Chapter 6- Truth or Death!
Jimmy was shocked what did Eustace want this time? He looked up and saw Eustace's captives hanging above a pit full of spikes. Jimmy's heart was filled with guilt; they were here because of him.
"Sit here Neutron." Eustace told him, Jimmy did as he was told he did not want to argue with a crazed billionaire. Especially one that had hostages. Eustace hooked up a lie detector on Jimmy's head. "Now Neutron, I am going to broadcast this all over Retroville, if you lie to one of my questions then your family and friends will die." Jimmy nodded. He was playing the game by his enemy's rules until he could figure a way out of this. The cameras came on, it had begun.
"Your name is James Isaac Neutron, true?"
"That is true." The machine beeped, so far so good.
"You are a genius?" Eustace questioned Jimmy. "Yes." The machine beeped again.
"Do you agree that you often brag about your intellectual abilities?" Jimmy thought about it for a moment, he could be big headed sometimes, he knew that.
"I suppose that sometimes I brag about my talents, yes." The machine beeped for a third time. Eustace thought for a moment about something Jimmy would deny. It hit him!
"Do you consider anyone to be your equal in anything?" Jimmy gasped that was a dirty trick; he had said for years that no one was as good as he at anything. What was the real truth? He began to search himself, Jimmy was a very impulsive person and now he was listening to the voice in his head. Eddie was a genius but he was pure evil, no he was not an equal. Another name popped into his mind no that was not right. How could that be? Jimmy was about to say no when the voice began to scream, he paused. He had denied it for 11 years, could he say it? Eustace was watching him eagerly, Cindy gazing at him from the roof. The sorrow in her eyes was clear, she knew about the battle in his mind. What should he say?
"Yes, I have an equal." Admitted Jimmy Neutron as a town watched.