Past, Present and Future tense
Future perfect tense,
Disclaimer: I don't own Jimmy Neutron or any of the character from this show. Also I'm not a good writer I just do this stuff for fun.
She waited outside the Vortex residence patiently. Cindy looked at her surroundings with a fond nostalgia. The old neighborhood was just as she remembered it when she was a little girl. Of course it was, because she had traveled back in time 8 years to repair the future that was erased from existence. To save Jimmy Neutron, and to insure that her younger self had the chance at the life the shaped her into the woman she was. But saving Jimmy from the death that wasn't suppose to happen, promised to be difficult. Cindy Vortex was in her self a force to be reckoned with, but with her younger self, helping, together they would be a most formidable. Cindy's thoughts were interrupted as Her younger self closed the front door, changed form her delicate nightgown and into suitable clothes for the mission ahead.
Little Cindy looked up at her imposing future self-asking, "Ok I'm ready let go save Jimmy! Fire up that Time, Crono-slider, doo-hicy and like get going!" The young girl said impatiently. Having her life go so horrible wrong since Jimmy death, little Cindy was very enthuse to go back a week in time to save him and put things right.
"Not so fast Cindy it's not that simple." the older Girl said checking the device she used to travel though time.
"Well why not Cindy!" Little Cindy grumped in frustration. "Ugh this is just too weird, talking to my self, and calling your Cindy when I'm Cindy too!"
The older girl looked down at the little Blonde girl and sighed, 'It was a wonder I had any friends at this age', she thought She really didn't remember being so crank and short -tempered "Ok if it makes it easier on you, call me 'C.V.'"
"CV?" Cindy asked
"Yeah CV, Cindy Vortex. It's a little nickname I picked up some time ago and it just stuck with me." CV said looking across the street at the Neutron residence.
"Er… ok CV when can we time travel to same Jimmy?"
CV punched a few buttons on the time traveling device on her wrist. "I don't want to make the same mistake I did last time. Time traveling with a remote unit like this one is not easy, and if its not program right it could be damn deadly."
Cindy had been so focused on the ideal of saving Jimmy she didn't ever conceder any danger to he self." What do you mean deadly?" she asked nervously
"Ok I'll try and explain on the way to Jimmy's Lab." CV commanded. Cindy didn't like being ordered around even if it was by her older future self but she followed anyway. CV. looked back at the small mechanical dog and said. "You too Goddard, we'll need you to help save Jimmy too" The robotic dog was happy to do any thing it could to save it's late master. "Ok here's a crash course in Temporal Mechanics 101" CV explained to her younger self. "Time and space are primarily one and the same thing. Time travel involves separating Space and Time from each other. You see, traveling through "Time" to the past or the future is not really a problem. It's making sure your "Space" vectors are correct for when you land." CV stopped and notices the slightly confused look on Little Cindy's face. "Ok, think about it this way. At this moment the earth is spinning on it axis at about 300 miles an hour while its revolving around the sun. So the earth and every thing on it is in a different position in space then it was just one second ago."
Little Cindy eyes grew wide as she realized where her older self was going with this lesson. "Whoa! I see what you mean, and even as the earth spins and revolves around the Sun. The Sun its self is moving around the center of our Galaxy, and the Galaxy and moving about our Galaxy cluster, as it shoots away from the center of the Universe, at near half the speed of light!"
CV couldn't help be feel proud of her younger self, growing up with Jimmy Neutron around it was very easy for people to over look how smart Cindy Vortex was. "That's right Vortex, and if we travel back in time one week and not correctly calculate our movement through space. We could in up where the earth, and the rest of the Universe was one week ago, perhaps somewhere in deep, deep space." The pair made their way around back of the Neutron's home, to the empty Lab of the late Jimmy Neutron. "Which is why we need Jimmy's Computer Vox. Vox can program my Crono-slider so this time we'll make it to the right place and time to save Jimmy."
"I see." Cindy said. "But there's one problem. No one can get into Jimmy's lab with out the password, and the way Jimmy hated me, he never would have told me the code word in a million years. So if I never found out, you, my future self couldn't know it ether."
