A/N: YAY! I's back!!!! Ok, you've heard me lecture enough. I'll just get on with the story. :P
I don't own Jimmy….. I OWN THE PLOT THOUGH!!! DON'T EVEN THINK OF STEALING IT!!!... Without permission!
Her heart raced and her feet followed uniform. Where was he? Where was Jimmy? Cindy bolted from cluttered workspace to cluttered workspace, seeing no trace of the genius all the while.
"Jimmy!" she called. A small snicker was heard on Cindy's right. She whipped around on her tip-toes to face the sound. To her relief she saw Jimmy snickering on a computer chair pulled next to a wooden desk.
"Neutron!" Cindy said, this time her voice rigid with anger. She stomped her way over to the boy. "Do you know how worried I was?!"
"You? Worried? Is this some kind of alternate universe?" Jimmy whispered with spunk in his words. Cindy's features softened as she saw Jimmy's eyelids gently sway closed.
"We have to nurse you back to health. How are you feeling?" Cindy caressed after sighing deeply.
No response.
"Goddard, analyze Jimmy. Get his symptoms and research them on the internet and in books. Produce a diagnosis and wake me up. I need a rest," Cindy commanded quietly as to not awaken Jimmy.
"Bark, bark," Goddard replied and went off to carry out his task. Cindy turned towards the old couch in one of the lab corners.
"C-Cindy?" she turned around without hesitation.
"Yes?"
"You don't need to help me, you know. I just want to thank you," Jimmy whispered, opening his eyes just enough to see her under the rim. "You and I. we've never really gotten along. I don't know why."
Cindy opened her mouth to speak, but decided not to let her words escape her lips and allow the weak young man get out what he wanted to say before he passed out or fell asleep again.
"Because of the former, I'm still trying to figure out why you're helping me," Jimmy paused, thinking over his next words, "I guess that doesn't matter as much as what I want to tell you though. I had a lot of time to think in that cave and, believing death was near, I thought of all that's dear to me, as would be expected from such an experience. In all that time, all those thoughts that ran through my giant head, one thought, rather one person, kept recurring. One person that means the world to me."
Madam Curie? Cindy thought sarcastically.
"There's something that I've always wanted to tell you, but never had enough courage to say aloud," Jimmy gathered up a deep breath, or deep for his condition, "I guess near death changes a person. Cindy, the person I thought of in that cave was….. Was…" Jimmy's voice faded off as his eyes drifted closed once again.
Questions ebbed Cindy's mind as she tried to complete his sentence.
His mom or dad? Sheen? Carl? Betty?... Me? The thought was so obscene that Cindy laughed upon the moment it reached her mind. Nah, not in a million years! But, then again, he did want to tell me something… Was that it?
These questions and more paced Cindy's mind as she picked the boy genius up from the chair in which he was sitting and situated his cast on his body. Cindy carried Jimmy over to the couch in which she wanted to rest her eyes on and lay him tenderly on the worn, moss green suede.
"Sleep well," Cindy said as she watched Jimmy sleep quietly. Cindy, for a reason unbeknownst to her, sat on the floor and began to inspect the damage of Beautiful Gorgeous once more. Soon after Cindy drifted off into the waves of sleep.
Cindy slept very lightly and every once in a while heard Goddard as his sensor's scanned Jimmy's body for ailment. A few hours after the two fell asleep, Goddard awoke Cindy with a whimper.
To Cindy's surprise, Jimmy's hand had fallen off the couch and was now rested, entangled by her ear within her own hand. Cindy released Jimmy's hand slowly and picked herself up off the rug-covered, cement floor.
"What is it, boy?" Goddard barked and then ran over to Jimmy's main lab chair in front of the oversized computer and TV screen. Upon the display was a webpage composed completely of black and white. Cindy wiped the sleep from her eyes and looked more closely. The black and white was, in reality, words. Words about radiation.
"Thanks, Goddard," Cindy said as she sat in the chair and began to read the data.
Radiation? How can that be? Where'd he get radiation? A sudden flashback clouded Cindy's mind.
