"I sure hope those monsters haven't done anything to the mayor," jack said as he and the gang left the vampire brother's mansion. "He's not the best at handling things by himself."

"My question is: if the mayor can't handle anything by himself, why's he the mayor?" asked Sam.

"Who invited you?" asked jonesy.

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Jack led the gang to the mayor's house, which was located deeper in the residential area.

"It's the two-faced mayor guy's head!" exclaimed jimmy when he saw the house.

It was true. The mayor's house was shaped to look just like his head. Including a tower that looked like his hat!

"And I thought you had problems…" jonesy said to jack.

"So where do these keys go?" asked Sam."

"I'm guessing they fit into the picture on the ground here," said jack

The gang looked below them. Carved into the ground was the mayor's happy face.

"Oh, brother…boy is this thing ugly," said jonesy.

"Well, this shouldn't be hard to figure out," said Sam.

Jack and the jonesy jimmy and sam took a key and found a place to put it on the giant mayor face. It took jimmy a while to figure out how to put his in, because he's jimmy, but he finally got his key, which looked like a couple of the mayor's teeth, to fit. Sam was in charge of the key that looked like the mayor's nose. He carefully and precisely placed it in the middle of the picture. Jonesy had the key that looked like the mayor's blue eye, and jack had his yellow eye. They placed theirs at the appropriate places near the top of the picture.

The team stepped back to admire their handiwork.

"Oh yeah," said jonesy. "That is fine craftsmanship right there."

"Craftsmanship?" Sam repeated. "It seems those tutoring lessons are after all, jonesy."

Jack walked up to the mayor's door to open it. But just as he was about to touch the knob…

"Jack! Up here! Please hellllp!"

"Uh oh," said jonesy. "I know that whine."

Jack ran back out to the middle of the mayor's picture.

"Hellllp!" the whiny voice repeated.

Jack and the gang looked around in all directions to see where the voice was coming from. Jimmy looked up. Then he pointed.

Jack looked up too. "What?" he asked when he saw what jimmy was pointing at.

"Aw, man…" jonesy moaned.

"Oh dear…" said Sam.

At the very top of the mayor's house, stuck in a cage, was the mayor, who, of course, had his white face on. "Helllp!" he repeated again.

"We gotta go all the way up there?" asked jonesy.

"We have to if we're going to save the mayor," said jack. "Let's go!"

"Why?" jonesy asked as they ran into the house.

The team did not feel welcome one bit as soon as they set foot in the mayor's house. It had been completely overrun by Oogie's monsters. Inside the house, a giant staircase much like dr. finkelstien's led to the top.

"Oh dear," said Sam. "Physical activity…"

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The gang started up the stairs, fighting all the monsters in their paths. "jack, jimmy and jonesy were holding out fine, but they hadn't even gotten to the third floor when Sam became so exhausted he could barely walk.

"Boy, Sam," said jonesy. "You're such a jock."

Sam had to be put on jimmy's back and ride up the rest of the stairs.

And as if all the monsters and sam complaining about being tired wasn't bad enough, once in a while, the mayor's whiny "Helllp!" could be heard in the background, and this just made everything even more irritating.

"Okay, OKAY!" jonesy finally yelled up at the mayor as he swung at enemies. "Keep your political pants on!" then he mumbled under his breath, "man, he's worse than four eyes over here…"

And throughout the whole thing, jack was somehow able to keep cool, despite all the noise happening around him.

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After what seemed like forever, jack and the gang finally got to where the mayor was.

"Mayor!" exclaimed jack. "Are you okay?"

"Jack!" said the mayor. "Oh, you don't know how happy I am to see your skull. I thought I'd be stuck here forever!"

"Yeah, so did we…" said jonesy.

Jimmy took Sam off his back and lowered the cage, letting the mayor out.

"Do you know where the holiday door hidden in this residential area is?" Sam asked as he stood up.

"I saw some of Oogie's goons up on my roof," said the mayor, switching to his happy face. "Thank you jack." He turned to the gang. "And you too, guys. Good luck!" he then began to walk back down the long staircase.

Jack and the gang had to climb one more set of stairs to reach the mayor's roof. But as they began to walk, they heard the citizens of Halloween town below them begin to sing.

Citizens: it's time it's time

Take our town back Take our town back

Mayor: take our town back take our town back we can win

Witches and citizens: we were deceived and now it's time to set things right! We'll see Oogie fall!

Of course, the gang couldn't help to join in.

The gang: take the town back! Take the town back! Take the town back!

Witches and citizens: time to work had everyone on the job until it is done then we'll get back to creepy fun it's time to battle

Vampires and citizens: take our town back! Take our town back! Just like you, we'll have our dear place now that they are on the case

Sally: we were deceived

Jimmy and Caitlin: you were all deceived!

The gang, citizens: all together, that and this, with all our tricks we'll make things as they were

Jack!

All eyes turned to jack. And he didn't look happy.

Jack: I don't believe what has happened here our town, our own, our Halloween… YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

The gang, citizens: hurry now! Hurry now!

Take our town back! Take our town back!

La, la, la it has begun, we cannot wait so be on guard and concentrate 'cause when the full moon starts to climb we'll all sing out!

The gang: take our town back!

Jack, and the gang: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha …