Disclaimer: Well, you all know by now the things I do own in this story and everything else that I don't own but anyway, I don't own Jimmy Neutron or anything that has appeared in the programs.

Chapter 10: We fight to the Death

Cindy looked up at the screen on Jimmy's main computer. The screen was showing a timer with the estimated remaining time on how long before Professor Calamitous' EMP device became fully charged and ready to activate. Each second that passed was filling her with dread and concern.

"Come on Goddard, we've gotta work faster."

Goddard had pretty much exhausted all options on testing the Neutexium armour plating that was left in the lab and so far nothing had damaged it in the slightest way.

'A Nuclear warhead is almost the only weapon left to test on it.'

"Okay, that's a ridiculous suggestion especially since we'd all get killed before seeing if it damaged the armour in any way!" Cindy scorned the robotic canine.

'You think of something else then.' Goddard tilted his head to one side as he looked at Cindy.

Cindy jumped off the seat and walked over the armour plating on the floor of the lab. She looked down at it, rage building inside her over missing her chance of telling Jimmy how she truly felt about him, letting him go to face Eustace and Calamitous alone and her and Goddard's inability to find a weakness in the Neutexium.

'Maybe it is invincible.' Goddard whined.

"It's not, I just know it isn't!" Cindy shouted furiously and kicked the Neutexium in anger.

What she heard made her stop and slowly, she looked down. There was no pain in her foot so she hadn't hurt herself, but the crunching sound was disturbing. Once she looked at her foot her eyes widened and her jaw dropped.

"My foot…" She shook her head in disbelief. "Goddard, get me a phone."

Goddard nodded his head towards Cindy and one of his ears disconnected and landed in Cindy's hand. Cindy turned his ear over to reveal it being a phone.

"Never knew you had one on you." She said to him as she dialled Libby's number.

'Hello?' Came Libby's voice.

"Hey Libs, its Cindy."

'Yo, wassup girlfriend?' Libby asked.

"Long story, but can you get a hold of Sheen and Carl and get yourselves to Eustace Strych's estate pronto." Cindy requested.

'Why, what's going on there?' Libby asked, very confused at Cindy's request.

"Jimmy's gone to fight Calamitous and Eustace alone and I'm certain he'll be killed if we don't help him." Cindy explained.

'Didn't you offer to help him?'

"Of course I did! He didn't want any help!" Cindy yelled at Libby.

'Chill out! I'll see if I can drag Sheen and Carl away from work but it ain't gonna be easy, you might find yourself on your own for most of it.' Libby told Cindy.

"Okay, be as quick as you can." Cindy begged and then hung up.

She sighed deeply and threw the ear-phone back to Goddard. Cindy looked down and removed her foot from the Neutexium armour plating and inspected it closely.

"I don't understand it Goddard, how can this thing be resistant to practically every weapon invented and when I kick it in frustration, my foot leaves a huge dent in it?" She asked, hoping Goddard would have an explanation.

Goddard moved next to her and opened his chest and began typing out his response.

'Might be something to do with impact speed.'

Cindy shrugged her shoulders at him in response.

'Take one of the Master's laser swords from the bench over there and use that on the metal.' Goddard instructed her.

Cindy sighed and walked over to the bench and picked up one of Jimmy's laser swords. She moved back to the Neutexium and activated the laser sword and swung at the armour. To her surprise, the laser sword cut through the armour with ease, almost like it didn't even exist. This really didn't bode well for Jimmy's survival chances if he was hit by something in close quarters at a slow speed.

"I've seen enough Goddard; we've got to get the Strych estate as soon as possible!" Cindy told him.

She turned around and looked at the main screen to see how long there was until the EMP device was ready.

"And we've got to get there fast."

'I'll get the ship ready to launch.' Cindy read off Goddard's screen.

Cindy ran out of the lab while Goddard headed deeper into the lab to where the battered ship was. Time was very short.

