Disclaimer: I don't own Jimmy neutron, if I did it'd still be on. All I own are my own characters.

School had ended and sara, jimmy, carl, and sheen were walking towards the candy bar in downtown retroville.

"man, that math test was super hard today." Sheen groaned for the umpteenth time since they left.

"you know, if you actually studied more instead of watching the ultralord marathon, you probably would've passed." Sara said.

Sheen whipped around to her," No way, ultralord is way more important than any stinkin test, besides we can't all be geniuses like you and jimmy."

Carl pipped up," yeah sara, I studied and I didn't pass either."

"Could you even see the test? Your allergies were acting up so bad that you were sneezing for over half the test." Sara accused since she didn't like it when the two of the gang up on her.

"well…uh…no" carl looked at the ground, embarrassed.

"Didn't think so." Sara said smugly. She turn to jimmy noticing that he'd been quiet ever since they left the school, "hey you ok there boyo? You're looking a bit down."

Jimmy started, being so deep in thought, before gazing at his friends, all of them were staring at him. Sighing he said," yeah I'm ok, I just wish my shrink ray had worked this morning. I mean how is anyone ever going to take me great inventor if my inventions keep malfunctioning when I try to present them."

"Come on jimmy. Some of the greatest inventors started out as hopeless failures too." Carl said encouragingly while patting jimmy on the back.

"Thank you carl. I actually feel better, I think."

Sara rolled her eyes at this," yeah because being called a hopeless failure is so motivating. Jimmy ignore his and the kids in class, you know that your shrink ray worked before, which just means that something between then and class damaged it. Oh I don't know like running into a tree."

"Well I won't have run into that tree if you hadn't distracted me." Jimmy accused.

"You were the one showing off again, not me. Also you were the one using a prototype, which should've meant paying closer attention to what is going on." Sara said.

"She's got a point there jimmy." Said sheen.

As they got closer to the candy bar, there were flyers posted up on every window, pole, and wall. It depicted the newest attraction to retroville, an amusement park.

Sheen grabbed one of the flyers off a pole," Hey, Retroland theme park. Check it out"

On the flyer it showed some of the special rides, shows and attactions. The top most one was the picture of ultralord, below that was a winged-skull, and at the bottom were several barnyard animals.

"Meet Ultralord, live." Sheen practically swooned.

Jimmy saw the middle picture and was instantly interested," look it's the state-of-the-art, bone-warping gravity ride."

Now even sara's curiosity was piqued," really? I heard that it was the most intense ride in the country."

"I can hang out with ultralord." Sheen inturpted.

"And there's a petting zoo." Carl said after seeing what was shown at the bottom of the flyer.

Jimmy tried to draw their attention back to the ride," but look at this."

But sheen wasn't having it," no, meet ultralord live."

"llamas and capybaras" carl said, not really paying attention to what the others were saying.

"who cares? Meet ultralord live."

"yeah, but I'm gonna touch a llama."

Sara decided to end the argument between the two," guys those are both great, along with all the other stuff this place sure to have."

"yeah guys, we have got to go to the grand opening tonight." Jimmy said.

"Yeah!" they both said.

Before carl realized just one problem with that plan," yeah but my folks won't let me stay out after dark."

Jimmy gain a thoughtful look," well it is a school night. Pukin Pluto, there's got to be something we can do it's the grand opening."

"Sneak out."

They all looked around, trying to find the voice," what?"

Out of the alley that was right behind the group came nick on his skateboard. Sara got one look at him and already wanted him to disappear back to were ever he'd come from.

"You heard me dweebs, sneak out." He said.

Carl seemed doubtful at this suggestion," yeah well my parents sort of told me…"

"Parents!" nick just laughed, "What, are you guys going to be kids forever? What your folks don't know won't hurt'em, right?"

"but nick, sneaking out seems so…barbaric." Jimmy said.

Nick scuffed at that," whatever neutron, but there's only one opening night, and anyone who matters is gonna be there."

With that parting remark nick skated down the alley that he'd come from.

"what do ya think guys?" sheen asked as he watched nick do a couple tricks before disappearing around a corner.

"Nick has a point, there is only grand opening." Jimmy started pacing," think, think, think, think"

He turned back to them," well according to the Newville journal of medicine, monkeys are easily influenced by positive reinforcement e.g. the giving of a banana. And since humans and monkey DNA only differ by two percent, the same principle should work on our parents."

