Over with Ace and Snake, Snake woke up with a scream, "AAAAAH! ACE! A-A-A-A-ACE!" Ace shot up and said, "What's wrong?" Snake looked around and asked, "Who ssscreamed?"

Ace said, "You did."

Snake said, "I did? Huh, guesss I ssscared myself sssilly."

Ace said, "Listen, we should split up and find anything suspicious. Got your flashlight?" Snake has one out and nods, then Ace said, "Okay, let's get searching." Over with Mojo, he looks around the hallways and says to himself, "Okay, everything's fine and quiet." Mojo goes towards the living room and sits on the rocking chair. Unknown to him, Midnight is curled next to the rocker and swishes her tail when Mojo rocks.

Mojo said, "I'm not scared. I'm not afraid. Why should I be afraid? Babies are afraid. Heh, but I'm not a baby. I mean, Bubbles is always the one who scares herself easily." Mojo takes out a stick of gum and starts chewing on it, while he's still rocking. Midnight sits up a little and when Mojo rocked a bit too far, the rocker squishes the cat's tail. Midnight screeches, "RAAAAAAAAOW!"

Mojo stops and a big bubble he made pops into his face, then bolts up when Midnight screeches again, "MEEEEEEEEEOOOOW!" Mojo yells in alarm, "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" He takes cover near a tiger skin and hides under it, but looks up to see a pair of green eyes and some whiskers. Mojo sighed, "Midnight, was that you? Sorry if I rocked on your tail."

The cat gave a tiny mew and rubs her face next to Mojo's, then Mojo picks up the cat in his arms and gets up from under the fur. Mojo felt his face, gets the gum off, and says, "Talk about bursting one's bubble."

As the chimpanzee walked around with the cat in his arms, Mojo heard footsteps behind him. He turned around to find who's behind him, but there wasn't anybody there. Mojo mutters, "My mind's playing tricks again. I guess I should check Rebecca and see how she's doing." Mojo went up the stairs and once he was about to reach the room, Midnight jumps out of Mojo's arms and paws at the bookcase. Mojo picks up the cat and says, "Midnight, they're just ordinary books. Come on, you should get some sleep." He made it towards the room and opens the door, but stops in his tracks to see the bedroom a wreck and nobody in the bed. Mojo gasps, "Oh no..." Midnight jumps out of Mojo's arms and runs off, which made Mojo sigh, "I hope Rebecca's alright. I'd never forgive myself in anything bad happens to her."

Meanwhile, Ace and Snake are searching the library. "Mmn," Ace muses a bit apprehensively. "Nothin' ta be afraid of here, at least I hope not." As they pass by a bookcase, something catches Snake's eye. "Hmm," he contemplates, perusing three books sitting at eye-level on the shelf. "'The Hisssstory of Lawn Gnomessss: A Four Volume Sssssset.'" Curious, he takes the books off of the shelf. "Wonder where the fourth volumessss issss." Suddenly, a boxing glove-clad fist shoots out of the empty space where the books once were and hits him squarely in his sharply pointed nose. "Ow!"

Ace whips around. "You okay, Snake?"

"Yeah," Snake replies, rubbing his sore nose. "But there'sssss sssssomethin' weird about disss bookcassssse." He removes the books from the shelf again as Ace walks over to get a better look. "Sssssee, I jus' took thesssse bookssss away like ssssso, and then-" Snake cuts his sentence off abruptly when nothing happens. "That'sss sssstrange," he says with perplexity, peering into the hole. "Jussssst a moment ago it-" Suddenly, the fist pops out and socks him again. "Ooh!"

Snake quickly ducks down to the floor; as he slowly rises back up, the fist shoots out again, upon which he grabs it. "Hah, think ya'ssss pretty ssssmart, don'cha? Well, I gotchassss now!" He's no sooner said this, however, when a second fist zings out and clocks him. "Ooch! Me an' my big mouthssss."

Ace trails off toward a large, ornate bookcase on the other side of the wall. "Gotta say, there's been a lotta weird stuff goin' on around here." As if to drive the point home, a hand reaches out from behind the bookcase and snatches up his sunglasses. "Huh?" Ace touches his nose where his shades once were in perplexity. "Who did that?" Almost immediately, the hand gently drops Ace's sunglasses back on, leaving him scratching his head. Suddenly, the hand reaches out again, covers his mouth, and drags him behind the bookcase! "MMMPH!"

Upon hearing this, Snake peeks over his shoulder casually. "Did you ssssay ssssssomethin', bosssss?" Suddenly, he notices that Ace isn't there anymore. "Bosssss? Hey bosssss, where'dya go?" Snake shudders and gives a very audible gulp. "Sssssssomethin' bad'ssss happened. Acccce jussst got kidnapped! Ooh, I gotssss ta find Mojo and the otherssss 'n warn 'emssss!" And with that, Snake takes off toward the exit.

Meanwhile, in the secret room, the villainous Sedusa has just tied up Ace and is tying a silk handkerchief over his mouth. "This will teach you to spy, meddler!" She then carries him over to a chair next to Arturo and ties him up by his arms and legs. "You'll not soon stop us from carrying out our scheme!" She punctuates her sentence with a nasty laugh as she leaves.

"Becca? Arturo?" Ace says weakly in a muffled voice. "Did they get you guys, too?"

"Uh huh." comes their muffled reply.