Part Two

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It finally happened. Howard had gone completely crazy.

The unyielding hours of work, the constant broken promises made to Jamie, and – to top it all off – the strenuous hunt for that Turbo Man doll. It all finally brought him to his breaking point, and the talking cowboy and spaceman dolls were proof of it. He hadn't even realized they were still complaining, after he dropped them to the floor in his state of shock.

"And this is why we hardly ever wake up for grown-ups," the cowboy griped.

"Woody, remember what Santa told us," the spaceman said. "The only way they'll know where to take us is if we revealed to them that we're alive."

Kevin joined Howard in his astonishment over the living toys. "This is too weird, even for me!"

Shyla, however, couldn't have been more overjoyed. "They're so cute," she gushed before turning to Kimbyr and asking, "Can we keep them?"

 "They're so cute," she gushed before turning to Kimbyr and asking, "Can we keep them?"

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"No, honey," Kimbyr denied. "We have to follow in our mission to return them."

"Back to Andy," Woody confirmed. "I still can't figure how we ended up in the North Pole of all places." He turned to his intergalactic compatriot and consulted, "You recall any of it, Buzz?"

Buzz was too preoccupied with ogling the console room of Kimbyr's TARDIS, which was even more massive in capacity from the perspective of a toy spaceman. "Wow," he uttered, following a long amused whistle. "This place is amazing!" He looked up towards Kimbyr and asked, "Is this your spacecraft?"

Kimbyr nodded with a smile. "It is. It's called a 'TARDIS' – short for 'Time And Relative Dimensions In Space'. Emphasis on 'dimensions'." She proceeded to scan Woody and Buzz with her sonic screwdriver, a device that alarmed the toys.

"Wa-Wha-What're you doing?!" Woody exclaimed. "Are you probing us?!"

Kimbyr snickered. "No, not at all. I'm just taking a sample of your nuage signature to input into the TARDIS, so that it can pinpoint your home dimension." She demonstrated this by inserting the sonic through an open socket on the control console.

"Energy signature manipulation – brilliant!" Buzz praised of the idea.

Woody felt like he made a wrong turn into a nerd convention. Kimbyr was practically resurging Buzz's space ranger delusions with all her techno mumbo jumbo. But, as long as it helped get them back to Andy, he allowed it.

 But, as long as it helped get them back to Andy, he allowed it

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