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[Justine<3]

**coughit'sStrych**

eh, whatever. it all sounds the same to me. ^_^

LOL! :lol:


~*(+Justine+)*~

[Chica_Andromeda]

Ooh, great job, Beks!! :thumbsup:

Oh, darn the cliffhangers! >_< Ah well, you won't keep us in suspense TOO long, right? ;)

[Beks]

maybe... :ph43r:

[Justine<3]

maybe... :ph43r:

well THAT makes us feel good! <_< ;)


~*(+Justine+)*~

[CraazyOne]

*squeal* Yay! Another chapter from Beks...already?! AAAAWESOME! :lol: Great job, as usual! :thumbsup:

But what a way to end the chapter! *swoons dramatically* Can we get a little atmospheric lighting here? *lights flicker off eerily and only the dim ray of the flashlight Beks is holding remains*

Beks: Yesssss...relisssshhh the suspenssssse...

:blink: I have NO clue whatsoever where that came from. I guess now you're gonna have to post extra soon just to keep me from going insane over here! Suspense is all well and good....for a while... *switches lights back on* So...post more soon, please? :D


~Rach~

[Beks]

maybe... :ph43r:

[CraazyOne]

maybe... :ph43r:

Oh, that's soooo reassuring! Not!

~Rach~

[rumorgirl1983]

it's been, what, less than two weeks, and I already have a new chapter? I'm on a roll! *sizzle* I wonder if being Writer Woman had anything to do with it? :blink:


An Unlikely Alliance

Cindy rocketed to the jewelry store and tried to land carefully, but with a sputtering from the jets, they gave out and she fell the short distance onto the hard pavement, landing on her butt.

"Ow. Note to self: Next time Jimmy does that, don't laugh at him." she said to herself, getting up and rubbing her backside. She looked through the store window, and saw deserted rows of glass display cases, glittering with expensive gems. She opened the door, making the door bell echo strangely in the silent store. Walking carefully across the thin carpeted floor, Cindy tuned her acute senses to pick up the smallest hint of the rich boy's presence. She walked behind the counter and suddenly from a large cabinet, she heard a voice.

"Whoever you are...I'm warning you...go away or I'll...I'll..." Cindy opened the cabinet to find Eustace scrunched up in it, his hand halfheartedly in fists.

"You'll what?" Cindy said, an amused smirk on her face. Eustace unclenched his pathetic fists and quickly put an irritated face over his frightened one.

"Oh, it's you, it it?" he said as he climbed out of the cabinet. He dusted off his blazer and attempted to seem as dignified as possible, but Cindy wasn't impressed. She continued staring at him with an amused glare until he gave up.

"Oh all right, go ahead. Laugh at me for running away like a little girl. I know you want to." he said. Cindy crossed her arms and shifted her weight to one side, still smirking.

"Actually, I came here with a proposition for you Strich." she said. Eustace slowly smiled, his dark eyes flashing. "A deal, eh?" he said. "All right, let's hear it then." He too crossed his arms. Cindy put her hands on her hips and glared unafraid into his eyes.

"You know I want to get Jimmy under control, right?" she said.

"Right." Eustace said slowly.

"And you like living here, in your big fancy mansion, right?"

"Right."

"Well," Cindy said, suddenly grabbing Eustace's blazer. "If you don't help me get Jimmy back to normal, I'll kick you to Algeria!" Eustace held up his hands.

"Ah! Not the face!" he said. Cindy let Eustace go, her hands back on her hips.

"Do we have an understanding, then?"

"All right, I'll help get your little boyfriend back, but no one better find out about this, or I'll see no end of it." Cindy rolled her eyes. "Fine." she said.

Suddenly, an earthquaking tremor shook the ground, knocking them to the floor, followed by a distant roar.

"How, perchance, are we going to catch him...it...whatever you want to call it!" Eustace said exasperatedly, sitting up from the floor.

"I have a plan. It's a bit sketchy, but it'll have to do." Cindy said. "Ok, I lead Jimmy somehow into that dead end at the end of Turner Street, where you'll be hiding, and Goddard will secretly project a holographic car that will be falling straight at me. Hopefully, Jimmy won't notice it's not real."

"And if he does?" Eustace yelled. Cindy ignored him.

"Jimmy will think I'm in trouble, and that's where you'll come in. You 'save' me from the car, Jimmy'll see it, think you're not so bad, and turn back to normal."

"And you think that'll work?" Eustace said.

"Well, I don't see any of your great plans!" Cindy took up her glare once again.

"Fine, but I still don't like it."

"Ok, now go to the dead end, and I'll be there with Jimmy." Cindy said. Eustace nodded, and they both ran out from behind the counter and out the door. Cindy watched Eustace sprint away around the corner. "This has to work." she thought as she once again blasted into the sky.

She found Jimmy in the park, straining to uproot a tree while the squirrels in it pelted him with acorns from above, making him even more angry.