"You can't keep this up forever, Neutron." Calamitous said as he began to laugh maniacally.

"You'd like to believe that, wouldn't you? A shame you didn't count on my armour being invincible." Jimmy whispered to himself.

Jimmy aimed the Fusion cannon at another one of Calamitous' defences and fired. The purple bolt of energy tore through the air and connected with its target. The machine gun turret melted where the Fusion cannon hit it and electronics began to short out, causing the turret to power down and the gun to just fall to the ground, completely harmless.

After much fighting, the Strych estate had become a complete war zone. Craters all over the grounds, the stench of twisted burning metal and as for the mansion, it had numerous cracks and holes from stray cannon blasts from Jimmy's Fusion cannon. Although one could be forgiven for thinking some of the shots were off target as Jimmy didn't like Eustace at all.

"Only seven minutes to go before the EMP thingy is ready." Eustace said to Calamitous over the comm. link.

"Excellent. I think it's time to keep Neutron even busier!" Calamitous said to himself, rubbing his hands together.

Jimmy stopped destroying the defence turrets as Calamitous' ship started to land. This move confused him slightly, but he remained focused on the task and shot at the ship a few times, taking advantage of the situation.

"Blast that boy! Strych, keep Jimmy occupied until I'm ready to fight him!" Calamitous ordered.

"Do this, do that. Why can't I give the orders for once?" Eustace moaned.

"Just do it you feeble minded buffoon!" Calamitous shouted back at his colleague.

"Alright, alright I'm going."

Eustace's walker moved forwards into view of Jimmy's walker.

"Ready for some action Neutron, or will I be too much for you to handle?" Eustace taunted Jimmy.

Jimmy didn't respond with words. Instead, the Fusion cannon on the right arm disengaged and folded back into the walker's arm and Jimmy then brought out the long, razor sharp sword that was fitted onto the walker's back.

"Oh, what a big sword. I bet you can't use it to do any good with it though!" Eustace taunted Jimmy again.

Jimmy growled angrily and charged forwards, the sword held in both of the walker's hands with it held above the right side of its head, poised to strike. The ground literally shook as both walkers moved towards each other at speed.

Eustace deployed some of the tentacles on his walker in an attempt to knock Jimmy's walker to the ground but as Jimmy got within striking distance, he started to hack and slash and ended up slicing the tentacles clean off.

"No! Calamitous, this would be a really good time to enter the fight." Eustace whined.

"I'm afraid it's too late for you, Eustace. Your going to get your comeuppance before Professor Incredibly Insane can save you!" Jimmy shouted at Eustace as he brought the sword done hard on top of Eustace's walker.

The sword began to cut through the thick armour on top the walker and Eustace quickly dived to one side as the sword cut all the way through and sliced the walker in half. For good measure, and releasing much frustration, Jimmy sliced some of the legs off of Eustace's walker, causing the hulk to crash down to the ground with the impact knocking Eustace about before he finally came to rest.

"Well done…old bean." Eustace weakly said to Jimmy before falling unconscious.

Jimmy sighed and looked at this watch, time was getting very short. The EMP device would be ready in just under five minutes and he still had to deal with Calamitous.

"Hello Jimmy!" Calamitous' unmistakeable voice crackled over the radio transmitter.

There was a heavy clunking noise followed by whirring and clicking sounds. Jimmy moved his walker past the wreckage of Eustace Strych's walker to see what was causing the noise. What Jimmy saw made him feel even more frustrated as Professor Calamitous had built himself his own walker. Styled slightly like Jimmy's one, it was a bit bigger and wider and therefore had to be heavier.

"Thought I'd engage you in some one on one action in melee combat. En garde!" Calamitous shouted as his walker raised its hands holding a large sword in them.

"Just great, oh well better not waste any time." Jimmy sighed to himself.

"Hey Carl! Get me a Mexican pilot carrying two tonnes of pineapples heading for a barbeque!" Sheen shouted to Carl.

