sorry for it being so long. i didn't mean for it to be... although that might not be a bad thing *shrug*

Nick slowed down on his skateboard and got off of it, flipping it up to catch it. He unbuckled his helmet and put it under his arm. He pulled out a small piece of paper and then typed in the code, the door moving to the side. He walked in and was surprised to find someone else there.

"James? What are you doing here?"

James turned, looking at Nick angrily.

"I could ask why you're not here. Do you realize what happened?"

"Yeah… I was coming to tell you that anyway."

James made a face at Nick and then lifted an eyebrow.

"If that were the case, then why is it you have your skateboard and are changed into a new set of clothes? If this were a first priority to you, then you would have told me WHEN THEY ESCAPED!" he screamed.

Nick made a face. "Look-"

"Don't even talk to me right now. I want to bask in your stupidity for a moment so that I can talk to you on a level I think your empty head can understand."

Nick said nothing as James looked over the mess that had been made in his small prison he had made. Glass was broken, pipes were leaking, there were deep claw marks in the stone, holes in the walls, blood… So many things wrong with this scene.

"Please tell me that you shot Sheen?"

"I think I did. I heard him give a pretty angry growl after I fired at him so I'm assuming he didn't just stub his toe."

"And Jimmy?"

"He had Jimmy with him and was protective of him like a mother bear."

"Is that your excuse for not going after them?"

Nick shrugged. "It's all I've got."

James wanted to throttle him but at least the idiot was honest in his stupidity. He sighed and ran his fingers through his hair.

"Well, since the plan has pretty much been ruined, we will have to take drastic measures now."

"I meant to ask you, I know getting revenge on Nerdtron and all is part of your goal, but what's with the pregnancy thing? What was that supposed to do?"

"It was something to cause an issue that could not be settled normally. Jimmy is a 'good lad' and he would never kill an innocent child… even if he were harboring it. I wanted his friends to abandon him and I wanted him to feel as if there was no hope. Unfortunately, people around here are pretty acceptable of Prego-tron…"

"So… what are you going to do now? I mean, your whole plan was to take over Jimmy's life so I could get Cindy back and everything would be like it should."

"The plan is still in motion…" James smiled as he looked at his watch and his smile got even bigger. "I think I'm going to pay a little visit on an old friend of mine…"

Jimmy opened his eyes a little and looked around for a second. He wasn't in the small prison but he wasn't at his house either. Where was he? Was he safe? He panicked slightly as he moved his hand to put on his stomach. Feeling the distended stomach still there, he sighed of relief and tried to understand what had happened.

"Ooh, ooh! Timmy! Fudge Head's awake!" he heard someone say above him.

Jimmy looked up and saw Cosmo staring at him with his usual goofy grin and Jimmy lifted an eyebrow.

"I must be dreaming…" he mumbled.

"Nope, real as can be, Neutron."

Hearing the familiar voice, Jimmy turned his head and saw Timmy standing in the doorway. He frowned.

"Why are you here?"

"Well, 'you're welcome'." Timmy said with a roll of his eyes.

"Seriously, what are you doing here? I told you that you couldn't do that!"

"I asked him here, Jimmy." Cindy said, coming from behind Timmy. "Jeez, after everything he had to bend around to get you back to normal…"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Da Rules can be pretty hard to navigate but we found a small loophole to fix your concussion." Wanda said, floating next to Jimmy's head.

Jimmy touched his head, remembering that he had had a concussion. He then looked at Cindy and looked at his pregnant stomach, suddenly becoming self conscious.

"I… I can explain…" he said, looking away.

"You don't have to." She said. "It's okay… Besides, after a few days I kind of got used to it."

"How can this be okay?!" he yelled, glaring at her. "Why are you so passive about everything? Do you even fight for what you want anymore?"

Timmy made a face and turned around.

"I'm going to see if Mrs. Neutron needs some help. This sounds like a personal issue."

"Same here. Come on, Cosmo." Wanda said, grabbing his shirt.

They all left as Cindy looked down at the ground, not saying anything. Jimmy really didn't mean for things to get awkward…

"How am I passive about everything, Jimmy?" She looked up. "Seriously?"

