If I didn't make it obvious in chapter two, anything that future Jimmy does or says will be referred to in bold. And when spoken about in conversations (or written *hint, hint*), he will simply be called James, so no one in the past catches on. When future Libby is spoken about in conversations, she will be referred to as Danielle, because that's her middle name (according to the IDOJ website) and it's also pretty common.
In other news, I'm putting up a poll on my page to let you choose which episodes Cindy will be redoing. It's spanning from Trading Faces (S1 ep7b) to the middle of season three. There are roughly 67 episodes in the series and if you want me to do all of them and actually finish this story, you're crazy.
I know I said I'd tie this into Planet Sheen (and I will), but there will be no planet Zeenu, no Dorkus, and definitely no Aseefa. I support the original Sheen/Libby couple. That is all about this that I'm going to say for now.
I do not and will never own Jimmy Neutron. I'm only using the characters. Any dialogue you may recognize also probably belongs to the show.
~Monday, 2005, 8:55 AM~
"If I get found out early because of you, I'm kicking your butt to Pluto and back," Cindy whispered to the boy genius inside her head.
'Well I can't say that my younger self won't notice anything because, as you know, he's a genius.'
Cindy rolled her eyes. "Mr. Humble, you are not."
"You say something Cindy?"
Nervously, Cindy eyed her younger best friend. If anyone-other than Jimmy, of course- could figure out that something was wrong, it would be Libby. The two had known each other since pre-school, for Pete's sake! If there was someone who knew all of Cindy's quirks, it was most definitely Libby.
'Okay, completely normal.' Cindy thought. 'I can do this.'
She smiled cheerily at her friend. "Nothing Libs, just thinking about the prank we're going to pull on Neutron."
Libby grinned mischievously. "This one is going to be great!"
Cindy's insides squirmed with guilt. Had she really been so cruel that she'd pull a childish prank like the one she was now being forced to do now?
'Yeah, you were,' Jimmy said grimly.
'If it was so horrible, then why are you forcing me to do this?'
'We need to keep everything as close to how it was before you went into the past,' he reminded her.
Cindy scowled. 'I hate this plan.'
~Flashback~
'Okay Cindy, you've been transported to the day before we switched brains,' Jimmy explained.
"Great," Cindy exclaimed in a whisper, "I can stop it from happening. That was embarrassing!"
'No,' Jimmy yelped, 'you have to let it span out like it happened before, or else you could do serious damage to the time stream!'
The blond rolled her eyes. "What's the worst that could happen?"
'Hmm, I don't know…How about unraveling the very fabric of time and space!' he yelled.
Cindy gulped, then she narrowed her eyes. "You, my fudgy haired compodre, are a complete hypocrite! I'm not the one who crashed Libby twelfth birthday party with a time traveling copbot," she yelled as quietly as she could.
'This isn't the point I'm trying to make here and none the less, that was Carl's fau-'
"Or, what about the time you used your other time machine to bring Einstein into the future? Or how about the time you-"
'Okay, okay! I get it; I've made a lot of mistakes regarding time travel! Can we please get back to the point here?'
"Sure, whatever," Cindy grumbled.
'You have to promise me you won't try to change the timeline!'
"Not even a teensy, weensy little bit?" she asked.
'No! No changes! Promise!' he demanded.
"Okay, okay, fine! I promise!"
Cindy crossed her arms and huffed.
~Flashback end~
Jimmy entered the room, explaining something to Carl and Sheen (probably for the tenth time) and holding up a familiar invention.
'Ahh, the Neutron Enceplo Synthesizer, I remember it well,' Jimmy hummed.
"My brain remembers it too," Cindy grumbled, remembering the jolt of electricity that caused her to switch minds with Jimmy and cursing the fact that she would soon be re-experiencing it.
He laughed nervously, 'Well, I better get to sleep. I need to get up early and work out a solution to this mess.'
'Is it late there?'
'Ohhh, it's about ten-thirty or so...'
"Well then, Mister, you'd better get off to bed. I need you bright eyed and bushy tailed tomorrow for you to fix this thing. Goodnight!"
'Good morning,' he chuckled.
And then he was gone from her head.
Cindy sighed, absentmindedly watching Jimmy sit down and rummage around in his desk. For someone who was such a genius, you'd think he'd be a little neater.
