Author's Note: Hi hi! Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up, but I couldn't remember some of the dialouge, so I had to wing it. Oh yes, and before I forget, I changed it so that James isn't the Wicked Wizard of the East. So, best read just a little bit of the previous chapter. Ok? I found a better character for him. Is it the Tin Man? Maybe. The Lion? Possibly. Whomever it is, you'll just hafta wait and see!

Chapter 2~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Gee, Mr. Mayor, you didn't show me how to get to Indigo Plateau. Hello? Anybody?" Out of the corner of *her* eye, she saw something shiny. She turned around there was a 'scarecrow' hanging on a pole, nothing else but farmland. Dorothy sighed and went back to talking to *herself.* "I wonder which way the munchkins went." The scarecrow pointed in both directions in which the road led. "Well, which? Right or left?" The scarecrow switched the arms around, but they were still pointing in two directions. "Hey! You moved!" Dorothy exclaimed (can you say delayed reaction?) The scarecrow dropped both arms and nodded. "Can you talk?"

"I dunno. I never tried."

"Well, you're talking now."

"Why so I am! Easy, ain't it?"

"Easiest thing in the world, my mom says." Dorothy's eyes welled up with tears. "Oh, I miss my mommy so much. . ."

"Oh, if talking was hard, I'd never be able to do it."

"Well, why not?"

"I haven't got a brain!"

"How do you know?"

"It says so in the script! Wait, I mean. . The farmer that stuffed me left it out."

"I wouldn't worry. Plenty of people get along fine without brains."

"Have you got a brain?"

"Why, of course!" ::audience bursts into laughter:: "Shut up!"

"Well, don't you think it's foolish for me to be stuck up on this pole for the rest of my life?"

"I think I can reach. . ." She stood on her tip-toes and pulled out the nail that was pinning the scarecrow onto the pole. Misty . . I mean the scarecrow stumbled down onto the ground.

"Thank you! Now that I can walk, where shall we go?" The scarecrow asked while walking around to stretch it's legs.

"I've got to find the munchkins."

"They went off. . . there." Yet again, it crossed its arms and pointed in both directions.

"How could they have gone both ways?"

"They were afraid of the witch and ran in all directions, I guess."

"Well, which way is the village."

"If I had any brains, I'd say it was off there." The scarecrow pointed eastward.

"Why there?"

"Most of them ran that way."

"That's were I'll go then." Dorothy started walking rather fast eastward. The scarecrow ran up to *her.*

"After you find the munchkins, you're going to see the great Zo, right?"

Dorothy nodded definitely. "I'm going to ask him to send me back to Pallet."

"Do you think the great Zo could give me brains?"

"I don't see why not."

The scarecrow sighed a happy sigh. "Could I go with you Dorothy?"

"Of course. If you're willing to go all that way just to get a brain."

"A brain. Ah if I only had a brain. . ."