Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future
Episode 1: The Fairy Effect
Plot: Tammy wants to take someone to the school dance, but can't find anyone. She decides to ask Jimmy to the dance by traveling through time to meet the younger version of him. Though Tommy manages to stop her, an incident disrupts the timeline, causing Jimmy to become an evil dictator mad with power. Worse, since he's not married to Cindy, it pushes Baby Max out of existence. Now the twins are in an alternate future where the Dictator Jimmy and his evil SpongeTrons fight the Resistance where Cindy is the leader, Danny is still second-in-command but has a robotic arm, Darry is much more serious and has no idea who the twins are, and Junior has a violent streak. Can the twins figure out what caused this horrible future and find a way to restore it?
Part 3
Soon, all the kids had met up with Valerie and Danny at the Nasty Burger and had taken the food into the RV and went back to Bikini Bottom. It was awkward silence the whole way back to headquarters even after they reached their destination and ate their food. Finally, the silence ends when Carl Wheezer approaches Cindy. "Here, snookums. Had them get you something." he said, holding up a bag of food plus a Nasty shake.
Cindy smiled gratefully as she said, "Oh, thank you, honey-pie. You always know just what I like."
Tommy dully frowned at having to listen. "Never seen her that happy when she was married to Neutron." he muttered before eating a fry.
Tammy was slurping on her drink when she stops and holds her stomach. "Uugh...I don't feel so good. I think it's the caffeine..." she moaned when she raised her hand, "Can I go to the bathroom?"
"Sure," Cindy said, not even paying attention to her. "It's right down the hall on your left."
Tammy rushed down the hall while Tommy stared at her with a raised eyebrow. But he realized what she's up to and claims, "Uh, I gotta go the bathroom too. Need to change Poof's diaper."
"Poof?" Poof questioned, knowing he's actually old enough to go to the bathroom himself until Tommy grabs him and rushes down the hall and to the left where Tammy is.
Before Tammy tried to rush into the room, Tommy held his hand on the door to keep it closed, "What do you think you're doing?"
"I'm going to splash my face with water until I wake up from this horrible nightmare!" Tammy cried out.
"I know how you feel, Tammy." Tommy responded, "But we both know this is all really happening. Our whole world has changed and we can't do anything to change it back."
Tammy bowed her head sadly and said, "I just wish I knew how this all happened."
"Maybe Jimmy's just in a bad mood because I sprayed him in the face with cologne when we were in the past." Tommy sadly assumed.
Tammy raised her head up when her eyes widen. "Wait, what was that?"
"Don't you remember?" Tommy asked. "I had to keep you from talking to Jimmy, so I covered our escape by spraying him in the face with some perfume bottle that was in front of him."
"Hmm…" Tammy wondered and asks, "What was the name of the perfume bottle?"
"I dunno. I wasn't paying attention since I was dragging you out of the past so you wouldn't meddle with the time stream."
"Name Megalomanium!" Poof said.
"Megalo-whaty-what?" Tommy questioned with an odd look.
Poof was about to supposedly explain until Valerie approached them. "Hey, you two." she said with her hands on her hips. "I heard what happened back in Amity Park."
"Oh really," Tammy said in a discouraged tone. "Are you gonna demote us or something? What rank are we anyway?"
"No, it's nothing like that." Valerie said with a smile. "I just thought I'd give you a little more insight of what goes on around here. Come with me and I'll explain." Tammy and Tommy look at each other in uncertainty, but simply shrug and follow the older woman. Poof just sighs in disappointment, missing another chance to help his godchildren learn of what caused this world.
Valerie walks down a section of the base with Tammy and Tommy following her. "I've noticed you seem to act like you know all of us pretty well. But at the same time, you seem to not know us at all."
"Well, you see," Tammy tried to explain, "The thing about that is..."
But Valerie just chuckled, "Relax, will ya? That's why I brought you here. To educate you a little bit more on what everybody's reason for being here is." She stops in front of the training room where Tammy and Tommy peek in to see Darry, retooling a ghost weapon before firing it at a target, hitting it right down the middle. "I heard you found out about Darry's mother, and his other little secret."
"That he doesn't have ghost powers like his dad." Tommy answered. "But how is that possible?"
"It wasn't." Valerie sadly explained. "Over a year ago when fighting the Overlord's forces, he showed up and used the Amity Park Crystal on Darry. Afterwards, Darry couldn't go ghost anymore and couldn't use any of his ghost powers. They were just gone...forever."
"That's horrible," Tommy said surprised by this.
