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[RocksmySocks]

It's here!!! And it only took...the better part of 7 months to write. :lol:

So yes, Episode 2 is ready for action!

For those of you who weren't around for Episode 1, here's the deal. I'm writing these to give you guys the fourth season of JN that we all wished would have happened. Therefore, I am doing a lot by request!

This episode is based off of Karin's suggestion for a fairy-tale episode. It also includes more JC than the last one, by request of a couple IDOJers. I listen to what you all want, so please post in (this topic) if you have ideas you would like to see done.

And, while I'm doing links, here is the link to Episode 1 for those who haven't read it before: Linky!
/self-promotion

Anywho. As this is Season 4, I try to pick up where Season 3 left off. That means that the characters and relationships are pretty much how they were in Season 3, with maybe a DASH more maturity. I BOW DOWN TO CANON. Therefore, yes, there is "something" going on between Jimmy and Cindy, as should be obvious by LSTN. I am trying to advance the JC and SL ships slowly but surely, much like they did through the real seasons of JN.




With all THAT being said, I'd like to give a big thanks to Beks, for proofreading this for me!!! I am proud to say this fic has been Writer Woman Approved.


I will be splitting the fic into three parts. I'll be posting one today, one tomorrow, and the last on Sunday. This way you'll get the whole episode in a short amount of time, but there will be a tiny bit of waiting between the sections (like you're on commercial break ^_^ ).



And so, here it is. Part 1 of Season 4: Episode 2.




Cindyrella: Part One

Dedicated to Mara and Beks - Happy Birthday, you two!


“Behold!” Jimmy Neutron exclaimed, dramatically pulling a silken sheet off a strange machine on his lab table. “An invention dedicated to my dearest friends: The Anticipatory Entertainer, Version 4.0!”

Blank faces stared back at the boy genius, save for Sheen who leaped into the air. “YES! I’ve always WANTED an Antiseptic Retainer!”

Jimmy put his forehead in his hand and sighed. “No, no, no, Sheen.” He shook his head. “The Anticipatory Entertainer. It’s something to distract you all while I am working on my delicate inventions, since it has come to my attention that I tend to make my biggest mistakes when any number of you get in the way during the critical stages of development.”

“Psh,” Cindy rolled her eyes and very purposefully crossed the yellow line that indicated just how far into the lab girls were allowed to come. “Yeah right, Nerdtron. Don’t go trying to push off your mile-high pile of mistakes on us.”

Jimmy brushed his nails against his shirt coolly, in a fairly good imitation of his arch nemesis, Eustace Strych. “Now Vortex, I’m really just trying to be a good friend. This is a gift from me to all of you.”

Cindy snorted. “Like bribing us with some goofy new toy will blind us to the unjustified accusations you are placing on - ” Cindy’s jaw dropped as she noticed Carl, Sheen, and Libby gathering around the new invention, pointing, grinning, and, in some cases, drooling. Gritting her teeth, she turned back to face the swirly-haired boy.

“You were saying?” Jimmy grinned, gesturing for her to join him in strolling over to the invention.

Cindy’s eyes narrowed. “I’m watching you, Neutron. Very carefully,” she said, yet accepted his invitation to accompany him to inspect the new machine more closely.

“Oh, oh!” Sheen bounced back and forth at the tableside. “I bet THAT button does something awesome!” He lunged forward to a giant illuminated yellow button on the top of the oddly shaped machine.

“Sheen!” Libby reprimanded, grabbing the hyper boy by the arm sheer nanoseconds before he was able to slap the glowing button. “We talked about pressing buttons, pulling levers, and spinning dials before knowing what they actually do, remember?”

Sheen’s face fell. “Oh…right. Sorry Libs’.” He turned to Jimmy, smile returning. “Hey Jimmy, what does this button do?” His finger hovered half a centimeter over the button’s surface and twitched in excitement.

Carl looked apprehensive and inched away from the table. “Jimmy, what is that weird tube that looks like it could suck out our very souls from our mere mortal bodies?”

