Chapter 14

Saving Time

Back in Halloween Town in the tree house it doesn't looked good for Sally, Santa, and the T.U.F.F. gang. Oogie Boogie somehow mange got eleven on the risen panels that is part of Oogie's giant roulette wheel. Below them is a cauldron of hot lava, with a machine. As the panel will send all eleven straight to the lava.

Dudley then said "I think he somehow new you guys were coming."

They all looked mad at him. Then Sally says to Oogie "You wait until Jack hears about this! By the time he's through with you, you'll be lucky if you..."

That's when they heard the Mayor voice says "Skellington Jack is now a pile of dust. Oh, Jack! You're gone! This Mayor and all of Halloween Town mourn you!"

Over at Spiral Hill the doors open of the statue away from the tree house, Jack, Snaptrap, and Zero came out.

Snaptrap said "Now that's weird."

Jack Skellington said as he grabbed Snaptrap's arm again "Come on." They are now sneaking to the tree house.

Sally and the gang are now very surprise.

Chief says "Oh, Abbey is not going to like this. Because Snaptrap was with Jack Skellington."

Larry very surprise as he asked "He was on the sleigh?"

Oogie asked "What's that you said about luck, Rag doll?"

Sally yelled out "Help! Help!"

The gang except Dudley called out "ABBEY!" Dudley then asked "How would Abbey know we are here?"

Back up near the cage elevator Snaptrap and Jack Skellington is there. As Jack Skellington shush Snaptrap and Zero as Snaptrap nodded.

Back in the tree house Oogie rolled the dice as he looked at it and says "Seven! Look's like it's Oogie's turn to boogie!" He then walked over to the lever and cranked it seven times. With each crank, the panels kept rising as Sally and the gang scream. Oogie is getting ready to roll the dice again.

The gang all screamed "ABBEY!"

Sally said "Jack." The gang looked at her in surprise as she said "If only I had stopped you from going, you'd still be here."

Dudley looks at Kitty as he says "Kitty, I have something to tell you."

Kitty then asked "Yes, Dudley."

Oogie Boogie rolled the dice again as he looked at them as asked interrupting "What? Snake eyes?" He then bang on the table as it switch and says "Elven."

Then he went back to the lever again as he says "Bye bye, losers!"

Sally says "good-bye, Jack."

Dudley says "Kitty, I've been always wanting to go out with..."

Chameleon said "Dudley, Kitty! You two might want to wait."

The panels flipped over. Oogie Boogie went over to the cauldron of lava to see. But nothing happened.

Oogie Boogie asked "Huh?" He went back to the panel and flipped it back right side up. There was no Sally, Santa, and the T.U.F.F. gang. As we now see Jack Skellington and an angry Snaptrap. Oogie Boogie jumped.

Jack Skellington said stepping off the panel with Snaptrap "Hello Oogie."

The T.U.F.F. gang all are happy as they said "Snaptrap!"

Oogie says in shock and back away "Jack! B-but... they said you were dead! You must be..." He then pushed on the secret button on his roulette wheel as he said "Double dead!"

Then the giant wheel started up as the eight ball spider machine went up. As it speed up causing both Jack Skellington and Snaptrap to go on the ground. As Jack Skellington struggled to his feet Oogie said "Well, come on Bone Man!"

Jack Skellington says "Oogie, get ready. We're coming for you."

Snaptrap tried to stand up as he said "If only we can somehow get those bugs come out and Chameleon can eat them."

Jack Skellington sprung into action. He dodge the King's swords and the eight ball spider's legs while trying to catch up to Oogie. As he tried Oogie back away further. Snaptrap just crawled as he stand up again Oogie Boogie push another button as Snaptrap saw the thread breaking loose.

Snaptrap then said "That's how we can open him."

That's when three mechanical soldiers holding guns, Snaptrap saw them coming as he ducked and cover as Jack Skellington jump on the arms of the solders.

Sally voice is heard "Jack! Look out!"

Jack Skellington and Snaptrap turned to looked and see a giant buzz saw being hurled straight at them. Jack Skellington jumped down and grabbed Snaptrap getting out of the way as it chopped off the shooting arms of the solders.

