It was late at night at the Funnie residence, and Doug and his sister Judy were the only members of the Funnie family to occupy the house, along with Doug's best friend ("best *human* friend"), Skeeter. Doug and Skeeter were watching some really bad horror movie on TV, about a house that devours people, and were kept in tight suspense. The main character was standing in the house while it threatened to eat her alive.

"No, no, get out you loser. That house is going to eat you alive!" exclaimed Doug, his eyes in a fixed gaze at the television screen. The house began to devour the woman inside it, until suddenly, the picture changed to "Shakespeare On Ice".

"Sorry boys, but it's way past your bedtime Doug, and Skeeter, you should be going home. Besides, I'm going to watch 'Shakespeare On Ice' and if you change the channel, you're dead!" Judy was serious about the television specials she loved to watch, and this was one she wasn't going to let anyone interrupt. This angered Doug, who didn't like having his older sister order him around and expect him to take while she watched her Renaissance shows.

"I guess you'd better do as she says, Skeeter," Doug said, and a dejected Skeeter went home. Meanwhile Doug climbed up to bed. 'That cruel bitch Judy,' Doug thought, startled by the language in his head (it wasn't often he swore), 'I'd love to see something horrible happen to her. Or maybe I'll do it myself!' These thoughts and thoughts of Judy's treatment of him running through the boy's head, Doug got dressed for bed, climbed in, and soon went to sleep.

Meanwhile, two poor drug addicts, one a man of 25, the other, his friend aged 18, drove around town, looking for something to do.

"Man," said Robby, the 18-year old one, "I sure wish there was some way to get some more drugs around here. I need some Jonny Quest (their code name for the drug Speed) and some Super Mario (their code name for LSD) fast or I'll go crazy!" Lenny, the 25-year old man, followed this up with a reply of "yeah, some Jonny will do me good. Where did we come up with these names, anyway? Come, let's look around town and see if there's anything we can do for fun, at least, since it's only Saturday and I have next Monday off, so we won't have any money for 3 days. I know, it sucks, but until then, let's at least kill the night somehow."

"Yeah Len! That's the way to think! I wonder what we can do to entertain ourselves. I guess we'll find out." The two addicts continued to drive around the dark streets, looking for a way to spend the night.

At the Funnie residence, "Shakespeare On Ice" had just ended, and Judy went to the kitchen to go make herself a snack, since she was wide awake and her body refused to let her relax, even past midnight. As Judy reached into the cupboard to get some cereal, she became aware of a sound coming from the front door. When she reached the front door, Judy noticed the sound was coming from the lock of the front door. 'What the?" she thought. 'The front door is locked, and I didn't hear Mom and Dad pull up. Who else has the key to the house?' Even though it was problably just her parents arriving home early, Judy still had the strange feeling something was wrong.

Dismissing the thought, Judy walked back to the kitchen to pour herself some cereal. The strange noise at the door didn't stop. In fact, it went on for a while. Finally she could hear the sound of the front door opening. Judy somehow felt suspicious about everything that was going on, but tried to ignore the feeling. After all, who could get in the house without keys? Even if it did take that person a long time to unlock the front door. Still Judy didn't feel any more at ease with these thoughts.

Suddenly Judy felt a strong hand clamp itself over her mouth, and a heavy arm wrap around her body, pinning her arms to her sides. "Haaallll-" a terrified Judy began to scream, but it was cut off by the hand pressing tighter against her mouth.

"Hold her like that," came an unfamilar voice, apparently the voice of a young man. "I'll get something to knock her unconcious." Judy struggled against the man holding her in place, and constantly screamed for help, but many of her screams were muffled. She then tried to bite the hand covering her mouth, but the man had his hand cupped over Judy's mouth, in case she try to bite. After a long time of struggling, the other man came back and announced he had brought chloroform.

"Chloroform!" exclaimed the man holding Judy in place. "But that can cause brain damage if used incorrectly. It's not what it looks like in the movies. It has been known to kill sometimes!"

"Don't worry about it Len," said, the other man soothingly. "We'll just use a little bit of chloroform to knock her out. It won't cause any damage."

"Okay. Go knock yourself out. I mean go knock her out." Judy felt something pressed against her nose, and blacked out as the heavy smell of chloroform hit her.

* * *

Robby and Lenny drove around town, Robby in the front and Lenny in the back, with their unconcious captive, Judy Funnie right next to Lenny in the back seat. Judy had been tied up using rope from the house, and blindfolded and gagged. Her hands were tied behind her very tightly with rope, her wrists bound together with a knot impossible for Judy to undo with her hands. There was rope wrapped around her, making any attempts to get free even more hopeless. And finally, Judy's knees and feet were tied together, so she could not walk anywhere.

