Emerging Compassions
Chapter 29: Time Is Running Out...
(Sheen's POV)
By that time, I was getting pretty impatient. "When the heck are we gonna try to stop him?" I demanded, arms folded.
"Well, he's no threat to us for the time being... We might as well just leave this place," Jimmy informed us.
With that, we all left for the exit, but not without hearing Calamitous say evilly, "Leaving, are you? Well, don't hurry back, because you have children to deliver before too long. When you do come back, we'll be waiting..."
"So long, suckers!" I taunted them, blowing a strawberry at them as we left the lair.
As we hiked the short distance back to the rocket, I heard Libby say gratefully, "Hikin' down is a LOT easier than hiking up!"
"I hear ya, Libs!" Cindy agreed wholeheartedly, "Especially with us 2 in our current state!"
I just rolled my eyes. Girls could be such whiners!
A few moments later, we reached his rocket. We all climbed in, Jimmy started it up, and we were soon on our way home.
While on our way, Cindy questioned, "So, Jimmy, what do you believe Calamitous plans on doing with these mind-controlled animals of his? It doesn't strike me as anything useful, in my opinion..."
"Neither does it me, but we can never be too careful when he, and especially my cousin Eddie, is involved in an evil plot...," Jimmy cautiously noted.
"Well, DUH!" I exclaimed, "That's cuz we always win, and they always LOSE! Cuz we're the good guys, and the good guys always win! Just like UltraLord!"
"Well, there have been times where we came pretty dang close to losin', Sheen, such as when we were in that alien game show...," Libby pointed out.
"Yeah, that was a close one! Meldar almost won that time!" I agreed, "Though when we worked together, we brought an end to that stupid game show."
"And that time every, well, almost every villain I ever defeated banded together to try to get rid of me for good," Jimmy put in wholeheartedly.
"But in the end, you got rid of the remaining villains and that awful wormhole over Retroville that put us back in the past, sweetie!" Cindy complimented him, "Which was totally awesome, by the way!"
"You said 'almost every villain', Jim. Which ones weren't there?" Carl wanted to know.
"Well, that one college kid who tried to ruin my reputation at that college when I was 11, not to mention utterly humiliated me, my evil clone, the nanobots, Dr. Moist, and Meldar Prime," he informed us, then added, "And thanks, Cin!"
"How did he humiliate you, Neutron?" Libby questioned, clearly a tad curious.
With a pretty intense shudder on his part, Jimmy told us, "I'd rather not go into it, Libby..."
"But Jimmy, I wanna know! By your reaction, I can tell that dude made you do something truly unforgivable!" I persisted, eager to know what happened to him.
"I told you guys, I don't wanna TALK ABOUT IT!" he snapped rather sternly, still focused on piloting the rocket.
"Okay, Jimmy, DANG!" I exclaimed, dumbfounded, then muttered to Carl, "Jeez... Talk about insecure..."
"Tell me about it...," he replied, nodding.
About 20 minutes later, we landed back in Jimmy's front yard.
"I guess that wraps it up for this time, guys...," Jimmy informed us, climbing out once he landed it with the rest of us. With that, he walked up to one of the cushiony lawn chairs he'd recently placed outside his lab & immediately flopped himself into it, clearly exhausted from our adventure...
Little did we know that another, more terrifying adventure was about to unfold...