Author Note: Thanks so much to the reviewers! There will be J/C bits – but much more near the end since Jimmy will be with Victoria most of the story. I don't know currently how many chapters there will be – since in my original plan there was 13 – but I think there may be 12 (the last one would sort of be an epilogue) – I never thought most of these chapters would be so long – but they have been, thus I haven't needed as many chapters as I planned. Enjoy!

Chapter 04: A Flawless Plan

"So – you understand now, right?" Victoria asked from behind one of those things they have in rooms to change behind. She finished putting on Cindy's clothing a walked from behind there, "Cindy?"

Cindy was twirling around in one of Victoria's more common looking but still very pretty casual outfits, muttering something as if she were in a dream world, "Why Neutron, you sly pointy-headed dog you, – of course I would like to dance-," she continued spinning around until Victoria gave a loud cough and 'ahem!', Cindy stopped and blushed, "Sorry – I was a little spacing out and – erm," she laughed nervously.

Victoria simply waved it off, "So do you understand everything?" She started going over it again, "Next I have fencing lessons -."

"Ooh! Fencing?" Cindy's eyes widened before falling into a mischievous look, Victoria grabbed from a fancy looking bucket a sword to use for fencing, Cindy held it and held it out to the mirror as if she was facing someone, "If I learn something out of this I'll have another physical advantage over Nerd-tron," she aimlessly swung the sword around like a little kid with a cardboard sword pretending to be Peter Pan.

"-Ok, so, Miss Jones will show up soon to remind you of everything you need to do. And I sneak down the castle and past the guards, and find your – Jimmy, was it? As well as get his robot dog Goddard back from Captain of the Guards, and then Jimmy is to take me back to Retroville in his hover car, is that right?" She asked while looking through her notes which consisted of where Cindy lived, all the information she basically needed to know about school, her friends, it was all dull to Cindy, but fascinating to Victoria.

Nodding, Cindy studied over the sword and sighed, "So- all good things must come to an end obviously – how are we going to get back together? And what if something goes wrong?"

Victoria paced back and forth, "We'll meet back here at 5 pm, exact time it is now, tomorrow. I'll just convince Jimmy to take me back somehow. If I need to for an emergency, I'll show people this," she held out her hand and there was a gorgeous ring on her finger with the family crest on it. Cindy gasped in amazement as it literally glowed on her finger. Victoria took the ring off and stored it safely in her pocket, "I think this will go quite well. We just need to remember all our facts and stay in character, how hard could that be?" She neatly folded the paper and into her pocket and then headed towards the door, "Goodbye Cindy – see you tomorrow."

Cindy suddenly dropped the sword on the ground and rushed to Victoria as she left the room, "You won't forget to come back – right? Right? "

Victoria waved her hand as if saying 'don't be silly', but she didn't respond. Cindy nervously looked about, noticing some how the armor had been restored to its proper position, she gulped, "I hope we know what we're doing -," she whispered under her breath and turned back around into the room.

Skipping down the stairs, as if having not a care in the world, Victoria made it to the bottom level and passed by a butler, "Hello Mr. Jeeves," she said while heading for the door, the butler gave her an odd look, but shrugged it off as she skipped outside.

As she walked outside she walked past the Captain who was smoking a cigar as he watched one of the guards argue with some girl about not letting her in.

"Hello Captain!" Victoria gave a wave at the hand cheerfully. The Captain arched an eyebrow and instantly picked her up with his muscular arms by back of her shirt.

"Oh why hello, you little trespasser," He took out his cigar with one hand and blew smoke into her face, Victoria started coughing and trying to push the smoke away, he continued, "You made me look like an idiot in front of the Princess!"

Victoria laughed as she pushed some smoke out of her face, "Oh Captain! I fooled you – I'm not any sort of trespasser, I'm the Princess," she laughed sweetly, "Now – could you tell me where – um, Goddard, is?"

He simply rolled his eyes, "Why your majesty," he mocked, "of course, how could I have not known. Let me take you to – what ever that things name was – right now."

Victoria smiled, "Thank you Captain, that's very kind of you."

"Oh, no, your highness, anything for the Princess," he replied as he headed towards the gate.

"I don't care WHAT you say – I am suppose to interview the princess for the school newspaper!" Betty held up her pass to the guard, "See- right here, I have a press pass!"

The guard snorted at the press pass and pushed her hand away from his face, "I don't CARE about your stupid press pass lady, this list 'ere," he held up the list to her face, "Don't say nuthin' about stupid little annoying and pestering brats coming in here to talk to the Princess!"

"Ugh!" Betty screamed, and she started pacing back and forth, "This is ludicrous! Absolutely insane!"

"Blah, blah, blah, now GO AWAY!" The guard shouted at her, picking up his magazine as if signaling the conversation was over.

"Here you go, you trespassing princess!"

BAHM! Victoria was booted out of her own castle and landed several feet away onto the ground. Her face was full of confused, shocked, and angry emotions, "Why when I tell my father!"

