Chapter 10
After getting a turn at driving the car they have finally arrived at the cafe in which it is an actual train chart that was once a usable train cart for travel services, and it is currently made as a dining establishment for the public. Once getting an easy parking the two exit the car while taking their time walking towards the eating establishment.
"In my time, your future self has a handicap tag for a car since she gets tired of trying to find the car, despite us having a car to automatically come to us with the push of a button on the key button." April pointed out.
Little Karai chuckled. "Now, that, I can agree with older me. And on a personal note, April, that is not the reason why my future self has got a handicap tag. I have severe flat feet."
April looked at the younger Karai in utter shock. "No way. I never noticed that."
"You didn't? " Little Karai opened the door to let April in before going in herself. "So, you never take a good look at my feet when we're in the women's shower room?."
"Uh, no. What woman wants to look at another woman's feet?." April asked when letting Karai lead the way.
"Simple, a woman who has an obsessive foot fetish. I should know, we used to have a woman that does that. Don't worry we immediately fired and neuralized her once we all reported on her." said Little Karai, taking a seat at the bar stool.
April sat beside her. "No kidding?. Wow, I never knew about that incident."
Little Karai picked up a menu. "It pays to ask questions and stuff. Hmmm, which is the first slice of cheesecake I should start out with?. Hmmmm."
"Don't believe this." April groaned when seeing the same thing with Karai of her time.
The waitress waited for Little Karai to pick out the first slice of cheesecake she wanted to eat to start her off. Unfortunately, she has yet gotten her answer while having her pen and notepad ready. Of course, April had obviously seen it coming when Little Karai went right ahead to inform the waitress on what she wanted for drink while deciding to eat which variety of slice of cheesecake she wanted in the meantime. Once the waitress returned with Karai's fresh squeezed lemonade and April's Pepsi, the woman still waited for her first order of the all you can eat cheesecake. Little Karai rubbed her chin in a thinking manner as this is a hard one to choose.
April can not believe that she has to deal with this same ridiculousness again with a younger Karai. Both herself and the waitress waited for Karai to say what she wanted to eat first before during the usual irritating routine four times.
"Hmmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmmm." Little Karai rubbed her chin before looking at the waitress. "By any chance do you…"
April instantly snatched the menu out of Little Karai's hands and gave her that look of annoyance. "I can not believe you have been doing this since the age of eight."
April looked back at the waitress to hand her back the menu before answering. "The little girl is going to start with the pumpkin spice cheesecake with nutmeg whip cream and chocolate shavings on top, after she spent twenty freaking minutes looking over at that menu for the particular month special before asking if there is a secret menu. Which of course will ask again four times in roll in thinking that this is some sort of game of making you give her the secret menu, which FYI, there is not a secret menu in this exact diner since the day I became her partner. Now, as for me, I am getting an oreo cheesecake with two big scoops of fried strawberry ice cream and two deep fried oreo cookies. Please and thank you."
"Got it." The waitress wrote it down before heading into the back to place the order.
Little Karai looked at April with her left cheek resting on her left fist. "You don't think that it is a bit too much topping on your first slice?."
April gave the girl a forced smile before speaking in sarcasm. "Well, technically since this is truly going to be my final meal before the planet's end, then I might as well get my self type two diabetes."
"Geez, well enjoy having to take insulin shots to the stomach for your whole life. That is for sure." said Little Karai.
April dropped her forced smile and took an exhale. "I would not be thinking that way if we are not stopping here to stuff our faces. We literally have a few hours left before the fate of earth goes endgame with time in the balance."
"Hmmm, endgame. That sounds like a good movie title." Little Karai took the moment to open her straw and put it in her cup before drinking her lemonade.
"Funny you should say about the word endgame being a good movie title…" April stopped when seeing that their sliced pies had arrived. "And never mind, let's pig out."
Little Karai grabbed her fork and tried to eat her pie while trying to ignore April hogging her treat down. "Hey, Hey, slow it down. The cheesecake is supposed to help you think. You can not do so when you are shoving it down your throat."
"Well, hey, I am trying to enjoy it and try my best to not think about the current major situation." said April, before stopping her eating when feeling that darn brain freeze.
Little Karai smiled when an idea came to her head. "I have a good way to distract ourselves. Why not ask me anything that is on your mind. No matter what it is."
