Meanwhile, back in the main tent a very worried Fred Friendly is pacing back and forth when suddenly he hears Rebecca call, "Oh, Mr. Friendly!" and looks up to see the group approaching him with the tigers in tow. Mr. Friendly's face promptly lights up. "The tigers! Oh, my darlings, how wonderful to see you again!"

Upon seeing him, the tigers then hurry up to him and begin happily licking his face so exuberantly that they almost knock his silk hat off. "Ha, ha, I'm happy to see you again too, my dears." Mr. Friendly turns to the group. "Thank you all so much for finding my precious tigers again. However did you locate them?"

"Well, it was the oddest thing," Rebecca notes. "I was just wandering the fairgrounds, looking for clues, when all of a sudden I was hypnotized into thinking I was a tiger tamer! Fortunately, Mojo came to rescue me, and we were able to bring the tigers back; unfortunately, though, my bracelet seems to have been stolen."

"Oh dear," Mr. Friendly despairs. "This looks like more of the phantom's handiwork!"

"Don't worry, Mr. Friendly," Mojo replies consolingly. "We shall help find all of the missing performers and animals, which is to say that we shall recover them all and bring them to safety, which is to say that we shall rescue them all and bring the phantom to justice."

A look of relief crosses Mr. Friendly's face. "Ohh, thank you all so much! This means so very much to me and to the circus."

Just then, April and Deanna burst through the tent's entrance. "Guys! we're so glad we found you!" April begins. "There's something wrong with Arturo and Ace." Deanna continues. A concerned look crosses the group's faces. "Something wrong?" Rebecca echoes.

"Yes," Deanna elaborates. "They're in the next tent over, wearing trapeze artist's outfits and swinging from the trapezes."

"They have this blank look in their eyes, almost as though they're under some type of spell." April adds.

A serious look crosses Mojo's face. "The phantom must have hypnotized them, too."

"Don't worry, guys, we'll save them." Rebecca states as she and the others then make their way toward the next tent.

The group headed over towards the tent Deanna and April led them to, then they froze in their tacks. Ace and Arturo swung on two trapezes as they flipped around, then they caught their trapezes. Bubbles said, "Hypnotized or not, they're pretty good." Blossom looked around and gasped, "There's no net for these two! If they fall off, it'll be the end of them!"

Deanna said, "There's always something. If we had a blanket or some safety net that firefighters use, we could be able to save them in time." Mojo said, "We could use my cape, but I'm not sure if it's wide enough." He takes his cape off and says, "Girls, could you stretch it out for measure, please? For I need to know if we could be able to use my cape as a safety net or not, so we could be able to rescue Arturo and Ace."

Rebecca, Deanna, and April grabbed the ends to stretch the cape out. Mojo sighed, "No use. My cape's not wide enough. It's long, but not wide." Buttercup face-palms herself and says, "How can we be so dumb! Bubbles, Blossom, and I have superpowers! We could just fly up and catch them."

Rebecca said, "That's what I've been thinking, too. Girls, better catch them now!" Everyone looked to see Ace with Arturo on his shoulders as Ace held onto the trapeze. He does a double flip and is about to catch the other trapeze, but the wires began to snap! Blossom zoomed over towards the wire and tied it together, while Ace and Arturo were falling fast. Bubbles flew in time to catch Ace and Arturo, then sets them down gently.

The two are still in a trance, then Buttercup came towards the two and gave each of them a punch to wake them up."Wh-huh?" Ace mumbles as he slowly comes out of his trance. "Eh?" Arturo groans as he also comes to. "W-where are we? And why are we dressed so goofy?" Ace inquires.

"You were hypnotized by the phantom to think you were trapeze artists," Deanna replies. "Fortunately, the Powerpuffs were able to save you before you could fall."

"Oh, muchas gracias, Powerpuffs." a very grateful Arturo says. "Thanks, girls." says an equally grateful Ace.

"You're quite welcome." Bubbles replies politely.

"If we may ask, please," Blossom inquires. "How did this happen to you?"

"Well it was da strangest thing," Ace replies. "We was wanderin' around outside, lookin' fer clues, then suddenly we was up there, swingin' from da trapeze."

"The phantom did the same to me earlier," Rebecca states. "He hypnotized me to think I was a tiger trainer before Mojo came to save me and we located the missing tigers."

"Curiouser and curiouser." Arturo replies as he reaches into his pocket, upon which suddenly noticing his comb missing. "My comb! Donde esta my comb?!" Ace then reaches into his own pocket. "Hey, my wallet!"

"Oh dear, the phantom must have robbed you, too," says a concerned Rebecca. "The phantom stole my bracelet while I was hypnotized." A determined look crosses Mojo's face. "This menace must be stopped."

Just then, the group hears a loud trumpet, upon which they turn to see a large grey elephant with blue eyes, wearing a blue and purple headdress and a matching saddle approaching them. "Why, it's Petunia!" Bubbles exclaims happily. When the girls had previously paid Fred Friendly's circus a visit, Petunia the elephant had gone missing; fortunately, they were able to locate her and bring her back before the show began.

Petunia gently pats each of the Powerpuffs on the head with her trunk, causing them to giggle. "We'd better tell Mr. Friendly that we've found another missing animal." Rebecca notes.

"Good idea." agrees Mojo, upon which the group sets off toward the main tent again.