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It was the early day in the city of Retroville. At Lindbergh Elementary Miss Fowl stood in front of her students as she gave a lecture. "-But of a-all, the ocean's mysteries- rraagh my favorite is the haunting mating call of the humpback wha-ale." Miss Fowl told her students. "Whaaa-aauh-uuuah." Carl suddenly cried out. "Very good Carl." Miss Fowl said praising her student.
Carl looked at Miss Fowl rubbing his backside wincing a little. "Ugh, oh that wasn't a mating call Miss Fowl, Butch just gave me a wedgie." Carl explained a little embarrassed as he pointed at Butch with his thumb. Miss Fowl only made a face upon hearing this and decided to get back to the subject at hand. "I want everyone to choose up pa-a-artners for your oceanography projects." said Miss Fowl. The kids all began talking to each other debating on who to partner up with except for Jimmy who turned to Carl and Sheen.
"Hey, hey don't fight over me boys there's plenty of genius for everyone." Jimmy told his friends in case they were to argue. Carl and Sheen however were a little nervous at the idea of partnering with Jimmy. "Aaaaactually Jimmy, I'm still radioactive from the last time we were lab partners." said Sheen. "Yeah and I still can't go near power plants." Carl piped in. "Oh okay..." Jimmy said a little disappointed.
Jimmy looked down at his desk. Penelope looked at her brother a little sympathetically. She also couldn't blame Carl and Sheen either since they did experience some mishaps. Cindy looked over at Jimmy and smirked. "Poor, Spewtron. What's it like knowing no one wants to be your partner?" Cindy said a little teasingly.
Jimmy looked over at her and smirked as he noticed something she didn't. "I dunno Cindy, why don't ya turn around and find out." Jimmy replied. Cindy turned to see what he was looking at. Cindy gasped at what she saw. "Libby!" Cindy gasped.
"What are you doing with Brittany?" Cindy demanded. Libby glanced at her best friend as she held a CD in her hand while Brittany had a slightly uncomfortable look on her face. "Nothing! This-this isn't the new mixed masterpiece CD and I didn't promise to do Brittany's entire project in exchange for it, if that's what you're thinking!" Libby defended. Penelope glanced around at her peers. There was almost no one left to partner up with.
'Well I could just partner with my brother this time, not that I mind. Cindy knows her stuff sometimes, but she's never really liked me much after finding out me and Jimmy are siblings.' Penelope thought. Penelope looked over at her brother and was about to speak up when Miss Fowl walked up. She stood in-between Jimmy and Cindy then glanced at Penelope. "We-ell you three it would seem you're the only ones left without pa-artners! Let the record show, that Jimmy, Penelope and Cindy will work on their oceanography project, together! Raaa!" Miss Fowl said loud enough for the whole class to hear. Jimmy, Cindy and Penelope looked at each other surprised as their classmates gasped.
"This can't be good." Penelope muttered as her face paled. Thunder struck outside making a bright flash of light. Miss Fowl jumped a little shocked at the sudden noise. "Raah-aaah! My, that new bell is a real waker upper! Rraa-a-aaa." Miss Fowl cried. "I don't think that was the school bell Miss Fowl." Penelope said softly.
Penelope looked out the window for a moment knowing full well getting the project turned in next week was going to be the least of her and Jimmy's worries. 'This is going to be a long weekend.' Penelope thought. Soon school let out. Carl and Sheen both made their way over to the Neutron household. Carl had a bag of snack food in hand.
The two boys noticed a large sign on the garage door. The sign read 'NO GIRLS ALLOWED (EXCEPT FOR PENELOPE)' written in large red letters. Carl knowing Jimmy and Penelope were probably inside knocked on the garage door. "Awh come on out Jimmy! You too Penelope. I got Fish Snack-em's! The great taste of fried seafood in a bag!" Carl said cheerfully. "Yeah Jimmy, Penelope, hiding from Cindy isn't the answer! Not when reasonably priced plastic surgery is so readily available." said Sheen.
"That wont be necessary boys! May I present my latest invention-" Jimmy's somewhat muffled voice came from the other side of the door. The garage door slowly started to open. Carl and Sheen bent over to try to get a peek as it opened. "The Neutron Submersible! Capable of attaining undersea depths of ninety thousand fathoms!" Jimmy finished as he gestured to a large bright yellow vehicle that took up almost the entire garage. The main body of the vehicle or rather submarine was round with two main headlights along with a series of lights on the top.
