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Mango Island Kids: The Christmas Chronicle Part 3

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Part 3

Teo began to open his eyes with his senses slowly returning to him. Starting to feel the rocking sensation of the train once again, he lifted his head feeling a bit drowsy, he could go back to sleep but he knew the alarm was going to go off soon. He looked over to the clock which stood on the drawer between the couches and beds. The big hand was on the 12 and the little hand was on the 1, but that didn’t mean anything to Teo as he couldn’t tell the time.

Teo slowly got out of bed, placing his Baby Bunny under the blanket and picked up the clock. He then made his way to Bowla who slept on the bottom bunk. “Um… B-Bowla?” Teo asked softly as he gently rubbed her back.

Bowla let out a snort and groan before moving up to face Teo with an exhausted look and slight drool coming from her mouth. “What is it?”

“Um… what does the clock say?” Teo moved the clock closer to her.

Bowla takes the clock to examine it with half sleepy eyes. “It says one o clock.” she hands it back to Teo.

“Oh… ok thank you.” Teo was about to make his way to the bed as Bowla was about to get comfortable. But both of them opened their eyes in absolute shock and faced each other.

“ONE O CLOCK!?”

Their shouting woke the others in shock. They all looked at Teo and Bowla.

“What-What-What is it I didn’t do nothing!” said Mike in shock as he was still waking up.

Sabrina climbed down the ladder and took the clock. “We slept in!? We got up five hours late?!”

“How is that possible?!” asked Jack as he climbed out of bed. “You did set the alarm right?”

“Of course I did.” said Sabrina, she then looked around. “None of you turned the alarm off did you?” everyone said no. “Then who could’ve?”

“How do you know we’d didn’t just sleep through it?” asked Mike as he climbed down the ladder.

“Teo wouldn’t have been able to sleep through it.” said Sabrina. “He has very delicate hearing, I placed the clock closer to him so he would’ve woken up from it if we didn’t.”

“Well yeah, I mean Teo can hear faint whispering from about thirty feet away.” said Bowla.

At that point, Teo remembered something. “Wait! I-I think someone came into our room.”

“What? Seriously?” asked Sabrina.

“I… I think so yeah… I heard some sort of whispering late at night… b-but I thought I was just dreaming.”

“What did you hear?” asked Bowla.

“I… I think it was… ‘Ok… gotta do this now, it’s now or never.’ Or something along those lines.”

“What the heck does that even mean?” asked Mike. Teo simply shrugged his shoulders.

“So someone snuck into our room and turned the alarm off.” said Sabrina. “The only person who would do that would be the one set to blow up this train.”

“Guys look!” exclaimed Samantha as she pointed to the ground by the door, there they saw a note. Teo walked up to it and picked it up. The others loomed over Teo’s shoulder and read the note.

“This is your last warning! I will destroy this train with you in it unless you get off at the next station! Don’t even attempt to stop me otherwise I will blow it up prematurely!”

“H-He’s onto us.” said Teo.

“Blow it up prematurely? Is he really going to bring himself to harm just to stop us?” asked Sabrina.

They all noticed a PTO on the bottom right meaning Please Turn Over, so they did and found another message. “And don’t worry about me; I have explosive proof clothing on so the blast won’t harm me at all. So HA!”

“Well… ask a question, get an answer.” said Sabrina feeling annoyed.

“So now what? Just go home?” asked Mike.

“If we do then no one will have Christmas.” said Teo.

“And that means no sweets!” said Samantha. “We have to stop him!”

“Samantha’s right. We have to locate the culprit now no matter what the cost.” said Sabrina.

“But he said he’ll blow it up prematurely if we try to stop him.” said Jack.

“Then we’ll just have to beat the snot out of him before he does!” exclaimed Bowla.

“But we still don’t know who the guy is.” said Mike.

“Um… I-I think I might know who it is…” Teo showed the others a slight tear at the top of the note. “Um… doesn’t this type of paper… come from Mr. Gadget’s note pad?”

All of them looked surprised at this, Mike then took the note and looked at it carefully; Jack leaned over to look as well. “I think he’s right… for once.” said Mike.

Bowla looked surprised at first, but then she giggled. “Oh that is so cool! The plot-twist… the detective is really the criminal!”

“But… he’s been helping us.” said Jack looking worried. “If our only help is actually the enemy, what are we gonna do?”

