The Grim EDventures of Team Mar
Chapter 9: Revenge of Headless Jack!!!
After the re-return of Boogey and the defeat of the Kanker Sisters, things have been pretty uneventful for the rest of the week, except for the usual stuff, Ed and Carrie stealing Grim's scythe, Eddy tried a scam involving electric pants, May hasn't come out of her room in days, Grim watched a movie on pay-per-view last Tuesday, and Baron von Ghoulish made a delicious pizza pie last night. Yes, it seems as though the only mentions of Boogey are in the jokes made, however, while he was sulking from losing Horror's Hand to Grim, he made a few friends in the Underworld, all of them wanting revenge on the infamous Grim Reaper, and before the last chapter ended, Boogey decided to call one up…
Standing in front of Boogey and the Kankers is a scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern head. On top of the carved gourd sits a wizard's hat and his straw-filled sackcloth body is clothed in an elaborate suit with velvet trimmings and a large, gold-colored belt buckle.
"Well, if it isn't my pathetic friend, the Boogey Man?" Jack says with a sinister sneer.
"You're late, Jack! I called you about a week ago, but you never showed up!!!"
"Sorry, I ran into some traffic on the way here."
"Hey, this guy looks bad!" Marie says.
"Yeah, he looks scarier than you, Booger!" Lee agrees. Jack laughs at Boogey.
"My name is Boogey!"
"We can call you whatever we want; WE OWN YOU!!!!!!!" The Kankers laugh sinisterly as Boogey sulks in embarrassment.
Back in the castle, it's another lazy day. Baron von Ghoulish is in his private study, secretly reading some of Ed's manga, Eddy is nursing his wounds after another failed scam, Double D is building a toothpick model of Lestava Castle, Grim, Dorothy, and Ed are sleeping on the couch, Ginta and Babbo are fighting again, and Carrie is…wait! What the heck is she up to? Carrie walks into May's room.
"Hi, May! Can I play with this thing?" Carrie asks, pointing at a vile of green solution.
"No, now scram! I'm busy."
"Oh, well what about this?" Carrie picks up some sort of metal, egg-shaped unfinished robot.
"Put that down! You're gonna break it! Go play with Ed, or something!"
"But he's asleep and I can't wake him up."
"Well, what about the others?"
"Eddy was scamming, Double D said something about monkeys, Grim told me to go play with fire, I can't find the blue-faced guy, and Dorothy said, 'Get lost! I'm trying to sleep'."
"Well, even though I'm against the mind-rotting, idiotic entertainment of television, I suggest you watch TV, then again, the last thing you need to do is rot out the rest of your brain…I know! Why not read a nice, quiet book? I suggest this one, Biology for the Astute. Now out, out, out! I'm eleven minutes and thirty-three seconds behind schedule!" And with that, Carrie is shoved out the door with the book. Carrie stares down at it.
"This is boring, but I know how to make it fun!"
Five minutes later, the house is filled with a mysterious gurgling followed by an eerie groaning noise. Snow is nonchalantly walking down one of the hallways, when suddenly, water gushes from the wall, knocking her against the wall.
Downstairs in the kitchen, Double D is about to get himself a refreshing glass of water when…
"What's going on?" He asks after turning the faucet handle and no water pouring into his glass from it. Suddenly, the faucet groans and explodes into a torrent of water, flooding the room. The entire castle groans and water gushes out of the windows and doors, washing books, small furniture, dishes, silverware, and Grim's bones outside.
"I'M SO WET!!!" Double D whines.
"MY RESEARCH! HOURS UPON ENDLESS HOURS OF RESEARCH DESTROYED!!!!" May wails as her water-logged notes disintegrate in her hands.
Eddy spits water out of his mouth along with a book labeled Biology for the Astute. Dorothy wrings water from one of her pigtails and Grim literally pulls himself together.
"What de heck just happened!?" Grim shouted angrily.
"I knew that would be fun!" A familiar voice cries. Carrie crawls out from underneath the former bathroom sink.
"Carrie, what did you do?" Double D asks.
"Well I—actually I can't remember…I forgot!!!!"
May examines the book that Eddy spat out of his mouth. "What was this book doing in the water pipes? Carrie, did you try to flush this book down the toilet!?"
