Destiny Is A Bittersweet Taste
Disclaimer: I don't own Jimmy Neutron or any characters or gadgets and equipment associated with the Jimmy Neutron TV program (unfortunately).
In this story the kids are all young adults aged 20 (Sheen is 22).
Chapter 1: Asteroid Embarrassment
Jimmy cracked his knuckles and picked up his laser shovel and began eyeing the ground. He moved a few steps forward then thrust his shovel into the ground, grunting loudly in a vain effort to make the shovel bite deeper into the rocky ground. He pulled back and lifted the shovel, causing some of the rock to break off and lay on his shovel as he brought it out of the ground.
"Goddard, analyze the asteroid chunk for trace elements of Mineral #265." Jimmy ordered his robotic pet.
Goddard barked as his back opened and a hand extended carrying a scanner. The hand came over the chunk of rock and Goddard began scanning it for what Jimmy was after.
Jimmy knew the scanning would take a few minutes as it had to be a thorough scan so he had decided to observe his companions. First he looked over to Carl and Sheen who, as usual, hadn't really done much in the way or work and were busy arguing about something.
"Probably still about where Baloney comes from or something to do with Ultra Lord and llamas." Jimmy thought to himself.
His gaze moved to the right where he saw Libby dancing away to some music. Granted she had done more work than Carl and Sheen put together, but still very little had been done.
"It's a good thing that I knew those 3 wouldn't be too much help to begin with. Scientific journeys into space aren't their kind of thing if work is involved. Nonetheless, their conversations can keep me amused while we are out here." Jimmy thought.
Finally, he looked further right and saw Cindy busy digging away. Jimmy's shoulders slumped slightly and his mouth dropped open.
"Oh Cindy, as usual you are working hard for me. Where the others fail to see my goals you know what I want to achieve." Jimmy's eyes glazed over as he starred at Cindy. "I should have enough time to pay you a little visit."
Jimmy began walking over to Cindy, fixed on her actions and admiring her well built form. Cindy stopped for a moment to wipe sweat off her brow and shake her head, her blonde ponytail swaying back and forth a few times before stopping. Seeing this, Jimmy promptly started drooling as he approached her.
"H-hey Cindy, how are you getting along?" Jimmy asked nervously as he got close to her.
"Doing fine I guess, James. You know if this stuff has what you want in it yet?" She asked looking up at Jimmy as their eyes met and her gaze became fixed on Jimmy's eyes.
"Goddard will be able to tell me soon…" Jimmy stopped mid-sentence. "Erm…I was wondering…once we get back to Retroville. Er…"
"Yes?" Cindy raised an eyebrow and a hopefully expression formed on her face.
"Well…I…er…you see…" Jimmy stammered "Come on Goddard, that scan must be done now. Save me from this!"
Across the asteroid, Libby had run over to Sheen and Carl.
"Hey guys! Look! Cindy and Jimmy are over there by themselves. I think Jimmy is gonna ask Cindy out tonight." Libby said with an evil grin appearing on her face.
Carl and Sheen whirled around to see Jimmy nervously trying to ask Cindy something.
"Awesome! This is almost as good as watching the European Director's cut of UltraLord Episode number 27: Ultra Lord vs. Robo Fiend's creator, with six minutes and two seconds of bonus footage!" Sheen said in his normal hyperactive way.
"Aww, Jimmy and Cindy getting together at last. How many years have we been trying to get them together now?" Carl asked.
"Ten." Libby replied.
"Hey Jimmy! Cindy! Get a lab!" Sheen shouted.
"Sheen! You're ruining out fun!" Libby exclaimed as she smacked Sheen on his right shoulder.
"Ow!" Sheen yelped as he rubbed his shoulder. "Come on, I was only trying to embarrass them!"
When Jimmy and Cindy heard Sheen, they both turned to Sheen and glared angrily at him. Cindy moved a few steps forward and clenched one of her hands into a fist.
"Shut your yap Ultra Freak or I'll shut it for ya!" She yelled, waving her fist at Sheen. As she turned away, she looked straight at Jimmy who in turn looked at her. Both of them smiled before realising what they were doing and both turned away blushing slightly.
Sheen, Carl and Libby all burst out laughing at the antics of their friends when they were interrupted by Goddard.
"Bark!" Goddard flew to Jimmy and printed off the report on the analysis of the rock sample. Jimmy took the paper and patted Goddard on the head affectionately.
