Many new friends.
One morning, in Baker Street, it's so early enough for Holmes and Watson to got up and work. When Watson served the tea, Holmes just realized four of them haven't come out of their rooms yet.
Holmes: Watson, have you seen Aggie this morning.
Watson: No, Holmes. Not even Red or Basil or Dawson.
Holmes: It's not like them this morning. I'll go check on them. (knocks on the door) Aggie, Mr. Red, it's past seven already. Whatever you two are doing there, I think that's enough since last night.
When no one answered, Holmes opened the unlock door, and found no one in the room. Just a small piece of folded paper on the bed. He took it without reading, and headed back outside.
Watson: So, are they up?
Holmes: They're not here, Watson. I'll check on the mice. (kneels down and knocks on the small door with his finger) Basil, Dr. Dawson, are you in there.
Holmes gently pushed the door open and took a peak inside, which the room is empty.
Holmes: Basil and Dawson are not here.
Watson: Where could they be? They can't just leave without telling us.
Holmes: There was a note on Aggie and Red's bed. (unfolds the paper and read it) And it says there're going to visit their friends.
Watson: They might have gone to the I team's HQ.
Holmes: Then we must go there.
Holmes and Watson took the hovercraft and headed to the I team's HQ. But when they arrived, no one's around the HQ either.
Holmes: I suggest that Aggie brought the whole team with her.
Watson: What do you think they went to, Holmes?
Holmes: I'm not sure, but I'll do a little research about them back in Baker Street. I might find something exactly where they've gone to.
Back in baker street, Holmes did a research about the I team. He finally found something useful with just a type.
Holmes: Aha! Here it is, Watson. This is the I team's HQ, but in 5 blocks away was another HQ
Watson: There was a 2nd HQ?
Holmes: An HQ that Aggie never mentioned before. Probably she never wanted some of her friends to get captured, like the first ones.
Watson: Maybe she was only checking on them.
Watson: Right, Watson. Aggie has a big heart. She never cared for herself. She cared for her friends and family. We must go there too, see if she, her husband, and the mice made it there.
Holmes and Watson traveled again, and this time, headed to the 2nd I team's HQ. They stood in front of an open door.
Holmes: We can't just walked in, notice. We don't even know the other members of the I team. We have to be quiet. According to my research, the I team are not friendly and helpful, they can be very aggressive.
Watson: I never argue with that, Holmes. I knew all about them before.
When they slowly and quietly towards the door, the room is dark and very quiet. It's like a haunted house or an old abandoned house that was never been use for years. Once they were inside, the door shut closed itself, making the room darker than seconds ago. Just then, small light bulbs on the ceiling started to light up.
?: Now!
Foam arrows flew towards Holmes and Watson as they tried to avoid them. And then, they felt two small figures pushed them, making them fall on the floor and the two small figures, which are living gnomes, pinned them on the ground and pointed their spears at them.
Sherlock Gnomes & Gnome Watson: SURRENDER, VILLAINS!
Watson: What? Villains?
Behind the two gnomes, who look just like Holmes and Watson, some modern vehicles with eyes and mouth, small blue people, a white mouse with an eyepatch, a hamster with glasses, two Mexican gods, and three fishes in their respective fish bowls on their controlled carts pointed their weapons at them, ready to attack.
Holmes: This is impossible.
Danger Mouse: They don't seem so tough.
Chug: Yeah, Moriarty, that's what you when you attack the Imaginary team!
Holmes: Moriarty? What are you talking…?
Aggie: (comes out of the crowd) No, no, no. Wait, guys, this is a mistake!
Holmes & Watson: Aggie!
Aggie: That's Holmes.
Sherlock Gnomes: Holmes?
SmurfBlossom: "Holmes"? There's another funny word in this world. Holmes. Holmes! HOOOOOOLMES!
SmurfWillow: SmurfBlosson, no! Breathe deep, and don't come any closer to this human.
Aggie: Everyone, meet Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson.
Holmes and Watson got up when the gnomes hopped off of them.
9th Honorary group and Back-up I team: Hey!
SmurfLily: Hi, I'm SmurfLily.
When Holmes and Aggie shared a hug, Sherlock Gnomes and Gnome Watson had their doubts for these two visitors who look almost just like them.
Holmes: (to Aggie) Where's your husband and the mice?
Just then, a puppy, Toby, pushed out Basil, Daswon, and Red out from hiding, one-by-one.
Basil: 'Sup, Holmes?
Dawson: Hey, Watson.
Red: IT'S NOT MY FAULT!
Holmes: What about the rest of the I team?
Skipper: We're here!
