Chapter 12 – Jimmy's Speech
Later that night, a car whizzed past a different house. Everything was all quiet in the event of nightfall. Streetlights bathed their lights in the sidewalks and every child and adult is resting. A familiar boy genius action figure burst out of the bushes and he hides behind a mailbox. He gestures for everyone else to follow. Alex, covered in leaves, tiptoes over to Jimmy. His disguise fell off, and he's left holding a single leaf. He drops it and shrugged, chuckling sheepishly.
Clifford, Oscar, and Cody then proceeded toward the mailbox. Cody, however, tripped over and his rubber stopper popped out, spilling coins.
"All right, nobody look till I get my cork back in!" The penguin piggy bank said, embarrassed.
"Good work, guys." Jimmy replied.
Suddenly a noise was heard, stopping the toys dead in their tracks. The toys slowly turn to see two shadows approaching them. The figures stepped out into the light, revealing two medium-sized kid toys. One toy is based of a young boy with fair skin, red-orange hair standing up at the front, brown eyes and thick round black rimmed glasses. His clothing consists of a white shirt, black shorts, white socks with red stripes and grayish-white Chuck Taylor All-Stars. sneakers. The other toy is based of a little girl with raven black hair tied in an upward ponytail with a red scrunchie, fair skin, pink cheeks, large hazel eyes, and she wears a yellow shirt with dark stripes, blue overalls, yellow socks and plain white sneakers. Their names are Sherman and Agnes.
Jimmy was the first to greet them. "Oh, hello there. I thought you were intruders. He asked curiously, "What are your names?"
Sherman introduced, "I was getting down to that. My name is Sherman, and this is my little sister Agnes." He gestured to the petite girl.
Agnes greeted, "An extreme pleasure."
"Greetings. I'm Jimmy Neutron: Space Boy. I come in peace." Jimmy greeted, shaking Sherman and Agnes' hands. Sherman and Agnes laugh.
"You say that when you greet someone?" Sherman laughed.
"Yep." Jimmy nodded.
"You have a funny way of introducing your names." Agnes chuckled. "So what are you doing out here late at night?"
Jimmy explained, "Well, Sherman and Agnes, our friend AKA our leader, whose name was SpongeBob SquarePants, was kidnapped by a man who owned a toy store in the big city."
"Happy Chapman?" Agnes guessed.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" Jimmy brimmed with curiosity.
"Just a guess." Agnes said.
Sherman knelt down, and he praised his little sister, "That was such a good guess."
"Oh, thank you." Agnes thanked, feeling flattered.
Sherman asked, "Who are your other friends?"
Jimmy gestured to each of his friends, "Guys, this here's Alex the Lion, Clifford, Cody Maverick, and Oscar the Grouch."
"Hello." The toys chorused, and the two kids waved back. Jimmy asked, "Where did you guys come from anyway?"
Sherman explained, "Well, to be honest with you, we did have an owner, until the owner of ours abandoned us."
Jimmy was overwhelmed with sympathy. "Oh, that's a big burden to carry."
"I know. Me and Sherman always thought so too." Agnes shrugged.
"Say, how would you like to be a part of our rescue party, and make you our honorary members of the toy family?" Jimmy suggested.
Sherman and Agnes gleefully smiled. Agnes replied, "Really? Oh, we'd love to!"
"Count me in." Sherman elected.
"Then it's settled. OK, so, we have 2 blocks down and only 19 more to go." Jimmy nodded.
"What? Nineteen?" The other toys cried.
"Are we gonna do this all night? My parts are killing me." Oscar complained. He sat to rub one of his sore feet.
"Come on, guys! Did SpongeBob give up when Eugene Beady, that snotty boy, had me strapped to a rocket?" Jimmy asked.
"No." The other toys said,.
"No." Jimmy replied. "And did he give up when you threw him out of the back of that moving van?"
"Oh, you had to bring that up." Oscar said.
"No, he didn't!" Jimmy added. Like a brave American soldier, he declared, "We all have a friend in need, and we, nor I, will never rest until he's safe in Michael's room!" As he said it, a backdrop of the waving American Flag appeared as Star Spangled Banner played. "Now let's move on out, and fast!" Jimmy continued to lead the way, bolstered with bravery, along with the toys, followed by the new recruits, treked behind them.