“Oh, that’s just the sensor,” Jimmy explained, answering Carl and instinctively ignoring Sheen’s question. Lovingly, he patted the top of his invention. It consisted of a large screen surrounded by a metal frame, with several small buttons along the side of it, similar to the style of an old television set. On top was the shining yellow button, and on the bottom extending forward was the weird tube Carl referred to. “As I was saying this is the Anticipatory Entertainer. It will take a chemo-thermo-optic-sensitive reading of the room’s occupants and choose the best story with which to entertain its crowd for as long as they wish.”

“Jimmy…” Sheen’s voice cracked in desperation and his hand was shaking noticeably over the button. “What. Does. This. Button. Do?”

Evasively, Jimmy carried on. “So assuming the four of you have some similarity of taste in movies, television, or plays…” his voice slowed down as he glanced at his friends. Carl was engrossed in a llama pop-up book, Libby was painting her nails to match the colors of the cover of the new Graystar album, and Cindy was leafing through a pamphlet titled ‘Empowerment of the Female Gender Through Advanced Martial Arts’. Sheen still just looked like he was going to wet himself if he did not get to push a button soon.

“Er, well,” Jimmy coughed. “I guess you guys will be a good test for the A.E. 4.0 then.”

“BUTTON!” Sheen shouted suddenly, his left eye twitching maniacally. “DOES. WHAT. DO. IT?!”

Libby smiled faintly. “I love how he is so good about following the rules I give him.”

Cindy raised an eyebrow at her best friend. “I will never understand the two of you.”

Realizing that it was best to answer before Sheen exploded all over the lab, Jimmy finally responded. “That button is for an as of yet untested feature, and I strongly suggest you do not push it until I have the kinks worked out. In fact, I am placing that button on lockdown.” The boy genius took a remote control out of his pocket and turned a switch. A force-field rose up to cover the glowing button, zapping Sheen’s fingers in the process.

“Ow!” Sheen yelled, sticking his fingers in his mouth and blinking as if to hold back tears.

Libby put her hands on her hips and looked at Sheen, clearly unimpressed by his display.

Sheen’s eyes flitted to her and widened. “Erulm…” he said unintelligibly, freezing temporarily. After a moment’s thought, Sheen yanked his hand from his mouth, wiped it on Carl, and then threw the wounded digits in front of Libby’s face, sidling up to her smoothly. “Kiss and make better?”

Libby’s eyes rolled upwards and she shoved his arm out of her way. “In your dreams, superboy.”

Sheen watched her walk away and looked a bit crestfallen, but as soon as she was out of eye contact, he thrust his fingers back into his mouth and whimpered like a puppy.

Libby leaned in to look at the other buttons on the A.E. 4.0. “So, what do the rest of these do?”

“Well, this one is to sense the mood of the room, as I explained earlier,” Jimmy pointed to a long purple lever. “Then the two beneath are to start the story,” he pointed to the green button on the left, “And to stop it,” his finger moved to the red button on the right. “Don’t worry about the others.” He gestured to the multitude of orange buttons below the main three. “Those are just for fine-tuning.”

Libby blinked at them. “Whatever you say, dude.”

“So!” Jimmy slapped his hands together happily. “I will just leave you all to it, then. Enjoy yourselves, and I will be in the back wing of the laboratory should you need me.” With that, he turned and began walking out of the room.

“Whoa whoa whoa,” Cindy stomped in front of Jimmy, blocking his path and putting her hands on her hips. “Hold on there, Freakbrain. You want us to test this thing out NOW? I thought you said there were still bugs to sort out!”

“Relax,” Jimmy said, pushing Cindy aside. “That only concerns that yellow button and the transdimensional atomic shift that I have yet to perfect. Nothing to be concerned about, it’s all under control.” He waved a hand nonchalantly in the air and strolled out of sight.

Cindy gaped after him, most definitely displeased.

