Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future

Episode 01: Time of Change

Plot: With the Cadets finally graduated to full-fledged Nicktoons, things seem to be going great in the future- except for SpongeTron who notices changes in his friends and fears what other changes may be coming around him. Things are also turning strange for Jimmy as a shape-shifting robot wants to assassinate him and a hooded figure wants to protect him. Jimmy must now task the Nicktoons with solving this mystery by investigating an old nemesis of his.

Part 2

Back in HQ, Darry was reading a science book, Tammy was texting on her phone, and Tommy was on his laptop. SpongeTron noticed this was just what they were doing at the graduation party. "Come on, guys!" SpongeTron urged, trying to lighten the mood, "Don't you wanna have fun? Play games, watch cartoons? A lot better than a pile of boring books, clubs, and MMORPG, right?"

"Sorry SpongeTron," Darry replied, keeping his eyes on the book. "But I'm taking a look at Jimmy's science books to see if they have anything interesting that'll help make me a scientist."

"I'm looking at comments on that video I uploaded of Jimmy yesterday on my fan-club blog." Tammy explained. "It has over 2 million views so far."

"I'm with a couple other kids right now fighting a boss." Tommy explained. "I can't exit out of this to do something else."

SpongeTron made an exasperated groan. "What makes you guys wanna do all that? For the past few weeks, it really feels like you all...all...changed."

Darry then looked up at him and asked, "What was that, SpongeTron?"

"Nothing," SpongeTron sadly replied and walked away. He then sees Max in his walker and rushes over to him happily, "At least I still have you, Maxie. A small human infant who can't do anything by himself and still needs me." Max then reaches into his walker and pulls out his rattle that he throws up to knock a bag of cookies off the counter and fall right into his lap. He smiles and starts gnawing on a cookie.

SpongeTron frowned as he slowly walked away. Cindy was cooking something in the kitchen when SpongeTron came up to the fridge and pulled out a large can of motor oil that he slurps down. "A gallon of motor oil," she noticed, "That tells me something's up."

SpongeTron pouted, "It's nothing. Nothing that concerns you."

"If you feel down about something, you should tell me," Cindy stated, "Like it or not, we're a family, and family always comfort each other when something's wrong." SpongeTron stops chugging his motor oil, looking at Cindy. "You don't have to be afraid to talk to me about anything."

"Oh, I'm not afraid to express my feelings. I'm a robot, I'm built to overcome any emotion," the ST-Unit proudly stated, banging on his chest. There was an awkward silence between the two when finally... "I'm not scared...I'm TERRIFIED," SpongeTron admitted in a frantic manner, "It's like my friends aren't the same people I know anymore... Darry's choosing a career, Tommy's making friends online, and Tammy's being more pre-occupied with her fan-club. What's worse is Max is changing as well." He grabbed Cindy by her shirt and screamed, "This change is TEARING ME AND MY FRIENDS APART!"

Cindy pushed him off her and asked, "SpongeTron, who on Earth told you that change is a bad thing?"

"Well, 911 told me."

Cindy scoffed, "911, I should have known..." She sighed and explained, "You know what I think? You're not scared of them changing."

"I'm...not?"

"You're afraid that you may never change. That you can't grow up just like them," Cindy explained.

"What?" SpongeTron replied in surprise, "Pffth, that's crazy. I'm a robot, I've always known I'd never grow up...and would eventually outlive humanity."

"Of course you know that." Cindy continued, "That's why you're upset. Everyone around you is growing up and changing, but you're still the same. You wanna be like the rest of your friends, but you feel like you can't and that you're missing out."

"Upset that I'm missing out on this CHANGE nonsense?!" SpongeTron yelled. He turned away and began storming out. "I may be losing my friends, but I'm not done yet battling this change." he chugs his motor oil and realizes it's empty, "I'm out of oil. I'm going to get some more."

After he threw the can on the ground and left, Cindy groaned in annoyance. "Why did Neutron have to give him emotions?"

In the lab, Jimmy opened his drawer and took out the schematics for his new invention. "It doesn't matter what Eustace uses his money to build. My new invention is gonna put his business to shame." he then checked his watch and folded the schematic into small squares so he can put it in his coat pocket. "They should be at Strych Enterprises by now. I better grab Goddard and see what they're doing."