“It’s simple… first we need to find evidence to see if this is true… so I suggest we pay the man a visit.” said Sabrina.

Everyone was hesitant at first, but they all agreed none the less. So they made their way out of their room and began to walk towards the carriage which has Room 6. They all entered the restaurant carriage and continued their way to the next door, that was until they saw Samantha about to sit at one of the tables; Bowla dragged her away from it and continued their walk to Room 6. “We’ll eat later.”

The gang made it to the front of Room 6. “Now remember.” said Sabrina whispering. “We cannot trust Gadget completely, but we cannot let him know we’re onto him if he is indeed the culprit. So act casual.”

Mike opened the door, but they were surprised to see that Inspector Gadget already had a visitor, it was Sharpfin. The kids walked in while they had their conversation.

Gadget noticed them and waved quickly with the robotic arm in his hat. “Ah kids, perfect timing. Another predicament has arisen.”

“What’s going on?” asked Bowla.

“I’ll tell you what’s going on. Last night someone snuck into my room and pinched my briefcase.” said Sharpfin looking furious.

“Wait? The one with the engine parts in it?” asked Sabrina.

“That’s the one.”

Teo felt nervous. “Um… d-didn’t you say… that the liquids in them were… volatile?”

“That’s what worries me the most.” said Sharpfin. “It can only go off when mixed with three ingredients… diamonds, bone marrow and the substance you could find in a newt’s eye.”

“D-Diamonds and bone marrow?!” exclaimed Teo. “T-Two girls said they were missing a necklace each, one was made of diamonds and the other was made of dinosaur bones.”

“That’s two of the three ingredients!” exclaimed Gadget. “All that’s left is a newt’s eye. If the one who stole the briefcase also has the two necklaces, they can carry out the threat.”

During the entire conversation, Sabrina snuck her way to Gadget’s notepad which was left on top of the drawer. She flipped through it until she had found a slight tear in on one of the edges; she then took out the 2nd note and gently placed it onto the torn edge. Sabrina’s eyes widened, it was a perfect match. The threat was written on Gadget’s note pad, meaning he could very well be the culprit. She immediately placed the note pad back down, hid the 2nd note and snuck back to the others unnoticed.

“So much for being ‘next to nothing’ right Sharpfin?” asked Bowla looking smug.

“Now’s not the time. We gotta get out there and find the guy before he blows up this train.” said Sharpfin.

“The train’s next stop is in one hour.” said Gadget looking at a small clock which his robotic hand held. “So we have until then to find and stop him.”

“Then let’s get moving.” With that, Sharpfin walked out of the room and began to walk along the hallways.

Teo watched Sharpfin leave, and then he turned to Gadget. “Um… about getting the signatures…”

“Oh right, I almost forgot.” Gadget picked up his note pad and started flicking through the pages until he found all the signatures, he then shown the kids it. “I did a comparison with the note you gave me yesterday, unfortunately, not a single match. Whoever wrote the note must’ve changed his handwriting.”

“So it looks like we’re going back to square one.” Said Jack. “Might as well just look around the old-fashioned way.”

“This train is made up of six sections. The train itself, three room carriages, the restaurant carriage and the storage carriage.” Said Gadget

“So that’s a room each if the six of us split up.” Said Bowla crossing her arms.

“Now then, I’m going to start my search too.” Said Gadget as he pulled out a magnifying glass.

“I better accompany you Mr. Gadget.” Said Sabrina walking up to him. “There's safety in numbers.”

“Sure thing.” With that Gadget and Sabrina walked off, before Sabrina was out of sight, she winked to the others before disappearing.

“S-So that leaves just us five.” Said Teo.

“Not quite.” Said Bowla smirking. “Come with me.”

They all followed Bowla out of Room 6 and towards Room 8 and she knocked on the door. There they saw Edd once more. “Oh hello again, what can I do for you?”

“Is that those kids again?” asked Eddy, he and Ed walked up to the door as well.

“Remember when you said you’d help us if we needed it?” asked Bowla. “Well we need your help.”

Edd looked over to eddy who simply shrugged his shoulders. “We did agree so…”

“Good. Someone here has stolen Mr. Sharpfin’s briefcase, they had also stolen Mandy’s dinosaur bone necklace and Trixie’s diamond necklace.”

