Gah! After forgetting COUNTLESS(JK!) times to update this fic, I hereby give you Chapter 3!! Just prepare yourself, though, cuz it's rather long. lol Here 'tis!!
Nobody's PerfectChapter 3: A New N-Men Member
Once they'd treated themselves, they headed back toward Jimmy's place. Yet again, Sheen sped ahead of them in a split second and beat them by 10 minutes.
When they got back, they found Sheen leaning against a tree, waiting for them impatiently. "'Bout
time you guys got here!" he teased them with a smirk on his face.
"Knock it off, Sheen!" Libby scolded him gently.
By this time, Cindy was about fed up with not knowing what Sheen took without permission, so she snapped, "Nerd-tron, just TELL us what exactly he took! What all is it gonna
hurt if ya tell us?! So
spill it, Freak Brain!"
Jimmy at last relented and finally admitted, "They're my N-Men packets..."
Alexis was confused. "N-Men packets?!" she repeated, baffled beyond belief.
Jimmy just shrugged with a smirk and explained, "They're just concentrated forms of super-human abilities we got when we accidentally passed through the Van Patten Radiation Belt around the Earth coming back from a game of mini golf on Mercury, based on what we were doing when the rays hit us, of course. I was arm-wrestling with Cindy cuz I was mad at her for something; Libby was applying vanishing cream; Sheen was in a vibrating chair; and Carl was belching loudly. Because of what we were doing, Cindy got flight, super-vision, and super-strength; Libby got invisibility and force-field-projection; Sheen got super-speed; Carl got super-belching; and I mysteriously turned orange and green and turn into a super-strong rocky person when I get mad about something. Does that explain it, Alexis?"
"Yes, it does. Thanks," she replied gratefully, "But what still baffles me is why you turned orange and green!"
"Hey, Jimmy!" Carl interjected helpfully, "Don't you remember that orange juice I gave you just before those weird ray-things hit us?? I think that's what did it!"
He thought this over a few moments, then his mind clicked when he exclaimed, "Of
course, Carl! Why didn't I think of that
before?! DUH!!"
"And that also explains his fruity scent!" Sheen put in, attempting to be helpful.
But Jimmy just gave him a look that said, "You're not
helping, Sheen!"
He saw it and muttered, "Sorry..."
"Since Sheen has his, could we have ours, Neutron??" Libby wanted to know.
"Okay, here," he agreed, and handed them their respective packet, which they doused immediately. Jimmy also consumed his, as well.
"Love the lime flavor, but I don't feel any different," Cindy informed them about her green one.
"Mine was strawberry-flavored and magenta," Libby said.
"Teal and blueberry," Sheen interjected, "I think..."
"Reddish-orange and orange," Carl told them.
"And my red one was cherry," Jimmy was saying, "But I think we should test them, just to be sure." So he thought of something that made him mad and he temporarily transformed into his hulky self. Then, being glad he transformed successfully, he returned to normal. "Great! It works!" he exclaimed, then asked, "How about the rest of you, aside from Sheen?"
"Try yo' super-vision, Cin!" Libby suggested.
"I will, but where are you?!" she anxiously wanted to know.
"Open yo'
eyes, girlfriend! I'm right in front of you!!" her friend protested, turning visible again.
"Sweet! You're powers work, now let me try my super-vision!" Cindy told them, and used it to search for something out of the ordinary. Then, she saw it! Butch, the school bully, was playing with paper dolls!
"What did you see, Vortex?" Jimmy questioned her.
Her vision returning to normal, she exclaimed, "I saw
Butch, the school bully, and he was playing with PAPER DOLLS!!!"
"Pffft, oh, PLEASE!" he said, rolling his eyes with his arms crossed.
"It IS true, Nerd-tron!!!" she argued, stomping the ground at the word "is".
"Look at the ground where she stomped it, guys!!!" Sheen declared, pointing at the place where Cindy stomped her foot. They looked and saw an inch-deep impression of her shoe in the ground where she stomped it.
"Wow! Guess she
was telling the truth!" Jimmy informed them.
"DUH!!" Cindy snapped at him.
"What about you, Carl?" he wanted to know.
His friend just looked upward and let out a super-burp that rattled anything airborne in its path. Then Carl looked back at him and said, "Yep!"
The only one feeling left out was Alexis, mainly because she wasn't with the gang when they passed through the Van Patten Rays. "Darn, I wish
I had superpowers like you guys...," she muttered, utterly disappointed, taking a sip of her coconut slushie she'd gotten at the Candy Bar.
Jimmy thought this over a few moments, then informed her, "I think I can arrange that, Alexis!"
"What are ya gonna do, Nerd-tron?!" Cindy taunted, "Send her through the Van Patten Rays and have her do something crazy while going through them so she can gain some
lame superpower of some sort?!"
"You'll see!" he promised as he retreated to his lab. He was in there for half an hour, then he came back out with an odd-looking remote. When he pressed a button on it, a cylindrical chamber with a domed top rose up from the ground with multiple lights and blinking panels covering the device flashing on and off randomly. A door with a rounded top and a circular window slid open automatically.
Sheen, being the immature guy that he was, pointed at the device and said in awe, "Ooo!! Pretty lights!"
"What is this thing, Neutron?" Libby wanted to know, rolling her eyes at Sheen's comment.
"Guys, I give you the Van Patten Ray Simulation Chamber, or VPRSC for short," Jimmy announced, "It's an exact replica of what we passed through, only it doesn't drain your energy gradually like the real rays do."
"Is it safe?" Alexis asked.
"Sure is!" he reassured her encouragingly, "Go ahead; hop inside!"
Still slurping her slushie, she stepped inside and sat on the provided leater seat inside it. The door shut automatically when the machine sensed her inside it, and simulated Van Patten Rays filled the chamber. A few seconds later, she came out, still si8pping her slushie.
"Well...?" Jimmy wanted to know.
"I don't feel any different, but boy, it sure is hot today!" she commented, whistling, some ice crystals coming out of her mouth.
"Wait a minute, Alexis! Do that again!" he exclaimed.
"What? Whistle?" Alexis wanted to know.
Jimmy nodded.
She whistled again and the same thing happened. "YES!! I have ice breath!" she proclaimed, lifting her hands towards the sky and some ice crystals shooting out of the palms of her hands.
Carl saw that and pointed out, "Hey! That's the same thing Frozone does in The Incredibles! He does the same thing!"
"Awesome!" she cried out happily.
Just then, an alarm on Jimmy's watch went off.
"Here we go again...," Cindy groaned as she followed the others into Jimmy's lab.