Consequences
A Jimmy Neutron Time Travel Epic
By Snazzo
"Time travel is like a box of chocolates … you never know what you're gonna get."
Chapter One:
Consequences
By Snazzo
"You may wonder why I've gathered you all here," Jimmy said, rocking back and forward on his heels as he stood in his lab, wearing his labcoat.
"Is it threaten our lives with your ridiculous inventions time again?" Cindy asked. She and Libby laughed.
"No!" Jimmy said.
"That's okay Jimmy," Sheen said. "Its been a week since our last life threatening adventure."
"Up until now, for the most part, I've used my genius just to have fun," Jimmy explained. "Of course I saved the world a couple times too."
"Oh yeah!" Libby snorted. "I had loads of fun being deleted!"
Cindy agreed. "And I had loads of fun being sucked into outer space by a giant tornado!"
"I vote for the Malibu Death Machine!" Carl declared.
"Not me!" Sheen said. "I liked being threatened by Robofiend. That was awesome!"
"Come on guys, listen!" Jimmy said. "This could very well be our most important and historical adventure yet! I have decided that it is time to use my genius for the benefit of all mankind. To that end, we are about to embark on an epic journey to confront one of the greatest villains of all time!"
"Robofiend?" Sheen asked.
"King Goobot?" Carl asked.
"The guy who invented algebra?" Libby asked.
"Oo, I know. That annoying guy on American Idol!" Cindy said.
"No, no, no!" Jimmy exclaimed. "I am talking about none other than that mad man, Adolf Hitler."
"Adolf Hitler?" Sheen asked. "Who's he?"
"Sheen!" Libby said. "Were you asleep during history? Miss Fowl has been talking about World War Two for two weeks now."
"Oh yeah, World War Two," Sheen said. "Man, they had some awesome battles! I really liked the Battle of Midway." Sheen made a rat-a-tat sound and then mimicked a bomber diving.
"Sheen!" Jimmy said. "Its no joking mater! World War Two was perhaps the greatest calamity of the last century. Destruction of most of Europe, great parts of northern Africa, China, Japan, the Far East, and half of Russia. The cost was in the millions, if not billions. The loss of life was staggering. Whole cities reduced to rubble. To say nothing of the Holocaust. And Adolf Hitler was almost single handily responsible for it all."
"But Jimmy, what can we do about that?" Cindy asked. "We're just kids, and that was years ago. Grandpa landed in Normandy, and he met grandma at a celebration back home when the war was over. VE Day I think it was called. I mean, we won after all, isn't that good enough?"
"Yeah Jimmy," Libby agreed. "Miss Fowl called it the 'Good war.'"
"No! Its not good enough! If I can prevent World War Two from ever happening I'm sure the world will be much better off. We may even have a utopia by now, if so many resources and so much manpower hadn't been wasting fighting a war."
"What's a utopia Jim?" Sheen asked.
"A utopia is a perfect society. Can you imagine it? No disease, no war, no ecological damage, no pollution, everyone educated, clothed, working, productive and happy."
"And guacamole bars?" Sheen asked.
"Who can say Sheen?" Jimmy said.
"And just how are we going to go after Hitler?" Cindy asked, then answered her own question. "Oh no Jimmy, no! Not time travel!"
"Yes! Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Temporal And Relocation Displacement System. Or Tardis, for short." Jimmy unveiled a large car that looked remarkably like the Astrocar.
"It looks remarkably like the Astrocar we won from Meldar," Carl said.
"It is! But now I've incorporated the temporal mechanics, tachyon generators, and paradox prevention protocols into it. I had to repair it some after Cindy threw it across the city."
"Man, it looks like the Delorean in Back to the Future!" Sheen said.
"It's perfect, for we'll have to do a lot of traveling. The Chrono-Arch needed two to work, you may recall, and the Time Pincher would be too cramped for all of us."
"Jimmy!" Cindy complained. "When has time travel ever worked for us? Don't you remember all the trouble that happened when you brought Thomas Edison into the present?"
"Yeah Jim," Carl agreed. "We were stuck on the Bat Outta Heck for seven hours."
"That was awesome!" Sheen exclaimed. "I was dizzy for a week and I kept passing out!"
"And don't forget the Copbot," Libby said. "Sheen explained it all to me in his book. And that stupid Copbot destroyed my house."
"Yeah Jimmy, I thought you said that when the Copbot disappeared all the damage he did would be undone too, because he never existed in the first place," Cindy said.
"Well it sure didn't," Carl said. "We were cleaning Libby's house for two days."
"I can't explain that guys," Jimmy said. "Maybe the Copbot had paradox prohibitors, and dimensional stabilizers. In any event, the Tardis is perfectly safe. So let's go make history."
"All right! I hope we see D-Day," Sheen said. "We totally kicked the German's butts."
"I don't know Jimmy," Cindy said. "It still seems very dangerous."
"Come on guys, what could possibly go wrong? Think about it, we'll be responsible for saving millions of lives."
"So what are we going to do anyway?" Libby asked. "Kidnap Hitler and send him back to the Cretaceous period? He deserves to be eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"I move we pop him in the nose," Carl said.
"And get rid of that ridiculous mustache. He look like Charlie Chaplin!"
"No, I have an even better idea. Hitler attempted a coup now known as the Beer Hall Putsch. In 1923, long before the war, Hitler tried to set up a new German government. He was arrested for high treason and thrown in jail for five years at a place called Landsberg Prison. He was pardoned though, and the rest they say, is history. My idea is this: Just keep him in prison. Give him a life sentence. No Hitler in charge of Nazi Germany, no World War Two. It's foolproof! And we don't even have to resort to violence."
"Well, I guess that does make a little bit of sense," Cindy reluctantly agreed.
"Everyone into the TARDIS," Jimmy said and the all climbed in, including Goddard. "Time: June 1, 1924. Place: Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany. History, here we come!"
The Tardis shot out of the top of Jimmy's clubhouse and disappeared in an explosion of temporal energies.