"Squirrels mock Jimmy! Jimmy smash squirrels!" he yelled. Cindy landed behind him where he couldn't see her. Suddenly realizing that her N-men powers couldn't save her if this went wrong, she was reluctant to attract his attention. But she finally took a deep breath, and then called his name.

Just got your PM! Nice work, Writer Woman!

I think that diversion should work. If it doesn't, Cindy can kick his butt right back to Algeria. XD

When Eustace is saying to Cindy, "oh, it it you," I think you meant to say "it's you." ;) hehe.

[Beks]

actually, I meant to say "Oh, it's you, is it?" but I fixed it! Thanks for telling me!

[Ang]

GASP.


AMAZING CHAPTER BEKS.

Completely love it! ^_^ Keep up the gret writing!

[Beks]

thanks! ^_^

[Beks]

Hey, here's the next chapter! And this one is long!


Chapter 16: Never Again


“Jimmy!” Cindy yelled. The monster stopped in mid-lift and turned around. A sudden look of mild happiness spread across his rocky face.

“Blond Girl!” he said, taking a step forward. “Jimmy glad to see you!”

“You are?” Cindy said, a little confused. Jimmy nodded his head vigorously.

“Ahuh. Blond Girl not so bad after you nice to Jimmy.”

“Oh,” Cindy thought, finally understanding. “He still remembers what I said in the desert.” She blushed. The monster spoke.

“Hey,” he said, his face now angry again. “Blond Girl seen Snooty Boy?” Cindy let a small laugh escape her lips.

“Nice name, it really fits.” she thought. Quickly thinking, she said, “Um, yeah. I’ve seen him. Um…follow me!” She turned the jetpack back on, making sure Jimmy followed. As she flew low through the now deserted streets, she had a sudden thought. Looking back, she was the back of her dress flapping wildly in the wind, and behind it, her flats.

“Here I am, saving the day for once, and I’m still dressed for a party!” she said to herself. Using her feet, she succeeded in pulling off her shoes, letting them fall onto the pavement.

Ah, that’s better.” she said, wiggling her toes.

* * * * * * * * * * * *

Meanwhile, in the parking lot in front of the Candy Bar, Libby paced anxiously back and forth, while Sheen and Carl stood watching her progress.

“Do ya think she’s dizzy yet?” Carl said to Sheen in an audible whisper.

“I hope so, ‘cause then we can play Pin the Gloves on UltraLord!” Sheen replied. Libby stopped pacing to stare irritated at the boys, her hands on her hips.

“Can’t you guys be a little bit more worried? Cindy’s out there and probably gonna get hurt!” she said. Elke came up and stood beside Carl.

“Now that I now know what is going on, I too am worried for Cindy.” she said. Libby stared at the ground a moment, thinking, and then started walking determinately towards the streets.

“Come on, let’s go!” she yelled back to them. They exchanged glances, and then hurried to catch up to Libby.

“But…Libby, Cindy…said to…stay…here.” Carl said in between gasps for air.

“I don’t care.” Libby replied. “Cindy’s gonna need help, no matter what she says! Now hurry!”

* * * * * * * * * * * *

Cindy landed in the middle of the street and quickly looked around the dead end.

“Good. Can’t see him.” she thought. She turned around as a great thud announced Jimmy’s arrival.

“Where is Snooty Boy? Jimmy smash Snooty Boy!” he yelled, slamming a fist onto the asphalt. Cindy held up her hands cautiously.

“Easy, Jimmy. He should be her any minute.”

Meanwhile, Eustace knelt behind a mailbox, waiting for a signal. Listening to their conversation, he heard heavy breathing behind him. Thinking it was Goddard, he whispered, “Go away, you mechanical mongrel. Go do your job.” When the breathing continued, he turned his hand to push it away, still looking at Cindy and Jimmy. His hand met with fur.

Turning his head slowly, he came face to face with Humphrey, Cindy’s dog. Humphrey let out a low growl.

“Oh, crumpets.” Eustace murmured.

Jimmy was growing impatient. He started peering through the windows of cars, searching beneath them, and yelling for Eustace to show up.

“Try to be patient.” Cindy said. “You need…” But suddenly, Eustace came screaming from behind his mailbox, followed by Humphrey, who barked and snapped at him.

“Get this mangy mutt off me!” Eustace yelled.

“Humphrey! Bad dog! Get…no…heel!” Cindy disciplined to Humphrey.

Jimmy, finally seeing his target, let out an earth shattering snarl, sending Humphrey running terrified away, yapping like a puppy.

“Snooty Boy! Jimmy smash!” he said, stomping towards Eustace.

Cindy gasped, sensing the danger, and abandoned her place to stand protectively in front of Eustace.

“Jimmy! Stop! This isn’t like you!”

“Move, Blond Girl! Jimmy need to smash Snooty Boy!” Jimmy said, waving a giant hand to try to shove her away. Cindy planted her feet onto the road, and stared determinately at Jimmy.

“No, Jimmy! You need to listen. I…” She stopped in mid sentence as a bizarre scene played out behind Jimmy’s head.

“What Blond Girl looking at?” Jimmy said, following her gaze.

