Post by Charlie Wolf on Oct 31, 2008 23:57:16 GMT -5
HAPPY [glow=Black,6,666]HALLOWEEN!!!!!![/glow]It's my BIGGEST fanfic yet; ENJOY!!!!!!
"An All Dogs Go to Heaven Official C.A.W. Fanfic: Belladonna's Halloween Horror"
A fanfic by: Charlie A. Wolf, completed by- 10/31/08.
Starring (in the order of appearance):
SATAN,
Belladonna,
Charles "Charlie" B. Barkin,
Itchiford "Itchy" Dachshund,
Sasha LaFleur Barkin,
Winifred "Bess" Dachshund,
Carface V. Malone,
Killer C. (exact last name unknown...),
ALL of Belladonna's new, evil henchmen,
a "runaway" boy (similar to David, but for an apparently MUCH different motive.....!) named Zachary "Zach" Baxter,
David,
Anne-Marie,
other various party guests (mostly other dogs),
San Franscisco metro area civilians and tourists,
Mayor Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. of San Francisco (1996),
a plague of evil, literally Hell-spawned ghosts and ghouls to aid Belladonna from SATAN,
various members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Marines, and Army,
Governor Pete Wilson of California (1996),
U.S. President Bill Clinton (1996),
Annabelle (of course), and
Red.
*A Highly Satanic Prelude to a Horrifically Hellish Halloween.*
Over 59 years after an embarrassingly indirect evil scheme's defeat by Charlie Barkin on the 4th of July way long ago in the summer of 1939, back in Hell yet again, an ever-vindictive SATAN and Belladonna seek to avenge themselves once again, but this time on what they all consider to be the most evil day of the year- October 31st (Halloween). "I cannot BELIEVE that we lost to such a puny little whelp as Charles Burt Barkin!!!!!! CURSE HIS SOUL SO UNDENIABLY HARSHLY!!!!!!" an anguishing SATAN exclaims to Belladonna, angrily. "Well, maybe I would have done a bit better if YOU had gave me more henchmen, demonic power, and high-tech weaponry than what you did give me, cretin!!!!!!" she responds to him, greatly irritated by his previous response. "Don't you DARE insult ME, my foolish hellhound minion!!!!!!" he shouts back at her furiously before afflicting her briefly with a moderately powerful electric shock (approx. 15,000 V). After recovering from the bolt, she apologizes before pausing to ponder pacifically for a passing moment or so.
A few minutes thereafter, she finally proclaims, "EUREKA!!!!!! Now, my lord, tell me, what millions upon millions of young American children flock house-to-house gleefully to attain each and every year come Halloween night?" "Why, candy, of course!!!!!!" he answers. "EXACTLY!!!!!! Now, my LATEST schematics revolve almost completely around its production, distribution, and seemingly inevitable consumption of it shortly proceding its long-awaited acquisition!!!!!!" reveals Belladonna. "Let me guess... you want me to resurrect your physical format (aka her body), return you back to Earth, and there you'll begin to commence your new, evil concoction of a plan while I continuously provide you which PLENTY of faithful minions, necessary equipment and structures, more-devastating naturally demonic abilities, and more-lethal, higher-tech weaponry, correct???" SATAN asks her, confident that he is indeed right. "Correct!!!!!!" she answers him, eagerly awaiting further orders to carry out her newest, fiendish plot of doom. After receiving permission from him to inact her wicked ideas, she menacingly whispers to herself the following soliloquy before laughing maniacally at its eventual end as she prepares to head back to Earth once again: "EXCELLENT!!!!!! Now, my exceedingly annoying little mortal, do-goody adversaries (aka Charlie Barkin and Co.), I hope you're all prepared for what's about to occur, because ready or not, HERE COMES BELLADONNA AGAIN, BABY!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!"
Chapter I: Charlie Barkin's Pre-Halloween Festivity Preparations.
