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 47: Battle for ALL TIME!
(Above the Stoppable home)
Cindy didn't know how she was doing it either; all that she knew was that even with his destruction. Jesse was still not letting her down and with her tears that had been streaming down her cheeks, drying up as she prepared for battle. She vowed that the man before her, the one who had destroyed her future with the one she truly loved with all her heart, soul, and body would not be forgiven.
She would not allow the one chance for making the guy who had destroyed her love and best friend in the whole universe to escape. There could be no forgiveness. None.
Her body was surrounded with the power of intense monkey rage, yet her mind unlike the previous time was not lost in it. She was focused, clear and yes… extremely angry. She could feel the monkey power was actually with her instead of trying to annoy, distract, subdue or overwhelm her like before. The monkey power was quiet and strong as her mind and anger was, which was a bit unsettling but also at the same time she was grateful for the strength and calmness… for Jesse.
The power she felt flowing through her at that very moment was unlike anything she had ever felt before, even the hazy memories she had from the last time was like a boxer trying to out-hit a train upon a car compared to what she felt at that moment.
The air above them was charged as cloud lightning flashed, booming loudly overhead to warn those below… that danger was looming ahead and above for them even though there was no rain yet.
Stone looks at her with surprise clearly showing on his face as he says, "How… how did you escape? How did you get that power?"
Cindy doesn't answer with her eyes burning with the fire of all the monkey power she possessed. Her only thought before she makes a move is, "Jesse… forgive me for using your power like this…" She flies forward with her hand pulling back into a tight fist.
Stone flies backwards, trying to put distance between himself and the silent girl. He knew that she was pretty angry at him from the few words she had said to him, but he wanted to know exactly how she was doing any of it in the first place!
Stone's mind is so distracted as he tries to think of ways of how Cindy, a girl with mystical monkey powers could have escaped the time shield unharmed and display timerider powers.
Stone distractedly says, "Is everyone getting timerider powers now?" Missing the way Cindy closes the gap quickly enough to punch him with her bare fist HARD!
Stone groans loudly in pain as he is sent flying towards the ground! He barely stops himself from hitting the ground hard really hurt him or possibly kill him and manages to stop a mere foot from the ground.
Stone coughs and lifts his head, just in time to open his eyes and see Cindy bearing down at him with another punch at the ready! He swears as he leaps to the side and is just barely missed as a blue streak of Cindy flies past him!
Stone throws up his hands into his face to protect himself as well as throwing up a quick shield meant to slow down whatever hits it even as a huge explosion of dirt, rocks, and dust flies up from the punch into the ground.
Stone drops everything caught in his shield to look and see just how bad it was. His eyes nearly pop out of their sockets as he sees a deep five foot crater with Cindy not only unharmed but she is dusting herself off from the center of it! He swears again as he sees that her mystical monkey power is glowing brightly around her like a massive monkey about twice her size.
Stone had heard the stories about the power of the mystical monkey that Ron had but to see Cindy wielding it with such calm anger on her face. It was just beyond unnerving!
Stone says, "Stay away from me you! You're crazy just like that Jesse guy was!" He catches a flash of uncontrolled anger on her face before the he gets the feeling he said the wrong thing.
Cindy opens her mouth a deafening sound of a thousand angry monkeys all clawing on a chalkboard assaults Stone's ears which he tries to cover but the sound still went through his hands!
The sound suddenly stops and Stone leaps to his right just barely in time, as a glowing blue hand slams hard powerfully into the ground and raining upon him debris!
Stone shouts, "Will you QUIT trying to hit me? So what if I destroyed your friend. You can always find another one!"
Just for that Cindy grabs a nearby downed tree from the punch that had created a crater and throws it at Stone!
Stone raises a hand and sends a time blast at it, rapidly aging the wood of the tree heading right at him until it turns into dust!
He barely has time to finish as two more trees are sent flying his way! He quickly sends two more time blasts that age the trees into so much dust and shouts angrily, "Quit throwing trees at me!"
Cindy grabs some more trees right out of the ground, this time launching three trees at him by throwing two at him with each hand and then powerfully palm thrusting to send the third tree through the air right behind the first two! She thinks, "With all the dust that is created by the two trees, he might not see the third one in time and then… he will pay…"
Stone blasts the two trees as he thinks, "What does she hope to gain? Maybe she's trying to vent her anger?" He coughs as he is engulfed in the tree dust, doubling over just in time to have the third tree appear through the dust!
Stone tries to avoid but the wide branches of the fast-flying tree still bat at him like a piñata being assaulted by dozens of kids at the same time, knocking him around and through every one of them with many of the branches breaking against him until the tree finally comes to a landing a couple yards away.
