Chapter 1.
The Long, Long Winter
The 7D, the Animals James the Snow Leopard, Robert the Weasel, Joseph the Jackal, Kayloo the Zebra and Evelyn the Crane, their Bakugan Guardians Ventus Harpus, Darkus Linehalt, Haos Mega Nemus, Pyrus Saurus and Ventus Spyron and their Pokemon Luxray, Ninetales, Weavile and Poipole rescue the villagers of Jollywood from an eternal winter spell that the Glooms have cast on the kingdom.
It was Winter in Jollywood and Queen Delightful stepped out onto the balcony to announce the end of Winter.
"Citizens of Jollywood, we are gathered together on this... beautiful morning in the hope that today is the day Jollywood Joe, the Spring chicken, finally comes down from his perch on Mount Jollywood, sits on top of the castle at sunrise, and ends winter with his magical clucks. Ooh! There it is! Sunrise!"
"Ooh!" said the Jollywood Citizens.
"And so, as the sun rises, we welcome Jollywood Joe, the Spring Chicken!" said Queen Delightful and Lord Starchbottom blew on a trumpet but Joe did not show up.
"The Spring Chicken, Jollywood Joe!" said Queen Delightful and Lord Starchbottom blew on the trumpet again weakly but Joe still did not show up.
"Joe the chicken!" said Queen Delightful and Lord Starchbottom blew the trumpet again but Joe did not show up still.
"Joe?" asked Queen Delightful but Joe still wasn't coming, "Well... I guess he's not coming today."
"Aww," groaned the Jollywood Citizens.
"But don't worry. There's always tomorrow," said Queen Delightful.
"That's what you said yesterday. And the day before that," said a Male Citizen.
"When is he coming?" asked a Female Citizen.
"Yeah, when? Yeah, when? When? When? When? When?" asked the Jollywood Citizens.
Queen Delightful and Lord Starchbottom both went back inside Queen Delightful's castle.
"Lord Starchbottom, whatever are we going to do?" Queen Delightful asked Starchbottom.
"I know. It gets colder every day. Soon, the whole kingdom will be frozen," muffled Lord Starchbottom as he tried to get the trumpet off his mouth.
"When will this Winter end?" asked Queen Delightful.
A cloud of smoke appeared at the Queen's throne to reveal the Glooms.
"Never," said Hildy and Grim.
Queen Delightful and Lord Starchbottom both gasped.
"The Glooms. What are you doing here?" asked Lord Starchbottom.
"I just couldn't wait another minute to see how the new wallpaper looks," said Hildy.
"Huh? Huh? Nice?" asked Grim.
"Squee! I knew plaid was perfect. It's scrumptious, Grim. We're redecorating the whole castle. Plaid wallpaper, plaid carpets... plaid throne," said Hildy.
Queen Delightful and Lord Starchbottom both gasped again.
"You can't expect us to move into a castle that looks like this," said Hildy.
"Move in?!" said Queen Delightful and Lord Starchbottom in unison.
"This nasty winter is thanks to a little spell Grim and I whipped up. Soon it'll be so cold, you'll all be forced to move away from Jollywood. Leaving the kingdom and its castle... To us," said Hildy and she and Grim made nasty kissy noises.
Queen Delightful gasped and said:
"How dare you make kissy noises on my throne?!"
"And nobody is moving away from Jollywood!" said Lord Starchbottom.
"It'll be spring soon, you'll see," said Queen Delightful.
"Afraid not," said Hildy.
"Yeah. Our spell is a real good one. If spring doesn't start by sunrise tomorrow, it'll be winter in Jollywood..." said Grim.
"Forever. Ta-ta," said Hildy.
Hildy and Grim both vanished laughing maniacally leaving Queen Delightful and Lord Starchbottom alone.
"Huh," said Lord Starchbottom.
"I know. I'll call The 7D. And I'll call the DillyDale Animals, their Bakugan Guardians and their Pokémon for good measure," said Queen Delightful.
The Bing-Bong Bell began to ring very loudly outside of Queen Delightful's castle.
Soon enough there was conversation between Queen Delightful, Lord Starchbottom, the 7D, the DillyDale Animals, their Bakugan Guardians and their Pokémon.
The DillyDale Animals that were at Queen Delightful's Castle were James the Snow Leopard, Robert the Weasel, Joseph the Jackal, Kayloo the Zebra and Evelyn the Crane, their Bakugan Guardians Ventus Harpus, Darkus Linehalt, Haos Mega Nemus, Pyrus Saurus and Ventus Spyron and their Pokémon Luxray, Ninetales, Weavile and Poipole.
