DreamGuardianKingAllen: I'M BACK EVERYBODY. Finally after so long I have finally finished this chapter, and I am sorry to everyone that has been waiting. A quick announcement I have sent up a poll on my profile asking which Pokémon to have in my story. I had a list of 50 Pokémon I wanted to have but given it is the first season, I thought to bring it down to one for each type, so go out and vote and I'll be choosing the winners and eliminating those who don't get to be in the story for right now. Duel types are eligible for one type that hasn't been chosen yet. One more thing Pokemon X and Y is a fantastic game. Also MERRY CHRISTMAS!
[I get blasted through the roof and go orbital, Ajax pops his head in.]
Ajax: Uh, ok, that happened so I'll do the disclaimer. The author does not own anything in this story but the OCs meaning me, have a good day.
Ajax Nobody Season 1: Misfit Hero
Episode 3: Return of Grinch Night
Stan Lee came in as the Narrator to give a recap for the previous episode. "When we last left Ajax, he rescued Sophia and saved the Hundred Acre Wood from Mr. Burns and his oil drilling scheme. Soon after Ajax asked Woody if he would like to join them and he agreed, soon the small group found another blue portal, and jumped into it onto the next place to go. But first, we shall turn our attention to a tall dark mountain.
A tall mountain comes into focus, with a defined path leading to the peak; a lone figure was traveling along the path and made it to the peak. At the peak there was door with a welcome mat at its base. The dark figure knocked at the door and waited for a response, after a minute the door opened revealing a tall man covered in green fur and had a bright smile on his face.
The figure asked, "Yes, may I help you?"
Scene Skip
In a forest of fluffy palm trees with pale yellow and black striped trunks, a blue portal opens up and Ajax, Sophia, and Woody are shot out, with the portal closing behind them. The group was groaning recovering from the fall. Ajax was brushing himself off stating, "I don't think I'll get used to the landings of the portals."
Woody brushed himself off and looked at Ajax and said, "Well at least it is better than using the orange portals; if we ran into one of those things, all of us would have been scattered randomly across the worlds with no way of knowing where each other was."
"That's a good point, I'd rather use the blue ones any day of the week," replied Ajax. Ajax and Woody started to walk through the forest as they took a look at their surroundings, after a few minutes of walking Ajax turned to Woody and said, "Now the next thing we need to do is figure out where we are," WHACK, Ajax walked into a pole and fell down onto the ground, "Who put that there?"
Woody looked down at Ajax to see if he was alright before looking at the pole they bumped into and saw that it was a sign post. "I think I know where we are."
"How can you tell that?" Sophia barked as well.
"The sign says that we are in Suessdom." Ajax looked at the pole and saw that there was a sign at the top of the pole saying 'Welcome to Suessdom.'
"So it does," Ajax gets up to dust himself off, "Anyway, let's start finding our way to the next portal or where ever we need to go." Ajax opens up the scroll to see a map of the world materialized before his eyes, "Ok, according to this we have to go to a mountain just north of a small town just a little ways from here."
"Uh, Ajax, I hate to break it to you but, I don't see anything on the map of yours, all I see is a spinning compass." Indeed all Woody could see was a spinning compass within the paper scroll, all Ajax saw however was a map that acted like an ancient GPS. They both shrugged and went on their way unaware that a small figure was watching.
After a few minutes of walking they decided to take a break and sat down under the shade of the trees, catching a whiff of butterfly milk while lying there. Ajax was about to fall asleep when he heard a voice asking, "Why are you in my woods?"
Ajax opened an eye and asked, "Woody, did you say something?"
"No," replied Woody.
"Actually, I said something," replied a voice that sounded like it was as old as time itself. Ajax turned to his side to the source of the voice and saw an orange two-and-a-half foot tall, with a yellow mustache, with old but kind eyes. The two stared at each other for a few moments before Ajax started screaming at the top of his lungs which caused the small to creature to yell as well; they screamed like this for a few minutes before Ajax got up and got his staff ready to whack the little fur ball. "Wait, I mean you no harm. Just hear me out and I will let you on your way."
