Vincent was holding onto Jenny as they were on the couch, they had been watching Bambi and Jenny had tears in her eyes since they were just finishing up the scene after Bambi's mother had been shot. Vincent began to comfort her as he didn't like that scene either and hated the hunter for having to kill Bambi's mother. Jenny wiped one eye and clung closer to Vincent. Soon, their sad frowns would disappear as there was now light singing in the movie as it was now the first day of Spring which of course led to Bambi, Thumper, and Flower falling in love and ending the movie.
"That was a lovely ending." Jenny said.
"I'm sorry about the hunter and Bambi's mom though, I always hated the part." Vincent said as he went to take the movie out of the player and put it up in their movie collection.
"It's not your fault..." Jenny wiped her eyes once she sat up on the couch then. "Sometimes I wish we knew who did it..."
Vincent chuckled lightly to her, the portal then came back with his brother and sister. "Ah, you're back."
"We're not interrupting anything, are we?" Estelle asked.
"No, the movie's over right now anyway." Jenny smiled to her.
"Good, so then we didn't interrupt your moment together then." Akito said.
"How was Acmetropolis?" Vincent asked.
Jenny looked curious about these adventures as well, she hadn't heard from Estelle lately due to her adventures with the Loonatics.
"Let's just say it was a history in the making." Akito said.
"Yeah." Estelle added in.
"Hmm..." Jenny looked interested. "I wish I could go with you."
"Maybe you can..." Vincent spoke up.
"Um, well, do you have any superpowers?" Akito asked the rich girl they were all friends with.
"I wanna be an animal discoverer when I grow up..." Jenny shrugged innocently.
"What's that?" Estelle asked.
"I wanna travel the world and look for animals that no one's ever seen or heard of before." Jenny explained, sounding passionate about an impossible career.
"Well, I guess that's a start." Estelle said.
"We'd have to talk with Zadavia about it..." Akito rubbed the back of his neck.
"Okay, I understand..." Jenny really sounded determined, but still nice about it like she always was. "Please, tell me everything about your adventures in the future. I bet they're so exciting."
"Oh, they are and also sometimes life-threatening." Akito said.
"Tell me everything." Jenny begged.
"Well, okay, we'll start with those ice robot vikings." Estelle siad.
Akito then started the story since he was the first one of any of them to end up in Acmetropolis. Jenny smiled as she held onto every word and felt like she was hearing something out of a science fiction novel, what with the time travel and meeting visitors from outer space.
Felicity's portal ended up in a funeral home as she carried her still sleeping brother, she was confused of why she was in a funeral home.
"Hello, Felicity..." Cherry greeted as she was putting make-up on a dead body.
"Hello, Maman." Felicity said.
"How was your mission?" Cherry asked as she was applying lipstick to the lifeless corpse then.
Felicity walked over, carrying Simon in her arms. "You have no idea how life saving it was..." she sighed at her little inside joke.
"Well, congratulations, I'm almost done and then we can go home." Cherry said after she carefully put the lipstick over the blue lips of the dead person.
"Great." Felicity smiled.
"Ooh, nice touch, Cherry." Forte said.
"She was prettier than I was..." Cherry scoffed, putting the cap back on the lipstick. She then grabbed the end of the body's bed and wheeled it back into the room. She then carefully grabbed a hold of the corpse and slid it into the coffin, closing the casket for now until the funeral. "Now you're gussied up for your big day..." she told the corpse who would not answer.
"Yep, she sure is." Forte said.
"So, Felicity, how was your mission?" Forte asked.
"It was interesting..." Felicity said softly, looking at the ground as she followed her parents home. "We made a new friend, but he ended up betraying us for Akito and Ace's blades..."
"Scoundrel..." Cherry muttered, though hid a smirk at the dark side.
"He even tried to keep you, Maman, Uncle Atticus, and Tante Mo from meeting so we could not be born." Felicity then added in.
"Now that is just heartless." Forte said.
"I was really scared..." Felicity frowned.
"Well, Flick, look at it this way, once again the day is saved." Cherry soothed her daughter.
"Oui..." Felicity looked away from her mother. "Are you proud of me, Maman?"
"Of course I am, dear..." Cherry said softly, but she did not smile just yet. "I'm proud of your brother too."
"We both are." Forte said.
"Merci..." Felicity smiled to her parents.
As soon as they got home, Cherry sent Simon down for bed and tucked him into his crib.
