worse than even what had been going on inside the shield. Somehow a point of it manages to settle into a perfect calmness moments before a bullet shaped shield, filled with cracks from the rough ride that it had been subjected to explodes out into the sky!
The shield tries to lash out at the villain's shield one last time with a bolt of lightning, which strikes at the villain's shield and punches a hole in the side of it.
The bullet shaped ride finally sails high enough to be safe and that is when the villain inside collapses his shield and stretches his arms high above his head as he shouts, "Finally! I am freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" He then says in his normal voice in joy, "No more being chased by that guy, no more being stuck in that Stoppable home and no more encounters with anyone from that family!"
The villain turns around to look at the shield and says, "Wow, this is even worse than I thought it would be. Well at least those inside will be destroyed long before it totally collapses and finally leaving a world without the Stoppable family and the annoying ones that come after them."
He turns around with a pleased smile on his face when suddenly he is punched hard in the face! Sending him flying back a good fifteen feet in the air!
The villain manages to stop himself in mid-air, shaking his head in an effort to recover from the punch before he opens his eyes to see who or what had hit him!
Floating in mid-air with a most angry expression on his face was a man the villain knew was going as Leonardo! He is shocked to see him out of his preferred time period and shouts, "What are you doing here?"
Leonardo did not bother answering as he flies straight towards him with his hands still balled in tight fists.
The villain dodges him, having gained some of that skill from having to dodge the guy whom he had just destroyed on his way out as he was chased all through time.
Leonardo glares at him as he says, "What did you do? There is no way you could have escaped on your own, even with the capsule as your shield."
The villain growls and says, "Look! I don't need any of this from you Leo! I just had some crazy super-healing guy chasing me through all of time in that damn bubble and now you're trying to hit me? What do you think you're trying to pull here?"
Leonardo's eyes go wide in surprise before he says, "No… his time powers flare up brightly around him. What did you do to Jesse? Did you do anything else to the others inside?"
The villain shakes his head and says, "Relax, I didn't do anything stupid in there. So that guy was Jesse huh? No wonder he gave that other timerider trouble…"
Leonardo frowns in confusion before he says sharply, "What other timerider?"
The villain says, "Oh, that one that went insane from the mystical monkey time changes, Matthew. He tried to destroy Kim and Ron in the wrong period for that purpose. It seems he thought he was attacking Kim's parents. He self destructed but everyone still survived somehow."
Leonardo punches the villain in surprise and shouts, "You idiot! No wonder things are so messed up! You know how much power we normally have and Matthew absorbed the power of both time stream realities along with some mystical power! It is because he destroyed himself that the shield and time itself has become so distorted and caused the 'bubble' as you call it to gain an awareness given by time."
The villain says, "What? What are you talking about? It would take eons of time before something like that could happen!"
Leonardo says, "Just how far do you think it stretches? I've traveled into the far past and future to try and find a safe point to get in and I could NOT!"
The villain frowns and says, "That's impossible! You should have been able to travel to before it went up and slip under."
Leonardo says, "Exactly! Somehow what we have here is the creation of two time streams existing, one inside the other!"
The villain says, "What? That's impossible! Isn't it?"
Leonardo says, "You just came out of the Stoppable home alive and you're talking about impossible? They do the impossible!"
The villain mulls this over and says, "Even if you're right, do you realize what this means? How can we fix this without all of time becoming annilated?"
Leonardo sighs and says, "I have been trying to repair the holes in shield because the more that leaks out from that one into this one, the more unstable this one becomes and the sooner it is all destroyed."
The villain says, "We've got to get the others involved!"
Leonardo says, "I already have a few others in past and future doing what they can while I work here in the present and yes, I do mean present. Time has already been weakened severely making it mix the present and past together. A few others are going to stay in their periods in case the whole thing goes the way of the mystical monkey incident."
He sighs and says, "I guess since you're out here our only hope is Jesse since it sounds like he is a timerider too."
The villain eyes go wide and then he starts to look away, but it was all too obvious for the older Leonardo who grabs him and shouts, "What? What did you do to Jesse?"
The villain says, "You know how earlier you said I shouldn't have been able to make it through?" After seeing Leonardo nod he continues to say, "Well, I used him to create a stable tunnel and then shot into the stable tunnel."
Leonardo's eyes narrow darkly as he says, "How did you get Jesse to do that exactly? That isn't exactly something I can imagine he'd agree to do."
The villain sneers as he says, "That part was easy, I used his precious 'Cindy' by putting her in danger and like the foolish hero he was he created the stable tunnel to keep her from being torn up by the storm before I…" He trails off thinking that it was perhaps a good idea to not go any further.
Leonardo raises his fist back and says angrily, "What did you do?"
The villain looks away as he says, "I shot through him and dragged him into the tunnel so I could destroy him for chasing me all through time itself."
Leonardo shouts loudly, "What?? You IDIOT! You don't know his role do you? You have just made certain that we will all be destroyed!"
The villain says, "What do you mean? What is that psychotic superhealer's role?"
Leonardo is about to answer when from the still open tunnel comes a very loud, anguished cry. He recognized that cry instantly as he had heard it in the time period he liked to be in before. It was the cry of a female whose very body, heart, and soul was in pure anguish. It was not a pleasant sound to him.
Leonardo shouts, "You destroyed Jesse! You are such a bastard, Stone!"