Eddy’s eyed widened. “So that jerk has the nerve to mess with my chances of dating that hot chick!? Ok, so you want us to help you find the thief?”

“Yep. We have one hour before the train stops and the thief gets away.” Said Bowla.

Teo stepped forward. “B-But… the thief is dangerous and we don’t know who it is, please try to find out in secret.”

Eddy nodded. “Ok, come on boys, let’s move out.” The three Eds left their room and walked towards the restaurant carriage.

“Ok, I suggest we split up into teams.” Said Jack as he fixed his glasses. “Mike and I will search the carriage with our room.”

“Teo, Samantha and I will search this carriage then.” Said Bowla.

Mike and Jack nodded and made their way towards the next carriage. Teo then turns to Bowla feeling confused. “Um… d-did we just cooperate with the orphanage’s biggest bullies with no violence whatsoever and actually made progress?”

Bowla shrugged her shoulders. “Hm. Guess we did.” She then pats Teo on the head. “Well done, you’re using those big words better.”

-0000-

Mike and Jack had just entered the restaurant carriage; there they saw the three Eds talking to Chip Skylark. “I’m really sorry.” Said Chip. “I haven’t seen any necklaces, but if I see anyone with one I’ll let you know.”

“Thanks Mr. Skylark.” Said Edd looking cheerful.

“Please, just call me Chip.” With that he walked off to the next carriage.

“Y’Know he could’ve had one of them.” Said Mike as he and Jack walked up to the Eds.

“We already searched his pockets. We found nothing.” Said Eddy.

“Not even a potato.” Said Ed looking pouty.

“Well whatever, we’re gonna search the next carriage.” Said Mike.

“We’re going to continue looking here, and then we’ll head to the front of the train.” Said Edd.

“Good luck… to both of us.” Said Jack. The two then made their way to the next carriage.

As Mike and Jack walked along the carriage, they were about to make their way into Room 3 until Jack turned to the door leading to Room 4. “Hey Mike.”

Mike turned to Jack. “What?”

“You know… we’ve met almost everyone on this train, but none of them go to this room here.”

“It’s obvious isn’t it? No one had a ticket for this room.”

“Well… y-yeah… but what if there is someone in that room? He could be the culprit.”

Mike stared at the door for a bit, and then quietly shushed Jack. He slowly crept to the door. And then quickly opened it shouting “AH-HAH!”

But there was no one in the room, the two walked in and looked around for a bit. “Hm, guess not.” Said Mike. “Well let’s go.”

“Wait! Keep quiet, I hear something.” Said Jack. The two kept quiet for a minute or so, at that point, Mike could hear something too. It sounded like quiet breathing.

The two looked up at the top bunk bed on the right side. That was where the noise was coming from. Mike immediately volunteered Jack to check the noise by pushing him closer to the ladder; Jack rolled his eyes and began to slowly climb up, he slowly peeked his head up and saw what was making the noise.

There sleeping on the bed, was a small Persian cat curled up on the pillow. Jack turns to Mike “Check it out, it’s a cat.” He whispered.

Jack climbed down the ladder to let Mike climb up. Mike raised an eyebrow seeing this cat; he then climbed down the ladder and faced Jack. “What’s a cat doing here?”

“I don’t know?” said Jack shrugging his shoulders. “Sure is cute though.”

“Yeah…” Mike turned to the bed, then back to Jack. “Well there's nothing else here, might as well look somewhere else.”

Jack nodded and the two walked out of the room, they left the door slightly open for the cat to get out when it wants to. Then made their way to Room 3 to search around, the Heavy Weapons Guy was in the restaurant carriage so now was a good time to search searching.

-0000-

Back in the other carriage. Because Rooms six, seven and eight were all vacant, Teo, Bowla and Samantha took a room each to search from top to bottom. After about a few minutes of this, the three exited each of the rooms and met up near the middle of the carriage. “Anything?” asked Bowla.

“N-No… sorry.” Said Teo.

“Nothing.” Said Samantha, but then she took out a bottle cap. “But I found this, pretty cool huh?”

Bowla chose to ignore her. “I didn’t find anything either. It wouldn’t be easy to hide a briefcase that big.”

Teo turned to the other side looking towards the door the conductor stood in front of. “M-Maybe in there?”

Bowla and Samantha turned to where Teo was facing. “The storage carriage? Worth a shot.” Said Bowla.

