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Last chapter, so here we go!
Chapter 11: Defying the Laws that be
A few minutes ago, there was a huge explosion which ended Professor Calamitous' and Eustace Strych's plans to conquer the Earth. The EMP device they had built was mostly vaporized and what wasn't vaporized was now little more than rubble on the ground where it once stood. The cost for this victory in defeating those two madmen was high.
Cindy Aurora Vortex now lay dead on the grounds of the Strych Estate. Beside her lay Goddard, who had de-activated himself upon crashing into the ground in order to stop vital systems from failing, and next to both of them was a mournful Jimmy Neutron. Jimmy's whole past had been flashing across his mind, slowly increasing the hatred and anger that he was feeling towards Eustace Strych and Professor Finbarr Calamitous.
The hate was swelling within him, with each passing moment Jimmy became angrier until he got up.
"I will get revenge on you Cindy, I swear I will get vengeance or I'll die trying." He whispered to Cindy's lifeless form.
With that, he made his way over to his damaged walker and activated it. Although the entire left arm had been sliced off and the right hand was no longer attached, Jimmy still had the Fusion cannon on the right arm. Eventually, he was able to get the walker to stand up on its feet. He turned the walker around and walked off towards Calamitous' ship, activating the Fusion cannon once more.
Libby stopped her car at what would have been the gates to the Strych Estate, only there were no gates.
"Man, it's like something out of a horror movie, just before something really evil comes out and kills everyone here." Sheen commented.
Carl whimpered at that thought and Libby just rolled her eyes.
"C'mon you two, let's go in." Libby said as she took the keys out of the ignition.
"B-but, what if something evil appears and kills us?" Carl whined.
"Carl, nothing is gonna kill you here, besides it seems to me the battle is over anyways." Libby said to him, trying to calm him down.
Sheen walked in and started looking around at the scorch marks, holes and destroyed machinery.
"What makes you think that?" Carl asked.
"Well the fact I can talk to you in a normal voice without and sounds or war is kind of a hint." Libby explained.
"Hey guys! Come quick, something bad has happened here!" Sheen yelled to Libby and Carl.
The two looked at each other and then ran over to Sheen.
"What have you found Sh-" Libby started and was cut off when she saw.
Carl reached them, panting heavily from the short run but even his exhausted breathing stopped when his eyes gazed upon what all of them saw.
"Cindy!" Libby shouted as she rushed to Cindy's side.
"Poor Cindy and poor Goddard." Carl said quietly as he knelt down next to Goddard.
Libby started to cry and Sheen put his arm around her.
"She's dead guys…" Libby told them.
"Bummer, poor Jimmy." Sheen said.
Carl was about to reply to Sheen when they all heard the sound of a cannon firing repeatedly. Sheen looked around.
"Over there." Sheen pointed.
The trio made their way to where the sound was coming from. Along the way there was more wreckage from the battle that had taken place, including the ominous scene of a walker with the top part of it torn off and with a large sword impaled on its right leg, and a robotic hand grasping the hilt of the sword tightly. Just a short distance away from that, Carl noticed an entire mechanical arm on the ground, the occasional spark appearing from the severed wiring inside the arm where it had been sliced off.
"Guys, look." Libby whispered to Sheen and Carl.
The trio came to where the sounds had been coming from. A giant walker attacking the ship, that all three of them recognised, that belonged to Eustace Strych and Professor Finbarr Calamitous.
"Then, that must be Jimmy. I bet he's real angry." Carl said.
Calamitous' ship was taking a lot of damage from the relentless attacks from Jimmy, so much so as Calamitous couldn't get the ship to take off. A real sense of dread was creeping into Calamitous' mind.
"I never thought that boy would be so violent…there's no telling when he'll stop. If that moron Strych had done a better job of keeping Neutron at bay, I wouldn't be in this situation. Well, can't moan about the past now, I've got to get away from here." Calamitous thought to himself as he tried to think of a way out of this predicament.
Jimmy was furious with Calamitous, so angry and so aggressive that he didn't care anymore about what happened now. His whole life had suffered a mortal blow and all he saw now was anger and hatred, a small piece aimed at himself for his failings but nearly all of it at Calamitous and Strych. He kept firing for what seemed an eternity, slowly destroying Calamitous' ship.
