Chapter Nine: The Climax

After they had escaped the dungeon, Doc, Diggs and the toys arrived at a laboratory where they hid behind some boxes and watched Bitsy plastered together a storybook from others' stories with the help of a Frankenstein monster like minion. "Just a few more pages Frankie," Bitsy said "And then i'll throw the switch and be the biggest story in town!"

"She's gone nutty kid, we've got to stop her." Diggs said

"How?" Doc asked

Diggs looked around until he spotted Humpty's body and he said "First, we're going to need a distraction while we put the Hump back together once and for all."

"I'll go!" Stuffy shouted before he grabbed Lambie and Chilly and ran forward yelling "CHARGE!"

Bitsy and Frankie looked down to see the three toys charging towards them and Bitsy sighed "You gotta be kidding me."

When the toys tried to grab her legs she gave them a big kick and knocked them all back to the ground. But the toys kept charging all the same. Meanwhile Diggs, Doc and Hallie were putting Humpty back together and they placed the last piece of the egg back into place the same time Bitsy threw the switch and...

ZAP! ZAP! ZAP!

Electricity sparked around the room, and some of those sparks hit Humpty and brought him back to life. The egg groaned as he rolled back up and said "What happened? Where am I?"

"Mr. Dumpty!" Doc exclaimed happily before she gave the egg a hug.

"It's good to have you back pal." Diggs said with a smile as he lifted his hat a bit.

"Diggs!" Humpty exclaimed "You're here... wherever here is."

They heard some evil laughter and turned to see Bitsy holding up a patched up book in the air as she said "Now I am the biggest story in town!"

"Bitsy! Stop this!" Humpty shouted, startling Bitsy as he came out into the open along with Diggs and Doc "This is madness! Stealing everyone's stories! I should have called the police when I have had the chance!"

"And I should have left you out to dry in the sun!" Bitsy said back before she held her book tight and said "Frankie! Get them!"

Frankie marched towards the group as Bitsy ran away with the book in her hands. Diggs and Humpty raised their fists ready to fight, when suddenly Frankie toppled over and landed with a thud on the ground, unable to get up again. They looked up and saw that Stuffy, Chilly and Lambie had tripped him with a cord and were smiling.

"Let's go after Bitsy!" Diggs said.

They ran after Bitsy as fast as they could before Invisible Manny and the monkeys jumped out and try to pounce them but Humpty and Diggs tackled them while Doc and her toys ran ahead to catch Bitsy. Diggs noticed and shouted "No Kid, it's dangerous!"

"I don't care, someone has to stop her!" Doc shouted before she ran outside with her toys.

Diggs couldn't help but smile as he said "That kid's got spunk." before he threw a punch at a monkey and went back to the brawl.

Doc and her toys ran outside in the pouring rain and chased after Bitsy all the way to the top, where lightening struck the top, revealing a large pipe as water went down it like a whirlpool. Bitsy was terrified by this.

"This can't be!" Bitsy exclaimed in fright "Not the waterspout!" Then she realized something else "Wait, where's my book?!"

"Here it is." Doc said.

Bitsy turned around to see Doc reading her patched up book and she snarled "Give that back to me you little brat!"

"Why should I?" Doc asked "It was never yours, all you did was patch this up with pages from other books! Besides, this story is so mixed up, it doesn't make since!"

"Give me the book you little beast." Bitsy said again "Or I'll rip it right out of your hands!"

Doc just frowned and began to rip pages right out of the book, sending the pages flying into the air, as Bitsy screamed and cried "What are you doing!?"

"I'm making sure everyone else has their stories!" Doc said, watching the pages magically fly back to the ground and rejoin the other pages in their proper books.

The moment Manny and his monkey goons were down and out, fallowing with Diggs covering the man in permanent ink, the egg and bookworm rushed to the top as fast as they could and by the time they reached the top Doc had torn out the last page out of Bitsy's book and tossed the cover away.

"Way a good kid!" Diggs said with a smile.

Doc smiled before Bitsy grabbed Doc and held the girl over the waterspout saying "Nobody move! Take another step closer and I will drop the kid down the spout!"

"You wouldn't dare!" Humpty exclaimed

Seeing Doc in danger made Diggs' blood boil in anger and without even thinking he marched up towards her and said "Alright Bitsy, you've gone too far, let her go or I'll rip that smug clean off your face!"

Bitsy was about to respond when Doc bit her lower arm, making her cry out in pain and Diggs pulled the girl out of the way and shoved Bitsy down the waterspout, but as Doc tried to grab on to him all she could grab was his hat before she watched Bitsy and Diggs go down the waterspout together.

"DIGGS!" Doc shouted in terror.

Then the tower began to shake before it began to fall apart and Humpty cried "The whole place is coming apart!"

"We gotta get outta here!" Lambie cried "I don't wanna get squished!"

"But... But Diggs..." Doc said as she looked down the spout.

"Come on my dear, we have to go!" Humpty said as he took her arm and they ran down the path as the spout came tumbling down along with the castle. Humpty, Doc, Lambie, Chilly and Stuffy ran for their lives out of the castle through the draw bridge before they ran up a hill and watched as the castle came crashing down until it was nothing but a pile of rubble.

After a moment of silence Doc held up Diggs' hat sadly and began to cry as her tears dripped down from her face to the hat.

Humpty placed his hand on the girl's shoulder gently and said "It happens sometimes in a line of duty, but Diggs Nightcrawler will always be remembered as a good man who sought out for the truth and justice till the bitter end."

"I... I want Diggs back..." Doc cried as her tears continued to fall down from her face "I... I wish I could be with him again..."

"Wish granted kid." said a voice from behind them.

With a loud gasp they turned and from behind a tree came Diggs Nightcrawler, soaking wet but safe and sound with a smile on his face as he wringed some water out of his clothes.

"DIGGS!" Doc cried happily before she tackled him in a hug and Diggs hugged her back.

"Diggs! You old codger you! We thought you had drowned!" Humpty said as he ran over to his friend while Doc gave him back his hat.

"I thought so too," Diggs said as he put his hat back on his head before he motioned to a pond behind him "But that spout worked two different ways. I went one way and Bitsy went the other. And luckily mine led to that duck pond over there."

Doc continued to hug him as she cried "I'm so glad your back Diggs, I... I would've have missed you so badly."

"Don't worry kid," Diggs said as he patted her back "Other then my soggy wet clothes and cold I'll probably get later, i'm fine. Now let's go return those stories and clear our names."