Does Vox Dream of Electronic Sheep?

A Vox Fan Fic

By Snazzo

Chapter Two:

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Fifteen minutes later Jimmy, Carl, Sheen and Goddard were in the Neutron back yard. Carl and Sheen were wearing helmets, backpacks, utility belts, and black commando outfits. Their faces were covered in camouflage.

"All right," Jimmy explained. "I've tried every way to get into the clubhouse except one…"

"Oo! Oo!" Sheen jumped and down. "The ventilation shaft!"

Jimmy's eyes goggled. "Sheen! How did you know that?"

"Jimmy, please. It's ALWAYS the ventilation shafts!"

"So anyway," Jimmy continued, "You two are going to infiltrate the lab and shut down Vox's security systems. Then I'll be able to go in and repair her."

"Gee, I dunno Jimmy," Carl said nervously. "It won't be dangerous, will it?"

"Has it ever been dangerous Carl?" Jimmy said.

"I made a list!" Sheen said. "The Burp-Powered Helicopter! The AntiGrav Ball! The Hover Helmets! That memory experiment that shocked us! The candy that gave us beards! The metabolic accelerator that turned us into old men!"

"Okay! Okay! I get the picture!" Jimmy grumbled. "No Carl, it won't be dangerous THIS TIME. I'll be up here guiding your way via your comm system and Goddard."

Goddard barked. They walked over to where the hedges were on the Neutron patio. Jimmy bent low and flicked a switch, and a holographic hedge disappeared to reveal a grating. Goddard lasered it and Jimmy lifted it up. They peered down a long dark ventilation shaft.

"It looks kinda scary," Carl said.

"Turn on your lights guys," Jimmy told them. Sheen and Carl turned the lights on their helmets on. Goddard positioned himself next to the shaft and a long crane came out of his back, with a wire hanging from it. It was the crane Jimmy had used to lower Carl down to get the jeweled egg for Peggy Tzu. "Now attach yourselves to the wire."

Sheen and Carl hooked themselves on. The stepped into the air, Carl covering his eyes, and Goddard began to lower them down.

"Stop at the 30 foot mark, Goddard," Jimmy said. Goddard did so. Jimmy put on his headset. "Okay guys, directly below you is a Neutron Repulsion Field. It's designed to keep out lifeforms, mostly that persistently pesky squirrel and bugs."

"Oh come on Jim," he heard Carl speak. "That squirrel is adorable!"

"You guys should see a panel on the wall. Open it."

"Roger that Jim!" Sheen said.

"Nothing special this time," Jimmy explained. "Just a green and red button. Push the red button."

"Oo! I want to push the red button!" Carl exclaimed.

"No!" Sheen said. "I love pushing buttons! I'm the official button pusher!"

"Guys," Jimmy grumbled. "Just push the button."

"Not much happened Jim," Carl said. "The light turned from green to red."

"That's all that happens," Jimmy said. "Goddard continue lowering them."

A few seconds later Jimmy heard Sheen "We're down Jim! There's a huge honking fan here."

"Okay guys, to the right of the fan is another panel," Jimmy said. "This one doesn't open. You're going to have to use your microlaser on your belt to cut off the panel."

After a minute Sheen radioed in. "The panel is off Jim. It looks like there's a bunch of wires in here."

"You're going to have to cut power to the fan," Jimmy explained. "Cut the blue and white wire first, with a wire cutter. Then use the microlaser to cut through the fat yellow wire."

"Okay Jim," Carl said. "The fan has stopped. I don't think I can fit through it though. You know I'm a bit big boned."

"Yeah Jimmy," Sheen said. "I'm a thin guy but not only is there the fan, there's a wire mesh over it."

"Don't touch the mesh Sheen! It's charged with an electroshocker."

Jimmy heard a zap and crackle. A puff of smoke drifted up from the ventilation shaft.

"Sheen!"

"Sorry Jim!" Sheen said. "You know how I love a good bolt of electricity."

"You're going to have to disable the elctroshocker first," Jimmy said. "But you can't just cut a wire this time of Vox will flood the shaft with – uh, you're better off not knowing."

"Jimmy!" He heard Carl's worried voice.

"Don't worry Carl just follow my instructions!" Jimmy said. "Inside the panel is a blue wire and a purple wire entwined together. You're going to have to strip of the covering of each wire, and expose the actual metal, but DO NOT LET THEM TOUCH! Repeat, DO NOT LET THEM TOUCH!"

"Hold on Jim," Sheen said. "My dad showed me how to strip wires in the shop. We'll each take one wire." There was a long pause. "Now what?"