"My dad's allergic to bananas." Carl said.

Jimmy groaned in frustration," it not the bananas, it's the principle. It's called psychology. All ya got to do is butter them up. Give it a try, I'll call you guys later."

"so I'll see you back at the lab in 30 then jimmy?" Sara asked as she already had an idea of what jimmy was planning.

"Sure. We go to Retroland tonight!" as he says this he hits a button on his backpack, and two small rockets spring from the sides. After just a brief second they ignite and jimmy jets up and away.

"I guess we'd better go and try to convince our parents to let us go, I'll see you guys later." Sara says as she turns to leave.

"wait, weren't we gonna go to the candy bar first?" sheen asked.

"it's going to take a long time to convince them, so if y'all want to wait to the last minute to try that's on you. I'm going to jimmy's to make sure he doesn't give his folks something radioactive."

Carl and sheen just nod and continue on towards the candy bar, sheen whispering to carl," bah, what does she know, it'll be a snap to get permission."

Unfortunately for him, he wasn't very good at being quiet, so sara heard all of this. But she just smiled at their slow wit and started walking back home.

Sara was just entering her neighborhood when she felt a presence behind her. Turning around she didn't see anyone there.

"I don't know why you hang out with those guys."

Spinning back around, she nearly ran into nick, who was standing just a little too close.

"Especially that boyfriend of yours." Nick said with would he probably thought was a charming smile.

Sara just scowled and replied," he's not my boyfriend. Just one of the few people around here that I can have a half intelligent conversation with."

"I'm sure I could change your mind if you gave me a chance, say this tonight at Retroland." Nick said as his smile grow in size and he took a step closer.

"Sorry but I've already reached my annoying nick quota for the day, and anyways why don't you ask one of those dozen or so girls that just swoon at your feet." She said as she started to feel very uncomfortable with how close he was.

"Am I really that bad? Come on just one date and I won't ask again."

"No nick. Besides that I'm probably not going tonight anyway." Sara stepped around him and began walking down the street.

Nick looked after her with a frown on his face, and a clenched fist by his side.

She leaned against the club house that was jimmy's lab, waiting for her friend to show up. She could of gone inside on her own considering he'd given her access over a year ago, but she always chose to only go in when he was around.

Overhead came a roar that was slowly going down. It was jimmy with his jetpack. When he was about ten feet of the ground and coming in for a landing, the jetpack sparked, sputtered and died dropping him to the grass below, right in front of sara.

"Ran out of fuel there captain?" she said with a smirk.

"Yeah, probably shouldn't of raced that train." Jimmy said as he got up and dusted himself off, and the jets on the side retracted into his pack.

"Considering you only have a small tank in that thing, yeah not a good idea."

Jimmy pulled one of his hairs out and held it up to a scanner box he had on the front side of the clubhouse. "come on in, I'm going to need your help with my ideas for my mom."

"Sure" sara shrugged as the door opened and they walked in.

"DNA MATCH CONFIRMED. WELCOME HOME JIMMY." Said Vox, the AI that controlled the automated systems of the lab.

The interior of the club looked fairly ordinary, there were posters on the wall, a big circle rug on the floor, books were scattered around and on one of the shelves.

Jimmy walked to the center of the rug and held up his arms," Eliminate school smell." At that a large tube came down from the ceiling and started misting him in a blue haze.

"NORMAL ODOR RESTORED"

"Thank you Vox"

"YOU'RE WELCOME"

Sara and jimmy then walked over to a painting on the wall that was next to a giant wooden spool. Jimmy pulled the painting down revealing a keypad and monitor hidden behind the painting. Jimmy punched in the code and the spool shifted to the side, leaving a large hole in the floor.

"after you" jimmy said with a bow.

"Why thank you, my kind sir." Sara replied back and jumped into the hole.

Jimmy jumped right after her.

"WARNING! ENTRY TUBE CLOSED FOR MAINTANCE"

THUMP. THUMP

"Thank you Vox."

"YOU'RE WELCOME"

The spool closed over the hole again, hiding it from view.

Jimmy got off sara so she could get up and they dust themselves off.

"She couldn't have said something about the tunnel before we jumped?" sara accused.

