Whew! Yeah, I know I haven't updated since Thanksgiving of last year, but hopefully this chapter will make up for that hiatus. I wasn't really sure what direction I wanted to go in at first with this chapter, but I am happy with the result. As for what happens to Tootie when she arrives in Retroville, you'll just have to wait until Chapter 8 to find out. (Hey, that rhymes!) ;) Oh, and Happy Groundhog Day everyone! Maybe today will repeat itself forever and you'll never find out how this story ends or what Chapter 8 will hold... ;)
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Back at Fairy World, Timmy was spat out of the portal onto a cloud at the entrance much to the annoyance of Jimmy, Cindy, Carl, and Sheen.
"Dude, where have you been?" asked Jimmy. "Crocker, Calamitous, and Vicky crossed the bridge into the city and we were going to go after them, but Cindy insisted that we wait for you."
"Sorry…I had…something to tend to first…" muttered Timmy.
"Well, now that you're here we can go stop these guys from finding Cosmo and Wanda and taking over your computer program."
"Right…my computer program… But, first we need to find the two of them. I sent them to the Fairy World Magic Springs Spa to relax for the day."
"You sent your programs on a vacation?"
"Well, yeah. Even computer programs need to take a day off and what better way than at a spa within a computer program?" replied Timmy. "Man, I can't believe I just said that…" he added silently.
The gang then followed Timmy as he ran in hopefully the direction of the spa where Cosmo and Wanda were. He knew it was big and fancy because Wanda had described it to him and Cosmo after she had fixed everything when the evil, smart cockroaches were preparing to take over the world with a nuclear bomb. Thank goodness she fixed everything in time. As for the trio of evildoers, Vicky and Calamitous followed Crocker as he tried to input the destination code for the Fairy Armory. So that nobody would take much notice of them until he got it right, Crocker wanted to make sure that they all wore imp hats to blend in with everyone else.
"Can someone please tell me why I'm wearing this stupid hat?!" shouted Vicky. "I look like something out of one of my stupid little sister's storybooks!"
"There is no denying that he forgot how to use that teleportation device of his," muttered Calamitous while Crocker tried in vain to set the coordinates for the 100th time to the building after he took the device away from Vicky once they made it to Fairy World.
"Why are we even trying to get to this so-called 'Fairy Armory' anyway?" asked Vicky.
Crocker stopped short and pointed to a tall structure on top of the largest cloud-hill in Fairy World in front of trio. It was a metal structure that resembled a radio tower, but it had a large golden star on top of it that looked liked it was transmitting something.
"That is what we are after," replied Crocker. "That is The Big Wand. It powers all of the wands in Fairy World that the fairies rely on. If the tower is destroyed, their wands no longer work and that will make it all the more easier to take over this place once again. However, we're going to need some weaponry in order to take it out and the needed materials are located at the Armory. My memory is not completely gone!"
"Seeing as how you have yet to get us to our destination, I'm doubting the validity of that," muttered Calamitous.
After a few more feet of walking, Vicky couldn't take it any longer. She then strolled up to Crocker and snatched the device out of his hands.
"Hey, I was using that!"
"Yeah, and a fat lot of help it's doing us! You've been trying unsuccessfully to get us to this 'Fairy Armory' for the past twenty minutes and since I'm the one who was able to bring us to this weird place, I'm going to be using it from now on!"
"That was just dumb luck, and besides, you've never even been here before to know where everything is!"
"I don't think that you know either considering that Calamitous here recently told me that you lost your memory about this place due to some bizarre Schnauzer incident."
Crocker's pupils dilated and he started going into spasms. "SCHNAUZERS!! NOOO!! NOOOOOOOOO!!"
Calamitous was beginning to lose his patience. "Listen, if we're going to destroy Neutron and Turner and take control of their worlds as well as this place, then we're going to have to cooperate. Crocker, let Vicky handle the teleportation device as it was she who got us here in the first place." Crocker reluctantly agreed after he stopped his spasms and Vicky managed to enter the right coordinates for the Fairy Armory. The trio then disappeared in a flash and reappeared inside the building. Vicky looked smug as Crocker could only stare at her in amazement.
"How on earth did you do that?" he asked, dumbfounded.
