Everything was going according to plan. We all had our uniforms, and the ship was hovering over the castle. All we had to do was jump out. It wasn't a tall jump, so we jumped down together as a team. Jorgen did it while carrying our Nesting Safe. Once we landed on the roof, the ship made its way to the castle's garden to park. Reminder, the ship had an advanced auto pilot system. Standing on the roof with us was Remy. After approaching me, he said "Where on Earth did you get those outfits?"
"Jimmy and I made them." Tootie said. I could see that Remy was about to laugh. I wasn't in the mood for his fashion comments.
So, I said "At least we're not going into battle in a tuxedo." Remy no longer felt like laughing. I then said "Let's get moving." We quickly got inside the castle and met up with the rest of team Darkness. I still couldn't get over the fact that we were working with our enemies. They were all there.
Vicky was the first to speak, saying "What exactly are we doing?" That's when I remembered that we were going to brief them at that moment. So, because someone had to, I decided to be the one to fill the rest of the team in on the plan.
I said "We're carrying this Fairy Nesting Safe to the trophy room. It's very heavy for everyone, including Jorgen. So, we all have to chip in and carry it together."
"You expect me to do work?" Remy said.
"You don't have to. We're just going to judge you harshly for not doing it." Sheen said. With the message received, we all gathered around the safe and lifted it. We didn't walk very far before an ominous boom exploded over the castle's loudspeakers.
This was followed by the equally booming voice of Father Darkness saying "Oh Denzel, you didn't think you could betray me that easily, did you?"
"How does he know?" Crocker said.
"Every room in my properties are wired for sound. I hear everything. Every treacherous word went straight to my endless tapes." Father Darkness said. All this time, Father Darkness had the upper hand. "That's right, I know you're going to the trophy room to get that final piece."
"We're doomed." Remy said.
"Way to stay optimistic." I said.
"However, I feel like having some fun." Father Darkness said. What kind of fun could he have been thinking about? "Each floor to the trophy room has a challenge for some members of both teams. Once each challenge is conquered, you may go down a floor. It matters not how the challenge is conquered. When you reach the trophy room, there will be a final challenge. Then, the final piece is yours." I didn't believe a single word he said. This was Father Darkness we were talking about. He was a pathological liar. I knew for a fact that no one on my team believed him.
However, Crocker said "You've got a deal."
"Crocker, what are you doing?" I said.
"Making sure we get that piece." he said.
"After everything he's put us through, you think he's telling the truth?" Jorgen said.
"It doesn't matter if you believe me, because your first challenge starts now with a familiar face to Mr. Neutron." Father Darkness said. There was then a sudden and loud ring that rang out through the speakers. Immediately, I knew there was going to be trouble. The only question was, what was that trouble going to be? That question was answered when a mysterious cloaked figure entered the room. The cloak was then tossed aside, revealing what looked like a clone of Jimmy with spiky eyebrows and horn shaped hair. Oddly, he was dressed like Jimmy was when I was first hanging out with him. Granted, the clothes were big enough to fit the then current Jimmy, so it wasn't like the Jimmy clone was wearing ridiculously small clothes.
This Jimmy clone said "Hello James, it's been a while."
"Evil Jimmy?" the original Jimmy said.
"Evil Jimmy?" I said.
"Yes, beaver boy. I'm an evil copy that the so-called boy genius created." Evil Jimmy said. All the constant reminders of Nega Timmy, and Jimmy had an evil version of himself.
I looked at him in disbelief and said "I can't believe you Jimmy."
"What?" Jimmy said.
"You gave me all that crap about Nega Timmy while knowing you had an evil clone you created!" I said.
"Dude, it was an accident." he said.
"A likely story." I said.
"It was the side effect of a super speed cloning process." he said.
"Don't make excuses boy moron." Evil Jimmy said. "Unlike your buck toothed pal, you had a chance to 'fix' the flaws before I caused real havoc. But instead, you went up to space for galactic ice crystals."
I looked at the original Jimmy again and said "How are you both smarter and dumber than me at the same time?"
"He's good at science, bad at people squirrel boy." I was starting to sense a pattern with Evil Jimmy.
So, I said to him "My name is Timmy, actually. And to be fair, Jimmy has gotten better due to his therapy," then turned to regular Jimmy to say, "right Jimmy." Now Jimmy just had to play along with my lie.
"That's what my therapist says." Jimmy said. Never expected Jimmy to play along. Well, maybe not never, but still unlikely.
"Neutron, having a therapist? Don't make me laugh Bucky." Evil Jimmy said. He was starting to really test my patience with the name calling thing.
