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[CraazyOne]

Thanks. Yup, a new invention. Now let's see what kind of mess the gang can get into with it... :blink: :lol:

~Rach~

[sunnstar]

Yay, messes!! :lol: :D

(Like my new banner btw?)

[miss.darkstar]

Wow! This fic is so awesome. I wish I wrote like you. Well GREAT JOB! YAY A NEW INVENTION!! Can't wait to see what happens next.

[CraazyOne]

Yay, messes!! 

(Like my new banner btw?)

Sunny: Oh, yeah, ya gotta love their messes. :D And, yeah, I always like your banners! You rock! :rock:

Wow! This fic is so awesome. I wish I wrote like you. Well GREAT JOB! YAY A NEW INVENTION!! Can't wait to see what happens next.

Daph: Thanks. I'm glad you think I write well. Yay! Lemme tell you, it took years of hard work. I should post the next chapter soon...

~Rach~

[sunnstar]

I do. XD And thanks!!

[CraazyOne]

:blink: I'm posting this chapter pretty soon...but, whatever! Here ya go, Sunny!


---------------------------------Chapter 3: Revenge--------------------------------

Without another word, Jimmy and his friends headed down the hall with the other students. As the three boys entered the cafeteria, Betty Quinlan caught sight of them and waved. Immediately Jimmy practically melted into a puddle on the floor while the smiling Betty headed casually over to where he stood.

"Hey, Jimmy!" she greeted him. "I was thinking…it’s too bad the whole Happy Show thing never worked out. So, maybe you could come over to my house after school…and we’ll watch something else."

Dazed, Jimmy was left speechless for a moment before he found his voice. He opened his mouth, appearing about to accept the invitation, when Sheen loudly interfered.

"Jimmy! What are you doing?"

"Yeah, Jim. We don’t like girls, remember?" Carl reminded.

"Huh?" Jimmy shook his head and snapped out of his trance. Suddenly, he remembered his Mood Alternator. "Uh…I’d love to, Betty, but I actually have something important I’m working on right now…" He grinned up at her. "Maybe a different time?"

Betty smiled again. "All right," she agreed. "See you later."

Mouth agape, Jimmy stared after her until Sheen dragged him away.

At a nearby table, Cindy watched Jimmy and Betty with anger and disappointment growing inside her. If her eyes could shoot lasers, they would be burning a hole in Betty’s back right at that moment! She turned to Libby, who was sitting across from her.

"Look at Spewtron drool in front of Little Miss Perfect!" she scoffed. "He has absolutely no dignity."

"Come on, girl!" Libby responded. "We all know that if he was standin’ and droolin’ over you instead of Betty, you wouldn’t mind."

"That’s not true!" Cindy defended herself.

Libby gave her friend a skeptical look. "Sure, it’s not."

As Libby returned to her lunch, Cindy smiled nervously and picked at her food, but she couldn’t eat. Just the thought of Betty and Jimmy made her sick to her stomach. She hated Betty more than even she could put into words. But somehow, she was going to do something about it. Someday, she would take care of Betty Quinlan...

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At that moment, several carefully hidden figures were watching the kids in the cafeteria.

"Ha!" one of the mysterious forms exclaimed. "Look at them stuff their faces in an unconcerned manner that is carefree! But soon my vengeance shall strike swift as the eagle, and furious as the fury of the Chosen One!"

"But, Yoo-Yee," another voice pointed out, "you are not the—"

Yoo-Yee punched the other man, immediately silencing him.

"Shut your mouth hole!" Yoo-Yee ordered. "I am more the Chosen One than he who calls himself ‘Chosen One’! All he does is put his leg behind his head! If he did not have that friend whose hair is like the mountain, he would never have lasted one moment in combat against me!" Yoo-Yee turned away and began musing aloud. "I must begin planning a plan that will be amazing! Soon the Chosen One and all his friends will know the fury of the man-bird!"

Again, one of the ninjas interrupted. "Yoo-Yee…"

"Silence! I am trying to talk to myself!" Yoo-Yee snapped. Rubbing his chin and quickly darting his eyes around, he continued his "conversation". "Hmm…perhaps now I should return to the machine that flies! There I may plan in peace."
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~Rach~

[sunnstar]

GaspethTHANKYOU!

NICE!! :thumbsup: Oooh, I wonder what Cindy'll do! :o

And LOL. I could tooooootally picture Yoo-Yee yelling in short bursts of dialouge like that.

[CraazyOne]

You're welcome. :D Thanks for replyin'! Hurray! :dance:

Hahaha, I love Yoo-Yee! I just had to put him in this fic... He's an overlooked villain!

~Rach~

[sunnstar]

YES HE IS. Chica suggested him for me new, MYSTERIOUS fic after I decided I didn't want to use the OLD villain.

IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CraazyOne]

----------------------------Chapter 4: An Experiment---------------------------------

At the boys’ table in the cafeteria, Jimmy sat thinking dreamily of Betty Quinlan and ignored the food in front of him. Across from him, Carl was engrossed with devouring everything on his tray, but Sheen’s hyperactive nature wouldn’t let him sit quietly for long.

"Use the Mood Alternator now, Jimmy!" he burst out excitedly. "Then I’ll finally have enough people to throw a ridiculously wild Ultralord party!"

"I told you, I haven’t had a chance to test it yet," Jimmy replied, trying to be patient. "I can’t expose a large group of people to this invention without experimenting!"

For the first time since he’d sat down, Carl stopped eating. "How’re you gonna test it, Jim?"

At that moment, Jimmy glanced up and noticed Cindy and Libby heading toward them. He turned back to his friend and grinned mischievously. "Like this."

As always, Cindy wasted no time in starting to throw insults at Jimmy. As soon as she reached the boys’ table, she crossed her arms and smiled condescendingly.

"Good job on your report today, Nerdbrain!" she exclaimed. "It was so bad, it actually kept us awake this time!"

"At least my report didn’t misrepresent the facts!" Jimmy countered.

Meanwhile, Sheen ignored the upcoming Jimmy-Cindy war of words, casually studied his hand, and addressed Libby.

"So, Libbs, are we on for Friday night?" he questioned.

"Sheen, I told ya, I’m not sittin’ around watchin’ Ultralord for five hours straight!"

"But I can’t watch the premiere of the new Ultralord season and stand my grandma’s company alone!" Sheen cried tragically.

"And I don’t wanna hear ya babble about Ultralord for an hour before it starts and two hours after it’s over!" Libby narrowed her eyes at Sheen, who immediately protested.

"But the brilliance of the Ultralord show requires long discussions of its awesomeness! And this will be episode 1000, when Robofiend is given an alien power source that makes him practically indestructible!"

Thus, while Sheen talked about Ultralord—as usual—Jimmy and Cindy argued—as usual.

"Like your report was perfect!" Cindy snapped back at Jimmy. "Pluto is a planet, Nerdtron! Didn’t you ever hear of the nine planets of the solar system?"

"You’re wrong, Vortex! Pluto is a planetoid, because, in relation to all the planets, its size is—"

"Only you would agree with such a stupid idea!" Cindy interrupted.

"It’s not stupid! It’s a highly credible belief held by prestigious men of science! But of course, you wouldn’t understand the complex popular opinions of the scientific community."

"Oh, yeah? Well, you wouldn’t know popularity if it smacked you in the face!"

"Funny you should say that…" Jimmy murmured, and glanced around to see if anyone was paying them any attention. Only Carl was watching; all the other kids in the cafeteria were busy chatting and eating, and Sheen was still attempting to convince Libby to watch Ultralord. Quickly Jimmy whipped out his Mood Alternator, and before Cindy had time to react, aimed it straight at her and depressed a button. Immediately she froze in place. Jimmy took this moment to slip his invention back into his pocket; then anxiously watched for the results of his experiment.

After a moment Cindy blinked and looked around a little bewilderedly. Then her eyes fell on Jimmy.

"Ugh!" she exclaimed in disgust. "WHAT are we doing over here?! Come on, Libby; let’s go."

As Cindy and Libby began to walk away, Jimmy frowned in confusion. "Cindy, wait!" he cried, jumping from his seat and jogging after her.

Cindy spun around to glare at him, making Jimmy shrink away just a little in fear.

"Do you…um…feel any different?" he asked hesitantly.

Impatiently, Cindy crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow at him. "Why would I feel different?" she demanded.

"Uh…I don’t know…"

At that moment the school bell rang, warning the children that they needed to get back to class. Students headed slowly toward the cafeteria doors, but a few lingered. As Brittany walked past the girls, Libby invited her to listen to her new CD after school.

"Like, the new OuttaSync CD?" Brittany nearly fainted at the idea. "I love them!" she gushed. "They’re, like, the cutest guys ever!"

Hastily, Jimmy took this opportunity to take out the Mood Alternator, point it at Cindy, and press the button once more—just in case it worked the second time. When Libby turned back, Jimmy had already hidden away his invention and Cindy had snapped out of her momentary trance.

"Come on, Cin, we gotta get back to class," Libby told her friend.

Cindy was staring about her with an even more puzzled expression, and this time ignoring Jimmy altogether. "Um, yeah."

As the girls left the cafeteria, Jimmy turned to his friends and shrugged a little disappointedly. "Well, I guess it didn’t work. I’ll have to make some adjustments after school."


~Rach~

[Beks]

I know I've already read this of ff.net, but it's just as cool the second time, just like last night's dinner!

[CraazyOne]

LOL! Why, thanks, Beks. I'm glad you can liken my fic to last night's dinner. LOL!

~Rach~

[Beks]

-lol- mmmm, tasty!

[CraazyOne]

LOL! Would you like some dessert with that?

~Rach~

[Beks]

sure, how bout...another chapter! That should time me over till lunch!

