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"Are you ready Jack?" the doctor asked.
"Yes, yes, can I go now?" Jack said impatiently. Every moment spent here was another moment his son was in danger.
The doctor gave Igor the signal, and Igor flipped the large metal switch. The iron arch began glowing white hot from the heat, and sparks flew everywhere. Apparently dimension traveling was a complicated business.
"Jack, you have one day to find Jake, then the portal will close. HalloweenTown can't afford to lose you, so be on time!" the doctor exclaimed. Jack nodded, then dissapeared into the black hole.
The smoke cleared. Dr. Finklestien shook his head. "I hope he knows what he's doing..."
Jake discovered protests were rather noisy.
"STOP THE LIES!!!" yelled a person next to him. Jake's skull was ringing from all this sound pollution.
"Spike, is it always like this?" he asked. "Yeah little dude, haven't you ever been to a protest before?" Spike said before turning back to his picket sign carrying. Jake sighed. He would have stayed back at the apartment. At least it was quiet there.
Of course, this was before all hell broke loose.
Jack arrived in the Human World where the portal had been on Halloween night. Dusting himself off, he got up and looked around. He was in an alley outside of Times Square, where some sort of yelling convention was going on. Jack knew it would waste time, but there must be some sort of good reason these humans were so worked up.
As Jack came closer, he realized why these people were so loud. Apparently it was some sort of protest. And it was getting in the violence stage.
"Good thing Jake isn't here," said Jack to himself, "he would get lost or squashed."
Jake was aware of a new sort of tension over the crowd. Then came the shoving. At first he thought it was an accident when a random human pushed againest him. Then he realized fights were springing up. He had to get out of here.
"Spike! Jamie!" he cried. They seemed to already know what was up, Jamie grabbed Jake's hand and Spike pushed a path for them through the crowd. But there seemed no way out. They were in the middle of a self-destroying mob.
"See that building there?" Spike asked, pointing to a crumbling structure. "Yeah." said Jake. "We need to climb up it. Then we can easily get outta here." Spike said. "Are you crazy?" Jake exclaimed. The building was falling down by itself. How was it supposed to support them?
"No! Now climb!" Spike instructed. Jake, Jamie, and Spike began scaling the wall.
Something caught Jack's attention. Three foolish humans were scaling a building to get out of the now frenzied crowd.
"Idiots! They'll snap their necks!" Jack said. Then he noticed who the smallest figure was.
"Jake!" he cried out.