Back on Earth once again, in a modern-day version of 1998 San Francisco, Charlie Barkin and Itchy Dachshund are hastily making the finishing touches to their self-titled "Greatest Halloween Party EVER!!!!!" at their house for tomorrow evening. "Are we all done yet, Buddy?!?" Itchy asks Charlie, eagerly. "Hmm... let's see... Decarations, check! Costumes, check! Creepy music player with creepy music CD, check! And finally, umm... oops!!! Not quite." Charlie replies after looking around the room at all of the various items just mentioned as he "checked" them off a list mentally. "We just need to get what will probably be the most important thing of all, after ME, of course- the candy itself!!!!!" "And where exactly will we GET that candy from, 'Most Important Thing of All?'" asks an ever-curious Itchy. "Why, at a store, of course, Silly!!!" returns Charlie. Before Itchy gets the chance to respond again, an especially stunning Sasha Barkin walks briskly into the room. Upon noticing her entrance, Charlie lowers his tone somewhat before asking Itchy, "Is it hot in here, or is it just me?" "Ha ha, very funny, Charlie." Sasha remarks sarcastically before rolling her eyes briefly and continuing her previous statement with "So, when are you two boys going to head over to the store and get that essential candy before all of the local stores run out?" "Right about..... NOW!!!!!" Charlie tells her before grabbing Itchy by the paw, rushing him over to the door out, opening it, and shoving Itchy out of it before quickly pausing to say, "We're leaving now, be back soon, catch ya' later, BYE!!!!!" He then pecks her on the cheek and resumes in his running to the nearest store along with Itchy as fast as they can go. As Sasha stands there in the open doorway for a moment, slightly stunned, an equally stellar Bess trots up beside her and exclaims, "You know, Sasha, if they wouldn't have hurried out so fast, they probably would have remembered to just check the local phone book listings for a store's number and call one of them up instead." "Yes, I know, but you know how the saying goes: 'Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls.'" Sasha reminds her, smiling.
Chapter II: Belladonna's Fiendish Plot Revealed.
As she immediately begins remodeling the large, abandoned pretzel factory just outside of town (San Francisco) that the "Father of Evil" (aka SATAN) provided her with, Belladonna hastily begins rallying up her troops, which now consists of Carface, Killer, Carface's fellow gang members and crew (all other dogs of different ranks), her small fire imps (the kind first encountered by Charlie and Itchy in the Christmas Carol television episode), large fire imps (a flying, somewhat larger, more powerful, and a bit more demonic looking little imp variant), fire hounds (medium-sized [40-60 lbs.], dog-like, fire-breathing aliens that Belladonna acquired from a fictional, distant planet nicknamed "Singe", courtesy of you-know-who.....!), and large, robotic mechanoids of various sizes, abilities, and ranks themselves. Add all of that to a sizeably formidable artillery, munition, and vehicle cache, and you've got a definitely lethal force to be reckoned with!!!!!! After assessing her vastly new wealth of infantry and weaponry at her disposal for a few moments, Belladonna, an evil grin steadily forming upon her face, then asks the following question to her two, main "commanders" (aka Carface and Killer) simultaneously: "So now, boys, are the rest of my many troops ready to engage in immediate combat should they be needed at ANY time?" "Heh heh heh heh, yep, they're all ready!!!!!!" replies an equally vengeful and ambitious Carface. "Excellent!!!!!!" she responds back to him. "Now, get the labor imps ready for work, and tell then that they'll begin making my secretly-poisoned yet EXTREMELY and irresistably addictive candy to be dispersed among the local residents' children come sundown tomorrow at ONCE!!!!!!" Belladonna then laughs maniacally for a short period of time thereafter before proudly remarking, "HA!!!!!! I've a feeling that finally, this time, I WILL NOT LOSE TO BARKIN!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!"
Chapter III: Charlie Eavesdrops on Belladonna's Clandestine Plans.
By this time, Charlie and Itchy have checked out virtually every candy retailer in town, but have STILL failed to acquire the perfect-yet-particularly elusive candy that Charlie so strongly desires to attain. "Ch- Charlie, oh, Charlie," Itchy says, panting heavily after all of their manic darting around the city that night, "may we PLEASE head home now? I'm sure we have the girls worried sick by now, and I really don't wanna disappoint them after leaving so abruptly earlier, 'cause then they might think that..." "Oh, Itchy, Itchy, Itchy, will you ever learn that I don't care what the girls think about us and this specific issue???" Charlie rudely interrupts Itchy. "Now, c'mon, we'll take the long way home." However, as they begin heading home the "long" way, they pass by the front of a large and mysteriously abandoned building, which is, unbeknownst to the both of them, Belladonna's hidden hideout headquarters. "Hey, Itch, look over there." Charlie says. "Whoa, would you look at that!" Itchy tells Charlie before noticing a strange, brightly-glowing, orange creature vanish along the eastern wall of the building- a fire hound. "Uh... Charlie, w... wasn't that old plant there supposed to be vacated now?!?" asks Itchy, now getting a bit on edge after eyeing the oddly-located, distant alien. "Yeah. Why?" replies Charlie. "Because I think I just saw something enter it!!!" exclaims Itchy. "Oh really??? Well now, looks like we'll have to go in after it now, huh? C'mon, let's go see what it was!!!" Charlie reponds. "No, Charlie, PLEASE no, Charlie, uh... uh... oh, I know!!! Let's don't and say we did now, O.K.? O.K.?!?!?!" pleads a now-mentally unstable and freaked out Itchy. However, Charlie simply ignores Itchy's desperately anguishing request and, with Itchy's paw in hand, prepares to stealthily "storm" the factory. Upon reaching the eastern wall, Charlie orders Itchy to stay put (albeit VERY reluctantly) and wait for him while he investigates the strongly foreboding structure from within. After sneaking through the eastern entrance and popping his head out around the corner to make sure that the coast is clear in the adjacent hallway of all assumedly hostile contacts, Charlie decides to further infiltrate the massive piece of crudely modern architecture alone. After around what seemed like hours cautiously traversing through abandoned corridors and along dank, darkened maintenance staircases, he eventually arrives at what he correctly deduces to be the 6th floor of the factory's central sanctum, he slowly peeks his head around the corner, only to discover the factory really is occupied, and by none other than the vile villainess herself, Belladonna!!!!!! Thankfully, though, she does not initially notice his highly offensive presence, but rather is occupied with further describing her wicked plans to take place the following evening to Carface and Killer in what she intended to be a private conversation.
