3:57-The Main Room
The happy music stopped as the kids reached the main room. Calvin was the first to walk in and look around the place. There were no kids there, and although it looked like it always had, something was different. "It's the same room...but it feels so dark...and unhappy..."
"It's gotten worse amazingly fast," said Hobbes, also stepping in. "I mean, the traffic thing was this morning!"
"This morning!" cried Calvin. "The day's almost over! When we come back tomorrow, who knows what will have happened! We have to save everyone NOW! Hey, wait, how did you guys escape?"
"The Sister Trio went into a closet and we ran out the door," said Rolf.
Jason got curious. "Speaking of which, what's in that closet?"
They walked over and were about to open it, when Johnny suddenly jumped out at them. "Hi, guys! Me and Plank are guards! We're gonna have to kill you!" With an absent-minded smile, Johnny pulled out a Koopa wand. "The Kankers said something about 'spilling the beans to the boss' and now everyone knows you're alive! The Kankers say that you're a traitor and want to overthrow them, and everyone's gone out to find you and kill you!"
"Willingly?" asked Jason.
"Nope, but they're threatening us with wands. Now I can kill you!"
"Do not kill us, Johnny wood-boy!" cried Rolf.
"Why?"
"Because it's wrong," reasoned Jason.
"Why?"
"Because killing is bad," said Marcus.
"Why?"
"Just leave us alone, okay!" yelled Calvin.
"Okay!"
Softly opening the door, they peeked in the closet to see Bowser and the Koopalings, all asleep. Edd still sat in a cage.
"'The boss' is Bowser!" gasped Calvin. "I knew it! He had to be in charge!"
"And those lazy Koopas are asleep!" said Hobbes, disgusted.
Rolf was the most terrified. "It is the sea-cucumber who haunts Rolf!"
"No!" cried Jason, not wanting to alarm Rolf. "He's, uh...a terrorist. In a cool costume."
"Rolf sees. He does not tolerate terrorists! A duel, I say!"
"And Double D's in a cage!" Marcus pointed out.
Calvin started making a plan. "We need to distract the Koopas while we save Double D..."
Seconds later, Johnny and Plank jumped into the closet. "Howdy, howdy, howdy! Here's 'Johnny and Plank's Penny Dance!' A-one, and a-two...PENNY, PENNY, I SEE A PENNY! GIVE ME YOUR PENNY! WHO'S GOT A PENNY? PENNY, PENNY, I SEE A PENNY! WHO'S GOT A PENNY? PENNY..."
The Koopas chased Johnny out of the room. The others sipped into the closet.
"Wow," said Hobbes, "Johnny will do anything for a handful of granola."
"They should have locked the closet, you know," said Jason.
Edd stepped out of the cage. "And they should have locked the cage!"
Rolf was confused. "Brainy Ed-boy could not escape an unlocked cage?"
"Frankly, I was too afraid to leave."
Calvin reviewed the situation. "Let's see...Bowser is ruling through the Kankers who are making all the kids try to murder me. This is actually pretty normal for camp."
"So, are we gonna confront Bowser and save everyone?" asked Jason.
"We sure are!"
The Penny Dance is a leftover scene from when Johnny and Plank were Timon and Pumbaa (it was the only fully planned scene with them, any way).