"That's awful," said Sleepy.
"The nerve!" said Sneezy.
"Outrageous," said Doc.
"Those skeevy Glooms," said Bashful.
"They made kissy noises?" asked Grumpy.
"I know, right? On my very own throne," said Queen Delightful.
The 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokemon began to talk disgusted.
"Uh, don't forget about the other thing, Your Majesty," Lord Starchbottom reminded Queen Delightful.
"Oh, right," said Queen Delightful and she looked surprised, "What other thing?"
"The Glooms' spell," said Lord Starchbottom.
"Oh, right. What spell?" asked Queen Delightful.
"Unless spring starts by sunrise tomorrow, it'll be winter in Jollywood forever!" said Lord Starchbottom.
"Outrageous!" said James.
"Yeah," agreed Harpus and Luxray.
"Those Nasty Glooms!" said Kayloo in anger.
"Kissy noises?" asked Saurus.
"I know, right?" said Queen Delightful.
Doc began to think.
"Hmm. Sunrise tomorrow. That doesn't give us much time," said Doc looking at his watch, "And since Jollywood Joe is the only one who can start spring with his magical chicken clucks..."
Dopey clucked.
"Right, Dopey, we're going to have to climb up to his perch on top of Mount Jollywood and find him. C'mon, fellas, we got a kingdom to save," said Doc.
"Hi-ho!" said the 7D.
The 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokemon ran to the Funnel Tunnels and jumped into the tubes and Grumpy popped up a minute later.
"Kissy noises?" asked Grumpy.
"I know, right?" said Queen Delightful.
The 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokemon arrived at Mount Jollywood and stood at the foot of the snowy Mountain.
"Make sure the safety rope is secure around your waists. I don't want to lose anyone up there. It's gonna be treacherous," said Doc.
"Ooh-hoo! Treacherous! Oh, that sounds dangerous! And exciting!" said Happy in excitement much to Grumpy's annoyance.
"Does he have to be behind me?" asked Grumpy in annoyance.
"I've modified this hourglass to run out precisely at sunrise," said Doc holding up an hourglass, "We have to find Jollywood Joe and get him back to the castle so he can cluck before the sand runs out. Dopey, move 'em out."
Dopey neighed like a horse and zoomed away, pulling Doc behind him.
"Whoa!" said Doc as he got pulled away.
The 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokemon started to walk up Mount Jollywood and as they did so, Robert and Linehalt both noticed that Grumpy struggling with a heavy backpack.
"Say Doc, what's in those backpacks?" Robert asked Doc.
"Oh, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Never know what we'll need. Expect the unexpected; that's my motto," said Doc.
"My achin' back; that's mine," said Grumpy.
"Gosh, that sure is a long way up," said Bashful.
"This is gonna take forever," said Sneezy.
"Oh, no, it won't. I'll sing us a climbing song to make the time go by quicker," said Happy and he pulled out a Harmonica.
"No, that's okay. You don't have..." said Grumpy only to be interrupted when Happy started to play some notes.
"Ohh..." groaned Grumpy and Happy began to sing:
Oh, upity up, upity up
Up, up, up, up, upity up
Upity up, up, up, up, up, up
"Harmonica solo!" said Happy and played some notes on his Harmonica.
"Does he have to be behind me?!" asked Grumpy in annoyance.
Sliddity slide, sliddity slide
Slide, slide, slide, slide, sliddity slide
Sliddity slide, sliddity slide...
The 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokemon were walking across a tightrope and Happy continued to sing:
Over the rope, over the rope,
Over, over, over the rope
Over the rope, over, over, over
"You were right, Happy. That song made the climb go a whole lot faster," said Joseph and Nemus and Ninetails nodded in agreement.
"What are you Joseph? Five?" asked Grumpy.
"According to this map," said Doc looking at a map, "Jollywood Joe's perch should be just over there."
"Hey, guys," said Sleepy as he woke up, "When are we gonna start climbing up the mountain?"
The 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokemon stood in front of Jollywood Joe's perch and Sneezy gasped and said:
"Oh no!"
"There's the perch," said Bashful.
"But there's no Jollywood Joe!" said James.
Dopey whistled as he pointed at something on the ground bellow the perch and the 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokemon looked.
"It's chicken feed in the shape of The Glooms. They're grabbing a chicken," said Sneezy pointing.
"Jollywood Joe must've left it as a clue," said Evelyn.
"Do you know what this means?" asked Spyron.
"Yeah. That is one talented chicken," said Happy.
"No. That is not what Spyron meant," said Ninetales as she glared coldly at Happy.
"It means The Glooms have chicken-napped Jollywood Joe. To stop him from starting spring," said Grumpy.
"And if we don't find him in the next few hours," said Doc looking at his hourglass, "Jollywood is doomed."
"But where did they take him?" asked Kayloo.
"Yeah where?" asked Saurus sitting on Kayloo's head.
"Weavile," said Weavile sitting on Kayloo's back.
In another part of the mountains the Glooms had Jollywood Joe frozen in an ice cube and they had him imprisoned inside a cave.
"Ha ha ha! Don't worry, Joe. I'll release you from the ice...," Hildy said to the frozen Jollywood Joe, "Right after sunrise, when your magical clucks will be useless against our eternal Winter. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Just then Grim came in.
"Grim, what are you doing?" Hildy asked Grim.
"I'm keeping an eye out in case the 7D, the DillyDale Animals, their Bakugan Guardians and their Pokémon try to rescue him," said Grim.
"Rescue him? They don't even know we have him. And even if they did, how are they going to find us? What do you think they have? A chicken detector?" said Hildy.
Back with the 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokémon Doc was digging things out of the bag.
"Tweezers, cake mix... Ah, here it is," said Doc holding a chicken detector, "Chicken detector."
"You have a chicken detector?" asked Robert.
"Actually Robert, it's a squirrel detector that I've modified to detect chickens. If there's a chicken within ten miles, we'll find it," said Doc.
"I really don't think-," said Linehalt only to be interrupted when the Chicken detector started to whir, making a cluck sound.
This way! It's nearby!" said Doc, "Bring the cake mix."
"What for?" asked Grumpy.
"You never know," said Doc, chuckling as he walked off with the Chicken detector.
"Oh boy," said Grumpy and Robert and Linehalt both rolled their eyes in annoyance.
The 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokémon followed the Chicken detector to another part of the mountains and it had led them to the cave where the Glooms had imprisoned Jollywood Joe.
"They must have Joe in there," said Doc.
"Then, let's go get 'im," said Joseph.
"Yeah, lets," said Nemus.
"No! We can't just barge in. We'll lose the element of surprise. We'll go in the other way," said Grumpy.
"It's a cave. What other way is there?" asked Grumpy.
Doc pulled out a spade and a pickaxe.
"Oh. That other way," said Grumpy.
Back inside the caves with Hildy and Grim.
"Don't you just love this plaid wallpaper?" Hildy asked Grim, "How perfect is that going to be in the castle?"
"Absolutely perfect, my little Hildy-Wildy," said Grim.
Unknown to the Glooms Grumpy and Dopey has just tunnelled up behind them; Grumpy and Dopey grabbed the frozen Jollywood Joe, passed him to Happy and snuck back down the tunnel except Grumpy who was distracted by the Glooms baby talking to each other.
"Just think, Grimmy. In a few hours, Jollywood will be all ours," Hildy said to Grim, "We'll have that great, big castle all to ourselves! Me and my putrid little pumpkin-head."
"Oh, my wittle Wickedy-Witch," said Grim.
"My hunk of horrors," said Hildy.
"My conniving cutie," said Grim.
"My diabolical dream-boat," said Hildy.
"My gorgeous goblin," said Grim.
"My detestable darling," said Hildy.
"My malevolent moonbeam," said Grim.
"My spooby-wooby chum-chum-loopy doopsie-woopsie-head," said Hildy.
"My zoo-zoo squeezy-weezy binky-winky-dinky-face," said Grim.
"Who's Hildy's little hubby? Who is he? Who?" said Hildy.
"Ooh! Grimmy's Hildy's little hubby. Yes he is. She knows who," said Grim.
Hildy and Grim made nasty kissy noises again and Grumpy got very frustrated and he shouted:
"Would you knock it off?! How's a fella supposed to escape with you making those disgusting kissy noises? Blech!"
Then Grumpy realized that he blew their cover.
"Oops," said Grumpy.
Hildy gasped and said:
"They have Joe!"
"Uh oh," said Grumpy.
"Stop 'em!" said Grim.