Ajax and Woody looked at each other and nodded. Ajax looked at the small creature and said, "Okay, we'll hear you out. First off who are you?"
"And what do you want with us?" added Woody.
The creature looked at them with kind eyes and started his tale, "I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees here in the Truffula Forest and I ask you to please not cut down any of them, the forest has just finished recovering after being cut down to extinction."
Ajax looked at the Lorax and told him, "We are not planning on cutting down any trees; we are just passing through on our way to a mountain north of a small town." Ajax pointed to the direction they were heading.
The Lorax stood silent for a few moments in thought before saying, "Well, it seems you plan on going to Mount Crumpit, you need to get to Whoville which is at the base of that mountain. I'll take you to the main path so you can get to Whoville without any problems. Come on, follow me." The Lorax started moving toward a certain direction, Ajax, Sophia, and Woody followed behind.
After about ten minutes, the group made it to a long path with a signpost with a hand pointing to a place called Whoville. They were walking down the path when they heard a bell and singing.
Green eggs and ham, green eggs and ham,
You can eat them in a house,
You can eat them with a mouse,
You can eat them in a box,
You can eat them with a fox,
You can eat them here or there,
You can eat them anywhere,
Green eggs and ham, green eggs and ham.
The group turned to the source of the singing and saw a small cart with a bell ringing side to side. The cart was frying some eggs with green yolks, along with green ham. The person who was pushing the cart was about 14 years old and a few inches taller than Ajax, lanky arms and legs, his face and legs had white fur, the rest was in yellow fur, was wearing a red hat; his face look like a snout with a small nose. The guy was singing his song until he saw Ajax's group.
After seeing them the guy yelled out, "Hello Mr. Lorax, how are you today?"
The Lorax yelled back, "Good Sam I Am, I might need your help with something come over and we'll discuss it." With that said the person who was now known as Sam I Am came over to the group along with his cart.
Sam I Am looked at the group and introduces himself, "Hello there, I am Sam, Sam I Am."
"My name is Ajax Nobody, and this is my dog Sophia."
"I'm Woody Woodpecker."
"Pleased to meet you, would you guys like some green eggs and ham?" asked Sam I Am. Ajax and Woody looked at it a little worried that the food was green, Sam noticed this and said, "Don't worry it's just green food coloring." After that was said they agreed to have some food.
Sam started cooking some of his famous green eggs and ham, "Would like some biscuits with your eggs and ham?" The group wanted some biscuits so Sam started to make some. The group got their food and started to dig in, soon after a chorus of delicious ohs and ahhs as they ate.
Ajax looked over to Sam and said, "This is great Sam, I would like to see your recipe sometime. By the way what exactly are you?"
Sam replied, "Well I am actually a Who, one of the folks who live here in New Suessland. And to what you said earlier, thank you Ajax, but to be quite honest I want to go traveling to be a better chef and find a few new recipes. That way I can open up my own restaurant for everyone in Whoville."
The Lorax looked to Sam and asked, "Speaking of which, how is the funding for your trip coming along?"
Sam replied with a little sadness, "It's going great; I might have enough to go to at least three places within the next ten years."
The Lorax said, "Don't worry you'll get there someday."
Sam smiled a little bit then asked, "Anyway, where are you guys heading?"
Woody answered, "We are on our way to Mount Crumpit, Ajax and I are following a map that is telling us to go there, we aren't sure what we'll find."
Ajax then thought of something, "Hey why don't you come with us? You're a great cook and this could be your chance to travel to different places."
Sam thought for a moment then said, "That sounds great, I think I will join you guys. Mr. Lorax, can you take care of my cart while I'm gone?"
The Lorax nodded and said, "Of course, just stay safe, I would hate to lose a dear friend of mine."
Just then a wind blew through and the skies got dark. Ajax started to shiver and shake like he was put into a freezer. Ajax that asked, "Is it just me or did it just get really cold?" His question was left unanswered as he saw the Lorax and Sam sniff the air.
"Do you smell that?" asked the Lorax.