"You've got nowhere left to hide, no more gadgets to use and no more help to save you. Your finished Calamitous! Finished I tell you!" Jimmy shouted as he moved closer to the ship to find Calamitous.
"Whoa, Jimmy is really mad. We've got to stop him!" Libby exclaimed.
"Why? All he's gonna do is make Professor Calamit…Cala…er Professor what's-his-name beg for mercy and forgiveness." Sheen replied.
"I don't think so; Jimmy is really upset about what happened to Cindy. There's no telling how far he'll go and I think he'll cross a line that he won't be able to come back from if we don't stop him. Calamitous is a cold hearted bastard, but Cindy wouldn't want Jimmy to murder him in cold blood." Libby explained to Sheen.
"You think he really would go that far?" Carl asked disappointingly.
Libby gravely nodded her head.
"Let's go then." Carl suggested.
Jimmy searched through the wreckage of Calamitous' ship. He had scanned over half the ship and hadn't found Calamitous yet, but with each section scanned proving negative, Jimmy's anger built and his lust for vengeance became greater. The scanner suddenly beeped repeatedly, indicating that it had found a life form in the area it was scanning.
Jimmy pressed a couple of buttons to change the vision from normal to a heat sensing vision.
"Calamitous' body heat will show up on the heat vision, allowing me to track his every movement." Jimmy thought, grinning to himself as he located Calamitous.
Jimmy raised his arm so the Fusion cannon was pointing just to one side of Calamitous as Jimmy didn't want Calamitous finished off just yet, but he did want to scare Calamitous. He pressed the trigger, and the cannon fired a bolt of energy which cut into the armour plating of the ship but not quite penetrating it. Jimmy fired a few more shots, the armour plating of the ship being penetrated this time, however Calamitous still didn't appear.
"I'm gonna have to try something a bit more drastic." Jimmy thought.
Jimmy aimed the cannon right at the ship's engines and fired. The engines began to overload and what warning sirens were still functioning started to blare out a high pitched noise indicating that the engines were at a critical stage.
"I don't like where this going." Calamitous said to himself as he ran out of the ship.
He didn't really have a choice as it was either get blown up by his own ship exploding or running out and having to face the wrath of Jimmy Neutron.
Jimmy turned and saw Calamitous making a run for Eustace's mansion. Jimmy followed him, stalking his prey and ready to strike at any moment. He had no fear of the ship exploding, even though his walker could get showered by the twisted and mangled remains of whatever metal from Calamitous' ship remained after the explosion. It didn't matter to Jimmy as he was too focused on Calamitous.
The ship's engines finally gave in and exploded, igniting the fuel and blowing the reactor within the ship.
Libby, Sheen and Carl all knew the ship was going to blow so they had already run to cover by the time the ship had exploded. They ended up running to Eustace's fallen walker where they found him lying unconscious.
"I sure hope Jimmy doesn't want to finish him off, not that he deserves to be around anyway." Libby said to her companions.
As the drama died down and the small fragments landed all over the grounds of the estate, Libby grabbed Sheen and took off to stop Jimmy from doing something he could end up regretting.
"Stay with Strych and make sure he doesn't do anything if he comes round!" Libby shouted to Carl as she and Sheen left.
Carl didn't respond and just sighed as he sat on the grass and folded his legs, waiting for everything to finish.
Calamitous was starting to tire out with all the running he was doing, and having to avoid the falling debris from his ship.
"Blast that Neutron, it's like he has been possessed or something." Calamitous said to himself as he dodged another piece of shrapnel.
But it was too late for him; Jimmy had caught up with him and used his walker's left foot to kick Calamitous. Calamitous went flying across the ground and groaned as he came to a stop. He picked himself up and started to run on again but he stopped when a blast from Jimmy's cannon slammed into the ground in front of him, leaving a charred and smoking hole.
"Stop right there Calamitous! One move and your dead!" Jimmy shouted.
Calamitous stopped and turned to face Jimmy. The cannon was aimed directly at him.
"Your going to pay for what you've caused today. What you've caused over the years!" Jimmy yelled.
"Jimmy! Jimmy stop!" Libby yelled as she and Sheen caught up.
Jimmy turned to see Libby and Sheen.
"What are you two doing here?" Jimmy asked as he turned back to face Calamitous again.
"Cindy told us to come here, only we were too late to help…" Libby explained with tears forming in her eyes.
"Jimmy, stop before you do something you'll regret." Sheen said.
"Stop? You want me to show mercy to this coward? This bastard that took Cindy from us?" Jimmy couldn't believe what Sheen and Libby were asking.
"Yes, don't cross the line that you cannot come back from Jimmy! Would Cindy want you to do this?" Libby wailed.
That had made Jimmy think.
"I…I guess she wouldn't." He thought as he looked down at his hands. "What am I doing? This isn't like me, I just save the world and send the villains to prison and I don't kill people in cold blood. Cindy wouldn't want that of me, that's not the Jimmy Neutron she knew and loved…Libby and Sheen are right."
Jimmy deactivated the Fusion cannon and it folded back into the arm. He then opened the hatch and got out and walked over to Calamitous.
"Okay, I'm not gonna kill you Calamitous, but I am going to give you something I should have a long time ago!" Jimmy shouted as he smacked Calamitous across the face. "Phone the police Sheen, and we'll tie Strych and Calamitous up so they can't cause any more trouble."
"Aye aye, Jimmy." Sheen threw Jimmy a salute and took his mobile phone out.
"Thanks you two, for stopping me. I just let the anger get the best of me." Jimmy said as he walked over to Sheen and Libby.
"We've lost one friend; we couldn't lose another to something even worse." Libby replied as she placed a hand on one of Jimmy's shoulders.
"Can you guys do me a favour?" Jimmy asked.
"Sure, what?"
"Could you take Goddard and Cindy to my lab? I'll need to repair Goddard and I want to run a scan on Cindy to see what injuries she suffered from her fall. I know that sounds odd, but it'll give me something to do to explore a way to invent something to prevent that from happening again…I don't want to lose anyone else that way." Jimmy explained looking down at his feet, his eyes giving away his feelings.
"Sounds a bit odd, but okay. How do we get into your lab?" Libby asked,
"That you'll need Carl for, it's a secret that I don't share with very many people." Jimmy grinned. "I'll stay here and explain to the police what happened here. Oh and be careful with Cindy, not that you wouldn't be, as I would be surprised if she didn't suffer any broken bones."
"Ok, I'll see you later then Jimmy." Libby said to him as she and Sheen walked off.
"There has to be something I can do." Jimmy thought.
That night, Jimmy was in his lab working on Goddard. He had made a number of extensions to his lab, almost meaning that if he tried to make a new lab somewhere else, it would be months before he could get up and running again. Deep within the back of the lab, VOX was scanning Cindy's form over for all injuries, on Jimmy's order.
Jimmy worked diligently repairing his robotic pet almost mechanically as his mind began to wander.
"I don't know how I didn't figure out she felt the same way about me. We had known each other for the majority of our lives. All those dances we had, always going together, all the adventures and the incidents between us where we'd show affection. How did I not notice any of it? Ten years of all this and I hadn't clicked…and neither had she to think of it." Jimmy thought as he finished repairing Goddard.
Jimmy activated Goddard and Goddard's eyes flashed on followed by the lights in his brain activating.
"Welcome back Goddard." Jimmy said with a smile.
Goddard looked up at Jimmy and barked a few times happily, wagging his tail and giving his master an affectionate lick.
"Shame I can't do much about Cindy." Jimmy sighed. "I guess it was my fault ultimately. If hadn't been so lax at the start I could have done a lot more, and if I had better combat skills I wouldn't have lost all the things I did off my walker…and maybe I should have done more tests on the Neutexium to start with."
Goddard whined and nuzzled Jimmy's side.
"It's getting late, I'm gonna go to sleep. Night boy." Jimmy said as he left the lab.
Goddard walked over to Jimmy's seat at the main computer and began to look over the current scan reports from VOX about Cindy's injuries. Maybe Goddard could find a way to help his master get his life back together properly.
'Jimmy. Jimmy wake up.' A voice said to Jimmy.
'Huh? What?' Jimmy replied as he woke up.
'Jimmy! I'm outside!' The voice said.
Jimmy moved over to his window and opened it to see a slim female figure looking at up him.
'Cindy? Is that you?' Jimmy asked.
'Yeah, Jimmy I have something I really need to show you. Can we go to your lab?' Cindy asked.