Grumpy threw the cake mix causing Hildy and Grim to become blind and they crashed into each other.
"Oh! A bundt cake!" said Grim.
Grumpy jumped into the tunnel and escaped.
Back with the 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokémon.
"Hey, Doc, you were right," said Grumpy, "That cake mix did come in handy."
"Well, what are we waitin' for? Let's climb down," said Joseph.
"Yeah, lets," said Nemus.
"There's no time," said Doc looking at his hourglass, "Only a few minutes before sunrise. We're gonna have to take the fast way down."
The 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokémon were sitting in a sled with Doc, Kayloo, Saurus and Weavile sitting in the front and Doopy and Joe in the back.
"You carried a sled all the way up here?" Grumpy asked Doc.
"No, you did," said Doc, "Hold on, everyone. This is gonna be fast!"
Doc laughed as he pushed down on the lever, causing the sled to go fast and the 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokémon screamed and Happy began to sing again.
Oh, fastity fast, fastity fast
Fast, fast, fast, fast, fastity fast...
"Does he have to be behind me?!" Grumpy shouted in annoyance.
Back with the Glooms, Hildy and Grim were disgusted of the cake mix so they began to cough.
"Nooooooo! Don't let them get away, Grim!" shouted Hildy as she and Grim rode after the 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokémon on their magic brooms.
"Yes, ma'am!" said Grim.
The sled with the 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan, the 4 Pokémon and the frozen Jollywood Joe inside continued to slide down the Mountain.
"How's Joe supposed to cluck if he's all frozen?" Grumpy asked Doc.
"Dopey, there's a container of hot cocoa behind your seat. Start pouring it over the ice and melt Joe out of there," Doc called out to Dopey.
Dopey whistled and poured hot cocoa over the frozen Jollywood Joe.
"Wow, Doc, you thought of everything," said Evelyn.
"I didn't think of that," said Doc pointing to the Glooms who were chasing them.
"Ah, Doc, think you can make us go any faster?" Spyron asked Doc.
"Oh yeah," said Doc and he pushed his foot down hard on the accelerator causing the sled to go fast at a super speed and the 7D, the 5 Animals, the 5 Bakugan and the 4 Pokemon screamed.
Hildy attempted to freeze Jollywood Joe then saw a giant ice sickle and blasts it causing it to fall and break the sled into six pieces that continued to ride down the mountain.
"You can do it, Dopey. Go! Go!" Grumpy said to Dopey and he and Sneezy saw the Glooms coming.
"Ninetales! Use Dark Pulse!" shouted Joseph.
Ninetales released a horrible aura imbued with dark thoughts, it knocked the Glooms off their brooms and broke Hildy's wand and Hildy started sobbing.
Robert and Linehalt both turned and realised that the sun was coming up.
"Oh, no!" said Linehalt.
"It's getting brighter!" said Robert.
"Only a few seconds to sunrise," said Doc and he turned to face Evelyn, "It's up to you, Evelyn!"
"Got it," said Evelyn, "Joe hop on my back."
Jollywood Joe clucked in reply and climbed onto Evelyn's back and Evelyn, Spyron and Poipole flew to the top of Queen Delightful's Castle.
"Five, four, three, two, one!" counted Doc as the sun had almost risen.
Evelyn, Spyron and Poipole landed on the top of Queen Delightful's Castle, Jollywood Joe clucked one big magical cluck and Winter finally ended. The Jollywood citizens cheered.
"It's spring! It's spring!" said Queen Delightful.
"They did it!" said Lord Starchbottom.
"Yip-yip-hooray!" cheered the Jollywood Citizens as the 6 pieces of the sled entered the castle courtyard with the 7D, the 4 Animals, the 4 Bakugan and the 3 Pokémon inside.
"Thanks, Joe!" said the 7D, the 4 Animals, the 4 Bakugan and the 3 Pokémon and Dopey whistled.
"Yeah, thanks Joe," Evelyn said to Jollywood Joe and Jollywood Joe clucked in response.
"I wonder how the Glooms will react now it is Spring?" Spyron thought to himself.
Meanwhile at the Glooms' manor, Hildy and Grim both sat on the sofa with broken arms and legs and plaid wallpaper covered their entire Living Room.
"It looked a lot better in the castle," said Hildy.
"Ah, it's a little too purpley," said Grim.
A piece of wallpaper came off, it covered Hildy's face and Hildy groaned.