Chapter 9: Saving the Day
The boys fly back into the city to find Zim. They go to city hall, and give Zim a good, powerful smack in the jaw.
"Surrender now, and we'll go easy on you!" Danny cried out.
Zim takes this in, rubbing his jaw, looking for the source of the interruption.
"Hey bug eyes!" Danny said while the boys are standing impatiently on street level, "Down here!"
"Oh, my!" Zim said mockfully again to them, "You're actually trying to stop me? That's so cute!"
"Try nothing!" Brain Boy cried.
"We will stop you!" Danny said seriously.
"Who are you calling cute?" Cleft said annoyingly.
Zim gave out an evil laugh. "Okay, let's play, kiddies!"
He lands a massive punch to the boys' spot, but they zoom away and land a few choice hits to his face. He tries to catch them, but they are too small and fast for his large bulky frame. Brain Boy and pulls Zim's antennas like a rubber band shot back to his head, making a large bell sound. Then Cleft smacks him into the butt, sending him into the air. As he laughs, Zim simply alights himself, and smashes Cleft into the ground with his foot.
"Cleft!" Danny cried. Brain Boy and Danny stopped with concern.
Zim takes advantage of their hesitation to smack them into a rooftop. Cleft emerges from Zim's foot, angry as can be. He punches in and breaks all of the toes on his left foot. Zim holds his foot in pain while doing the 'OWWIE-ZOWWIE-POWWIE-MY-FOOT-HURTS' dance.
In the meantime, Danny and Jimmy emerge, and in a spiral formation, smack into Zim's midsection, sending him hurtling back doubled over. As he strikes a tall building, it collapses on him, his arms and legs sticking out.
"Good job, boys!" Danny said to his brothers.
"Hah, that more Zim is no more!" Cleft said proudly.
They begin to giggle, but Zim alights himself, and leaping forward he grabs hold of Timmy and Danny in opposing hands.
"Bros!" Jimmy cried.
The two boys scream out in pain as Zim squeezes, glancing between the two. Brain Boy rushes forward, and shoots rapid-fire laser brain blasts at Zim, causing him to cry out in pain and releasing his two brothers.
The boys resume their cat-and-mouse game amidst Zim, and once again unable to catch them, Zim lets out a yell and claps his hands together loudly. The resulting shockwave about to hit them. Danny comes and takes a deep breath. He wails, sending ectoplasmic waves at Zim's shock wave. The waves collide together and creates an explosion that blasts the boys spiraling backwards. They do a few back flips on a city street and reorient themselves.
"Somebody's mad…." Timmy said to Danny smiling and Jimmy falls lightly on the ground.
Zim springs forward, unleashing a barrage of red pointed thorns from his claws at the boys.
"Look out!" Danny warned.
They narrowly avoid a set of spikes. Zim targets Danny as he runs as fast as he can from the onslaught, just staying in front of the line of fire, but the annoying dog, Spunky, is in his way now, and he feels obligated to protect it and the spikes are too fast for Danny to turn intangible quick.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" Danny screamed with his hands glowing green. Flailing his arms and glowing hands in rapid fire, he deflects all of the thorns from himself and Spunky. Brain Boy and Cleft are hiding nearby under the refuge of an empty bus.
"Oh no, look!" Jimmy cried seeing Danny, "Zim's got Danny pinned down!"
"I have an idea, come on!" Cleft said.
Danny still yells and flails his arms. Suddenly, Cleft and Brain Boy lays the bus vertically in front of Danny and he stops. The bus absorbs all of the thorny blows. After a few moments, the assault stops. The dog simply walks off to whiz again.
"Do you think he's finished?" Brain Boy asked to his brothers.
"No, but you are!" Zim's voice cried.
Rising up behind the bus, Zim shots electricity from his antennas on the boys.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" they screamed in pain as the shocks scorch them. The boys were knocked out and changed back to human. As the attack stops, Zim grabs the scorched and dazed boys in one giant hand.
