Catfight
Chapter 3
Zukone

Within the confines of the sterile lab, Carl and Sheen gawked at Jimmy's new inventions.

"What is it?" the Ultralord fanatic asked.

After taking a giant slurp of purple smoothie Jimmy put it down before he went onto his explanation. He coughed. "This, gentlemen is an anthropomorphizer." He said.

"Who da huh?" Sheen asked.

"It's a ray gun that gives people animal like characteristics."

"Sweet!" Sheen cried before yanking it from Jimmy's hand.

"No thank you," Jimmy said grabbing it back hastily. "It's very dangerous. I haven't worked out all the kinks yet."

"So, what's your point?"

Jimmy rolled his eyes.

"Jimmy." Carl asked.

"Yes Carl."

"What's that?" Carl said in a slow droll while pointing at another one of Jimmy's recent prototypes.

"Oh that. It's a digger 2000."

"What does it do?"

"Well I'm glad you asked that, Carl,-even though a name like digger 2000 is almost self-explanatory. What it does is simple. It makes digging easier. You just put it on your hands and voila, it extends out to help with removal of dirt, digging tunnels etc. I hope it will be useful when I try to acquire raw materials. It's more lightweight than some of my other tools.

"Oo, oo. I have a question too." Sheen asked.

"Go for it."

"I saw you kissing Cindy today."

"Gah."

"Avoiding the question aye!"

"Sheen, that's not even a question."

"Just answer it anyway!"

"Uhm. Okay. Listen Gentlemen. I know this will come as a shock to you. However, I have some news. You see. I don't know how to tell you this, but I no longer have a crush on Betty Quinlan."

The two boys remained silent.

"I don't get it. Do you?" Sheen asked Carl. Carl shook his head.

"My new affections lean towards Cindy." Jimmy explained.

"We already knew that. What's so earth shattering about that?"

"The big deal is that we were sworn mortal enemies."

"Jimmy?" Carl whined, "If your sworn moro, morti. Um if you hate each other then why do you like her?"

"I don't know."

"I think it's because you saw her in mud." Sheen interjected.

"Yeah and mud looks like chocolate. Mm." Carl said.

"That's illogical. Betty was in the mud too and I don't like her anymore."

"It wasn't the same," Sheen said shaking his head, "Cindy was more raw. I mean I really believed she was going to tear out Betty's throat."

Jimmy had a satisfied smirk for just a nanosecond before he shook his head. "Well, no matter the reason. I like Cindy and I'm going to try and win her over absolutely."

"Whatever. It's not like you have a choice anyway. She fought and won you fair and square. She owns you now."

Carl nodded, "I hope she'll let us visit you."

"-or borrow you. That would be awesome."

"Idiots."

"What?" they said in unison.

"Nothing."

"Nick Deen approaching the lab." Vox announced while the video output appeared on screen showing Nick punching his fist into his hand.

Jimmy looked at his watch. "Ah. Right on schedule." He said. "Let's see where the other elements are. Subject B en route. Subject C is in position with approximately 5 minutes to intercept." Jimmy finished his purple drink and tossed the empty carton on the ground before crushing it.

Carl and Sheen looked at each other perplexed by what they had just seen. The boys looked back toward the lab where the inventions lay with grins plastered on their faces.

oO Oo

"Hello Dick Deen- I mean Nick Deen. Slip of the tongue there," Jimmy said. "I apologize."

"You did that on purpose you big headed freak."

"Why, I don't know what you're talking about." Jimmy feigned. "May I help you?"

"Oh no. Cuz see, Imma help myself to kicking your…"

"Ass-istants are hard to come by. Goddard is off limits. Right boy" he said petting the robot dog. "Go on ahead inside." Goddard gave him a questioning look, but the genius waved the dog off and he reluctantly complied.

Nick clenched his fist.

"I assume this has to do with my kissing Cindy Vortex. I was the one who kissed her. Not the other way around."

"I already know that. She's not that desperate."

"Yes, but I also wanted to remind you that she's the one who came after me. Running no less."

"What are you implying?"

"Implying? I'm surprised you even know that word. In any case, I don't intend on being that subtle." Jimmy eyed Nick with a dangerous look. "Of course Cindy still likes me. I would even bet you that she's in love with me. Now I am sure that as your rival, you wouldn't just take my word for it. So, Let's look at the evidence. Number 1, she has a history of liking me. She might have had a little crush on you, but you're more eye candy. Women seek long term relationships with substantial people. Number 2, when it came down to it, I'm the one she'd fight for. Of course I know this because she's already done it. Number 3, and as I said before, she was the one who came after me at the Candy shop. Furthermore, she didn't exactly push me away when I did kiss her."

"She was just shocked." Nick assured. "I'd be devastated too if some nerd drooled all over my face."

"I do recall an exchange of saliva. It was nice. But that's not my last point. Number 4, although it might not be as strong as I am not entirely sure, I think she gave me a lingering look when I was leaving." In a dramatic display Jimmy grabbed his chin as if he were seriously pondering then said, "Perhaps you can tell me since you had a better view at the window of the Candy Bar."

Nick seethed and took a deep breath visibly trying to contain his anger.

The boy chuckled. "Now tell me. Did she tell you about it? I bet she didn't even think to see if you were looking. She must not have cared. Do you know why? It was because she was thinking about me. Now don't you feel silly? You can't even keep her attention for more than an hour." Jimmy looked down at his watch gave an oddly warm smile, "I'll take good care of her"

"That's it. I've had enough." Nick threw a fist at the genius and slugged him in the eye. His next punch landed in Jimmy's gut. The cool boy hit him a couple of more times until Jimmy slumped over.

He vaguely saw Nick wind up for another punch when he heard him umph and fall to the side.

"Jimmy. Jimmy. Are you OK?"

"Is that an angel I hear?"

"No. It's me Cindy."

"Same difference." The boy genius looked up at her to confirm what she had said, "Yep. I've died and gone to heaven."

Maybe there's 1 more "plot" driven chapter left in this one. I hiccuped a bit at the beginning, but I smoothed it out some.

Feel free to tell me what you think. This is more of a loosy goosey type of writing for me. While I am giving some attention to it, it's more of a relaxation piece. Keep that in mind as you review. I hope you enjoy.

Domo Arigato