Chapter 4

Cindy and Libby walked by with the diapers when they saw Jimmy and his friends rushing past.

"Neutron!" Cindy shouted at him. "What are you doing? And what were you doing at my house?"

"You have better not been messing with that cute baby." Libby added. Jimmy turned to them.

"Sorry," He apoligized. "But we got to find Poof!"

"What?" Cindy gasped. "You have been messing with Poof, haven't you? Neutron, what were you…"

"Don't have time to argue!" He resumed running to his laboratory. "Poof's been kidnapped by Prof. Calamitous; we got to save him, come on!" This time, both girls' eyes grew wide.

"WHAT?" They questioned.

"Come on!" The girls didn't argue, they just dropped the diapers, and ran after Jimmy and his friends.

Timmy and his two dogs (fairies) first went to the Candy Bar to ask Sam if he'd seen Poof.

"He was here." Sam answered.

"Great!" Timmy said. Both he and Wanda were hopeful. Cosmo was licking ice cream from a dog bowl.

"But, he disappeared when I closed up shop last night." Timmy and Wanda then frowned.

"Great!"

"Do you know where he disappeared to?" Wanda wanted to know.

"Fraid not!" Sam shrugged. "Sorry." Wanda frowned again.

"That's okay. We'll look elsewhere." She started for the door. "Come on Timmy; come on Cosmo; Poof's not here. Timmy bolted from his stool and went near Wanda. They turned to Cosmo who was still licking the ice cream filled bowl.

"Cosmo; let's go!" Wanda ordered. Cosmo turned to Timmy and Wanda. Vanilla ice cream was around his mouth.

"Aww!" He whined. "Can't I just finish my ice cream?" He was about to dig in again when Wanda spoke up.

"You can have all the ice cream you want when we find our son." He looked up from his ice cream.

"Aw, all right, if you insist." He went near Timmy and his wife. "Save my ice cream Sam!"

"You ice cream will have melt by then."

"Oh all right. Don't save my ice cream then."

"Will do!" Sam said, giving the thumbs up. "Good luck!" Timmy and his disguised dogs left the Candy Bar.

A freckled red curly haired kid with glasses went up to Sam with a puzzled look on his face.

"Why were you feeding a talking green dog ice cream?" He asked. "My mom says dogs aren't supposed to eat people food."

Sam shrugged.

"Oopsie me!" He said.

"You're going to kill your dog if you keep feeding him people food." The boy then left. Sam threw away the ice cream in the trash, threw away the bowl in the dumpster outside, and continued his work.

"Okay," Jimmy said once they were in his lab. "We need to go to Prof. Calamitous lab. To the rocket!"

"You know Neutron," Cindy started. "This wouldn't have happened if you didn't abandon him in the first place." Jimmy looked at Cindy.

"What do you mean abandoned?"

"Poof went to us," Libby exclaimed. "Because you abandoned him!"

"We never abandoned him! We were taking care of him until he wondered off somehow."

"Oh really?" Cindy challenged. "Well at least we took better care of him!"

"Better care? You left him alone and dressed him in a stupid outfit. Heck, you even threw away the Everlasting Diaper I invented for him. Why did you do that?"

"It was foul; there was poop and pee in there!" Jimmy looked confused.

"You mean, it didn't work?"

"That's right; it failed, just like your other worthless inventions!" Jimmy looked mad again.

"Worthless? What do you mean worthless?"

"Your inventions may work at first Neutron, but then they malfunction. Your inventions are all a complete bust."

"What about Goddard? He's my only invention I made that works, and I am quite grateful of that."

"Okay, Goddard. But all your other inventions are a complete bust." Jimmy scowled at her.

"Guys, guys!" Carl got between the two. "Can we please stop fighting? This won't help Poof." Jimmy looked at Cindy and sighed.

"Carl's right. Instead of fighting, we should just find Poof. Come on!" He went in the rocket. Carl and Sheen went in after him.