"Fools! You dare to challenge me?!" Zim said to Danny, Jimmy, and Timmy and begins walking with them in fist, "Attempt to defeat me?! Try to destroy me?!" Zim starts climbing a building, in classic King Kong fashion. "I, who saved you from certain death? After all I've done for you, you betray me?! And why?" Zim swipes his hand across a floor of the building, revealing a bustling scene of humanity inside, and parades the girls across the scene as he continues to speak. "For them? The ones who hated you? Have forsaken you?" Zim continues climbing to the building top. "Can't you see? None of them will ever understand you as I can. For we are kindred spirits, whose powers spring from the same source. So boys – do not make me destroy you, for we are smarter! We are stronger! We are invincible! We have the power! We are superior to them! And we shall rule! All we have to do is work together. Boys! Join me!"
At this, the boys' eyes spring open. They seem to think on this for a second, then their brows furrow as the air around them begins to rumble and their eyes glow, green, blue, and red. Zim looks concerned as their energy grows.
"Nooooo!" the boys cried. Suddenly, they break free from his grasp in a ball of light, and fly upwards changing to their super forms: Danny Phantom, Brain Boy, and Cleft.
"We'd never join you!" Danny cried to Zim, "And it's because…" He flies and hits Zim "… We are stronger!"
"Because we are invincible!" Brain Boy yelled hitting Zim.
"Because we have the power!" Timmy shouted and strikes Zim, then does an ultra-man pose (for those of you that don't get it, never mind. -yellowhearts- put it in).
"We have to protect them from you!" the boys cried hitting Zim.
"It's you who is to be feared!" Danny said whamming Zim on the face.
"'Cause you are a monster!" Brain Boy said smashing Zim's head.
"You are evil!" Cleft said knocking out Zim's fangs.
"And you are…" the boys said together coming to Zim. They paused for a moment. "It!" they said together as they pushed Zim. This final push knocks Zim off balance, and flailing with one arm, the tower he is grasping with the other breaks apart, sending the super-sized alien screaming towards the ground in slow motion.
"CUUUUUUUUUURSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!" Zim cried in anger.
At this point, Spongebob jumps in the scene on the ground alone, holding and wearing metal gloves with glowing green claws.
"Boys, Boys, where are you?" Spongebob asked, "We should try and stop Zim and I know how! I created the Power Gauntlets that rips the power source to Dimensional Z! It will do away with his powers! Boys! Boys! Bo…"
Spongebob looks upwards at the falling Zim.
"Professor!" Danny, Brain Boy, and Cleft cried.
The boys rapidly swoop to save Spongebob. Spongebob's Power Gauntlets are left behind, and on the ground right as the monstrous Zim drops on top of them. The boys gasped as Spongebob takes the Gauntlets and pulls something out. In Spongebob's hands was a ghost of Zim's monster form.
"Guys!" Spongebob cried, "The Thermos!"
"Huh?" Danny wondered.
"In my back pocket!" Spongebob cried, "It can suck Zim's monster form."
Danny takes out something out of Spongebob's pocket which is a metal thermos. Timmy opens the cap and Cleft, Danny, and Brain Boy holds the thermos as it sends a blue light on Zim's ghostly monster form. It roared and disappeared inside the thermos. The real Zim begins to shrink and spark, until it returns to its original size at the center. The now-normal sized Zim groans heavily in pain and exhaustion. Spongebob and the boys watch over this, and he embraces them.
"Oh, boys!" Spongebob cried happily, "I'm so sorry for doubting you! You are good! Good, perfect young boys, and you're the best sons I could have ever had."
"And you're the best father we ever had!" Danny, Cleft, and Brain Boy said happily.
"And we're really sorry." Danny said.
"We messed up really bad." Cleft added.
"But, we're ready Professor." Brain Boy finished.
"'Ready'?" Spongebob asked still holding the Gauntlets.
"For you to rip our super forms with the Power Gauntlets, which by the way sounds totally gross," Danny said, with his tongue sticking out. "To get rid of our powers, to become human." Danny, Brain Boy, and Cleft change back to human forms: Danny, Jimmy, and Timmy. "To become this." Danny said.
"If it wasn't for them, none of this would have happened." Jimmy said.
"Besides," Timmy mentioned, "Maybe everyone would like us more if we were just normal boys."
"Nooooooo!" the townspeople called in unison. Danny, Jimmy, and Timmy look up in confusion. Around them has formed a large crowd of townspeople, the open space in the middle of them forming a large star-shaped pattern.
"Huh?" the boys wondered out loud.
