Oogie Boogie Strikes Back: chapter 10

Simon sat there and watched the mad doctor at work. He then looked to the picture of his mother and hugged it as he slowly shut his eyes. He then looked up, firmly to the night sky as lightning flashed again, showing he was just a sadistic little guy, but he still loved his mommy very much.

"Wait, I sense something coming." Jolteon said before stopping.

"As do I." Flareon said, doing the same.

Vincent, Jenny, Oliver, and Snow White stopped with the two Pokemon.

"What is it, guys?" Snow White asked in caition.

"It's coming from underneath the ground." Jolteon and Flareon said.

"It-It's Onix!" Flareon said.

Just then, Onix burst out from underneath the ground and roared at them. Jolteon and Flareon growled slightly as the Onix stared them down. Onix simply snatched up Jolteon and Flareon and then left into a new hole. The Pokemon screeched as they were pulled down below.

"NOOOO!" Jenny cried out.

"Quick, we have to go after them before we lose them." Vincent said.

Jenny trembled a little as the cats looked concerned as well.

"Come on, Jenny..." Vincent held out his hand for her.

Jenny then accepted his hand and they both went into the hole along with Snow White and Oliver. Snow White and Oliver were just as nervous, but they went after their owners, hopefully going to make it down without any trouble.

The Halloween townspeople just hoped everybody knew what they were doing as they didn't see the familiar faces yet. Dr. Finklestein had to walk to other shops to get materials for the underground drill as Simon crawled after him.

"That thing scares me..." Shock trembled at Simon as she clung to Lock and Barrel.

"Oh, please, he's just a baby," Lock scoffed before asking. "What's he gonna do, kill us?"

"He's the son of Cherry..." Barrel reminded him.

Lock scoffed in disbelief.

Simon reached into his pocket and took out a bottle, then actually looked calm and in zen as he drank it quietly. He put it away once Dr. Finkelstein came back and Simon felt slow compared to him, due to not being able to walk or run yet. He then saw a familiar bath tub, crawled into it, and he decided to travel in it.

"HEY!" Shock cried. "That's ours!"

Simon glanced at the trio, slammed his bottle against the rim as the tub carried him to the window they looked out of and threatened to cut them all with the shards.

"Okay, maybe we should be scared of that baby." Lock said.

"Ya think!?" Barrel and Shock exclaimed.

Simon narrowed his eyes at them as he kept going in the moving bath tub.

"Our bath tub..." Shock quietly whimpered since Simon 'stole' it.

"What do you mean you can't die?" Oogie asked as he locked Felicity in another room.

Cherry folded her arms, but shrugged. "I just can't."

"She's immortal, you idiot." Jackson said.

And then Onix came back with a bunch of pokeballs, Flareon, Jolteon and.....Pikachu.

Cherry looked to the Pokemon and frowned. "No..." she seemed to whisper in dismay.

Flareon, Joltreon, and Pikachu tried to get free.

Pikachu recognized once he saw Giovanni and set to charge him with his siguature move. "Pika--"

Jackson raised his right hand before Pikachu could use his signature move. "You will obey me and become our Pokemon Army!" he ordered.

The Pokemon seemed to forget their motivation against the bad guys and seemed to be entranced.

"No, fight it, all of you!" Cherry yelled, using emotion in her voice for once. "Snap out of it!"

"It's too late, they're in the dark side power now..." Giovanni laughed with Oogie.

"You are all washed up!" Oogie taunted the immortal woman.

Cherry growled, very angry and annoyed with them.

"Onix, release them, along with the pokeballs!" Jackson ordered.

Onix then let go of Pikachu, Flareon, and Jolteon, and all of the pokeballs.

"Now to see what else we've got." Jackson said, going over to the pokeballs.

Suddenly, two familiar cats landed on Jackon's head.

Jackson grunted, then pulled them off, seeing Oliver and Snow White. "Two pussycats!?"

Giovanni scoffed. "I know those aren't Pokemon..."

"What's next?" Oogie was also annoyed.

Suddenly Jenny and Vincent came down too then, but they landed into a chair together, with Jenny on Vincent's lap.

"Um, well, this is not what I had in mind on making an entrance." Vincent said.

Jenny gave a shrug.

"More meddling brats..." Oogie glared at them, then chuckled. "No matter... Plenty of room in my stew for you all... Unless..."

"What now?" Cherry glared at him, really not in the mood for his fun and games.