Half of it's circular body was glass that would allow one to see the outside and on both sides were two propeller engines that had a sleek tubular shape. Penelope had to give her brother credit. He had made a rocket then a hovercar and now a submarine. What else would her twin think of next? Penelope gave her brother a thumb up.
"Ninety thousand fathoms! That's more than-" Sheen started as he began counting with his fingers. "Sixty thousand fathoms!" Sheen cried amazed and astonished. Carl put his hand on his chin in thought before answering. "Uh Jimmy? Penelope? If you're both gonna start a new life under the sea, can we have your stuff?" Carl asked. Penelope shook her head at her friend.
"We're not moving Carl; I've simply devised a project so adventurous that Cindy wont go anywhere near it! Allow me to explain using these info-taining visual aids." Jimmy replied as a roll-up screen with a picture of a ship and treasure chest glided down. Jimmy stepped to the side pulled out a pointer and pointed at the screen. "Two centuries ago a pirate ship named the Oozy Scab hit a squall and sank to the bottom of Retroville bay with a mysterious treasure chest! No sub could ever get deep enough to retrieve it until today." Jimmy explained as the screen slid up. "I'm finding that treasure with my sister!" Jimmy said proudly gesturing to himself and his twin. Not long after Jimmy said this Cindy walked up to the twins pushing Carl and Sheen aside.
"Listen Neutron, I'm not any happier about being lab partners than you and your sister are, so let's just classify some seashells and get it over with!" Cindy told Jimmy. "Darn it all Cindy! I wish we could join you in your fascinating seashell project, but we've already planned a dangerous search for a shipwreck in my extremely cramped submarine." Jimmy said disingenuously as he made gestures with his hands to emphasize his point about the submarines space. "Okay I'm in." Cindy replied crossing her arms. Jimmy and Penelope's eyes widened. "What! But-but there'll be sharks and- and minimal leg room!" Jimmy sputtered trying to make up an excuse.
Cindy however wasn't going to change her mind. "I think I can handle it." said Cindy. Jimmy had a sad look on his face due to Cindy's answer as well as her readiness to go. Penelope looked at her brother sympathetically she wasn't looking forward to this either. "Now we'll need some quality personnel to man the controls." said Cindy.
She looked at Carl and Sheen. Carl was munching on some of his Fish Snack-em's and Sheen was picking earwax out of his ear. Cindy knowing there was no one else to choose from spoke up. "On second thought you guys'll do." said Cindy. "We sail at dawn." Cindy said gesturing to the sky.
The twins both shook their heads. The next day after gathering supplies the five set out. Once the submarine was in the clear waters of Retroville Bay it sank down until it was out of sight. Jimmy activated the headlights as it started to get dark as they went deeper into the ocean. Penelope watched amazed the ocean was beautiful sure it was dark due to how deep they were, but it was amazing.
"Gentlemen, lady and annoying female interloper by the end of this journey we'll all be rich!" Jimmy cried. The submarine dived even lower into the water. A school of fish surrounded the sub. Sheen stared amazed at what he was seeing. "This, is, awesome Jimmy! I've never been in a submarine before!" Sheen told the boy genius.
"Hey Jimmy I found a cool video game starring a thin green guy and his friend Mr. bleep-bleep." Carl said getting Jimmy's attention. Cindy rolled her eyes. "That's the radar, Carl." Jimmy pointed out to his friend. Penelope had to keep herself from laughing. 'Silly Carl.' Penelope thought to herself.
"Oh, well my mom doesn't let us have radar." Carl replied. "Heh-Hm if you four sea slugs are done fooling around maybe we can get down to work." Cindy said getting everyone's attention. Carl, Sheen and Penelope walked over to her. The three noticed Cindy had a map smoothed out on the table. "Now after researching the last known coordinates of the Oozy Scab and accounting two hundred years of ocean drift, I've been able to map out the wreck's probable location." Cindy explained.
"Maps are old school! I've invented something that'll make finding the Oozy Scab a no brainer." Jimmy piped in. Cindy rolled her eyes at him as he said this. "Oh yeah here we go, time to complicate a perfectly good plan with one of your goofy unnecessary inventions." said Cindy. "Now Cindy we wont know anything for sure unless we give it a try." Penelope told Cindy. Cindy shot Penelope a look.
