Hi guys! I came back with an another chapter, and as I see it was the longest chapter which I ever write. I don't know when will I publish the next chapter, because I will have exams at the university, and at some point I will have a driving test. And it would be good to take my story in a more action-rich direction, the only problem is that I am not good at writing action scenes, but I try, I also write these stories to improve myself as a writer. I hope you'll like it anyway, and I also hope everything is okay with you. Have a nice day!
The two boys had such a good conversation with Monica that they didn't even notice that as time passed, it was already noon.
Monica: Do I know you?
Fiona: No, I don't think so. I'm Fiona, Sierra Munson's great-great-great-great-niece. -Monica looked at the boys, as if she was asking with her eyes, "Is that Fiona?"- I sometimes come here to visit her, because I'm the only one in the family who has enough patience to bear her. I heard a lot about you, but not from Coop, I thought you died or went to another country.
Coop: Believe me, I only found out she was alive a week ago. But how do you know?
Fiona: Aunt Munson showed a picture of her before the skateboarding competition, which Mr. Kat won. She said she was the first and still the only girl who win a skateboarding competition in Bootsville.
Monica: That's good to know.
Coop: Fiona, you know Captain Blasteroid, right?
Fiona: Yes, but no, I'm not going to get free toys for you guys!
Coop: No, not for that. Do you think he would be able to have an affair with a married woman with two children?
Fiona: What? Not out of the question, why?
Dennis: Because someone spread a rumor here in Bootsville that Mrs. Burtonburger was having an affair with Captain Blasteroid.
Fiona: When was that?
Coop: It must have been when I was 3 years old.
Fiona: No way. He lived in Los Angeles at the time, he didn't come here very often. He already had a wife then and they have been together ever since. If he had had an affair, his wife would have divorced him. She wouldn't have stayed with him just because of his money, because even with the divorce she would have to cut a lot, she would get half of Dwight Munson's wealth plus he would have to pay her child support for 3 children. It's just a malicious rumor that was spread about him a long time ago, but I didn't think that she was the mother of two who was rumored to be with my cousin...-Dennis looked at Coop with that "Well, I told you so" head.
Coop: You know, I don't understand why mom left.
Fiona: Why do you think your mom was unfaithful?
Monica: You know Coop is confused and so am I. I had an accident and had severe amnesia, and since then I have not regained my memory. That's why I left them, because they let me go home from the hospital and a complete family welcomed me. I couldn't fit back in, I couldn't fall in love with my husband again, so I went to work abroad. Now, however, a few memories popped in, and that's why I came back to see if more would pop in.
Fiona: Oh, I'm sorry! - she looked at Coop and Monica. - does your father know about this?
Coop: No, because he's going on a date with Ms. Brannigan today.
Fiona: And Millie?
Dennis: She can't stand her screaming, so she won't meet her.
Fiona: I'd ask if she wants to play soccer, but I see you didn't dress for that.
Monica: I prefer individual sports. I was actually about to go, nice to meet you, Fiona. Have fun kids. - she just walked away not knowing if she should hug Coop or not, after all he thinks she cheated on his dad, and if that's true, it means that she's ruined a family and a marriage, a sacred bond that she'll never be able to forgive herself for.
But before she left, she looked through the living room window. Millie played lifeguard with dolls, which means that she played with beach Barbie dolls and pretended with the lifeguard Barbie that the man doll drowned in the water and Barbie saved him. Mr. Kat was there too. She could never imagine herself as a mother, but sometimes she toyed with the idea of what it would be like to have a child, what it would be like to have a little girl like her, whom she could teach to fight, and at the same time they could do girly things together, like braiding hair, makeup, clothes buying. Well, she didn't exactly imagine her daughter as Millie since she befriends an alien, Monica hunts them down, which doesn't necessarily mean she kills them, but she sure doesn't like them, but she can't wrap her head around that anger towards them. At the moment, she would not be able to return to her family if she wanted to, and it seems that her husband has also moved on, not that the latter bothered her, since in the absence of memories she had no romantic feelings left for Burt. Based on what she saw of the man and what Coop and Dennis told her, she wouldn't go back to him.
The 3 children started playing soccer in the Coop's yard. Fiona was talking to Coop.
Fiona: You still owe me one question. Why do you believe that your mother was unfaithful and why do you accuse my cousin of unfaithfulness as well? -Fiona then kicked the ball into the goal with a well-swinged kick and Dennis could not save it. The girl was also frustrated by Coop's assumption, since she and Dwight Munson are quite close.
Coop: That was actually two questions. -Fiona looked at him angrily, almost as angry as in the Cat of Diamonds episode and put her hands on her hips.
Fiona: Coop, you know I like you, but what I don't like about you is that you assume the worst about everything and everyone.
Coop: Because dad never told me about her, probably because he stuck to the principle "Don't speak ill of the dead". He never spoke about my grandparents from my mother side, or my uncle, even though they are also my family and we have the right to meet them. I had to find out these things from someone else, and I heard that she was on good terms with Captain Blasteroid, and even before she got together with my dad, they broke up because Dwight Munson moved to Vancouver to build his acting career.
Fiona: I didn't even know they were dating.
Coop: Dad tried to tell us a long time ago that we were brought by a unicorn. But when I realized that this was not true and found the old pictures of mom, I started asking about her. But he was just diverting the topic. He said that when we grow up, he will tell us everything. So, I deduced from this that he either hates her, or it still hurts him that she left us, or both.
Fiona: You haven't thought that the reason he doesn't talk about her is because he's not over her?
Coop: But she left us 8 years ago.
Dennis: Maybe there's something in it, I mean he's known her since he was 10 years old, if we look at it for 20 years it was a part of his life, it's no wonder he couldn't forget her.
Coop: Then why is he dating my math teacher?
