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[Neutron12]

Great chapter, as always! I enjoyed it

[xErik12]

Ahh, SO this is your fic you mentioned, eh? 

 

Well... where to begin... Ah! You have outdone yourself, Em!

I adore Taylor and Marie--aww she's a genius just LIKE James Isaac Neutron.

Secondly, on to continue the fic--I do not know where but seeing as you wish to imply the time travel scene maybe

continue on how Hugh and Judy, Mr. Estavez, Mrs. Folfax, Mr. Folfax, and the Wheezer household reacts. Maybe continue

on the plot of Dr. Finbar Calamituis (if that's how you say his name) and Eddie ohh maybe you should do the battle of the Neutrons!

And add a little Sheen random quirks!

 

...These are just suggestions, and remember that you don't get writers block. You just can't quite digest the process on where you want

the story to unfold. 

 

Love the fic, and please consider my advice if you are suffering from "the block"

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Thank you so much, and yes, I will remember your suggestions for future reference!

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

I'm FINALLY updating!!  Hope ya love it!

 

 

 

Emerging Compassions

 

Chapter 42: Discovered!

(Cindy's POV)

 

 

Just as Jimmy was about to send the transmission into hyperspace, a deafening roar seemed to shake the very ground we were standing on.  

 

Terrified, he deactivated it and we frantically looked around for the source of the frightening sound, but found nothing just staying where we were.

 

"J-Jimmy, what k-kind of animal just made that n-n-noise? !" Carl stammered, apparently the most terrified out of all of us.

"Everyone, get behind me!  I know how to handle this!" he ordered, pointing in the direction behind him.

 

"Jimmy, are you sure about this? !  A lot of terrifying predators were known to live during the last Ice Age! !  Not just mammoths, but saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths, too!" I informed him anxiously, biting my nails a bit, which was something I rarely ever did.

 

"The saber-toothed tiger is the only one we have to really worry about out of the 3.  The mammoths and giant sloths are herbivores," Jimmy hastily told us, a worried look on his face.

 

"Yeah, but those other 2 could still crush a human with their sheer size!" Libby worriedly reminded us.

 

"Oh, please! !" Sheen said with a smirk, completely unaware of the immensely large shadow that rapidly descended upon us cast by the rising moonlight, his back turned to it, "How big could they REALLY be? !"

 

Shaking in fear with the majority of our group, Carl pointed a trembling finger at the gigantic figure behind him and practically whimpered, "T-Try that giant c-creature r-r-right b-b-behind you, Sh-Sheen! ! !"

 

He slowly turned around to face the creature, then looked upward into its glowing eyes and gasped.  "I s-see what ya m-mean, Carl! !  It's huge! !" Sheen exclaimed, "We'd better get outta here! ! !"

 

"For once, I second what Sheen said!" I agreed, scooping up Marie who'd previously been sitting near me on the ground, "Scram, everyone! !"

 

Without a second thought from any of us, we scurried back to the village in well under a minute, barely making it through the gate before it was shut

and the creature was able to catch up to us.

 

Through the moonlight, I could just make out Anya  hurrying over to meet us.  After she reached us, she gasped, "Is everybody okay? !  I could just make out the giant sloth's head  as it approached the village!"

 

"And thank GOD we ran when we did! !  That critter would've crushed us flat!" I wholeheartedly agreed, cuddling Marie extra close while glancing at the village gate.

 

"Guess those confidential matters of ours will have to wait until tomorrow...," Jimmy muttered with a sigh, "It's time for us to get to bed by now..."

 

"Well, come with me and I'll prepare you some pelts to sleep on," Anya invited, leading us back to her hut.  We followed her back, then afterwords, I noticed a slight problem.  Big as her home was, it was just barely large enough to allow all of us to sleep in, laying down...

 

After thinking that over a few moments, and as Anya was preparing our beds, I spoke up and asked, "Are you sure all of us are going to fit in this home of yours? ?"

