TJ's Terrific Travels and Terrible Travails

After spending several years basking in the desert sun, our intrepid hero has returned for another trek through the foreboding fiscal canyons.  With a Scylla named Wall to his left and a Charybdis named Broad to his right, TJ bravely ventures in search of hidden treasures, wary of menacing monsters.  Although he has fearlessly faced these creatures in the past - demons as mysterious as the amazon, with misleading names like Mr. Softy, Beemer, Gold Man, Googly and countless other yahoos - these guardians of untold wealth have grown faster and fiercer since TJ's last encounters.

No sooner than he had entered the arena, TJ found himself face-to-face with a formidable foe:  Sandisk.  Now this beast, nicknamed Sandy, had an unusual power.  It would crash to the floor, suddenly and violently rise up to the ceiling, and take a step forward, destroying all in its path.  Yet TJ had seen this type of hellion before and was not afraid.  He saw his opportunity.

Sandy stepped towards TJ, crashed to the floor, and quickly jerked itself skyward.  Moments before it hit the ceiling, TJ launched himself on top of his foe.  Reaching into his pocket, he whipped out a vial labeled "Get Short."  It was a shrinking potion.  But Sandy, who didn't like being called Sandy, had earned the right to be immune to this potion.  With TJ perilously perched on Sandy's shoulders, the monster uncharacteristically did not crash to the floor, but instead, continued to rise.  Higher and higher, until it crashed through the ceiling, ripping the shirt right off TJ's back.  TJ went skyward with Sandy, until he was tossed aside, like day old meatloaf.  Our hero was badly bruised, but would live to fight another day.