Disclaimer:I do not own any of the characters or anything else from My Life As A Teenage Robot created by Nickelodeon. This fic is only meant for entertainment and nothing else.

Note: The markings of, "(" and, ")"represent any characters actions, just so you know.

Nine is the Loneliest Number

Chapter 1

By Timmy22222001

"AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!" screamed a small child as darted towards the safety of some nearby bushes, "The demon beast has returned, flee for your lives!"

Before the boy could get another step closer to his sanctuary, he was all of a sudden halted by a tall, dark figure in front of him. After looking up to the gargantuan, the boy's skin turned white and his mouth went completely dry.

"Prepare to meet your end." spoke the dark figure to the boy.

The boy immediately turned tail and ran in the opposite direction as fast as he could. Still continuing his screams for help, the boy dared not to look back in hopes that he was outrunning the beast.

Finally making his way to an oak tree, the boy used whatever strength his legs had left, jumped onto the trunk of the tree, and climbed up as fast as he could. After making his way into the top part of the tree, the boy grabbed some of the nearby branches, pulled them over himself, and waited.

At first the child heard nothing around him except the birds in the air and wind as it rustled the green leaves, but then he heard clinking and clanking noises again.

His teeth began chattering and his body was already starting to shake, the boy knew for sure that he was to be noticed by his predator. Quickly putting his hand over his mouth and covering himself with more branches, the lad tried everything he could to be less noticeable. But yet, the approaching steps just kept growing louder and louder with every passing moment. Before the boy knew it, the haunting noise had stopped, and everything was back to being quiet again.

(Looks down to the ground) Oooooohhhhh boy, this is really bad here.

Just before the child could make another move, the tree had begun to shake like mad all the while a voice from below could be heard saying, "Found you!"

Falling to the ground and then landing in a rather small bush the boy got back up to his feet and darted towards a nearby house. Once again, just before he could reach the door, he was all of a sudden stopped, but this time it had grabbed the back of his shirt.

Still trying to run despite being held up in the air, the boy continuously screamed for help while the dark figure let out another laugh.

"Surely you cannot escape me now little one, prepare to meet thy maker." said the figure to small boy.

"Not so fast," screamed a mysterious human figure, "let down my fellow ally you vile cretin!"

The gargantuan turned its head towards the other human and replied, "Never foolish knight! For I have already won this battle, and there is nothing you can do to stop me."

"Oh really," said the knight as he pulled out his sword and shield, "prepare yourself for battle!"

The tall figure laughed and pulled out a large weapon of its own and answered, "I hope you do not break too easily."

"We shall see." said the knight as he readied himself to charge the beast.

Just before either of them could make another move, the young boy all of a sudden yelled, "Wait!"

"TUCK!" replied Brad as he pulled off the bucket that he had on his head, "What is it now."

Tuck grabbed his crotch, crossed his legs, and answered, "Baaaattthhhrooooommmm!"

Jenny transformed back into her regular teenage form and asked, "What?"

Tuck legs began to twitch back and forth as he repeated, "Bathroom! Bathroom, bathroom, bathroom! Oh please I need to use the facilities!"

"You'd better let him down Jenny," said Brad, "I don't think it would be wise to mess with Tuck and his small bladder."

Jenny rolled her eyes and let Tuck down to the ground, "Tuck this had to be the fourth…"

"Fifth," said Brad.

"Right, fifth time you've done this now, what's wrong with you anyways?" said Jenny.

"I'll tell you what's wrong," said Brad as he pointed to the nearby table, "it looks like someone got into all the soda drinks before us."

Tuck smiled and replied, "But I was so thirsty. I couldn't help but drink every one of them to the last refreshing drop!"

Jenny paused for a moment and said, "You do know Tuck that one of those drinks on the table was my oil container right?"

"Ummmmmmm," answered Tuck as he looked over at the empty container of oil of the ground.

"Tuck, what were you thinking!" replied Brad, "That stuff is highly toxic!"

Tuck screamed for a moment with his legs still crossed, "I didn't know! Besides, I really have to pee now, will that do!"

Jenny grabbed Tuck and said, "It won't work now Tuck, it's already too late for you!"

"Too late!" replied Tuck as he continued his dance, "Isn't there anything that I can do!"

Brad and Jenny looked at each other for a moment and then Brad replied, "Well there Tuck, there is one thing that might work."

