Chapter 4: Candy Island?

Jack had finally managed to arrive to the destination. It took quite a few hours or so for the samurai and his new compatriots to reach the mysterious island which said to have a portal to go back in time. Nothing to do with Candy Island, whatsoever.

"Looks like we're here!" cried Bubbie as she arrived near the shore, "You three go on ahead, I don't want to get too close to the beach."

"Candy Island!" cried both K'nuckles and Flapjack as they began to swim away from Bubbie heading toward the island.

"And I'm sure these two will unfortunately be very disappointed" sighed Jack as he shook his head as he was about to leap into the water.

The samurai then leaps into the water and begins to follow the two onto the island. As the samurai got himself out of the water, he noticed that K'nuckles thought the sand on the beach was pure cotton candy.

"This must be a new taste of cotton candy!" cried K'nuckles with joy as he began to swallow sand which shocked even the samurai himself.

"Er, I don't think that is what you call, cotton candy" replied Jack.

"What do you ever mean by that?" asked K'nuckles as he turned to the samurai.

"This coconut here, must be really made out of dark chocolate!" added Flapjack as he got a coconut from the tree.

"Don't eat it like that!" cried Jack as he took away the coconut from Flapjack who was literally going to bite his teeth on it, "It's a real coconut, not a coconut candy!"

"Real, what do you mean by that?" asked K'nuckles as he then grabbed the coconut, "Give me that!"

As Captain K'nuckles took one bite of the coconut, most of his teeth fell right out of his mouth.

"Here, let me show you how it's done" said Jack as he took the coconut from K'nuckles.

The samurai laid the coconut on the ground, and with one slice of his samurai sword, chopped it right in half.

"See, this isn't made out of candy, it's a real coconut!" cried Jack, "Your Candy Island, that you're searching is full of fiction. If you wish to head home disappointed, feel free to do so, I have my own mission to full fill."

"Bah, come on, the man in the dress is right" sighed K'nuckles as he collected his teeth on the ground in his pocket, "let's just swim back to Bubbie and go home."

"But what about adventure with our new friend?" asked Flapjack.

"Flapjack, we came to this island, because we thought it would be Candy Island, not a regular old island we never ever saw" replied K'nuckles.

"Oh, but we can still have an adventure with our new friend" added Flapjack.

Yet as K'nuckles was about to dive back in the water, he noticed that Peppermint Larry's ship was heading to shore.

"Quickly, let's hide!" cried K'nuckles as he noticed a row boat approaching with some large monster made of taffy helping to row the boat with Larry and his Candy Wife at his side.

"Ah, don't you just smell that fresh air, smells like candy, doesn't it so Candy Wife?" asked Peppermint Larry.

Candy Wife, however, just stood there in the row boat with her arms folded quite well disappointed at where they are.

"What do you mean this island isn't Candy Island, Candy Wife?" asked Peppermint Larry, "What do you think Taffy Monster?"

All the taffy monster did was silently steering the row boat to the shoreline of the beach. As the candy craze monster docked the row boat on the beach, he then immediately headed into the jungle in search of his main target, Samurai Jack.

"Wait Taffy Monster, we're suppose to stay together!" cried Peppermint Larry.

"Bwahaha!" laughed K'nuckles who came out of his hiding place with Flapjack, "You thought this was Candy Island too?"

"Yeah, but my taffy monster has wondered off, I would be nothing with that batch of taffy it was part of my back up plan to save the Candy Barrel back in Stormalong" replied Peppermint Larry.

"Oh great, you want us to fetch the taffy that just wondered off, do you?" asked K'nuckles.

"Yep, that's right" replied Larry, "if I don't make sales this month and next, my Candy Wife isn't going to be too pleased."

Meanwhile, back deep within the island itself, Jack was busy using his sword to chop away the brush. As he continued his way, he then came across a strange tall structure that was at the center of the jungle after such a long hike. There, Jack noticed what seem like a grey alien as some sort of a farmer with some other grey alien soldiers watching him.

"Halt, who goes there?" asked one of the guards to Jack.

"Please, I have come to use your time machine portal" replied Jack, "I mean no harm."

"Look pal" said the other grey alien soldier, "we don't normally get any visitors here ever since we crashed many years ago before Aku's reign, are you an ally of his?"

"No, I can show you that I'm no such ally of the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku, I have come in peace to go back to my time and finish the evil demon once and for all, now please if you don't mind I would like to see your time machine portal" replied Jack.

"Right this way, samurai" replied one of the guards.

Yet as the guard who was going to show Jack into the crashed ship, the taffy monster which Aku had really created managed to make its way through the jungle. Which of course, frighten the birds away from their nesting grounds. The alien farmer recognized the danger and alerted the other guard.

"Danger's approaching, warn those whom are still inside the ship!" cried the farmer to the first guard.

"I knew someone like you couldn't be trusted" said the first guard.

"No, you don't understand, I'm no agent of Aku I would gladly fight this beast that's troubling you" replied Jack as he readied his sword.

"Fine" sighed the first guard, "I'll alert the rest of my men on this."

As the samurai stood quite firm with his sword gripped in his hand, the Earth began to shake. After a few seconds later, the taffy monster emerged from the dense jungle crushing the trees nearby.

"Samurai Jack!" cried the taffy monster, "I have come as a servant of Aku, to vanquish you, and destroy your time machine portal that'll get you home, you'll never escape from Aku's reign, never!"

The samurai prepared for quite a fight with the taffy monster, at the same time, in Aku's secret lair the evil wizard was smiling with joy as his creation was about to finish off the samurai pest.