"Listen, I know your shtick is being evil, but can't you do better than just say lazy insults?" I said.
"I can. I'm just having so much fun doing it, twerp." he said, not knowing what he had just done. That was the final straw, I was going to give him a taste of his own medicine.
But before I could speak, Jimmy stepped forward and said "Your hair somehow makes mine look normal, your eyebrows look like two angry caterpillars, and you sound like a stupid rat."
"Ouch. That really hurt." he said as sarcastically as possible. He then said "Now, where was I?"
Jimmy quickly responded with "I wasn't finished. I think I finally get why you're so evil. It's not because of the cloning machine."
"Then tell me Ice Cream Head." Evil Jimmy said.
"You try to destroy everything because you know that deep down, I'm better than you." Jimmy said.
"Sure you are. Now step aside, I'm not done with your friend." Evil Jimmy said.
"One last thing. If you make fun of Timmy's teeth, call him some stupid name, and especially if you call him a twerp one more time, I will break my one rule." Jimmy said.
"And what rule would that be?" Evil Jimmy said.
"I will stoop lower than you and beat the life out of you, theoretically speaking of course." Jimmy said.
"I'd love to know how you'd beat the life out of me, theoretically or not." Evil Jimmy said. That's when I noticed that Jimmy was holding a hypercube behind his back.
His plan was clear when he said "It's a shame we'll never know." Before his evil clone could utter a sound, Jimmy was able to trap him into the hypercube.
Then over the loudspeakers, Father Darkness said "Good job Mr. Neutron, you finished the challenge. You all may move to the next floor." We did exactly that, moving with the safe to the third floor. Once we arrived, Father Darkness got on the loudspeakers again. "For your next challenge, Vicky will go down memory lane. Good luck you little witch." Another ring rang through the speakers and another cloaked figure entered. This time, it was the laugh of an evil, demonic sounding woman. It sounded familiar, but I wasn't sure why.
Vicky responded to the laugh by saying "Oh no."
"You recognize the laugh?" I said.
"Yeah, that's my old babysitter. Mary Alice Doombringer." she said. A shiver went right up my spine, and my memory was jogged. I knew Ms. Doombringer as an evil fairy hunter who wanted to rip my fairies's wings and crowns off and keep them as trophies. The fact that she was Vicky's babysitter somehow made too much sense. What didn't make sense was that she wasn't acting as her alter ego, Ms. Sunshine. No tricks or disguises, just her true form.
She just moved from out of the shadows, and said "Victoria Taylor, my, my, you've grown so much."
"Yes, and you've gotten old." Vicky said.
"And you're just as bratty as ever." Doombringer said. That's when she finally noticed me. "And Turner's here. Now I get to kill two birds with one axe."
"You know Timmy?" Vicky said.
"She was my temporary replacement." Crocker said.
"She also tried to hurt my fairies." I said.
"And I would have had my trophies, if I hadn't been stopped by a bus." Doombringer said. She then pulled her previously mentioned axe from out of nowhere.
"Are you going to kill us?" I said.
"Four years have passed, and you haven't gotten any smarter. I've been waiting for this rematch, and I'm going to enjoy it." she said. Before her axe could make contact with me, Vicky was able to block it with her chainsaw. It was the first time I was actually glad to see that chainsaw.
Vicky then said "I'm disappointed in you Doombringer. I thought you knew not to bring an axe to a chainsaw fight." She then pushed Doombringer back, before charging after her. There was a frequent back and forth between them, their weapons striking constantly. Both were proficient with their chosen weapon. It was strange to be rooting for Vicky, seeing how I had known her when she was my babysitter. Their fight didn't last long, as Doombringer was able to knock Vicky against the wall. This caused Vicky to collapse.
Doombringer turned to me and said "Your turn Turner." As she swung her axe towards me, I rolled out of the way just in time. This didn't please Doombringer, who said "Would you stay still!" Judge me all you want, but I punched her in the back of her head. It was cowardly, but effective. Vicky was able to stand up again.
So, I said "Vicky, catch!" She got ready to catch, before I tossed her my laser.
She caught it and said "I don't wanna kill her!"
"Don't worry, it's on stun mode." I said. Before Vicky could take a shot at Doombringer, she stood up. Doombringer then pulled out a whip and whipped the gun out of her hand.
Doombringer looked at me and said "Silly boy. I have trained myself for every possibility." It looked like Vicky and I had to fight her. At least, it looked like that before Tootie suddenly hit her in the head with a vase. Tootie really started attacking Doombringer, dragging her to the podium that held that vase and smacked her right into it. Tootie had really learned a thing or two about fighting. To our surprise, Doombringer was out cold.