"Please tell me Brad, I don't want to expire because of soda!" yelled Tuck.

"Alright," said Brad as he put his arms on Tuck's shoulders, "You have to listen to each one of these steps very carefully, you got me?"

Tuck nodded continuously and Brad continued, "Good, now the first thing you have to do it to go up into bathroom."

As Tuck tried to turn around, Brad grabbed Tuck's shoulder, spun him around and replied, "Not yet Tuck, you have to let me finish!"

"Okay," answered Tuck, "but please hurry Brad, I can't hold it any longer."

"Alright," said Brad, "Next turn on the water from the faucet in the sink, bathtub, and don't forget to turn on the shower too. After that, turn off all the lights in the room and then stand in there for at least 2 hours!"

"And…..and!" said Tuck as his ballerina melody with his feet turned to a speedy Riverdance.

"And whatever you do Tuck, under no circumstance are you allowed to actually use the toilet." replied Brad.

"But why?" asked Tuck.

"Because," said Jenny, "the……uhh…..water will absorb all the……emmm….chemicals in your body so you won't get hurt!"

"Right Jen," replied Brad, "and if do decide to use the toilet, the oil will be stuck in your body and you'll end up like your past goldfish, Winston!"

Tuck let out a faint squeak and finally said, "Not like Winston! Fine, I'll do it!"

With that Tuck pulled himself away from Brad grip and darted inside the house screaming, "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"

Brad and Jenny stood outside with their faces up to the upstairs window in Brad's washroom and listened as Tuck turned on the faucets and then turned off the lights. Still standing outside, Brad and Jenny slowly turned toward each other, and after seeing the grin formed on each others face, they immediately burst out laughing.

Jenny fell to the ground with her legs in the air trying to speak amidst her laughter, "I can't…..believe Tuck……fell for it!"

Brad had been holding his stomach also trying to catch his breath and then answered, "Neither can I!"

After a few more minutes of laughter, Brad and Jenny wiped the tears from their eyes, stood back up, and smiled at each other.

"Good one Brad," said Jenny as she gave Brad a small punch in the arm, "you think Tuck learnt his lesson from all of this."

"Actually," replied Brad as he pointed to the upstairs window, "I think he's still learning from it."

Jenny looked up again at the window and immediately she heard Tuck yelling, "WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BURN SO MUCH! WHHHHHHYYYYY!"

Jenny started laughing again while Brad went and picked up the soda bottles on the table, "Thanks for bringing the empty oil can Jen."

"Anytime Brad," said Jenny as she picked up the can, "anytime."

Good old Brad, I'm glad that has still never changed.

Despite all the people Jenny had ever met from the Killgore all the way down to the Teen Team, she was always most fondest of Brad. Had it not been for him or Tuck, Jenny would have never left the outskirts of her room, unless it was to save the world.

But no matter wherever she went, or what she did, being next with Brad always gave her a pleasant feeling of both warmth and comfort. Jenny of course didn't exactly know why these feelings seemed to appear, but she always thought it to be an error in programming and nothing more.

Brad had already finished tossing the soda bottles in the recycle bin and noticed that Jenny had her eyes fixed on him.

"Ummmm Jenny," said Brad as he waved his hand a bit, "something wrong?"

Jenny snapped back to reality, and immediately replied, "Sorry Brad, I didn't mean to stare."

"No problem Jen," replied Brad as he scratched his head, "for second there I thought there was something on me."

Jenny returned with a small smile on her face and said, "Well, good having fun with you Brad, see you tomorrow at school."

"Right see you then Jen," said Brad.

Just before Jenny could make another step towards the door she turned around and said in a giggly tone, "And be sure to fill me on the details with Tuck, okay?"

Brad shook his head with a smirk and replied, "To the last minute."

Jenny waved Brad goodbye and headed out the door. Brad made his way over to the window and watched as Jenny made her way across the street. Brad made a deep sigh and turned towards the kitchen table where he saw that a small yellow note that had been posted.

Dear Brad, your father and I have some business in Europe to take care of. Sorry we had to leave so suddenly, but our head offices called it an emergency. Please keep an eye on your brother, use the credit card we left to order takeout, and emergency numbers are posted next to the telephone. We will try to call you as soon as we get a chance, so take care. -Mom

Brad put the note back down on the table and let out another deep sigh.

Brad and Tuck had always been stuck in an awkward situation like this before, many times over. Brad's parents were of course the business type of people that never got around to spending a lot of time with their family, and of course this sometimes created problems.

It was of course never their parent's fault, for Tuck and Brad both knew that their parents loved them dearly and they always hated it when they had to leave to some far off place. Yet with the unfortunate luck of their parents having so much work to do, Brad and Tuck were lucky enough to see both their parents come home for a day.

After checking the fridge for any leftovers, Brad grabbed a telephone book, and made his way to the phone when he suddenly bumped into something small. Looking down at the ground he saw that it was the empty oil can Jenny had. Placing it on the counter along with the telephone book, Brad sat himself on the chair near the telephone and fixed his sight on the ceiling.

I wish Jenny would have stayed here a bit longer, I really don't like nights like this.

Just then Brad heard Tuck yell, "AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!"

I really wish I had someone else here.

Brad had thought a lot about Jenny, but he could never really get a clear answer. Parts of his mind would always enter cruel thoughts like, "she'd never like you," then other times, "she a robot, try getting a real girl", and many other random thoughts. This usually left Brad in a confused state than he originally started with, but with all that he had thought done, he still enjoyed her company more than anything else.

All of sudden Brad felt a sharp pain in his right leg, and when he looked down he saw that it was Tuck who had struck the blow.

Oh boy...

"So is there a reason for you kicking me Tuck, or am I just a kick-in-the-leg guy here?" said Brad.

"You mister!" said Tuck as he pointed his finger at Brad, "You and your evil plans! I should have realized that it was all a hoax after I used the toilet three times! I will never forgive you for this maniacal and unruly joke, ever!"

"Oh come on Tuck," replied Brad as he put his hand on Tuck's head, "Jenny and I were just having some fun. At least you didn't……"

"Up-bah-bah-bum" said Tuck as he waved his right hand, "I still don't think that there is anything that can be done now to fix this catastrophe!"

Brad raised one of his eyebrows and said, "Oh really?"

"Yes!" replied Tuck with both of his arms crossed over.

Brad shook his head and said, "Tuck what about the time you used my antique comic book collection to clean the furnace?"

"They were old and musty, I thought they would make a perfect cloth." said Tuck.

"Oh?" answered Brad, "and let us not forget the time when you accidentally glued one of mom's China plates to my face.

"I swear the super glue container was closed!" said Tuck.

Brad stared at his brother for another couple of minutes until Tuck said, "Alright maybe that one time, but yet I still refuse to give into this immoral deed! I assure you that I will never forget something as horrible as this till the end of time!"

Brad sat there for another moment, rolled his eyes, grabbed the phone and said, "How would you settle for some Dairy King?"

Tuck paused only for a brief moment before running around in little circles cheering, "Dairy King! Dairy King! Dairy King!"

Brad shook his head and smiled. As soon as Brad attempted grabbed the phonebook and look for the number, Tuck stopped and asked, "Where's mom and dad?"

"Business thing again Tuck," said Brad, "looks like we got the house to ourselves again."

Tuck nodded for a moment and stood silently until he began running around the kitchen floor screaming for Dairy King again.

Brad shook his head once more and began dialing the number.

Meanwhile at Jenny's House,

Jenny had already made herself comfortable upstairs with a Fashion Girl magazine when she heard the front door open from downstairs. After putting down her magazine and making her way to the top of the stairs Jenny saw that it was her mom who had just come home.

Just as Mr. Wakeman was taking off her coat, she noticed Jenny from the corner of her eye and said, "Oh X-J-Nein, how did everything go today with Tuck and Bradley?"

Jenny smiled for a moment and then answered, "We all had a great time mom, and how did the science convention thingy go?"

"Find dear, just fine." she replied.

Jenny made her way down the stairs and asked, "Mom, I was wondering…."

"Would you be a sport X-J-Nein and help me with my trophy here?" said Ms. Wakeman as she pointed to the large golden trophy in the backseat of the car.

"Sure mom," said Jenny as she went outside to the car.

After grabbing the trophy from its comfortable spot in the backseat, Jenny turned her head towards Brad's house, let out a small sigh, and lowered her head down a bit.

Before Jenny could think, or say anything, her brief solitude was all of a sudden halted from the call of her mother, "X-J-Nein! What is ever taking you so long?"

"Coming mom," said Jenny in an annoyed tone, "I was busy with something!"

