-Chapter I-
Beginnings
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"CINDY!" Jimmy Neutron shouted at the top of his lungs. "I said GET OUT!"
A blonde ponytail flopped up from behind one of the many machines in Jimmy's lab, followed by a brilliant pair of green eyes, which were currently shining in anger.
"For Pete's sake, Jimmy! It's just a stupid lab! Why don't you want me in here, anyways!?"
"One, you're annoying! Two, You're distracting me! Three, give me that remote back!" Jimmy said, "I'm not finished with it yet!"
In response, Cindy stuck her tongue out and bolted.
"Ugh!" Jimmy moaned to himself, "I'll just restore manual control and finish this up the hard way. Stupid girls..." He walked up to his main computer, and with a few commands, a view of an isolated room appeared. "Now, just to finish updating Goddard. I really need that remote." He said.
The 'window' revealed Goddard, currently offline, on his back atop what looked like a medical table, with a few mechanical arms hovering above him implanting new equipment.
THUMP!
"AAH!" Jimmy shouted, turning around and jumping off his seat in surprise.
"Hello, Jimmy!" Sheen shouted exuberantly as he got up off Carl, who was laying on the floor.
"Ow." Carl mumbled, rubbing his nose.
"Oh, it's just you two guys." Jimmy sighed with relief, "I thought Cindy blew something up."
"Where!?" Sheen looked about quickly, "I wanna see!"
"I said, "I thought Cindy blew something up.'" Jimmy repeated patiently.
"Oh...Dang! I wanted to see an explosion!" Sheen complained.
"Whatcha doin', Jim?" Carl asked curiously.
"I'm just updating Goddard with a new weapon system." Jimmy replied casually, "I figured the old one was outdated, and I've been wanting to power Goddard up for that Invention Convention they're having soon."
"I've always wanted to go to one of those!" Sheen said, "Take me! Take me!"
"I wanna go too!" Carl said, more energetically.
"Of course!" Jimmy laughed, "Why'd I go without you guys? Aren't we a team?"
"Yeah..." Carl said, "Uh...Speaking of weapons and stuff, haven't you heard about the stuff on the news?"
"You mean, the rising crime rate, and all the weird weather we've been having?" Jimmy asked, "Yeah, I'm a little worried, I'll admit, but this has been a good year for weird weather. I'm not any more uneasy than a week ago."
Sheen whipped back to Jimmy and asked, "So, when's the invention thingy?"
"It's in two weeks." Jimmy answered, "I should be finished with my project by then."
"What project is that again?" Carl asked, "I lost count at 5543..."
"It's what I'm working on now, silly!" Jimmy laughed, "I'm also enhancing Goddard's flight capabilities, thought processors, the whole shebang!"
"Will he be ok?" Carl asked timidly.
"He'll be the same, good old cyber dog as ever. Think of this as my answer for all the crime."
"Aw! Come on, Jimmy, is Goddard gonna be the only hero around here!?" Sheen complained.
"Of course not." Jimmy said, "If you guys are interested in helping out...I'll think of something, I promise!"
Sheen clapped his friend on the shoulder, and cheered, "Sounds good to me!"
"Yeah, as long as we don't do any spinning...I don't like barfing." Carl replied.
"Yeah, shoe barf is totally EW!" Sheen said, "Reminds me of that one time we snuck into Retroland at night. That was fun!"
"I'll never go there at night again." Carl shuddered.
"Salami legs never did work well anyways." Sheen commented.
Jimmy looked at his crazy friend for a moment, staring blankly at him, then he snapped back to reality. "Ok, I need to keep an eye on Goddard, guys. I'll hang out with ya later. How about at the Candy Café?"
"Sounds good, Jimmy! See ya there!" Sheen called back as he left for the exit door.
"Don't forget, Jimmy!" Carl said.
"I'll be there!" Jimmy promised.
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"I'm READY!"
A steel door flew open on the front of a pineapple, and a yellow sponge with big blue eyes, a white shirt, brown pants, little red tie, black shoes, and buckteeth jumped out.
"I'm READY!" Spongebob repeated.
"Hello, Spongebob!" Patrick shouted, jumping from behind Spongebob's house.
"Hey, there, Patrick!" Spongebob said, "How are you doing this fine morning?"
"Fine." Patrick said, before belching really loud, "Wanna go grab some weenies at the Weenie Hut?"