"Isn't it?" Valerie replied in a grim tone. "However, that didn't stop Darry from wanting revenge. I ended up training him to use ghost weapons as a new way of fighting. I taught him everything I know, and he soon became to most dangerous ghost hunter I'd ever seen- even more dangerous than the Fentons…or me." They see Darry toss a ghost weapon aside and quickly pull out two ecto-knives from his back pockets and twirl them in his hands before hurling them and two targets, getting another bull's-eye. "His father worries about him and thinks he's gone too far with this training, but Darry refuses to listen and this just puts them at odds so they hardly ever speak to each other."
The twins stare in sadness over what has become of their enthusiastic leader and best friend. "What about Junior?" Tammy wondered.
She turns toward the same room to see Junior doing pull-ups on a high bar. "Junior was only three the last time he saw his father, SpongeBob. After they attacked Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob was captured by the Overlord's forces and we haven't seen him since. Even though, he's known him the shortest out of all his siblings, Junior became determined to get him back after hearing all the stories his mother told him about SpongeBob. As you can see, Junior became the hardcore, aggressive, little terror you see now."
The twins watch as Junior pulls upward and flips over to a mannequin with Jimmy's face on it. He punctures a fist through the mannequin's chest, pulls out a piece of stuffing that's shaped like a "heart" and crushes it in his fist. They both look sickened by this as Tommy says, "Those aren't the words I had in mind to describe him."
Tammy turns to Valerie and asked, "Val, you knew the Nicktoons, right?"
"Of course," Valerie nodded.
"Do you know someone named Timmy Turner?"
Valerie looked solemn as she answered, "As a matter of fact, I do. Around the time of the Overlord began his reign over all the worlds, the Nicktoons fought against him. Danny, SpongeBob, and Tak managed to hold out, but Timmy wasn't so lucky. He was captured by Neutron and taken to his base in Retroville. We've tried many times to go in and find him, but with no luck. Like SpongeBob, we aren't even sure if he's alive or not."
Tommy and Tammy both gasp in shock and horror as if about to cry. "No..." Tommy muttered.
Poof's lip quivered when he asked. "Mama? Dada?"
Tammy understood, "What about Cosmo and Wanda? His fairies?"
"We don't know. After Neutron took over Dimmsdale, he began apprehending every fairy that lived there. Some managed to escape back to their own world, but Timmy's own fairies were with him the entire time, so they probably weren't so lucky. Whatever he's done with the fairies can't be good."
Poof sniffles with his eyes tearing. Tommy carries up and pats his back to comfort him. "Hmmm…" Tammy pondered and asks, "So how did you meet M?"
"Oh, MX-65," Valerie began explaining. "It was eight months ago when we sent Darry, Danny, and Junior into the base to see if we can liberate anybody in his experimentation labs. They found M locked in a room where he was staying as one of his experiments and just barely managed to get him out. But once freed, he had nowhere to go, no parents to take care of him, not even a name, only strange power over technology as a result of all the experiments. So with the Commander's permission, we took him into the Resistance and he's been with us ever since." Tammy looked amazed by this and turned to another room where M was sitting in front of his spark gun which was in pieces. He waves his hand over it and the weapon suddenly comes together, good as new.
"So, M is the only one out of you guys who has been the Overlord's prisoner?" Tommy asked curiously.
"Well...there is one more of us who has been in the Overlord's clutches." Valerie mentioned.
"Who?" Tammy questioned again.
"That would be Commander Vortex."
Tommy and Tammy gasped in shock. "But...But if that's true, how did she escape? Did he conduct any experiments on her?"
Valerie explained, "About a year ago, the Overlord made a surprise visit during a battle with his SpongeTrons. He just came out and took her, but none of us were fast enough to save her. A few days later, Danny, Carl, and I were able to sneak into the base and rescue her. She was okay for the most part, but she confirmed nothing happened to her. However, this rumor's going around that while she was captive, the Overlord took some of her DNA and made a clone of her."
"A clone?!" Tommy exclaimed in shock. "You mean there's another Cindy Vortex running around somewhere? One is bad enough!"
"Like I said, it's only a rumor. We still can't figure out what Neutron would do with Vortex's DNA," she bows down to face the kids explaining, "I know how hard Vortex can be, but she's a great leader and everyone here is loyal, strong, and brave. Jimmy was too." She sighs, getting up when she peeks to another room, seeing Danny tuning his robotic arm with a screwdriver. "I just wish I knew what happened to Neutron that made him this way. Things would have been different." She walks away, leaving the twins behind.
Tammy frowned when she realized, turning to Poof and Tommy, "We have to fix this."
"But how?" Tommy wondered, "We sneak into Neutron's main base, try to convince him to rejoin the Nicktoons, liberate the people, and end his reign while sparing our lives? I think both sides will ultimately disagree."
"Look, we know the Time Scooter is still at our house in Dimmsdale," Tammy explained, "All we have to do is go back, retrieve the scooter, go to the past, and fix whatever caused all of this to happen."
