I now bring you another chapter of The Ultimate Showdown that I enjoyed writing a lot. It has BIG SHOCKING secrets that you wouldn't believe, and an exciting plot twist. But whose secrets will be the ones that give the Nicktoons more than they could handle?

Enjoy…

Chapter 11: Deception

In the prison cell from DarkEvil's lair, Danny was locked inside, sitting on the metal bench. He was holding his right wrist that had a large bloody cut on it from where DarkEvil used a knife to take some of his blood.

"They always say giving blood to someone who needs it is a charitable thing," Danny was saying to himself. "But I don't know if giving blood to villains is the same."

Before he could think of anything else, the door of the cell opened up again and Professor Calamitous came in.

Danny looked over at him and said, "If you want my kidney to bring back my great-grandfather, you can forget about that."

Calamitous laughed and said, "Not likely, Danny Fenton. I'm here to extract some information out of you."

"Didn't we already establish that I am not telling you anything about my friends?"

"Actually, by extract, I mean FORCIBLY extract."

Danny glared and replied, "Forget it. I refused to talk to Vlad and DarkEvil and I will in no way tell you what the secret code for the Fenton Portal is."

"Secret code?" Calamitous questioned until he smiled. "That's good. I'll be sure to ask that. But you are sadly mistaken. I now have new means of making you talk."

From behind his back, he pulled out a large syringe filled with a glowing blue serum and a large needle attached to the end. Danny's eyes widen at the sight of it. "This is a truth-telling serum that DarkEvil concocted from that scroll of his." Calamitous explained. "Once I inject this into you, you will be forced to reveal all your deep dark secrets."

"So DarkEvil's cooking up more recipes from that scroll, huh?" Danny said with a bit of fear in his voice until he glared. "It doesn't matter what you use on me, I'll never tell you anything."

"Like you have a choice in the matter." Calamitous said with a smirk as he held the syringe up and the door closed behind him.

Back at Cerebral Academy, Jimmy was in his room, looking through his inventions and ignoring his roommate after failing to move into another room, while Dylan was minding his own business and doing some studying. They then heard a knock at the door.

"Come in!" Jimmy called back.

The door opened and Wendy came in. "Hi Jimmy." She happily greeted, "Hi Dylan."

"I'm departing." Dylan said as he closed his textbook and began to walk out with it. "Have fun with your girlfriend, Nerdtron."

"Girlfriend?" Wendy questioned as she stared at Jimmy in confusion.

"Oh, don't mind him." Jimmy explained as he blushed. "He's always assuming we're more than friends."

Wendy giggled. "Oh, I see. But actually, Jimmy, that's kinda why I came here."

"It is?"

"Yes." She nodded. "I wanted to talk to you about something."

"Okay," Jimmy responded, feeling a little nervous. "What is it?"

Wendy walked up to him and started saying, "Jimmy…I've never met anyone like you."

Jimmy chuckled and smiled nervously as he blushed even more. "I can say the same thing about you, Wendy. You're smart, nice, fun, and of course my best friend since I arrived here."

"That's the thing. I like you too much to be your best friend."

"What?" Jimmy asked with a confused look.

"Oh, Jimmy. Maybe this will answer all your questions…" she then grabbed him by his shoulders and kissed him right on the mouth.

Jimmy's eyes widen at this and he grabs Wendy's arms and pulls her off of him. "Wendy!" he exasperated. "Uh, not that this isn't flattering and all, but…"

"What?" Wendy asked with a smile. "I really like you, and I can tell you really like me too."

Before Jimmy could say anything else, Wendy wrapped her arms around his neck and planted another kiss on his lips. After it went on for two or three seconds, Wendy's right hand lifted up and began to curl her fingers out like a claw.

Then the door suddenly slammed open and Dylan came in to see what was going on and he gasped in shock.

Jimmy stepped back from Wendy. "Dylan! It's not what it seems!"

"How dare you!" Dylan yelled in anger. "If you think you have the authorization to be saluting with your lips in MY room, you-" but before he could say anything else, a red blast suddenly fire at him, knocking him out of the room.

Jimmy looked surprised until he looked at Wendy to see it was from her, holding a silver and red ray gun with a frown on her face.