Ms. Wakeman shook her head and said to herself, "Teenagers."

Once Jenny made it back into the house with the award she asked, "Hallway closet?"

Ms. Wakeman nodded her head and opened the door to small room. Having to almost force the trophy into the closet, Jenny followed up by quickly slamming the door shut to make sure that none if the other thousands of awards would slip out.

And she thinks my room is messy.

"Good, now let's see what's left of the Chinese food in the fridge." said Jenny's mom in a rather excited tone. "Hopefully you didn't eat it all X-J-Nein." laughed Ms. Wakeman as she made her way into the kitchen with Jenny right behind her.

"You're a riot mom." replied Jenny.

After Ms. Wakeman had finished re-cooking her leftover food, Jenny sat herself down next to her mom and asked, "Mom, about my question?"

"Oh I'm sorry dear, what seems to be bothering you?" answered Ms. Wakeman.

Twiddling her thumbs for a few moments, Jenny summed up her courage and asked, "Mom, do I have to ability to feel and respond to emotions?" Jenny's mom dropped her chopsticks and began to laugh, while Jenny stood up and said in a quiet tone and said in a depressed tone, "Never mind."

Ms. Wakeman grabbed Jenny's arm, and after drying her tears she responded, "Of course you do X-J-Nein, whatever reason made you think you couldn't?"

Jenny put her metal hands up in front of her mom face and said, "Well….."

"Oh come on now X-J-Nein," answered Ms Wakeman as she pushed Jenny's hands back to her, "do you honestly think I would be so heartless as to not install an emotion grid into my own robotic daughter?"

Jenny sat herself back down and replied, "I never knew that."

Ms. Wakeman laughed for a moment before saying, "Remember the time your principal asked me come to your school and do a presentation about you to all of your little friends?"

"Don't remind me." said Jenny as she rolled her eyes.

"See," said Ms. Wakeman, "You just used regret and annoyance, a few of the many emotions, just like humans, that I allowed you to feel and show."

"I guess I never really realized it till now, sorry mom." replied Jenny with an awkward face.

Ms. Wakeman smiled and said, "Not worry X-J-Nein, I think its perfectly natural for any robot to ask a question like that. As for emotions, I gave you the entire set. Going all the way from 'a' to 'z', I was able to give you every emotion known to mankind."

Ms. Wakeman paused for a moment and scratched her chin, "Except alien emotions, some of those are just odd (shudder)."

Jenny had felt great from her chat with her mother, but before she could thank her and go back upstairs, Ms. Wakeman stood up from her seat and asked, "Now one last thing X-J-Nein, if you don't mind?"

"Sure," replied Jenny as she stopped to turn around.

Ms. Wakeman sighed for a moment and finally answered, "You do know that you have the ability to feel love don't you X-J-Nein?"

"Love?" answered Jenny in amazement, "Do you really mean that mom?"

"Well," said Ms. Wakeman, "that's why I think you came to ask me about your emotions, isn't that right?"

Jenny felt a small trembling in her throat for a moment and said, "Yeah I guess."

Ms. Wakeman formed a small smile on her face and patted her hand on Jenny's before saying, "Is there someone special that you've felt feelings towards?"

Jenny's face flashed bright red for a moment, and after she calmed herself down she replied, "Well, I've been kind of hoping that he might like me."

"That's wonderful X-J-Nein," replied Jenny's mother, "I'm sure a boy like Sheldon would suit you fine!"

Jenny immediately pulled herself back from her mother and answered, "Sheldon, mom? Eww, gross!"

"Well he does seem to have a lot of skill with robot maintenance, and really enjoys following you around. I think he would be absolutely perfect for you X-J-Nein!"

"X-J-Nein?" said Ms. Wakeman as she looked around in the empty kitchen with Jenny no where in sight.

I knew I should have installed that tracker, sigh.

After making her way up the stairs, Jenny shuddered once more of the thought of her and Sheldon and decided it was time for bed. Once Jenny had made herself comfortable in her bed covers, Jenny shifted herself so she could face the window and began to look out at the night sky.

Love...am I actually capable of it? I mean I've seen it many times before, but I always thought it was more of a human thing than...well...me I guess. Maybe mom was just making that part up, just so I would feel better. And besides, who would ever want to love something like me?

The Next Day,

So there sat the object that had toyed with Jenny and as well as every other student from Tremorton High for the past few weeks. A simple piece of paper along with some colorful scribbles had been placed on large bulletin board, but even in its simplicity it still spelt panic for every student.