"He got a fridge or an ice box?" Carl asked.

"You want extra tomato sauce with that?" Sheen asked the customer at the drive thru of McSpankys.

"No thanks." The customer replied.

"It's a fridge Carl!"

"Coming up." Carl said as he tossed burgers and turned fries in the deep fat fryer.

The next car pulled in.

"Welcome to McSpankys Drive Thru, how may I help you?" Sheen asked

"By getting your butt and Carl's butt out of there and coming with me to Strych's mansion!" Libby said to Sheen.

"Hey Libs…you want seven deep fat fried burgers with sugar on top and a bottle of water with pepper mixed into it? You gone nuts or something?"

"No, I'm not ordering food Sheen. I need you and Carl to come with me to Eustace's mansion as Jimmy's life is in danger and probably Cindy's too if we don't get there fast!" Libby explained.

"But…but…we can't just leave! We'll get sacked!" Sheen exclaimed.

"Well, get Carl to pretend to hurt himself badly and you need to take him to hospital or something. I don't care exactly what so long as you two get out of there ASAP! I'll give you five minutes otherwise I'll drag both of you out." Libby threatened Sheen.

"Okay, okay I'll think of something." Sheen said as he heard Libby's car drive away from the stand.

"What's up Sheen?" Carl asked.

"Libby said something about Jimmy's gonna die if we don't get to that rich guy's mansion. Er…Starch was his name?"

"Strych."

"Oh yeah. Well anyway, we've gotta go there and fool Skeet in to allowing us to go or Libby is gonna drag us out. Either way we're going, but whether we'll still have our jobs depends on us." Sheen explained.

"No problem Sheen, leave it to me." Carl replied confidently.

"Man, I wonder what Jimmy would do?" Sheen asked himself quietly.

Carl walked up close to Skeet and then held his back and began groaning and moaning.

"Woah dude, 'sup?" Skeet asked.

"I think I've slipped a disc in my back. I need to go to the hospital." Carl said trying to sound convincing.

"Talk about bad luck man, 'kay you can go." Skeet told Carl.

"I can't get there like this, maybe Sheen had better take me?" Carl asked hopefully.

"Woah, bummer. Well, I guess its okay, but try to get back as soon as possible dude." Skeet said to Sheen as they both ran out of the burger bar. "Now I'm gonna have to close the drive thru until those Sheen gets back."

Carl and Sheen burst out of the burger bar and stopped. In a flash, Sheen saw Libby and ran off towards it with Carl in hot pursuit.

"Man, Skeet is so easy to fool. That was way easier than I thought it was going to be." Carl said to Sheen as they ran to Libby's car.

They both jumped in to Libby's car and Libby then set off for the Strych estate.

"Good thing you guys managed to make something up quickly, I was about to come in and drag both of you out." Libby said to them.

"So what exactly do we have to do?" Sheen asked.

"I dunno, but it ain't gonna be good. Cindy didn't have time to tell me everything so I don't know everything that is going on." Libby replied.

"It's time to end this, when this fight is over one shall stand and one shall fall!" Jimmy yelled.

"Why throw away your life so recklessly Jimmy?"

"That's a question you should ask yourself, Calamitous!" Jimmy quickly replied to his foe.

The two walkers ran towards each other for another attack, both swords raised and poised to strike. As they got close together, the swords swung and clashed together with a loud clang. Sparks flew as the swords slid up and down each other with the sound of metal grinding against metal filling both Jimmy's and Calamitous' ears as both combatants were pressing hard to overpower the other.

Jimmy broke the lock and quickly brought his sword down and kicked out at Calamitous. The metallic foot slammed against Calamitous' walker's right leg and caused it to lose balance for a moment, just enough time for Jimmy to bring his sword round and attack again. Unfortunately for Jimmy, Calamitous was just a bit quicker and was able to parry the blow then thrust his sword forwards, making Jimmy lose his balance this time. Jimmy saw Calamitous attack and tried to dodge it, but Calamitous' sword came down like a tonne of bricks on Jimmy's walker.

