Chapter 4:

I was beyond relief and happy seeing my friends again. However I soon saw my pet robot dog broken up and burnt I become overwhelmed with all sorts of feelings. He must have activated his defense protocol at the last minute.

"Thank God you guys escaped, it must have been really hard without me around huh?" I said in a jokingly manner. Cindy however, obviously took it the other way.

"Look here spewtron! Don't think we came all the way out here, only to listen to your big, gloating mouth, we risked out lives to get here!" she shout in my face.

"Relax, I was just joking, sheesh," I told her, "Well, it's nice you guys are here, I am going to need some help around here. Please tell me you brought food."

After looking at their faces, I could already tell the answer.

"Never mind, Carl, see if you can find anything that in metal, check all the store rooms, Cindy and Libby, you girls go with him. Sheen, you're with me. Goddard in our main priority right now," I ordered.

"Right on sir!" Sheen said getting up.

Cindy huffed walking away and Libby followed behind.

I was relieved to see his hard drive intact, and hooked up his system to the computer near to me. Looks like all his function would operate properly. All the platters and the disk controller were destroyed, but that can be easily repaired. His hyper-ass function was destroyed, but that would take a few weeks to make. I'm going to have to make do

Cindy came back along with Libby with a lot of scraps. I noticed Carl was missing.

"Hey, where's Carl," I asked Cindy.

"Said he wanted to go find a bathroom, I guess that's where he is. We found some circuit boards, see which one would be compatible with Goddard," Cindy said.

"Thanks," I said.

I turned to the gang, "So, wanna fill me in on what's happening down in Retroville."

"They took all the parents and children, even ours," Libby said.

"Yeah, they took mi padre too," Sheen said sorrowfully, "He hid me under the secret room in the bathroom. It's almost as big as the house."

We all stood mouth agape at Sheen.

"Sheen honey, don't you think it may have been better had we stayed there instead of coming here," Libby said patiently, but definitely irritated.

I had to hold back Cindy from socking Sheen, so I quickly added, "Hey, I am pretty sure the Yolkians were still going to find you guys, I mean, where would you get food from, right?"

Cindy nodded angrily and I continued, "I'm pretty sure Goobot is going to use my parents and all ours parents as bait, he wants me more than anything and I'm pretty sure he'll resort to any measure to get what he wants."

"Jimmy, this is not like last time. This time we are outgunned, outmatched and we barely have enough resources to get back inside Retroville let alone anywhere near to Goobot," Cindy said.

She was right; I couldn't get enough resources to make what I wanted here.

"You must have a plan, right Jimmy?" Libby added.

"Jimmy always has a plan!" Sheen bellowed confidently. He turned to me and whispered, "You do have a plan right?"

"Follow me over here," I said to the group.

I brought them to what looked like the main computer.

"When I came here, I hacked into the system and found all their data and information still available and it was easy because they barely encrypted it. Guess they had to leave in a hurry."

"What are you getting at?" Cindy said to me.

"When you guys left here as the N Men, one of you left a hair sample behind. I found the General was holding a material that allows us to become invisible the same Libby was; by blending in into the light spectrum. This meta-material is our key to taking back our home, it's in the form of a cloth, so while I'm working on Goddard, I'd like you two girls to sew suits for us," I said pointing to Libby, "Sheen and Carl, you guys search outside for some food. Please make sure it's something edible too."

"Alright Neutron, where is this special cloth you speak of," Cindy demanded.

"Yeah, I'd like to get this biz over with as soon as possible," Libby added, taking out her ipod.

I turned back to the computer and said aloud "why would the military's research and development department be working on materials".

"The scientist here replicated Libby's DNA but couldn't quite get the cloth to work," I said pausing to see Cindy fiddling with her hairband and continued, "There's a vault a few floors above, there's supposed to be DNA samples Libby there, when you finish the suits, I will make the right adjustments to make it work, got it?"

They nodded at me and went off in their own directions.

I continued working on Goddard and after three hours, I finished and hooked him up and give him a boost charge. Many of his functions were disabled and he would not be much help against Goobot, but the basic ones were there.

It was getting late, and I heard Sheen and Carl talking. Presumably helping the girls sew our suits. I still had to go and see them. Plus I wanted to ask how they found any sewing equipment. I walked over to them and found them in idle chatter.

"Hey Cindy, where'd you find the sewing equipment?" I asked, sitting down on the rug.

"There were in one of the staff rooms, I'm afraid we are going to need more supplies," Cindy said to me.

"Hey, Goddard's got a small sewing machine, you can use that in the meantime, I'm going to wake him up now," I told her.

She nodded and I shouted across the base, "Goddard! Wake up!"

Goddard powered on and greeted us happy, I smiled at him, "Nice to see you to boy, hey your sewing machine up to the task?"

Goddard barked and his back opened and a sewing machine came out and was fully operational. Libby went to work while the rest of us looked around for anything we could use if we run in to the Yolkians.

We found a bunch of explosives that I entrusted into Cindy's hands. We're going to need all the fire power we can get this around, even if mom and dad didn't want me using bombs; I need it to save their lives. Time was running out on me and there's nothing I can do, except wait.