'Er, okay. Wait by the door and give me a minute or so.' Jimmy replied as he closed the window.
Jimmy used the express tunnel to get into his lab and moved over to the main computer. He activated the camera and saw Cindy standing outside. He pressed the button which allowed Cindy to fall into his lab. When she landed she groaned.
'Jimmy, you've done it again. You've killed me Jimmy, just like you did before.' Cindy said to him.
'What? I…I didn't…I haven't…' Jimmy's voice trailed off.
'I'll never forgive you for what you've done.' Cindy replied.
'No! Cindy, I didn't want you to get hurt! No!' Jimmy shouted.
"NO!" Jimmy screamed as he shot up and started gasping, his heart pumping madly.
Jimmy ran his hand over his face and sighed, it was a nightmare he had experienced, one that had left him in a cold sweat. His bed was soaked with sweat, so Jimmy got up and looked at his clock which read 3.27am.
"I've got to do something." Jimmy said to himself as he went into his bathroom and dried himself off with a towel. "Think, think!"
"Brain blast!" Jimmy ran out of his bathroom and got dressed and took the express tunnel back into his lab.
When he landed on the floor, he ran over to the main computer and sat in his chair.
"VOX, report on injuries suffered to subject." Jimmy ordered.
"Subject has suffered severe bone breakage of the right shoulder and right arm and fractures of the skull, back and pelvis. Skull fractures are serious but no brain damage has been discovered as of yet. Additionally, subject has suffered internal bleeding in three places." VOX told Jimmy.
"Hmm, okay VOX, proceed with surgery and treatment on the subject, I want the internal bleeding done first followed by the fractures and then the broken bones." Jimmy ordered.
"Orders acknowledged, preparing subject for surgery." VOX said.
By now Goddard had woken up and had walked over to Jimmy. He lifted his chest plate up.
'I'm confused by your actions.' Jimmy read.
"We're going to Egypt Goddard. I'll explain later but first I need to leave a note for mom saying that I won't be here for breakfast. Make your way to the driveway." Jimmy told his pet as he used the express tunnel to go back to his room.
A few hours later, Jimmy woke up from Goddard barking.
"Are we there yet?" Jimmy asked as he sat up.
Jimmy moved to the pilot's seat and looked down and sure enough there was nothing but sand, sand and more sand as far as the eye could see. He checked their position on his GPS system and was pleased to see they had reached Egypt.
"Looks like we're here boy." Jimmy said to Goddard as they landed.
'So why are we in this giant littler tray?' Goddard asked on his screen.
"We're going to the tomb of Queen Hazabataslapya. Myself, Carl, Sheen, Libby and Cindy discovered this tomb nine years ago so get away from that dreadful ninety six hour documentary that Ms. Fowl made us watch." Jimmy said, shuddering at the memory of the documentary.
'You mean this one?' Goddard asked as he played part of the same documentary.
'Tonight it is my turn to tell stories around the campfire. This will be difficult without my tongue.'
"Goddard!" Jimmy shouted.
Goddard stopped the recording and panted happily at Jimmy.
"Come on boy, we've got a date with a tomb." Jimmy said as he jumped out of the hover car and began walking to the tomb's entrance.
Goddard followed closely, not sure what Jimmy was looking for in here. Goddard stopped just outside and barked.
"What now?" Jimmy asked as he turned to face his pet.
'What exactly are we looking for?' Goddard asked.
"An invention of mine that I left in here. The Electro-Life."
'Are you sure that is a wise idea?' Goddard remembered Jimmy's Electro-Life when he was making it. Goddard had assumed that Jimmy had thrown it out as Jimmy never said what had happened to it and it wasn't Goddard's position, in his opinion, to ask such things of his master.
"I know the moral dilemma behind it and breaking the laws of nature, but that isn't the way someone like Cindy Vortex should have gone." Jimmy sighed. "That nightmare I had was awful…it makes me feel ill thinking about it, how she was blaming me for her death and, well, when I think of it from a neutral perspective I can only agree with her. It was my fault; all along everything has been my fault."
'But if it wasn't for you this world would suffer from the madmen you've stopped.'
"Maybe Goddard, maybe. Or maybe it's because I'm a world famous genius that those kinds of people show themselves." Jimmy replied. "But, anyway this is all for another time. Now we've got to search for that Electro-Life device. Flashlight if you please Goddard."
