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. Let's all aim for a Season 5! :)

Chapter 48: New Life Paths

(At the Stoppable home)

It had been nearly a full hour since Cindy had been carried out from the yard into the Stoppable home. She had been babbling and crying since before the family found her. She wouldn't let anyone near her but Jesse and only in his arms did she finally calm down but she wouldn't let go of him once they got her to her bedroom.

For Cindy's sake, Jesse volunteered to stay by her side until she felt better. At which given the unusual situation, both parents agreed to let him while they took care of the man they had found beaten up not far from them.

So he sits up on her bed with a pillow between his back to her headboard and looks down at Cindy as she sleeps, still keeping a firm grip on him even then.

Jesse looks down at her and touches her cheek softly with his hand, which seems to make her happy and then sad before being happy again. He wished he knew what was going on. His memories of everything that happened up to the moment where he saved Cindy from being destroyed by the time stuff was a bit hazy and he didn't remember anything about what happened afterwards.

(Meanwhile in the medical area of the house)

Kim looks down at the man who was under some pretty heavy medicine for the pain he was in and says, "Who are you? Do you know what happened to our daughter?"

Leonardo sleepily looks at Kim, "You should be proud of her… she saved all of time from… being destroyed by a madman."

Ron is beside Kim and he says, "Can you tell us exactly what happened to Cindy to make her so emotional?"

Leonardo says, "I have seen a lot… (yawns) of things in my life. But your daughter blew it all away. (eyelids grow heavier) Even after her Jesse was destroyed… she still… stopped him." After that his eyes close and he falls asleep with the doctor reaching out an arm in front of Kim and Ron, shaking his head before motioning for them to join him.

Kim and Ron both follow quietly until they were in the doctor's office where he turns to them and says, "That guy is lucky to be alive. He was beaten up with a truck from the looks of his injuries, plus there are signs of him being nearly strangled. I am running some other tests as well but I suspect damage on a cellular level as well."

Both Kim and Ron's eyebrows jump at these news and then look at each other before Kim says, "Ron… you don't think that…" Ron shakes his head and says, "No way Kim… she's got to be ok."

The doctor sighs and says, "The results from the Kimmunicator scans show that Cindy is exhausted physically, mentally she is showing signs of severe distress and given what we just heard from the man in there. It is clear that at some point she believed Jesse to be gone for good and we all know Jesse is her best friend."

Kim looks in the general direction of where Leonardo was and says, "I know… but Jesse is ok. I still wish I knew more about what happened. It was so crazy around the house for a while. Seeing things from the past and present in the same room as well as never being sure where to go next because the house has changed so much since it was made."

Ron frowns as he says, "It was just crazy going on for a while. It felt more like we were in a labyrinth rather than our own home and then just 'Whooosh!' everything stopped and restored itself. No explanation!"

Kim says, "Maybe Wade can figure out something." She calls him up on the Kimmunicator and says, "Wade? We have a mega sitch going on here we could really use some help here."

Wade says, "Does it have something to do with how time went absolutely crazy in your house? How were you saved? Did Leonardo have anything to do with it?"

Kim and Ron both glance at each other, neither having ever heard of "Leonardo" before and Kim says, "Are you by any chance talking about the mysterious man we have laid up in our infirmary?"

Wade's eyebrows jump as he says, "Is he… he is still alive right?"

Kim nods as she says, "For the time being he is asleep under some heavy pain medicine and we have a doctor running tests on him. He seems to be the only one who knows just exactly what happened around here."

Ron says, "Wade, who is this Leonardo and what is he doing here?"

Wade sighs and says, "He's alive… thank goodness. There is still a chance time will survive." He shakes his head and says, "Sorry guys. The man you have must live because he is Leonardo Da Vinci from the past and he is also the timerider who helped us."

Kim and Ron both exclaim at the same time, "Timerider??"

Wade throws up his hands on the screen as he says, "Hear me out guys! I know what you're thinking and you don't know what the situation was. It was bad, real bad!"

Kim with her serious face on says, "How bad was it Wade?"

Wade says, "Time itself was about to self-destruct."

Ron blinks and says to Kim, "I'm no expert but that certainly falls into the really, really bad category."

Kim growls a "Not now Ron" tone and says, "How on Earth did you get ahold of a helpful timerider Wade?"

Wade says, "Believe me, it wasn't easy and I didn't do it alone. My wife built a device while Ben and I wrote the software to find one."

Kim nods as she says, "Thank you Wade. You guys rock."

Wade smiles and says, "Trust me Kim, there was a time when I was worried that no one would survive." He then laughs and says, "But I guess I should have remembered who my friends are, and how they are always doing the impossible."

Ron says, "Wade, do you know what happened with Jesse? There is some confusion about how he seems to have been destroyed…" He is cut off as Clarise cries out, "NO!" before muffled sobbing could be heard. Ron clears his throat and says, "But now he is back alive again according to Cindy."

