Here's the next chapter of Nicktoons: World of the Crazies. Last time, Danny, the fairies, and two doppelgangers snuck into Alternate Jimmy's lab…until they got caught. Will they be able to make it back home, looking normal?

Enjoy…

Chapter 14: Mentally-Induced Torture

After what seemed like a long time, Danny Fenton began to open his eyes. He groaned a bit until he looked down and widened his eyes in shock to see he was sitting in a chair with his wrists bound to the arms.

"Have a nice nap?" Danny heard his voice say, and he turned his head back to see Alternate Danny (also in human form), Alternate SpongeBob, and the blue-robed Timmy all tied to chairs sitting behind him.

"Guys!" Danny called to them in surprise. "What happened to us?"

"Danny!" Wanda's voice shouted, and Danny turned as far left as he could to see Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof floating in a large glass orb that was surrounded by a circle of glowing dust that possibly seemed to prevent them from poofing out of it.

"Look in front of you!" Cosmo shouted, pointing forward.

Danny immediately followed their warning and now noticed Alternate Jimmy standing in front of a computer. He then turned around with a smirk on his face, "Greetings, Danny Fenton." He spoke coldly. "It's been a while, hasn't it?"

"Not long enough." Danny responded with a glare of hatred.

Alternate Jimmy approached him as he continued saying, "You should've heeded my warning, Danny. If you had listened to me before, you could be back in your own universe at this very moment."

Danny suddenly frowned sadly. "Yeah…you're right, Neutron. Everything in this universe is messed up." Then he glared at him again. "…because of you."

Alternate Jimmy smiled slyly at him, "Oh, is that what you think?"

"I know everything. Who you are, what you do…" then he tried to struggle out of his binds to no avail. "And everything you've done to my friends in this universe!"

"Is that so?" Alternate Jimmy calmly asked. "And who told you that? A kitchen sponge posing as a superhero?"

"Hey!" Alternate SpongeBob shouted with an enraged look, "Why don't you come say that to my face?"

At this, Alternate Jimmy walked over and stood in front of Alternate SpongeBob. "Very well."

Alternate SpongeBob just snarled angrily as Alternate Jimmy simply said, "So, SpongeBob, how's it been? I haven't seen you since the last time you broke into my lab and managed to successfully retrieve one of my greatest experiments."

"Don't call him that!" Alternate SpongeBob demanded in anger. "I could save more here if I tried!"

"And yet you never could." Jimmy dryly responded until he walked away. "And speaking of that experiment…" He approached Alternate Danny, who didn't even glance at him. "I guess I should say, welcome back."

"If you let me outta this thing, I'll probably consider letting you live once I get through with you." Alternate Danny coldly said as he slumped in the chair.

"Still as cynical as ever I see." Alternate Jimmy said with a smirk as he grabbed a hold of one of the chains on his wrist. "Of course, what should I expect after everything we've been through together?"

Alternate Danny suddenly growled and attempted to stand up with the restraints on his wrists holding him to the chair. "Don't toy with me, you little runt!" he almost snarled. "I got my powers on my own, and you may have improved them a little bit, but let's see what happens when all that progress bites you in the-"

But suddenly Alternate Jimmy kicked the front of the chair, causing it to fall backwards with Alternate Danny still tied to it. Danny winced, seeing this while Alternate SpongeBob shouted in worry, "Danny! Are you okay?"

As Alternate Danny growled in pain, Alternate Jimmy walked over to him and reached down to him and pulled off the wrap covering his right eye. He smiled cruelly as he added, "Despite your current outer-exterior, you're still modest."

He then grabbed the arm of the chair and pulled it back up. Danny noticed the Alternate Jimmy seemed a bit stronger than the real one. Once Alternate Danny was back up, he opened his eyes and Danny's eyes widen to see that his alternate self's right eye was glowing green.

"Amazing, isn't it?" Alternate Jimmy gave a sly smile of pride. "Through all those experiments of ours, I managed to give him the abilities he would normally be able to use in ghost form such as flight and dexterity."

Danny's eyes widen in shock as his alternate self struggled even harder to get out of his chair. "Quit yapping, you little nerd! I'll crush you into-" but all his struggling caused him to fall forward on his face with the chair now strapped on top of him, unable to get back up.

However, Alternate Jimmy just ignored him. "What a shame. All that experimentation with his powers has left him a cantankerous, introverted, and disparaging. Deafly afraid of being excluded from society, he excluded himself and grew to hate anyone he was envious of for being normal."

