Time is a funny thing Cindy contemplated. Time is not something she ever thought about till it directly interceded with her life. She had always tried to balance the little amount of this precious substance she had in her short life. Some times she had too little of it and ran out of Time, and she even found she had too much Time and become board and restless. She could now imagine Time as a living being laughing at her and her desperate attempts to control and uncontrollable. Cindy started to see that Time was not just a measurement of hands on a clock but as a living being with a wicked sense of humor. She grasped, and clung and tried her best to control it and just when she deluded herself that she had finally gained some semblance of control and to save someone very important to her. Time kicked her in her butt. Yeah Time had a sense of humor and it seemed to be playing it biggest practical joke on Her Cindy Vortex.
Cindy struggled against the iron grip of the huge knotted muscles that held small frame. She looked over at CV, the older blonde girl that she followed into this situation. She was Cindy's older self from 8 years in the future they both teamed up and travel one week into the past to save Jimmy Neutron from a death that wasn't supposed to happen. Unfortunately for them the evil man that wanted to erase Jimmy from history and take credit for all of his inventions was prepared for the two girls. And now two big hired goons held them as the devious Professor Richter readied himself to carry out his plan to kill the young Jimmy Neutron and do god knows what to young Cindy vortex and her older counter part. Despite the grimness of the situation Cindy had to smirk at Time's little joke on her.
"You didn't really think I wouldn't be ready for you if you tried to stop me did you Ms. Vortex?" Richter said as his thin twisted frame goosed stepped up the still struggling CV. "But I really didn't think you'd bring your past self into this." He said flashing an evil grin at little Cindy. "But it doesn't matter Two Cindy Vortexes seem to just means your twice as useless." He said his bony finger tracing the outline of her beautiful face.
The tall fierce blonde girl's blue eyes glared pure hatred at Richter." You a dead man and you don't even know it Richter!"
"And that goes double for me!" little Cindy yelled as she noticed a small metallic glimmer from a near by Bush that she deduced was the hiding robotic dog Goddard 'He must be waiting for the opportunity to save us' Cindy thought. Cindy's eye caught the eye of her future self. CV. Must have seen the Robotic dog also and was having similar thoughts.
Richer Laughed the two girls threats, and addressed the Older Vortex "Now don't do anything stupid Miss Vortex. If you do, my hired help here, may see fix to crush your younger self. The only one that has to die today is that little upstart Jimmy Neutron. If it means changing the time line to take his place and become the world greatest inventor I'll do just that. I'd like it very much not to risk altering the time stream any more by killing your younger self, but don't tempt me!"
"You stupid jealous fool!" CV screamed. "You're risking every thing because of your envy of Jimmy's genius! Do you know how many times Jimmy Neutron has saved the world? If you kill him there may not be a future to go back to!"
The vile man just sneered, "I rather take my chances with changing the future then to live in his shadow a moment longer" He then stared into little Cindy's eyes, "I'm sure you know how if feel." And the truth is Cindy did and at this moment she was ashamed of her jealousy. "Well I'm off to secure my place in history. If they give you any trouble kill the little one then the big one will disappear." The stupid large lugs merely grunted a yes.
Cindy watched Richer march off and she knew he where he was going. To drive that cursed car the killed Jimmy and to start the event that ruined so many lives including hers. No, there was now way she's let Jimmy die, she lived through that nightmare. She would stop it no matter what the cost. He older self frowned, she couldn't make a move before Cindy was out of harms way. So it was up to her to figure a way to save her self. Cindy looked up at the towering lug that held her tightly. Cindy tried not to judge people on their appearances but both he and the one Holding CV looked dumb as rocks. And Goddard was still hiding in a near by bush. Cindy could use one of Jimmy's brain blasts right about now. Then suddenly she did have an ideal. Looking up at the large brutes stupid face she figured he was dumb enough to fall for it. "Hey you!" she yell upwards. "I want to introduce you to my dog."
"Err… Huh?" He said moronically
"Goddard, come out here." The small mechanical dog listened to his new master, and walked out for all to see. "Big dumb henchman, this is Goddard. Goddard, Big dumb henchman." Cindy introduced the two. Never losing their respective grips on their two captives, the hired muscle watched the Dog in confusion "And he dose tricks too. Goddard, show this guy your big red surprise." The huge brute did seem to be so dumb that he wasn't curious. He lend in a little closer inspecting the dog. Faster then Cindy could blink, Goddard's back popped open as a large Red Boxing glove sprang out, slamming into the thug's nose. He yelped in pain bringing his hand up to his injured nose releasing the little girl. Cindy free from the iron grip sprinted away from the dangerous man.
Seeing her younger self free and momentarily save, CV sprang into action. Her right heel rose then stomped downward crushing her captive's toe. As the Grip on her shoulders loosened her body spun in place, her hand grasped the large mans arm, and using his leverage against her she Judo tossed him over her shoulder. "I was wandering when you'd get free, I couldn't make a move with you in danger." CV said with a smirk at her young self never keeping her eyes off the two recovering thugs.
"Its good to see that I don't neglect my martial arts training in my old age." Cindy replies to her older self, with a similar grin. "But we those two look like that can still be pretty dangerous," Cindy warn as the two large men uncertainly stalked the two girls.
"You leave these two punks to me. You and Goddard MUST stop Professor Richter. Saving Jimmy and all that matters.
"Are you sure you can handle these goons CV?"
"Positive. Now Move it Vortex !"
The two girls eyes met for a moment, sharing a single thought before Cindy and Goddard fled across Retroville park.
Cindy was the fastest runner in her grade, but she'd never ran as fast as she was at this moment. Her legs, body and heart all moved with one purpose. Save Jimmy. "Goddard, how much time do we have before that car hits Jimmy?"
"Cross referencing temporal distortion rate with local the local time zone." It chirped, in its familiar synthetic voice. "Complete: There are 15 minutes left till Jimmy Neutron is terminated." Goddard said and as it displayed a 15-minute count down clock.
"Ok Cindy, be smart about this because you'd only going to get one shot at it." She said to her self. He first impulse was top run directly to the school ad warn Jimmy. But she immediately disregarded that ideal. Something told her that running into Jimmy and the Cindy from this time period would cause more problems it would solve. So she'd best keep out of sight if she could help it. Beside Retroville elementary was a little over 15 minute run from the park so she wouldn't make it there in time to save Jimmy anyway. She had to get smart, Jimmy Neutron smart. "Goddard, cross reference the police records on the vehicle use to kill Jimmy, with his time of death, and position of the crime scene, and extrapolate the most likely path the car took on its way to the school." Cindy ordered.
"Processing:….Complete: The vehicle well come east down Main street, turn sharply on Maple Avenue and impact Jimmy Neutron in front of Retrovill elementary traveling 80 miles per hour." The mechanical dog said while displaying a map of the town on its display.
"Hmm, Main Street is not that far from here. We have to stop that car and the sick freak driving it before it gets anywhere near Jimmy. Goddard Flight mode!" Cindy said more focused and determined then she's even been in her young life. Goddard's back opened up, to allow a propeller like device to emerge. After completing its transformation into a small helicopter, Goddard grabbed Cindy by her small shoulder and carried them both into the air over Retrovill Park.
As the green turf and lush trees or Retrovill Park sped below her "I'm on my way Jimmy! And I swear I will save you!... No matter what," Cindy vowed through clenched teeth