 

"What utter nonsense!  Of course, it's going to hold you!  Silly girl!" she teased, smoothing out the last of the pelts.

 

"Well, I'm tired!" Carl put in with a yawn, and settled onto the pelt nearest the doorway, then pulled up the extra pelt that served as a blanket and was asleep within moments, snoring loudly.

 

"Now that you mention it, I'm pretty wiped out myself...," Jimmy noted, and settled into the pelt bed next to Carl.

 

I walked up to him hesitantly, then cleared my throat a bit and wanted to know, "Um, mind if I sleep next to you, Jimmy? ?"

 

"Huh?  Oh, Cindy.  Sure, I don't mind...," he sleepily replied, not bothering to look up at me.

 

"Thanks," I told him, laying down on the pelt next to him, making sure Marie had room next to me.  After covering ourselves up, I reached over and lightly caressed his shoulder, saying softly, "G'night, Jimmy..."

 

"'Night, sweetie," Jimmy barely whispered, for he was almost fast asleep.

 

Just before my eyes fully closed, I noticed that Sheen and Libby had laid down across from us, cuddling together gently with Taylor in between them.  I finally couldn't keep my eyes open any longer, and drifted off to sleep for the night.

 

The following morning, I woke up to the bright sun, just rising over the horizon, shining in my eyes.  I rubbed my eyes, stretched, and sat up in my pelt bed.  I was just admiring the sunrise when I heard someone near me mutter, "Ow...  Careful where you're stretching, Cindy.  You hit me in the eye there..."  That made me jump just a bit in surprise, then I turned to see who'd said that.  I soon found that it was Jimmy, already sitting up in his bed while rubbing where I'd accidentally hit him.  "Oh!" I softly exclaimed, "Sorry about that, Jimmy!"

 

"Nah, it's okay, Cindy...," he reassured me, "I needed an early start to the day, anyway.  Why are you up so early?"

 

"The glare of the sunrise got me up," I informed him, giggling softly so as to not wake our daughter or the others who were still sleeping.

 

"So I see...," Jimmy replied, a thoughtful look on his face, "It's best to get an early start today, so I can begin working on how to get us back to our own time."

 

"Good idea, Jimmy," I gratefully agreed, "As exciting as this era is, I really wanna leave this Neolithic Era behind and get back to 2012..."

 

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I was later informed exactly what happened in Retroville while we were stuck in the Stone Age...

 

Meanwhile, back in the year 2012, an all-too-familiar buck-toothed villain makes his dastardly plans in yet another attempt to destroy Jimmy Neutron, or at least humiliate him beyond repair socially, mentally, and emotionally...

 

"This is it, Blix!  I think I've finally come up with a way to destroy Neutron! !" Eustace Strych thought aloud as he sat comfortably in his easy chair in front of his million-dollar fireplace, "I'll make him PAY, even literally, in fact!  Just the other day, I saw him at the jewelry store purchasing a diamond ring.  It was only one carat, which was totally pathetic, by the way!  Luckily, I've got a duplicate just waiting to be used!  Come, this way, Blix!  We shall see if he can outsmart his way out of this one...! !"  The 2 of them made their way down the long corridor that led to the double-doors of his bedroom, entered via a complex security system that included a handprint analyzer, an iris scan, and voice recognition, among other things, and ventured over to a large, historic painting by da Vinci.  With the touch of a button on a small remote, the painting opened like a small doorway to reveal a safe with 3 combination locks and a fingerprint scanner put there for security measures.

 

With a few twists of the dials and a quick scan of his fingerprint, the safe unlocked to reveal a heap of priceless jewels and artifacts.  Eustace reached in and searched through the pile worth billions of dollars and muttered, "Dash it all, Blix, it's GOT to be in here somewhere...  I've got dozens of priceless rings in here, but which one is only one carat?  Wait a moment...  Ah, here it is!  Brilliant! !"

 

"So, uh, you've got a plan, mine heir? ?" Blix questioned warily in his German accent.