The three walked up to the conductor who looked down to them. “Ah, Teo again… what can I do for you?”

“Can we go into the next carriage please?” asked Samantha sweetly.

The conductor looked a bit surprised. “I’m sorry?”

“We’re looking for something important, we think it might be in the storage carriage.” Said Bowla.

“I am sorry, but only staff members are allowed in here.”

“Um… w-what if we had a member of staff accompanying us?” asked Teo.

The conductor rubbed his chin. “Hmm… well I suppose it’s alright then…” he then took out a small walkie talkie and spoke into it. “Excuse me, Yen? Are you there?”

“I’m here, what’s up?”

“Would you mind coming to the storage carriage door? I have a small request.”

“Sure, hold on.”

Everyone waited for a minute or so until Yen arrived, Teo recognized him from yesterday when Mandy mentioned him. “So what am I needed for?” asked Yen.

“I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind keeping an eye on these children while they search the storage carriage. They said they were looking for something important.”

“Sure thing.” Said Yen.

The conductor nodded and moved out of the way of the door while unlocking it. “You kids have fifteen minutes.”

“T-Thank you.” Said Teo as he and the others entered the carriage.

-0000-

Sabrina and Gadget in the carriage with rooms one and two; as Sabrina looked up to Gadget who continued to search around the halls, she grew more and more suspicious with every minute, the 2nd note was indeed written on Gadget’s note pad and the tear marks between the pad and note were a perfect match, additionally, he sent them to solve the missing pan mystery yesterday while keeping Samantha hostage, all it resulted in was wasted time which could have been spent on searching for the culprit. Finally, giving out the four main suspects could have been a simple diversion just to waste more time, and deliberately turning the alarm off so they would have even less time.

Sabrina was determined to find the culprit, and so far the signs were pointing to Gadget. But she needed absolute proof, and the only way she would get proof was to stay with Gadget and find anything that could point to him as the culprit.

Gadget turned to Sabrina who changed her look from determined and suspicious to neutral in a flash. “Anything?” he asked.

“No, nothing.” Said Sabrina.

“Ok, let’s check the front of the train.” Gadget and Sabrina walked up to the next door and he opened it letting them both in.

Sabrina grew a bit surprised; this was the engine room of the train. It was very spacious with machinery within the walls and ceiling, there stood a single driver who kept his hands close to the controls. He heard the two entering and turned to see who it was. He then pointed to a sign saying ‘Don’t talk to the driver. And don’t touch the machinery.’

Gadget merely saluted as a reply, Sabrina however was very tempted to touch at least one button. Breaking rules and causing mischief was her favourite thing to do, but she knew now was a bad time to do so. She simply pretended to search while still keeping an eye on Gadget as he examined the machinery and the few boxes which sat on the floor. As gadget opened another box he took out a small jar to examine it, the jar was full of a green liquid and had a few small eyeballs in it.

Sabrina’s eyes widened, the eyes looked small enough to belong to a newt. Meaning that jar could contain the third ingredient.

“Could these eyes belong to newts? Poor things.” Said Gadget, “None the less, we found the third ingredient.”

Sabrina immediately jumped up and snatched the bottle from Gadget’s hands. “I better keep a hold of this just to be safe.”

Gadget merely scratched his head in confusion. “Well if you insist, but be careful. If the culprit discovers you have it, he could go after you.”

Sabrina places the jar into one of her large sleeves. “I assure you, I will be fine.”

“Well in any case, now that we have the third ingredient, we can at least guarantee the threat won’t be carried out as the designated time.”

“Not quite, for all we know, the culprit already has his own. Even if he doesn’t, he still has to be stopped.”

“I couldn’t agree more. Let’s head back to the next carriage to continue our investigation, I don’t think there is anything else here for us to search.”

Sabrina nodded and the two exited the engine room and back into the carriage with rooms one and two. The two continued to walk along the corridors.

“I sure hope the culprit doesn’t have his own copy of the third ingredient.” Said Gadget.

“I’m kind of the same, but I’m certain this culprit isn’t stupid enough to make a threat without having access to all the necessary ingredients. Right Gadget?” There was no reply. “Gadget?”

Sabrina slowly turns around, but all she saw right in front of her was a giant fist before everything turned dark.

