The Genius of Oz.
Chapter 4: The Tin Woodbot
The trio kept walking until they came to a forest. The part they were in was actually pretty thin and resembled an orchard. Then Lilo spotted three papaya trees. "Oh, let's get some," said Lilo. Stitch could get his own food and the Scarecrow didn't need to eat, but they both didn't mind Lilo stopping to get food. Lilo walked over to the closest papaya tree and plucked a large ripe one. Before she could take a bite of it, the tree smacked her hand with a branch and snatched the papaya back. Lilo looked at the papaya trees and saw that they sort of resembled the Hula Girls. "What do you think you're doing?" said the tree Lilo plucked the fruit from. "Yeah?" said the other two. "Well, I was hungry and wanted something to eat, but I didn't know you were alive." "Well would you like if we picked something off of you?" said another tree. "Yeah?" said the other two. The Scarecrow grabbed Lilo's shoulder and said, "Come on, Lilo. You don't want any of those papayas." "You got something against papayas?" asked the third tree. "Nope," said the Scarecrow, "she just doesn't like those crunchy blue beetles." The trees were enraged by this insult and grabbed the Scarecrow. They threw him back onto the Road. Lilo ran over to make sure he was okay, but he was just fine. "I'll show how to get papayas," he whispered and started making faces at the trees. The trees started picking papayas and throwing them at the group. Stitch quickly caught on and waved his patookie at the trees. The trees were now hurling papayas nonstop. Fortunately, the rinds of the papayas were firmer than normal so they didn't splat.
Lilo moved through the bushes searching for pieces she might have missed. As she picked up one, she noticed that something metal was right next to it. She saw it was a tin leg. She looked upwards and saw that it was attached to a tin robot holding an axe with its six arms. The robot was wearing a funnel for a hat on its head, of which the front part was completely made up of its large eye. "Hey guys! Check this out!" Lilo called. Stitch and the Scarecrow came over and observed the mechanical chopper. "What's this thing doing here?" asked Stitch as he tapped the robot's head. Suddenly a muffled cry came from the robot. "What did he say?" asked the Scarecrow. The Woodbot repeated the cry and Lilo said, "He said 'recharger'." "Recharger what?" asked the Scarecrow. Lilo looked around and spotted a device on top of a tree stump. It resembled an oilcan except it was more technological looking. She picked it up and asked, "Where do you want it first?" The Woodbot made another muffled cry and the Scarecrow said, "He said his mouth." Lilo placed the recharger against the Woodbot's slightly beak-like mouth and pulled the trigger. A small jolt of electricity came out of the nozzle and into the Woodbot's mouth. The Woodbot flexed his tin lips and said, "My goodness, I can talk again!" "Where do you want it next?" asked the Scarecrow. "On my arms please," said the Tin Woodbot. Lilo applied the recharger to the base of the arms and the axe fell down rather sharply. Luckily, no one was in the way. "Did that hurt?" asked Lilo. "No," said the Tin Bot with a sigh of relief, "I've been holding that axe for who-knows-how-long." Lilo then started on the Woodbot's four legs and said, "At least you're working perfectly now." "Perfectly?" said the Woodbot, "bang on my chest if you think I'm perfect." Stitch happily obliged and hit his fist against the door on the Woodbot's chest three times. The sound of the banging echoed inside the Tin Bot. "Ooh," said Stitch, "Nice echo." "It's empty," said the Woodbot and he closer and said, "the tinsmith that built me forgot to give me a heart."
"Why would you want a heart?" asked Lilo. "That's part of the reason I'm out here," said the Woodbot. "The tinsmith made several machines to help him in the smithy. He built me to chop wood for his fire and gave me good brains so I could obey his orders perfectly. But I eventually became dissatisfied because I couldn't really feel emotions. What's the point in living if you can't appreciate it? The tinsmith didn't want to give me one because he thought it would make me disobedient. Then one day, I was chopping wood when it began to rain. The water short-circuited me out. I've been stuck here ever since. I suspect that the tinsmith replaced me by now. Where do I go now?" Lilo and the Scarecrow looked at each other and Lilo said, "Well, we're going to the Coral City to ask the Genius to send me and Stitch home and give Scarecrow a brain. Maybe he could give you a heart." The Tin Woodbot perked up, but then frowned and said, "But what if the Genius doesn't five me a heart?" "Of course he will," said Lilo, "we've already came a long way."
Suddenly there was loud cackling on top of the nearby hill. Everyone looked there to see the Wicked Witch of the West standing on top of it. "'Came a long way,'" mimicked the Wicked Witch, "why you've only just begun." She turned her attention to the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodbot and said, "Helping the little girl along, my weird gentlemen? Well, keep away from her if you know what's good for you. Or I'll make a throw mat out of you. And you, I'll use you for a preserve jar. Here Scarecrow, wanna play ball?" She conjured a fireball and threw it at the Scarecrow. It missed but it set the grass by his feet on fire. The Scarecrow got as far from the flames as he could while the Tin Woodbot put out them out with his funnel cap. When the Tin Bot finally got the fire out, the Wicked Witch had disappeared in another cloud of red sulfur. The Scarecrow turned to Lilo and said, "I'm going to take you to the Genius whether I get a brain or not. Throw mat, bah!" He made a rude sign towards where the Witch was involving his nose and his hand. The Woodbot turned to Lilo and said, "And I'll take you to the Genius if he doesn't give me a heart or not. Preserve jar, ha, let her try to make a preserve jar out of me." He tried to the same rude sign, but his tin composition and his lack of a nose made this a bit complicated. Soon after that, Lilo, Stitch, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodbot were on the Sandy Brick Road and heading towards the deeper parts of the woods.
Here's another chapter for you. The reason I didn't tell you guess to whom the Tin Woodbot was going to be was because it was plainly obvious whom was going to be. Watch out for the next chapter.