"Naw, I gotta go work at the Krusty Krab." Spongebob said, pulling out his work hat and a spatula, "Maybe after I get back from work!"
"Where was I going again?" Patrick asked, confused.
"The Weenie hut?" Spongebob replied.
"Oh, yeah! That's right!" Patrick said. He turned to walk off and called back, "I'll see ya later, Spongebob!"
"See ya Patrick! HEY! Watch out for that-"
WHUMP!
"...Car..." Spongebob said quietly.
"I'm ok!" Patrick yelled.
It was just another day in the life of Spongebob Squarepants as he walked to work. Just another ordinary crazy day.
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"Nothing like resting out in the sun." Timmy Turner sighed with contentment. He lay stretched out on a lawn chair, which was resting on hot yellow sand.
"Boy, it sure is hot out here!" Cosmo said while cooling himself off with a paper fan. While he was waving it, it caught on fire, and he flew about screaming for a few moments before Wanda put him out with a blast of water.
"Of course it's hot." Wanda commented, "We're out in the middle of an Egyptian desert!"
"Oh, is that right?" Cosmo asked, wringing his clothes dry, "I thought we were in Timbuktu!"
"Nope!" Timmy said, "Egypt is awesome for sunbathing!"
"Look! I'm making a sand castle!" Cosmo exclaimed in childish excitement.
Wanda ignored him. "Shouldn't you be working on your history project, Timmy?"
"Naw, it's almost summer anyways. Missing the project won't make me fail History."
"Especially when you're already failing." Wanda said, "You've got a 65!"
"Big deal!" Timmy waved his arms about, "I'll go find a mummy and bring it back. Happy?"
"Oooh! Like, the kind of mummies that suck your blood and eat your flesh!?" Cosmo asked, wide eyed.
"Uh, more like the kind that's stiff and well behaved?" Timmy suggested.
"Oh, you mean one of them dead guys!"
"Duh!"
"Well, why didn't you say so?!"
"First, we better get home, I'm burnt to a crisp." Timmy said, standing up on his seat. He was cherry red with sunburns. "I wish I wasn't sunburned!"
Cosmo and Wanda raised their wands, and with a poof of magic smoke, Timmy was completely un-burned and dressed in normal clothes, instead of swimming trunks.
"Alright! I wish we were home!" Timmy said. They disappeared amidst another poof, and reappeared in the middle of Timmy's room.
"Cool! We took Fort Cosmo back with us! YAY!" Cosmo cheered. Timmy looked right in the middle of his room, where a gigantic sand castle now stood. Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps in the hallway outside Timmy's room.
"It's my dad!" Timmy whispered, "He's gonna kill me!"
Wanda was about to magic the sand away, when Timmy's dad peered around the corner. He didn't see any fairies.
"WHOA!" Timmy's dad exclaimed, "Timmy, you need to let me know next time you decide to build a sand castle in your bed room!"
"Uh, sure?" Timmy said.
"Because I want to help!" his dad exclaimed. "WHEE!"
He ran in and crawled through the tiny entrance at the bottom, and stood up inside, unfortunately causing it to collapse on him. "OOOH!, Pain!" A second later, the floor broke out from beneath them and filled the kitchen with sand. Timmy clutched the rough floor with one hand, which eventually slipped. He yelled for a second before landing in the sandy kitchen with a thump, just as his mom walked in the door.
"Timmy! Clean up this mess! Here's the broom!" Timmy's mom said as she handed him the cleaning tool.
Timmy's dad got out of the sand and started dusting himself off. "I'll call a construction worker later."
"Another Friday." Timmy sighed. It was after school, of course. "Ya love them, ya hate them."
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"Take THIS!" Danny Phantom cried. He wound up a punch and knocked a spectral lion away, which landed on it's feet and roared back at him.
"I never was much of a cat lover." Danny commented, just before the lion pounced on him. He tucked his legs in and kicked it up high into the air, then flew after it and grabbed it by the tail.
"Let's see if ghost cats land on their legs too!" Danny grunted. "HY-YAH!" He spun around and flung the ghost lion back towards the ground, where it crashed into a cage.
The half-boy-ghost landed back on the ruined pathway of an abandoned zoo, and faced the lion as it stood back up.
"Obviously you can take a few hits."
