Author's Note: Apologies for the delay my friends, school is a PitA. This is the last installment of Adam and Tanya's children's tale. What happens when contact gets establish? We find out now…
Hayley's fingers moved lightening fast over the keyboard as she worked her way through the cloaking device on the space ship. "I'll give it to The Dark Prince, he's got a damn good cloaking device on that ship of his. I've gotten past DECA's cloaking device faster than this," she murmured.
"You can do it Hales," Tommy said softly, placing his hands on her shoulders as he watched the screens in front of him.
"Ooh, I KNOW I can," Hayley replied in a faux-cocky tone, "In fact," she continued, typing one final string of code into the computer, "I just did," she said with a smile. A few moments later, Tanis' face appeared on the screen, "What do you… ooooh, umm, hi Aunt Hayley," she said sheepishly.
"Tanis Cadence Park! You land that ship right now!" Tanya scolded, taking Tommy's place behind Hayley. "You two are in so much trouble when you get home," she said glaring at her precocious daughter.
"But Mom!" Tad cried, coming up to stand next to his sister, "You should be proud of us, we got rid of the villain! We did a good thing," he rationalized.
"Are your siblings still locked up?" Adam asked crossing his arms as he looked at his oldest children on the screens in front of him. While he was impressed that they kicked a villain off his own ship, he knew his kids; he knew they were as devious as they come.
"Umm…" Tad looked at his sister. "Of…of course n…."
"Don't even try to lie to us Taddeus Yong," Adam cut him off. "Get the ship on the ground, now!" He said flatly, in a no-nonsense, don't-even-try-to-argue-with-me tone.
"Yes daddy," Tad and Tanis said quickly, and then Tanis flipped the viewing screen off.
"We are so dead," Tad said biting his lip. "Grounded for life," he moaned sitting down in front of the main console.
"For life," Tanis laughed, "Try grounded for the next 10 lives," she quipped with a sigh. "I supposed I should go check on the bratlings," she headed for the door. "I wonder if they are having fun playing with those henchmen," she pondered, walking through the door.
"Oh yeah," Tad grumbled, "leave me to figure out how to land this thing by myself, thanks a lot sis."
Tommy Jr. walked halfway down into the Lair, "Guys? Are Tanis and Tad coming back soon? We're running out of ways to entertain 'The Lame Ass'…" he coughed when he saw the look his father shot him, "I…er… I mean The Dark Prince," he amended quickly.
"They're on their way," Adam said with a smile. "We should all go up and wait for them," he said shaking his head at his nephew.
"Cool," Junior said with a grin, "I'll go up and tell the others," he said running back up the stairs, "Hey Lame Ass," they all heard him shout, "They're on their way back with your ship."
"Where'd he get that mouth?" Hayley asked with a grin as she got up, heading towards the stairs with the others.
"I dunno, maybe from his mother, Miss 'I'm the daughter of a sailor'" Tommy suggested with a smirk as Adam and Tanya looked down to keep Hayley from seeing their grins.
"Watch it, Technicolor Tommy, or next time you get a color, it's going to be pink," Hayley retorted with a smirk of her own, blowing him a kiss before disappearing upstairs.
Adam shook his head, "Ya know, it takes a real man to wear pink," he commented, snickering as he headed upstairs followed by Tanya, who was giggling hysterically.
"And we wonder where our kids get their mischievous streaks from," Tommy grumbled to himself as he followed them upstairs.
As the ship landed in an open field near Tommy's house, Adam and Tanya raced towards it, running up the ramp as soon as the kids lowered it. "Taddeus Park, where are your siblings," Tanya cried, seeing her eldest standing in the hallway.
"I'm right here mama," Tanis said with an 'I'm so innocent' smile.
"Where are A.D. and Adora?" Adam asked, staring her down until she dropped the smile from her face.
Down there," she said with a sigh, pointing to another hallway. "The cells are at the end of the…" she didn't even get to finish the sentence before Adam and Tanya took off down the hallway.
"Addison! Adora!" Tanya called as there footfalls echoed down the hallway. She came to a halt in front of the first prison cell. "Adora!" she gasped, watching as her 7 year old rode on the back of one of the henchmen 'pony' style.
Adora looked up from the back of the henchman, "Mommy! Look! Me and A.D. are playin' horse-y!!!"
"Save us… please," the henchmen moaned, looking up at Tanya and Adam.
"Hey! Horsey's don't talk!" Adora scolded, digging her heels into his sides. "Now giddy up!"
Adam just stood there, mouth open in disbelief. He licked his lips and started to say something and stopped, he closed his mouth, opened it again and then shut it. He couldn't believe the sight in front of him.
Tanya opened up the cell, "Adora, get off him. You and A.D. go up front with Tanis and Tad," she said watching her slid off and run out of the cell with her brother. "You… why were you playing pony for my kid?" She asked curiously.
The henchman stood up, "No choice, we got thrown in here with those two mini-hellions by those other two brats. Those lil' mini-monsters wanted us to play with them, we said no, they started whining, I'd rather play pony then go deaf," he said flatly, walking out of the prison cell with the other two henchman.
Tanya turned to Adam, who was still standing there, an all too confused look on his face, "Sweetie, you look like you got slapped upside the head with a two by four, what's going on in that head of yours?" She asked, tapping him on the shoulder to shake him out of it.
Adam turned to her, "This is all a bad dream isn't it?" He asked in a pleading tone. "Tad and Tanis really didn't kick an evil villain off his own ship, and our little ones didn't really nag evil footsoldiers into playing pony for them. I'm going to wake up, and our lives are going to be normal again, right?" He nearly begged.
"Honey," Tanya said, putting an arm around him as they headed for the front of the ship. "When have our lives EVER been normal?"
Author's Note2: The end! I had to bust through a serious block to get this written, so if it's not up to par, I sincerely apologize to you guys. But I have a question for you now, who's children do you want to hear about next? Trini and Zack's? Billy and Kat's? Rocky and Aisha's? or Jason and Kim's?