"You're just jealous cause Jimmy's a genius, go ahead captain Jimmy tell us about your goofy unnecessary invention." said Sheen. "I give you the Gill-Gab nine thousand the worlds first fish translating device." Jimmy said gesturing to a boombox with a microphone. "We just speak into the microphone and our words are translated into fish sonar, allowing us to interview the fish and ask them where the Treasure is." Jimmy explained as he took the mic. Penelope grinned a little and gave her brother a thumb up. "And you wanted to use a map." Sheen said as he looked at Cindy.
"Well that is the lamest thing I've ever heard. What dunder-head would wanna talk to a bunch of stupid fish?" said Cindy. Sheen and Penelope shook their heads a little. "I want to talk to fish! I want to talk to fish!" Carl cried excitedly. Carl hurried over towards the device eager to try it out. "Gimme that." Carl said snatching the mic from Jimmy.
Carl blew on the mic twice. He noticed a fish swimming by and spoke up. "Hi. Oh, hey little fella! Hi! Do you like Fish Snack-em's? They're made from fish like you, only cut up into little bite sized pieces and deep-fried in burning oil." Carl told the fish. The fish screamed before frantically swimming away. Penelope shook her head.
"I don't think talking about your snacks was a good idea Carl." said Penelope. "Carl! You're supposed to ask about the treasure!" Sheen cried. Sheen snatched the mic from Carl as he noticed some nearby fish. He angrily pointed at them before speaking into the mic. "Hey! You smelly pot of scales! I know you know where the Oozy Scab is! So start singing before I go barracuda on you!" Sheen shouted.
Jimmy, Cindy, Penelope and Carl watched Sheen looking a little uncomfortable. The fish on the other hand were so frightened they swam away pretty fast. "Uh, maybe I'll just ask the questions. Huh?" said Jimmy as he took the mic from Sheen. Soon hours passed. Jimmy tried and tried interviewing other fish.
The current fish Jimmy was interviewing was very talkative and not really paying attention. "So I says to him, you wanna know what I says to him?" the fish asked. "Uh- Okay." Jimmy started to say, but was cut off. "I says what's this bronze scale doin' on your dorsal fin?" the fish continued. "Wel-" Jimmy started, but was once again cut off.
"Uhhuh have you been seeing that angel fish again? He-aah and you know what he says? I don't know what he says so I-" the fish continued on. But Jimmy didn't want to hear anymore. "Okay, okay tha-thanks a lot bye, gotta go!" Jimmy said really quick as he turned off the Gill-Gab. Jimmy frowned and Penelope sighed in relief. Cindy walked up to the twins with her hands on her hips.
She was clearly annoyed with the results. "Well she was a goldmine of information." Cindy said sarcastically. "Ready to admit that your inventions a flop yet Neutron?" Cindy asked smugly. "Maybe Cindy's right Jimmy we've been interviewing fish for hours." Sheen piped in. "And we'll keep interviewing them until I say so! Miss Fowl may have made Cindy me and Penelope's lab partner, but it's still my ship!" Jimmy cried as he got up in Cindy's face a little.
Cindy angrily pushed Jimmy back and pointed at him. "You just can't deal with the fact that my plans better than yours!" Cindy accused. "Is not." Jimmy shouted. "Is so." Cindy shouted back. "Is not! Is so! Is not is nooo-" the two argued back and forth.
Carl on the other hand couldn't take it anymore. "Stop it! Stop it!" Carl yelled at the top of his lungs. He gasped before continuing. "Can't you see your constant fighting is tearing us all apart!" Carl yelled. Penelope winced a little.
Jimmy and Cindy who were both cowering slightly nervously looked at each other with shock in their eyes then looked at Carl slightly confused. "Wo-oh-oh-oh-oh that was cool Carl! I really believed you for a second." Sheen laughed. "Hehe thanks I saw that on a soap opera once." said Carl. The sub went even deeper into the ocean passing over a school of fish. More time passed soon the five of them started showing signs of fatigue.
Sheen was dozing off. Jimmy barely had his eyes open. Cindy was leaning on her hand trying to stay awake and Penelope had nodded off. Carl let out a yawn. "I'm tired Jimmy I wanna go home." Carl complained.
"You've been talking to fish all night." Cindy said tiredly. "Do you even know where we are?" Cindy asked with a little concern in her voice. "Don't worry I've made an automatic piloting system out of my mom's microwave. It's been piloting the sub for hours." Jimmy assured her. Not long after saying this the microwave dinged and opened to reveal a perfectly cooked pie emitting steam. "Whoops." said Jimmy.
