I don't own Jimmy, but I do own my pants! Woo Hoo!!!

Later that morning, after some fitful hours of "sleep", Cindy awoke with heavy eyes. She rolled out of bed and glanced at her digital alarm clock glowing bright red on the nightstand on the bedside table at her right.

"Oh my God! I have to go to school!" Cindy screamed to herself. The clock read ten-thirty and school started at eight. Cindy sat up in bed. Sasha Vortex had taken that exact moment to check on her only child.

"Oh, good, honey. You're awake," Mrs. Vortex said in her deep, smooth drawl as she leaned in the door frame leaving her feet outside on the threshold as though she was afraid to touch the pink carpet within. "I was getting worried. And don't worry about school, darling. You can miss one more day."

"But Mom, I've already missed a day of school! I can't miss another," Cindy virtually yelled.

"Clam down Cynthia. You don't have to go to school today. All you have to do is answer me a question; what were you doing out at Four AM last night?" Cindy sighed. Well, she ought to know. And dove into the story. Half-an-hour later Mrs. Vortex exited her castle and drove to the grocery store while her daughter brainstormed about Jimmy and how to save him.

"Oh, come on Vortex!" Cindy yelled at herself. She had been at it for twenty minutes. "Come on, think! Think, think!"

This baby can teleport and shrink anything with the touch of a button

… She'll never think of getting in my lab by using a hair!

Be like Ultra Lord, save the day!

"BRAINBLAST!" Cindy caught herself. Dammit! I have to stop doing that!

"Goddard, I'm baaack!" Cindy crooned throughout the lab as she stood up off the mattress on the floor. The robotic dog crept around the corner, faking a scared whimper.

"Don't play scared with me!" she ordered in a giddy tone and Goddard's mechanical smile reappeared.

"You wanna know why I'm so happy, boy?" Cindy asked as she began to scratch the dog behind his metallic ears. She didn't know why she was scratching them; it was more of a habit and a gesture for the dog who could feel nothing.

"Bark!"

"I know how to save Jimmy! Remember the New-and-Improved Shrink-Ray?"

Cindy sat astride the dog and watched the moonlit residences and stores of Retroville speed by below. She remembered vaguely being afraid of this ride the night before, but her excitement overshadowed it. Barely noticing the decent and landing of the dog, Cindy sprang off its back and into the mouth of the cave.

It was just as dark as Cindy remembered and just as slippery. She slid quickly through the cave, confident that she wouldn't be caught. Cindy almost flashed by the door in which Jimmy sat shriveled up behind and into the brightly lit hall. She corrected her mistake and headed back for the oak and pushed it open, silently as humanly possible.

"Jimmy?" Cindy caressed in a whisper. No noise came. Not a sound. Cindy's heart quickened, she pushed the door open further, and rushed inside.

"Goddard!" she whisper-yelled. It was for no need because Goddard had already bounded into the room and began to search for his owner. A light turned on from Goddard's tail as he directed Cindy to his master.

"Shrink Ray, please," said Cindy as she kneeled down to where Goddard was standing next to Jimmy's lifeless form. The metal hand stretched out of the dog's open back holding the remote-like device. Cindy accepted it into shaking hands, tears lining the rims of her eyes. After fiddling with a few of the buttons and dials Cindy pointed it towards the boy and advanced her right index finger onto the largest button in the center of the mechanism.

Lime green light lit the shadowy corners of the room for a split second before extinguishing them back into darkness. Cindy's breathing came rapidly now as she was afraid of what she had done to the genius. Feeling the hard rock wall that had supported the genius, Cindy let out a sigh of relief. She had accomplished her mission so far. All she needed to do now was escape from the confines of the deep, dark, slippery cave.

"What was that light? Gustav, didn't you take the boy's watch from him when you put him in there?" sounded a voice from outside. Cindy's heart beat wildly as she put her mind up to thinking of a plan.

"Coulda sworn I did, Miss Gorgeous," said a man whom Cindy could only assume was Gustav.

Beautiful Gorgeous breathed angrily. "I guess we'll have to go and CHECK on him, aren't we?"

"Whatever you say, you're the boss."

"Stupid henchmen," said Beautiful under her breath, but loud enough for Gustav to hear.

The door to the cell opened and Beautiful switched on a hanging lamp from the doorway. Upon spotting Cindy her eyes turned to metal and a sneer wove onto her face.

"GODDARD! FLYCYCLE MODE!"

Cindy jumped onto the already awaiting seat and flew as fast as Goddard would allow towards the door. She saw Beautiful Gorgeous' eyes widen to the size of dinner plates an instant before Cindy blasted through the now vacant doorway. Shots fired around Cindy's ears as Goddard turned on his headlights and excelled en route for the mouth of the cave, and from there to the lab where Jimmy awaited.

"Stop or I'll make sure you never see the light of day again!" Beautiful shouted; an empty threat. Cindy and Goddard had already broken through the aperture of the cavern. The breathing of Cindy slowed down as she realized that she had pulled off her objective. But now obstacles ahead of her were yawning, waiting for her.

"First and foremost, get Jimmy back to health," Cindy said to herself. She didn't even want to think about the second, harder task. Jimmy was most important. Cindy would ensnare Beautiful soon after.

A/N: Last chapter I asked for at least five (I think) reviews before I got this one written. Well, you suprised me so much that I want TEN reviews this time! I know you can do it!!! Make me proud!!!

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