"So, now that we captured a girl," said Robby, "what are we going to do with her?"

"I don't know," replied his friend. "Let's take her to our house and find out." After thinking for a while, Lenny suddenly had an idea. "Wait a second. We just kidnapped someone. Even though we only did it for fun, we could get big money from this. This girl could be our ticket to some more Jonny Quest."

This excited Robby, who never stopped to think that this kidnapping could lead to something much bigger. The idea would have come to him eventually, but the aftereffects of the Jonny Quest he had had 2 hours ago were slowing down his thinking.

* * *

Judy wasn't exactly having the world's most pleasant dream. She dreamt that she was exploring Egypt, and was inside a pyramid. She took in the beauty of the world around her, the inside of the pyramid, and began to explore the place. Soon she found herself confronted by a mummy. Judy tried to run away, but she wasn't fast enough. The mummy soon caught up to her and dragged her to other mummies, who then began to wrap her up in bandages, until she was completely immoble. Then the mummies pushed her into a coffin, and slid the door shut.

Judy woke up from her nightmare, and tried to stretch her arms, but found she couldn't. The fact that she couldn't jerked her awake. She tried to stretch out her legs, only to find that they couldn't move either. She then opened her eyes and discovered she couldn't see a thing. And something uncomfortable was in Judy's mouth. She realized that she was bound and gagged.

Judy began to struggle against her ropes, trying to wrench her hands out from the ropes that bound her hands tightly together, and trying to move her feet. All this proved to be futile, however, as the ropes didn't loosen any, in fact, they only seemed to get tighter and more uncomfortable. Judy then tried to slide the blindfold off by rubbing it against her shoulder, but the blindfold was tied on too tightly. Finally she tried to scream through the gag, but the sound came out muffled, sounding like "mmmpphh! Mmmpphh!"

'Where am I?' wondered Judy. 'Who were those men and where have they taken me?' Judy struggled again, trying to twist her hands free of the ropes on her wrists. Her efforts were for naught. Finally Judy gave up and, for the moment, surrendered to fate.

Meanwhile Lenny and Robby were playing Super Mario RPG on their Super Nintendo in the living room of their hideout. "Hey Robby, check this out. Look at Smithy. Scary, huh? Can you believe this is the boss of the game?" True enough, Smithy, in his second form, looked like a block with arms and legs and a toaster for a head.

"Yeah," replied Robby. "He looks like crap. He looks even worse than the first time, when he looked like Santa Claus! The best enemy was problably Culex, that cross-over guy from the Final Fantasy series. I never expected to see him here."

Lenny played for a while until finally he lost the fight. "Man, my party got its ass kicked by the guy with the incredible changing head, and when it looked like a mailbox, too!"

Lenny turned the game off and turned to Robby. "Hey Robby, remember the girl we kidnapped? Before we get some ransom, how about you and I have some fun with her first?"

"Yeah! I have an idea of what kind of fun to have with her! Let's tickle her feet until she goes mad! But I want to see her face. We have to take the blindfold and gag off, but we'd have to disguise ourselves or she'd recognize us. Got any disguises?"

In the upstairs bedroom, Judy Funnie felt her shoes being removed, exposing her completely bare feet. 'What is going on here?' she wondered. 'Who took my shoes off and why?' Not long afterwards, her blindfold and gag were removed and Judy found herself facing two people completely dressed in black, including black ski masks.

"Wh-who are you?" Judy stammered. "Why did you take me here?"

Judy's only response was a savage tickling on the soles of her pretty bare feet.

"HEE HEE HEE HEE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Judy squirmed, trying to get her feet away from the fingers that were tormenting them, but only suceeded in pulling the ropes tighter. Her feet squirmed and moved all about, and her toes wiggled as Judy's feet became the victim to the unimaginable torture of fast-moving fingers.

"Okay, now my turn at her feet!" exclaimed the other man. "I'll take them now. No, wait. How about you hold them and I tickle them?"

One of the men then grabbed Judy's feet by her bound ankles, and moved into position to hold them on his lap. The other man then had his turn to wreak havoc. "HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE!!!! HAHAHAHA!! HEH HEH HEH HEH!!! STO-HA HA HA HA HOP HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HIT IH IH IH!!!!!" Judy's feet began their wild and frantic movement again, moving around, squirming, trying to escape the inevitable fate that not awaited them, but that they had been subject to this whole time: the now seemingly endless tickling.