"Uh…maybe!"
"Can't you go a day without messing someting up, child!?" Grim shouts.
"Carrie, even though you're my best friend, this foolishness has to stop!" May adds.
"Yeah, Carrie, you're gonna hurt someone! In case you haven't noticed, this isn't a cartoon!" Ginta says.
"Aw, sorry, guys! I was bored and I couldn't find anything to do…"
"Well, we can't really blame Carrie. The past few days have been pretty boring." Dorothy says, emptying the water out of her hat.
Baron von Ghoulish stares at the mess. Well, at least my castle is still standing…"
Meanwhile, Boogey, the Kankers, and Jack are watching the group from on top of a cliff overlooking the head-vampire's castle.
"This is great! While they're trying to clean up this mess, we'll strike them once their backs are turned, and I will have the last laugh!!!" Jack bellows.
"Uh, Jack, in case you haven't noticed, there aren't any pumpkins in this world for you to control, meaning that you're pretty much powerless against Grim's scythe. And secondly, I thought I was the boss!"
"You're a has-been!" Lee yells. "The only thing you're good for is scrubbing the toilets!"
"Now, ladies, don't be so hard on poor Boogey. After all, I'm sure for all of that time he spent sulking in the Underworld, he must've thought of a plan to get back at Grim, right Boogey?"
"Well, um, no…I didn't."
"Well I did! I shall fight with this!" Jack pulls out a purple scythe with a bar-shaped optical sensor with a bright red beam going from one side of it to the other. The handle is engraved with circuits and wires.
"Hello, my name is Scythe 2.0" The scythe says in an emotionless, mechanical tone.
"This scythe was used briefly by Grim when he accidentally shattered the blade of his old one. It is extremely powerful and should be more than a match for Grim's older scythe. And if any of his friends stand in my way, I'll crush them, too! Now, let's pay our old friend Grim a visit…" He and Boogey start walking down a path leading to the bottom of the cliff.
"We'll stay up here and watch for trouble," Marie says, pulling out three lawn chairs and some popcorn.
"Hey, give me some of that!" May Kanker demands. Soon the three are once again fighting.
Meanwhile, clean-up has begun, but is halted by Jack's voice.
"Ah, Grim, it's so nice to see you again!" Grim spins around and is met with the gourd-headed scarecrow.
"And surely you haven't forgotten me, Mr. Reaper?"
"Uh, Grim, do you know these people?" Eddy asks.
"Dat's Jack. He tricked me into letting him live forever, but I chopped his head off and he replaced it with a pumpkin. And dat's Scythe 2.0. Back when I was a slave to Billy and Mandy, I broke de blade of me scythe and got Scythe 2.0 as a replacement, but he tried to take me job, so I sent him back and got me old scythe repaired."
Jack zaps himself with Scythe 2.0. He grows to an enormous size and smashes the castle.
"My castle, oh, not again!!!!" Baron von Ghoulish cries. "I don't have it ensured!!!"
"Looks like I'm walking tall, huh Grim?" Jack laughs. Carrie and Ed laugh along with him.
"Stand back, everyone! I'll take care of him meself!" Grim zaps Jack's leg, but the blast glances off and hits a tree, causing it to disintegrate. Grim tries to slash his leg, but the scythe's blade proves to be ineffective.
"This could be bad!" Double D says, staring up at Jack.
"I better get the Golden Jawbreaker!" Ed shouts, actually using his brain for once.
"But it'll take hours to sort through all that rubble, and I doubt this guy will give us any time to do that!" May says.
"NNNOOOO!!!!!!! I'm too young, and handsome to die!!!!!!!" Eddy screams.
Meanwhile, Johnny is fishing off the bank of a nearby stream and hears Eddy scream.
"Uh, oh, Plank! It sounds like someone's in trouble! This looks like a job for Captain Melonhead!" Johnny puts his melon rind helmet on and races off in the direction of the scream.
Whoa, this day certainly went downhill fast! Will Captain Melonhead be able to help defeat this new foe? Will Carrie ever use her brain for once? AND WILL BARON VON GHOULISH EVER GET HIS CASTLE ENSURED??????? All I can say is stay tuned…
