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As the fire-cage bore down on him, Jack saw no way out of his predicament. Inferno Oogie was watching as Jack was being flattened by the shrinking cage. There was no way to escape. Unless, Jack thought, he could dowse the flames. But unfortunately, Oogie was blocking his reach of the fire hose. Jack shook the cage, and it moved. Shaking it some more, Jack directed it closer to the water on the dock.
Oogie understood what was happening. “What are you doing?” he demanded. After receiving no reply, he started launching fireballs at Jack. The cage, however, served to deflect them. Jack shook the cage all the way to the end. A few more shakes, and it plunged into the sea.
Oogie knew Jack would come again. That’s what happened. He ALWAYS got lucky. He survived the exploding pumpkin thrown by Lock, Shock, and Barrel in his earlier takeover of Halloween town. He was able to kill Oogie with a lucky shot and an ignited pumpkin. He escaped Oogie’s henchmen onboard the Airship. He got lucky when he killed Zaaz with an exploding pumpkin, although his slack-off henchman was soon revived by Biff, his comrade. He got lucky when Oogie threw him into the fire when all those bombs exploded. So yeah, he was going to get lucky this time.
He waited for Jack to show his skull again. He waited. After what seemed like hours, He felt shuffling feet behind him. It was Jack, in his pin-striped suit. He was dripping wet, and was scorched badly. Yet, that was nothing compared to what Oogie was going to do now. Oogie fired lava at Jack, yet he dodged the blasts. “You just don’t know when to quit, don’t you, Jack!” Oogie hissed. “How I long to gaze upon the sight of your bones melting!”
Jack grabbed the fire hose, and sent a stream of water at Oogie. The water was turned to steam before it even hit Oogie. “You really that naïve, Jack?” Oogie taunted. “I already fell into the water once! What makes you think this will cool me off? Jack smiled. “Because THIS TIME, you’re getting the full treatment!” Jack kicked the blazing boogie man into a wooden barge. In retaliation, Oogie lashed out a fire tentacle, which wrapped around Jack.
Forming his other hand into a red-hot bar, he touched it against Jack’s skull. A cry of pain went out from him. He pushed the bar against his ribs, and was amused when he saw liquid bone dripping down the front of Jack’s suit. Jack felt agony and pain racking his mind. But it was not only pain that he felt, but images. Moving images.
Oogie stood triumphant, having finished Jack Skellington off, and burning his remains to ash. Starting towards London itself, he had been intercepted by police. Lashing out at them with a flaming spiked ball, he destroyed their convoy, and sapped the fuel from their vehicles. He progressed farther, into the city, creating a nightmare. Fireballs engulfed abandoned cars, buildings were torn into and burned down, and not even the air force could stop him. At last, he was headed towards a large oil refinery, a large part in his thirst for fuel. Realizing his target, the military had mobilized to stop him. But they were too late, as he had already torn into the facility, sending the workers screaming with their clothes on fire. As they died in agony, Short beams of fire burst open large vats of oil, bathing Inferno Boogie in the glorious substance. No one could stop him now!
Jack recovered from his vision. A vision of the future as it is set to be. A vision of what would happen if Oogie were to win. Jack HAD to defeat him! But how? The boat started to drift farther and farther from the dock. So concentrated on Jack was Oogie that he never noticed smoke rising from the bottom of the boat. It began to burn, and Oogie only noticed when his flames were being subjected to steam. He thought the same result as last time would occur. But this time, he felt pain instead of steam.
The water was colder than at the pier, and he had no oil with which to sustain himself! Angrily, he tried to attack Jack, but his energy felt weaker by the minute. The burning boat could not withstand the both of them, let alone Oogie by himself. Jack stood at the edge of the boat, and nimbly jumped into the water, disappearing as he swam for shore. Oogie was trapped, and felt agonizing pain as the cold water filled his mouth. He was back to being Oogie Boogie, a bug-filled sack, and even then he was still dying. As he sank into the water, his last words were “I shall return”.
Jack crawled onto the pier, and looked out at the water were Oogie had died. He had the intention of killing millions of innocent lives, not just Jack himself. Jack had saved those millions, and had done even the world a great service. Happy with himself, he dashed off towards the graveyard.
Biff, Zaaz, Lock, Shock, and Barrel had surfaced a long time ago, and had activated an inflatable lifeboat Zaaz had grabbed in the fall. They had just seen the death of Oogie Boogie, and floated beside the wreck. “Well guys,” Zaaz said, “I guess this means we’re out of a job” They all looked at him. No job? They could bring Oogie back easily! All they needed was a sewing machine, a Michael’s gift card, the head bug, and water from the town fountain. “But,” Lock added, “This means something else!” Barrel nodded. “FIVE-DAY WEEKEND!” They all cheered as they took out boards from the sunken barge, and used then as oars. “Hey, if we make it to a Starbucks, we can still get a bagel.” Biff whispered to the delighted Zaaz. They rowed to shore, and headed for the graveyard, and Halloween town.
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