Erm...We'll just move on.

Chapter 6: Think, Think, THINK!
Jimmy, Cindy, Libby, Carl, and Sheen burst into the house.

"Mom!" Jimmy cried, "Emergency Alpha-Niner-Delta!"

Judy gasped and said, "Alpha-Niner-Delta? An army of mind zombies is after you and your friends?" (Gee, she nailed that on the head, too!) She then opened the utility closet and pushed a yellow button. None too soon, a green dome shield appeared around their house, yard, (including Jimmy's lab) and their part of the sidewalk!

By the time she'd done this, the kids had trooped upstairs and into Jimmy's room, where Goddard was lying on the bed, awaiting his master's return. When Jimmy and the kids came in, Goddard barked joyfully and ran to him.

"Good to see you too, Goddard," Jimmy petted him, "but the dance isn't over yet."

"So hurry up and do a brain blast, already!" Libby said, whose feet were starting to hurt (she seems to be the supreme authority on his brain blasts, doesn't she? Anyone ever notice that? It's either her or Cindy, but mostly Libby).

"Okay, okay!" Jimmy sat on his bed and leaned forward, saying, "Think, think...THINK..."

In his mind's eye, Professor Calamitous appeared in his robot-pants disguise. The camera closed in on the record player, then the record itself.

"Brain blast!" he said as he pointed upward in triumph, "Professor Calamitous is controlling them with a hypnotic signal he implanted in a record! Break the record, you break the trance!"

"So what do you want us to do?" Cindy asked.

"We're gonna lead everyone back to the dance," Jimmy explained, "While Goddard and I try to break the professor's record, you guys distract the kids so I can get to him. To the hovercar!"

When Judy dropped the dome shield, Jimmy and his friends plus Goddard took off.

"Nyah-nyah!" Sheen called in mocking sing-song, "You can't get us!"

"Do you seriously expect us to fight in our dresses?" Libby asked Jimmy.

"No," he answered, "just distract them."

"And just how are we supposed to do that?" Cindy asked cynically.

"You're the smartest girl in town," Jimmy said slightly irritably without meaning to, "Use your imagination." Cindy was shut up at this in more ways than one. Smartest girl in town? The dark hid her blush, but Libby never misses a thing.

The hovercar landed at the Candy Bar as Professor Calamitous was leading his army in hot pursuit.

"All right, guys!" Jimmy said, "GO!" They all scattered. Cindy ran to a group of girls, notably including Betty Quinlin.

"Hey, ladies!" Cindy taunted, "Is that your hair, or did a family of rats take tap dancing lessons?" The girls ran after her. After rubbing her fist, Cindy socked Betty in the stomach and ran away laughing. She nearly ran into Libby, who, again, never misses a thing. After coming into eye contact with Libby's "eye of suspicion," Cindy giggled nervously and pulled Libby by the hand out of the way of a group that had been right behind her.

"Seriously, girl," Libby said as they ran, "You need therapy!"

"Seriously, girl," Cindy grinned evilly, "I don't care!"

Meanwhile, Sheen was attacking the Chess Club.

"Hey, guys!" he said, "Listen to me sing a Gwen Stefani song!" Then, horribly off-key, he sang, "Few times I've been around that track, so it's not just gonna have been like that! 'Cause there ain't no hollaback, girrrl! There ain't no hollaback, girl!"

As the Chess Club ran off screaming with Sheen chasing them to the first verse ("I heard that you were talking, and you didn't think that I would HEAR IT!"), Carl was whimpering against a tree as some kids slowly moved toward him, their hands outstretched.

"N-nice classmates," he said, "You don't want to eat your old pal Carl, do you? (Then he pointed somewhere.) Oh, no! Look! (They looked.) Someone's stealing the Declaration of Independence!" Like idiots, his attackers abandoned him. A squirrel leapt down the tree and cocked his head quizzically at Carl.

"Hee, hee!" he giggled, "I made it up, Mr. Squirrel. That was Ben Gates from National Treasure!"

While all this went on, Jimmy and Goddard chased the professor into the Candy Bar.

Author's Review:
Ha, ha! Another cliffy! How did y'all like this one? Those of you who were wanting longer chapters, here ya go! (Peace sign) I hoped y'all liked this one! You'll LOVE the next one, I hope! (I know Cindy will!) XD