Isabella frowned. Then the Jewish-Mexican girl said,
"The Victims? That doesn't sound like much of a team."
"Actually," Ferb replied, "they've won several games and also won the championship."
Phineas turned towards his step-brother. The red headed boy looked questioningly at Ferb.
"I checked out the team on the internet."
"Anything else you found out on the internet?," asked Isabella.
Ferb pulled a sheet of paper out of his pocket and handed it to Isabella. Phineas went over beside the girl and looked at the sheet she was reading.
It read "Dimmsdale Victims Trounce Dinkleducks" There were also a few pictures with the article. One caught Phineas's attention. It was a picture of a buck toothed brown haired boy who was waving his shirt in celebration. Phineas gasped. It was the boy he had dreamed about that very night!
"Okay," Timmy said, "what's happened since I've been out?"
"A lot of things. It seems that when the Darkness came back, it stimulated several people's memories."
"Which people are we talking about?", asked Timmy.
"Crocker, for one," said A.J. "he remembers everything and he actually wants to help us."
Timmy looked a little stunned. He looked thoughtful for a second and stated,
"And do you believe him?"
"Actually, yes," said A.J., "do you?"
"Well," said Timmy, "my first instinct as you know is to give everyone a chance, but as you've pointed out sometimes I can be a little too trusting. However, if you believe him then I do too."
A.J. nodded.
"Who else?," asked Timmy.
Before A.J. could answer, a massive magical burst resounded throughout the Timmy Cave. There was flash of light outside of Timmy's room. Both boys looked over at the door in shock.
"What was that?," asked Timmy who started to get up.
"No, Timmy," said A.J., "I'll check it out. You need to rest."
"I'm okay,A.J.," said Timmy who sat up.
Suddenly, the room started spinning the buck toothed boy slumped back down. A.J. grabbed his friend and gently pulled Timmy's legs back up on the bed.
"Now," said A.J., "let that be a lesson and don't be so stubborn. I'll check out what's going on."
Timmy nodded and A.J. got up and went to the door. He opened the door to the main part of the Timmy Cave and went into the large room. What he saw startled him.
"Oh my gosh," the young genius said.
The clone looked up and then said,
"I guess I could have planned this a little better..."
"Timmy," said Jimmy, "I told you to stay on the ship."
"I wanted to help..I got worried," said the small child.
Cindy noticed something and said,
"Timmy, are you wearing Jimmy's clothes?"
"Timmy" nodded and said,
"Yeah, I didn't like that hospital gown and couldn't run around in my underwear."
"Timmy, they don't even fit you," said Jimmy, almost smiling.
It was true. The shirt looked like it was about to fall off of him and the legs of the pants were dragging to the floor. The boy had no shoes on.
"I know," said the clone, "but that's all I could find. Besides, I think your clothes are cool Jimmy. Especially this swirly thing."
"It's an atom," said Jimmy.
"Gosh you're smart like my friend A.J.," said the boy, "if we get out of here, could you teach to be as smart as you?"
"Oh great," said Cindy, "as if you don't have a big enough ego, Neutron, now we got Timmy feeding it."
"You know," said Libby very sharply, "we don't have time for this. We need to get out of here and find Sheen. I mean Neutron, don't you care about Sheen at all?"
Jimmy then did something no one expected. His lip trembled and he collapsed on the floor and burst into tears.
Jorgen and Norm had spent several hours attempting to convince the Fairy Council to revise its policy. Fairies could be nearly as stubborn and close minded as humans. There were arguments and counterarguments. They were very concerned about other people finding out about Fairy World; other very dangerous people. More dangerous than even Crocker.
Finally Gabriel said,
"Jorgen, Norm, we will need to really examine this. Give us twenty four hours to consider your arguments."
Jorgen nodded. Norm was a little annoyed about having to wait but to the genie's credit he held his tongue. Norm realized that this was a big decision and not one to be taken lightly.
"Okay," replied Norm, "that will at least give us time to check on how Turner's doing."
What A.J. saw stunned him. Remy was laying on the floor glaring at Wanda. He was,also, smoldering. Black soot covered him. Wanda was glaring at him just as hard. Apparently, the fairy godmother had just blasted him with her wand. A.J. looked across the room and he saw Juadissimo, also, smoldering. Apparently, he had tried to stop Wanda and had gotten the business end of her wand as well.
"What's going on?," asked A.J.
"Oh, Wanda was just proving my point that she's more effective at hurting kids than I am," replied Remy, "was this your next plan for Turner, Wanda? Were you going to blast him..."
"Remy," said Winston very loudly, "shut up."
Winston, just then, went over to Remy's side and pulled him up.
"Ow, ow," said Remy, "what are you doing?"
"I need to talk to you," Winston said, dragging the wealthy boy over to a corner of the Timmy Cave.
"Oh, I suppose you're going to take their side," said Remy disgustedly.."well...,"
"Remy," replied Winston, "just shut up and listen to me. You said you wanted my friendship. Okay, fine you have it. Now as your friend I'm telling you to back off before anything else happens."
"Do you know that boy, Phineas?," asked Isabella curiously.
"I..," Phineas started to say, struggling to find the words, "may have seen his picture on the internet."
Isabella didn't really believe that but she just let the matter go.
"So," asked isabella, "we leave today?"
"Yeah," answered Phineas, "we catch the train at 10:00 AM.
"The train?" asked Isabella, "that's going to take several hours to get there."
"Not any longer than if we go by car," replied Phineas, "besides both Mayor Doofensmirtz and the Dimmsdale Mayor are trying to encourage public transportation. Perry's, also, coming with us."
"I didn't think they allowed pets on the train," said Isabella with surprise.
"They made an exception," answered Phineas.
