I. That next morning which I assume the events took place because I forgot…

"You sure this is gonna work?" Sid asked Tito.

"As sure as my name is Tito," the man replied as he set the large furnace that he and Sid were at from broil to boil, "I've got all of this cool crap on Alchemy and everything, my friend. You take metals; in this case, these recalled toys..." He dumped the toy soldiers in.

"Serge!"

"Yeah?"

"A good solider is always honest…"

"Yeah, and?"

"We should've stuck with the other toys sir."

"Don't even think about A-WAAAAAAH!"

The furnace heated to its maximum temperature.

Sid and Tito weren't aware of them.

"I always liked soldiers, more then spacemen and cowboy dolls."

"Yeah, well, anyway… once the cadmium and lead melt, you say the spell and WHAM!"

"You mean, I'll have the power to turn metal to gold and use it to crush my enemies?"

"Uh, no, Sid. Lord, it's just a role-playing game we made out of this toy recall game."

"Oh," He leaned against the unheated outside. "So why the hell am I here again?"

"For… this!" His overweight friend produced a genuine full-bodied Zurg suit.

"Oh my freaking GOSH!" Sid exclaimed excitedly. "Tito, man, what'd I owe you?"

"A kiss."

"No seriously…?"

"I am serious."

"Yeah," Sid slipped him a wad of bills. "Here's fifty." He left, giddy with excitement.

The day had finally come to an end when Sid had gotten off work. With Tito and Hannah (who were both paid of course) on a stake out on either side of a particular street that Sid knew a particular toy had told an unparticular teenage kid to drive them, they waited. He really had no clue who the geek was, the boy looked barely legal age and was more likely then not a retired emo. Candy, he had decided to call him, was out playing with a young girl four times younger then himself. And aside from the fact that Sid thought the ex-emo was in an age regression, he felt that Candy's refusal to give up the toy cowboy was most definitely a confirmation that the toys were mind-controlling him. It was all Sid needed…

… As Candy - or Andy, as the two ladies who lived there had called him, drove away…

"You!" He jumped out from behind the bushes where he hid, his electric sphere gun out and ready to aim. "Cowboy doll…" the gun leveled downwards, "Reach for the sky -,"

And, in absolute amazement, Sid watched as the look on the cowboy doll's face changed.

"That's right," He nodded certainly now as the other toys came alive and huddled up.

"Mommy!" The little girl Molly screamed and ran for cover behind her and her grandma.

"Phillips," uttered the cowboy doll.

"Wimpy…" He cocked the gun and lowered its open barrel down, "And Light beer," Sid glanced over at the glaring space ranger. "I suppose you'd like to add a quip or two huh?"

"Like 'To Infinity and Beyond'!" a green dinosaur asked obliviously.

"Not quite," His finger grasped the trigger.

"Sid."

"What?"

"Can we talk about this?" the cowboy doll grinned enticingly.

"Let me think… uh, NO!" He grinned deviously. "So here're you and your rebel friends."

To be continued…