A/N: I'm here and I bring CHOCOLATE!!! No, I bring A NEW CHAPTER!!! Cheers Read on, Jimmy lovers, read on!

I don't own Jimmy or any related characters. I don't even know if I own my pants…. Hmm… I'll have to ask someone…

"Damn," the girl underneath the raised Hover car muttered under her breath.

"What?" asked another girl who sat in a chair juxtaposed to her friend.

"That stupid genius let the Hover car run out of gas!" screamed the blonde-haired woman from the position she was in. Her back ached monotonously, but she dare not try to give up. It had been four days since she and the others had discovered Jimmy's whereabouts and Cindy hadn't slept since. She was scared to death of what happened to the little man and the continuous fail in her attempts to get to him undetected weren't helping.

"Heh, stupid genius. That's an oxymoron," Libby said just before she turned the page of her latest fashion magazine, not really paying attention, or caring, about what her friend was saying. Cindy sighed deeply. Goddard clunked over to her and barked rather metallically.

"What is it, Goddard?" asked Cindy in a voice clearly stating that she wanted to give up,

Take me. Read GTV.

"Goddard, we can't take you. What if Beautiful Gorgeous heard you walking or something?" she said apologetically.

I can fly you there and hold all of the tools you'll need to get Jimmy home.

"I have to get there undetected," Cindy pointed out.

I AM undetected. Cindy thought a moment and agreed. After all, she was rather tired of looking for other gadgets to take her there. Moreover, Goddard could hold all of her gear.

"Ok, when do you want to leave?"

Now.

"What time is it?" Cindy asked. She hadn't left the lab in days. She didn't know time had even passed.

"It's 2 AM, Cind and I'm going home. I'll talk to you tomorrow to see what happened, ok?" Libby said as she stood up from her chair and pulled on her designer, maroon jacket.

"See ya Libs," Cindy said as she began to scour the shelves for anything that might come in handy to her. She decided, after about a minute and a half, that Goddard would have whatever she needed.

"Come on boy," she said as she stood under the giant vacuum tube that would remove her from the lab. Sure enough, as though feeling her presence, the tube sucked Cindy and Goddard into the starry outdoors. Cindy shivered in her green spaghetti-strap shirt and khaki knickerbockers. She sure wished she had listened to Jimmy when he had told her to get longer pants when they traded bodies.

All the while Cindy had been thinking to herself, Goddard had transformed his back into a plush, leather seat and a set of handlebars sprouted from behind his ears before Cindy's eyes.

"You know where we're going, right?" Cindy asked as she uneasily mounted herself onto the chair.

"Bark, bark!" he replied, giving Cindy a reassuring "yes." With that, Goddard's feet turned into fire and he lifted off the ground. Cindy prayed that she would live to tell her tale to Libby the next day and then bestowed all of her trust in Jimmy's greatest creation.

If Cindy thought she was cold on the ground then she was wrong. Surely it was barely over freezing temperature where she was at the moment, but that didn't faze her. Seeing the entire town of Retroville hurtle by beneath her with nothing but a mechanical, flying dog supporting her from falling, however, did. She shivered, not from cold, but from fear. At long last, the metal K-9 made it's decent to the ground. At first, Cindy had been glad at the prospect of getting on good old solid ground, but as the dog made its way down headfirst Cindy began to panic. She grabbed tightly to the dog's body with all of her might.

Ahh, ground, thought Cindy as she stepped cautiously onto her savior. After giving the ground a full Thank you, Cindy began to analyze her surroundings. It was a limestone cave carved into Taquito Mountain, which lied on the outskirts of Retroville. Water was dripping from every crevice, stalagmite, and stalactite. Nothing looked to be clean, or dry for that matter. The full moon glowing above Cindy's head only lit the mouth of the cave so, after the light disappeared, Cindy and Goddard had to feel their ways in. With every gesture, every move that she made, she touched something seemingly alive. The walls and ground were slippery, but Cindy had amazing balance. Anyways, it didn't matter to her much at the moment. All she could think about was Jimmy and being locked up with that horrible Beautiful Gorgeous. It was her motivation; her drive.

After five minutes of walking ever deeper into the cave, the floors turned from slimy limestone to dry concrete. A small light shined brightly in the darkness and a set of doors came into view. Cindy's heart skipped a beat; she knew Jimmy was near.

Cindy walked cautiously up to the closest door to her. It was solid oak and looked just as aged as the rest of the cave. Cindy pushed it open as though a giant, spring-loaded boxing glove would come flying out of the opening and crash her into the opposite wall. However, nothing of the sort happened.

Inside the door was a small room. It was pitch black within and neither Cindy nor Goddard could see hide or hair of anything. A small sound, like a grunt, echoed against the wall. Cindy's breath caught in her throat.

"I'm not telling you anything so you had better just give up," said the voice weakly, though strong in its words. Cindy stepped inside the door with Goddard trailing close behind and closed the door. A sliver of light came from the crack beneath the door. Cindy ran to where she thought she had heard the voice. She met a shriveled up body lying in the far corner of the room. He was shivering immensely and his teeth chattered. Cindy felt his face. It was sunken and hollow. She could feel the locations of the various bruises he had taken over the past few days due to the tensing of the boy's muscles when she would grace them. She could feel the swelled up arm. Even in the dark, Cindy could see that it was broken. She embraced the sound of his short breathing. He was sick.

"Jimmy, its Cindy. I'm here to save you," she whispered as quietly as physically possible. Jimmy gave no response. He was out cold. Cindy sighed rather audibly. GTV came up with a message.

We can't move him. One, he's too sick and two; beautiful Gorgeous can still read his thoughts. She would know just where to go looking for him. Cindy read it sadly and nodded. She looked at the boy on the floor. He looked twice as bad as he felt. His skin was a pasty yellow color and his face was littered in bruises and scars. His once shining whippy-dip hair was hanging down around Jimmy's shoulders in one side. Cindy thought she saw his nose broken, but couldn't get the full picture due to Goddard swallowing up the light.

Cindy sighed and stood up. She felt as though she was leaving her heart in the room; as though it was being ripped out while she was conscious to feel it. She quietly slunk out with Goddard following closely behind.

The vision of Jimmy sitting so helplessly in that corner haunted Cindy as she and Goddard left the cave. She barely even noticed the air of the night or the treacherous flight and not even the decent onto the Vortex front lawn. The thought of Jimmy all alone in a cave being tortured and beaten was too much. And, on top of it all, he was sick. She couldn't handle it.

Cynthia Aurora Vortex didn't sleep much that night. Her mind was still with Jimmy, caressing his hand.

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