"Maybe I could get rid of those old trick-or-treaters of mine and have new ones..." Oogie grinned darkly, thinking of forcing Felicity, Jenny, and Vincent to work for him from now on.

"Don't even think about it." Vincent said.

"Oh, would you rather be eaten?" Oogie tempted. "I'm going to have a children's buffet!"

"Oh, be turned into a quilt for bratty grandchildren." Cherry sneered as she held the kids close for comfort.

Just then, Ash, Estelle, Jack Skellington, Emi, and Akito dropped in. Jack grunted a little from falling and he looked firm with the bad guys. He then looked to Cherry.

"Jack, you look so withered..." Cherry looked to him.

"Happens with getting old.. And you look..." Jack looked to her, not seeming much of a difference in her. "Erm, right..."

'So this is Jack Skellington? Wow, I didn't not expect to actually see a real skeleton without the flesh and skin." Vincent thought as he looked at Jack.

Jenny blinked, unsure of how to react.

"Gentlemen, shall we show them are Pokemon Army?" Jackson asked before letting out the rest of the Pokemon and placing them all under his control.

"I suppose they do have the right to see the Pokemon Army, seeing as they will be our first target practice." Oogie said.

"Pokemon army?" The kids asked in shock and fear.

"They've taken over the Pokemon and are going to turn them against everyone!" Cherry gasped to them. "You kids need to get out of here!"

"No, I don't believe it." Emi said, not wanting to believe that their Pokemon were taken over.

"Oh, believe it, my dear." Jackson said evilly before showing them all of the Pokemon under his control. Even Pikachu was under his control.

"You can't do this to them!" Akito cried.

"Oh, I'm afraid we have... And you're all going to surrender," Jackson grinned, feeling he finally got his revenge. "Your father can't help you this time..."

"Neither can your mother, Pigtails..." Oogie taunted Felicty, taking her again.

"MAMAN!" Felicity cried, holding out her hands to Cherry.

"Fliss, no!" Cherry tried to take her hands, but Oogie kept them away from each other.

"She is no longer your concern..." Oogie took Felicity out of the room with him. "She is no longer your daughter... It was her life or yours..."

Cherry watched her daughter be taken away and for the first time in ages, she didn't know what to do. She fell down to her knees, holding herself as her black and icy heart was breaking. She did the only thing she could do, she squeezed her eyes shut and started to cry. No one had ever seen her cry before, except of course for maybe Forte, especially the first night they were together.

"Let Felicity go, you big jerk!" Vincent yelled out to Oogie. "And pick on someone your own size!"

"Gladly..." Oogie chuckled darkly as he kept Felicity hostage. "No one's going to save you... You're jokin', you're jokin'... You're joking me, you gotta be!"

Jack was trying to soothe Cherry was she was crying, he had never seen this side of her, sure, when they first met, she was scared and lost, but she was only a little girl, he had never seen her this emotional as an adult. He just hoped there was someone out there that could help them all as it didn't look good for anyone at all.

Simon was lying down on the floor with a blanket over him and lightly snoring, but he woke up once Dr. Finklestein finished making the underground tunnel drill.

"Well, it's all set..." Dr. Finklestein said. "I'm not sure how I did it... But here it is..."

Simon blinked slowly and did his only way of traveling, he crawled up to the drill and Dr. Finklestein joined him, going to drive it. While they drove, they ran into a very lost and bewildered Atticus and Mo. Simon made the mad doctor stop so they could pick up his 'aunt and uncle'.

"What is it?" Dr. Finklestein asked. "Wait... Are those your parents... Or perhaps, are they your aunt or uncle?"

"Is that Simon?" Mo looked up briefly.

Simon showed himself.

"It is..." Atticus was surprised. "Simon! How did you get here?"

Simon pointed to the top seat to have them climb aboard the drill with them.

"Looks like when we get to the top we'll find out." Mo said before start climbing to the top.

Atticus climbed with his wife.

"Alright folks..." Dr. Finklestein greeted him. "I guess kick back, relax, and try to enjoy the ride... This ride has been brought to you by the tiny tot in nappies..."

Simon then pointed, making him drive the drill again.

"First our pokeballs mysteriously disappear, now we're going to be drilling into the ground." Mo said.

"It's never an ordinary day around here..." Finklestein said as he looked to Simon. "I suppose everybody else is underground."

Simon made an unsure shrug, but that was probably a good guess since nobody else was in sight.

"Very well, underground we go." Finklestein set the controls for them to dig underground with the drill.

"Down we go." Atticus nodded.

Finklestein drilled his way down.