A/N: Wow, has anyone ever noticed that Hiccup and Astrid are eerily simmilar? Maybe I'll explore that AU whenever I finish this? But anyway, on to the story...

Disclaimer: I don't own Jimmy Neutron and all rights belong to their respective owners

Chapter 2

Cindy slowly opened her eyes from slumber and found herself alone. But that wasn't the strange thing. No. The strange part, the part that made her skin crawl was only now beginning to sink into the bottom of her stomach. To the bottom of her very core.

She was in her bedroom. In her bed. She could only watch in awe as the sun rays began to shine in through her curtain. They enveloped her. Annointed her. She was witnessing a new day. She had only one thought, and that was to see her friends. She sprang up from her bed with new found energy. She ran downstairs to see her father solving a crossword puzzle and her mother making bacon, eggs, and waffles. Strangely enough she also seemed to smell...

Pecan ripple?

"Hey Mom what's for breakfast?"

"Oh nothing much dear." Her mother's voice sounded so, pleasant. It held a tone of which sounded like a honest, true, and caring mother. She smiled lightly and sat down next to her father.

"Hey, Honey."

"Hey, Dad."

"Say, do you know a five letter word for happiness?"

"Um, how about Bliss? Like say if you don't have to deal with stuff if you just stay aslee-"

"Nevermind Honey!, I got it! It's Money." He said smugly. Cindy couldn't help but stare slack-jawed at her father's miser-like behavior. She observed the kitchen she seemed to live in all her life. She looked at the windows.

There was one missing?

She could've sworn there was a window right, here. She looked back on all the forgetful moments of walking through such a familiar environment. Throughout each and every memory she perfectly recalled a window being right next to the couch. Her thoughts were interrupted shortly by her mother.

"Dinner's ready."

"Smells wonderful, oh God I love bacon." That moment also startled Cindy to her very core. She was certain she was remembering things correctly. But then again, could she really trust herself?

But she had to trust herself on this.

Her father was a vegetarian.

"D-Dad, aren't you a-a-a..."

"A what, Honey?"

"A vegetarian?"

"Nonsense, I've been eating hamburgers since I was 10. Especially with ketchup and pickles, oh jeez, my mouth is watering just thinking about the way your Grandmother used to make em." Cindy couldn't take it anymore. She excused herself and went to the bathroom.

"I think I'm gonna vomit..." And vomit she did. She asked parents to go out for a walk because she needed some air. They all exchanged goodbyes and Cindy walked across the street. To the Neutron household. She went immediately to the lab, expecting to him to be there. Tinkering with something.

She stood at the lab door waiting for the hatch underneath to give way and transport her into the stranger that had become Jimmy's lab. The walls were painted white to give it a more pristine and sterile look. There were multiple rooms for experiments and rooms for succesful ones and not so succesful ones. After waiting a little longer, she dropped.

Took him 84 seconds to notice me, and then decide whether he wanted my company or not, She thought. It made her a little angry, sad, and hurt all the same time. Focusing on these emotions only clouded the focus She needed to land correctly, thus causing her to land on her ankle horribly wrong. Although when She looked, She saw no inury nor felt any pain. She was relieved, confused, and down terribly horrified. She looked up to see an outstretched hand. Then She looked up even further and saw a smug, handsome, and charming grin. How could She forget about that azure ocean of blue staring at her too?

"What're you staring at, Nerd-tron?" She asked a little sharper than intended.

"I'm just staring at the world's most beautiful woman is all." Jimmy had said it so confidently She wasn't even sure this was the same person. This compliment also caused her to go into another shocked stupor. This also caused her not to respond to said compliment. "What's wrong Vortex, can't take a compliment?" The stab at her pride immediately caused her to retaliate, naturally of course.

"No, I'm just surprised you can actually talk to a girl like that without suffering from a life threatening nosebleed." She laughed out.

"Yeah,Yeah." Jimmy said, not truly having a comeback. Or maybe he didn't want to start an even bigger argument?

"So Freak-brain, where's the rest of your little gang?"

"First, we'er not a gang. Second, they're at the Candy Bar. Third, you should come with, plus Libby will probably be their since you know."

"You make a good point, Neutron. Let's go"

The walk wasn't long. She felt no sense of fatigue whatsoever. She knew she was athletic, but She didn't know that meant She would be so not tired. With the sudden burst of energy She was feeling, She challenged Jimmy to a race of the last few yards there. His ego being too huge, he accepted. She smoked felt like a drag car on a straightaway. No slowing down until the very end. She reached the doors couldn't even see Jimmy.

