Jonesy, jimmy, Fred, Joe, Samantha and jack watched as Igor chomped down on a biscuit.
"Ooh…biscuit tastes good!" said Igor.
"Now, Igor," said jack. "You promised to move aside."
"Igor keeps his promise," said the little humpbacked man, moving out of the way.
Jack and the remaining five teenagers began to continue down the path, but as they were about to climb the stairs that led to the doctor's lab…
ZAP!
A big bolt of lighting shot out from the rod at the top of the building and came crashing down at high speed, just missing jonesy.
"HOLY, MOTHERFUCKER!" jonesy yelled as he, and the others jumped back. He looked at the rod on the top of the lab. "WHAT THE FUCK?"
"Zappity zap zap?" asked jimmy.
Jack looked at Igor, who was covering his head. "Where is that thing getting its power from?"
"Doctor have big generator behind the door over there," Igor answered, motioning to the big door behind him. "Jack smash circuit with some thing to make lighting stop!"
Jack looked at the rod. "I bet that won't stop it for long," he thought out loud. "We'd better get back quick, or we're fried."
"Yeah, that's all well and good," said jonesy. "But if that thing doesn't fry us, the doc probably will."
"Any monster a weakness it will have," said jimmy.
"Jimmy's right…sort of," said jack. "Every monster has a weak point. We just need to find out the doctor's."
"Well, who knows the doc better than anyone else?" asked jonesy.
They began to think. Then jack and jonesy's eyes lit up at the same time.
"SALLY!" they said together.
"Hey, jack," said jonesy. "Didn't sally say she wanted to talk to you anyway?"
"Hey, you're right!" said jack. "I bet sally knows something that we can use to save the doctor."
"Oh yeah?" asked jimmy. "My dad has a m16 assault rifle."
---
Sally's eyes lit up when she saw jack and the five teenagers approaching. "Oh, jack!" she said. "You remembered to come back to me!"
"Yeah, just barely," said jonesy.
"What you said before kind of worried me…" said jack.
"It's about the doctor, jack," said sally. "If he tries to… harm you, use the sleeping soup to knock him out."
"Sleeping soup?" asked jonesy. "Where the hell do we get that?"
"I can make it for you," said sally. "But I need the ingredients first. You guys will get them for me, right?"
"Can do, miss sally," said jimmy.
That's when sally noticed something different about the gang. "Hey, where are nikki Caitlin jen Jude Wyatt and Sam?"
"We lost them when we entered the doc's territory," said jonesy.
Sally gasped. "Oh dear…" she said. "The doctor must have taken them. Who knows what he'll do to your friends?"
"Hmm… I see your point," said jack. "We'd better get up there, and fast! What are the ingredients for the soup, sally?"
"Here," said sally, handing jack a piece of paper. "I wrote them down for you so you can look at them later."
"So this sleeping soup will make it easier to save the doc?" asked Fred.
"It should," said sally.
"Hey, right now, we need all the help we can get," said jonesy. "Let's give it a shot."
"Thank you, sally," said jack.
---
The gang began to walk away from the giant tree in the center of the graveyard.
"Okay, let's have a look at that," said jonesy, taking the list from jack. He began to read it out loud.
"To make the sleeping soup, you need the following ingredients: deadly nightshade, frog's breath, and worm's wart. To get the deadly nightshade, go to the grave marked "deadly nightshade." There are many graves, so be careful! For frog's breath, if you need a frog. The doctor breeds them in his junkyard. And as for worm's wart, you can buy it at the shop."
"Deadly!" said jimmy.
"So, how are we going to do this?" asked jack.
"Well, it says we need a frog," said jonesy. "Which is perfect, because you're looking at the best frog catchers around! Right, jimmy?"
"What?" asked jimmy.
"Are you sure about that?" asked jack. "I've seen frogs the doctor breeds. They're very cautious around other people."
"Ah, there hasn't been a frog me and these guys haven't been able to catch," said jonesy. "Right, lumpy?"
"What?" asked jimmy.
"So I can trust you guys to catch the frog while I get the other two items?" asked jack.
"Sure thing!" said jonesy. "We'll catch that frog in nothing flat! Right, monobrow?"
"What?" asked jimmy.
Jonesy, frustrated, grabbed jimmy's lips and stared moving them up and down.
"Sure we can, jonesy!" jonesy said in jimmy's voice. "I have one eyebrow and the brain of a bug and I'm a very rich kid who gots money in the bank!"