"Libby and Cindy," Jimmy explained to the girls. "You two are going to have to take the extra rocket." The girls saw a red rocket. They jumped in, buckled in their seatbelts, and put on their helmets.

"10, 9, 8..." Jimmy started the countdown.

"Neutron!" Cindy shouted. "We got to go now, no time for a countdown!" Jimmy realized she was right.

"Oh yeah." He pushed the button. "Blast off!" And with that, the rockets blasted off into the trees.

Timmy and his disguised dogs were walking on the sidewalk, still on the lookout. Cosmo sniffed the ground all over. They had asked Nick about Poof, but got nothing. Now they were back to square one.

"We have been gone all day!" Timmy complained. "My parents are going to kill me when they find that I'm not with Vicky." Wanda looked at him.

"You much rather be tortured by Vicky?"

"Good point, but Mom says Dad's stupid documentary is seven hours, they would've been home hours ago! I got to get home so they know I'm okay."

"But we still don't have Poof." Timmy stopped and looked at his godmother. Wanda stopped too.

"Wanda!" He started. "I hate to say it, but Poof might be gone forever." Wanda gasped.

"Never! Timmy, we cannot stop searching.

"Wanda, open your eyes will you! Unless someone we know in this universe makes an appearance, we'll never find him; it's hopeless! Let's just go home already…"

"Hey!" Cosmo piped up. They turned to see Jimmy and the girl's rockets fly pass. "Two wishing stars, sweet! We can wish for hotdogs!" He ran towards the rockets.

"COSMO, WAIT!" Both Timmy and Wanda yelled, running after him.

The rockets crashed into two trees at the entrance of Prof. Calamitous' lab. The kids got out, dizzy from the crashes. Cindy was the first to regain her balance.

"Neutron!" She shouted at him. "You got to put labels on your inventions! If there were labels on them, we wouldn't have pushed the wrong buttons and we wouldn't have crashed into you! It's a wonder how we aren't killed from your crazy inventions all the time." All the kids became calm once more.

"We weren't killed," Jimmy started to brag, "because I am a boy genius!" Cindy was about to argue when Cosmo, Wanda, and Timmy came into the picture.

"Aw man!" Cosmo said. "There are just rockets here, not wishing stars. Okay, we can leave now!"

"T man!" Sheen greeted, happily.

"Hi Sheen." Timmy just said.

"Looking for Poof?" Carl asked.

"Yes!" Wanda answered. She looked at Jimmy. "Have you seen him? Please tell me he's here!"

"He's in here!" Jimmy told them, pointing to the lab. "Come on!" They all followed Jimmy into Prof's Calamitous' lab. Before resuming, Jimmy stopped to give Wanda Poof's rattle.

"Here!" He said. "Poof's rattle. Prof. Calamitous left this behind when he abducted your baby." Wanda took the rattle with a worried expression on her face.

"We'll save Poof." Jimmy assured her. "You can be sure of that."

"It's not just that." Wanda told him. They looked at her. "It's just that without his rattle, things happened."

"What kind of things?" Sheen asked.

"Well, when he cries bad things happen, when he laughs, good things happen. When he hiccups, lightning strikes the nearest person. When he burps, he breaks wind."

"Oh my gosh!" Jimmy panicked. "Come on then!" They all rushed into the building.

Prof. Calamitous laughed to himself as poor Poof struggled in the metal cuffs he was in. The cuffs were on his hands and legs. The bag that Prof. Calamitous captured Poof in now acted as his diaper. His outfit, bonnet and cane were on the floor. A mind control-like helmet was on his head.

"Struggle all you want, small round child." Prof. Calamitous told him. "You will never get free." He laughed as Poof struggled. Jimmy and the gang then came into the room. They all gasped as they saw Poof in the cuffs. Jimmy looked at his laughing nemesis.

