And some more!!!

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Chelsegorn stopped at the base of an extremely narrow tree. "Funny. I remember it being narrower. Oh, well."

Lindo eyed the tree critically. It couldn't have been more than two inches wide. "Go-karts, you say?"

"Yup." Chelsegorn began tapping different parts of the bark. Then she stopped, leaned back, and waited.

A friendly computer voice came from within the tree. "Two taps have been mixed up. Please try again."

"Stupid code." Chelsegorn did the whole thing all over again.

This time, it worked.

The tree opened two little bark doors at the bottom and began spewing go-karts, which were just the size they needed, amazingly.

Katrinolas blinked, quite sure she had just seen a conjuring illusion of some kind.

Lindo decided not to ask any questions and found a perfectly sized kart for herself.

Taffy got a little kart that, to his joy, looked like a big piece of kibble.

Chelsegorn hopped into her own kart and started it up. "Come on! Race ya!"

They raced off into the Forest of Crazy Doom, dodging crazy doomed trees and crazy doomed bushes, and kicking up a lot of crazy doomed dirt.

Jandalf waited impatiently on a crazy doomed tree stump just outside the Forest of Crazy Doom. She was still bright orange. "Minions of Xendor, where are they?"

Four go-karts, one of them looking mysteriously like a kibble, sped out of the Forest.

Jandalf stood up on the crazy doomed stump and waved her orange arms.

The others noticed her right away, due to the color, and headed for her.

She stood in puzzlement as they raced toward her, not slowing down. Then she yelled, turned, and ran.

Those in the karts were caught up in the action and accelerated madly.

Jandalf ran until her cape snagged on a crazy doomed root, then she wildly waved her staff and vanished. "Minions of Xen…"

*kavamm* She appeared beside Lindo in Lindo's kart. "…dor. How're you doing?"

"Not bad, you?"

"Orange today. Here's your batteries and a few dozen extra."

"Thanks."

"Guess what?"

"What?"

"That's what."

"SHUT UP!!"

"OK."

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"You know what I mean," shouted Lindo, quite exasperated.

"Yeah. But what I was going to say was, they sell batteries at Radioshack."

"YYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" screamed Lindo, steering away from a tree. "ALL THAT FOR NOTHING?!!??!!!"

"They come in triple A's, too," Chelsegorn shouted across at her.

Then, a cliff suddenly loomed up and all of the go-karts whizzed off the edge.

Meanwhile in the reeeeeaaaally tall tower, Mikumon went into a different room while her shirts were drying.

In the center of the circular room was a spherical, dark purple object with three holes in the form of a triangle on the side.

Mikumon smiled happily and lifted the Bowling Ball of Doom off the pedestal. It glistened in the light, showing off its pretty swirly patterns.

Other than that, it was completely inanimate. Mikumon sighed, getting bored, and put it back on the pedestal.

Meanwhile, deep in the heart of the Forest of Crazy Doom, seven horrible things met.

Don Cherry waved his hands around in articulate gestures for no apparent reason.

Big Bird attempted to eat pine needles and choked.

Michael Jackson tugged at his nose, thinking, I've got to make it thinner.

Martha Stewart loaded her Icky Icky Cookie Shooter of Doom.

Cap'n Crunch made some unearthly sounding crunching noises.

Elvis hummed "Jailhouse Rock".

Jar Jar Binks looked for any means of a pond.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson came running up.

"We saw them," they panted.

"Where?" Don Cherry asked.

"They drove off a cliff in go-karts," Mary-Kate replied.

"And it was really high," added Ashley.

"Then we've got to go to the cliff," choked Big Bird, and coughed up some needles.

"Why?" asked Michael Jackson.

"To get the remote, obviously," said Cap'n Crunch, and crunched some more.

"Then," said Elvis, running his hand through his big hair, "let's go get it."

"Good plan," said Big Bird. *cough* *hack*

"Thank-you-very-much."

The five travelers lay groaning on the valley floor.

"Ow," said Lindo.

"Minions of Xendor," said Jandalf.

"Let's do that again!" said Chelsegorn.

