The next day, Becky and Bob were working on getting the spaceship hideout to fly when a call came through on the alert system. Becky answered it to see her mother on the screen.

"Becky, honey, where are you? Your father needs your help cleaning the attic." Sally asked.

"Oh, I'm at my spaceship hideout. Bob and I are working on getting it started." Becky explained. Then an idea popped into her head.

"Hey, do you guys wanna see it?" Becky asked excitedly.

"Well, I don't see why not." Sally responded, interested in the idea.

"Cool! I'll come get you guys!" Becky said, hanging up the video phone. She zoomed out of the spaceship and back home to retrieve her family, and once she had them, zoomed them back to the spaceship.

Once there, she set the three Bottsfords down outside the hideout and let them observe the outside first.

"Wow, Becky, this is amazing- and we haven't even been inside yet!" Tim said happily.

"Oh, you'll be stunned once you see the inside!" Becky said excitedly as she opened the spaceship door and let her family follow her inside. TJ, although stoked to see the hideout, still refused to speak to Becky.

The three Bottsfords entered the spaceship and looked around in amazement. They saw red and yellow, with stars, Wordgirl's signature symbol. They saw her crime detector, and her game room, her villain trophy room, and everything else before ending up in the library. The three were stunned by the library. On the ceiling was a beautiful, amazing mural of Lexicon, portraying a spectacular summary of life on Lexicon for all to see. All walls were lined with bookshelves filled end to end with books, there were a few couches and chairs to read on, a TV and chair set up. Sally was quite stuck on the statues of what she was guessing to be several Lexiconians circling the room.

Sally approached the one statue of a Lexiconian that bared a scarily similar resemblance to Becky.

"Who…who's this?" Sally asked as she stared the statue in the eyes.

Becky looked over to the statue.

"Oh, uh…I'm not sure. I've never paid much attention to these statues…" Becky said as she approached the statue of the woman. She realized as she gazed into the statue's eyes that it looked remarkably like her. Becky gazed in curiosity at the statue. Could it possibly be her real mother? She wondered.

Becky glanced at her mother and saw worry etched in her eyes.

"I-I wouldn't get to hung up on it. I never do, after all." Becky said, trying her best to take her own advice. That statue did look a lot like her, after all…

When everyone sat down on the couch, they began talking about Becky's upcoming journey.

"I really am glad that you guys are okay with me leaving. Being completely honest with you, I didn't think you'd just up and let me go off into space like that…" Becky said.

"Well, we want you to be happy, Becky. If that means you leaving the planet, then so be it." Sally responded.

Becky hugged her knees to her chest to make herself more comfortable.

"Yeah, but aren't you guys the least bit nervous? Because, I sure am. I mean, it's space…there's a good possibility that I'll never come back." Becky asked.

"Well, of course we're nervous. But we're not going to let something like that stop us from letting you be happy." Tim said.

"I guess you guys are right. It's just so nerve-wracking, planning a trip through space…" Becky said.

"Well of course it is, Becky, but we are one-hundred percent positive that Bob will fly you through safely." Sally said.

"How can you say that? You've never even seen him fly." Becky asked.

"He got you into our arms, didn't he? That's pretty skillful in my books." Sally responded. Becky nodded.

"True…." Becky said. With a sigh, she stood up from the couch, hearing her crime detector going off. "That's my crime detector, I gotta go. I'll get you guys home first, though."

Becky proceeded to pick the three up and zoomed them home before going into town to stop a crime.

Once she got to the scene of the crime- the bank- she saw the Butcher trying to steal every single dollar in the building.

"Hey, Butcher." Wordgirl said nonchalantly.

"Aw, dangit! I really wanted to get away this time." Butcher wined, holding his bag up for the bank teller to fill.

"You act like you weren't expecting me to show up. You know I always do." Wordgirl said, confused.

"Yeah, but you've been so absent minded lately that I figured you'd be too distracted to show up."

"Absent minded? I haven't been so distracted that I can't stop crimes regularly." Wordgirl argued.

"Well sure, but I figured you'd get worse. I guess that's why people shouldn't assume things." The Butcher responded.

Before anyone else could say anything, Tobey showed up with one of his robots. The robot's loud steps directed The Butcher's attention, but because Wordgirl knew he was coming- she had called him on her way into town because she wanted him to get to know the ropes before she left all the crime fighting to him- she didn't turn around.

"Why is that robot kid here?" Butcher asked, confused. Wordgirl crossed her arms.

"He's my…apprentice, for now." Wordgirl explained, a serious and solemn look on her face.

"Why?" He asked.

"Because…let's just say I won't be here for long." She said as Tobey stood beside her, crossing his arms, and robot remote in hand.

"Why- where are you going?" Butcher asked, sadly confused. Wordgirl looked around at all the faces of the bystanders watching the crime unfold before them. They all looked crestfallen, in beginning stages of devastation. She knew that what she had just said had crushed them, and what she was about to say was about to crush them all more.

"It's best if no one knows." She said, stepping outside so Tobey could finish off the Butcher. Everybody stood in shock as they watched Wordgirl disappear; so in shock that the Butcher didn't even pay attention when Tobey's robot reached into the bank and grabbed him, proceeding to shove him into the paddy wagon.

The bystanders just continued to watch out of bewilderment as Becky grabbed Tobey's hand, picked him up and flew off.

~…~

Wordgirl and Tobey arrived at the spaceship hideout and sat down in the library. Becky collapsed on the couch with a loud groan of exhaustion.

"That was brutal…" She said miserably. Tobey sat at her feet on the couch, looking around at the hideout. It was his first time seeing the place, and it was amazing.

"I mean, did you see how sad everyone was? God, it was like I was abandoning a crowd of lost puppies. They all looked so devastated." Becky continued.

"I can't imagine how hard that was, but keep in mind, it was your choice to leave Earth and it was your choice to keep your identity a mystery." Tobey said, causing Becky to glare at him in confusion. Why is he reminding me of this?

"What I'm trying to say is I see two options here. Don't leave, and fuel this city's extreme dependence on you, or tell the city you're Wordgirl, and explain why you're leaving. Or just explain why you're leaving without telling everybody who you are…" Tobey explained.

"Wait, you think I should do that?" Becky asked, sitting up on the couch and turning to face him.

"Which one?" Tobey asked.

"Tell the whole town I'm leaving." Becky answered.

"Oh. Yes, I do. I think this whole town has become entirely too dependent on your superhero services, and that dependence has gone on for far too many years. I think it'd be a good idea to cut the cord a little by telling them you won't be around for a while." Tobey explained. Becky nodded, thinking heavily about the idea.

"Yeah, yeah, you're right. You're absolutely right. I should cut the cord before I leave…" Becky said. Tobey nodded as Becky rested her head on Tobey's shoulder. Tobey ran his hand through her hair as they sat back on the couch.

"I'll do it right before I leave tomorrow." Becky said. As soon as the words hit his ears, Tobey froze and his eyes widened.

"T-to-to-tomorrow?" He asked quietly.

"Yeah, tomorrow, that's when Huggy said he'd have the spaceship ready." Becky explained calmly as she closed her eyes, exhausted from a long day. Tobey swallowed nervously at the news.

I'm not ready for this…

Finally, I finally wrote this chapter! Wheew, glad that's done. Took me all week to write this. Now its off to ideas for the next chapter…"