Chapter 5-Something Found

Woody collapsed to the floor in a sitting position, face in his hands. "No, no, no…" he mumbled.

"Woody, think about it, it might not have been our Bo in the first place! Lily might have a different Bo Peep doll…" said Buzz, who was desperately trying to console his friend.

"But it might have been, buzz. You don't know that it wasn't."

"Well," Trixie said, walking towards them, "even if it was, maybe she's survived the fire!"

""But how could anyone survive such a disaster?" Rex asked. "The whole house was destroyed!"

"Yeah, most toys would melt under the heat, wouldn't they?" said Trixie.

"The one's that are semi-synthetic organic solids, anyway," said Buzz.

"Huh?"

"He means plastic, Trixie," said Woody, who had finally stopped to listen to what they were saying. "But Bo was made of…porcelain! She wasn't plastic, she wouldn't have melted! I gotta go see if she's ok!"

Jessie walked over towards the group when she heard what they were discussing. "But you can't go now, Woody! The house is probably still scorching hot from the flames." The fire department had just succeeded in putting out the fire, as was being shown on the news. "And it's also 10:30 PM, how are you going to get there at this time of night?"

"We'll use the car."

The car Woody was speaking of, was a small convertible Barbie car, not unlike the one Andy's sister, Molly, used to have, except this one was a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, rather than a Corvette.

"Well, we can't all go," stated Woody matter-of-factly. "I'm going; is anyone with me?"

"You have my help, cowboy," Buzz offered.

"Me too!" piped up Jessie.

"Alright. Let's hit the road!"

The three toys managed to get the bug out of the house and onto the sidewalk without causing too much noise. Trixie had kindly printed a map of the neighborhood off of the computer for them, so they would know where they were going. It wasn't too much trouble to find Lily's street, as there were still firemen and police near the scene of the fire.

"Alright. There it is," said Buzz, pointing at what remained of the house.

There wasn't much of a house left at all. It had burned practically right to the ground. All that remained was a pile of rubble, and Woody knew this was where he was going to have to look for Bo.

"I'm goin' in. You two stay here and watch the car," he said as he lifted himself from the driver's seat.

"Don't be silly, Woody," Jessie said.

"Yeah, we're comin' with you, Buddy."

The three of them took off running across the grass toward the rubble. Woody could tell that most of Lily's things were destroyed. He spotted what looked like a porcelain lamp that had been badly scorched by the flames. If Bo looks anything like that, Woody thought, I'm not sure she survived.

Woody began to climb toward the center of the pile. It was still quite warm, but he was able to dig around in the ruins. He began to search franticly among the rubble, digging deeper and deeper until Buzz and Jessie could no longer see him at all.

"Woody?" called Jessie. "Maybe she's not here…"

"No! She has to be here!" shouted Woody from within the remains. "I won't stop searching 'til I find her, alive or dead!"

As he said this, he moved aside a rather large piece of wood, and heard what sounded like a very small moan.

"Bo? Bo is that you?" Woody began to dig even more frantically now, and Buzz heard him let out a gasp.

"Woody, are you alright?" he called.

"Buzz! Buzz, come and help me, I need you to life something!"

Buzz ran to where Woody's voice came from and lifted the object he was instructed to get out of the way.

So sorry it's taken me this long to get another chapter out, and I'm so sorry it's this short! I do know where the story is going from here, so It's not for lack of ideas. I just havn't had the time with school and theatre and life being just generally crazy. But thanks for reading, and I'll have another chap out as soon as I can!