Hi, I noticed that this story wasn't on the first page on anymore, so I had to update it, anyway, here goes, this will be pretty long…
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Moving Out
Cindy's eyes opened slowly and her head turned to find herself alone, the holo-clock said it was ten o' clock in the morning. Getting up, she put on clothes from her room that she found on the foot of the bed. After going into the bathroom and combing her hair she looked around, everybody else was asleep, Libby in their room and Sheen and Carl in the movie room. Everyone except for Jimmy who was missing, she found him sitting in the pilot's seat. Looking out the window she saw they had come out of the wormhole and were cruising through a magnificent area of bright stars and beautiful planets ahead. Gazing, jaw hanging slightly at the beauty she failed to notice when Jimmy swiveled his chair and stood up. "Hey Cin', beautiful isn't it." He greeted her. "That's where we're headed." The planet he pointed to in the distance was brilliantly white.
"What's the surface composed of that makes it like that?" She asked him.
"Snow, yes, Snow, they have a similar atmosphere to Earth, and according to sensors, the atmosphere has a higher oxygen content than Earth's. I thought we could go skiing, I have skis and snowboards, and three howerchairs." These were like ski lift chairs, except they floated and you steered them to go to the top of any slope where they followed you down.
A short while later, the others were up and Carl was making pancakes, he loved to cook, because he felt that it was his duty to do anything food-related. Jimmy told the others what his plans were. Sheen, was thrilled at the prospect and even more so when told that Jimmy had a snowboard he could use as opposed to skis. After breakfast, Jimmy landed at the base of the largest mountain, with slopes of varying height and steepness. They all jumped out and Sheen, being Sheen, got his snowboard and started to try to walk up the mountain. Carl brought him back and Jimmy assembled the lifts. He also used a laser to groom the snow, and Sheen started at once, waiting only for his queen to accompany him. Jimmy had a snowboard as well and the others used skis. Carl was mildly afraid of heights, but Sheen cured this by pushing him off a lift ten feet above the top of the mountain and watching him fly down. Jimmy used his watch laser to cut jumps in the slope and had a trick competition with Sheen. After a heated game, Sheen came out victorious, having gone off the side of a slope on a jump and done a spin, traversing a small ravine to land on the other side. He also did a board grab in mid-air and was completely unafraid of almost plummeting down a ravine.
That evening, the others were still on the slopes, but Jimmy was working. Around lunch, it had hit him that once he got back they would make him move, so he was designing a house, well more of a sort of ship than a house. Actually, he hadn't decided what to call it yet but his future home until college.
It was shaped like a large disk, not a UFO disk, no that was stupid, more like a large disk with engines in the back. It was a floor high and had a bedroom, a kitchen, a large sunlight living room, a bathroom and a command center that was like the cockpit of the craft. It could fly and was entirely composed of a steel that could be made transparent or various degrees of opaque. The only other part was an area the size of a two-car garage that he was to keep his car and rockets in. He planned on building all of the appliances and furniture and buying what he couldn't build, he decided to sell the design to a DNA analyzer or something of the sort to make money. His plans included a sort of table along all the walls for his inventions and designs and the main computer in the command area. He could design and build his inventions in the garage or another room and he could have it float over the park for example.
He smiled, but the smile faded from his face. "Damn. I need to get legal permission from my "legal guardians" to live in this thing. But how? Damn it!" He cursed vehemently. He knew his parents would never hive him permission, they would force him to move with them.
Cindy knew that eventually, all good things must come to a bitter end. And so was the case with their glorious day. After a long, long time, she followed Libby and Sheen down the mountain to their RV or more appropriately, Carl's, who was following her at a slow pace. This was due to the fact that he was walking, as opposed to skiing, down the mountain.
When Carl eventually caught up, the others were already taking off their skis and ski boots.
"Man Jimmy, that was totally AWESOME!" Sheen exclaimed.
He started to continue, but was hit in the back of the head by a large block of snow.
"CARL!" He yelled accusingly.
"What?" Came his thick reply from behind an energy bar.
"You…" Sheen began, but Jimmy cut him off mid sentence.
"MOVE!" This warning came just in time and he pushed Libby and Cindy out of the way of the beginnings of an avalanche.
Snow and ice thundered down the side of the mountain as Jimmy ran behind his friends back into the RV.
Cindy had already started the engine and was engaging the afterburner when Jimmy sat down next to her. Taking control, he skipped the pre-flight check, gunning the engine in a desperate attempt to outrun the huge avalanche that turned out to be the mountain erupting.
"WHAT THE HELL?" Cindy yelled. "A volcano, on an ice planet, what's up with that?"
"I don't know, but right now, that doesn't really matter." Jimmy said between gritted teeth as he pulled up from the ground. The speed of the engines pushed them back in their seats as they hit higher and higher speeds, and then, it stalled.
In mid-air, the heavy gravity of the planet they were on, combined with the unusual atmosphere jammed the engine, and, nose up, they were stopped. Engines straining to keep them there, Jimmy pushed the sub-light drives to the max and, using both hands to keep the stabilizers on full brake, he used his food to kick a lever forward on the dashboard.