"Yeah, sour and sweet wind, but that only happened when the Grinch was an evil grouch and that was years ago," replied Sam.
"You're right, something is wrong."
Ajax just looked at them and asked, "What are you talking about?"
The Lorax looked over to them and explained, "A long time ago, a creature known as 'The Grinch,' would come down to Whoville and cause misery for everyone whenever the sour sweet wind came by that would cause a chain of events that would irritate him and he would share his misery with the Whos. When he tried to steal Christmas and he almost did, but his heart grew three times that day and he became good; ever since the sour sweet wind never came back. But now, the wind has come back and we don't know why."
Ajax's shivers got worse as the wind got worse. "Seriously! Doesn't anyone feel that?" The rest of the group just shook their head no. Just then, they heard a sinister laugh coming from the opposite of where they were heading. The sound soon got louder as it got closer; adding to the laughter was the sound of a whip and creaking wheels racing on a dirt road.
They turned to the source of the noise and saw dark clouds swirling around; and strange demon like creatures where following a tall blue two wheeled wagon, being pulled by a small dog that was being whipped. A tall furry green man with an evil smile on his face was at the helm and was laughing hysterically as he cause pain and misery as he rode through the forest destroying anything in his path.
The Lorax saw this and yelled out, "Take cover, get off the road." Everyone did so, and the tall green man went right past them, destroying Sam's cart in the process and headed to Whoville.
"What in the world was that!?" Ajax asked and yelled at the same time.
The Lorax looked at Ajax with depressed eyes as he spoke, "That was the Grinch, he has gone evil once again and by the looks of things he has brought out his old Paraphernalia Wagon and has unleashed its contents. I must get all the animals in the forest to safety."
Sam was sad that his cart was destroyed along with all the food he never got to cook. "We got to get to Whoville and speak with the Ambassador in order to get some of the Heroes Alliance here," Sam said as he pointed to the direction the Grinch went. Everyone agreed to this and ran to Whoville to speak with the Ambassador and started running toward Whoville.
Before Ajax could get very far the Lorax stops him and tells him, "Keep the scroll safe, whatever you do never let it out of your hands, is that clear?" Ajax was confused at this, but Sam call for him and decided to move on, the Lorax just looks on and says, "Be safe, Bearer of the Scroll," after that he disappeared into the forest.
After about an hour of running, they made it to Whoville where all the buildings had soft edges and were all inviting. However today was not a good day to be in Whoville, everywhere you look, every type of ghoul that was trapped in the Paraphernalia Wagon was flying around causing chaos for all the Whos. Many were trying to get away but ended up getting cornered by even more ghouls.
Ajax and his friends saw this but didn't think they had anything to take on the ghouls so they just ran to City Hall in order to get some help from any nearby heroes. The group kept on running through the streets as they constantly met up with hundreds of ghouls trying to catch them.
Soon the group made it to City Hall and were about to go into the front door when the ghouls grabbed them and started to toss them like a beach ball. The ghouls were have fun causing chaos they failed to notice a tall figure hold up an umbrella and circling it in the air creating a ball of light. When the ball of light was big enough the figure launch it into the air and the light ball exploded making all the ghouls disappear. Without the ghouls to catch them Ajax and his friends were up in the air for a moment before falling down; they were screaming at the top of their lungs as they fell, but the figure pointed its umbrella at Ajax and his friends and light glowed at the tip creating pale spheres of light surrounding Ajax and co. setting them down gently on the ground.
Ajax looked toward the source of the light and saw a tall black cat like figure with a white face and belly, wearing white gloves, holding an umbrella, and on the top of his head was a red and white striped hat that was about two feet high. Ajax also noticed a badge on the figure's chest that read 'Ambassador.'
The figure look over City Hall's courtyard and after about a minute or two he asked with a kind and gentle voice, "Is everyone alright?"
One of the Whos who was dressed up like a police officer went up to the figure, saluted, and said, "Yes sir, Ambassador Cat, everyone is unharmed, looks like the Un-Human Race was just here to try and cause a panic."
