Whoa, Weird...
Simic
Another day had befallen the hometown of our ever-all-so-knowing genius, unmistakably sophisticated Jimmy but yet, in Cindy's terms, "Naïve, yet handsome, and attractive and-",
Cindy: Eheh, sorry bout that plot summary. Darn you Simic!
Simic: Whoa, didn't mean to reveal your secret, big chicken. You're such a soft, especiallo for Jimmy-o.
Cindy: Yada yada yada, you can tell that to the Marines, figurative speech people.
Simic: Whatever, now, on with the fic.
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The sun was shining brightly at our genius's lab, Jimmy had just awaken from the trip back to Retroville after the graduation at Harvard for four years of completing the course of Chemistry and Astrophysics. It had been so long since he left, he couldn't even remember what had happened during his final days. But now, something was missing. His favorite robot dog, Goddard. And it was a very merry a-week-before-Summer season, or Spring.
"Goddard, here boy." He said, but no compliance was heard from the dog, he searched the lab but found nothing. For once, he seemed a lot different than he was. He was already 18 by that time, earned a scholarship to Harvard when he was 14, invented a teleport beacon that could instantly transport you to a certain place in mind. His hair was still the same but he got taller, about you could say like 6 "foot" 2 tall, wearing his leather vest with eyeglasses for reading purposes emergency,
"Vox, detect Goddard's coordinates and enter it in my hover car control pad." He sighed, sounding way from the clubhouse,
"Done, sir." A female robotic voice responded,
"Where have you gone now, boy?" He versed questioningly as he boarded the hover car, it auto piloted him to the Candy Bar where the gang is currently hanging for awhile; he pushed the glass doors open.
"Who's that guy? He sure looks hot." Cindy thought, but she pondered into her mind deeper, at the back of her head was the last thing she'd ever think he is. James Isaac Neutron.
"Hey, Cin. What's the dreamy look for?" Libby asked, drinking a can of the town's infamous purple flurp.
The sunlight was still lingering in his eyeglasses, thus not revealing his appearance, but when he stepped in, it all faded showing off glistening, blue eyes and winked at the people.
"HUH!" All the people drew air in their mouths, shocked and awed for what they saw had long been gone in New York 4 years ago.
"Oh my gosh, it's... it's him. He-he can't... he swore never to come back..."
"Now where'd that irony dog go this time?" He touched his watch revealing a small satellite and a screen showing Goddard under a table, he glanced at the screen and saw the table number. 13, and in New York came various disasters because of the number 13 so he developed triskaidekaphobia. He gulped and tugged his shirt around his neck with cold sweat falling from his face, slowly falling down his cheek. He approached the table and quickly ducked, grabbing the robot dog,
"Now don't you get off my lab this time or I'll use my Ice Crystals on you."
"Bark! Bark!" The dog sounded as if he wanted to tell Jimmy something,
"What's it now, boy?" Goddard's cover flipped up revealing digital text,
Do you notice anything peculiar? Jimmy almost snapped, caught off guard by what Goddard had said just a second awhile ago,
"Why no. I don't seem to recognize anybody who seems to raise my wavelength or blood pressure. But-"
The screen started flashing again, "Look deeper within somebody here." His eyes roamed around and seemed to dance at only one person he could've recognized earlier, the woman who broke his heart.
"Vortex." He nodded as he tucked his eyeglasses and put it into his pocket,
"Well bite my lip; I think I see a giant coming. The end is near, Libby. The end is near." She said sarcastically, her voice cracking but faded into a mere laughter filling the room.
"According to my analysis, a woman here whose thermostat seems to be above, oh I don't know. Maybe 500 degrees Celsius!"
"Oh, I can feel it. Yeah, it's getting hotter. I want to take my clothes off." Both Libby and Cindy laughed again,
"It's not summer, Dorktex. Plus, your blouse is already see-through, no need to do that." She was caught off guard by the comment, she crossed her arms in annoyance and was ready to blow steam like a hot, boiling hot geyser.