In mid-air, the wormhole-generator ripped open time and space, sending them careening through the time-space continunuum and utterly obliterating the planet they had just left behind.
Jimmy couldn't risk exiting by conventional means since they were going to fast, so he did the only thing possible, he set them on a collision course.
The way he planned on "exiting" the wormhole was to use the generator to make a contradictory wormhole inside. He would do this with full brakes on, which, in theory would rip them out of all wormholes and right on course with, hopefully, Earth.
"Cindy, I need you to be type these numbers into the generator. 37394668201245. And be ready to pull that handle on my mark." He ordered, not stopping to explain.
She did so without question, and Jimmy grabbed both thrusters. "Now!" He yelled, jamming the thrusters into full brake. She pulled the handle down the control panel, re-engaging the generator. The combination caused another hole in the continunuum, and they slammed into each other, sending the ship spinning back into real-space.
Jimmy struggled to bring the spin under control as it rocketed through earth's atmosphere. Cindy grabbed the controls as well and together, they pulled the ship up.
With the ship under control, Jimmy glided down over South America and nosed toward Texas. The nav-system, aimed the ship at Retroville and Jimmy brought it down safely.
Later that night.
Jimmy was sitting on his roof. He had spent the past few hours in a furious shouting match. He had been screaming at his parents and they ended it by telling him they had changed where they were moving from New York to an island in the Caribbean.
He picked up a rock next to him and threw it, it hit the driveway next to his mom's car.
He stood up and jumped down off of the roof and onto his front lawn.
He checked his watch, it was around eleven o' clock so he figured his friends might be at the Candy Bar. He was looking for one person in particular.
He slowly made his way to the center of town, hands in his pockets.
He trudged down the sidewalk, thinking. He was trapped, as if between two opposing armies, readying for combat. He couldn't allow himself to leave, yet he had no choice. For once in his life, his genius couldn't help him, all the genius in the world couldn't help him.
Before he knew it, he was outside of the Candy Bar, and he could see strobe lights flashing inside.
"What the hell?" He asked, startled.
He ran the last 50 feet and pushed open the doors. Apparently, someone was throwing a party. In the far corner he could see his friends at their usual table.
"Hey Jimmy, I was calling your cell, where were you?" Sheen asked, yelling over the music.
"Oh, I left it in the lab, I was just, thinking." He replied evasively.
Carl slid a soda across the table at his as he sat down next to Cindy. "So, what's this all about?"
"Oh, Nick, I think, is throwing a huge party, he got that DJ and lights and stuff." Carl answered.
"Cool." He said, taking a drink from the can of soda, inside he frowned, he had always hated Nick.
Nick walked up behind him just as this thought crossed his mind. "Hey Neutron, heard you almost got yourself and them killed again." He drawled, gesturing to the other four.
"I saved them." He retorted angrily.
"Yeah, whatever."
"Shut up or." He started, standing up angrily.
"Or what Neutron, or what."
Jimmy didn't answer, his mouth stayed firmly closed as his fist slammed into Nick's gut, he doubled over in pain. And when he stood up, his face was contorted with unspoken fury.
Jimmy didn't wait for a retaliatory blow. He walked past Nick, making sure to slam his shoulder into him as he went.
"Hah, he's just a fucking coward. He can't even fucking fight, hah weak bastard." Nick gloated. His insults were cut short however, when Sheen and Carl stood up.
Sheen lunged, tackling Nick to the ground. Carl was right behind him. Sheen sunk his fist into Nick's face.
Nick threw him off. He got so his feet, wiping blood from his mouth off of his chin. He didn't have time to move however. Carl slammed into him.
Nick was a cheater however, and he sidestepped, pulling a knife from his pocket. Sheen and Carl backed up a step, wary of his weapon. Cindy rolled her eyes and jumped to her feet. Nick whipped around, only to be met by her foot crashing into the side of his face. He went down, and this time, he went down hard. He groaned, spitting out a tooth and bleeding. Cindy, walked out, and the others stayed behind to explain to Sam and the others what had happened.
Walking out of the Candy Bar, Cindy saw Jimmy running toward her. "What happened, what's all the commotion about?" He asked, gesturing to the group of people arguing inside.
"Oh, nothing." She answered evasively.
"Cin' I wanted to talk to you." He said.
"Sure thing, why don't we go for a walk in the park." She suggested.
"Great!" He enthused.
They walked in silence for a moment upon entering the park they knew so well, the place that they had spent countless hours, alone or with their friends, laughing, joking, and playing games like catch.
Jimmy stopped as they reached the lake, they always seemed to end up by the lake, Jimmy liked it there and he took a moment to stare at its glassy, peaceful surface. Breaking out of his reverie, he started "Cin' you know how my parents want me to move to New York, well they changed their minds in a way, now they want to move to some tropical island in the Caribbean. I don't know what to do. I can't legally stay here, but I can't bear to leave." He confessed.
She stayed silent for a moment and then she moved forward, wrapping her arms around his powerful shoulders and pressing her lips to his. They shared a long passionate kiss and when they broke apart, Cindy spoke. "I-I love you."
"I know Cin' I love you too, and I'll come back. Okay. I'll never forget you. I'll come back Cin'. My heart won't let me stay away." He shot her a grin.