The figure now known as Ambassador Cat pondered for a moment saying, "What were the members of the Un-Human Race doing out of the Paraphernalia Wagon?"
The rest of Ajax's groups caught up after getting themselves straighten out after being attacked. Sam I Am saw Cat and yelled out, "Cat!"
Cat looked over to whoever called his named and saw his friend along with faces he had not seen before. "Sam, I'm glad you're safe, I was a little worried when the Un-Human Race started attacking the town. Do you know anything about what's going on?"
Ajax came up and said, "Actually we do, we saw a guy Sam and the Lorax called the Grinch and he went through the forest and was heading here after he passed us."
Cat went wide eyed at this statement, "The Grinch?! How could he do such a thing? I need to figure out what is wrong and put a stop to it. By the way who are you?"
Sam then introduced his new friends to Cat, "These are some new friends I made and plan on going on a journey with. This is Ajax Nobody, Sophia, and Woody Woodpecker, they were on their way to Mount Crumpit when the Grinch came rampaging through Truffula Valley."
"Nice to meet you all, I am known as the Cat in the Hat but most folks these days just call me Ambassador Cat in the Hat. And I'm sorry but until we figure out what is going on with the Grinch, Mount Crumpit will have to be closed off. Until then you are more than welcome to stay at City Hall until then."
Ajax thought for a moment and said, "Thank you, we would be delighted to stay in City Hall for a little bit."
Ajax and his friends were staying at Whoville City Hall before they could continue on their journey. A few hours later, it was evening and the gang was having a peaceful dinner with Cat. Then the peace was shattered due to someone hijacking the radio to send a message to Whoville. "Good evening Whos, this is your old pal the Grinch, as you probably figured out that I'm not a goody two-shoes anymore. In honor of this occasion I have decided to move Grinch Night to tonight, so I better not see anyone out when I have my Grinch Night Ball or else. Ta-ta." The radio message ended and everything was silent until Cat got up and grabbed his umbrella.
Sam got up as well and asked, "Where are you going?"
"To get the town ready for Grinch Night there is no telling what he'll do on a night like tonight," and with that Cat left the room and left them alone.
Woody pondered something for a moment before asking, "What did the Grinch mean by 'not see anyone out?'"
Sam turned to Woody and answered, "During Grinch Night, the Grinch comes down and goes on a terrorizing rampage, and anyone outside is put up to his grinching by his Paraphernalia Wagon."
Ajax looked up asking, "You said that he comes down, that means he is away from Mount Crumpit for a few hours?"
Sam nodded, "Yeah, that's right, so?"
Ajax explained, "So, we go up to Mount Crumpit and find whatever the map is telling us to find and we do it before the Grinch gets back from his ball, its fool-proof," he finish his explanation by standing and having a finger held up in the air.
Woody just gave a deadpanned expression and asked, "How do you suppose we get there without getting spotted by the Grinch or the Un-Human Race?"
Ajax just stood there for a moment, stammering before saying, "We could, uh, could, uh, Sam how would we get there?"
Sam thought for a moment before saying, "Dump It to Crumpit!" Ajax and Woody looked confusingly at Sam. Scene changes to a metal hatch and opened it revealing a chute. "This is the Dump It to Crumpit waste disposal system; it will take us to Mount Crumpit very fast without the Grinch knowing."
Ajax and Woody nodded and Ajax stated, "Okay let's do it. Do we have everything?" Everyone looked at their packs to check if they forgot anything, after double checking they were ready and hopped into the chute. "Everybody ready?" They all nodded and Ajax pressed the button to take them to Mount Crumpit. After pressing the button, a powerful vacuum turned on and sucked Ajax and his friends into the chute.
A map of Whoville and Mount Crumpit is shown and a red line showing where Ajax and his friends were as they were bounced around is the chutes that led to the slopes of Mount Crumpit. The exited out of the chutes and landed in a big pile of trash, murmurs of disgust echoed as they got the garbage off of them.
As they were finishing cleaning themselves they heard evil laughter and proceeded to hide. They saw the Grinch riding off on his wagon toward Whoville. Ajax and his friends got up from their hiding place and made their way to the entrance to Mount Crumpit.