"I think her human interface setting are off, she's been really sarcastic recently." Jimmy said trying to fix his hair that'd fallen over.

They walked over towards an alcove were goddard and sparky were both resting, seeming to be asleep."

"come here guys." Jimmy called.

Goddard's eye turned on and he stretched before bounding over to them, while sparky held on to his back panel and her tail lite up before going back to normal.

As they stopped in front of jimmy, sparky jumped from goddard to sara's outstretched hand.

"hey girl, did you have a good day?" sparky chattered away." Ok, ok I've got your tungsten nuts in my bag, give me a second."

While sara dug into her bag getting sparky's snack, jimmy pulled a can out and showed it to his pet." Look what I brought ya, aluminum. Do you what it, do ya?"

Goddard got more excited as jimmy talked.

"Sit."

Goddard leaned back until he was seated on his back plate, perfectly straight up.

"Rollover"

Goddard spun is head upside down 360 degrees.

"Play dead"

Goddard stiffened, then he exploded into dozens of pieces, creating a crater in the floor.

"AAHH" both jimmy and sara said, shielding their faces from the blast.

"What the hell happened?" sara asked clearly upset.

Jimmy scratched his chin," a bug in the obedience programming I think."

The pieces of goddard suddenly sprang back together, reassembled and there was goddard good as new.

"How does a bug in programming lead to an explosion, why does he even have any explosive in him?" Sara said.

"He doesn't have any explosive. It's probably air pressure at the connection points that he ignites. As for the programming part, well he obviously takes that command to literally." Jimmy replied before turning to goddard, "good boy." He tosses the can as a reward to his pet. "come on guys lets go check the experiments."

With that the group walked into the main section of the lab, where jimmy had Vox building several things, with automated arms with welders and claws, which included a standing rocket that was mostly just the frame and a robot on a table.

After that there was a circular table that held the experiments that jimmy was personally overseeing.

The first of five sections, held what looked like an empty cage with a rodent wheel, water bottle, and a small platform with a ramp. The odd thing was that the wheel was spinning, and the bottle every now and then would bubble, almost like they were in use.

Jimmy peered into the cage, "The invisible hamsters are looking great…I think"

Sara flipped a switch on the side of the cage and the clear glass gained a blue tint, and suddenly there were 5 red shapes, hamster shapes. " I installed the thermal glass for a reason jimmy, come on."

Just scratching the back of his neck, jimmy tapped a pedal on the floor and the table turned to the next section.

In this one there was just a tall planet with a large bulb on the end. The bulb split in two and revealed rows of teeth and a tongue. But as sara walked up to it the plant shrank away and seemed to whimper.

Sara just smiled as this particular experiment had learned the hard way not to mess with her, the long scar on the lower half of its jaw was evidence of that.

" lets check to see how the girl-eating plant is coming along." From his pocket jimmy pulled three pictures, one was of cindy, the other two were random boys from his classes.

Holding them up and facing away from the plant they waited for its choice. The plant sniffed the pictures before snapping at the middle one. Putting them down showed that the eaten one was of cindy.

Jimmy grinned at that," nice choice, as usual." He flicked the picture into a box next to the plant that was full of pictures of cindy, all of them with bite marks. He then tapped the pedal again.

The next section had what looked like a cross between a chemistry set and a coffee maker. There were two sealed beaker with green and blue chemicals, a large gas tank at the back and the coffee maker at the front with a can with jimmy's atom symbol underneath its nozzle.

Jimmy grabbed the can and presented it to sara, goddard and sparky like a salesman, "The latest burping soda formula. Guaranteed one burp per sip." He then took several gulps from the can, before he fell over from the force of the burp he produced, spilling the content of the can on the table

Goddard decided to try it out and released an even bigger burp. Sparky tried to get to the soda, but sara grabbed her before she could.

"Really jimmy? A burping soda? What is the point of that?" sara questioned her friend's mind at times.

"It's more a gag project, switch it out with someone's regular soda and watch them be unable to stop burping, I thought it was pretty funny." Jimmy started laughing at the image of nick burping all over the place.

Sara sighed at that," I should've known."

After that jimmy walked over to his computer and began logging in.

Sara was puzzle with the fact he hadn't checked the last experiment," hey jimmy what about the sea monkeys?"