-0000-

Teo, Bowla and Samantha continued their search through the storage carriage while Yen watched them. The kids searched through several boxes containing all sorts of knickknacks, old books and toys and several other objects.

“So what are you kids looking for exactly?” asked Yen.

“Um… M-Mr. Sharpfin’s briefcase.” Said Teo.

“Sharpfin? Did he lose it or something?”

“N-No…I-”

“Someone stole it.” Said Bowla interrupting Teo.

Yen’s eyes widened slightly. “Stolen?”

“We’re helping him look for it, as well as two necklaces that went missing.”

Yen raised an eyebrow feeling concerned. “Necklaces… was one of them made of dinosaur bones?”

Teo nodded. “Y-Yeah… y-you gave Mandy that… didn’t you?”

“I did… I had no idea what to get her, so I merely guessed. Something that wasn’t too girly since she’s not like that, but at the same not too gothic or barbaric… ah well, I’m sure she’s not hurting over it.”

“Um… a-actually… she told me she was quite glad, and she really wanted to find it before the train stops.” Said Teo.

Yen looked quite surprised. “She… she actually liked my gift to her…? I knew she didn’t mind it because she didn’t hit me or anything… but to think she actually liked it and didn’t tell me.”

“Why didn’t she tell you she liked it?” asked Samantha.

“Mandy has a lot of pride and thinks love is a pointless emotion, although we’ve been dating and talking for a good few months now, she still doesn’t like to admit it.”

“She’s never once said I love you?” asked Bowla.

“Not once… but I’m not gonna beg her for it… I’m happy just being with her. Even if she doesn’t truly love me.”

“Um… M-Mandy did blush a bit when I asked her if you were her boyfriend.” Said Teo.

“She always blushes when that subject arises.” Said Yen with the faintest smiles. “She certainly looks cute when she does.”

At that point, the conductor opened the door and walked in slightly. “Alright kids, fifteen minutes are up.”

“B-But we haven’t finished searching.” Said Bowla looking annoyed.

“Don’t worry, I’ll keep looking.” Said Yen. “It’s Sharpfin’s briefcase, Mandy’s necklace and another necklace right?”

“I-It’s Trixie’s necklace… if y-you find it… could you um, give it to Eddy?” asked Teo.

“Why Eddy?”

“H-He wants to return it to her himself.”

Yen shrugged his shoulders. “Well alright.” The kids all walked out while Yen continued to search for the items.

Once the kids were out, the conductor closed the door. The kids then began to walk away going towards the restaurant carriage.

“Can we get some lunch?” asked Samantha. .

“We still haven’t found the culprit. And we haven’t got long left before the train stops.” Said Bowla.

“But I’m starving.” Said Samantha.

Teo sighs. “Why don’t we let Samantha eat and we’ll continue the search?”

At that point, Bowla’s stomach growled too. “G-Guess I’m a bit hungry too.” She chuckled. “Guess we can have a small something, but we get back to work straight after.”

As the two entered the restaurant carriage, Bowla and Samantha took a seat at one of the tables. Bowla noticed Teo wasn’t. “Not gonna eat?”

“I-I’m not hungry yet, I’m gonna keep searching for a bit.”

“Ok, good luck.” Said Bowla.

“Have fun.” Said Samantha cheerily.

“T-Thanks.” With that, Teo walked off to the next carriage. He noticed the only people in this carriage are Sharpfin, the Eds, Mandy, Mr. Stan in his shop and the Heavy Weapons Guy cooking with Luigi.

-0000-

Mike and Jack had just left Room 3 feeling annoyed. “Still nothing.” Grumbled Mike.

The two noticed Inspector Gadget walking into the room rubbing his head. “Mr. Gadget? Where’s Sabrina?” asked Jack.

“I don’t know… one minute we were walking together. The next everything went dark for a few seconds and now she’s missing.”

“Missing? Where could she have gone?” asked Mike.

“I’m looking now, what’s worse is that she had a jar with the eyes of newt. The last ingredient meant for blowing up the train. You kids keep an eye out for her too.” Gadget walked past them, but Jack noticed something about his pocket.

“Hey Gadget? What’s that in your pocket?”

Gadget stopped and looked at his pocket. He then dug into it and took out the jar of newt eyes. “It’s the jar Sabrina had… but what’s it doing in my pocket?”

