Chapter Three: Itsy Bitsy Spider

I knew that my office wasn't safe so me and Doc went to Humpty's jazz joint; the Frying Pan. His girl, Miss Itsy Bitsy was the headliner of the joint. Boy, what a web she could weave in the time I inch my way from my office to her dressing room. It would've been simple waltz into the building but a big bad goon of an ape was blocking the way.

Diggs and Doc arrived at the club to find a large ape guarding the front door and Diggs sighed as he said "Just another night in Book City. Stay here kid, this won't be pretty."

Diggs inched his way towards the ape and said "Hey there pal, what do you say?"

"Back off Diggs, Bitsy says 'No visitors of any kind' and that means you." the ape said

"Tell her i'm coming in anyway. Now move over." Diggs said as he tried to move past the guard. However the ape grabbed the worm and swung him around his head before tossing him right into a telephone pole. Diggs slid down as stars flew around his head while Doc ran over to his side and cried "Diggs! Are you alright?"

"Is it my tie?" Diggs asked, trying to sound unfazed as stars continued to spin "Did I forget your birthday or something?"

Angered by this Doc marched up to he ape as the worm shook his head before realizing what was happening and said to himself "That kid must have a death wish."

"How could you be so mean, you big brute?" Doc asked right before she kicked the ape in the shin.

"OWWW!" The ape hollers, bouncing on one knee as he clung to his shin in pain, before he lose his balance and tumbled down a steep hill down the street, rolling like a bowling ball all the way down.

"Sorry!" Doc called down to the ape.

Diggs chuckled at what he had just witnessed and said "Looks like what they say is true, 'the bigger you are the harder you fall'. And that guy is falling pretty far."

"I don't see what's so funny." Doc said "I could've hurt him!"

"Ah, he'll walk it off." Diggs said, shrugging it off

"And your hurt too." Doc said

"Like I said kid, i'll walk it off." Diggs said "Now let's save the talking for Bitsy. She should be in her dressing room right about now."

Inside a spider themed dressing room a woman with six arms in black gloves, a red dress with a long collar and black heels. Her name was the Itsy Bitsy Spider (Wonderbook: Diggs Nightcrawler) and she was preparing for her next performance when the door opened and in came Diggs and Doc.

"Oh, Diggs!" Bitsy exclaimed in surprise "You surprised me, I thought you were one of those reporters again."

"I ain't from the press, but I am here for some answers to some questions." Diggs said

"And who's that?" Bitsy asked as she pointed to Doc.

"Doc, ignore her she's just a tagalong." Diggs said "And I had no choice to bring her."

"Oh that's alright Diggsie," Bitsy said sweetly as she took Doc's hand and pulled her closer to she could toy with the girl's hair "I just love children. And this one is just so adorable."

"Uh, thanks." Doc said, as an uneasy feeling crept over her.

"She's just so adorable, I could just eat her up." Bitsy said before she laughed a little before noticing how uneasy Doc looked before she said "I'm just kidding cookie pie. Don't take it so seriously."

"Alright Bitsy, tea time's over." Diggs said "Back to business, did you know Humpty had been bumped off the wall of his own home?"

"Oh Diggs, that was the first thing I heard when I turned on the radio. I just couldn't believe it." Bitsy said sadly as Doc slipped from her hands "How would ever want him sunny side up? I can hardly imagine how horrible this must be for you, seeing how you were his best pal. As close as, well, butter and eggs."

"You, me, and the kid knows that." Diggs said as he looked out the window "But the cops think she and I did it. Thanks to a shadow egging us with that bomb. But once we put him back together again, he'll explain everything."

"You really think it would work?" Bitsy asked

"It's worth a shot." Diggs said

The door knocked and a voice from the other side shouted "Your on Miss Spider!"

"In a sec!" she called back before she turned to Diggs and Doc before saying "You two can stay here until my number is over. It'll be safer."

She then walked out the door and closed it behind her. Doc shuttered and sat down on the couch as she said "I don't like her."

"Why not kid?" Diggs asked curiously "The dame thought you looked good enough to eat."

"That's what I'm worried about." Doc said "There was something about her... something I just don't like about her. Something... really bad."

"Well, unless she's working a part time job as the candy witch from Hansel and Gretel, I think what your feeling is all in your head." Diggs said before he sat down on the dresser chair and said "Just relax and I'll turn on some tunes to calm your nerves."

Doc sighed before she scooted over to the edge and felt something behind a pillow. She lifted the pillow and cried "Diggs! Look!"

Diggs lifted his hat when he saw her hold up a piece of Humpty's shell he nearly fell over in shock and cried "What the-How did... oh no, the shadow must've been here and snuck this into the dressing room when Bitsy wasn't looking. We gotta warn her."

Diggs took Doc's hand and they burst out of the dressing room and down the stairs to catch Bitsy and warn her of this discovery before the shadow struck again.