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Tik-Tok!

Billina!

I am coming, Dorothy.

Do not worry. I will save you.

You, I'll have fried for breakfast!

- Tik-Tok, help me!

- Stop!

Oh, dear. My action has run down.

This is too bad.

My fight with the Wheelers

made me run down faster than usual.

It can't be helped, Tik-Tok.

What will you do with Tik-Tok?

People will think I have a new statue.

Ha.

The Nome King's mountain.

If this is Oz, Dorothy, I'd rather

take my chances back in Kansas.

- Billina...

- What?

- If only we could just fly away, like you.

- Only in my younger days, my dear.

Mom?

Mom?

Mom, is that you?

No.

- I'm Dorothy Gale.

- Oh.

For a second there,

I thought my mom had come back.

What is this, a man or a melon?

A pumpkin, if you please.

My name's Jack.

Jack Pumpkinhead.

May I ask a favor of you, Dorothy?

Would you please check my head

for signs of spoiling?

Any soft spots?

- How does it feel?

- Very nice, sir.

Thank you.

I've been alive such a short while,

and I'm afraid of spoiling

before I've seen anything of the world.

Could you put some of the rest of me

together again?

If you can just tie that arm on.

And then, my other leg

has fallen off too.

Are you sure you're not my mom?

I'm sure, Jack.

Well, my mother built me to scare

that awful witch, Mombi.

She stood me in a place where

Mombi would meet me, face-to-face.

And along she came.

Sure enough, she was scared.

But then, she was angry.

She has a terrible temper.

I know.

Where did she get

all those different heads?

Did you see the headless

dancing girls outside?

Well, that's where she got them.

Anyway, Mombi was about

to destroy me with her stick.

But she decided to test some powder

of life she'd just bought from a magician.

She did.

It worked.

Here I am!

Powder of life?

You sprinkle it on something

and the thing comes to life.

Does Mombi have any more of it?

If she does, it's in cabinet 31,

with her original head.

What happened to your mother?

She vanished. Mombi enchanted her.

After that, she threw me in this corner

and said she was gonna make

a pie out of me.

But she was wearing head 22 at the time

and must not have worn it since,

because she hasn't remembered

I'm up here.

Jack, Billina, listen!

Here's what we have to do.

Oh!

Is that Tik-Tok?

Dorothy?

Sh.

Oh.

Dorothy, may I call you Mom,

even if it isn't so?

Oh!

Thank you.

Tik-Tok, are you listening?

Don't say anything.

This is Jack.

After I'm finished winding you up,

go upstairs with him

and we'll explain what you have to do.

- Did you understand all that, Tik-Tok?

- I understand it better than you do.

- Good. Go and get the head, Jack.

- Yes, sir!

Billina, where's that cord?

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