This chapter is kinda long sorry, I wanted to get rid of some chapters so I condensed some! Sorry! So here it is! All my love, -katie- NO OWN JIMMY!

Red Death

Jimmy and Meldar had been fighting unsuccessfully for some time now and most of the Yolkian army had pretty much cleared out, which Jimmy thought was odd, but he didn't give much thought to it. Jimmy threw another punch at Meldar as he aimed another white beam at him and Jimmy ducked it. He threw his hair out of his eyes. He had to much fury right now to deal with this.

" Where is she Meldar?" he asked as he dodged another white beam.

" Where is who Jimmy?"

Jimmy clenched his fist tightly.

" You know exactly who!" he screamed as Meldar fired another beam.

" Oh! You mean your little girlfriend? She's in a dark cell all alone crying her little eyeballs out because she's scared for her life Jimmy, your little girlfriend is scared for her life, now what do you think about her?"

" First off, she's not my girlfriend.. Second, being scared for your life is normal Meldar.. I bet even your afraid for your life.."

" Ah but what do I have to be afraid of?" he asked as he fired another white beam. " Do you think I have to be afraid of you?" he laughed coldly. " You wish Neutron!"

" Actually I more then wish, I know. I know your scared because I'm not the same little boy I used to be, I am actually taller then you Meldar.. I know your scared I see it in your eyes.."

" I have the power do I not?"

" Yes, but you know I am perfectly capable of pulling a fast one on you don't you.." Jimmy smiled cooly as Meldar fired a beam once again missing him. " Besides your aim stinks!" Jimmy laughed.

"Alright Jimmy you wanna play it that way, then we will!" just then someone hit Meldar straight over the head with a Gorlockan spear and he collapsed to the ground. He smiled at Libby.

" Perfect timing as usual Ms. Folfax..." She blushed slightly. Just then Sheen walked up and put his arm around her possessively.

" Jimmy! She's mine you hear!"

Jimmy rolled his eyes and Libby softly kissed Sheens' cheek which made him smile broadly.

" Alright, we have to hurry.. You guys keep Meldar out.. Give him some sleeping pills or something okay? Just make sure he stays out!"

" Libby, Sheen, lets' go find Cindy.." he said looking back at Meldars' lifeless form, ten or more kids surrounded it. He smiled and motioned for them to follow.

" How do we know where we are going Jimmy?"

" We don't Sheen, we are just going to have to find it ourselves.."

Sheen just stared.

" So your saying we don't have a clue where we are going?"

" Yes. Now let's go!" he urged on and walked out the portal to the room.

" Where did all the other Yolkian guards go?" Libby asked confused.

" I was wondering that as well.. But we don't have time, we have to find Cindy!" he hurried on through the darkly light halls. It was like wandering pointlessly in some type of medieval castle.

" Now knowing Goobot, he'd want something like this for his torture chambers, where I figure Cindy is.." He paused trying to conjure up any idea where she could be. He sighed deeply. " I have no clue.." he admitted to himself. " We'll never find her.." he whispered to the blank walls. Just then he felt a hand on his shoulder.

" Jimmy, I promise, we are going to find her if it's the last thing we do.." Libbys' voice whispered comfortingly.

" And it may just be.." he told her honestly. The truth stung, but it was the truth. He sighed once again.

" I just wish there was someway to.." just then something hit him. Not an idea, something had literally hit him!

" Psst." A voice whispered.

" Whose there?" Jimmy cried.

" I can help you find your friend.." The voice replied. This was to easy! A little bit to easy? Jimmy shook it off.

" I'm in. Where is she?"

" Up a floor, third cell in.." the voice whispered once again.

" Who are you and why are you helping me?"

" Never mind who I am, you don't have much time, now on with you.." It commanded. Jimmy nodded and led Sheen and Libby onwards.

" Jimmy, what.. Who was that?" Sheen asked.

" No clue.." he responded bluntly. When they finally found something that appeared to be stairs they ran up them. He ran into a hall full of dark cells, with only a few torches here and there.

" Cindy?" he asked into the dark.

" Jimmy!" he heard she responded happily. He had never been more happy to hear her voice. He hurried to the third cell down. He saw a dark lump in the corner that he figured was Cindy.

" Cindy, is that you?"

" Jimmy?" her voice came back. He could see her stirring..

" How did you find me... ?" she asked as she crawled up to the bars.

