The outside of the warehouse was now filled with Muppets and humans, who were thoroughly beating the enemy silly. Several miniature helicopters that were built by Doc and Sprocket were dropping water balloons and shooting water out of small water cannons at the goons.
Up in the sky, several chickens were flying above, clucking out "Ride of the Valkyries."
"Fly my pretties, fly!" Gonzo commanded from down below. "Now fire down below!"
Before any of Zia's army knew it, the chickens toward the evil party and the men were being hit by a barrage of egg bombs. A few of them nearly got the other Muppets.
"Hey, chickens! Watch what you're doing!" Zondra shouted at the birds, "You almost got me!"
Walter was running through the crowd, trying to figure out what to do, until he noticed Wilkins was just standing where he was, not doing anything. Walter also noticed he still had the sedative collar on him, meaning he was still kept under control. Then, the boy got an idea. He ran over to the Offed Muppet and clicked the button, making it turn off. Wilkin's tired eyes become wide open and crazy once again.
Icky Gunk, seeing this, shouted frantically, "Walter! What are you doing!?"
"I have an idea!" Walter hollered back.
"Say! I remember you! You're that guy that hates Wilkins coffee!" the Wilkins snapped.
"Actually Wilkins, I tried some of your coffee, and I was wrong to say all that bad stuff. It tastes great!" Walter lied.
"Really? Well, that's great!" Wilkins exclaimed.
"But you know who really hates your coffee?" Walter asked.
Wilkins froze and questioned in a really creepy tone, "Who?"
Walter pointed at Zia's henchmen and said, "See those people in the black uniforms and metal bats and knives? They all hate Wilkins coffee!"
Wilkins gasped in shock and shouted, "I'll take care of them!"
Within seconds, Wilkins ran at a group of henchmen, where one of the henchmen asked, "Who's the runt?"
"I am Wilkins!" Wilkins screamed at the top of his lungs.
Clifford, seeing the Muppet was free from his sedative collar, shouted to the other Muppets, "You might want to cover the kids' eyes. This could get ugly!"
All the older Muppets did as told and covered most of the Sesame Street characters' eyes and Kermit covered Robin's eyes. Then, Wilkins proceeded to beat the leaving heck out of them and throw them around the area, making a bunch of the other Muppets and human drop their jaws in shock and horror as Wilkins beat them all up so easily. When he stopped, he stood on a pile of unconscious, badly beaten and bruised henchmen, breathing heavily.
"Whoa," Zondra said. "Never knew he was that crazy."
"And I never knew there would be someone crazier than Animal!" Floyd added.
After the Muppets uncovered the kids' eyes, they proceeded to fight all the bad guys. At one point, Robin was leading Elmo, Zoe, and a bunch of other younger Muppets armed with Super Soakers until they were confronted by this huge thug. Robin yelped and shot water in the man's face, but the man just glared at them before shouting, "You're done for!"
The kids started to tremble in fear until Sweetums ran up, brandishing a huge club and hit the man on the side, sending him flying into a wall. "Leave those kids alone!" the monster shouted.
"Yeah Sweetums!" Robin and the other kids cheered.
At one point, Miss Piggy encountered another henchmen, who she karate-chopped away from her, sending him straight at Skeeter. "Skeeter! Watch out!" the pig warned her friend.
Skeeter looked in the direction the man was coming at her and reacted quickly by kicking him back towards Piggy. "He's coming right back at you!" she shouted.
Miss Piggy karate chopped the man back at Skeeter, who kicked him back towards Piggy, who chopped him back to Skeeter, who kicked him again. This went on for a while until Miss Piggy and Skeeter both karate chopped and kicked the man straight into a wall.
"That's what you get if you mess with us!" Piggy shouted before heading somewhere else on the battlefield.
Somewhere else on the battlefield, Oscar the Grouch, wearing a metal army hat, was standing with Telly right near a set of catapults.