"ROOOOOOOOAAAAAARR!"
"Come here, Kitty kitty kitty!" Danny called out. "Sam! Have the trap ready yet?"
"Not, not yet!" Samantha Manson called out from behind a pile of rubble, "The Fenton Thermos isn't charged yet! The ghost would escape if we tried it now!"
"So, I guess I have to play as his chew-toy for a bit longer?" Danny groaned, "This sucks."
The lion walked around Danny in a circle, trying to find the best possible way to attack. It finally pounced with an earsplitting roar, which he countered with a Ghostly Wail attack. The soundwaves caught the ghost and hurled it along the derelict park at supersonic speeds, and slammed it into an old ticket booth. Danny was quick to pursue, and by the time the lion cleared itself from the rubble he tackled the ghostly feline and knocked it away again. Danny then fired a ray of ghostly energy from his palm and blew it back up into the air, where he chased it down and unleashed a flurry of rapid punches. He finished with an axe kick and sent it hurtling back down to the ground, and it left a crater when it crashed.
Danny landed softly on the ground, and shifted back to his human form. "That's one cat that's out of extra lives."
"It's all finished charging." Sam announced, walking out from behind her cover, "Ya know, this whole ghost catching business is more fun than think."
"Oh, please." Danny rolled his eyes jokingly, "Yeah, let's get up Saturday morning at five o' clock and go on a ghost safari!"
Sam chuckled.
"...I don't believe I've seen a ghost Giraffe yet." Danny said absently, "There's one ghost I don't care to see."
"Come on, Giraffes are cool!" Sam said, "They have these crazy long necks and can reach the tops of trees way up off the ground!"
"Would I be cool if I had a long neck and ate veggies too?" Danny asked, shifting back into his ghost form. "Is this 'cool'?" He grabbed his hair and pulled his head up high, lengthening his neck by at least two feet. "Are Giraffes cool because they eat only veggies?"
"Well, partly." Sam admitted to his last question, "You, on the other hand, are cool the way you are. Did you know you look like a freak when your neck's long like that? When did you learn to stretch your body, by the way? I've never seen you do that before!"
"Oh, this?" Danny replied, stretching his arms out like tentacles, "It's a trick I just learned recently. I can't do all that much with it yet, but it might come in handy."
"So, how's about we catch that crazy cougar and get back to that 'date' of ours?" Sam asked.
"I can't believe I got so sidetracked!" Danny groaned in frustration, "I'm sorry, Sam!"
"I'm fine." she said, "It's just as enjoyable watching you battle!"
"That's a first..." Danny said while scratching the back of his head, "I'll go get the puss and we can be on our way."
Suddenly, the lion roared and leapt from the crater, as angry as ever.
Danny sighed, "Uh of, looks like the cat's outta the bag...OOOMPH!"
The lion bowled into him and pinned him on the ground, and turned its head sideways, about to bite his head off. He phased, and the ghost lion's head met pavement.
It stepped backwards a few times, then fell on its rump and whined. Danny quickly flipped back up to his feet, and stepped behind Sam as she readied the Fenton Thermos.
"In ya go, crazy carnivore!" Sam shouted, thrusting a silver cylinder forward. The lid popped open and a green spiral of energy flew ahead and snared the lion, which roared defiantly while being sucked in. When the last ghostly hair of the devil was inside, Sam snapped the lid shut, and it was done.
Danny shifted back to human, and held Sam's hand, "Nice catch. I don't think any old grannies want to adopt this kitty, though!"
"Yeah, he's kinda rough." Sam agreed, "So, what now? Do we return to your house and send him packing?"
"Naw, he can take a snooze in the back seat, Tonight, it's me, you and the town!"
"That's my Danny!" she squealed.
"I wonder how Tucker's doing." Danny wondered.
"He's a busy mayor, from what I hear. It's still hard to believe."
"He's a responsible dude, just what our town needs. With the three of us, this place couldn't be any safer!" Sam agreed silently with a nod of her head, and the twosome started the trek back to the car waiting for them in the abandoned parking lot.
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"XJ9!"
"Yes?" Jenny replied, finishing up a few touches to her already super shiny appearance.
"XJ9! Are you finished preparing for the End-of Year Prom yet!?" Ms. Wakeman persisted.
"No, Mom!" Jenny sighed, "I can't just smear Crisco on and call it a day! I have to look good!"