"Wendy, why would you do something like that?" Jimmy asked in shock. "I know I told you Dylan's a jerk, but that doesn't mean you should-"

But Wendy covered his mouth to keep him silent. "Shh! Not another word." She whispered, regaining her smile. "I don't want any more interruptions."

Jimmy removed her hand from his mouth as he nervously said, "But, Wendy, I like you too, but…I don't think we should, you know, be…"

But Wendy just pushed him onto his bed and held his arms to pin him down. "Oh, my sweet Jimmy." She said with a sudden smirk as she looked over him. "Who said anything about that?"

Her pupils suddenly glow red and Jimmy gasps. "You're not Wendy." He whispered in shock until he angrily demanded, "Where is she? What have you done with her?"

"Ha! And you call yourself a genius." She mocked. "Don't you understand? There is no Wendy." Her hands that were holding Jimmy down on the bed suddenly turn into sharp red claws. "There never was a Wendy."

Then her body glowed bright and it disappeared to reveal a silver and red square robot. "It's been me this whole time." He spoke in a cold high voice.

He lifted up his right hand to stab Jimmy with his metal claw. But Jimmy screamed and used his feet to kick the robot back and get free from its grasp.

"I don't know exactly what's going on here," Jimmy said as he stood up. "But, I'm not sticking around to find out."

When Jimmy ran out the door, the robot stood up and talked into his right wrist. "SpongeCog here. I got Neutron in pursuit and am about to finish him off."

Out in the hall, Dylan was walking down the hall in frustration until he spotted Jimmy running past him.

"Get out of here, Dylan!" Jimmy shouted as he continued running. "We're all in danger!"

Dylan just glared as he held his arm where Jimmy bumped him as he ran past. But then his eyes widen when he sees the robot, SpongeCog, chase after him at fast speed as he laughs evilly.

Dylan just stares in shock at what he saw until he says, "It appears that you're the one in danger."

Jimmy had run all the way into the library and hid underneath a desk in hopes of the robot not finding him.

"I don't understand." Jimmy muttered to himself in panic. "I come here and meet Wendy, but all of a sudden she turns out to be a robot sent to assassinate me."

Then his eyes widen in shock as he gets a disgusted look. "And worst of all, it kissed me!" he spits on the ground and wipes his mouth repeatedly. "If my life weren't in mortal danger, I would be puking right now."

"Oh, Jimmy." A young female-sounding voice called out.

Jimmy's eyes widen as he recognized it and he slowly turned his head to see a red-eyed Wendy looking under the table he was hiding under. "Come on out, Jimmy." She said in a playful tone. "Don't you wanna make-out some more?"

"No way, you robotic harpy!" Jimmy immediately answered as he came out from the other end of the table. "You're evil and you taste like motor oil!"

"Is that so?" she asked with a smirk and used her feet to kick the table toward Jimmy.

Jimmy gave a yelp and quickly ducked so the table would slide over him. Then SpongeCog, in his robot appearance, shot out his claw at Jimmy that narrowly missed him. "And you taste like flesh and sweat."

When SpongeCog shot out his other claw at Jimmy, the genius quickly grabbed a book off the shelf and tossed it at SpongeCog which hit his face. "It's disgusting." He snarled, holding the right side of his face.

Jimmy quickly turned and ran away as SpongeCog recovered and growled angrily as his arm turned into a laser gun and he repeatedly fired at Jimmy, hitting the book shelves and causing them to explode which made nearby students run away in fear. But Jimmy quickly made his way to the door before the last shelf could fall on him.

Outside, Jimmy ran through the campus as he looked back to see if SpongeCog was following him. "If only I had my weapon with me."

SpongeCog, in his Wendy disguise, emerged from the library, looking enraged as he tried to spot Jimmy while a bunch of kids were running out of the exploding building, passing by him.

Jimmy ran behind a bush and ducked down as he muttered to himself while catching his breath, "I have to…find a way to get back home. If that thing is here chasing me, who knows what's going on with Danny and the others."

"Oh, don't worry, squishy." SpongeCog said as he grabbed Jimmy with his claw and pinned him to the ground as he yelped. "They'll get what's coming to them."