Where had all of the days gone? Jimmy wondered. It seemed only yesterday he had been hanging with Cindy, Sheen, Carl and Libby on the ice moon, and now, they were moving.
"Moving." He spat the word like a curse. "Moving…fuck it…moving." He muttered. I hate the whole fucking thing. I hate the fucking trucks. The fucking moving people and the fucking packing. He fumed silently. But it wasn't true he didn't hate that, he really hated the fact that he had to leave. To fucking leave his home. The only place he had ever known. "Fuck it all." He muttered again, kicking the stone wall and getting a stubbed toe in return.
He gave the space that had been his lab an appraising look. He had left the computer, copying all of the data onto a portable drive. He had taken most of the major inventions. As well as all of his favorites, but he had left the monitors and the drives intact. He also had left other helpful devices and set up a hologram manual installed. During his time in Retroville he had planted many wireless cameras around town. He had left them intact and running on miniature solar batteries and he had made it so he could access them from the island he was moving to.
He took one last look at the lab that he had known all his life…today was the day he was leaving, his mind couldn't seem to grasp that he was leaving and never coming back. He checked the computer one last time to make sure it was working and slowly walked to the door, his hands in his pockets, Goddard at his heels.
As he crossed the lawn he shot the various cars, the moving truck, his parents' cars, his sports car, a nasty glare and started to run. He had gotten to the other side of the front lawn when he heard a shout. "Hey Jimmy!" He turned around to see Sheen waving to him from the driveway.
He was leaning on the moving truck along with Libby, Carl and Cindy…Cindy, her long blond hair shining in the sun.
He stopped and walked over to his friends "Hey guys, this it huh, this is the fucking day."
"Damn right, this is the day you move to some goddamn island in the middle of nowhere." Sheen agreed, "Why did your parents have to move again?" He asked for the fifth time since Jimmy had first told him.
"My dad was forced to accept a job in New York, and then they changed it to this island. I mean, I've never even heard of this place." He told him.
"Got it." Sheen thanked him "But why the hell did you have to go…I mean why the fucking hell." He asked, near yelling. He picked up a rock from the ground and threw it as hard as he could up into the air, it came down fast and hit one of the moving people on the head, causing him to drop the box on his foot.
"DAMN IT!" He yelled in pain.
Sheen didn't care, he stuck his hands back in his pockets resolutely.
"Yeah Jim, we're going to miss you." Carl added.
"Hey guys, I mean I can come back to visit, at least until I'm eighteen, then I do what ever I want, I mean, I don't have to go to college." It was true, he had already covered all of the college level material during his free time.
"I guess so." Carl said, not looking any happier about it.
During the whole exchange, Cindy had remained silent. She looked bad, like she had been crying.
Looking at her face, he remembered what it was he had forgotten. "Oh I almost forgot, guys, I want to give you something." He told them. "Come on."
His friends followed him back down into the lab. They stepped out of the elevator to see the familiar space looking clean and more empty than usual. "First of all I'm giving the lab to all of you, I coded the locks to your DNA." He started. "Next I want to give my rockets to Carl and Sheen. And I want to give…wow, this is harder than I thought…Cindy I want you to have Goddard."
"You're giving me Goddard?" Cindy asked in disbelief.
"Well, he's a friend more than a possession, so in a way, I'm asking you to look after him." Jimmy explained rather sadly.
"I, I don't know what to…I can't take Goddard." Cindy stammered.
"Yes you can, I want you to have him." Jimmy assured her. Libby slowly pushed Sheen and Carl into another room in the lab, sensing what was coming and not wanting them to mess it up for Jimmy and Cindy.
"I, I don't know wh" Cindy started.
"Then say yes." Jimmy told her, stepping forward and kissing her with a passion that eclipsed anything before it. After a long time, but what seemed like minutes to the couple who were sharing a final goodbye for what would be years, Jimmy heard his parents' voices.
Fuck! He thought silently, although his face betrayed no visible sign of anger, only overwhelming sadness as they broke apart.
Tears streamed silently down Cindy's face as she looked Jimmy in the eye. "I love you." She told him, her voice cracking for the first time in living memory.
Jimmy shot her a sad grin "I love you too Cin' and I will come back…I swear it."
By this time, Carl, Sheen and Libby had returned from Carl and Sheen's lecture. Jimmy embraced his friends and Libby threw her arms around him, she let go quickly with a glance at Cindy, who smiled reassuringly. They followed Jimmy out to his front yard, where he waved once more, before, ignoring his parents and getting in his car, revving the engine and blasting into the air.
James Issac Neutron, the boy, and then teenager, who was supposedly the town's nuisance of a genius for more years than anyone cared to remember, but in reality, everybody really liked him. And, although he was leaving, one thing to be said, was that he left with a bang. His engine screamed and a burst of light exploded from his car. It exploded to form a message.
"Thanks for the time of my life!" Was spelled in hovering gold letters, accompanied by explosions of light, like huge fireworks.
This farewell was followed by another one, red this time, which spelled a message that made everyone smile sadly.
"I love you Cindy Vortex, always and forever!"