Tremorton Annual School Dance

Grab yourself a date and prepare for a romantic night!

Girls get choosing, guys get to looking good, and make sure everyone gets a date!

Certainly an experience you won't soon forget!

Next Saturday, School Gymnasium, 5:00pm – 12:0am

Romantic music along with drinks and food included, hope to see you there!

Just before Jenny could continue her way to class, her path had been blocked by none other than the Crust cousins.

"So Jennifer I see you were eyeing the school dance poster, weren't you?" asked Brit.

Jenny shrugged her shoulders and answered, "I guess."

"Marvelous dear," replied Brit in mocking tone, "Tiff and I were just wondering if you had gotten yourself a date for the dance yet."

Jenny was at first a little hesitant, but before she could answer Brit she was interrupted by Tiff, "See girlfriend, she don't have nobody for the dance!"

"I do too," responded Jenny, "and he's better then anything you two could come up with!"

Tiff had moved a few steps back, but Brit hadn't even flinched. Brit let out a small laugh, patted Jenny's shoulder and answered, "I'm sure you do Jennifer, I'm sure you do. There's no need to get all worked up about it."

Brit let out another laugh and said, "Well I'm sure that Tiff and I can't wait to meet this magnificent specimen you found Jennifer. Till then, we look foreword for seeing you at dance."

"Whatever." said Jenny as she continued her way to class.

Meanwhile on the Other Side of Tremorton High,

Brad had just finished fumbling the lock off from his locker when all of a sudden he heard a small voice coming from behind him.

Brad turned around to reveal that it was in fact Sheldon, the nerd that had always stalked Jenny for the longest.

"Hey Sheldon," said Brad as he began searching his locker for his textbooks, "how has everything been going with you lately?"

"Pretty good, pretty good," said Sheldon who seemed to be in a happy mood, "Say Brad, have you gotten anyone for the upcoming dance?"

Brad finished pulling out his Math textbook and placed it on the ground next to his bag and replied, "No not really Sheldon, been kind of busy with watching Tuck and all."

Sheldon remained quite and rocked back and forth, until Brad rolled his eyes and said, "Did you find anyone yet Sheldon?"

"Maaaaaayyyyybbeeeeeee!" replied Sheldon.

"And let me guess," said Brad, "she had blue hair, black eyes, and is covered in metal right?"

"How did you know that!" screamed Sheldon.

Brad closed his locker, moved a couple of feet to another nearby locker, kicked the bottom of it, and then watched as hundreds of pictures of Jenny flowed out onto the floor,

"Just a hunch." said Brad.

Sheldon grabbed as many pictures as he could and jammed them back into his locker before anyone could notice. After barely getting the lock on, Sheldon turned towards Brad and gloated, "You're just jealous because Jenny had picked me."

"One problem with your theory there Sheldon," said Brad as went back to his own locker and picked up his backpack, "First, you usually give Jenny the creeps when you do your stalking thing, and second, I doubt Jenny would immediately choose you to be the first person she would ask to go to the dance with her. I just can't help but think something would be wrong with that picture, but other then that Sheldon I can totally believe everything you have out so far."

"Hmmphh," replied Sheldon as he folded his arms and put his nose to the air, "just you wait and see Brad. By the end of school today, I will have Jenny begging me to take her to the dance, so watch out!

Brad put his hand over his face, gave his head a little shake and responded in a sarcastic tone, "Oh yeah Shell, you got me there."

Sheldon's face was full of glee as he passed Brad and started to make his way to his class, "You see Brad, there's no way Jenny could ever resist me. I'm smart, handsome, and I'm too much of her…."

Before Sheldon could finish his sentence, he had already tripped and fell head first into one of the garbage bins on the side of the hall.

"Very slick Shell, very slick indeed." said Brad as he tried to help pull Sheldon from his smelly trap.

Just as Brad actually began to pulling Sheldon out from the trash bin, the warning bell had went off, and with that Brad let go of Sheldon's legs and said, "Whoops, sorry Sheldon, I got to go.

Just as Brad started to make his to class he heard Sheldon yell, "What about me!"

"Oh don't worry about it," said Brad, "I'm sure a cool guy like yourself wouldn't need any help whatsoever to get out from a measly garbage bin. Catch you later Sheldon!"