Mike and Jack grew really suspicious. “Good question.” Said Mike. He immediately ran back into Room 3 and came out with two large sticks and handed one to Jack. “Care to play piñata with the culprit?”

“With pleasure.”

Gadget looked at the two feeling nervous, then Mike and Jack charged towards him making Gadget run for it.

As Teo just entered the carriage, he noticed Gadget running past him with Mike and Jack soon following. “We found the culprit!” shouted Mike.

“S-Seriously?” Teo was about to chase after Gadget too until he heard a loud meow. Teo stopped and turned around to see the Persian cat from Room 4. “A… cat? I didn’t know there was a cat in this train.” The cat meowed a few times. Luckily for Teo, he can understand cats like they’re in plain English. “Gadget’s not the culprit? Then who is?”

The cat ran towards the carriage with rooms one and two making Teo follow it. As Teo and the cat entered the next carriage, the cat stopped in between the two doors and sat there. Teo slowly stopped and looked around. He was about to speak again but the speakers at the top spoke first.

“Attention passengers, we will arrive at Mahogany Station in ten minutes please make sure to bring all your personal belongings and have a nice day.”

Teo felt very worried, they only have five minutes before the culprit blows up the train. At that point, the door to Room 1 opened revealing Chip Skylark with a large single shoulder bag. He noticed Teo and waved. “Oh hi Teo. Heard you were looking for a briefcase someone stole.” Chip said as he pointed his two fingers at him as a compliment. “Even when relaxing you like to help others.”

T-Thank you.” Teo noticed something on his left index and middle finger, a long cut along the two. “Um… w-what happened to your hand?”

“Oh this, just a little paper cut I got from signing autographs.” He lifted up the bag a bit. “Well… looking forward to my next stop, I’ve got a concert to sing at, man I just love my fans. Hope I don’t get any more paper cuts signing autographs.” He soon began to walk past him. “Well I gotta go, good luck finding the guy before he blows up the train.”

“T-Thanks.” Said Teo as he watched Chip walk away, suddenly it just came to him. “Wait! Hang on a second!”

Chip stopped and turned to him. “What’s up?”

“What did you say?”

Chip turned around to face him. “I said good luck finding the guy before he blows up the train.”

“Y-Yeah… but how did you know someone was planning to blow up this train?”

Chip stepped back feeling a bit nervous. “Um… Mr. Gadget told me.”

“But he said he never told anyone except for me and my friends… and Mike and Jack. So how did you know?”

Chip took another step back. “I… uh I.”

Teo looked down to the cat glaring at Chip fiercely. Then Teo did the same thing. ‘That cut on his finger, that’s not from signing autographs, that’s from pushing the note under our door!’

Teo slowly placed his hands on the floor looking like he was ready to pounce like a wild cat, his claws gripped the carpeting, he opened his mouth revealing his fangs, his tail swished from side to side and the pupils in his eyes shrunk. He then looked over to Chip’s bag. “What’s in the bag?”

“Uh… m-my singing equipment.”

“I see… how about opening it and letting me take a look at your… singing equipment.” He growled. His eyes grew fiercer and he looked as if he was ready to strike at any second.

Chip took one more step back, but then he grew angry. “NO!”

Teo took that as his opportunity, he suddenly jumped up high screaming like a wild cat towards the terrified Chip’s face. As Teo attacked him, the cat looked over to Room 1 and ran into it. It ran under the left bed and there it saw the conscious Sabrina tied up and gagged, the cat ran onto her back and started to claw at the ropes.

-0000-

Back in the restaurant carriage. Everyone surrounded Gadget who was tied up and hung upside down like Stan was yesterday. “It’s obvious he's the culprit, a note from his note pad was given to us threatening he would blow up the train.” Mike then shows them the jar of newt eyes. “And Gadget had these in his pocket. The third ingredient to blowing up this train.”

“B-BLOWING IT UP?!” exclaimed everyone besides Bowla, Samantha, Jack and Sharpfin.

“I might have guessed it was you all along Gadget. I mean seriously, how do detectives like you always arrive at the scene of s crime?” asked Eddy.

Sharpfin took the jar of newt eyes and took a closer look. “Now all we need to do is find out where Gadget hid the other things he stole.” Gloated Mike, he then turned to Bowla. “So what do you think ey? I was more than capable of finding the culprit way before Teo, that’s worth being my girlfriend right?” Bowla simply rolled her eyes sighing in frustration.