Seeping through the cracks in the doors, Morph watched through its one eye as Jimmy left the room. Jimmy goes back to the main room as Goddard barked, receiving a signal from the Cadets. Goddard opens his screen and the signal adjusts until the screen shows an image of a large building.

"Is this the right place?" Kida asked, staring at the tall building.

Yuki looks at the back of her new phone to see the Strych Enterprises logo on it. Then she looks at the top of the building to see the exact same logo on a large sign. "Yup, this is definitely the place." she announced.

"Great." Junior said in excitement as he began walking to the door. "Let's go meet Mr. Strych."

But Yuki grabbed his shoulder and snapped, "What do you think you're doing?"

"Going inside." he answered in a confused tone.

"And get caught and blow the mission? No way," Yuki stated.

"We're supposed to barge in an' beat the stuffin' out everyone inside until we MAKE 'em tell us where Eustace is." Crash said, pounding his fist into his hand.

"No..." Yuki said with a dull frown. "We gotta sneak in past the cameras and guards, and if my hunch is correct, the boss's room must be at the very top. So you ready?"

"You know it!" they all said enthusiastically. Twitchy held his heat signature radar and the screen showed a bunch of dots near the front entrance. He pointed at the alley way and they all followed him until they find a door.

Yuki tried to open the door, but it was locked. She pointed at the knob and Junior turned it once, only for it to come off its hinges, opening the door. Junior felt guilty about breaking it, but the others just ran right inside. Yuki then backed everyone into a corner when they were almost caught by a security camera.

Kida takes out a slingshot and one of the computer chips. She aims and shoots the chip at the camera, causing it to spark and shut down. With the security cam out, the Cadets ran out and continued their mission. They run up the stairs until they reach a long hallway that led to an elevator. Twitchy used his monitor to see the rooms were full of people which they decided to avoid. Kida then slung another chip at a security camera to shut it down.

The Cadets stopped and hid behind a plant when they noticed a security guard standing by the elevators. Crash grabbed the slingshot from Kida and loaded it with another computer chip which he used to hit the elevator button. Once the door opened and the elevator arrived. They all run past the guard and jump inside the elevator just before it closed.

Watching the entire job through Goddard's screen was Jimmy, and was entirely impressed by their stealth. Once the elevator doors open, they come out and see a couple doors in the hallway. Kida took out another security camera and Twitchy looks at the device he held. He sees a red dot behind the last door and they rush over to see a door with a sign that read "Company President".

They smile at each other, assuming they have found Eustace's office. Junior looks the other way and spots a snack machine. Remembering Jimmy's "mission" to him, he takes the dollar out of his pocket and goes over to it. Seeing him wander off, Yuki loudly whispers, "Junior, what are you doing? We need you to get us inside."

"But Jimmy told me to buy a snack along a way," Junior reminded.

Yuki grabbed his arm, "We can do that later. Come on!"

Junior cried out, "But Jimmy will be disappointed if I fail!"

Unbeknownst to him, Jimmy slapped his head, watching the scene, regretting what he has tasked Junior with.

Yuki was about to say something until they hear the doorknob turning. She gasped and whispered to her friends, "Quick, hide!" The door opened and Eustace walks out of his office, not noticing the Cadets hiding around various objects in the hall. He enters another room and Twitchy quickly throws his device to ajar Eustace's office door slightly so they could get in.

Once inside, they all went through Eustace's things and drawers to find anything. Yuki looked at paperwork from the file cabinet, Kida looked through his desk, Twitchy checked the computer, and Junior just played with the desk lamp by flickering the lights as he giggled.

"Find anything?" Jimmy asked Crash as he searches though the drawers.

"Nope," Crash answered, shaking his head.

Yuki reads a couple of folders, saying, "I don't see anything about nanobot technology or blueprints for latest RA, except the 10X."

"Well, keep looking," Jimmy commanded, "There has to be something."

Twitchy sighs in disappointment at not finding anything they were looking for until he spots a glass bowl of gourmet chocolates sitting on the desk next to him. He grins and grabs handfuls that he stuffs in his mouth. Yuki sees Twitchy and points out, "Hey! We're not supposed to leave evidence that we were here!"

