Well Sam and Max managed to avoid Slick Jim and his crew so far but now they have to escape so they can report their findings.
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Sam and Max Freelance Police Chapter 6
Escape and Regrouping
Things seem to have gotten worse for the dog and rabbit duo. They met Slick Jim and found out he is none other than an adult Jimmy Neutron who turned to a life of crime after losing his acting career.
Now they were trapped in Jimmy's lab while Slick Jim and his minions try to get in.
"Look for a way out!" Sam said as he makes sure the electronic lock stays on
Max looks around for a way out but couldn't find one "No.,…no…" He sees a spot marked Emergency Sewer hatch. "Aha! There's only one way, Sam." He remove his top hat
Sam seeing what he means said "No! That's disgusting!"
Outside the room Amigard came in having heard the commontion and called out "Boomtower! I got them!" He charges and throws his axe which makes a large hole into the door.
"It's our only chance. Live a little!" Max said and hits the button and the hatch opens and it was like the flush of a toilet mixed with the size of a flume slide.
"Live a little?" Sam said in disbelief. "You seem excited about this!" He sees Max jump in "Don't….No…Aw…"
"Come on, Sam, the water's fine!" Max said as he begins to go down it
"Aw dang it!" Sam groaned and gets close he finds a mop and uses it to quickly clean the inside of it while quickly singing happy birthday
"Come on! No!" Amigard said seeing what they were doing as he tries to break the door down. He then lets out one bin scream as he breaks it down
Sam screams throws the mop ay Amigard and jumps in. The viking themed villain catches the mop and yelps dropping it and wips his hands on himself "No, no! I'm done."
"You better pray they don't make it out of there alive." Slick Jim said to his three minions annoyed.
We come to Sam and Max screaming at they come out of a pipe into the sewer system which was running like a rapid water and they struggle to stay above water.
"Whoa! No! No!" Same said in a panic
"Whoa! Hold on!" Max said at the same time he then sees what seemed to be rocks in the sweer pipe, least he hopes so and shouts "Watch out!"
"Hate this! Hate this!" Sam said as he avoids them
Suddenly they hear a cellphone ring, it was Max's phone and in the chaos, he takes it out and said "I should probably get this!"
"What?" Sam said in disbelief
"It'scould be my agent, Tahdious Plotz!" Max told him
"Oh nice! Let me know what he says!" Sam said in a panic sarcastic voice
Max answers the phone "Hello! What? Oh, yeah, spagetti's fine! Love you too Mom!" The avoid what looked to be a life size toy and he hangs up laughing and said "My agent is so weird."
They look ahead and see they are coming to the sewer version of a waterfall
"Trey to grab something!" Sam yells out
Sam grabs the hair of a life size Rapunzel doll but it's hair was designed to extend when pulled so didn't stop them
"Pull, pull, pull, pull, pull!" Max said holding onto Sam
"No! No!" Sam said screaming
They scream but soon they reach the limit of the hair and stop but then the head pops off and they go back to heading towards the water fall.
Sam looks and sees something hanging from the ceiling and points saying "There! The teatherball!" In deed there was a teatherball hanging from an overhead sewer grate. "Ready? Jump!"
Sam and Max jump and grab the ball on a rope and are pull it down a bit but it stops before they touch the sharp objects below.
"Hold on!" Sam said knowing what was coming next
Indeed the ball them retracts shooting them up Sam loses his grop and shoots up into a hole big enough from him while Max craches through the crate but flies up as well. Sam screams as he bounces through the large pipe with nothing but momentum and shoots out of it back onto the surface ending up in a dry aqueduct surrounding by a load of dumped old merchandise that never sold and other trash.
Sam groans as he stands up. After recovering he looks around for any sign of Max "Max? Hello?" He called out. He then see's Max lying face first in a puddle not moving "Max?"
When Max didn't respond Sam worried runs to him and looks at him "Oh, no. Max? Come on, don't, uh, don't prank me like this." He touches Max's body with his foot and screams when Max doesn't move on his own, he now thinks Max isn't playing and is really dead which makes him tear up a bit. "I should've…"
Just then Max walks up to Sam confused and asked whispering "What's up?"
"Not now, Max." Sam said sadly she sobs a bit before it finally registered, and he calms down "Max! You're alive! But how?"
He kicks over the 'Max' on the floor and sees it is a life sized Secret Agent Max doll which said "The name's Slammer. Max Slammer." This makes Max laugh a bit
Sam groans in annoyance "Secret Agent Max, of course." He despises this for obvious reasons
"Max, you were crying." Max said to him touched "You really do love me!"
"What? No! I…. You were crying!" Sam said trying to deflect "Can we…"
"Aw! Sammy, Sammy, I love you too!" Max said to him chuckling
"Don't make it about you. I was traumatized!" Sam told him "Just leave it alone, okay?"
"Alright, fine." Max said nodding "Well, that whole day was a big waste! We didn't learn anything of value except for that Slick Jim wears the same step tracker I do." He indicates to it
"Wait, those step trackers, do they keep track of everywhere you go?" Sam asked to him
"Yeah, I know because I like to map my runs in the shape of a butt." Max said proudly and shows Sam on his phone chuckling
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but we need to go talk to Gwen." Sam said and added in as they were leaving "And then, I'm going home!"
"Okay, but please don't tell her about the butt thing." Max said as he follows him
"I can't promise that." Sam said smirking and Max groans
"Do you think she'll think it's funny, though?" Max asked
We come to Max's house where Gwen meets them, they settle down in the backyard and the rabbit serves Gwen a bottle of beer as Sam relays all they have learned
"Thanks!" Gwen said smiling and sips hers
"So, if we could get a hold of Slick Jim's step tracker, we could cross reference where's he's been with where we know he goes!" Sam explained to Gwen.