Clarise pops into the view of the camera and says, "Could it have been a mistake?"

Kim shakes her head, "Given Cindy's actions, I seriously doubt there was any mistake. She has attached herself to Jesse since his apparent resurrection and not let go. Even now, she is asleep in her room, still holding on tight to Jesse."

Wade says, "Kim… I assure you that I am as much in the dark about this as you are. All I know for certain is that up until a little while ago. Time looked liked it was going to self destruct, taking all of creation with it and then there was a sharp increase in time particles around your home and then Ron does his full mystical monkey power move before it… BAM! Everything is restored. No more time shield, no more time build up to explosion, nothing! Just ripples of everything going back to the way it was supposed to be."

Kim looks over at Ron and says, "Ron, when did you use your monkey powers?"

Wade hesitantly says, "You… didn't?"

Ron shakes his head, "I used some power inside the shield but I certainly didn't go full power Kim. You were with me the whole time."

Clarise says, "Then who? I thought Ron was the only one do the full monkey, black skies, creepy red light kind of thing?"

Ron raises his hands up to his chest as he says, "Don't look at me. I haven't done it for a while. Maybe it was another me?"

Kim turns to Wade and says, "Is that possible?"

Wade shrugs, "Kim, all of time was bouncing around back and forth like a paddleball. My own time shields, enhanced by Leonardo before he left for your house were just barely holding under the strain of time storms and more. So if you're asking me if it was possible… maybe, yeah but given how long the event lasted I seriously doubt it."

The doctor walks in and says, "The patient is waking up."

Ron says, "I thought he fell asleep not too long ago?"

Wade says, "Timeriders have a way of healing super fast, maybe he's better now?"

Kim and Ron walk over to where Leonardo was and sure enough, he was awake and disconnecting himself from the pain medicine over the nurse's protests.

Kim sarcastically says, "You certainly look a lot better."

Leonardo says, "Yes well, the medicine did actually help with the pain. I was hurting so badly I couldn't focus and it takes focus to do it."

Ron says, "But you were asleep!"

Leonardo nods "I was for a few moments and then I woke up and healed myself."

Kim puts her hands on her hips as she frowns and says, "Then could you tell us just what happened out there? When did Ron do the monkey power stuff?"

Leonardo says, "How should I know that? Wasn't he with you inside the time shield?"

Wade creates a hologram of himself from the Kimmunicator and says, "Hi Leonardo!"

Leonardo says, "Hi there, now can someone back up and tell me just you think has happened?"

Wade says, "My scanners detected massive time fluctuations outside Kim's home and then a serious use of mystical monkey power."

Leonardo nods and says, "Ah… I see where everyone is confused. Ron never left the house, it was Cindy who did the serious mystical monkey power."

Kim, Ron, Wade and both the doctor and nurse all shout, "WHAT?" at the same time.

Ron says, "T-that's impossible!" before he says in a clearly confused voice, "Isn't it?"

Leonardo says, "Says the father of the impossible-do-er team" He chuckles at his own bad joke and the when he sees the stern, angry looks he says, "Fine… but I'm totally serious. You should have seen the way she took on Stone, defeated him and restored the time balance, thus saving all of time."

Ron says, "How did she defeat him? How did she even tap into that level of power? She has never been able to do it before."

Leonardo says, "I don't know exactly, you'll have to ask her about that but given the fact that Jesse was murdered. She was very angry. You'd think she had her one great love destroyed from the way she acted." He shakes his head and says, "Anyway, she used Jesse's time powers through the mystical link I'm guessing Jesse got from the original timerider."

Ron says, "Wait, back up… are you saying Jesse had timerider powers? From when?"

Leonardo says, "Do you remember a crazy timerider that attacked you? I believe he blew up the house?"

Their eyes go wide as they remember that. Ron says, "Yes… we almost lost Cindy, Mindy and Jesse. It is a miracle they survived."

Leonardo says, "Jesse must somehow absorbed the power of the timerider and instinctively shielded you all. Stone was there and he became linked as well in the explosion since he was a timerider as well."

Kim says, "Wait, how do you know he was there? Or about any of this?"

Leonardo chuckles softly, "It is surprising what you can learn when talking to an insane man. Anyway, as I was saying… the timerider you faced had absorbed some mystical monkey power from a time traveling monkey artifact. In fact it was the very reason he went insane."

Wade says, "Wait, how did that happen?"

Leonardo sighs, "It was a dark time in our history as you can call it. You see, while Kim and Ron were still in high school. Drakken, Duff Killigan and Monkey Fist worked together to rejoin the head and body of a 'tempus simia' otherwise called a time monkey. Their time traveling along with Shego's eventual taking over the world created chaos in the natural order of the time stream and any timerider who couldn't get out of the stream in time found themselves stuck in it and either were destroyed or they went insane."