He slammed the microwave shut. "Wrong setting. Well, we couldn't have drifted too far." Jimmy told everyone. Jimmy pressed a button lowering a periscope. Jimmy looked through to get a view of their location. "Hmmm. Anyone familiar with the Sea of Japan?" Jimmy asked.
This news only made Cindy angry. "Great nice going Neutron, not only haven't we found the treasure, but now we're completely lost!" Cindy shouted. Sheen upon hearing this began to freak out. "Lost! We can't be lost we only brought enough food for two days! And I'm not eating Carl!" Sheen cried. "Well I'm not eating you either!" Carl said indignantly.
"Okay maybe a bite." Carl said a little calmly. Sheen and Cindy scooted away shooting him creeped out looks. Penelope snapped awake having been woken up from the shouting. She stood up and walked over to her twin. "No one's eating anybody just give me time to come up with a plan." Jimmy told everyone as he raised the periscope.
Cindy however had had enough. "Too late, you had your chance. Now stand down!" Cindy demanded. Penelope's eyes widened as her face paled a little. "I don't like where this is going." Penelope muttered. Jimmy looked at Cindy surprised.
"What? You can't take over my sub." Jimmy cried. "Yeah! This is my brothers submarine not yours! So don't butt in!" Penelope snapped as she pointed a finger at Cindy. Cindy pulled up a big book before speaking. "Oh-ho no? Miss Fowl made us lab partners! Which makes me co-captain, according to the big book of submarines, that gives me the right to relieve you of duty! Throw them in the brig!" Cindy cried. "It'll take a lot more than ravenous hunger to turn my men against me and my sister." Jimmy stated.
Jimmy crossed his arms. "Tell her boys." Jimmy said confidently. Unfortunately the two didn't agree with Jimmy. "I'll get some rope!" Sheen shouted. "I'll hold them down!" Carl shouted back as he grabbed the twins.
They both struggled, but it was no use the twins were soon both tied to chairs and locked in the subs holding cell. "Hey-hey you can't do this! This is mutiny!" Jimmy yelled. "Let us out of here Cindy!" Penelope also yelled. "I don't think so giant monster." Cindy told her. Penelope glared at her she hated being called that.
Sheen brushed his hands off as Carl grinned. "Turn this top around boys! We've got an Oozy Scab to find." Cindy ordered. The submarine turned around. More time passed soon Carl noticed something on the radar. "Mr. bleep bleep says, large object at two o clock!" Carl told Cindy.
Cindy was manning the controls and Sheen was looking through the periscope as Carl said this. Carl walked up to the front and Cindy stood up to get a look as they started approaching the object. Sheen kept looking through the periscope when he made out the wreck of a pirate ship. "Hey, cool it's the Oozy Scab!" Sheen cried. Jimmy and Penelope almost couldn't believe their ears.
"Ye-es! Did you hear that Neutron and giant?" Cindy said triumphantly. Jimmy knew Cindy had managed to find the ship without his help, but he wasn't willing to admit it. "Beginners luck!" Jimmy shouted. Penelope just glared and stuck her tongue out at Cindy. Cindy ignored the twins and drove the sub closer to the sunken ship.
The subs head beams illuminated the ship as they got closer. "I'm taking her in close. Steady, steady." said Cindy. Suddenly the sub shook and a huge pair of eyes looked at them through the glass. Carl let out a loud scream. "Sea Monster!" Carl screamed.
"Not it's not, it's a giant squid." Sheen told Carl. "Oh." Carl said calmly. Carl, Sheen and Cindy's eyes widened in realization. "Giant squid!" the three screamed. The squid wrapped it's tentacles around the sub and started squeezing and shaking it.
The sub sounded an alarm as it was being shook and squeezed. Cindy gasped and turned towards the cell. "What should we do Jimmy?" Cindy cried. "How do I know? You're the captain." Jimmy cleverly replied. "But, I don't wanna to be captain anymore! You be captain!" Cindy said frantically.
"Fine, first admit I'm a smarter, nicer, all-around better person than you!" Jimmy said with a smirk. "And apologize for calling me a giant monster!" Penelope added. Cindy couldn't believe what the twins were demanding. "Forget it!" Cindy snapped. Cindy turned back to the controls activating the Gill-Gab.