"Hurry up XJ-"
"It's JENNY!" Jenny shouted in exasperation.
The cyan-colored robot girl took a cursory glance at the mirror in front of her, to make sure she looked the way she wanted to.
She looked at the metal dress that rested on her body, and said, "Cute little dress, check!" Next she twitched the single triangular blade that poked up from the top of her head, "Ponytail, check!"
She was also all polished up, and after rotating her body once she answered her mom.
"All ready now!" Jenny announced. A few seconds later, Ms. Wakeman peeked into the room. She was dressed in her usual sunflower yellow button-up coat and high heels with black pants.
The inventor looked at her 'daughter' through her enormous glasses a moment before speaking. "You look absolutely dashing, X-I mean, Jenny."
"Thanks, Mom!" Jenny smiled widely, "I feel wonderful! I'm kinda sorry to see my first year of school end, but it's been wonderful!"
"I've been meaning to ask..." Ms. Wakeman started saying quietly, "Who are you going to the dance with again?"
"Uh..." Jenny said, "Well, it's sort of a group thing with Brad and Sheldon..."
"Haven't those two made up their minds yet? Boys..." Jenny's mom muttered.
"Brad can't find anybody, big surprise, and Sheldon absolutely refuses to go with anybody else." Jenny explained.
"And what's Tuck going to be doing? He can't go." Ms. Wakeman said.
"He's going to stay home, I suppose." Jenny shrugged, "Brad's supposed to get a babysitter for him."
"I pity the unknown sitter already."
HONK HONK!
"That'd be Brad!" Jenny said, "I gotta go now, mom! Love you!"
"I love you too, Jenny!" Ms. Wakeman shouted after the robot as she bolted from the room. "I never thought she'd develop into such a character." She said to herself, "She's no robot inside, that's for sure."
Outside, Brad waited in a convertible parked on the curb. Sheldon was in the back seat, looking enviously at Brad, who's arm rested on the seat Jenny was soon to occupy.
"Brad! You finally got your driver's license!" Jenny said.
"Yep!" Brad affirmed with a bright smile. He smoothed his hair out while Jenny took her seat, and Sheldon sighed dramatically.
Jenny started chattering quickly. "So, how's everybody doing? I'm so glad testing is over!"
"Me too." Brad agreed, finished fixing his flaming orange hair. He adjusted the rose in his lapel, and then turned the keys to start the car up. "We haven't seen each other in a week, thanks to those tests! Now's the perfect time to chill out and have fun!"
"Those tests weren't so hard." Sheldon scoffed.
Suddenly, Tuck, Brad's little brother, popped up from the back seat next to Sheldon, causing everybody to jump. "I wanna dance too!"
"Tuck!" Brad shouted, "What'd I tell you about coming with us!?"
"But we couldn't find a babysitter, remember?" Tuck whined, "Besides, I can out dance you ANY day! Look at me, I look like a perfect gentleman!" His older brother looked into the rearview mirror, which displayed Tuck standing on the seta, dressed in shiny black shoes, a tux, a top hat, and even a little cane. "Yeah, you really look like a man." Brad rolled his eyes, his voice dripping sarcasm.
"You look fabulous, Jenny!" Tuck said, clinging to the back of his brother's seat.
"Thanks! Everybody looks good tonight." Jenny said, having also seen Sheldon's tux.
"ACHOO!"
"Bless you!"
"Thanks." Sheldon replied in a stuffy voice, "I'm allergic to flowers...I hope I don't make a fool of myself."
"This prom will go swell." Brad spoke confidently, "This will be one of the best nights of our life!"
"I hope so!" Jenny said, "I've been looking forward to this for forever!"
"I just hope those Krust Cousins don't show up." Sheldon said, shuddering at the thought.
"Ugh, me too."
Brad scowled while adjusting the rear-view mirror. "Don't count on it." He started the ignition, and they were off.
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Unbeknownst to the heroes...In the dark sky above, a patch of stars above each area shuddered, and rotated a few degrees before completely disappearing from view.
Preoccupied by his or her business, nobody noticed the phenomenon. Soon, life was about to become incredibly interesting.
And dangerous.
Friends who have once fought evil together before will once again fight to preserve peace, and will be joined by new allies. How this will end remains to be seen...
To be Continued...