Toto scratched at the door a bit to make it open it up as Princess Mombi continued to drag Dorothy away with her.
"What will you do with Tik-Tok?" Dorothy asked worriedly.
"People will think I have a new statue." Princess Mombi replied coldly.
"Oh, now that's just cold." Jetta glared.
"Well, I could use an heir," Princess Mombi smirked. "Maybe you'd like to be a princess."
"...Me? A princess?" Jetta asked. "That sounds almost too good to be true," She soon saw her friends giving her looks before she shook her head, focusing on the task at hand. "Hmm..." she then paused thoughtfully.
"Jetta?!" Charley, Emily Elizabeth, and Vaz called firmly.
"...Oh, all right!" Jetta groaned in defeat. "I will not be the next Princess Mombi!"
"Smart decision." Mike said.
"Suit yourself, I sensed a lot of potential for you." Princess Mombi huffed at Jetta.
They soon made it through the doors of the tower and Princess Mombi did whatever she could to throw them inside of the tower to lock them up like she said she would.
"I am seriously hating this princess." Mike said.
"You're just preaching to the choir," Felicity replied before looking at her cousins. "Did I say that right?"
"Yes, you did." Akito and Estelle stated while Vincent nodded.
Felicity then smiled to herself.
"Ha!" Princess Mombi grinned as she slammed the door shut behind her and walked off after locking them in.
"She is so evil." Vincent glared.
"Of course she is," Emily Elizabeth sighed. "I can never tell who's worse: her or The Wicked Witch of the West."
"At least the Wicked Witch of the West was easy to defeat once Dorothy found out her weakness." Max replied.
"Yeah, you're right." Emily Elizabeth nodded at that.
Dorothy frowned as they came inside of the tower to explore as she felt unsure of what to do.
"What are we going to do?" Akito asked the others.
"Hmm... Let me see..." Max stopped to think. "I'm sure I can get us out of here somehow."
"Show-off." Mike growled quietly to himself.
Dorothy soon came over to the window and cleared some dust away to take a look before she saw the land and a mountain out to the distance.
"What is it?" Toto asked as he tried to look with her.
"The Nome King's mountain." Dorothy told the others.
"If this is Oz, Dorothy; I'd rather take my chances back in Kansas." Billina said.
"I'm afraid that we can't go back to Kansas right now." Max said to the chicken.
"Billina..." Dorothy pouted at the chicken. "If only we could just fly away like you."
"Only in my younger days, my dear." Billina said.
"I didn't know most chickens could fly," Akito commented. "Especially Patch's old friend from the Dearly Farm: Spot."
"That was a silly chicken," Estelle replied. "She wanted to be a dog."
"Not silly, Estelle, just unique." Vincent said.
"I think this is the scarecrow we were looking for." Mike said as he found a portrait.
"Yeah, that's him." Dorothy said.
"King Scarecrow," Mike proclaimed. "How very honorable and noble."
The Tinman and Cowardly Lion were also shown in the portrait with Scarecrow as they all looked very happy together.
"Mom?" A voice called.
"Who said that?" Vaz asked.
The others looked around.
"Mom!" The voice continued. "Mom? Is that you?"
They soon saw someone in the room with them who had a pumpkin for a head as he sat in the corner of the room.
"Is he talking to one of us?" Mike asked.
"I think he's talking to Dorothy." Max replied.
"Oh... I knew that!" Mike glared with green eyes. "What? You don't think I know stuff?!"
Max gave him a bit of a look from that.
"No," Dorothy soon told the pumpkin head. "I'm Dorothy Gale."
"Oh... For a second there, I thought my mom had come back." The pumpkin head said to the girl.
"What is this? A man or a melon?" Billina asked as she looked at the pumpkin head.
"A pumpkin, if you please," The pumpkin head replied. "My name's Jack. Jack Pumpkinhead."
"Nice to meet you, Jack Pumpkinhead." Emily Elizabeth smiled, acting like she didn't know this character.
"May I ask a favor of you, Dorothy?" Jack then asked the brown-haired girl. "Would you please check my head for signs of spoiling?"