CV merely grinned at her younger self's total miss read of Jimmy Neutron. "So young, so unknowing" she said wistfully. Then facing the computer activated door to Jimmy's lab she said. "Vox, open lab door. Command override, Xetnort Rovuen,."
"Password accepted. Welcome to the lab, how may I help you?" The central computer asked helpfully.
"How did you know that ?" Cindy asked dumbfounded, and what in the world is a Xetnort Rovuen,? Is that Russian or something?"
"Well I can't tell you how I know Jimmy's passwords. I can't tell you TOO much about the future lest I mess things up. But here, a hint, take the first syllables from each word and put them together, and then spell the two words backwards." She said with a knowing smile.
Cindy was always very good with word games and she was confident that she could solve this one. As CV connected her time traveling device to a computer terminal little Cindy worked on the Password s figuring it was important somehow. "hmm…put first two syllables together….that makes Xetrov and Nortuen, then spell backwards,, that makes" Cindy paused looking at her older self, as she quickly figured out what the two words were. "I don't understand, why would the pass word to his lab, the most important thing to him be Vortex and Neutron?" Cindy said suddenly missing Jimmy a lot more for some reason.
CV continued to work on the calculation and she smiled innocently, "That's for you to figure out and one day understand Cindy. But those are discussions, tears and laugher for another day. Right now we have work to do and a Boy Genius to save. First I need to know how did Jimmy die?" CV said taking a very serious tone.
Cindy grimaced, hating to remember that awful day, but she bravely held back her tears, saying. "Well…. we were talking after school" Cindy deleted the part where she was yelling at Jimmy and whished him dead. And she was certain her older self knew she was cleaning up the unpleasant parts, "He was run down by a car, it was a total hit and run!" Cindy bottom lip quivered as her mind flooded with the gruesome images "The stupid police couldn't even find the Guy that did it, they found the car but not who drove it."
"I doubt very much that they could have found that son-of a bicth, he would have just escaped through time as soon at he killed Jimmy." The older girl said in anger balling her fist. "When I get my hands on him I'll make him pay for hurting Jimmy!" CV said with such anger it sent a chilled down Cindy's back.
"Get your hands on who? Who was it that killed Jimmy, and why?" Blonde ten year old asked.
"IT WAS ME! It was my fault!" CV. Confessed her trembling hands of anger turning into sobs of grief.
Young Cindy Vortex looked upon her grief stricken future counterpart. "No way! There no way you could have ever killed Jimmy. We have always had our problems, and we may have argued way too much, but how could you have killed him?" As she try's to comfort the older girl Cindy wondered if this is how she looked after Jimmy's death. CV.s Face may be more mature, and slightly harder in line then Cindy's own but their tears, and broken hearts were the same.
"No I didn't drive the car that killed him, but I'm as responsible as the slimy turd that did." She paused wiping the tears from her face and to give little Cindy a weak smile. Then continued. "You see in your future, my past. Jimmy and I become ,er….. a little closer."
Young Cindy arched her eyebrow inquisitively asking, "What do you men closer?"
"Never mind that, the point, is we worked together quite a bit, and we even became lab partners at the University we attend. The basic technologies of the device I used to come back in time were created by the both of us." CV. Explained to Cindy.
"Ugh! You mean I because a big brained nerd like Neutron? At lest tell me that we get happy married to Nick in spite of being a lab geek." The older girl hand moved at a blur as she slapped the back of Cindy's head. "OUCH! What was that for?" She said angrily while rubbing her head.
"Get this through that thick, stubborn skull of yours, One: Jimmy is nether a nerd or a geek but one of the best people you'll ever know. And TWO: Nick is a self-centered moron that cares for his hair more then he'll ever care for you. Now are you through interrupting so I can finish telling you what happened?" Little Cindy grumble a little but was mollified enough to allow her older self to continue. "The Temporal technology was never meant to be used as a time travel device. I'm not ever sure Jimmy ever thought about using our ideas in that way. He wanted to continue to develop the technology as possible energy source to cure the world energy needs. You know how he is, always looking for a new way to help the world." CV smiled a little as she enjoyed a warm feeling she always got when she thought about Jimmy Neutron. "But that was about the time Professor Richter took notice of our work. He thought our ideals and formulas had promise, and wanted to fund our research. Jimmy was total against involving anyone else, but I wanted us to take the funding, because Richter also had ties to the Nobel prize committee. And we both know how long we've dreamed of winning a Nobel Prize. But Jimmy wouldn't hear of it, he said it the technology was too dangerous and it needed to be refined and developed farther before, we could go public.