Cindy looks sadly at the damage done to the area, remembering how as children, the three of them… Jesse, Mindy and herself had played many games in the very trees she was now using as a weapon. A weapon meant to hurt or destroy Stone for what he had done to Jesse.
A single tear escapes Cindy's right eye and runs down her cheek to her chin as she runs towards the tree, not caring how badly hurt or not that Stone was. She just wanted to grab him, look him in the eye and see if he felt anything about what he did to her and Jesse. She wanted him to see the pain in her eyes, to see the deep pain of loss in her heart that she knew would never heal.
Just as Cindy nears the tree it explodes into dust! She stops running to throw up her hands to cover her eyes for a moment before she hears a low growl. She opens her eyes and gasps at the sight before her.
There before her was Stone standing with blood from cuts, bruises from being hit so many times when the tree had narrowly hit him. He wipes at his eye as blood from a cut just above his eyebrow ran down over it. Breathing heavily for a few moments and then shouts, "That… is… IT! I HAVE HAD IT WITH YOU!"
Stone powers up to full power, glowing brightly with time power before he says, "I am going to destroy you with pleasure just like I did your friend and when you are gone… I will celebrate! I will gleefully laugh and leave this place!"
Cindy closes her eyes and under her closed eyes, she remembers her life before Jesse, then what it was like ever since meeting him. She remembers the days of happiness, a lifetime of security, sense of safety around him, strong sense of an unending friendship, and finally of love. Her love for Jesse is… (tears begin to run down her cheeks as she corrects herself mentally, which made it all the worse for her) was so natural for her, it flowed through her very veins like the blood from her heart and with him gone it felt as if her very heart had been wretched right from her chest.
Cindy's mind imagines the possible future that she and Jesse might have shared… still glowing with time power, that view changes than what she had expected and she gasps aloud.
Her rainbow glowing eyes fly open but she does not see Stone even though he was already moving towards her. She sees in rapid time in a kind of IMAX theater way, a multitude of different future outcomes, but there is one that she quickly latches onto and follows through with it, wanting to know what it would be like.
Stone is about to deliver a punch to Cindy's face with a bit of time power on his knuckles to make it hurt extra when suddenly a hand flies up and catches him by the wrist stopping it! He looks and gasps, as he sees that in Cindy's hand was Jesse's severed hand and IT was holding onto his wrist!
The rainbow color fades from Cindy's eyes to be replaced by the blue of her mystical monkey power as it erupts hard, with Jesse's hand falling limp and letting go of Stone in the process.
Cindy still has streams of tears flowing down her cheeks, her breathing is heavy and the sky starts to turn into a mixture of black and blood red with the red swirling rapidly through the air in a blur. A blur that is to normal people but to a timerider the blur was slowed down a lot. The red is easily seen as hundreds, if not thousands of angry monkeys all running around.
Stone steps back fearfully at the sight of Cindy and darkness that grew with every moment that passed. It seemed that the darkness had surrounded the two of them, growing more and more slowly towards the two of them. In a way, it seemed as if the darkness was actually eating the light in a way and that in itself was scary.
Stone could see every now and then the red monkeys in the darkness turn to look at him and soundlessly cry out with its bright red fangs before racing further. He suspected that if he tried to go through the blackness with the red monkeys present, they would tear him into tiny shreds as he screamed for mercy. He had no way of knowing just how thick the darkness that had engulfed them was but if it wasn't thin, which he seriously doubted… then he would be caught and destroyed before he could get through.
As the darkness grew closer, Cindy grew more brighter in her blue light with the exception of the white pupils in her eyes. Her eyes grew more darker like a shadow growing as if the darkness was homing in on it.
Stone swears and tries to travel through time but finds that he is in a time shield or something that kept him stuck exactly where and when he was in the time frame. He narrows his eyes as he says, "Let me be! I won't bother you anymore! I promise!"
Cindy says in a very scary voice that sounds like Cindy but with the voice of many monkeys if they could talk in an almost overlapping kind of way, "You won't be bothering anyone anymore when we're through with you! You have disturbed the natural order of things without regard to what is and what must be. We will do what must be to ensure that balance and the future."
Stone feels a chill go down his spine as he says nervously, "C-Cindy? Is that you?" He is afraid of the answer and gulps as he hears the voices say quite simply, "No!"
With the darkness closing in every so steadily and the space between the red monkeys in the darkness shrinking rapidly, Stone decides to go down swinging with hopes that by defeating her and the scary voices. He knew he had the will and desire to survive and see another day. He bitterly thought to himself that he would not be brought down by some mopey teenage girl!
Stone pulls back his fist when suddenly there is a cough on the ground nearby as Leonardo hoarsely says, "I told you… (cough) you'd get yours…(groans) didn't I?"
