[i do not and never ever ever will own tom & jerry]


CHAPTER 9: FIRE IN THE CABIN!


As predicted, Lickboot was right - his shortcut got him, Figg, Ferdinand and Jeannie to the cabin ahead of Robyn, Tom, & Jerry.

Figg and Lickboot entered the cabin, and Jeannie followed, after having to untie Ferdinand's skateboard from the washing line.

Jeannie took her time to admire the cabin. She ran up the stairs to Robyn's room in the cabin. "I'm amazed Robyn's dad built this, on an explorer's salary." she said to herself.

Secretly, she wondered if this had what her life had ended up to be - fired from her job as babysitter, severely punished for child neglect, made to work for an evil monstrous hog like Pristine Figg, and getting fully tortured on a dangerously reckless car chase.

'Maybe it's time I re-evaluated my life choices.' Jeannie thought to herself.

AT that moment, her thoughts were rudely interrupted.

"Jeannie!" Lickboot called, "Robyn's arrived!"

Immediately, Jeannie saw the paddle steamer reach the dock to the cabin.

"She's here!" said Jeannie to herself. She haed downstairs into the main room.


Soon, Robyn ran up to the cabin, and burst into the main room, hoping to see her dad. But the main room was in darkness.

"Daddy?" Robyn said.

A figure turns on an oil lamp, revealing the figure to be Figg instead.

"Daddy… is dead." Figg spoke in a sinister voice.

Robyn screamed loudly. It was a trap!

"Tom, Jerry, help!" Robyn yelled.

But as Tom & Jerry bolted up the stairs, Ferdinand got in front of the door to block them, but suddenly, Lickboot shut the door, accidentally pushing him outside, landing on top of Tom and Jerry. Inside, Lickboot locked the door and put the keys on a hanger.

Jeannie came up to Robyn, a smug expression on her face.

"Hello, Robyn Starling." Jeannie said. "So nice of you to come all this way, hoping to see your father."

"Alas," she added, "he's not here; but we are."

"I-I don't understand!" Robyn said, baffled. "How did you, Lickboot, and Aunt Figg get here before us?"

"You see," said Jeannie to Robyn, "in your little plan of escape, there was one little thing you overlooked."

"W-what's that?" Robyn asked.

"Well," said Jeannie, "Lickboot is your father's lawyer, so that means he knows EVERYTHING about you AND your father, including this cabin, AND the shortcut we took to it. That's how we figured out where you were going."

"So," she added smugly, "your plan wasn't quite so perfect after all, was it?"

"Exactly, Jeannie." Lickboot said, then he turned to Robyn and said, "And if you know what's good for you, you'll never run away again. Never."

"You're not taking me back! You'll never take me back!" Robyn snapped, but Lickboot grabbed her wrist. "Oh yes, we will!" he said.

Outside, Tom & Jerry heard Robyn scream. They looked through the window as Robyn then kicked Lickboot in the knee, causing him to let go of her, and she ran off.

"Ow! Why you little...!" Lickboot exclaimed, as he was hopping about whilst holding his knee.

And, as he hopped about whilst holding his knee, he accidentally bumped into Jeannie, who bumped into Figg, who knocked over the table, which knocked the oil lamp over, and it hit the floor, broke, and spilt it's oil, setting the cabin on fire!

"Oh, no!" Jeannie exclaimed.

The fire started spreading through the cabin like... well, a fire. Robyn bolted up the stairs. Tom & Jerry, who had been watching, were shocked. They had to rescue Robyn, and get her to safety, fast! Grabbing a coil of rope he'd found, Tom climbed up the cabin's wall, along with Jerry.

Inside the cabin, Robyn was up on the top floor, and she was backing away from the flames, whilst Aunt Figg, Jeannie, and Lickboot were by the upturned table.

"You fools!" Figg yelled angrily, "Look what you've done!" Realizing they were now in danger, she turned to Lickboot, who was rubbing his knee from when Robyn kicked him, and she said, "Lickboot, Jeannie, you two grab the girl and let's get outta here!"