Libby called over to her friend. “Aww, c’mon, Cindy. We can handle this Anticipa-tooey machine just fine without Jimmy. Don’t you really want to look like you are too nervous to try out an invention without him around to save the day if it goes wrong?”

Cindy spun around. “Puh, no! And I’m not nervous, I’m just sick of him using us all as his guinea pigs all the time. There is a point where we are going to have to draw a line, don’t you think?”

Libby rolled her eyes. “Cindy, get a grip. This invention sounds awesome! Let’s just give it a shot, alright?”

Sheen grinned. “I’ll take that as a ‘Yes, Sheen, you have full permission to pull that big purple lever’.” Eagerly, the boy leapt at the screen and yanked down on the large purple lever before anyone else had a chance to argue otherwise.

Cindy involuntarily winced and threw her arms over her face as if to protect it from some horror beyond imagining.

Yet nothing out of the ordinary happened.

She opened her eyes back up to see all her friends laughing outrageously at her.

A soft whooshing noise was coming from the sensor, and a breeze ran around the giggling trio in front of her, then blew her away and gently wound its way around her torso, rising up to her face and knocking some strands of hair loose. Sheen, Carl, and Libby quieted down upon seeing her glaring eyes through a cascade of blonde hair.

“Aww, Cindy girl,” Libby tried to say consolingly as Cindy’s face flamed in anger. “We didn’t mean to laugh so much. It’s just that you should have seen yourself when Sheen pulled that lever…” A giggle escaped the older girl’s lips.

“YEAH!” Sheen said, gleefully pointing a finger at the blonde girl as Carl took his cue and began to flap his arms and cluck. “You looked like the biggest chicken to ever roost in a kingdom of chickens – ”

Cindy’s eyes narrowed even more than before.

“ – Where a Queen Chicken rules with mighty feather duster and calls her lands the ‘Coop of the sissy-wussy-yellow-bellied-scaredy-cat– ” Sheen counted each insult off on a finger.

“Sheen, I’m warning you…” Cindy said menacingly. Stumbling from behind Sheen to behind Libby, Carl continued his clucking, each flap of his arms becoming more unwieldy.

“-Cowardly-lily-livered-pansy-wimpy-itty-bitty-baaaaaaaaby – AHHHHHH!”

Where Sheen had stood a moment ago there was now a rolling ball of blonde-haired fury with a barely discernable flailing set of limbs beneath.

“Guys!” Libby shouted in exasperation.

Towards the back of the lab, Carl could be seen continuing his chicken impersonation, his smile wide and his eyes unfortunately not looking at the floor. “Clu-ooof!” He tripped over an unidentified object below him.

“Guys, come on!” Libby tried to again get the attention of the scuffling pair. “CINDY, give it up, will you?”

“ME?!” Came the angry reply as Cindy stood to dust herself off. Sheen lay on the floor, twitching, his arms and legs bent in positions that would have been worrisome for anybody but Sheen. “He started it!”

Libby put her hands on her hips. “Girl, you know Sheen can’t always help himself! Words just come pouring out, like some geeked up version of Niagara Falls!”

Cindy’s jaw dropped. “I can’t believe you’re defending Ultra-freak!”

The sensor continued to play a delicate wind around the members of the room.

“Why can’t you just control yourself once in a while, Cin’?” Libby said as a response. “Why don’t you help Sheen up and apologize?”

Incredulity spread across Cindy’s already shocked face. “Help him? But he –”

“Uh oh. Um, guys?” Carl asked, standing up and picking the object off the floor he had tripped over. “Isn’t this that remote that Jimmy was using before to generate that force field? He must have forgotten it…”

Sheen pried himself off the floor at a near un-human speed and dove towards the remote in Carl’s hand. “BUTTONS!”

“Sheen, no!” Cindy and Libby shouted at the same time.

It was to no avail. He and Carl were already in a wrestling match over the remote.

The A.E. 4.0 seemed to respond with a stronger gust of wind, whipping it over Sheen and Carl and then in the direction of Libby and Cindy.