 

"Precisely!  Blix, sell this pathetic excuse for a ring to the local jeweler in Retroville.  One hour from now is when we'll frame Neutron for its theft! !"

 

Eustace cackled evilly, a devious plan forming in his spoiled rotten mind.  Then he demanded, handing his servant the ring, "Blix, use the hi-tech financial exchange system to teleport and sell it!  I'll put the finishing touches on the Neutron 2.0 robot..."

 

"As you wish, Mr. Strych!" he replied faithfully, and went over to the financial exchange system, entered in a numerical sequence, and teleported the ring, immediately receiving the appropriate cash amount in return.  Blix then returned to Eustace and gave him the cash, which he folded neatly and stored in his velvet robe pocket.  "So, how goes the progress on the robot, mine heir? ?" he wanted to know.

 

Eustace just cackled evilly again and responded with a sneer, "It's nearly complete!  The artificial hands have the exact same handprints as Neutron, so any fingerprints left behind will lead to him!  I've only got to duplicate his shoes exactly, and then activate the droid!  Let's see...  Type in the appropriate commands...execute the creation process... and BINGO! ! !"  He reached inside the compartment that spit out the shoes just created and picked them up, bringing them to his nearly-completed robot and firmly attaching them by latching them shut.  He then stepped back to admire his creation, announcing triumphantly, "Yes, Blix, I believe I've done it! !  It looks exactly like him!"

 

Blix stood back next to Eustace and added, taking a good look at it and handing him the remote that controlled it, "Excellent work, mine heir!  Now, to activate it via remote...  Care to do the honors? ?"

 

"It would be my pleasure!" he exclaimed, and pressed the activation button on the remote, causing the droid's eyes to glow bright red as it "awakened", "Brilliant! !  Now, pay close attention, Neutron 2.0!  Your task is to infiltrate the local Retroville jewelry store, steal a 1-carat diamond ring, then return here!  Understand? !"

 

The droid nodded, then, using the built-in rockets in its shoes, rocketed out of the Strych residence through a nearby escape hatch, headed right for downtown Retroville!

 

Several minutes later, it touched down in the middle of the street, walking casually up to the entrance of the jewelry store...

 

Officer Tubbs happened to see it nearby, mistaking it for the real Jimmy, and rushed over, extending his hand in greeting as he said, "Why, hello there, Mr. Neutron!  Pleasure to see you this afternoon-"

 

But he didn't get to finish, because Neutron 2.0 identified him as a threat, grabbing Tubbs' hand and slinging him onto the sidewalk, landing him on his back.  Then it slammed one of its fists into the window and lept inside, leaving Tubbs laying on the sidewalk in excruciating pain, with him groaning, "Someone, please, call an ambulance..."

 

The jeweler spotted the droid marching up to him and offered, "Can I help you-"  But he was cut short because Neutron 2.0 grabbed him by the front of his shirt and slung him across the store, landing into one of the window displays and going unconscious.

 

The droid turned its attention to the display in front of him, then smashed one of its fists into the glass while its other hand rested on part of the display nearby.  It slung its hand through the jewels until it found the 1-carat ring, then snatched it and stored it in a compartment in its chest cavity.  

 

Then it charged through the glass door and ran down the street, close to the speed of Sheen as Vibrating Lad, and disappeared without another trace, not realizing it had left a trail of mud behind it the entire time...

 

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I was to later be informed that all that took place during our absence, but at the time, we had no earthly idea it was occurring.  We were all too concerned about letting our parents know of our whereabouts, 9,000 BC.

 

"So," I persisted quietly, "Shouldn't we get going on that tachyon transmission?"

 

"Yes, we should," Jimmy calmly replied, picking Marie up gently so as to not wake her up and the two of us rising to our feet, "Go get the others up, then meet me just outside the village, okay?"

 

I nodded my reply, then went over to Carl, Libby, and Sheen, in that order, and urged them quietly and giving them each a nudge with my foot, "C'mon, it's about time we let our parents know where we are.  Come with me, but quietly, so as to not wake Anya up..."