April finally relaxed when pain from her brain freeze went away. She raised a brow. "For real?. You are not pulling my leg are you?."
"Nope, I am not." Little Karai took a bite of her pie. "Ask me anything that you have wanted to know about me. Anything. As long as it does not have to do anything with our mission that we are dealing with."
To April it sounded tempting if she is honest with herself. Sure, Little Karai made a good, excellent point. She is not the Karai from the future. The one who never opens up about anything about herself not one damn time. So, why not?. After all, who knows if they are going to stop Tiger Claw and save Earth.
"Alrighty then." April took a bite of her ice cream. "What is your favorite color?."
Little Karai smiled when being asked that question. "My favorite color is pink."
"Pink?. No way." April was in disbelief.
"It is true. I love pink. Pink makes things look so darn pretty cute." Little Karai rolled her eyes playfully. "Yeah, I get it. I looked more of a person to be into the color black once you lay your eyes on me. But really I am a pink girl. Unfortunately, I can not pull off pink like the other girls. Some can and some can not."
April nodded. "Should I go on?."
Little Karai happily nodded. "Please do so."
"What is your favorite Disney song?." April asked.
Little Karai swallowed a piece of her cheesecake and answered. "I wanna be like other girls from Mulan 2. Granted, the sequel was a big of a let down and the plot base was so lousy. There was no stakes in that sequel at all. Also, that song is my second favorite to True to your Heart from the original Mulan movie. I just love Stevie Wonder's harmonica solo moment and the 98 Degree boy band. They were on fire."
April chuckled when hearing what came out of that young girl's mouth. "I would never have thought that I would hear something like that from you. Hey, answer me this. Why are you such a huge fan of Elvis Presley?."
"Well, duh, he is the greatest entertainer of his time. That charisma. Those wonderfully designed attires. And let us not forget those wonderful dance moves and awesome music." Little Karai took a moment to drink more of her lemonade before continuing. "Every morning before work, I always dance to Hound Dog in my pajamas."
"I hate to be too nosey but, what do you wear for bedtime?." asked April, while picking up her cup before drinking through the straw.
"I wear a purple shirt with a cute pony with a rainbow in the background. I wear a pair of gray short jogging pants and plain white socks." Little Karai made a cute innocent giggle. "Ok, so when are we going to get to a real question?. I am so eager to answer it."
"Alright, bet, how did you and Ron get together?." April asked a juicy question.
Little Karai grinned when being asked that question. "Alright, we are now getting into the tasty center of a tootsie pop. Are you super ready for the answer?."
April grinned with super excited nodding. "Yes, please."
"Alrighty, then." Little Karai set her fork down and began her tale. "It started out when I met him at NIB's annual luncheon. I just got down with my fifth mission and was in the buffet line. I was about to get myself a nice yummy large cup of full topped chocolate ice cream sundae, till someone at that exact moment took the last one to my sadness. That person was Ron."
April listened to the cute story as this is something that she did not expect to hear but she is loving it.
"I asked the person who volunteered to serve the food if they have more in the back and sadly they said they did not expect everyone to want that type of sweets. I sadly sat down at a table and ate what I had gathered on my plate with utter sadness with a few tears. Remember, I am a little girl so bare with me. Suddenly, that individual handed that same treat to me after seeing me in my sadness and apologized for making me feel this way. Ron introduced himself to me and said that he was getting started working here just like me. I really started liking him when he started to talk about loving to watch Godzilla and Dragon Ball. From there we became such good friends till we ended up wanting to be more. We hung out at Chuck E Cheese from morning to night after we skipped work. When we were eating pizza he asked me if I wanted to be his girl. I gleefully said yeah. We made a few seconds kiss in the ballpit for privacy. From then on we are the first youngest couple in NIB history without anyone knowing, except for Shinigami. She caught us making out in the car after she forgot her witch hat." said Little Karai, before resuming to eat her pie.
"Wow. Just wow." April can say at the moment. "I can not believe that you and Ron dated that long. Talk about being Romeo and Juliet."
"Oh, no, we are nowhere near Romeo and Juliet. We are more of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich." Little Karai spoke before asking the waitress to bring her another pie of the same thing.
"PB and J?. Compared to you and my Karai, you are so easy and fun to be around with. Man, I would do anything to know what had happened to you that would make you an ass in my time." said April.
Little Karai shrugged. "Who the heck knows. It must have been something very deeply emotional that would make me change either for the better or worse."