Nevertheless, and although Charlie cannot hear most of what she tells the two gangsters over the roar of the nearby conveyor belts and other various machinery hastily transporting crate after crate after crate of the toxically tainted candy, he does make out enough of Belladonna's verbiage to piece together a shocking conclusion, such as "I'm planning to... poisoned candy... sell to stores... San Franscisco... trick-or-treat... kill children!!!!!!" The last phrase alone was enough to teporarily drive Charlie over the edge to the uncontrollable point of accidentally screaming out to her loudly, "YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS, BELLADONNA!!!!!!!" in a short fit of hatred and rage. Almost instantaneously after perceiving Charlie's voice, Belladonna looks up towards him at once and yells back, "HA!!! BARKIN!!! I thought I sensed your putrid presence, you oversized, scum-sucking whelp, you!!!!!! Killer, RAISE THE ALARM, NOW!!!!!!" "O.K., B... Boss!!!" a hesitant Killer responds before doing just that a moment later. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out as a pistol bullet just narrowly misses Charlie's forehead, courtesy of a now-angered Carface. "Yikes!!! Time to leave!!!" he points out before making a break for the nearest exit. However, as soon as he does, Belladonna produces her wings and flies up to in front of where Charlie just was on the ledge above, hovers in midair, and commands her troops with, "My precious minions, after him, NOW, I repeat, NOW!!!!!!" Shortly afterwards, a small fire imp enters through an elevator door that Charlie had not noticed before, indirectly revealing to him a way out. Charlie then immediately charges through the door, kicks the pesky imp out, and hits the buttons to head back down to the ground floor and close the door ASAP. In a futile, last-ditch attempt to thwart Charlie's imminent escapade, the fire imp forms and subsequently launches a small, semi-rounded fireball towards Charlie's tail (just like in the Christmas Carol) while snickering sinisterly. This time, though, Charlie readily sees it coming at him and pulls his tail out of the way just in time as the fiery projectile harmlessly impacts and dissipates onto the nearby inside, metallic elevator wall. "Nice try, Bub, but you ain't gonna singe ol' Charlie Barkin's tail THIS time!!!!!" he announces smugly before sticking his tongue out and mocking the little imp as the elevator's door closes. Finally, upon reaching the ground floor, he sprints out of the now-open elevator on all fours, runs back outside the factory, shouts at Itchy to follow him posthaste, and together returned back to their home at top speed to tell Sasha and Bess about EVERYTHING that had just transpired that night.
Chapter IV: Charlie and Itchy Explain the Devilish Scheme to Sasha and Bess.
As soon as they arrive back at their house, Charlie and Itchy waste no time in telling their sweethearts what had just occurred only moments before. After successfully doing so, Sasha finally comments, "Wow! Who ever knew that Belladonna was capable of so much evil, and in just one night?!?!?! Well, nonetheless, we simply MUST do something about it all; we can't just sit here tomorrow and party all night long while Belladonna gives out her poisonous candy to an innumerable number of innocent children!!!!!!!" "I agree with you wholeheartedly, Sasha; we should certainly foil such wicked plans as these!!!!!!!" replies Bess. "Well, it's up to us to stop her then." states Charlie. "Yep, exactly!!!!!!!" agrees Itchy. "But first, though, you two had better take a bath before you decide to hit the sack, lest you both prefer to sleep alone tonight, right, Bess?" Sasha reminds them, a sly look forming upon her face. "Uh-huh!!!" Bess replies, also forming that same sly grin shortly afterwards. "Hey, Itch, I just remembered, we absolutely LOVE baths now, don't we?" Charlie says quickly after hearing the girls' warning to them. "Why, yes, yes we do!!!" answers Itchy somewhat hastily as well. As they both went off to prepare and take their baths, Sasha looks over at Bess momentarily, raises an eyebrow, an reminds her, "See, Bess, just like I said earlier, boys will always be boys!!!!!" "Uh-huh, you are indeed so right!!!!!" Bess admits. Eventually, all four of them ended up taking baths that night, and once they were finally in bed for the night, Sasha whispers Charlie one more question regarding Belladonna's evil scheme. "Darling, do you TRULY think that you can honestly take Belladonna and ALL of her minions on alone?!?" "No, Honey, I don't, but I know that I simply MUST try to stop her, God willing, for if I don't, then who will???" With that said and with all things considered, the Barkin and Dachshund couples got some much-needed rest for the chaos that was to come with the rising (or, should I say, setting.....!) of the sun the next day, October 31st- HALLOWEEN!!!!!!