The fourth section of the spinning table was empty for the moment, but the fifth held a large fish tank that had a castle, what seemed to be a small town, and if you looked closely what looked to be scorch marks. Which considering that it was underwater was very odd.

Jimmy turned from his computer to look at the tank before turning back," the hyper sea monkeys ended up having a civil war a couple days ago, one side found a way to make a bomb of some sort, which killed all of them. So that project is scrapped for now."

"And they were doing so well." Sara said.

Still sitting at his computer jimmy was checking on all the equipment that was running on the other side of the lab, before checking to see if there were any messages from the satellite they'd launched that morning.

"you know there's still no reply to our satellite message. I mean it's been a whole day." He said with clear frustration.

"More like 8 hours. Come on if it was that easy to contact aliens NASA would have done it already." Sara reminded in. "now come on and tell me these ideas of your, that you cooked up to get permission."

"oh yeah." Jimmy grabbed his bag and went to the empty section of the table and dumped the insides out on the table.

"lets see, roses, clams, and a few lumps of coal. I've got to say these will definitely impress your mom, I mean who doesn't love a good chunk of coal." Sara said sarcastically.

Jimmy slapped her on the arm," smartass, I was thinking pearls from the clams and diamonds from the coal."

Rubbing her chin sara thought of how to do that, before she got it," well the clams need a starting point so some sand would be perfect, also it that quite a while for a pearl to form, so I think your temporal microwave for be best get it done quickly. Now the coal pretty much just needs high heat and pressure, very high heat and pressure."

She looked around for the equipment that would provide just that," there we go, the magma chamber and the mantle press, using those two would get the coal hot enough and apply the needed pressure."

Jimmy smiled," that's what I was thinking. I'll take the clams, while you get the coal going, ok?"

"sure."

They then split up to do their thing. Jimmy put the clams on a conveyer belt that tickled'em, added sand and popped them into the temporal microwave. Once they were all done, he see the microwave for 4 years. Within seconds the clams started popping like popcorn revealing pearls inside.

Nearby sara locked two pieces of coal in place and closed the chamber they were in, after pressing a button the chamber was flooded with magma heating the coal to extreme temperature. She then pulled a level and a block of metal dropped from the top of the chamber and exerted impossible pressure, forcing the magma back into the reserve under the lab. After a quick cooling she opened the latch and there were two flawless diamonds were the coal had been.

"there we go, the basis for a couple very nice gifts. Now it just up to you to actually put them together." Sara commented as she handed the diamonds to jimmy. "In the meantime I'm going to take a look at the shrink ray to see if I can get it working."

Jimmy grabbed a small drill, so thread, and some earring bases, "alright, by the way how are you going to ask your dad?"

"don't know just yet, he generally doesn't mine me being up late, but im not sure about being out late, so I'll probably wing it." Sara said as she fiddled with the wiring of the ray.

"you promise that you'll ask?"

She looked up and stared at him," yes jimmy I promise that I'll ask him."

Jimmy gave a sigh of relief, while sara was usually up for any of his crazy experiments, she did it for the science so he wasn't sure if she would go along with him this time.

"there we go, all fixed." Said sara as she closed the shrink ray back up and handed it to jimmy," well as much fun as this has been, I've got to get home, I'll give ya a call later to see how everything goes."

"ok, see ya sara." Jimmy said waves as he gets back to work on the gift that were sure to get him permission from his mom.

Deep Space

the toaster satellite drifted thru space somehow having already travelled outside of the solar system.

Suddenly there was a green beam that began drawing the toaster towards its origin. The origin being a ship shaped like a rubber chicken.

After being sucked into the beak section the beam turned off and the toaster was grabbed by the operator, who seeing exactly what it was took it to the bridge and his great leader.

On the bridge were several consoles being worked by their operators making sure the ship kept flying in the needed direction. Raised above them was a chair with a v high back, this was the captain's seat.

It was also the king's seat.

The king was an odd being, like all of his kind he was a gelatinous alien that resides inside an egg shaped metal body. With two green stalk eyes, he looked down at the pig-elephant looking creature in his hands and cooed at it." The king loves his little orthgot." Before tossing it into his mouth. " yes he does."

This was king goobot, the ruler of the yolkians.