"On Carl's belt is a Neutronic Bypass unit, a small red gizmo that looks like a calculator with two wires hanging out of it. I color coded it for you. Hook the blue up to the blue, and the purple up to the purple. Then use your clothes pins to keep the wires from touching. That'll disable the electroshocker, and you can use your screwdriver to take the screen off."

Jimmy heard all kinds of tinkering over the headset. Then a loud clank. "The screen's off Jim," Carl said. "But I still can't fit through the fan!"

"You'll have to cut the blades off," Jimmy said. "Use your microlasers again."

After a pause: "Okay Jimmy! The way is open."

"Unhook yourselves from Goddard," Jimmy instructed. "Take exactly ten steps down the corridor and stop. Directly in front of you are pressure plates and in the walls are Neutronic Stun Guns. So I want you get your Magno Shoes out of your backpacks and climb on the ceiling for five feet. Can you guys do that?"

"Piece of cake!" Sheen said.

"Oo! What kind of cake?" Carl asked.

"Come on Carl, let's do this thing," Sheen said.

"Tell me when you're back on the ground," Jimmy said.

"We're not stunned yet, Jimmy!" Sheen said a few minutes later. "I love being upside down, that always makes me wonderfully dizzy."

"No time for being dizzy Sheen!" Jimmy said. "Now head down to the end of the corridor."

"We're there Jim!" Carl said, and sneezed. "I recognize that! Infrared!"

"Yes, there's an infrared web directly in front of you. On your belt is a ReflectoField Generator. The black box on your hip with the green button. Turn it on and you should be able to walk right through the infrared. Do so."

After another minute. "We're through Jim! The corridor splits here. All over the place. One going straight down, one ahead, and to the left and right."

"Okay," Jimmy said. The one going down heads to the garage, where the rocket and hovercar are stored. The one going straight goes to the main lab. The on to the right goes to the Experiment Bay. We want the one to the left."

"What's down that way?"

"The backbones of the lab," Jimmy said. "The power generators, the circuit breakers, the communications systems, and our goal, Vox's central core. Step into that corridor but do not go any further down it!"

"I dunno Jim" Carl said. "It looks awful deep down to the garage. And we're not hooked up to Goddard anymore."

"Carl, we still have Magno Shoes. Just climb on the walls over there," Sheen said. A couple seconds later; "Now what Jim? There's another fan and mesh here."

"Yes," Jimmy said. "Vox generates a lot of heat." Jimmy guided them through disabling the mesh electroshocker again, taking it off, turning off the fan, and cutting off the blades. They then went down the next corridor, past motion sensor turbo lasers, disabled a flickering force field, opened another thick grating, and crawled through an air conditioning system. Carl almost didn't fit through that and collapsed on the floor in the room beyond, sucking on his inhaler.

"You did it guys!" Jimmy congratulated them. "You're in Vox's central core!"

"It's kinda neat in here," Sheen said. "It looks like a CD library of glowing CDs."

"Is Carl okay Sheen?" Jimmy asked.

"Whew!" Carl gasped. "Yes, I'm okay Jimmy."

"One of you take out your Key. The one I showed you. The red one."

"Got it!"

"Now locate the memory module labeled JNSS 34."

"Got that too!"

"Put your key into the slot beneath it and turn it carefully to the right."

"Okay, here it goes."

Suddenly Jimmy heard a yell and a scream over his headset. "Guys? Guys??"

The roof of the clubhouse sprang open and Sheen and Carl were hoisted high into the air by robotic arms. A gigantic foot came out and began to wind up for a colossal kick in the fanny.

"That's going to leave a bruise!" Jimmy heard Sheen say. But Jimmy saw his chance. If Vox was busy with Carl and Sheen, he might make it inside in the meantime. He activated his antigrav shoes and flew into the clubhouse.

But Vox was too quick for him. Another pair of robotic arms snatched him and held him up by his hair. Yet another pair of robotic arms came up and slipped his antigrav shoes off, apparently so he couldn't break his fall. Goddard flew up to try to rescue him and was seized by a fifth pair of arms.

"Where did Vox get all these arms?" Jimmy vaguely wondered, then KAPOW!

Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, and Goddard went sailing through the air. They flew over the Neutron house and over the street.

"I can see my house from here!" Carl said, pointing.

"And wow, I can even see my house from here!" Sheen said.

"Thank goodness, we're going to fall in Cindy's pool again!" Jimmy said with relief.

But through bad luck, or careful aim, each one of them bounced off the diving board, hit the Vortex chimney, tumbled down the roof, and landed with a splat in the Vortex backyard.

Cindy and Libby were nearby, relaxing in the sun, in their swimsuits. Both were resting on their stomachs in lawn chairs with lemonades next to them. Humphrey was sleeping at Cindy's feet. Without looking up from her magazine Cindy said "You're aim is a little off this time, Neutron."

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