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[Katia11]

That is an excellent idea.

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Done!

[Katia11]

New chapter soon? LOL

[Chompyzilla]

yay new chapter
but now i question where this story is going

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Surprisingly, I'm not sure either, cuz my latest chapter, 29, is only partially finished, and not yet posted since it's still in my hard drive and not online yet. I try to make it funny with some adventure and a hint of romance at times, but a lot of the chapters I've written for it thus far seem to me more like "filler" chapters than ones that actually get somewhere in the fic... That's getting annoying, but I'm gonna aim for more action/adventure in the "30's" chapters, which is where the climax of the fic should be, then it all "rolls down from there" as I approach the "40's"(at least, that's what I'm aiming/hoping for). I already have Calamitous up to something, though I'm still not 100% sure what, and I've also gotta tie in Cousin Eddie in it somehow, too. To sum it all up, the key word here is "patience", young padawan(couldn't resist! XD)...

[Katia11]

patience, what is that?

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Duh! Everyone knows what it means! XD Just be patient, okay???

[Katia11]

I was joking you silly.

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

There I go again, taking stuff too literally. XD I knew you were, Kate.

[Katia11]

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Chapter 28!! Hope ya enjoy it!!


Emerging Compassions

Chapter 28: Invisible, Yet Not Sneaky Enough...
(Libby's POV)


I noticed something strange as we became invisible. We couldn't be seen, but Cindy's & my developing children could be seen. Must've been a glitch in that feature on Jimmy's watch... She & I tried to make sure they stayed hidden from view. We stayed behind a control panel of some sort, trying not to expose our location & betray ourselves & our friends.

Jimmy apparently noticed this glitch, as well, so he firmly instructed us, "Try to stay hidden, because if Calamitous sees our children, our cover will be blown! Carl, Sheen, & I will do most of the investigation here..."

"Can do, Neutron," I reassured him.

Well, with our developing children now visible while the 2 of us were still hidden, we could tell what kind of child we were having! That excited me! "Look, Cin!" I quietly exclaimed, "I'm havin' a baby girl!"

She gasped & added in a whisper, "That's awesome, Libs! It looks like I'm having a girl, too! Now, to think of fitting names for them..."

"Yeah," I agreed, thinking. Then, an idea for a name hit me! "I know! How about 'Marie Curie Neutron' for your little girl?"

"Eeep!! Awesome, Libby!!" she exclaimed a little too loudly.

"Ssshh, Cindy!" I quietly shushed her, "You'll give away our position!"

"Sorry... I was just excited, is all...," Cindy apologized, "Now, how about... 'Taylor Swift Estevez' for yours??"

"I love it! Heck, if it was up to Sheen to name our child, he would've chosen 'UltraLady' as her first name...," I noted, snickering.

I couldn't see it, but I could tell she was rolling her eyes at that statement I'd made as she quietly giggled about it. Then she put in, "What else do ya expect from an Ultra-Dork like him??"

"Not much, I expect," I stated matter-of-factly, chuckling to myself.

Unfortunately, that was when we heard an all-too-familiar female voice speak up & demand, "Who's there?! Come on out so I can see you!"

"If I'm right, that was none other than Beautiful Gorgeous!" Cindy gasped, emerging from our hiding spot with me.

"Now that's creepy! How is it possible for 2 developing children to be floating in midair?!" Beautiful pointed out, hands on her hips.

"Ya might as well make us visible, Jimmy. Our cover's blown," Cindy hollered to him.

"Brilliant, JUST brilliant...," I heard him mutter in a disgusted tone as he made us visible again.

"You just HAD to open your big mouth, didn't you, Cindy?!" Sheen snapped, arms folded & glaring at her.

"Hello, Ultra-Moron?! It's only natural for expectant mothers to be curious about their child's gender!" she barked, clearly furious.

"On the bright side, we have names picked out for our growin' babies," I added, trying to be helpful.

"That still doesn't change the fact that we just endangered our lives, Libby," Jimmy reminded me.

"True...," I noted, a tad downcast.

"Well, I would have dastardly plans for you all, but my father says his big plans aren't going to be put into action until next month. He does have a new sidekick, however... What was his name again? Ethan? Evan? Esteban?" Beautiful remarked.

"Ha! You're just like your father, in that you can never finish anything!" Jimmy taunted her, then added, "The name you're looking for is 'Eddie', my cousin Eddie, to be exact!"

