Six days later after the events of Mr. X, his co-worker Jenny, and the FBI troops had tried to capture Anne, Charlie and the Plantars which both Anne, the Plantars and Charlie as well as Anne's parents and Charlie's family did a good job at getting both the frog family and the two teenagers out of the movie theater and giving Mr. X the slip as well as making him look like a fool in front of the troops when Mr. X was about to expose both Anne, the Plantars and Charlie as if Anne was harboring "aliens" but managed to have escaped through the vents and put three normal frogs from the pet store in their place to make Mr. X look like a fool who overreacted to something that was considered harmless to the troops.
After Anne, Charlie and the Plantars explained to Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy, Charlie's mother, his aunt and the ladies of the house everything that went on at the movie theater that they didn't know about. They were having a mix of reactions to what they've been told.
"So you at first made sure three unattended children got reunited with their parents at the theater?" said Kikyo with a proud smile.
"Just as my family taught me." said Charlie proudly.
Kikyo hugged Charlie as she knew that Charlie still has a strong moral code that his family has positively instilled into him that's still sticking to him after all these years.
"So you caused a little chaos for this Mr. X?" said Hayami with a grin.
"You mimicked the voice of a woman made that bozo incur the wrath of a group of women by making them think he touched a woman in a place no man should touch?" said Imani.
"Only to keep him busy so we could find a place to hide." said Charlie blushing a bit.
"Charlie even went all Schwarzenegger on Mr. X by how he kicked it to him." said a thrilled Anne. "He even destroyed the stun gun with his bare hands."
Kikyo, Hayami, the ladies of the house, Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy were looking at Charlie as if surprised but they knew that Charlie has shown to be capable of defending himself now as well as defending those he loves. Charlie blushed a bit deeper with a grin.
"I could've done worse to him. I could've broken his spine." said Charlie admitting it. "I did hold back a little bit though as I was making sure he didn't lay a hand on my soul sista and my frog family. But man did me, Anne and the Plantars give him a smack down."
"So true." said Anne and the Plantars in proud unison.
"I'll admit. While there, all of the chaos and all. I know it put a damper on our plans, especially with me and Anne having a boyfriend and girlfriend moment. But it wasn't a total loss." said Charlie as he looked towards Anne and approached her.
"Did you two kiss at the theater during the movie you all saw?" asked Kagura rhetorically.
"Does this answer your question?" said Anne and Charlie in unison.
Both Anne and Charlie pulled each other in each other's arms and planted a romantic kiss to each other's lips. Which left a smile on the ladies faces. Mr. Boonchuy was blushing at the sight of this.
"I remember when we were like that when we first started dating." Mr. Boonchuy said to his wife as he took hold of her hand.
"And after all these years. We still are." said Mrs. Boonchuy grasping her husband's hand.
After Anne and Charlie pulled their lips off each other's lips. They both grasped each other's hands and smiled.
"We're glad you guys did your part in helping us out of the theater and helping us give Mr. X, his partner and the FBI troops the slip." said Anne and Charlie in unison.
"That's what family does." said the adults in unison.
While they had Charlie's grandparents there with them all. They knew that they had something to tell everyone there as Charlie did mention to them about what Mr. X told them about how Charlie didn't match the identity of the young man from forty-two years ago.
"You all are probably wondering about what this Mr. X meant by saying something about a boy that their department briefly encountered forty-two years ago." Yamato stated as everyone looked at him with curiosity. "Forty-two years ago when I was at least twenty-five years of age. It was back in the late seventies. Two years after the Vietnam war was over and two years before I married Yoruichi. The department in question suspected me of being an alien when one of their agents saw me rescuing a lady and her son from a fall. They would've died if I didn't step in."
"I see where Charlie gets his gentleman nature from." said Anne chiming in.
"I was at full power of the lion's fury. I had jumped up so high that I caught both the lady and her son in my arms. Then teleported us to the ground safely while I made sure they were in a safe spot as the police were closing in on an accident that happened. After I teleported out of there. I heard the lady and her son got returned home to their family. But then one day, I was out and about and the department of the FBI was pursuing me after I had taken a solo trip out of state when a close friend of ours passed on, he wasn't a Leotárian, but I went to his funeral to pay my respects. After the funeral, these agents from the department tried to pose as cops and told me I was in violation of something and that I needed to be taken to the station for questioning. But I read their minds and knew they were lying and I called them out on it. That's when they tried to ambush me but I ran from them. They tried to catch me but just when they were about to catch me. I teleported out of there from there all the way back to my home in the state of California." Yamato explained in full detail.
Hearing Yamato tell everyone about this left both Anne, her parents, the Plantars and Charlie a bit surprised. The only people who apparently knew about was Kikyo, Hayami, the ladies of the house, Yoruichi, and Charlie's entire family from his side as well as any other Leotárians living in the area of California that all of them are living in. Hearing that Yamato had a brief encounter with FBI agents and gave them the slip was something that Anne, Charlie, the Plantars and Anne's parents haven't heard about and it was surprising.
"So you actually had a brief encounter with FBI agents?" said Charlie rhetorically.
"Hai Mago." answered Yamato. "I knew that they'd recognize me if they tried to find me so I knew the one thing I could do in order to disguise myself."
"What did you do to disguise yourself?" asked Hop Pop curiously.