His right claw turned into an electric plug that sparked with electricity. "But, of course, the leader is the one that always goes first."

Jimmy's eyes widen in fear that this would be the end for him. But before SpongeCog could finish him off, a blue beam shot out and knocked SpongeCog away from Jimmy.

Jimmy sat up and looked over to see Dylan wearing Jimmy's Neutronic Mech-Suit. "Dylan?" he asked in shock.

"No one's permitted to show him up here but me." Dylan said fiercely with his right glove glowing blue.

SpongeCog stood up and growled angrily as he pulled his laser out of his arm. "You think a couple of brainy squishies can stop me?"

"Dylan!" Jimmy called. "Activate the short-circuit blasters!"

Dylan obeyed and his hands glow with blue electricity and he threw it into a ball at SpongeCog, with the attack zapping him painfully as he screamed.

"Ohhhh…" SpongeCog groaned as electricity was all over his body and he began to power down as he fell into the nearby fountain.

Jimmy slowly and cautiously approached the fountain to see SpongeCog lying in the water now deactivated.

"Consider yourself dumped." Jimmy quietly said with a smirk until he looked at Dylan and gasped.

Dylan was hunching over in exhaustion as Jimmy ran over to help him stand up. "Dylan!" he called, holding onto him. "The suit is draining your energy; you have to take it off." But Dylan pushed Jimmy off of him.

"Don't fret, Neutron." Dylan said as he took off the helmet and put his glasses back on. "I only used a little power from the suit, but enough to cease that robot and keep myself alive."

"I don't understand." Jimmy said with a puzzled look. "You saved me from that robot, but I always thought you hated me."

Dylan managed to stand up straight and began to remove the gloves, boots, and pack. "Yes, I do hate you, Neutron. You're my eternal rival in the fields of science and intellectual superiority." He then began to speak in a proud tone, "But if someone was to finish you off, I, Dylan Galileo Charles Hewitt, would do it myself mentally than let a robot do it physically."

"Wow, thanks." Jimmy said with a smile until it dropped with a confused look. "…I think."

Jimmy then turned to the unconscious robot lying in the fountain and ran over to it to see a device on its side. "This is technology that allows you to travel to other worlds!" he picked it up to notice something more about it. "It's even the same programming from the recallers I invented. If they have the ability to do this, then something must be wrong. I have to go back."

"You're leaving?" Dylan asked in what was supposed to be disappointment. "I was so looking forward to spending the rest of the year surpassing you in our classes."

"Sorry, Dylan." Jimmy said with a sad look. "But my team may be in trouble and I have to go assist them. If I don't, I couldn't imagine what might happen to them." Then he turned to Dylan with a smile. "Besides, with me gone, you'll get the room all to yourself again as well as being the smartest kid in school."

Dylan thought it over for a second and looked at Jimmy with a smile. "Would you like me to assist you in gathering your things?"

Back in the secret lair, the door to Danny's cell opened and Calamitous emerged from it. DarkEvil approached him. "Well?" he asked. "Did you inject him with the serum?"

"Yes," Calamitous answered nervously. "I gave him the Truth Serum like you wanted."

"Well, tell me!" DarkEvil anxiously said. "Did he reveal his secrets of the Nicktoons?"

"He…revealed his secrets." Calamitous continued to reply in a nervous tone. "However, they weren't the secrets we were looking for."

Once he heard this, DarkEvil growled in anger and disappointment.

In the cell, after being injected with the Truth-Telling Serum, Danny was lying on the bench on his front, looking rather dazed while smiling.

"I like to sneak cookies in before dinner…Oh," Danny said in a ditzy tone. "I sometimes turn invisible and sneak into the girls locker room…And I also think unicorns are cool…You know that I think Jimmy's hair looks like brown whipped cream…but don't tell him."

Then he rolled forward on his back as he continued, "I'm also afraid to shower in front of other people…One time, I tried on Jazz's-" but before he could finish, he ended up rolling off the bench and onto the floor.

"…I got hurt."

Admit you didn't see that coming, ADMIT IT! It's too bad though cuz I really liked Wendy as a character, wish she was real. But now that Jimmy knows something's going on, will he be able to help his friends? And will Danny get out of his mess…?" Please review and the next chapter will be posted soon.