Chapter 3: Problems and Issues

By the time they had broken the Earth's atmosphere, the children had begun making their way to the Yolkian Homeworld at full possible speed. Cindy turned to Timmy and asked, "So, Timmy, what's the plan when we reach the Yolkian Homeworld?"

"We kick some Yolkian butt, rescue Jimmy and make it back home in time for supper." Timmy said with enthusiasm as he held out a fist as if he were punching an opponent.

"Poof, poof!" Poof said excitedly.

Sheen turned toward Timmy and said, "Hey, where's that poofing coming from?"

Timmy noticed that he forgot to introduce Poof to his friends and said, "Oh, yeah, I completely forgot. Guys, meet my fairy... uh, program brother, Poof."

They watched as Timmy's purple backpack transformed into a little round baby with wings holding a rattle. "Poof, poof!"

Everyone looked at the little round purple baby and went, "Aawww."

"He's so cute." Cindy said as she stroked his head. "You know, he kinda looks like you only without the buck-teeth."

"Really?" Timmy asked.

"Oh yeah, he even as cool as you!" Sheen said as he looked around and asked, "Hey, speaking of cool; where's Cosmo?"

"He and Wanda are on vacation at the Mystcal Tropic Getaway and left me in charge of taking care of Poof."

Cindy got curious and asked, "But Timmy, if you're supposed to be taking care of Poof then why is he coming with us on a dangerous mission to save Jimmy?"

"Hey don't worry, as long as we all keep an eye on him he'll be absolutely fine; trust me." Timmy said confidently; maybe a little over-confidently.

As the kids continued on course to the Yolkian homeworld, everyone interacted with baby Poof in their own unique way.

When Poof approached Cindy she cradled him in her arms and said, "Hi, there. Are you bored?" Poof nodded. "Well I can change that."

She held under his arms tossed him up slightly in the air and when he came down she caught him and repeated several times which made him laugh with glee. After they were finished Cindy asked, "Feeling happy now?" Poof nodded. "Well I'll be here anytime you want to play, okay?"

When Poof approached Carl he turned toward him and said, "Oh, hi little baby. Say, do you like llamas?"

"Poof!" Poof acknowledged.

"I really think llamas are so magestic. Mostly because they're probably the one animal I'm not allergic to." Carl said.

Sheen interjected, "Yeah, and it figures that you're allergic to everything else."

"Well, at least I'm not obsessed with Ultra Lord." Carl responded.

"Hey, I'm not obsessed I'm Ultra Lord's biggest fan; there's a difference!"

"Yeah, yeah. What was I saying? Oh yeah, llamas are beautiful." Carl said with glee as Poof looked at him funny.

When Poof approached Sheen he said, "Hey little flying baby, how's it hanging? You know, looking at you I'd say you could pass for a baby Ultra Lord."

"Poof?" Poof said quizzically.

"Yeah, you wear purple like Ultra Lord, you fly like Ultra Lord and you have a rattle as your own special weapon like Ultra Lord. They could call you, ULTRA POOF!"

Poof laughed and waved his rattle which caused a cloud to appear around him and when he emerged he was wearing a cape that wrapped around him and was pinned to him by a brooch that bore the ltters "UP".

"AWESOME!" Sheen exclaimed.

"Poof, poof!" Poof added.

When Poof approached Libby she took off her ear piece and said, "Hey there little man, whattcha up to?"

"Poof." Poof said as he jestured 'exploring'.

"Yo, you like music? Listen to this and tell me what you think." Libby said as she put her headphones on Poof's head.

The music was so loud that Poof was jumping with the vibrating headphones.

"Hmm, how about this one?" She said as she switched the cd.

The music was so dull that Poof was about to fall asleep.

"Uh, maybe this one?" She said as she switched another cd.

The music was so lively that it woke Poof up and he started dancing to the beat.

"And we have a winner." Libby said as she started dancing too.

After the music ended Libby said, "Let me know when you want to listen to some more music, little man."

"Poof, poof!" Poof said as he flew away.

When Poof went down to the engine and saw Goddard making sure everything was working perfectly. Poof wandered over to one of the spinning gears curiously. Goddard turned and saw the floating baby and rushed over to grab him before he he got caught.

BARK, BARK!

Two extending metal hands grabbed Poof in the nick of time and cradled him. Poof looked at the metal canine with wonder and then smiled which made Goddard give a loving lick.

Meanwhile Cindy needing a break turned on the auto-pilot and went to a isolated part of the ship to ponder her thoughts. She wondered if Jimmy was alright. She couldn't even bear to imagine what they were doing to him. Then there was the matter of Timmy being here. Sure he may have been responsible for Jimmy being in his current situation, but she knew he didn't mean for it to happen.