As Brad ran off Sheldon began screaming, "Help, somebody get me out of here!"

Just then the school janitor appeared from the around the corner, and as soon as he noticed a talking garbage can with legs in the air, he immediately yelled, "EEEEEEEVVVVVIIIIIIILLLLLLL!" and fled.

Some Time Later,

The clock had struck twelve and it was finally lunch hour. Immediately after the bell finished echoing through the halls and classrooms, every student grabbed their necessities and headed to the cafeteria. Brad had come a little late after trying to find his paper bag lunch amongst his locker, but once he set foot in the cafeteria he was greeted by a friendly face.

Brad face lit up and said, "Jenny, how you been!"

Jenny had a little depressed look of on her face, but she was able to form a smile and replied, "Good Brad how was your classes?"

"I should be asking you," answered Brad as he nudged Jenny's elbow, "been experiencing any Sheldon attacks since this morning?"

Jenny let out a small shudder as her and Brad found a small table to sit at, "I tell you Brad, I still wish that I could delete parts of my memory."

"Oh?" said Brad with one of his eyebrows raised and a smile on his face.

"Like you wouldn't believe!" replied Jenny, "First he starts by running into the classroom covered in garbage screaming my name like a madman. Then he runs over to my leg, grabs I, and begins begging to be taken to the dance with him. It was embarrassing!"

Brad tried to conceal his laugh by putting his hand over his mouth and chuckled, "You should have seen Sheldon this morning Jen, going on about being irresistible to you and everything, I could hardly contain myself.

"But I said yes." replied Jenny with a serious face, "I'm going to the dance with Sheldon."

Immediately stopping his laugh and dropping his jaw dropped, Brad answered, "What!"

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh crud.

Jenny stared at Brad for another moment or two, smiled, and yelled, "Psyche!"

Brad had already formed a large grin on his face and replied, "Very evil you are Ms. Jennifer Wakeman, very evil indeed."

"You should have seen your face," said Jenny, "I swear you were going to have kittens!"

"Alright, alright, you got me Jen," said Brad, "now I believe that it is my turn to provide some interesting details dealing with the events of yesterday and my brother."

After letting out a small giggle Jenny said, "By all means Brad, please continue."

A Few Minutes Later,

All the while as Brad continued to eat his lunch, did he finally begin to notice Jenny and her small looks of depression. Even though it looked like Jenny was tired or sleepy, Brad just couldn't help but shake the feeling that something was up.

"Uh hey Jen?" asked Brad.

Raising her head up to Brad, Jenny replied, "Yeah Brad?"

"Is something wrong, you seem………sad or what not." said Brad.

Jenny paused for a moment and seemed to be speechless. There it is again, that warm thing.

Trying to hide the small blush she had on her face, Jenny turned her head away and said, "Nothing Brad, just a little tired is all."

"Oh," said Brad, "right then."

Just before Brad could go back to his ham and cheese sandwich he saw another of the Tremorton Dance poster's on the wall of the cafeteria. Trying hard not to think anything about it or the dance, Brad lowered his head down back to the table and saw Jenny.

Of course Brad had thought many times before about asking a girl out to the dance, but it had seemed impossible, even for him. It was either they just said no to him, or they ignored him as much some people would ignore the unpopular group.

Taking another look at Jenny, Brad let out a small sigh and sank down for a moment.

I wonder if Jenny would say yes if I asked her to the dance. Maybe I'm just getting too ahead of myself. Besides, Jenny would probably just say no like every other girl, and would say something like after Don Prima or at least the Silver Shell. I got no chance whatsoever, and yet I still find it a wonder why she still hangs around with me.

"Did you say something Brad?" asked Jenny.

"No," replied Brad hoping that he didn't mumble anything out loud, "I had my mind on something else, sorry about that Jenny."

Jenny turned around for a second, made up a fake smile and said, "No problem Brad."

Ironically, that was it. Brad just couldn't take it any longer. His curiosity seemed to take hold of him while at the same time his doubt had all but gone and disappear from his mind, "Jenny can I ask you something?"

By then Jenny already had turned herself to the table and immediately answered, "Yes Brad?"

"Well…..," said Brad as his voice seemed get quieter and quieter, "I was just wondering……….you know…….about…..the dance……and everything right?"

Jenny's immediately perked right up as her hanging depression seem to fade away and was replaced with a new sense of excitement, "Oh the Tremorton Dance this Saturday, I had forgotten all about it."