The Main I team got out of the crowd.
Blossom: Just clean up the mess the kids made.
Then, the Honorary I team showed up
Ericka Van Helsing: Sorry we're late. Taking care of the kids. Oh I didn't we have visitors.
Dracula: We don't. They're our new friends.
Holmes: Well, thank goodness you're all okay.
Aggie: How did you find us?
Holmes: Well, I did a little research, and I wasn't born or reborn yesterday, you know.
Sherlock Gnomes: (snickers) Yeah, that's clear.
Holmes: Thank you. (to Aggie, Red, Basil, and Dawson) Look, you four have a lot of explaining to do for leaving Baker Street without telling us.
Sherlock Gnomes: Whoa, whoa! Not so fast there, Holmesy.
Holmes: (uncomfortably) "Holmesy?" (turns to Sherlock Gnomes) Are you and your partner in charge here?
Gnome Watson: Just today. Some group would be in charge tomorrow.
Sherlock Gnomes: My partner here, Dr. Gnome Watson, and my name is Sherlock Gnomes. Sworn protector of London's garden gnomes.
Watson: I think you mispronounced it. It's Sherlock Holmes.
Gnome Watson: Whatever you say. (chuckles) "Holmesy" Good one, Sherlock.
Holmes: Excuse me, do you mind not calling me that?
Sherlock Gnomes: Well, if the "y" fits.
Holmes: By the way, where'd you learn those moves?
Sherlock Gnomes: Self-taught, actually. Additional moves from Aggie.
Holmes: Impressive.
Sherlock Gnomes: Thank you.
Holmes: You're quite welcome.
Aggie: (clears throat) Okay. I'm glad you guys finally met each other. Of course, I've been expecting that you guys should meet, but…
Gnome Watson: It's because you're embarrassed that we have the same names?
Aggie: Well, uh… Well, yeah. It's true.
Sherlock Gnomes: I don't feel embarrassed.
Holmes: Neither do I. It's nice to meet someone who almost looks just like me.
Aggie: To you guys, not to me! Face it, guys! I'm more of a sensitive person.
Watson: I can't help but notice… (to Watson) You're not even a human! You're a compudroid!
The 9th Honorary group and the Back-up I team gasped.
Watson: How did you possibly know that?
Gnome Watson: Not by appearance notice if that's what you think. When you walked in, I heard something squeaky…not just any squeaky, something from a moving machine. And second, when I heard footsteps, I know there are two people entered, and one of them is a human.
Watson: (whispers to Holmes) He's good.
Holmes: Quite good.
Sherlock Gnomes: Don't be too conclusive. I trained Gnome Watson to be a detective ever since we left our world to work with the I team.
Aggie: We shared lessons with each other for years.
Watson: But why didn't you tell us about the rest of team?
Holmes: I know why. When Moriarty captured most of the I team, the rest wanted to help search for them, but Aggie never allowed them to, and she wanted to find the captured ones all by herself. She doesn't want the rest of the team to be captured as well.
Aggie: How would you know that?
Holmes: I know you, Aggie. You're like your great-grandfather. You both never want to put your friends in danger. You both care for your friends and family than yourselves. You don't want to lose your team after you lose your parents and family.
Sherlock Gnomes: (elbows Aggie on her side) I like him already. He describes you pretty well, like I do when you saved my and Watson's lives.
Aggie: I know you would.
Just then, a scream was heard from a room. Behind the crowd, a human girl with red feather hair and red eagle wings on her back was launched over, and landed in the middle.
Girl #1: Nailed it!
Holmes: Hey, little madam, are you alright?
The girl shook her head, and looked up. She gasped when she observed the person in front of her. He recognize the inverse cape and the deerstalker cap before.
Girl #1: You're… You're… You're… (happily) SHERLOCK HOLMES!
Holmes: Yes. (extends his hand to her) At her service.
"The girl" was so excited. She took his hand and shook up and down rapidly, and screamed like a fangirl.
Girl #1: (squeals) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Holmes was uncomfortable with the young girl's handshake as he quickly pulled his hand from her.
Just then, three children came out from behind the crowd; the first one was white bird with black human hair, wearing red helmet on his head and roller skates on his feet, the second one is a red bird who looks like Red with a four leaf clover on her head feathers and fairy wings that look like Aggie's wings, and the third one is a vampire with large fangs, black human hair, and bat wings on his back, wearing gray clothes and a necklace with a cross around his neck.
Boy #1: Whoa, sis! We just launched you a meter. What are you—?
When the three children just spotted Holmes, they reacted the same as the girl did as they hugged each other, jumped up and down, and screamed like fangirls.