"I know, but it will be in a week. What do you want, Nerdtron?"
"Nothing, just came by looking for Goddard and to see if you've changed over the four years. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. You don't. You're just another manipulator who thinks men are jerks and nonetheless punching bags, and can be used covers for relationship holes." He finally got it out, words he never even wanted to say, words that were out of his vocabulary but in his mind.
"Easy for you to say, you heartbreaker."
"I didn't even break your heart!"
"Yeah you did!"
"Scientifically hypothesizing, if you can still remember. Your frontal lobe seems to judge this situation W-R-O-N-G, besides. Why'd I heartbreak you? We weren't even two compatible molecular structures; we're like two opposing energies inside a bubble!"
"Oh, yeah like since forever." She averted her eyes off Jimmy and looked outside the window adoring whoever is outside. Nick Dean.
"Hah, gotcha in your own game! You proved my hypothesis right!"
"Yeah, Cin. Big mistake, big mistake." Just as Libby finishes her sentence, she returns her gaze inside the Candy Bar and Sheen, Carl and Bolbi enter.
"What in Einstein's name! Guys!" Jimmy darted to them and gave them a big group hug.
"Hey, why did they receive a hug and I didn't?" Cindy asked to Libby and Libby arched an eyebrow for her to realize what she was saying,
"I mean... why did those dorks get one? They don't deserve it... eheh." She scratched her nape, trying to change the subject.
"Who are you?" Sheen asked,
"You don't remember me?" Jimmy asked and Carl began to check him out for any significance of identity,
"Hmm... no." Carl turned and walked to the counter,
"I'll have a purple flurp float with cherry on top." He weaved his hand in circles around his stomach, thinking how delicious it could be.
"You seem familiar... are you Corky Shimatzu! Oh I love your works!"
"Sheen, Corky is dead. He died due to a camera falling in his swimming pool."
"In English terms?"
"He was electrocuted."
"Oh. Wait, you mentioned my name earlier! Who are you?" He grinned angrily and tugged Jimmy's collar pulling him off the floor.
"Goddard, defense mechanism Gamma." Then Goddard began to assemble a hologram of Ultralord so that Sheen would look at it.
"ULTRALORD!" Sheen rushed to the hologram and it only flickered when he jumped into it.
"Oww... wait, you commanded Goddard and he followed! Who are you!" He tugged Jimmy's collar once more,
"Don't you get it? I'm Jimmy Neutron! Your best friend since Grade 5!" He smiled the Jimmy way and so, Sheen started to gather his thoughts,
"You know Jimmy and you mentioned his surname! Who are you! Tell me now or you'll feel the wrath of Ultralord!" He tugged his collar again with his fist clenched in front of Jimmy's face,
"I am Jimmy! Can you remember? We went to Mars together and the hydro quantum energy, the asterubies! The Yolkians! The League of Villains! Can you still remember?"
"Oh, you really are Jimmy!" Then Sheen hugged him tightly,
"Hmph, boys."
"Hey guys, we're going to be late for the flurpalooza!" Bolbi replied, for once he sounded quite more normal.
"Yeah, and this is great!" Carl crested his legs above the counter and carefully placed them while drinking his float.
"I missed you guys." Jimmy grinned but he looked down, frowning,
"What's wrong, Jimmy? Is it me? Is it Carl? Is it Bolbi? Is it Ultralord?" He pointed at the surreal image,
"It's somebody inside the area of the Candy Bar. It vexes me greatly to see her, I'm kind of nervous."
"By the sound of her, I'd say she's a girl!" After the last word, Sheen's eyes crossed like two trains colliding,
"Yeah, sort of. But I'd rather not-"
"Hey hot stuff." Sheen straightened his arm and laid his hands on Cindy's and Libby's table, looking at Libby.
