Lock, Shock and Barrel were planning a pretty rotten plan. (Well, mischief is their specialty).
They were the ones who stole the Doctor’s life giving invention. And what they intended to do with it wasn’t as well meaning as what it was invented for.
These three kids, as bad as they were, they didn’t run the show when it came to evil and bad guys.
They once had a boss…
‘This thing had better work!’ Said Shock as she helped Lock and Barrel carry the stolen invention out of their means of transportation, (which was a walking bath tub, [I know, bizarre]).
‘Yeah, I didn’t bring it all this way for nothing.’ Said Lock, as he helped place it on the ground.
‘What do you mean: ‘You didn’t bring it all this way for nothing. I helped!’ Said Shock.
‘Me too.’ Said Barrel.
Barrel took hold of the cable and searched around the room for somewhere to plug it into the wall.
‘Did you guy’s see the look on that doc’s face when I jumped out at him?’ Said Lock.
‘And that book? Who the heck want’s to read about human beings?’ Lock chuckled.
‘He leaped of his wheels when I scared him!’
‘Hey, I scared him the most!’ Said Shock.
‘You were late! I jumped first! I scared him the most!’
‘No, I did!’
‘I did!’
‘I did!’
‘Hey guys, is this the right cable?’ Barrel interrupted.
‘What are you talking about? It’s the only cable there is!’ Shock snatched the cable from him.
‘But I doesn’t fit.’
‘I’ll make it fit!’
Shock stabbed the cable into the wall, struggling to get it to fit.
‘I Told ya it doesn’t fit. I told you.’
‘Then how are we gonna get this thing to work!’ Lock ran over to the scene.
‘We need power!’
‘With out power to this thing it won’t make undead life.’
The three of them looked over to the corner of the room where laid a strange, lifeless figure.
A tattered, old, stuffed full, strangely shaped bag laid still in the shadow of the corner.
‘If this thing can‘t work, we’ll never bring back Oogie.’
Lock, Shock and Barrel all sighed hopelessly.
‘What can we do?’ Wondered Barrel.
‘Where can we get power?’ Thought Lock.
‘We need electricity!’ Shock pointed to the window.
She stared outside at the black sky.
‘A storm?’ Said Barrel.
‘Thunder.’ Said Lock
‘Lightening.’ Said Shock.
They then looked at each other.
‘Lightening? Electricity! Power!!!’ They each said together.
Meanwhile, I was searching the town with the help of Jack and the Mayor, who had teamed up with me since I didn’t know the town very well, [I’d only been there a day and I hadn’t even been outside the town square].
It had started raining.
Jack and the Mayor didn’t mind, but I’m part machine. I can’t get wet, not for too long anyway.
But I was determined to find my friends, no matter what it took.
However, Jack had noticed sparks of electricity zapping on my aluminium skin every time the rain dropped on me.
‘Doesn‘t that hurt?’ Jack questioned for my own safety.
‘What?’ I replied dumbly. [I Obviously knew what he meant].
‘The rain, and what it’s doing to you.’
‘I can take it.’ I ran a little ahead, trying to drop the conversation.
I walked through the gates in front of me.
I then came to a stop when I saw something extraordinary.
There was this massive hill or something. It…it was…curly. The front of it looped round like some sort of spiral. It look so strange, yet…it looked so…so…I d’know.
‘Whoa! What’s that thing?’
‘Oh, that’s spiral hill. This is spiral hill cemetery.’ Jack explained.
I ran up the sloped side and ran all the way to the top.
‘This is so awesome! I’ve never seen anything like it! You sure won’t find anything as strange as this where I come from.’
‘Where did you come from, Emma?’ Jack asked as he followed me up the hill.
‘I know you came from Earth, but what was the name of your town?’
‘It was a city, actually. The ‘Big Apple’ itself.’
‘The ‘Big Apple’?’ Jack puzzled.
‘New York!’
‘The City of ‘New York’? That’s a strange name.’
‘So is ‘Halloween Town’. To me anyway. But New York is famous all around the world. Tonnes of tourists come every year. It’s the land of the skyscrapers. The land of opportunity. The land of freedom. Oh, it’s such an awesome place.’
I then sighed as I lowered my tone of voice and lost my moment of joy.
‘Or, at least it was.’
‘Was?’ Jack pondered.
‘Never mind.’
‘No please, tell me what happened.’
‘I said, ‘Never mind’!’
‘Jack! Look!’ The Mayor cried.
He was pointing out to something in the distance.
‘The roof of the Mansion! It’s…them!!!’
Both mine and Jack’s attention was brought to the roof of this Mansion.
‘Those three!’ Said Jack.
‘You mean Lock, Shock and Barrel?’ I said.
‘That’s them alright.’
‘What are they doing on the roof?’
I walked to the very edge of the hill.
‘And why have they got an ariel and a bunch of wires up there with them?’
Suddenly, thunder roared above our heads.
There was flashing from the clouds.
The thunder got louder. And louder.
And then…
Bang!
Lightening struck the spire on the Mansion roof.
It shot straight into the ariel, down the cables and followed them into the Mansion window.
I watched in fascination.
And then, I heard a deep, laughing. Sinister chuckling and cackling coming from the Mansion.
But suddenly, in the midst of me fascination and curiosity…
Well, I saw a great, bright flash straight in front of me…
That’s the last thing I remember…