From behind him came the tractor beam operator, he was in a gray body, which was dull compared to the kings gold one. He placed the toaster on the base of the king's chair.

"Sire, my king, it appears to be an alien transmission device."

The king turned is eyes up to the ceiling," tell me when did it become acceptable to approach my royal throne UNANNOUNCED!" at the end the king glared at the operator that was before him.

The operator's eye grew wide and bowed deeply, "yes, of course, my king"

But the king was not in a forgiving mood, "SPACE HIM"

One of the bridge crew it a button labeled "spacer" and from the roof lowered a large hose, that activated and sucked the poor operator right out into space.

From the side came a call, "WAIT", soon after came a yolkians dressed in purple that was very clumsy, for he hit the back of the throne, flipped and smacked into the glass at the front of the bridge, "oh I missed it."

Recollecting himself he turned to the king," can I, can I space another?"

"No" said king goobot.

"oh please brother," yes, this very clumsy yolkian was the king's brother.

"I said no, ooblar."

"oh please, oh please, oh please…" ooblar started chanting.

The king rolled his eyes in annoyance, "I would really like that to stop."

Suddenly ooblar noticed the device seated at the foot of his brother's chair. " oh what have we here. As the kings assistance, I am the official checker of the new things to be checked."

All of a sudden the device launched two pieces of toast at ooblar, who was startled.

"its alright, it's alright, I'll handle this" ooblar said after he gathered his nerves. "HELLO. WHAT GALAXY ARE YOU FROM?"

"ooblar." The king tried to interrupt.

"WHERE IS YOUR LEADER?" but failed

"ooblar, stop. Its toast."

Ooblar seemed confused by this statement, before he picked up one of the slices, "hello toast, I greatly admire your ship." He started smacking the toaster, when one of the sides opened and a set of beaters began spinning.

"BEGINNING TRANSMISSION FROM EARTH"

On the ships front screen began playing the video that was stored on the toaster.

"greetings from planet earth. I'm jimmy neutron and you're an alien lifeform." And it was jimmy on the screen," I welcome the opportunity to exchange scientific knowledge and universal brotherhood."

After seeing the being on the screen king goobot commented," what a big head."

On the screen there came a large metal muzzle from goddard, " this is my dog goddard, and this that you see is my room. It were we sleep." Then jimmy picked up a picture of his parents. "and this is my mom and dad."

"Freeze that image" king goobot yelled.

Frozen on the screen was the image of the close up of jimmy's parents.

King goobot narrowed his eyes at he got up fro his seat and floated towards the screen, "they look…delicious."

He turned and announced to everyone," the search is over!"

"Pilot get the coordinates off this device and set course immediately."

Shortly thereafter, the fleet of chicken ships began to turn and power up their warp drives. A collage of colors began to wrap around the ships, starting from the front to the back on each ship. Then they shot off towards the location in the message.

But just as they were passing pluto, they were stopped dead. Everyone aboard jerked in their spot, this stop was not planned and should have been impossible, exspecially since the wrap drives were still active.

On the kings ship the screen that just recently held an image of their targets, there was now a new figure. One that all that could be seen was the large silver eyes and the brand upon its forehead, it was a red galaxy.

"Stat your purpose here fools." The figure said.

Ooblar was livid," fools? How dare you address the king in such a manner, who are you to question us."

The figure narrowed their eyes," I am a guard of the galactic empress, and she has deemed this system under quarantine, now state your purpose."

Ooblar was about to answer, when the king rose his hand to silence him," my apologies, we are here to obtain subjects needed for a rebirth ritual. We have received a message from a planet called earth that is in this system."

Typing on an unseen keyboard, the figure was silent for a minute before answering," the empress has granted you permission to enter and collect your subjects from the planet, but you may not take any under the age of galactic maturity, we shall send you the parameters for your sensors. We will be checking when you leave the system."

King goobot bowed and was about to end the transmission when a question accorded, " if I may ask why is this system quarantined?"

The figure answered quickly, " A candidate of the Trials exists within the system." Afterword the message was terminated.

Confused ooblar turned to his brother," the Trials, what is that?"

King goobot seemed to be thinking deeply," the Trials determine who will be the next ruler of the galaxy."

A/N: this chapter was a major pain to write, but we're slowly moving away from canon. If you enjoyed this one post a review down below, and I'll see you next time.