With Hamtaro, Nin-Ham, Caitlin, Penelope, and Stella...
Hamtaro was thinking of his conversation with Officer Bob the previous night when he looked at the time. It was around twelve o'clock in the afternoon. He sighed and said, "OK, now that we're looking, how are we gonna find them?"
Caitlin glanced upward at Hamtaro and replied, "I dunno, really. We could probably find them somewhere in this city." Nin-Ham nodded and remarked, "They couldn't have gone far with those two, could they?" "Ookyoo! Ookwee! Ookwee!" Penelope shouted. "I wonder what that little twerp is saying," Stella muttered.
The group sat down on a bench together. Hamtaro steadily shut his eyes. When he opened them, Hamtaro was at the start of a maze. "Heke?" he inquired loudly as he looked around. Hamtaro looked in front of him and saw someone very familiar...
"Officer Tom!" Hamtaro shouted. Officer Tom grinned his demented grin and said, "Come and get me, Hamtaro." "Give me back my friend!" Hamtaro demanded. Officer Tom let out a hideous laugh and pointed to four forts in different parts of the maze. "You'll have to get to me at those four checkmarks before time runs out," he said as he disappeared.
"Come back!" Hamtaro demanded as he looked around. "I'll get to you! Don't you worry!" He then heard a hideous laugh from all directions.
Meanwhile, Caitlin was looking at Hamtaro asleep on the bench as he twitched and twisted. "Hamtaro? Hamtaro!" Caitlin shouted as she shook him. Nin-Ham, Penelope, and Stella stared as they watched her shake him and try to get him to wake up.
"There's something wrong!" Caitlin panicked after trying to get Hamtaro out of sleep. "We need to get him somewhere, and fast!" "I'll call someone!" Nin-Ham suggested as he ran to a pay phone. "What's happening, Hamtaro?" Stella inquired. "Ookyoo," Penelope whispered.
Meantime, Hamtaro kept running into dead ends in the maze. "I can't just go to any checkpoint," he mumbled. "I have to find him at the one he's at right now..."
At every dead end was a message that made Hamtaro more determined to find Officer Tom at the checkpoints. "What does this one say?" Hamtaro asked himself when he found another dead end. It said, "Don't worry, Hamtaro. Plenty of hamsters like you don't make it out alive." Another said, "You better hurry before time runs out. Once time runs out, you'll never be able to get out."
"I've got to find him at these four checkpoints and get out before time runs out, or I'll never rescue Boss!" Hamtaro shouted as he bumped into walls and tripped over rocks that were placed in random places in the maze. "Or Mike...in this case...I guess..."
After about ten minutes, Hamtaro saw wooden stairs come into view. "I've reached the first checkpoint!" Hamtaro shouted as he climbed the stairs. In the checkpoint was a flaming mad Officer Tom. "You better start worrying, Hamtaro, because the next checkpoint is harder," Officer Tom told Hamtaro as he disappeared. Once again, Hamtaro heard Officer Tom's hideous laugh filled with his rage.
In the meantime, the group was carrying Hamtaro to the hospital. "What's wrong, Hamtaro?" Caitlin whispered as they entered the hospital.
Stella raced to the front desk and yelled, "Hey, Nurse! We need help!" Nurse walked up to the front desk and replied, "Hello, Stella. Where's Mike and your son?" Stella turned bright red and responded, "That wasn't our son. Who told you that?" "You, Stella," Nurse acknowledged.
Caitlin walked up to the front desk and retorted, "Oh, yeah. He told me about that third day..." "Shut up! We have an emergency!" Stella demanded. "Hamtaro's over here dying!" Nin-Ham shouted.
Nurse jumped upward and ordered, "Bring him back to the emergency room. Doctor will see him before it's too late."
Meanwhile, Hamtaro was still searching for the second checkpoint. "Dang, this is hard," Hamtaro muttered as he ran into another dead end. The message said, "If you don't find me, there's no way you can get out or save your friend. Bwa ha haa!"
" 'Bwa ha haa,' my butt," Hamtaro mocked as he turned around and took another way. "I heard that!" Officer Tom's voice yelled from every direction.
Contiguesly Hamtaro saw the wooden stairs of the next checkpoint. He flew up the stairs and shouted, "And you said this would be harder!" The raging Officer Tom glared at him, grinned a malevolent grin, and formed a demented look in his eyes. "Don't you worry about that," he returned as he disappeared once more.
Hamtaro nodded and flew down the stairs back into the maze. "I won't!" he shouted as he accidentally ran into a wall. Hamtaro looked around him and gasped. There were four different ways to go.
"It's time for my Super Sniffer!" Hamtaro shouted as he sniffed the air. "Hif-hif, hif-hif," he sniffed. Hamtaro looked down the far left one and knew it had to be the one. So he rushed down it, and, to his surprise, the checkpoint's wooden stairs were only a few turns away.
When Hamtaro got up the stairs to the checkpoint, Officer Tom yelled, "You'll never get through this next one! You better start wishing upon a star." He pointed upward to the roof of the checkpoint. It was a night sky with stars and the moon.
"I won't have to wish upon a star!" Hamtaro returned. Officer Tom grinned his malevolent grin and disappeared once again. "I'll find you at the next checkpoint!" Hamtaro shouted into the air. He then heard the hideous laugh of Officer Tom's rage.
In the meantime, Doctor was trying to find Hamtaro's pulse in the emergency room. "He's fine, but I don't understand this twitching and not being able to be woken up," he told the group. Hamtaro's body twitched on the table in the emergency room. "Uh," he whispered.
Doctor then continued, "He's in some type of coma, but he doesn't appear to be hurt on the outside. Hamtaro is hurt on the inside." "Oh, no," Caitlin mumbled. "So, how long will this take?" Stella inquired.
Doctor shook his head and replied, "He might be in one state that if he doesn't complete something in his head before time runs out, Hamtaro might never wake up."
Caitlin nodded slowly and asked, "Do you have a phone?" "Outside in the hallway," the doctor answered. She nodded again and stepped out of the room. When she found the phone, Caitlin picked it up in her paws and dialed the clubhouse's phone number.
"Hello? This is Maxwell," Maxwell answered on the other line. "Hey, Max, this is Caitlin. Is Bijou around?" Caitlin asked. "Hold on, Caitlin," Maxwell told her.
A few minutes later, Bijou stated, "Hello? Caitlin?" "Bijou," Caitlin started, "there's something wrong with Hamtaro." "Hamtaro? There's something wrong with him?!" Bijou panicked. Caitlin replied, "Bijou, he's asleep, and he won't wake up. Doctor said that if he doesn't complete something in his mind before time runs out, Hamtaro may never wake up."
Bijou screamed and hung up the phone. "Bijou? Bijou!" Caitlin shouted but only heard a slight beeping noise. She hung up the phone and walked back into the emergency room.
Meanwhile, Hamtaro raced down the stairs from the third checkpoint. He glanced around and saw that there were only two ways to go. A sign in between the two pathways said: "Both lead to the checkpoint, but one is more deadly than the other. Choose wisely."
Hamtaro read the sign a few times while he thought of which way to go. "The best way last time was left, so now the best one will be...right!" Hamtaro shouted as he started down the right pathway.
Immediately Hamtaro heard Officer Tom's hideous laugh. "No, this is wrong!" Hamtaro panicked as he turned around to go back, but there was only a wall where the door previously was. "Oh, no," Hamtaro whispered as he turned back around. "It's not a maze now, it's a death trap."
Hamtaro swallowed hard as he stepped forward a step. Contiguesly he saw an overflowing, raging lake in front of him. Hamtaro read the sign at the side of the lake. It read: "Swim across this lake to make it through to the other side."
"I saw this on TV!" Hamtaro shouted as he bent over. He sucked a mouth full of water out of the lake and spat it back out as he turned around. Hamtaro did it a few more times before he finally stopped. "But TV isn't real life," he muttered reluctantly. "I've really got to swim across. This ought to be quite interesting..."
Hamtaro walked into the lake until it was waist high. "Hamtaro, if you don't do this, time will run out, and you'll never get out," he told himself as he stepped more forward. Hamtaro walked into the water until it reached his neck.
The deeply dark blue lake tried to knock him off of his feet, but Hamtaro stood firmly. When an unexpected wave hit him, Hamtaro lost grip of the ground, but he didn't go under the water. Instead, he quickly remembered humans floating on their back at the city pool, so he laid back on his back.
"Man, humans must do this a lot," Hamtaro muttered as he laid back on his back in the water. He tried to reach the ground again, but Hamtaro hadn't realized he'd been swept into the deeper water.
"Stay on your back, Hamtaro," he whispered as the raging lake took him across it. When Hamtaro felt the ground, he jumped upward and looked around. "Humans must do that when they're in too deep water," Hamtaro told himself as he shook himself dry.
Afterward, Hamtaro raced forward. After a minute of running, he suddenly saw a blast of fire in front of him. "Oh, great," Hamtaro whispered as he looked at the sign. It read: "Cross through the fire without being burned."
"I've never heard of anything so ridiculous!" Hamtaro critisized as he looked through the fire. He saw a figure on the other side of the fire. "That must be the checkpoint!" Hamtaro shouted as he ran through the center of the fire.
When he got to the other side, there was only another pathway. "Now, what was I doing?" Hamtaro asked himself as he peered behind himself. The fire was behind him. "So that's what I did then," Hamtaro mumbled as he paced forward.
In the meantime, Doctor was watching Hamtaro. Nin-Ham, Caitlin, Penelope, and Stella had gone to go to lunch. Doctor felt Hamtaro's fur and couldn't figure out why it was drenched. A second later, it felt as if Hamtaro's fur had come out of a clothes dryer.
"That's strange," Doctor said to himself as he wrote the changes down on a pad of paper. "I'll have to do some research on this..."
Hamtaro was thinking of his conversation with Officer Bob the previous night when he looked at the time. It was around twelve o'clock in the afternoon. He sighed and said, "OK, now that we're looking, how are we gonna find them?"
Caitlin glanced upward at Hamtaro and replied, "I dunno, really. We could probably find them somewhere in this city." Nin-Ham nodded and remarked, "They couldn't have gone far with those two, could they?" "Ookyoo! Ookwee! Ookwee!" Penelope shouted. "I wonder what that little twerp is saying," Stella muttered.
The group sat down on a bench together. Hamtaro steadily shut his eyes. When he opened them, Hamtaro was at the start of a maze. "Heke?" he inquired loudly as he looked around. Hamtaro looked in front of him and saw someone very familiar...
"Officer Tom!" Hamtaro shouted. Officer Tom grinned his demented grin and said, "Come and get me, Hamtaro." "Give me back my friend!" Hamtaro demanded. Officer Tom let out a hideous laugh and pointed to four forts in different parts of the maze. "You'll have to get to me at those four checkmarks before time runs out," he said as he disappeared.
"Come back!" Hamtaro demanded as he looked around. "I'll get to you! Don't you worry!" He then heard a hideous laugh from all directions.
Meanwhile, Caitlin was looking at Hamtaro asleep on the bench as he twitched and twisted. "Hamtaro? Hamtaro!" Caitlin shouted as she shook him. Nin-Ham, Penelope, and Stella stared as they watched her shake him and try to get him to wake up.
"There's something wrong!" Caitlin panicked after trying to get Hamtaro out of sleep. "We need to get him somewhere, and fast!" "I'll call someone!" Nin-Ham suggested as he ran to a pay phone. "What's happening, Hamtaro?" Stella inquired. "Ookyoo," Penelope whispered.
Meantime, Hamtaro kept running into dead ends in the maze. "I can't just go to any checkpoint," he mumbled. "I have to find him at the one he's at right now..."
At every dead end was a message that made Hamtaro more determined to find Officer Tom at the checkpoints. "What does this one say?" Hamtaro asked himself when he found another dead end. It said, "Don't worry, Hamtaro. Plenty of hamsters like you don't make it out alive." Another said, "You better hurry before time runs out. Once time runs out, you'll never be able to get out."
"I've got to find him at these four checkpoints and get out before time runs out, or I'll never rescue Boss!" Hamtaro shouted as he bumped into walls and tripped over rocks that were placed in random places in the maze. "Or Mike...in this case...I guess..."
After about ten minutes, Hamtaro saw wooden stairs come into view. "I've reached the first checkpoint!" Hamtaro shouted as he climbed the stairs. In the checkpoint was a flaming mad Officer Tom. "You better start worrying, Hamtaro, because the next checkpoint is harder," Officer Tom told Hamtaro as he disappeared. Once again, Hamtaro heard Officer Tom's hideous laugh filled with his rage.
In the meantime, the group was carrying Hamtaro to the hospital. "What's wrong, Hamtaro?" Caitlin whispered as they entered the hospital.
Stella raced to the front desk and yelled, "Hey, Nurse! We need help!" Nurse walked up to the front desk and replied, "Hello, Stella. Where's Mike and your son?" Stella turned bright red and responded, "That wasn't our son. Who told you that?" "You, Stella," Nurse acknowledged.
Caitlin walked up to the front desk and retorted, "Oh, yeah. He told me about that third day..." "Shut up! We have an emergency!" Stella demanded. "Hamtaro's over here dying!" Nin-Ham shouted.
Nurse jumped upward and ordered, "Bring him back to the emergency room. Doctor will see him before it's too late."
Meanwhile, Hamtaro was still searching for the second checkpoint. "Dang, this is hard," Hamtaro muttered as he ran into another dead end. The message said, "If you don't find me, there's no way you can get out or save your friend. Bwa ha haa!"
" 'Bwa ha haa,' my butt," Hamtaro mocked as he turned around and took another way. "I heard that!" Officer Tom's voice yelled from every direction.
Contiguesly Hamtaro saw the wooden stairs of the next checkpoint. He flew up the stairs and shouted, "And you said this would be harder!" The raging Officer Tom glared at him, grinned a malevolent grin, and formed a demented look in his eyes. "Don't you worry about that," he returned as he disappeared once more.
Hamtaro nodded and flew down the stairs back into the maze. "I won't!" he shouted as he accidentally ran into a wall. Hamtaro looked around him and gasped. There were four different ways to go.
"It's time for my Super Sniffer!" Hamtaro shouted as he sniffed the air. "Hif-hif, hif-hif," he sniffed. Hamtaro looked down the far left one and knew it had to be the one. So he rushed down it, and, to his surprise, the checkpoint's wooden stairs were only a few turns away.
When Hamtaro got up the stairs to the checkpoint, Officer Tom yelled, "You'll never get through this next one! You better start wishing upon a star." He pointed upward to the roof of the checkpoint. It was a night sky with stars and the moon.
"I won't have to wish upon a star!" Hamtaro returned. Officer Tom grinned his malevolent grin and disappeared once again. "I'll find you at the next checkpoint!" Hamtaro shouted into the air. He then heard the hideous laugh of Officer Tom's rage.
In the meantime, Doctor was trying to find Hamtaro's pulse in the emergency room. "He's fine, but I don't understand this twitching and not being able to be woken up," he told the group. Hamtaro's body twitched on the table in the emergency room. "Uh," he whispered.
Doctor then continued, "He's in some type of coma, but he doesn't appear to be hurt on the outside. Hamtaro is hurt on the inside." "Oh, no," Caitlin mumbled. "So, how long will this take?" Stella inquired.
Doctor shook his head and replied, "He might be in one state that if he doesn't complete something in his head before time runs out, Hamtaro might never wake up."
