"We'll safety pin the pieces of our broken hearts back together"

"This is all your fault!---You nearly let them die, Taufan!---Solar is still breathing!---Thorn, wake up!---They're gonna make it, guys! Don't panic!"

I can never forget that moment. A moment that made my brothers losing their trust over my powers, and my credibility to fight against our enemies.

Ever since then, I stay away from them---just literally shut myself from everyone I know and love. My friends, my family, Commander, Admiral . . . just everyone . . . And I'm losing my sanity about the same ol' thing that keeps on happening to me.

If you wanna know, the was an incident---more like, 'accident'---and Thorn and Solar became the victims. I didn't mean to hurt them, and I didn't mean to nearly kill them by using my uncontrollable powers.

Sure, I am fifteen at the time, and I should at least harness it by now. But my powers are based on air, the wind, and winds can be dangerous too if they go out of control---and this especially goes for someone who has aerokinesis . . . particularly me.

It was a heated fight, between us elemental siblings and our friends going against a group of alien gangsters who have since wrecked havoc on Junkberg and a few other planets as well. There were five of them, but it took like the three of us to take one down due to their huge size and burly looks.

They were terrifying too, with sharp claws, fangs, and spikes running down their back, these aliens weren't easy for our battle. And I was weakened after getting hit multiple times by one of the Kasaran Gang members, much to the horrors of my brothers and my friends.

Solar helped me out, and so as Thorn, distracting him while I tried to help Gopal getting out of Junkberg town who passed out after a smack on the head by a metal box.

But even so, I felt the need to help them, considering that they are both my brothers, my very own flesh and blood. And I'm the third eldest, so I had to do something.

"Pipsqueaks! You can never beat us!" The gigantic aliens laughed at my brothers and friends. "Time for your doom!"

It followed by a bunch of screams.

I was too afraid to look back, but this is about the people that I care so much.

And it made me decide the final decision: I needed to be out there battling the bad guys. And so, I put Gopal down near a stall (which was strangely selling fried space lizards, being said that it's a local delicacy on this planet), and got onto my hoverboard for their aid.

Thank goodness it took only a few minutes, but the sight of my bros and friends really increased my anger . . . And my wind powers? Welp, you can compare them to a powerful raging cyclone.

I fought those terrible monsters, with only just a gust of wind that knocked them off of their feet. I didn't realize what was I doing, to the point of endangering my family and friends in their weakened state.

And that's when the worst happened: Thorn and Solar, concerned about me being out of control, decided to halt my anger and rage. As everyone else was still trying their best to get up, these two had the courage to step up to their older brother who has way more experiences in handling his powers, and I went mad . . . You know, like a 'maniac-psychopath-killer-murderer'-kinda mad.

And I forgot what happened after that, because all I remember from the incident is that I ended up hurting those two, and they were in a bad shape.

I can never forgive myself after what I did. That was the breaking point where Thorn and Solar are absolutely afraid of me---to the point that whenever we meet each other face-to-face, they would walk or run away from me, hiding behind any one of our brothers that is there.

Commander can't stop recalling the moment when I fought my own brothers, and Admiral was almost to using his any one of his suits to put an end to my madness. Even Kaizo was impressed seeing how my credibility to fight is as similar to Halilintar's, but he keeps telling me how much of an embarrassment am I to TAPOPS' name nowadays---ever since the accident.

But truthfully, even though I don't remember much of the accident, I would rather try to forget it, and find ways to get back together with my two bros.

Knowing that Thorn likes rainbow cookies, and Solar has a thing for white chocolate macadamia cakes, I am trying to make and bake 'em, as a token for an apology and to redeem my mistakes.

"Heyya, Upan!" I hear a familiar voice calls me out. It's my fire elemental brother, Blaze. "Whatcha' cookin' in the kitchen? Smells good, by the way! And at least way better than Yaya's!"

"Shush! Yaya might hear you!" I say, throwing some flour into his face, causing him to flinch, and sneeze (don't worry, he ain't facing my cookie dough).

"I know, I know. But you didn't have to throw flour straight into my face!" He yells, and gets a handful of flour and throws it into my face. "That's for what you did earlier on!"

"Oh? Someone's asking for a flour fight?" I smirk, and get my a handful of coloured flour in each hand---one orange, and the other green---and throw at him. "Aha! Take that Blaze!"

"Well, you ask for it!" He says, taking the blue and purple ones, and start the fight.

And well, you can tell what happens next: a flour fight in TAPOPS' kitchen between me and Blaze---and it's normal to happen to us both.

We are having too much fun, it is to the point that we don't see someone else is at the doorway . . . and boy oh boy, it's Thorn. And he isn't alone.

