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Untitled-Chapter One
James Isaac Neutron was unlike any other boy his age. Currently at the age of 16, he could have taken any college level final exam and gotten a perfect score on it, but still he was enrolled in the eleventh grade, completing his high school years at least somewhat normally. He was a genius, but despite that he was still one of the most despised kids enrolled at Retroville High. His inventions would much more than often, not work the first few weeks, sometimes even months, he worked on them. In the end, however, he would work the bugs out and get it to work for the most part.
Cindy Vortex was the second smartest kid, probably the second smartest person, in Retroville. During her early childhood she was the smartest, until Jimmy Neutron moved into town. Ever since he moved to Retroville, she constantly searched for any way to prove she was smarter than him in anything. But try after try, it never seemed to work in the long run. Sure she got her kicks in, publicly humiliating him from time to time by secretly tweaking with his inventions without his knowing. But somehow he always seemed to get them to work.
It was 6th period Friday at Retroville High, in other words complete chaos. The teacher knew that by the last 10 minutes of class no work could possibly get done. Jimmy was talking with Sheen about his latest invention he was working on in his lab. "You should come over and see it Sheen, it will only take a few minutes to explain." "Jim, you very well know that what is 'a few minutes to explain' for you means I don't have a chance of understanding it, besides, I need to check my E-bay things when right after school. The auction for the First Edition Talking Battle Quote Ultra Lord finishes at 3:00, and you know it takes me a good 20 minutes to drive home, if the traffic's good."
Sheen, no longer Ultra Lord maniac such as he was a few years ago. He now had his eyes set on Ultra Lord in a new fashion. If he could gather up full sets of the action figures, which wasn't too hard considering he had quite a few from his younger days, they could be worth quite a bit of money.
"Well, all right, Sheen. Maybe after your auction?" Jimmy suggested.
"Gah! Fine. Man, why did Carl have to move last year? Now I get stuck having to be your guinea pig for your experiments." Sheen whined.
Jimmy let out a sigh with a hint of a chuckle in it. "If you really don't want to, you don't have to Sheen, I'm not forcing you or anything"
Sheen seemed to think it over for a minute, before responding, "Oh, fine. I'll come see your new thing you've been working on. Happy"
"Yup." Jimmy replied, a smirk on his face. He had won this argument.
From across the room, Cindy had a pencil and paper out, carefully jotting down her plans on how she could sneak into Jimmy's lab and sabotage his latest invention and make a clean getaway. 'So, Sheen's coming over today to see it.' She thought, leaning over the paper so no one else could see. 'That would be a good time to sneak in the lab and get more information on this invention of his.' She began to smirk widely, but quickly put a poker face on. 'Can't let anyone know what I'm up to. Can't be too careful now. I almost got caught the last time, but man was it worth it.' She thought remembering her last success.
The bell ending class, and the school day, rung. Kids poured out of the classroom doors, half heading towards busses, half heading towards their cars, with the few exceptions that walked home. Cindy packed up her bag, and started for the student parking lot. Her drive home was spent planning more on how she could get into the lab unnoticed. She pulled into her driveway, and turned off the car, but didn't get out. She waited until she saw Jimmy pull into his driveway, across the street from her own, and go into his house. 'This is going to be good, but Sheen better hurry his butt up and get over there. I need to get ready to leave soon.' Cindy and her parents were going out of state for the weekend to visit Cindy's grandmother, who had become quite ill recently, 'I can't miss an opportunity like this.'
At 3:15 Cindy was constantly glancing out of her window on the second story of her house to see if Sheen was there yet or not. At the same time she was on the phone with her best friend, Libby. "Yeah, I'm not going to be able to call you this weekend, long distance and all that." Cindy said, again looking out the window.
"Girl, what's wrong with you?" Libby asked. "You sound all preoccupied or something"
"Sorry, I've just got something on my mind, that's all." 'Well, it's not a lie' Cindy thought. 'I do have something else on my mind'
"Well, what is it? You've been starting to keep secrets from me lately, ever since I started going out with Sheen. Snap out of it girl! I'm still your best friend"
"It's not because you're dating Sheen, if that's what you're thinking. It's just more of a... personal quest type thing." With another glance across the street, Cindy saw Sheen walking up towards Jimmy's house. "Sorry Lib, I gotta go! I'll see you when we get back Sunday!" Cindy abruptly hung up the phone and ran downstairs.
"Cindy?" her mother asked. "Are you all ready to go"
"Yeah mom, I just need to do something really quick though, okay"
"Well, all right, but do make it quick. Your father wants to leave soon"
"Yes mom." Cindy said as her mother walked back to her room.
Cindy watched out the window by the door to see where Jimmy and Sheen were. They were just heading into the lab now. She quickly, but stealthily, ran across the street and stopped the door before it could close all the way. 'Phew, that was close.' She thought as she began to follow the two boys. When she got to where they were, she quickly hid behind some boxes over in the corner, she missed Jimmy telling Sheen what the invention was, and the two were starting to head towards the exit. Cindy held her breath, just in case they heard her.
"The most important thing with this is that the wires in the back don't get mixed up." Jimmy explained to Sheen.
"Why? What's so important about the wires?" Their voices were starting to fade.
"Well, you see. First, let me state that if anything goes wrong with this machine," Cindy heard the lab/clubhouse door open, "nothing will happen, it just won't work." The door closed, and she could no longer hear them. 'Well, no big show this time, but I didn't come down here for nothing,' she thought as she headed up to the machine and went around towards the back. 'I'll mess with him just a bit though, let's change some of these oh so important wires around.' She switched about 5 of the wires around into different places. 'Good, now let's get out of here. I'm sure mom and dad are wondering where I am.' Cindy snuck up to the door, and looked though the eye hole checking if anyone would see her or not. 'All clear? Yep, let's go!' She ran back to her house and went inside. "Cindy, are you ready now?" Her mother asked.
"Yeah, I just need to grab my clothes bag upstairs and I'll be ready to go." She said, starting to walk upstairs.
"All right dear, your father and I will be in the car"
"Okay mom." Cindy went up to her room, grabbed her bag, and looked around to see if there was anything else she wanted to bring with her. Seeing nothing else of necessity she went downstairs and got in the back seat of the car. Glancing one last time at Jimmy's lab she thought, 'Even if nothing's going to happen, I still wish I could see Nerd-tron's face when he finds out the wires have been messed with.' With this final thought, the car began to back out of the driveway, and headed towards the highway.
To be continued.