"Prof. Calamitous!" He yelled. The Professor stopped and looked at Jimmy. "Quit this right now; he's just a baby!"

"Neutron!" Calamitous greeted. "Welcome!" Wanda narrowed her eyes at him.

"What are you planning to do with my baby?" She demanded to know.

"Glad you asked." He looked at his machine. "I heard your baby was magic, so I'm just going to suck all of his powers from his little body, turning me into the most powerful man in the universe so I can rule the world and destroy Jimmy Neutron once and for all!" He laughed evilly, and then stopped. "You can have him after that because he will be useless to me then." He got back in laughing evilly again.

"You fiend!" Cindy shouted. "You can't do that." Prof. Calamitous stopped again.

"Oh, but I can, that's what I love about being a villain; I get to destroy children's' dreams!"

"You better stop right now!" Libby added.

"Try to stop me!" He went to a lever and pulled it all the way down, static shocks started going through the baby's body. Poof cried out loudly.

"My baby!" Wanda shirked. Then she nudged Jimmy. "Do something!"

"Okay, okay!" Jimmy said to her. Then the boys closed his eyes tightly in concentration. "Come on, think, think, think!"

He went through his brain. He then remembered Wanda telling him that Poof being happy without his rattle caused good things to happen and crying without his rattle brought bad things.

"BRAIN BLAST!" Jimmy said, snapping his fingers. He then looked at Prof. Calamitous.

"You win." He faked. "It's hopeless." The others looked at him, shocked at what he was saying.

"WHAT?" They all wanted to know. Calamitous looked confused as well.

"What? Why don't you stop me like you always do?"

"I can't. There's nothing I can do to stop you. Destroy me if you want to." Prof. C blinked in disbelief, and then looked serious.

"Very well." The electrical machine then stopped, and Poof panted exhausted. Calamitous put on the helmet that was attached to tubes on the machine.

"Now I will be the most powerful man in the world!" He laughed evilly then stopped. "You can have the baby; I don't need him now."

"Nah!" Jimmy said, making the others gasp. "You can have him." Prof. C was confused again. Poof looked at him with a puzzled expression on his face.

"I can?"

"Jimmy?" The fairy baby questioned.

"Yeah. You might want him if your machine backfires. It probably won't but you never know." Prof. Calamitous scratched his chin.

"Hmmm, you're right. I might need him, won't I?" Jimmy nodded.

"You know he's a pain." Jimmy said. The others gasped again.

"Dude," Timmy started. "What are you doing? This is my god brother here. He's the bad guy!" But Jimmy ignored him.

"He doesn't need his family. All he does is get into mischief. He whines a lot too. He's magical so he will be better off with you anyways." Poof began to develop tears in his eyes, whimpering sadly.

"Jimmy!" Cosmo said. "You do know he's the bad guy, right?" Wanda narrowed her eyes at Jimmy.

"I can't believe you're doing this!" She said, tears streaming from her eyes. "He's an infant! You know you may be smart, but when it comes to babies, you are really heartless!"

"I know what I'm doing!" Jimmy told them in clenched teeth. They all looked confused. Prof. Calamitous was about to press the button on a remote he just grabbed.

"Good bye, Jimmy Neutron!"

Suddenly Poof broke out crying.

"Shut it!" Calamitous snapped, turning to the wailing baby. "I'm trying to concentrate! How can I concentrate on destroying my nemesis with all that crying?" Poof cried and cried. Prof C. huffed madly, and went for the button.

Suddenly, a horde of llamas poofed in, making Prof. C drop the remote.

"Hey!" He snapped. "What are all of these foul, smelly creatures doing here? Get out of here you stupid llamas, come on, out you go!" He began kicking at one. All of the Llamas looked mad.

"Uh, oh!" Carl said. "You shouldn't have done that."

"Why?" Prof. Calamitous asked. "These are llamas! They're mean, and don't have brains whatsoever!" Carl was now mad, ready to burst.

