And here's the next and final chapter of Nicktoons: World of the Crazies. Last time, Alt. Danny took out Alt. Timmy's automated arm and stopped Alt. Jimmy's control over it. Find out of the real Danny can stop him.

Enjoy…

Chapter 18: Never Again

Up in the airship, Alternate Jimmy was watching a screen that showed the defeat of his experimental cybernetic arm that he used to control Alternate Timmy. Danny was still being pinned back against the wall by Alternate Tak, but had seen the whole thing on screen as well.

"Ha!" Danny laughed and gloated. "They beat you! They stopped your robot arm that controlled Timmy's alternate self! And it was all thanks to my crazy jerky alternate self!"

Alternate Jimmy turned his chair around and glared at Danny. "Glad to see you're amused."

"You might as well give up, Neutron." Danny said to him. "You have nothing left."

"I may not have my experiment anymore, but your device to send us back is still destroyed. It would seem you have nothing left as well."

"He knows you're right." Alternate Tak said while gripping Danny's fist. "He's starting to get worried, knowing that with his little team thinking he can handle this by himself, you're free to finish them off without them seeing it coming."

Danny's eyes widen, but then he closes his eyes and starts seething with anger. But Alternate Tak was not intimidated. "Oh, what's the matter?" he scornfully asked. "Did I strike a nerve?"

"No…" Danny answered quietly. "But I struck this." Then he quickly stomped on Alternate's Tak's foot, causing the shaman to cry out in pain and let go of him.

Danny reacted quickly by taking his staff and throwing it aside, far out of their reach. "Why, you little-" Alternate Tak growled as he charged at Danny.

But Danny's hand glowed green and he threw his arm out, causing a glowing Alternate Tak to pin up against the wall.

"Can't read my mind if you can't touch me." Danny pointed out as he held Alternate Tak away with his ghost manipulation.

"Very impressive, Danny." Alternate Jimmy said tediously. "Didn't think you'd be able to defeat him."

"And I'm about to do the same to you." Danny said as he turned to face Alternate Jimmy while keeping his ghost manipulation focused on Alternate Tak.

"I don't think you can, Danny." Alternate Jimmy said coolly.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't take you both in and send you back to your own universe."

"I can give you a better reason." Alternate Jimmy backed away and stopped in front of the controls. "Your comrades are down there, correct?" he held his finger above a red button. "With a simple press, my disrupter blast, I can easily end their lives in a manner of seconds."

"You wouldn't." Danny said in slight surprise.

"I would."

"I can beat you to that button!" Danny shouted, aiming a ghost ray at him

"Are you certain you're willing to take that risk?" he asked with his finger inching closer to the button.

After a while, Danny lowered his ghost ray and stood there. "Alright, you win." He said in defeat.

"Excellent choice." Alternate Jimmy said with a smirk. "You always have been one to give in at ridiculous demands like these." Danny glared angrily at this, but the evil genius just continued, "But what should I expect from a universe as weak as this one?"

But afterwards, something small and hard bounced against the floor and it landed right between Danny and Alternate Jimmy. Then it suddenly beeped and created a green portal that began to suck everything in. "What?" Alternate Jimmy and Alternate Tak both asked in shock.

Danny quickly backed away from it and swung his right arm and his ghost manipulation threw Alternate Tak into the portal as he screamed, "NOOO!"

Alternate Jimmy hung on to the chair to keep himself from going in as well. "What on Alternate Earth is this?"

The door suddenly opened and Timmy walked in with a frown, wearing Jimmy's jetpack backpack, and sees Alternate Jimmy trying to keep himself from going into the portal.

"Now who's useless?" he callously asked before firing his star flinger at the chair which caused Alternate Jimmy to let go and fly toward the portal. "This isn't the end!" he yelled before the portal closed.

"It is." Danny replied with a smirk. "It's a shame, Neutron…but someone has to lose."

Timmy ran over and picked up the recaller that had shut down. "Ha, ha, we did it!" Timmy cheered. "We beat those crazy freaks!"

Danny chuckled as well. "Yeah, we did. Now all we have to do it figure out what we're gonna do with this thing."