Chapter V: An Amazing Sunrise of a Presumably Terrifying Day.
Early the next day, at around 7:15 in the morning, Charlie, Itchy, Sasha, and Bess all went to the Golden Gate bridge to watch the sunrise over the bay. As they do, just after the sun has fully risen over the eastern horizon, Sasha remarks to Charlie, "You know what, Charlie? I don't think that I've ever seen a more beautiful sunrise in my entire life, and do you know what else? I don't think that there's anyone else in the whole universe besides you whom I'd rather be with to observe." He then places an arm around her back and holds her close to him, saying the following back to her: "And you know what else, too? I love you more than any other dog that's ever lived, even myself." "Awwww, that's so sweet, Charlie!" Sasha replies to him before looking into his eyes and kissing him. They then smile at on another for another moment before Itchy does the same tender act with Bess. After approximately ten minutes of enjoying the wonderful, sunny vista before them, they all four head on over to Sasha's cafe and begin to set up shop there for the day. Next, once Sasha prepares a big breakfast for themselves, especially for Charlie and Itchy, as she places a hefty plate of food for both of the boys to share (mostly Charlie, of course, due to his naturally MUCH bigger appetite than Itchy), she tells them, "Eat up, boys, 'cause you're both going to need the energy for that treacherous excursion of Belladonna's heavily-defended factory later today." "No problem doing that now, right, Itch?" Charlie says before Itchy answers him with, "Yep! No problem doing that now at all!" Upon finishing their big meal, Charlie and Itchy say goodbye to Sasha and Bess for the time being and head off to the local gun shop for some much-needed supplies.
While there, they purchase their own, respective gun licenses, a .510 magnum bolt-action rifle for Charlie, a 10X-zoom scope for it, 12 boxes of 24 .510-caliber bullets each, a 12-gauge pump shotgun for Charlie, 7 boxes of 10 12-gauge shells each, a .457 revolver for Itchy, 20 packages of five 10-bullet .457 cartridges each, two good-size hunting backpacks (a large one for Charlie, and a smaller one for Itchy), two hunting, water canteens (again, a larger one for Charlie, and a smaller one for Itchy), a long-range walkie-talkie for both of them, and 7 medical kits to help treat wounds properly and efficiently (5 for Charlie, the rest for Itchy). After they finish making their purchases there, they then head over to a small, local fireworks retailer and acquire 5 large fireworks mortar "cakes" (similar to the ones that they were going to use for the 4th of July celebration decades earlier, but much more modern), 50 illegal M-80s (super-powerful fireworks that are nothing short of small grenades minus all of the smoke and shrapnel that the owner only secretly gave them after they explained their usage plans for them; 35 for Charlie, the rest for Itchy), 12 smoke screen-producing fireworks (8 for Charlie, the rest for Itchy), and 10 portable fireworks lighters (7 for Charlie, the rest for Itchy). Finally, after stowing all of this in their backpacks (except for the mortar "cakes", which they carry with a small wagon instead), they head off to Belladonna's factory for the biggest showdown of their lives... so far.....!
Chapter VI: Belladonna's Despicably Evil Candy Distribution Begins.
During the time that Charlie and Itchy are out making there errands, Belladonna is busy overseeing the deporting of her toxic treats via transport truck to stock up all of the local Wal-marts, K-marts, Targets, and other various Halloween candy retailers with her lethal candies of doom. At the biggest Wal-mart around (a newly-erected Supercenter version) at the very heart of downtown San Francisco, she sends a 13-year old "runaway" boy determined to be "bad to the bone" for fun named Zachary Baxter to encourage other children shopping that day to beg their parents into buying Belladonna's new candy for them (although he has absolutely no clue whatsoever that the sweets are to be tainted with deadly ingredients...). At first, he's not very successful, but after school ends that day, all the kids come pouring into the store with their parents trying to take advantage of those last-minute discount sales, and he entices many more unsuspecting victims to purchase the candy. "Excellent!!!!!! My plans are working perfectly!!!!!! Keep up the good work, Sonny!!!!!!" Belladonna praises Zach over a long-range walkie-talkie. "Don't worry, I will!!!!!!" he assures her, confidently.