"Oh, Cindy. Jimmy said he misses you." Cindy was shocked, stuttering,
"I-I-I-I, wait. Is this some kind of a joke?"
"No, he really does miss you amongst all the people in the whole wide world."
"Ah shut up, you're kidding." Cindy crossed her arms again, looking at the chandelier, then Jimmy blocked the sight,
"Yeah, I really do. But you know, as a... friend." He returned to his seat that was behind Cindy's chair so you could say, back-to-back. Then Goddard came to him and showed his screen,
"Alert, alert. Someone got stung by a cupid honeybee! Alert, alert! Call 2968442!" If you convert the numbers, you can spell out somebody's name. Then Jimmy sunk in his seat, literally. And what would you expect? Another spy mission.
"Welcome back, Agent Neutron." A black man from the shadows said,
"Could you be... no... The agency was chronologically gone! It had been four years since the Shutdown!"
"Oh but here we are." The black man stepped out off the shadows,
"You... I know you but I couldn't remember."
"Just call me Mr. NA."
"O-okay, Mr. NA." Jimmy stuttered, obviously pressured,
"Another threat came back to town, guess who."
"Professor Finbarr Calamitous, he froze himself 2 years ago in a cryogenic chamber and thawed himself 1 year after, he wreaked havoc in New York but I thwarted it and now, he's in Retroville. Following my tracks."
"Oooh, quite a memory you got there, Agent Neutron."
"Yeah, thanks. I guess..."
"Yeah."
"Uhuh."
"Sure."
"Yup."
"Agreed."
"Mm-hm."
"Yes."
"Positive."
"Yep."
"So, you ready?"
"Mm-hm."
"Yup."
"Sure."
"Uhuh."
"Agreed."
"Very well then, gotta blast!" When he finally got out off the HQ, thoughts of Betty Quinlan started to swirl through his head, thinking how she looks like now.
"I wonder." Then he rocketed into his house which was now under his management since his parents died due to duck frenzy. He waited for hours until came evening. He opened the front door and met an accident in the other side of the road. Vortex again.
"What are you doing in the sidewalk, Vortex?" He walked up to her and sat down as well,
"Nothing. I was just pondering. I mean, all those years of competing with you was just another waste of time. You don't deserve maltreatment from me; it was just the thought of being better than everybody else feels great."
"Yeah. Sometimes I do feel like that too. I didn't choose to be genuine, wise, and be hated by everybody else because I'm smarter and think I'm so boastful."
"You do? Oh, because at first I thought that you didn't and it was okay for you."
"Doesn't mean I get A+ from all subjects, I was already okay with it. I mean I just can't be the best from everything you know? I too have side effects and weaknesses."
"Like what?"
"Like... like... like you." His face flushed red but it's good because it was dark enough to hide it in the shadows.
"Me? But... but why?
"I know we've been fighting for years. But I feel always disturbed or distracted in a way when you're here, emotionally."
"Oh. Then that means I should leave?"
"No, it's just that I feel quite... quite attracted to you though I had pictures of Betty Quinlan in my lab. Because if I didn't like you, then I wouldn't say I'm disturbed when you're around and not Betty, right?"
"Yeah..." Then Cindy started to rub her two index fingers together and silence filled the air,
"Do you still remember the times when we stargaze at the park?"
"Yeah."
"I've always wanted to tell you that there. So I guess it happened elsewhere, but it doesn't matter as long as I've already told you. So, can we start all over again?" He stood and lent his hand,
"Hm... sure. I mean it's useless to fight with you anyway." Cindy said as she took his hand,
"You wanna go somewhere tomorrow? It's purely vacant, it is a weekend after all."
"I'll see. So, goodnight!" She dashed to her front door and waved her hands,
"Goodnight, Cindy." For once, he called her by her name. And finally, the conflict between Jimmy and Cindy is finally over. At least...
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Chapter 1, finally done! Hey, that rhymes! So, don't forget to R&R!