Act Four

(The story continues with the Nick-lookalike running toward AR Carl and AR Sheen and hugging them. Carl and Sheen stand back, shocked by what they see.)

Nick-lookalike: Carl! Sheen!

AR Carl and AR Sheen: Nick!

Nick-lookalike: It's so good to see you.

Carl: Do our eyes deceive us?

Sheen: The Nick in their Retroville...

(Carl and Sheen look at each other, then look back at the other 3.)

Carl and Sheen: ... is a nerd?!

Nerdy Nick: (looks at Carl and Sheen, points) Who are those guys? (puts hand down; AR Carl and AR Sheen look at Carl and Sheen, too) And why do they look just like you?

AR Sheen: (points) Oh, that's us... form another reality. (Nerdy Nick becomes intrigued)

AR Carl: It's a long story.

Nerdy Nick: (smiles) Cool! (walks to Carl and Sheen, shakes hands) My name is Nick Dean.

Carl: Nice to meet you.

Sheen: Didn't you used to be a cool kid?

Nerdy Nick: Oh, I was, but then I got into some trouble awhile back, went through a couple months of therapy,... (pauses) and now, I'm a nerd.

Sheen: (amazed; Carl's mouth is agape) Wow!

AR Carl: So, what are you doing here, Nick?

Nerdy Nick: Oh, I'm just here enjoying the carnival; you would not believe how much fun stuff there is here! Ring toss, face painting, dunk tanks,...there's even a hot dog eating contest.

AR Carl: Hot dog eating contest?

Nerdy Nick: Yeah. The winner gets a blue ribbon, a solid gold trophy, and a $300 cash prize.

(The Carls and Sheens' eyes widen. AR Sheen gasps.)

AR Sheen: (smiles) Could you excuse us for a minute?

(The Carls and Sheens turn around.)

AR Sheen: (excited) That's exactly what we need to buy the diamond for the Jimmys!

Sheen: (excited) Yeah! All we need is someone who hasn't had lunch that can eat a bunch of hot dogs for lunch without losing their lunch. (rubs chin) But who?

(Suddenly, AR Carl's stomach growls. Carl, Sheen, and AR Sheen look at him.)

AR Carl: (holds stomach) Oh, sorry. I didn't have any breakfast this morning.

Carl: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. (smiles) You should come over to my house sometime. My mom makes the best pancakes you've ever tasted.

AR Carl: (smiles) Aw! Mine, too.

Sheen: (points at AR Carl) You! You will do nicely!

AR Sheen: Yeah!

(The Carls and Sheens look at Nerdy Nick again.)

AR Sheen: Nick, take us to where this contest is being held.

Nerdy Nick: Cool. I was going to head there anyhow. (gestures to follow him) Follow me.

(Nerdy Nick starts leading the Carls and Sheens through the carnival. We transition to the air ducts in the Yolkian fortress, where we see the Cindys and Libbys continuing to sneak through them, with AR Cindy leading the way.)

Cindy: Hey. I know this is going to sound rude, but you're pretty tough for a kid your age. And that's coming from another version of yourself.

AR Cindy: Well, like I said, if you'd been through what I have, you'd be the same way.

Cindy: Which reminds me, I wanted to ask you earlier, (pauses) what exactly happened to you in your reality?

(AR Cindy stops walking, which makes Cindy, Libby, and AR Libby stop. AR Cindy looks at them grimly.)

AR Cindy: Are you familiar with the Egg-Drop Jade?

Libby: Oh, yeah. There was this one time when this princess asked us to hijack the egg from the Retroville Museum, so her evil brother couldn't get to it.

Cindy: But the princess turned out to be Professor Calamitous in disguise, who wanted to use the egg to power his doomsday device. Fortunately, Carl got the actual egg mixed up with the replica we were supposed to switch it with, so the machine backfired and blew up.