" I'll explain that later..." Jimmy noticed that Cindys face was dark, like she had lost ample amounts of sleep.. And her green eyes that seemed to be leaning more towards the color of red, stared at the floor, sure enough her blonde hair was down, all ratted, her pink spaghetti strapped tank top was wrinkled as were her grey sweat pants with white stripes down the side.

" Jimmy please..get me out of here.." she said softly taking his hands in hers, Jimmy tried his hardest to ignore the tingles in his hand.

" I will.. I promise..I just need to get to the white crystal, I need to smash it, it's the source of the Yolkian and Meldars' powers as soon as I destroy it, this cell will cease to exist." he smiled. Her eyes finally met his... he got a very powerful urge to burst through the jail cell and just hold her close to him... to dry her tears.. She smiled weakly.

" But you will have to fight.. You will have to fight.. Them.." she said, her voice shaking slightly.

" I know.. I will have to fight.. We will all need to fight Cindy," he stared into the green eyes that seemed to be searching his soul...

" Libby!" she cried happily as Libby appeared around the corner. He heard footsteps down the hall and figured that his army had gotten the message, a few had agreed to stay back and watch Meldar.

" Step back Libby.."he commanded as he aimed his beam at the lock, and it fell away, why was this so easy? " Follow me.." He signaled his army to follow him, Libby and Cindy close behind. Just then he spotted a light down a corridor and he snuck quietly and poked his head around the corner. At the end of the hallway there was a large door guarded by Yolkian security. He figured that's where the white crystal was, and that's where he needed to get. He tried to ignore the loud pounding of his heart in his ears. He took a deep breath in, and then he heard footsteps behind him. His heart jumped into his throat and slowly He turned around..Expecting guns pointed at his head.. But then he looked and there was actually nothing there, great now he was losing his mind!

" Okay, Cindy, you will go distract the guards which will be pretty easy since they think your in a cell someplace.. And then when you see me give the signal, nock them over the head, and then we can all get the white crystal together.."

" Okay... here goes nothing..." she whispered. And she started walking down the corridor. Jimmy meanwhile felt like he could very possibly hurl right then and there.

" Excuse me little girl.. Hey! Aren't you the girl we took captive? How did you get out little girl?" Jimmy clutched his hand into a fist.

" Bet you cant catch me you big .. Egg Yolks!" he heard Cindys' voice teasing. He smiled a little bit as he heard her footsteps running away. Just then he waved for his 'army' to follow him and they hurried down the corridor.. as they approached the door, a guard(that had come to see what all the ruckus was) turned towards him with broad smiles on there faces.

" Jimmy Neutron! King Goobot will be very pleased you are here..!" and then he gave Cindy the signal and she appeared and knocked the guard over the head causing the green goo to come oozing out of him. Jimmy smiled at her.

" Nice one.."

" Thanks Neutron.." She blushed a little bit.

" Ya. But we have to gotta move. Those two guards will be coming back any second now..." as he said this he checked the wall for sensor boxes. Sure enough there was a rather large one just to the right of the door.

" Hey Cindy, we've got a problem here..." He pointed up to the box. She stared at it with a puzzled look on her face.

" Try your watch ding bat.."

" Uh... oh yeah.." he said stupidly as he pointed the ray towards the box. Why is whenever Cindy was anywhere close to him he lost all reason? He had made that mistake twice already. To many lives were at stake to make it again. The box fell from the place that it was mounted in a colorful show of red... making noises as if in protest..

Finally there was silence. Jimmy looked at the blonde next to him, who was staring at him with a weird look plastered on her face. He just rolled his eyes.

" I'm tired alright!" He protested. Cindy smiled as she glanced back at Betty.

" Right.." Cindy said motioning towards Betty. He just raised an eyebrow. But shook it off.

" Let's get this over with.." he said with fire burning in his eyes. They walked up to the door, and inscribed on a small plaque in the center of the door was a riddle.

What does not explode but is the deadliest weapon in any war?

Cindy smiled. " Power."

Jimmy looked at her stunned. Just then the door opened and she smiled at Jimmy..

" Ready?" he nodded. Still speechless, they walked through the door. The room in front of them light up, the room was totally white and was totally empty except for the large glass showcase in the middle of the room. Cindy and Jimmy walked up to the glass. Soon they stood within two feet of the crystal. He stared at it. The jewel laid on a purple silk cloth... Cindy looked completely transfixed by it. He smiled as he was about to raise his fist, when...

