Brad's Haunted Adventure!

Chapter 30: Toying Around with Brad

The Cellar was looking really old and dirty, so much to the point that there was mounds of dirt in his way! 

"Well, I do have a vacuum, so..." 

Brad pointed his vacuum at the piles of dirt and cleared them up one by one until the floor was clean as a whistle. He spotted another one of those panels from the Tea Room, but walked by it as he entered a dark corridor with a few doors around it. He shined his flashlight to look around and spotted a strange looking door at the end of the hallway. 

"Could...could Dave and Rachel be on the other side of that door?" Brad asked himself as he stared at it. 

Remembering Madame Trixie's words of how Brett and Prescott could be somewhere in this mansion, he suspected that they might be beyond that door and might present the rabbit with the biggest challenge he's gone up against throughout his adventure here. But he knew deep down that his siblings were counting on him, and that they'd go through all this horror to save him if he was in their situation. 

"I'm coming for you guys. I swear it!" Brad mentally declared. 

Seeing as how all the doors were locked, he decided to come back later when he had the keys that went to these doors. He checked to see if there were any ghosts since the lights weren't on down here, and two pink ghosts appeared behind him. After taking care of them along with some more ghouls that showed up, the Cellar's lights shined once again and another treasure chest appeared. Inside was another key, which according to Brad's watch, was for the other door back in the Telephone Room. 

"But first, that Gremlin Spirit must be found." 

He shook everything in the room until it appeared from its hiding place and flew into the air.

"It is I, fair Sturipedes!" It declared. 

"Ok, that has gotta be the dumbest name I've heard from any Gremlin so far..." Brad remarked before sucking it in. 

With that out of the way, our long earred buddy trekked a long way through the mansion, which was a bit exhausting, but he reached his destination. Once inside, he knew he had to clear this room since it was still dark. Brad investigated every item to see if any ghosts would appear, and stopped at some wooden chests. When he flipped them open, out came some skeleton ghosts that looked just like the ones he fought back in the Graveyard! 

It took a bit of time, but Brad managed to send the ghouls into oblivion using the Spirit Sucker 5000, making the lights come back on. Next, the Gremlin Radar went off, so he looked around until it flew into the center of the room in its usual cackling mannerisms. 

 "It's Toonerang, coming right at ya!!!" the Gremlin chortled. 

"How about you come right into my vacuum cleaner?" Brad spoke as he chased the little feller. 

It tried to escape, but this was ultimately useless since it was sucked in anyway. Done with that, Brad walked over and unlocked the door to this new room, which was the Clockwork Room. 

Inside said room were multiple kinds of clocks that were all unique and archaic. Plus, there were three more portraits already visible in the darkness, all having the appearance of soldiers. One was green, one was purple, and one was blue as they just stood there in silence. Brad pointed his watch at them and pressed the X Button to scan their hearts. 

"Ok so, these are the Clockwork Soldiers, who consist of Holly, Alicia and Amanda. Members of the Toy Platoon, they once belonged to a tightly-wound toy collector. But after being abandoned by their owner passing away, they now march on their own without any winding required." He read as he looked up at the soldiers, who had their heads looking down at the floor. "Poor fellas. I almost don't wanna capture them...but I know I have to, or else this story won't be going forward." 

Brad stepped forward to get a closer look at them, wondering how he was gonna catch these three. Then, he heard whispering from them. 

"The valve...the valve..." The green soldier whispered while standing as stiff as a statue. 

"Squeaky...squeak..." The blue soldier mumbled out, stoic and everything. 

"Wind...us...up..." The purple soldier quietly said, almost sounding like she was crying. 

He wondered what they were going on about, and looked around him for clues. 

"Well, this is a Clockwork Room, so maybe the different clocks around here need to be turned on? Welp, only one way to know for sure." Brad shrugged. 

He walked over to each clock and shook it, making it turn on. Once they were all activated, the three soldiers came to life and were moving about, all while holding toy guns with rubber thingy's on the tips. 

"Ok, so what now?" He asked no one. 

Brad then noticed the wind up parts of the Clockwork Soldiers and how they looked solid and not transparent like the ghosts, and hatched an idea. He vacuumed up said wind up part until it fell off, making the green soldier stop moving around. This gave him the chance to stun his target with the flashlight and begin chasing it around the room. The blue and purple soldiers shot their guns at him in order to save their colleague, but they failed as the green soldier was sucked in. 

"As for you two..." Brad said, pointing the Spirit Sucker 5000 at them. 

One little chase with two ghosts later, and they were gone. The Clockwork Room glowed bright with the lights coming back on, and a little door in the giant clock opened up. 

"Ok, now where's that little booger?" Brad asked, looking around. 

He then found it in one of the clocks he shook earlier, and out it came, cackling about. 

"Guess what? It's time for the six o' clocks Toons!" It chortled, flying around the room. 

That little pun actually made Brad laugh for a few minutes until he calmed down and caught the Gremlin Spirit. After doing so, he stepped into the little space in the clock, and he was pushed up like being in an elevator!