“Cindy, do something!” Libby yelled in a panic as the wind hit her full in the face.

“Me? Why can’t you do something?” Cindy crossed her arms. “You’ve just been sitting there this whole time.”

Libby held out her hands drastically. “Girl, you know my nail polish isn’t dry yet! Now get in there and stop them before they get hurt!”

Cindy sighed and trudged over to the boys, putting her hands on her hips. “Alright, you two, knock it off.”

It appeared as if the boys could not hear her. Sighing, she stomped in to the middle of the struggle and karate chopped in both directions simultaneously, knocking a boy down on either side of her. Unfortunately, the force of the karate chops also succeeded in causing both boys to let go of the remote, which proceeded to fly into the air gracefully and smash straight into a wall.

Immediately, the A.E. 4.0 began to shake, and the sensor began making a strange whirring noise. Smoke rose from the screen and the shield around the big glowing yellow button dissolved.

Cindy stared in horror at the destroyed remote, while Carl and Sheen wasted no time in pointing a triumphant finger at the girl. “HER FAULT!” they both shouted.

“Oh man, Cindy, you had better clean this up before Jimmy finds out,” Libby said, shaking her head sadly.

Before Cindy had a chance to blow up in rage for the umpteenth time that day, a burst of yellow light shot through the room.

Carl, Cindy, and Libby all spun to see a grinning Sheen standing next to the yellow button, beaming with a kind of maniacal pride.

“Noooooooo!” Carl cried melodramatically, reaching dramatically forward to the A.E. 4.0. “The yellow button! It’s been activated!”

“Sheen!” Libby crossed her arms in disapproval. “Did you push that button you were told not to push?!”

Sheen rolled his eyes. “Libby, please,” he said reassuringly, “What do you take me for? Of course I didn’t push a button I was told not to push.”

Carl visibly relaxed, wiping a llama-print handkerchief over his forehead.

“I pushed a button I was only strongly suggested not to push,” Sheen finished, acting for all the world like the difference between those two phrases was clear as glass.

“Ahhh I knew it!” Carl screamed dramatically, diving behind Cindy.

However, before Carl’s body could touch the ground, the bright light returned and caught all four kids in some sort of a forcefield.

They began screaming in terror as their bodies were sucked into the A.E. 4.0 via the tube-like sensor at the front.

Sheen went first, yelling something along the lines of: “Whoa, this feels just like a swirly –!” amidst bursts of laughter.

Libby followed with a wailing shriek, and Carl duplicated it as he was sucked in, only at a much higher pitch.

Just as Cindy began being pulled in head first, the lab door slammed open and Jimmy raced into the room.

“What is going on – ” his voice ran dry as his eyes darted from the smashed remote, to the glowing yellow button, to the computer screen that now had the images of three of his friends looking terrified in a dark setting (well, two of his friends looking terrified, as Sheen still looked quite thrilled), then down to Cindy’s feet as they began disappearing into the A.E. 4.0.

“No!” Jimmy shouted, dashing across the room and grabbing onto Cindy’s remaining foot. He pulled back hard, only to fall to the floor clutching a white sneaker.

Barely noticing the weird wind that passed over him, Jimmy stood back up and sighed in aggravation. “Well, I guess I better figure out how to find them before –”

His sentence was left incomplete as the A.E. 4.0 sucked Jimmy in, too: white sneaker and all.

The sensor let out a satisfied burp as the light and wind died down in the lab.

* * * * *

A dim light illuminated the four children, as they peered at their dark surroundings.

“Where…where are we?” Carl asked cautiously, hunching over timidly.

Cindy wiggled her unshod foot in annoyance. “And where the heck did my shoe go?”

“Who cares about your shoe?” Sheen said, crossing his arms in a pouty fashion. “I’m BORED! This place is like, worse than the library.”

Suddenly, a boy with a whippy-dip hairstyle seemed to fall from the sky in front of the gang.

“Whooooaaaaaa – OOOF!” Jimmy landed with a thud amidst his baffled friends.

