Here's the next chapter of Nicktoons: World of the Crazies. Last time, Alt. Jimmy made it clear that he is one step ahead of everyone- thanks to a special weapon he brought along.

Enjoy…

Chapter 17: Bronze over Brains

Outside on the street, the rest of the Nicktoons and Alternates were staring at the airship, wondering if Danny was succeeding in stopping the Alternate Jimmy and Alternate Tak's plans.

Alternate Timmy's metal fingers suddenly curled which he looked down at when he noticed. He did a double take on this and he quickly grabbed his right hand, but his arm began to jerk around.

Timmy noticed this and he looked at his doppelganger in concern. "Hey, what's up with you?"

As usual, Alternate Timmy didn't answer and instead kept struggling with his arm.

Then Jimmy walked up to him and said, "Hey, listen…Alternate Timmy…I really think you should stop this whole silent treatment act and tells us how you were able to perform those inhuman abilities."

Alternate Timmy, however, continued to ignore them and tried to withhold his struggling arm that was getting harder to control.

"Neutron," Cindy intervened as she walked over to them. "If he doesn't wanna talk, just leave him alone."

"Yeah, what she said." Timmy sided with once again.

As they argued, Alternate Timmy bent over as he struggled harder and harder to maintain his grip on his right arm.

"Come on, Turner." Jimmy said, not noticing Alternate Timmy's behavior. "You're just as curious about him as I am."

"You're curious about everything, Nerdtron." Cindy said angrily. "You always have to butt in to other people's business."

"And he's me, so it's also MY business." Timmy added.

"His business happens to depend on the fate of our universe." Jimmy pointed out.

As they continued to argue, Alternate Timmy silently dropped on one knee as he tried to grip harder on his struggling right arm. This went unnoticed by anybody since Jimmy, Timmy, and Cindy were arguing; Alternate SpongeBob was sitting on the ground while Wanda enjoyed brushing his hair much to Cosmo's dismay; Tak was playfully teasing Poof with his staff as the baby giggled, trying to grab the staff; and SpongeBob was crying due to Alternate Danny deliberately pouring all his bubble soap onto the ground, who seemed to enjoy his crying since he was never being able to make his own SpongeBob cry.

Then suddenly, after much struggle, he lost his grip and his right arm thrashed out and knocked back Jimmy, Timmy, and Cindy, causing them to slide on the ground. The others stopped what they were doing and rushed over to the fallen three.

"What happened here?" Alternate SpongeBob asked.

"It was Alternate Me." Timmy answered as he struggled to sit up.

They look over to see Alternate Timmy still trying to hold his jerking right arm. "I don't know." Jimmy said as he and Timmy help Cindy stand up. "Something's not quite right."

Then they see Alternate Timmy lose his grip on his right arm and it pounded on the ground, somehow causing the pavement to crumble, and they backed away to avoid it.

"Stand your ground, guys." Jimmy warned as he took out his tornado blaster. "He may try to strike again."

"But that can't be true." Timmy said in disbelief and began to slowly approach his doppelganger. "Alternate Me…what's wrong with you?"

Instead of answering, Alternate Timmy slowly stood up straight and grabbed a hold of his robe. At fast speed, he pulled it off and tossed it into the air. The Nicktoons gasped in shock to see Alternate Timmy's real appearance. He was wearing the same pink shirt but torn a bit with missing sleeves, blue pants and black boots, a scar between his eyes, and a black bracelet. But what stood out the most was his right arm was replaced with a large metal prosthetic arm that seemed implemented with a ton of robotic gadgetry.

Alternate Timmy closed his eyes and used his flesh and blood arm to cover his face that seemed to look shameful.

"Wow, Timmy," Cosmo said as Timmy's star flinger. "Your alternate self looks totally awesome!"

"I know, right?" Timmy agreed with a large smile. "I wonder why he never told us any of us this."

"Uh…Timmy?" SpongeBob nervously said. "Your alternate self doesn't look so hot."

"What makes you say that?" Timmy asked, not noticing his alternate self's expression.

Then Alternate Timmy's metal fist balled up and he lifted his arm, much to Alternate Timmy's horror; and he suddenly charged toward the group for attack.

"Nicktoons, spread out!" Jimmy ordered as the group quickly obeyed.

Alternate Timmy's punch missed everyone, but then a small laser came out from his robotic wrist and fired lasers everywhere. Alternate Danny protected himself with a shield, and Jimmy pushed Cindy from a laser that would've hit her, but hit him instead. While Jimmy was on the ground, SpongeBob ran over to him to blow a protective bubble shield around them while Cosmo used fairy medicine to heal him.