Little Cindy folded her arms saying, "Hmph!, that sound like Neutron, he gets threatened when anyone else might get the glory beside him.
"No Cindy! Your wrong, because that what I thought. I thought this would be my chance to finally get out of the shadow of Jimmy Neutron and make a name for myself in science. Oh god…. I was so wrong…" She paused rubbing her eyes, "I took what we had developed so far, and created "The Crono-slider" I wanted a practical, working device to show Richer and the Nobel committee. Professor Richer was impressed. So impressed that he decided to brake into our lab, download all of Jimmy's discoveries, inventions and ideals, then steal the Crono-slider that I invented. Before I could stop him he activated the Crono slider and slipped back into the past. It seemed his plan was to kill The young Jimmy so that he could come back to the future, and present all of Jimmy and My ideals at his own, and then go down in history as the worlds greatest scientist. Fortunately for me I still have my original working prototype. I was able to partially figure out Richter's time path and follow him before the Time line was corrupted. So you see it was my selfishness, my long harbored jealousy of Jimmy's genus, is what caused this whole mess. It's all my fault." CV, concluded heart broken allowing her warm tears to fall from her face.
Young Cindy placed a comforting hand on her Future self's shoulder. "No, it OUR fault, we're in this together now, and she both share the blame." The young girl said, remembering her last hurtful words to Jimmy. "Now we fix the mess we made, we go back in time and save Jimmy, and our selves," She added squeezing h the older girls hand.
It was strange to find comfort and courage in her younger self's words but she did, " and once we get our hands on that asshole Richter, we beat the living crap out of him." She said smiling.
Both girls heard a beeping signal of Jimmy's computer. It was done programming their Time traveling Device. "Great!" CV, said These coordinates should take up back about an hour before the car accident, and we should touch down right in the middle of Retrovill park. We don't want to take a chance of any one seeing us and messing up the time line our self.
Little Cindy nodded in agreement. "Let just go stop that jerk Ricther and save Jimmy. I just want this nightmare to be over with!"
The tall Blonde disconnected the Crono slider form the super computer's terminal. After tapping an assortment of buttons Cindy recognized a familiar build up of light and swirling energy. It was the same light show she saw when her Future self first came into her shattered life. But this time that light would be the chance at redemption both of the girls needed. Cindy clasp her small hand into CV, larger but equally gentle hand, then they both stepped into the time portal.
It took Cindy's eyes only a moment or two to refocus after the blinding flash of time travel. She and her older counterpart, looked at the greenery and trees stretched out before then that was Retrovill Park. CV checked the small readout on the Crono slider saying. "Yes! The right time and the right place, excellent!"
Time travel was a little have for Cindy to wrap her mind around, but the fact that they both stood in Retrovill park on a Sunny day, when a moment ago they were both in Jimmy's lab at night. "Good, now all we need to do is find this Richter guy and kick his butt and save jimmy!"
No sooner had Cindy finished her statement they were both grabbed from behind, by large hairy knuckled hands. Huge muscular wrapped around their struggling bodies, as a wicked Voice filled the air. "Now I've gone to two much trouble to allow you to get in my way Ms, Vortex"
"UGH Richter! I'll fucking kill you!" The older blonde struggled against the iron grip of the large thug that held her. Cindy looked over the tall, slender man that was responsible for Jimmy's death and her broken life. The young girl stared into his cold beady eyes and felt an instant hatred for this person. Cindy had never hated any one her young life but this evil man earned her disdain.
He looked that the two girls and laughed, "I knew you may have tried to stop me Ms Vortex, so I made sure to set your wonderful device to detect any other time distortions and made sure that I could give you a proper welcome when you arrived. So before making my trip back through time I made sure to hire some muscle just in case you did make an appearance." He's said Gesturing to the two stupid looking but brawny men. "And once you two are out of the way No thing will stop me from ridding history of the Great Jimmy Neutron and taking my own place as history greatest inventor!" Richter said cackling triumphantly
To Be continuted …