Oogie Boogie is now in panic. As Jack Skellington and Snaptrap were walking toward him, the panel Oogie was standing on sprung up, catapulting him to the top of the eight ball spider machine.

Oogie said "So long, Jack!"

That's when Snaptrap grabbed the thread, but also realized that Jack Skellington grabbed it too.

Jack Skellington said "How dare you treat our friends so shamefully."

He looked at Snaptrap who nodded at him. They both began to pull on the thread. That cause Oogie Boogie asked "What?" His arm is now opening up as he says "No, no... don't... No!" As they did they directed the thread to the eight ball spider machine spinning legs. Causing the sheet covering Oogie to yank off. The sheet got tangled up in the eight ball machine legs, causing the whole machine to stop.

Now there's a giant pile of bugs shaped like him as Chameleon licked his lips. As he is very happy and stick out his tongue catching the falling bugs.

Oogie says "Now look what you've done! My bugs, my bugs, my bugs..."

Chameleon is now eating the bugs he catch into his mouth as Jack Skellington is a little surprise that he is doing this as everybody else, except Snaptrap. Then the only one left was the blue bug that Chameleon has missed. As it says "My bugs, my bugs!" On the floor.

Santa foot is seen to step on it. After that nobody said something until Chameleon finally said unhappy "Oh you didn't let me get the last bug."

Snaptrap then says "Well I never seen anything like that one before. As it was kinda weird." Then he asked walking up to his friends "Are you guys all right?"

The T.U.F.F. gang says "Snaptrap!"

As they hugged him. Snaptrap just rolled his eyes. Jack Skellington walked up to Santa as he gave him his head as he says "Forgive me, Mr. Claws. I'm afraid I've made a terrible mess of your holiday."

Santa asked "Bumpy sleigh ride, Jack?" Then he says as he pointed to Sally and the T.U.F.F. gang "The next time you have the urge to take over someone else's holiday, I'd listen to them! They're the only ones that makes sense around this insane asylum! Skeletons, boogie men."

Jack Skellington began to say "I hope there's still time..."

Santa asked "To fix Christmas, Jack?" Then said "Of course! I'm Santa Claus!"

As he laying his finger aside his nose, up Oogie's chimney he rose.

Ollie said "Well at least we helped him, but I don't know if he's going to give us presents, boss."

Snaptrap said "I don't know either, Ollie."

Chameleon said "Well for one thing we know, we're good guys now and we have change."

Larry said "As we used to be good guys and we get scarry presents for Christmas set of Halloween." Then asked "Get it?"

The T.U.F.F. gang just laugh as they were happy. Even though it wasn't funny.

Sally says to Jack Skellington "He'll fix things, Jack. He knows what to do."

Now the T.U.F.F. gang are looking at Sally and Jack Skellington.

Jack Skellington asked "Sally, how did you get down here?"

Sally blushed as she stammer reply "Oh, I was trying to... Well... I wanted to... to..."

Kitty said "To help Jack, right Sally?" The T.U.F.F. gang then all smiled at this.

Sally then said "I couldn't let you just..."

Jack Skellington interrupted said "Sally, I can't believed I never realized... that you..."

Mayor voice is heard saying "Jack! Jack!"

Snaptrap, Ollie, Francisco, Larry, Birdbrain, and Chameleon all asked "What?"

Keswick, Dudley, and Kitty all said "It was about to be getting so sweet."

Then another window open. The Mayor peered inside along with Lock, Shock, and Barrel.

Barrel said "There he is!"

Lock said "Alive!"

Shock said "Just like we said!"

The Mayor lowered down the rope as he said "Grab a hold, my boy!"

Jack Skellington and Sally grabbed the rope and began to get pulled up.

Snaptrap said as he and the T.U.F.F. gang ran to catch the rope "Hey, don't leave us behind."

They caught the rope just in time as all thirteen of them, and Zero were hosted out of Oogie's house.

Well at least they stop Oogie Boogie. Find out what's going to happened in Chapter 15 so stay tuned.