A/N: Hey, ok, this is the last CHAPTER!!! I still have the Epilogue left! Yay, though!!! I'M SO PROUD!!!!! Keep reading though!

I don't own Jimmy. I'll live… hopefully…

The Radiation Reducer emitted a blinding white spout of light. Cindy shielded her eyes with their lids and her hands, but was still rendered sightless. Goddard let out a whimper in the corner as his timer hit zero. He closed his chest in sorrow just as the light was dying down. Cindy scrambled from her place to Jimmy's side. She picked up his right hand and began to feel for a pulse. Thirty agonizingly long seconds later Cindy's objective was reached.

"Wha-? What happened?" Jimmy asked tiredly. "I remember laughing at you and then watching yo-" Jimmy stopped in mid-sentence, catching his fumble, "nothing. Then there was black. Lots and lots of black."Cindy was so amazed and relieved that she forgot who she was for a moment and embraced the boy.

"Oh my God, I'm so glad you're alright! The radiation must have advanced its way to your heart! That must have been what caused you to pass out and almost," Cindy paused, afraid to utter the word and undo the magical spell.

"Almost what?" Jimmy said as Cindy released him. He displayed a puzzled face.

"Almost died," Cindy whispered. Jimmy could see tears beginning to emerge from Cindy's emeralds.

"Wait a second, radiation. From what?" Jimmy said, still confused. Cindy's guilty face released all questions he had.

"Uh, he he. It's a funny story, really," Cindy said uneasily.

Ten minutes and an abbreviated version of this story later Cindy was finished.

"…and then this horrible light burst out and died, quick as a flash! I raced over to you and you woke up after a little while," Cindy finished,

"Ok, so this Telepathic Reader 5000 is still on me somewhere. How do we get it off?" Jimmy asked. Cindy furrowed her brow. She hadn't planned this far ahead when she made the device.

"Get your shrink ray and reverse the original shrinkage," Cindy said in a thoughtful voice.

"That could cause potential damage to my ear. I could lose all hearing and, even, my entire ear," Jimmy said. (A/N: "How do you feel, Georgie?" "Saint-like." For those of you who haven't read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this REALLY won't make sense!)

"Ok." The lab fell silent in thought. Every once in a while the two and Goddard would toss around a few ideas, but none of them would actually work. It was almost three in the morning when a light bulb appeared metaphorically above Cindy's head.

"Why don't we use the remote and use the shock to find it?"

"What?!" Jimmy said with a slightly scared expression. "Shock?!"

"On a very low setting, of course. We use your sense of touch to find it. We already know where it is in general so that shouldn't be too hard," finished Cindy. Jimmy looked at Cindy through fearful eyes.

"Ok, I'll trust you. You've gotten me this far, haven't you?" he asked rhetorically.

"Good," Cindy said as she ran over to the El Magnifico suit and began to search around. She returned with the Telepathic Reader 5000 in her hand and began to prepare it for the job, mainly changing the shock from the ear piece to the thumbtack.

"Are you ready?" Cindy asked with her right index finger poised over the final button.

"Yeah," Jimmy gulped as he braced himself. A tickle like feeling came from behind his right ear.

"Did you feel anything?" Cindy asked.

"Yeah, behind my ear."

"Well, Captain Clueless, we already knew that. Where specifically?" Cindy asked.

"Buzz me again." The tickling began again.

"Here," Jimmy said, indicating a spot behind his lobe next to the hairline. Cindy got a pair of tweezers and began to search with a magnifying glass where Jimmy had indicated. It was long and tedious. Cindy's eyes began to ache as well as her joints. Jimmy just sat there obediently. After a while he broke the silence in the lab.

"You know, that's a pretty ingenious invention. I'm ashamed I didn't think of it first," Jimmy said.

"You did. I kind of modeled that after the Esephylo Synthesizer," Cindy admitted. Jimmy smiled.

"Well, I'm slightly flattered."

"I can see, you're beginning to blush." Sure enough, Jimmy could feel his checks burning up. A small prick-like feeling was felt by the reddening boy.

"Ow, what was that?"

"I got the thumbtack out!" Cindy said excitedly, holding up the bloody little thing in the tip of the tweezers. Jimmy inspected it.

"This could have emitted some radiation after you de-radiated me. Let's run me through the Radiation Reducer once more just to be safe," he said.

"Whatever you say," Cindy said as the two walked slowly over to the contraption. She pressed the buttons as Jimmy situated and prepared himself for the light. It came about twenty seconds later after Cindy's warning and washed over the undersized boy.

"Ow."

"What?" Cindy asked with concern.

"My arm, it's killing me," Jimmy replied. "And a few other places. Like my face and my front. And my sides."

"We need to get you to a hospital so you can get your arm set and a few other places checked out. Have you looked in a mirror lately?" Cindy asked, noting that he had been unconscious for the past few hours up until about ten minutes prior.

"No. Is it that bad?" Cindy pulled a mirror out of her pocket. To Jimmy's confused manner, Cindy added, "I'm a girl. It's what we do." Jimmy just shrugged and observed his distortion in the tiny hand mirror.

"I look horrible."

"What else is new?" Jimmy shot Cindy a dirty look.

"I can put myself in the Neutronic Ulramatic Hospitaloid Prototype seven. It's one of my best inventions. I created it when Carl, Sheen, and I started going to places and doing things that would mangle us up pretty badly," Jimmy explained. "Thanks so much for your help, but I can take care of this. You look like you could use some well deserved rest."

Cindy looked at Jimmy with her black-rimmed eyes; not black by eye-liner, but by exhaust.

"Do I really look that bad?" Jimmy just handed her the mirror.

"You're right. I need some sleep, but I can't leave you alone. What if something happens?" Cindy said and stepped towards the genius who smiled.

"I'll be fine. I swear, if something happens Goddard will call you as soon as possible, ok?" Jimmy asked. Cindy, about to reject him and request sleeping on the couch he had occupied earlier, stared into Jimmy's pleading, sapphire eyes and caved.

"All right, I can't protect you forever," Cindy said as she made her way on pained feet to the tube that would eject her. "Goodbye Jimmy, get well and call me later."

"I promise. Cross my heart," Jimmy used his index finger to make the "X" on his chest, "And Cindy, thanks."

"My pleasure," Cindy answered just as the vacuum began to do its job.

And, thus, the day is saved. Not by JimmyIsaac Neutron, but by Cynthia Aurora Vortex, thought Jimmy as he watched Cindy fly up the vacuum tube and out the lab.

A/N: Don't forget that I have the Epilogue left! And don't forget to REVIEW!!!! (please "D)