"Are you nuts?! If we take one step away from here, Neutron will have our heads!"
"Tommy, as Nicktoons, we have a duty to bring peace to our worlds and end this nightmare! We have to bring our friends back."
"Good point, I think I'm beginning to miss the old Junior than this Junior," Tommy said, "And I'm also missing Dar's dry sense of humor and immature fun."
"Exactly!" Tammy says and snaps her fingers, "Poof, take us to Dimmsdale!"
"Poof use magic?" Poof asked, uncertain since the masked man is still around and out to capture them.
"Yes!" Tommy demanded. "You wanna get back to our own timeline where everything makes sense?"
Poof thought about it and nodded, "Poof, poof!" He said shaking his rattle and with a POOF, the three disappear out of HQ.
Somewhere in Dimmsdale, the masked man was watching over the Dimmsdale base, seeing its former citizens doing hard labor or imprisoned, awaiting to be experimented on. As he watched, a red glow came from his pocket and he takes it out to see the Crystal of Dimmsdale is sensing fairy magic nearby.
"So they came," the masked man murmured to himself.
In the empty streets of the suburbs, Tommy, Tammy, and Poof quietly make their way to their house, while watching for any traces of the masked man or SpongeTron troops nearby. "I'm starting to have second thoughts," Tammy whispered, "Maybe we should have brought Darry or Junior along."
"Why? So they can rat us out and we face the Commander's wrath?" Tommy reminded, "Forget it!"
"We could have asked M though," Tammy suggested, "He brought us to the Resistance with our friends and helped us through. He seems to be someone we can trust."
"Yeah, but we don't know who is he!" Tommy mentioned, "We don't even know if he's someone we know from our timeline. All I know is he's a loud and bossy technopath!"
"Don't say that about him!" Tammy shouted to Tommy's face, "Be thankful that M was there for us when we came here! He may be rude, but I know deep down that he's brave and gentle and swe-" she froze when she looks at Tommy and Poof's faces whose eyes narrow at her with sly looks on her. "What?"
"You like him," Tommy smirked.
"What?!" Tammy asked with her face turning red with embarrassment. "What would you give you that idea?"
"Well, you have been really close with him lately."
"We're just comrades-in-arms." Tammy explained with an unconvincing smile. "Like Darry and Junior. I'm just really grateful that he's helped us since we got here."
"Oh, I bet you're really grateful." Tommy said, crossing his arms smugly while rolling his eyes.
"M and Tammy sitting in a tree!" Poof teasingly sang with Tommy following, "K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"Stop it!" Tammy yells, having had enough and turning her back away from her family.
"If it makes you feel any better, I greatly approve of this relationship," Tommy pointed out.
"Oh yeah?" Tammy glared, crossing her arms. "When have you ever approved of any relationship I had?"
"I was okay with Jesse, remember?" Tommy shrugs, "And I think M is a cool guy, despite being a loud bossy technopath. At least he's not an evil power-hungry dictator who makes everyone we know miserable."
Tammy looks back at his brother when she asks, "You think I have a chance with him?"
Tommy held his chin in thought. "It might be possible...Although, since he's from this universe, he probably won't even exist after we fix the timeline."
Tammy froze in realization. "That's right! Oh no, and we don't even know if there is an M in our universe too. Is it really right of us to be wiping his existence by changing history?"
"We already wiped out Yuki, Kida, and Max's existence by going back in time in the first place." Tommy pointed out. "So don't go turning back on this now because of your crush."
"Hmph!" Tammy said, turning her head away. "Who said it was a crush anyway?"
They finally reach their ruined house and head inside the front door to see it the same way it was when they first arrived. "The Scooter has to be still upstairs in our room." Tommy assumed as he rushes upstairs followed by Tammy and Poof.
They opened the door to their room, which was completely empty and full of dust and cobwebs like the rest of the house. But the only thing new and shiny was the Time Scooter which was parked in the middle of the room like it was when they left it. "All right!" Tommy cheered, running over to the Scooter and grasping the handle bars. "It's still in great shape."
But then, Tammy pointed out, "But even if we go back in time to stop all this from happening, how are we going to stop Jimmy from being an evil dictator if we don't know what made him like that in the first place?"
"Poof, poof, poof, poof, poof!" Poof shouted, trying to get their attention.
"What is it, Poof?" Tommy wondered,
"Poof knows!" Poof shouted again. "Poof knows what happened!"
"Really? You do?" Tommy smiled.
"What is it?" Tammy asked.
"Poof, poof!" Poof was about to say when a red beam struck and captured him in a red glow. "Poof!"
"POOF!" Tommy and Tammy cry out until they turned around to see the masked man, standing at the doorway and holding out a laser attached to his wrist.