Boy #1, Girl #2and Boy #2: (squeal) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Most of everyone covered their ears from the children's scream.
Holmes: What is wrong with them?!
Basil: I don't know. But I think you're the reason.
Girl #2: Sorry! It's just you're... SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. JOHN WATSON!
Girl #1, Boy #1, Girl #2, and Boy #2: (squeal) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Miley: Oh, kids, please. You might shatter my grandmother's plate collection.
At Miley's room, on the shelf, the plates with famous celebrities' faces on them were cracked but didn't shatter completely.
The four kids covered their mouths to stop their screams.
Girl #1: Sorry, we're just so excited.
Homes: They are really like wild creatures, huh?
Red: (embarrassingly) Yep.
Watson: And fans, right?
Aggie: Yes. They're my and Red's children.
Holmes and Watson: (Shock) WHAT?!
Red: Yeah. Four of them. No big deal.
Girl #1: (to Holmes and Watson) We're so sorry. We just... We can't believe we're meeting you! My name is Amaranth Red Galido, and I'm your biggest fan.
Boy #1: Umm… "we", Remember? (to Holmes and Watson) I'm Crimson Red Galido and I read all of your stories. They were so great!
Holmes: Well, it's nice to meet you, little ones.
Girl #2: (tugs on Holmes inverse cape) Hello, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I'm Clover Scarlet Galido.
Boy #2: My name is August Crimson Galido.
Holmes: Now I can see the resemblance from both of your parents.
Aggie: Yes, well, it's good thing you finally met the rest of the family. I think it's time for us to go. (pushes Holmes and Watson towards the door)
Holmes: Hold on there, young lady. Since we finally met your children, and the rest of the team… especially them (points Sherlock Gnomes and Gnome Watson), would you mind to take them back with us to Baker Street? You know, a little friendly introduction of our humble home?
Aggie: (thinks) Well, since you're here, I'm fine with it.
Aggie smiled when her children, the 9th Honorary group, and the Back-up I team cheered in excitement.
The whole team followed Holmes and Watson in their hovercraft with the Millennium Falcon. They parked their transportations safely in Baker Street.
They all got off their vehicles.
Sherlock Gnomes: So this is where you live? 221B Baker Street? Not like my flat back in my world.
Basil: SG, your place is an open flat! It's not even a flat at all.
Holmes: The place is much better if you look inside.
When they were about to go inside, most of the I team decided to stay outside since some of them are too big and crowded for them to fit inside.
La Muerte: What if the children should go inside first? We'll stay here and watch over the Falcon.
Aggie: No problem, milady. (to the Galido siblings) Come on, kids. Let's go!
Only Holmes, Watson, Basil, Dawson, Sherlock Gnomes, Gnome Watson, Aggie, Red, and their children went inside as the Galido siblings were shivering in happiness.
Amaranth Red: I can't believe we're meeting the actual Sherlock Holmes…
Crimson Red: Stepping inside of his actual home in Baker Street…
Clover Scarlet: While walking in his flat!
August Crimson: THIS IS THE GEATEST DAY OF OUR LIVES!
Red: (chuckles) Kids, please, no yelling!
Holmes: It's alright, Mr. Red. I'm glad there are children in this century really appreciated the place.
Clover Scarlet: Oh, we were! We were!
Sherlock Gnomes: So, this is your flat. Big, lots of desk and shelves, good place you got here. And having small holes with doors down the wall.
Dawson: Technically, those are my and Basil's rooms. We just moved in. Aggie made each room for us.
Sherlock Gnomes: And are you okay with that, Holmes?
Holmes: I can have more than two friends.
Aggie: Ooh, so you did learn friendship from these past few months.
Sherlock: (groans) Why am I not grateful of this?
Suddenly, a news was shown in Aggie's laptop.
Reporter: Breaking news, garden gnomes were stolen all over New London, and, if possible, no one ever saw who or what group has been stealing these innocent gnomes.
Sherlock Gnomes: Finally, a new case! (rushes down the stairs)
Gnome Watson: Now that's what his grateful of. (follows his partner)
Aggie: Hey, wait up!
Watson: Can we do something, Holmes?
Holmes: It wasn't my jurisdiction to interfere with this, but this case needs some extra help, just in case.
When Holmes and Watson left, the Galido children followed. Only Basil and Dawson were left behind.
Dawson: Basil, should we go?
Basil: I'm afraid not, doctor. You go with them. I'll stay here. I might figure out who' behind all this without a single clue.
Dawson: You can't solve a case without any clue. You said it yourself.