Flying through the air came a seemingly real yellow car, followed by Goddard, who flew behind it, projecting it out from his mouth. He couldn’t see them, however, and continued making the car tumble through the air until, with the tell tale sound of crashing metal, it landed in exactly the same place Cindy had been a few moments ago. Goddard finally saw the group, and pulled the projection back through his mouth, leaving an empty space on the ground. He took a few steps forward, inclining his head quizingly.

“What going on, Blond Girl?” Jimmy said after a long silence, looking back at her. Cindy sighed, pressing her fingers into her furrowed brow, closing her eyes. She paused as she listened to the girlish whimpers of Eustace behind her.

“That,” she said finally, opening her eyes. “Was part of our plan to try to trick you into liking Eustace. But, like always, it didn’t work.” She looked up pleadingly at Jimmy, only to meet with a terrifying sight.

Jimmy growled angrily as he slapped Cindy full force, sending her crashing into a brick building. She dragged to the ground, where she lay, unconscious.

“That’ll teach Blond Girl to trick Jimmy! Blond Girl not nice no more.” Jimmy yelled. “Now back to before.” He turned his attention to Eustace, who was staring disbelieving at Cindy’s unmoving form.

“Cindy? Oh my! This is…this is horrible!” he said, eyes darting back and forth. He looked up just in time to see Jimmy raise his arms up to pumble him.

“Mommy!” he screamed, jumping out of the way just in time. He scrambled back to his feet and stumbled towards Cindy. “I’m too rich to be dealing with this.” he said to himself.

“Snooty Boy always mean to Jimmy too, even more than Blond Girl.” Jimmy said as he stomped towards Eustace. He lifted a real car above his head. “Now Jimmy get rid of Snooty Boy for good!”

Goddard ran up in front of Jimmy, growling up at his some-time master. Jimmy glanced down at the metal pup, and then gave him a light kick, enough for Goddard to crash into the wall beside Cindy.

Eustace searched hopelessly for an escape route as Jimmy came nearer, welding the car above his head. Faced with imminent death, he came to his very last resort: an apology.

“All right, all right! I’m sorry!” He screamed, putting his hands up to protect him. Jimmy stopped, staring confused at Eustace.

“Snooty Boy…sorry?”

“Well, yes.” Eustace said, slowly putting his hands down. “I guess the real reason I’m so mean to you all the time is because I’m…a little jealous, to be frank. You can make all those interesting little gadgets, and have all your friends, and the affections of a lovely lady…and all I have is money. And I’m jealous.” He paused to fall onto his knees, a little dizzy.

“Oh my…that took quite a lot out of me. If you excuse me, I feel a nice long faint coming on.” And with that, he crumpled to the ground.

Jimmy slowly lowered the car onto the ground, staring at the threesome laying knocked out on the ground.

“Maybe Blond Girl right. Maybe Snooty Boy not so bad. Maybe…”

Suddenly, pain seared through his entire body as he slowly began to shrink. Realizing this, the monster yelled out, “No! Jimmy not going back! Jimmy no…”

The transformation was complete. A normal sized Jimmy opened his blue eyes and looked around.

“I’m…I’m back!” he said, staring down at his hand. “Cindy, I…” He jumped in shock as he saw Goddard, Cindy, and Eustace unconscious on the ground. Jimmy fell onto his knees, his eyes downcast.

“It was too late.” he murmured. Reaching for Cindy’s hand, he held it tightly as he vowed, “I’m never letting this happen again.”

Quickly holding his hand as he suddenly felt dizzy, he too fell unconscious, still holding Cindy’s hand. And that was how Libby, Carl, Elke, and Sheen found them.

[CraazyOne]

*happy sigh*

Beks, that was incredibly, supercalifragilisticexpealidociously awesome. :D

I especially love how, after Eustace apologized, he immediately fainted. :lol: So typical of him... And his girlish squeals were great, too. ^_^

EXCELLENT chapter! :thumbsup:


~Rach~

[Justine<3]

That...was...AWESOME!

Great job, Beks! Totally awesome! xD

I can't WAIT for more! (*sighs* why do all my replies have to be so boring?)



~*(+Justine+)*~

[Beks]

thanks! I feel really good now that the beginning is done. Now I can get to the good stuff! :ph43r:

[Beks]

oops, I had the wrong title down. Fixed it ^_^

[CraazyOne]

Yipeeee! *sits and waits for "the good stuff* :D



~Rach~

[Chica_Andromeda]

Ooooh, wonderful Beks!! :thumbsup: Very nice!!

[J/C AVA]

*stares at the screen jawdroped*

OMFG! That was AWESOME BEKS!!! I MEAN I dunno what to say. You write better than me!!! MAN EVERYONE ELSE DOES!!!! :'( :'( :'( :'( Oops!!! Sorry 'bout that. :lol: How do you do it?!?!?

[ShadRose17]

Oh my, WHAT AN AWESOME CHAPTER! I LOVED IT!!! IT WAS SO GOOD! :dance: