Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future

Episode 12: Search for the Five Crystals

Plot: The Nicktoons are framed by thieves that look just like them and are quickly pursued by the Guys in White. Worse, their parents are kidnapped by the Syndicate, who demand they locate the Five Crystals that the original Nicktoons had hidden years ago and bring them in. Now the Nicktoons must find the crystals in three days to save their parents while the Cadets buy them some time from the Guys in White. But when journeying those worlds to search for these Crystals, they discover an old acquaintance from Jimmy's past.

Part 2

Later that evening, at a diner in Amity Park, the Nicktoons were having dinner as they tried to figure out where the next crystal could be hidden. "So where do you think your dad hid this world's crystal?" Tommy asked Darry as they sat at a booth and ate their food.

"I dunno," Darry answered, "We've checked everywhere in Amity Park. Casper High, the Nasty Burger, Floody Waters, Axiom Labs. I was sure Dad would have hidden the crystal in any of those places."

"You're his son," Tammy reminded, "You have to know where he would put it."

"Remember, it has to be a place secretly hidden," added Tommy, "Somewhere he knows it can be kept safe and that he can keep an eye on."

Secretly, a faint yellow glow appeared from inside Darry's pocket. Darry suddenly wiped his forehead as he took in a breath. "I'm trying to figure it out. I'm probably just missing something here. We can check the lab back at my place."

Darry then began gulping down his drink while SpongeTron pointed out, "Maybe it's somewhere only he knows about. Somewhere, he can keep it safe and no one else can find it. Sound familiar, Dar?"

Once Darry drank everything last drop from his glass, he began labored breathing and answered, "The only place like that I know...is the...Ghost Zone. You don't think...

"That has to be it." Tammy pointed out until she noticed Darry's condition. "But Dar, are you...feeling alright?"

Darry quickly grabbed Tommy's drink and chugged it all down. "Of course...I am." he asked, heavily breathing and sweating. "I'm just a little...thirsty."

"You kinda look like Crash and Junior when they forget to put on that moisturizing stuff before they leave Bikini Bottom." SpongeTron pointed out.

"I'm...just tired from running around so much in one day." Darry said in a raspy voice as he grinned. "Well, don't we have a Ghost Zone to search?" he raises his hand. "Waiter! Fifteen ice waters to go!"

The waiter hands over a platter of glasses which Darry chugged down before leaving the restaurant. Tommy, Tammy, and SpongeTron stare at their friend while looking back at the glasses.

After going to Fenton Works, the kids take the Specter Speeder into the Ghost Zone through the portal and Tommy drives as they search for where the crystal might be. "Do you know how big this place is?" Tommy asked, looking annoyed. "The crystal can be anywhere."

"Well, Darry, where do you think your dad would hide it?" Tammy asked until she saw Darry sleeping in the back seat. Tammy groaned also annoyed by him and hops back in the front seat.

SpongeTron peeks from behind and suggests, "Why don't we use the Real World Item scanner to find out?" He taps on the button in the middle which shows a holographic map of the Ghost Zone.

After a while, a spot on the map blinks and the computer's voice says, "Real World item detected".

"You think that's it?" Tammy asked.

As Tommy, Tammy, and SpongeTron look at the readings detecting the Crystal, they gasp and look through the window towards their next destination. Darry yawns from his sleep, "Hey, did you find where Dad hid the next Crystal."

"Yeah, we did." Tommy said excitedly. "You're not gonna believe where it is."

Darry rubs his eyes and gets a clear view of their location. Outside, snow falls as the Speeder flies into a frozen wasteland. "This can't be..." Darry questioned in surprise. "Is the crystal really here in the Far Frozen?"

"That's what it said in the scanner," SpongeTron answered as the blinking dot in the holographic map beeps rapidly. "And it looks like we're close."

The snow creatures look up in the sky to see the Specter Speeder fly overhead and land just outside the village. As soon as Darry jumps out, the snow around his feet suddenly melts into a puddle, much to his confusion.

Tammy, Tommy, and SpongeTron come out of the vehicle and are suddenly approached by the leader of the Far Frozen: Frostbite. He smiles upon seeing Darry. "Child of the Great One!" Frostbite greeted. "You have returned to our frozen realm."

"Frostbite, we have a favor to ask," Darry began as he explains the story to him, following the yeti monsters into a cavern nearby.

After the Nicktoons explained everything, Frostbite summarizes, "So you're saying that the Great One and his comrades were kidnapped by this Syndicate and they blackmailed you to retrieve the rest of the ancient crystals that your father hid away years ago?"

"Not to mention the Guys in White are after us for something we didn't do," Tammy added.

"And we only have three days to find those crystals." SpongeTron added. "Well, two and a half days now. So can you please give us the Amity Park crystal?"

Frostbite thought about it and responded, "Many years ago when the Great One was Darry's age, he tasked me with keeping the crystal of his world safe. It has unimaginable powers, giving those who possess it powers of this world."

"So what you're saying is," Tommy began to realize. "The crystal has the power to give people ghost powers?"

"Hey, that means Darry can get his ghost powers again," Tammy also realizes, smiling at the teenager.

"I'm afraid you must reconsider," Frostbite cautioned, "Each world's crystal-"

"Is powerful, blah, blah, blah..." Tommy interrupted annoyingly, "...has a unique ability that comes from each world, blah, blah, blah...activated by touch...blah, blah, blah...yeah, we KNOW the story already."

"Ha ha ha!" Darry laughed excitedly as he jumped around. "Gnarly! Even with this thing stuck on me, I'm gonna get my powers back! So long to being grounded!" he turned to Frostbite, "Frostbite, where's that crystal? You gotta give it to us."

Frostbite sighed and walked over to the wall. He placed his hand on an electronic panel and the wall melted to reveal a secret compartment. He reached inside and pulled out a small box. He opened it to reveal a small silver crystal tinted with green. It was the Amity Park crystal.

"YEEES!" Darry cheered and grabs the Crystal from the box. "Two down, three to go. It's been a while since I've done this." As he holds the crystal, it glows green and spreads it green aura around him. He jumps into the air to change. "Going Ghost!" but the Specter Deflector around his waist beeped rapidly and the green glow faded. Darry falls on the icy ground with a hard thud.

Darry roughly gets up holding his head. "Huh? What happened?" he looks at the green crystal as the glow disappears and looks at the Deflector that continued beeping.

"You have the Specter Deflector on, remember?" SpongeTron pointed out. "It's supposed to disable ghost energy. I guess it even works when you get your powers from somewhere else."

Darry grabs ahold of the belt and tries to take it off. "Darn it! This stupid thing won't come off!"

"Mr. Fenton locked it away with a key, remember?" Tammy reminded, "But he and our dads are held captive and we're just average kids that no one understands with a useless robot."

"NO!" Darry bellowed out as he lied on the ground and pounded his fists and feet on the ground, like a child throwing a tantrum. "This stinks! I don't wanna be normal! I wanna be Darry Phantom and save the day like a real Nicktoon! This isn't fair!"

SpongeTron picks up the Amity Park crystal that fell on the ground. "Hey, my weapons system is offline and I'm NOT the one complaining." He takes out the Krusty Meal box to put the crystal inside. "Come on, we gotta head to Dimmsdale to find where the third crystal is at."

Tammy takes out the Recaller and activates another portal. She and Tommy hopped inside along with SpongeTron as Frostbite and his people waved goodbye. Darry slumped and walked inside as he began scratching the sides of his neck.

In Dimmsdale, somehow the Guys in White have found a way into the town and began searching for the kids using jetpacks and trackers. "Our dimensional readings indicate that they've entered this world," Agent K said to Agent O.

Agent O chuckled, "We got them right where we want them."

"Uh oh," a female voice spoke out. The two agents turn and find one of their targets, or what seems to be their target.

It was Kida, dressed up as Tammy with cracked glasses and holding a purple balloon with a crown and face scribbled on and plastic wings strapped at the back.

"Oh, I'm so smart." Kida said with her back turned as she pretended to be Tammy, but to the trained eye, rather unconvincingly, "And I love Jimmy Neutron because he's so smart...and boring."

"It's the Turner girl." Agent O pointed out as he and his partner hold their weapons out. "Let's bring her in."

Kida screamed and quickly ran off holding the "Poof" balloon. Agent O grabs a weapon until- "Wait! There's one!" Agent K pointed another direction to a small cardboard robot.

"Boop, boop, danger, danger," the robot said as he walked around at a slow pace. But it was actually Junior in his poorly made SpongeTron costume. "Boop, boop, I am SpongeTron number 1. Boop, boop, danger, danger."

"You go after him," Agent O ordering K, "I'll capture the girl." The two split up and a chase gives away as Kida and Junior run around to distract them.

Yuki was watching from behind the corner. "What do you know? It actually works," she said surprised. "Now to distract the rest of the GIW." she turns around and yelps to see Crash, dressed up as Darry Phantom with the white suit, wig, and visor.