"Guess you didn't train for that possibility, did ya?" Tootie said to the unconscious Doombringer. To be fair, I don't think she expected an answer.
Vicky, however, did say "Nice moves sis."
"Thanks." Tootie said.
Father Darkness then said over the loudspeakers "Incredible. I can't believe it. Somehow, Alice Doombringer was defeated by a nerd, her lover, and her big sister."
This caused Vicky to say "Her what?"
"Oops, looks like I spelled the beans." Father Darkness said. "Spelled the beans? Hold on. Anti-Poof! Who taught you how to spill! I mean spell!" were the last things we heard over the speakers at that moment.
It was then that Vicky asked "What did Father Darkness mean by lover?" There was no use in lying, since even without the bug, Vicky could still be mean.
So, I said "I professed my feelings of true love to your sister."
"We were thinking of going on a date after we got home." Tootie said.
"Wait, you love my sister?" Vicky said.
"Yes." I said.
"You're kidding me?" she said. "All those years chasing after Ms. Popular," she said as she pointed to Trixie, "and now you're suddenly into my sister?"
"No, I was in love with her years ago, I just didn't know it." I said.
"You know what?" she said. I was beginning to get worried. I really thought evil Vicky was back in full force. Instead, Vicky gave me a massive hug and said "That's great." It was still weird seeing Vicky so happy and friendly, but it was also nice.
Eventually, Father Darkness returned to the loudspeaker and said "Looks like I missed a cheesy Hallmark moment. Okay, you may move to the second floor." So, we moved to the next floor. Once we reached the second floor, he said "Now, it's time for Sheen's greatest fear."
"History finals." Sheen said.
"Better than that." Father Darkness said.
"Algebra finals?" Sheen said.
"No, it's not finals. It's a familiar face for you Sheen." Father Darkness said. I wasn't sure what Father Darkness meant by that. Before I could think of anything, the bell rang again, and a tall figure emerged from thin air. He was a tall alien with green skin, and he wore a black robe.
To my surprise, Sheen recognized the alien, saying "Look who it is guys, it's Dorkus." It then clicked for him who the alien was. "Uh oh."
"Sheen, it really is rather unpleasant seeing you again. But, even with all the dimension hopping, I'm glad I have another chance to destroy you once and for all!" Dorkus said.
"That's funny Dorkus, I thought you were buried in the emperor's vault on Zeenu, frozen like a popsicle?" Sheen said, his voice trembling.
"I was. But a little blue fairy was kind enough to thaw me out." Dorkus said. Boy, Anti-Cosmo really was busy. "Now, prepare to meet your doom Sheen." I know he was trying to be threatening, but his name being Dorkus made it hard for me to take him seriously.
So much so, I said "I'm sorry, you expect us to be afraid of a guy named Dorkus."
"I'm sorry, who are you? I believe we've never met." he said.
"You don't have to say your name Timmy." Sheen said.
"You're right. You did it for me!" I said.
"Wait, Timmy?" Dorkus said. "As in Timmy Turner?"
"No, as in Timmy Triangle." I said.
"Sheen mentioned you the last time we met. I thought you'd be more threatening." he said. What could Sheen have possibly said to make me sound threatening?
So, I looked to Sheen and asked "Sheen, what did you tell the walking green bean?"
"I might have told him about that time you turned Goddard in a plant eating monster." he said.
"Don't you mean a planet eating monster?" I said.
"Eh, tomato tomato." he said. And yes, he did pronounce it the same way. There was a small part of me that wanted to believe he did that as a joke. But with Sheen, I was never too sure.
I turned back to Dorkus and said "So, you know what I'm capable of?"
"I've heard stories, but I'm not scared of a child who wears pink." Dorkus said. I'll give him this, at least he didn't go for the teeth. Still, it was time for a little payback.
I started it by saying "It's a shame Sheen never mentioned the Darkness."
"I've already met Father Darkness." he said.
"No. The Darkness. It was an ancient being that tried to destroy everything. And it would have done so, if I hadn't stopped it." I said. Was I embellishing a bit, maybe even lying, of course. But I needed to sell myself as some kind of threat.
"How'd you do it, by giving it a hug?" he said.
"I killed the Darkness." I said.
"No you didn't." Cosmo said. Thanks Cosmo, now my scheme can fall apart any second.
Wanda tried to help, saying "Cosmo, not now."
"But Timmy didn't kill the Darkness." he said. Typical Cosmo, not reading the room as usual.
Then suddenly, Poof said "He's right, Timmy didn't do it, Sheen did."
"What?" Cosmo said. Even I was confused. But like with improv, it was best to roll with the punches. Sheen suddenly gained a sense of confidence.