After this, they hear clanking and turn to see the air vent near the bottom of the wall. They prepare themselves for a fight, but once the vent comes off, from out of it comes Alternate Timmy.

"The Alternate Me?" Timmy asked.

Alternate Timmy just stood there and smiled at them. He then ran over to the computer monitors and placed his left hand on top of it. The machine started to spark and a voice said, "Self-Destruct activated!"

"What?" Danny and Timmy both shouted in shock.

But Alternate Timmy continued 'talking' to the machine, and the ship suddenly thrusts itself high in the air, causing Danny, Timmy, and Alternate Timmy to fly back against the wall.

"Oh great!" Timmy shouted. "We're going up into space and we're gonna be blown into pieces!"

Danny turned his head to see Alternate Timmy staring at him as if expecting him to do something. The ghost boy soon enough got the idea.

Down below, Jimmy and the others watched Alternate Jimmy's ship fly higher and higher into the sky until it suddenly exploded with a boom. They winced at the explosion, but gasp to see no one had emerged from the ship before it self-destructed.

"Oh no," Jimmy said with a horrified look. "Danny! Timmy!"

"Alternate Timmy!" Cindy also shouted in horror. "Where are they?"

"They sacrificed themselves to save us." SpongeBob realized as his face saddened with tears in his eyes. "I never wanted it to end this way."

"Neither did I." Danny's voice said.

Alternate SpongeBob turned to Alternate Danny, who was just standing there with his usual frown. "We all didn't, Danny." Alternate SpongeBob said gently, patting his back. "But sometimes when there are no other options-"

But Alternate Danny just punched him in the face. "Don't even think I would say something like that." He nastily warned.

"I did!" the voice said again. Suddenly, Danny turned visible in the air, holding both Timmys in his arms, and landed on the ground in front of his friends. They all smiled in happy relief.

"Danny!" Jimmy, Tak, and SpongeBob all shouted in joy.
"Timmy!" Cindy also shouted happily as she ran forward with her arms held out.

Timmy closed his eyes and held his arms out as well, anxiously waiting for Cindy's embrace. But to his surprise, she ran right past him and hugged Alternate Timmy tightly instead.

"Oh, Alternate Timmy," Cindy said, squeezing him tightly. "I'm so glad you made it back safely." The doppelganger just stood there, smiling shyly.

Timmy crossed his arms and glared in annoyance. "Okay, this is just wrong."

Jimmy stood next to him, bearing the same expression. "You're telling me."

Later on, they were all down in Jimmy's lab while the genius fixed up Alternate Timmy's mechanical arm. He was currently picking at a bunch of gears in his metal wrist. He then closed the forearm, and gave the implement to Goddard in his mouth.

"Screwdriver." Jimmy requested as he held his now free hand.

Goddard walked away with the tool in his mouth, and soon reached a toolbox sitting on a chair, and he tossed the tool inside and reached inside until he grabbed a screwdriver. He walked backed over to Jimmy, and handed his master the tool which Jimmy then used to tighten some screws on Alternate Timmy's metal arm.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Nicktoons and alternates were talking to each other. Alternate SpongeBob shook Timmy and Danny's hands. "Well, thank you all for everything." He said happily. "You guys are really tremendous heroes of this universe."

Danny chuckled and replied, "It was nothing, SpongeBob. I think we actually owe it all to you."

"Yeah," Tak agreed. "You helped us beat those imposters and helped Timmy and Danny get back home."

SpongeBob hugged his alternate self. "Yes! Thank you, Alternate Me!" but then he stopped and pointed at his hair. "By the way, how'd you get such amazing hair anyway?"

"Easy," Alternate SpongeBob answered. "It just takes time. You can get some if you want to."

"Really?" SpongeBob asked with a large grin.

"NO!" Danny, Timmy, and Tak all shouted as the sponges stared at them.

Then Danny tried to explain, "I-I mean…why change yourself, SpongeBob?"

Tak added, "We like you just the way you are."

"Yeah," Timmy nodded. "Without the long and creepy red hair."

Danny then turned to see his alternate self standing in the corner against the wall by himself. Danny took the risk and walked over to him with a smile.

"What's wrong, Alternate Me?" Danny asked in a friendly tone. "You're not gonna celebrate with us over defeating Alternate Neutron?"

Alternate Danny just turned his head with a bandage wrap once again covering his right eye. "Count me out."

But Danny refused to leave and just kept talking with him, "You don't need to hide your eye. I think it looks cool. And you look way better without the thing wrapped around head." Then he playfully elbowed him. "Even your best friend, SpongeBob, thinks so too."

Alternate Danny then pushed him away with both his hands. "Go play with your freakish friends yourself, you loser."

Then Danny's eyes widen and his smile turns to an angry frown. "Oh, come on!" he shouted angrily. "I try to be nice to you because I'm grateful that you saved my friends, and STILL you act like a jerk!"

But Timmy quickly came and pushed Danny away. "Sorry, Danny," Timmy said, chuckling nervously. "I guess some things will never change."

"Finished!" Jimmy called out as he and Goddard approached with Alternate Timmy, whose large mechanical arm was completely repaired. "I managed to repair Alternate Timmy's arm with all the pieces that we recovered." Jimmy explained. "I even removed the chip inside so there's no chance of it ever being controlled again."

Alternate Timmy moved his mechanical arm around and smiled in satisfaction.

"Wow, Neutron," Cindy said with a smile. "I have to admit, I'm very impressed." Then she turned Alternate Timmy and gave a longing glance and sigh. "You really know you're way with other world technology."

Timmy noticed this and glared at Jimmy. "Yeah, Neutron…you REALLY do know." He sarcastically said as Jimmy looked away sheepishly.

SpongeBob gave a weak smile as he said, "Well, I guess this means since the evil Jimmy and Tak aren't here anymore, you guys gotta go back to your own universe."

"Unfortunately, yes," Alternate SpongeBob answered with a sigh. "With Neutron and Tak back in our universe, I have to be there and do whatever it takes to stop them."

"No, you don't." Jimmy pointed out indisputably. "I programmed that recaller to send them to an abandoned and distant universe. The odds of them ever coming back are 18,700,95 to 1."

Alternate SpongeBob smiled at this. "Oh, Jimmy Neutron," he said, with tears forming in his eyes. "You truly are a hero in this universe. Your team, especially Timmy and Danny, have helped our universe so much. We'll never forget any of you."

"Oh boy," Cindy said, rolling her eyes. "Now this is just getting horribly cheesy."

"And I think we'll have our own team of heroes in our universe." Alternate SpongeBob excitedly said as he pulled Alternate Timmy and Alternate Danny close.

Alternate Timmy smiled while Alternate Danny just stood there and glared in annoyance. "We'll be The Ticknoons of our own universe." Alternate SpongeBob announced.

"Actually, it's Nick-" Danny was about to correct until he stopped and smiled with a shrug. "You know what…that sounds pretty cool, SpongeBob."

Jimmy told them, "I set the Portal Machine's destination to your universe using the coordinates from your arrival. So you can leave whenever you're ready."

Alternate SpongeBob approached Timmy and Danny. "Well, I guess this is goodbye. Maybe one of these days, all of you can stop by our universe and hang around. Plus with Neutron gone, it'll be a way better place."

Danny and Timmy stared at each other for a second, and Timmy responded, "Yeah…that sounds great." He said with a grin.

"Totally," Danny responded the same way. "…nice to know things will be less crazy."

SpongeBob slowly approached Alternate Danny and fidgeted a bit as he said, "Hey…Other Danny…since this is goodbye…I was wondering if you could be a little nicer from now on. I mean, we're friends now…aren't we?"

Alternate Danny stared at the nervous sponge. "Is that what you think?" he asked.

Then SpongeBob flinched and shook again. "Please don't hurt me again!" he begged.

But Alternate Danny just stood there with a friendly smile on his face as he stared at the cowering sponge. "Now why would I do that? I think we could be friends."

SpongeBob stopped trembling and he looked at Alternate Danny with a smile. "We can?"

"Of course." Alternate Danny said, still smiling. "Plus I think you're universe is a lot better than my own. I mean, with the way everyone else in my universe- especially everything I had to go through with Neutron, I couldn't make any friends of my own, so all I had was that stupid sponge to hang around with. And no matter how many times I tried, I couldn't get him to leave me alone or get him to cry even when I hurt him. That is until I met you."