But suddenly, they heard the doorknob turning. "Quick, hide again." She whispered loudly as everyone hid inside the room. Twitchy and Kida hid behind the curtains, Junior and Yuki hide behind the cabinet, and Crash hid under the desk. Unfortunately, Jimmy was unable to see what was going on due to Crash's hiding place.

"What do you mean the RAs aren't ready?" Eustace scolded at two of his employees and a RA-Unit as they came to his office.

"I'm sorry, sir. But it took a couple months to create a fusion core for the RA to function," a scientist explained, "No way we can make a thousand more within a week."

"Don't you see I promised the military I'd produce a thousand units for them?" Eustace shouted, "If I succeed, I get enough investment to produce thousands more to outnumber those so-called ST-Units Neutron is proud of! So I want a thousand RA-Units working properly ASAP!"

Suddenly, the RA-10X looked up and scanned more lifeforms present (likely the Cadets). It raised a plasma cannon at Eustace, though it may have been pointing at his desk where Crash is.

The two scientists were startled when Eustace groaned in frustration and simply ordered, "Cool it."

The employees took out a weapon and sprayed a freezing liquid at the robot. Soon, the RA put its weapon down and shuts off. "How's its power reactor?" Eustace asked.

"Good, but still unstable, sir," the employee stated, "We're still fixing the RA's core's sensitivity to extreme temperature."

Eustace sighed, "Put it back with the rest and make sure they function right, or you're fired!" The employees yelped as they push the deactivated RA away. Once he was alone, Eustace gave an exasperated sigh as he sat in his desk chair. "What am I gonna do?" he asked, holding his head. "If I don't come up with something that'll put Neutron's homemade inventions to shame, I'll be ruined." then he looked at his chocolate bowl, noticing the small amount inside. "Hey, who ate my imported gourmet chocolates?" he yelled. From behind the curtain, Twitchy looked at his paws that had traces of chocolate on it and he started licking his fingers.

Eustace then noticed his desk lamp not in its usual spot and moved it back into place. Under the desk, Eustace stretched his legs out and unknowingly placed them on top of Crash, who lied there trying to be quiet.

Jimmy bit his lip anxiously and quickly whispered to him, "Crash, you all have to get out of there now." Crash nodded as he slowly takes Eustace's feet off him and places them on the ground. Eustace starts to snooze after a long day, giving the Cadets a chance to get out of their hiding place, open a window, and sneak out.

Once outside, Yuki closes the window after they jump out the ten story building, but Kida uses her magic to have them levitate to safety. "Sorry, Neutron," Yuki said in disappointment, "We couldn't find any connection between Strych and that Morph thing."

Jimmy sighed in disappointment and responded, "That's fine. At least you made it out safely. Return to HQ immediately." Goddard puts down his screen as Jimmy slumps back on his chair. Then a pair of feminine hands rubbed his shoulders.

"Feeling alright, Neutron?" Cindy asked him.

"I feel as if I was on a wild goose chase," Jimmy sighed, "We still can't find anything on that robot that tried to kill me. If only it were here, so we could get more physical evidence."

"Be careful what you wish for, Neutron. It may come true."

Suddenly, he noticed black liquid sliding down his shoulders and working its way around his neck. Before he could react, he was suddenly lifted into the air and slammed against walls and the floor. While pinned to the wall, Jimmy opened his eyes and looked down the black liquid arm to see it was connected to his wife. Jimmy stared in shock as he asked in a shaky voice, "Cindy?"

Cindy said nothing as she changed to its default form: Morph. It screeched as it raised its claw-like fingers. Goddard barked wildly as he ran forward to attack Morph before it could harm his master. But Morph simply swung its other arm and swats Goddard into a tub of equipment.

Jimmy closed his eyes, thinking it would finish him off. But the door opened and the figure in the hood ran in and raised his hands, shooting out a strange force that hit Morph. A wave of lightning zapped Morph and traveled down its arms, shocking Jimmy, but caused the robot to drop Jimmy on the ground. The stranger widened his eyes in surprise and angrily kicked Morph.

In the living, SpongeTron was dully watching a karate movie on TV while his friends are doing "grown-up activities". Darry was annoyed by the ruckus and asked, "Can you turn it down?" SpongeTron sighed and lowered the volume, but the noise is still heard. "I said, turn it down!" Darry snapped at him, looking up from his book.