"Maybe training with the Loonatics could keep him busy while I have work..." Cherry said softly. "He's here all day with his father and the old day care that kept him kicked him out..."
"They did?" Felicity quietly asked her mother.
"He doesn't just look like he's gonna kill someone anymore, he's actually gonna do it." Cherry said as she put a beheaded teddy bear in bed with Simon.
"Yikes, then I guess training with the Loonatics would be helpful." Felicity said.
"It could keep him nice and busy..." Cherry said as she then raised up the crib bars and locked them firmly. "I have a feeling though soon that your father will even meet the Loonatics soon... Only time will tell though."
"Why do you say that?" Felicity asked.
"Not your next one, but one of your missions involves a music villain." Cherry informed.
"Oh, um, okay? Anyway, you're right, Maman." Felicity said.
"I know." Cherry replied like it was obvious.
"Anyway... Now what?" Forte asked since they had free time now.
"What would you like to do?" Cherry asked, stroking her daughters hair.
"Tell me the story of how you fell in love..." Felicity begged.
"Seriously?" Cherry nearly deadpanned at her request.
"Please?" Felicity begged.
"Well... All right..." Cherry sighed.
"Yay!" Felicity cheered, then huged her legs. "I want to hear your side of the story... I always hear Papa's."
Cherry gave Forte a look, but then went to the living room with Felicity to sit down on the couch and have a little talk.
"It's true." Forte said.
Cherry helped Felicity up. "Okay, what do you want to know?"
"Um..." Felicity played with her hair a little. "When did you see Papa again?"
"When I was around sixteen-years-old," Cherry informed. "My life was changing... I was going into high school and I still hadn't found true love. I never had been in love and didn't think I ever would. I then started to feel a change of atmosphere... The nightmares I suffered from as a child were coming back to me for some reason and I did not know why."
"And that's when you met Papa again?" Felicity asked.
"I didn't see him again until about a couple of weeks before my birthday," Cherry replied. "But yes... I was home alone one evening and I heard music coming from the church across the yard from our house and I knew something had to be wrong. That place had been empty for about thirty years. I then came to see what was happening..."
"And then we saw each other again." Forte concluded for her.
Cherry gave him a look, but gave a nod. "Yes... But, he changed my life when I was nineteen."
"Um, Cerise, maybe you should skip this part?" Forte sounded anxious, knowing what was coming.
"She wanted the story, so I'm telling her..." Cherry folded her arms at him.
"Let me guess, Papa turned you into a vampire to save you from dying, right?" Felicity asked her mother.
"Yes..." Cherry said to her.
"I never told you that." Forte looked at their daughter.
"Thomas and I read it in your journal," Felicity admitted. "What is this 'suicide'?"
"Nothing." Forte replied quickly.
"I was trying to kill myself." Cherry explained anyway.
"Cerise!" Forte gaped at her.
"She has to find out sometime!" Cherry defended.
"Why did you try to kill yourself, Maman?" Felicity asked.
"I was unhappy with my life..." Cherry looked out the window distantly, thinking about death now since it was brought up in her mind. "I also didn't wish to grow up anymore... I was getting tired of living my life, so the only way I could get rid of the pressure and emotions was by taking my own life... So I dropped myself down to the water and since I didn't know how to swim, I was hoping to drown to death..." she then glanced to Forte. "But then your father bit me before I drowned and he revealed to me he was a vampire and he said that he bit me because he wanted to help my problem... Because of him, on my nineteenth birthday, I didn't die like I wanted to and now no matter how much older I get, I'll always look like this..." she then showed her ageless body of how she would never age or die for the rest of eternity for as long as she shall live.
"That must be a nightmare to live with." Felicity said.
"It is..." Cherry glanced to her daughter. "You have the same fate..."
"I do?" Felicity asked.
"Don't you remember your father biting you on the night of your birthday when people came for revenge?" Cherry folded her arms.
Felicity looked very distant and a little sad, she did remember that... "I thought that was a dream..." she whispered.
"I'm afraid it wasn't, Felicity." Forte frowned.
"I thought the bite felt a little too real..." Felicity rubbed the back of her neck, feeling the marks now.
"I'm very sorry, Fliss, but your mother was worried you wouldn't survive in the conditions, so I made you immortal in order for you to survive, now you can't age like the rest of us." Forte explained.
"So, what about Simon?" Felicity asked.
"Simon is mortal for now, but he has more likely of a chance to survive in the dangerous world." Cherry explained.
"Oh, great." Felicity said, happy for her brother, but not happy for her since she wouldn't age at all.