"An All Dogs Go to Heaven Official C.A.W. Fanfic: Belladonna's Halloween Horror"
A fanfic by: Charlie A. Wolf, completed by- 10/31/08.
Starring (in the order of appearance):
SATAN,
Belladonna,
Charles "Charlie" B. Barkin,
Itchiford "Itchy" Dachshund,
Sasha LaFleur Barkin,
Winifred "Bess" Dachshund,
Carface V. Malone,
Killer C. (exact last name unknown...),
ALL of Belladonna's new, evil henchmen,
a "runaway" boy (similar to David, but for an apparently MUCH different motive.....!) named Zachary "Zach" Baxter,
David,
Anne-Marie,
other various party guests (mostly other dogs),
San Franscisco metro area civilians and tourists,
Mayor Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. of San Francisco (1996),
a plague of evil, literally Hell-spawned ghosts and ghouls to aid Belladonna from SATAN,
various members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Marines, and Army,
Governor Pete Wilson of California (1996),
U.S. President Bill Clinton (1996),
Annabelle (of course), and
Red.
*A Highly Satanic Prelude to a Horrifically Hellish Halloween.*
Over 59 years after an embarrassingly indirect evil scheme's defeat by Charlie Barkin on the 4th of July way long ago in the summer of 1939, back in Hell yet again, an ever-vindictive SATAN and Belladonna seek to avenge themselves once again, but this time on what they all consider to be the most evil day of the year- October 31st (Halloween). "I cannot BELIEVE that we lost to such a puny little whelp as Charles Burt Barkin!!!!!! CURSE HIS SOUL SO UNDENIABLY HARSHLY!!!!!!" an anguishing SATAN exclaims to Belladonna, angrily. "Well, maybe I would have done a bit better if YOU had gave me more henchmen, demonic power, and high-tech weaponry than what you did give me, cretin!!!!!!" she responds to him, greatly irritated by his previous response. "Don't you DARE insult ME, my foolish hellhound minion!!!!!!" he shouts back at her furiously before afflicting her briefly with a moderately powerful electric shock (approx. 15,000 V). After recovering from the bolt, she apologizes before pausing to ponder pacifically for a passing moment or so.
A few minutes thereafter, she finally proclaims, "EUREKA!!!!!! Now, my lord, tell me, what millions upon millions of young American children flock house-to-house gleefully to attain each and every year come Halloween night?" "Why, candy, of course!!!!!!" he answers. "EXACTLY!!!!!! Now, my LATEST schematics revolve almost completely around its production, distribution, and seemingly inevitable consumption of it shortly proceding its long-awaited acquisition!!!!!!" reveals Belladonna. "Let me guess... you want me to resurrect your physical format (aka her body), return you back to Earth, and there you'll begin to commence your new, evil concoction of a plan while I continuously provide you which PLENTY of faithful minions, necessary equipment and structures, more-devastating naturally demonic abilities, and more-lethal, higher-tech weaponry, correct???" SATAN asks her, confident that he is indeed right. "Correct!!!!!!" she answers him, eagerly awaiting further orders to carry out her newest, fiendish plot of doom. After receiving permission from him to inact her wicked ideas, she menacingly whispers to herself the following soliloquy before laughing maniacally at its eventual end as she prepares to head back to Earth once again: "EXCELLENT!!!!!! Now, my exceedingly annoying little mortal, do-goody adversaries (aka Charlie Barkin and Co.), I hope you're all prepared for what's about to occur, because ready or not, HERE COMES BELLADONNA AGAIN, BABY!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!"
Chapter I: Charlie Barkin's Pre-Halloween Festivity Preparations.
Back on Earth once again, in a modern-day version of 1998 San Francisco, Charlie Barkin and Itchy Dachshund are hastily making the finishing touches to their self-titled "Greatest Halloween Party EVER!!!!!" at their house for tomorrow evening. "Are we all done yet, Buddy?!?" Itchy asks Charlie, eagerly. "Hmm... let's see... Decarations, check! Costumes, check! Creepy music player with creepy music CD, check! And finally, umm... oops!!! Not quite." Charlie replies after looking around the room at all of the various items just mentioned as he "checked" them off a list mentally. "We just need to get what will probably be the most important thing of all, after ME, of course- the candy itself!!!!!" "And where exactly will we GET that candy from, 'Most Important Thing of All?'" asks an ever-curious Itchy. "Why, at a store, of course, Silly!!!" returns Charlie. Before Itchy gets the chance to respond again, an especially stunning Sasha Barkin walks briskly into the room. Upon noticing her entrance, Charlie lowers his tone somewhat before asking Itchy, "Is it hot in here, or is it just me?" "Ha ha, very funny, Charlie." Sasha remarks sarcastically before rolling her eyes briefly and continuing her previous statement with "So, when are you two boys going to head over to the store and get that essential candy before all of the local stores run out?" "Right about..... NOW!!!!!" Charlie tells her before grabbing Itchy by the paw, rushing him over to the door out, opening it, and shoving Itchy out of it before quickly pausing to say, "We're leaving now, be back soon, catch ya' later, BYE!!!!!" He then pecks her on the cheek and resumes in his running to the nearest store along with Itchy as fast as they can go. As Sasha stands there in the open doorway for a moment, slightly stunned, an equally stellar Bess trots up beside her and exclaims, "You know, Sasha, if they wouldn't have hurried out so fast, they probably would have remembered to just check the local phone book listings for a store's number and call one of them up instead." "Yes, I know, but you know how the saying goes: 'Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls.'" Sasha reminds her, smiling.
