Animus, Book 2: Pokey, Chapter 1: Destruction

Pokey looked to the past through one of his monitors. He saw Belch arise from his death, fell Apple Kid, fell Deep Darkness. Continue onto Scaraba... and then Summers.
"Perfect," he hissed. "All is going according to plan. Ness won't know what hit him."
He paused a second, gazing intently at one window. He jumped back, realising what had just happened.
"No!" he exclaimed. "How could that fat inventor have survived?"
He began to tell Belch to turn back and get him, but then he realised: He was watching replays of things that had happened.
"Belch, you fool!" he shrieked. He rued having ever chosen Belch to gain his revenge on Ness. Although they both held a grand Animus towards Ness, he had had concerns about choosing such a dimwitted creature of living barf, belch, whatever.
He even chose to re-rename Belch Belch again, hoping that would re-ignite an Animus for human life... re-ignite a preference towards zombies.
Towards the end of his original life, Belch had abandoned reliance on zombies. Pokey had gambled on this, and hoped that he would gain this reliance once more.
But now he knew that had been a mistake. It was wrong to send someone like that to do this.
He viewed what else had happened up to the division of the groups, and a short while after.
"Hmm...." Pokey mused, considering his choices. "They're around Scaraba and Deep Darkness now, it seems. That's perfect!"
He turned to another screen. It showed the wreckage of the pyramid. But one sarcophagus remained.
"Guardian General, arise, and use your love of the Hawk eye to destroy the friends of the one who you have Animus towards for stealing it! Destroy Ness' friends!"
He turned to yet another screen. This one showed a cave pulsating with glowing lichen. A stickman-like body that once flowed with electricity was shown, thrown to one side.
Pokey's eyes glimmered. He opened his mouth to re-infuse the Electro Spectre with Animus towards the group in Deep Darkness... but would it work? No one there had fought him. Indeed, it wouldn't work at all.
He had one last chance: Deep Darkness itself.
He faced a third screen.
"People of Deep Darkness!" he screamed, his voice reaching through time to echo throughout the bodies of the people of Deep Darkness. "Take your revenge on those who cared not for you at all! Attack those on which you have a rightful Animus! Wilderness Trader! Arms Dealer! Jungle Monkeys!"

Mike was wandering around Scaraba, looking at everybody's wares. Heh, this is cool. Of course, I'll have to stay well away from the snakes... He saw Poo hanging out at a shop that sold piggy noses. He was obviously getting a kick out of them. Mike chuckled to himself.
He continued to walk around, remembering to stay away from the snakes. He started to think to himself. Hey, didn't we find a message of some sort saying that there was something in a pyramid? I don't remember the information that that new discovery Skul made had, but... ahdunno. He blinked a few times. He saw Skul walking around, as if he were looking for somebody.
Mike waved to Skulryk and hailed him. "Hey Skul, what's up?" He walked over to him expeditiously.
"Well, I got us a ride."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. Camels. Let's go find the others. We can go explore out in the desert."
"Cool. I'll go pick up some supplies, just in case we get sunstroke or get hungry or something. I'll meet ya at the gate." Mike walked off, leaving Skul to continue looking for the others.

SimonBob had disappeared outside the main city to visit the Sphinx. He stood before it, waiting for it to speak.
"You have to decide what you are. Therefore, what will you do?"
That was the big signal. SimonBob threw off his trenchcoat and got funky. A few breakdancing steps were all it took to convince the Sphinx of SimonBob's identity.
"Stop the dancing already," said the Sphinx, "I know it's you. How've you been?"
"Just fine, thanks. And how's my favourite rock-based catperson?"
"Quit with the flattery. What do you want?"
"You didn't happen to see Belch around here, did you?"
"Belch, eh?" The Sphinx paused to think. "I'm pretty sure he went through here just a little while ago, why?"
"He's got something of mine, and I kinda want it back."
"What, your flannel?"
"No, that's in for cleaning."
"Well, whatever it was, I'm sure you'll get it back from him sooner or later."
They continued to talk about old times and pyramid scams, when SimonBob heard a loud explosion from behind the Sphinx. "What was that?"
"Oh, probably just the Guardian General going into the city to get indirect revenge on the one who stole the Hawk Eye. Hey, remember when we scammed those tourists from Twoson with... hey, Simon?"
SimonBob ran around the Sphinx and saw the GG there. It looked at him, then came out swinging. SimonBob jumped over it, spun, and kicked it in the head. He then fell over, holding his broken foot, having forgotten that the GG was made of stone. Pulling out his BobZooka, he took a shot, but only managed to knock some dust off its shoulders.
"Hey, Sphinxy! A little help? I mean, I don't wanna sound whiny, but that thing's kinda gonna kill my friends... hello?"
SimonBob looked up and noticed that the Sphinx's head had been knocked off by the GG. He realized as the GG kicked him that he wasn't the only person to worry about.