"I don't know…" said jack. "With all those monsters roaming about, and then there's that nasty lighting…"
Suddenly, jimmy grabbed jonesy's lips and started moving them up and down.
"Relax, jack!" jimmy said in jonesy's voice. "I will help jimmy Joe Fred and Samantha catch it!"
Jack sighed. "Okay…" he said. "But hold on." Then, with a twirl and a wave of fire, jack was suddenly dressed up in his pumpkin king costume. He grabbed a nearby stick, inhaled, a shot fire at the stick, setting ablaze. "I've seen the pen that holds the frogs in the junkyard," he said, handing jonesy the stick. "It's blocked off by a fence. You have to light all the torches to open the fence. Got it?"
"Uh… yeah," said jonesy. "That costume's creepy. You know that, don't you?"
"Well, I am the pumpkin king," said jack.
"Whatever," said jonesy. "Anyway, we'll get the right frog, jack. You've got nothing to worry about."
---
jonesy jimmy Joe Fred and Samantha cautiously reentered the doctor's territory. Jack had agreed to meet them at the junkyard after he got the other items.
"Okay…where's the junkyard?" asked jonesy.
Jimmy looked over where the door with the giant circuit was. "Ooh, ohh!" he said, pointing to another door across from it.
"Good work, jimmy," said jonesy. They ran over to the door, being careful not to be struck by lighting or let the torch go out.
"What a dump," said jimmy as they entered the junkyard.
In the distance, jonesy heard croaking. "That must be the frog pen up there," he said, pointing at the far corner of the junkyard. "Come on!"
The five teenagers took the elevator up. Sure enough, there was the frog pen, and it was blocked off by a fence. There were three torches in front of the pen.
"Jack said we needed to light all the torches," said jonesy.
"Uh, that one's too far away, jonesy," said jimmy, pointing to the torch that wasn't near the others.
"So?" asked jonesy. "Use your head, lumpy! Make the torch go near the others!"
"Okay," said jimmy. He ran over to the other torch and head butted it. Pretty soon, with a few good head butts, the torch was right next to the others.
"Now we're talking," said jonesy. With one swoop of the stick, he lit all three of the torches.
The fence opened.
"Okay, jimmy," said jonesy. "Now go in there and get us a frog."
"Which one, jonesy?" asked jimmy.
"I don't know…" said jonesy. That's when he saw it. One of the frogs exhaled, and a thick green cloud came out of its mouth. "That one right there!" he said, pointing to it. "Get that one right there! See it?"
"Yep!" said jimmy. "I'll be right back, jonesy!"
Jimmy ran into the frog pen to fetch the frog. But jack had been right about the frogs being cautious around people. As soon as they saw jimmy, they quickly hopped away. Jimmy started running all over the place, until he just couldn't run anymore. He went back to jonesy Joe Fred and Samantha panting in defeat.
"I can't catch it, jonesy," jimmy whined. "They're hopping away too fast."
Jonesy began to think. How did the gang usually catch frogs back at the galleria mall? That's when it hit him. But he needed Caitlin…or maybe he didn't need her.
---
"Try showing some more leg, caitli… uh I mean jimmy!" jonesy called to his friend
Jimmy was crouching in the middle of the frog pen doing his best frog impression, wearing only his boxers. Jonesy held hid clothes and guns. At jonesy's request, jimmy lifted up one of his legs. Just like Caitlin did that time when they tried to catch frogs only jimmy wasn't a female and he wasn't wearing a 2 piece retro style bikini.
"Oh…my…lord…"
jonesy turned to see jack standing there, staring at jimmy with wide eyes.
"What did you do?" the pumpkin king asked jonesy.
"Mellow out," said jonesy. "He's still got his boxers on."
"This is how you guys catch frogs?" jack asked in disbelief.
"Well, normally, no," said jonesy. "But we couldn't just catch the right one, so I figured, what better to catch a frog than another frog?"
"But that's not another frog, jonesy," said jack. "That's jimmy without any clothes on. How's he supposed to…"
"Got it!" jimmy suddenly said. He ran back to jonesy Joe Fred Samantha and jack, holding a frog. When it exhaled, a thick green cloud came out of its mouth.
"And there's your frog," said jonesy. "Told ya we were the best frog catchers around."
As jonesy gave jimmy his clothes and his guns back, jack shook his head in amazement. "well, at least we have all the ingredients. Let's take them back to sally."
