Sorry it's such a short chapter today! I've had ZERO time to write, so when I finally had a free moment, I took it! Hang in there; another update should be coming soon! :)
"C'mon, let's go!" Woody shouted as the group of toys stood atop the shingles. Woody, after using Slink to get to the bottom, looked up and watched as Rex physically winced at the thought of coming down. Woody continued to gesture for the toy dinosaur to come, but Rex continued to reflect on his not-so-pleasant experience the last time Slink helped him down. Someone, it must have been Potatohead, pushed Rex into Slinky, and Slink used this opportunity to grab onto the dinosaur and jump. Rex screamed all the way until he gently landed on the ground. He began to nervously chuckle at his initial reaction, but then Slink urged him to get out of the way. Rex stumbled to get away before Potatohead landed on him, but Rex took a little too long, and before he knew it, an angry potato had landed splat on him.
"Get out of the way, you moron!" Potatohead yelled.
"I'm sorry," Rex whimpered. "I tried, but I just can't run very fast."
"Next time, don't come down," the mister angrily muttered as he began to search a nearby bush.
Once everyone had semi-safely made it onto the ground, Woody ordered each and every toy to search a particular area of the yard. They all spread out, desperate to find Jessie's poor leg. Buzz, who had been assigned to specifically search in the area he had found her, decided that, according to the trajectory of her landing, her leg would be exactly four feet away. He scoured out the place he had calculated, but he gasped when, in the very specific spot it was supposed to be, her leg was not there. Buzz scratched his chin and headed to where Woody was searching under a rock.
"Woody, Jessie's leg isn't where it's supposed to be!"
Woody dropped the small rock he was searching under and turned to face Buzz. "Ya think ranger? It isn't attached to her body!"
Buzz shook his head. "That's not what I meant! I mean, according to my calculations, her leg isn't where it should be. When she fell, her body's impact would have caused her leg to have fallen precisely four feet to the south of her location, but when I searched there, it's gone! There's something wrong with this…but I just can't figure out what."
Woody turned away from Buzz and mumbled something like, "….I told her we shouldn't have done that…"
"What'd you say Woody?" Buzz asked, hoping that maybe Woody had found her leg or knew something he didn't.
"Oh, nothing," Woody waved to the ranger. "I'm just going to head upstairs and check on the invalid."
"I'll join you," Buzz insisted, but Woody held out his arm to block the eager ranger.
"Oh no you don't," Woody forcefully said. "You've got to keep searching."
"I already told you," Buzz complained. "It isn't where it should be. Something's wrong. We've got to figure it out."
"We will, ranger, we will." Woody left the ranger standing dumbly and called to the army men to lower the basket. Woody carefully sat down inside of it and soon disappeared into the house. Buzz scratched his head. He didn't understand why he couldn't go talk to Jessie. Even though the thought of talking to her still scared him, it wasn't so bad. She was easy to talk to, and for that, Buzz was extremely grateful.
He turned to continue searching but heard two toys yelling at each other. He saw Mr. Potatohead and Hamm looking ready to rip each other's heads off. Buzz sighed and decided that he should intervene.
"What seems to be the problem?" he asked the toys.
Hamm was the first to speak. "This smart potato thinks that he's better at chess than I am, but we all know I'm the champion."
"You cheat, you big fat swine! That's how you've been winning all of these years!" Mr. Potatohead yelled.
"How can I cheat at chess?" Hamm asked, anger bubbling in his voice.
"How can you win the annual chess tournament five years in a row?"
"I already told you: skill."
"That's not skill, that's called cheating!"
"That doesn't even make sense!"
The bickering continued, and before Buzz could say something to stop the argument, he laughed. His sudden laughter caught him off guard, but he couldn't stop. He laughed so loud and long that all the toys stopped and stared at him. The only sound that could be heard was Buzz's laughter, and it resounded louder than the loudest bell. Buzz laughed at the stupidity of the argument, he laughed because he finally realized what was going on, and he laughed because he was about to go and really kick somebody in the butt.
I'm such a dork, but I love the way this chapter ends. Hahahahahaha. :P