"Right! And wherever doesn't overlap has got to be his secret facility!" Gwen said getting it
"Exactly! We get the step tracker, and we can trace it to find Garfield." Sam said with a nod
"Sam, you're a genius!" Max said smiling
"So, what's the plan?" Gwen asked them "How are you guys going to get Slick Jim's step tracker?"
"'You guys?' Hold on. We got the info you needed." Sam said to Gwen and added "Now, it's up to you, the professional, to actually, you know, get the bad guy, and save our friend Garfield."
"It's not as simple as that." Gwen said and explained "We need warrants, we need probable cause, and I don't know if you guys noticed, but the captain doesn't really value my opinion too much."
"What? He's crazy!" Max said, "and that saying something given my character."
"No, I really screwed up." Gwen said sighing "Last year when Gumball went missing, I fell for a bogus tip, and made the whole squad raid Cartoon Network Studios. And the fictionals fought back. The We Baby Bears attacked Sargent Valiant. The doctors say he'll both never have kids or even walk again."
"Huh, thank you for sharing that absolutely bonkers story." Sam said in response for that.
Max then gasps and said "I think I have exactly what we need! Don't move." He then goes and gets into his car "Ladies and gentlemen. Behold! The crime lab!" He presses a button to open the garage door
Gwen stands up and goes to it and sees inside the garage was full of Sam and Max Freelance Police memorabilia from toys, artwork, clothes even some rockets from Disneyland for some reason. There were even some video games which included the Hit the Road PC game.
Also was a magazine with Judy Hops on it for Popular Mechanics and depicts her iconic vehicle the Desoto 7000 which was capable of flight.
"What?" Gwen said entering and smiles and laughs "This is crazy."
"Pretty sweet, right?" Max asked smiling "All the disguises and gadgets we could ever need."
As Sam looks around at it all, Gwen sees a shelf villed with video tapes and asked "Wait, is this like every episode of Freelance Police even? Even the single season when it was just you two?"
"Yes, it is." Max said proudly
Gwen sighs "You got them all." She then list them "Bullets sold separately, Knock the Werewolf overboard, Unidentified Flying Restaurant."
"Alright then, so what's your favourite episode?" Max asked Gwen
"Ooh, I…I can't pick one. That's too hard!" Gwen said to him
Max chuckles "Same. So good." He laughs
Sam meanwhile was looking at an old picture that was a still from the show of him and Max smiling together. Max kept all of this. He then looks to Max
"I'm honestly surprised you kept all this stuff." Sam said to him "I didn't think you cared about the show back then."
"What? Of course, I did." Max said as he juggled
"No. Yeah, of course." Sam said and goes over to see a world map with pins it in it "What's this huge map with all the pins in it?"
"Oh that? It's actually very cool." Max said putting the stuff away and goes over
Sam gasps and said sarcastically "Oh no. Is this where all the victims are buried?"
Max chuckles and said "You're messing with me again! It actually shows Freelance Police ratings in every part of the World market in 1995 which as you may recall, was our most successful year."
"Hey, Gwen, didn't you say you were from Albany?" Sam asked
"Born an mostly raised but we did move to Canada during my teenaged years which was where I appeared in Total Drama." Gwen explained as she was looking at more stuff
[Author Note: I was originally meant to change where she was from, but I rolled with it]
"Well, according to this map Freelance Police never aired in Albany." Sam pointed out and indeed there was no pin in Albany.
"Yeah! My grandpa, he used to tape all the episodes and send them to me." Gwen explained smiling as she picks up a Max paperbag puppet
"Hmm." Sam said doubting that story
"Grandpas rule!" Max said chuckling "Oh come Sam! Look at all this cool stuff!" He then motions to a case marked Sam & Max Freelance Police Pog Collection "Like this is the limited-edition Freelance Police pog set! You know this turned into a real collectable, because someone noticed that one of the clouds behind Garfield looked exactly like…Oak"
Indeed, the cloud in that pog looked like Professor Oak.
"Wow. So cool." Sam said unimpressed
"I know, right?" Max said smiling then he adds "Unfortunately, I only have 11 of the 12." He indicates to the 12th empty slot in the set "I'm missing the main one of all of us together."
"Ah, it's just old junk." Sam said thought he knew the one Max was talking about as he has that pog.
"Okay, guys. Slick Jim goes to the Italian bathhouse every Wednesday." Gwen told them getting back on topic "So, how are we going to sneak you guys in there without being recognized by all those goons?"
Max thinks and then asks "Wait. What if we did episode 45?"
"Forty-Five?" Gwen said and nods "That's a good idea."
"No idea what you're referring to." Sam told them and said to Max "And do you have any original ideas? Or are you just constantly recycling old scripts?"
Max goes to a wardrobe and says "Oh come on! Episode 45! You dressed up like a bear to fool me. You don't remember?" He pulls out a bear mask and said "You said, 'You bearly know what I'm talking about.' It was hilarious!"
"Oh…. Nope, no clue." Sam said shrugging
"Gwen, if we do this, we could really use your help." Max said to the detective
"Um, I don't know." Gwen said unsure "I shouldn't even be here."
Max goes to a box and pulls out a Garfield puppet and said imitating Garfield's voice "Please! I need you, Gwen! Help find me!"
Gwen sighs "Okay, but just this once."
"Oh, thank you, this calls for a buffat!" Max said imitating Garfield.
"Stop." Sam told him
"No, I know, that's why I stopped, yeah?" Max said chuckling as he puts the puppet away.
The team had a plan, this will be there only chance to get the step tracker belonging to Slick Jim, if they fail they can say goodbye to ever having a chance to find Garfield.
Well with the info on where the they're keeping Garfield maybe on Slick Jim's tracker, the group have to get it without being caught.
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