Perry was keeping up his appearance as a "mindless pet" however he remembered seeing earlier this morning how Major Monogram "persuaded" the station master at the Amtrain Station.
"Sorry, Major," said the attendant very sharply, "no exceptions. Those are the rules, no pets. I don't care who you are."
"Well," replied Monogram, "it looks like I'll have to "persuade" you through other means. Meet Sergei."
The Station Master looked at where the Major was pointing. He, almost, laughed.
"A snail?," asked the attendant, "really Monogram..."
The Station Master never finished his sentence. He felt himself lifted up off the ground. He looked down. The SNAIL was lifting him up! He looked shocked.
"Now," said the Major, "if this tiny snail can do that, imagine what my other agents can do."
The attendant looked stunned.
"What I meant to say is of course we'll welcome all the members of The Flynn-Fletcher family on board Amtrain, including their pet."
Perry nearly smiled at the memory. Isabella looked towards him.
"Well, Perry," she said, "what do you think about going to Dimmsdale?"
And Perry responded the way he always responded around them with the distinctive chattering noise.
"Look Remy," said Winston, "you need to calm down."
"Calm down?," asked Remy sounding really annoyed, but a little more calm at least, "people keep bringing my past up and holding it against me even though I've tried to make up for it. Timmy's forgiven me so what's the problem?"
"Remy," replied Winston, "it's going to take some time for people to trust you."
"They didn't have a problem trusting Crocker," replied the wealthy twelve year old.
"That's because Crocker's has never pretended to be anything other than what he is. Remy, I know the whole story. Jorgen told me. It's not just you trying to kill Timmy. You tried to kill Timmy several times and from the first time you met him you tried to take his godparents away from him. You, also, pretended to be Timmy's friend and you broke a truce with him. And then you did something far worse and far crueller when you tried to murder him. You told him that his parents didn't want him, and his mom couldn't stand to be around him because he wasn't a girl!"
With that, Winston's voice broke with emotion,
"Do you have any idea what that does to a kid?"
Jorgen and Norm quietly poofed back into Timmy's room. They were surpised to find him awake. He was weakened and his hair was disheveled but he did look better.
"Wow, Turner," said Norm, "You're not at your best in the morning are you?"
Timmy smiled and said,
"I guess not."
"You feeling better Timmy?" asked Norm with a little more obvious concern.
"Yeah," replied Timmy, "A.J. said I was out for two days. He was just telling me everything that happened."
"Where is that bald egghead?" asked Norm.
"Well," replied Timmy, "there was a loud noise outside and he went out to check it."
"That shouldn't have happened," replied Jorgen, "you need your rest and I'm the only one allowed to make loud noises."
"Let me check it out," said Norm,"besides I need to talk to A.J., anyway."
And with that, Norm poofed out of the room.
Jimmy Neutron usually held a tight rein on his emotions, but this time he couldn't help it. Months of worrying about Sheen and being blamed by several people in Retroville for his friend's disappearance, not to mention Libby's anger had finally taken it's toll on the boy. Then being captured and shrunken by Bitteroot and Calamitous, also, was emotionally trying. Even for a genius, it was finally too much. Cindy moved closer to him and put her arm around him.
"It's going to be okay, Jimmy," soothed Cindy uncharactestically gentle, "it's NOT your fault."
The Timmy clone approached him and said,
"Jimmy don't be sad. I know you'll get us out here."
Jimmy smiled through his tears. The clone almost seemed brotherly to Jimmy.
"Timmy," said Cindy, "You stay over here with Jimmy."
"Okay," replied "Timmy"
Cindy stood up and marched over to her best friend. Libby was looking down apparently embarrassed by her outburst. As well she should be.
"What IS your problem, Libby," asked Cindy, very angrily.
"I'm sorry," said the African American girl, "I'm just worried about Sheen."
"We're ALL worried, Libby," replied Cindy, "none more so than Jimmy. But you've got to understand something and it needs to be said; Sheen got himself into this mess. Jimmy WARNED him not to go into the lab and there were several signs put up warning him as well. Perhaps you should save your anger towards Sheen considering it was his stupidly ignoring all of those signs that got all of us in this mess in the first place!"
"So, I guess I'll see you at ten," said Isabella.
Ferb got ready to leave as did Perry. However, Phineas didn't make a move. Ferb looked curiously at his brother.
"Ferb," said Phineas, "you and Perry go on ahead. I need to talk to Isabella about something."
Isabella looked surprised. Phineas and Ferb were inseparable which was one reason that Isabella and him never seemed to be able to go out anywhere. That and Phineas' apparent cluelessness.
Ferb looked surprised as well, but being Ferb, he didn't say anything. He just nodded and left the Garcia-Shapiro house.
Phineas, then, turned towards Isabella. He smiled.
"Isabella," said Phineas, "there's something I need to tell you."
Jorgen was now alone with Timmy. He may not always show it , but he cared about Timmy. Suddenly, Timmy looked alarmed. The Toughest Fairy in the Universe picked up on this.
"Timmy," asked Jorgen, "what's wrong? Do I need to get A.J.?"
"No," replied Timmy, "I just remembered. Jimmy and Cindy. What about them? Are they still missing? What's being done?"
"Actually, Turner, someone is taking care of that right now." replied Jorgen.
Jimmy stood up and finally pulled himself together. He smiled down at the Timmy clone.
"I'm fine Timmy," said the genius, "but Libby is right; we need to work on how to get out of here."
"Perhaps I can help," said a voice.
"Who say that?," asked Carl.
"I did", replied the voice.
Suddenly a figure materialized. It tooked like a boy except this boy's hair was snow white. He was, also, wearing a black shirt with a DP on it.
"Who are you?," asked Cindy.
"My name is Danny Phantom and I'm here to rescue you."
