Amy ran outside. There was nothing there. Then she looked up, Oogie was there, standing on the roof, unmoving.
She climbed up the drainpipe to the left and up to where he was.
"You're going to pay!" she cried, tears still rolling down her albino white cheeks. "You killed my grandparents and now you have killed my friend, you shall no longer-"
"Oh can it will ya?" came a voice from behind her.
Before Amy could even look round, she was silenced by a hand across her mouth.
It was Shock, letting out her penetrating laugh that was sent bouncing off the buildings.
"Good job, kiddo" cackled Oogie, turning around to face Amy, a remote control in his hand.
"How selfish can ya get? Leaving all those Halloween Town citiziens down there to PERISH!"
Oogie pressed the red button on the remote. The ground rumbled, almost sending Shock and Amy flying.
Bricks flew in all directions as the ground two metres from where they were standing arose from below, revealing startled citizens.
"Oh! But wouldn't it be so much fun to see them perish before your eyes?"
Amy writhed in the hands of Shock as Oogie began to walk towards Sally, his eyes wide and devilish.
"I'll spare you're life doll, you can die with your husband and daughter"
Amy managed to break free of Shock's hand.
"But what use will it be killing us all? Who will bow down to you?" she called, fighting away Shock's hand as she did.
"She's got a point bugbrain!" said Shock casually.
"Indeed she has. Free 'em, double time!"
"Me?"
"Yes, you! I don't see many of my minions here, do you?"
Shock rolled her eyes and tossed Amy aside like, well, a rag doll.
Amy clambered to her feet and picked up her bow, which she had dropped when she had been grabbed by Shock.
But, as she placed her hand on the bow, another hand placed it on there as well, a small, boney white hand.
She looked up to see the one person she thought she had lost only a few minutes ago, acompanied with her father.
"Tim..." she breathed.
"Shh" hushed Tim. "I got a plan, but in order for it to work, we gotta be quiet"
"I...I thought you were dead..."
Jack took Amy's arm and made sure Oogie wasn't looking.
"It wasn't Tim that died down there..."
Amy frowned.
***
"AMY!" cried Jack, running after her, but before he could get any further, he stopped as a burst of light came from behind him.
Jack turned around to see that Tim's corpse had gone and in it's place were the bodies of Lock and Barrel.
"You weigh a flippin' ton Barrel!" moaned Lock.
"Well you aren't clever yourself. I could have fallen over atleast eight times!"
"Ahem..."
Barrel and Lock looked up to see Jack, staring at them, his eyes slanted.
"It was him" they chorused, pointing at eachother.
Jack took them both by the scruffs of their necks.
"Explain what's going on!"
"Okay..." they both said at once.
"Oogie has this plan, right?" began Lock.
"His original plan was to kill Amy..." said Barrel.
"But his new plan is to kill the whole town!"
"He asked us to take the place of Tim..."
"...Incase Amy woke up"
"So after they'd had their talk in the lair, we tied Tim up..."
"And put..."
"Metamorphosis solution on yourselves?" breathed Jack.
Barrel and Lock nodded in unison.
"Now he's planning to..." but before Lock could continue, the ground beneath the back of the hall began to rise and the citizens began to arise into the air.
"Sally!" cried Jack, watching his beloved raise into the air.
"Jack!" called a voice from down the aisle. It was Tim.
"Tim!" called Jack, in both happiness and amazement.
Tim drew a sword from it's case and aimed it at Lock and Barrel.
"Want me to punish 'em?" asked Tim.
"We've got bigger problems on the roof, hurry!"
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TIM IS ALIVE! ALIVE YOU HEAR?! *parties*