"You just don't seem to try and fight for anything. When I left, you just agreed to it. When I come back, you stopped being everything I remembered just so your dumb boyfriend wouldn't feel out-shadowed. You let that dumb boyfriend beat on you-"

"This was you, if you must know." She grumbled when she pointed to her eye.

"What?"

"You went into hysterics while you were under your concussion and punched me pretty good."

Jimmy made a face. "I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about before. Don't think I'm an idiot and didn't know."

"I was hoping your people skills were still as dull as ever."

"Being on the normal end of the spectrum for once helped me harness my people skills a little better. That's not the point. The point is that now, even in the midst of my evil counterpart taking over me, missing for weeks on end, and now being pregnant –heavily so-, you're still okay with it."

"Well what the hell do you expect me to do, Neutron?! Huh? When you left, what was I going to say to try and stop you? Huh? Tell me honestly what would have stopped you from leaving." Jimmy said nothing. "Exactly. Nothing. You had set it in your mind that what you had done was your fault and you decided that you wanted to leave. No amount of begging was going to change that. When you came back, I was with Nick and I was fine with the way things were. Sure, a lot of stuff went over his head, but I felt a little at peace. I wasn't vying for the top spot all the time."

"Well shit, Cindy, I'm sorry I came and ruined your #1 spot…" he growled.

"I'm going to blame some of this on being emotional… that being said… this issue is odd. I won't say it's strange or completely illogical, it's just odd. Odd stuff happens to you, Jimmy. It's something that me and the others have come to terms with. You do odd things, you make odd things, you are odd things… so when odd things happen to you, it's just more like something normal. This one is a little off the beaten trail but nothing out of the ordinary for you."

Jimmy sighed and began to try and sit up on the couch. Cindy walked over and helped him up and he leaned back on the couch as Cindy sat beside him.

"I'm sorry." He said, looking down at his cumbersome stomach. "I just… I guess odd stuff hasn't happened to me in such a long time. Since I haven't been able to do what inventions I wanted to do, I lost my creativity in the process and now… well…"

"You just went through something pretty traumatic. What, I don't know… Right now we kind of need to find Sheen."

Jimmy looked up quickly. "Sheen's not here?"

"No, he left as soon as he deemed it safe for you to be with us, I guess… He seemed different…"

Jimmy knew the issue but he didn't think he should tell Cindy about it.

"He probably went home… at least I hope he did."

"Jimmy." He looked up as Judy smiled in relief. "Thank goodness! We thought you wouldn't make it."

"Hey, Mom…" he said softly with a wave.

"It's odd to say but you have no idea how happy I am to see that baby bump."

Jimmy moved from leaning on it and looked away.

"Yeah…"

"It's nothing to be embarrassed about, Neutron." Timmy said. "Cosmo was pregnant with Poof. I mean, seahorses have the males that get pregnant."

"Those are Syngnathidaes, naturally able to procreate with that sort of sexual transfer. I am a human and this," he said pointing. "Is impossible."

"Not unless you wished for it."

"But I didn't wish for it… James did."

"Who is James?" Judy asked.

Jimmy sighed. "In an experiment I did a long time ago, I cloned myself. There were six clones and one them was my moral opposite, Evil Jimmy, or as he calls himself, James. I thought that I defeated him a long time ago and he's come to seek revenge on me. He somehow got into my lab and redirected my wish to this. I'm not sure how but I know there is a small blip on my security feed where he must have teleported in or something. I'm not exactly sure why this was what he wanted to do but… here I am…"

"I hope that you haven't done any more experiments like that, have you?"

"No, I didn't want to risk it again."

"So what do we do?" Libby asked, coming out of the kitchen. "I mean, we don't know what Evil Jimmy's plan is. The last time you were in touch with him, from what you told us, he had tried to make another Earth and wipe us out entirely. I thought you said he was lost in the Dark Matter?"

"He was… or so I thought. He must have gotten out somehow…"

"So you don't know anything that he's planning?"

"I was left to starve half the time listening to Nick beat up on Sheen for his own pleasure. I hardly saw James and when I did, he was usually berating me or prodding Sheen. They always discussed things outside of my hearing."