Goddard opened his back and passed Jimmy a flashlight. Both of them walked into the tomb heading the room which had a huge statue of Queen Hazabataslapya in it and the three sleeping mummies after Jimmy's previous adventure there. They walked into the room where Jimmy had blast part of the wall off rescuing Carl from snakes and stopped. Jimmy turned the flashlight on and shone it around the room.
"Man, this place is still kind of creepy, even after nine years." Jimmy commented as he started slowly walking forwards.
They duo kept walking for a few more minutes until they found the room Jimmy was looking for. Goddard looked at the statue then back at Jimmy.
'Queen Hazabataslapya does remind me of Libby.'
"Indeed, which is why we were able to get those mummies to sleep forever, basically. Earth will pretty much be dead by the time they would wake up." Jimmy smirked, pointing at the three sleeping mummies that were snoring away peacefully. "Anyway, follow me."
They walked up the steps and headed to the left side of the statue where the hole in the floor was.
"Okay boy, lower me down." Jimmy said.
Goddard opened his back allowing his crane and winch system to fold out. Jimmy strapped himself to the cable and stood at the edge.
"Okay Goddard, I'm going down." Jimmy said as he picked up the flashlight.
Jimmy tightly held it in his hand as he dropped down, the cable stopping him from falling and Goddard controlled his descent. Jimmy began moving the light around to check the floor to see if he could find his Electro-Light.
"There it is!" Jimmy shouted triumphantly as he reached the floor and untied himself
Jimmy ran over to the Electro-Life and picked it up and quickly glanced over it.
"Looks like it could use a maintenance check and some repair work, but after nine years of being stuck down here, I'd be surprised if it didn't need one." Jimmy said to himself as he walked back to the harness and strapped himself back in.
Goddard winched Jimmy up and a few minutes later they were out of the tomb and back in the hovercraft.
"To be honest, I'm glad we're out of there. Lost tombs are pretty creepy places, even for a scientist." Jimmy said to his pet. "To Retroville!"
That afternoon, Jimmy and Goddard returned to Retroville. They headed to the lab only to find Carl and Sheen waiting outside the door to the clubhouse.
"Jimmy! Where have you been? We were worried about you!" Carl said as Jimmy and Goddard came over to them.
"Yeah dude, you missed a five hour special of Ultralord!" Sheen exclaimed.
"How sad I am." Jimmy replied sarcastically.
"Where did you go?" Carl asked.
"To Egypt." Jimmy said to him as he placed a strand of hair from his head up to the DNA scanner.
"Egypt? Why did you go to a place which is paradise for a cat with bladder problems?" Sheen asked as the clubhouse door opened the four went in.
"Just a little idea I had in mind." Jimmy moved over to the seat at the main computer. "VOX, report on surgery status."
"Huh?" Sheen and Carl both said, confused by what Jimmy had told them.
"Surgery on subject complete. Internal bleeding successfully stopped and shoulder bones placed back together." VOX reported.
"Guys, get Libby and tell her that I want all three of you back here in three hours. I want her to be here for the next phase of my idea." Jimmy said to Sheen and Carl.
Both of them left and Jimmy turned back to the screen.
"Hook up the brain wave scanner and heart scanner to the subject VOX, and report on status if subject is revived." Jimmy ordered VOX, waiting for her response.
"Subject estimated to have a low red blood cell level after possible revival, blood transfusion recommended but not vital. Fractures will restrict movement from laboratory for an estimated twenty day period and a further sixty day period before fractures are healed sufficiently. Shoulder bones will take an estimated eight months before subject will be able to use her arm properly again." VOX told Jimmy.
Jimmy sighed and thought about what he had been told.
"If I can revive her, she won't be in a very good condition. But she'll be alive and she will recover eventually." Jimmy thought as he got out of his chair and proceeded to work on his Electro-Life.
There was a knock on the door that stirred Jimmy from his dozing. He looked at the screen as he switched it to the camera to see Sheen, Carl and Libby standing outside. The three of them fell into Jimmy's lab once Jimmy pressed the button which allowed his 'Welcome' mat to slide away from underneath their feet.
"Ow! My scapula." Carl groaned as he hit the floor of the lab.