SpongeBob chuckled and blushed. "You really mean that?"

"Yeah, you're way better than the sponge with that stupid hairdo." Alternate Danny continued to explain as his smile turned malevolent. "You cry when I hurt you; and you tremble every time I come near you, so I wouldn't have to worry about you bothering me." He curled his fingers into a fist. "I think we'll be the perfect friends."

SpongeBob's eyes widen as he suddenly began to understand what the alternate ghost boy was implying. But then, Tak stood in front of him and blocked him from Alternate Danny. "Yeah…long distance friendships never work out." Tak said with a nervous grin.

Cindy grabbed Alternate Timmy and hugged him tightly. "I'll never forget you, Alternate Timmy! You're the bravest person I ever met."

Alternate Timmy smiled a bit as he stood silently in her arms. But then, Jimmy and Timmy walked over and pulled the two apart with Poof watching.

"Well, you know what they say about long goodbyes." Timmy said, holding his alternate self.

"Yeah, what he said." Jimmy said as Cindy smacked his hand off of her.

Alternate Timmy gave a silent chuckle as he gave them a warm smile. "…Thank you." He said in a soft voice.

Jimmy, Timmy, Cindy, and Poof suddenly gasp in shock, hearing him talk for the first time since they all met him.

Then Alternate SpongeBob came over and placed a hand on Alternate Timmy's back. "Come on, Tim, it's time we head home."

Alternate SpongeBob and Alternate Timmy gave one last goodbye to their new friends before the three went toward the portal. Alternate SpongeBob grabbed both Alternate Timmy and Alternate Danny's hand as he prepared to step through together, but Alternate Danny just tossed them both into the portal before walking in himself.

After the portal closed, the Nicktoons stood there silently as they stared until SpongeBob broke the silence, "I'm really gonna miss those guys."

"I'm not." Danny said with a frown as he began to walk away.

"You said it." Timmy said with the same expression as he followed him.

Jimmy stared at them and asked, "What are you two saying?"

Danny stopped and turned to him with a reply, "You have no idea what we've been through. I mean, the Alternate SpongeBob was a great guy and he really helped us." Then he got a small smile. "But…I really prefer the real universe where my real friends are."

"That's right!" Timmy shouted happily as he put Jimmy in a headlock much to his discomfort. "I never thought I'd say this, but goody-genius you is the one I like best."

But then he shoved Jimmy away and stood next to Cindy with a longing look. "And the talkative me is the one you like the best, right?"

Cindy rolled her eyes, but then sighed before asking, "You can contact that universe, right Neutron?"

Timmy's eyes widen and he screamed, "Jimmy, shut down that portal!"

Jimmy nodded, "Right!" he replied before rushing to the portal's computer.

"Neutron!" Cindy yelled angrily as she ran over to stop him. "Don't! Timmy's gonna miss me!"

"I'M Timmy!" Timmy shouted as he rushed into the fracas also. "And I'm not the Timmy who cries all the time!"

"My alternate self was the one who made him that way!" Jimmy pointed out as he tried to work at the computer. "And we share the same intellect!"

"At least the Alternate Timmy knows how to treat a lady!" Cindy yelled as she fought her way to the computer.

"He has a robot arm!" Timmy yelled over them. "And he doesn't even talk!"

While the three kids argued and tried to shove each other, Danny, Tak, and SpongeBob just watched everything. But then, Wanda shouted in panic, "I gotta contact the Alternate SpongeBob fast!"

She then flew into the commotion as Cosmo yelled, "No way! Timmy and Fudge Head are shutting it down!"

Tak chuckled as he told Danny, "Guess you guys really aren't ever going back."

"Thank goodness for that." Danny replied with a chuckle. "Come on. Let's go to the Krusty Krab. I'm dying for a real krabby patty."

"Okay!" SpongeBob happily agreed.

Then Danny, Tak, SpongeBob, and Poof walked out of the lab, leaving Jimmy, Timmy, Cindy and the fairies to argue over communication with the alternate universe.

The End

And that's the end of the story. I hope you enjoyed it just as much as I did writing it. Please leave your thoughts and comments on the chapter and the whole story in general, and check out the rest of my stories if you're interested.