Dorothy smiled as she went to do what was asked of her.
"What's spoiling?" Scruffy asked.
"Why, my head of course," Jack replied. "I have a pumpkin head after all."
Dorothy began to check on Jack's head.
"Any soft spots?" Jack asked Dorothy.
Dorothy continued to check him over.
"How does it feel?" Jack then asked.
"Very nice, sir." Dorothy replied as Jack seemed to be okay right now.
"That's good." Max said.
"Oh, thank you," Jack said in relief. "I've been alive such a short while, and I'm afraid of spoiling before I've seen anything of the world. Could you put some of the rest of me together again?" he then asked the others.
"Mm-hmm." Dorothy smiled and nodded as she decided to help.
"We'll try." Emily Elizabeth added.
"If you can just tie that arm on," Jack instructed. "And then, my other leg has fallen off too."
Dorothy and Emily Elizabeth then helped put Jack back together again as he was falling apart a bit.
"Are you sure you're not my mother?" Jack asked Dorothy.
"I'm sure, Jack." Dorothy nodded.
"Tell us about your mother though." Emily Elizabeth then said.
"Well, my mother built me to scare that awful witch, Mombi," Jack then explained as Emily Elizabeth and Dorothy began to fix him up. "She stood me in a place where Mombi would meet me, face-to-face, and along she came. Sure enough, she was scared, but then, she was angry. She has a terrible temper."
"Believe me, we know." Max nodded from that.
"Where did she get all those different heads?" Dorothy then asked.
"Did you see the headless dancing girls outside?" Jack asked them back.
Dorothy and the others nodded from that.
"Well, that's where she got them," Jack then stated which made some of the group look disgusted and horrified. "Anyway, Mombi was about to destroy me with her stick, but she decided to test some powder of life she'd just bought from a magician. She did. It worked," he then said before he soon stood up proudly once he was able to. "Here I am!"
"Powder of life?" Akito asked Jack.
"What's that?" Estelle added.
"You sprinkle it on something and the thing comes to life." Jack explained.
"Does Mombi have any more of it?" Dorothy soon asked hopefully.
"If she does, it's in cabinet 31, with her original head." Jack replied.
"What happened to your mother?" Dot asked Jack.
"She vanished. Mombi enchanted her," Jack explained as Dorothy looked around the room as she tried to think of a plan to help them all out of this tower and hopefully to make things right again in Oz. "After that, she threw me in this corner and said she was gonna make a pie out of me, but she was wearing head 22 at the time and must not have worn it since, because she hasn't remembered I'm up here."
"That makes me sense." Scruffy said.
"Guys, listen!" Dorothy called out and she got everybody's attention. "Here's what to do."
Emily Elizabeth smiled as she knew what Dorothy was thinking.
"I'm just glad that Skullmaster isn't here too." Max whispered to himself.
"Just leave it to me." Dorothy smiled at her new friends.
Jack soon reached his arm and hand out to grab a hold of the lock on the door.
Everybody bit their lips a bit as they waited to see what might happen, and luckily, Jack was able to pull the lock up to unlock the door and open it before looking out the door in amazement of outside the tower before he saw a familiar robot. "Is that Tik-Tok?" he then asked his new friends.
"Mm-hmm." Dorothy nodded as she led them out of the tower.
"His action key must have finally wound down." Vincent said.
"We better help him." Felicity added.
They then quietly and carefully came towards Tik-Tok as Princess Mombi was luckily nowhere in sight so far. As they began to get closer to Tik-Tok, they soon heard a creaking sound behind them.
"...Dorothy?" Jack spoke up.
Dorothy and the others shushed him, only because they had to be quiet so they wouldn't get in trouble with Princess Mombi.
"Oh..." Jack said softly before he talked again anyway. "Dorothy, may I call you Mom, even if it isn't so?" he then asked.
Dorothy seemed to beam at that before nodding as she would allow him to do so.
"Oh, thank you." Jack said softly.
The others smiled as that was a pretty sweet moment.