"Do you have any other questions?" Cherry asked.
"Non, merci..." Felicity said to them and hopped off the couch and walked off to her room.
"That went better than I hoped..." Cherry leaned back in the couch, seeming to ignore her daughter's sadness.
"Did you not notice her sadness?" Forte asked his wife.
"What sadness?" Cherry asked. "She always talks like that..."
"I should talk with her..." Forte stood up.
Cherry set her book down, looking to him. "No, you've had a lifetime of this, let me try."
"Okay, then go and talk to her and find out what's wrong." Forte said.
Cherry handed her book and got up off the couch and went to Felicity's room.
Felicity was lying down on her bed, holding her pillow and had tears in her eyes and heard the light knock at her door. "Go away..." she whispered in total depression.
Cherry walked into the room anyway. "Fliss..." she gently called and sat next to her daughter on the bed gently. "I heard from your father that you can tell me anything..."
"Even if I do tell you, you just wouldn't understand." Felicity replied sadly.
"Come on..." Cherry insisted. "I may have missed your whole life, but you should know you can talk to your mother about anything... Is this because I'm usually away from home because of the adventures I have away from you or your father?"
"Non..." Felicity sighed, having stopped crying. She then sat up on her bed and looked to her mother. "Maman, I do not want to never grow up... I want to be an adult..."
"No, no, you don't..." Cherry said to her. "What's so bad about being a child forever?"
"I never get to have my own family and I never get to find my own true love or even have my own children." Felicity said.
Cherry hid a small flinch to that. "Sure, you will, Flick... Sure, you will..."
"Non, I will not..." Felicity frowned deeply, bowing her head. "You cannot understand... You have always had Papa... Akito will have Emi and Vincent will have Jennivere..."
"I wasn't always in love with your father, you know..." Cherry whispered, staring out the window. "Flick, I'm sorry, but your father bit you and I don't know what I can do..."
Felicity grabbed her pillow and put it over her head, lying on her bed, nearly screaming into it.
"Flick, stop that..." Cherry scolded a little.
"Just leave moi alone..." Felicity moaned.
Cherry sighed, she took off Felicity's boots for her and had her nightgown on the bed ready for her since Felicity still slept, but only for about two to three hours these days. "I'm sure we'll find a way..." she told her daughter. "Get some rest now, you've had a long day."
"Alright." Felicity sighed.
Cherry looked back at her, slowly shut the door and walked from the room.
"How did it go?" Forte asked as he was cleaning up Simon a little after he woke up from his nap.
"She wants to grow up." Cherry said to him.
"Really? Oh, dear, then we might wanna find a way to help her with that request." Forte said.
"You can do that?" Cherry asked.
"I've spent nearly my whole life healing you and doing what I could to protect you, it's time I did that with our daughter." Forte said to her.
"Sometimes I wonder what would happen if I never met you..." Cherry slightly narrowed her eyes, but she actually had worry hidden in her eyes about Felicity and her condition.
"I worry about that too." Forte said.
"You'd be the same..." Cherry distantly walked off.
Forte watched her go. "Not really, Cerise..." he whispered as she was out of earshot. "You have no idea..."
At the Fudo house, Akito and Estelle were packing their bags to get ready to stay back at the tower.
"Are your brother and sister moving out?" Jenny asked Vincent in concern once she saw what was happening.
"No, they have rooms in the Tower, they wanna stay there with the Loonatics." Vincent explained.
"Oh..." Jenny was a little surprised that the younger kids would be willing to do such a thing.
"Yeah." Vincent nodded.
"Well, that's different..." Jenny merely shrugged.
"Yeah," Vincent said before getting an idea. "Hey, why don't you come with us to the future the next time we go to the future, along with Patch?"
"Only if I would be allowed..." Jenny smiled simply, her eyes lighting up at his invitation for her.
"Don't worry, it'll be okay." Vincent assured her.
Jenny smiled to that. "I'd love to."
Vincent smiled back at her. "I love you too... Erm... I'd love for you to too..." he then chuckled nervously and blushed for his little error.
Jenny hid a little giggle, that was kind of cute.
"Um, uh, m-maybe we should help them with their luggage." Vincent said while smiling nervously.
"Sure..." Jenny agreed. "I'll help Estelle and you can help Akito."
Vincent nodded in agreement, then went for his brother's room. Jenny smiled and went into Estelle's.
Akito continued to pack his luggage and even began to pack weights to keep up his strength and also to possibly grow muscles.