Betty gasped, "Cindy? What are you doing here? They let you in?" She ran up to Victoria who was attempting to stand up. Victoria held out a hand in hopes that this strange and rather bizarre girl would help her stand up, but Betty just kept pacing. Suddenly Goddard ran over to her and helped her up. She figured out instantly who the dog was and pats him on the head and dusted the dirt off her pants.

She turns to Betty and raises an eyebrow, "Who the heck are you?"

Betty's face turned red, "You were trying to steal my thunder weren't you Vortex? Oh that is SO like you – ugh – and they let YOU in but not me. This is all to get Jimmy's attention isn't it? You know I don't even like him – you can take him for all I freakin' care – just BACK OFF!"

Victoria just blinked at her, "Who the heck are you?"

Betty screamed in annoyance – despite the fact she was usually a sweet and generally happy looking person, the whole guard not letting her in thing was turning her behavior over to a darker side – not like she was a good person in the first place. Victoria shrugged it off and turned around, "Come on Goddard, lets go find your owner," she turned back to the Captain and glared at him even though he was now paying attention to the screaming Betty.

Victoria sighed deeply, she had no idea that the Captain was so mean – sure she assumed he wasn't a cheerful person – but literally kicking someone out of the castle? That's just plain wrong! Then again, she smiled to herself, she DID get away with it – even people in her own castle didn't recognize her. And few people even knew what she looked like, so even if she didn't act exactly like Cindy, there was little reason for people to suspect something was up.

She followed Goddard past a tree and suddenly a hand reached out and yanked her by her arm to hide behind the tree, Victoria let out a squeal and her mouth was instantly covered.

"Did you find the Princess – sorry about that, I wanted to get you out of there as fast as possible – did Betty see you?" This boy was an oddly big head questioned her after he let her go and started petting Goddard. This boy was obviously – um, what was his name?

Victoria smiled, "Johnny!"

"Uh -," Jimmy blinked at her, "It's me – Jimmy, remember? What did they modify your brain when you were in there?" He meant that as a rhetorical question obviously.

But Victoria sort of just shrugged, "Eh – you could say that."

Jimmy stared at her for a moment – something wasn't right, but he couldn't place his finger on it, "Well then lets get to the hover car, it's already getting late."

Victoria stood up and began following him to the hover car, she gasped in amazement when seeing it, "My goodness, you're easily the nicest boy I've ever met," she admired the hover car, she said quietly, "I don't think Charles would even let me ride his horse -," she jumped in as Jimmy cocked his head sideways.

"Who is this – Charles?" His eyes, if possible, turned a little bit green – not literally, just figuratively speaking – meaning he was jealous.

"Oh – heh," Victoria shrugged, "Someone – I know," if she had started talking about Prince Charles in front of Jimmy, obviously he would know something was up. Cindy had said he was a know-it-all genius boy, if he hadn't figured it out by now ...

"Mhmm," Jimmy nodded, unconvinced, and then hopped into the hover car as well and began driving off as soon as Goddard hopped in, "Well because of your little shenanigan, I haven't gotten to my homework yet," he looked at his watch nervously, "And it's poetry, the one subject I can't grasp," he grimaced as if eating something disgusting.

Victoria nodded, "I'm so sorry – I," she thought for a moment, this didn't sound like how Cindy described talking to Jimmy, she should be more – mean, "I mean, it's not my fault – Nerd-trin! You could have brought your work here yanno," she crossed her arms and in her head she smiled to herself.

However, Jimmy scoffed, "Nerd-trin? What are you running out of creative nicknames in that bubble brain of yours, Dork-tex?"

Blinking was all Victoria could respond with until she asked, "Don't we do this for fun? This doesn't seem like fun."

"Huh?"

"Never mind," she sighed and watched the view fly past.

"Aha! Take that, and that, and some more of that!" She swung her sword at a suit of armor in Victoria's room, Cindy felt like acting silly, and she spun around in front of the mirror, "If Libby could see me now!" She instantly went back to fighting against the non-responding armor, when there was a knock at the door.

"COME in!" Cindy sang, holding out her arm, accidentally letting go of her sword in the process. It flew across the room and Miss Jones had to shriek and duck to avoid it as it crashed right into the forehead of a painting of a man across the hall.

Cindy flinched innocently, and Miss Jones replied to the incident in monotone, "Nice aim your highness. You're fencing lessons are about to begin," she walked over and yanked the sword out of the wall, "I think you need the practice," she narrowed her eyes as Cindy quietly began to follow Miss Jones into the hallway.

"Um – sorry about that, ma'am," Cindy put on a huge smile, but just received a cold response, and slowly Cindy's smile melted into a neutral, and slightly terrified stare.

In her mind she just kept repeating to herself that it was a completely flawless plan. Miss Jones clearly didn't suspect something, so she assumed, and she was certain that if someone who was around Victoria so often couldn't tell the difference, then no one else would.

But – what about Victoria, because Cindy was certainly more social than Victoria appeared to be. Libby would notice in a second, or her parents, or Miss Fowl.

Or, Jimmy?

To Be Continued


Last Author Note: Don't expect another chapter until AFTER Saturday – at least. Please review and tell others about the story if you get the chance – it would be wonderfully appreciated.