Epilogue: The door to the Onett library swung open and in walked the Tenda Chieftain, clutching the Overcoming Shyness book. He marched up to the front desk shouting hellos to the rest of the library crowd.

"Are you finished sir?" asked the librarian.

"Yes I am!" shouted the Tenda, "it was very helpful!"

He handed the book to the librarian and turned to go, but the librarian stopped him.

"Don’t you want to check out another book?" asked the librarian.

"Check…Out?" stammered the Tenda.

"Here," said the librarian, handing him a few dozen forms, "fill these out and we can get you a library card."

A few hours later the Tenda Chieftain was busily scanning the shelves for a new book for his tribe. Checking on the new releases he found a book with a shiny cover that read Overcoming Goodness, by G.I.Ygas.

"Sounds good," said the Tenda Chief, he checked out the book and happily left the library and began heading back to Deep Darkness…

"This is so stupid," mumbled Ness as he leaned back in his chair at the Snowood Boarding school Lab. "We save the world and then we have to make up for the 5 months of school we missed!"

"We still need an education," said Jeff from where he sat working on the Hungry HP sucker, "the money the countries of the world gave us for saving the Earth didn’t last long. Paula’s folks used it to expand the preschool, your Dad used your money to pay off the debt he had for the money he loaned you, and Poo and I used our money to expand my Dad, Dr. Andonuts’ lab into our evil fighting base of operations."

"Well Poo isn’t here because he already graduated from school in Dalaam, and Paula is in the girl half of the boarding school.

"At least we’re not boarded here like everyone else," said Jeff, "we get to leave at the end of the school day."

"I suppose," said Ness, "I wish I had telekinesis like Paula. I could use it to get answers straight from the teachers’ heads."

"She doesn’t use her telekinesis to get answers," said Jeff, she said something about it not being ‘fair’ to the other students."

The two looked at each other, then burst out laughing. As they were laughing Maxwell, the head of the labs rushed in.

"Hey Jeff, Ness, what are you guys working on?" he said.

"I’m trying to fix my Hungry HP sucker while Ness dozes off reading advanced algebra," said Jeff.

"I wonder if I can use Psi Hypnosis on myself," mumbled Ness.

"I bet I can fix your Hungry HP sucker," said Maxwell, thoughtfully.

He walked over to the machine, grabbed it, and slammed it down upon the table. A beam shot out of it and hit Maxwell. He shook violently for a second then collapsed to the floor.

"Hey, he fixed it!" said Jeff. "I’ll have to thank him when he revives.

As Jeff and Ness helped Maxwell to his feet, the door to the lab slammed open, knocking Maxwell to the floor again. Paula rushed in followed by a small gray mouse.

"Hi guys," she said as she gasped for breath, "we ran all the way here from the girl’s half of the school. The laboratory mouse just arrived and told me that Dr. Andonuts needs us right away!"

"All right, something to do!" shouted Ness as he grabbed his backpack, "let’s go!"

"It better be for something important this time," mumbled Jeff as he grabbed the Hungry HP sucker, "the last time we were needed to ‘save the world’ was when Apple Kid’s Eraser Eraser mach2 erased itself continuously and created a black hole."

"Luckily we were able to hurl the black hole into space using duct tape and a chair leg," said Paula as they hurried out the door.

"Fools," laughed Stephen Hawking from his wheelchair in the corner, "you were able to get rid of the black hole for now, but in 200,000,000 years it will return and destroy your base! Hee hee hee hee hee hee," He laughed until his wheelchair flipped over. "Hee hee hee…"

After the short walk through the Pond Cave and Stonehenge, the 3 kids and the mouse arrived at Dr. Andonuts 3 story laboratory, which served as their base of operations. They went inside and almost bumped into Poo who was sitting just inside the door.

"Thank Goodness you’re here!" exclaimed Dr. Andonuts, "there appears to be major trouble brewing in deep darkness!"

(I was going to visit some relatives in Deep Darkness,) said the Bubble Monkey, (But when I arrived by bubble, the place was in war! All the monkeys had been captured by the Tenda!)

"The Tenda?" gasped the teens in belief; "the Tendas weren’t evil when we saw them last!"