"Guys? What the---"

SPLOOF!

"You're it, Shiny Boy!" The fire elemental shouts, having to throw red-coloured food powder at his white, orange, and gray clothes. Well, that makes him angry, but at least he doesn't use his solar powers on us.

"Okay! You want war? I'll present you guys . . . a REAL war!" He grabs a bowl of pink flour, and tosses it at us. "Stop ruining my clothes, you idiots!"

"Yayy! Food fight!" Thorn exclaims joyfully, and begins hurling some coloured flour at us three.

They are both laughing.

The four of us are all laughing, hysterically, and boy, we have created a mess in this place.

"I think we better clean up this place," Solar says, in-between his laughter. "I bet Admiral is gonna kill us when he sees this place looking like a jungle."

He turns around to look at the oven, seeing through the glass as he exchanges his facial expressions with mine.

"Is that a cake?"

"Yeah, but I still need to get it ready with the buttercream and melt some white chocolate bar. Too bad we're out of macadamia nuts," I reply, only to realize I've spilled out the special surprise I wanna give to him and Thorn.

"Wait, you're making a white chocolate macadamia cake?" The light elemental questions, staring me right in the eyes.

I sigh. "I just want to make up my mistakes, 'cause you know, what happened to you and Thorn. And I'm sorry, I didn't even mean to hurt you guys."

"Aww, Abang Upan," Thorn jumps in. "We forgave you for a long time ago!"

"You did? But why on Earth did you two walk away from me everytime we see each other?" I ask them, my hand caressing my left arm as I look down in shame. "I just think you guys might still hate me for nearly killing you."

"First of all, we're both scared that you might lose control of yourself and have panic attacks to see our faces. And second, um, isn't that 'normal' for the seven of us? Hali wanted to kill me, Blazey wanted to trap Thornie inside his room, Gem Gem wanted to shred Icy to pieces---wouldn't that be normal?" Our youngest brother speaks up, trying to make the situation as logically as it should be.

"But that wasn't 'normal'! I lost my sanity during that time!" I tell my three brothers. "I could've murdered you both on the spot!"

"Hey, it's okay, Taufan. We are still alive now and it's all thanks to you, because you're the one who helped saving our lives from the Kasaran Gang," Thorn explains in the most calming manner, hugging me tightly as tears starting to form in my eyes. "You're not the only one who has hurt someone before. All of us have done it. So, you're not alone, Upan."

"I mean, that's how we've always been, right? Always at each other's throats for no reason," Blaze interrupts, dusting some flour off of him. "Also, the lightbulb does have a point".

"Stop calling me 'lightbulb', you sassy hot-tempered monkey!"

"Who ya calling me 'monkey', lightbulb?!"

"Just ignore those two, Taufan. But, of course, we have hurt each other before, and I'm sure it'll happen sometime again. It's just we have to learn our mistakes and be more careful the next time we use our powers. Got it?" The nature elemental pats my head, I notice how he is standing on his toes just to reach my height a bit for him to do that.

"So, are we like 'cool' now?" I sniff, wiping the tears streaming down my cheeks.

"Yeah! We're cool, Upan!"

And so, the four of us embrace ourselves in a brotherly hug, though I'm still thinking how are we going to clean up the kitchen.

Later, it's dinner time, and everyone is at the foodcourt, enjoying their meals. But Commander Koko Ci has something to announce as he stands on a dining table. And he seems rather angry.

"Is there any particular person here knows what happened to our kitchen?!" He asks the crowd, but no responses are taken and everyone can only shrug.

Facing way from the sight of the Kubulus alien, Gempa, Halilintar, and Ice turn to look at me, Blaze, Thorn, and Solar stifling our laughter.

They open up their mouth and ask one simple question:

"Do you guys know what really happened inside the kitchen?"

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Ahh, a twist where no angst is at the end of this story😁

I'll try to lighten up the mood after dealing with angsty chapters, so here you are, a fluffy one. And the flour fight scene is based from that one scene in Maleficent, where the three fairies (as in their human forms) are arguing about something and start throwing coloured flour or food powder into one another's faces🤣

Also, I've been trying to make a BoBoiBoy fantasy fanfic, but I keep changing the storyline 'cause I'm not certain how the plot will go. But one of the themes of it, it'll have monsters instead of aliens. But I'm kinda thinking to make it a bit like The Spiderwick Chronicles-kinda theme🤔 But somehow, I'm still thinking of how the plot will turn out to be.

Just a lil' sneak peak for the 7 elementals' face marking designs:

Also, imma be studying now cuz of my final semester exam yeet😭😭