Cindy shook her head and glanced at Libby, who gave her a thumbs up. She smiled weakly.
From the front of the room Miss Fowl stood and said, "OkaaaAAAaay class, School has staaAArted so please SIT DOWN." She did her funny bird noise and Cindy hid a laugh. Miss Fowl indeed.
"TodaaaAay we're going to start with shOOOow and teeeEll. Who would like to go firrrRRst?"
Jimmy's hand shot up in the air. Eagerly, he raced to the front of the class room and held up his invention.
"I call it the Neutron Enceplo Synthesizer," he announced proudly.
Cindy scoffed. "Could you have a bigger head? What's with you naming everything after yourself?"
He stuck his tongue out at her and continued.
"It isolates and amplifies alpha brainwaves, passes them through a twelve tone interpreter mogul and outputs them in an audible frequency!"
The entire class stared at him blankly. Jimmy shook his head.
"To simply put, it translates your thoughts and feelings into notes and rhythm!"
Cindy shared a glance with Libby, pretending to smirk with her.
"And so without further ado…" She opened her desk. "I now present, the musical styling's of…my brain!"
She pressed the button, wincing as the yodeling music began to play. The class laughed and Jimmy stared at the ground pitifully. Cindy frowned, watching as he dragged his feet to his desk and sat down.
How she wanted to apologize!
Wincing as he sent her a withering glare, Cindy heaved a great sigh and tried to pay attention to Miss Fowl's lesson.
She wasn't allowed to apologize. Cindy put her head on her desk and stared at the clock.
~Monday, 2005, 5:00 PM; Cindy's house~
"I can't believe you're making me go through this again!" Cindy grumbled, holding up the pink headset. "You're certain I can't just wait for you to call me?"
'I'm certain. Now call up your little boyfriend and-'
"He's not my boyfriend!" she hissed.
He chuckled. 'Just call up Nick and talk to him about whatever it was you were talking about.'
She groaned, then jumped as the line rang.
'You missed your chance, now everything is going to be messed up!'
"Are you always this crabby at five-thirty in the morning?"
He grumbled.
"You'd better get off, if he hears you in my head he'll think I'm insane or something."
'At this point I already did.'
"Go and work out a solution to this mess," she ordered, ignoring the snipe. "Come back later and tell me if everyone's grown chicken heads or dog tails or something."
'Haha, very funny Cindy. See you.'
"Bye."
The line continued to ring.
This was it. Cindy cleared her mind the best she could. Hesitantly she hit the button to let the call go through.
"Hi Cindy, uh…watcha doin'?"
"Neutron, this is a surprise. I'm just working on my plans for world domination," she joked.
"That's nice…." He murmured, sounding distracted.
Closing her eyes, Cindy let out a breath and focused on that purple gunk splattering all over Jimmy's face.
"Anyways, I was just wondering if you had any plans to humiliate me tomorrow."
'Oh no!' she thought, trying to sound worried. 'I hope he didn't figure out about the-'
Lightning flashed outside of Cindy's bedroom window and she felt the jolt of electricity go through her.
Everything went black…
~Monday, 2005, 5:25 PM; Jimmy's bedroom~
"-immy… are…okay?"
Cindy shook her suddenly more heavy head.
"If you can hear me, tell me the answers to 5a to 11c…I mean, just so I know…you're okay."
Cindy, now Jimmy, sat up and rubbed her eyes.
"Uh yeah, that's not going to happen. For one, that's cheating and two, I'm Cindy you idiot!"
Cindy stood up, casting an annoyed look upon Carl's terrified face.
"Out!" she demanded, pointing to the door. "I need to find a way to fix this and with you doping around, I won't be able to get anything done."
Glancing at her one more time, the portly boy ran for the door, thwacking his nose against the frame before leaving the hall at a sprint.
Cindy smirked and buffed her fingernails against Jimmy's shirt.
"Well that gets him out of my fudgy shaped hair for now."
She rubbed her hands together.
"Now to find that hidden portal."
Le gasp! What's going to happen next? What's she looking for, and why? Will Cindy avoid telling Past Jimmy she's from the future? And how do I plan to tie this into Planet Sheen (in a way that isn't stupid)?
The answers to (most of) these and more questions will be revealed in the next chapter of Time Traveling Cindy!
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~xXWiseGirlIamnotXx