"Zinga!! You are correct!" came his reply. We all looked up & saw him zooming up to us on a hi-tech jetpack. When he came face to face with us, he deactivated it dropped to the ground. Jeez, I thought to myself as I looked down at him, For a 7-year-old evil genius, he sure is a little squirt! He's about as tall as Jimmy was at age 11, minus the hair!

"What do YOU want, Eddie?!" Cindy snapped.

"Did you not hear what Neutron said a minute ago?! To take over the world, DUH!!" he barked, heading over to a control panel. Calamitous soon joined him.

"Why the heck would you 2 join sides?!" I demanded furiously.

"Because, obviously, my father could never finish his previous plots!" Beautiful put in, obviously ticked off.

"But, dude, why are you waiting a month to get started on the real plan??" Sheen wanted to know.

"What? Are we BLIND?! You 2 girls are expecting kids! A month from now is most likely when you're due to give birth, which couldn't happen at a worse time for you since I'll be commencing my plan by then!" Calamitous sneered, cackling evilly.

"Hold it!" Jimmy snarled, "I thought you could never finish anything!!"

"Well, I'll be taking control of the world's land-based vertebrates, but I haven't figured out what happens after that...,"he stammered.

"That's where I come in, losers! I'm gonna turn every pet in the world against their owners, thus taking over the world with full animal control!!" Eddie finished for him.

"That's one evil kid!" Sheen remarked.

"No duh," Cindy hissed, rolling her eyes.

[Katia11]

Oh no, it's Eddie!

[Chompyzilla]

and another comment of jimmy's shotness

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

I think it's about time I updated, don't you?? Here's Chapter 29, in Sheen's POV!! Sorry if this seems kinda like a "filler" chapter... heheh


Emerging Compassions

Chapter 29: Time Is Running Out...
(Sheen's POV)


By that time, I was getting pretty impatient. “When the heck are we gonna try to stop him?!” I demanded, arms folded.

“Well, he's no threat to us for the time being... We might as well just leave this place,” Jimmy informed us.

With that, we all left for the exit, but not without hearing Calamitous say evilly, “Leaving, are you?? Well, don't hurry back, because you have children to deliver before too long. When you do come back, we'll be waiting...”

“So long, suckers!!” I taunted them, blowing a strawberry at them as we left the lair.

As we hiked the short distance back to the rocket, I heard Libby say gratefully, “Hikin' down is a LOT easier than hiking up!”

“I hear ya, Libs!” Cindy agreed wholeheartedly, “Especially with us 2 in our current state!”

I just rolled my eyes. Girls could be such whiners!

A few moments later, we reached his rocket. We all climbed in, Jimmy started it up, and we were soon on our way home.

While on our way, Cindy questioned, “So, Jimmy, what do you believe Calamitous plans on doing with these mind-controlled animals of his?? It doesn't strike me as anything useful, in my opinion...”

“Neither does it me, but we can never be too careful when he, and especially my cousin Eddie, is involved in an evil plot...,” Jimmy cautiously noted.

“Well, DUH!!” I exclaimed, “That's cuz we always win, and they always LOSE!! Cuz we're the good guys, and the good guys always win! Just like UltraLord!”

“Well, there have been times where we came pretty dang close to losin', Sheen, such as when we were in that alien game show...,” Libby pointed out.

“Yeah, that was a close one! Meldar almost won that time!” I agreed, “Though when we worked together, we brought an end to that stupid game show.”

“And that time every, well, almost every villain I ever defeated banded together to try to get rid of me for good,” Jimmy put in wholeheartedly.

“But in the end, you got rid of the remaining villains and that awful wormhole over Retroville that put us back in the past, sweetie!” Cindy complimented him, “Which was totally awesome, by the way!”

“You said 'almost every villain', Jim. Which ones weren't there??” Carl wanted to know.

“Well, that one college kid who tried to ruin my reputation at that college when I was 11, not to mention utterly humiliated me, my evil clone, the nanobots, Dr. Moist, and Meldar Prime,” he informed us, then added, “And thanks, Cin!”

“How did he humiliate you, Neutron??” Libby questioned, clearly a tad curious.

With a pretty intense shudder on his part, Jimmy told us, “I'd rather not go into it, Libby...”

“But Jimmy, I wanna know!! By your reaction, I can tell that dude made you do something truly unforgivable!!” I persisted, eager to know what happened to him.

“I told you guys, I don't wanna TALK ABOUT IT!!!” he snapped rather sternly, still focused on piloting the rocket.

“Okay, Jimmy, DANG!!” I exclaimed, dumbfounded, then muttered to Carl, “Jeez... Talk about insecure...”

“Tell me about it...,” he replied, nodding.