Of course it was a lie, but the last thing Jenny needed now was to make it look like she was desperate about the dance and getting a date.

"Oh," answered Brad with a nervous voice, "I………was…..well you know…….just….uhh….wondering…"

Jenny couldn't believe what was happening. Is Brad going to ask me to dance?

"Well………Jenny?" asked Brad.

"Yes!" replied Jenny with her eyes in a sparkling gaze as she put one of her hands on Brad's.

Brad took a deep gulp, fidgeted with the collar of his shirt and answered, "Jenny would…."

But before Brad could say another word to Jenny a large explosion had gone off nearby which caused all the windows to shatter. Immediately reacting to event, Jenny transformed her arms into a set of large shields to cover bits of the cafeteria and the students from the falling glass shards.

Once the glass stopped falling from what used to be the cafeteria windows, Jenny transformed her arms back to their regular self's and let out an annoyed groan.

Why does this have to happen now, why!

Jenny looked down at Brad and yelled, "Be right Brad, got to save the town and everything."

Brad waved and answered, "No worries Jenny, I'll watch your back!"

With that Jenny blasted her rockets to full blast and disappeared from the cafeteria in a bright blue light.

As Jenny was making her way around the school she stopped in her tracks when she saw that it was school parking lot where all the action seemed to have hit. As soon as she landed on the ground, she equipped her Monkey Fists and slowly moved around the lot keeping a watchful for any movement. But just as she had walked by one of the parked cars a very large figure emerged behind her, grabbed Jenny by her ponytails, and tossed her into a set of cars.

Once Jenny had gotten back up on her feet she looked at the beast that had caught her off guard and disgusted. There stood a large robot, or what seemed to be a robot, except it was extremely damaged and covered in raw oil with electricity leaking out from about every inch of it. The beast's face itself was horrific sight. Vile spikes were immersed along different parts of the creatures face while at the same time it eyes and the cuts all along the face and body had glowed with a bright red.

"I don't know who you are ," said Jenny, "but you picked a real bad time to get to get me out of school."

With that, Jenny unequipped her Monkey Fists and transformed her right hand into a large energy cannon and fired a surging blast directly at the monsters torso. The creature let out a large scream of pain before it began to charge at Jenny with a ferocious speed. Quickly dodging the behemoth, Jenny watched as the large machine continued its rampage into a few cars then stopped.

The machine let out another scream of pain as Jenny watched pieces of its armor and other parts of its body fall off.

Jenny was shocked, but she raised he cannon up again and yelled, "Okay buddy, what's going on here?"

Grabbing pieces of its own chest and ripping it off, the beast screamed, "Paiiiiinnnnnnn……it will burn us all!"

Before Jenny could make her move the beast charged again at her now screaming, "Cluster………….for them….and not us!"

By this time however Jenny immediately activated her rockets in her feet and flew out of the path of the beast just in the nick of time.

Immediately equipping numerous amounts of weapons from all over her body, Jenny set her sights on the machine and said, "I warned you."

But before Jenny could even fire off a single shot, the machine let out another scream and feel to the ground dead. Returning herself back to normal, Jenny inspected whatever was left of the dead machine and gave it a small kick to check to see if it was truly defeated.

This is odd, it's like it just quit or something.

Already Brad had already made it out onto the parking lot and yelled, "Jenny! Nice job on that big bot there, that was awesome!"

"Brad," replied Jenny to Brad as she slowly landed back onto the ground, "Don't get too close, it's still dangerous around here."

"Really," said Brad as kicked the dead machine a few times, "looks pretty safe to me Jen. So what was that all about with handsome here falling to the ground and everything?"

"Don't know," replied Jenny, "it was almost like it destroyed itself or something."

"Destroyed itself," said Brad, "that seems a little farfetched, don't you think?"

Jenny nodded and answered, "Well you know the Cluster, their about as predictable as Tuck is."

Brad laughed for a moment and said, "Come on Jen, I think we have to get going to class now."

"Sure," said Jenny as she began to follow Brad.

Just as the two began their way out from the parking lost, Brad began to notice the sky and clouds turning into a dark black color.

"That's odd, I thought it was supposed to rain tomorrow." said Brad.

"It isn't," replied Jenny as turned around and saw the large behemoth back up on its feet.