"Leaving so soon?" the man asked, "Not gonna leave without your fairy, are you?" Tommy and Tammy shivered as the man approached them. He leaned a hand closer when his eyes widened, spotting the mysterious white scooter. "Where did you get this?!"
"Get what?" Tammy asked.
"The Time Scooter! How did you obtain this?" the masked man pointed out.
Tommy looked suspiciously at the man, "Wait, how do you-" but a loud crash interrupts them as SpongeTron and several ST-Units invade the house.
"It's the fugitives!" SpongeTron shouted, pointing to the twins. "Apprehend them!"
"AAAAAAHHH!" Tammy and Tommy screamed, holding each other as the ST-Units surrounded them and aimed their laser guns at them.
"SpongeTron-Unit 001," the masked man said, turning to the head robot. "Who ordered you to come here?"
"I am also under orders to capture fugitives for the Overlord." SpongeTron explained, "Especially if his spineless little assistant is unable to do the job himself."
"I was about to bring them in until you showed up!" the masked man shouted in an offended tone. "Just because I know what you're derived from, doesn't mean I have to show you any respect."
But suddenly, SpongeTron's fist turns in to giant brass spiked knuckles and he punches the masked man, sending him in to the wall. "Like I said," SpongeTron said in a cold tone. "You're too spineless to work right next to the Overlord." then he sees his fellow robots staring at the scene. "What are you looking at? Arrest them already!" Tammy and Tommy huddle together as the robots approach them. But just before they could be arrested again by the ST-Units, a bunch of them were blasted away by large plasma rays, clearing the path for them to escape. A foot stomps on top of the masked man's laser, crushing it and releasing Poof.
They turn to see a tall man wearing a large cloak with a long collar covering his face, but he had long messy brown hair with a feather sticking out on top, and was only wearing a loin cloth under his cloak and a belts full various weapons. They can recognize the attire by which world he's from and who he really is, "Tak?" the twins ask in surprise.
In Bikini Bottom, the enslaved Bikini Bottomites continued mining in Jellyfish Fields when one dug his pickaxe into a rock, which cracked. The fish slave looked stunned as something inside gleamed yellow. He pulls away the dirt and coral to see it was the Bikini Bottom crystal. He waves it in the air, alerting everyone he's found it and soon more SpongeTrons arrive. One ST-Unit analyzes to see it was the real thing. Soon, he says in his communicator, "Sir, we finally found it."
Through the monitor in the Retroville Base, Jimmy was in his throne watching when he smiled, "Excellent…" Unknown to the two, someone was able to hack into their communications device telepathically.
In the Resistance base, M gasped in horror as he rushes to the training room where Valerie, Darry, and Junior are. "They found it!"
"The Bikini Bottom Crystal?" Darry asked in shock and disbelief.
M nodded, but then looks around the room wondering, "Where's Tommy and Tammy?"
"Who knows?" Junior answered. "They disappeared over an hour ago."
M's eyes widen in horror, guessing where they are. He rushes back as Valerie calls, "MX, wait! Where are you going?"
Back in Dimmsdale, the four rush downstairs to safety as Tommy and Tammy look up at the hero who saved them, "Tak, is that you?" Tommy asked.
Tak unbuttoned the top of his cloak, lowering the collar to show his face. "Yes," he answered, looking down at them. "How do you know who I am?"
"Well, uh…" Tommy began.
Tammy finished for him, "We received full intel about you, sir. We're the new recruits."
"Oh right," Tak remembered, "Valerie mentioned to me about you guys a while ago."
But all of a sudden, a round of shots fired at them from upstairs and Tak quickly shoved Tammy, Tommy, and Poof onto the ground as he fired back at them with hand guns. Tommy was crouched down on the floor, holding his hands over his head while he shouted over the noise, "We need to get our Scooter!"
"There's no time for that!" Tak shouted to them. "Go outside! NOW!" Tammy and Tommy obeyed and quickly got up as they ran out the front door with Poof following while Tak covered them by firing at the robots.
Upstairs in the bedroom, the masked man was finally waking up after being knocked unconscious by SpongeTron. He holds his head and notices the blinking red crystal in his hand. He stared at the Time Scooter again that had been knocked on the floor, and then gripped the crystal in his hand while staring out the window.
Tammy and Tommy ran across the street and hid behind a car. "That was too close." Tammy said while out of breath. "We almost lost Poof again and almost ended up in the Overlord's prison. Just like last time."
"We knew it wasn't gonna be easy." Tommy admitted in defeat. "We were just lucky Tak came to save us this time."
"But we still have to get to that Time Scooter and fast!" Tammy reminded.
"It's a warzone in there, Tammy!" Tommy pointed out. "How are we supposed to get in there?"