(There was nothing I could do,) said the Bubble Monkey, (I turned tail and came back here to see if you would help.)

"Of course we will," said Paula; "it’s our duty!"

"We owe them for helping us way back then," said Jeff.

"You mean last month?" asked Ness, "when we were still fighting Giygas?"

"It seemed longer ago," said Jeff.

"Indeed, we have all matured much during our trial against Giygas," said Poo as he got up from where he had been meditating."

"Poo, did you pinpoint the cause of the Tenda madness?" asked Apple Kid.

"I think I have," replied Poo, "it was a little hazy, but I believe that there is no evil force controlling the Tenda."

"Then what is?" asked Ness.

"I believe that the answer lies in the highly impressionable nature of the Tenda people," said Jeff.

"That’s what I forgot," mumbled Dr. Andonuts, "as you know, when you destroyed Giygas, all of his evil power and his evil creations were ‘sucked back’ to his dimension in the past. Now his dimension is nothing more than a scrap heap. The reason why we can’t salvage anything is because the dimension is so unstable that you could get thrown into oblivion at any moment! But recently the Phase Distorter III, which is still in Giygas’ dimension monitoring events, picked up a small object that was flung into our dimension and landed near Onett. I wonder if that could have anything to do with it?"

"Why didn’t you mention this?" shouted Ness.

"I didn’t think it was important," mumbled Dr. Andonuts.

(That isn’t important!) Shouted the Bubble Monkey, (we’ve got to get to Deep Darkness!)

"First, we better check around Onett," said Paula, "we could ask if anyone’s seen a small green guy around town. We may be able to discover what came out of that dimension, and if a Tenda was nearby at the time."

Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo ran outside the lab and began spinning in a circle till Psi Teleport B kicked in and they shot off.

The group landed in downtown Onett, nearly ramming into a parked car in the process.

"We better split up," said Ness, "we can ask around and see if anyone’s seen a little green guy around town in the last few months."

The group was about to split up when a poster on the library’s door drew their attention. There was a crude drawing of a little bearded green guy with a note that read "Have You Seen This Reader? This Person Has A 3 Months Overdue Library Book. If Seen, Apprehend and Turn Into Your Nearest Librarian."

"Hey, that’s the Tenda Chief!" said Paula.

"Either that, or a waked out Fobby," said Ness.

Jeff grabbed the poster and then the four teens rushed into the library and up to the front desk.

"When did you see this guy?" asked Ness as he jabbed the poster in the librarian’s face.

"Hey, you’re Ness, and those other kids who saved the world," said the librarian, "what can I do for you?"

"When did you see this guy?" asked Ness again.

"That’s the cutest yellow backpack I’ve ever seen," said the librarian.

"When did you see this little green guy?" asked Ness as he gritted his teeth.

"I’ve seen yellow backpacks before," replied the librarian, "but that’s the cutest I’ve ever seen!"

"AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!" cried Ness in frustration as he obliterated a nearby table with a blast of PK special.

Jeff hopped over the desk, shoved the librarian to the side, and proceeded to hack into the library computer. "I’ll just hack into the computer records and check for a library card to a tenda." After a few seconds he banged the desk in excitement. "Success," he cried, "I’ve got a library card to the Tenda Chief. He checked out a book entitled Overcoming Goodness by G. I. Ygas."

"Giygas!?" exclaimed Ness, "but how?"

"It goes to show that even if the dimension of Giygas is a junk pile, there is still someone there to bother with Eagleland," said Paula.

"Could it be Pokey? Asked Poo, "he seemed pretty bent on revenge the last time we saw him."

"We don’t know," said Ness, "but whoever it is that put this book there, I’d bet it was the object that came into our dimension."

The librarian looked over Jeff’s shoulder, "That was the book that I found lying on the floor. No one knew where it came from, but we marked it and put it on the shelf."

"That settles it," said Ness, "let’s go! If the Tendas have a book on becoming evil, then deep darkness is in big trouble!"

The group headed outside and shot off using Psi Teleport.

The group came to rest on the outskirts of Deep Darkness by the monkey village. As they regained their bearings, they noticed a foul stench upon the air.