Lickboot stood up, as did Jeannie, and stared up at Robyn. "Robyn, the house is burning down!" Lickboot pleaded, "You must get out before it's too late!"

"Yes!" cried Jeannie. "Please, come with us, Robyn, and you'll be safe!"

"No!" Robyn shouted angrily, "No, I won't go with you! You'll never take me back!"

At that moment, a beam got loosened by the flames and fell down onto the stairs, trapping Robyn on the top floor, cutting her off from Jeannie, Figg & Lickboot. She backed away and screamed in alarm, as the flames got ever closer to her.

"Not good!" cried Jeannie anxiously.

"Jeannie, Lickboot, let's get outta here before we all fry!" Figg wailed, as she ran towards the door.

"But the girl-!" Lickboot protested.

"Forget her!" Figg snapped, apparently not caring about Robyn anymore. "We gotta save ourselves!" She tugged at the door, forgetting that it was already locked.

"But Pristine, we can't just leave Robyn!" Jeannie protested.

"Oh yes, we can!" Figg snapped back at Jeannie. "If she wants to stay and get burned to death, that's fine by me! I'll still claim her daddy's money either way! Now come on, Jeannie! Help me and Lickboot get outta here!"

Jeannie stared, gobsmacked at what she realized - Figg didn't really love Robyn at all - all she cared about was her father's money, and now, at this very moment, all Figg and Lickboot cared about was saving their own hides. Suddenly, at that moment, something in Jeannie snapped.

"No." Jeannie said firmly.

Figg immediately stopped tugging at the door. "What did you say, Jeannie?!" she said in shock and horror upon hearing what she'd just heard.

"I said no." Jeannie said firmly, arms folded.

"You can't do this, Jeannie!" Figg snapped. "When I get back to the mansion, I'm calling your parents, and then I'm pinning the destruction of Daddy Starling's cabin on you! You'll be grounded until you're an old grandmother!"

"Well, I'd prefer being grounded till I'm an old grandmother than being with you in this burning cabin, you horrible old witch!" Jeannie snapped.

As Figg & Jeannie were arguing, neither they nor Lickboot saw that Tom and Jerry had reached the sunroof from outside, and they saw Robyn crouching down in a corner. Tom taps the sunroof to get her attention and she looked up to see him and Jerry on the sunroof with delight.

"You know something, Pristine?" Jeannie said crossly, "I've been working my punishment off helping you and your boyfriend to help you find Robyn and keep her away from her father, but now, after this, I think that confirms it."

"Confirms what?" Figg snapped.

"That you two are a bunch of no good dirty double-crossing jerks!" Jeannie said angrily. "I don't really think you're very nice! I've seen vultures who are kinder than you!"

Words could not describe how angry Figg was at that moment. Any words she woulda said at how she felt at this moment would almost be words even Spike the bulldog and his son Tyke, or Mammy Two-Shoes, or Nibbles, or the abusive chef owner from the cartoon 'High Steaks' shouldn't hear.

"ALRIGHT, You double-crossing, mud-sucking, no-good ex-babysitter!" Figg yelled. "If you want to go back for that brat and get burned to death, be my guest! YOU'RE FIRED!"

"Fine!" Jeannie said sternly. She headed towards Robyn, and then turned back and said to Figg, "By the way, the keys are on the hanger."

Lickboot took the keys from the hanger to show Figg. She grabbed the keys, and she & Lickboot got into a tug of war over them.

"Give me those keys!" Figg said.

Suddenly, the key hoop broke and all the keys scattered all over the floor.

"Look what you've done!" Figg yelled.

The 2 villains frantically searched for the right key, whilst outside, Ferdinand barked loudly, scraping the door anxiously.

By this time, Robyn had just been rescued by Tom and Jerry. They were just about to leave when they saw Jeannie jump to the opening and grab on by her fingers.