"Yeah, how are you gonna get in?" they both turn to see the car behind them start sparking with electricity until it blew up with smoke. It was MX-65 who walked over to them. "Or a better question would be, WHAT WERE YOU IDIOTS THINKING?!"
Surprised by his outburst, Tammy frantically replied, "M, it's not what you think!"
"Then what is it, HUH?!" M continued shouting in an angry tone that reminded both Tommy and Tammy of a certain grown-up they knew. "You both come out here and walk right into the Overlord's forces and you nearly end up getting captured again so I could risk my neck to save your butts again!"
"Hey!" Tommy yelled back. "Don't go yelling at us like that, big mouth! Who do you think you are? Cindy Vortex?"
M backed away slightly after hearing this until a sudden explosion was felt behind him and they all turn to see their house had been blown up and was now nothing but flames and rubble.
"Our house!" Tommy cried out. "Our Time Scooter!"
"Tak!" Tammy cried also. "He's gone!"
Tommy fell to the ground in defeat. "Now we're stuck here forever...with no way to fix things."
M cocked an eye from under his hood and asked, "What are you dweebs talking about?"
In frustration and anger, Tommy picked up a rock and threw it at M, hitting him right in the face and knocking him to the ground. "Tommy!" Tammy scolded at her brother and ran up to M to see if he's alright.
Before she could approach him, Tammy stopped in surprise to see the impact M had knocked off the hood that had been concealing his face since they met. M sat up, holding a bruise that was under his left eye. She noticed his blonde coifed hair and saw him open his blue eyes as he rubbed his injury to ease the pain. Tammy remembered about his personality and how he looks familiar to someone from her world. She pieces it together and exclaims, "Max?!"
Her eyes widen in surprise while M just stares at her with a frown. "What are you looking at, Four-Eyes?" he bitterly asked.
Tammy just looks in shock when something zaps her, snaring her with energy restraints. M gasped until he is zapped with energy restraints too. "Tammy!" Tommy yelled, but ducks the energy rays before the ST-Units arrive to capture him.
"Tommy! Poof! Get outta here!" Tammy called.
"But sis-" Tommy was about to say, but avoided more attacks as SpongeTron and his robots get closer.
"Poof! I wish you and Tommy escaped!" Tammy screamed out.
While Poof seemed hesitant to leave his godniece behind, he reluctantly held up his glowing rattle and he and Tommy disappear with a 'poof'.
While Tammy and M were surrounded, the masked man walked in on the scene with SpongeTron. "You let the fairy escape." he scolded SpongeTron, "He is the intended target."
"So, what should we do with them?" SpongeTron asked, activating his blaster and aiming at the two children. "Dispose of them?"
The masked man looked at M and Tammy when he commanded, "Take them to the main base. I think it's time for our Overlord to have another reunion."
Unknowingly, behind the rubble of what was once the Turner house, Tommy was on his hands and knees, sobbing as Poof floats over him, equally as sad. "Tammy..." he said, sniffling. "She's stuck in the hands of that mad man and now there's nothing I can do."
"Tammy...gone." Poof muttered, bowing his head.
But as Tommy continued to sob helplessly, he suddenly felt someone place a comforting hand on his right shoulder. His eyes open and he turns around to see Tak, alive and well. "Need some help?" Tak asked with a smile. "That's what we're here for."
"Will Commander Vortex and her team save M and my sister?" Tommy pleaded.
"We've gone in there before, and we'll do it again." Tak responded with a confident smile. "And we won't leave until we have both of them." Tommy's tears dry and he gains a thankful smile as he and Poof hug in joy.
Later that day, Tak, Tommy, and Poof return to the Resistance base in Bikini Bottom. After gathering up all the members, Tak explains the situation to everyone about Tammy and M's capture. Danny tightens his fists and frowns angrily. "First he locates the Bikini Bottom Crystal and now this."
"Vortex, what are you gonna do?" Tommy asked her.
Cindy thought about the situation and gives a big sigh, "I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do."
"What?!" Tommy yelled in shock. "You mean you guys can't just break into the base and save her like you did for M? Or like they did for you?"
Cindy scowls at hearing him recall the time she was captured by her archenemy, but she manages to reply, "Both times was just pure luck. There's no counting we can just waltz in and get out with both Tammy and M without us ending up in the same situation, especially now that he has all five crystals under his belt."
That's when Sandy Cheeks enters, saluting, "Vortex, we have the weapon ready and prepared to launch."
Cindy turned to her and responded, "Excellent. Board it on the ship and have it safely secured."
"'Weapon?'" Poof repeated.
"What weapon?" Tommy asked, cocking a brow.
Without responding, Cindy just walks into a room, "Gentlemen, follow me."