As he walked over next to me, Sheen said "That little dude is right. I did defeat Mr. Darkness?"
I quietly whispered "The Darkness."
"Right." he whispered back. "The Darkness. I did it all by myself." he said out loud.
"You, Sheen, defeated a God?" Dorkus said before going on a laughing fit. In between laughs, he said "You can't be serious. You defeated the Darkness single handed."
"Well, yeah." Sheen said. Dorkus continued laughing.
"What's so funny?" I said.
"You expect me to believe that Sheen killed anyone, let alone defeat a God." Dorkus said.
"Funny, I never mentioned killing." Sheen said. This was one of the few times that Sheen was right. He didn't mention killing, I did. Sheen was picking up where Cosmo left off, pulling our ruse apart before it landed.
"Which means you didn't defeat the Darkness." Dorkus said, confirming that the jig was up.
That was, before Sheen said "No, I just never mentioned killing it. Timmy mentioned it, and I figured you'd know what I mean by defeated."
"So, you did kill the Darkness?" Dorkus said.
"It had to be done." Sheen said. At least Sheen was playing along. Dorkus suddenly had a look of concern on his face.
He then said "Then in that case, I surrender." before getting down to his knees. While I was suspicious, Sheen walked right over with Jimmy's hypercube. Before Sheen could make any kind of clever remark, Dorkus said "Sike!" while pulling a staff from out of thin air. He then shot Sheen with an energy beam that threw him right into the wall. Dorkus then walked over to Sheen as he said "Did you really think I was going to give up so easily." I really thought that this was the end for Sheen.
But to my surprise, Sheen said "Nope," before sweep kicking Dorkus right to the ground. He then stood up, planted his foot on Dorkus's chest, then pulled his laser out of his holster. And before you ask, yes, my whole team had laser gun training. As Sheen pointed his laser at Dorkus, he said "Any last words." That's when Dorkus shot Sheen with the staff again, pushing Sheen into the air. As Sheen flew up, he dropped his laser. Dorkus quickly stood and grabbed the gun mid air before Sheen came crashing to the ground.
He then picked Sheen up, aimed the laser straight for his heart, then said "Next time, just shoot." That's when Sheen turned the laser to face Dorkus, then stunned him.
Sheen then said "Thanks for the advice." in the coolest voice he could pull off. Dorkus was then placed inside the hypercube, now finally defeated.
That's when Father Darkness said over the loudspeakers "Good job Estévez, you actually did something."
"I love how condescending he is." Sheen said sarcastically.
"Now it's time to go to the ground floor. There is no challenge, of course, since you so called heroes stole my blueprints. I assume you'll have no trouble finding the entrance to the trophy room." Father Darkness said. I guess he didn't want things to be too hard. Granted, there was nothing easy about fighting a rogue's gallery "Game of Death" style. Still, my group soldiered on. We carried that massively heavy safe all the way to Father Darkness's office at the end of the hall.
This made me begin to wonder where Father Darkness could possibly be broadcasting from. I thought it was his office, which would make sense. The problem is, why would he still be there if the entrance to the trophy room was in said office. It was possible that he was in the trophy room. But the most likely answer was that he was somewhere else. All this thinking and wondering, however, did not stop me from carrying the nesting safe with my team. Once we reached the office, we ran into a problem. There's no other way to put this, the safe was too big. I'll say it again, the safe was too big.
So much so, that Jimmy said "How are we going to get the safe in?" I had no ideas, not even terrible ones. As a group, we put the safe down so we could think. Still nothing.
That was, until Jorgen said "I've got it." I thought he was going to come up with something clever. That was until Jorgen turned his giant wand into a giant sledgehammer. As if it wasn't clear enough, he said "It's wall smashing time."
Before Jorgen could get to smashing, Wanda said "Wait, what if it's a load bearing wall?"
"It's not, trust me." he said, then proceeded to smash the door down. Once the door was down, he smashed the sides of the opening until it was wide enough for the safe to pass. Everyone then picked up said safe and carried it into the office. Finding the entrance to the trophy room was easy, since the blueprints revealed that it was located right under his desk. The only trouble was opening it because there was no desk. That's because he smashed it to pieces while he chased me and Gary.
We put the safe down again, and Wanda said "Any ideas Jorgen?"
"Yes." he said as he lifted his big sledgehammer again.
