The Disease of Monkey Island

B-Man

Part 4

Guybrush and Mr Cheese got to work the next day working in Al's bar.

"Look! A manatee!" Guybrush whooped, seeing one placed in the corner. "They have these on Jambalaya Island but their much faster"

"You want it faster eh?" Mr Cheese grinned cunningly; he pushed a lever on the manatee from the 'bed-wetter' setting past 'bed-wetter +1', past 'faster than that', 'faster' and 'yup, faster', right up to the 'Could this darn manatee go any faster?' setting.

"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!" Guybrush screamed "Geeeeeet meeeeeee ooooofffffff tttttthhhhhhiiiiiisssssss ttthhhiiinnnggg!"

"All right Mr Threepwood" Cheese said and slid the lever all the way back to bed-wetter. Guybrush was catapulted across the room into the dartboard. He fell to the floor with the dartboard stuck on his head.

"Are you alright Guybrush?" Al cried, running in. "This bar is more dangerous than I thought."

"I'm Bobbin, are you my mother?" Guybrush asked, dazed

"He's alright!" Said Cheese.

"Still," said Al "It could have ended up a lot worse. I'm closing this bar down for a while, making it a safer place"

Guybrush and Cheese lost their jobs and were left on the streets.

"Don't worry Guybrush," said Mr Cheese "We were supposed to be looking for Elaine anyway remember?"

"Oh yeah" Guybrush replied "Why did I ever get a job in that dangerous place anyway?"

"Because you wanted to shove a duck down your pants" Cheese grumbled "and you did that last year on Lucre Island remember?"

"Yeah!" Guybrush giggled goofily "That was a blast! I should do it again some time!"

"That's your answer to everything!" Mr Cheese replied

"All right then, Mr I-do-everything-Guybrush-says-but-doesn't-tell-him- he's doing-anything-wrong, what do we do now? How do we find Elaine?" asked Guybrush

"Seems like the sensible thing to do is to follow LeChuck and rescue the Voodoo Lady, thus curing your disease and finding out what Elaine was saying in Voodoo, then travelling to Plunder Island to find her, defeating Lechuck and even having enough time to look for Carla and Otis, swimming around in the ocean somewhere" Cheese Suggested.

Guybrush stood there for a moment "I have no idea what you just said" he sighed raising eyebrow "So what do we do know?"

"Well, to put it in simpler words" Cheese replied "We have to find LeChuck, then find the Voodoo Lady, then find Elaine, then find Otis and Carla"

"Oh a scavenger hunt! Well why didn't you say?"

Guybrush scanned the port. "If only there was someone to give us some idea of where they are"

"HI MISTER!" a voice said coincidently. "Need some help?"

The men looked down at who had said this. It was Kenny Foulmouth. Not who they had expected.

"Oh hello" Said Guybrush with resignation.

"Ahoy" Cheese added.

"It looks like you fellas could use some help!" Kenny said

"We do" Guybrush replied.

"Well look no further! Kenny Foulmouth will quench your thirst! Here have some free lemonade!" Kenny offered them a glass.

"I don't want any lemonade! I'm looking for my kidnapped wife!" Guybrush snapped

"That still doesn't explain why you don't want my lemonade" Kenny said "Wait, maybe it does"

"We're looking for some pirates," said Cheese "Evil ones"

"ARE YOU REALLY?" Kenny laughed "That's like saying I'm looking for monkeys! They're everywhere! Although... I did see something down at the harbour.

"What? Elaine?"

"No, Monkeys"

"ohhhhhh" Guybrush and Mr Cheese groaned

"Sorry, it looks like we're never going to find your wife..." A huge explosion in the distance interrupted Kenny.

"Hurry! That could be LeChuck!" Cheese said.

They hurried over the island to the place where the explosion happened. A big smoking crater stood before them. In the centre was a small piece of paper.

"It's like I always say" Said Kenny "Small things, come in big explosions"

"Yeah. It's a pity they had to blow half the marketplace up for just a small piece of paper to appear" Said Guybrush "Oh well"

Cheese picked the paper up "It's a map of Wart Island!" he cried "And it shows where LeChuck's hideout is! Let's go!"

They followed the map up a big mountain ridge. Steep drops stood on either side. Finally, Cheese stopped and turned around, almost knocking Guybrush and Kenny down the mountainside.

"Watch it Mister!" Kenny grunted

"Sorry. I'm just confused by this map. Apparently, LeChuck's hideout should be RIGHT HERE" Cheese said.

"Maybe it is" Guybrush replied. Looking beneath him and realising that THE WHOLE MOUNTAIN WAS SHAPED LIKE LECHUCK!

"This seems an awful lot like that movie Austin Powers" he said to the group "We could be heading towards a bit lawsuit. Get your chequebooks ready guys"

"Never mind that, how are we going to get in?" Cheese asked.

"Do what they do in cartoons!" Kenny cried, "They jump up and down, and somehow, in a way I cannot remember, they get inside!" Kenny jumped up and down as he said this, and the ground beneath them crumbled. The gang tumbled through and landed in a room.

"Oh yeah, now I remember. The ground beneath us crumbles. We tumble through and land in a room!" Kenny concluded.

Guybrush, who had landed on his head, rolled over and realised that another person was in the room tied up.

"The voodoo lady!" They all cried. They ran over, untied her and pulled the gag from her mouth .

"Well, you all look pleased to see me" She chuckled "I assume you found the map I sent you. It's a tricky object transportation spell. I had to conduct it using my feet. I hope I didn't cause too much of a explosion"

"Erm..." the gang looked at each other

"That doesn't matter now" Said Guybrush "We need to find Elaine. It's weird. She just said 'Ganno hakamutu ahootu' and then rowed off to Plunder Island!"

"Oh dear" The Voodoo lady sighed, "Well I'm pessimistic Guybrush. We're dealing with another dangerous voodoo curse."

"Aw nuts." Guybrush groaned, "Does it involve a Caribbean shattering caboom? A giant monkey robot by any chance?"

"Guybrush, I'm talking about the curse that you've got. The voodoo disease." The Voodoo lady said

"What's that got to do with Elaine?" Guybrush asked

"Well let me put it this way," said the Voodoo lady "It's contagious. You're friends could be carrying it right now"

"Ewwww" cried Cheese and Kenny "Unclean! Unclean!"

"Now what do we do?" asked Guybrush

"My only suggestion is to go to Plunder Island after Elaine" The voodoo lady replied "But be careful. I sense a lot of evil energy around there"

"Great. The only question that remains is. How do we get out of here?" Cheese asked.

Kenny answered that question in the next five seconds.

"What does this button do?" He said...