The following is a fic request from retro mania based on the old Superboy comic story "Claire Kent, Alias Super-Sister." It was originally published on a different profile but has now been moved here for good.
Document taken from the computer of James Isaac Neutron found in folder labeled "Adventures."
Mission Background:
Location: Olympia, Greece
Site: Temple of Hera
1800 hours local time
A strange comet crashed near the temple containing an unknown element.
Composition… Unknown.
Origin… Unknown.
Given Name… Herbolide.
Notification of the comments arrival sent to home lab. Still photos captured of a round substance with halos rotating by local satellite.
Special Note: Image shares an uncanny resemblance to Neutron symbol.
Sender… Unknown.
Reason… Unknown.
Mission Status:
Crew of 5 assembled for this mission each bringing their own special skills to the team.
Crew Members:
Jimmy Neutron
Carl Wheezer
Sheen Estevez
Libby Folfax
Cindy Dorktex
Special Note: Goddard unable to participate due to pending upgrades.
Mission Results:
To be included in next report.
End of Report.
30 minutes before sunset a hover car was parked at the ruins of the Temple where Carl Wheezer, Sheen Estevez, and Libby Folfax were playing a game with Ultra Lord trading cards.
"Okay Carl, your turn. Pick a card." Sheen said ecstatic.
Carl picked a card from the deck. His eye's lit up thinking he picked a good one. "I got Robo-Fiend-" He said presenting it to his friend.
"Ha!" Sheen quickly snatched as though it were out of instinct rather than fairness. "Ultra Lord always defeats Robo-Fiend! I win!" He shouted excited before bringing his voice back to a gentle tone for his Ultra Queen. "Your turn Libby."
"Yeah, yeah." She was completely disinterested but as his "Ultra Queen" she indulged him nonetheless. Libby picked a card from the top of the deck. "I got a poisoned Nitrogen-"
"Ha!" Sheen snatched the card before Libby even had the chance to finish her sentence. "Ultra Lord loves Nitrogen Bars! It's what makes him awesome!"
"But it's poisoned so wouldn't it kill him?" Libbey asked.
"Ultra Lord can take any poison. Nothing can hurt him!"
"I don't really want to play this game anymore, Sheen." Carl explained. "It looks like you just win every time because you have the Ultra Lord card."
"Jeesh don't be such a sore loser, Carl. If you play more you will-"
Libby interrupted. "I'm out too." Libby laid her back on the ground and groaned. "Ugh, where are Jimmy and Cindy?" She asked rhetorically frustrated.
"Yeah, it's been 5 hours now, huh." Sheen pointed out.
"They're either fighting or having one of those moments where they're nice to each other because we're not around.
Sheen and Libby look at Carl puzzled by what he just said. The first part made sense to them. But that other part…
Libby got up. "I'm going to go look for them."
"I don't know Libby." Carl protested. "Jimmy told us to wait here and it's going to be dark pretty soon and I don't want to get lost out there."
"Ugh" Libby groaned. "Fine, I'll wait 20 minutes but after that I'm looking for them." She sat back down on the ground. "Where could they be. It's not like they could get lost wandering around these ruins."
"Yeah, it's just a stupid room without any doors." Sheen added.
Libby was right: The temple was just a bunch of pillars forming a rectangle. Getting lost was pretty much implausible. But what they didn't know was that there was a secret section below the temple unknown to the general public and Jimmy and Cindy were bickering and wondering around with torches underground looking for a way out.
"I told you we're going in circles, Vortex. It's the same four statues we see every time."
"Well what do you want to do, Nerdtron? Turn back?"
"We should've when I told you too but instead you wanted to look at these useless sculptures."
"Idiot, there's nowhere to turn back. We're walking in circles remember."
"I was talking about when we fell down here through the ground. We should've climbed back up but instead you wanted to look at your dumb soccoress." Jimmy started to walk away from her.
"For your information Hera is a Goddess."
Jimmy brushed it off as he kept walking. "Whatever. It's all hocus pocus."
There wasn't much of interest in the temple. Below it looked more like a tomb. At each of the four corners there was a statue. One was of the Greek Goddess herself. The other three were of animals she considered sacred: a cow, a lion, and a peacock.
Cindy caught up with Jimmy "Well it's more interesting than looking for some dumb rock from space." She retorted.