Stone shrugs and says, "I wanted to escape and I couldn't risk him following me for holding Cindy captive and getting revenge on holding her for so long."
Leonardo shakes hard as he continues to hear Cindy's anguished cries, the very sound of some girl's very heart being destroyed with each passing second. He doesn't say anything more and just starts to really punch Stone everywhere hard as he can.
Each blow sends Stone flying around, his body jerking under every punch… Waves of time energy flashed off of Stone, oddly calming the storm of wild temporal energies coursing within the shield.
All of this goes of course unnoticed by the two timeriders as it still seemed like a wild and destructive storm on the surface.
The very haunting angry and hurting cries of Cindy continued to still haunt the air, further driving Leonardo to keep up his attack on his fellow timerider.
The cries grow louder and louder with each blow Leonardo delivers upon Stone.
Stone finally manages to deliver a powerful kick to Leonardo, turning around the tide of the battle.
Stone doesn't let up, his own time powers flaring up brightly around him like living flames dancing. He punches and kicks Leonardo backward, gaining back the air-ground that he had lost so much of.
Stone shouts, "You have any idea what I have been through, old man?" as he delivers a powerful punch into Leonardo's face.
Leonardo breathes heavily as he wipes some blood from the corner of his mouth, just staring at him hard before he says, "And I suppose the destruction of existence makes up for it?"
Stone pauses as he takes in the words and kicks hard which is blocked by Leonardo's arms going up in front of him before he shouts, "If it means finally being away from that idealistic and insufferable, loyal jerk forever… then my answer would have to be a loud YES!"
Leonardo tries to do a right cross which is blocked as he shouts, "You've gone completely insane!"
Stone does a hard punch to Leonardo's stomach as he says, "Yes, I suppose you're right! No other sane timerider would have kept that girl as long as I did with Jesse the invincible chasing after him would they?" He grabs Leonardo's head and delivers a sounding knee to the face before he says, "I doubt a sane timerider would have been so willing to sacrifice another timerider just to escape!"
Stone kicks him hard again, sending flying through the air and Leonardo can barely keep conscious enough to keep himself in the air.
Leonardo looks down and sees that they are in exact same spot where Stone had come out before and surprisingly the storm of the shield had become as calm as he could ever remember seeing a shield, calmer even as even the best one churned as it fought time but this one seemed to be still as if time wasn't churning or fighting against it for some reason.
Leonardo tries to figure out in his hazy mind, with his body heavy in pain just as to what could have caused such a radical change in the shield. The last thing he sees is a brilliant blue light glowing through the tunnel that was as smooth as ice, with the same properties as it, refracting and shifting as if it were alive before Stone picks him up by the throat, choking him.
Stone says, "I'll tell you a little secret… when I came up with the plan to destroy that guy, I didn't hesitate. Not one bit! I was actually GLAD as it meant he would be destroyed! But I couldn't just leave it at that. I actually had him reveal his heart to his "Cindy" and then set it up on purpose so he would sacrifice himself by using every bit of his timerider powers to save her!" He laughs insanely and evilly before he shouts, "It was wonderful to see her expression of pain, much like the kind of suffering I had to endure with his chasing as I left and all the while knowing I would never, ever see either one of them again!"
Leonardo claws at the hands around his throat, desperate for air and looks down with surprise for a moment and says with the last bits of air he had in his lungs, "You'll get yours yet Stone…" and passes out.
Stone eases up on Leonardo's throat as he says, "Crazy old man… Who could possibly be of a threat to me? No one else knows."
Just then there is a brilliant blast of blue energy like a raging cyclone that erupts from the tunnel to engulf Stone, sending him flying higher up from where he was and dropping Leonardo at the same time as he tries to protect himself.
Stone opens his eyes and he gasps in shock as his eyes take in the sight of Cindy, eyes blazing, glowing with timerider power that was clearly coming from the only surviving part of Jesse that she had left.
Cindy growls darkly before she screams at him, "I KNOW!" After a pause in which she takes a deep breath she screams again at him, "YOU… WILL… NOT BE ESCAPING ME SO EASILY!"
Stone could not understand how she could be tapping into the power of the timerider that was within Jesse's remaining body part. It would take an impossible bond for something like that to happen. He starts to sweat cold as Cindy catches Leonardo with a time-shift move, delivering him to the ground before she returns back to the exact same spot in the air.
Stone shouts, "How can you be doing that? HOW? It should be impossible for anyone BUT him to be using the power! How do you even know how to use any of the powers?"
Cindy just stares at him before she thrusts out her hand, pointing her finger angrily at him as she says, "In the words of the Pain King… YOU… ARE GOING DOWN!"
AN: Well everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter because the next chapter is going to get even more intense. What did you think when Jesse was finally revealed to be just a hand and little more than that? What did you think of Cindy's reaction? What did you think of the conversation between the villain (Stone) and Leonardo? Finally, I guess the only things left to ask is this… What do you think is going to happen next now that Cindy has shown up? Will Cindy defeat Stone or do something much more final? What would YOU do if you were in her shoes?
As always all reviews, thoughts on the chapter, feelings on any part of it, bets on just how BADLY Stone's butt will be kicked (I'm taking 10,000,000 to 1 odds that he wins if anyone is interested, heh!), and more are always welcome.