Judy Funnie's screams of laughter only served as music to the ears of her tormentors, and the man who was holding her feet in place then decided to join in the tickling, as both men each grabbed a foot and held in place while tickling it mercilessly. "HA HA HA HA HA!!! N-HO HO HO HO STAH HA HA HA HOP HIT T HIH!!!" The intense tickling was becoming intolerable. Judy couldn't move her feet anywhere. She wiggled her toes and moved the end of her feet about, but that was all she could move, for her feet were held firmly in place.

After a long 15 minutes of continuous tickling by her two captors, Judy's feet were finally allowed to take a break from the tickling. Judy then sat there all by herself, until she finally fell asleep.

When Judy awoke, she found herself once again unable to move her hands and feet. Only this time things were different. She was lying on her stomach, gagged, with her wrists tied to her ankles, very tightly, and still barefoot. In other words, Judy Funnie was hogtied and barefoot. Suddenly she became aware of a presence in the room. One of the men from before was standing over Judy, watching her awaken.

"So, girl," the man said, "how about if you tell us your name, phone number and address? If you don't, we'll figure out some way to make you tell us!"

"Never!" Judy screamed, thinking about the safety of her parents and younger brother Doug, who must be very worried about her (if only she knew. For that matter, if only Doug knew what was going on :) .

"Okay, then," said the man, "I guess we'll just have to force the information out of ya!"

He then began to once again tickle the soles of Judy's cute exposed feet.

"HA HA HA HA HA!!! HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE!!! HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!!!" As much as this kept up, Judy still refused to tell the man anything.

After a while, the tickling stopped. But later, Judy became aware of burning sensation on her feet. Apparently the man had dropped a lit match on them. But she refused to cry out, for that would be like admitting defeat to a hated enemy. Then, Judy suddenly felt water being splashed on her feet, quickly dousing the fire.

"I wouldn't want to ruin such gorgeous feet, now would I? They're much better for tickling! Just wait until the folks on ASFT, ASFF, and ASB hear about this!"

Then Judy felt her feet being tickled mercilessly again. Eventually, after about 20 minutes of tickling, she almost lost her mind and exclaimed, "Okay! Okay! I'll tell you everything. My name is Judith Funnie. I live on 21 Jumbo Street, and my phone number is 386-3338. There, now will you let me go?"

* * *

An hour later, Judy was dropped off at her house, on the front porch, still tied up. Robby rang the doorbell, then quickly ran to the car and drove away. While riding in the car, he turned to Lenny.

"But why did you decide to just let her go like that? We could have gotten big money."

"I decided that kidnapping was too much work, and that the cops might catch us if we tried to collect ransom, or maybe after. And I don't want to get arrested again, especially since we've only been out of jail for about a month. Besides, my new Nintendo Power magazine is coming in soon, and Showtime is going to show an Outer Limits marathon. I don't want to miss that, so we'll just have to rely on crimes that we won't get so easily caught doing, like theft at night - wearing gloves of course - and any other easy crimes that aren't too risky. And I didn't want to have to pay for that girl's food and water just so we could keep her around to tickle her. Besides, there are other girls to tickle. I've heard the neighborhood kids talking about this girl named Patti Mayonase. She must be a fox, although problably not as good as that Judy Funnie was. Wow. Was that fun."

The two then drove off in search of their Quest.

Meanwhile, back at the Funnie residence, Doug showed up to answer the door. "Hel- Judy! It's you!"

Doug started to go back into the house to tell their parents, but decided otherwise. Seeing Judy bound up like this and barefoot gave him an idea. He reached out and tickled Judy's soles...

Later, when Judy was untied, and after their parents were told what happened, Doug lay in his room, pondering the outcome the recent events.

'Tickling Judy when she showed up at the door tied up sure was fun. If only I could do this to Patti while she was tied up. Oh, that Patti. Hey, wait a minute, maybe I can! We could play a tie-up game, and I might get to tickle Patti's feet!' Doug then called Patti.

* * *

"No Doug," said Patti, struggling against her tight bonds, trying to wrench her hands free from the ropes that bound them together behind her back, trying to wriggle through the ropes that tightly tied her to the chair, "not my feet! Please don't tickle my feet!"

But Doug grabbed Patti's shoes and pulled them off, then ripped off her socks and put them on the floor, and reached for Patti's exposed feet. "No, Doug, not my Fee-hee-hee-hee-heet!!!" Skeeter, who was visiting, and Pork Chop, Doug's dog, then joined in the fun of tickling Patti's feet. "Not my fee hee hee hee hee hee HEE HEE HEE HEET!!!" Her pleas were ignored.