Endgame.
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Part One: War.
A.N. Sorry for the wait!
Prologue.
This is the story of a war. A story of two people, destined to fight to the end. All things come to an end. In a single second everything can change. This is a story of love, of death, of taking chances. This is the end of everything. This is the end of Jimmy Neutron. This the end of Cindy Vortex. The end of Eustace Strych. The final moves are about to be made. This is the story of a war.
Extract from Jimmy Neutron's diary, dated 2009.
Have you ever feared something so much, that you would give anything not to do it? Do you know what it is like to live in the shadows, to live in an age of darkness? A time when your every action haunts you, a time when a single choice can be the difference between life and death? I know what it is like to live in such times, and it is as if everything has come to an end. But in a sense, it has.
My name is Jimmy Neutron, and I'm sixteen-years-old. I have a girlfriend called Cindy Vortex, and I have two friends called Libby and Carl. I used to have a third friend, but I'll come back to that.
About four years ago, I met a billionaire boy named Eustace Strych. We were in a final of a competition, and I beat him. Furious at having lost to what he thought was a common person, he challenged me to a battle between our robotic pets. Foolishly I accepted, and managed to destroy his robot pet with the help of Goddard. Strych was now unbelievably angry, and he vowed revenge.
Strych then disappeared, and I hoped vainly that he was gone forever. My hopes were destroyed when he reappeared, this time determined to become the king of Mars. I did all I could to defeat him, and succeeded. Eustace became even more infuriated with me, despite our temporary alliance to stop the Earth's destruction.
Then came The League Of Villains, a terrible group of my past enemies attempting to destroy me. They nearly succeeded, but me and my friends stopped them. I sealed the league away, but they escaped and began to plot my downfall...
Their plans however, never came to fruition. The group could never decide on a way to destroy me, so Eustace left them and sought to wipe me out single handedly. What followed was the beginning of the war, and the beginning of mine and Cindy's relationship. Eustace originally kidnapped my family and friends, and intended to blackmail me into humiliating myself on national TV. He would have killed me afterwards, ensuring I was dead and my name a disgrace. Cindy and the others escaped though, and ruined Eustace's reputation instead. After this, with absolutely nothing left to lost, Eustace vowed revenge and swore both me and Cindy would die at his hand...
Feeling it to be the best cause of action at the time, me and Cindy fled to an island where we were once stranded. Here I came to a startling revelation, I was in love with Cindy. As we enjoyed ourselves on the island, Eustace attacked our city, Retroville, in the hopes of finding and killing us.
I returned with Cindy in tow, and confessed my feelings to her seconds before running away to face Eustace in one final confrontation. The billionaire should have killed me, but another member of The League Of Villains stopped him. This member was my enemy King Goobot, and he informed me that The League wanted Eustace gone as well. We formed a temporary alliance, and fought against Eustace's army together. Eustace attempted to escape, so I followed him. Eventually after a long battle we came to a clifftop, and Cindy joined me in the supposed final battle. Together we captured Eustace, but he threw himself off the cliff to prevent being turned over to the authorities. That appeared to be the end of it. How little we knew.
The next eight months passed without incident, until we received a message from Carl that he had been taken prisoner whilst abroad. Wasting no time at all, me and Cindy prepared ourselves to save him. We made the mistake of not telling Sheen and Libby, and that very mistake still haunts me. As we were about to set off, the future selves of myself, Cindy, Libby, and Sheen appeared from nowhere. They told us of an apocalyptic world where they were being hunted down by a robotic enemy, they agreed to help us save Carl after learning of his captor. The man in question was Desmond Hunt, a shadowy character who had fled from the future to destroy one of my friends. Unfortunately Carl had been in the vicinity.
We arrived at the Island where Hunt was, when a trap was sprung. We separated, and agreed to meet up at the holiday resort Carl was held hostage at. Older Jimmy and Cindy never made it, they were killed before they reached the meeting place. Nobody really knows how they met their demise, or where the bodies are. We soon encountered Hunt, and discovered his plan to betray his master and conquer Earth for himself. The plan never reached its final stages, we rescued Carl and I killed Hunt. However, both Sheen and Libby died; and Carl's Dad didn't make it either. We never discovered where his Mum vanished.
With Hunt gone, The General himself made himself known and all hell broke loose. Sheen and Libby found out about our distrust of him, and Sheen left the group furious. Soon after, one day after actually, Nick Dean joined the group. Without Sheen, Nick battled against the forces of darkness alongside us, if only we had known...
Eventually the real dark master was revealed, none other than Eustace himself. He told the fascinating story of how he survived the fall, and created machine parts to integrate with his damaged body.
Me, Nick, and Cindy tried the stop The Generals rampage of terror, while Libby and Carl attempted to stop Eustace. We succeeded, but Libby and Carl only just escaped.
By now Sheen had disappeared, and Eustace had tricked us into believing he was the elusive Captain D. How wrong we were. As our distrust of Sheen grew, the real Captain D took a bank hostage. Sheen happened to be prisoner of one of the corrupt employees anyway, so he discovered Eustace's master plan: to detonate a bomb to eradicate humanity.
Our trust in Sheen renewed, we tried to trace the bomb. By this time Nick had disappeared, and we all thought him to be dead. Just another mistake...
We found the bomb, and disarmed it with mere seconds to spare. However, our victory was short lived, Captain D was revealed to be Nick, and he swiftly killed Sheen. With the est of us mourning our loss, Eustace dropped yet another bombshell: due to past events which had now be erased from the time-line, I had inadvertently caused him to become the ultimate evil! Reeling from the shocks of Nick's betrayal, and the news that I was the creator of the lord of shadows, Eustace departed.
I soon broke the news to the population of Earth that we were at war, and we formed a new army. This army was full of both humans and machines, and we felt it was as strong as possible. Every citizen on Earth was a member of the army in some way or another, and we waited from news of Eustace's attack.
And now at long last, the war has come to Earth. We have waited for three years, but the bombs have fell. Millions and millions of people have perished, and more will soon. All of Earth is a battleground, its inhabitants one half of the war.
I am writing this so that someone will know what I have been through, because I think my end is near. Some feeling tells me that I won't have the chance to write in this again, so here is my life. The story of a war.