Chapter II: Belladonna's Fiendish Plot Revealed.
As she immediately begins remodeling the large, abandoned pretzel factory just outside of town (San Francisco) that the "Father of Evil" (aka SATAN) provided her with, Belladonna hastily begins rallying up her troops, which now consists of Carface, Killer, Carface's fellow gang members and crew (all other dogs of different ranks), her small fire imps (the kind first encountered by Charlie and Itchy in the Christmas Carol television episode), large fire imps (a flying, somewhat larger, more powerful, and a bit more demonic looking little imp variant), fire hounds (medium-sized [40-60 lbs.], dog-like, fire-breathing aliens that Belladonna acquired from a fictional, distant planet nicknamed "Singe", courtesy of you-know-who.....!), and large, robotic mechanoids of various sizes, abilities, and ranks themselves. Add all of that to a sizeably formidable artillery, munition, and vehicle cache, and you've got a definitely lethal force to be reckoned with!!!!!! After assessing her vastly new wealth of infantry and weaponry at her disposal for a few moments, Belladonna, an evil grin steadily forming upon her face, then asks the following question to her two, main "commanders" (aka Carface and Killer) simultaneously: "So now, boys, are the rest of my many troops ready to engage in immediate combat should they be needed at ANY time?" "Heh heh heh heh, yep, they're all ready!!!!!!" replies an equally vengeful and ambitious Carface. "Excellent!!!!!!" she responds back to him. "Now, get the labor imps ready for work, and tell then that they'll begin making my secretly-poisoned yet EXTREMELY and irresistably addictive candy to be dispersed among the local residents' children come sundown tomorrow at ONCE!!!!!!" Belladonna then laughs maniacally for a short period of time thereafter before proudly remarking, "HA!!!!!! I've a feeling that finally, this time, I WILL NOT LOSE TO BARKIN!!!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!"
Chapter III: Charlie Eavesdrops on Belladonna's Clandestine Plans.
By this time, Charlie and Itchy have checked out virtually every candy retailer in town, but have STILL failed to acquire the perfect-yet-particularly elusive candy that Charlie so strongly desires to attain. "Ch- Charlie, oh, Charlie," Itchy says, panting heavily after all of their manic darting around the city that night, "may we PLEASE head home now? I'm sure we have the girls worried sick by now, and I really don't wanna disappoint them after leaving so abruptly earlier, 'cause then they might think that..." "Oh, Itchy, Itchy, Itchy, will you ever learn that I don't care what the girls think about us and this specific issue???" Charlie rudely interrupts Itchy. "Now, c'mon, we'll take the long way home." However, as they begin heading home the "long" way, they pass by the front of a large and mysteriously abandoned building, which is, unbeknownst to the both of them, Belladonna's hidden hideout headquarters. "Hey, Itch, look over there." Charlie says. "Whoa, would you look at that!" Itchy tells Charlie before noticing a strange, brightly-glowing, orange creature vanish along the eastern wall of the building- a fire hound. "Uh... Charlie, w... wasn't that old plant there supposed to be vacated now?!?" asks Itchy, now getting a bit on edge after eyeing the oddly-located, distant alien. "Yeah. Why?" replies Charlie. "Because I think I just saw something enter it!!!" exclaims Itchy. "Oh really??? Well now, looks like we'll have to go in after it now, huh? C'mon, let's go see what it was!!!" Charlie reponds. "No, Charlie, PLEASE no, Charlie, uh... uh... oh, I know!!! Let's don't and say we did now, O.K.? O.K.?!?!?!" pleads a now-mentally unstable and freaked out Itchy. However, Charlie simply ignores Itchy's desperately anguishing request and, with Itchy's paw in hand, prepares to stealthily "storm" the factory. Upon reaching the eastern wall, Charlie orders Itchy to stay put (albeit VERY reluctantly) and wait for him while he investigates the strongly foreboding structure from within. After sneaking through the eastern entrance and popping his head out around the corner to make sure that the coast is clear in the adjacent hallway of all assumedly hostile contacts, Charlie decides to further infiltrate the massive piece of crudely modern architecture alone. After around what seemed like hours cautiously traversing through abandoned corridors and along dank, darkened maintenance staircases, he eventually arrives at what he correctly deduces to be the 6th floor of the factory's central sanctum, he slowly peeks his head around the corner, only to discover the factory really is occupied, and by none other than the vile villainess herself, Belladonna!!!!!! Thankfully, though, she does not initially notice his highly offensive presence, but rather is occupied with further describing her wicked plans to take place the following evening to Carface and Killer in what she intended to be a private conversation.
