A/N: Okay, from now onwards, I will tell you my Insanity Degree in every chapter, so you will expect what will happen in this one.
INSANITY DEGREE: (jolted up) 169.3328 (THANK GOD)
Disclaimer: HARRY POTTER, characters, names and related indicia belongs to Warner Bros. Harry Potter Publishing Rights belongs to J. K. Rowling. Apache helicopters belong to the Apache company. (I think so. But one thing's for sure. I DON'T OWN THEM!!!! SO DON'T SUE ME!!!!). Sonic the Hedgehog and related indicia belongs to SEGA. And again Teletubbies belong to whoever who owns it.
Chapter 9
The Pogo-Wogo Journey
The next morning, all of them found themselves wet (The ice melted overnight). "WHY ARE WE WET..." The victims turned their faces at Hermione.
BOOM!
The light could be seen from outside. Hermione became blacker than coal.
"Come on, let's go," said a frustrated Albus Dumbledore.
They grouped outside the hotel. Abraham Peasegood was outside as well. "Dumbledore, why are you drenched?"
"Forget about it. Anyway, what's our transport?"
He led them to the back of the building. What they saw over there surprised everybody.
Seven pogo sticks.
"What are those?" Ron asked.
"Pogo sticks. If you use a car, the border guards will catch you. But pogo sticks, they are POLLUTION FREE! They don't even use fuel! They oughta be the TRANSPORT OF THE FUTURE! Imagine, one car park space could fill 50 POGO STICKS!"
"First of all, how do you use a pogo stick?"
"Firstly, jump onto them. See these? Your feet should cling onto them just like bicycle pedals! Push your feet downwards on these stationary pedals so that the spring below contracts. Release and the spring will blast the stick upwards and you'll go bouncing all the way to Miami!!!! Actually the normal pogo stick is just 4 feet tall but since it's a trip to Miami, we need a bigger one. So, I modified 7 pogo sticks and they are now 8 feet tall."
"Cool!" Ron remarked, "Let me try!" He climbed up a long ladder next to the nearest pogo stick and jumped on it. "Now, push your feet downwards and..."
Suddenly, the long pogo stick lurched forward and after some panicking, Ron actually got the hang of it.
"I doing it!"
"Go, Ron!!!!!!!!"
But all of a sudden, he raised his hands from the handle. "Look ma! NO HANDS!!!"
"NO NO NO!!!" But it was too late. The pogo stick slammed onto the ground.
Abraham shook his head. "Never EVER try the "No Hander" trick on pogo sticks. They never work on pogo sticks."
Soon, everyone climbed up their pogo sticks and started practicing. McGonagall got the hang of it but suddenly she tripped over Dumbledore's pogo stick and both fell down. Hermione wanted to bounce on Harry's head but Harry wanted to bounce on Hermione's head so the results was both heads knocked together (OUCH!). Sirius and Remus bounced up and down simultaneously and every now and then they would high-five but the 'One Hander' trick also could not work so...CRASH!
"Enough practice!" But Harry at last managed to bounce on Hermione's head. She then fell down.
"I see stars," said Hermione.
"Now, the road is a straight-forward one. Just follow the signs and don't get lost. Dumbledore, you're in charge of all of them. I pasted a map on your pogo stick just in case you get lost. On your marks!"
They all jumped on their pogo sticks.
"Get set!"
Their feet pushed down the spring and they leaned forward.
"GO!!!!"
They released the spring and they went bouncing all the way to Miami.
"Wish you luck," Abraham muttered. "Dumbledore."
They were having trouble going forward but after a mile past they got used to seeing things go up and down. Across the fields they went and then they saw a busy road. The highway!
"Rush hour! Bounce on the cars!" ordered Dumbledore.
All of them bounced on the zooming cars. They were then out of control. They turned sideways and backwards and slantways and they went in every direction there is. And finally there was a traffic jam. They bounced on the stationary cars with ease. Suddenly they accidentally went onto another road which was filled with zooming cars.
Dumbledore looked at the map, "This is the way!"
Every now and then they would fall of a car but luckily they would jump back onto another car before they would be crushed. And suddenly they met up with a small tunnel.
"We'll never make it through this small tunnel on these high pogo sticks," said Hermione.
Dumbledore thought then he saw a long stick, "The pogo sticks can get through without us! We are going to go over the hill!" He then grabbed the long stick.
"Grab the stick!"
All of them clutched at the stick.
