Meep! Do you guys still remember me? Well, here we are! Hopefully there aren't too many mistakes.

I don't own Jimmy.

Numbers

"Well, we had best get to work straight away," Andromeda continued. "Follow me please."

They followed her through several long hallways. The walls were cement and they all had video cameras. After turning around too many corners to count they got to a large metal door and Andromeda held up her eye to a scanner.

"Welcome back Andromeda Malet," an automatic voice said as the door lifted to reveal a rather large room. In the center of this room was a long table where about three other agents were also sitting.

"Where the hell is Jimmy?" Was the first question Thea asked when they got inside. The warmth between these two ladies disappeared.

"He was working on a top secret mission for us," Andromeda answered coolly. "So that information is classified."

"My dear Andromeda, may I remind you that my partner has been missing for two months now? Who gives a shit about whether or not his mission was classified?"

Andromeda did not flinch. "I'm sorry, but I simply can not give you those details."

"Then this has been nothing but a wild goose chase!"

"I'm sorry that you feel that way. I told Jet that I would not divulge the details. So you have him to thank for it."

"I bet he thought that you'd come to your senses in person!"

"You know the rules, Agent. I can not divulge a top secret mission. Even if it does involve your precious Neutron."

So they had been involved. Her stomach clenched tightly.

"Shut your face! He is my partner and I want to find him!"

"If he's your partner, why did he take this case without you?"

"I don't know! But I do know that if you don't start helping me soon.. I'm going to have to use force. And we don't want bloodshed now do we?"

"Are you threatening me?"

"I am!" Thea was clear and precise. The silence that fell over the room was thick and heavy.

"You are far outnumbered. Besides, you have that peon with you," Andromeda nodded towards Cindy. She noticed that the fake smile and hospitality had now completely disappeared from her.

"It doesn't matter if I was outnumbered. I could take you all on. You know I could. You'd be left sitting in my dust."

"Agent, I would watch your mouth if I was you."

"Excuse me?" Cindy probed quietly. Both women ignored her so Cindy raised her voice. "Excuse me!"

Finally the two women looked at her, Andromeda raised an eyebrow.

"Neutron specifically asked me to come and so I'm here. I think we all know that he is in great danger. This is wasting valuable time. I think that despite protocol you should stop being such a bitch and help us out. We didn't fly over night just to start from scratch."

Andromeda's jaw fall open. "You have no right!"

"I don't care what I have a right to do. You have to tell us what Agent Neutron was working on for you. That's the only way we'll find him."

Andromeda blinked a few times. "Do our agents not know manners anymore?"

"This one doesn't," Thea answered.

Cindy chose not to give her satisfaction by replying.

"I can't tell you anything," Andromeda repeated.

"Tell us what he might have been working on then," Cindy asserted.

A smirk decorated Andromeda's features. It was as though she had just been waiting for one of them to ask this exact thing."I can see why Neutron wanted you along."

Thea's face was almost purple. It looked as though she was going to explode any moment.

"He might have been working on some threats against the BTSO. He might have been trying to trace where they originated. He might have been close. All of this is pure speculation of course."

"Did he keep records?"

"He did. Unfortunately, they all encoded by Neutron himself. We've tried decoding them with no success."

"Oh great," Thea moaned. "His codes were always damn impossible to break."

"Can I see them?" Cindy asked. Both older agents looked at her as though she'd grown two heads.

"If our top agents can't break these codes there's no way a peon like you could!"

That was the second time this lady had called her a peon. She was going to show her! Show her that she could provide assistance when it came to Jimmy Neutron and his eccentricities.

"I want to see the records."

Andromeda gestured and a man disappeared into the hallway. "I'll let you see them, Agent. On one condition. They do not leave this room."

"Fine," she spat back.

Thea glared at her, but she needed to see them. If this was the way to be do it so be it. A few tense moments passed as the ladies in the room all stared at one another. When the agent came back she took the small leather bound book. The pages were water stained and the writing was scrawling and very hard to read.

Totally Neutron.

52251825O208185120O919O2085O191135O61518O1O2191914 O919O10211920O1O2181914O

920O3114O141520O192015O135

"I'll have to spend some time with it," she admitted.

"Hah! I'm sure it's more complicated then you can ever guess."

"You are probably right, but it's worth a shot," she sat down at the table and began to think.

"Have you tried every cipher?"

Andromeda nodded.

"Every one?"

Andromeda nodded again. Cindy stared at the meaningless numbers. They weren't longitude or latitude. But what could they mean? What was Neutron trying to say?

"Ahem," a voice said.

She raised her head to see that several hours had passed and Thea had fallen asleep on the table. How much time had passed? How long had she been trying to riddle this out? She rubbed her temple utterly beguiled by her ex-boyfriend's antics.

"I think we need a break for this evening, Miss Vortex," Andromeda stated simply. Cindy did not argue and followed Thea and another agent out of the conference room.

"What do you think those numbers mean?" Cindy asked but Thea did not seem to hear her.

"Here we are ladies," the agent they were following said with a reassuring smile. There was a huge metal door in front of her with the number I on it. Thea lifted her hand to the door and pressed her palm against the door frame.

"Access granted. Welcome Agent Thea," a deep voice said. The door opened to reveal a small bedroom with a bathroom attached.

Thea immediately claimed the bed nearest the bathroom.

"I can't believe this," she muttered under her breath and Cindy tried to ignore her. She began to unpack her things when suddenly Thea snorted. " By the way, I wouldn't get too comfortable if I was you. We won't be here long. Not if I have anything to do with it."

Cindy sprawled out on the bed and fell asleep with Neutron's strange numbers racing through her head.

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