“These aren’t newt eyes!” exclaimed Sharpfin. Everyone looked over to Sharpfin surprised. “These are toad eyes.”

“What?! H-How can you tell?!” asked Mike.

Sharpfin looked up to Gadget. “These things would never set off the chemical reaction, in fact it would just make them all melt into a pile of green gloop making it completely harmless.”

Suddenly the door to the next carriage busted open revealing Chip Skylark desperately trying to get the scratching and biting Teo off of him. “GET OFF! GET OFF! GET OFF!”

“Teo what are you doing?!” exclaimed Bowla.

Sabrina and the cat ran into the restaurant carriage. “Chip Skylark’s the real culprit!”

Chip managed to throw Teo off of him, but he had his claws right into his face and pulled it off completely making a very loud ripping sound.

As Teo landed on the ground, he had Chip’s face in his hands, revealing to be a mask. They all looked in shock to see Chip now had a large green head with giant red big eyes and two antennas.

Mandy’s eyes widened slightly. “That’s not Chip Skylark! I recognize that pathetic face from anywhere, that’s Zim, that annoying alien who’s given my friend Gaz a lot of trouble in the past!”

Zim immediately pulled out a large knife from his pocket and threw it towards Teo, but Teo immediately jumped and caught it, in which he quickly threw it back surprising Zim as he jumped to the right making the knife hit the strap on his bag cutting it and causing the bag to fall down. Zim was about to grab the bag, but Teo jumped and latched onto his face and started scratching and biting causing him to stumble back. “RELEASE ME AT ONCE YOU TAILED FOOL! OR FEEL THE UNENDING WRATH AND DOOM OF ZIM!!”

Sabrina immediately grabbed the bag and ran towards the others. Sharpfin opened is and there inside was Sharpfin’s briefcase, the two necklaces and a jar of eyeballs. Mandy immediately grabbed the dinosaur bone necklace while Eddy grabbed the diamond one.

Zim grabbed Teo and threw him onto a table smashing it. “GO-GO GADGET ARM!” Zim turned around only to see the freed Gadget extending his right arm and sucker punching Zim across the carriage smacking him into the wall.

Zim immediately got back up and tore off the rest of his disguise revealing his true appearance, wearing a red metallic looking suit with black leggings and a round backpack. The backpack opened up making four thin metal legs which lifted him up. He then took out two alien-looking pistols and started shooting at the crowd who all began to dodge the lasers.

Bowla jumped forward and took a deep breath, then she unleashed a massive sure of fire from her mouth aiming towards Zim, but he quickly dodged making the flames hit the wall which set it alight. Zim continued his attack ignoring the fire. That was until Mike and Samantha grabbed a metal leg each and began to pull causing Zim to lose his balance and fall onto the ground face first. Gadget immediately ran up to the fire. “Go-Go Fire Extinguisher!” a small fire extinguisher being held by a robotic hand came out of Gadget’s hat and began putting out the fire while Zim got up and was about to attack Mike and Samantha, but that was until Jack and Luigi began throwing pans and kitchen utensils at him.

Sabrina ran up to Bowla. “I told you your fire breath would set the train alight!”

“I think now would be the best time to use it!” said Bowla.

“The power’s there but the flames are too immense and it’s not fast enough to strike. We need a method to increase its speed and precision as well as reducing its size so as to not damage anything else.”

“That means making it smaller and faster, right?”

“Right.” Sabrina looked around to see if there was anything they could use. She then noticed something in the kitchen. “C’mon Bowla.”

Zim used his other two legs to smack Jack and Luigi away, only to have the Heavy Weapons Guy grab the two and start spinning Zim around until the legs snapped off and Zim was sent flying, but his backpack brought out small thrusters which kept him airborne leaving his last two metal legs dangling. But the tips of them immediately turned into four fingered claws. “Ready for Round 2!?” asked Zim as he prepared his pistols.

Teo jumped forward with his claws ready. Zim fired his pistols which Teo dodged easily and jumped up digging his claws into Zim’s arms and threw his fangs into Zim’s right shoulder. He grunted in pain for a second until one of the metal claws grabbed Teo and tried to pull him off.

