Act Two
(The story continues with Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, and Libby looking all around Retroland, both confused and worried about what's going on.)
Libby: Jimmy,... how come some of the rides are damaged?
Sheen: Why do a fifth of these people have glassy eyed stares?
Carl: And why are there Yolkians floating around everywhere?!
Jimmy: I don't know!
Voice: Hey, you!
(Jimmy and the others turn around to see 2 Yolkian soldiers floating towards them.)
Yolkian 1: What are you kids doing out of uniform?!
(Jimmy starts walking backwards, which makes the others step backwards, too.)
Jimmy: But I think I might be able to figure it out if we can get to the Hover Car and (turns around, starts running) get out of here!
Sheen: You heard him! Run!
(Carl, Sheen, Cindy and Libby start running in the same direction as Jimmy.)
Yolkian 1: After them!
(The 2 Yolkians start chasing after them. After running for a bit, Jimmy and the others make it to the Hover Car. Jimmy presses the start button twice, but the vehicle won't start. The Yolkians start getting closer.)
Jimmy: (panicky) It won't start!
Sheen: Hold on! Let me try something!
(Sheen turns around and slams his head against the motor behind him.)
Sheen: Ow!
(Jimmy presses the start button; this time, it starts.)
Jimmy: (looks at Sheen) Thanks, Sheen.
Sheen: No problem. (falls over unconscious)
(Jimmy flys the Hover Car up just as the Yolkians get to where it was.)
Yolkian 1: Shoot them down!
(The Yolkians power up their staves and start shooting at the Hover Car.)
Jimmy: Let's get out of here!
(Jimmy revs up the Hover Car and flies out of there as fast he can.)
Yolkian 1: (stops firing) Hold your fire. (Yolkian 2 stops firing) They're too far away now.
Yolkian 2: (looks at Yolkian 1) Should we tell the king about this?
Yolkian 1: (looks at Yolkian 2) Well, of course we should tell the King. (looks in the direction of the Hover Car) The King likes to know everything that happens in his kingdom.
(We transition several minutes later and see Jimmy and the others flying over their neighborhood. Everything looks the same as Retroland. Sheen leans over the Hover Car and looks at everything with awe.)
Sheen: The plot thickens...
Carl: Jimmy! Look! (points at Jimmy's clubhouse, Jimmy looks where Carl is pointing) There's a really big hole in the roof of your clubhouse!
Jimmy: Oh, no! It looks like my automatic lightning rod system failed.
(Jimmy lands the Hover Car in his backyard. Everyone climbs out and starts running towards the door to the clubhouse.)
Jimmy: Better get inside (plucks hair, holds it up to DNA scanner) and see if any of my inventions were damaged.
(The door opens up. Carl, Sheen, Cindy, and Libby run inside. We cut to inside the lab; Jimmy walks in with the other 4 behind him. Jimmy stops all of a sudden.)
Jimmy: (gasps) My Chrono-Arch!
(We see the Chrono-Arch, now twisted and split in 2. Jimmy looks at the NQF-Com, which looks like it was blown up; he runs to it.)
Jimmy: And the Neutronic Quantum Fluctuation Computer. (picks up pieces) I spent all weekend working on it.
Libby: That's not all that's broken around here.
(Jimmy looks behind him at Libby; Libby is standing next to the shelves where he keeps some of his inventions; The shelves are broken and every invention that was on them is destroyed.)
Libby: All your other inventions are busted, too.
Jimmy: Oh-no! (runs to shelves)
(Suddenly, Goddard walks in the door and barks. Everyone looks in his direction.)
Sheen: Except for Goddard. (Goddard runs to Jimmy; Jimmy becomes happy and starts petting Goddard) Looks like he wasn't here when this happened.
Jimmy: Thank goodness! (steps back) Goddard, play back lab security footage from the moment me, Carl, and Sheen left and fast forward at triple speed.
(Goddard barks and pulls up the lab's security footage on the screen under his neck; everyone gathers around Goddard. After a few seconds, a flash of light is seen erupting from the Chrono Arch and the screen goes black. Suddenly, a very deep and slightly robotic voice is heard.)
Voice: Incredible, isn't it?
(Everyone turns and sees a person in a silver suit and bulbous helmet with a glowing red visor, floating in the doorway on a silver chair with lights. Everyone screams.)
Man in suit: It's amazing how one bolt of lightning could've created so much chaos; (pauses) quantum chaos.
Jimmy: (steps forward, nervous) And who might you be?
Man in suit: Oh, excuse me! Where are my manners?!
(A black device near his chin tucks itself away; suddenly, his voice sounds like Jimmys.)
Man in suit: Allow me to clear things up for you.
(The visor on the man's suit stops glowing and flips itself up, but there's still a part of the helmet covering his eyes. Then, the part covering his eyes opens up, revealing a face that looks exactly like Jimmys.)