---
The gang had given sally all the ingredients, and they were waiting for her while she made the soup.
"Finished!" said sally, coming back with a bowl of the soup. "Once the doctor gets a whiff of this, he'll be out like a light!"
"Thank you, sally," said jack as jimmy took the soup. "What would I do without you?"
"You'd get a lot more trouble cause of your hair-brained schemes, probably," said jonesy.
---
Jimmy jonesy Fred Joe Samantha and jack went back to the door with the circuit.
"Now to smash that thing," said jack.
"And get the others from the psycho doc!" said jonesy.
"Psycho!" said jimmy.
As the gang entered, they saw a giant pumping circuit in the distance.
"How do we bust that thing?" asked Fred.
"Maybe…" said jack. He looked at a nearby rock. "Maybe if we take that rock through the maze, we can throw it at the circuit to smash it."
"Zappity zap zap!" said jimmy, pointing.
Jonesy Joe Fred Samantha and jack saw what jimmy meant. The path was lined with more electricity fences.
"How do we carry the rock?" asked jonesy.
"Like this," said jack. "Soul robber!"
Jack grabbed the rock with the soul robber. "You guys wait here," he said. "I'll be right back."
Jonesy Joe Fred Samantha and jimmy watched as jack carefully made his way through the maze, smashing the assorted debris in his way. When jack finally got to the giant circuit, he aimed carefully, then threw the rock right in The center of it.
"All right!" said jonesy.
"Now, to save the doctor!" said jack.
Jack ran back through the maze as fast as his long, skinny legs would carry him. He, jonesy, Joe Fred, Samantha, and jimmy made their way back to the main path…
Only to find it infested with monsters.
"Aw man…" grumbled jonesy.
"ATTACK!" yelled jimmy charging head first once again.
"Fine by me!" said jonesy beginning to run. Jack Joe Fred and Samantha followed him.
The six fought their way up the stairs and to the door of the doctor's lab. They quickly entered the lab and slammed the door behind them.
The five teenagers were panting heavily. Jack let out a sigh of relief. But just when the six were beginning to think that the worst was over…
"jaaaaaack! I was wondering when you'd get here!"
The five teenagers and jack looked around to see where the voice was coming from. Then jimmy pointed up.
The doctor's lab consisted of a huge spiral that led to the top, but one of the little brats herself, shock.
"Think you can reach me?" shock asked. "Try it. It's fun! I know I'm having a ball!"
Just then, a chute behind shock opened, and a monstrous metal ball popped out and began rolling down the spiral.
"Oh, great," jonesy grumbled again. "Just what we need right now. A bad pun."
"I don't want to crush your spirit, jack," said shock, putting her mask back on. "just your body!
Jonesy's eyes widened at this comment. "You were right, jimmy," he said. "That kid is like your older sister Tuesday…"
"No time for that now," said jack. "We have to make it to the top."
"This reminds me of that one game on that show with the Japanese people that have funny names," said jimmy.
"Hey, yeah," said jonesy. "All we have to do is get our timing right, and we'll be up there in no time!"
"If you say so…" said jack.
And so the pumpkin king and the five teenagers began to climb up the spiral path luckily as they ascended, there were little rooms in the walls that they could hide in so they wouldn't get crushed by the many giant boulders that were suddenly barreling their way. And jonesy was right. Before they, or shock, knew it, they had reached the top.
When shock spotted the six, she immediately slumped in defeat. She started waving her little broomstick, which had a white flag on it.
"I'm sorry, jack," she said in her sweetest voice. "I was only playing a trick…"
"Sheesh…" jonesy mumbled. "Some trick…"
the six continued to walk, only to find that shock was following them.
Suddenly, jack turned around so he was facing shock. "Stop helping Oogie," he said to her. "We mean it!"
Shock put on arm behind her back. "Okay…" she said.
Jimmy's eyes narrowed.
"That elevator leads up to the top floor," said jack. "Come on!"
Jimmy Joe Fred and Samantha followed jack onto the elevator. Jonesy, on the other hand, started to follow shock.
"jonesy, let it go," jack said in a commanding voice.
Now it was jonesy's turn to slump. "You're lucky the others are in trouble, squirt," he said to shock. "But just you wait. I'll get my chicken and rice yet!"
And with that, he joined jack Joe Fred Samantha and jimmy in the elevator. Jack pushed a button, and it began to go up.
But little did they know that it wasn't just the doctor that would be waiting for them…