Chapter 15- The General arrives.

In a deserted part of Retroville a time portal opened, from this portal stepped The General. The metal monster surveyed his surroundings, and once he determined that no civilians were in the area, he stepped out into the light of the moon. Captain D was sat on a dumpster waiting for him, idly throwing a silver knife up and down in the air.

"Is everything prepared?" The General asked him slowly. The Captain did not reply, but simply threw the knife upwards, caught it, and then spun it towards The General. The machine caught it, and threw it back.

"Everything is set for your arrival." D told the cruel creature, as he caught the knife and pocketed it.

"Good, how's Neutron?" The General's voice suddenly became full of hatred and evil as he spoke Jimmy's name.

"He's not doing well, his personal life is in ruins." The Captain laughed.

"You could have killed him in the Bahamas." The General remarked.

"I played my part, and the Master was pleased with the end result, that is what counts."

"I don't trust you." The General snarled.

"And why not? I am the perfect soldier: loyal, evil, and brutal." D replied, not even sparing the machine a glance.

"Perhaps, but I don't know who you are; or what your mission is. For all I know you could have your own agenda in this little game."

"You don't need to know who I am, my mission is to confuse Neutron; which I managed exceptionally. I don't have an agenda, other than to serve my

master. And as for "this little game," I think that we're nearing the real battle soon. The little game is over, Hunt was small; now it's time for the true reason behind everything." The General walked away; he would take care of Neutron soon enough.

Jimmy sat back in his lab chair, and sighed. It had been a long day, and Sheen not talking to him had not made it any easier. He cast his mind back to the day…

Jimmy sat down for class, and Cindy sat next to him. To his immediate surprise Nick sat next to Libby, and held her hand.

"What's going on with Libby and Nick?" Jimmy asked Cindy quietly.

"They're going out, apparently Libby asked him this morning. Probably to get back at Sheen, personally I can't see it lasting; there's something about Nick that I don't trust." She told him, and Jimmy nodded in agreement. Something was wrong, but he could not figure out what.

The day dragged on, and Jimmy couldn't wait for it to end. Sheen did not even look at any of his former friends, but instead focused on an item in his backpack. Jimmy did attempt conversation, but Sheen simply walked the other way. It was then that Jimmy noticed something in Sheen's backpack, something peculiar. Jimmy shook his head, and turned away. The rest of the day passed with incident, but Jimmy knew that something was going to happen soon. Something big.

Jimmy began to think about the item, for some reason it bothered him. He could not help but feel that Sheen was involved in the situation, though why he would be involved he could not say. Jimmy attempted to put the problem out of his head, but it continued to bug him. He eventually decided to pull up footage from the school cameras, just to see what was going on.

Jimmy logged on to the school's security system, and pulled up camera footage from his class. He eventually found what he was looking for a shot of Sheen's bag. He smiled to himself, it was lucky that the school had so many cameras, and that they took such useless footage. Jimmy zoomed in on the picture, and stared at the item. He quickly minimised the screen and brought up another. He quickly found what he needed, and restored the previous screen. He compared the two pictures, and gazed unbelievingly at what his screen was telling him. The item was a time tracker, a very powerful piece of machinery. It could pick up messages from any era of time, project holograms of people in different times, and it alerted you when someone was travelling through time. Jimmy had designed a prototype, but nothing as powerful. What was Sheen doing with such a powerful piece of machinery? It couldn't be coincidence. Sheen was involved, or someone had set him up.

Jimmy brought up his own time travel records on the computer, it would tell him if anyone had arrived in the last 24 hours. The machine scanned, but eventually told Jimmy what he needed to know. One thing had arrived via a time portal in the last 24 hours, it had been from a portable power source; and the thing had been part human, part machine. The General. Jimmy stared at the screens; there was no other explanation. Sheen was assisting The General; it was most likely his former friend was the elusive Captain D. Jimmy could not believe it, but he couldn't avoid the facts; Sheen was a traitor.

The next day Jimmy sat in class, and carried on looking at Sheen; who in turn was gazing out of the window. Almost as if he was waiting for something, or someone. The bad feeling that Jimmy had was increasing in size; something was going to happen. The next second there was a massive explosion, and gunfire was heard; along with screaming. Jimmy turned and saw a hideous, half-human, half-metal hybrid walk through the wall, two automatic weapons in it's hands. Yeah, thought Jimmy staring at the mutated menace, that was definitely something.

A.N. A slightly shorter chapter, but I liked it. I enjoyed writing the conversation between Captain D, and The General. I hoped you enjoyed reading it! Our next chapter will have Jimmy and Cindy's first encounter with The General. And the chapter after that will reveal the identity of the master! So review, and it will come! - badwolf1.