"I did!" SpongeTron snapped back when he heard it too. The Nicktoons turn to the main lab, realizing where the commotion was coming from.

In the lab, Morph was now yellow as it shot lightning from its hands, similar to the figure in the hood. The hooded figure ducked down to avoid the blast while Jimmy hid behind the overturned desk with his robot dog. "Goddard, scan Morph for any company logos." Jimmy commanded. Goddard uses his eyes to scan Morph and then turns to Jimmy with a bark. "That can't be true." Jimmy replied. "If it doesn't have the Strych logo, then why..."

Suddenly, Morph stretches his arm and grabs Jimmy by his ankles and tried to drag him away. Goddard quickly grabbed Jimmy by his sleeve with his mouth to save him, but it proved too much for the little dog and a bit of Jimmy's sleeve tore off, knocking Goddard backwards and dragging Jimmy across the floor until Morph was holding him upside-down. Before Jimmy could try and get away, Morph shocks him with electricity, rendering him unconscious. Now unable to do anything, Morph sticks a black blade towards his neck when-

"Stay away from our Commander, you icky gooey changeling of evil!" Tammy shouted at fast speed. Darry Phantom charged a ghost ray and fired at it. Morph changed his blade back to a hand and used it to absorb the ecto-energy. The robot turns green as it charged a ghost ray from its eye and fired at them.

The Nicktoons jump out of the way. "Careful, guys!" SpongeTron warned, "That robot copies every move we throw at it." Morph suddenly hovers in the air and turns intangible, flying through the ceiling with Jimmy still in its grasp.

"Oh great," Tommy sarcastically said as he and the others stare in shock. "We just helped him escape with our commander."

"Well, that thing's not the only one who can fly." Darry said as he grabbed SpongeTron by his arm. "Let's go, ST!"

Darry phased both him and SpongeTron through the ceiling to follow after Morph. Tammy then informed Tommy, "Let's try and catch up with them."

"Hey, who's that?" Tommy asked, pointing at the hooded figure.

The hooded figure stood up and stared at the two. Without saying anything, the figure shot out a force of impulse at the window, breaking the glass, and jumped outside. "Come on! Let's follow him!" Tammy said as she and Tommy go after the hooded stranger.

In the sky, Darry and SpongeTron were flying after Morph to rescue Jimmy. "Boy, you and me in the beautiful sky chasing after criminals." SpongeTron said optimistically. "Just like old times, huh Dar?"

But Darry just narrowed his eyes at SpongeTron and said, "SpongeTron, can you focus please?"

SpongeTron's eyes widened in surprise and replied, "You used to love making jokes while on missions. You've definitely changed."

"And you haven't." Darry responded angrily.

SpongeTron seemed surprised as he asked, "How do you know I'm incapable of growing up and experiencing change like the rest of you?"

"Shut up, there they are." Darry quickly says as he spots Morph using its ghost powers to escape with its target. Darry fires a ghost ray at Morph, which it quickly dodges and turns to its pursuers. SpongeTron fires his sonic cannon at Morph, who quickly casts a ghost shield to deflect it.

Morph then looks at the unconscious Jimmy and decides to quickly dispose of him once and for all by throwing Jimmy down and letting him plummet to the ground. Darry and SpongeTron gasped. "You get Jimmy, I'll fight Morph," Darry quickly instructed. SpongeTron nodded as he rocketed away. Morph stretched an arm to stop him, but Darry tackled the robot to the ground.

Darry distracts Morph long enough for SpongeTron to catch Jimmy. "Gotcha!" He grinned with Jimmy waking up. "Fear not, Commander! Darry is fighting the monster while I get you to HQ. No way he can be in two places at once!"

Morph kept attacking Darry with its blades when its eye turned to see Jimmy had survived and is getting away. It was about to go after them when Darry grabbed it to prevent its escape. However, half of Morph's body splits up and goes after them. The lower half Darry is holding, reshapes to another copy of itself.

Jimmy and SpongeTron are surprised to see Morph coming after them, "Whatdoya know? It can be in two places at once." SpongeTron carried Jimmy off to downtown Retroville with Morph in pursuit.

Walking around were the Nicktoon Cadets as they walked down the sidewalk in disappointment. "I can't believe it. Our first mission as real Nicktoons and we failed." Yuki complained.

