AUTHOR'S NOTE: Just the general disclaimer bit. Fraggle Rock and all it's characters belong to Jim Henson. Felonious, Fink, Cerise, Darcy, and Wini (though Darcy and Wini are only mentioned and not seen) belong to me. Some of the locations in the Rock I got from either the animated "Fraggle Rock," or the books. Gemstone Grotto and Splashdown Summit are my own ideas. Premulosse extract is something I got from a plant name generator.

There are many caves and tunnels in Fraggle Rock. The Crystal Caverns, Belching Boulder, Blue Rock, the Echo Hole, and the Cave of Shadows, just to name a few. There were many places that either Gobo or Traveling Matt had been to, and still others that hadn't been discovered yet. One of these caves was known as Gemstone Grotto, because it was rumored that there were precious gems at the bottom of the holes in the cave. This is what brought two Fraggles, Felonious and Fink, to Gemstone Grotto. Felonious was a pale yellow Fraggle with gold-colored fur and brown hair and a mustache. He wore a white long-sleeved shirt under a black vest, and a black fedora. Fink was teal-colored, with darker teal fur, and purple hair, and wore a dark blue turtleneck sweater and a black bowler. They were a couple of con artists. Their biggest scam was selling what Felonious called "Dr. Felonious Fraggle's All Purpose Cure All Moss Oil," which was worthless. The World's Oldest Fraggle banished them from Fraggle Rock forever years ago, and they hadn't been back since. They didn't want to take chances.

That day at Gemstone Grotto, Fink was reaching into one of the holes as far as he could, while Felonious was watching him.

"No good, boss," Fink said, straining. "I can't reach the gems from here."

"I know they're in there!" Felonious shouted. "Any idiot can see them if you look into any of these holes!"

"Yeah, they're just too far down to reach without gettin' in the hole."

"Well, there's only one thing left to do."

"What's that, boss?"

"Get down there and bring 'em up!"

Felonious gave his partner's rear end a kick, sending him down into the hole. Unfortunately, he was too big to fit, and wound up getting stuck in it.

"Hey, boss!" Fink shouted. "I'm stuck! Get me outta here!"

"Can ya reach the gems?" Felonious asked.

"No! They're still too far away! Come on, boss, get me outta here!"

Felonious groaned, grabbed Fink by the ankles, and pulled as hard as he could, until Fink popped out. Felonious dropped him unceremoniously, and inspected the hole. The opening in the floor was big enough for him and Fink to fit through, but then it tapered into a smaller hole.

"No way either of us can fit through that," Felonious said. "And no way we can lower a bucket down there to scoop up the gems, either. We'd scoop up more sand than stones."

"I got an idea, boss!" Fink shouted. "Maybe we could use the shovel and the pickaxe we stole to dig up the gems, and use them to make the hole bigger!"

"Are you implying that we should actually —ugh! — work?!" Felonious shouted. "Are you out of your mind?!"

"Well, how else are we gonna get the gems?"

Felonious stroked his mustache, and thought over the situation. While he was thinking, he heard something in the distance. It sounded like singing. He looked toward the direction of the sound, and found three Fraggles coming his way.

"Let's am-scray," he said to Fink. "We've got Fraggles coming."

"Right, boss," Fink said, and he and Felonious ducked out of sight.

The three Fraggles that were coming into Gemstone Grotto were Gobo, Red, and Wembley. Gobo had found one of his uncle's maps that lead to it, and decided to map it out, and he thought he'd have a picnic there. Red and Wembley were game, but Mokey and Boober decided to bail out. Mokey was headed for Brushplant Cave to stock up on paintbrushes, and Boober did not want to face an unknown cave. You never know what kind of germs could be lurking there.

"Look at all these holes in the walls!" Red shouted, while bouncing a ball. "There must be a lot of Burrow Beasts around!"

"Wow!" Gobo shouted, looking into one of the holes. "Hey, you guys should check this out!"

"What is it, Gobo?" Wembley asked.

"There's lots of shiny rocks inside these holes!" Gobo shouted.

"Oooh yeah!" Red shouted, looking into another hole.

"Wowee!" Wembley shouted, as he looked into a hole himself. "There must be a squintillion of them in here!"

"Too bad you can't reach them from here," Red said.

"Oh well," Gobo said, marking the information down on the map. "Maybe it's a good thing you can't reach them. If somebody could reach them, they might take them all, and there wouldn't be any for others to see, eh?"

"Yeah, I guess you're right," Red said. "Come on, Wembley. Let's play Boink Ball while Gobo maps."

"Okay, Red!" Wembley shouted.

Red took her ball, threw it up into the air, and bounced it against her head. Wembley positioned himself underneath it, and hit it with his head. That was the object of Boink Ball. You had to boink it with your head back and forth, without using hands, until a Fraggle missed it. Since Red was taller, and more athletic (and extremely competitive), she gave the ball a good boink, and it sailed directly over Wembley's head.

"Oops!" he shouted, as he jumped.

"I win!" Red shouted, happily.

"We'd better go get that ball before it falls into one of the holes," Gobo said.

"I'll go get it!" Wembley called, and ran in the direction the ball had flown.

Felonious and Fink had been watching the three Fraggles during this whole thing, waiting impatiently for them to leave so they could figure out how to harvest those gems. Red's ball hit the wall next to them and bounced into one of the holes.