Timmy quickly threw a gold star at his alternate self, and it hit the laser, breaking it off his wrist. Once it was on the floor in pieces, Alternate Timmy ran off in one direction and grabbed a hold of the light post. But his robotic arm just kept jerking forward as if trying to pull him away.

Tak, Alternate SpongeBob, and Alternate Danny were ready to attack him, but Timmy stood in their way. "Wait!" he shouted to them. "Don't hurt him. I don't think he wants to hurt us."

"So, what difference does that make?" Alternate Danny asked with a shrug. "I wanna hurt him."

"Can't you ever think of someone other than yourself?" Timmy asked the ghost boy angrily.

"I can, but I won't." Alternate Danny snidely replied as he prepared a ghost ray. "Besides…he's better off dead."

As he was about to fire, Cindy suddenly yanked the chain on his wrist and pulled his arm down before jabbing him in the stomach and pushing him away. "How does it feel to be on the other end of the butt-kicking?" she bitterly asked.

Alternate SpongeBob was agape in shock, and when he was about to run over to him in concern, Tak just grabbed his cape and pulled him back. "He's fine." He said dully.

Timmy then tried slowly approaching his alternate self again. "Alternate Me…tells us what's happening to you."

While Alternate Timmy was still hanging on the pole, he was unknowingly being watched on a screen in Alternate Jimmy's ship. Danny was still being held against the wall by Alternate Tak with his staff. He stared in horror at what he saw on screen. "What have you done to him?" he asked in dismay.

Alternate Jimmy smirked as he answered, "It goes a while back. I had come up with the idea for a weapon that would give someone invincible power. So after some speculation, I came to the conclusion that instead of creating a weapon for one person…what if that person WAS the weapon?"

Danny's eyes widen in shock. "You didn't." he asked, almost whispering.

"I did." Alternate Jimmy answered. "I had to test that theory on someone, and Experiment 8/5 was successful." Then he held the remote he was holding. "And with this remote, I can control his mechanical limb to do whatever I want."

He demonstrated by pushing another button on the remote, and down below, the razor sharp finger-tips on Alternate Timmy's mechanical arm slice the pole in three pieces; and afterwards, punched Timmy away, and then shocked Alternate Danny with electricity on his arm that knocked him out.

When Alternate SpongeBob was about to check on him, Alternate Timmy picked him up and tossed him into Tak. When he moved in to punch Cindy with his metal arm, Cindy screeched in fear as she flinched on the ground, but stopped when she saw Alternate Timmy holding onto his metal fist as hard as he could to stop his uncontrollable arm. But then he was struck away by a purple beam that came from Jimmy's tornado blaster.

"That's sick!" Danny shouted angrily to the evil genius. "How could you do that to Timmy? He didn't wanna be your experimental battle dummy and yet you forced him!"

He tried to run toward him, but Alternate Tak kept him back against the wall with his staff. Alternate Jimmy just spoke calmly, "You'll never get anywhere with science if all you're doing is considering what THEY want. Besides, if I hadn't equipped him with my automated appendage, he wouldn't have been susceptible enough to all my other experiments that I conducted to make him the perfect soldier."

"Other experiments?" Danny questioned in surprise.

"Watch and learn." Alternate Jimmy instructed as he flipped a switch on his remote.

Down below, Alternate Timmy's arm dropped still and he noticed that he was able to freely move it again. He smiled for a second and then started to run down the street, hoping to get away from the Nicktoons.

"He's getting away!" Timmy shouted. "Come on, we have to follow him."

"Why should we?" Tak asked. "He totally tried to kill us!"

"That's the thing." Jimmy started explaining. "I don't think he was voluntarily attacking us. It must have something to do with that automatic limb."

"Then we have to shut it off somehow." Cindy told them, "Before he hurts anyone else."

Jimmy nodded, "Right. Let's go, Nicktoons!"

They began to run off to follow Alternate Timmy while Alternate SpongeBob lagged behind to see Alternate Danny still unconscious from Alternate Timmy's attack. But SpongeBob grabbed his arm and dragged his counterpart along. "Come on, Alternate Me, you heard Jimmy's orders." He said as he pulled him forward. "The mean Danny will be fine…I think."

Alternate Timmy had run at amazing fast speed to the Candy Bar and hastily climbed the wall with his bare hands until he got on the roof. The Nicktoons arrived, panting in exhaustion from having to run so fast just to catch up to him.

"There…he is." Jimmy panted, pointing to the roof of the Candy Bar.

"How'd he get way up there?" Cindy wondered as she also panted.