Dorothy then put her finger to her mouth to remind him to be quiet. "Tik-Tok, are you listening?" she then whispered to the robot before he seemed to be able to spin himself around to see the pumpkin head. "Don't say anything. This is Jack. After I'm finished winding you up, go upstairs with him and we'll explain what you have to do." she then told the robot as she began to wind him up.
"Did you understand all that, Tik-Tok?" Jack asked once they began to walk up the stairs.
"I understand it better than you do." Tik-Tok replied.
Dorothy soon got to the door and opened it a bit.
"I'm not sure if I wanna go in there." Jetta said nervously.
"We'll go in together." Akito said.
Jetta still looked nervous.
"Come on, Jetta, it's not so bad." Max smiled at her.
"Maybe..." Jetta replied. "It just looks so creepy and dark in there."
"We'll be right beside you." Estelle assured her.
"Oh... Okay..." Jetta sighed in defeat.
"Come on then," Max replied. "We can't waste too much time out here."
Dorothy soon opened the door and led her new friends into Princess Mombi's bedroom, carefully and quietly as the princess was sound asleep.
'Of course the key has to be around her right wrist.' Akito thought to himself as he and the others saw the key still around Princess Mombi's right wrist.
The others began to look even more nervous from that fact. Jack soon moved furniture around from Tik-Tok's instructions.
"Good," Tik-Tok approved. "Go and get the head, Jack."
"Yes, sir!" Jack replied as he went to do what was asked of him.
"Billina, where's that cord?" Tik-Tok asked the hen.
Billina soon picked up the cord in her beak.
"Got it," Clifford said. "Hopefully this works out, Tik-Tok."
"I'm sure it will, Clifford." Tik-Tok replied to the red dog.
"Over here, Billina." Tik-Tok then said as he moved something as Snow White, Scruffy, Dot, Toto, and Clifford moved out of the way.
Jack soon got the head of a beast off the wall.
"Gah!" Snow White yowled from the beast's image.
"What's that?" Billina asked.
"The head of a Gump." Tik-Tok replied as he and Jack moved the head.
"Yikes! Looks... Uh... Charming." Dot said.
"About as charming as a hideous monster that could eat us." Snow White grumbled.
"Be nice." Toto barked at her.
Back with the kids, Dorothy crept beside the bed as she saw the key in place.
"Okay, Dorothy, be very careful and quiet." Max whispered to the girl.
Dorothy nodded before making her way to untie the knot of the ribbon that held the key in place. Princess Mombi then suddenly turned sharply in her bed. Dorothy flinched at that, but luckily, the key and the ribbon were out in the open, easy for her to get it.
"Okay, she's still asleep, go for it." Max whispered at Dorothy.
Dorothy soon reached out and grabbed the key right off of the bed as Princess Mombi was luckily still asleep.
"Whew." Vincent quietly sighed.
"Nice work," Max smiled quietly at Dorothy. "You'd be great for my team."
Dorothy smiled back at that as she kept the key secure.
Meanwhile...
"Here's the broom, Tik-Tok," Scruffy muffled as he held a broom in his mouth. "It'll make a great tail."
"Excellent," Tik-Tok approved as Jack took the broom to add to the makeshift beast. "Now we must Gump the head in the front and tie Jack's feet together." he then instructed.
"Right. Tie my feet together." Jack replied as he began to do just that.
"Wait, that's not right." Scruffy said.
"Uh-oh, Tik-Tok's thinking key must be winding down." Dot said.
"What do we do?" Clifford gulped nervously.
"Bring that mantelpiece to the desk, and anoint the palms!" Tik-Tok instructed.
"Right. Anoint the palm!" Jack replied before he suddenly fell in the middle of the floor since his legs were tied together.
"We better do the rest ourselves until Tik-Tok's thinking key is wound up." Scruffy said.
"Can we do that?" Snow White asked.
"We'll have to," Scruffy replied. "Dorothy and the kids are counting on us."
"Will do." Dot said.
"That is right, Jack. Left, right, wrong." Tik-Tok soon said.
"What are you talking about?" Jack asked the robot.
"Little girls, pumpkin heads make chicken fly the coop." Tik-Tok continued, nonsensically.
"Ugh, he sounds worse than those people at Wonderland." Snow White rolled her eyes.