Fiona: Because life goes on. However, he won't be able to form a serious relationship with anyone until he sorts this out yourself. - Coop admired how wise Fiona can be. Is it really true that girls mature earlier? "How does he know so much about these things?" thought. - But your dad is probably hurt by the fact that your mom literally forgot about him, but your dad didn't.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kat is working on another invention. He waited until Monica left, after last time he was afraid of her with good reason. Mr. Kat was hurt because they lost so he made a machine that feeds off of his anger. It was a small suit of armor; he could fly and shoot with it. He was just talking to the Cat King, the pendant on his collar projected him as a hologram. Because the Cat King scolded him well for letting a woman beat him in battle. It was true that that woman was a secret agent, and so far the only human she had really fought was Coop, who was much smaller than her, but the Cat King didn't care about her excuse. Monica was also declared a public danger among cats. Mr. Kat also found an old family picture with Monica in it, so he already knew that the woman, Coop and Millie's mother, and the Cat King were shocked. He also ordered her to somehow try to prevent her from reuniting with her family, since if that woman reunites with her "offspring" it will be almost impossible to take over the Earth. The appearance of the woman caught them by surprise, and this significantly delayed the attempt to invade again. Now he was given the task by the Cat King to break into the factory at any cost and deliver food using the portal.
Monica took out a scarf, pinned her hair up, put on her sunglasses and covered her hair with the scarf. The woman decided to take a walk in the town. This sometimes helps her come up with ideas. She was thinking about how to get the cat away from the Burtonburgers. She was still under the influence of talking to Coop and Dennis. She couldn't help but feel proud that she had given birth to such a brave, determined boy. She could see in them that they weren't lying now. During her walk, she saw a green, two-story house. It was somehow familiar to her, she felt the same when she visited the Burtonburger house, but at this house she felt it more strongly. It was similar to Ms. Munson's house, but no, that wasn't why it was familiar to her. The house had a white porch, 4 windows in the front, two above and two below and the door in the middle. Monica's head started to hurt. A memory popped into her head.
The 10 years old Monica was in a car with a little boy in the back seat driven by a ginger haired woman. The boy had bluish-black curly hair, his skin was slightly darker than Monica's, and he looked much more foreign than her. He was wearing an orange T-shirt with khaki pants. The little boy played with dino figures, and Monica read a novel, but the boy didn't let it go much. He put the dino figures in her hair and growled at her imitating a dino, but Monica was so engrossed in the book during the long journey that she ignored him after a while. Suddenly the ginger haired woman spoke.
?: Kids, we have arrived in Bootsville, we will be disembarking soon! -so, this woman was her mother, and the little boy is her brother.
?: Mom!
Monica's mom: Yes George?
George: So, do we have to speak French here? But we don't even speak French.
Monica: I also read in a geographical atlas that Canada has two official languages, English and French, but I think we can speak English here, right?
Monica's mom: Of course, kids, just so you know, Canada is a much bigger country than Egypt, they are divided into provinces, and there are provinces where they speak French, because French settlers also came here. But Bootsville is in an English-speaking province.
George: And how are we going to meet Baba? (means dad in Arabic)
Monica's mom: We agreed with your Baba that you will spend one or two months in Egypt during the summer holidays, and sometimes he will come to visit you and stay in a motel or he will sleep at our house on the couch. Ah, kids, think carefully before marrying someone, especially if the person is a foreigner, because the divorce procedure is very complicated.
Monica: But we are too, whoever we marry here they will be a foreigner to us.
Ginger Haired Woman: Not Mona, because a part of you belongs here, because I was born here, I grew up here, and you are my children.
Monica: But Baba said that if someone's father is Egyptian, they will always be considered Egyptian, no matter where they live.
Monica's mom: You still remain citizens of Egypt. I'm only saying this because I know what it's like to move to another country, how difficult it is to fit in, and that you will probably feel left out. You, on the other hand, have an advantage in that I am from here. Well, children, this will be our new house - they finally arrived at their new house. They arrived at about the same time as the moving company. But the woman and the children saw a familiar face among them. A man with dark olive skin, blue-black curly hair, midnight blue eyes, a straight nose and an oval shaped face. He was none other than Monica and George's father, Coop and Millie's maternal grandfather. He also saw the red-haired woman's face in her memory picture, except for her hair, skin color and eye color, she actually looked a lot like Monica, only her skin was fair and her eyes were light green. Her straight red hair was adorned with a headband and she wore a mint green dress with a blue cardigan. The children got out of the car cheering when they saw their father.
Monica and George: Baba! - they ran to him and hugged him, which he returned.
Monica's mom: Ibrahim, what are you doing here?
Ibrahim: I thought I would help with the move.
Monica's mom: I told you we don't need your help!
Ibrahim: Liv, don't do this! - Olivia gestured to her ex-husband to talk in private, they went to the back of the house, only for Monica to remember that she had followed them to listen.
Olivia: You really are crazy! While we were there, you barely bothered with us because you were constantly searching for the ancient aliens, and now that I've left you, you're coming to the other end of the world after us? You should have acted like this while we were together.
Ibrahim: You could allow me to help you, after all, you came here because of me.
Olivia: Don't play the good husband and father now!
Ibrahim: You see, this is the problem with you Western women, if we are not with you, you complain, but when we offer our help. "No, you don't have to, because I'm a strong independent woman."
Olivia: You know what, if you're already here you can stay and help.
That's all the memories Monica has for now, but this also counts for a lot because in principle, none of them should come back, since their memories cannot be restored by themselves, unless they are restored to them. And what could those "ancient aliens" be that her father was searching for? But she didn't have time to think about that because he noticed Mr. Kat flying overhead, his new invention in his wake. She knew she had to act fast to protect her family and save the world.