At one point in the crowd, Mayor Nathorix is seen standing next to Ms. Fenton, her arms folded behind her.
"Umm… well.. uhh…" Nathorix said nervously, "Don't do that cause… that was pretty cool, with the… ehh…"
"Boys," Ms. Fenton tried to explain, "I think what the mayor is trying to say is, 'we're sorry – and thank you.'"
"Yes, that was super! Just super!" Mrs. Puff said happily.
"Amazing!" Cosmo said.
"Fantastic!" Didi said holding Tommy, Chuckie, and Dil.
"Wonderful!" Commander Baker said.
"Stupendous!" Valerie said.
"You rock dudes!" Larry and Scooter said.
The boys turn to the dog, Spunky. "Thank you." The dog spoke.
Danny, Jimmy, and Timmy stand in the midst of this, taking it all in, their faces contorted not in anger or sadness, but in an ecstatic gleam of surprise and happiness. Mayor Nathorix, feeling the need to be overly expressive, jumps forward and begins to gesture and imitate the boys' actions of just a few minutes ago.
"Oh, yeah!" Mayor Nathorix said with a big grin as she bounced around, "That was awesome! You were all flying, and running, and then laser eyes and power blasts! Then, Bam! And then lasers and then… BAM! You punched that guy! And another BOOM and BIFF and, well, ehh, remember?"
The boys nod in agreement, a happy, but mildly pitying glance regarding the mayor's over exuberance and redundancy.
"Yeah, that was great." Mayor Nathorix said to them, "Y'know, this town stinks. And I was wondering if… maybe sometime… we could like… call you… to save the day or… whatever."
The boys gasped happily and change to their super forms. "Can we, Professor?" they asked Spongebob.
"Well… I don't know…" Spongebob said but smiled, "Hmm… okay! But only if it's before your curfew!"
"Yaaaaaay!" the boys cried happily. They fly upwards in sheer exaltation, as the crowd cheers them below.
The next day then reveals the sun, outside of Wall-To-Wall Mart. An elderly lady is pushing a full cart of groceries, before it is stopped by an evil hand. The shot changes, and the hand belongs to Vicky, her cronies surrounding her.
Inside Mayor Nathorix's office, she and his assistant hears the woman's cries for help. Ms. Fenton points off to the Mayor's wrist, where the newly installed hotline phone watch is seen on it.
In school, Danny, Jimmy, and Timmy are doing class work with the other students and were human form. By this time, the schoolroom has been fixed, and the boys are fitting in with the other children once again. Work time is interrupted by the shrill sound and flashing red nose of the white Walkie-Talkie watches that Danny, Jimmy, and Timmy had on their wrists. They smiled.
Back at Wall-To-Wall Mart, as Vicky, Francis, Dash, and Kwan starts to chow on the lady's foot and tear apart her purse, they suddenly stop and look right, where in super forms: Danny Phantom, Brain Boy, and Cleft are floating in front of them. In rapid fire, Danny strikes Vicky, Brain Boy kicks Dash and Kwan with each leg, and Cleft finishes off Francis.
Jail bars clang behind them, along with their new cellmates, Zim and Gir. Waving goodbye, the boys speed upwards, zooming over the skyline of Nicktropolis.
Snips! Snails! And puppy dog tails! These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect boy. But, Professor Spongebob Squarepants accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction, Dimensional Z! Thus, Danny, Jimmy, and Timmy were born! Using their ultra-super powers, Danny Phantom, Brain Boy, and Cleft dedicated their lives to fighting crime, and the forces of evil!
The boys return home, to the loving laughs of Spongebob. It's a brand new day, one full of promise for these superhero kids.
In another scene is a standard background of color-changing stars.
And so, for the very first time, the day is saved, thanks to…
A beam comes into the center where it appeared: Danny, Jimmy, and Timmy in super hero forms, as they are in heroic flying poses.
…The Nicktoon Boys! Hey, that's a good name for them! Nicktoon Boys, yeah! I like that! Wonder if they will, I'll run it by them. Nicktoon Boys! Mmm-hmm! Hey, anyone got some grub?
The End
Yes! It's over! Yay for Danny, Jimmy, and Timmy. Hope you read and review this story. Thanks everyone for reviewing and reading. Bye!