CHAPTER 16 - "A little scare"
Cindy pressed a button on the remote control and the Cin-3000 responded with a beep noise, then, the rockets on the back activated, and it made its little wheels rotate 90 degrees to the left and lift into the air. She watched in awe all the magic of her and Jimmy's new gadget. She could manage the flying little car just by using the little steering implanted in the control. She looked at the control again and she pressed the next button. The little car stopped lifting and returned to its position, including the wheels, on the table. Jimmy woke up with the sound of the beep noise too late to find Cindy about to press the next button.
"Cindy! NO!" he screamed, in a not very audible voice, due to the fact that he was still asleep.
She pressed the button, not even listening to the warning that Jimmy was giving to her. The car lifted up and pointed a ray gun in front of her, shoot the ray, and shrinked all her body. In a second, Cindy's size was the same as an ant.
"Cindy! Where are you?" Jimmy asked, sneaking on the floor, trying to find her.
He finally found her. She was looking around, shocked, trying to escape from a rat that was about to attack her, and probably eat her.
"AHHHH!" she screamed, taken by surprise by the size of Jimmy, compared to hers. The rat screamed, too, and returned to a hole in the wall. Goddard used his laser to block it.
"Calm down, Cindy, it's me!".
"Thank goodness. Neutron! This is all your fault! Look at me!" Cindy said.
"At least now I'm more bigger than you" he said, joking. He was enjoying the moment, but then, he saw the angry look in her eyes. "Look, if you wanted to test the new Cin-3000, you should've waited for me to do it".
He grabbed Cindy with his hand and placed her gently on the table. "Now, let's see, where did I put my Shrink Ray?" he asked to himself, as he walked to the bookcase next to VOX.
'Look, girls! Food!'
"Huh?" he asked to himself.
Jimmy turned around and looked at his table. He saw with horror that a bunch of rats were going to make Cindy their dinner. He grabbed the Shrink Ray just in time to returnher to her normal size. The rats saw this and ran scared.
"Phew! That was close!" she said, as she sighed in relief.
On the other hand, Jimmy looked pale. "I-I can... read... rat girl minds...!".
"What? What did you say?" Cindy asked, standing from the table and walking to him, confused.
"That... I-I..." he muttered. "I can't believe the size of those rats! I didn't even knew that I got plague problems" he finally said. He looked at her, ashamed, and feeling a bit responsible for what happened. "Are you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, I guess so..." she answered.
He walked to the little car. He grabbed the remote control and pressed a button. The car flied outside the lab, and, automatically,parked on one side of the street. Then, because of the Shrink Ray on its mechanism, it shoot itself until it grew to the size of a normal car.
"Are you ready to test the Cin-3000?" Jimmy asked to Cindy.
Cindy's mouth dropped in awe. "Uhh... duh... sure, Jimmy!" she finally said, as she ran like crazy to the car. While she was jumping and laughing of joy, Jimmy walked calmly and opened the passenger's seat to let her in. She took the seat, feeling it totally comfortable, almost as she was about to sleep on it. Jimmy took the driver's seat. He pressed the buttons on the control and the car flew to some distant place.
Libby was tired of Sheen's insistance of making an UltraLord headline to add to the magazine they were working.
"C'mon! It'll be awesome!".
"Sheen, forget it! It's not going to work!" Libby said.
"Pleeeeeeeeeease?" he said, with a puppy fluff eyed face.
"Wait! I got an idea. UltraLord is on video games, too, right?" Libby asked.
"Uhmmm, let me think... Yeah, there's UltraLord vs. RoboFiend I, II, and III, UltraLord vs. Llama Kid: Children's Edition, UltraLady vs. RoboLady: Girls Edition. There's a hole lot more. Why?" he answered.
"We canadd a video game section on our magazine. You just get the cheats and solves with a determinated video game and we publish it here" she suggested.
"Cool!" Sheen said, jumping like crazy.
"Ok, what we need now is another article...".
"Another?" Sheen asked, a little dissapointed.
"Yes, another!" Libby said, annoyed.
"Oh... I thought that... you know... errr..." he muttered.
"What?" she asked.
"That it would be only a video game magazine, just like you said" Sheen suggested.
"I said that we can add a video game section, not do the hole magazine a video game one!" she answered, really pissed off.
"Oh! Sorry about that, funkyness!" he flirted.