Part IV

Fifi and Furrball cautiously walked down the hallway in search of the laboratory. They feared meetings with Mr. Clean or one of his subordinates. The toons knew, that they must release the skunks before sunrise. Otherwise, the whole species are threatened with extinction.

At some point, Furrball saw a huge, open door.

"Maybe it here?", he said to Fifi and they both went inside.

As soon as they crossed the door, they shuddered. Opposite them sat the robot. The same, who kidnapped them to the secret base. However, the machine was turned off, so it doesn't pose a threat.

The room looked as an old factory. In its center was a huge conveyor belt. The skunkette and the cat came closer and they realize what it's to serve. These were "the dangerous toys". At the beginning of the way, every skunk will be chained to the conveyor belt, whereby it won't be able to move your paws. In the next step, each animal will be poured tomato juice and it lost its ability to use its "natural weapon". Subsequent devices were designed to only bring suffering and torture. Machines were peppered with knives, axes, machetes and other sharp instruments. The skunks also have to be rolled, twisted and wrung by other cruel devices. The last stage was the worst. Each speciman has finally to hit to the huge furnace with blazing fire. In this way, everyone skunk has finish its road. The last road. The toons were shaken.

"He isn't crazy. He's... He's...", Fifi couldn't find the words.

"...a psychopath.", Furrball finished. "It's unbelievable, that someone can have such sick ideas. We have to stop him!"

Seeing, that doesn't have skunks in this room, they headed towards the exit. The urple skunkette turned her head to look again at the instruments of torture and suddenly she remembered the words of Mr. Clean, who wanted to Furrball passed those suffering yet tonight. After these memoirs, she shed a tear and immediately clung to the arm of his friend. The blue cat was surprised, but he felt very nice, feeling her warmth. He even began to purr softly, but then noticed, that Fifi crying. The toon used his tail to wipe her tears. She looked at him and smiled gently.

"Don't worry. We'll find the rest of the skunks and escape.", Furrball said in a soft, warm tone.

The skunkette felt better, but she was also a bit surprised. She needed such words spoken in this way. On the other hand, she didn't expect, that heard it from Furrball. Does he could become an optimist?

The toons went down the hallway again in search of the laboratory, where the skunks were trapped.

"I think nous sommes getting closer to notre goal. Their smell is getting sharper.", Fifi said.

"How fortunate, that I have a broken nose.", Furrball thought.

Suddenly, they heard a human voice. Friends hid behind one of the columns located on the hallway.

"Why does he entrusted me this work? I can't withstand this stench!", the man said, starting with one of the rooms.

It was Professor Aggressor. He walked toward the room, where there were torture machines.

"The skunks are already in cages. Just check the technical condition of our toys, I move the latter two creatures to the lab and it will be all for today.", the thick little man with glasses muttered under his breath.

"Did vous hear?", the skunkette whispered.

"Yes, I did. We don't have much time.", the cat quietly replied.

The toons came to the lab. This, what they saw, it was unbelievable. Around the walls of the laboratory were situated tens or hundreds of thousands of cages, and each of them were a few skunks. Mr. Clean didn't spare any of them. Abducted were male and female, young and old, simply all the skunks.

New guests in the lab caused a lot of interest among the prisoners. Fifi and Furrball put their fingers to their lips, showing them to have kept silence.

"How do nous free them?", she asked her friend.

"I don't know. Opening cages with a hairpin is going to take long. We don't manage before sunrise.", he replied.

"These cages have hermetic locks.", one of the skunk in a trap interjected into their conversation.

"What?", they asked simultaneously.

"One of the buttons on the control panel opens all the cages.", he said and pointed to the computer, which was located near the door.

Furrball walked up to it, sat down on the chair and looked at the buttons. There were dozens of them, each in a different color.

"Which button do I press?", the cat asked the skunk in a trap.

"I don't know.", he replied.

"Try one after the other, mon ami." Fifi suggested him.

"Okay, let's start." Furrball nodded and pressed the green button. In the laboratory nothing has changed.

"Strange, does it not work?", the toon said.

However, the green button had properties. Mr. Clean slept in his bedroom, when suddenly launched a fire alarm system in it.

"What the hell?", the man yelled, being awakened by a cold shower.

At the same time, Furrball wanted to choose another button.

"Maybe this one?", he said, and pressed the orange button.

The cages were still closed. Meanwhile, the computer voice resounded:

"All gates and entrances leading to the base are open."

Machine's screen showed how all the gates and doors, through which can get out of the building, are automatically opened.

"We have facilitated the escape route!", Fifi said to his friend.

"Right, but it's still not, that what we wanted.", the blue cat responded and pressed another button. "Maybe red?"

Immediately alarm sirens sounded in the whole apartment and the mechanical voice from speakers said:

"Self-destruct the base mode has been activated. 5 minutes to the explosion."

"Just what we need!", Furrball facepalmed. "As usual, all by my bad luck."

"Don't give up, mon ami! Think positive!", the purple skunkette tried lift his spirits.

"Positive? How? Soon we'll be blown up! Don't have much time, and we still don't know which button is this!"

"I think, I know. Vous choose the blue button.", she suggested.

"Blue? But why?"

"Because I love...", Fifi paused, as if she didn't want to tell the truth. "Because I love this color."

The cat pressed the button and in a moment all the cages in the laboratory have been opened.

"Fifi, you're a genius!", Furrball walked up to the skunkette and hugged her.

All skunks began to jump out of the cages and run for the door.

"Faster! Faster! All exit doors on the ground floor are open! You must escape, because for a moment the building to explode!", the toons have informed the skunks, after which they went to check if all the cages are empty.

"What's going on?", Mr. Clean screamed at the sound of alert sirens.

"Boss! Boss! They flee! All! They opened the gate and are escaping outside the secret base", Stanley ran into his room.

"How could you let this happen?!", the millionaire didn't hide his anger.

Then Professor Aggressor stepped into the room. He also hadn't good news for his employer.

"Mr. Clean! They launched a process of self-destruction the base!"

"What?!"

"4 minutes to the explosion.", they heard the voice from the speakers.

"What an idiot creates a self-destruct button for the base?!", the balding man asked rhetorically the scholar. "Stanley! Immediately prepare our evacuation vehicle!"

"Well, boss. And where are you going, Mr. Clean?, the assistant asked him, seeing as he leaves the room.

"I have to deal with someone yet. Think I know who is responsible for all this...", the man mysteriously replied.

"All right Fifi, the cages are empty. Everyone fled.", Furrball said to his friend.

"If so, it's nous time to go!," she smiled at him.

The toons moved towards the exit of the lab. But then Mr. Clean came into the room.

"You! I knew it was your doing! Now, you don't flee me!", he shouted.

"3 minutes to the explosion."

END OF PART 4