"Waaaaa! Oof!" Sheen wailed as he landed on Carl.
"My trick knee!" Carl whined.
"Ye-ow!" Libby landed on top of Sheen. "My back."
"Mine too!" Carl complained as Libby and Sheen stood up.
"Lady and gentlemen, I've been expecting you." Jimmy said as he turned around in his chair to face his friends.
"Well duh, you asked us to come here." Libby replied to him.
"Precisely. I have something to tell you, well show you more like." Jimmy said, getting out of his chair. "Follow me."
They four walked into the back of the lab.
"What's going on in here?" Libby asked as they entered a confined room with Cindy's body hooked up to two machines.
"Good question Libby, and one that I shall answer. You see, there comes a time in life where you experience a huge injustice and you know that you are partly to blame for it. You suffer for a bit but you can't find a way to make it right. However, I have found a way." Jimmy explained revealing his Electro-Life.
The other three gasped.
"Behold! From the depths of Queen Hazabataslapya's tomb…the Electro-Life is back!" Jimmy said dramatically.
"But, what about Cindy's injuries?" Libby asked.
"All taken care of. She will be stuck here for a couple of weeks before she can really get home." Jimmy replied.
"You sure this is a good idea Jimmy? Bringing the dead back to life?" Carl asked.
"What about Swimmy? You seemed perfectly happy when the Electro-Life brought him back." Jimmy countered.
"Well…"
"Cindy's death was premature. Someone with her skills, abilities and beauty shouldn't have met her fate so early in life. Not when someone as evil as Finbarr Calamitous lives…" Jimmy said as he clenched his teeth at the mere thought of Calamitous.
"What are those things?" Sheen asked, pointing at the scanners.
"Heart and brain scanners. Keep an eye on them while I use the Electro-Life to try and stimulate Cindy's brain waves." Jimmy explained as he powered the Electro-Light.
The green beams from each metal ball on the end of the Electro-Light converged into a single beam which then went to Cindy's head. Jimmy kept the beam going, hoping and waiting for the scanners to register anything.
For a few minutes, there was nothing until Libby saw something on the brain scanner.
"Jimmy, look! I think its working." She said excitedly.
Jimmy watched the brain scanner and sure enough the straight line depicting no brain waves had a slight kink in it. It was working, the line started to slowly become a wave as Cindy's brain started to work, sending messages to her body, demanding her cells work once more.
It was cold and dark, and she was alone. Cindy couldn't see anything or hear anything. It was like she was in a dark void with nothing, nothing around her and nothing that she could remember. Until there was something, something which became a thought.
"…" She couldn't remember words but she could think.
Slowly, words began to form again, and not just words but images and memories began to filter through, allowing her to remember things like her parents and her home. What was needed to make one tonne of Steel and how to boil an egg. She started to remember her own voice and how she sounded when she was angry, when she was happy, sad and much more.
"I…I am Cindy. Cindy Vortex. Cynthia Aurora Vortex from Retroville. I…am smart, young and attractive and…I have no boyfriend? I think…or do I?" She thought.
Her mind was racing as everything started to come back to her. The fight, the fall, the destruction of the EMP device…everything. In that instant her eyes shot open, her vision nothing but a blur, and she tried to sit up but only to be caught by the agony from her back. She shouted in agony when a pair of hands rested her back down.
"Cindy! You're alive!"
"Jimmy, you've done it! You've brought Cindy back!"
Cindy knew those voices. Libby and Carl. Her vision slowly became clearer and she laid eyes on her friends for the first time in what felt like an entire life time.
"Cindy, I'm so glad you're alive again." Libby said as she hugged her friend. "She's rather cold."
"That is expected, she'll warm up once her body is back in its rhythm…and I probably should install some heaters in here too." Jimmy shrugged his shoulders at Libby.
"J-James?" Cindy asked weakly.
"Cindy? What's up?" Jimmy asked.
"What's wrong with me?" Cindy was rather confused.
"What do you mean?" Jimmy was confused.
"Why do I hurt so much?"
"Fractures and a badly broken shoulder." Jimmy said bluntly.
"I feel…so weak." Cindy commented quietly.
"Weak, but your back at least. I swear that I'll try to never make any more blinding errors like I have done over the years." Jimmy thought to himself as he smiled at Cindy.
A few weeks had passed since Cindy had been resurrected. She had recovered enough, thanks to a super health pill from Jimmy, to return home to recuperate. Life was still slightly hard for her with her broken shoulder, but the fractures she had suffered were mostly healed and Jimmy and Libby visited her pretty much all the time which made her feel pleased. Sheen and Carl would come round sometimes when they weren't working but really she didn't mind them not coming over too much as Carl would always end up complaining about a problem of his and Sheen would just get bored far too quickly.
This time it was just her and Jimmy, alone as her parents were out for the afternoon. Jimmy was standing at the window in her room, gazing out of it while she was sitting up in her bed dressed in her pyjamas with the heavy bandaging around her right shoulder bulging out.
"Can you remember anything about being…dead?" Jimmy asked.
"Just feeling very cold and it being very dark really…I don't know if you could remember being dead as after a few moments I was awake. I think those first feelings must have been when my brain started to race and all the images, feeling and memories started to come back." Cindy replied to him, shaking her head.
"You think I made the right decision?" Jimmy turned to face her.
Cindy shrugged her left shoulder at him and tilted her head slightly to one side as she gazed at him.
"As inquisitive as ever and as handsome as ever. Some things never change." She thought, allowing herself to smile slightly.
They gazed at each other for a few moments, almost hypnotised by each other, admiring what they saw. Jimmy blinked a few times and broke out of his trance, blushing a little. He felt nervous about being around her like this again.
"I don't know why I'm nervous; she is my girlfriend isn't she?" Jimmy thought. "Well, actually no, she isn't. We never actually got together did we?" Jimmy lowered his head, his expression filling with disappointment.
"Jimmy, what's wrong?" Cindy asked.
Jimmy walked over to Cindy's bed and sat down next to her. He sighed and Cindy placed her hand on his and looked at him, concerned about him.
"Cindy…" He stopped. The words wouldn't form and his mind abandoned him.
"Yes?"
"There is something I want to ask you but I can't get the words to form…" Jimmy eventually said.
"Spit it out, Neutron." Cindy said.
"Okay, here goes. Cindy…erm, do you wanna be my girlfr…gir-" Jimmy stammered.
"'Girlfr?'" Cindy raised an eyebrow.
Jimmy looked away and cleared his throat. Cindy sighed at him.
"Look Neutron, we both know what you wanna say, so just say it!"
"Okay, okay." Jimmy looked back at her and took a deep breath. "Cindy, will you be my girlfriend?"
"He's finally asked me!" Cindy shouted with joy inside her head.
"My God, I can't believe I finally just said it." Jimmy thought as he waited for Cindy's response.
"Jimmy, I…" She stopped.
Inside, Jimmy dropped. Surely she couldn't dump him?
"Of course I will, Jimmy. You know as well as I do that we are meant to be." Cindy said with a mischievous grin on her face.
"That little devil! Making me think that she was gonna dump me! I'll get her back for that!" Jimmy thought as an equally mischievous grin formed on his face.
Jimmy moved closer to Cindy and kissed her full on the lips. Cindy kissed back as she placed her arm around him.
"I love you Cindy." Jimmy whispered to her.
"I love you too." She replied.
Jimmy walked across the street and headed for his lab, he was overjoyed with Cindy now officially his girlfriend. He was humming happily as he walked past a manhole cover when suddenly the cover was moved and he was sucked down, the cover falling back into place.
"Ouch." Jimmy said as he landed on the floor.
"Welcome back Agent Neutron." A familiar voice said.
Jimmy got up and dusted himself off. He looked around and realised he was in BTSO headquarters.
"Commander Baker? Seriously, can't you just contact me by normal methods?" Jimmy asked as Commander Baker came forwards out of the shadows.
"Too risky. We'd like to congratulate you on defeating Professor Calamitous and Eustace Strych, both has been convicted for their attempt to take over the world." Commander Baker explained to Jimmy.
"So, what will happen to them?" Jimmy asked.
"Professor Calamitous will see out the rest of his days in an Isolation Chamber." Commander Baker replied.
"And Strych?"
"He's been sent to a hard labour camp for ten years, and he won't be able to buy his way out as we've taken the liberty of freezing all his assets." Commander Baker said proudly.