Stone's scowls darkly as he shouts, "Shut up you old man! This is all your fault anyway! You delayed me long enough for her to come out!"
Leonardo tries to catch his breath as he hoarsely says, "Whatever… happens here… was all… through your own… actions. You made… this bed… for yourself."
Stone shouts, "Damn you! I should have killed you right away!" He fires a time aging blast to turn Leonardo to dust when suddenly a black wave erupts from the darkness and gets between the two, effectively shielding him until the blast has passed.
Leonardo coughs and says, "Goodbye Stone… it is about time… you crumbled… to pieces." He then disappears behind the wall of black as it once again rises up to shield him when Stone just about loses it, screaming loudly as he sends wave after wave of aging blasts at him to try and destroy him.
It isn't until he realizes that the darkness with the red monkeys seemed closer than ever that he looks up from where he'd been blasting to see that there was little room to move about now with the blackness only two feet away from his back.
Stone gulps loudly and his eyes go wide as he turns to Cindy, "Please! I'll do anything to help restore things! Please! Just name it!"
Cindy just stares at him, unmoving and silent as the darkness.
Stone waits for a full 8 seconds before he finally runs out of patience and screams, "WELL?"
Cindy slowly turns towards him fully with tears still streaming down her cheeks. She shakes her head slowly and finally says with much pain in her voice, "You can give me back Jesse!"
Stone barely notices that it was Cindy's voice, not the monkeys voice but because the eyes stayed black, growing darker still… he steps back a step as he says, "I… I can't do that! That's impossible!"
Cindy speaks again, this time with the overlapping monkey voice, "Then it is impossible for you to face anything but destruction."
Stone panics and starts to punch at Cindy with only his first blow landing on her, for after that first blow Cindy moves fast and effortlessly. No matter what how he tries to land a punch or kick or how to grab at her, she avoids him. He thinks he recognizes how she is doing it but in his horror-filled mind he couldn't focus on what it was.
Stone begins to attack Cindy with his temporal powers, trying to strike at her but the darkness filled with red monkeys dives in front of his every blast and deflecting it.
This continues on until the circle of darkness has surrounded just the two of them with barely any standing room. Stone breathes heavily and begs, "Please… don't… I want to live!"
The darkness stops swirling, coming to a complete stop with what once was red streaks very clear red monkeys in a 3D style. All of the monkeys were facing Stone with hungry eyes, doing that silent screeching thing until Cindy holds up her empty hand and says in her normal though very, very sad voice, "Do you surrender? Will you help me restore time to the way it should be?"
Stone sticks both his hands into his pocks, forming a lethal temporal knife in one hand. He pulls out his empty hand, placing it into Cindy's as he says, "You are as forgiving as I've heard the Stoppable legends be…" He suddenly squeezes it hard and pulls out his temporal knife and thrusts it at her stomach! He then evilly laughs and says, "And just as gullible!"
Cindy cries out in fear as she thinks, "Jesse!" moments before she felt the impact at her stomach. She falls to her knees, clutching at the knife.
Stone laughs evilly with insanity clearly echoing in his voice, "With you gone, I will be free and all time… BOTH of them can self destruct for all I care!"
Cindy suddenly begins to stand up much to the amazement of Stone and he thinks, "Don't tell me she has gained his healing abilities too!"
Cindy's eyes are not of sadness but of furious anger as she finishes standing up and reveals the very temporal knife that he had intended to stab her with being held by Jesse's hand! The severed hand was starting to slowly disintegrate before Stone's very eyes but not before he noticed that there was a creepy, severed eye and ear also touching it at the base of the limb. The eye seemed to be glowing blue with mystical monkey power.
Stone could have sworn that the eye looked at him with anger before Cindy says in the overlapping monkey voice, "You took the olive branch she offered and have burned it in spite. While Cindy could not take your life, WE can!"
Stone realizes what's happening too late and tries to grab at Cindy, managing to grab at her. His hope was to take her with him if he was going to be destroyed. He manages to grab her wrist and does an insane laugh, "Ah-hahahahahahaha! Now you can't destroy me without destroying yourself!"
The monkey voices that come out of Cindy's mouth just as the eyes become almost totally black say, "Goodbye!" Cindy's other hand, which holds onto Jesse's almost gone hand strikes Stone in the gut with the temporal knife.
The knife plunging into Stone makes him lose his grip before and as he flails backwards towards his end, the remaining parts of Jesse… hand, eye and ear all fall into the darkness with Stone.
The eyes of Cindy go pure black as Stone cries out, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" with thousands of angry red mystical monkeys descending onto Stone. Her face showing anger with her cheeks still wet from all the crying Cindy had been doing.
