In this chapter. Leni finds herself trapped in the mall after a long shift.

"Hey Leni think you could lock up?"Mrs. Chemical asked.

"Sure." Leni replied.

She tossed Leni the keys and left for the night.

Leni on the other hand, still had a few sweaters to fold.

Leni was the last one out of the mall.

She tried to open the front doors, but they were locked.

"Um I think the door is stuck." Leni said. "Hello, is anyone there?"

No answer.

"Where did I leave those keys?" Leni said to herself. She walked back to Reininger's to see if she set them down somewhere. Then she heard something moving behind her.

"Hello?" Leni said.

"Yeehehehe!" A voice cackled.

"What's so funny?" Leni asked. She fallowed the noise deeper into the mall.

"Hello? Are you the janitor?" Leni asked.

That's when the man jumped out in front of Leni. He was an old frail man, yet full of energy. He had a bald head and a long white beard. All he wore was a pair of denim overalls and a straw hat.

"I'M OLD MAN JINKINS!" The man said with glee.

"I'm Leni. Nice to meet you." Leni said with a smile, reaching out her hand to shake the old man's.

"I'M KING NEPTUNE!!!!" Old man Jinkins yelled pulling out a trident.

"What?"

Then Old Man Jinkins swung at Leni with the trident. Leni ducked just in time.

"WAAAAAHHHH!!!!" Leni screamed and ran away. "Where did you get a trident?"

"I got it at Cinnabon's!" Old man Jinkins yelled.

"I thought they only sold cinnamon rolls!"

"They do!"

"I thought thy went out of business!"

"They did!"

...

Leni made it to the food court. She stopped and took a breath. Then she heard a sound that made her heart stop. A deep beastly growl.

She turned around to see Old Man Jinkins riding on the back of a tiger.

"Where did you get a tiger?" Leni asked.

"I got it at Lids!" Old Man Jinkins said. "The place that only sells hats."

'I'm so confused." Leni said.

Then the tiger transformed into a fighter jet.

Leni ran as Old Man Jinkins flew through the air. He fired rockets at the young blond girl. The rockets hit the ground and green Jell-O exploded out of them.

"You're gonna mess up my outfit!" Leni yelled.

"Yyyeeehhhhooooooo!!!!!" Old Man Jinkins yelled.

"Why are you doing this!!!!" She yelled.

"I'M OLD MAN JINKINS!!!!!!!!" He yelled as he crashed into the ground in a huge explosion.

Leni stood up, shaking in fear. A cloud of smoke before her from the explosion.

Then a military tank rolled out of the cloud of dust.

"I got this at Barns and Nobile!" Old Man Jinkins said.

"Does it fire books?" Leni asked.

"NOPE!" Old Man Jinkins pressed a button that said fire.

A piñata shot out of the barrel and hit Leni in the face.

Leni sat up holding her head.

"It fires piñatas!" Old man Jinkins declared.

Leni ran as fast as she could, dodging the explosions of candy.

...

It seemed that Leni had lost the crazy old man. Until she saw him on a stage at the end of the food court. Holding a banjo.

Then he started to badly sing, what sounded like some sort of folk song.

"Well I Old Man Jinkins, Yes I'm old man Jinkins." He sang (badly). "Oh, my darlin' oh my darlin' oh my darlin' Old Man Jinkins. You are Old now, and your name is Jinkins and eh... you're a man. I'M OLD MAN JINKINS!!!!"

"Let me guess." Leni said, out of breath and exhausted. "You got that at some random place that doesn't even sell banjos."

"Nope." Old Man Jinkins said. "I got this at guitar world."

"Oh yeah they do sell banjos at guitar world." Leni sighed.

"But this I got at Bed Bath and Beyond!" Old Man Jinkins said, holding up a bazooka.

"So, what does that fire?" Leni asked. "Yogurt, confetti, shaving cream?"

"Nope." Said Old Man Jinkins. "This here fires singularities!"

"Sinu-what?" Leni said.

"Black holes!" Old Man Jinkins clarified.

Leni's eyes widened and her jaw dropped.

The crazy old man pulled the trigger and a blast of black energy shot out of the cannon and created a black mass in the middle of the food court. Everything started to get sucked into the black hole. Leni desperately clawed at the ground trying to find something to hang onto.

"Ye he he!" Old Man Jinkins Laughed. His arms held to his sides as his beard flowed in the wind. "This is how all things will end. From dust we were born. And to dust we shall..."

Then his overalls were ripped off and sucked into the black hole. (don't worry he still had underwear on)

"Eh. I don't think you wanted to see that." Old Man Jinkins said.

Then the black hole disappeared. Leni slowly got to her hands and knees gasping for breath. The sun was coming up now. She saw a metal rod on the ground. The stand for a microphone.

She picked it up and got to her feet.

"All right you old crazy, crazy person!" Leni proclaimed, feeling like a bad ass. "TAKE THIS!" She swung the metal rod at the old man. But old man Jinkins caught the stand in midair. He ripped the stand from Leni's grip. Then he paced the metal rod in his mouth and ate it. Like actually ate it. Chewed it into tiny pieces and swallowed it.

Old Man Jinkins then pulled out a machete. His mouth pulled into a psychotic grin from ear to ear. His eyes were crazy like a mad dog, and he started to drool.

"I got this at McDonalds." He said in a deep raspy voice.

Leni closed her eyes, waiting for the sharp pain of the machete.

Then Old Man Jinkins' watch started to beep.

"Well." He said dropping the knife. "Time for my day job."

Leni opened her eyes to see that Old Man Jinkins had an entirely new outfit on. The top of his body was covered in a hazmat suit, around his waist he wore a to-to. On his feet he had a pair of diving flippers. And he held a harpoon gun.

"What's your day job?" Leni asked, almost afraid to hear the answer.

"I'm a Mortgage Broker!" Old Man Jinkins said. Then he headed for the exit, unlocked the door and left.

"I quit," Leni said.