Ajax looked at the map and said, "According to the map we have to go into the Grinch's lair in order to find whatever it is we are looking for."
Sam looked to the map and stated, "That's a spinning compass."
Woody lifted up his arms and said, "That's what I said when we got here."
Ajax got annoyed by this and said, "Can we just go already before the Grinch comes back?"
"Sure," both Sam and Woody replied.
When they entered the Grinch's lair it looked like a normal cave dwelling with sleeping quarters and a small workbench. On the work bench an old saw next to an antler along with some bits of sawed off antler. Next to the workbench was a Santa suit with a hat that would fit the Grinch perfectly.
"Okay so what are we exactly looking for?" Sam asked.
Ajax brought out the map from his pack and opened it; it changed into a map of the mountain and a string of letters form into the parchment to create a sentence which Ajax read, "Okay it is giving me some sort of wired message. To continue on the path, you won't find it on the map, find the face of wrath."
Sam and Woody looked at Ajax like he just spoke absolute gibberish, then Sam asked, "So we need to find some sort of mouth?"
"Not sure, besides the scroll hasn't done that before, maybe this portal is much more hidden."
"How do you know if it is a portal or not," Sam asked.
"It was a portal that brought us here then it might be another portal leading us somewhere else," Ajax just assumed.
Sam sighed, "Why did it have to be a portal? Seriously, I don't like those things, when the worlds started to connect again after the keybladers took down Xehanort a while back those portals showed up and cause nothing but trouble."
"AGREED!" shouted Ajax and Woody as they followed Sam to the workshop he mentioned.
"Anyway let's try going deeper into the cave, we could try the workshop downstairs maybe we can find something there," Sam suggested and the rest of the group agreed and headed to the workshop.
"You know, the big bad 'dark lords' maybe gone but the villains still won't quit and now they are working together. At least the heroes joined together otherwise the Villain Society would have won long ago," Woody stated.
Ajax just put the map back in his back while keeping up with Sam, "Well let's just hope we don't run into any of those guys. If we did I would run for the hills."
"Right," the rest murmured.
Soon they made it to the Grinch's workshop, it was a large room filled with old parts most likely found at the dump. An old sled hung from the ceiling. Another workbench was set up in the room with blueprints rolled up on the desk, a daisy, an old copper spyglass, and a bottle filled with purple goo.
Ajax looked at the spyglass with curiosity; it looked just like a regular old copper spyglass that had a little rust on it. Ajax kept on looking at it while Sam and Woody were looking around the workshop for anything.
"Okay, what exactly are we looking for?" asked Sam.
This statement brought Ajax out of his thoughts, "Huh? I don't know just something that would resemble a face or something like that." Ajax puts the spyglass down and continues to look around.
Woody looks over to Ajax and asks, "What were you looking at Ajax?"
"Oh, just this old spyglass, I feel like it's important somehow. Maybe I'll take it with me and sees if it is some use later on."
Ajax then puts the spyglass in his pack and starts looking at the purple goo getting a cold shiver as he approaches it; Sophia sees the purple goo as well and starts to growl.
Sam frowned, "I don't get it, I saw the Grinch in Whoville two days and he was the nicest guy in the world. How could he become evil again overnight?"
Woody saw something on the bottom of the bottle with the purple goo, a symbol that looked like a rat's face. "What's that underneath the bottle?"
Ajax hears Woody and looks under the bottle, "Looks like a rat." Sam and Woody came in closer to see what Ajax was seeing. "General Rat's Plum Miralilixer? What is that supposed to mean?" As they were looking at the bottle, some of its contents leaked out and fell onto the daisy that was on the workbench. "Oops." The goo started to cover the plant, and then it began to shake, after a minute of shaking it stop. Ajax, Woody, and Sam came closer to the plant, until the plant came up to look at them with evil eyes and fangs, "HOLY CRAP!" They all were scared out of their wits at the demented flower. Sam got out a frying pan and proceeded to smash the flower repeatedly before stopping to see if it was dead, the flower twitch before Sam smashed it one last time. Everything was quite before Ajax looked at the bottle and put it down slowly. "Okay I think we have figured out how the Grinch became evil again. So we should probably give this to Cat so he can figure out a way to turn back to good and then come back, but first let's find the portal's location so we don't waste any time looking for it the next time. Does that sound like a good plan?" Sam and Woody just shook their heads in agreement to the proposed idea, Ajax put down the bottle of goo and the group slowly walked away.
