the punishment

Disclaimer: I do not own Jimmy Neutron or it's characters

Chapter 4,

"Jimmy, What Did You Do?!"
"My Poor Cindy!"
"Libby! Oh, Goodness!"
"Carl, My Baby!"
"My Boy! My Boy!"

Goddard had asked the parents to gather in the Neutrons backyard and they were very frightened. The parents wrapped their arms around their children, as if to shield them from the fate that they had to eventually face. But eventually Judy left Jimmy in the arms of Hugh and stood up on the outdoor table and whistled loudly.

"Ok, everybody, listen up. We need to stay strong for the little ones. They need us more then ever, and we have some serious things to discuss. Everyone, let's talk in the kitchen, I have been baking some brownies this afternoon." Judy said and Sheen smiled.

"Can we have the brownies with ice cream?" Sheen asked and Judy giggled.

"Yes, I have regular vanilla and I have chocolate chip." Judy said and Sheen rushed in, but the others followed her.

"Ok, so first thing is first. We need to stay calm and collective. Jimmy has already explained how they switched genders, so now it's time for damage control." Judy said and Mrs. Vortex cleared her throat.

"What about school?" She asked and Judy thought about this.

"Well, perhaps we can tell people that we entered an exchange program." Judy said and Mr. Vortex twisted his mouth.

"The principal and the teachers wouldn't fall for that." Mr. Vortex said.

"Well perhaps we could tell them the truth." Mr. Estevez said and Mrs. Folfax gasped.

"And let more people know about my daughter turned into a son? Are you crazy?" Mr. Folfax said and Mr. Wheezer glared at him.

"It's not just your daughter, my son changed too." Mr. Wheezer said and Hugh blinked.

"Ok, ok, all of our kids changed, but you know children need to grow up eventually. So the important thing is... uh... Sugar-booger do we have any pie?" Hugh asked and Judy covered her eyes.

"Oh, Hugh." She said quietly.

"No one cares about a stupid piece of pie, you dingbat!" Mrs. Vortex said and Judy rolled her eyes.

"Calm, people calm. I'm sure that we can tell the principal and the teachers to help us out. After all, no one else in town needs to know about this little mix up." Judy said and Cindy looked uncomfortable.

"Cindy has several teachers for her hobby's outside of school. Should they know?" Mr. Vortex asked.

"Well... perhaps..." Judy said and Mr. Estevez blinked.

"What if the news comes out, and people start to ask us about it." Mr. Estevez asked and Mr. Vortex rolled his eyes.

"Well, we deny it of course." He said and Hugh ate a piece of pie that Judy pulled out of the fridge for him.

"OW!" Jimmy cried and the parents turned to them. Sheen had gone behind Jimmy's back and snapped her bra strap.

"Sheen, why would you do that?" Jimmy asked and Sheen laughed.

"What makes you think it was me?" Sheen asked and Jimmy glared at her.

"Your the only one behind me." Jimmy said and Sheen looked around her.

"Oh... but it was funny." Sheen said and Jimmy snapped Sheen's bra.

"Ow! Now that wasn't funny." Sheen said and Judy rose her eyebrow at them.

"Um... Jimmy, are you wearing a B. R. A.?" Judy said, whispering the spelling.

"Sheen do you have a bra on your body again?" Mr. Estevez asked and Cindy tried to bite her lip so she wouldn't smile, whereas her parents were stifling their laughter.

"No! Maybe..." Sheen said and Judy blinked.

"Where did you two get bras?" Hugh asked and this time Cindy and Libby started blushing.

"Oh..." He said and Judy shook her head.

"Now that is fine today, but tomorrow we are going straight to the mall and going bra shopping." Judy said and Mr. Estevez whispered something in Judy's ear.

"Sheen too." Judy said Mrs. Wheezer scoffed.

"Why not take them now?" She asked and Judy picked up her purse.

"I'm going down to the school so that I can talk to the principal. We don't want to crowd his office, and because of Jimmy's many science projects, principal Willoughby knows me pretty well." Judy said and Jimmy stopped her before she left the house.

"Mom... Do I need a girl name?" He whispered and Judy's eyes widened.

"Yes, of course. Uh, talk to your father." She said and Judy rushed out the door.

"So what will our names be?" Libby asked and Hugh chuckled.

"Well, when Sugar-booger was pregnant with Jimbo, we weren't sure if we were going to have a boy or a girl, so we had two possible names for him. There was Jimmy, which of course everyone knows, but the other was Jamie. So I guess my Jimbo can be Jamie." Hugh said and Jimmy thought about this.

"Well, I suppose it's not that different, so I can roll with that." Jimmy said and Sheen looked at his dad.

"Do you have a name for me?" Sheen asked and Mr. Estevez thought about this.

"Well, I suppose you could use your mother's name." Mr. Estevez said and Sheen smiled.

"Maria? Cool." Sheen said and Mr. Vortex looked at Cindy.

"I guess that means that your new name is Logan." Mr. Vortex said and Cindy smiled.

"That's fun, and it's kinda tough." Cindy said and Mr. Wheezer snorted.

"Well, Carl, how would you like to be named Madeline after your great aunt Madeline that convinced your mother and me to move out here to Retroville?" Mr. Wheezer.

"I guess it's my turn." Libby said and Mr. Folfax sighed.

"Well, you could borrow my name. Tavon Jr. isn't a bad name." Mr. Folfax said and Libby smiled.

"Yeah, then I can either be called 'Tavon' or 'Junior'." Libby said with a big smile.

"Ok, ok. Now that names are out of the way, I want to ask Jimmy again how long this... punishment, is suppose to last. He seemed a little troubled with telling us that detail." Mrs. Vortex asked and Jimmy hesitated.

"Um, at least a month." Jimmy said and Mrs. Folfax glared at him.

"Hmm, 'at least' huh? So what is the most time you children will stay like this?" She asked and Jimmy sighed.

"They said 'forever', but I am positive that I would create a machine to change us back before that happened." Jimmy said and Mr. Estevez gasped.

"Cruel aliens. One month or forever? How rude of them." He said and Sheen scoffed.

"What? No, you see it's a month, a year, OR forever." Sheen said and Mrs. Wheezer clapped her hands.

"I'm done discussing this. My head hurts from all this. Hugh, if you don't mind, I would like to lay down on your couch while we wait for Judy to come back." Mrs. Wheezer said and Hugh nodded.

"Of, course. In fact I can show you some of my new ducks from 'The Ducks of the Month' calendar. Granted it's not this years calendar, I need to wait for those, but I have a complete set of 2003's in my office." Hugh said walking out of the room with them.

"Hey, Libby, can we go outside and talk?" Sheen asked and Libby nodded.

"Sure, Sheen. What's on your mind?" Libby asked and Sheen closed the door behind him.