 

They each quietly voiced their agreement and got up one by one, following me to the village entrance.  Once there, I pushed the wooden doorlock to the right just enough for the gate to open, then we ventured out of the village just several hundred yards downriver and hiding ourselves behind some large bushes nearby.

 

When we got ourselves settled, I added to Jimmy, "Okay, now you can relay that transmission into the future from Goddard..."

 

"Excellent," he concluded, and pressed a sequence of keys on his watch that activated the transmission of tachyons through Goddard into the future.  

 

Before long, a fuzzy image on his screen appeared that sharpened to perfect clarity.  The living room of the Neutron vicinity came into focus, with Hugh waxing up some of his ducks and Judy flipping through TV channels, searching for a soap opera, no doubt!

 

Sheen immediately got in front of our end of the monitor and hollered, waving, "Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Neutron! !"

 

That caused both parents to be startled a bit and jump in their seats, which I found quite amusing, giggling to myself a bit.  Once they regained their composure, they stood up to face the opposing monitor just above the front living room window, with Judy asking, "What's going on?  Is everything alright, kids? ?"

 

Jimmy clearly noticed that Sheen was in the way and blocking the screen, so he snapped while giving him a light shove, "Sheen, move! !"

 

"Okay, okay!  I'm going!  Yeesh! !" he protested, getting out of his way.

 

"Thank you, Sheen," Jimmy thanked him with a glare, then turned his attention to his parents and added, "You'll both probably notice that we're in some sort of brushland with a river nearby...  There's a good explanation for that!"

 

"Oh, that's easy to guess, Jimbo!  You're clearly out in the desert for the burning of the giant duck!" Hugh commented in approval, laughing.

 

"Uh, no.  Not even close...," he told them begrudgingly, slapping his forehead, "A mishap in my lab with Marie evidently warped us back in time to the Stone Age.  She is learning to walk already, despite her young age...  She got up on a stool and pressed too many buttons and levers, which caused us to warp."

 

I temporarily looked upward and saw a beam of energy being shot vertically into the sky from Goddard and into some kind of wormhole.  "So that's how they're getting the signal..., " I said to myself thoughtfully.  I also noted that it was thundering and crackling with electricity where the beam intersected with the wormhole high above us.  I then pointed out to everyone around me, "Um, there sure is a lot of electricity crackling overhead at the wormhole's entrance, and it's pretty loud.  I sure hope that doesn't get us discovered as strangers from another time, or, according to the primitive people in this time period, evil spirits from the bowels of the earth..."

 

"Excellent point, Cin!" Libby agreed with me as Jimmy continued to converse with his parents, gazing upward, "If that happens, there could be trouble..."

 

"What are you guys so worried about?!" Sheen tried to convince us, a heroic look on his face, "What could possibly go wrong now?!  Anyway, if we're attacked, UltraLord will save us! !"

 

"Ugh...  Not again...," I groaned, slapping my forehead begrudgingly.

 

"Sheen, please just shut up, hon...," Libby snapped at him.

 

"Sorry," he admitted, rubbing the back of his neck.

 

Just then, we heard hurried footsteps coming toward us, so I poked my head over the bushes and glanced toward the town.  My heart immediately skipped a beat as I saw Anya approaching us, so I shook Jimmy's shoulder and urged, "Jimmy, Anya's coming!  We need to turn this thing off! !"

 

"Sorry, I can't hear you over all the static from the wormhole-!" he started to say, but was interrupted as Anya spoke up as she approached us.

 

"I knew you travelers were strange, but this is almost too much to bear!" she remarked, dramatically raising her hands into the air, "What is this strange light coming from the sky?!  Oh, no!  This can only mean one thing, that you're the evil ones from the underworld! ! !  I must alert my village! !"  With that, she took off running back to her village to spread the word.

 

"I knew this would happen! !" Carl cried helplessly, "Now they're probably gonna burn us at the stake or something like that! !"

 

"Carl, you're such a big BABY! !" Sheen barked at him.