The group turned around and saw a few entryways to tunnels that lead to other parts of the mountain. The group stood in silence for a few moments while they figure out what they do next.
"Okay how about we split up and search the tunnels for the face and then get out of here. What do you guys say to that," Ajax asked.
Woody nodded and Sam stated, "Okay sounds good but we need to hurry, we only got about," Sam checks his watch, "about an hour or two before the Grinch gets back, he's probably finishing up in Whoville so he'll want to get some sleep after a long night of Grinching so it's going to take him awhile to get up the mountain, so let's hurry."
Before they could go anywhere Woody stops them both and asks, "What if we get lost?"
Ajax and Sam just stood there for a moment thinking of what Woody said when Ajax spots some rope, "We can use this rope and tie it to a rock, and have it lead us back if we ever get lost." Everyone thought this was a good idea and proceeded with it. They each took a piece of rope and tied an end of it to a rock and went into a tunnel. Half an hour later they came out.
"Nothing," Ajax stated as he got out.
Woody got out of his cave, "No sigh of rock face." He notices Sam coming out of the tunnel as well, "Anything with you Sam?"
"Not a thing."
Ajax brought out the map again to take another look before a shiver went up his spine again, "It is just me did it just get cold again?"
"This old mountain is bound to have a few drafty places, you must just be feeling one of those," said Sam.
"Yeah, you are probably right, now let's take another look at the map and see if we missed anything," Ajax answered before checking the map.
Woody and Sam went over to Ajax to try and help even though they wouldn't see anything on the scroll. Sam asks Ajax, "So, did we miss anything?"
"No it just says that we need to find some face in the rocks," Ajax answered.
Woody thought for a moment and said, "But we looked all over this cave and haven't found a bunch of rocks that could at the very least resemble a face."
"A group of rocks that look like of face, I know where that is. It's in the fourth tunnel right over there," a voice said, Ajax and his friends look over to where the voice was talking about and indeed there was a fourth tunnel that they haven't check yet.
"Thanks," Ajax said to the voice while turning around to see who said that and it was The Grinch and turns back around. A fiddle strings snaps echoes in the groups' heads as they turn back around to confirm what they saw, and they saw the Grinch standing there with his Un-Humans and the gang yells in panic. They try to escape but were stopped by the Un-Humans.
"How did you get here from Whoville so fast? We were only in those caves for half an hour." Ajax asked with panic in his voice.
"I took my wagon elevator."
Our heroes looked confused, "WAGON ELEVATOR!?"
"Yeah I installed it last week it saves lots of time going up the mountain."
Ajax just looked at Sam, "Why didn't you tell us there was an elevator?"
"I didn't know so how could I tell you guys if I didn't know?"
"Enough chatter, Un-Humans get them!" the Grinch barked and the Un-Humans went after Ajax and his friends.
Ajax saw this and did they only sensible thing to do, "RUN AWAY! Run away!" and they all ran away. Each of the party members went into a different direction with the Un-Humans right on their tail. Ajax is holding his staff horizontal while he was running from the Un-Humans when he came between two poles that his staff caught on and it propelled Ajax back into the ghouls, knocking them down; when they were knocked down the Un-Humans evaporated into mist. "Wait a minute; did the spooks just go poof after they got knocked down?" Another Un-Human came up to Ajax to try and scare him, but Ajax just hits it with his staff a couple times and the spook disappears. "Hey Sam."
"Yeah?"
"Has anyone ever tried to fight these guys?"
"No, we've always ran away from them we haven't tried. Why?"
"These go down easier than swatting flies."