Nevertheless, and although Charlie cannot hear most of what she tells the two gangsters over the roar of the nearby conveyor belts and other various machinery hastily transporting crate after crate after crate of the toxically tainted candy, he does make out enough of Belladonna's verbiage to piece together a shocking conclusion, such as "I'm planning to... poisoned candy... sell to stores... San Franscisco... trick-or-treat... kill children!!!!!!" The last phrase alone was enough to teporarily drive Charlie over the edge to the uncontrollable point of accidentally screaming out to her loudly, "YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS, BELLADONNA!!!!!!!" in a short fit of hatred and rage. Almost instantaneously after perceiving Charlie's voice, Belladonna looks up towards him at once and yells back, "HA!!! BARKIN!!! I thought I sensed your putrid presence, you oversized, scum-sucking whelp, you!!!!!! Killer, RAISE THE ALARM, NOW!!!!!!" "O.K., B... Boss!!!" a hesitant Killer responds before doing just that a moment later. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out as a pistol bullet just narrowly misses Charlie's forehead, courtesy of a now-angered Carface. "Yikes!!! Time to leave!!!" he points out before making a break for the nearest exit. However, as soon as he does, Belladonna produces her wings and flies up to in front of where Charlie just was on the ledge above, hovers in midair, and commands her troops with, "My precious minions, after him, NOW, I repeat, NOW!!!!!!" Shortly afterwards, a small fire imp enters through an elevator door that Charlie had not noticed before, indirectly revealing to him a way out. Charlie then immediately charges through the door, kicks the pesky imp out, and hits the buttons to head back down to the ground floor and close the door ASAP. In a futile, last-ditch attempt to thwart Charlie's imminent escapade, the fire imp forms and subsequently launches a small, semi-rounded fireball towards Charlie's tail (just like in the Christmas Carol) while snickering sinisterly. This time, though, Charlie readily sees it coming at him and pulls his tail out of the way just in time as the fiery projectile harmlessly impacts and dissipates onto the nearby inside, metallic elevator wall. "Nice try, Bub, but you ain't gonna singe ol' Charlie Barkin's tail THIS time!!!!!" he announces smugly before sticking his tongue out and mocking the little imp as the elevator's door closes. Finally, upon reaching the ground floor, he sprints out of the now-open elevator on all fours, runs back outside the factory, shouts at Itchy to follow him posthaste, and together returned back to their home at top speed to tell Sasha and Bess about EVERYTHING that had just transpired that night.
Chapter IV: Charlie and Itchy Explain the Devilish Scheme to Sasha and Bess.
As soon as they arrive back at their house, Charlie and Itchy waste no time in telling their sweethearts what had just occurred only moments before. After successfully doing so, Sasha finally comments, "Wow! Who ever knew that Belladonna was capable of so much evil, and in just one night?!?!?! Well, nonetheless, we simply MUST do something about it all; we can't just sit here tomorrow and party all night long while Belladonna gives out her poisonous candy to an innumerable number of innocent children!!!!!!!" "I agree with you wholeheartedly, Sasha; we should certainly foil such wicked plans as these!!!!!!!" replies Bess. "Well, it's up to us to stop her then." states Charlie. "Yep, exactly!!!!!!!" agrees Itchy. "But first, though, you two had better take a bath before you decide to hit the sack, lest you both prefer to sleep alone tonight, right, Bess?" Sasha reminds them, a sly look forming upon her face. "Uh-huh!!!" Bess replies, also forming that same sly grin shortly afterwards. "Hey, Itch, I just remembered, we absolutely LOVE baths now, don't we?" Charlie says quickly after hearing the girls' warning to them. "Why, yes, yes we do!!!" answers Itchy somewhat hastily as well. As they both went off to prepare and take their baths, Sasha looks over at Bess momentarily, raises an eyebrow, an reminds her, "See, Bess, just like I said earlier, boys will always be boys!!!!!" "Uh-huh, you are indeed so right!!!!!" Bess admits. Eventually, all four of them ended up taking baths that night, and once they were finally in bed for the night, Sasha whispers Charlie one more question regarding Belladonna's evil scheme. "Darling, do you TRULY think that you can honestly take Belladonna and ALL of her minions on alone?!?" "No, Honey, I don't, but I know that I simply MUST try to stop her, God willing, for if I don't, then who will???" With that said and with all things considered, the Barkin and Dachshund couples got some much-needed rest for the chaos that was to come with the rising (or, should I say, setting.....!) of the sun the next day, October 31st- HALLOWEEN!!!!!!