Cindy's heart was pumping hard, adrenaline coursing through her body and fear engulfing her mind. She struggled to breathe, let alone find the effort to make any kind of sound to show her horror.

She and Goddard had arrived at the Strych estate just in time to see Calamitous' last attack on Jimmy, and the result of it had left Cindy fearing for Jimmy's life yet somehow, her mind kept telling her to intervene. With much effort, Cindy finally managed to move her muscles and regain focus on the ship.

"We've got to stop Calamitous before he kills Jimmy, especially since he now knows about the Neutexiums weakness!" Cindy exclaimed to Goddard.

Goddard was well ahead of Cindy in that part and had already made contact with his master.

'Goddard? What are you doing here?' Jimmy asked.

Goddard barked, growled and whined responses to Jimmy.

'You did what? I gave you a direct order to not let Cindy in the lab!' Jimmy sighed. 'Never mind now, just buy some time so we have the opportunity to destroy the EMP device.'

Goddard barked at Cindy to get her attention. Cindy turned her head to face him.

'Bring the ship low and fly at maximum speed towards Professor Calamitous' walker. It's the only sure fire way to buy us enough time.' Goddard had typed.

Cindy didn't bother questioning Goddard as really there wasn't enough time to.

Jimmy has shocked and mortified. The Neutexium was flawed after all, and he had laughed off Goddard's and Cindy's concerns over the lack of testing. Now he had paid for that as his walker's entire left arm laid on the ground beside him after Calamitous' sword had struck a telling blow. Really, he was lucky he had been able to move otherwise the sword would have gone straight down the middle of his walker and he would be dead now.

Jimmy regained control of the walker and moved it back a number of steps as Calamitous got caught up in his joy of finding the weakness in the Neutexium. It was then that Jimmy received a contact from Goddard telling him that he and Cindy had arrived to help Jimmy.

"It's over Neutron, you cannot win now!" Calamitous laughed.

"I may be an arm down, but I still have my weapon!" Jimmy replied as he gritted his teeth.

"Then come, Jimmy, come and try to end this."

Jimmy's walker ran forwards and thrust the sword as hard as possible, impaling it on Calamitous' walker's right leg. Unfortunately, Calamitous wasn't bothered at all and actually used that to his advantage. He swung his own sword around and sliced Jimmy's walker's right hand clean off, the hand still gripping the sword.

"Oh bugger. I really need to work on my combat skills." Jimmy cursed his own stupidity as he again moved his walker away.

"Dear oh dear. Poor Jimmy Neutron lost his left arm and right hand. Your helpless now James. Surrender and you can live out the rest of your life knowing your nothing but a failure in a nice comfy cell." Calamitous taunted Jimmy.

Jimmy sighed and looked down at his feet. Calamitous was right; he had failed…almost. Jimmy heard the sound of a familiar rocket hurtling towards his position. He turned and saw his ship…and managed to move out of the way as it raced past where he had been.

"No!" Calamitous screamed as he saw the ship too late.

Calamitous tried to get his walker to duck out of the way, but he was too late. The ship slammed into his walker and ripped the top quarter off before managing to climb back into the sky. Calamitous opened the hatch after the remains of his walker tumbled to the ground and instantly made for his own ship. He still had the EMP device and it was almost ready.

"Well done you two, now comes the hard part. Calamitous has made it back to his ship and he's going to activate that EMP device in a few moments. I need you to be ready to crash the ship into the device, so I need Goddard at the controls for the exact impact point. No offence by the way against your piloting skills Cindy." Jimmy said to his companions on the ship.

Jimmy waited patiently as the EMP device started to power up. The shield surrounding it dropped and Jimmy burst into action. He activated his walker's Fusion cannon and yelled out instructions to Goddard.