“Jimmy!” Sheen said, happily. “Boy, am I glad to see you! Now, let’s get with the rescuin’, and you can fly us out of Boring-Land on some awesome and potentially dangerous invention!”

Carl helped Jimmy to his feet. “Sheen, I’m not here to rescue you. The A.E. 4.0 transdimensionalized me as well!” Jimmy said, brushing himself off.

“It transde-whated you?” Libby asked.

“Hey, that’s my shoe!” Cindy said angrily, pointing at the sneaker still clutched in Jimmy’s hand.

“It transdimensionalized me, just like it did to all of you,” Jimmy explained. “Someone must have pressed that button I told you guys not to touch!” He shot an accusing glance at Sheen, who was rocking back and forth on the balls of his feet, pointing to the chubby boy in front of him and mouthing something suspiciously like “Carl”.

Carl turned around suddenly and Sheen switched over to whistling the Ultralord theme song while throwing his hands behind his back in an effort to appear nonchalant.

“Hello!” Cindy waved her arms about. “Explanations later, shoe first, okay Dorktron?”

“Er, right,” Jimmy said awkwardly, passing the sneaker over to the blonde girl. She snatched it from her hand, then bent over to put it on.

“So, uh, Jim, where exactly did we get transdemented to?” Carl asked, stepping forward and scratching the back of his head.

“Well,” Jimmy started, uncertainty evident in his voice. He glanced around in the darkness. “Since the A.E. 4.0 is designed to match the perfect story to its audience, I suspect we have now been sucked into said perfect story.”

“What the heck kind of story is it where it’s all dark and the characters can’t see three inches in front of their faces?” Sheen asked, throwing his hands forward in annoyance.

“Seriously, Neutron,” Cindy said, crossing her arms and narrowing her eyes. “Face it, your machine doesn’t work. And now we’re stuck in some horribly obnoxious vortex of frustration and we’ll never get out again, all thanks to YOU.”

Jimmy rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath, “Yeah, and I’m also stuck there WITH a horribly obnoxious Vortex of frustration…”

“What did you just say?” Cindy growled, clenching her fists.

“Oh hey, guys!” Libby interrupted, pointing. “Look, there’s a light over there!”

Sure enough, a pinpoint of light was the cause of their dim illumination. The gang made their way over to it cautiously.

“Careful, guys,” Jimmy warned. “Remember, we’re in a different dimension, one likely based off of fiction, so you can never be sure exactly – ”

Suddenly, the pinprick of light shot out. Illuminated outlines of each of the five kids could briefly be seen as the light zapped them away to unknown locations.

Only smoky shadows were left behind.



COMMERCIAL BREAK!



So that's Part 1! Hope you enjoyed it. Part 2 will be posted tomorrow...sometime. B)


Thanks for reading!

-Katie :ahoy:

[Beks]

Yesh, this has been Writer Woman Approved! And to prove it:



*slaps on topic* Here's the official seal of approval, that I just conveniantly made today. ^_^

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

I'm SO loving this ep!!!! I can't WAIT to find out what happens NEXT!!!!!!! *gets jumpy & impatient like Sheen*

[RocksmySocks]

Thanks, everyone!!!

Thanks, Toki! Glad you liked it.

Thanks, Writer Woman! I love the seal of approval! :lol:


And wow, thanks, Pigquet! What a review! :lol: I'm so glad you enjoyed the first part and found it amusing. And I'm really glad you think the characterization worked. I was worried about Libby, actually, so I tried hard to make her lines fit her. It means a lot that you think they did!

Phew! I feel relieved that you thought it was good, Pigquet. I was soooo nervous when I posted it! I really want it to feel like an episode, so I'm glad you had parts that you could picture happening. :D



So yep...Part 2 tomorrow. Part 2 gave me a LOT of trouble when writing, so hopefully it will come across okay. :unsure:

[.:!Gwen!:.]

IS IT IRONIC THAT WHEN I CLICKED ON THIS, "FAIRYTALE" BY SARA BAREILLES CAME ON?