Basil: I already got what I need. I have to rewatch the news again.
Dawson: (shrugs) If you say so. I'll see you later, Basil.
Meanwhile, when the two gnomes raced out, they went up to the Millennium Falcon, Aggie, Red, and their children stopped behind with the rest of the I team.
Marlin: What's going on?
Aggie: We kinda have a new case. I'll explain later. But right now, get into the ship, everyone!
The whole team rushed into the ship as Red guided his children in.
Aggie: (turned to Holmes and Watson) Holmes, Watson, what are you doing?
Holmes: Taking the hovercraft. Why?
Aggie: We don't have time for this! Just get into our ship! Just for once! (pushes Holmes and Watson into the ship. Then, notices Dawson panting heavily while shutting the door close) Doctor, where's Basil?
Dawson: He has to stay behind. He has something else to do.
Aggie: (groans; picks up Dawson) Can that mouse be sociable sometimes?
When Aggie got in the ship, the door closed, the ship rose from the ground, landing gears pulled in, and the ship flew in the air above New London.
The I team arrived in an empty garden, where there are no owners of the garden are present, and the place was empty, except plants and insects.
Timmy Turner: It's quiet. Too quiet.
Bubbles: And it's beautiful. Too beautiful.
Sherlock Gnomes: It is an ornamental crime on a scale we have never seen for 78 years. (whips out his magnifying glass to closely examine the grass.) This garden alone lost 10 gnomes today. Grass, perfectly even. Soil, undisturbed. Ant colony, thriving. Do you see it, Watson?
Gnome Watson: Yes, there are no footprints.
Sherlock Gnomes began crawling on all fours, sniffing the grass like a dog, catching a piece of grass in his mouth before he sat up and spit it out.
Sherlock Gnomes: Someone kidnapped all the gnomes from this backyard without leaving a single footprint.
Holmes: Not even a single clue like tiny dust, strand of hair, piece of shredded clothes, or drop of blood around here. No smashed gnome pieces either.
Sherlock Gnomes: Ugh, you, humans, have low and violent cases.
Holmes: It's a human thing! (whispers to Gnome Watson and Aggie) Is he always this rude?
Gnome Watson: If you want an answer for that question, our old friend would say "yes". And I agree. But Sherlock wasn't as rude as you think. He took his job seriously, just like you do.
Watson: Then, where's your old friend you just said? Why isn't he here?
Gnome Watson: Technically…, he's gone. He died.
Sherlock Gnomes: The way you said, Holmes, you almost sounded just like our old friend years ago. He's excellent of describing human clues than I am. (sighs sadly) Oh I wish I haven't been so rude to him before he died.
Gnome Watson: He's just trying to impress you and trying his best to save our lives everytime.
Holmes: Then who is this old friend of yours?
Sherlock Gnomes: No time to explain. We have to keep going
When the detective gnome rushed back to the Millennium falcon, the rest of the team followed him while Gnome Watson and Aggie explained the whole story.
Gnome Watson: He doesn't want to talk about it. We've mourned for the lost of our dear friend for years, until we finally moved on when Aggie came.
Aggie: SG said that I'm his deceased friend's "replacement". I don't want to be a replacement, but I accept the offer anyway.
The team went to almost all gardens of New London for 2 hours, and there's still no clue of whoever or whatever stole them. When they rested in the Millennium Falcon, they studied the New London map that Cubby and Cubry created, and marked the garden spots with red stickers.
Chyna: Ugh, we've been everywhere.
Yin: The gardens we visited have gnomes who were kidnapped.
Aglet: And there's not a single clue left behind on each garden.
Prenda: It's like they just disappeared into thin air.
Twilight: Or by magic.
Sherlock Gnomes: 20 gardens of gnomes vanish into thin air. No clues. Not so much as a single footprint. There is only one ornament evil enough and brilliant enough to pull off such a diabolical scheme... Moriarty!
Holmes and Watson: (surprise) Moriarty?!
Gnome Watson and Aggie: Moriarty?!
Aggie: We haven't seen him for 78 years after I saved you from his attempted smash plan. Luckily, he wasn't there when I saved your lives, risking my secret identity as a human. Besides, he's a piece of plastic. He could've been a rot after all this years.
Sherlock Gnomes: We can't have seen the complete picture. He's still alive
Aggie: How could he possibly have survived immortality? Anyway, Moriarty always left us a clue, his calling card, like what you trained me for before he disappeared.
Gnome Watson: If he didn't, he created a pattern on the map of the garden where he kidnapped the gnomes.