"Six degrees more to the left, twelve degrees rotation to the right and five degrees up!" Jimmy shouted out as he aimed his Fusion cannon up towards the EMP device. "Go full throttle and engage the autopilot and get off the ship!"

Jimmy watched the ship pick up speed as it closed in on the EMP device. Two small dots left the ship, indicating Cindy and Goddard were off so Jimmy began tracking the ship with his Fusion cannon. The ship slammed into the EMP device and buried part of itself inside it. Jimmy waited a few moments and then fired a series of blasts directly at his own ships engine and where the main reactor would be.

The ship exploded as the main reactor went critical and ignited the fuel. The whole top half of the EMP device was vaporised, leaving Professor Calamitous with his jaw dropping just as he pressed the button to fire the EMP. His plans for world domination had been destroyed just as he had won. Jimmy had pulled victory out from the jaws of defeat.

Cindy heard the explosion and turned her head. The EMP deice was destroyed.

"Yes! We rock Goddard!" She yelled. "Or not…"

A chunk of debris, none other than the Neutexium wing from the ship, was hurting towards Cindy and Goddard.

"Oh shite." Cindy cursed as the wing came closer and closer.

Goddard attempted to dodge the wing but it was too late. He flipped over and the wing smacked him, causing him to fall out of the sky (and leave a dent in the Neutexium). Cindy screamed as they plummeted down and slammed into the ground.

Jimmy watched in horror as he saw the wing hit Goddard. His walker ran forwards in a desperate attempt to try and save them both, only for him to fail by a matter of inches…the fact his walker had no hands being the key part as his walker slammed into the ground and skidded past his two fallen companions. Jimmy opened the walker's hatch and got out and ran over to Cindy and Goddard.

He quickly checked over Goddard, how had shut himself down after the impact. Goddard would need repairs, but he was going to survive. Cindy, however…

"Cindy…" Jimmy whispered as he touched her face with his hand.

Cindy's eyes opened weakly as she looked at Jimmy.

"James…it's too late…you can't…save me." She said weakly.

"NO! I can't lose you Cindy! I won't!" Jimmy yelled back, clasping her hand with his as a tear rolled down his cheek.

"The world is safe…but I must know one thing…before I go." She said. "Do you love me James?"

The dreaded question. Normally Jimmy would have struggled for a response but deep down he knew it was too late and he saw no reason to deny the truth any longer from the world.

"I do…I love you Cindy Vortex. I've loved you from the moment I laid eyes upon you so many years ago." Jimmy replied to her.

It was like a huge weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

"Good…I love you too. I always made fun of you…because I didn't want anyone…to know how I truly felt about you." Cindy replied weakly. "Why did you never tell me?"

Jimmy thought for a few moments, taking in the fact that Cindy loved him as much as he loved her.

"The same reason why you never told me." He replied softly.

"Scared of rejection…"

Jimmy nodded at her.

"Kiss me Jimmy, so I may be complete." Cindy said to him.

Jimmy couldn't resist. He moved closer to her and placed his lips on hers and kissed her. The years of desire and wanting all coming out in a single moment as he pressed his lips as hard as possible onto hers. Cindy kissed back with what strength she had left, the blackness slowly gaining its hold.

"Now I am complete…I love you…" She whispered as her world went black.

Jimmy looked at her as the life left Cindy's body. Tears ran down his cheeks as he cried in pain…and anger. Anger…

"This is Calamitous' and Strych's fault!" Jimmy thought as he regained control and the burning hatred began to overpower him.

Cindy was dead, but Jimmy would not let her death go unpunished upon those who caused it.

To be continued…

Not quite the end, one chapter to go!

I bet none of you were expecting something as dramatic as this, all will be revealed whenever I write out the last chapter (can't make any promises as to how long it will be as I haven't actually started it yet).

Reviews are always welcome, and thanks for reviewing the last chapter.