A smile appeared on Jimmy's face.
"We'd like to present you with this medal for your courage and bravery for defeating those two madmen. Congratulations Agent Neutron." Commander Baker said as he handed Jimmy a medal.
Jimmy took the medal and looked it over. It was solid gold with the American flag emblem imprinted in it with a blue and white ribbon.
"Thanks Commander Baker, Agent Neutron is always ready to help BTSO if needed." Jimmy said as he shook Commander Baker's hand. "How do I get out of here now?"
"Same way you came in." Commander Baker said as Jimmy was sucked out of BTSO headquarters.
Jimmy was thrown out of the manhole with just enough effort and landed on his feet. He stood up and looked at the medal in his hand.
"I didn't really want to say this to Commander Baker, but I don't really deserve this. I know someone who does though." Jimmy thought as he turned around.
He knew her parents were home as they had returned while he was there. Jimmy walked over and knocked on the front door. The door opened.
"Oh, hey James." Jimmy was greeted by Cindy's dad.
"Hey, do you mind if I visit Cindy for a few minutes? I was given something but I feel she deserves it more than I do." Jimmy said.
"Okay, come in."
Jimmy went immediately up to Cindy's room and knocked on her door.
"Come in." Cindy yelled.
Jimmy opened the door and walked in to see that Libby was there too.
"Hey Jimmy, Cindy's told me about you two." Libby greeted Jimmy and winked at him.
"Yeah, well, uh, yeah." Jimmy cleared his throat as he moved over to Cindy and gave her a kiss.
"Can't stay away from a helpless damsel can you?" Cindy said to him with a smile.
"Heh, well I'm here to give you something." Jimmy replied and then thought about what he said. "Probably should rephrase that."
"Jimmy! Can't you wait until I've gone?" Libby mocked him.
Both Jimmy and Cindy blushed as Libby started laughing at them.
"Okay, okay seriously now. I was given a medal by BTSO for defeating Calamitous and Strych, but really I don't feel I deserve it. I couldn't have defeated them without your help Cindy, so I'd like to give you this medal for the part you and Goddard played in aiding me." Jimmy explained to Cindy, handing her the medal.
Cindy took the medal and looked at it.
"It's beautiful. Thank you so much Jimmy, that means a lot to me." Cindy said to him.
"I'd like to stay longer but I've gotta go, I've got an experiment on the go in the lab and I need to watch over it." Jimmy said apologetically.
"That's okay sweetie, you go and finish your experiment. I'll be here tomorrow." Cindy smiled at him.
As Jimmy left, Libby moved over next to Cindy and looked at the medal.
"Wow, wish Sheen would give me a gift like this." Libby commented.
"Well, you just need a boyfriend who is a genius, a secret agent and a lovely guy all in one." Cindy giggled at Libby.
"Yeah, yeah, rub it in why don't you?"
Cindy smiled sweetly at Libby as Libby shook her head.
"Well I'm gonna go home now. I suspect Sheen will call me sometime asking me to go over and watch UltraLord with him, or something like that. See ya later Cindy." Libby said as she hugged Cindy and left.
Cindy placed the medal on her bedside table and sighed.
"What an eventful number of weeks I've had. Found out I don't mind being a grease monkey, flown a decrepit ship halfway across the solar system, managed to do endure Sheen for a few days without assaulting him, crash landed safely, helped Jimmy save the world and tell him I love him at last, died in said battle to save the world and be resurrected with some bad injuries. But I have a lovely medal and now the man that I've wanted ever since I laid eyes on him is my boyfriend. The highs and lows of one's destiny is indeed a bittersweet taste, but well worth experiencing with a genius who bends the laws of nature at your side." Cindy said to herself.
Life with a genius is adventurous and frustrating at times, but it's a life that Cindy wouldn't swap for anything else.
"How are the preparations coming?"
"Very well sire. We should be ready for an attack in three years."
"Excellent. Soon Jimmy Neutron will feel my wrath and this time I will win!"
THE END…for now.
Looking back on this chapter, all I can is that I'm shocked with how long it is! I never actually intended this chapter to be so long but I must have just had a huge amount of inspiration from somewhere. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed reading this story and I might well look over some of the other chapters and lengthen them in anyway if I feel I can add more.
Big thanks for using your time reading my story.
Strafe.