Chapter 6

In the lodging house

Owl sat on her bunk

"What we need" she said "are walkie talkies"

"What?" Skittery said.

"Little transmitters that let you talk back and forth" Owl said

"Why can't we just talk like normal people?" he asked

Owl sighed dramatically "Not us" she said "Everyone else"

"And how are we'se supposed ta get these things?" he asked.

Owl shrugged.

"Good plan" Skitts said sarcastically.

Owl jumped up wanting to have fun now.

"Alright Captain Skittery" she said "go stand watch by the door"

"Stand watch for what?" he asked

"Intruders" Owl said simply "here use this" she said handing him Bumlets spare stick thing.

Skittery shrugged and walked down stairs. He stopped next to the door and looking around to make sure no one was watching and started to make airplane noises and pretend like he was an army general.

"Bang bang your dead" he said pointing the stick at the coat rack.

Owl snickered loudly at the top of the stairs, just as Kloppman walked in "Skittery" he mumbled so it sounded more like henry "are you ok son?"

Skittery whirled around seeing kloppman and then Owl.

He dropped the stick "I didn't do it." he said

Owl grinned "Sure ya didn't" she said descending the stairs

"Aww be quiet" he said then looked at her "Don't tell anyone alright"

Owl nodded "Ff you're nice" she said

"I am nice" he protested

Owl rolled her eyes at him for the tenth time that day

"Common it's six" she said leading him out the door.


At tibbys, the clock reads 5:59


Pandemonium-it was the only way to explain it, chaos rocked tibby's walls as the newsies and girls all stood shouting their stories, to people across the room.
Tibby himself stood shaking his head trying to decide which was worse, the yelling or the random songs and dances.
Either way he was wishing that the newsies would leave his restaurant to the normal people, but it wasn't meant to be for the newsies had already chased away any hope of Tibby's ever being for regular fine upstanding citizens.

"Quiet down-Quiet quiet!!" Jack yelled doing his little arm waving thing like he did at the rally.

Flame pushed past him "That ain't gonna work" she snapped and whistled sharply causing everyone to stop and stare at her.

"Everyone shut up!" she yelled then satisfied that they we're all quiet, or gaping she sat down.

"We've come a long way!" Jack yelled, the females in the room rolled their eyes, "Aww shut up Jackey-boy" Clink said. Filly pushed him down and I stood on the table.

"Listen, the Evil One is stronger then we thought. he obviously has forces everywhere-but we can do it, I mean sure some of us were turned into last months breakfast, and others look like they are lacking all oxygen but common it's not that bad." I said trying to convince them.

"Yeah but!" Amber exclaimed which just got everyone started again.

"Hey you don't see Race complaining do you?" I asked in a last ditch effort to make them pay attention.

"Actually I don't see Race at all" Owl said looking around "where is he?"

Everyone stopped and looked around the room silent.

Evil cave:

"I'm in here!!" Race yelled from the bathroom "Patch tell um where I am"

Patch rolled her eyes "if I could do that wouldn't I have already told them where we are Einstein?"

Race pouted in the bathtub and picked up the rubber duck.

"You'd tell them where I was right? Yeah I know you would" he said giving the duck a kiss on the head.

He stood up and wrote a quick note on a piece of a tissue, sticking it onto the duck with some toothpaste he threw the duck out the barred windows

"Fly Fly!!!" he yelled. The duck fell and bounced a few feet.

"Donald talk to me!!" Race yelled down to the duck. The ducks painted black eyes stared up at him

"I'm so sorry!!!" Race yelled holding onto the bars and sliding down to the floor.

"Racetrack Higgins what are you doing in there?" Patch yelled.

"Oh god I can't let her see what I did" he thought. Thinking quickly he stood up and blocked the window just as Patch walked in.

She looked around "We're you talking to someone?" she asked

"No of course not, I mean who would I be talking to, theirs no one to talk to, not that your not someone, I mean.." he swallowed heavily.

Patch gave him a weird look and walked out. Race breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to the window to stare at his departed Donald. ((AN added months after this part was written: I just realized how much Race was like Lennie from Of Mice and Men in this part. "I done a bad thing, Patch won't let me tend no rabbits…ok sorry I was reading through this and starting laughing cause well I wrote it before I read the book, and I find it amusing. end Authors random babble on that subject))



Back at Tibby's

"Filly you Jake and Clink we're with him, did he come here with you?" Jack asked. The three looked at each other.

"Well no not exactly." Jake started

"what do you mean not exactly you were supposed to stick together!" Jack yelled Filly glared at him

"It wasn't our fault he snuck off to fix his hair." Clink slapped her hand over her mouth.

Jewel shot her a look.

"Please do tell" I said.

Clink Jake and Filly told their story switching back in forth so much that we were in danger of getting neck cricks from looking back in forth between them.

When they finished everyone looked at each other and burst out laughing "that's the funniest thing I've ever heard" Candy said

"See I'm not alone" Clink proclaimed.