"NOW JUMP!"
Everybody thought it was crazy but they did so. The pogo sticks went into the tunnel like they had invisible riders. Dumbledore drove the stick through the soil and they "pole vaulted" over the hill.
"WWHHHOOOAAAA!!!!"
They screamed and then they heard Dumbledore.
"LET GO!!!!!"
They did so and they saw their pogo sticks emerge from the other end of the tunnel and they landed right on their transports. After a about 30 miles on bouncing motion Dumbledore saw a subway.
"In the subway!"
They bounced down the stairs and into the station. A few seconds later then bounced back up the stairs as fast as possible.
"YIKES!!!"
An orange train flew up the stairs, into the air, And crashed upside down on the road. The train blocked the cars from proceeding. Suddenly...BOOM!! The train exploded causing the cars to be on fire.
"We got the road to ourselves!" said Remus with relief.
"How come the train went off its tracks just like that?" questioned Ron.
"Well, I think the incident at The Underground back at England has caused some trouble in the track system and it spread to America," replied Dumbledore.
They bounced around the empty road when suddenly, "SURRENDER OR WE WILL FIRE!!!!"
A black helicopter came up and trailed the pogo sticks. Then a weapon came out of the helicopter and started firing bullets.
"YAAAAHHH!!!"
They bounced around avoiding the bullets they shot. Then the helicopter started releasing missiles. Then the helicopter zoomed in front of them and turned around and started firing another hail of bullets. Missiles then joined the chaos. Then the helicopter released bouncing grenades and the gang avoided all their ammunition in one go. Then the helicopter came low to the road until it was a few inches off the ground.
"Bounce on the helicopter!!!!"
They all bounced on the helicopter and then it rolled and crashed at a nearby farm.
"THAT SHOULD TAKE CARE OF THEM!!!"
They followed Dumbledore's orders turning at junctions along bridges and in some obstacles such as rocky hills and narrow beams over huge gorges. And they took some shortcuts stated in the map.
Then after about a 100 miles later they started to become tired.
"How long more?" questioned Sirius slowing down.
"We must reach Miami before it's too late," said McGonagall.
They went for another hour in the nice quiet road when Dumbledore looked at the map.
"We must go to Interstate 14!"
"Another highway chaos!" replied Harry.
"Not again!" said Hermione.
They bounced up a hill and went directly into a busy highway. They bounced on the cars again. But this time the cars were much faster. they went here and there so much that Dumbledore could only see blurs.
He looked at the map and then looked up, "We missed a junction!"
"OH NO!!!!"
Dumbledore thought furiously and looked at the map. He looked up again and saw an extremely high bridge.
"WE MUST GO OVER THE BRIDGE!!!!!"
He then saw another extremely long stick and then they pole vaulted over the bridge (this time while carrying their pogo sticks). On the way down they realized that on the side of the bridge is a cliff so...
"AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!"
The fell down and then they hit the ground on their springs and they blasted to the air and then they saw a theme park...
"We are in ORLANDO! This is Disneyland!"
They then landed on a roller coaster and they bounced off the ride. And they landed 155 miles away. Which was a dangling wooden bridge. The bridge shook, over an extremely high and wide canyon.
"OH NO!!!!"
They bounced along the long shaking bridge. The bouncing force of the pogo sticks made it shake more violently. And to make matters worse...
"SURRENDER NOW OR WE WILL FIRE!!!!"
A giant plane (that can hover on rockets) rose from the bottom of the canyon.
"First an Apache helicopter. Now, a humungous GOLIATH C-944!!!!" yelled Hermione trying to keep the pogo stick's balance on the shaking bridge.
"How did you know that?" said Ron with the same difficulty as Hermione.
"MUGGLE STUDIES!!!!"
Then balls of electricity shot were shot out from the cannons. The gang tried to dodge the electric balls while keeping balance of the bridge. Then two sharp poles stuck out of the front and then.....ZZZZAAAAPPPPP!!!!
An electric beam (a 100 times more powerful than Harry's Tremendous Thunderbolt) shot out from the zappers. It was unbelievable that bridge was still intact.
"WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?"
Then three cannon-shaped funnels came out from under it. Then steam came out. The gang knew what was going to happen...VVVRRROOOMMM!!!
A fire stream blasted out of the funnels. Then the "flame streamers" rotated around and the fire stream burned the bridge. Luckily the gang was not incinerated. BUT...the bridge was on fire so it won't take long for it to break...