"Watch out Brad!" screamed Jenny as she grabbed Brad and then tossed him aside.

Just as the creature tried to swing one its massive claws at Jenny, Jenny immediately responded by activating her rockets again and flying high up into the air.

The machine yelled in pain as it continuously flayed its arms around in the air in an attempt to hit Jenny, but was unsuccessful.

"Time to end this, once and for all" said Jenny as a gatling cannon emerged from her back.

By then the one of the creature's smaller claws was raised up, and before Jenny could react, the small claw was launched into the air with a long wire dragging behind it.

Just as Jenny noticed the small claw coming for her, it had already pierced her left leg and immediately followed with a large electrical shock through her entire body.

Falling to the ground unconscious, Brad had all of a sudden emerged from nowhere and put out his arms in an attempt to catch Jenny.

"I gotcha Jen!" yelled Brad as he ran around in few circles.

Just as Brad had caught Jenny, had not forgotten about Jenny being made of metal and the speed she was falling to the ground, he might have been better prepared for her instead of getting squished.

Trying hard with every inch of his body to lift Jenny up just so he could carry her, Brad was only successful enough to get a few inches off the ground before succumbing to the will of gravity again.

Brad could see the beast approaching as it was now walked with a limp and the rest of its body had almost fallen to pieces. Moving in front of Jenny, Brad picked up a nearby muffler, swung it around a few times and yelled, "Come on ugly, you wanna piece of me?"

The beast let out a screech and picked up some metal debris and threw it at Brad, who immediately used the muffler as a quick shield. Once the debris had finally stopped pounding on Brad's shield, Brad noticed a couple pieces of debris on the ground and let out a small grin.

By then the mechanical beast raised up a large mini-van over itself and was prepared to throw it at its enemies, when all of a sudden a voice yelled out, "Batter up!"

With that a large metal fan flung itself into the machine's left eye which caused it to let out another horrible shriek. By then the metal monster released the grip on the vehicle it held above itself, and in no time it was immediately flattened by its own weapon.

"Yes!" cheered Brad as he threw the dented muffler into the air, "that was awesome!"

Just then Brad felt a hand on his shoulder and as he turned around he saw it was Jenny who had finally gotten up.

"Nice job there Brad," replied Jenny with a smile, "I'm going to have to start watching out for your swinging arm from now on."

Before Jenny could utter another word, Brad put his hand over Jenny's mouth and said, "Uh Jen, I still think we have a problem here." (points to van)

Jenny saw it too, despite the large vehicle already crushing what was left of the metal monstrosity, Jenny was more annoyed than amazed at the fact that the beast was still functioning.

Putting one of her knees down to the ground, Jenny then transformed her arms into two huge energy guns and began charging her shot.

Jenny stared at the screaming machine as it now crawled its way over to her and Brad, and as soon as her blast turned a bright white color, she immediately let loose her shot.

The shot didn't shake the ground nor did it generate a powerful blast, it just seemed to light up the entire area with a blinding light and nothing else. After everything turned back to normal Jenny's shield that had covered her and Brad returned back into her ponytails following with the energy weapons going back into her arms.

Yet with all that firepower the creature still stood there, unharmed and unchanged since the blast.

"Jenny," asked Brad with a very confused look, "what was that supposed to do?"

Jenny just smiled and walked her way calmly towards the beast. Once she was face to face with it, Jenny watched as it raised its claw to attack while Jenny transformed her right hand into a small fan and aimed it at the machine's deformed face.

The monster stopped and began to laugh while Jenny just stood there and finally turned on the petite fan. Only after a few seconds of turning it on, Jenny watched as the twisted machine disappeared from sight and cloud of dust filled the air.

With that the sky cleared from its dark presence and returned back into its care free blue and grey colors.

Making her way back to Brad, Jenny began to laugh at Brad's jaw-dropping expression.

"Bu…..bu…….bu…" stuttered Brad.

"Oh that," said Jenny as she played with her ponytails, "mom just installed me with that Atom Smasher a few weeks back, now come on we don't want to be late for class now do we Brad?"

Brad still just stood there and said, "You frighten me sometimes."

"Come on you." said Jenny as she grabbed Brad's hand and pulled him back into Tremorton High with her.

End of Chapter 1

Author's Note: Well there's chapter 1 for everyone, please leave me a review to let me know how I did, and I apologize if I might have screwed something up or done a bad job, sorry again.