The next day (or at least when our heroes woke up), they continued to search for aster-rubies to power the ship.
"Okay everyone" said Jimmy "Time to continue to search for rubies"
Everybody followed Jimmy to wherever his ruby detector said to go, but they still didn't find anything. At that same time, Cindy was still thinking about what she should probably say to Jimmy.
"What should I do?" she thought "Jimmy's not gonna listen to me, but I need to let him know that I love him. He probably won't since I nearly got him killed, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try"
Realizing that they were probably hopeless, they decided to sit down and eat some food from the galley.
"This is hopeless" Nick said out of anger "We've been searching this stupid rock for hours and haven't found anything! This is hopeless!"
"Yeah" said Cindy "And I've gotta get home to feed Humphrey"
"Well we probably won't get home Cindy" said Brittany "We probably don't have enough fuel to get home or to wherever Sheen is"
"Thanks a lot, Neutron" said Nick "You just had to leave without filling up the fuel tank, did ya?"
Carl and Goddard walked over to the gang.
"Don't feel bad guys" said Carl "Maybe these burritos will make ya'll feel better"
Everybody grabbed a burrito.
"How could you lead to us to nothing, Goddard?" asked Libby.
"I don't know" said Goddard "But I was certain we found something"
"You know Neutron, maybe you should upgrade Goddard" Cindy said sarcastically "Or maybe you should've brought a spare tank of fuel. What do you propose we do now?"
"Beats me" said Jimmy "We're far away from the nearest planet and we don't enough fuel to get there. We could be stuck here forever"
"At least we still have our health" Brittany said before she sunk her teeth "OW! Carl! What did you put in these things?"
"Nothing" said Carl "Just some rice from the galley and some beans I found underground"
Jimmy got up "Beans? Hey wait a minute!"
Jimmy reached into Brittany's mouth and took out one of "beans" from Carl's burrito. He scanned it on his tracker and followed it once again, with Carl, Nick and Goddard in tow. He led them to some sort of place with a wide open space. He walked closer to the ground and the reading's on his scanner were off the scale; it was shaking like crazy.
"Puking Pluto!" he exclaimed "Goddard! Activate drill!"
"Bark, bark!" Goddard exclaimed.
A drill came out of Goddard's back and he dug a hole deep into the ground. There they were; shiny red rocks in all their glory.
"OH MY GOD!" Jimmy exclaimed happily "ASTER RUBIES! WHOO HOO!"
Jimmy and Goddard started doing a happy prospector's dance like they won the lottery (which they kind of did). Carl and Nick approached the dancing duo.
"What're you doing, Nerd Bomb?" asked Nick "It's just a-"
Carl and Nick then saw the glowing, red gems right in the hole.
"WHOO HOO!" they started dancing as well.
The girls then walked over to the boys and were as usual, about to make catty remarks on what the boys were doing.
"Looks like the Geek Epedemic has started" Cindy remarked.
"Gee Nick, how totally out of character for you" Brittany said "But so extraordinary and I want to join!"
Brittany then joined the guys in their happy prospector dance.
"Brittany?" Cindy raised an eyebrow.
"I think she's been plagued" Libby remarked.
"Look!" Cindy pointed to the hole.
Cindy and Libby looked into the hole and saw the rubies.
"WHOO HOO!" they shouted as they started dancing alongside their friends.
"Guys! Guys!" said Jimmy "We've found our fuel and future empire, so let's get digging!"
Our heroes wasted no time in using Jimmy's Neutron Super-Drill to dig the site for all the rubies they could find. Around twenty minutes later, they had gathered up four buckets of rubies.
"Here we are, guys" said Jimmy "All the rubies we could find"
"Awesome, dude" Nick said "I'm going to be the richest dude in the world!"
"Yeah, eat your heart out, Donald Trump" Cindy looked at the beautiful gems.
"We're going to have to use these wisely" Jimmy said "We've only managed to get four buckets, we could lose them. Obviously we're going to use one of the buckets for fuel, we'll have to save the rest"
"That's good to know" Libby remarked.
Our heroes walked back to the ship to fill up the fuel tank, when all of a sudden, Goddard saw something in the distance.
"Bark! Bark" he pointed to what he saw.
"Goddard, what is it boy?" asked Jimmy.
Goddard handed Jimmy a telescope and Jimmy looked through it.
"What is it, Jimmy?" asked Cindy.
"There's another ship over there" Jimmy said as he looked through the telescope "And it looks like there are people over there"
"Do you think they want our rubies?" asked Carl.
"I don't know, we'd better investigate" Jimmy said.
"Are you nuts?" asked Libby "They could be dangerous enemies"
"Only one way to find out" said Jimmy "Come on guys"
The others followed Jimmy to wherever the ship was, while carrying their rubies. Of course, they were skeptical about this, but Jimmy was curious...
"And as usual, Jimmy's curiosity leads us into trouble" Libby finished for the narrator.
Correct Libby! It looks like Jimmy will lead you guys into trouble once again and which once again, will have to lead ya'll for something exciting.
"Just go to the author's note" said Jimmy.
Author's Note:
Well as I said, Jimmy and his friends have found some aster-rubies, now they have found the key to getting to Sheen and starting a financial empire. However, someone else is on the asteroid. Who could it be? Stay tuned!