Chapter 7: A Downward Turn
Downtown Retroville
6:00 PM
Cindy's POV
It had been an okay day coming back to school for the senior year, until all this happened. I was shopping and catching up with Libby, when all these robots came out of nowhere start to attack the civilians. Libby and I took cover when I called Jimmy earlier. Seriously, he took forever to answer. If he missed the last call, which he did answer by the way, he would've had a serious talk with me. Most of the people evacuated the area, but the military hasn't showed up yet.
We were hiding with a couple other people for a while, but eventually the robots found us and were ready to fire at us at any second. I was fighting them off while the other 12 or so people could evacuate in time, but there was no where to go. Suddenly a flash of a red laser cut through a couple of the robots from above. Next thing I see are Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen jump on to the robots pinning them down, and throwing punches, except Sheen which has Jimmy's Laser Sword. Goddard was firing numerous weapons at some of the robots as he was arriving. Libby and I followed suit and I started using my kirate moves on them. Eventually the robots in that area were wiped out and the people got away safely. Our day wasn't done yet though. We saw Professor Calamitous staring at us from a distance.
"Is everyone here okay?" Jimmy asked.
"Ow my scapula." Carl responded in pain. Sometimes I think he over exaggerates it.
"Those were some sweet fighting moves!" Sheen said excitedly.
"I'm good. Not how I wanted to spend my first day back." Libby said.
"Ugh thanks Neutron. Would've been nicer if you showed up sooner though," I scoffed. If only he answered the first time.
"Stuff like this happens often though," Carl said.
"Okay, this ends right now Calamitous," Jimmy said while referring to the derranged scientist.
"Actually Jimmy, the end is for you, once you get a taste of my new power!" Calamitous said. I could tell something was about to happen, but it was too late. After shrugging, Jimmy ran straight for him and was about to land a hit. Out of nowhere the hit was blocked. The person who blocked it surprised me the most though.
"Nick... Why?" Jimmy asked slightly afraid. His question was only recieved by a glare. Suddenly, three more enemies jumped in. "The Junkman!? and the Twonkie I faced years ago on the comet? Robofiend!? How'd you get here? What in Pukin' Pluto is happening!?"
Just to make things more confusing a new body teleported in. He looked around Neutron's height, but had a dark blue armor all over him. You could also see a dark aura around it. "Everyone. Get out of here!" Jimmy said.
"B-but we're a team," Carl said.
"I'll protect you all. Just get out of here!" He said.
"No way! I'm staying!" I said
"You guys have to if you are to live. Please." Jimmy said almost pretty sad. Next thing I knew, he pulled me in for a kiss, but then pulled away. I also noticed that he took the laser sword from Sheen. Carl and Libby got away quickly enough, except Sheen and I who hid to see what'll happen next.
First thing happend, was that Jimmy ran for the dark blue figure, but the figure swiftly moved to the side, before Jimmy could swing the sword at him.
"What the... how'd you move that quickly?" I could hear Jimmy ask in awe. The figure was now floating 10 or so feet in the air. Jimmy tried to jump to him with his zero gravity shoes, but the figure grabbed him and swiftly threw him to a building wall making Jimmy fall, but he was still kicking since the shoes slowed him down.
"Goddard. What sort of power is he using?" Jimmy asked desperately while getting up.
"DATA CORRUPT! POWER UNKNOWN," Goddard said.
Out of nowhere, the twonkie, Nick, Junkman, Robofiend, and the dark figure were all throwing hits at Jimmy with all of them hitting. The last hit caused him to fall again. I could see him struggling to get up, but falling unconcious.
"Well done team!" Calamitous. "I finally defeated Jimmy Neutron. Zeallous! have your team teleport him elsewhere. I have my own business to attend to."
"Neutron!" I shouted. I tried to run to him to grab him, but it was too late, Jimmy, along with Calamitous, Nick (that traitor) and the others teleported out of there. I looked up for a second to see that the dark figure was still around, and the military showed up.
I saw Goddard fire all sorts of weapons at the figure, but he just waved them off, and fired a blast back to Goddard causing him to be blown to smitherens. I was gonna try to attack, but a hand grabbed me back. It was Sheen. "I know you want to rescue him, but there's nothing we can do now."
"This is General Abercrombie! Surrender now, or you'll be blasted away!" He said.
"Drop your useless army... and die" a menacing voice said, presumably from the so called Zeallous. He fired a laser from his hand wiping out the whole army in a swift stroke. I was shocked beyond words of his power.
I found the laser sword on the ground. I went to grab it with nobody stopping me this time, but my whole body felt numb from what I experienced. I took the sword, and then I heard him again.
"I can sense your fear..." He said evily. "A strong heart that fell into despair because you lost a certain someone."
"SHUT UP!" I shouted.
"It is luscious," he said firing a blast near me causing me to trip. I never felt so weak before.
"The shaking of fear... The urge to cry... If you do well, I'll let you go."
"Not now!" Sheen said, as he grabbed me and took Jimmy's jetpack, and we flew off. Zeallous didn't chase after us, but I could hear his haunting laugh... I just home Jimmy isn't dead... No he can't be,
"What..." I start to ask.
"This day has been hard on us, but stay with me, and we can fix all this." Sheen said.
To Be Continued...