"Like I would tell you now that I'm in charge of this thing…" smirked Vicky, as she placed the device in her jeans pocket. She then looked around the large, single room that was piled high with water balloons, rubber chickens, wands, and other magical weaponry that fairies might use. "What is all of this? These look like the kinds of things you would find at a party store."
"Ah, my dear Vicky," replied Crocker as he admired the entire room and its contents with Calamitous near him. "Even though these objects may look like the things that one would find at an ordinary party store, they are what's going to help us achieve our goal." He then caught sight of a familiar object to him on a nearby shelf and immediately rushed over to his beloved magic wand-launcher. "Heh, heh! I've waited a long time to see you again!" he said, picking up the launcher and cradling it in his arms while Vicky and Calamitous looked on dumbfounded.
Crocker then grabbed a magic wand off one of the shelves and used it to don the same suit that he wore the last time he was in Fairy World. "Ah, sweet magic at my disposal once more… You two might want to arm yourselves just in case."
Calamitous quickly scanned the room until his gaze fell on a device that looked like a cross between a machine gun and a rocket launcher that fired crowns at whatever or whoever one pointed it at. "Hmmm, this looks promising…" Curious, he pushed the lever on the side of the weapon and sharp, pointy crowns started flying out of the device at super speed.
"Aaaaahhhhh, what do you think you're doing?!" shouted Vicky as the crowns ricocheted off the walls of the Armory and she had to duck to avoid being hit by one of them.
"I…don't…know…!!" stammered Calamitous as he struggled to hold onto the weapon as it continued to spew out crowns at an alarming rate. "Could…someone…please…help…me…shut…this…thing…off…?"
Crocker walked over to Calamitous and pulled the lever back to its original position. The device slowed down and stopped spitting out crowns as the bald genius breathed a sigh of relief. "I see we might have a problem with you handling this. Vicky, I think you better take charge of it. And as for you Calamitous, I think you'd be better off using something that you usually use to destroy this Neutron kid; Something you could easily handle."
Calamitous thought to himself for a moment before a sinister smile crept across his face. "I know just the thing!" He then reached into his pocket and brought out Jimmy's hypercube.
Vicky stared at it oddly. "What is that thing?" she asked.
"It's an infinite storage container that belongs to Neutron. I stole it when I was in his laboratory. You can store whatever you want in it no matter how large or how much quantity."
"Cool, I could use one of those." She then walked over to a shelf, grabbed a magic wand, waved it, and a hypercube identical to the one that Calamitous was holding immediately appeared in her hand. "Whoa, this thing can actually read your mind and give you what you think of! These two things are really going to come in handy later on and this hypercube thing is going to be perfect for storing all kinds of devices for torturing all the other kids I babysit once the Turner twerp is out of the way! Or maybe I'll just use these things on the citizens of Dimmsdale once I have complete control over them! Now, what is that thing?"
Vicky noticed Jimmy's shrink ray that Calamitous had just taken out of the hypercube.
"It's a device for shrinking objects and also enlarging them plus many other things," Calamitous replied. "It will really be satisfying destroying Neutron with one of his own inventions." An evil smile crossed his lips.
"Eh, I think I'll pass on that one."
"Are we all ready?" asked Crocker, as he stood before the two of them in his blue suit with matching gold rocket boots, the magic wand launcher clutched in his arms. "I've been wanting to try out my magic launcher ever since I found it again and what better way than to test it on The Big Wand! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"
"Hey, wait a minute. If we're going to destroy their source of power, then how are we going to rule our parts of this plan?" asked Vicky.
Calamitous then came up with an evil idea. "Don't worry Vicky. I know someone who possesses all the power that we could ever need. And Crocker doesn't have to destroy that Big Wand thing in order to get what he wants."
"I don't?" asked Crocker.
"Nope. In fact, you'll have complete control over these flying helpers and Vicky and I will be able to rule our separate worlds. You have a magical rocket launcher in your arms there, correct?"
"Yes."
"And you can make anything come true with it at the drop of a hat, correct?"
"Yep, still correct."