Chapter V: An Amazing Sunrise of a Presumably Terrifying Day.
Early the next day, at around 7:15 in the morning, Charlie, Itchy, Sasha, and Bess all went to the Golden Gate bridge to watch the sunrise over the bay. As they do, just after the sun has fully risen over the eastern horizon, Sasha remarks to Charlie, "You know what, Charlie? I don't think that I've ever seen a more beautiful sunrise in my entire life, and do you know what else? I don't think that there's anyone else in the whole universe besides you whom I'd rather be with to observe." He then places an arm around her back and holds her close to him, saying the following back to her: "And you know what else, too? I love you more than any other dog that's ever lived, even myself." "Awwww, that's so sweet, Charlie!" Sasha replies to him before looking into his eyes and kissing him. They then smile at on another for another moment before Itchy does the same tender act with Bess. After approximately ten minutes of enjoying the wonderful, sunny vista before them, they all four head on over to Sasha's cafe and begin to set up shop there for the day. Next, once Sasha prepares a big breakfast for themselves, especially for Charlie and Itchy, as she places a hefty plate of food for both of the boys to share (mostly Charlie, of course, due to his naturally MUCH bigger appetite than Itchy), she tells them, "Eat up, boys, 'cause you're both going to need the energy for that treacherous excursion of Belladonna's heavily-defended factory later today." "No problem doing that now, right, Itch?" Charlie says before Itchy answers him with, "Yep! No problem doing that now at all!" Upon finishing their big meal, Charlie and Itchy say goodbye to Sasha and Bess for the time being and head off to the local gun shop for some much-needed supplies.
While there, they purchase their own, respective gun licenses, a .510 magnum bolt-action rifle for Charlie, a 10X-zoom scope for it, 12 boxes of 24 .510-caliber bullets each, a 12-gauge pump shotgun for Charlie, 7 boxes of 10 12-gauge shells each, a .457 revolver for Itchy, 20 packages of five 10-bullet .457 cartridges each, two good-size hunting backpacks (a large one for Charlie, and a smaller one for Itchy), two hunting, water canteens (again, a larger one for Charlie, and a smaller one for Itchy), a long-range walkie-talkie for both of them, and 7 medical kits to help treat wounds properly and efficiently (5 for Charlie, the rest for Itchy). After they finish making their purchases there, they then head over to a small, local fireworks retailer and acquire 5 large fireworks mortar "cakes" (similar to the ones that they were going to use for the 4th of July celebration decades earlier, but much more modern), 50 illegal M-80s (super-powerful fireworks that are nothing short of small grenades minus all of the smoke and shrapnel that the owner only secretly gave them after they explained their usage plans for them; 35 for Charlie, the rest for Itchy), 12 smoke screen-producing fireworks (8 for Charlie, the rest for Itchy), and 10 portable fireworks lighters (7 for Charlie, the rest for Itchy). Finally, after stowing all of this in their backpacks (except for the mortar "cakes", which they carry with a small wagon instead), they head off to Belladonna's factory for the biggest showdown of their lives... so far.....!
Chapter VI: Belladonna's Despicably Evil Candy Distribution Begins.
During the time that Charlie and Itchy are out making there errands, Belladonna is busy overseeing the deporting of her toxic treats via transport truck to stock up all of the local Wal-marts, K-marts, Targets, and other various Halloween candy retailers with her lethal candies of doom. At the biggest Wal-mart around (a newly-erected Supercenter version) at the very heart of downtown San Francisco, she sends a 13-year old "runaway" boy determined to be "bad to the bone" for fun named Zachary Baxter to encourage other children shopping that day to beg their parents into buying Belladonna's new candy for them (although he has absolutely no clue whatsoever that the sweets are to be tainted with deadly ingredients...). At first, he's not very successful, but after school ends that day, all the kids come pouring into the store with their parents trying to take advantage of those last-minute discount sales, and he entices many more unsuspecting victims to purchase the candy. "Excellent!!!!!! My plans are working perfectly!!!!!! Keep up the good work, Sonny!!!!!!" Belladonna praises Zach over a long-range walkie-talkie. "Don't worry, I will!!!!!!" he assures her, confidently.