Utter silence quickly follows Stone's fall into the darkness and when the red monkeys stop moving, Cindy's eyes return to their natural state and she snaps out of her trance-like state that she'd been in.
Cindy looks around quickly to discover that she was alone before the darkness releases Leonardo.
Leonardo winces as he tries to talk, looking up at Cindy from the ground and says, "You did it… you destroyed Stone." He coughs a little, missing the look on Cindy's face.
Cindy quickly goes to her pocket where she'd been keeping Jesse's last remains for everyone and discovers everything is gone! Her last remaining bit of Jesse was gone… gone for good with Stone!
Cindy suddenly remembers it all and tightly closes her eyes as she throws back her head to scream, "JESSE!!" The scream makes all the darkness explode outward with the red monkeys riding the wisps of blackness into oblivion.
With the darkness gone, sunlight shone through as even the thunderclouds earlier had been dissipated into nothing more than little white puffs in the sky.
Leonardo gasps as he looks outward towards the Stoppable home, seeing that the time shield and new time stream that had threatened to destroy all of the original time in favor of its own was gone! Somehow, the impossible had been done once again!
Cindy falls to her knees with her hands covering her face as she cries hard… it was the knowledge that she had absolutely nothing left of her Jesse. Her Jesse… He, who had been a very wonderful friend in life and the keeper of her heart. One who had somehow after being destroyed to nothing more than a limb had risked it all and saved her life yet once more.
She felt completely and utterly drained of everything. All the spirit, all the energy, all the heart just felt gone and she didn't know how she would ever get it back without Jesse in her life.
Leonardo says, "Look… it is beautiful. Time is restored…. Your family is safe and they're coming out of your house…"
Cindy was way past caring, as even the news of her family surviving was just more pain for her because it meant having to tell them. All of them that Jesse had been completely and utterly destroyed and it was all her fault. She had caused the destruction of her very best friend.
Cindy feels a pair of comforting hands touch her shoulders. She shrugs them off while she still cried into her hands. The very last thing she wanted to be was comforted.
She hears an impossible voice say, "C'mon CS, don't be like that…" She removes her hands from her face and turns to the source of the voice.
Leaning over her was Jesse! Unharmed and most importantly ALIVE!
Cindy cries out loudly, "JESSE! YOU'RE BACK!!" She moves faster than she's ever moved in her life to tackle Jesse, which helped prove to her that she wasn't imagining it and presses her lips his in a soul-blazing, thankful-that-you're-alive, passionate kiss!
Jesse doesn't know what is going on or why he's getting such a kiss but out of pure instinct he returns it before he hears Leonardo say, "Now that's some mighty hot kissing!"
Jesse pushes back Cindy, holding her at arm's length with a puzzled expression on his face as he says, "Cindy! What's gotten into you?"
Cindy's eyes were just full of tears with the biggest smile Jesse had ever seen on her face as she answers him, "You… you're alive… you're alive Jesse…"
Jesse tilts his head and says, "Yes and I'd like to stay that way. The way you were going, I thought I was going to pass out from the lack of air." His voice wasn't hard as he looks at her, not wanting to upset Cindy any.
Cindy shakes her head, tears falling onto Jesse's face as she says once more, "You don't get it Jesse… you're alive… you're alive and I'm just so very, very, very happy to see you alive."
Jesse half-smiles at Cindy as he lowers her down to a sitting position and says, "Of course I am alive. Did you really think you'd get rid of me that easily while you still need me?"
Cindy just bursts into grateful crying and laughing at the same time. She just wraps her arms around herself as she continues to laugh-cry while looking at Jesse, trying to say something but all that comes out is nonsense babbling.
Jesse doesn't know what else to say to his friend who he has never seen acting this way before other than, "Cindy…? Are you ok?"
AN: Well, after the last chapter I hope that you liked this chapter. One thing's for certain, I think everyone can agree that this was one emotional time for Cindy. Did any of you shed tears in this chapter? Did you like what I did with Stone? Or was what happened to him not enough before his final defeat? I had Stone suffering physically and mentally in this chapter after all. Was the detail vivid enough with the darkness and red monkeys? Was there any particular song that popped into your head during this chapter? What did you think of Jesse's "Hand" being there for Cindy? I know this is a lame joke but, wasn't he very 'handy' in this chapter? You've got to admit, having Jesse as a friend rules. What did you think of Cindy's reaction at the end when she saw Jesse? What did you think of Cindy's laugh-crying fit? Any guesses as to what will happen next?
As usual all reviews, ratings, thoughts on the story in review or pm, suggestions, ideas, feelings, drawings or songs based on my stories, general stuff and more are always welcome.