"Need some help?" Vincent asked his younger brother.
"Sure." Akito said.
Vincent helped Akito with what he could. "Guess what?" he said as they packed together. "Jenny wants to come with us to our next mission and I thought maybe Patch could come too."
"That's great." Akito said.
Vincent smiled. "You want any of your books?"
"Nah, there's books in my room, but thank you for asking, Aunt Cherry even has some books in there." Akito replied.
"Aunt Cherry has books?" Vincent asked, surprised.
"Yeah, I was surprised too." Akito replied.
"Exactly how many books of hers are there in your room?" Vincent asked.
"Oh lots and lots and lots." Akito said.
"I'll have to check them out then." Vincent chuckled a little.
Estelle took her ballet stuff with her and neatly packed them with Jenny's help.
"I see you wanna be a dancer." Jenny smiled to her.
"Yeah, don't you?" Estelle asked.
"Maybe as a hobby, but I'd really like to be an explorer when I grow up." Jenny smiled.
"That's a wonderful choice, Jenny." Estelle said.
"Yeah, I love animals and I decided maybe I could go looking for some no one's ever seen or heard from before, such as ligers." Jenny informed.
"What's a liger?" Estelle asked.
"It's a lion tiger hybrid, they're very rare in society, but they're a gorgeous creature the heavens never intended." Jenny explained.
"Wow, if you ever find creatures like that, I bet you'd be on the news." Estelle said.
"Well, I wanna do what I love." Jenny smiled shyly.
"Then you should do that and besides, who knows, you might even meet some Pokemon." Estelle said.
"I still can't believe those things really exist..." Jenny found Estelle's ballet slippers under the bed and took them, putting them into Estelle's suitcase. "I always thought they were a myth or a legend."
"Things are just surprising for everyone." Estelle shrugged.
Jenny shrugged herself. "What do you think you'll do when you grow up?"
"Oh, that's easy, become a professional ballerina." Estelle said.
"That sounds wonderful," Jenny smiled. "Good luck with that... Or... Should I say break a leg?"
Estelle giggled a little. "Either one's fine... But thank you, good luck on your future job."
Jenny smiled to her.
"Thank you, Estelle, now about this future, how are things there, are there creatures no one has ever seen before?" Jenny asked, really interested in the future where the twins were going.
"Well, so far we've met the Fuzz-Z's." Estelle explained.
"Fuzz-Z's?" Jenny asked with a giggle. "Those sound so cute!"
"Yeah, after our mission with them, we got to adopt some, mine's name is Magenta and Akito named his Leo." Estelle explained.
"Aw! What do they look like?" Jenny asked
"You'll find out in the future." Estelle giggled.
"Aw, can't you tell me now?" Jenny pouted.
"You'll feel better to see them than just hear about them, trust me." Estelle cooed.
Jenny sighed and smiled again. "Okay..."
"Trust me, as soon as you see them, it'll be worth it seeing their cute eyes and cute faces." Estelle said.
Jenny giggled in excitement then. "This is gonna be so great!"
"Yes, yes, it is." Estelle nodded with a smile.
Jenny smiled and hugged her.
"We'll know when to go when a portal comes for us." Estelle told her.
"I'll keep that in mind." Jenny noted.
"Great." Estelle said.
The twins were then all packed up and ready to go back to the Tower for when the time would be.
Patch came inside, coming back from yet another Pound Puppies mission.
"Hey, Patch, where were you this time?" Mo asked with a smile as she was cleaning up a little around the house.
"I was out stopping a huge truck from leaving so then Spot and his perfect person could be brought together," Patch said. "So, what'd I miss?"
Mo smiled admirably toward Patch's duties. "Oh, the twins are packing up to go back to the Loonatics tower to stay until they're ready to stay back home," she informed. "Jenny Foxworth is also visiting. I think she and Vincent were helping Akito and Estelle pack their things."
"Cool, maybe we can visit there." Patch said.
Mo smiled and allowed him to go up as she continued to clean. Patch nodded and went up the stairs, passing Angel and Scamp, he briefly greeted them and then went to the hallways as Jenny was with Estelle and Vincent was with Akito.
"I sure wish that Patch could come and see the future." The twins wished in unison.
Patch came over right then. "Hey, guys!"
Jenny looked over and smiled to the Dalmatian. "Oh, Patch, hello there..."
"Jenny, welcome and I hope you enjoy your visit." Patch smiled to the girl.
"Thank you." Jenny smiled.