Annoyed, Jimmy stopped walking."And what's so great about this 'Goddess?'"
They were standing at one of the corners of the underground temple in front of the Lion statue. "She's the Goddess of marriage and women, something your freak brain is incapable of admiring."
"That would imply that there's something worth admiring in girls." He said continuing to sound unimpressed as he was eager to find the way out.
"Well just wait till middle school. You won't be laughing when you can't get a date because no girl likes you."
Jimmy was getting defensive and slightly raised his voice. "Well if the rest are half as stupid as you then I don't want to date anyone."
Cindy is taken aback. "You're just jealous because you can't get a date for the dance Friday."
Jimmy stood back surprised, struggling to recover from Cindy's verbal jab."What? No I'm not. I don't care about that stupid dance. It's a waste of time and girls only make a big deal out of it because all they can do is think about how they look pretty. Their intellect doesn't go beyond that."
"Just because most girls like to feel special for one night doesn't make them stupid." Cindy turned her back to him. "For a genius you really don't know anything."
"I don't need to know anything. The fact is boys are better than girls." He generalized. Neither Jimmy nor Cindy noticed the Lion's eyes of the statue turn a bright yellow.
Cindy was shocked at what she was hearing. She turned back and faced him. "And what proof led to you making such a stupid conclusion?"
"The data's out there. Look at how many geniuses there are in science. Albert Einstein. Isaac Newton. Galileo-"
Cindy interjected. She leaned in closer to his face just to throw the words at him. "Caroline Herschel. Maria Mitchell. Marie Curie."
"You made up those first two."
"No I didn't, freak. If you knew anything about women in the first place you'd know what they did."
"Well what about presidents. We haven't had a female president because girls can't lead a country."
"Um, hello! Queen Elizabeth. She's the leader of an entire country."
"Actually she's the face of the country. Men in parliament make the decisions. Face it Vortex, boys are simply better at everything and girls are inferior."
The statues yellow eyes grew brighter.
"You really think so?"
"Of course. The proof is there. That's why no matter how hard you try you will never be the smartest kid in school because you're a girl. You don't have a chance. We're just better."
"Well if you knew your Greek history you'd know that Tiresias would disagree."
"Who?"
"Tiresias was turned into a woman by Hera for seven years. After she changed him back to a man he said being a woman was better."
"That's a story from mythology Vortex, not history. It doesn't count as proof of anything. And you're just proving my point that girls are less intelligent when you use a made up story that's part of mythology to prove your point. Face it Cindy, Boys are better in every way. That's why we control the world because if girls ruled the world they would ruin everything." Jimmy turned around satisfied with his point as he left Cindy standing there with her blood boiling.
Before Cindy had the chance to shout back at Jimmy a burst of yellow light shot through the Lion statue. It pushed Cindy against the wall. She grunt as she hit it. Still conscious, Cindy looked up to find Jimmy standing in the same spot. Neutron symbol from the comet was floating before them, rotating around the lion. The statue moved as the yellow eyes remain transfixed on Jimmy. All Cindy could do was watch what happened before her. It was difficult to see as the light was so bright it was nearly blinding. But this didn't hurt Jimmy as he stared dead within the eyes. In his head he heard a commanding female voice.
You know nothing of womankind. You will learn the error of your ways.
The statement confused Jimmy. The eyes of the Lion widened as Jimmy looked deeper into them unable to look away even if he wanted. The Lion then roared as yellow beams shot out of its mouth hitting Jimmy. Cindy was blinded by the sight of yellow. Neither could see.
Suddenly the supernatural activity stopped. The tomb reverted back to its natural light. It was slightly lighter than usual as Jimmy and Cindy noticed there was a hole in the ceiling. It looked like the same hole they had fallen through earlier.
"You okay, Jimmy?" Cindy said giving him a genuine look of concern.
"What happened?" Jimmy said confused.
"I don't know. Let's just get out of here and go home."
"Agreed."
The two climbed up where they were back at the surface. The rest of the gang was by the hovercar no more than 100 feet away.
"Woah, what happened to you two?" Sheen asked.
"Are you hurt?" Libby added.
"What do you mean?" Cindy asked confused.
"Girl, look at yourself." Libby took a pocket mirror out of her pocket and held it up to show Cindy her reflection. She was slightly covered in some yellow grease.