"Jeannie?!" exclaimed Robyn in surprise, as she and Tom pulled her out. "What are you doing?" she asked. "I told you I wouldn't go with you, Lickboot, and Aunt Figg."

"I know, but I just couldn't abandon you, Robyn." she said. "I'm getting you to your father."

Robyn gasped, as well as Jerry. Tom's jaw dropped down so fast, and so hard, it made a small hole in the roof.

"I did not see that coming." Jerry said to the viewers.

"Oh, Jeannie, I knew you cared about me!" Robyn said joyfully, hugging Jeannie.

"Wow." said Jeannie to herself, "So this is what doing good feels like."

"Uh, excuse me, Robyn," Tom said, "I really, really, REALLY hate to interrupt, but can we save the emotional moment till after we're off this burning cabin?!" the last part rising to a yell of panic.

Jeannie stared at Tom, jaw hanging. "Yeah, I know, you're quite surprised that we're talking." Tom told Jeannie. "Look," he added, "we'll explain everything as soon as we're safe, ok?"

Jeannie and Robyn didn't need to be told twice; They climbed onto the top of the roof as it shakes.

Inside, Figg, finally managed to find the right key.

But, in her haste to use it, she collided with Lickboot, and barged through the door, knocking it down onto Ferdinand's skateboard and sent him flying into the air. Lickboot stepped onto the skateboard and he rolls out of control towards the steps with Figg in his arms, and Ferdinand, who ended up on top of his head. They clattered down the steps, bumped right off on the edge, and flew towards the paddle steamer. Figg and Lickboot ended up stuck in the crow's nest, and Ferdinand landed next to the wheel, accidentally turning it, starting the paddle steamer's engine, which make the paddle steamer paddle away from the cabin, blowing steam into Lickboot's face, sending the boat with the villains on it off out of control down the river, as Ferdinand attempted to drive it.

"Serves them right." Jeannie thought.

Immediately, they saw a helicopter appearing from the woods and flying over to the burning cabin. Leaning outta the cockpit was Robyn's father, Michael Starling. "Look, the cabin's on fire! Maybe we're too late!" he called.

"Daddy!" Robyn exclaimed.

"Robyn, I'm coming! Hang on!" Michael Starling called loudly.

The helicopter flew as close as it could to the roof, but the blades whirled so fast that the wind they made forced Tom and Jerry backwards.

"Robyn, take my hand! Hurry!" Michael Starling called, holding out his hand. Robyn reached out and grabbed it as he pulled her to the cockpit.

"Oh, Daddy, I know you'd come." Robyn said gratefully.

"You're safe now, Robyn. I'm here." Michael told his daughter.

Just then, Robyn noticed Tom, Jerry, and Jeannie. "Wait, no! We can't leave them!" she said.

The helicopter hovered over the burning cabin.

"I'm coming, Robyn!" Jeannie cried. She took a big leap, and only just managed to grab on to one of the helicopter's landing skids.

Tom & Jerry climbed onto the chimney to escape the flames and waved frantically.

"Come back, come back!" Jerry called.

"Tom! Jerry!" Jeannie called, "You're gonna have to jump! Grab my legs! Hurry, you have to get off before it's too late!"

But it was already too late; because at that moment, the fire burnt through the cabin's supports, and then the whole cabin collapsed, taking Tom & Jerry with it!

"Tom! Jerry!" Robyn exclaimed in horror.

The cabin fell down and landed in the water in a complete wreck; the splashes made from when it landed extinguishing the flames.

"Oh, no!" Jeannie said, in horror, seeing it all. A few tears welled up in her eyes.


A/N:

OH DEARY ME, OH DEARY ME!

Will Tom & Jerry be alright?!

Will Figg & Lickboot be arrested for their crimes?

Will Jeannie get off easily for her involvement in all of this?

What will happen to Applecheek, Kiddie, and the Straycatchers?

ALL WILL BE REVEALED IN THE FINAL CHAPTER, COMING SOON!

reviews are appreciated.