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Jack hadn’t been prepared for this: Two muscular skeletons in German uniforms, Oogie Boogie with a Kaiser helmet, Lock, Shock, and Barrel welding a bomb shut, and that Oogie had just given the order to bombard London itself. “This is not my definition of a good day!” Jack thought as the two skeletons, Biff and Zaaz, charged at him. They tried to tackle him, as if in a football game, but ended up tackling empty air as Jack raced towards the bombs and Oogie. Biff fired his rifle, and rather surprisingly, one shot hit Jack in the leg, crippling him a little.
Oogie grinned with malice, and started to push the final bomb into place. Jack started to get up, as bullets whizzed past him. Zaaz, armed with a submachine gun, leapt at Jack, and pinned him to the ground, trying to shoot his skull out. But Jack was persistent. Despite the pain inflicted by Zaaz, he had managed to turn the gun around and back at the giant’s skull. Pulling the trigger, Jack fired a volley of shots into Zaaz’s face, riddling it with bullets. “Take that!” Jack yelled. When the bullets had all been launched, Zaaz looked at Jack. He then spat out bullets into the pumpkin king’s face. His skull had been slightly torn and dented, yes, but his life remained intact.
Deciding to finish him, Zaaz carried Jack to the bomb area, accompanied by Biff. Jack looked down, and saw a stray exploding pumpkin. As an idea formed in his head, Zaaz looked Jack straight, skull-to-skull. “Any last words before you’re scattered to the winds, Jack?” Oogie asked. “Yes,” Jack started. “TRICK OR TREAT!” he yelled as he stuffed an exploding pumpkin into Zaaz’s mouth. The pumpkin exploded, and huge shards of skull flew everywhere. Zaaz was dead, and Biff started to shoot his rifle at Jack, in revenge for his lost comrade. Sighing, Oogie ran over to the release chain. “BYE-BYE, LONDON!” he laughed with malevolence as he pulled the chain, opening the hatch. Pushing the first batch forward, Lock, Shock, and Barrel watched as the bombs fell, and exploded on the middle of a huge bridge. It had greatly damaged the structure, and the concrete and steel was plunging into the river. "This is fun!" Barrel remarked as he looked at the quick-growing spread of flames.
As the second batch was being readied, Jack knocked Oogie away, and sent him sprawling. Jack, angry to the core, started to bludgeon him with a nearby steel pipe, sending bugs shooting out of his mouth. Just when he was about to deliver the final blow, a faint but growing buzzing sound filled the air. As Biff ran to see what it was, he could hear rapid gunfire, and holes being torn through the sides of the airship. “BIPLANES!!!” he yelled to the group inside.
As he ran to the guns, he grabbed Zaaz’s remains, and seated him into a gunner’s seat (after using paste to piece his head back together, bringing him back). They fired at the planes, shooting one down at one point. But still, gunfire shot holes in. In the distraction, Oogie yanked the chain again, sending the second batch of the bombs down into the streets. But this time, a biplane made a heroic dive, destroying the bombs before they reached the ground. Oogie was angered by this action. “If there’s anything I hate around here, it’s a hero!” he yelled as he turned his attention back to Jack. “Now to deal with this hero at last” he chuckled nastily as he grabbed a custom-targeting shotgun and aimed it at Jack’s skull. The moment the laser dot hit Jack’s forehead was the moment Oogie pulled the trigger.
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