" Well what do we have here?" Meldar and King Goobot and an army of Yolkians stood behind them. " Did you think you'd be able to destroy our power source without getting caught? After all. It wouldn't do anything... it's a fake.." " The real one is around my neck.." said Meldar as he pulled a necklace from under his shirt. Jimmy smiled.

" I know, I saw the real one when you guys attacked me when I first arrived in the City..."

Cindy was looking at him in utmost horror and confusion. Jimmy knew exactly what he was saying.

" I knew that you probably figured I still thought the actual crystal was in here.. But I knew.. Did you honestly think I'd believe a small little rodent of a guard you sent to make me believe that it was really in the case? Oh no, I know you Meldar, I know you would want the power source for yourself. You wouldn't be able to stand not being able to hold it... to show it off like a prize..." Meldar smiled.

" And here I thought you were just another little jellybag.."

" If you haven't noticed, I am not little anymore..." he argued.

" Do you have any idea who you are dealing with here Jimmy?" King Goobot chirped in.

" I know exactly who I am dealing with.."

" Then you know, you are risking all your friends lives... just by smart mouthing us.." said Meldar..

" Please. Don't hurt them." he said with a scowl on his face, trying his hardest not to look at Cindy. Meldar grinned.

" Follow us Jimmy.." Jimmy followed reluctantly and he could hear his 'army' following not to far behind him. They led him down several corridors and Jimmy was trying to memorize everything that he saw, so when he broke free, he knew exactly where to go.

Jimmy just scoffed as they entered a rather large room, most defiantly bigger then the last one he had been in and it had Yolkian guards at every door... and surrounding a rather large circle in the center of the room. Jimmy followed Meldar and Goobot until they were a few feet from the circle in the middle of the room. Jimmy stared at it.. His heart started pounding.. Louder.. Faster.. Louder.. Faster... soon all he could hear was his heart. Goobot smiled.

" Is Jimmy scared?" he laughed coldly. And pushed a large red button.. And Jimmy rolled his eyes and laughed.

" What are you laughing?"

" It's always a big red button..." he laughed again.

" STOP LAUGHING!"

But Jimmy just kept laughing.

" Fine, but you won't be laughing for much longer!" he said as finally the circle began to split in the middle, and retracted backwards.. A large empty chamber sat about 20 feet below them.

" This Jimmy.. Is the Torture Disintegrator.. Now you may ask if we are going to disintegrate you why we would put torture in the title? Well before it disintegrates you... we send in a few little Yolkian death bugs... What are those you may ask? Meldar put the information on the screen?"

" It would be my honor your majesty.." he clicked a button. A small bug with a red coating and a marking that looked like a black skull on it's back appeared on the screen.

" This is the Yolkian Death Bug, or more specifically known as the Red Death.." he smiled. " It is mostly used on the most treacherous... most despicable convicts... for it is one of the most unpleasant forms of torture in the history of torture.. You see Jimmy.. It eats you from the inside out.. Working on you... slowly..it can take hours for it to finish the job... but you see we decided that would be to kind... so we give you... a bucket full of them.. Now it will make it quicker.. For there are more of them..so... the pain.. My dear dear boy.. Will be intense.. For they eat.. With sharp claws.. And each of the bugs will enter separately.. And then the ones that don't get your insides.. Will eat your outsides... and we have the disintegrator, so we can get rid of your badly decomposed carcass in space.. So we don't have to deal with it..." Jimmy stared at the 20 foot drop.

" Now your thinking that the drop will kill you?" " NO such luck Nuetron.." he pushed another button, and sure enough.. The walls turned to reveal padding all the way up the sides, and down to the bottom... His heart skipped a beat, and he gulped.

" You aren't laughing now.. Are you Jimmy?" he asked with a sneer. He looked up from the deep crevice of death in front of him.

" But isn't this some wacked out scheme to feed us to poultra?" Jimmy finally expressed the only idea that he had for Meldar and Goobot to steal Cindy like that.

" NO my dear boy! NO! This whole thing ... Has been about you.. I have worked for years to destroy you as you destroyed me, but each time you have gotten away, But now I'm going to destroy you.. And then I'm going to destroy your friends.. " Jimmy stared.

" This was about... Me?"