"The microwave emits small, harmless amounts of radiation waves that make the molecules in the food vibrate in their places at very fast paces."
He he, oh yeah. Now I remember. Cindy thought as guilt swept over herself.
"Ok, what to do?" Cindy asked, this time aloud, but still to herself. "Come on, think, think, think!"
She can reverse the course of any radiation related ailment, including mutation, and eliminate all traces that it ever existed in your body.
I give you the Neutron Radiation Reducer!
Fight inventions with inventions!
"Brain blast!" Cindy said. A stir was heard behind Cindy and she turned around.
"This must REALLY be some alternate universe! Did I just hear the Great Cindy Vortex, anti-Jimmy Neutron in every way, shape, and form, have a brain blast?" Jimmy said leaning on a nearby table for support.
"If I were you, I wouldn't be complaining! I'm the one who just figured out how to cure whatever it is that's slowly killing you," Cindy said proudly. Jimmy squinted at the data on the wall.
"Radiation, huh? Why don't we just use the Radiation Reducer?" Cindy growled beneath her breath.
"Whatever. Or I could let you die. I'm more for that one," she said as she stormed off towards the miles of shelves.
"It's over by the hover car," Jimmy said lightly, clearly trying to anger the blonde. To his satisfaction, Cindy kicked the intertubed car in irritation.
"Aw, Cind, you know I was only kidding." Some of the steam released from Cindy. Still angry, but able to think straight, Cindy spoke:
"C'mon, let's get you back to normal," Cindy said as she picked up the Radiation Reducer and as Jimmy sat down in the chair previously occupied by his blonde counterpart.
Cindy began to tinker with the knobs and buttons on the Reducer and, after a while, got the hula-hoop part to light.
Jimmy, meanwhile, watched Cindy as she worked. God, is she beautiful! Look at her hair! It so suits her face! The way the giant bang in the front perfectly loops around and accentuates those green orbs of radiating loveliness. Jeez, she's prettier than Betty Quinlan is Jimmy caught himself. Whoa, this radiation is playing tricks on my brain!
"Come over here, Neutron. I'm gonna fix your radiation. What was wrong before would take a miracle to fix," Cindy said, getting the slight feeling that she had heard Jimmy say that to her in the past. Cindy shrugged off the feeling and went back to the Radiation Reducer while he stood up on shaky legs to give her help.
"Ok, all you have to do is put me through the…. The…," Jimmy's voice faded as his eyes drifted closed. The tiny knees buckled beneath the genius and Jimmy plummeted to the floor. Cindy's eyes lit up in horror and she rocketed over to Jimmy's side.
"Goddard! Do a diagnostics check! See what's going on!" Cindy screamed through freshly teared eyes.
A silver antenna erupted from the top of Goddard's head and burst a tiny satellite from the tip. Green light was emitted over Jimmy's body as it scanned. GTV lit up with Cindy's worst fear as an answer.
"He's gonna die in T-minus thirty seconds! Oh, no!" Cindy yelled. For the first time in her bossy life Cindy's mind failed her. She had no idea what her next step should be. Primary instinct told her to panic, but common sense slapped her across the face.
"Ok, what to do?" Cindy looked at Jimmy. "What would Jimmy do? Aha! Finish the primary objective and the obstruction should dissipate."
Cindy jumped to where the Radiation Reducer was lying on the floor; its luminosity dimly lit. Cindy glanced at the timer counting down on Goddard's chest. It seemed as though her joints had been solidified and time sped up. Ten seconds left of Jimmy's life. Would Cindy be able to make it in time?
The breath in Cindy's throat caught as she pressed the last necessary button. The machine glowed extra bright.
5….
It's radiance almost blinding now.
4…
Cindy crossed her fingers and toes for some reason; she didn't know why.
3…
Goddard covered his eyes with his ears. He couldn't bear to watch his owner's slow demise.
2…
The Radiation Reducer lost all light and the lab was plunged into blackness.
1…
A/N: We are dawning upon the end of the story. Teary eyes I know, I know. you'll miss me. Keep reading my other stories and keep reviewing.
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