TOO TOONEY

CHAPTER 20 A STEALTHY APPROACH

Location: Wild Kingdom. Somewhere in (former) Kenya, Africa. Wednesday, September 1st, 3127. 11:14PM.

"Where are we?" Norman asked. "We've been walking down even further through the sewers for awhile now!"

"Beats me, you moron!" Sammy The Bagel replied. "Wherever we are, it's so dark that I can't fucking see anything around me!"

"Hey, bud! Watch your mouth!" The Disney version of Jiminy Cricket berated Sammy. "A good-natured and innocent, little boy like Pinocchio doesn't need to hear terrible and rude words like that from someone as foul-mouthed as you!"

Sammy was about to argue with Jiminy Cricket, but then, Woody The Cowboy Doll said, "Guys, now's not the time for this! What I wanna know is why we all feel so weird after we let Mason touch us and we escaped from the WKPD into the darkness of these seemingly never-ending tunnels, which surprisingly smell better than those rancid sewers that we were in just awhile ago! We were so busy trying to get away, that we didn't take any time to see what MMM had done to us to help us get away from them! Speaking of that, Mason, what did you do to us that allowed us to escape back there?"

"Like I said before, it's really crazy and it's a bit hard to explain!" Mason answered. "It'll be much easier for you to all understand when you see it for yourselves and believe me, when you get the chance to do that, it's gonna be quite a shocker!"

"Right now, I'm just glad to have gotten away from the WKPD and out of those disgusting and filthy sewers!" Hamm spoke. "I may be a pig, well, a piggy bank to be more exact, but the sewers are much too messy and stinky even for someone like me!"

"Same here!" Slinky agreed. "Even though it's dark, it doesn't smell nearly as bad here as it did in the sewers! Plus, as far as I can tell, I haven't stepped in or touched anything wet or incredibly filthy for over an hour! That has to be a good sign! However, it's also very windy in here, too, for some reason!"

"Everyone, quiet down! I see some light up ahead!" Buzz Lightyear shouted.

Sure enough, up ahead of everyone, they could all see what looked like an exit with some bright light shining through it! "Sweet! A way out! It's about time!" The Dreamworks Shrek version of Pinocchio cried out in relief. "A wooden dummy like me wasn't made to be in places like this!"

It wasn't too long before everyone finally reached the exit, only to notice that their one way out was being blocked off by a huge, metal covering that had small holes that only little bits of light from the other side could make it through! "From the looks of things, we must be inside an air vent!" Robert told everyone else.

"Well, that explains this strong breeze around us!" Slinky said. "But how do we get out?"

"Leave that to me!" MMM spoke as he got in front of everyone and touched the entrance to the end of the air vent.

It was still too dark for everyone to see anything clearly (except for Coco and Sly, who both being raccoons, had excellent night vision, but even they had trouble seeing what Mason was up to) and even the little bits of bright light that were coming through the small holes of the air vent weren't enough to illuminate the nearly pitch-black darkness around them. From what they could hear, though, Mason was moving around a lot and tinkering around with the exit of the air vent.