Once the laughter died down Blink said "but we gotta find him"

Everyone nodded, lets all go to the lodging house and we'll start again in the morning.

"But.." I started.

Before I could finish Les came running in screaming like the little girl he was

"Help meeeeee" he screeched quivering behind Jack.

"What's wrong?" Jewel asked in her compassionate voice she reserved for times like this. All the sudden Sarah came running in her hair a mess, a huge afro puff of brown hair, her clothes all wrinkled, and bandages all over her fingers

"Ooooh Les come out come out wherever you are" she cooed holding out a fist-full of doilies and bowties.

"I made these just for you!!" Les screeched and took off again.

Sarah stopped and looked around foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog. She set her eyes on the group terrifying them all.

"Run!!!!" Copper yelled.

The group took off throwing food and tipping chairs they piled out of the resturant "Help she got me!" Boots yelled, Jack whirled around and pulled boots from Sarah's grasp dragging the boy to the lodging house where the group already was. Sarah stood up growling and ran after them Jack and Boots pounded on the door "Let us in!!" They yelled looking quickly over their shoulders at the fast approaching Sarah

"Hurry!" Jack yelled. The sounds of moving furniture was still reverberating through the room.

Jack grabbed the doily clad Boots and ran up the fire escape and went in through the window.

Breathing heavily they were met by Sweetface and JM who thinking they we're sarah shot shaving cream all over them

"Hey!!" they yelled. The two girls looked at the boys

"ooh sorry" JM said "yeah we thought you were Sarah" Sweetface said.

Jack nodded as boots locked the window.

Sarah's outraged scream shook the house as she stormed away.

"Might as well shave" Jack said walking into the bathroom. He looked around for his razor picking up towels and other paraphanelia.

"Where's my razor?" he asked no one in general.

Sweetface turned a nice shad of red "I dunno maybe Mush took it"

Jack looked puzzled "Maybe" and then went downstairs to talk to him.

Sweetface breathed a sigh of relief and took the razor out of her pocket she stuck it under her mattress.

She got back downstairs in time to hear Mush proclaim "I don't know what your talking about Jack! I didn't take nothin'"

Solid nodded "Mush would never do such a thing"

"Yeah he has class!" Apple threw in.

The people in the room pretended to gag themselves at this obnoxious show of affection.

"Um whose up for cards?" Sweetface asked trying to change the subject.

A few people agreed and Jack went back upstairs to wash his face returning a few minutes later.


Back in the cave mwahahaha

Evil came into the room a few hours later holding a bag from McDonalds.

"Honey I'm home" he cooed his voice dripping with sarcasm.

Patch looked up "food!

"Wait McDonalds…I may not be a history buff but I'm pretty sure there is no McDonalds in 1899"

"no kidding" he sneered

"then…you know how to get back!" she said the light bulb clicking on. NOT that she was going to go back without a kiss from Blink.

"Of course I do..." he started then looked around "Where's Racetrack?" he screeched

"Oh chill and go pick some more flowers he's in the bathroom" Patch said glaring at him.

"Don't get mouthy kelli" he warned dropping the food on the table in front of her. Race sniffed the air, a strange smell was wafting in from under the door.

"Patch?" he asked in a whinny voice "Patch what is that?"

"Come on out and see" she said trying to coax him from the bathroom.

Race took a deep breath trying to decide and finally stuck his hand out a small crack in the door.

Patch rolled her eyes and him and handed him a wrapped Big Mac. He studied it and took a bite

"Patch this tastes like paper" he whimpered.

"Unwrap it idgit" Patch said losing her patience quickly due to a lot of un-forseen tension.

"Oh-right I know, meant to" he stumbled and unwrapped the burger taking a bite he savored the taste, dabbed at the corner of his mouth with a towel and proclaimed "this is good, what is it?"

"A big Mac" she said eating a fry on the other side of the door. Race looked puzzled "whose max and why am I eating him?"

Patch stifled her laughter and said "M-A-C not M-A-X"

"oh ok then" he said and went back to eating.


Meanwhile Evil One had found pokey who was writing love poems to "her johnny" in the other room.

"Have you kept an eye on them like I told you to?" Evil One asked towering over her.

"Yes mister Evil Sir" she said with a goofy grin that would have made even solid and apple sick to their stomachs.

He nodded and flashed her a pearly white smile that nearly blinded the poor girl. Pokey picked up her pair of Ray-ban sunglasses and put them on still smiling up at her beloved evil.


Race finished his burger and looked in the mirror, He tugged at the sides of the shower cap trying to make it cover all of his hair but to no avail, defeated and duckless he plopped back down in the tube to get some sleep.

Patch sighed sure that they would never get out of there. She looked at the big glass ball and watched everyone sit down to play poker, she zoomed in on Blink who was sitting next to Mush and Amber

"That should be me" she muttered flicking off the ball and turning over to go to sleep.


Chapter 7