"Let's not," said Katrinolas.

"Kibble!" said Taffy, and tried to eat his go-kart.

"Stupid dog," muttered Lindo.

Jandalf pushed herself up with her staff. "Let's keep going. We shouldn't stay here too long."

"Why?" they asked.

"The go-karts aren't really going to work," added Chelsegorn.

"We have to leave before the nine terrible horror things come."

"Oh, right." They got up.

Katrinolas noticed a small object come sailing over the cliff. It looked rectangular and red.

Jandalf gasped. "Uh-oh."

It was a Cap'n Crunch cereal killer box. It landed on the ground beside them. They all shielded their faces.

BBBBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!! It exploded, sending pellets of cereal everywhere.

"Run away," Chelsegorn yelled, Camelot style.

Thinking this was good advice, everyone complied.

The nine charged down the cliff, all on their respective horses, all looking rather ridiculous. Then they tripped, flipped, and crashed.

The five ran away, leaving the evil people/things behind and completely confused.

They ran and ran until they noticed they were entering a forest.

"Another one?" groaned Lindo.

Chelsegorn looked around carefully. "Nope. It's the same one."

"You mean we ran in circles?" asked Katrinolas.

"No, we ran the right way. It's a crazy forest, remember. It shifts all over the place. One morning I found myself in Iraq."

The others were quite thrown off, but decided to keep going anyway.

The Forest didn't last very long, though. Soon they were out and traveling through some lovely rolling hills.

"I hate walking through hills," muttered Lindo. "Stupid stupid stupid stupid…"

Taffy adopted his mistress' mood and walked behind her sullenly.

Katrinolas liked hills; she walked happily through the wildflowers.

Chelsegorn trailed them numbly, worried about what might happen to her beloved Forest while she was away. "Stupid lumberjacks…"

Jandalf sneezed violently due to her hay fever and smacked her staff into various insects. "Go away!!! WaaaaCCCCCCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The turbulent blast of air sent the insects flying off at great speeds. Jandalf miserably popped another dozen Claritins into her mouth. "Minions of Xendor, this sucks."

Lindo was walking with her head down, so she didn't notice the watchtower until her head hit it. "Ow."

Taffy went over to mark his territory.

Katrinolas trotted up the stairs to get a better look of the countryside.

Chelsegorn started a fire inside. A somewhat controlled fire.

Jandalf locked herself in one of the rooms while trying to get away from the pollen and insects.

Lindo figured out how to put the batteries in the remote.

Thus they spent about an hour. Made even longer by the fact that Lindo kept on pausing everyone and making fun of them while they were frozen. "Clickyclickyclickyclickyclicky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Then Jandalf burst out of the room and snatched the remote away. "Minions of Xendor, whaddya think you're doing!?????!!!!!!!! Don't you know that the more you use this, the more the stupid evil-in-a-bad-way minions are attracted?"

"Like a homing beacon?"

"YES!!!! I suggest you take the batteries out before you kill us all."

Suddenly Lindo gasped. "Michael Jackson! Right behind you!!'

Jandalf rolled her eyes. "Aw, come on. That's the oldest trick in the Yellow Pages. You think I'd fall for a low bluff like that?"

A microphone bashed her on the head. She collapsed.

Lindo snatched up the remote from its new position on the floor and pointed it at Jackson, pressing pause.

He froze in midair.

"Ha," Lindo crowed. "And this time I've got batteries!"

Then the rest of the minions surrounded the travelers remaining conscious and drew their various weapons.

Chelsegorn yelled in alarm and took out her big battle-whatsit (no one really knew what it was, including her). She swung it around recklessly, clipping off Cap'n Crunch's hat.

Katrinolas took out her bow and arrows and fired all over the place.

Taffy pissed on the minions' legs, causing great disturbances in their peace of mind.

Lindo thought of using the remote to pause them, but they wanted it and probably, in their great(er) numbers, would get it. So she ran away.

But not before punching rewind and watching Jar Jar walk backwards all the way back to the Forest of Crazy Doom. (heeheeheeheeee)

I know, I'm going nuts.