"It ain't so bad." Crash replied optimistically. "We'll always have our next mission. It might come sooner than we think."

Kida was in a slump until she looked up, "Guys, look!"

The Cadets look up and gasped to see SpongeTron and Jimmy escaping from Morph. Morph lashes out at SpongeTron using its now whip-like arms. SpongeTron quickly flies up and down to dodge it. Morph lands on a street post when it turns pink. It swings black stars at SpongeTron, which hits one of his rocket boots. The star shorts out his foot as SpongeTron spirals out of control. The Cadets watch as they fall out of the sky and into a large building. "They're heading to the Ice Cream Factory, come on!" she told her Cadets as they go after them to aid them.

Twitchy stood there for a moment and cheered, "Best...mission...EVAH!"

Meanwhile, Darry was still fighting the second Morph that still had control of the ghost powers he copied. Darry tried using his shadow powers to grab it, but Morph flew up in the air and stuck out his sharp arms, nearly hitting Darry left and right. The ghost boy fell back on the ground as Morph stabbed the ground between his legs.

Darry gulped when it looked like Morph was about to finish him off, but suddenly a large car flies at the robot, crushing it underneath. Darry turned to see the stranger in the hood with his arms up in the air.

Seeing the stranger's small size, Darry thought it was impossible for him to pick up a large hovercar and toss it at his attacker. "Who are you?" Darry curiously asked. "How did you do that?"

The stranger did not say anything and just turned his head to the side. Tammy and Tommy ran up from behind him. "Finally, we caught up with you." Tommy called.

"We saw what you did." Tammy added. "You picked up that hovercar without touching it. You move a lot of things without touching them."

The stranger still did not say anything, but Darry's Recaller suddenly goes off and Yuki's voice calls out, "Darry? Are you there? We saw Jimmy and SpongeTron crash into an ice-cream factory and that Morph robot after them! We're headed there right now to investigate!"

Hearing everything, the stranger immediately ran ahead of them while Tommy called out, "Hey! Come back!"

But the stranger continued onward. "Forget him." Darry insisted. "We need to get to Jimmy and SpongeTron before it's too late." The three Nicktoons run to their destination while the Morph copy in its liquid form slid out from under the wrecked hovercar.

In the ice cream factory, there was some minor wreckage until Jimmy Neutron sat up and held his head. "Jimmy? Jimmy?" he heard a voice called him. He turned as SpongeTron pulled the debris off him. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Jimmy answered with a smile. "I think we ditched Morph as well."

"Yeah, but not for long," SpongeTron said as he helped him up, "We gotta get outta here."

Once the two left to find a way out, the Cadets arrive inside. "Jimmy? SpongeTron?" Yuki called out when they saw the wreckage and something moving from underneath.

Junior shivered and held his arms. "Brrr...it's cold in here. Can we go outside where it's warmer?" Suddenly, something moved from under the wreckage. "Gah!" the Cadets yelped and held each other. Suddenly, the debris burst out and from underneath came-

"SpongeTron?" Kida asked as SpongeTron got himself out.

SpongeTron groaned as he rubbed his short-circuited rocket boot. He glanced around, "Neutron! Have you seen him?"

"We thought he was with you." Yuki answered.

"Didn't you guys both crash in here?" Kida mentioned.

"We did cuz we were running from..." SpongeTron suddenly gasps in realization, "Morph!"

Meanwhile, Jimmy managed to find the large doors for the factory exit. "I think we found our way out, SpongeTron." Jimmy said with a smirk as he ran over to it, but saw a lock on the door. "Gas planet. Can you break this off, SpongeTron?"

"Of course I can, Neutron." SpongeTron said as he walked toward the lock. "We'll be out of here in no time."

Jimmy sighed in relief when a familiar voice called out, "Neutron, NO!" Jimmy turned to see another SpongeTron with the Cadets beside him. "SpongeTron?" Jimmy asked and looked at the SpongeTron near the door, "But how-" but a black metallic tentacle grabbed his neck. Morph, still disguised as SpongeTron, raised the genius in the air.

SpongeTron and the Cadets watched in terror when a barrage of blue ghost rays and yellow star hit Morph's back. They look up to see Darry carrying Tommy and Tammy as they made it to the battlefield.

