DON'T PANIC 2

Waternoose scuttled over and patted Goofy on the back.

"My word, son, you have quite the scaring potential!" He said to Goofy. "That technique you use might be funny if you weren't so gruesome looking! I especially liked when you tripped over the train set and stood up all sinister looking! But that was also where you made your only mistake. Try not to touch the children's toys next time!"

"Why not?" Kairi asked, confused. All of the monsters stopped what they were doing and stared at her.

"Dear me! You folks must live really far away!" Waternoose exclaimed. "Don't you know that children are the most toxic of all substances a monster could come in contact with? Why even things that children touch become toxic to the monster?"

"Then why don't the Monster's become sick when they walk on the floor?" Goofy asked. Everyone stared at him. He shrugged his shoulders, "Well I just meant that children walk across their bedroom floors all the time barefoot!"

"HE'S RIGHT!" shouted a monster who was listening. He ran to the speaker system and grabbed the intercom. "23-19! WE HAVE A 23-19!"

"Oh no…" Waternoose grumbled.

"What's happening?" Ward asked. Waternoose's only reply was to point directly above at the windows in the ceiling which were being filled quickly with monsters in yellow containment suits. The entire building was locked down. The monsters in yellow soon had the entire building filled with buzzing gadjets and were examining anywhere and everywhere the scarers could go in the building. After two hours, it was deemed that everyone was clean, except one poor scarer by the name of George, who was shaved, washed, and decontaminated.

After it was all said and done, Sora and Co (including Jack, Dr. Finklestein, Sally, Mike and Sully) were gathered in a conference room with Waternoose.

"Who were those guys?" Luigi asked.

"The CDA," Mike said, "The Child Detection Agency. They swarm the city looking for traces of children. They may be the only thing keeping an epidemic from striking…but they're really annoying."

"Well put Michael," Waternoose said. "A whole day of scaring stopped…" he looked at Goofy, "I don't blame you, son. You said something that made perfect sense. We are pretty lucky we hadn't had an outbreak already! But still…a whole day…for nothing."

"And in the energy crisis, too," Sully said.

The day was done. That was all that could be said. Sora and Co went to Jack's afterwards. On the way there, they discussed Jack's arrival into Monstropolis.

"Well…it was really quite strange." Jack said.

"Even for Halloween Town?" Sora asked.

"In all my years and experiments I have never seen so much dark energy." Dr. Finklestien said.

"Dark Energy?" Sora asked. "Where did it come from?"

"Well, this man came to Halloween town with a proposal." Jack explained. " 'Jack,' He told me, 'I come with a brilliant idea for Halloween this year. Something to really spice it up! Complete darkness!' And of course, I wanted more than anything to give the people the scariest Halloween ever! So I agreed. We went to Dr. Finklestein's Laboratory, where he unleashed dark power of incredible proportion. Even I, Jack Skellington the Pumpkin King, was terrified by the sight. I grabbed the good doctor and Sally and pushed them into the closet. We fell out onto the scare floor back at Monster's Inc. They had made a door to Halloween Town! I couldn't believe our foolishness! But the door was destroyed. So I am waiting for them to make another!" He turned around to see Sora had stopped walking.

"Sora…" Jack said, his smile fading, "What's wrong?"

Sora looked up. "Jack…I don't think Halloween Town exists anymore…" Jack walked back to him.

"What do you mean, Sora?" He asked. The others had stopped to listen.

"Jack, I once lost my world to the darkness. I saw it happen. And I remember it exactly how you described what happened in the lab. I think Halloween Town is gone, lost to the darkness."

Jack looked around at the others, and seeing their faces were that of sorrow, Jack turned, pumped his fists in rage and screamed to the sky, "NOOOOOOOOO!" Then he fell to the ground, on his knees. Sally rushed forward.

"Jack!" She said, "You must not be hard on yourself! It wasn't your fault! I didn't even think it was a bad idea! I had no idea what he would do!" Jack looked at her, and gave a weak smile.

"Sally, you always know how to cheer me up…" he stood up and looked back at Sora, Donald, and Goofy.

"Gentlemen," he said, "I do believe you need to fill me in." They told him the whole story. Well, Goofy and Sora did. Ward and Luigi were too busy holding Donald back, who was in a fit, and the only thing that could be distinguished from his raving was, "MEDDLING…THE KING…SAID NO!!!"

OtO Shorter chapter…but I kinda wanted to move onto something I was neglecting. Riku Meets Calub, next chapter.