"He's not thinking straight." Dot said.
"Too bad we don't have hands." Snow White firmly pouted.
Dorothy soon snuck along the corridors with her new friends as they came to the hallway that had heads inside of them. As they saw all the heads, Dorothy held her neck with a gulp.
"Now which one was it again?" Felicity asked.
"Hmm... #31." Emily Elizabeth replied.
Dorothy looked over at the numbered door and held out the key to unlock the door before flinching in horror of the head in the door before she found a bottle marked "Powder of Life". She then carefully tried to reach for it without waking up the head.
'As long as none of the heads wake up, this should be easy.' Estelle thought to himself.
However, one of the heads then woke up right then. The group gave accusing looks to each other from that, feeling like one of them had tempted fate and Estelle grinned bashfully as she was the guilty party.
"DOROTHY GALE!" The head snarled at the girl.
"The jig is up; let's get the powder of life and make a run for it." Akito said.
The other heads soon woke up as well. Dorothy soon grabbed the powder and went to run off with her new friends.
"DOROTHY GALE!" Head #31 continued as the other heads woke up, and unfortunately, so did Princess Mombi.
"We might need this too." Mike said as he got the key out of the lock before they began to run for it.
"We better hope Scruffy and the others are ready." Vincent said.
"Oh, I'm sure they are," Akito smirked. "Scruffy's a smart dog."
"When he's not chasing my cat just for the heck of it." Vincent deadpanned.
Dorothy and the others soon rushed past Princess Mombi and came to the tower door, but it didn't seem to move.
"Come on! Why won't you move?!" Charley panicked.
A bright light soon began to come into the room which got their attention.
"Is that a good thing?" Jetta asked.
"Maybe it's Celestia." Felicity said.
"You think it's Celestia?" Akito and Estelle asked her.
"I'm trying to stay positive." Felicity shrugged.
The light soon looked a bit like an angel before gesturing at which door for them to use before disappearing.
"Of course!" Emily Elizabeth said. "We were just using the wrong door!"
"That must have been Jack's mother." Estelle said.
"I think so too." Max smiled hopefully.
"WHERE'S MY POWDER OF LIFE?!" Princess Mombi's voice shrieked.
"Quick! There! Now!" Mike pointed out as they had to go through the door now and fast.
They soon ran through the door and closed the door behind them and ran up the tower stairs before they came back into the tower to warn Jack, Tik-Tok, and the pets. "MOMBI'S AWAKE!" they all then cried out urgently.
"Crud!" Scruffy yelped.
Snow White shivered as she clung to the ceiling.
"Sorry for the scare, girl, but trust me, this is tame compared to what's about to come." Vincent told his cat.
"I'm not sure about that!" Snow White whimpered. "My fur is standing on end!"
"Oh, no!" Jack panicked.
"It's not finished!" Dorothy frowned at the project they worked on.
"Tik-Tok's not thinking straight." Clifford said.
"Yeah! He's gone berserk!" Billina added.
"Tickle, tickle me!" Tik-Tok continued.
"His brain's ran down." Dorothy said as she and the others came to help out Tik-Tok.
"If his brain's ran down, how could he talk?" Jack asked.
"It happens to people all the time, Jack, like The President of the United States," Felicity replied. "Tie the palm leaves to the sofa, quick!" she then cried out urgently.
"Billina, help him!" Dorothy added.
"We need another cord!" Billina cried out from that.
"Yean! And quickly!" Scruffy exclaimed.
Dorothy soon began to help out Tik-Tok so that he could act properly.
"Thank goodness, Dorothy," Tik-Tok said in relief. "I am all right now."
"Go to the door and look out for Mombi." Emily Elizabeth told Tik-Tok.
"All right, Emily Elizabeth." Tik-Tok replied as he soon went to the door.
"Now, let's get this powder stuff on that beast." Max then said as he decided to pour the powder.
"Pfft. Who said he could pour the powder?" Mike scoffed at that.
"It doesn't matter who pours the powder." Akito said.
"Well... Yeah... But still." Mike glared.
Akito gave his double an odd look.