Cindy took one finger to her forehead to rub it off. "Ew!" She quickly flicked her fingers to the ground.
"Yeah, Jimmy's got it worse." Carl pointed out.
Libby held the mirror up to Jimmy. His face was indeed severely yellow.
"Well I'll just shower it off when I get home." He said like it was no big deal and turned to Cindy. "I don't get scared over yellow goo because I'm a boy which makes me superior."
Sheen, Carl, and Libby all are speechless at Jimmy's awkward comment.
Cindy is shocked at the horrible timing of his joke. "You're seriously going to joke after what happened down there. We might've almost just died. You just had something potentially deadly shot out at you."
"But I'm still alive because I'm a boy. You couldn't even stand against that blast. So that proves my point."
Libby interjected. "Okay, I don't know what's going on here but I don't have a problem with hitting Jimmy if he keeps making rude comments at my best friend."
"Can we just go home. It's almost past my bedtime." Carl said.
"Yeah, I'm bored. Let's get out of here." Sheen added.
"Don't worry Cindy. As a boy I'll safely fly you all back home." Jimmy walked away confidently with a big smile. No one noticed that as he was ahead of the pack his smile changed from a frown.
Cindy's blood began to boil as Jimmy walked it off. She was about ready to give him a piece of her mind when Libby held her back. Libby had a curious look on her face.
"Is it just me or did his head shrink a little?" Libby observed.
Indeed Jimmy's head did seem smaller. Still slightly bigger than normal but clearly it shrunk a little.
"Big shocker there. King Craniums brain cells are finally killing each other off. He's getting dumber by the minute."
Cindy and Libby laugh it off as they follow the rest of the gang onto the hovercar.
After flying for a while Libby noticed more changes were apparent. Jimmy's head shrunk even more. On top of that his standard hair-do dipped a little. It still maintained it's ice cream shape but it looked like the ice cream was melting in the sun.
Jimmy felt a minor pain in his stomach. He groans out loud as it aches a little more.
"You okay Jimmy?" Libby asked concerned.
"I'm fine." Jimmy waved her off and regained control of the hovercar. "What a waste of a trip that was."
"Yeah, it was pretty boring." Sheen added.
"It wasn't that bad. It was nice seeing part of a different country." Libby added trying to be positive.
"You should've come with me to see Hera's temple." Cindy interjected. "Another woman would've been more fun to have around and would show appreciation."
Jimmy retorted while still in pain. "Oh please, there's nothing to appreciate about Hera."
Cindy turned to Libby "Says the dumb boy who knows nothing about Greek mythology." She whispered.
Jimmy heard her even though she wasn't exactly hiding what she said. "I know the mythology well enough. I can appreciate those stories. But Hera's character is pretty dull in my opinion."
"I don't know how you can say that after what happened back there." Cindy said, both arguing and genuinely concerned.
"What happened? Libbey asked."
Jimmy responded to Cindy. "Oh please, she's just insecure and does nothing but punish people for no reason. It just proves my point that a girl in power would only cause problems."
Suddenly another surge of pain hit Jimmy, this time it was so sharp that he jerked the steering wheel. The hover car spun out of control in the air as the gang struggled to hold on. Jimmy then felt an even sharper pain near his groin and jerked the wheel back. Libby went for the wheel as Jimmy continued to scream. When she did she saw that Jimmy's hair was no longer in it's normal style but that it had instead fallen down to his shoulders. Carl helped Jimmy out of the seat as Libby took control. Jimmy held onto his stomach. He couldn't see as his hair was covering his eyes.
"What happened at the temple?" Libby shouted at Cindy.
Cindy struggled to stay focused. "I don't know. Some light shot into him and then he was fine."
"Well he's clearly not fine. And I'm worried about you, girl. You have some of that stuff on you too."
For a brief second Cindy was horrified as she realized Libby was right. But that changed quickly as she was more worried about Jimmy instead of what might happen to her. Jimmy fell to the ground, yelling even louder. It was ear shattering but it didn't cover the sound of his bones cracking and shifting from the rest of the gangs ears. Jimmy couldn't focus on anything but the pain. He didn't even notice that his screaming was changing to a higher pitch. But the gang sure did notice. And when they saw how long his hair grew, how small his head got (in comparison to before), and how tiny and soft his hand were they realized what was happening. It became too much that once that pain had stopped Jimmy Neutron had fainted.