"Really, let me give it a try," with this said Sam got out his frying pan and proceeded to whacking the spooks around him and with a few hits they disappeared, "You're right, they are easy to beat." Sam continued to beat up the spooks.
Woody saw his friends fighting off the spooks, he stopped running and got out his jetpack and started flying above the spooks and states, "Enough of running away from these guys, time to do what woodpeckers do best." Woody then started to peck on the heads of the spooks like a jackhammer, after a few hundred pecks the spook disappears.
The Grinch sees Ajax and his friends defeating his minions and yells out, "You worthless fools, can't you defeat a few kids, fine if you want something done right you got to do it yourself." The Grinch picked up a large monkey wrench and starts to attack Ajax and his friends. Ajax begins to dodge the wrench while also trying to fend off the ghouls.
Sam looks over to Ajax before whacking a ghoul with his frying pan, "Ajax, be careful and try not to hurt him. He maybe evil again, but he is still my friend."
"Try telling that to the guy that is swinging a plumbing tool at me," Ajax yelled before dodging another swing from the Grinch. Ajax began to run away from the Grinch dodging wrench swings as well as ghouls are attacking him.
Woody was busy pecking on the ghouls around him before bumping into a rope that was holding something up. Woody followed the rope and saw it was holding a small wooden sled. Woody also noticed that Ajax and the Grinch were right underneath the sled having a mock swordfight with a bamboo pole and a wrench. Woody suddenly got an idea and yelled out to Ajax, "Hey Ajax! What are cartoons famous for?"
Ajax while trying to defend off the Grinch answered, "Is this really the best time?"
"Having random stuff for on people's heads," then Woody pecks the rope causing it to break and setting the sled free from its support to the roof.
The Grinch sees the sled coming down upon him but couldn't make it out of the way as it falls on top of him; luckily Ajax jumps out just in time. The ghouls see that their master has been defeated and decided to leave.
Sam and Woody went over to Ajax and helped him get the sled off of the Grinch. Sam looked at his old friend and asked, "Is he alright?" Then the Grinch began to stir and regain consciousness, when the Grinch opened his eyes they weren't red anymore but were blue.
The Grinch looked at us and spoke with a gentle voice, "Well hello there Sam I Am, it is good to see you again. How are you today?"
"It's good to have you back old friend," said Sam with a smile.
"Where did I go," asked the Grinch.
"You sort of went totally evil for a little bit," answered Ajax.
"Who are you?"
"My name is Ajax Nobody and this is Sophia."
"I'm Woody Woodpecker."
"A pleasure to meet all of you, now tell me what has happened please." Ajax explained what had happened throughout the day and the Grinch understood every bit of it. "Now I remember, that smartly-dressed fellow, he sold me that Plum Miralilixer and after that nothing. The next time I see that guy I am going to give him a piece of my mind."
"You mean General Rat?" asked Ajax.
"Yeah, but I don't know where he has gone off to," said the Grinch.
Just then the Cat in the Hat flew down into the cave by the handle of his umbrella and kicked the Grinch in the face before getting in front of the group. "Ajax, Woody, Sam get back," he yelled while putting the group behind him with his umbrella ready. The Grinch got up and dusted himself off.
"Wait, wait, wait, the Grinch is nice again, he was just under the influence of some evil purple goop," Ajax explained.
Cat just looked blank for a moment before saying, "I am in charge of a world filled with Whos, Sneeches, and other kinds of weird creatures and even I don't believe that."
"He's telling the truth, there was a vile of the stuff and it made a flower go ballistic on us," Sam said.
Woody added in, "Yeah, on the bottom of the bottle it said that it belong to General Rat."
Cat listened to them and nodded and stated, "Thank you, thank you all for getting our beloved Grinch back, if it weren't for you the Grinch would have destroyed Whoville in the days to come. There is still one matter that needs to be addressed," he pointed his umbrella to the ceiling, "the Un-Humans, what to do about them?"