Everyone follows their leader and they both enter a room with a large table that had a blue schematic laid flat out and had a blueprint of a large missile on it. "Behold: the end to this long devastating existence." Cindy darkly spoke as she and everyone looks at the drawing. "The Vortex Cerebral Destroyer, as I like to call it."
"So what does it do?" Darry curiously asked.
Cindy began explaining, "Imagine this," she pushes out what looks like a model of the main Retroville base. "The Overlord sitting cozily in his base, protected from every threat." then she holds up what looks like a toy jet. "Then we come flying overhead, and the Vortex Cerebral Destroyer drops right on top, and..." she suddenly takes out her blaster and fires it at the model, shattering it to bits. "Boom."
The Resistance fighters grinned at this plan except Danny and Tak, who look at each other in uncertainty. But there was horrified looks on Tommy and Poof's faces. "You're gonna nuke the Retroville base!?" Tommy asked in shock.
"No duh." Cindy nonchalantly replied. "Neutron's base may be impervious to any other kind of attack we throw at it, but let's see how it fairs against a bomb drop."
"But what about the people Neutron captured?" Tommy asked, "They're trapped in there. You won't destroy just the base and the Overlord, but the prisoners inside!"
"Hey, you little runt!" Carl shouted angrily, glaring down at Tommy. "If you really want that Overlord gone, then you should know that in order to win, sacrifices must be made!"
"Innocent lives are in there," Tommy pleaded, "M is in there, my sister is in there! Are you really gonna bomb the place with the only family I have left inside?"
"I'm sure if I was in their shoes, I would let my comrades do the same," Cindy bowed her head, "After today, their names shall be honored."
Tommy gritted his teeth when he screams in anger and charged toward Vortex until Darry grabs him and picks him up by the arms. "You're worse than the Cindy I used to know. You're even worse than the Overlord himself!"
Cindy simply scowled and suddenly swung the back of her hand across Tommy's face and kneed him in the gut, causing Darry to let go of him as he fell on the ground coughing while everyone watching tried to look away as Cindy proceeded to kick Tommy against the wall. "You'll watch your mouth in your Commander's presence." Cindy said in an icy tone, scowling.
Tommy slid down and shakily got up, wiping his face where Cindy had slapped him. Poof appears, hoping he's okay. "Darrel, take him and the fairy to their room and make sure he doesn't disturb any of our plans," Cindy demanded. Darry salutes and pulled Tommy by the arm to the exit. Strangely, Junior looked back at Tommy with a grim look. Cindy lets out a sigh and goes back to her plans, "Now here's how it's gonna work…"
In an unknown location, Tammy was unconscious until she finally awoke. She sat up and looked around, wondering what had happened after she was captured in Dimmsdale. "Glad you're finally awake." she turned and saw M sitting next to her.
"M, you're okay," Tammy said in relief.
"Yeah, so what?" M responded, pulling his hood back over his face.
"You don't need to hide your face," Tammy said, "I already know who you are."
"What?!" M shouted in shock as he stared at her with his hood flying off. "How do you know?"
"Well, where I come from at least," Tammy admitted, "Though the Max I know isn't an 11-year-old superpowered boy with a hairdo similar to his dad's and a short temper like his mother."
M was appalled by this and suddenly shouted, "This is a trick! That can't be true! What the heck are you?!"
Tammy sighed, "We may be here for a while, so I guess it's time we started to know about each other more. You tell your secret and I'll tell mine."
M crossed his arms and responded in a pouty tone, "Fine...In case you haven't figured it out, we're now in my first home. Not the cell, the base."
Tammy was surprised by this. "But...But don't you remember your parents or where you were born? I thought it couldn't be Jimmy since he's an evil overlord and never got married."
"I never had parents. I wasn't born here, I was MADE. In this lab was where I was created, by him."
"What?!" Tammy asked in shock. "But...how were you created?"
"You see…about a year ago, the Overlord realized something. He has control over all worlds, all the experiments and science he can conjure, and limitless power over the crystals. But there's one thing he can't control and that's time," M explained, "He knew he's not getting any younger and eventually will need an heir to keep things under his control.
"So...you're really Jimmy Neutron's son?" Tammy asked in awe.
"In a manner of speaking." M said with a frown. "But he thought of me as nothing but another source of power. I'm only the first in a line of soon-to-be living and breathing power crystals. If I manage to work out, then there would be a soldier of infinite power in all five worlds to continue the Overlord's reign should anything happen to him. So what you see before you is really the Retroville Crystal." he creates a spark of static in his hand and flickers the ceiling lights in the hall. "And I have its power."
"But if that's true, why did you stay with the Resistance to fight against the one who created you?"
"You think it's easy being a tool for the Overlord?!" M shouted back. "With the Resistance, I at least have a real home and a real family! You and your dumb brother have it somewhat easy, being just another slave to the Overlord must've been better than being locked in a lab for hours."