Caitlin nodded slowly and asked, "Do you have a phone?" "Outside in the hallway," the doctor answered. She nodded again and stepped out of the room. When she found the phone, Caitlin picked it up in her paws and dialed the clubhouse's phone number.
"Hello? This is Maxwell," Maxwell answered on the other line. "Hey, Max, this is Caitlin. Is Bijou around?" Caitlin asked. "Hold on, Caitlin," Maxwell told her.
A few minutes later, Bijou stated, "Hello? Caitlin?" "Bijou," Caitlin started, "there's something wrong with Hamtaro." "Hamtaro? There's something wrong with him?!" Bijou panicked. Caitlin replied, "Bijou, he's asleep, and he won't wake up. Doctor said that if he doesn't complete something in his mind before time runs out, Hamtaro may never wake up."
Bijou screamed and hung up the phone. "Bijou? Bijou!" Caitlin shouted but only heard a slight beeping noise. She hung up the phone and walked back into the emergency room.
Meanwhile, Hamtaro raced down the stairs from the third checkpoint. He glanced around and saw that there were only two ways to go. A sign in between the two pathways said: "Both lead to the checkpoint, but one is more deadly than the other. Choose wisely."
Hamtaro read the sign a few times while he thought of which way to go. "The best way last time was left, so now the best one will be...right!" Hamtaro shouted as he started down the right pathway.
Immediately Hamtaro heard Officer Tom's hideous laugh. "No, this is wrong!" Hamtaro panicked as he turned around to go back, but there was only a wall where the door previously was. "Oh, no," Hamtaro whispered as he turned back around. "It's not a maze now, it's a death trap."
Hamtaro swallowed hard as he stepped forward a step. Contiguesly he saw an overflowing, raging lake in front of him. Hamtaro read the sign at the side of the lake. It read: "Swim across this lake to make it through to the other side."
"I saw this on TV!" Hamtaro shouted as he bent over. He sucked a mouth full of water out of the lake and spat it back out as he turned around. Hamtaro did it a few more times before he finally stopped. "But TV isn't real life," he muttered reluctantly. "I've really got to swim across. This ought to be quite interesting..."
Hamtaro walked into the lake until it was waist high. "Hamtaro, if you don't do this, time will run out, and you'll never get out," he told himself as he stepped more forward. Hamtaro walked into the water until it reached his neck.
The deeply dark blue lake tried to knock him off of his feet, but Hamtaro stood firmly. When an unexpected wave hit him, Hamtaro lost grip of the ground, but he didn't go under the water. Instead, he quickly remembered humans floating on their back at the city pool, so he laid back on his back.
"Man, humans must do this a lot," Hamtaro muttered as he laid back on his back in the water. He tried to reach the ground again, but Hamtaro hadn't realized he'd been swept into the deeper water.
"Stay on your back, Hamtaro," he whispered as the raging lake took him across it. When Hamtaro felt the ground, he jumped upward and looked around. "Humans must do that when they're in too deep water," Hamtaro told himself as he shook himself dry.
Afterward, Hamtaro raced forward. After a minute of running, he suddenly saw a blast of fire in front of him. "Oh, great," Hamtaro whispered as he looked at the sign. It read: "Cross through the fire without being burned."
"I've never heard of anything so ridiculous!" Hamtaro critisized as he looked through the fire. He saw a figure on the other side of the fire. "That must be the checkpoint!" Hamtaro shouted as he ran through the center of the fire.
When he got to the other side, there was only another pathway. "Now, what was I doing?" Hamtaro asked himself as he peered behind himself. The fire was behind him. "So that's what I did then," Hamtaro mumbled as he paced forward.
In the meantime, Doctor was watching Hamtaro. Nin-Ham, Caitlin, Penelope, and Stella had gone to go to lunch. Doctor felt Hamtaro's fur and couldn't figure out why it was drenched. A second later, it felt as if Hamtaro's fur had come out of a clothes dryer.
"That's strange," Doctor said to himself as he wrote the changes down on a pad of paper. "I'll have to do some research on this..."