Chapter Nine
Meanwhile out in the streets Horace had finally ran out of bullets, he ran to reload and tripped spilling his bullets. Mortimer kept swinging a led pipe but the beetleworx reduced the pipe to just a tiny metal piece. Animatronic Goofy ran and hid remembering what happened the last time but no luck he found and was disasembled, the real Goofy was chased up a lampost. Both Donalds ran in, ready to fight and were almost bashed but they weren't giving up. Finally they were chased down and of course Animatronic Donald was disasembled again while the real Donald was thrown up and ended up on the same lampost with Goofy, his shirt sleeve caught on one of the edges.
"Hiya Donald *ahyuck*" Goofy said.
Donald sighed
Horace finally finished loading up the bullets, the beetleworx smacked him and his gun slipped sliding to the edge of the street. The beetleworx made his stike at Horace, ready to wipe him out of existence. But suddenly the beetleworx began to spark all crazy and pieces of him were falling, Horace got up watching the machine collapse and shut down. Gus, Markus, and Jiminy were shot out of the beetleworx, their clothes blackend from the smoke.
"I feel just like my oldself again." Gus proudly smiled.
"That was awesome!" Markus laughed.
"Hey Jiminy," Gus called out. "How ya' feeling?"
Jiminy was dizzy, but managed to give Gus a thumbs up like if he said "Great." He walked a little dizzy like and found his hat. " I am not doing that again."
Everyone had pulled themselves together, Horace walked off to find his revolver. But something stopped him, he heard Clarabelle's screams like she was in labor and ran to be there.
Meanwhile in the agency Clarabelle was in labor, Ortensia and Animatronic Daisy acted as Nurses to be sure the delivery went well, Minnie and Daisy were watching out the window to see if the guys coming back.
"You're doing good," Ortensia said calmly. "it'll be over soon."
"Oh it will be!" A voice came from the darkness.
Horace and the guys had finally made it to the agency, Horace stopped once again. He knew something was wrong, there were no sounds at all not even a baby's cry. He shouted. "Clarabelle, girls are you alright?"
No sound.
Horace pulled the door opened and to his horror The Mad Doctor was there. He was bearing a wicked grin and was holding what looked like two babies wrapped up to where no one could see the faces.
"Shhh," The Mad Doctor began to giggle evily. "You'll wake the babies."
"You!" Gus shouted. "I though Mickey and I got rid of you Doc."
"I guess you didn't!" The Mad Doctor heckled. "and stop calling me Doc!"
Horace looked over to the girls and what he thought was Clarabelle tied up. "Clarabelle!" He ran to her, but when she turned around Horace was knocked over to reveal that it was Magica. She was laughing wickedly as Horace froze but his fear was turning to rage.
"What have ya' done to her!" He shouted.
"She's with us," Magica answered. "don't worry she'll be a good offer for the blot!"
"But most importantly," The Mad Doctor added. "Your newborn will be the first to go."
Horace ran towards The Mad Doctor ready to tear him apart. But The Mad Doctor had a trick up his sleeve, he threw the two well covered spatters at Horace, both pinned Horace to the ground trying to scratch and bite him. Fethry pulled one off of Horace, no help the spatter quickly ran back.
Fethry with a smirk grin whistled and all of a sudden a Bunny Kid hopped from the front door passed The Mad Doctor, who stood there puzzled.
Gus stood there confused. "May I ask, how did you do that?" he asked Fethry.
"He just followed me."
The Bunny Kid stood in front of the spatters, the spatters looked at the Bunny Kid and ran out the door like a couple of scared cats. Pluto and the Bunny Kid ran out to chase them with Pluto's barks echoing back. Horace got up and walked towards The Mad Doctor, but alas he and Magica dissapeared in a cloud of smoke. Horace was devistated and furious, Clarabelle was gone, and the worse had yet to happen. The remaining girls were untied. For hours there was silence, someone thought Horace had punched a hole in the wall but no one spoke.
Finally Gus spoke up. "Horace when do we leave -"
Horace interupted him. "Were not going."
Everyone gasped.
"You're giving up?" Ortensia said trying to be angry.
"Why bother," Horace turned to the broken window. "They've won."
"You can't give up," Gladstone joined in. "We have luck on our side."
"Don't you mean your side!" Horace was angry, he was tired of hearing everyone. "Your luck only protects YOU!"
Donald silently giggled, Gladstone glared at him. Pluto and the Bunny Kid returned from chasing the spatter, Pluto walked over to comfort Horace. Horace turned around to Pluto and patted him on the head.
"Horace," Minnie tried to resolve this. "Clarabelle is out there. If you give up now, you'll abandon her and your baby for death."
Horace said nothing, he knew Minnie was right. But he felt if they reach Clarabelle, they would be too late.
Gus spoke up once again. "Horace Horsecollar," Gus had it. "What happened to you! You were so full of confidence and now you're moping like a child!"
Everyone just stared blankly.
Gus continued. " I'm not angry, okay maybe I am a little but, I am trying to snap some sense into you just like Oswald kicked some corauge for you at your wedding."
"But - " Horace tried to talk.
" It's just like you said 'we are not running away, we're going to face them head on!' "
Gus (just like Rafiki) got his wrench and hit Horace on the head.
"Gaah! What was that for!" Horace yelled rubbing his head.
"To knock some sense into you."
Horace looked at everyone and stood up determined, he climbed up the top of his desk. "Gus is right, we are going to face them head on. But first we'll have to plan our strategy."
Everyone huddle together in a circle and rolled out the map, as Mortimer rolled out the interior map of the castle.
"Look the castle is loaded with those machines," Mortimer pointed out. "There's thousands of them and were out numbered."
"Okay I have an idea." Ortensia joined in. "We each go into groups and find as many we can to help us defeat them."
Jiminy stepped onto the map looking at their options. "How will we meet up?"
Horace looked closer at the map of the Wasteland. "We'll meet at the fountain in Ostown."
When the morning came the following day, everyone stood to be seperated into groups. Horace had made the arrangments:
Ortensia and the girls were to head to Ventureland and Tortooga.
Gus, Markus, Jiminy, Pluto, and the Bunny Kid were to go to the Gremlin Village and Tommorow City.
Fethry, Donald (both real and animatronic),and Gladstone were to go to Mickeyjunk mountain and Bog Easy.
Horace, Goofy (also both animatronic and real), and Mortimer last were to leave to Lonseome Manor and Skull Island.
"Remember," Horace said. "We meet in Ostown."