Joseline: I don't know (unscrolls the map) All of the gardens we've been are separated from one street to another. The dots are unconnected and scattered. These can't create a pattern of letter "M".
Sherlock Gnomes: If you're right, this means it hasn't been Moriarty.
Holmes: Ah…
Aggie: Not your Moriarty, Holmes. Sherlock Gnomes' archenemy, Moriarty, is a pie mascot who is one of the some ornaments just manufactured evil. And Moriarty was the most evil of them all. He hated and terrorized the ornamental world for years! Until he met his match in Sherlock Gnomes, and beating Sherlock became his obsession. So Moriarty began to play a terrible game. He would kidnap gnomes, leave a trail of clues as to their locations, and challenge us to find them within 24 hours or he'd smash them.
Watson: Smash?
Aggie: That's how a gnome died or how they were killed.
Gnome Watson: That's how our old friend died. He was smashed by a car when he saved our lives.
Holmes: Oh. Forgive me for…
Sherlock Gnomes: It's fine. Since we've spent two hours of searching clues, we have only 22 hours left to solve this case.
Holmes: Just like my arch-nemesis. Professor Moriarty does kidnap rich and powerful, and like to play games with me to rule the world, but not killing people.
Sherlock Gnomes: Wait, you… have a nemesis? Who's name is Moriarty too?
Aggie: His full name is Professor James Moriarty. A criminal mastermind, and Holmes describes him as the "Napoleon of Crime"!
Dawson: I thought Professor Ratigan is the Napoleon of Crime.
Aggie: Professor Ratigan is dead. You and Basil told me that story. He fell off the Big Ben. Remember?
Dawson: Right. You're right. It's just been years.
Aggie: You know who's my "Napoleon of Crime"? Denzel Damai!
Sherlock Gnomes: Well, we do have hatred for our respective nemeses. Lucky for Basil, his is already dead. Hope he found a clue for this case. Where's Basil anyway?
Aggie: Oh, he was left back in Baker Street. He has something to do.
Tigro: Like what?
Dawson: He told me that he's able to solve the case without clues.
Twinkle Sparkle: That doesn't make any sense.
Amaranth Red: You know Uncle Basil, he does his work seriously.
Sherlock Gnomes: Let's just go back to Baker Street. He better have a clue when we got back.
When they ship parked safely near the building, only Aggie, Red, their children, Dawson, Holmes, Watson, Sherlock Gnomes, Gnome Watson, and few members of the I team came in and walked up the stairs, leading to Holmes' flat.
Aggie: (knocks over the door) Bas, we're back! (opens the door) We've been all over New London, checking 20 gnome-free gardens, and didn't find a single clue. So we hope you…
When they entered the room, they gasped in horror when the flat was a mess. Some things were scatted on the floor, but none of them were destroyed or broken.
Penfold: Oh, eek!
Crimson Red: Lucky thing we came along with you, Mom.
Aggie: Yeah, lucky.
Watson: We've been robbed?
Holmes: I think not, Watson.
August Crimson: How would you know that?
Holmes: Eyes and brains, young lad. I recognized all my things I stored here. Some of them are scattered on the floor, and nothing is missing. The furniture were in good place, good shape, and unopened.
Screwball: He's not lying, guys.
Sherlock: Eyes and brains aren't my thing, but he's right. It seems there was a chaos here.
Holmes: I assumed there was a fight here.
Aggie: But basil is the only one here. Where's Basil?!
Dawson: I checked in his room and mine. He's not there.
Red: He's not in our room.
McQueen: He's not down here.
Tinkerbell: (outside the window) He's not out here either.
Jerry: Where he could be?
While the others searched for some clues, Dawson noticed something familiar with the scattered thing on the floor. He saw a black cape with red lining. Dawson saw a lot of black capes with red lining, but he found a long stemmed filter cigarette and short strands of black hair in the cape. Dawson smelled the items as his eyes widened in shock and fear. He recognized that smell from someone he and Basil knew and hated.
Dawson: (in fear) It can't be.
Sherlock Gnomes, on the other side, found another clue under the scattered papers. He found a plastic rolling pin. He may saw lots of rolling pins before, but he recognized this rolling pin as he recalled it in his head and he never saw it in decades.
Sherlock Gnomes: It can't be, indeed.
Holmes found another clue himself. It's not a thing, but a presence in his flat minutes before they arrived. He probably knew who was here, but he's not sure of it.
Near the window, Aggie found a big white cloth that has shreds on the sides and corners, and has a big letter "D", painted in black. She also knew who was behind of the disappearance of her friend.
Aggie: Oh my golly.
To be continued…