"Patch!" The twins cheered and both hugged the Dalmatian.
"Hey, guys!" Patch smiled, gently wagging his tail and not knocking them down from it.
"How're the Pound Puppies?" Akito asked after backing up with his twin sister.
"Oh, you know, same old same old..." Patch chuckled. "They ask about you guys though."
"Cool." The twins said in unison.
"Hey, Patch, wanna wrestle before me and Estelle go back to the tower?" Akito asked.
Patch playfully looked aggressive. "If you think you're up for it!"
"You're on!" Akito chuckled.
They then went downstairs to the backyard since they weren't allowed to wrestle in the house anymore.
"I guess we should go watch?" Jenny shrugged.
"Yeah, besides, I think we do still have sometime before the portal appears." Estelle said.
"Come on, let's go get a seat." Vincent laughed a little.
Jenny, Estelle, Vincent, Angel, and Scamp then followed downstairs.
"Mom, me and Patch are gonna be in the backyard." Akito told his mother.
"Okay, I'll vacuum then." Mo smiled, allowing them to go.
"Great, come on, kid, let's see if you can beat me." Patch said.
"I'm about to take you back to Puppy School!" Akito taunted.
"Yeah?" Patch laughed. "I'm about to take you back to Day Care!"
"Oh, really? Well then, let's see who will be the winner." Akito said.
"Agreed, let's see if you've got your dad's moves." Patch said.
Akito and Patch charged for each other like sumo wrestlers and started. Vincent was narrating like a sports announcer while Estelle and Jenny acted as cheerleaders. Angel and Scamp chuckled and decided to watch this as well.
"Well, well, looks like Akito and Patch are gonna be wrestling." Atticus commented as soon as he saw his son and Dalmatian dog wrestle in the backyard.
"Well, at least they aren't making a mess." Mo added.
Atticus laughed a little, putting his arm around her. "I never realized how proud it can make you to be a father..." he sighed to their children.
"I feel the same way about being a mother." Mo smiled fondly up at him.
Akito and Patch continued to wrestle for a while and where at first it looked like Patch was going to win, but in the end, Akito won.
"Yep, you are definently your mother and father's son alright." Patch said.
Akito laughed. "Thanks!"
Estelle rushed over and held up Akito's arm a little like at the end of a real wrestling match. "The winner and still champion!" she announced.
Vincent, Jenny, Scamp, and Angel all cheered for Akito, but also cheered for Patch to show that they didn't show any favoritism. The portal then appeared in the backyard, telling them all that it was time for Akito and Estelle to go to the future and to the Loonatics tower.
"Well, time to go..." Estelle said.
"Aww..." Jenny frowned.
"Don't worry, we'll see each other again real soon!" Akito promised. "We're gonna also ask if you guys can come with us to Acmetropolis for our next mission."
"We would be honored to." Patch smiled.
Akito and Estelle quickly went upstairs to get their bags, they then hugged and kissed their parents goodbye and went off to the year 2772 until next time.
"Be safe and be sure to wash behind your ears!" Mo reminded them.
"Mom!" The twins whined out of embarrassment.
This caused for them all to laugh, finding that cute, even if that was embarrassing for the twins.
"Remember, be good!" Mo called to them again.
"We will!" Akito and Estelle called.
"Don't talk to strangers!" Mo continued.
"Got it!" the twins said.
Mo said something else, but they were too far away to hear it. Estelle groaned a little.
"What!?" Akito called.
Mo repeated herself, but it was still hard to hear.
"WHAT!?" the twins asked louder.
Mo said it again, still unclear.
"Goodbye, Mom!" the twins called as they left through their portal with small smiles and waves.
"Well, there they go, off to the future." Jenny said.
"By the way, Mom, what were you trying to tell Akito and Estelle?" Vincent asked.
"Just that I love them very much and I'm so proud of them." Mo replied with a sweet smile as always.
"Ohh, I guess they must have been too far away to hear you." Vincent guessed.
"I think you're right, Vincent." Mo said.
"I'm sure they already know though, Mrs. Fudo." Jenny replied.
"Yeah." Patch added in.
"I know... I just miss them when they do this..." Mo sighed a little.
Jenny, Patch, Atticus, and Vincent hugged her then and assured her that everything was going to be okay. Mo sighed, putting her hands to her eyes and had a small smile to them in thankfulness. While that was going on, Akito and Estelle made it to the tower with all of the Loonatics waiting for them. Zadavia was even there.