Tammy then gained a guilty look and began saying, "Uh, M? The truth is Tommy and I weren't really slaves in Dimmsdale."
But M spoke sarcastically, "Of course not. I modified your lie detector test with the commander, remember?"
"What I mean is I'm not from Dimmsdale or this world. I'm from another timeline. One where the Overlord and this war don't exist." At this, M finally turns his head to her in surprise, now giving his full attention to her.
At the Resistance base, Tommy was pounding on a metal door, trying to get it open. "LET ME OUT!" he yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Poof poof poof." Poof said with a worried look.
"I know," Tommy snapped. "If that crazy blonde would just let us out of here, we can go over there and save Tammy before she blows the place sky high." He then continued to bang on the door repeatedly. "Somebody, let me out! NOW!"
Outside, Darry crossed his arms in annoyance as he guards the door, making sure Tommy doesn't get out. When he hears a pair of footsteps, Darry readies his weapon, but sees it's only Junior. "The Commander wishes to speak to you right away, sir! She says I can watch this here delinquent while you're gone."
"Thanks, Junior," Darry said, "But tell the Commander that I'll stick around with him. We don't want him to foil our plans by any means."
Junior frowned when he pointed, "Oh my gosh! SpongeTron just broke into our base!"
"Where?" Darry wondered, turning to where Junior was pointing. That's when Junior karate-chopped him, rendering Darry unconscious.
Inside, Tommy and Poof just heard the noise, wondering what's going on when the door whirs open and they see Junior. "Come on!" Junior said, grabbing Tommy as they exit the room and through the hallway.
"What are you doing?" Tommy asked while being dragged away by his strong grip while Poof simply follows them. "I'm not going to be locked away forever by your deranged leader!"
"Of course not!" Junior scowled at him when they enter a large door. Junior looked up to see a handprint scanner to open it. He jumps up and down to reach up but couldn't. "Curse my short stature," Junior tightened his fist and drags Tommy back.
Back to the scene, Darry was waking up, moaning in pain from a sharp pain at his neck. He holds the back of his head, "What happened?" he wondered, but gasped to see Junior and Tommy back, "You released the prisoner?! That a violation of Code 24-" but Junior knocked him out again with the butt of his weapon. Junior lifts up Darry by his arms while Tommy helps by pulling his legs toward the door.
At the main room, Libby was monitoring the situation when she announced, "Uh, Commander, you outta come see this."
Cindy walks forward and sees the monitor Libby is pointing at. It's Junior and Tommy carrying an unconscious Darry. They see Junior lifting Darry to make him stand while Tommy holds his arm and sticks it up for his hand to be scanned to unlock the steel door.
Seeing this, her green eyes narrow furiously and she pounds her fist on the controls, causing it to spark from the destroyed keys. "Send someone to find out what they're up to!" She yells through the microphone.
The alarm blares out just as Junior and Tommy entered the doors. "We gotta get outta here and fast!" Junior said as they carry Darry inside. Tommy looks around and realizes they're in a room containing their flight vehicles.
Tommy looks around and smirks, "I know just the jet! Over there!" Tommy pointed as they make their way toward a large hovership.
"You dumb seahorse!" Junior yelled. "How are we supposed to fly that?"
"How bad can it be?" Tommy said as the two throw the out-cold Darry inside and hop inside the cockpit. Tommy leans down and spots something, the manual. He keeps flipping the pages until, "Here we go! 'How to Start Hovership.'"
Junior watches when he looks down to see Carl, Patrick and Lok barge in. "They have ahold of the ship and the Cerebral Destroyer! Don't let them get away!" Carl commanded.
Junior frowns and instructs Tommy, "I'll distract them. You better get this thing running, bucktooth!" He jumps down, holding up a weapon and firing at their feet to make them back off.
"Uh, right." Tommy responds before looking at the manual. "'To start your hovership, start by pressing the engine button, turning acceleration knobs, and shifting to first gear.'" He follows the instructions and the ship's jets revs up, causing their pursuers to flee the room. Junior then fires a blast at the controls in the room and a metal wall opens up, allowing the hovership to exit.
As they lift into the air, Junior looks down and eyes his two older brothers, Crash and Twitchy, watching from below. Junior gives them a dark glare as they return the same expression. However, Crash then mutters, "Y'all better come back with Pappy."
Tommy pulls back the wheel and the ship flies out at fast speed. Poof looks out the window and shakes his rattle so Junior can disappear and reappear at the cockpit. "Alright, Rambob Jr., where are we supposed to go?" Tommy asked as he looked at the manual in one hand and kept the other on the steering wheel.