 

"Sheen, calm down! !" I hissed, grabbing his wrist.

 

"Cindy, quiet!  You're makin' Taylor cry!" Libby shushed me, trying to soothe her squalling child.

 

Sheen looked over the bushes and pointed, saying nervously, "I think we better scram, cuz here they come! !"

[TheKingInTheNorth]

Things aren't going so well, are they? In the past, a whole tribe wants to kill Jimmy and his friends, and in the present, the cops want to arrest him... He's screwed no matter what. Although I guess his parents at least know he couldn't have robbed the jewelry store, if he was stuck in the past...

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Just like anyone else, he can only focus on one problem at a time...  Like fanfiction has taught us before, things tend to get worse before they can get better again.

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Finally, after all this time, I give you chapter 43!!! Hope ya like it!


Emerging Compassions

Chapter 43: New Friend Despite Chaos
(Libby's POV)


Sensing a threat soon to be coming our way from the nearby village, I shook Jimmy's shoulder and urged, "Neutron, you're gonna have to cut that short, cuz Anya just went back to her village for reinforcements! ! She thinks we're 'the evil ones'!"

He looked over at me with fear in his eyes and agreed, "I had a feeling something like this would happen!" Then he turned to Goddard's screen again to face his parents and told them nervously, "Mom, Dad, I have to cut this short. Angry villagers are gonna be after us any moment now!"

"Be careful, sweetie! !" Mrs. Neutron warned, then Goddard cut the signal, causing the beam and wormhole above it to disappear without a trace and him returning to his wolf-like appearance.

Then Carl peeked over the bushes again and exclaimed, pointing, "Hey, it looks like Anya's coming back! And there's a lot of villagers behind her! !"

The rest of us looked where he was pointing and saw what he meant; our little group had to scram, and FAST! ! !

Then I looked at Anya leading the approaching mob and saw her stumble a bit, then trip over a medium-sized rock and slide face-down into a larger one, the impact knocking her out as the others trampled over her. I cringed as I saw it happen, telling myself, "Ooo, that's gotta hurt..."

Then I quickly suggested, "Quick, into these bushes! They won't see us that way! !"

They didn't give it a second thought as we all scrambled inside them, there being plenty of room for all of us, including Goddard.

Once the villagers reached us, one stopped and pointed out, "Hey, no one's here!"

"Well, keep looking! ! The evil ones have to be here somewhere!" another demanded to the first, and they took off running again into the distance.

As we emerged from the bushes once we knew it was safe, Jimmy breathed gratefully, "Now that was a close one!"

"I couldn't agree more," Cindy heartfully agreed, holding Marie close to her.

"Yeah," I concurred, my glance returning to Anya every minute or so, then I informed them, "Shouldn't we go see if Anya's okay?"

"Are you nuts?! She's the one who turned her whole tribe against us!" Sheen persisted.

"Yeah, but then she tripped, skidded face-first on the ground, and slammed her head into a large rock! See what I mean?!" I snapped, pointing at her, who was still knocked unconscious.

He turned to see where I was pointing and agreed with a nod, "Yeah, you're right. That looks pretty harsh! !"

"I hope she's okay...," Carl put in, clearly concerned about her well-being.

"Let's go make sure of that," Cindy strongly suggested, heading to where Anya was laying on the ground, motioning for us to follow.

I followed close behind her, then the rest of them followed suit a few moments later. I stooped down to her level to get a closer look, then noticed her facial muscles begin to twitch a bit. "Hey, she's wakin' up!" I observed, immediately rising to my feet again.

She groaned a bit, rubbed her head, and sat up, the rest of us staring down at her. "Anya, are you feeling alright? ?" Jimmy wanted to know.

"Ow, my head...," she moaned, rubbing her head some, then looked up and told us, "I don't know any Anya. My name's Erika Carthos, and I'm from Athens, Greece. What the hell am I doing in the Neolithic Era?! And why am I dressed like this?! !"

"You don't remember?! I thought you were- Oh...," Cindy gasped, appalled at her apparent memory loss.