"Ideas that don't involve smashing." she said. Jorgen sighed with disappointment before changing the sledgehammer back into his big wand again. It was decided that the best use of our time was to search for the entrance. That's when I noticed a horribly tacky looking pink rug right by the wall. I'm sure you're wondering how I didn't remember it from the last time I was in Father Darkness's office. Well, I was busy trying not to get captured by Father Darkness to notice a random ugly rug on the floor. It didn't seem to fit with the rest of the room's décor of dark red and gray, so it got me thinking. Would Father Darkness be dumb enough to lead us right to the trophy room? Then I remembered that this was Father Darkness, of course he was that stupid. So, I decided to toss the rug aside, which revealed a big wooden door.
Seeing this, I said "Looks like I found the entrance." I opened the door and saw a steep set of stairs going down to what looked like the outside of a bank vault. With the door discovered, our next problem was how we were going to get our safe down the steps. Because they were so steep, carrying it like we did before was going to be difficult.
As I tried to think of a solution, Jorgen said "I could poof it down there."
"You can?" I said.
"Yeah, seems pretty easy." he said.
"Then why did we have to carry the safe?" Sheen said.
"To keep Father Darkness from getting easy access." Jorgen said.
"But wouldn't carrying it through his castle make it easier for him to get it?" Jimmy said.
"Not with us protecting it." Jorgen said. It was nice to think that Jorgen thought we were able to protect the safe from Father Darkness. That, or he secretly thought we were all expendable. Actually, that's too evil for Jorgen to think. With our new strategy in mind, we carefully went down the steps. Once we were down safely, Jorgen poofed the safe down to us.
Which is when the loudspeakers rang again, and Father Darkness said "Took you long enough." I noticed that the vault door to the trophy room had a keypad on it. Before I could even touch anything, Father Darkness said "Before any of you get any bright ideas, I changed the password, because I didn't want things to be too easy. You can thank your wonderfully stupid Captain for taking my only written copy. You only get three guesses. If you fail all three times, the safe locks itself for a week. Have fun morons." This must have been the final challenge he was referring to earlier. Of course, he made the final challenge near impossible. But that really did fit with Father Darkness. Because I unknowingly made it harder for us to finish, some people were not happy.
To my surprise, Sheen said "Nice going Timmy, now we have to play guessing games. But we can't guess more then three times, or we lose!"
"Hey, you weren't the one being chased by an armored giant!" I said.
"At least I didn't make it harder for us to go home." he said.
"Back off Sheen. Don't be mad at Tim, be mad at Father Darkness." Gary said.
"I'm not mad at Timmy, I'm just mad. All this constant running around and shooting has driven me crazy." Sheen said. "And you're right, I should be mad at Father Darkness. After all, he's terrible." That's when I remembered once again that Father Darkness was a dirty, rotten liar. So, I decided to pull out the password from my pocket. The password was 12-08-14. I decided to enter it anyway. It was worth a shot. As I walked up to the keypad, Sheen said "What are you doing?"
"Entering the password." I said as I approached the keypad.
"But you heard what Father Darkness said." he said.
"Yes, and he's a world class liar." I said. I entered the password, and unsurprisingly, the password was correct. For all his talk of changed passwords and only three guesses, it was all a lie. It looked like Father Darkness had really given up. The vault door opened, and we carried the safe inside. The trophy room was filled with ghastly things. The wings and crowns of fairies and anti-fairies, as well as the hats, suits, and phones of the pixies. He also had a human skeleton covered in gold. To say this so-called trophy room was weird would be an understatement. But sitting right at the center of the room in a gaudy gold display case was the final piece of the World's Treasure. In another case next to it was a replica of the fully assembled World's Treasure. I almost couldn't believe my own eyes. After all the intense searching, we finally found the final piece of the World's Treasure. We were one step closer to finally destroying it. Now, all we had to do was get the piece out of the case. So, I said "Okay, anybody got—" That was all I could get out before Sheen threw our hypercube at the case. To my surprise, that actually worked, and the case shattered. I turned to him and said "Thanks Sheen."
"You're welcome Captain. Looks like out luck is finally in our favor again." he said. I walked over to the now smashed display case and grabbed the hypercube. Once I tossed it to Jimmy, I grabbed the piece. With the final piece in hand, I brought it to the safe. That's when Father Darkness laughed through the loudspeakers.
Father Darkness then said "You actually thought I would just let you all walk out of here with the World's Treasure? You must be dumber than I thought." Before we could do anything, everyone was poofed out of the room. Everyone, except me. I was afraid for what was going to happen next. I was definitely not prepared for Father Darkness's sudden appearance. He then picked up by my throat and pulled me up to his eye level. He then said "Hello Mr. Turner. It's nice to see you out of disguise. I really must thank you for making my job so easy." In response, I spit in his face. He responded by saying "That was rude." He then knocked me out with a single puff of gas. I really had no idea what was going to happen.