The Grinch pat Cat's shoulder and said, "Don't worry; I'll take care of it." He brought out a whistle and blew on it creating an eerie shrill sound, the sound make all of the Un-Humans disappear. "I sent them back to the Paraphernalia Wagon; once they all go back inside I'll lock it up so that no one will open it again."
"Good, now is there anything we can do for you?" the Cat asked.
Ajax pondered for a moment before saying, "Well we were searching for something that was in the mountain, it's a group of rocks that make up a face. Also I found this telescope on the workbench and I was wondering if I could keep it."
Sam added in, "Also I wanted to go with my new friends so I can see the world and learn some new recipes."
Grinch just smiled and stated, "You can keep the telescope Ajax, my treat. The face of rocks you are looking for it through that last cave, at its end you should find it. I'll turn on the lights so you can see it better. And Sam I'll let your friend know that you'll be gone for a little while, so he can take care of your stuff in the meantime. Now, go on and continue on your journey and may you find what you are looking." The Grinch went to a switch and turn on the lights in the cavern.
The group said their goodbyes to the Grinch and Cat and went into the last cavern. When they reach the end of the cavern, they found the face made of rocks and a wall behind it.
"So what now?" asked Sam.
"I don't know, maybe the map will say something else now that we found it," Ajax answered as he brought out the scroll and opened it. When he did energy started to pulse from the scroll and shot a beam at the wall behind the face and created a portal.
"Whoa," they all said.
Woody stated, "Okay, it must create portals if we are in the right spot."
"So, how many times are we going to be doing this Ajax?" Sam asked.
"I honestly don't know," said Ajax.
Sam adjust his pack and stated, "Well no time like the present," he ran to the portal and jumped in, "Geronimo!"
Ajax went next into the portal, "Arapaho!"
Woody flew in yelling, "Pocahontas!"
Sophia chased after them and went in as well. After they all went in the portal faded away.
Meanwhile in a dark castle
Two figures were watching Ajax and his friends through a magic mirror and one of them was very displeased with what he saw.
"It seems Rat has failed once again in performing a simple task," one of the figures spoke with a heavy Japanese accent as he laughed like a monkey.
"On the contrary Monkey, Rat has done something right for a change. Gather the rest of our group members, we need to have a meeting NOW!" the other figure spoke with a dignified voice, and that he was very large in stature.
"Yes, of course my lord, but what about the kid," Monkey asked.
"We will worry about that later, NOW GO!" At this Monkey scampered off in a flash.
Sam I Am has joined the Party
From the Journal of Ajax Nobody
Suessdom:
The Lorax: He speaks for the tress, he protects the woods from anyone who wishes to do harm. (First appeared in The Lorax, 1971)
Sam I Am: The newest member in the group who helped as a guide for Suessdom and now is coming with us to learn new recipes for his dishes. A very persistent Who, who had created the famous dish of Green Eggs and Ham. (First appeared in Green Eggs and Ham, 1960)
The Cat in the Hat: The Ambassador of Suessdom, he is kind and fun loving will try and keep peace whenever he is needed. (First appeared in The Cat in the Hat, 1957)
The Grinch: A big grouch who tried to steal Christmas at one point and has been cause trouble for Whoville for ages. However, he is now a peaceful and caring person and loves everyone and now celebrates Christmas with everyone. (First Appeared in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 1957)
General Rat: The one who turned the Grinch back to his old tricks. Asneaky salesrat who may seem nice but is really mean underneath. Is he part of the Villian Society? (First appeared in Puppeteer, 2013)
DreamGuardianKingAllen: Sorry it took me so long to post an update but it is finally finished. I was busy with college and other things but I how this makes up for it.
Ajax: You better hope so or else.
DreamGuardianKingAllen: Would you just get out of here, I finished the chapter and on Christmas no less, by the way Merry Christmas. So how are we going to end it tonight?
[Sound of rubber stretching is heard.]
DreamGuardianKingAllen: What's that noise?
[Blur of red hits him in the face.]
DreamGuardianKingAllen: Higgigobble.
Ajax: Oh, that's got to hurt. Play the music and let's get out of here, Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year as well.
[Angry Birds theme song plays]