Mandy ran towards the distracted Zim and grabbed the second metal claw; she then threw her right elbow into it smashing it to pieces, Eddy and Ed ran forward and threw a cherry bomb each at the other claw releasing Teo. Teo then removed his claws and fangs and immediately swiped his claws down Zim’s face whom let out an agonizing wail of pain, but then he grabbed Teo’s neck and moved him back and pointed one of his pistols directly at his forehead. But Teo tipped his head back in time dodging the blast and he wrapped his arms, legs and tail around the arm that held his neck and sunk his claws into his wrist and bit his hand.

Just before Zim could shoot again, Edd shot a cherry bomb from his slingshot blasting his backpack, damaging the thrusters and causing him to lose his balance. Teo immediately let go and ran back. Zim growled furiously and flew towards Teo. “YOU’LL NEVER SAVE CHRISTMAS!!”

Teo smirked as he jumped to the side revealing Bowla and Sabrina holding onto a large pipe. Bowla had her mouth in one end and Sabrina held it on the other end. Zim grew scared and had no time to fly out of the way.

Sabrina pointed to Zim. “FIRE!”

Bowla breathed fire into the pipe and it shot out of the other end as a large fireball which blasted Zim sending him back, he stumbled backward a lot spinning a bit. But once he faced the other way, Yen came out of nowhere and shot his right foot into Zim’s jaw sending him flying right over the crowd and was embedded into the wall on the other side. He then fell onto the ground unconscious.

Everyone surrounded the unconscious Zim looking surprised. “Good effort everyone.” Said Edd.

“And thanks to you kids, my briefcase and its contents are safe and sound, and you saved this train from being blown up by that green freak.” Said Sharpfin.

“Gotta hand it to you, for a bunch of little kids you pack a punch.” Said Mandy.

“Well what can I say; I’m a hero by nature.” Said the smug looking Mike.

“But Teo truly saved the day.” Said Bowla making Mike annoyed and Teo blush.

“I say it was our team work.” Said Luigi, “Most if not all of us chipped in to stop this Zim creature.”

Teo turned to Zim. “So… what do we do with him?”

Bowla let out a devilish smirk. “Anyone got a cheese grater or a bread knife?” soon Bowla shook his head. “Nah… it’s Christmas, I have a better idea.”

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The train made it’s stop at Mahogany Station to refuel, there the kids, Sharpfin, Mandy, Yen and the Eds all stood around the furious Zim.

“RELEASE ME AT ONCE! DON’T YOU KNOW IT IS AN IDIOTIC MISTAKE TO MESS WITH ZIM?!” he shouted as he tried to get free of the giant rocket he was tied to.

“It’s also an idiotic mistake to mess with Christmas!” said Bowla.

“You’re on cohorts with the men who kidnapped Santa right?” asked Sabrina.

“Seems pretty out-of-character for you to be following orders or working alongside others.” Said Mandy. “What’s the matter? Getting sick of being the loser?”

“I’ll have you know that I am only working with them so that I can obtain five different planets for my own if Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s plan works! And I will make it so all five of those planets will celebrate Doofmas!”

“Doofmas?” asked Sabrina. “So this Doofenshmirtz character is planning on replacing Christmas?”

Zim turns his head. “I’m not saying another word!”

“That’s ok, we got enough info anyway.” Said Sabrina.

The Eds began to adjust the rocket so it was aiming towards the mountains several hundred miles away. “That tallest one there is Freezer Mountain.” Said Sharpfin. “That’s where they’re keeping Santa prisoner right?”

Teo nodded. “Y-Yeah.”

“Allow me.” Said Bowla calmly as she walks up to the fuse and spits out a small burst of fire from her mouth lighting it. Then everyone stepped back.

“Give your friends a message! TELL THEM WE’RE RESCUING SANTA!” Shouted Mike.

At that point, the rocket flew up high aiming towards Freezer Mountain with Zim screaming all the way as everyone waved goodbye to him.

Teo could finally relax, now that the threat to destroy the train was over, but he still felt tense, he knew this would not be the last time the enemy will not try to stop them, he knew he had to prepare for their next attack whether or not it would be on the train. He also wondered about the cat earlier, how it knew who the real culprit was and why did it help him, Teo looked back at the train seeing the cat walk back into the train and made it’s way back to Room 4.
the first threat is over and the mystery is solved, but when will the enemy attack again? find out soon!
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At last, the mystery is solved!