Sam was nervously trembling as he, jack and the gang went back outside. And since the spikes on his death rattle popped out whenever he shook it, this made him even more nervous.

Jonesy looked at his friend. "Will you relax?" He asked Sam as jack closed his gate. "See? There's nobody here."

It was true. There weren't any skeletons in the streets for the time being. Sam finally calmed down long enough to stop trembling.

"Except for that little kid," said jimmy, pointing at the fountain.

And jimmy was right. Standing next to the fountain was a little boy with gray, clammy-looking skin. The weirdest thing was that his eyes appeared to be stitched shut.

"It's corpse kid!" exclaimed jack, running over to the boy.

"Corpse?" asked jen.

"CORPSE KID!" yelled jimmy. "MUST TOUCH!"

Corpse kid's face lit up when he saw (?) jack running toward him. "Jack!" he said. "You came back!"

"Geez, these people aren't used to having you gone, huh?" asked nikki.

"Good timing, too," said corpse kid. "I think the witch shop has just opened for the first time since you left." Corpse kid shivered. "Terrible things happened while you were gone, jack… terrible things."

"Yeah, we kinda figured that out when we first heard Oogie's voice after somebody stepped on that cat," said jonesy.

"The witch shop?" asked jen.

"Maybe the witches can give us a lead," said jack. "Come on!"

The gang began to follow jack, but they stopped when they realized that jimmy and Caitlin were still with corpse kid.

"Does it hurt to have your eyes stitched shut like that?" jimmy was asking corpse kid.

"Yeah does it hurt it would hurt me if my eyes were stitched shut" said Caitlin

"JIMMY CAITLIN!" The gang called all together.

"Oh?" that got jimmy and Caitlin's attention. He and Caitlin ran to catch up with the others. "Are we it?" jimmy asked as he and Caitlin ran.

"So, the witches have their own shop?" jen asked jack.

"Oh, yes," said jack. "It's the most successful business in town."

"Yeah, I bet," said jonesy as they all entered the shop.

The witches seemed to be waiting for them.

"Jack!" exclaimed the shorter witch. "You've returned!"

"Is it true?" asked jack. "The whole town is booby-trapped?"

"Oh…" said the taller witch. "It's too embarrassing to talk about. We brought this all upon ourselves…say, care to buy anything?" she quickly added. "We've got some prime heads and torsos, but they'll cost you an arm and a leg."

"Wow, get straight to the point, why don't you?" asked jonesy.

"You don't mean that "arm and a leg" thing literally, do you?" Sam asked nervously.

"You gotta question everything, don't you sam?" asked jonesy.

Jack had his attention turned toward the witches. "You two wouldn't happen to know where exactly the skeletons are coming from, would you?"

"No. Sorry," said the shorter witch. "We haven't been out of the house since they began appearing."

"You might want to try the graveyard for starters," said the taller witch. "I hear that there's a nasty infestation around those parts."

"It's a start, I suppose," said jack. "Come on, guys."

---

"So, which way is the graveyard?" asked Samantha as they exited the shop.

"Outside the main gate," said jack.

"Isn't that the same gate that shut behind us before?" asked Joe.

Jack's eyes widened. "Yes," he mumbled.

"Then it's probably still shut tight," said jen.

"Yep," said jimmy. "It's snug as a bug on a rug by a jug near a slug with a…"

"How would you know, monobrow?" asked jonesy. "You weren't even there."

At this point, the gang and jack were standing right in front of the gate.

"There must be some way to open it," said Sam.

"I think clown has the key," corpse kid said behind them.

Jack turned around. "Clown has the key," he repeated. "Where is he?"

"I don't know," said corpse kid.

"Oh!" jimmy suddenly exclaimed. He ran over to a nearby manhole cover. "fe fi fo fum, I smell cheese and onion buns," he said, pointing to the cover.

"What?" asked jack.

"Just ignore it, he'll stop," said Fred. "Jimmy, you're saying clown's down there?"

"In a sewer?" asked Sam.

"Well, that's certainly a good hiding spot," said jack. "But we need clown to open the gate. We have to go down there."

"Oh, so unsanitary…" Sam mumbled as jack took the cover off and climbed down.

"Is it my turn to jump down, jen?" jimmy asked as the others climbed down after jack.

"Uh…let me go down first, jimmy," said jen. She carefully began to climb down as well.

Jimmy stared for a minute, then… "Follow the leader!" he yelled, jumping in without even using the ladder.

---

jen stepped off the ladder just in time, because just as she got off, jimmy fell through.

"So where's clown?" asked Fred.

Jack looked around could just make out clown in the darker side of the sewer. "Hey, clown!" he called, beginning to run over.