"Crash, you're Darry?" Yuki asked startled to see her friend dressed like her brother. "I guess that means Twitchy is-" she turns around even more started to see Twitchy, not as Tommy, but in the same costume as Crash's. "Darry..."

"What the?" Crash shouted in shock as he angrily marched over to his brother. "I thought I told you that I was gonna be Darry!"

"Nuh uh!" Twitchy said as he began to guzzle down a can of soda. "I'mbein'Darry! I'mthebest!"

"No, I'm the best!"

"I'mthebest!"

"I AM!"

"IAM!"

Yuki smacked her head in frustration as Twitchy and Crash are at ends. Yuki bops their heads together and asks agitatedly, "Don't you think it'll be a little suspicious when the Guys in White see two Darrys?"

"Look over there!" a voice hollered. The three Cadets look up to see more Guys in White on the rooftop. An agent pointed out, "The ghost kid used his powers to duplicate himself in two!"

"Bring them both in to ensure capture." the other agent ordered as they aimed their weapons at the Cadets. The agents fire the ecto-weapons at what they thought was the ghost boy.

Twitchy speeds away from the blast while Crash picks up Yuki and jumps out of the way of the blast. Crash puts Yuki down when it's safe and points at Twitchy, "Ha! Told y'all I make a better Darry!"

Twitchy zooms over to him and points at Yuki as he retorts, "LeastIdon'thaveacrushonmysister!"

Crash gasped in shock as he furiously shouts, "You take that back!"

"Nuh uh!" Twitchy sticks his tongue out. Their fight was cut short when more ecto-beams fired at them. The brothers scream and ran away.

Yuki watches afar as her Cadets draw the attention of the GIW agents. SpongeTron 911 walks in and reports, "I got a call from 001. They found the Bikini Bottom and Amity Park Crystals. Mission so far is successful."

She smiles and says, "That's great! I just knew they could do it." Yuki then adds, "You'll be happy to know that everything here is going smooth as well."

"Good," 911 nodded approvingly, "I also got a reading to their actual location. They're in Fairy World."

"Really?" Yuki asked in surprise. "That means they're not too far from here. Is that where the next crystal really is?"

"Yep. I'm even picking up strange readings from there. According to its location, the Dimmsdale Crystal should be at-"

"The top of the Big Wand?!" Tommy and Tammy both shouted as Jorgen lead the Nicktoons to the crystal's location in Fairy World.

"Yes," Jorgen replied as he continued explaining to them. "Turner wanted to hide his world's crystal here because no one on Earth would ever be able to come here and find it. I told him that this wasn't a place to hide his junk, but he kept insisting. Finally, I said yes and he decided to hide it in a secluded location: On top of Fairy World's source of magic."

"So how are we supposed to go to the top of the Wand and get the Crystal?" Tommy asked.

"Without Poof, Darry's flight, and SpongeTron's jetboots, it's almost impossible to get up there," Tammy realized.

"Okay, now I'm getting all depressed for not having any weapons," SpongeTron slouched.

"There has to be a way." Darry insisted. "Right?"

"That's right." Jorgen answered with a smile. "For those who don't have magic, you would have to go...the long way."

He pointed to the bottom of the Big Wand where there were metal stairs going to the top of a ramp that led to another set of stairs that led to another ramp connected to a flight of stairs, and it continued on until it reached the large star on top.

The four were agape at this, but Jorgen just laughed, "Ha, ha, ha! Fools!" but then he coughed in his fist and said, "I mean, good luck." but as he walked away, he continued laughing.

Eventually, the gang walked up the flight of stairs. Tommy, Tammy, Darry panted heavily crawling up the steps. It was easy for SpongeTron since robots don't get tired or get sweaty. The three kids collapsed on the ramp. "Are we... there yet?" Tammy asked breathlessly.

"Actually, we're halfway across," SpongeTron retorts pointing down. Tommy, Tammy, and Darry look down and groan to see they've only reached a quarter of the flight of stairs.

"We'll never make it up there in two days of our deadline!" Tommy said. "And now I'm complaining that Poof's not with us."

"Come on, bro, Dad may have Cosmo and Wanda, SpongeBob had absorbency, Tak with his Juju magic, and Mr. Fenton's ghost powers, but there's another thing they had with them as a team," Tammy reminded and taps her head, "Jimmy's brains."

"So you're saying we have to use our brains?" SpongeTron guessed, "How are we gonna do that?"