"Trust me it is not for the better. Believe me it does not at all. None whatsoever." April argued before asking the waitress for another type of cheesecake.
At that exact moment of waiting for there round two of cheesecake, a male and a woman in their New York Giants jerseys walked in and grabbed a seat at the booth behind April and Little Karai. After waiting for them to order what they wanted to drink, Little Karai turned to them with a friendly smile and asked a common New Yorker conversation.
"You guys think that our boys are going to the Super Bowl anytime soon?."
The man chuckled. "Man, I hope so little girl."
"We need to hope that the top star players in our division and on the road are hurt or have some trouble with the law." said the woman before looking at the menu.
"Well, I hope that this will be our season of going to the Super Bowl." said Little Karai.
"You and me both, kid." said the man.
Little Karai turned back around to resume her hang out with her partner from the future.
"Believe it or not, the New York Giants did win their Super Bowl two years later and get their last one in 2012." said April, whispering this information and does not see any harm in giving a spoiler about the future.
"No kidding?." Little Karai did a brow raise to go with her surprise smirk.
"I kid you not. The Giants pulled it off." April started playing with her cheesecake a bit. Her mind started running on that information until it hit her like a basketball hitting the back. "Hey, wait a minute. They may have lost the first round but they will surely win all three rounds and win the main event in the next two seasons and win the Super Bowl. I figured out about the riddle."
"Which is?." Little Karai felt excited.
April looked at Little Karai with a surprised facial expression. "I know where Gwen is."
Little Karai automatically pulled out a few dollars for a tip and set it down. "I told you that cheesecake will help you think clearly. Let's ride."
Getting out of the cafe the two got right back into the car to drive where April had figured out where Gwen wanted to meet up with her in secret. To Little Karai's surprise they were heading to the New York Giants stadium. Upon pulling into the parking lot and parked up front, the two exited out and were about to go until Little Karai went around to open the trunk. In a secret metal lock safe department she opened it up and pulled out April's blaster, neuralyzer, and time traveling device.
"Here you go, April. Here are your things." Little Karai handed it to April.
April took the moment to put them in their proper places that were located on her. "So, I'm assuming that after eating some cheesecake and telling me about your love affair with your boy, you started to get all mushy and decided to give me my stuff back."
"Nah, I just got tired of carrying your stuff for so long. I hate carrying other people's stuff." Little Karai spoke when leading the way inside.
"How do you know the doors are unlocked?." asked April.
"The custodians are aliens. They always keep the doors unlocked for people who pay them to come see the stadium. Besides, you and I are going to the field itself." said Little Karai.
The two went to the ideal direction that will lead them to the football field. Approaching in a nice calm manner, the two can see large lights beaming on the other side before reaching out of the tunnel. Upon making it onto the field they can hear someone cheering and having a great wonderful time. They looked over to the source and there she was. Gwen. They found Gwen on the sidelines of the home team eating a big bucket of fresh popcorn. From what April and Little Karai can see, Gwen was looking at an empty field with no activity while having an excited and cheerful facial expression.
"Alright, boys we got their butts on third down." Gwen stuff her mouth with a mouthful of popcorn before continuing to talk with a mouthful. "Defense!. Defense!. Defense!. D…"
Gwen slightly turned and saw both April and Little Karai there. She grinned big. "My friends!. Please come join me!. The game is in the third quarter and the Giants are giving the Cowboys a good game!."
April and Little Karai exchange glances. The two have no clue of how exactly Gwen and her people can see the endless potential of possibilities. They approached the alien with the mindset of being prepared for anything. Gwen hands Little Karai her popcorn before grabbing her hand and then using her other hand to touch April's shoulder. When that moment happened, with a blink of an eye the empty field in front of them busted open and saw some sort of open wide hole. What they saw made April gasp as she blew away what her eyes were showing her.
There in front of them is an active football game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys. Surrounded by screams of fans and the in person experience. April pulled back from all of the overwhelment as she now sees what she saw is back to being what she originally sees. The whole stadium is empty and quiet.
"No freaking way." April spoke in utter disbelief.
April found her composer and walked back into the group. Gwen smiled and placed her hand right back on April's shoulder and let her see the game. She had to admit. The game is pretty darn good.
"So, this is what Michael meant by you foreseeing the infinite possibilities based upon the actions…scenario something." Little Karai spoke before eating some of the popcorn.