"Stop it!" Alternate SpongeBob yelled, demanding the stop of verbal torment to his best friend. "Leave him alone!"

Alternate Jimmy paused for a moment, and then added, "And to think, he now has the unwanted company of an optimistic sponge. The only question now is…why hasn't he destroyed him yet?"

Alternate Danny just kept scowling on the ground, and Alternate SpongeBob almost whimpered with his hair nearly covering his face. Alternate Jimmy then turned his attention somewhere else and walked over to the robed-figure locked in the chair. "Never thought I'd find you with them."

"Get away from him!" Danny yelled to the evil genius. "Haven't you already done enough?"

"Oh, and what makes you so concerned?" Alternate Jimmy asked Danny.

"Are you kidding? He's one of my best friends." Danny answered as he glared angrily. "And to think you captured him the other day just so you can turn him into one of your guinea pigs makes me wanna kick your butt."

Alternate Jimmy thought about this for a moment until he realized, "You are obviously mistaken. This isn't your friend, Turner, but merely his counterpart of this world."

"Wait a minute…" Danny uttered in shock. "You mean that's not the real Timmy?"

"In your eyes, he isn't. This Timmy, who I call Experiment 8/5, has been my test subject since the day my droids first brought him in."

"But…if that's the Timmy from this world…then where's my Timmy?"

"Don't worry about him. He's already served his purpose here."

Then another voice called out, "And we got everything we need to do what want!"

Danny's eyes widen. "That voice." And he suddenly remembered what he saw before he ended up here. "Why don't come out and show yourself…Tak!"

Then the Alternate Tak stepped out and said, "You really know how put a damper on the mood."

"I had a feeling you'd end up being evil in this universe too." Danny said dully until he got a serious look. "Now would either of you mind telling me what it is you're planning to do."

While Alternate Jimmy was typing on his computer, Alternate Tak started saying, "I'll be glad to. We pulled you two in this universe so that we can enter your own."

"You what?" Danny asked in shock. "So it was you guys who pulled me and Timmy here. Why would you wanna go to our universe?"

Before he could answer, Alternate Jimmy turned around and held a diskette in his hand. "All the information we acquired from Turner's mind is right here."

"About time." Alternate Tak said as he jumped onto a floating moped. "Let's start this thing."

"Agreed." Alternate Jimmy jumped on also drove it out of the room with Alternate Tak laughing maniacally.

"Hey wait!" Danny tried to call, but they were already gone. He turned his head around to see Alternate SpongeBob and Alternate Danny. "You guys okay?"

Though Alternate SpongeBob still looked emotionally hurt, he looked at Danny and forced a smile on his face. "Don't worry, Danny, I'm fine. But…"

He glanced at Alternate Danny who was still lying on the floor, still strapped to the chair with his chin holding his face up.

Danny began trying to struggle his wrists out of the straps. "We gotta find a way out of here before those maniacs go to my universe."

"How are you gonna do that, doofus?" Alternate Danny bitterly asked in a grunt. "In case you're too stupid to remember, we're stuck here thanks to you."

Danny resisted a comeback, but then he glanced at the fairies trapped in the orb, and came up with an idea. "SpongeBob, you still got that cooking fork?"

"Yeah, I always have it." Alternate SpongeBob answered, and then tried to reach into his pocket, but the binds on his wrists kept him from reaching it. "Wait just a minute…"

He pulled himself up as close as he could get to his left hand, and then wiggled his fingers to his pocket where his cooking fork was sticking out. Once his fingers were touching the handle, he tried to pull it out. After a while, he managed to pull it out from his pocket, but it ended up falling on the metal floor with a clank.

"Oh barnacles." Alternate SpongeBob cursed. "I'm sorry, Danny."

"No need to be." Danny responded with a smile. "It's just where I want it."

Then Danny closed his eyes and calmly breathed out as his right hand began to glow green, and the fork began to glow green as well. The fork began to lift off the ground in synch with Danny's hand movement, and when he swiftly moved his hand to the left, the fork flew off in that direction until it hit the glass orb containing Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof. All seemed still at the moment until the orb got a small crack which then grew larger and larger until it shattered to pieces.

They smiled and laughed and flew toward the group, using their magic to make the chairs they were trapped in disappear. "All right!" Danny smiled in excitement as he stood up.

He ran over to the Alternate Danny and lent a hand to him to help him up. But Alternate Danny just ignored him and stood up on his own. But suddenly, Alternate SpongeBob ran up and hugged him.