The four began thinking of a plan to reach the Crystal faster. Tommy's eyes widen and smiles, "I've got it! Yuki gave us the Jack-O-Nine Tails, right?"

"Yeah, so what?" Darry asked skeptically. "You do know that there are no ghosts here, right?" he bows his head. "And I really mean that."

Tommy grabs the Jack-O-Nine Tails from his pocket. He aims and shoots as electric wires with Jack Fenton's image emerge and wrap around the end of the Big Wand. He digs into his own pocket to grab the fairy crown and wraps the end of the wire tightly around the crown. He yanks the cord as it retracts away and reaches the star.

"What was that?" Darry questioned.

"An electromagnetic coil," Tommy answered, "Using the metal crown wrapped around the electric cord of the gadget which connects to the power source of the Big Wand. With it, the electromagnet should pick up anything electronic or metal up there."

"All right!" Tammy cheered as she jumped up. "Good thinking, Tommy!"

"How do you know that?" Darry asked.

"Neutron did that little trick when he swapped places with Dad and saved Fairy World," Tommy explained. His two friends and sister stare at him. "What? Sometimes I listen to his stories."

"So, if that's an electromagnet," SpongeTron pondered, "What will it bond to?" The crown dangling down with the Jack-O-Nine Tails attached to it along with the Big Wand began to glow yellow and sends magnetic waves below. The waves hit SpongeTron and yelped as the metal robot unwillingly flies up toward the Big Wand and becomes attached to the electromagnet. SpongeTron is dangling from the Big Wand bonded with the electromagnet coil. He crosses his arms annoyed, "Ha, ha, very funny."

He looks up and gasped to see another silver crystal like the others on top of the star but tinted with red. "ST, get the Crystal!" Darry called out from below.

"Uh, okay." SpongeTron replied as he tries to reach for the crystal, but being magnetized to the wand prevented him from moving closer. But then he closes his eyes and begins to extend his arms forward, allowing him to grab the Dimmsdale Crystal. "I got it!" he excitedly called to his friends.

"Yes!" Darry, Tommy, and Tammy high fived.

"Uh…guys?" SpongeTron called out, "It's great we got another crystal, but here's a question…HOW DO I GET OUTTA HERE!?" he screamed frantically, flailing his arms around to get out of the electromagnet's bond.

Darry sighed and said, "I guess with no ghost powers, I have to walk up there and pull him down." He leans toward the antenna to climb up and grab SpongeTron. But once he touches the metal bars, his hand glowed yellow and the metal bar starts freezing in solid ice. "What?" he pulled his hand out in surprise. Darry stares as the ice crawls up toward the Big Wand encasing it in ice. The ice spreads over the electromagnetic coil seeming to freeze its circuits. The magnetic waves faded, freeing SpongeTron, but he falls from the Big Wand.

SpongeTron screams as he plummets all the way to the ground. "Rocket boots, rocket boots!" he pleads as he falls, but nothing happens. "Oh right...NO FAIR!"

Tommy and Tammy raise their arms up to catch SpongeTron once he reaches the ground, but the robot actually passes through them and misses the stairs. The three cling at a loud thump and lean towards the side of the railing to see SpongeTron on the ground...with Jorgen breaking his fall.

Jorgen lays face down and pokes his head up dizzily with the robot on top of him. "I guess you have the last laugh." Then, he collapses again.

Meanwhile, in Retroville, Jimmy's robot dog, Goddard was walking around the trash cans, sniffing around. He sticks his head inside and reaches inside to pull an aluminum can with his mouth and eat it. He then hops inside the dumpster next to it to see what else he can find. But then he hears someone come out of the alley and pokes his head out to see the Toybots come out.

"It would seem that the four Nicktoons have found the Dimmsdale Crystal." Boss Huggles informed his comrades.

"What a waste." Dynamo complained. "We worked hard to frame them and make their job harder and they're finding the crystals like it's nothing."

"They only have two crystals to go." Brat pointed out. "It won't be long until they have all of them."

But then, Boss Huggles smirks with an idea. "Although...the Syndicate didn't say, we couldn't give them a little run for their money while they're finding the crystals."

"Runfortheirmoney!" Shock shouted rapidly as he jumped around. "We're gonna play with them?"

"That's right." Boss Huggles said. "I think I know just where it is they're going next."

The Toybots glow brightly and they suddenly turn into their Nicktoon disguises, much to Goddard's surprise. The imposters leave and Goddard jumps out of the dumpster and whirs before running away with this knowledge at hand.

Where do we go next, I wonder? Please review what you think so far and stay tuned for Part 3.