"Then I'll need for you to have your launcher attract those flying helpers' wish-granting devices to you and then put all of them in a large anti-magic containment unit while simultaneously trapping every single flying helper in their own anti-magic containment unit. This way, they can't get to their devices and you'll have complete control over them. And by the way, if a certain tall, muscular fellow wielding a large wish-granting device shows up, capture him and his device for Vicky and me. He is a creature by the name of Jorgen Von Strangle and that device that he possesses will easily allow us to carry out the rest of our plans. You should have no problem in doing this I hope?"
Crocker nodded his head eagerly.
"Good," smiled Calamitous evilly as he rubbed his hands togther.
And with that, the crazy teacher started laughing like a maniac before blowing a huge hole in the side of the building with the launcher and flying out through the hole with the aid of his rocket boots.
"I don't know who's more insane," questioned Vicky, as she watched Crocker perform loop-de-loops in the air above the Armory. "You…or him."
"Oh, definitely him," replied Calamitous. "I'm just evil."
"Yeah, same here."
Meanwhile, at the Fairy World Magic Springs Spa, Cosmo and Wanda were relaxing in reclining chairs by the swimming pool. Cosmo had finally calmed down after his insane sugar rush from eating all that ice cream and was now clogging his arteries with plate after plate of bacon that Wanda kept poofing up for him.
"Man, this bacon tastes fantastic!" exclaimed Cosmo, as he wolfed down another plateful. "I can almost feel the fat clinging to my arterial walls!"
"Well, at least it's keeping you from flying around all over the place and annoying everyone," noted Wanda.
About fifty feet away from the spa, Timmy skidded to a halt and stood in the middle of the street panting heavily with his hands on his knees. Jimmy, Cindy, Carl, and Sheen came up behind him and did the same.
"Well, here it is guys," replied Timmy, once he regained his breath. "I knew that if I kept running long enough I would find it."
"Yeah, and you would have us running with you all the way here too," replied Jimmy.
"Well, at least Timmy got us here," said Cindy. She then looked at her surroundings for a moment. "Gee, this sure is a beautiful place...for a computer program, that is."
Timmy chuckled as he led everyone towards the revolving doors of the spa. They then pushed through the doors and ran towards the receptionist's desk where Binky was at his computer playing Solitaire.
"Can I help you?" he asked without looking up.
"I'm here to see Cosmo and Wanda. It's an emergency!" replied Timmy.
"Do you have an appointment?"
Timmy put his hands on the counter and leaned in close to Binky. "Tell them that Timmy Turner is here to see them immediately."
Binky then looked up startled and saw Timmy staring at him.
"Aaahhh! It's you! Sorry Timmy, I'll go get them for you right away!"
"You two know each other?" asked Jimmy.
"Yeah, kind of a long story," replied Timmy. "And no Binky, we can go see them ourselves."
"Hey, who are you guys?" Binky had just noticed Jimmy, Cindy, Carl, and Sheen standing behind Timmy.
"They're some friends of mine. Are Cosmo and Wanda by the pool?"
"Yes."
"Alright. Come on, guys."
Back with the trio of evildoers, Crocker was using his magic wand-launcher like a magnet to snatch wands away from any fairy within the vicinity while simultaneously trapping those fairies in anti-magic containment units. He had missed the way he made things to his liking some time ago, so he opted to deck out Fairy World in the exact same style again by changing all the street signs to DENZEL and CROCKER as well as changing Mount Fairymore to various images of himself among other things. Without their wands and being imprisoned, the fairies were unable to stop him and it wasn't long before Jorgen Von Strangle BOOMed in with a fiery explosion. He then pointed his glowing wand-staff down at the crazy teacher.
"Leave this place puny human, or you shall suffer at the fate of my wand-staff!" It was just then that Jorgen got a better look at Crocker and immediately recognized him. "So, it is you again, huh? I thought I had erased your memory of this place when I was a buff, magical Schnauzer some time ago. How on earth did you get back here?"
"With a little help from us."
Jorgen turned around and saw Calamitous and Vicky standing in front of him. He then loomed over the bald-headed genius who had spoke to him.
"You! I ought to destroy you for what you nearly did when you had complete control over me last time! You're going to pay, Calamitous!"
Calamitous smirked and then snapped his fingers. Jorgen was then instantly trapped in a giant anti-magic containment unit supplied by Crocker. His wand-staff landed at the bald genius' feet.
