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As soon as Jimmy spit out the smoke bomb he jumped to his right and pushed Cindy to the floor.

"Damn it!' Calamitous shouted as the room filled with a thick, black smoke. He let loose a barrage of bullets around the area where Jimmy and Cindy had been.

Jimmy lay on top of Cindy, covering her head and trying to shield her from the bullets. He reached into his hypercube and pulled out his hypno-beam. He grabbed Cindy's hand and ran in a circle until he was behind professor Calamitous. As the smoke started to clear Jimmy could see Professor Calamitous. He ran up to him and hit him with the hypno-beam as hard as he could in the back of his head.

Calamitous fell to the floor and dropped his gun. Jimmy ran over and picked it up. He dropped his hypno-beam as he aimed the gun at Calamitous. The smoke was now almost completely gone.

"Ow! Damn it!" Calamitous yelled as he put a hand to his bleeding head. He looked up and saw Jimmy standing about ten feet in front of him, aiming the gun at his chest.

"Well done, Jimmy. It's amazing how alike we are, isn't it?" Calamitous sneered.

"What the hell are you talking about? I am nothing like you," Jimmy yelled at him.

"Really? How many times have you used your smarts, your inventions in an unethical way to amuse yourself at other peoples' expense?" he asked Jimmy.

"I was just a kid. It was harmless fun, I never hurt anyone," Jimmy said while tightening his grip on the gun.

"Really? How many times have you put the ones you love in danger with your little toys?"

"They, they were accidents. And I always fixed them," Jimmy told Calamitous, his voice a little uncertain.

"That may be true. But what about this little adventure? What about what you did to your little girlfriend there? Using her to escape from the cops," Professor Calamitous continued while shaking his head.

"I, I needed to escape. I didn't hurt her," Jimmy stuttered.

"You didn't, did you? You tossed her around like a rag doll, aimed a gun at her, just so you could escape. And now her life is in danger, her reputation is gone. Everyone thinks that she's a criminal now, too."

Jimmy stood there, for the first time truly realizing what he had done to Cindy.

"And out there in the jungle? You promised you would take her home, and you lied. Then you pulled a gun on her again, just so you could clear your name," Calamitous went on.

"But, but," Jimmy's voice was faltering.

"And killing that guard back there? You had disarmed him, he was injured. There was no way that he could have hurt you. Yet you shot him anyway," Calamitous yelled.

My god, I didn't need to kill him. I knew it then, too. Why didn't I just take out the hypno-beam?

"And now look at you. Look down, Jimmy. Look what's in your hands," Calamitous instructed him. Jimmy looked at his hands, realizing that he was holding a gun on Calamitous.

"You could have just hit me with your little hypnosis toy. But you didn't. You dropped it and picked up the gun. Why did you do that Jimmy? You can try to justify this any way you want. I may be a murderer, I probably deserve to die. But you killed when you didn't have to. You're becoming what you hate most. It will only get worse as time goes by. You said it yourself; you're not a kid anymore. Take a look at the man that you've become," Professor Calamitous told Jimmy as he got up.

Jimmy thought about all that he had done. I, I'm a monster. I killed when I didn't have to. Jimmy looked around him, looked at the gun in his hands.He thought back to the guard he had killed.Then he thought about the tapes he had watched on the island, the murders that he had witnessed. No. NO! I am nothing like him. He started this. He's the one that killed those innocent people. I'm not a saint, but I'm nothing like him. All I did was try to clear my name and stop him from killing again. I'm the good guy. I"M THE GOOD GUY!

"No, no. I'm not like you. I feel bad about what I've done. I looked the man I killed in the eyes and felt regret. I closed his eyelids for him. You never did that. You killed innocent people and felt good about it. I killed one evil person and felt bad about it. And I won't kill again," Jimmy said, half to Calamitous and half to himself. He walked forward, still keeping the gun on Calamitous. He bent down and picked up his hypno-beam. He backed up and placed the gun on the floor. He gently kicked it aside with his foot.

"I am nothing like you." Jimmy aimed the hypno-beam at Calamitous and fired it. "Call the guards in here. Tell them to stop dismantling Goddard and bring him in here also. Tell them that you killed us. Speak in your normal voice and act normally. Take them all into a room on another floor. Keep them there for an hour. Have drinks and congratulate them on a job well done. Start completing these commands in sixty seconds," Jimmy said as he put the hypno-beam away.

He hit himself hard across the face. He took some of the blood that was pouring from his lip and smeared it onto his face.

"Cindy, hurry and do the same. We have to act like we're dead," Jimmy told her. Cindy nodded and repeated what Jimmy had done.

As Calamitous called out for the guards, Jimmy grabbed Cindy's hand and pulled her onto the ground. They slumped onto the floor facedown. Jimmy tilted his head a little so that the blood on his face was visible. He tried to take slow, shallow breaths.

The guards came in with Goddard, who was still intact. Calamitous and the guards left the room. Jimmy and Cindy got up and ran over to the dog. Jimmy picked up Goddard with one hand and grabbed Cindy's hand with the other.

"Let's just get back to the hover car and get the hell out of here," Jimmy whispered as they ran out of Calamitous' lair and into the jungle.