Carl: (points at Jimmy-lookalike) Jimmy! It's you! From the future!
Jimmy: (calm) I don't think so, Carl. Despite how mature he looks in the suit, I estimate he's approximately the same age as I am.
Jimmy-lookalike: (points at Jimmy) I'm exactly the same age as you are.
Jimmy: (confused) Exactly? (pauses, eyes widen) Wait a minute! You said "quantum" chaos! Does that mean...
Jimmy in suit: (nods) The NQF-Com works; I'm you... from an alternate reality.
Jimmy: Wow! I mean, (walks towards Jimmy in suit) I probably shouldn't be this excited considering the circumstances we're in, but still, (shakes Jimmy in suit's hand) getting to meet one of my own probable variants is a dream come true.
Jimmy in suit: I can tell.
(Carl, Sheen, Cindy, Libby, and Goddard gather around the Jimmy-lookalike and observe his suit and chair.)
Libby: But what's with the suit?
Cindy: And that chair?
Sheen: Yeah. Your technology's obviously more sophisticated than our Jimmy's. (looks at Jimmy) No offense, Jimmy.
Jimmy: (smiles) None taken.
Jimmy in suit: Oh, there's actually a very interesting story behind this. (pauses) You see, there was this one time when me and my Carl and Sheen went back in time to convince my dad to invest in McSpankey's Burger Factory so we'd become rich in the present and could afford the Encyclopedia of Infinite Knowledge.
Jimmy: Oh, yeah, we did that, too, but Mom and Dad just weren't themselves, so I went back again and returned everything to normal.
Jimmy in suit: (leans forward) Well, unlike you, I decided to stay in the alternate timeline and absorb all the knowledge I could from the encyclopedia volumes. In addition to giving me an IQ of 912, (starts floating) It also unlocked some very interesting abilities.
(Jimmy, Carl, Cindy, Libby, and Goddard look at the Jimmy-lookalike in awe; Sheen, however, rubs his chin and looks at the Jimmy-lookalike curiously.)
Sheen: (points at Jimmy in suit) You know, those powers look very familiar.
Carl: But where do the suit and chair come in?
Jimmy in suit: (floats down) Ah, yes, that. (pauses) Well, as the months went by, I started to feel like I was wasting my potential on things like school, friends, and family. So, I built this suit and chair to contain my massive brain and intelligence, and I set out on a global conquest to prove just what I was capable of.
Jimmy: Wait a minute! Hold on! You conquered your world... just because you could?!
Jimmy in suit: Well, yeah. I had the skill set to. (pauses, floats up) And now that I think about it, with our realities overlapping, you all are technically under my jurisdiction. (helmet starts to cover eyes) So, surrender yourselves to me immediately (microphone pops up, voice deepens) or face dire consequences!
Sheen: (mad) What?! No! We're not going to do that!
Carl: (mad) Yeah, what gives you the right?!
Supreme Jimmy: I have the superior intellect. I am the supreme Jimmy. Bow to me!
(Everyone says no in individual ways.)
Supreme Jimmy: You dare to defy me? Very well, then!
(Supreme Jimmy conjures a ball of electricity in his right hand and throws it at Jimmy and the others. Everyone gets scared; Supreme Jimmy laughs.)
Sheen: Jimmy! (Jimmy looks at him, frightened) He has the same powers that I did when you turned me into a genius!
Jimmy: Yeah, (looks back at Supreme Jimmy, dodges attack) except his IQ is higher than yours ever got; there's no telling what he can do!
(Supreme Jimmy keeps throwing more at them when suddenly he gets hit in the back of the head by a metal pole.)
Supreme Jimmy: Ah!
(The pole spins in the air and is caught by Cindy-lookalike in battle-torn clothes, war paint, and a skirt; she scowls at Supreme Jimmy.)
Cindy-lookalike: I always knew you were an airhead, Neutron, but you've taken it to a whole new level!
Libby: (confused, surprised) What the...?! It's-
Cindy: Me!
Cindy-lookalike: (point at Supreme Jimmy) Attack!
(Suddenly, another Jimmy-lookalike runs through the doorway, followed by lookalikes of Carl, Sheen, and Libby. The Jimmy-lookalike is wearing the a red-and-white-striped t-shirt, shorts, and brown shoes; the Carl-lookalike is dressed like Carl except for green suspenders on his pants; the Sheen-lookalike is dressed like Sheen except for an Ultra Lord mask and purple shoulder pads; the Libby-lookalike is dressed like Libby was years ago: in a green dress and bangs. All of them are carrying a type of blaster rifle. The Jimmy-lookalike slides on the floor; Jimmy and him exchange glasses. The 4 lookalikes position themselves around Supreme Jimmy and start firing their blasters. Supreme Jimmy, confused and startled by what's going on, does his best to dodge all the blasts.)
Supreme Jimmy: Wha-?! What's going on?!
Jimmy-lookalike: Keep shooting! One of us is bound to hit him!
