I'm going to change the events from the TSO jewel case booklet a little bit so just keep your shirt on. I hope you have enjoyed it so far even though I've been choppy with my updating. Basically forgot about it for a little while.

Disclaimer: I do not own Jimmy Neutron or Trans- Siberian Orchestra. If I did, however, own TSO, I would have better seats for their concert on the 28th.

Satisfied by this childhood memory, he asks Fate to take him to a different time in his childhood.

"Like the time you arrived in Retroville?" she asks

"Like the time I arrived in Retroville." Jimmy replies.

Seconds later, they are once again by the timepiece. In one swift motion, Fate has turned the year dial to 2006. Spinning through time and space, Jimmy cannot help but anticipate his arrival in that year. As suddenly as they left, they slowed to a small rotation. In front of the trio was young Jimmy seeing Retroville for the first time. He has been awaiting this move for months.

SINCE I WAS A CHILD
I'VE SEEN HER IN A DREAM
A CAPTURED FAIRY TALE
THAT ECHOES CROSS MY LIFE

AND THOUGH I'VE COURTED HER
SHE'S ALWAYS STAYED UNSEEN
NOW ALL AT ONCE SHE
GLITTERS IN THE NIGHT

BUT THAT WAS YESTERDAY
AND THAT ALL WAS BEFORE
WHEN SHE WAS FAR AWAY
A SILHOUETTE OF DREAMS

BUT OTHERS WHISPERED
THAT SHE WAS SO MUCH MORE
AND SUDDENLY I NOW
KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN

DREAMS CHANGE
YEARS STRAIN
LOST ILLUSIONS
LAST STANDS
GOD'S HAND
ABSOLUTION
FOUND

FAIRY TALE SINS
VISIONS BY GRIMM
ALL FORGIVEN
LIVES SPENT IN VAIN
NEVER RECLAIMED
TAKE THEIR FINAL BOWS

PICTURES AND WORDS
VISIONS ABSURD
MADDENED POETS
ALL WITHIN SIGHT
FAILURES IN LIFE
WHO'LL NEVER KNOW IT
LAZARUS CRIES
THERE IN HIS EYES
HOPE HAS RISEN
DEPTH AND FACADE
ALL BEFORE ME NOW

Together, Fate and Jimmy watch the genius meet his to-be archrival.

"You remember Cindy Vortex don't you? The love of your life," Fate questions, already knowing his answer.

"Of course I do! How could I forget her? I realized I loved her after that Pheromone Number 976/J accident." The genius sighed, lost in his recollection. He noticed then that Fate was motioning with her hand, turning an imaginary dial clockwise. Jimmy felt the ground shift underneath him and fell to her side, trying to remain upright.

The next thing the genius sees is the two "archrivals" kissing under the stars in Retroville Park.

COULD THIS NIGHT IT LAST FOREVER
EVERY MOMENT HELD TOGETHER
AS IF IN A PERFECT TRANCE
AND SUCH A THING COULD BE

NO ONE ELSE WOULD UNDERSTAND IT
WE WOULD KNOW THE GODS HAD PLANNED IT
AND FOR SUCH A NIGHT AS THIS
THAT THEY GAVE MEMORY

AND WE WOULD LIVE INSIDE THIS NIGHT
WITHIN THE DREAMS OF CANDLELIGHT
IF YOU WOULD BRING THIS WISH TO LIFE
AND SPEND THIS NIGHT WITH ME

COULD THIS MOMENT LAST FOREVER
AND THIS DREAM OUR ONE ENDEAVOR
IF THE STARS WOULD JUST ENCHANT
AND TIME WOULD THEN AGREE

EVERY MOMENT OF TOMORROW
FROM THIS EVENING WE WOULD BORROW
IF THIS WISH THE STARS WOULD GRANT
AND GENTLY OVERSEE

AND WE WOULD LIVE INSIDE THIS NIGHT
WITHIN THE DREAMS OF CANDLELIGHT
IF YOU WOULD BRING THIS WISH TO LIFE
AND SPEND THIS NIGHT WITH ME

The sight strikes the old Jimmy right in the heart. He cannot do anything but look away as the couple prepared to give themselves to each other.

"This was the happiest moment of my life." The old man sighs again heavily.

"Why did it have to end?" Fate inquires. "You knew she loved you."

"It just had to. No woman in her right mind would want to spend the rest of her life with a deaf genius. Especially a woman of her beauty and stature. If she had found out that I was going deaf and I couldn't find a cure, she would have left me. So I ended it, and beat her to the punch. I refused to ever see her again." The genius confesses what he has pent up in his heart for many decades. Close to tears he turns to take a final glance at the frisky teens giggling in the dark undergrowth.

"Come," Once more, Fate turns the invisible dial.