"ATTACK!" He yelled. On cue, all of the llamas stampeded, taking Prof Calamitous along with them. Poof stopped crying and cheered for the animals.

"Llamas, llamas!" He cheered.

"Knock it off you stupid llamas!" Prof. C cried. Then his helmet came off.

"Yay!" Carl cheered. "Go llamas, go!" All of the llamas and Prof C went out of the lab. Wanda grabbed Poof and followed Jimmy and the rest to the exit. Cindy grabbed the outfit, bonnet and cane and followed.

"Nooooo!" Prof Calamitous shouted when they were outside. "Curse you Jimmy Neutron!" He and the llamas disappeared under the sunset. The fairies and kids all cheered.

"Never underestimate the power of llamas!" Carl called after him. They all laughed.

When they were all back at Jimmy's lab, Jimmy had restored all of Poof's powers back into him thanks to his Restore-Everything-Back-to-Normal Helmet. Jimmy unstrapped him when all done, and gave him back to his parents.

"There!" He said. "Magical powers all restored." Cosmo and Wanda hugged their baby. Timmy shook Jimmy's hand.

"Thanks dude!" Timmy said. "Thanks to you, my god brother is back in our lives again!"

"Don't mention it!" Jimmy said. "I'm just glad that Poof is back in where he belongs. You are truly a wonderful family. I don't think I'm ready to be a parent yet. I better stick to science for now."

"Yeah." Wanda agreed. "Better stick to science until you marry that special someone of your very dreams." She then smiled. "Like Cindy." Both Cindy and Jimmy look disgusted at this.

"WHAT?" They both asked.

"Me marry Neutron?" Cindy wanted to know. "Never!" Cosmo, Timmy, Wanda, Sheen, and Carl all laughed.

"I wish for the portal back to Dimmsdale!" Timmy told his godparents. With a poof of their wands, the portal with the picture of the Turner household appeared.

"Say goodbye sweetie." Wanda told her son.

"Jimmy, Jimmy!" Poof waved. "Bye-bye!"

"Bye Poof!" Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, and Libby all said at once.

"You were really cute!" Libby shouted. Sheen elbowed her.

"But I'm cuter, right?" Libby gave a disgusted sigh, rolling her eyes.

"We'll miss you!" Cindy called.

"Bye- bye cute baby!" Carl waved.

"Sheen, Sheen!" The baby said.

"Aweeeee!" Sheen admired. "He leaned how to say my name!" Carl narrowed his eyes at him and pushed him aside.

"What's my name Poof?" He asked. But, before Poof could respond, they all disappeared into the portal. The portal disappeared with them. Carl looked defeated.

"Cheer up Carl!" Sheen encouraged his friend. "He'll learn your name and loads more!"

"I guess you're right."

Then, they heard all of their moms calling them for dinner.

"Well Neutron." Cindy told him. "You done well." Jimmy smiled at her.

"Thanks Cindy!" He said. "It's so nice to hear you say that."

"You better be proud Jimmy," Libby added. "These are the rare times when Cindy will say that to you. You may never get another chance again unless you're lucky."

"Like I am with you?" Sheen asked, hopefully. Libby looked disgusted.

"Let's just go." She and Cindy left for their houses.

"You may not think it now," Sheen shouted after her. "But someday you'll realize we're meant for each other; someday!" He went near Jimmy and Carl. Jimmy looked at his friends.

"Well guys," Jimmy started. "Taking care of a baby can take a lot out of you. I think it calls for an award. See you tomorrow."

"Bye Jimmy!" Sheen and Carl said.

"I'm really going to miss P man." Sheen said, and then left with Carl. Jimmy looked up at the sky.

"Yeah me too." He said. "Me too." He left for his own house then.

Meanwhile back at the Turner household, things went back to normal. Timmy got grounded for being gone all day and making Vicky worry. But it was worth it in the end because they had Poof back in their lives and they couldn't be happier.