Morph morphed to its original form and threw Jimmy aside into a pile of empty boxes. "Let's get him!" Darry ordered. The Nicktoons ran out to help until another black puddle rose up. It was the Morph copy as it turned yellow, using Robo-Chargers. It released an electric blast, but the teams split to avoid it in time.

SpongeTron dashed toward Jimmy until a black tentacle grabbed his leg and swings him into a large vat. The robot dented the metal as he slid on the icy floor. The team peeks from behind vats of ice cream and empty packaging as the Morph copy intends to finish off the interfering robot. "There's no stopping that guy! He uses every attack we have!" Kida stated.

"I know," Tammy said shamefully, "How are we supposed to save Jimmy and SpongeTron from the ultimate killing machine? We're all done for!"

The Nicktoons and Cadets watch helplessly as the Morph copy holds up SpongeTron and slams him into the metal vat, raising a Robo-Charger. SpongeTron woke up when he saw the yellow robot delivering the fatal blow. He screamed and reacted by literally falling apart. The copy missed and pierced through the metal vat and released a stream of freezing liquid nitrogen.

The chemical reached into its arm as the copy screeched in pain and turned black. The Nicktoons looked interestedly as its arm tried to morph back, but freezes and breaks apart. This made Yuki remember what happened to the RA-Unit when they snuck into Eustace's office. "Wait a minute..." Yuki realized and told her friends, "Remember what Eustace said? While the RAs have a power reactor that makes them unstoppable, it also makes them sensitive to extreme temperature."

"You're right." Crash realized. "That thing is the same as Eustace's robot. It even has the same weakness." he pointed in the air. "Let's freeze that varmint till it's colder than an ice pop in the back of the freezer!"

SpongeTron began to reassemble himself when the Morph copy angrily approaches him. SpongeTron whimpered in fear when Yuki announced, "SpongeTron! We know its weakness! It can't stand the cold!"

Listening to her, SpongeTron loads up a freeze ray and fires at it. But the copy deflects it with its remaining whip-like arm. "It's not working!" he cried out.

"I think we need to ice him long enough with something much colder," Darry guessed, "Something so cold the nanobots can't stand it." He looked up to see a large hose containing liquid nitrogen. "SpongeTron! The hose!"

SpongeTron took off his left arm and ran over to the hose, attaching it to his left socket. His other arm transforms into an even larger hose and fires the liquid nitrogen at the Morph copy, stopping it in place. After he ceases the blast, the smoke cleared and the Morph copy now looked like a large ice statue. Its eye glows and looks straight at SpongeTron, but when it took one step toward the robot, its leg suddenly broke apart into pieces. Everyone cheered, now fully aware of the robot's weakness.

Somewhere in the factory, the original Morph swings Jimmy around and slams him hard into a pile of wooden crates. Jimmy lied in the wreckage unconscious as Morph walked up to him and morphed its arm into three blades, prepared to finish Jimmy off. It raised the blades when it heard SpongeTron calling out, "Commander!" Morph turned to Jimmy and narrowed its eyes as it sprung toward him.

SpongeTron, the Nicktoons and Cadets ran toward Jimmy's location. SpongeTron prepared his hose with the others latching on the one connected to his left arm. "We're here, Jimmy!" Tammy yelled out when everyone froze. Morph was nowhere in sight, but there were two Jimmy Neutrons! One is pinning the other against the wall with hands around his neck.

"Good! You're here!" the Jimmy holding the unconscious Jimmy against the wall shouted, "Now let's finish this abomination of an assassin before it recovers!"

Suddenly, the Jimmy being held against the wall groans as he wakes up and realizes his situation when he spots his double. "GAH!" he screamed as he grabs the other Jimmy's arm, trying to break free. "Guys! Stop him!" then he glances once more at the Jimmy in front of him, "Wow, is my head really that large?"

"Uh..." SpongeTron hesitated, worried, as he points his hose towards Jimmy, the other Jimmy, and back.

"Which one's our real Commander?" Yuki asked Darry.

"It'sthatone!" Twitchy pointed, "No,theotherone! OrisittheonehurtingJimmy? Ithastobebutmaybeit'snot. I'MSOCONFUSED!"

Jimmy looked at the groups as the grip around his neck tightened, "What are you doing?!" he struggled to shout, "Stop him! I'm the real Jimmy!"