[CraazyOne]

LOL! Your waitress shall accomodate your every need... *runs off to fill her order*

~Rach~

[Beks]

mmm, can't wait!

[CraazyOne]

Here ya go, Beks. (Even though you already read this chapter...haha...) This one's...er...chocolatey. LOL.


-------------Chapter 5: How Sheen (Unknowingly) Became an Accomplice-----------

On their way out of the cafeteria and through the hall toward their class, Cindy turned to her friend confusedly.

"Something weird happened back there," she remarked, frowning in thought.

"Whadda ya mean?" Libby queried.

"I mean that all of a sudden, I felt like I couldn’t stand being around Neutron for one more second!" Cindy caught herself and, laughing nervously, quickly tried to cover her mistake. "Not that I ever want to be around him, of course…"

Sick of Cindy’s constant denials, Libby rolled her eyes. "Yeah, whatever."

"Libby, there was something weird going on; I know it!" Cindy exclaimed, making her friend turn back to her.

"Maybe Jimmy zapped ya with one of his inventions and changed your feelin’s!" Libby suggested jestingly.

Cindy’s face had a look of solid determination. "I don’t know…but something’s up, and I’m gonna find out what."

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After school, Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl headed to the Candy Bar again. Sheen and Carl were excited to be so close to sugar, but Jimmy was preoccupied with his failure. As they headed for one of the booths, he studied the Mood Alternator in frustration.

"I can’t believe it didn’t work! I don’t know where I could have gone wrong!"

"Hey, Jim," Carl began, "since it doesn’t work, could Sheen and I use it for a while?"

"Yeah!" Sheen burst out in agreement. "Then we can walk around and shoot that cool beam-thingy at everything in sight!"

"Well, it doesn’t appear to have any catastrophic flaws," Jimmy said slowly, "but I don’t think that’s a good idea, guys."

"Come on, Jimmy! You can trust us!" Sheen insisted. "When did we ever endanger the city of Retroville?"

Carl interrupted matter-of-factly. "Actually, Sheen, there was that time your brain grew huge, and that time we got super powers, and the time we told people to watch the hypnotizing Happy Show—Show…"

"THAT’S NOT THE POINT!" Grabbing Jimmy by the shoulders and shaking him, Sheen continued to shout dramatically. " For the love of Ultralord, give us your invention, Jimmy!"

Jimmy shoved Sheen away in annoyance. "Sheen! I told you, I—" But right then he caught sight of Betty sitting at one of the booths in the Candy Bar. She smiled and spoke invitingly.

"Hey, Jimmy. Would you like to sit at my table?"

Jimmy caught himself with his mouth hanging open. "Y-you mean, you and me, sitting at that table together, at the same time?" he questioned, as if the offer was simply too good to be true.

Sheen grabbed him and shook him roughly by the shoulders once more. "Jimmy! What are you thinking?! You can’t sit by a FEMALE! We have our own manly table at which we discuss manly things!"

Then, all of a sudden, an idea popped into Sheen’s sugar-manipulated mind. He darted his eyes from side to side mischievously. "On second thought," he added, "never mind! Go ahead!" He shoved Jimmy toward Betty’s table, slyly slipped the Mood Alternator from the genius’s hand, and grinned at Carl. Jimmy was too distracted by Betty to even notice that Sheen had taken his invention.

"Come on, Carl; let’s get our own table!" Sheen announced. "Then we’ll zap Sam with Jimmy’s invention and put him in such a good mood that he’ll give us all the candy we want!"

Completely oblivious to everything else in the world, Jimmy slipped into a chair and stared dreamily across at Betty.

For a moment, Sheen glanced back at Jimmy. "Man," he commented to Carl, "he’s completely lost it!"

Just then Cindy and Libby entered the Candy Bar and Sheen winked at Libby, who rolled her eyes. Cindy’s eyes, however, were locked on Jimmy and Betty, sitting at a table in the center of the Candy Bar. "What’s King Cranium doing?" she demanded, her gaze still locked on the pair.

"Well," Carl observed, "now it looks like he’s eating a chocolate sundae with Betty…and he’s listening to her talk, and she’s smiling at him, and he’s smiling at her, and—"

"We get it!" Cindy interrupted furiously.

Libby turned to Sheen suspiciously. "And what are you two doin’?"

"We’re going to entertain ourselves by pointlessly wasting time!" Sheen explained, holding up the Mood Alternator for her to see.

Libby studied the invention curiously. "What is that?"

"It’s the Mood Alternator-er!" Sheen responded with enthusiasm.

Turning from watching Jimmy and Betty, Cindy looked at Sheen with sudden interest.

"A mood alternator?"


~Rach~

[Beks]

*smacks lips* ah, that was delicious! Yet somehow familiar. I wonder why? :rolleyes:

[CraazyOne]

Yeah, funny how you get deja vu sometimes, huh? ;)

~Rach~