"Sally, Sally, Sally," Oogie Boogie cooed, "When will you learn? We're meant to be, sugar! Just give in to it!"
Sally yelled something angrily into her gag.
"What was that?" Oogie asked, "You say you want to kiss me? Well, how can I refuse?"
He laughed and untied the gag.
"Now gimme a kiss, my little ragdoll," he said.
"HELP! SOMEONE PLEASE HEEEELP!" Sally yelled.
"Why, you little-" Oogie raised his hand as if to strike her, but thought better of it. "Maybe," he said, a sleazy smile spreading across his face, "you just need a little…persuading. Now look at it this way: when I pull this lever-" he waved his hand at a lever next to him- "You slide down there." He pointed at a vat of boiling, acidic-looking liquid. Sally wasn't sure what it was, but one thing was for sure: it was bound to hurt if she fell into it. "Now, if you're a good girl," Oogie continued, "I won't pull this lever. But, if you're a bad girl…"
He pulled the lever ever so slightly, and the raised platform that Sally was lying on tipped, causing her to slide forward.
"So whaddya say, sweetheart?" Oogie asked, "Me? Or a painful death?"
Sally answered by spitting in his face.
"This is your own fault, Sally!" Oogie roared, and pulled the lever all the way. Sally was desperate for help, and screamed the first name that came to mind: "JAAACK! HELP ME!"
Jack climbed down the side of the Hill, and stumbled through the pumpkin patch. Sally's voice seemed to be coming from a tall, slightly deformed tree to his right. A second yell confirmed this: "HELP! SOMEONE PLEASE HEEEELP!"
He ran as fast as his long legs could take him, and found that the tall tree's look of deformity was caused by a large, ramshackle treehouse. In front of him was a cage-like elevator.
"Now look at it this way," a deep voice wafted up from under the treehouse, "When I pull this lever…you slide down there…"
Jack inspected the elevator before stepping inside. He had to bend down to fit in it.
"Now, if you're a good girl…"
Jack pushed the button with a down arrow on it. The elevator shuddered and began its descent.
"I won't pull this lever…"
The elevator jerked to a stop at a barred window, through which Jack could see Sally, tied with rough ropes, being circled slowly by what looked like a large burlap sack. Only, the sack was talking!
"But, if you're a bad girl…" The sack pulled a lever, and Sally slid forward.
Jack gasped quietly. If he didn't do something, Sally would be killed! (He failed to remember that everyone in Halloweentown was already dead.)
"So, whaddya say, sweetheart?"
Jack slipped through the wide-set bars and climbed down the sloped wall slowly, like a spider. Despite the circumstances, Jack grinned when Sally spit in the sack's face.
"This is your own fault, Sally!"
The sack pulled the lever, and Sally was quickly sliding down to her doom.
"JAAACK! HELP ME!"
That was his cue. Jack leaped over the boiling acid, grabbed Sally, and landed safely in front of Oogie. He glared at the burlap sack, and untied Sally's bonds.
"Ohhh," Oogie said furiously, "So the new guy thinks he can be the hero, huh? He thinks he can just bust right in and interrupt someone else's business, huh? Well, let me tell ya somethin', Bone man! No one- and I mean no one- messes with Oogie Boogie!"
With that, Oogie began to inhale with the force of a tornado. Everything around them was being sucked towards into his mouth. Jack picked up Sally and tried to back away. Realizing that he couldn't, he looked around for something to stop Oogie. He grabbed off of the ground a piece of shrapnel and threw it at his foe. Oogie choked and spluttered as the shrapnel became lodged in his throat. Sally still in his arms, Jack walked over to Oogie.
"Remember, Oogie Boogie," he said, grinning, "No one messes with the 'Bone man'!"