"If you're from Greece, and this time period is new to you, then you must've experienced some type of amnesia up until now. That knock on your head must've kicked you out of it," Jimmy concluded, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"Knock on my head? Is that why it's hurting so much?" Erika wanted to know, rubbing her forehead as she rose to her feet.

"Yeah," Cindy added, "You apparently thought you were from this time period, and were running after us cuz we insulted your 'beliefs' somehow... A throng of native people were following you in hot pursuit, so we hid as they passed us by. That was when we saw you trip, fall, and slide into a rock, hitting your head hard."

"That explains it!" she exclaimed, then paused, thinking for a few moments, then commented, "Now that I think about it, I remember how I got here in the first place...! I was designing a universal teleportation doorway, during a freak thunderstorm which was clearly a bad idea, and it was nearly finished when lightning zapped it and sent me hurdling through a wormhole. When I exited, I landed on a large rock and lost consciousness. I don't remember what happened after that, up until now, that is..."

"So, it was amnesia you had!" I clarified with a snap of my fingers, "Someone must've found you and brought you to their tribe, cleaning you up and teaching you their ways, even giving you a new name!"

"That explains why you were running after us before you tripped and fell," Carl interjected helpfully.

"You're right! It all makes sense now!" Erika realized, "I must've befriended you while I was amnesic, then I was somehow threatened and called for backup! But now that I'm myself again, I don't know who any of you are..."

Before we could introduce ourselves, however, we heard the mob from beforehand returning. "There they are!" yelled the first tribesman as they ran towards us.

"Hey," demanded a second, "Why is Anya with them?! She's not talking like us!"

"She must be one of the evil ones! Get them! !" the first shrieked, leading the mob even closer to us.

"Let's get outta here! !" I shrieked, making a break for it with Taylor in my baby sling, the others following close behind me.

As we were running from the mob on the shoreline of the Tigris, Jimmy managed to say, "Usually I'm the one who leads the group to safety and away from danger!"

"That doesn't matter right now, Jimmy!" Cindy snapped, breathing heavily while holding Marie carefully, "We need to find somewhere to take cover from all these tribesmen!"

Just then, Marie suddenly pointed to our right at an area a few hundred feet away from us, pointing out, "There! Cave good!" We stopped for a moment and looked to our right, and just as Marie said, there was a vacant cave available for us to take cover in.

Immediately afterwords, we heard the tribesmen rapidly approaching us, so Cindy urged frantically, "Quick! Everyone, get in there! !" We didn't waste one single moment as we scrambled into the cave, then hid behind some large boulders. At that moment, the tribesmen tore past us, completely unaware that they'd just passed us by. I noticed that Jimmy had used a hologram on his watch to disguise the cave's entrance as completely empty.

"Phew! Nice going with the hologram-thingy, Jimmy!" Sheen breathed with a sigh of relief.

"Thanks, Sheen, but we're not safe yet... Those tribesmen are bound to return the way they came and hopefully head back to their tribe. Until then, we need to stay put where we are," Jimmy cautioned us, placing the hologram-projecting portion of his watch on top of the boulder for our safety. We could see through it from our side, but anyone outside it couldn't, kind of a one-way-mirror type of thing, only more advanced.

We remained crouched down with only our eyes peeking over the boulders, watching for the mob to return to their homes. Sure enough, after an angsty ten minutes had passed, they passed us by again headed in the opposite direction toward their village. Once they'd passed and we could hear them no longer, we finally emerged from our hiding spots and Jimmy deactivated his cloaking device, putting it back in his watch.

I wasn't too sure if Erika, if that was her real name, was telling the truth, so I walked up to her and asked, "Okay, why are you REALLY here, girl?"

"I told you, lightning struck my teleportation doorway, I was sucked through the wormhole it caused, and exited it violently, knocking my head on a rock when I landed! That gave me amnesia, and we figured out that the tribe adopted me, my alternate personality met you, and you somehow angered me and I had sent the entire mob after you! Tripping and knocking my head on another rock snapped me out of my amnesia, as you may recall, and we retreated here to hide from the mob. But, I've still yet to know your names or anything else!" Erika persisted, who seemed to be quite annoyed that I didn't believe she was who she was.