About 20 minutes later, we landed back in Jimmy's front yard.

“I guess that wraps it up for this time, guys...,” Jimmy informed us, climbing out once he landed it with the rest of us. With that, he walked up to one of the cushiony lawn chairs he'd recently placed outside his lab & immediately flopped himself into it, clearly exhausted from our adventure...

Little did we know that another, more terrifying adventure was about to unfold...

[Katia11]

uh-oh!

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Chapter 30 comin' atcha!!!


Emerging Compassions

Chapter 30: More Arguing, More Trouble
(Carl's POV)


Jimmy had only just begun to relax after that adventure in Indonesia when Cindy marched up to him and started barking at him, saying, “Jimmy, are you even aware what MONTH it is by now?!”

Partially dazed and only half-listening, he shook his head and stammered, “Huh? Uh, what??”

“You know darn well WHAT!! It's already May 3, and we've missed 2 months of school!! Do you realize what that's gonna look like on our permanent records?!!” she snapped, slapping him on the side of his face.

“Hey, it's not like I'd actually planned for that to happen to us, Cindy!” Jimmy remarked, returning to reality and sitting forward in his seat, “It was Calamitous who set off that missile that hit my rocket and made us crash into Indonesia!! Therefore, it wasn't my fault!”

“Have ya forgotten our encounter with Butch while over there?! He's probably gonna blackmail us to the entire school, Neutron!!” Libby reminded them, hands on her hips.

“How can we show our faces in school if THAT happens?!” I worriedly asked.

“We're gonna have to! It'll be on our permanent records otherwise!” Jimmy informed us firmly, then muttered under his breath to me with a snicker, “And Sheen will most likely have to repeat his senior year...”

Chuckling under my breath, I nodded in agreement. “Yeah.”

Sheen seemed to have heard us, because he exclaimed out of annoyance, “Hey!! I don't wanna repeat what happened to me in the 4^th grade!”

“That may happen if we don't get back to school by tomorrow, Sheen!” Libby told him, furrowing her eyebrows and her hands on her hips.

“Sure thing, babe,” he replied, sporting a “cool dude” pose like Nick often used.

“Besides, it's getting late...,” Jimmy reminded us, looking at the time on his watch, “It's already 1950 hours.”

Stretching with a big yawn, I said, “I gotta get to bed by 9, otherwise I'll be in trouble...”