"Oh, Danny, thank goodness you're alright." Alternate SpongeBob said as he rubbed his head against his 'best friend'. "I couldn't bear all the things Neutron said to you."

But as usual, Alternate Danny just pulled him off and threw him aside. "Relax, Carrot-Top." He replied with a scowl. "Like anything that brat said got to me."

"But it was true, wasn't it?" Danny asked. But before he could get a reply, he noticed the blue-robed figure, who was the Alternate Timmy Turner, approach them.

"Oh yeah, almost forgot about you for a second." Danny said with a sheepish smile. "Sorry, I mistook you for someone else."

Alternate Timmy just stood there silently like before. Cosmo and Wanda stared at him until Wanda asked, "But if that's Timmy's alternate self, then where's the real Timmy?"

"Maybe he can tell us." Danny thought as he leaned down to reach Alternate Timmy's height. "Do you know if you've seen someone who looks like you?"

But Alternate Timmy did not answer, and Danny tried once again with a weak smile, "Maybe someone with the same colored hat as you?" Still no response; and his smile grew weaker, "Same teeth?"

When Alternate Timmy continued to stand there silently, Danny suddenly yelled in a rather annoyed voice, "Same first and last name?"

"Poof! Poof! Poof!" Poof's voice shouted from the other side of the room.

"Maybe Poof found something." Cosmo excitedly guessed as he and the others rushed to where the fairy baby was.

Upon finding him, they saw Poof floating over a lab table and on top of it was Timmy strapped in, looking unconscious.

"Oh no," Danny gasped as he went next to Timmy and started shaking him. "Timmy? Timmy, wake up."

But Timmy did not respond and Wanda's expression saddened. "What if we're too late?"

Cosmo started crying. "Timmy's gone for real this time!"

"He's still breathing, idiot." Alternate Danny bitterly pointed out. "His chest is moving up and down."

Alternate SpongeBob tried to pull off the binds. "Let's see…if we can get him out of this thing."

But when he was unable to pull it off, Alternate Timmy stepped in front of him and easily snapped off the binds with his right hand, and walked away with the others staring at him in surprise.

Danny then sat the unconscious Timmy up and tried to shake him awake. "Timmy! Timmy, it's us. Wake up."

While he continued to try and wake Timmy, the Alternate Timmy stepped in front of him this time and held a glass of water in his hand. Without warning, he threw it in Timmy's face, wetting him until he finally opened his eyes and coughed.

"What?" Timmy asked as he looked forward to see the lab. "AAAH! Get me out of here! Don't take out my brain!"

"Timmy, relax!" Wanda said as she floated down to Timmy and grabbed his hands while calmly smiling. "It's okay, you're safe now."

"Wanda!" Timmy said with a relaxed smile. "You're here!" then he felt the sides of his head. "My brain's still in my head too."

"What's a brain?" Cosmo asked which made Timmy smile when he noticed him and Poof.

"Cosmo! Poof! You're here too!" then he looked around and saw Alternate SpongeBob. "SpongeBob!" then he noticed Alternate Danny. "Danny!"

Then he ran over and hugged him. "I'm so glad you're here. I was worried about you after I got captured. Nice outfit by the way. But what's with the chains and your eye?"

Alternate Danny pushed Timmy onto the table and responded, "You're gonna go back to sleep in a minute if you don't shut your big-toothed mouth up."

"Sheesh," Timmy said with an odd look. "What's with the attitude?"

"Uh, Timmy?" Danny said, getting his attention. "I'm the real Danny. That over there is, unfortunately, the alternate me."

"Wow, really?" Timmy asked with a smile. "That's awesome."

"Nah, not really."

But then, Timmy noticed the Alternate Timmy standing there, watching everything. "Who's the weirdo over there?" Timmy asked.

"That would be the alternate you." Danny answered.

"Really?" Timmy asked in surprise but smiled and jumped off the table to stand next to his doppelganger. "That's even more awesome."

"Okay, fellas," Alternate SpongeBob began saying. "As much fun as it is to get acquainted. We have to stop whatever Neutron's plans are."

"That's right." Timmy remembered. "He and the other Tak got everything they needed from my brain to make their Portal Machine work."

"Portal Machine?" Danny questioned. "So he does have one. You know what he's planning?"

"That's right. I'll explain everything; let's get to that Portal Machine."

They found Timmy and now they get to go home…hopefully. Please review what you think and the next chapter will be up soon.