Me: Hiya, and hello! How is everyone doing this fine day? If you asked, I'm doing good. Yep, yep. Sorry that I'm slowly posting chappies, truth is, I'm just wingin' it, so, I just make it up as I go along. ...Not much to say...
Review Thanks: Thank you acosta perez jose ramiro for reviewing and commenting on the scenes. Thanks you Princess of the High Lands for also reviewing, and, I'm guessing you were trying to be funny... it worked. And thank you stardust104 for commenting on the story and I'm happy that I stumped someone, I don't know why, I just am... sorry.
greg9570: I remember after I posted the second chapter about the present tense deal, so, I'll make it past tense in this chapter.
Ch: 3
Sleepover
"Where're we going, Jimmy?" Sheen asked as he held on to the hovercar.
Jimmy answered, steering the hovercar, "We're going to the lab."
"Why?" Carl inquired as the car landed safely.
"'Cause..." Jimmy replied, but didn't completely answer.
Sheen chimed, "Because of Emerald!"
"It is not!" Jimmy defended while the three exited the vehicle and entered the the clubhouse.
Sheen could tell that Jimmy wanted the subject dropped, so, he did, "Whatever you say, man."
When they reach the lab, Jimmy insisted, "Why don't you guys, uh, do something... over there!" He pointed in the opposite direction of his computer. Sheen tilted his head suspiciously, and Carl tried not to blurt out something that wouldn't make Jimmy exactly happy... but, he didn't quite succeed...
"You're gonna look for Emerald again? Man, you are definitely obsessed!" Carl then held his mouth shut, hoping not to rouse any more anger.
"I... am not... obsessed!" Jimmy screamed belligerently, as he pointed to the ceiling. "If you guys won't just leave me alone on that topic, then, could you please just go." Sheen and Carl, both surprised, at first thinking Jimmy was joking, but, the look on his face said otherwise.
"We'll drop the subject Jimmy and we will uh... Play with your memory door project thingy...You know the one with cheese behind one door and like 20,000 electraunit things behind another door. And get ELECTRICUTED! ...Oh Jimmy... you're totally obsessed..." Sheen spontaneously out of no where shouted, Carl smacked him on the back of the head as he 'finished' his sentence, "whuh... a... wh... with science! You're totally obsessed with science, yea, that's what I was going to say, science!"
Jimmy covered his face with his hand to hide any anger, and pleaded, "Just go play with UltraLord and Llamas at your guys' house, it's gonna be boring here anyway."
"I think he wants us to leave," Sheen collected from the moment. They then walked to the exit and left. When they were out of sight, Jimmy slapped his head for having them leave. He then walkedover to the computer screen.
"Vox, any sign of Emerald?" Jimmy queried guiltily.
"No," the computer replied.
Jimmy asked another question, "Uh, Vox, do you think I'm obsessed with Emerald?"
"Unable to obey command," Vox said blankly.
"Right, I still need to install a personality chip into you... maybe later, because Emerald could be anywhere right now... but, if I'm correct, she'll appear after dusk... In that case, Vox! Please alert me when you have a lock on Emerald," Jimmy commanded kindly, cringing a little bit, seeing everybody's point on how he's 'obsessed', but, he convinces himself once more that he's not obsessed.
"Yes, Jimmy," Vox answered as Jimmy goes up somewhere other than there.
Brrrrrrrrrriiinnnggg! Brrrrrrrrrriiinnnggg! Brrrr...
"Hello? This is Judy Neutron..." Judy answered. After a couple seconds of listening, she placed her hand over the phone and shouted, "Jimmy! The phone's for you!"
Jimmy came running up and took the phone from his mother, "Yes?"
"Hi, Jimmy, it's Betty, I can't get this studying done very well, could you help me sooner than in two days?" She asked politely.
He looked around his mind to see if he could do anything sooner, "I can't do anything today, but, would tomorrow be okay?"
"Mmm-hmm, that'll be just fine, see ya tomorrow... Jimmy," she then hung up the phone.
Stealthily, and ever-so-quietly, sneaking around in the darkness... Stop! Then, look around the corner, no one, keep going. Footsteps are being heard, speed up, can't get caught. Footsteps increasing and nearing, hurry up! Oh, forget the stealth, run! Go,you can't... too late.
"Ha ha, I got you," Libby broke into a funky little dance from finding Cindy. "Finally we can get on with it, Missa was first found, so, she's counting this time! Cindy, next time you know someone's following you, I suggest you run."
Cindy replied as she and Libby walked back to where Missawould startto count, "Well, I like to make it interesting, make it fun, y'know? Besides, it'snot fair that I can't get on top of the roof, that's hiding! So that should count!"
"Yea, well, you're the only one who can get up there, so it wouldn't be fair, because you'd be up there all night and no one could reach you." Libby answered. When Missa started counting everyone scattered off in every which way in the back yard of the Vortex residence.
"Whoa, what time is it?" Cindy inquired quietly of Brittany who was passing by.
"Like, why would I know?" She snottily replied as she kept going her way.
Cindy opens the door to her house and peers in, 10:27! It can't be! "Since when would Mom let us stay outside this late..." She entered the house hushly, and tip-toed to her mother's room. "That's why, she's watching that show again..."
The next day (Saturday):
Jimmy sat on his bed, perplexed and confused, "I don't understand it Goddard, Emerald wasn't out doing anything last night, not even looking for anything... What could be more important than protecting a city?" Goddard tilted his head, indicating that he, too, wasn't fully comprehending.
The mechanical canine lifted his neck and shown on his screen, "She could've been out, but didn't show up on the scan."
"Yea, she probably was, plus, Vox only scanned up until midnight... Maybe Emerald was out during that time!" Jimmy all of a sudden got blissful, that this heroine was more than likely out saving the day... er... night! Of course, he's just basing his information off of only two nights, which couldn've been the only two nights she appeared.
This did cross Jimmy's mind, so, he asked some people if they ever saw someone fitting the description of Emerald.
"You know I saw her, Nerdtron! The bank heist, duh," Cindy answered, and was about to shut her front door.
"I mean other than the bank," Jimmy rephrased the kind of answer he was looking for.
Cindy tiredly asked him, "Why are you wondering about her?"
"I am not obsessed!" He shouted, clenching his fists.
"That's not what I was asking, I was hoping you'd tell me why you're wondering about her," Cindy emphasized on her question.
"Because, I wanted to see how long she's been here," Jimmy replied.
Cindy answered peculiarly rapidly before shutting her door, "Yes, I've seen her before. She's been around for about two months." Then, the door is shut. Jimmyglanced at his watch, almost two o'clock. Wait, almost two o'clock! He's supposed to study with Betty! Uh oh.
Me: Once again I'm SO sorry this took long to be posted, I feel terrible. Please forgive me. Please also review, and tell me what you think, if I need some tweaking, and all that. Flames are accepted. And thank you for reading up to this point.