Kim and Ron say at the same time, "Who did WHAT, when? I don't remember any of that?" Ron says, "Jinx! You owe me a Ron-night" Kim smirks at Ron and simply says, "ok"

Leonardo says, "And you wouldn't be expected to either because the two of you went to the future Shego who ruled the world and destroyed the time monkey, which released its hold over the time stream before the changes could become permanent and snapped everything back to the way it was supposed to be, when it was supposed to be. The most either of you would have been left with is a strong feeling of something you liked or hated the most during that time."

Ron suddenly cries out, "Meatcakes!"

Kim looks at Ron with a puzzled expression on her face, "Ron…?"

Ron says, "Remember back before we started dating? We were both dizzy for a second and then I had that overwhelming urge to say I hated meatcakes? And I still don't know what they are!"

Leonardo snickers, "Sounds like you were on the other side of the world… I'd heard that Shego split you two up that way to break up the team." He holds up a hand, "And yes, I'm aware that she is a friend now. But this was all before she went good so let's just put all this behind us shall we?"

Leonardo sighs and says, "The important thing is that because of that very incident, a lot of timerider's lives were forever changed and ultimately set in motion this whole incident that I am fairly certain is over and done with now."

He then meets Ron's eyes directly and says firmly, "Your daughter Cindy is a very powerful, amazing girl. She could very well be the next monkey master to follow in your footsteps and before you ask. I don't know the future. It isn't my area of expertise. I am more of a past person, and if you want I could ask one of the ones whose expertise is the future to tell you about your children's future."

Ron gives a sideways look at Kim before he looks back at Leonardo and says, "Thanks, but no thank you. I think this family has had enough with timeriders and time whatchimitcallits and besides I think we've always tried to build our own future."

Leonardo chuckles and says, "So very true and in that way, you and your family are the envy of any timerider for even we who can surf time can't just create a future for ourselves unless we become part of the time period. I think this incident proves that your family can do it."

Wade says, "I have a few questions Leonardo… first of all, since that guy gave Jesse his powers. Does this mean he shouldn't ever use them again? Second, if Jesse was destroyed as you and Cindy both say, how was he returned?"

Leonardo shakes his head and says, "First question… with the time stream back to normal, Jesse should be perfectly fine. I don't know if he will even have any of his temporal powers anymore. He might be back to being unable to tap into them like before, or not. Only time or the future timeriders will be able to tell."

He takes a deep breath before he continues to say, "Second question… Jesse was destroyed before his time. So when restoring time, he was brought back to make time resume its natural course… either that or Cindy's monkeys restored him somehow, maybe with the body of Stone. I don't really know and personally I think you should just be glad he's back for Cindy's sake."

No one in the room could argue that last part and everyone agreed that no more time would be wasted on how Jesse came back from the dead and that they would do whatever Cindy needed to allow her to heal.

Leonardo says, "Well, I am going to go now. It has been an honor to help the Stoppable family do the impossible. I believe you all know where I am if you need to reach me in the future."

Wade says, "Wait, can you come back to my place? My wife and I would really like to say our goodbyes to you in person."

Leonardo nods and says, "Sure, I can do that after all the help you provided." He turns to Kim and Ron, waving as he says, "Your whole family is special and I'm certain every one of your children will turn out just amazing. Give Cindy and Jesse my best wishes and goodbye now." He vanishes from the Stoppable home.

A moment later Leonardo appears in Wade's home and he sees Wade click a button that closes the Kimmunicator connection.

Wade says, "I didn't want to ask this in front of Kim and Ron but… tell me please. Did Cindy murder Stone?"

Leonardo is surprised by the question and then sighs, "To be perfectly honest, I don't know. At that point Cindy had shielded me from Stone in the black stuff as he went insane and all I could hear was that it sounded like Stone tried to kill Cindy. I think it failed for some reason and then I think the mystical monkey spirits did him in. So… if I had to guess, I would say 'No' but the only one who really knows is Cindy herself."

Wade sighs as he knew he could never just come right out and ask Cindy if she did anything of the sort and figures it was just one more mystery that was probably better left unknown.

Clarise walks up to Leonardo, "Do you think you could sign these? We'd appreciate it." She holds out a book about himself, a few drawings, and smiles a little as she catches the surprised expression on his face.

Leonardo signs all the stuff before he departs with a friendly wave and vanishes back to his original time period.

AN: Well everyone, the ultimate time sitch is finally over and I hope you all enjoyed the trip. What did you think of the beginning where Cindy just would not let go of Jesse? Were you touched or at all surprised by this? What do you think of Jesse's thoughts? What did you think of the whole Leonardo talking with Kim and Ron conversation? What did you think of the final part where Wade asked Leonardo about Cindy doing in Stone? Would you want Leonardo's autograph?

As usual all reviews, votes, suggestions, asking for my autograph, ideas, and more are always welcome.