Trouble on Toy Island

Author's note: Yeah, I'm anxious to continue this story. Nothing else to say.
And … I've noticed an interesting pattern. Whenever I add a new chapter to this story, Mat updates "Tim Scam Again!" shortly after reviewing it.

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Chapter 8: Cut to the Chase
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08:01 - DAN TI'S OFFICE
Dan Ti was busy doing paperwork in his office when there was a knock at the door. "Who is it?" Dan Ti called.
"Some toy soldiers who have some business with you," the reply came. Dan Ti opened the door … and found himself confronted by Sam, Clover, and myself.

Sam rushed around to the left, Clover mirrored Sam's moves on the right, and I vaulted over the desk. It looked like we had Dan Ti cornered, but he pressed a button on his desk and vanished through a secret tunnel.

Clover and Sam entered the secret tunnel after him, but just as I was about to follow, someone familiar stopped me. "Hold it, Leo. Tell me what's going on, and tell me this instant"
"Not now, crow-hair," I replied, shoving Mandy aside. "You'll get the explanation in due time. Now, get out of here and find a safe place." I bolted, leaving Mandy as confused as ever.

Somehow I caught up to Sam and Clover. We activated our jetpack-backpacks to catch up to Dan Ti, but he was one step ahead of us, and activated jet engines on his shoes to blast ahead.

08:03 AM - TOY BLOCK CASTLE TURRET
A door opened out of the side of the turret. Dan Ti blasted out, and we followed.
"Leo," Sam instructed, "find Jerry and Dinah and de-hypnotize them and any other toy soldiers you find. Clover, come with me and we'll catch Dan Ti."
"Roger." "Gotcha." I went one way, while the girls went another.

As I jetted over the toy store quadrant, I looked below and saw two very familiar toy soldiers driving the toy train engine. I hovered down to the switchboard.
The toy soldiers operating the switchboard were singing the usual as they worked: "This is Toy Island, full of toys / For all the girls and all the boys / The carnival is lots of fun / So come together, everyone."

"Get lost, you two," I said to the two, "this one's mine." I flipped one switch with perfect timing.
The points on the track changed. The front wheels of the engine went one way, the rear wheels went the other way, and the engine fell flat on its side.
I promptly applied the voltage treatment to Jerry and Dinah. When they came to their senses, I explained everything to them.

MEANWHILE
Dan Ti jetted low across the board game quadrant. He got near the chess board and lost the girls by hiding behind a rook.
Clover looked around. "Where did he go?"
A laser blast knocked Sam into the wall of the toy block castle. Clover looked, and saw Dan Ti holding a toy gun he had borrowed from a toy soldier.
Dan Ti smirked, and blew on the top of the gun as if blowing some smoke away from the barrel. Clover gave chase around the other side of the rook, but was blasted.
Just as Dan Ti thought he'd won, the rook he was hiding behind tipped over and pinned him to the ground. Sam had given the rook a push. "Check and mate," Sam quipped.

MEANWHILE
"No kidding?"
"That's right, Jerry. That all happened."

A ring tone interrupted me. I took out my DS and answered: "Hello? … Hey, Sam. … Great! You've captured Dan Ti? … Right away."

I turned my attention back to Jerry. "Dan Ti is under control. You'd better send the WOOHP capture team to mop things up."
Jerry nodded, and contacted Alex. "Alex?"
"That's my name. What do you need, Jerry?"
"I need you to send the capture team here. The coordinates are-"
"Send the capture team? How do I do that?"
Jerry sighed. "I guess I forgot to tell you. In my desk, in the third drawer on the right, you'll find a …"
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Just one chapter to go now!