"5 tossed salads, Private Telly!" Oscar commanded.
"Yes sir, Commando Grouch!" Telly obliged as he yanked a rope that launched several servings of salad and the goons.
One of them snapped, "Enough with this nonsense! Isn't there a real fighter here!"
Suddenly, Constantine showed up saying, "You called?" Then, the criminal frog started using his karate skills to beat up all the henchmen within seconds. "Pathetic," the Russian frog sneered as he walked away.
Telly, shaking with fear, said, "Constantine is scary."
"Yeah, I think we'll get along just fine," Oscar added, making Telly look at him, mortified.
"I'll get those punks for this," one of the thugs muttered, getting to his feet and about to go after Oscar and Telly when Grover, dressed as Super Grover, got in his way. "You will not harm these Muppets!" he proclaimed. "I, Super Grover, will defeat you with ridiculous ease!"
"And how are you supposed to do that?" the henchman sneered.
"By the most surefire way of defeating villains there is: hopping up and down and saying 'Wubba wubba' because it sounds so nice to say," Super Grover explained before hopping around in circles going, "WUBBA, WUBBA, WUBBA, WUBBA, WUBBA, WUBBA, WUBBA, WUBBA!" He was apparently convinced beyond doubt that this ploy would work.
The goon laughed sadistically and said, "Killing you will be a blast."
Then, out of nowhere, Crazy Harry popped up and asked, "Did somebody say blast?!" before he pressed down his plunger without warning and sent the bad guy flying into the air and crashing into part of the wall.
On another part of the fight, Zondra had a weapon that could take out a whole bunch of Zia's henchmen. "Okay, Ubu, Chip, round up as many of those bad guys as you can!" she ordered.
"Yes, mam!" Ubu exclaimed saluting the woman before he and Chip ran off.
They eventually came across a big crowd of thugs, trying to corner some of the Muppets, until the duo threw some pieces of the wall and threw them at the men. The goons immediately turned their attention to the two members of Gorilla Television and started to go after them. Finally, the two Offed Muppets led them straight to Zondra's weapon; a giant cannon that seemed to be the mother of all cannons.
Walter saw the cannon too and shouted, "Zondra, you can't be serious! That thing could destroy half of the yard!"
"I know!" Zondra hollered, grinning crazily.
The henchmen started to tremble with fear as Zondra lit the fuse. They wanted to run, but they were too terrified to do so. And even worse, the fuse was pretty short! They actually started to fall to their knees and beg for their lives, a majority of them crying! Zondra just giggled as the fuse burned closer and closer to the end. It didn't take long for the other Muppets and humans to notice what was going on and to stop what they were doing to see what was about to occur.
"Is she serious!"
"Oh my gosh! That'll get them all in one hit!"
"Is she crazy!?"
"Should we stop her?!"
"Quick! Cover the children's eyes!"
"This fight just keeps getting better and better!"
Then, the fuse was finally done burning, making everyone hold their breath, ready to scream. There was a long silence until finally, something inside the cannon clicked, meaning something was about to come out, and shooting out of the cannon was…a small flag that read BANG.
All the henchmen collapsed to the ground, passing out from shock, leaving all the Muppets and good humans, staring at what happened, wide-eyed and their jaws dropped open.
Zondra, hitting her fist on the side of the cannon, was practically laughing her head off. "Oh wow! That was bloody brilliant! That was rich! I knew they were going to do that!" she shouted.
"Zondra…are you okay?" Walter asked the girl.
Zondra stopped laughing and said in her normal tone, "Yeah, I'm fine, thanks."
Walter bit his lip, shaking his head, doubting her statement.
A bunch of others looked at the girl, a little annoyed by her little joke too, save for a few of the younger Muppets who didn't understand what happened and people like, Oscar, Crazy Harry, Constantine and the other Gulag prisoners, who were all laughing.
"I like the way that girl thinks!" Big Papa stated.