"Make sure you do the head, so it can see where it's going." Jack advised.
"You got it, Jack." Max replied as he continued to sprinkle the powder.
The beast did not seem to be coming to life.
"Why isn't it working?" Jetta asked.
"Oh! There must've been some magic words." Jack soon said.
"What were they?" Dorothy asked him. "Think!"
"Think?" Jack asked.
"You've got to remember!" Vaz replied.
"I wasn't alive then," Jack shrugged. "How can I remember?"
The group all face-palmed from that.
"Dorothy, read the directions!" Billina told the girl.
Dorothy took a look, but she felt confused by some of the words. "I DON'T KNOW THESE WORDS!" she then cried out.
"Read them anyway!" Jetta urged her.
Dorothy took a look again before saying the words that rhymed. "'Weaugh, Teaugh, Peaugh'."
"Peaugh?" The Gump asked as it suddenly woke up, coming to life.
"Wahoo!" The group cheered.
"That's it!" Jack soon cheered along with them.
"Well, I'm glad our hard work was paid off somehow." Snow White smiled at Scruffy, Dot, Toto, and Clifford.
"Alright, now there's just one thing left to do." Scruffy said.
"I'll stop you!" Princess Mombi called from downstairs as Tik-Tok kept a look out for her.
"She is coming!" Tik-Tok warned.
"Jack, go help Tik-Tok get aboard! Billina, get in! Guys, get your pets!" Dorothy instructed.
"Right." Akito nodded.
"Wait for me!" Billina called out as she flew over.
"A chicken?" The Gump asked.
"Can you flap your wings?" Emily Elizabeth asked the beast.
"I don't have any wings." The Gump replied.
"Now you do!" Akito said as he flapped the pretend wings.
"I guess you're right, I do!" The Gump then realized.
"Yep, you sure do." Charley nodded.
"Jump up, Tik-Tok!" Dorothy told the robot.
"Help me up, Dorothy!" Tik-Tok told her before she soon helped him.
"Easy, is it?" The Gump remarked at that.
"DOROTHY GALE!" Princess Mombi called out from outside.
"We have to get out of here quickly." Akito said.
They soon began to rush out.
"So!" Princess Mombi glared as she burst through the doors which made Dorothy scream.
"Go out there!" Scruffy pointed out. "Quick!"
"Fly! Fly!" Dorothy cried out.
"Wait for me!" Jack called as he ran after them before a blanket was thrown in Princess Mombi's face.
"Jack, get on!" Akito told the pumpkin head.
"STOP!" Princess Mombi demanded.
"No way, you old hag!" Jetta retorted.
Jack soon got on, but the Gump seemed to be falling from the tower and they were close to hitting the ground as they fell through the air.
"Why aren't we flying?!" Jetta yelped.
"Come on, Gump, you can fly!" Dot cried out.
"PLEASE!" Scruffy added.
"FLY! FLY!" Dorothy yelped.
Luckily, Gump soon sprouted out his wings and began to fly before they would hit the ground, much to everyone's relief.
"Phew!" Felicity sighed. "That almost reminded me of the story of Dumbo."
"That was close." Estelle panted with a nod.
"Tell me about it." Charley added.
"We did it!" Dorothy cheered.
They soon flew away, much to the frustration of Princess Mombi.
"Help me!" Jack yelped as he dangled on the edge.
"Hold on, Jack!" Dorothy called out as she tried to help him. "Here, Jack, give me your hand. Tik-Tok, will you help me pull?" she then asked the robot.
Tik-Tok then helped out Dorothy as they pulled Jack inside. Once they successfully got Jack inside, the Gump continued flying. Princess Mombi soon went to wake up the Wheelers to make them do a job for her. The spirit of a bunny rabbit was shown as she watched that before she soon disappeared and went to find Clifford and the others.
"Get up! Wake up! Look!" Princess Mombi demanded to her Wheelers as they soon went off, like the Wicked Witch's flying monkeys. "Dorothy Gale is escaping! Go and get them back for me! Hurry up! All of you! Go on! And make sure you bring back that chicken! Don't come back without them!"
The Wheelers began to get up and began to go after the group.