Hello people! Okay FINE I'll put a little J/C in this. Just a little. In this chapter I made Cindy crush the stalagmite because I hate it in the episodes when Cindy uses Tae Kwon Doe. It looks and sounds so fake! Oh well. Thank you for the reviews. I'll shut up now ONWARD!

Chapter 8: The Bubble Abyss

They walked through the tunnel that led from the end of the cart tracks, wondering what would come next. They came upon one stalagmite in the cave that blocked their path.

"Cindy?" Libby asked her friend. "Will you do the honors?" Cindy nodded and managed to crush enough of the sandstone so they could get past. Behind the sandstone was a huge gap separating them form another opening on the other side. On the side they were on were two buttons about the size of a desk. As the group walked further out onto the platform they heard a bang behind them. They whipped around and saw that a metal gate had blocked off the entrance. They couldn't go back now, they had to go forward.

"Okay now what?" Sheen asked. Jimmy looked closely at the gap. There seemed to be icons and faint grid lines.

"As you can see here, there is a grid. The icons represent certain things like this one here. There is an arrow icon with glasses on it. I suspect that someone with glasses will follow the arrow. And see this one here. It's a whirlpool. I don't think we want to go near that," Jimmy explained. Near the middle of Jimmy's explanation Carl wandered over to one of the side table buttons.

"Oooo, shiny," Carl said and he stepped onto one of the panels. He could hear a loud sucking noise as if someone were blowing a bubble. It was the sound of a bubble. It came up around Carl and he starting floating away from the rest. "AHHH!" he screamed. It attracted the attention of his friends.

"CARL!" Jimmy exclaimed. "What are you doing?"

"Jimmy! I don't want to be a bubble boy!" Carl shrieked as he floated farther and farther away. His bubble passed over one of the arrows and he started to float towards a whirlpool. Carl closed his eyes. But right as he was about to be sucked into the whirlpool, he passed over the icon of glasses and a right arrow. He began to float in the direction of the other platform. As he passed over the land his bubble popped and he landed on his feet. "I'm alive!" he yelled in joy. Jimmy ran to observe to the path of the other "bubble blower".

"Sheen!" he yelled excitedly. "Stand on this panel now!" Sheen ran over and stomped on the panel. Soon a bubble surrounded him and he floated towards the plateau on across from them.

"I'm leaving on a bubble plane thing! I don't know if I'll be back again!" Sheen started singing. Luckily the the sound was barely audible because of the bubble.

"And Libby, you have to go on this panel," Jimmy told her. Libby walked over to the panel and stepped onto it. She too floated across the abyss successfully. Jimmy now tried to find a path for Cindy to follow. There was no way for her to get across. Any way she went she would fall go to the whirlpool. "Cindy, you go on the first panel," Jimmy said quickly. She strode over to the button and stomped. A bubble came up around her and she too floated successfully, up until the last turn that was. Her hair was blonde and the arrow tuned the bubble for the whirlpool. Cindy realized what was happening. She tried to get the bubble to turn, but she couldn't, not unless... She turned to pop the bubble.

"NO!" Jimmy screamed. She stopped looked at him, and stayed still, floating towards her doom. "Come on!" Jimmy said to himself. "Think...think," he thought fast. "Brain blast!" he yelled and jumped on the panel. His hair was brown. He would turn left and head her off. But if the timing was wrong...he didn't want to think about that. He did turn left as planned, but the timing was wrong.

"Oh no," Cindy said quickly. The bubbles both popped and sent Cindy and Jimmy hurtling down. Jimmy groped around for something to stop his and Cindy's fall and surprisingly grabbed something. He looked up to see what it was. It was Libby's hand. He looked down. Cindy was about to fall past him.

"CINDY!" Jimmy yelled and reached out his hand as far as he could and she grabbed it. They smiled, then realizing whom they were smiling at, quickly averted their gazes. Libby, Sheen, and Carl pulled them back up onto the land.

"Well, that was pleasant," Cindy said and they all went on through the door and away from the abyss.


I consider that J/C. If you don't, TOO BAD! Sorry, I don't like the J/C really romantic stuff. Puppy love is ok because THEY ARE IN FIFTH GRADE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! Oh, and I might not be updating for a while after this. Sorry, DON"T KILL ME! Ok, REVIEW PLEASE!