"I grew a beard for a while." Yamato answered with a laugh while stroking his facial hair. "I would grow a beard from time to time and shave it from time to time. But they probably wouldn't recognize me by now for two reasons. One, I've grown old, or two, they'd have to use a device that's standard FBI issue to run a scan on me to find a match."
They looked to see that Yamato had grown out his facial hair in the course of three weeks and three days which his face already shown a thick mustache and a thick beard as his facial hair looked to be a good one or two inches thick or a good three in a half inches thick of facial hair with his gray beard and mustache.
"So growing a beard and mustache worked after all this time for the FBI agents to not recognize you and becoming the age you are now seems to have made it harder for them to identify you or to find you?" said Charlie looking impressed.
"Since they only saw me in another state all them years ago. They never learned who I am, where I live and they never learned where the rest of us are." answered Yamato. "Now that they know that Anne, Charlie and the Plantars live somewhere in California. We're going to have to keep a low profile from now on so that Mr. X and the FBI doesn't find us or any of you. Charlie, Anne, Hop Pop, Sprig, Polly, promise us you'll keep a low profile from now on until we can get the Plantars back to Amphibia and so you all can stop Andrias and get both Sasha and Marcy back home, Charlie, only use your power of the Lion's Fury when you have to but only if you have to. Can you promise us that?"
"Hai, ojīchan." said Charlie bowing his head once.
"We promise." said Anne and the Plantars in unison.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as they knew that they'll have to make sure that Mr. X and the FBI agents don't find them or they'll all be in danger, especially the kids and Hop Pop.
"This will be off topic but how long has your beard grown the longest it's ever grown out?" asked Anne curiously.
"You know them guys who own that place in Louisiana called Duck Commander. Them guys with the thick, long, bushy beards?" said Yamato.
"Yes." said Anne and Charlie in unison.
"Well there ya go." laughed Yamato. "When I was in my forties. I grew a beard and looked like Phil."
Everyone laughed as they now knew the longest Yamato has ever grown out his facial hair. Anne and Charlie would amuse themselves by imagining Yamato with a beard and mustache like the man he mentioned by name and imagined him wearing sunglasses. This amused them both.
"With my facial hair grown out that long. Just imagine all the hair being white as snow and I'd look like Santa Claus." joked Yamato while he perfectly mimicked the Santa Claus laugh.
"Oh Ojīchan." everyone said with amusement.
Elsewhere
"Jenny, tell me, does it look bad?" asked Mr. X looking hopeful.
Jenny picked up a face mirror and given it to Mr. X who looked at his reflection through the mirror and the black eye Mr. X had appeared to be a yellow-greenish colored with the swelling looking as though it went mostly down. Mr. X let out a sigh of relief.
"Thank you Jenners. That kid sure packs a wallop." said Mr. X looking relieved.
"Sir, you said you got your ass whooped by a kid who went all Schwarzenegger on you?" said one of the FBI agents who was a stocky yet tall man from India.
"He can perfectly mimic anyone's voice and any sound which he used that to mimic a lady's voice to fool a bunch of angry women into thinking I laid my hands on a woman's tush. I got the black eye from an angry white woman which she may have been a skinny woman. Still, she packed a punch just like the group of them angry women and that boy packed a tougher punch." explained Mr. X. "Why do they always kick someone in their balls that hard."
"He probably knows a form of martial arts or more. No wonder he appears so tough like the people he's with." said the Indian male adult. "You sure them frog people were just aliens and not just foreigners who looked frog-like?"
"I know what I saw and I'd rather not argue about this right now. You and I had a long day like Jenny did." said Mr. X with an annoyed sigh. "You can go home for now, Kabir. I'll be resting here in the infirmary for tonight at the FBI building under doctor's orders."
"You sure about this, Mr. X?" said Kabir not looking so sure.
"You may go, Kabir. I'll be alright since we got medical staff here." reassured Mr. X.
"Yes sir." said Kabir.
Someone opened the door to the room and it was a young African American man who appeared to be in his late twenties from the looks of it.
"Roger, what are you doing here? Your shift ended an hour ago." asked Mr. X curiously.
"I know, I already clocked out. I'm here to give Kabir a ride home since his car is in the garage for repairs and it won't be ready till tomorrow. So I'm giving him a ride home tonight to his honey." answered Roger. "You okay, Mr. X? I heard you got your ass whooped by a kid and a group of angry women. I heard from some of the guys you said you found alien frog people but they turned out to be just normal frogs. Some of the troops can't stop laughing that some of them said that if they made a big-time goof up. They call it pulling an X."
As Roger laughed a bit. Mr. X looked at Roger with annoyance.
"Go Home Roger!" said an annoyed Mr. X.
"Sounds like people can't take a joke around here." said Roger as he left the room. "I'll be in the car, Kabir."
Jenny looked at Mr. X as if asking a question about Roger. Jenny raised an eyebrow in curiosity.
"Roger's a new guy." said Mr. X.
"I'll be going." said Kabir as he left the room.
"Jenny, that string bean girl, her tough guy boy toy and them frog people may have won this round. But the war is not over. It'll be like playing a game of chess while wearing an athletic cup and a helmet." said Mr. X. "You may go home, Jenny. Drive safe."
Jenny got up from a seat they sat in and left the room. Mr. X was laying in the bed of the infirmary and she had a determined look upon his face.
"If that gold boy can read minds. We're in huge trouble but challenge accepted." said Mr. X with a grin.