"Okay, okay! !" Cindy gave in after apparently overhearing all that was said, "We believe you! Now, for our introductions... I'm Cindy, and this is Jimmy, and this little one I'm holding is our daughter Marie. And these are our friends Sheen and Libby, and their daughter Taylor in the baby sling, and there's Carl, who's petting Goddard, Jimmy's robotic dog."

"He actually looks like a real one, to me, like a miniature wolf," our new friend commented, looking a bit confused.

"Goddard, if you will? ?" Jimmy instructed his dog, and he transformed back into his regular self again.

"Yay! Neat trick, doggy!" Marie squealed, giggling and clapping her tiny hands.

"Whoa! I didn't know your daughter could talk, Jimmy! How old exactly IS she?! She looks really young!" Erika gasped in awe.

"Same age as Taylor, three months old, except her mind is much more advanced than Taylor's," he gladly explained to her.

Cindy giggled and added, "Just like her to take after her daddy! I'm absolutely positive that we've got a little genius here!"

"I'm very impressed!" she complimented the young parents, then she seemed to go deep into thought for a few moments. A few moments later, her mind seemed to click as she exclaimed, "That would explain Goddard! He's obviously been created by a brilliant scientist, who's among us as we speak and would be none other than Jimmy! Exactly how smart are you?!"

He just smirked with a light chuckle as he informed Erika, "My IQ happens to be 212, to be exact. I've earned a great respect among the citizens in my hometown regarding my intelligence!"

I just rolled my eyes sarcastically and thought to myself, Sheesh! What a braggart! !

"You should see his lab!" Carl boasted excitedly, "It's got all KINDS of neat stuff in it!"

"Including the machine that accidentally warped us here," I remarked with a smirk.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that!" Jimmy put in, "My daughter is just learning to walk, and with the help of a stool, climbed up and pressed lots of buttons and levers on the machine, accidentally warping us here... We've yet to find a way to get back to our own time, though..."

"Hey," I interjected, "Since we're hidin' in this cave, we might as well remove these disguise-wristbands, or whatever they're called."

"Good idea, Libby!" Cindy complimented me, slipping hers and Marie's off and instantly returning to their modern outfits and hairstyles.

"Excellent point," Jimmy agreed, and slipped his off, as well. The rest of us soon followed suit and slipped ours off. "Slip them into my hypercube, in case we need them again," he told us as he brought out his hypercube and passed it around to each of us. When removed, the wristbands took on a metallic, futuristic appearance, which was quite clever in my opinion.

No sooner had we put them in it and had he put away his hypercube when an alert on his watch resounded. He activated it, and Goddard quickly transformed back into his tachyon-transmission mode, an image of his parents soon appearing on his screen. As I looked at them, I could tell they were very worried about their son, because their glances kept returning to the television in the background.

"Okay, Mom, Dad... What exactly is going on in our time?!" Jimmy questioned them, clearly more than just concerned; he was worried.

"We're out of pie!" Hugh started to say, but Judy stopped him and snapped, "Hugh, this isn't the time to be worried about that!"

Jimmy just rolled his eyes sarcastically and persisted, "So, what's the REAL problem?!"

Judy temporarily stepped away from the receiving end of the camera, then the view on their end was turned to face their television. She stepped back into view and pointed out, pointing at the television, "See for yourself, Jimmy! !"

It looked as if a news report was being televised live in our time, and we soon found out what exactly was being reported: a crime had been committed in an attempt to frame one of us! But which of us was the one being framed?! That was what we found out next...

[Elraine]

3 down, 40 to go! I posted reviews on fanfiction.net, so I won't repeat myself here; but I just wanted to give it a quick thumbs up here too for the people on IDOJ. 3 chappies in and on the edge of my seat wondering what happens next!