"What did they want with Sheen?" Libby asked in concern.

"That's something for him to tell you."

Libby seemed to puff up for a second and she walked over to Jimmy. She grabbed his shirt and pulled him to her, looking him dead in the eyes.

"If anything else happens to Sheen because of you I don't care if you are pregnant or what, I will kick your ass to High Tech City and beyond. Tell me what's going on!"

"I want to, I really do, but he made me promise not to tell you. Honest! He didn't want you to think about him or worry senselessly about him. He wants you to be with Carl and forget him."

Libby clenched her jaw and pulled away from Jimmy, her hand balled into a fist.

"I'm so sick and tired of people telling me when or how I care about Sheen's wellbeing. If I want to worry about that idiot until I'm old and gray, I should have that priority!" She tromped to the front door, grabbing her purse and coat. "I'm going to find Sheen."

She opened the door and then slammed it shut as Cindy watched helplessly.

"Well then…" Judy said. "I guess that's all we can do at the moment. Jimmy, I made some cookies in here for everyone. I know it's not exactly the meal you were hoping for, but it's food?"

"Thanks. Cookies sound great…"

It had been a few days since Sheen had come home and he had avoided his father for the time being. He knew Franco was worried but Sheen didn't know if he could trust his father. The last time he said something out of the ordinary, he ended up in institutions and now with a curse like being a werewolf. Telling his father that was like driving the knife even deeper. He had paced the room more times than he could remember as he debated to himself if he should tell his father what was happening.

"Sheen?" Franco said with a small knock from the outside of his door.

Sheen stopped pacing as the door opened and Franco looked inside.

"Are you up for something to eat today? I know your appetite hasn't been very high since you got back… but I made some fajitas; the steak ones that you like."

Sheen thought about it for a moment and nodded, following Franco to the dinner table. As they sat, Sheen poked at his steak a little and then finally decided he would say it… come what may.

"I'm a werewolf." He blurted.

Franco stopped mid sour cream scoop and looked at his son in confusion.

"What?"

"I said that… that I'm a werewolf. That's what's been going on with me."

Franco closed his eyes and finished making his fajita, even biting into it before he said something.

"How is that possible?"

Sheen fidgeting at the chance to explain.

"When… when we were kids, Jimmy had this thing that turned you into movie monsters. It was just to make our costumes more believable but it actually turned us into the monsters on the machine. I got turned into a werewolf… after Jimmy took off the effects, apparently there were still small traces of DNA left within anyone who had been changed and… and… uh…"

"Go on."

"One of the institutions that I went to… this last one… it wasn't an institute at all… It was an experimental lab. They found the traces of werewolf DNA inside of me from a deep scan that indicated it was a mystery. So… they activated it and once the dog is off the leash, so to speak… so… yeah… there you go…"

Franco mulled over the situation a little as he finished off his fajita. He began to make another one, making Sheen even more nervous because he wasn't saying anything.

"So this is Jimmy's fault as well? Because it seems that your adventure into space was also the result of his experiments."

"You can't blame Jimmy for any of this at all." Sheen said a little forcefully. "Me going into space was my fault. Jimmy told me not to touch his stuff… This one was something that not even Jimmy could have known would have happened. You didn't know it was an experimental lab place and we could have never predicted that they would find the DNA and then activate it. I don't blame Jimmy for anything."

Franco sighed, drinking some of his beer.

"I believe you, Sheen."

Sheen looked at his father in confusion. "Y-you do?"

"I made a mistake once and I won't do it again. I never told you that I remembered that crazy time in space with that weird green dinosaur chicken. Apparently all of the other parents forgot but I didn't… that's why I was so hard on you, son. I lost a lot of friends because I was trying to get them to remember that time but they thought I was weird… I didn't want that for you."

A knock at the door startled them and Franco got up to get it. Sheen finally dug into the steak of his fajita, feeling better about the situation when he smelled it. That perfume… He lifted his head up as Franco walked in with Libby behind him.

"Um… I believe you have a visitor."

"Libby-"

"Tell me what's going on. Now."

ah libby is quite angry now. and she just went to see if he had gone back home and got lucky so it's not like she knew he was there. and what is that devilish james up to now? hmm?