"Thanks Goddard." Jimmy said as he began to read the report. "Hmm…yes…yes…YES! There is some of this mineral in this asteroid! Libby, Carl and Sheen! Get what you have mined and put it into the ship's cargo hold."
"Is there enough for what you want Jimmy?" Cindy asked.
"There should be but I'll need to scan all of this back in the lab to determine how much there is." Jimmy replied "Let's get all this on board."
They all began hauling the rock chunks back to Jimmy's ship and loading it up. After a few minutes work they had finished and climbed aboard to head back to Earth.
"Right, everyone buckle up and we'll head back home. This has been quite a good day for us indeed." Jimmy told the rest of his crew.
The ship Jimmy had created was the newest in his array of high tech creations. It was faster than anything he had ever built (that actually worked) and it was much larger, ideal of large scale operations in space such as heavy mining operations which he was hoping to be able to do with the new mineral he and his friends had found. However, since this ship was much larger, Jimmy had had to make more controls and dials to check that everything was within operational limits and thus he now needed a co-pilot to operate all the controls.
Normally Jimmy would have Goddard to help him but today Cindy had managed to get her hands on the co-pilot's job. Jimmy would have preferred Goddard but he had to admit to himself that Cindy was more than capable of helping control the ship, thanks to his lessons on how to control it. Plus he didn't really trust Carl, Sheen and Libby to be able to do an effective job.
"Hey guys, notice how Jimmy trained Cindy to fly his ship but not us." Libby said to Carl and Sheen quietly.
"Yeah, it's almost as if Jimmy wanted to have some quiet alone time with Cindy." Sheen replied, his voice purposely loud enough for Jimmy and Cindy to hear him. Carl giggled as Sheen's remark.
"Jimmy, where was that ejector button again to get rid of annoying passengers?" Cindy asked Jimmy, clearly making her point what she was not amused with Sheen at all.
"Why, it's right here Cindy. Why don't we 'accidentally' push it while we are flying back to Earth and see what happens." Jimmy said with much frustration in his voice as he turned and gave Sheen an aggressive look.
"Sorry Jimmy." Sheen smiled while trying not to laugh.
Jimmy and Cindy prepped the ship for take off before both going for the throttle control, Jimmy ending up with his hand on top of Cindy's. They looked at each other and blushed before Jimmy took his hand off and turned away very embarrassed, Cindy doing the exact same.
Carl and Sheen sniggered and then started singing "Jimmy and Cindy sitting in a tree". Jimmy and Cindy both turned and glared at them, causing their two friends to stop singing but giggle instead. Libby looked away from the group and quietly sniggered to herself, not wanting to incur the wrath of Jimmy or Cindy.
"Okay, perhaps now we can leave for home." Jimmy said, calming himself down and regaining his composure. "Prepare for lift-off."
"Thrusters engaged. Power cells at optimum level for return to Earth and course set in for Retroville." Cindy stated as she read off the instruments.
Jimmy put his hand on the throttle. "Lifting off in five, four, three, two, one…LIFT OFF!"
The rockets ignited and urged the ship forward, powering along the asteroid until it had reached a sufficient speed when Jimmy and Cindy both pulled on their control sticks to pull the ship off the asteroid's surface and into space.
"Take the ship out of the asteroid belt and then engage the auto-pilot." Jimmy told Cindy before turning to the others. "We should be home in five and a half hours."
However, in another part of the asteroid belt was another ship, one much larger than Jimmy's.
"Prepare to follow and engage them as soon as they've cleared Saturn's rings." One person said.
A second laughed crazily. "Now, old bean, we'll show you that you can't win."
"Oh be quiet. Your laugh is really irritating me now, I don't know why I agreed to join forces with you again." The first said.
"Because, old chap, we both hate Neutron and want to defeat him once and for all. Besides, if it wasn't for me and my large amounts of money, we would never have been able to make this thing."
"'We'? What do you mean 'We'. I'M the one built this thing from scratch; you just kept saying 'I'm not touching anything. Other people do all my work for me'."
"Oh shut up and focus you old fogy. Neutron is getting away!"
"Full speed ahead and onwards to destiny; the oh so tragic end of Jimmy Neutron!" The first laughed maniacally.
First chapter done, with the next coming in a weeks time (Ive written few chapters out bt since I play Worldof Warcraft a lot, it will give me time to write more of the later chapters).
Bit of a slow start to ths story but the action picks up quickly, so I hope it'll be better than it might appear.