"Don't listen to him!" the other Jimmy urged, "It's manipulating all of you into turning against me just as its programming states."

"That one is begging for our help, but that one is talking weird like the real Jimmy." Kida pointed out. "Which one do we help?"

"I...I...don't know." SpongTron said, panicking. "Let's ask them something only the real Jimmy would know." He then turned to Jimmy and asked at fast speed, "What's (x)= 2x + 2 and g(x)= x to the power of 2 - 4x +2, for which the exact value(s) of f(x)=g(x)?"

"Uh..." Darry began saying, "You know you can just scan them both to determine who the real one is."

SpongeTron chuckled sheepishly and replied, "Sorry, just got caught up in the moment." and he used his eyes to scan the two Jimmys. He then points his hose at the Jimmy holding the other Jimmy against the wall. "That's the fake!" and fired the liquid nitrogen.

The robot screeched as it turned back into its original form and was an ice statue. Jimmy stared in surprise as he was held in the ice statue. But then he kicked the robot, causing it to shatter into pieces, letting him drop to the ground. Jimmy stood up and stared at the remains of Morph, which did not reform. "That's amazing. The nanobots can't handle extreme temperatures. I can't believe you figured that out."

"Well, if you weren't so paranoid and sent the Cadets to investigate Eustace, they wouldn't have figured it out," Tommy credited.

"Yes, wasn't that fortunate?" they all immediately recognize the voice, especially Jimmy, and they turn to see Eustace entering the factory. "We should be grateful that James could never take a loss so easily."

"Uh oh," Yuki muttered.

Jimmy growled furiously and charged at Eustace, grabbing him by his collar and pinning him against the wall, as the Nicktoons and Cadets watch in shock. "What a coincidence that you show up here where your RA weapon was just finished off."

"Unfortunately for you, I didn't invent such an intriguing machine." Eustace calmly answered, "I caught your team's mission from the window of my office and had my limo follow you all here."

"Liar!" Jimmy angrily insisted. "It has your name and expensive funding written all over it."

"I can assure you it's all the honest truth."

"Yeah right!" Jimmy scoffed and commanded SpongeTron, "SpongeTron, analyze his voice and tell me what a BACK-stabbing liar he truly is!"

SpongeTron seemed unsure and pulled his tie so a microphone would come out of his head. Eustace then said, "As I already said, I didn't create that machine and I didn't send it to kill you."

SpongeTron analyzes the voice and seemed surprised once the analysis is done. "Well, ST, tell him," Jimmy said with a smirk on his face.

"He's telling the truth."

"HA!" Jimmy gloated, pointing an accusing finger at Eustace when he realized, "Wait, what?"

"He is." SpongeTron insisted. "My readings don't detect any lying."

"But...But that can't be." Jimmy said in utter shock.

"You heard the robot, Neutron." Eustace said with a sly smile. "Now's your chance to let me go before I decide to press charges this time." Jimmy reluctantly let go of his coat while Eustace noticed something sticking out of Jimmy's pocket. "What's this?" he asked, taking it out to have a look.

"Give that back!" Jimmy demanded, reaching for his schematic. "That's my-" But suddenly, Eustace lifted up into the air by a strange force and he was flung across the room into the side of a large vat.

Everyone looked in surprise. "Jimmy, what did you do?" Darry asked.

"I...didn't do anything," Jimmy stated when his schematic was lifted out of the unconscious Eustace's hand by that same invisible force. They eyed the folded up paper to see it land in the hand of the strange hooded figure. Jimmy immediately recognized him from the first time Morph attacked him. "I don't know who you are or why you keep showing up," Jimmy spoke to him. "But I'll take my invention back."

But the stranger unfolded the paper and stared at the contents, and then at Jimmy. He then folded the paper and stuffed in his pockets before running away. "HEY!" Jimmy called out.

Darry turned to the Cadets and instructed, "You guys make sure Strych is okay, we'll go after the thief." Yuki nodded while Twitchy chugged a large tub of ice-cream. Darry and his team ran after the stranger through the factory.

The hooded stranger went to the door, but found it still had a lock on. He turned to see the Nicktoons have caught up to him. "That's far enough!" Darry yelled, "Give Jimmy's paper back and we won't have to do this the hard way."

