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The girls looked at each other as they ran towards the lobby. Jessica was confused. "Mind telling me how you outsmarted him?" She asked.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you I could probably get my masters in psychology in a week? Sorry." Jess said smirking.
They ran full sprint to the lobby but they both skidded to a stop before the door.
"This is suicide, Jess." Jessica muttered.
"No, it's probably a 1:5 ratio; suicide would be more like 1:20." Jess said tightening her grip on the crowbar.
"That was such a good pep talk; I'll have to remember it." Jessica muttered, kicking in the door.
They froze for a minute. "Well, it's only 1:10." Jess said frowning.
The brawl broke out; a few minutes of fighting went on, only to be interrupted by a loud crash. The orderlies' attention was immediately re-directed. All of them rushed outside to find the source of the crash. Jess and Jessica immediately hid underneath the 'reception' desk. After all the orderlies had gone, Jess cautiously peeked around the desk. "Timmy!" She exclaimed in a whisper.
Timmy looked to the source and found it to be a very battered Jess. "Jess? What happened to you?"
She simply responded by waving him over. He followed this command, only to be greeted by another battle-scarred Jess. "Jess, what's going on here?"
Jessica frowned. "I'd like to know the same thing. Care to explain?" She gave Jess a pointed look.
"Well, Timmy, this is Jessica, my counterpart in this world. Crocker kind of teleported me into the same cell as her, and we broke out. Jessica, this is Timmy, he was with me in the future when Crocker stole my time machine and made this world. I'm guessing you never met his double, as he was killed in an arsonist fire a while back." Jess said, sliding partly into lecture mode.
The other two gaped at her; she was talking as this was an everyday occurrence.
"I'm used to these kinds of things!" Jess said defensively. "Try saving the universe a few times with time-travel and see what happens. It's not rocket-" She was cut off by the orderlies coming back in.
They dumped some things on the desk above them and went off searching for the two girls. "I swear they hire the stupidest oafs they can find." Jessica muttered, standing up. "Hey, Jess. If that's your time machine, is this your's too?" She handed Jess a large remote that looked hastily built.
Jess took it and smiled. "They are stupid; this is our way out of here." She pushed a button on the side, and the orderlies that were still outside all yelled. The trunk had closed itself. She pushed another button and the DeLorean roared to life. Both Timmy and Jessica looked at her in amazement.
"You got that thing hooked up to-" Timmy started. Jess looked at him strangely. "-the car?"
Jess smirked as she flipped on the emergency brake, and then hit the gas a little. The tires spinning scared away the orderlies that hadn't left yet. "Let's go."
The trio ran to the DeLorean, Jess sliding across the front of the DeLorean as she ran. Jessica and Timmy crowded into the passenger seat.
Jess hurriedly flipped on the hover circuits and took to the skies. Some of the orderlies had come back out and were looking at the flying DeLorean in awe. Jessica opened the window and mock-saluted them, smirking.
After putting on her driving glasses and explaining to Jessica how they worked Jess turned on the time circuits.
"We're going back now? What about Cosmo, and Jake?" Timmy asked.
Jess frowned. "When we succeed in our mission Cosmo and Jake will simply fade through the timeline having no memory of this terrible place."
Timmy frowned. He couldn't place Jess's expression with her driving glasses on. "So, we go back and stop old Crocker from ever giving young Crocker Wanda?"
"No! We need to let old Crocker think he succeeded so he'll take the DeLorean back to the future so the time-stream will continue on the path that led us here." Jess explained.
Jessica had been silently watching the two, trying to figure out what had happened before. "Before this goes any farther, let's get this straight. My guess is that you both had fairies in your world and met through that."
"You're assumption is correct." Jess paused. "Brace yourself for temporal displacement." They jetted off into the past.
The three glanced at each other. "Don't you dare say, 'are we back'?" Jess warned.
Timmy nodded. "So, this is 1999 huh? It doesn't look much different." He pressed his face against the window and looked down at the town.
Jessica looked over his shoulder. "This is what your Slavesdale looks like?" She said sounding depressed.
Jess grimaced as she landed out of sight. "At this point it's still called Dimsdale."
Jessica looked at Jess. "Oh, well if it looks like this you must have one heck of a nice town."
Jess sighed as she took off the driving glasses. "I wouldn't be the one to ask. I'm not sure what happened on your end but I got expelled in the 5th grade when I was the age of those in 1st. I'm never in the town in our own time. I stay at home 89 of the time."
"The other 11?" Jessica asked quickly.
"I get dragged into town by my aunt or uncle or go out of town, although that's my best time for experiments." Jess replied, opening the door and stepping out. "Now," She opened the trunk, "we'll need to blend in."
Timmy and Jessica followed. "It's the 90's are things that different?" Timmy asked.
"Ok, Jessica needs to blend in." Jess corrected.
Jessica looked at Jess crookedly. "I'm not sure I like where this is going."
Jess smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry, I do carry normal clothes." She found a pair of jeans and a black T-shirt with 'Geek' on it. "Is this good?" She asked.
Jessica nodded. She took the clothes and disappeared around the corner. A minute later she came back looking like a normal person. "Can't say the colors don't work." She muttered.
Timmy's eyes went wide. "You're bleeding…both of you." He said.
"Really?" The Jess's said harmoniously.
"Well, that's easily fixed." Jess muttered. She dug around inside the trunk and emerged with two long flesh-colored strips of cloth. After handing one to her confused other self she proceeded to press it along the cut on her side. To Timmy and Jessica's amazement when she pealed it off, the cut was gone.
"Dang." Jessica said, experimentally pressing it on the cut on her arm. As before when she removed it the cut was gone. "Where'd you get this stuff?"
"It's part of any standard first-aide kit starting in the year 2012." Jess explained folding the piece she had back up. "It's sort of a super-healing band-aide."
They looked at each other in awkward silence for a minute then cleaned up and started off towards Crocker's.
The trio hid in the bushes, wondering when old Crocker would show.
All of a sudden, they heard the soft hum of the DeLorean's hover conversion. They turned, looking to see if old Crocker had shown up. Fortunately, he had. They watched as he wrote a note, took Wanda to the doorstep, and rang the doorbell. Running away, he dove into the DeLorean and took off.
Young Crocker opened the door, and was ecstatic. Jessica winced as he moved into painful positions. The three looked at each other as he went inside, yelling to his mother.
"Here go's everything." Timmy muttered as they slipped toward the back of the house.
After Crocker ran out of the house they moved a bit closer.
They looked up at the window, and then looked at each other. Timmy was the first to speak up. "I'll go up and see if I can find Wanda. Maybe he left her there or something."
The Jess's glanced at each other and grudgingly accepted, lifting him to the window. He looked back out once he was in and gave them a thumbs up. They went back into the bushes and hid.
Timmy looked around the room. All that was there was a small bed, a computer on an overturned crate, and a small dresser. Wanda's not here, dang. He looked around a minute, hoping to find a clue to where Crocker took her. He heard a whistle from below the window and a soft "Hey!" He looked out cautiously.
Jessica was standing below, waving him down. "Jess went after him by herself." She whispered. "If Wanda's not up there we're supposed to meet her outside Town Hall."
Timmy nodded and slid down the gutter pipe. "Why'd she go by herself?" He asked.
Jessica shrugged. "I don't know. She muttered something about not wanting to loose him, oh; she doesn't know when she'll meet us there."
Timmy sighed. "I expect a long wait."