Dan was walking through the streets of Scaraba, taking in the sights of the foreign land. Some vacation this turned out to be! Attacked by mutants, and now I'm in Scaraba... oh well, it's better than watching *NSaturn, anway. He was getting a bit bored, and hoped to run into one of the others soon.

Over by the gate into the desert, SulamiTea hunched over, brushing some sand away. He uncovered the ball of paper. "Ah, there you are," he sighed. He held the ball up to his face. Sulami had calmed down a lot by now, and wanted to concentrate on Belch. Besides, Ness wasn't even passing through this way. Maybe I should just call Stingale off. Sulami bit his lip. But since I wasted the drawing, now I have to make another one of Stingale.... rrrg! I already spend too much time making these drawings!
To calm himself, SulamiTea looked out over the desert. In the distance, he thought he could see something. "What's that?" he mumbled to himself. Levitating himself on top of the wall that composed part of the gate, he stared over the horizon.
A large stone figure was tramping sluggishly towards the city. Um.... that can't be right, thought the boy. He rushed back into the streets of the city.
"Where are they?! Where are they?!" Sulami repeated to himself over and over. The only person he had seen stick in one location was Poo. Right!

"Oink oink," said Poo, and chuckled, as he wore another Piggy Nose.
"Are you planning to make a purchase?" grumbled the merchant, sounding agitated.
"I need to inspect all of the merchandise first," stated Poo, slipping off the nose he was wearing and reaching for another one.
Suddenly, he heard a vaguely familiar voice cry, "Poo! Poo! Terrible! Need help! Hurry!" He turned to see SulamiTea bouncing over to him. He was panting somewhat. "Poo, trouble! We need to find the others!"
"Er.... right," said Poo, carefully edging away from the psycho. "And... how do you know my name again?"
SulamiTea shook his head furiously. "No time! B.. bi.. giant statue - stone statue coming towards the city! It's called Guardian General. We need to stop it! It's probably working for Belch to destroy the city!" SulamiTea shifted back and forth, and gestured frantically around him to indicate that they needed to move.
"Er, no thank you," said Poo, not even bothering to make a fitting reply. He began to walk away, but SulamiTea grabbed his arm. "AH! Let go of me!!!" shouted Poo. He tried to wrest himself free, but SulamiTea tugged on his arm. The two began a confusing struggle, yelling undistinguishable comments at each other the whole time.
The Piggy Nose merchant was just about to call for guards, when Luna happened to pass by. She saw the scene, and assumed that the weirdo was attacking Poo. She rushed forward and tried to break his grip. "Hey, what are you doing to Poo!"
"He's trying to abduct me!" shouted Poo.
Sulami let go of Poo, still panicked. Poo, still jerking in another direction, fell to the ground softly. "No! I'm trying to tell him that a stone statue called Guardian General is coming, probably to attack the town!"
Luna rolled her eyes. "Okay... and why do you expect us to believe this?"
SulamiTea threw his arms into the air with an exaggerated motion. "If you don't believe me, I'll SHOW you! Come on." He bounced towards the gate. Luna shrugged, and followed after him. Poo followed at a distance.
When they got there, the General had already moved forward enough for his head to be seen over the horizon. Luna squinted. "That's it?" SulamiTea affirmed it. She just groaned a little. "If it's not just one thing after another..." Luna drooped her head, but then picked it up and turned around. "Hurry! Let's find Mike, and Skulryk, and Dan, and SimonBob!"
"Yeah," mumbled Sulami. Poo just walked after them, still in shock from the sudden excitement. The three headed off to find the others so that they could figure the situation out.