The stranger just glared at Darry and raised his arm, sending him flying to the ceiling. Darry gasped and quickly turned intangible as he flew safely out of the factory. When SpongeTron was about to fire is sonic cannon, the stranger waved his hand, and a large vat of melted ice-cream dumped on SpongeTron.

"Let's get that creep!" Tammy said as she and Tommy went after him as the stranger used the mysterious force to rip the chains and lock open so he can escape the factory. They followed him outside as Tommy quickly took out his chain hammer and threw it towards the stranger. It landed on the ground in front of him, causing the stranger to trip on it and fall on the ground. They slowly approach him, ready for a fight, but see the fall had knocked off the stranger's hood.

The stranger sits up on his knees and the twins see that it's actually a young boy with coifed blonde hair. He turns and faces them, revealing he also has blue eyes. Tammy and Tommy gasp in surprise, recognizing the boy as someone they had met a long time ago- in another time period. "MX-65?" Tommy asked, remembering his name.

"Max?" Tammy also remembered, knowing the boy's true identity. The boy did not respond to this name and instead held his hands toward the ground, sending a wave of energy at the twins, knocking them back as he took this chance to escape.

Tammy and Tommy sat up as Darry, SpongeTron, and Jimmy caught up with them. "Where's my schematic?" Jimmy asked. "Did you find him?"

Tammy and Tommy stared at Jimmy, remembering what had happened the last time they saw that boy. Tammy quickly answers, "Nope, he got away from us again."

"Darn it!" Jimmy snapped and sighed in disappointment.

However, SpongeTron rests a hand on Jimmy's shoulder. "Not to worry, Commander. Least we got one bad guy. The other one won't escape our grasp that easily." Jimmy looked at his creation and smiled.

Later that night, the remains of Morph were transported into the Hall of Villains where it is forced into a large glass cylinder that fills with liquid nitrogen and is sealed shut. Jimmy, Cindy, the Nicktoons, and Cadets watch when Crash asked, "So if that Morph fella wasn't created by Strych, who'd y'all think it was?"

"I'm not sure." Jimmy answered. "There's nothing on that robot that'll give us any clues as to who really sent it."

"At least you're not hurt." Cindy said as she held Jimmy. "Who would wanna send a robot to kill you?"

"I don't know," Jimmy answered solemnly, "But I think the one who stole my schematics must know the answers."

"We don't even know who he is." Darry mentioned. "Or why he would even want a schematic for your invention."

Tammy and Tommy stayed silent as SpongeTron added, "Do you think this is a new villain? One who will...change our fates...change our battle strategy? And change our lives for the worst?"

Darry stared at him and asked, "What's with you and change?"

"You're the one who's changing!" SpongeTron bitterly pointed out, "What with you always hitting the books," he pointed at the twins, "And them always online; while I'm just a robot who will live for years and years, never having fun with his friends."

"So you are afraid of never changing while the rest of your friends do." Cindy noticed.

SpongeTron crossed his arms and replied, "No. I just... don't think change is necessary."

"But change is a part of life." Darry explained, "It doesn't have to be a bad thing."

"Yes, it is!" SpongeTron cried hysterically, "You don't have to experience the change all around you!" then he ran away, crying.

Cindy sighed asking Jimmy, "Again I ask, WHY did you have to give him emotions?"

Back at Strych Enterprises in Eustace's office, Eustace continued wiping ice cream off his shirt, "Darn that Jimmy Neutron! No one should beat me and humiliate me! Nobody Nobody NOBODY!" He shouted as he kept kicking a deactivated RA-Unit until its head flew off. He turned and yelled out, "Your robot failed me! You said it was the perfect weapon to annihilate him!"

He pointed at a large monitor, showing a mysterious figure shrouded by shadows. "It was." the figure spoke in a deep tone; "However, an enemy agent infiltrated your town. He also has the device that is the flaw in my plan...but he also has the plans to it."

"Plans?" Eustace asked, "What plans?"

"The plans to Neutron's powerful invention. You get the schematics to Neutron's device, your victory is assured."

Eustace thought it over and responded, "Tell me more about this 'enemy agent' that's around here."

The End

And that's the first story of the new season. Many things are changing, how will SpongeTron deal with it? Please review and stick around for the next story, "The Little Genius".