"Attention giant squid, we mean you no harm. It's all Jimmy's fault!" Cindy shouted into the mic. The squid didn't respond and just kept shaking the sub. "Aah it's not working Cindy, -eh can't we just let Jimmy and Penelope out?" Carl cried. "Eh, but I- oh alright!" Cindy reluctantly agreed.
"Say the magic words." Jimmy told her. Cindy was strained, but she spoke up. "Jimmy Neutron is a smarter, nicer- all around better person than I am. And I'm sorry for calling you a giant monster Penelope." said Cindy. Jimmy looked at her with a smug look of satisfaction. Penelope snickered a little.
"Haha! Now that wasn't so hard, was it?" Jimmy said smugly. Cindy had a look as if she had just bit into something she didn't like the taste of. Cindy pulled out a bar of soap and scrubbed her mouth with it. Carl and Sheen opened the cell door and untied the twins. The two handed the ropes to Sheen before walking over to the controls.
"Hurry Jimmy do something." said Sheen. Jimmy examined the Gill-Gab. "Hmm, the Gill-Gab seems functional. Why isn't it working?" Jimmy wondered. Cindy was livid upon hearing this. The squid shook the sub again.
"Whaa-huah hurry Jimmy!" Carl shrieked. Carl started shoveling Fish Snack-Em's into his mouth to keep himself calm. Jimmy looked at Carl for a moment before his eyes widened in realization. "Quick Carl, throw me your bag of Fish Snack-Em's." Jimmy told his friend. Carl stopped eating before handing the bag to Jimmy.
Jimmy snatched the bag and inspected the back of the bag. "Just as I thought! Freeze dried squid!" said Jimmy. "Ah ha! I don't get it." said Sheen. "Ah don't cha see the squid can't understand us, because the Gill-Gab only works on fish." Jimmy replied. Penelope grinned having an idea of what her brother was going to do.
"Then that means..." Penelope said hopeful. "But if I put squid DNA from Carl's snack on the Gill-Gabs microchip maybe we can communicate with him." Jimmy cleverly explained putting a piece of Carl's snack down on the microchip. "Ah ha! I don't get." Sheen said shaking his head. Jimmy inserted the microchip back into the device. The squid stopped shaking the sub for a moment to examine it.
"Attention squid we come in peace." Jimmy spoke into the mic. The squid looked around for a moment wondering where the source of the voice came from. "I say who said that?" the Squid questioned. The squid looked at the submarine. "We mean no harm! We just came for the treasure chest inside the boat!" Jimmy explained.
"That piece of rubbish? Why didn't you say so? And to think I was about to crush your heads and suck out your guts. Hahaha... oh, dear." the Squid replied. Penelope winced a little. The squid moved one of his tentacles over to the sunken ship. He felt around inside until he found the chest and pulled it out. "Here you are." said the Squid as he showed them the treasure chest.
"Oh you did it Jimmy! You did it Jimmy!" Carl and Sheen cheered in unison. "And don't worry, despite your mutinous, behavior you'll all still get a cut of the treasure." Jimmy told Carl, Sheen and Cindy. Carl and Sheen both had looks of guilt on their faces. After getting what they wanted the five returned home to Retroville. When they returned to school on Monday with the treasure chest Penelope made sure to give Miss Fowl their written report on the project first.
Jimmy, Cindy and Penelope had written about the Oozy Scab as well as how they retrieved the treasure making sure to leave out the parts about their quarrel. When the three opened the chest they were surprised with what they saw. Instead of gold doubloons and jewels there was candy. Salt water taffy in fact.
Miss Fowl walked up grabbing a piece and popped some into her mouth. She smiled at how sweet the taffy was. Miss Fowl took another piece of taffy. "This is the most -mmm hmm delicious salt water taffy I've ever tasted children your project gets an A + raaah." said Miss Fowl. Jimmy however was just hitting his head against the chest in frustration.
Penelope couldn't blame him though they were all expecting something that wasn't candy. Cindy on the other hand walked up to Jimmy with a smug look on her face. "You know Jimmy I hear each one of these pieces of taffy is worth over three cents." Cindy told Jimmy. Penelope shot her a look as Jimmy stopped hitting his head to speak up. "I don't wanna talk about it." Jimmy replied. He returned to hitting his head on the chest as Penelope shook her head.
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