"We better get him down before he falls and gets hurt." SpongeBob suggested as he stepped forward until his alternate self stepped in front of him.

"You better let me handle this one, Other Me." Alternate SpongeBob said in a bold tone. "If he won't come quietly, I'll have to make him see the light."

He ran forward and jumped from column to column of the Candy Bar until he reached the roof. He landed in front of Alternate Timmy, who had a nervous look on his face.

Alternate SpongeBob approached slowly. "Easy, Timmy, we just wanna help." He said calmly with a warm smile. "So just stand still and tells us how we can-"

But Alternate Timmy still had a frightened look, and he stomped his foot on the ground which somehow caused the roof below him to crack and cause him fall below into the restaurant. Alternate SpongeBob was agape at this. "Holy…" but the crack moved toward his feet and he came tumbling down as well.

"Alternate SpongeBob!" Jimmy cried as he and the others rushed inside the Candy Bar and see Alternate SpongeBob on top of the front counter covered in rubble.

"He got ceiling bits in my milkshake!" A girl sitting at the counter complained.

Alternate Timmy stood up, looking dizzy, but then shook his head and gave a relaxed sigh. He absent-mindedly placed his left hand on the cash register. But then, he gasped as he saw the cash register spark with electricity and fling coins everywhere.

Tak jumped on the counter and pointed his staff at Alternate Timmy. "Listen to us, Alternate Timmy! We don't wanna hurt you!"

Alternate Timmy just stood there silently until Sam walked over angrily, "Hey! No roughhousing in the Candy Bar! Take it outside!"

Alternate Timmy backed away, but bumped into the ice-cream machine, causing it to spark as well and squirt two flavors of ice-cream at Sam as he screamed and ran away.

"I don't get it." Cindy said to Jimmy and Timmy. "How is he doing all this?"

Jimmy answered, "I would seem that in addition to his automated prosthetic, enhanced speed and agility; he also has technopathic abilities."

"Techno-what?" Timmy questioned in confusion.

"He can communicate with and control technology." Jimmy explained, and then got a dreamy look. "That is the most miraculous telekinetic ability ever discovered."

Cindy just rolled her eyes while Timmy gave him a dull stare. "And I thought you were nothing like your alternate self." He said deadpanned.

When Alternate Timmy was hiding under a table, SpongeBob approached him and gave him a warm smile. "Come on out, Alternate Timmy." He gently said. "We know you're scared, but we don't wanna hurt you. We wanna help you."

Then Cindy walked over and smiled at him as well. "Listen to him, Timmy. I saw you back there. You were trying to stop yourself from hurting me. If you come with us, we can help you not be worried about losing control…" she continues smiling as she extends her hand. "…and help you get away from Alternate Neutron."

Alternate Timmy's eyes suddenly gleam with hope and he smiles at Cindy and grabs her hand as he comes out from under the table and stands up.

But from up on the airship, Alternate Jimmy pushed a button on the remote control and a beeping sound was heard from Alternate Timmy's arm. The boy gasped and pushed Cindy away before his right arm spun out of control again.

"Alternate Timmy!" SpongeBob cried until Alternate Timmy's arm punched him in the face.

"No!" Jimmy cried, and then shouted at his team, "Quick, we have to restrain him!"

Alternate Timmy ran to the window and his sharp metal finger-tips began to scratch on the glass which made a high screeching sound that was irritating to everyone's ears, especially Jimmy.

The genius dropped his weapon on the floor and covered his ears as he dropped to his knees. "Ugh! Somebody, stop him!" he pleaded over the noise.

Alternate SpongeBob quickly took out his bubble gun and shot a fast multiple bubbles that were somehow able to shatter the glass window. Everyone else sighed in relief and Alternate Timmy smiled at this and quickly jumped through. But he didn't get too far as his arm stopped him in place and aimed itself toward the others and his metal hand shout out like a grappling hook.

"Look out!" Alternate SpongeBob yelled as he pushed Jimmy, Timmy, and Tak away before the hand grabbed him by his neck and pulled him away.

"Alternate Me!" SpongeBob cried out.

The other rushed out of the Candy Bar to see Alternate Timmy's arm pull Alternate SpongeBob in front of him, and then he held Alternate SpongeBob to the ground and began choking him with his metal arm.

"Timmy…" Alternate SpongeBob gasped with his strangled breath. "…you gotta stop."

Alternate Timmy's arm refused to release its grip which saddened Alternate Timmy. The others rushed over to them to see what's going on.

"Alternate Timmy!" Cindy cried out as she grabbed his free arm. "No! You can't do this!"