Warrior Cindy: Well, in my reality, we gave him the real one. The Doomsday Device worked. Once Calamitous saw that, he turned around and tried to disintegrate us... and he hit everyone but me. (Cindy, Libby, and AR Libby's eyes widen) Calamitous let me go since, according to him, without the others, I posed no threat to his plans... and set out to conquer the world by frightening them with his Doomsday Device. Those who survived his attacks eventually formed a resistance, which I joined, and went to war with Calamitous for the past 2 years. (starts to sound frustrated) I was on the verge of defeating him for good when your Jimmy's invention exploded. (frustrated) So, now, the war's on hold until we can figure out where the battlelines are again. (pauses, turns around, walks away)

Libby: Wow, was she bitter.

Cindy: Well, it makes sense: we were both the same person until our realities diverged, which means she came to like Jimmy around the same time I did, but, unlike me, her Jimmy died before she could tell him how she felt. Plus, a lot of other people she loved are also dead, so seeing other versions of him has got to be tough on her.

AR Libby: Then, I'm proud of her; for being able to hold it together like that.

(Warrior Cindy stops at a grate for an air vent and looks through it; she smiles and calls to the others while whispering)

Warrior Cindy: (whispers) Hey, guys. We found it.

(Cindy, Libby, and AR Libby start walking toward her faster, excited.)

Libby: The headquarters.

Warrior Cindy: Yes, (the other girls stop behind her and look through the grate, too) or more accurately, the throne room.

Cindy: Well, who is it?! Who's the leader?!

(We zoom out from the grate to reveal a King Goobot-lookalike, sitting a unique looking throne with a huge window behind him, inside a large, unique throne room.)

Warrior Cindy: King Goobot the V. (rolls eyes, smiles) Should've known; where there's Yolkians, there's Goobot.

AR Libby: So, now what do we do?

Warrior Cindy: Now, (pauses) we kidnap him and take him back to the lab for interrogation.

(Cindy, Libby, and AR Libby are taken aback by this suggestion; they frown.)

Cindy: What?! We can't do that?!

Warrior Cindy: (confused, mad) Why not?

Cindy: Well, you can't keep treating every reality like it's at war!

Libby: And besides, he is not a human; he's a Yolkian, so, your interrogation tactics may not work the same way on him.

Warrior Cindy: (calms down) Oh, yeah. I didn't think about that.

AR Libby: Well, now what?

(Suddenly, we hear screaming from outside the throne room.)

Voice: Sire!

(We cut to a view of 2 enormous doors; 2 Yolkians burst through and hold them closed with their backs to them.)

Yolkian 1: Sire! He's coming!

King Goobot-lookalike: (confused) Who is?

Yolkian 1: We tried to hold him back, but he's too powerful! He's-

(The doors suddenly burst open again, taking out the 2 frightened Yolkians; Supreme Jimmy is floating in the doorway on his chair. The King Goobot-lookalike looks both confused and worried; Supreme Jimmy floats toward his throne.)

King Goobot-lookalike: Who-are-you?!

Supreme Jimmy: (in deep voice) You know who I am.

King Goobot-lookalike: I do?

(Supreme Jimmy's visor powers down and his helmet opens up to reveal his face; the King Goobot-lookalike is frightened to see the face of Jimmy.)

King Goobot-lookalike: Neutron! (pauses) You certainly look well for a dead man.

Supreme Jimmy: (in Jimmy voice, confused) Dead?!

(Supreme Jimmy and the King Goobot-lookalike look away from each other and think to themselves for a moment.)

Supreme Jimmy: (in head) I've got to play along with this; I need to figure out what things are like in his reality.

King Goobot-lookalike: (in head, scared) I've got to play along with this; I've never been one to believe in ghosts, (looks at Supreme Jimmy) but if that's what Neutron has become,...

(Supreme Jimmy looks at the King Goobot-looalike again.)

Supreme Jimmy: Yeeeess, dead. And you've certainly come a long way from trying to feed my parents to an overgrown chicken. What are you even doing here?

King Goobot-lookalike: Oh. Uh, there's a very interesting story about that.

