Sheen Rescue Squad...or...Welcome to Planet Sheen

Chapter 2-The Recruits

And so towards the end of school the following day, Jimmy called his friends over to his desk. Carl Wheezer, his llama-loving and heavily medicated best friend; Cindy Vortex, his old ex rival and potential girlfriend in the coming years; and Libby Folfax, sassy music lover extraordinaire. 

Now that he had their attention, Cindy started the conversation in a tone of voice that was both curious and somewhat annoyed. "Alright Jimmy, what's so important that you couldn't wait until class was done."

Being your typical best friend for life, Libby had a comment that paralleled Cindy's. "Yeah, what's the rush. You know it's the last day of school before vacation."

Jimmy sighed, but was patient, what with what he was about to share with everyone. "Guys, you don't understand." He looked at each of friend in turn, took a breath, then said, "I've found Sheen."

This got the reaction he was more or less looking for. While Cindy and Libby looked at him with incredulity and astonishment, Carl jumped up and down frantically. Finally, he burst out so the whole class could hear, "You've found Sheen?!"

Every head turned to Jimmy's desk. Even Miss Fowl, who was looking at a picture of Thomas Edison (most likely during their brief romantic time), looked up at the mention of Sheen. "Jimmy, is this true?" she asked, "You know what happened to Sheen?"

Jimmy looked around at everybody's interested looks. Judging for said expressions, they wouldn't stop looking at him unless he told them his discovery. He stood up on his chair. "I just found out yesterday. After today, I'm preparing a special trip four million and one light years away from Earth to rescue him. He is currently positioned on a planet within that vicinity."

"Yay, we're going to space!" cried Carl, "We're going to space! We're going to space! We're going to space!"

Everyone's looks of astonishment increased even more. Except for Miss Fowl's. She now looked like a golden opportunity had been placed in front of her. Jimmy found this odd, since she was no fan of Sheen', until she finally said, "Well I suppose I should wish you good luck if it wasn't for Sheen being a factor of your plan but good luck anyway. Bring Nick."

Somehow, Jimmy wasn't surprised by this. Yet he still found himself asking Miss Fowl, as she indicated Nick in the back of the class, "Why?"

"He'll bring you good luck, braaaah!" said Miss Fowl in a confident tone of voice. Then it turned into a tone that was clear to Jimmy that she wouldn't take no for an answer, "And because I said so! Unless you want an F on your report card."

Jimmy was dumbstruck, despite his determination to find Sheen. An automatic F? when he got back, he would do his best to form a petition to make that illegal. But for now, "No, no! Nick can come!" To which Nick in the back said, "Sweet." Jimmy turned to his friends and started to say, "Okay, if you guys want to come along..." To which they interrupted him and said simultaneously, "Yes!"

Jimmy knew it was silly of him to have to ask, after all the things they'd all been through together with each other. He motioned for them to move closer to him so only they could hear him, "Then let's get to work. Until further notice, we are the Sheen Rescue Squad. We need to be as discreet as possible, so try to keep quiet."

Unfortunately, being discreet didn't work as well as Jimmy had hoped. The following day, Carl came by his house with some news that Jimmy found seriously annoying.

"What do you mean Mr. Estevez told the mayor?" he demandedCarl looked ashamed. He cowered back a step, as if afraid Jimmy might hit him, before he said, "I just wanted to give him an update but he said couldn't stand any thought of keeping this quiet and went to city hall."