Disclaimer: PoM and VV do not belong to me.

Why haven't I updated yet? This isn't hard to write. It's mostly something to do.

The moment they stepped inside, it started down-pouring.

"Well, that's odd," Skipper commented. He stepped outside, and the rain stopped. He stepped back in, and the rain started again. Both doll and penguin stared, confused, at the outside, before Skipper decided it didn't effect them, because it wasn't drowning Vince quite yet. Vince chalked it up to Kosmo using voodoo magic to try and create some epic effect and let it be.

Lightning and thunder crashed as they climbed the not-so-long stairwell to the inside of the museum. Lightning flashed, silhouetting the figure of a large monster. Skipper flinched. Vince gasped in shock. When the lightning died down, however, all that was left was the giant-sized remains of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Vince sighed, "Oh, it's just a pile of bones..."

"Yeah, yeah, skeletons, history, great," Skipper mumbled, not really paying attention, "Now where's this 'Boss' character? I want to get this fight over with," A rare thing for Skipper to say, indeed, but with lives on the line, even he knew better than to linger for too long.

The doll next to him crossed his thin arms and rolled his one glass eye, "And what makes you so sure we'll be fighting this 'Boss' guy anyways?"

"The heroes ALWAYS fight the Boss!" Skipper insisted, "It's a classic video game tradition! Don't you know anything?"

"I've been alive for a little over thirty minutes," Vince pointed out. Skipper looked behind him, to a nearby clock. A little over a half-hour had passed after they first left. Huh, it hadn't felt that long...

Skipper grumbled, "Remind me to get a watch..." Before stepping closer to the edge to get a better view of the museum. Somehow, a bottomless pit had formed between them and the giant skeleton. On the little platforms left, there was no sign of any living creature.

Then, of course, things went to heck.

This time, when Kosmo appeared, he didn't say anything. A nice change in pace for the heroes. He just laughed and zapped the skeleton with his eyes. Despite only being a half-hour old, Vince recognized the voodoo magic involved. The door behind them shut and locked. The fossil shook, trying to work some feeling into itself, before somehow seeing the heroes with its eye-less head and roaring loudly.

"This isn't good..." Skipper figured as he was tossed on his back. The doll next to him glared.

"Ya think?"

The duo dodged to the left as the monster decided to take a sweep at them with it's tail. A familiar voice then echoed in their heads, "You must bring the lightning inside. Find the Zap Hat and find a way to bring the lightning down, onto Vince. It will work. Really!"

"Thanks!" Skipper shouted, before spotting a metal bowl with three rods sticking out of it. The Zap Hat, he guessed, "Vince! Secure that hat!" He skimmed the room with analytic eyes, finally, after a moment, finding the mechanism he was looking for. A way to open the window. A switch, not too far above him.

Vince nodded and ran the other way, towards the hat. The Bone Goliath took more interest in Vince, the moving target, and swept him with it's tail. He barely jumped over it.

With the monster thoroughly distracted, Skipper bound from pillar to pillar, slowly making his way to the top of the room. He flipped off the pillar to the top of a set of broken stairs, looking down and seeing the monster smash it's tail down on Vince. He ran forward and pulled the switch down. As he had expected, one of the windows on the glass dome roof opened.

Vince jumped back as a flood of water from where the roof opened nearly washed him away, "Hey! Be careful!"

Skipper purposely ignored Vince and ran for another switch. He wasn't quite sure what this one would do, but it had to do something useful, right? He slid as fast as he could on his belly, noting too late that the monster was leaning forward and taking a bite out of the scaffolding. Luckily, not the section he was on, but the section right next to it. Unable to stop his forward momentum, he tumbled over the edge of the scaffolding.

Luckily, he had a partner looking out for him. A pebble hit the monster's head before it could finish off the lead penguin and caught it's short attention span. It turned around, fully intent on munching on Vince, who darted through the rain, making a note to kill Skipper later, and hopping onto a small island.

Skipper pulled himself back up, saluted Vince and hopped past the broken section of scaffolding. The next switch pulled out some sort of apparatus, positioning it directly over a small dome. It buzzed, charged with electricity.

Back on the scaffolding, one final switch remained.

While Vince kept the monster busy with pebbles, he also maneuvered across the islands, finally reaching the Zap Hat. He set the pebbles down and placed the bowl-shaped thing upon his voodoo head, "I got the hat! Now what?"

"Head back to the start! I'll meet you there!" Skipper shouted as he took a running start over two broken scaffolding, double jumping over them. Vince looked to the space he had to cover -several islands, a small rainy area and a long stretch of walkway- and sighed.

Skipper hopped from area to area, finally reaching the final switch. His wings latched onto the switch and pulled down hard. It didn't budge. Cursing under his breath, Skipper hopped onto the switch, jumping up and down. When that failed, he sighed, and the switch went down under his feet, sending him tumbling. The dome-like thing under the apparatus opened, revealed to be a part of the apparatus itself. Vince hopped over towards it, finally having made it back. Skipper jumped down next to him, landing perfectly despite the fact that the shock would have broken his little body. Before Vince could comment on this, he was pushed towards the apparatus, "Come on! Get inside!"

"Okay, okay. But why would I need to- AHH!" Vince screamed as electricity coursed through his body. The Bone Goliath screamed as the same pain and organ-damaging lightning went through him. Despite the fact that he doesn't have any organs, it still somehow killed him, causing him to tumble into the bottomless pit, disappearing from sight.

Skipper stared down, "And next time, STAY EXTINCT!" He shouted. He then turned to the ashes where a voodoo doll once stood. A bright flash of light, and a very angry looking voodoo doll stood there once again, "Don't look at me like that," the Skipper snorted, "Without me, you wouldn't have been able to beat that thing!"

"Without you, I probably wouldn't be dying every three minutes," Vince grumbled, before looking down into the pit, "Hey, what's that?"

A voodoo icon spun in mid-air over a pipe... their only way out of here, considering everything else was locked down. The thundering of rain on the glass dome came to a sudden stop, causing them both to look up. The voodoo magic was cleared out of this area, either all used up or gathered by Vince. The two heroes exchanged a glance, nodded and jumped.

There. The end... of part one. Next time: Roachfort! Apparently an old roach city...