"It's a little too quiet for my liking," Cyan mused. "No birds are tweeting."
"Maybe they can't handle my heat," Anna offered jokingly.
"Perhaps." Anthadd had a fist to his chin, pondering something. His nose twitched slightly. "Siris, do you think this odour I'm detecting is in anyway normal, in reference to the general odour of Deep Darkness?"
"I'd like to answer that," Siris replied, "but I wander. I don't remain in one place long enough to comprehend the 'natural odour' of it."
Anthadd's shoulders slumped visibly.
"However," Siris amended, "I do smell something."
Anthadd perked up.
"What?" Anna demanded, a crackling emanating from her body. It seemed she was ready to burst into flames. "What do you smell?"
"It's not normal. It's nothing like what I smelled before. When I travelled to Deep Darkness before Belch was reborne. It's closer to Belch. But it's not Belch."
The four stopped walking, shocked.
"Wonderful," Cyan muttered. "Little mini-Belches coming after us."

Pokey pressed the tips of his fingers against the other.
"Perfect!" he exclaimed. The replay of the past had finally returned to where it was, before the lag. "Those fools in Deep Darkness aren't moving. That'll make it easier for Deep Darkness itself to defeat them. If only they had been that stupid earlier..."
Pokey grinned. Slightly yellowed teeth glimmered in the dim light.
"Hurry, you fools," he muttered into the past, sending this message into the bones of the zombified denizens of Deep Darkness, "for your prey waits only a short distance away."

"Uh-oh," Siris muttered as he peered more closely. "It's as if the swamp has come alive!"
The group could see that people who used to be friendly Deep Darkness residents were now lurching toward them mindlessly. They had been turned into zombies, and the group could see that.
"They don't look amiable," Anthadd noted. "I hate to do it, but we ought to prepare for battle."
"Let's not waste time, then," Siris said, eager to use his magic abilities, though a bit skeptical. He reluctantly pointed a palm toward one of the zombified jugle monkeys. His hand glowed bright red, and he shouted, "Fireball!" A sphere of flame shot from his palm and struck the creature, burning it.
"They don't look too strong," Cyan noted. "But there are a lot of them." He drew his sword, and slashed at the burning zombie, finishing it off.
Anthadd clearly vocalized his next action: "Scorpius Blade!" From his hand he threw a sharp blade of energy, hitting another zombie-monkey critically. The zombie fell into the muck, but tried to keep moving.
Anna was about to be attacked, but from a hand she threw a ball of fire to incinerate her attacker. She turned to Siris. "You've got nothing on me," she joked.
Siris smiled, but warned, "Don't let your guard down... these guys mean business."
Anthadd stared at the relentlessly approaching zombies.
"If they're zombies... then they're Belch's flunkies now... does that mean he killed these people?"
"No," Siris replied, "he didn't. His stench did."
"Anthadd," Cyan mused, "perhaps we should use Adekae."
"Adekae?" the other three demanded, dumbfounded.

Pokey grinned evilly. "Those four are going down. A zombie's sole weakness is salt, and they have none!"

Apple Kid struggled awake in the Tenda Village. He had been escorted there by Siris before the groups split up.
The others had argued it was safer for all concerned.
"What's for breakfast?" he asked a passing Tendite, his stomach rumbling.
"Tendakraut."
His heart sank. Tendakraut. Again? He'd had enough of it. It was too dry...
"Too much salt," he complained in a low voice.
But he was here until Belch was killed again. An unwilling refugee, to coin a term. Yet, he wondered, aren't all refugees unwilling?
He resigned himself to his fate, and trudged to the food table, where very salty Tendakraut was available for consumption.

Pokey looked to the past again. He tried to sense Apple Kid's life through his monitors. But he continually found a barren hill.
"No!" he exclaimed angrily. Then he found a way to choose alternate views for the specific location he was viewing. He rotated it until he found something he knew well.
His eyes widened, and a small bit of saliva dribbled down the left side of his chin.
"Deep Darkness," he hissed, licking his teeth with his tongue.
He quickly turned to the monitor the zombies were on.
"Zombies!" he cried. "Your Animus is now towards Apple Kid, not these four humans! Get Apple Kid!"

Mike had bought a lot of stuff from the various market in Scaraba. He had a large sack that carried essentially everything that a person would need when wandering around in the desert: water, wet towels, food, antivenin, etc. Mike wandered about town before deciding to go to the gates.
Once there, he saw that Skulryk wasn't there. He shrugged and set his parcel down. Alright, I'll just hang out here and... hey, waitaminute, what's that? He saw what appeared to be a statue. Naw, must be a trick. Unless... HOLY GEEZ! This is cool!
Mike realized that that was REALLY a statue. It was headed right for Scaraba. He ran off, in search for anybody else that was in his group. He saw, after little searching, Luna, Poo, and SulamiTea.
"Guys! Sup? I just saw the coolest thing! A giant statue is headed this way!" Mike walked up to the trio.
"Yeah, we saw it too. We were looking for everybody else when we saw it. All we need to find now is Skulryk and Dan. Wonder where they're at?"
Skulryk walked up to the group with Dan closely following. "Hey Mike, I found Dan. I see that you found Luna and Poo."
"Yeah, kinda. Hey listen, there's a-" Mike was interrupted.
"A giant statue!! It'll eat all of our food! Run! Save the chickens! Save the burgers! Save the FOOD!" Poo started to flip out. Luckily, SulamiTea punched him. "Thanks, I needed that. Let's get outta here."
"I say we go to the pyramids. We may as well, right?" Skulryk looked to everybody, awaiting their response.
Everybody shrugged, then nodded in approval. They all started for the gate. Once at the gate, they each took a camel. Sulami flew, while Luna, Skulryk, and Dan had their own camels. Poo and Mike shared with each other. Before Mike got on to the camel, he picked up his bag and slung it over his shoulder. They then started to leave for a desert trip.
Dan suddenly had an idea. "Hey, couldn't we just fight the statue thing? It's not like we CAN'T take it. Right?" He then shook his head slowly. "Nevermi-"
Dan was interrupted by Poo. Poo, seeing some good in that idea, decided to take ownership and to initiate it. "Yeah! I say we go fight! Who's with me? We may be rewarded with all the food we can eat!"
Before anybody could answer, Poo took control of the camel. He had it start riding towards the statue. Mike tried desperately to regain control, but Poo just wouldn't hand him the reins.
The others followed, knowing that wherever Poo took them, there would be trouble.

Paula stood next to Mika as soon Ness was out of hearing range. She growled, "Stay away from Ness."
Mika was rather taken aback from that comment and decided to do what she said. Meanwhile, Rusty was trying to decide something about the mutant behind the bushes.
"What do yer think we should do?" Rusty asked Ness.
"Well, we could bring back a piece of that thing in the bush," Ness suggested.
"What if it's one of them mutant people?" asked Rusty, spying the bush carefully.
"I don't think mutant people have tentacles. Beside, didn't you hear it scream and fade away once Paula attacked it?" Ness pointed out, from their previous attack.
"Yer're right, mate. Let's bring a piece back... but how? What if we get mutated by dem?"
Mika stepped forward and pulled out her spear, which she used to rip a tentacle that was sticking out of the bushes and then held it aloft.
"That works. We should be getting back to the hut now," Rusty proclaimed, as the group jumped up and down in excitement, including Tracy, who hadn't been saying much.
The group walked back to the hut, ready to meet the group and present the sample of the tentacle to Anthadd, who was known to be a scientist.

Cyan looked at Anthadd, "Adekae ... we combine your Sugemo abilities with my sword skills to get a potent combination, remember...?"
The other still had no idea what Cyan was talking aboutand Anna wasn't too impressed, anyway, "I don't know what Adekae is, but I have my own fighting abilities," she said as she turned back to the oncoming Zombies.
"I'm busy, myself," added Siris as he took out another attacker.
"I don't have any idea what you're talking about," added Anthadd.
Now it was Cyan's turn to be thoroughly confused. "How can you not ... blast it, forgot again."
"You forgot what again?" wondered Anthadd.
"That you're not the same Anthadd. I was able to synchronise attacks and movements with the first Anthadd I met on my travels when we were fighting a more powerful enemy. There's one problem ... I forgot how we synchronised!"
Anthad hit his head, then thought for a moment. "If we have to synchronise, we probably have to keep fighting for awhile, first."
"Probably right, let's go!"
The two rejoined Siris and Anna in actively battling the zombies. As they continued, their movements became constantly more in sync, one attack coming in the opening created by the other's, until finally....

"The hut is empty," Mika reported, jogging lightly towards the others. "I wonder where they've gone."
"We were only gone for about half an hour," Paula mused, continuing to stare angrily at Mika.
Mika giggled meekly.
"They must have had to get out fast," Mika added.
"That worries me," Tracy commented. She shivered, feeling something in the air. "You would think they would have waited for us."
"Ahw, dawn't worry, lil missy," Rusty consoled. "I'm sure they're fine."
Suddenly, an odd noise arose from Deep Darkness.
"What was that?" the group exclaimed, and jumped onto a conveniently located boat. They hurriedly sailed to Deep Darkness.

"Bubble Sharp!" the two cried simultaneously.
The water Adekae cut through two or three of the Zombies, felling them.
Anthadd slumped to his knees, Cyan sheathed his sword, and Siris and Anna relaxed slightly.

"Curses!" Pokey hissed, staring at the past again.
He pounded the keyboard, and the monitors went black.
"Why don't any of my plans work?" he wailed.
He lounged back, fuming over the loss of all those zombies.
"Wait! The zombies aren't dead yet! They're just dormant..." An evil grin grew on his lips.

"Greetings, Tracy, Mika, Rusty, Paula and Ness," Anthadd reported, struggling to catch his breath. "Beware of zombies underfoot."
"Gross!" Tracy was disgusted, and sidestepped each undead creature. "Zombies!"
"Don't worry," Siris added. "They're out of commission."
For now... Anna silently added. Who knows what could happen next?

To Pokey, it seemed as if Anna was thinking. Her pensive look betrayed her.
"Perfect," he mumbled, rubbing the palms of his hands together. "I can complete this plan with little or no resistance once I take care of these people."
He turned to another monitor. Many fish-like humanoids lay, slowly drying out, in a small area of Deep Darkness unexplored in the time he was fighting against.
"Manly Fish! Manly Fish's Brother!" Pokey screamed, jumping from his chair. "Two of those who intruded upon your land but years ago have once more intruded upon it! And even more horrific: They have brought more allies than before to deface your beloved jungle! Listen to the Animus within you! Destroy them!"
Pokey returned to his chair.
He sat in it, and waited for the next battle to begin. He hoped that perhaps this time his dreams would come true, and the one he hated would die...

The Manly Fish rose slowly from the muck around him. He blearily rubbed his eyes with his fins, and glared smartly at his brothers. The Manly Fish's Brother looked back at him. He grunted, and they started to swim toward the feeling of hate that had developed. Ness...

Anna flicked her head back and forth slowly, looking around. "I don't like it. Things are much too quiet for my taste...."
Cyan agreed hurriedly, and Anthadd nodded.
Suddenly, he felt a sharp jab in the back of his knee.
"Oww!" He said, as tiny needle-like barrages pricked him. He looked down, and saw dozens of Manly Fish poking him with their sharp spears.
Anna and Siris, meanwhile, had their hands full. The Manly Fish's Brothers had gathered around the two, leaving them battling in a tight ring back to back. Anna nodded slightly at Siris, and he powered up an Earth attack.
"Crag Press!" He yelled, and a giant boulder formed behind him. He threw himself to the ground, and saw that the boulder would go between two of the manly fish. He flinched, but when he looked up he saw Anna crack the rock in two with a fire spear. The two halves went hurtling at the fish, and they collapsed in the murky water on contact.
Ness and Paula were firing Blasts of PSI at a particularly quick manly fish, and Ness finally got in a good bat swing. However, the fish dodged in time, and Ness spun out of control. Paula gasped, and she took out the Jubilant Manly fish with a Frying Pan to the jaw.
Ness wiped the muck from his eyes, to see a new group of Manly Fish and their Brothers join the fray.
"There's too many of them!"
Mika decided she had enough of this, knowing that Manly Fish were water-elements and water is weak against ice. She began to cast PSI Freeze Omega on one of the Manly Fish, which froze into a block of ice.
"Well, I hope that cools you off..." Mika chuckled at her own pun.
Paula let loose a powerful blast of PSI Fire Omega on the other Manly Fishes and Manly Fish Brothers, who ran away in fear of being scorched or frozen by any of their attack. Once they were alone, or at least for a short period of time, Anna reached out with her hand to the block of ice, in which the Manly Fish was held captive in. Rusty, Cyan, Anthadd, and Ness surrounded the ice, in order to stop the creature from escaping. Tracy, Paula, and Mika watched as Anna held out her fiery hand, melting the ice within reach...

"Okay, my leg's broken, there's a Skelpion eyeing me, and I haven't got any rations... there's only one thing to do."
Despite being wracked with pain, SimonBob shouted "PARAFFIN HEAL!" A coat of white paraffin wax fell from the sky and encased his body, fully refreshing and immobilizing him. After spending a few minutes of wrestling out of the wax shell, he was all set to go again. "Good thing I know some Rallets," he muttered.
Leaping up on top of the Sphinx, SimonBob discovered a phone built into the neck, where nobody would find it. There was also a note next to it: "If the Guardian General escapes, phone this number. ~ The Scaraban Pyramid Guardians."
How about that? The ancient Scarabans had digital phone technology. SimonBob dialed the number.
"Thanks for calling the Guardian General Activation Service. We are automatically increasing speed from three to six hundred and twenty four. You're welcome!"
"Oops," said SimonBob as he watched the GG begin bounding towards the horizon.
Noticing a group of people on camels heading for him, SimonBob waved his arms in the air to flag them down. As the group got closer, he noticed it was Mike, Luna, et al., with Sulami flying close behind. "Hey, did you just see that statue dude get a whole lot faster?" shouted Mike.
"Uhhh, I think I might've been the one who caused that..." SimonBob glanced worriedly over to the horizon, and noticed that the GG was already gone. "I think it's headed for Deep Darkness."
"Hey, a phone!" said Poo, climbing up the side of the Sphinx. "Let's call Mach Pizza!"
"I have a better idea," said SimonBob. "We're gonna need a ride to catch that dude, and I have just the thing. When I whistle, everybody jump."
He let loose with an ear-piercing whistle, leaping in the air as he did so. Everyone jumped (more from fright than from directions) and landed in a jetcar that landed under them. SimonBob advised everyone to buckle up, since seatbelts save more lives each year than airbags and yaks combined, and then hit the accelerator.
Mike was in the front, next to SimonBob. Seeing Mike's half-freaked, half-exited look, SimonBob grinned at him. "SimonBob knows how to ride in style! Oh yeah!"
Mike grinned back. "Aww, yee!"
SimonBob pulled a laser cannon out from his trenchcoat and gave it to Mike, then found an even bigger one for himself. "Let's take out that Guardian!"
They began to overtake the GG as it jumped the river separating the northern and southern halves of Scaraba. SimonBob got off a few shots, but narrowly missed the stone soldier. He circled around for a second run. Taking aim, he and Mike got several shots off before passing the GG again; checking his mirror, SimonBob saw a column of smoke rising from where the GG stood. "Yes! Got him!"
Skillfully landing the jetcar next to the hulking ruin, SimonBob started for the GG, but was stopped by Skulryk. "I'm a scientist, let me check it out."
After giving him a few minutes, the rest of the group joined Skulryk. "What'd you find?" asked Luna.
Skulryk pointed to the revealed innards of the GG. "It was a robot, and very well designed too! Susceptible to commands not only from a telcommunications network, but also from radio signals!"
"Meaning someone else could have told it to attack," suggested Sulami.
"Maybe this was the trap that the Pile o' Bile told me about," said SimonBob. He quickly explained the PoB's intrusion and subsequent confession to the group. "Belch could be controlling the previously defeated enemies in new ways," he theorized.
"So what are we waiting for?" said Mike. "Let's go get Belch!" Everyone hopped back into the jetcar and headed for Deep Darkness.

Meanwhile, in his hidden location, Pokey chuckled to himself. The clues had pointed those fools in the exact wrong direction! Could things be any better?

"Uh huh. A medium pepperoni pizza," Poo said to the Mach Pizza order taker. "What do you mean you're out of medium size?! All right, I'll take large. Make it pepperoni with extra cheese. What? No extra cheese? Fine, I'll have a large pepperoni pizza. Be here in thirty minutes? All right..." Poo hung up the jetcar phone.
"Poo," SimonBob said. "Didn't I tell you not to use the phone? It draws power from the main engine."
"Which means...?" Poo asked as he grinned, sheepishly.
"Which means that if we're unlucky, we're going to go down from insufficient power," Mike explained. Smoke started to rise from the jetcar hood.
"Oh no...tell me I'm seeing things," Luna said as she put her face in her hands.
"Nope, the jetcar is smoking," Skulryk said.
"I'll fix things!" Poo said as he started pounding on the hood of the jetcar.
"You idiot!" SimonBob screamed. "You're denting my hood!" SimonBob began choking Poo, violently. Dan tried to pull SimonBob's hands away.
"SimonBob!" Luna screamed. "Drive the jetcar!"
"Die, Poo, die!" SimonBob yelled, paying no attention to anyone.
"Ahhhletmegooooo!!!" Poo screamed as he kicked the steering wheel. The jetcar made a huge u-turn and started flying straight down, into the oceans below.
"We're going down!!!!" Mike yelled.