The rest of us all agreed, nodding simultaneously with random comments. With that, we all retreated to our homes for the night.

~~~~~~~

The following morning started out normally, with each of us, well, all except for Jimmy, who was almost always late for the bus, waiting at the bus stop patiently, doing our own thing as we waited... A few minutes later, I checked the time on my new watch. It was 7:49am. The bus would be here any second now. I glanced over at Jimmy's place in hopes he made it on time, for once...

Right at that moment, Libby cleared her throat and tapped my shoulder. “Yeah, Libby?” I wanted to know. She just pointed behind me at the approaching figure. I turned to see who it was and saw that it was Jimmy rushing up to us. I just chuckled to myself as I thought, He barely made it this time, cuz here comes the bus... “Just BARELY made it this time, Jim,” I told him aloud as he got up to us just as the bus pulled up.

Breathing kinda heavily, he agreed, “Yeah, Carl, for once...”

The bus driver opened the door and we all boarded it and took our usual seats. It sure had been a while since we'd ridden on that thing by then. “I missed you, bus...,” I muttered, patting the seat I sat on to my right side. I then looked up to my left and patted the spot next to me as Jimmy passed by, saying, “Wanna sit here, Jim?”

“Sure, Carl,” he said, and sat down next to me.

As the bus started to head towards the school, I kept hearing laughing and snickering all around us, combined with some whispering and pointing of fingers. I turned to Jimmy and asked, “Who are they pointing and laughing at, Jimmy?”

His eyes followed the direction the fingers were pointing, and I did, too, and they landed on Cindy and Libby, who sat side by side in the seat across from us, talking about girl stuff.

The snickering, whispering, and pointing continued for the next 5 minutes, and by then, it seemed Jimmy couldn't take it anymore, so he turned right around to face Britney and Nissa, who happened to be sitting behind us. That's when he snapped, “Either stop with the teasing this MINUTE, or you're gonna regret it...!!”

That seemed to shut them up!

At that moment, the bus pulled up to the school and stopped at the entrance, opening its doors for us. We all got up and walked out and headed inside the school. That was when the real trouble began...

It seemed that everywhere Cindy and Libby went, teasing and mocking followed them.

“Look at her... What a beeyotch!!” came one comment from an observer.

“How many guys have you done it with??” came another in Trigonometry.

By lunchtime that day, those 2 girls looked downright miserable. I couldn't help but feel sorry for them... But they weren't the only ones mocked that day.

As we left the cafeteria to head to our lockers and prepare for our next class, I noticed some teens standing around the bulletin board. I tapped Jimmy's shoulder and questioned, “What are they doing over there, Jim?”

“Let's check it out, Carl,” he told me after getting his books for his next class. We headed over there and saw what they were looking at: pictures of the 5 of us from Indonesia while we were wearing things made from plants!

“Hey, Carl,” Nick remarked, pointing, “Don't you and your friends belong in the jungle instead of here? You seem to fit right in there, seeing how weird you guys are.” He then threw his head back and laughed hysterically as he went to his next class. I just hung my head and blushed while sporting an embarrassed look on my face...

“Who posted these, Nick?!” Jimmy demanded after seeing the pictures.

“Butch did,” he hollered as he went into his next class.

“Jimmy, I hate being teased...,” I muttered, my voice a little shaky.

He laid his arm on my shoulders and reassured me, “Hey, at least we're not being physically beaten...”

“Yeah,” I agreed, “At least there's that...”

Throughout the rest of the day, Cindy seemed more and more depressed with each passing minute, although Libby seemed to get over it eventually. She hardly even seemed to pay attention in Physics 101...

Then, at the end of the day, we were packing up our things to head home when Libby came rushing up to us, a worried look on her face.

Jimmy immediately took notice of this and asked, “What is it, Libby?! Is everything alright??”

“It's Cindy!” she exclaimed, breathing heavily while holding her books, “She's run away!!”

[Katia11]

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Chapter 31, Jimmy's POV!! This one has a real cliffhanger!!


Emerging Compassions

Chapter 31: Where's Cindy?!
(Jimmy's POV)


Right when I heard Libby's news that Cindy'd run away, I felt incredibly awful. I had a feeling all those comments made about her and Libby must've driven her to the breaking point... Libby was upset about it at first, but she eventually got over it and began rebuking those who were making fun of her and Cindy. Cindy, on the other hand, didn't seem to take it as well, as she looked more and more depressed as the day wore on. The last place I saw her in was my second-to-last class of the day, which was AP World Politics, then I got ready to go home that day and Libby'd reported that she'd disappeared.

I felt partially responsible for this, mainly because she and I'd had a scuffle the previous evening before heading home. She looked somewhat upset as she returned home, but it would take a lot more to break her spirit, and the mockery and teasing at school did it. I cared about her and wanted to see her again, to see her shimmering, emerald eyes one more time, to tell her that I deeply cared about her feelings and her as an individual. It wasn't my fault we'd fallen into that tunnel leading to BTSO's headquarters in the Pacific, nor was it that embarrassing incident happened because of that. It was just how we happened to land on eachother; it wasn't my fault that she was with child! It also wasn't my fault that we were hit by a missile from Calamitous, forcing us to land in Indonesia, and nor was it my fault that the heat and humidity made us wear garments woven from the native flora, and that Butch Pakovski just happened to be there to photograph us without our knowing! Gas planet, all those unfortunate happenings really frustrated me!