"Must've ran home while he still had his dignity." She couldn't help but let out a chuckle. She went inside and saw Libby, Carl, Sheen , a-and Neutron? She ran up to the table her eyes burning into Jimmy's entire being.

"Hey Cind, we've been waiting for you for like, ten whole minutes." Libby rang out.

Libby's words confused her and She couldn't help but question. "J-Jimmy how did you-?

"Woah Cindy, what's up with the first name basis? Is there something going on I should know about?" Libby laughed out, only teasingly.

"Yeah, are you guys finally tying the knot like Ultralord and his marvelous Ultralady? If so, that'd be awesome! You guys could be like super undercover spies! Jimmy's the brain and Cindy's the muscle!" Sheen said.

Cindy could only roll her eyes at the comment. She glanced over to the central clock above the entrance and couldn't quite make it out. It looked fuzzy. Like if someone sneezed onto a t.v or something. Or...was it like when it gets really hot outside and the heat from the asphalt makes it all wiggly and fuzzy? She couldn't decide.

"Well tying the knot would be great if only this wasn't a dream and we were all dead." Carl spoke up for the first time.

"That's exactly what I was thinking." Jimmy said.

Cindy heard this and time completely stopped around her. She looked at Carl. His eyes slowly began to lose all life in them, almost as if they turned to glass. His hair became black and singed. The glasses broke and shattered onto the table. The left side of his face suffered from a huge bleeding gash.

"You left us." Carl choked out between the blood.

"I didn't have a choice." It was only at this moment Cindy realized she had heard someone screaming.

It was her.

They were her screams.

Her own blood curtling screams.

Cindy got up and ran to keep the only inch of sanity she may have had left. She didn't how long she was running until she heard Jimmy again. But there was something off about his voice. Just off. She didn't know what.

Maybe.

Maybe it was how deep it was? Or was it gurgled? Like he was underwater. Then again, maybe it was her underwater. Maybe he was pulling her out of a lake or something and he was trying to revive her. Maybe.

Maybe I just need to wake up, she thought.

"Cindy, you need to wake up."

That final line from Jimmy shook her from her nightmare and she sat up with great speed, intensity, and confusion. She looked him dead in the eyes and realized she felt drips of sweat eminating from her head and body.

"I had a nightmare." She said gravely. "A really bad nightmare."

"Yeah. You started screaming."

"And you believe the saying that you shouldn't wake someone from a nightmare."

"As least not while they're screaming. You sounded petrified." They could only sit in silence while the past few minutes of what happened washed over them like a wave. But for Jimmy, these events only added more questions. Questions that absolutely needed answers. "Cindy, can you please answer some questions now?"

"Jeez Neutron, you see a girl crying and the first thing you do is interrogate her? Smooth." Her voice contained the same sarcasm he remembered but he could hear a faint trace of sadness and hurt.

"Surely you can understand why I would want answers when an unexpexted guest shows up from another timeline." He pulled out a holographic notepad seemingly materialized from nowhere. "Now, did I die in your timeline?"

"I-I don't know you jerk! You pushed me here before I could even get a word in!" Tears fell from her eyes and she became enraged. Honestly, he should have inspected this. What was he thinking?

"I'm sorry. But, I just need to know at least one more thing. Why did I send you here? This answer will determine whether I can help you or not.

"You didn't really give us the plan before things went awry. But I'm pretty sure my Jimmy wanted you to fix things." Her chest felt heavy and she couldn't breathe for a moment as she thought about Jimmy again.

"Fix things?"

"Yeah, I guess come back to my world and help us out. Maybe even stop them from happening entirely."

"I-I'll give it some thought. But in the meantime I guess you'll be staying with me."

"Can't I stay with the older version of myself? Or maybe Libby?"

"Libby is out of town on a modeling job, and you're somewhere. Somewhere...I don't want to think about. Not now anyway, not today."

"Fine James, but can you at least show me around the house?"

"Fine, but you are absolutely not to go near the lab!"

"Oh yeah, well I wouldn't want to see your dumb old lab anyway! I bet the younger Jimmy would beat your butt in a invention competition!"

"I'm better than the other Neutron in every way possible!"

They continued bickering just like the good old days. The good old says where Jimmy could invent and experiment without the worry of endangering himself and others. All I tried to do was follow knowledge like a sinking star. Maybe with Cindy here, some work of noble note may yet be done.

End Of Chapter 2

A/N: I was dropping a butt-load of hints that it was a dream. I looked up some research on lucid dreaming and it was actually pretty cool.

But anyway, Thanks to all those who read or will read. I greatly appreciate it.