(Later on, the group, now including Rosie had all gathered by the lake to talk, sitting down on the rock with a sigh.)
Becky: "So."
(Becky said.)
Becky: "You're a Plumber's Kid?"
Rosie: "I wasn't always a Plumber's Kid."
(Rosie sighed, skipping a rock into the lake.)
Rosie: "You see, my species is a single-sex race."
Ben: "So all Florians are female."
(Ben asked.)
Rosie: "Indeed."
(Rosie said with a sigh as she looked to the water and ran her hand across it.)
Gwen: "So how do you reproduce?"
(Gwen asked as Rosie looked down and sighed.)
Rosie: "Florians mate with other females and as they mate, they spread out roots from their feet that spreads throughout the current planet's surface, which spawn into what you know as forests and flowers. And from the resulting plants form seeds, which overtime grow into new specimens of my kind... well, maybe not my kind specifically."
Kevin: "What do you mean?"
(Kevin asked.)
Rosie: "Technically speaking, I'm the only one of my kind. Not the only Florian, of course, but what I mean is that my birth process was different. Most Florians don't grow up with family because once you grow into your form, you're on your own. Not me, though. I was born the same way most mammalian species are."
Jen: "How, Rosie?"
(Jen asked as Rosie sighed.)
Rosie: "You've met my father, of course. The Petrosapien bounty hunter Tetrax Shard."
Ben: "Oh yeah. Tetrax did say he had a daughter with a Florian that he separated from."
(Ben recalled.)
Rosie: "When he was on a mission to Floria, he met my mother, Su'Flow."
(Rosie said.)
Rosie: "And the feeling was mutual. She was the first and so far only one of her kind to mate with someone outside her species, let alone a male one. And from that, she got pregnant with me. The first Florian hybrid ever."
Allison: "So how did you and your mom come to Earth?"
(Allison asked as Rosie ran a hand through her petaled hair and a tear dripped down her eye as her voice started to break.)
Rosie: "My mom's mating with my father was not looked upon kindly by the Florians and she was exiled for treason by breaking tradition. And of course, because of my nature, I was looked upon as an... abomination."
(she said through tears.)
Rosie: "Neither of us is ever allowed to step foot on Floria again. My dad has been away on... work in space. I've never met him either. So my Mom decided to join up with the Plumbers and trained me to use my powers as a Florian. But when I turned 10, I started noticing strange things about me. Crystals forming from my skin and the ability to project and manipulate Taydenite from the ground and my limbs. I asked my Mom what it was and she told me the whole story that I just finished telling you. We were installed on Earth, given ID masks to protect us from the humans and the rest, as they say, is history."
Ben: "Whoa."
(Ben gasped as Rosie sighed and bowed her head.)
Jen: "That's one of the saddest stories I've ever heard."
(Jen said.)
Rosie: "I know, but it's true."
(she said as Becky walked up to her friend.)
Becky: "Look, Rosie. I know how you feel."
Rosie: "No you don't."
(Rosie sighed.)
Rosie: "You don't know what it's like to be hated by your own people."
Allison: "We kind of do."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "We're a superhero team. We get criticisms every day. They can think what they want about you, girl. But what matters is what you think of yourself. You have friends that love you here and nothing's going to change that."
(Rosie sighed as she got to her feet and wiped off her flower dress before taking her I.D. mask from her pocket and placed it on, turning back to her faux human form.)
Ben: "So why did you call us out here with that fight?"
Rosie: "I was trying to defend the forest because as a Florian, I take comfort with nature, as you can imagine. Sometimes I feel like the plants are the only ones that understand me."
Jen: "They're not."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "You have us."
Rosie: "When I heard the Omni-Team was back and I saw you fighting the DNAliens, I knew you would be coming, so I wanted to test you guys."
Jen: "It worked. We want you to join our team."
Rosie: "You do?"
(Rosie asked.)
Gwen: "Of course we do."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "You'll be a valuable addition to our fight against the DNAliens. They want to conquer this planet and all living things in it. Including nature."
Rosie: "This planet is practically my home..."
(Rosie said.)
Rosie: "Okay. I'll do it."
Allison: "Great!"
(Allison said as they one-by-one shook hands with the hybrid and smiled as they departed.)
Rosie: "I gotta get going. Tell what's going on to my mom."
(she said.)
Rosie: "Well... bye."
(She then walked off back to the city as the others walked back to Kevin's car to drive off.)
Ben: "So, you want to tell her that her father helped Vilgax blow up his home planet?"
(Ben asked with concern.)
Gwen: "It's not worth it. He'll have to tell her that herself if he ever sees her again."
(Gwen said as Kevin drove off with Allison close behind.)
(After getting dropped off at home by Kevin, Ben and Jen smiled as they walked into the house to see their parents sitting down in the seats in the living room as they looked on in shock.)
Carl: "Ben? Jen?"
(Carl said.)
Carl: "Could we talk to you two for a second?"
(The twins gained a nervous look on their face as they looked to each other and gulped as they sighed.)
Ben: "Are we in trouble, Dad?"
(Ben asked.)
Ben: "Did we do something wrong?"
Carl: "Of course not."
(Carl said as he turned to his wife with a wink.)
Sandra: "Great news, kids!"
(Sandra said.)
Sandra: "The company is sending me out for a meeting out of the country."
Jen: "Out of the country?"
(Jen asked.)
Jen: "How long are you going to be gone?"
Sandra: "Oh, it's not how long I'm going to be gone, sweetie."
(Sandra said.)
Sandra: "It's how long we're going to be gone. We're going on vacation!"
Ben and Jen: "No way!"
(Ben and Jen said as they stood up excitedly.)
Sandra: "Not only that, I just so happen to have four extra tickets aside from the four of us and Emma."
(Sandra said, handing two to the kids.)
Ben: "We don't even need to think about who's getting these."
(Ben said as he jabbed his sister playfully and she giggled.)
Ben: "So where are we going?"
Carl: "None other than the City of Love itself."
(Carl said, holding his wife close as the twins each gained a shocked look on their face and looked to each other with a dumb grin.)
Jen: "We're going to Paris?!"
(Jen asked.)
Ben: "We're going to Paris."
(Ben confirmed as the two embraced in a warm hug and spun around with their smiling parents watching nearby.)
Ben: "When do we leave?"
Sandra: "Next week."
(Sandra said.)
Sandra: "It's gonna be a blast there."
[To Be Continued...]