"Smells like burnt chili dogs," said Ness, "what the hey is that funky smell?"

"That," said Poo, "is the foul stench of Giygas’ handiwork."

The group had a collective gasp as they noticed that the large portions of Deep Darkness’ jungle were ablaze.

"Good lord!" gasped Jeff.

"Holy cow!" gasped Paula.

How did this happen," asked Ness, "and why does it smell like burnt chili dogs?"

"Giygas," said Poo again, "He threw that book through the portal and he brainwashed the Tendas! We must stop this madness!"

"Agreed," said Ness, "but how? We can’t put out this whole forest!"

"We’ll have to get the Tendas to release the monkeys and help us put it out!" shouted Paula, "Use your Psi Teleport to take us to the village!"

A few seconds later the group appeared next to the Tenda village entrance and charged in.

The group skidded to a halt in front of a huge platform in the middle of the village. The tendas crowded on it while the Chief read from the book on overcoming goodness.

"Ness, is that you?" asked the chief as the Tendas turned to look at the teens.

"Uh yea," said Ness, "we’ve come to tell you to release the monkeys and help us stop the fire that is destroying Deep Darkness!"

"The fire was designed to keep out troublemakers," said the chief, "and the monkeys tried to stop us becoming evil, but the book told us too! We must obey what it says! If you are not with us you are against us!"

"That’s not true," said Paula, "can’t we just be friends?"

"It says ‘If people are not with you they are against you’ right here on page 134. That means it’s true!"

"Dang," muttered Paula.

"ATTACK!" ordered the Tenda Chief.

"We can’t hurt them," cried Ness as the tendas moved towards them like a wave, "use only slightly lethal force!"

Ness SMAAASHED the tendas away with Psi paralysis while Paula weakened them with Psi Defense Down, Jeff splashed them with the Slime Generator, and Poo knocked them out with Psi Brain Shock.

The wave of tendas kept coming however, and soon the kids were pummeled down by the tendas.

"Let me finish off Ness," said the Chief as he strode forward with the book, "When he and his team are gone we will rule the world!"

The Tenda Chief SMAAASHED the book onto Ness’ head over and over.

"Why are you beating me with a book?" yelled Ness in between blows.

"Stop!" cried Paula.

"Why?" asked the Chief.

"Uh, because the book’s overdue!" she said.

"If you damage it you’ll have to pay even more!" said Jeff.

"Good Lord, you’re right!" cried the tenda Chief, "I have to return this book right now!"

"We’ll Psi teleport it there if you put out the fires," said Poo, "we don’t want you to pay a bigger fee."

"And we don’t want you to kill Ness," said Ness from under the tendas.

"Agreed," said the tenda Chief, "we must put those fires out! Free the monkeys!" he cried, "everyone will help put out those fires!"

The kids Psi teleported back to Onett and after returning the book and a quick stop to the bookstore they returned to Deep Darkness.

"They’ve put out the fires," said Poo.

"We have put out the fires," agreed the tenda Chief, "what book do you have?"

"This is the book How to Become a Gardener, said Paula, "we bought it for you so you never have to return it."

"You can use it to return Deep Darkness to its former state. It’s the Jungle edition."

"We can keep it?" asked the Chief, "what do we do with it when we’re done?"

"It’s the 1^st book in a series," explained Ness, "you’ll get a new book in the mail every two months."

"Thank you!" cried the tendas as the group teleported back to Dr. Andonuts Lab.

"We’re back!" cried Jeff.

(How’d it go?) asked the bubble monkey.

"We’ve stopped the tendas," said Ness, "and the monkey village wasn’t badly damaged by the fires. They even gave us 10 Monkey’s Loves for saving their village."

(That’s great,) said the bubble monkey as he headed out the door, (see you guys later.)

As the bubble monkey floated off into the distance Paula asked Jeff, "what do those monkey’s love things do, anyway? We never used the last one we got."

(When will those guys learn,) thought the bubble monkey to himself as he floated over the ocean, (that those monkey’s loves are nothing more than souvenirs given to stupid tourists? Oh well.)