Supreme Jimmy: (folds arms) I'm listening.

King Goobot-lookalike: Well, as you will recall, a few months ago, I teamed up with several of your greatest enemies to from the League of Villains in hopes of destroying you and eventually, we cornered you and your friends on a desolate planet, where, despite the distractions involved, I got the Junkman to crush you all with a boulder. Unfortunately, the moment you were dead, the League fell apart.

Supreme Jimmy: What do you mean "fell apart"?

King Goobot-lookalike: Well, to make a long story short, or rather simple, the Junkman murdered Beautiful Gorgeous, which caused Professor Calamitous to go to war with him, Grandma Taters devoured your cousin, Baby Eddie, like she had threatened to, and your rival, Eustace Strych, joined the remaining space bandits to plunder the galaxy and increase his fortune. AS for me, with you gone, despite my prior feeling for your planet, I decided to take over the Earth for the greater good of Yolkus.

Supreme Jimmy: Wouldn't that make you more of an emperor than a king now?

Emperor Goobot: (smiles) Yes. Yes, I suppose it would.

Supreme Jimmy: (smiles) Well, that's a very interesting story, (stands up) but with the existence of quantum realities having recently been proven, there are probably multiple versions of that day where you all lost.

Emperor Goobot: I... beg your pardon?

Supreme Jimmy: In fact, (helmet starts to close up) it also means that there are an infinite amount of Jimmy Neutrons (helmet closes up; in deep voice) all alive and well!

Emperor Goobot: (confused) I don't understand what you're talking about.

Supreme Jimmy: You don't have to.

(Supreme Jimmy presses a button on one of the arms on his chair behind him; a small drawer opens up, with small devices that look like the ones some people were wearing before inside. Supreme Jimmy grabs one without Emperor Goobot noticing.)

Supreme Jimmy: All you have to do... is cooperate.

(Suddenly, Supreme Jimmy lunges at Emperor Goobot and slams him against the window; the glass doesn't crack, due to it being alien. Supreme Jimmy pulls Emperor Goobot back a little and slams against it again. Then, he puts the device on Emperor Goobot's suit and slams his hand against it. An electric surge runs through Emperor Goobot's body, then stops; he looks at Supreme Jimmy with a glassy eyed stare. Supreme Jimmy, hoving in the air, pulls back from Emperor Goobot.)

Supreme Jimmy: Take off your crown. (Emperor Goobot takes off his crown) Put it on the ground. (Emperor Goobot puts on the ground at his feet) Move away from it. (Emperor Goobot floats backwards away from it; smiles) Excellent. (points at Emperor Goobot) You are now under my control, which means your army is under my control. (turns around) And with your soldiers at my command, I can begin the next to last phase of my master plan. (laughs evilly)

(We cut back to the Cindys and Libbys, who look extremely worried.)

Warrior Cindy: (whispers) Oh-no! We've got to warn the Jimmys about this!

(The Cindys and Libbys try to sneak back the way they came as fast as possible. Suddenly, Libby trips and falls, making a loud "oof" sound. Supreme Jimmy stops laughing and looks towards the grate for the air vent just as Libby gets back up and moves out of sight.)

Supreme Jimmy: Hmmm...

(We transition back to the carnival, inside a tent, where we see the hot dog eating contest has ended. Carl, Sheen, and AR Sheen are sitting in the audience; AR Carl, Nerdy Nick, and Bolbi are on a stage, standing next to Corky Shimatsu, holding a microphone and card; there are also 3 judges sitting at a table. Corky is about to announce who won the contest.)

Corky: And the winner is... CARL WHEEZER! (audience "oh's" and claps) He is a SUPA-STAR!

AR Carl: (jumps) We won! (dances with Carl)

Carl: We can buy the ring for the Jimmys now!

AR Sheen: (walks up to Nerdy Nick) Sorry you had to lose like that, Nick.

Nerdy Nick: Oh, it's okay. You know what they say: "Easy come, easy go."

End of Act Four