Alternate Timmy just glanced at her with tear-filled eyes that indicated he was not enjoying one bit of this.

Alternate SpongeBob choked and struggled to tell the others, "You all have to…go stop Neutron. Your Danny's still up there…He might be in trouble."

"We won't leave you here." Jimmy replied, and then grabbed Alternate Timmy's metal arm. "Come on, everyone!" he started yanking on it to pull his grip away from Alternate SpongeBob. "We have to help him and Alternate SpongeBob."

Timmy, Tak, SpongeBob, and Cindy each grabbed a hold of Alternate Timmy and tried to pull him away from Alternate SpongeBob. But no matter how hard they pulled him, his metal arm would not budge and his grip tightened around Alternate SpongeBob's neck, choking him even harder.

"Alternate Timmy…" Jimmy said as he kept struggling to pry the metal arm off of Alternate SpongeBob. "You have to try and fight it…it's not what you want."

"Of course it's not." Timmy spat back. "His arm has a mind of its own!"

"He's YOUR alternate self!" Tak shouted back at him. "I don't see you trying to do anything!"

Then Cindy shouted, "Will you dunder-heads quit it and try to help Timmy's alternate self?"

"She's right!" SpongeBob nodded and cried out loud, "Before he kills the other me!"

But Alternate Timmy's arm still refused to budge even with the others' combined efforts. Then Timmy started to shout, "Listen to us, Alternate Me! You can't let Alternate Jimmy win! You gotta try and control what's happening to you! You can do it! I know you can!"

At this, Alternate Timmy's eyes widen and his grip around Alternate SpongeBob's neck suddenly loosens allowing him to breathe in oxygen. The others let go of Alternate Timmy and smile in relief.

"Nice job, Timmy." Cindy said proudly.

"Thanks, it's nothing." Timmy replied with a large grin.

But Cindy ignored him and placed her hand on Alternate Timmy's shoulder. "And especially you, Alternate Timmy." She said, smiling.

Alternate Timmy gave her a small smile, but he was unknowingly being watched by Alternate Jimmy from his ship. He narrowed his eyes and then slammed his thumb on a button on the remote.

Alternate Timmy suddenly grunted and his arm slammed itself around Alternate SpongeBob's neck again and began strangling him.

"Alternate Me!" SpongeBob cried as he rushed over next to his doppelganger. "NO!"

Alternate SpongeBob choked, almost crying. "We were…so close…didn't think it would end…this way."

Alternate Timmy shut his eyes tightly as he gritted his teeth. But Timmy kept pleading, "Alternate Me, no! Is there anything we can do to stop this?"

But suddenly, a green ecto-beam fired out from nowhere and struck Alternate Timmy hard in the side and knocked him away from Alternate SpongeBob. The red-headed sponge sat up with SpongeBob's help, and was breathing heavily and holding his aching neck.

Jimmy, Timmy, Tak, and Cindy turn to see Alternate Timmy land on the floor unconscious with his robotic arm broken into pieces. Jimmy, Tak, and Cindy quickly rush to his aid while Timmy turned around to see Alternate Danny Phantom in air with his right hand smoking with green energy, and then he landed on the floor with a cold frown on his face.

"Alternate Danny?" Timmy shouted in anger. "How could you do something like that?"

"How could I do what?" Alternate Danny replied with a devious smile. "Smash that little crybaby into pieces? That shouldn't be too hard to figure out."

Alternate SpongeBob struggled to stand up, and then he gave a teary smile as he looked at the alternate ghost boy. "Oh, Danny," he then ran forward and wrapped his arms around Alternate Danny. "Thank you, Danny! You saved my life!"

As usual, Alternate Danny shoved him aside and replied, "Don't get all sappy about, SpongeBoob. If anyone's gonna kill you…it'll be me."

While Alternate SpongeBob just continued to swoon over his savior, Timmy seemed to give a small smile at the alternate ghost boy. "I guess psychotic jerks can have hearts." He muttered to himself. "…somewhere."

"Timmy?" Tak asked the Alternate Timmy as he tried to shake him awake. "Say something!"

Just then, Alternate Timmy's eyes open and he sat up, looking worn out. "I think he's gonna be just fine." Jimmy stated with a smile. "If the metal doesn't transmit pain to his nervous system, the smashed automated limb shouldn't affect his human side at all."

"Oh, Alternate Timmy," Cindy cried as she hugged him. "Thank goodness you're alright."

Alternate Timmy looked confused at first until he noticed the remains of his right limb and he smiled widely and returned her hug, much to Jimmy's dismay.