Coincideeeence?

Anyway, I'll definitely check this out when I have some time. Just wanted to share that. XD






.:!Gwen!:.

[RocksmySocks]

I'm SO loving this ep!!!! I can't WAIT to find out what happens NEXT!!!!!!! *gets jumpy & impatient like Sheen*

Thanks, Amelia! :D

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

NP!!! ;)

[SweeneyxxTodd]

For some reason I never finished reading episode 1...

So I'm reading Soil Snatchers now, but I'm almost done with it. When I have finished, I'll read this one and tell you what I think.

[angel_jc8]

I luv this so freaking bad. :wub: I can actually imagine this fic being an episode. That's rare nowadays, some people just slab a whole bunch of words and call it a fic. This is really well written. ^_^ I got so excited at the last sentence, that is, until I read 'commercial break'. I was like, dang, I have to wait 'til tomorrow. I wanna read it now! >.< This is definitely one of the best jn fics ever. :thumbsup:

I can't wait!!!!!!!!

[J/C AVA]

THAT WAS SO AWESOME!!!

You really made it seem like an actuall JN episode, just like the Soil Snacthers!!

Everyone was completely in character and the situations were VERY true to the show.

I LOVE IT Kaite! LOVE IT!!! :kawaii:

[Macey]

Wow Katie! This was great! You are so good with characterization!

I love the title, hahahaha. I think Jimmy's new invention is a great idea! It's just like something he would invent!

LOL, Sheen. "What does this button do?" That's him alright. And the SL made me smile. I love SL!

Great job Katie! Can't wait for part 2~

[RocksmySocks]

Thanks Lexi! And Angel! And Pedro! And Macey! I'm so happy to hear you're all enjoying this!

Lexi, I'm glad it made you laugh and made you think of a real episode.

Angel - thank you! Your post made me grin in a rather goofy way. I've never had someone call anything I've written "one of the best ever", so you are officially my new favorite person.

Pedro, I'm so excited you think people are in character!!! I was hoping you'd have a good opinion of it, particularly since you are so good at characterization in your story. Thanks!!

Macey - thank you for the comments! I'm happy that Jimmy's invention is something you could see him making, and I'm really glad you liked the SL interactions. :D

Lol - and Mary, that's completely fine. B) Take your time.


You guys all officially rock. I can't say enough how glad I am that people like this fic. It was really hard to write, which is why it took forever, and I was soooo worried that meant it basically sucked. To hear positive comments about it is just...well, it makes it all worthwhile. Thanks guys!

I unfortunately am going to be out of my house until like...after 5 today. So the second part won't be up until I get back. But I promise to post it once I get home!


-Katie :ahoy:

[SweeneyxxTodd]

I finished reading.

And it's awesome ^_^

I love Sheen's compulsion to push buttons. He'd totally be like that in a real episode.

[Macey]

Pshaw.

PIGGLES AND I ARE THE SL DUO OF DOOM. WE'LL CONVERT YOU ALL *shot*

[SweeneyxxTodd]

You don't need to convert me. I already love SL above all other JN pairings.

[J/C AVA]

Pedro, I'm so excited you think people are in character!!! I was hoping you'd have a good opinion of it, particularly since you are so good at characterization in your story. Thanks!!

WHOA!!!

I'm very flattered you mentioned that, since I REALLY think I'm not that good at characterization, you're a WAY better writer than me, but I guess every writer is different.

Thanks anyways. That means alot to me. ^_^

[angel_jc8]

Angel - thank you! Your post made me grin in a rather goofy way. I've never had someone call anything I've written "one of the best ever", so you are officially my new favorite person.

Lol, hooray! :lol: I still can't wait for the next part. *squeals*

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

OMG, I just can't wait 'till part 2 arrives!!! You ROCK!!!

:Sheen: :rock:

Sheen, knock it OFF!!!! You're gonna HURT someone one of these days! Now, take your hand OFF that ROPE!!!!