"Aaahhh, what is this?! Let me out of here, Calamitous!" exclaimed Jorgen.
"Not quite yet, Jorgen. You see, my friends and I here…" Calamitous gestured to Vicky, who was standing next to him not believing what she was seeing in front of her and to Crocker, who went back to snatching wands from passing fairies and imprisoning them both in large containment units. "…Are taking over this place and we require your assistance to take over Dimmsdale and Retroville. I believe you've been to my universe before?"
"He has?" asked Vicky.
"Yes, about a month or so ago."
"I would never help someone as puny as you," retorted Jorgen.
"Ah, but with me in control of your device here…" replied Calamitous as he picked up Jorgen's glowing wand-staff and pointed it at the muscular fairy. "…You're not really in a position to argue with me, are you?"
Jorgen gulped nervously.
Meanwhile, Timmy, Jimmy, Cindy, Carl, and Sheen were racing to the pool in the hopes of finding Cosmo and Wanda in time.
"Cosmo! Wanda!" shouted Timmy.
By the pool, Wanda perked up a bit and raised her sunglasses.
"Cosmo, did you just here Timmy calling our names?"
"Hmm? I don't think so," replied the green-haired fairy.
"Cosmo! Wanda!"
"Now, do you hear him?"
"…Nope."
By this time, everyone had reached the pool and Cosmo was still oblivious to the fact that Timmy was right beside him.
"Nope, still don't hear him. Are you sure it was Timmy?"
Annoyed, Wanda grabbed hold of Cosmo's head and turned it towards his godchild.
"Timmy, there you are! Sorry, I couldn't hear you very well as I had cotton stuffed in my ears!" He then produced thick wads of cotton from both of his ears.
"What were you doing with cotton in your ears?" asked Wanda.
"Soaking up all the ear wax that builds up over time in them." The wads of cotton each had yellow globs of wax adhering to them. Everyone's faces then turned green. "Well, better put these with the rest of my collection!" Cosmo then poofed away the cotton and noticed Jimmy standing next to Timmy. "Hey look, it's Fudgehead! Hi Fudgehead!"
Jimmy rolled his eyes while Cindy snickered.
"What are you doing here Timmy, and how did you manage to bring Jimmy, Cindy, Carl, and Sheen with you?" asked Wanda.
"I used that white orb that I wished for this morning that allows access to both Dimmsdale and Retroville. You forgot to mention that it also has a way for me to get to Fairy World if I need to," replied Timmy.
Wanda looked puzzled, but then she smiled.
"Oh, I forgot about that feature. Cosmo and I added it just in case you needed to get in contact with us for whatever reason while we're here, and it must have slipped my mind. Where is it now?"
Timmy looked down at his wrist and suddenly realized that he no longer had the orb with him.
"Oh, no! I must have dropped it before I entered the portal to come here with Jimmy and everyone. Tootie might have it now!"
"Tootie knows about it?"
"Well, not really, but she might figure out how it works and either come here, get transported to Retroville, or just stay in Dimmsdale."
"Who's Tootie?" asked Cindy.
"She's this really creepy girl I know who has a major crush on me. She was the one who was holding me up in my room before I went through the portal to here. Apparently, she was listening in on the conversation that we were all having and she wasn't too happy about it," replied Timmy.
"I'm not surprised, considering the way her room is decorated with all sorts of Timmy-related items," noted Cosmo. "She really has a thing for you and she was probably jealous of you hanging out with Fudgehead and his friends."
"Cosmo!"
"Oops, sorry."
Cindy looked slightly crestfallen, but intrigued as she heard this news. True, she did like Timmy for the fact that he was attentive to her, considerate, and courteous; everything that she wanted from Jimmy, but she always became miffed every time Jimmy blew her off on occasion. "Why does he keep doing that?" she thought. "I know that he likes me, but he has never fully admitted it yet. This girl that Cosmo was talking about that really likes Timmy makes me think that I should reassess my goal. I do want Jimmy to openly express his feelings for me, but how can I let Timmy off gently? I've been flirting with him just to make Jimmy jealous and lately it's been working in my favor." Cindy smirked to herself. "However, I really don't want to hurt Timmy's feelings because he's such a nice guy and he'll be very upset when he finds out that he was being used."
