CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

While hugging his parents, Timmy Turner suddenly stiffened; his parents felt that and released him from their embrace, wearing concerned looks on their faces.

"What's Wrong, Timmy?," asked his mother.

"A.J.," answered Timmy, "something's wrong with A.J."

Timmy, then started to get up.

"Son," said Mr. Turner, "what are you doing?"

"I need to get to A.J."

"A.J., sweetie," A.J. Wanda started, "are you okay?"

A.J. realized that he was lying on the floor; and he also realized that he had fainted and sat up.

"Easy, there, A.J.," said Cosmo.

"I'm okay, Wanda, Cosmo," replied the young genius.

"No you're not," Wanda responded, "You also, answered my question about when you last ate; it's been a while hasn't it?"

"I've eaten today," replied A.J.

"What did you eat?", questioned Wanda.

"Something," answered A.J.

Wanda shook her head and stated,

"You know A.J., you can be almost as stubborn as Timmy; please answer question and honestly too."

A.J. looked up at Timmy's godfamily, especially Wanda. He knew that Wanda could read people well too, so there was little point in lying to her. A.J. took a breath and said,

"A candy bar."

"Well, then," said Wanda, "let Cosmo and me poof you up some food."

"No," replied A.J., "Wanda, Cosmo, Poof, you're Timmy's godfamily. Besides, Norm's here, he can do that."

"Actually", announced Cosmo, "Norm's not here. He and Jorgen are in Fairy World, trying to find out what's going on with the Council Vote."

Norm and Jorgen waited grimly for news on the vote. Gabriel had told them it had to be unanimous and that one fairy was holding out. Since the fairy and genie knew there was a traitor on the Fairy Council, they had a pretty good idea of why fairy was holding out. However, the voting was by secret ballot, so they had no idea which one could be holding out. Because of this, they didn't tell Gabriel what they'd discovered; as he could just as easily be the traitor. Even if he wasn't, whoever it was might overhear them and then cover his tracks and that would make it impossible to discover who it was.

"I've got a bad feeling about this, Rambo," said Norm to Jorgen in a very quiet voice, "especially with the current situation."

Jorgen nodded but he didn't say anything. He was still grappling with the fact that one of his world's leaders; someone he had trusted and fought for was actually a traitor.

Norm picked up on this and he knew what Jorgen was thinking. The genie spoke,

"I know what you're thinking Jorgen. Remember I've been in this situation myself."

Before Jorgen could respond, Gabriel suddenly appeared and said,

"The Fairy Council has made its decision."

"No, Jimmy," said Danny, "I don't think he's going to turn into goo the way Dani did. For one thing, Vlad didn't really care about Dani, plus this clone seems much more stable than even Dani was. You're also taking pretty good care of him."

"Well," replied Jimmy, "I'm trying. I know it seems silly but I'm kind of fond of Little T."

"Little T?," asked Danny sounding very amused.

"Gosh", said Jimmy, "I've even given him a nickname. That's crazy, isn't is?"

"No, Jimmy," answered Danny very understandably, "it's not crazy at all, but either we've got to tell "Little T" what he really is."

"I'll tell him," answered Jimmy, "he trusts me so he'll probably take the news better coming from me."

"Ferb," said Phineas, "How much do you remember?"

"It's a little hazy," replied Ferb, "but we helped Perry...fight a bad guy from another dimension."

Ferb, then, heard some chattering and then he heard a somewhat mechanical voice say,

"That is...right Ferb. You helped...me fight a version of...my enemy...Doofensmirtz..."

Ferb looked surprised and turned his attention to the platypus. He took a closer look at the headphones that Perry was wearing. He realized it was an animal translator.

"Yeah," said Phineas rather sheepishly, "that was the subject of the conservation Perry and I were having. I tried to make an animal translator, but as you know I'm not quite as good with a wrench as you are. Do you think that you can work out some of the kinks?"

Ferb nodded and then approached Perry the Platypus.

"Timmy," said Theresa Turner gently grabbing her son, "A.J. said that you were supposed to stay in bed."

To both Todd and Theresa Turner's surprise, Timmy listened to them and laid back down. The buck toothed boy noticed their surprise.

"I know," said Timmy, "I can be pretty stubborn, but I'm trying to be a little less so. Could one of you please check on A.J, though?"

"I'll do it," replied Mr. Turner getting up and heading for the door.

"Okay," said A.J., "but still you're still Timmy's godparents; wouldn't it be breaking the rules to poof me up something?

"Actually, no," Wanda responded, "Timmy told us to grant you anything you might need, so since our own godchild gave us permission, there's no problem."

"He didn't have to do that," said A.J.

"He wanted to do that," replied Wanda, "so quit arguing with us and let us help you."