"Oh great," Felonious groaned. "They'll be coming our way any minute!"

"Let's get outta here before they see us, boss," Fink said, and he started to run off. Felonious was about to follow him, when he saw Wembley approach where the ball had disappeared.

"Hold it a sec," Felonious said quietly, grabbing Fink's shoulder.

"What for?" Fink asked.

"Shhh!" Felonious hissed, and watched Wembley look around for the ball.

"I know it came this way," the green Fraggle said, looking around the cave. "But where did it go? Maybe it rolled into one of these holes in the wall. I'd better check!"

Immediately Wembley began checking the holes. Sure enough, he saw the ball inside the gem caves, and immediately crawled into the hole the ball had gone into.

"Wow!" he shouted, looking around. The gems were reflecting the light that was coming in, turning the cave walls a rainbow of colors.

"Wembley!" Gobo called. "Where are you, eh?"

"In here, Gobo!" Wembley shouted. "Inside the caves with the shiny rocks in them!"

"How in the Rock did you get in there?!" Gobo shouted, looking into another hole in the wall.

"I climbed in," Wembley said, shrugging.

"Think you can climb back out?" Red asked.

"Sure!" Wembley shouted. He rolled the ball toward the hole where he heard Red and Gobo's voices, and then crawled out of it easily.

"You guys should see it in there!" Wembley shouted. "It's incredible! It's even more incredible than looking through the holes in the wall! I was all kinds of rainbow colors!"

"Stand back!" Red shouted. "I'm going in!"

Immediately, Red tried to climb through the hole in the wall, but she was too big to fit through, and wound up getting stuck.

"Hey! Get me out of here!" she shouted.

"Time to cut down on the radish bars, Red," Gobo said as he and Wembley took hold of the pigtailed Fraggle's legs.

"Very funny!" Red shouted, sarcastically.

Gobo and Wembley pulled as hard as they could, and managed to yank Red out of the hole in the wall, but all three of them wound up falling to the ground, thanks to the momentum.

"You want to try getting in there?" Red asked.

"No way," Gobo said, inspecting the holes. "I'm bigger than you are, Red. If you can't get through, there's no way I can get through!"

"Then how come Wembley got through?" Red asked.

"Because he's smaller than the two of us," Gobo explained.

"Oh," Red said. "Yeah, I guess that makes sense. You might be the only Fraggle who can fit in there, Wembley."

"Did you hear that, Fink?" Felonious asked. "That little green Fraggle can fit in these caves easily!"

"So?" Fink asked.

"So we can use him to get us those gems, knucklehead!" Felonious shouted, hitting Fink on the head with his fist, practically flattening his bowler. "We just have to wait for the right moment."

"Won't they recognize us if they see us?"

"I doubt it. These Fraggles look too young to remember when ol' Woffy had us banished."

"Ol' Woffy? Who's ol' Woffy?"

"The World's Oldest Fraggle, stupid!"

Felonious bopped his flunky in the head again, and the two continued watching the three Fraggles. Gobo was still mapping out the place, while Red and Wembley played another round of Boink Ball. Once again, Red had boinked the ball pretty hard, and it sailed over Wembley's head. Wembley sighed, and ran off to retrieve it, hoping that it didn't go into another hole in the wall. This time, it bounced against the wall, and Felonious managed to catch it on the rebound.

"Now's our chance," he said, and he stepped out into the light, just as Wembley came running by.

"Hello there, little Fraggle," he said. "Is this your ball?"

"Actually, it's my friend, Red's," Wembley said. "We were playing Boink Ball, and she boinked it too hard. Thanks for catching it, though."

"No problem at all," Felonious said, handing the ball to Wembley. "Listen, I was wondering if you could do me a little favor."

"Okay," Wembley said. "What is it?"

"My friend and I had our pet thimble bug with me, but he ran off when I bent down to pick up your ball. I think he might have crawled into that hole over there, and my friend and I can't fit down there to look. You look like you're small enough to go down there. Think maybe you could take a look?"

Before Wembley could respond, Red ran up to the trio.

"Wembley, what's taking so long?" she asked, sounding impatient.

"Sorry, Red," Wembley said, as he handed Red her ball. "But these two Fraggles lost their pet thimble bug, and they wants me to help find it."

"They do, huh?" Red asked, looking at Felonious and Fink suspiciously. She was beginning to get a nervous feeling in her stomach.

"It won't take long," Felonious said, putting his hand on Wembley's shoulder. "So why don't you just take your little ball, and go play? Don't worry, we'll make sure your little friend is all right."

"Yeah," Fink said, putting his hand on Wembley's other shoulder. "Sure we will."

Red didn't waste any time. She immediately grabbed Wembley's hand, and began running in the opposite direction as fast as she could.

"I'm sorry, but he can't help you today!" she called over her shoulder. "We have to go now! Come on, Wembley! Gobo's waiting for us. Time to go home!"

Felonious growled as he watched Red and Wembley regroup with Gobo and leave the grotto.

"Darn it!" he shouted.

"What do we do now, boss?" Fink asked.

"Follow them back to Fraggle Rock," Felonious said. "Then wait until he's alone. I'll get my hands on that little Fraggle one way or another!"