Gwen nodded. "Uh, huh, it is like a slap on the fat ass."
"Man, all of my years as an NIB agent, I have really thought and believe that I have seen everything in this career. But boy, how wrong I am tonight." said April, watching the what if scenario NFL game.
"Oh, yes, this is my personal tv. Free of charge and endless scenarios that may or may come to an official reality of time based on the actions. The actions of situations of anyone or anything is a doorway to events that will literally happen. That is the concept of time." explained Gwen.
"Huh, you will be an excellent help at NIB HQ. We can cover more ground with no issues." said Little Karai, still chewing more popcorn.
"Depends on the needed actions of situations of anyone or anything, Karai. Like this for an example…oh, and the gift that I want to give you is at the inside bottom of the popcorn bucket." Gwen informs Little Karai before changing the scenes of what they were currently seeing to help explain her example to them. "The towel boy is an excellent Madden player and just loves football as a whole. Who knows every single player from any team from amateur to professional. Knowing which players will get along famously and perform better with one another, and thus this towel boy would voice his opinion to the Giants head coach on selecting less people from the NFL Draft and go hire players not belonging or qualify to compete in the NFL, and have a better chance at a good season."
April and Little Karai watch the What If scenario unfold and see what Gwen is saying. Little Karai took this moment to dig her hand deep into the bucket of popcorn. Spilling a good amount of popcorn in the process before making contact with something at the bottom. She pulls it out and finds a small wrapped up light dark plastic package. Rubbing her fingers all over the package with such interest she then ripped it open and pulled out a small round pocket watch sized device with ancient carved symbols all over it as it has a single short chain.
"Then taking the man's suggested advice, The Giants have gone to the Super Bowl back to back for decades. The man was rewarded for being a head coach to the Cleveland Browns and led them into victories, let alone finds himself in the NFL Hall of Fame with the highest honor of closing the ceremony out. But in this time that we are in he did not do so and thus the Giants went to the Super Bowl two years later and the one in 2012. Since then, they have unfortunately not been into the Super Bowl since. But it is history in the books.
Both canon and non-canon." said Gwen, before letting both of them go and taking the device from Karai's hand.
Gwen's smile dropped to sadness. She looked at the device which is Earth's only line defense of the coming threat of the Boglodites. "I lost my planet, my husband, and my little boy from the Boglodite invasion. I remember like it was yesterday. My people run for their lives and try to get to any ship but never made it to get on and escape. I lost my husband and son when we got lost after we got caught in a herd of people. I found that one seated escape pod and took it. The hardest part is to see my planet be destroyed upon flying off. That is one of the things in the moment of history that I do not dare or stand to look at."
At that moment it made April and Little Karai feel absolutely awful for Gwen's tragedy. No one deserves to not only lose your family but also your own home planet regardless of who they are. Gwen managed to smile again and look back at the two.
"But for you guys, you have a chance to prevent that from happening to your planet. Our planet. I know for a fact that you two will succeed in pulling this off like you always do. I mean in the future you did keep the Galaxy of Orion's belt from the Bugs and sent the Light of Zarthra back home, and defeated Zelena in the process. Now, if you play your actions just right the way that I have seen, then you two will forever become my number one most favorite moments in the Universe's history." Gwen smiled proudly before instantly dropping it when noticing that she did not take her bucket of popcorn back from Little Karai after she pulled the device back. Thus, creating a new sudden moment in time. "Oh, poo, I really wish I stayed focused when I am having these moments."
Before anyone can say or do anything, out of nowhere, Tiger Claw (2006), who is on his motorcycle, zoomed through and grabbed Gwen by her bicep and threw her in the back of his seat before doing a wheelie to reach the steps of the audience seats.
"No!." April and Little Karai spoke in utter shock.
(A/N): First of all, I wanna to say thank each and every one of you who have been following this story throught this time. I believe that one more chapter will finish this story off and we can jump to a series story based on the cartoon Men In Black series. That is what I am very looking forward in writing my version of it. Now, I know that some of you would want for me to write a version of Men In Black: International. The truth is I have never watched the movie and just a review about it, and I think the movie is not deemed part of the orginal MIB trilogy.
I am strongly hoping that they make an actu 4th installemt with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, while they still can. If you guys know what I mean on that part. I am looking forward in seeing you guys in the final chapter. Yowie Wowie!.