Suddenly, clown let out a yelp, then wheeled his unicycle deeper into the darkness.

"What?" jack asked as he stopped running.

Just then, the same skeletons that had attacked before popped up out of the ground.

"Not here, too!" moaned Sam.

"Big deal," said jonesy. "We have new weapons now, remember?" He readied his yo-yo mace.

"Ha ha!" said jimmy, bending over. "I like to smash stuff!"

"Oh dear…" said Sam, taking out his death rattle. "Physical activity…"

"Get ready," said jack. "It might take some time to get used to the weapons, so you should probably…"

"ATTACK THE SKELETONS!" jimmy suddenly yelled, charging into the army. "SKELETONS AWAY!"

The others got out their guns out and began to shoot at the skeletons.

"Works for me!" said jonesy. He got ready to whip the yo-yo mace out… when it suddenly whipped out by itself! Jonesy watched as it flew across the room, around a group of skeletons, the tightened, squeezing the skeletons into dust. The spikes on the yo-yo mace retracted as it returned to jonesy's hand. "It can track things?" jonesy asked. "SWEET!"

Sam was suddenly surrounded, and resorted to covering his eyes with his free arm and spinning in a circle while shaking the rattle. When he opened his eyes again, there was nothing around him but a pile of dust. He smiled. Maybe he could get use to this thing.

Jimmy, meanwhile, was having a ball. He probably didn't even need the bony helmet. He was simply running around the room, slamming into the skeletons head-on. OUT OF THE WAY, CITIZEN!" He yelled as he ran past jack, who was smacking enemies with his soul robber.

"What'd he call me?" jack asked jonesy, pointing at jimmy.

"Ah, it's just something from one of his movies," said jonesy. "Like Fred said before, ignore it."

Soon, the room was empty again, and clown reappeared.

"Skeletons have been terminated, jonesy," jimmy panted

"Jack!" said clown. "You're back?"

"You can calm down now," said jack. "Everything's okay."

"I'm glad you guys are here," said clown. "I've had to hide ever since those skeletons came. Sure, I like a good scare every now and then, but those things bite!"

"Literally," added jonesy.

"We need you to unlock the main gate so we can get into the graveyard," said jack. "You have the key, right?"

"Yeah, I had it," said clown. "But when it became too dangerous, I ended up hiding it. Now, where did I put it? Uh… did I eat it? Uh… I'll open the gate for you as soon as I find it."

"I ate a key once," said jimmy. "Discreetly."

"I guess the only thing for us to do now is get out of here," said jack.

They ran back over to the ladder. The only problem was that it was too far away for them to climb back up.

"Now what?" asked Sam.

"See that?" asked jack. He pointed to a piece of the ladder that was sticking out. "We can latch onto that to get out of here." Jack arched down. "Soul robber!" he called out. The soul robber shot out and grabbed the hook, pulling jack up and out of the sewer.

"What about us?" yelled Sam.

Jonesy took out his yo-yo mace, and was surprised when it didn't do anything. "Uh… grab the hook?" he asked it. The yo-yo mace shot out of jonesy's hand and grabbed the hook. "WHOA!" jonesy yelled as he was shot up. Luckily, as he was being pulled up, Jude Wyatt Joe and Fred had grabbed his legs.

Caitlin suddenly grabbed Fred's legs and sprouted her cat ears and her cat tail "jimmy grab my tail." She said. Jimmy grabbed her tail and was being pulled up, nikki jen Sam and Samantha grabbed jimmy's legs.

---

When the gang and jack emerged from the sewer, they were greeted by another surprise. The skeletons were back on the surface. Corpse kid was nowhere to be found, so he had probably ran off to hide.

"Not again…" said Sam.

"At least there aren't as many," said jonesy.

"ATTACK THE SKELETONS AGAIN!" said jimmy, once again charging.

Jonesy was right. There weren't as many skeletons this time, so the team easily beat them. As soon as the last skeleton was destroyed, the team was met with the sound of the main gate opening. They looked and saw clown and corpse kid standing near the entrance.

"I got the gate open for you, jack," said clown as they ran over.

"But not before some of Oogie's baddies grabbed sally and carried her off toward the cemetery," added corpse kid. "I heard the cemetery's pretty dangerous these days. I hope she's okay."

"What?" jonesy asked in disbelief.

"They took sally?" asked jen.

"I think they took miss sally, guys," said jimmy.

Jack let out a light growl. "That's it," he said softly. "No more Mr. Nice bones!" he then ran out through the gate.

"Jack, wait up!" jonesy called as he and the others ran after the now very ticked-off pumpkin king.

But little did they know that a few certain somebodies were there as well…