"HOLD IT!"
Then, a hatch on the top of the huge machine and there stood a plump and bald man with an orange moustache. His head is really oval and his suit is red at the top and black at the bottom with a yelllow stripe criss-crossing at the bottom. Harry groaned. He is DR. ROBOTNIK!!!!
"You aren't that measly hedgehog! Scratch, Grounder, what is the meaning of this?"
Out of a bush, came two robots. One looks much like a chicken, another robot was shorter, green and had drills for his nose, and hands.
"Oh, oh," said the chicken-like robot. "You lead Dr. Robotnik to nothing but humans . Oh no! You are in big trouble.
"Nope," said Grounder. "You told me, 'Get on with it. Get that hedgehog!' You are in big trouble!"
"BOTH OF YOU ARE IN GREAT TROUBLE!!!!!!" Dr. Robotnik lost his patience. "I want that hedgehog! This is planet Earth!!!! NOT MOBIUS!!!!!"
Then, a short blue person came down a hill like lightning. He was wearing a yellow helmet...in other words, he is a mechanic.
"May I speak to Dr. Robotnik, sirs?" he asked the two robots.
"Erm, yes."
The huge machine landed itself onto the other side of the canyon.
"NOW WHAT?"
The blue mechanic said, "By the look of that machine, it has ran out of fuel, or the engine has gone berserk!"
Dr. Robotnik replied, "I definitely refilled the machine, so that means my engine has gone berserk?"
"Exactly."
He opened a hatch to reveal the engine. Thousands of wires linking together to form the most complex system.
Harry began to notice that the blue mechanic has five blue thorny spikes down his back. He also noticed the red and white sneakers he's wearing. Suddenly, he knew who the blue mechanic was. He was SONIC THE HEDGEHOG IN DISGUISE!!!!!!
Sonic began to jumble up the wires and sometimes, he even added CHILI DOGS inside.
"You can test it out, sir," Sonic said to Dr. Robotnik.
"Well then, SSSSS SQUAD (Super Sonic Special Search and Smash Squad)! We continue our search!"
The plump villain closed his hatch and after a moment of silence, then...
"AAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!" Now the engine has REALLY GONE BERSERK!"
The transport lifted itself into the air, and did 360s, looped, rolled and all sorts of stuff. Then the mechanic took out a steel bar and threw it into a turbofan that was on engine. The turbofan jammed and the engine exploded causing it to roll downwards spinning and looping into its doom below.
It was that when Dr. Robotnik knew who the blue mechanic was.
"I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!!!!"
A loud explosion could be heard at 20,000 feet above the ground.
Afterwards Harry and the gang continued their Pogo-Wogo journey on that hard-to-pass bridge. The bridge shook more violently and the gang concentrated so much in balancing their pogo sticks, they forgot about the part of the bridge that was burning...
"AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!"
The bridge ripped beneath the springs of the of pogo sticks. Then they fell down spring-first onto the canyon ground below. They thought they were about to die when suddenly the springs bounced of the floor and they flew into the air.
"OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Harry as his pogo stick almost touched the clouds.
"LEAN FORWARD!!!!" Dumbledore ordered.
They all did that and they were traveling forwards in the air.
"PUT YOURSELVES IN UPRIGHT POSITION!!!"
Then they saw the ground. But they cannot keep control of their pogo sticks and they tumbled on the ground.
"URGH!! Our pogo sticks are damaged!" said Remus lifting his bent transport, "We can never make it there without any fast transport."
Hermione stood up seeing the world going up and down even though she was not on a pogo stick. Dumbledore got up and saw a beach.
"A beach? What is that signboard?"
He pointed at the signboard which read...
WELCOME TO SUNNY MIAMI, FLORIDA!!!!!!!
"IT'S HERE!!!!! THIS IS MIAMI!!!!! WE'RE HERE!!!!!!!!"
They all danced around singing the Teletubbies song. And then the people on the beach stared at the gang. Dumbledore cast the Mass-Memory Charm on the sunbathing Muggles and then they put on the Invisibilty Cloak.
"Okay," Dumbledore said. "Plan 1: To infiltrate Florida, successful. Now, get ready for Plan 2: Find the Voldie."
A/N: Again, I will never watch Sonic the Hedgehog ever again.
NEXT ON MARAUDERS' BUTT 2: Where is Lord Voldemort? Even if they find out the answer, how do they get there?