Timmy suddenly addressed Cosmo and Wanda and jolted Cindy out of her thoughts.
"Guys, listen! We have a major situation here! Crocker is here in Fairy World and he also brought along Jimmy's enemy, Professor Calamitous, and Vicky with him!"
The two fairies gasped.
"How did they manage to get here?" asked Wanda.
"Crocker got hold of my Game Buddy and stuck the Auto-Poofer into it creating the teleportation device that I showed you guys after I got back from Retroville," explained Timmy. "Jimmy dropped it through a portal into my room with a note explaining that it was mine and he wanted to give it back."
"Eh, who is this Calamitous guy again?" asked Cosmo.
"He was attached to this big, muscular guy a while ago when we were all in Retroville and he was planning to revert the Earth back to its original state," replied Jimmy. "You and Sheen helped distract the guy long enough for him to break out of Calamitous' grasp."
"Oh, you mean Jorgen, right? You know, Jorgen in Retroville, with the giant bomb and me and Sheen riding the flying, rocket-powered hotdog, and Timmy! Timmy was there too, and you were too! Ah, good times…good times…"
Sheen laughed. "I forgot about that flying, rocket-powered hot dog! I didn't even know I could play the banjo that good!"
Then, Cosmo and Sheen suddenly burst into song.
"I'm riding a hot dog over yooooouuuu! All these pork by-products have got me feelin' bluuuue!"
Everyone smacked their foreheads, including Carl.
"Can we please get back to the situation at hand?!" exclaimed Timmy. "Crocker, Calamitous, and Vicky are loose in Fairy World and they're coming after you guys!"
"What?" asked Wanda, confused.
"Calamitous wants to use you two to destroy us and he recruited Crocker and Vicky to help him carry out his plan," said Jimmy. "But they could be anywhere right now. We've got to warn everyone that there is an evil menace out to take over this computer program. I wish that we knew where they were, though…"
At the mention of the words of "I wish", Cosmo started to raise his wand, but Wanda beat him to it.
"Cosmo, we only grant wishes to Timmy."
The green-haired fairy lowered his wand. "Oh, yeah."
Timmy smiled and then addressed his fairy godmother. "Well, in that case Wanda, then I wish…!", but he didn't get the chance to finish what he was going to say because a bright beam of yellow light flew right over them and collided with the high-dive of the swimming pool, turning it into a giant statue of a certain crazed teacher.
"Hey, I didn't get the chance to jump off of that thing yet!" yelled Cosmo. "Oh well, the ear on his neck is large enough to jump off of, though…"
Suddenly, a loud, insane, and equally creepy laugh echoed over the entire area.
"Oh, no! I'd recognize that insane laugh anywhere!" shouted Timmy. "Crocker!"
As the three evildoers slowly approached the spa, Crocker was blasting all the fairies he came across with his magic-wand launcher and trapping them in individual containment units while simultaneously trapping their wands in the large, single containment unit. Every so often, he redid some piece of architecture, a street sign, or a business in his liking. He then caught sight of the towering statue of himself by the spa swimming pool that used to be the high-dive.
"Drat, I should have made it so it could spit water out of its mouth…" he muttered.
Behind Crocker, Vicky levitated the magic wand containment unit next to her with her wand while Calamitous used Jorgen's wand-staff to make the imprisoned fairy hover next to him as he walked along.
"You know Jorgen, you and I are going to get along splendidly. What, with me ruling Retroville and Vicky ruling Dimmsdale with your wish-granting device at our disposal, no one is going to be able to stop us, especially once Neutron and his little friends are out of the way."
"You're insane, do you know that Calamitous?!" shouted Jorgen from inside his containment unit. "Even with my power at your disposal once again, I highly doubt that you will have success in your goal! I still clearly remember your defeat about a month ago at Timmy Turner's hands as well as his friends'."
Jorgen then chuckled at seeing Calamitous a bit annoyed by that comment, but the bald genius quickly shook it off.
"That's all about to change very quickly," he sinisterly replied.
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And that concludes Chapter 7! Stay tuned for Chapter 8 when the person who Tootie meets in Retroville is finally revealed! Will our heroes be able to defeat this rampaging menace before it's too late? You'll find out soon enough and don't forget to review!