Or did he? After all he had no problem ignoring me to do stuff with Jimmy the last time he was here and they were both responsible for their universes nearly being destroyed.

Just then she heard Timmy's voice, "Hi, Cindy, whatcha doing?"

"Oh, just thinking." She replied.

"Cindy, are you still mad at me for ignoring you last time I was here?" Timmy asked.

Cindy took a moment and then said, "I can't bring myself to stay mad at you, Timmy. I mean the first two times you came here you and Jimmy had been fighting and for once you two wanted to try getting along at the risk of ignoring your friends. So, no, I'm not mad at you."

"Oh, good, so after this is all over do you you want to get a chocolate shake at the Candy Bar?" Timmy asked with high hopes that she would say 'yes'.

"Um, I don't know. Its not that I don't want to, its just that..."

"You like Jimmy?" Timmy finished her sentence.

Cindy decided not to say anything afraid that she might hurt Timmy's feelings.

Timmy understood her silence and said, "Cindy, I know you like Jimmy, I mean you two have known each other longer than I've known you. Some say you two belong together and maybe you do; but you're the only girl I like that actually understands me. Back in my universe there were at least three girls who have the hots for me, one's too afraid to admit it because it could ruin her popularity, one's flat out obsessed with me that she practically stalks me and the other only likes me because she doesn't want her friend to have me. I know that I don't belong in this dimension and I know that I'm no genious like Jimmy but I really, really like you and I'd really like us to be boyfriend and girlfriend."

Cindy couldn't help but to blush at his nice words and complete honesty. He may not have been honest when she assumed he was a boy-genious like Jimmy, but the way he said those words showed that he had honest feelings for her, unlike Jimmy who was too shy to admit his feelings and would either insult her or change the subject.

"You really mean that?" Cindy asked.

"Of course I do and I'm not afraid to say it; just like I'm not afraid to say: 'Hey, I like Kissy-Kissy Goo-Goo AND Skull-Squisher.'"

Cindy laughed at what he had said which made Timmy smile.

Suddenly Carl's voice sounded over the speaker, "Uh, Captain Turner, I think we have a problem up here."

Upon hearing that, Timmy and Cindy made their way up to the bridge.

"What's the problem, Carl."

"These numbers seemed to be counting backwards and they turned from yellow to red, is that good?" Carl asked.

Timmy looked at the strange consel and said, "I don't know, its all flux capacitor to me."

Cindy walked over and looked at the consel and said, "Oh no, we're running low on fuel."

Timmy looked again and said, "Oh, I see now. Wait, that's a bad thing!"

Carl added, "There's something else, this picture of a planet appeared after the numbers turned red."

Cindy looked it over and said, "Its telling us that we have to land there to get fuel, apparently its where the Yolkians get the fuel for their ships."

"Wow, Cindy, you're really smart." Timmy said which made her blush.

"Hey, are we going to this alien or what?" Sheen said interupting their moment.

"Yeah, right, the sooner we can refuel, the sooner we can rescue Jimmy. Cindy, take us to that alien planet."

"Sure thing, Captain Timmy." Cindy said with a sly smile; for some reason Timmy liked how she called him that.

He then took his place in his Captain's Chair as the ship descended toward the nearby alien planet.

Unknown to the children however, the alien planet was a hunting ground to a race of alien hunters. To those on earth who had survived an encounter with the hunters didn't have a name for them but knew that they would frequently visit Earth to hunt humans for honor of the hunt.

But this planet was used by hunters who didn't fight with honor, hunters who would abduct members of different races and bring them to this planet to be hunted.

As it so happened, the bad blood hunters had kidnapped one of the honorable ones and that honorable hunter was currently using its cloaking device and staying purched in a tree attempting to not be seen.

Suddenly, the Honorable Hunter looked up into the sky and saw a strange ship descend into the jungle in the distance.

The Honorable Hunter knew that its pursuers had seen it and would undoubtedly attempt to hunt all those onboard, however this would give the Honorable Hunter the opportunity to escape from this prison before the Bad Blood Hunters made him their trophy.

In case you haven't figured it out, the alien planet is from that new Predators movie. *Slight Spoilers: Don't read if you haven't seen the movie* The Honorable Hunter is the Classic Predator that was strung up at the campsite. I set this chapter before the events of the movie. Don't worry, there won't be anything to go against the rating but I'll still make the Predator action good

Next Chapter: Thrill of the Chase

As the children search for the fuel source for the ship, three evil alien hunters chase after them while an honorable one must decide whether or not to abandon them.