(Supreme Jimmy creates a force field with his powers; the lookalikes stop firing. Supreme Jimmy looks around him.)
Supreme Jimmy: It seems there are more realites overlapping than I thought. (touches screen on wrist) I must take time to analyze the situation. (chair floats behind him, extends force field, sits in chair) This isn't over, my counterparts! You can bet we'll meet again real soon!
(Supreme Jimmy presses a button on his chair and vanishes into thin air with it. Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, Cindy, and Libby all look at their lookalikes: the lookalikes look back.)
Jimmy-lookalike: (raises blaster rifle) Teleportation rifles; they usually come in handy, (looks at where Supreme Jimmy vanished) but considering what his chair can do, I guess their point was pretty moot. (looks back at Jimmy) Are you alright?
Jimmy: Yeah.
Carl: (to Carl-lookalike) Wow. So, you all are from another alternate reality, huh?
Alternate Reality Carl: (chuckles) Yeah, I guess.
Sheen: (to Alternate Reality Sheen) Cool costume, (points to shoulder pads) but what are those?
AR Sheen: Oh, these are shoulder pads; I put them on because I thought they'd make me look more like Ultra Lord.
Sheen: Awesome!
Cindy: (to Alternate Reality Cindy) But why is your outfit so different from everyone elses?
AR Cindy: Oh I'm not from the same reality as these guys. I'm from another one and...well,... it's actually a pretty interesting story.
Jimmy: Which we don't have time for: we need to figure out a way to separate our realities as soon as possible!
AR Jimmy: He's right; it's gotta be our top priority since it won't take long for that Supreme Jimmy to finish what he's doing.
Alternate Reality Libby: And how do we do that?
AR Jimmy: (rubs chin) Well, (points at Jimmy) when his invention exploded, it created a quantumly-fluctuating shockwave which ruptured the barriers between our realities. That's what's causing them to overlap with each other.
Jimmy: Right. So, in order to fix this mess, we need to seal the rupture.
AR Jimmy: And to do that, you'd need to shrink past the Subatomic Barrier and into the Quantum Dimension.
Jimmy: Yeah. (pauses, eyes widen) And then I could use my Quantum Replay 9000 (moves finger on hand in circular motion) to rewind the rupture (puts hands down) to a point before it appeared!
AR Jimmy: Yeah! Then, you could return here and take care of your invention before it explodes. And thus, none of this will have ever happened!
Jimmy: Exactly! (looks at everyone else) See, this is the kind of interaction I was hoping for when I built the thing!
AR Cindy: (off-screen) Uh, there's only one problem with that, Nerdtrons!
Jimmy and AR Jimmy: (look in AR Cindy's direction, annoyed) What is it?
(We switch over to AR Cindy, who's standing beside the broken shelves and pile of inventions.)
AR Cindy: All of your inventions are toast.
(Jimmy and AR Jimmy walk over to the pile. Jimmy looks at it somberly.)
Jimmy: Oh, yeah. I guess I (AR Jimmy picks up a few pieces) got so caught up in the moment I forgot.
AR Jimmy: But maybe we salvage some of these pieces to make a new one.
Jimmy: (smiles) Oh, yeah. (Looks at AR Jimmy, AR Jimmy looks back) But we'll also need a diamond to complete the final circuit.
AR Jimmy: And we'll need to retrofit a vehicle to take you to the Quantum Dimension.
Jimmy: In my timeline, we won an astrocar in an intergalactic game show. If I can adapt my Shrink Ray to its dashboard, we should be fine.
AR Libby: That's not all we need to do! (Everyone looks at her) We're crossing over with who knows how many other timelines and we can't just assume they're not going to interfere. We need to find out about how many we're dealing with here!
AR Carl: How do we do that?
AR Cindy: (raises hand) In my reality, I was known for some reconnaissance work.
AR Jimmy: (points at AR Cindy) That's good! So, you take the other Cindy and both Libbys, get out there, and see if you can assess the situation.
Jimmy: Right! (looks at Carls and Sheens) And Carls and Sheens, you head downtown and see if you can find a diamond for the Quantum Replay. Goddard and I'll stay here with our counterparts and get everything else ready.
Cindy: Jimmy working with himself; that's gotta be the most Neutronish thing I've ever heard.
AR Sheen: (pounds fist in hand) Sounds good to me.
AR Jimmy: Alright, then. Let's get to it!
(The Carls, Sheens, and Libbys all rush out the door; just as the Cindys are about to leave, Jimmy calls out to one of them.)
Jimmy: Wait! Cindy! (Cindy and AR Cindy stop and turn around) My Cindy. (AR Cindy walks out; walks to Cindy) Be careful out there.
Cindy: (hugs Jimmy) I will. Thanks.
(Cindy lets go and leaves. Jimmy looks at AR Jimmy.)
Jimmy: Well,... shall we get to work?
End of Act Two