Nicktoons Unite!

Chapter 8: Dimmsdale Takeover

Back at Jimmy's lab, the genius began coordinating the portal to Dimmsdale. After a few seconds, the machine hummed to life again. Timmy was sitting on Jimmy's computer seat; when he saw the portal open, he groaned. "Neutron, we just got back from saving Spongebob's world; can't we take a break for one minute?"

"No," replied Danny who was drying himself off, "we have to stop the Evil Syndicate and their doomsday device. With every passing minute those villains are getting closer and closer to completing that doomsday device."
Jimmy turned to his friends. "Danny's right, Timmy; we have to move fast in order to save our worlds."

The bucktooth kid sighed. He knew the genius was right; after all he is a genius. But he wasn't finished; "I mean, can't there be a simpler way to do this," he wondered out loud, "like teleport everyone from one universe to another?"
Spongebob was shocked. "How could you say that, Timmy! I don't want to leave my home: I've still got a whole month's subscription of Jelly Netters magazine and I really want to learn about catching jellyfish while blindfolded."

"Besides," added Jimmy, "it won't matter because the whole multiverse will be destroyed if we don't stop that machine."
The three gasped in horror. "What!? All of our worlds? Won't it just destroy the world that the device is in?" exclaimed Timmy as he jumped from the seat.

Jimmy shook his head. "It's much worse Timmy; you see, I've discovered that your's, mine, Danny's and Spongebob's worlds are connected; if one universe is destroyed than all the adjoining universes will suffer the same fate. It's called quantum entanglement; whatever happens to one world will happen to another."

The three boys stared at the genius in astonishment and felt very uneasy, realizing just how dire the situation really is.
Jimmy turned to Timmy. "So, Turner, are you gonna led us into Dimmsdale and find Crocker?"
The bucktooth boy's face brightened. He sauntered over to the portal. "You bet! Its about time you guys put me in charge. Follow me."

With Timmy leading, the others disappeared through the portal once more.

A swirling portal opened and Timmy, followed by Jimmy, Danny and Spongebob, hopped out. After closing the vortex, the four scanned the area; they were on a sidewalk in front of a two-story house and a garage. Down the street was the city of Dimmsdale. Cosmo and Wanda appeared as their fairy forms as Timmy and his entourage walked towards the city. As they approached, an enormous, golden fortress loomed over them in the center of the town. A statue of Timmy's arch-enemy stood guarding the castle.

Timmy's eyes grew wide. "Wow, is that solid gold?! That's so cool, if it wasn't so ugly lookin'."
"Oh, Timmy, look!" piped up Wanda and pointed at the fortress's roof. "There's a rainbow hitting the castle. That's a bad sign."
"Why should that be a problem?" asked Jimmy, confused. "Rainbows are nothing more than light being scattered by raindrops."
The pink fairy shook her head. "No, Jimmy, this isn't a normal rainbow, it's a rainbow made of fairy magic. Crocker must be stealing it."

"Fascinating," awed the genius, "Crocker must be able to extract this energy from the primordial energy of the weak and strong nuclear forces and combining with electromagnetism to create an interdimmentional-"
A snore silenced Jimmy as he turned around and saw his comrades sleeping standing up, their mouths open and causing the sound the genius had heard.
Jimmy narrowed his eyes in annoyance and snapped his fingers in front of everybody's faces. The three started awake and noticed the irritated inventor.

"Oh, hey Jimmy," yawned Danny as he rubbed one eye, "how long were we out?"
Jimmy stomped over to the doors. "If you guys are done getting your regular REM cycles, we should get into Crocker's fortress and shut down whatever's extracting that energy."
Timmy raced to catch up with the genius. Before Jimmy could do anything, Cosmo poofed into Timmy's hands as a giant hammer and whacked the doors open.

"You know you could've warned me first, Turner." snarled Jimmy as the bucktooth kid walked in.
Timmy stuck a thumb to his chest. "Hey, I'm the leader here; I'm supposed to go in first."
As he sauntered deeper into the castle, Danny rolled his eyes, Jimmy growled in annoyance and Spongebob stared at the bucktooth kid in worry.

The four heroes cautiously walked down the hallway, keeping an eye out for any robot guards. After a while, they found themselves in the center of the fortress. A large crystal stood in the middle, sparkling with white light.
Spongebob's eyes widen as he touched the clear rock. "Ooh, this is the prettiest crystal I've ever seen."
"Crocker must've been able to direct that energy rainbow to this fortress using this crystal," said Jimmy, "but that energy had to come from your worlds, Cosmo and Wanda."

Wanda nodded eagerly. "That's right, Jimmy, and we need to get to Fairy World if we want to stop Crocker."
She looked around and spied five, large prisms sparkling in the five corners of the room. "Boys, you need to direct the magic using those prisms to the crystal. Once its powered up, we'll use it to transport all of us to Fairy World."
"Alright, let's get to it, dudes!" commanded Timmy as he marched to the first prism. But before he was about to touch it, an alarm suddenly went off above him. Huge, golden doors slammed shut, trapping the heroes in the room.

Spongebob yelped, "Yikes! What now, Timmy?"
The bucktooth kid regained his senses and shouted, "We have to hurry with these prisms!"
The four boys were able to turn the prisms just so to redirect the energy rainbow onto the crystal. They were on their way to do the same with the last prism, but suddenly a cloud of gas flooded the room.

Spongebob and the others coughed. "What is this stuff? It smells terrible!" he said, trying to wave the gas away. Timmy thought the sponge's voice sounded different.
"C'mon, guys, we've gotta-" Danny clasped his hand over his mouth in surprise. His deep voice had suddenly turned squeaky. The others gave him astonished looks before laughing.
Jimmy quickly regained his composer. "It must be the gas that's affecting our voices."

Timmy was still rolling around on the ground laughing. "Haha! It's hilarious!" he squawked.
Danny glared at him. "Dude, this is serious! Let's turn this prism and aim it at the crystal."
The four grunted as the prism shot a beam of magic onto the beautiful rock. As soon as it did, the crystal began to glow even brighter.

When they met up with Cosmo and Wanda, they found out the fairies were just as affected as the boys. Cosmo was singing in his squeaky as Wanda rolled her eyes. "Okay, boys," she chirped, "on the count of three, me and Cosmo will touch our wands to the crystal and teleport us to Fairy World."
Timmy coughed. "It's about time," he said, "this gas is starting to get to me."

"One, two..." the pink fairy began.
Cosmo stopped singing to say, "Wait! Is it on 'three' or after 'three'?"
"Three!"

The heroes were surrounded by a poof of pink clouds and disappeared.