I just stood there, just outside the school entrance while packed up for home, thinking about these things in depth, when Libby walked up to me and tapped my shoulder, almost scaring the heck outta me! I jumped slightly and yelped, turning to face her, “Yaahh! Libby, don't scare me like that!”

“Sorry, Neutron... I'm just concerned about Cindy,” she apologized, her hands joined behind her back and looking down at her shoes.

I could only nod and look at her, finally admitting after about 5 minutes, “So am I, Libby. I hate to admit it, but I'm gravely concerned about her well-being, as well... I just want to see her again, to look deeply into her emerald gems one more time, to tell her that I lo-...” Thankfully, I stopped myself before I completely admitted it.

At that moment, Sheen sauntered up to us, with Carl not far behind him, and he asked, “What were you 2 just talking about right now, hmmmm??” There was a sense of extreme curiosity in his voice; I could sense it almost immediately!

I just placed my forehead into the palm of my hand and muttered, “Nothing, nothing, Sheen...”

“Come ON, Jimmy! With you, nothing is always something! Do you miss Cindy??” he persisted, an eager look in his eyes.

I let out a deep sigh and muttered, “Yes, Sheen, I do...”

“Well, what are we waiting for?! Let's go find her!!” Sheen announced, starting to run ahead of us as if he was Vibrating Lad again.

“Sheen, wait UP!!” Carl hollered, trying to catch up to him as he ran breathlessly.

“Guys, wait up! You'll need my help if we want to find her successfully!” I called after them in hot pursuit, with Libby not far behind me. Just WHERE do they think they're going?! I'M in charge here! I thought, gradually becoming breathless as I ran after them. Finally, I had to stop, and so did Libby. With that, I requested, “Libby, whistle for them, please...”

“Gladly,” she replied, and with a large breath, whistled as hard as she could. TWEEEEEET!!!

They apparently heard her, so they turned tail and returned to us, with Carl breathing heavily, as usual, despite his leaner physique. “What's the deal, you 2?” Sheen wanted to know, crossing his arms on his chest.

“I need OXYGEN!!” Carl gasped, and puffed deeply on his inhaler, then breathed, “That's better... So, why'd ya have Libby call for us, Jim?”

“Because I'M usually the one in charge and who usually knows how to keep everyone safe...,” I said firmly, slightly glaring at them for running off like that. Then, in a gentler tone, I added, “Let's head to my lab so we can find Cindy somehow...”

With that, we all headed in that direction.

About 10 minutes later, we were inside my laboratory, with me at my usual post, typing furiously in front of VOX's screen. Within moments, it became a tad frustrating, and I thought to myself a tad nervously, It should NOT be this hard to locate her! Has she deactivated the tracking device I implanted on the back of her neck?! Oh, gas planet! Get it together, James! There is simply no WAY she could remove it without my assistance! I've personally made sure of that. A few excruciating minutes later, I discovered her location. Finally!! “Jumpin' Jupiter, I believe I've done it!” I exclaimed, hardly able to contain myself.

The others heard me and ran up, with Libby anxiously asking, “Done what? Have ya found her?!”

“I've located Cindy, guys! According to my calculations, she's somewhere in the Chilean Andes...,” I informed them, pointing at the screen.

“I'm allergic to chili,” Carl told me.

“No, Carl, that's the country she's in, Chile,” I corrected him, rolling my eyes.

I then glanced at Libby, who had a slight grimace on her face while glaring at Sheen. Man, girls are so mysterious sometimes...

At that moment, Sheen proclaimed, “To the hovercar!!” Libby just slapped her forehead in disgust.

We all boarded my hovercar and I set the coordinates to central Chile, then we were on our way within a couple minutes. One thing baffled my understanding, though... How the heck could she get to her present location without a rapid form of transportation? Then I remembered: the jetpack I'd made her last Christmas! THAT'S what she used to get there so quickly!

The real question, however, was where in the Andes was she... That girl can be rather stubborn when she chooses to be, and I hate to admit it, but I admire that about her personality; quick to the complaints and arguments, but I can be just as quick, and when she decides to be benevolent and considerate, she really goes all out. Whenever she looks my way, I'm just ever captivated by those beautiful, emerald gems of hers, her golden blond locks swaying gracefully in the breeze...

My thoughts were interrupted when Libby groaned and impatiently asked, “Neutron, it's been 20 minutes by now! Are we there YET?!”

“Just hold on, Libby... We should be at her present location within 5 minutes,” I informed her, briefly glancing at my radar screen.

“Thank goodness...,” she muttered, breathing a sigh of relief.

Within 5 minutes, we'd landed on a flat plateau section of one of the Andes' highest mountains. We all climbed out and began looking for Cindy. Before too long, Carl pointed upwards and exclaimed, “I think I see part of her hair, Jim!”

“Really?” I gasped, straining my eyes to see her, but because of my somewhat shorter stature, I couldn't quite see what he was talking about. So I slowly backed up, unknowingly getting rather close to the edge, and a few moments later, I could just make out what he just showed me. I took a few more steps backward to get a better view, and said, “Guys, I think I see her-!”

Suddenly, my foot slipped off the edge and before I knew it, I was hanging off the edge of a cliff! “Guys, help!!” I shrieked helplessly.

[Katia11]

Dude... not nice! :S



but at the same time....

[Neutron12]

“Well, what are we waiting for?! Let's go find her!!” Sheen announced, starting to run ahead of us as if he was Vibrating Lad again.

“Sheen, wait UP!!” Carl hollered, trying to catch up to him as he ran breathlessly.

“Guys, wait up! You'll need my help if we want to find her successfully!” I called after them in hot pursuit, with Libby not far behind me. Just WHERE do they think they're going?! I'M in charge here! I thought, gradually becoming breathless as I ran after them. Finally, I had to stop, and so did Libby. With that, I requested, “Libby, whistle for them, please...”

Haha, I love this part