Chapter 9: Oh Carp

I was running through the streets of ToonTown, looking for any Glooms. I only found four or five. That's strange. I was in Polar Place in The Brrgh. Suddenly, I felt extra cold, and its not because of the weather. It feels like things are going to shoot out of buildings. My heart was beating faster and faster until I felt like I skipped a beat.

CRASH! The Glooms crashed through the windows and right at me. I jumped over the first Glooms and started to flip in midair. I landed on the heap of Glooms and took out a wedding cake. I jumped with the wedding cake facing down. When I got near the ground, I smashed the cake into all of the Glooms. All of the Glooms turned into Toons, except one. I cleared the Toon away, actually, they ran away, and kicked the Gloom into the air. I took out two vanilla cream pies and threw them at the Gloom. He reverted back into a Toon and landed on the ground. I walked up to him.

"You okay?" I asked. The Toon nodded and teleported away. I suddenly felt panic. Not that kind of panic where you hyper-ventilate and faint, the kind of panic when you feel like you're about to meet someone you hate. I turned around and saw Zack. His face made my heart infuriate. "Hello, Zack." I said while gritting my teeth.

"Hello Tas, long time no see." He said. His admittedly handsome face was making me ticked off.

"What. Are. You. Doing. Here." I said slowly. I don't want him to miss a word I say because I'm not repeating them. Plus, my teeth are still gritted.

"Oh, just to say hi, and goodbye." Zack said coolly.

"That's pretty nice of you. I though you still hated-"

"BEAT'M UP, BOYS!"

"What?" I quickly jumped to the right, avoiding a weird looking Gloom. When he got up, I recognized it was not a Gloom you could not change back with a splat to the face. It was a powerful one. I then remembered the Cog bosses.

Were there evil spirits inside of them? I wondered. And if they were, did I accidentally release them again? It all makes sense now. The CEO killed a Toon while he still had the spirit inside of him. The dark spirit switched bodies, leaving the CEO temporarily good until the dark spirits were defeated and escaped back to the CEO. I'm not sure why it chose Dragon Mouse to be the leader of Gloom City. Wait, there weren't four leaders, just one. The CEO must be the only one that had the evil spirit contained inside of him. From what I remember, it made the CEO quite dumb. Since the spirit was (strangely) breeding for a long time, the CEO became more eviler and smarter until the Gloom Apocalypse. He still had lots of intelligence but less evil. After a moment of spacing out, a Super Gloom punched me on the head. I flipped forward and rubbed my head. I turned around and saw five more of them. Six in total. One of them jumped at me. I ran under it and faced the other Glooms' direction. They all attacked the loner Gloom while I whistled. Zack quickly went to punch me but I stepped to the left and kicked him onto the ground.

"What are you doing fools! He's over there!" Zack yelled. They stopped fighting each other and looks at me. The growled.

"Come here little doggies." I said. Wait a minute, they're not only dogs, there is also a cat, a mouse, a horse, a pig, and a duck. They dashed towards me. I started to run away with a smile because one, they're chasing me and two, they're gonna run over Zack.

"Ow!"

"Roadkill!" I shouted with a jump. I jumped onto the wall in front of me and started to run back to where Zack was. The Glooms stopped and jumped at me. They all missed. "Ha ha." I taunted. Since I was being to cocky, I didn't notice the turn of the wall so I fell off and rolled over to the fishing pond. I instantly froze into an ice cube. One of the Glooms climbed into the water without freezing. How! He grabbed onto the edges of my ice cube and threw me onto land. The ice shattered around me and I felt dazed from the sudden mobility. Another Gloom tackled me onto the ground and pulled out a blade. He was about to stab it into my head but I quickly freed my arms and stopped it. The Gloom was stronger than me and the blade started to sink lower and lower to my head.

Come on! I thought. I put all of my strength into it. It only stopped the process. Right when I felt my arms about to give out, the Gloom fell over to the side and I saw someone I thought I would never see again as a person: Mike.

"Mike!" I said.

"There's no time to lay down, now get up and start fighting!" Mike commanded. I jumped up and readied myself. The cat Gloom pounced at me but I quickly kicked her out of the way. I suddenly felt something grip my ears. I attempted to pry it off but it was too strong. I turned my head the best as I can and saw Mike in the position, too. Another Gloom came up in front of me and charged a punch. He then pushed his fist forward and it hit me in the belly. That hurt a lot. I then saw the Gloom in front of me fall over and the grip on my ears were no longer there. I saw, oh my cheese, Flappy and Sabrina!

"Flappy and Sabrina!" I shouted. My energy was overflowing my body. I jumped up and transformed into my alter-ego Spaz The Toon Mouse.

Spaz The Toon Mouse's POV

Man, this form feels extra good. I dashed towards two of the standing Glooms and knocked them over. I took out two electric birthday cakes and smashed one of them into their face, then twisted my wrists. They reverted back to a Toon. I formed a triangle with Flappy, Mike, and Sabrina and the Glooms they were fighting froze. They smashed pies into their faces and they reverted back to normal. There was one last Gloom. I took out a wedding cake and dashed to the Gloom.

"Here comes the bride, she's big, fat, and wide!" I joked. The Gloom cat toppled over and I reverted back to Tas The Toon Mouse.

Tas The Toon Mouse's POV

I found myself on ground with no energy. The only thing I can remember is telling a joke. I got up off the ground and took deep breaths. What the heck just happened? I looked around and saw Zack. He was dumbstruck.

"See ya later loser." I said. I punched his face and he fell onto the ground. I turned around and saw Mike, Flappy, and Sabrina smiling. I rubbed my eyes and they were still there. "I can't believe it."

"Since when did you ever stop believing what you saw?" Mike asked.

"It really is you!" I said. I ran and hugged the trio, now turned into a squad. I let all my tears flow threw my eyes. "How?" I let go of them and took a step backwards.

"Well, the evil spirits that are transforming the dead Toons into Glooms tried to get us and Kit but when we awoke, we fought it off and we were revived. Since our ghosts were still following you, we knew where you were so that's how we found you." Sabrina explained.

"Cool, cool, but where's Kit?" I asked. They shrugged.

"Come on, lets go find her!" I said. I teleported to ToonTown Central and they followed me with the same hole.