"To the place where my daddy used to work." Junior answered as he polished his gun with his wrist. "No one will ever think to look for us there." Tommy looked at him confused, wondering about what Junior just did. But he said nothing and flew straight to the Krusty Krab.
They soon park the jet behind the Krusty Krab and Junior aggressively kicked open the rusted backdoor. "I'm surprised the Commander didn't kill you when you stood up to her before."
Tommy and Poof were having difficulty carrying the unconscious Darry when they throw him off the jet and Junior catches him. The boy and fairy hop off. "Well, I had to say something," he shrugs as they head inside.
In the prison base, Tammy has just told M everything about who she and her brother really were and about the world she came from. After her tale, M was stunned. "So Neutron was still a Nicktoon and he became a successful inventor in charge of a world-saving organization where he was married to Cindy and had his friends and comrades always by his side?"
"Yep," Tammy nodded, "And soon Tommy and I became Nicktoons together with SpongeTron and Darry. Only Dar still has his ghost powers and SpongeTron is a robot who helps people."
"But...But if that's true," M said, still in stun and disbelief. "How did it end up like this?"
"Cuz…it's my fault this happened," Tammy said, "I was selfish and tried to meddle with the time stream causing all this to happen. Tommy and I came to Dimmsdale to retrieve the Time Scooter so we can turn everything back to normal. But with the Scooter gone, I guess there's no stopping it." She takes a deep breath and sighs when she clenched her fists, "I just wish we knew what we did wrong that caused all this to happen. Poof did mention something called 'Mega...loony…something...'?"
"You mean 'Megalomanium'?" a voice called out. Tammy wondered what the voice was when she looks down at a shadow where it grinned at her with blue eyes. Tammy yelped, backing off as a familiar figure surfaced from the shadows.
M narrows his eyes as he sees his creator/father step into the cell, looking maliciously at the two children. "Tammy Turner, am I correct? It's been a while. Days? Weeks? Or should I say, twenty years."
Tammy seemed surprised, but tried not to show it. "I...don't know what you're talking about."
"You fail to hide the truth," Jimmy carelessly explained. "But I now recall a certain meeting I had years ago when I was your age, and two intruders broke into my lab one day while I was experimenting with harsh pheromones. One of them seemed eager to meet me while the other wanted to leave as soon as possible. Then in order to cover their escape, one of them grabbed the bottle I was using, labeled 'Megalomanium' and sprayed it in my eyes which I happened to inhale as well." He turned his head toward Tammy. "Sound familiar, Tammy?"
Tammy's eyes widen in shock and horror as she starts piecing together what exactly caused this horrible future. "I can tell from your reaction that you now realize the truth behind your mistake. However, what you call a mistake, I call a prize. You see, Megalomanium is a chemical that drives the exposed mad with power, and without it, I would not have been able to hold all five worlds in my grasp. So I should have you and your brother to thank for this, Tammy."
"NO!" Tammy cried out, holding her head. "It wasn't supposed to be like this!"
"What? Become a well-recognized inventor with a wife and son and the Nicktoons by my side to defend the worlds from any life-threatening situations?" Jimmy said, "I've heard everything and to be frank, I think I prefer things this way than anything else."
"You're wrong!" Tammy accused, "That's the Megalomanium talking! Not the real Jimmy. The Jimmy I know would never have ill-intentions to his friends and family and bring chaos to their worlds!"
"It's unfortunate for me to break such a bout of confidence, but the Jimmy from your world no longer exists. So with that said, I must get down to business."
"You may have me in your clutches, but you won't do the same to Tommy and Poof!"
"I don't need to do anything." Jimmy said with a cool smile. "They will be coming here themselves."
M got a nervous look as he backed against the wall. "They... wouldn't. A Resistance member would never risk coming in here."
Jimmy just continued, "Naturally, you would be right. However, Tommy isn't used to living a life like this. Knowing his sister is in the hands of a mad man, he would want the Resistance to go straight to Retroville and rescue her. But Commander Vortex being the 'nurturing' individual that she is will believe a sacrifice is worth the cause. But the feeling of worry will still eat away at Tommy's soul, so he and a few other choice members will still find a way to come to Retroville and enter the base to perform a rescue, and when they arrive, I'll be here to welcome them."
Tammy got a look of fright as Jimmy walked out of the cell. But before he closed the door, he looked back at Tammy, "Oh, and a little forewarning, Tammy. I wouldn't try to leave if I were you, especially with someone like MX-65."
But Tammy stomped her foot defiantly, "You can't fool me! I know what M is really like!"
"Do you?" Jimmy asked with a smirk before shutting the cell door and leaving Tammy and M in the dark.
It looks like we have a rescue mission on our hands. Will this all go according to plan? Hope you like it and review it and stick around for Part 4.