"Yes, she'd make a great villainess," Constantine agreed.
"Yeah, she's mean. I like that," Oscar added.
"You would think that, wouldn't you?" Kermit said, shaking his head in disapproval at his friends. "Now come on! I think we got them all! We have to find Zia!"
All the Muppets flooded into the warehouse, all splitting up into smaller groups to look for Zia.
"Now everyone, be careful! She could be armed with a gun or weapon of some sort! Just locate her without confronting her! Leave the confronting to the people with experience!" Nadya ordered the Muppets.
"Got it!" all the Muppets replied before running off in their groups in different directions.
The Fraggles traveled through the ventilation system, hoping to locate Zia in different rooms from the vents, but so far, no luck for them. A bunch of other groups went to the prison cell, thinking Zia was hiding in one of the small rooms.
Lips and Clifford decided to go as a duo, searching some other rooms. "Dang, for a human, she's pretty good at hiding," the Rastafarian stated.
"I'll say," Lips agreed. He had no idea why he wanted to team up with Clifford, he just felt like he wanted to. But he originally intended to team up with Animal, Floyd and Janice, but Clifford ran up to him and asked him if they wanted to be partners, and Lips mindlessly said okay. He had no clue what was making him want to be closer to Clifford. Lips also noticed he started feeling the way he did around Clifford after the Muppet saved him from the river. He was confused until he remembered something Skeeter said a few days ago: "Hey Lips, have you ever considered that girls aren't your thing?" she asked.
He remembered he said, "What do you mean?"
"I mean, like, maybe you'd be much happier with a guy than a girl," she had explained.
"No, I don't think I'm like that."
"Well, at least think about for a while, and then, maybe you'll find that the one for you is a guy," she said.
Now Lips had a feeling Skeeter was right after all; maybe he would be happier with a guy, and maybe that guy was Clifford. "So, Clifford, why did you want me to team up with you? I thought you were Pepe and Rizzo's closest friend?" Lips asked, curious.
"Well, Pepe wanted to hang around Spamela Hamderson; he had a thing for her in the past and I think he still does, and Rizzo and his rat buddies wanted to work together, so I was left alone until I thought of you," Clifford explained.
"Me? Why me?" Lips asked.
Clifford smirked at the trumpeter and said, "Cause I think you're cool."
"I see," Lips said, turning away from Clifford just so he could blush. Yep, he was definitely crushing in Clifford!
Then, there was the sound of clicking heels from down a hall. "Someone's coming!" Clifford shouted softly, before grabbing Lips and the duo hid behind a stack of conveniently placed crates. Then, the figure walked into the room.
"Is it Zia?" Lips asked a little too loudly.
"Yeah, it is! Now quiet!" Clifford hissed.
"I was just-," Lips said, until Clifford hushed, "SHH!" before he suddenly grabbed the trumpeter, held him close to his body and covered his mouth with his hand.
Lips squeaked in surprise and started to freak out. He was so close to Clifford at that moment, and it felt very odd! He was actually trying to hold back from screaming with embarrassment. Zia took a simple look around, checking to be sure nobody else was around, before she started to leave, but she stopped; she could've sworn she heard a small squeak coming from somewhere. She looked around the room a second, trying to figure out where the noise was coming from until she took notice of the crates in the room.
She then heard a long squeak, as if someone was trying to hold back from screaming, followed by someone whispering, "Will you stop squeaking! I think she can hear you!"
Zia smirked sinisterly before whipping out a small knock out grenade, which she flung over the crates and left the room. Clifford and Lips glanced down at the device, until they both realized that is was a grenade! But before they could get away, the small explosive went off, sending them and the crates flying into the air before crashing into the ground.
Clifford and Lips were now unconscious, and Rastafarian was still holding onto the trumpeter.
Yeah, I'm sort of planning a little bit of another pairing here. And can you see some of the references of past Muppet skits in this chapter, preferably regarding the Sesame Street characters?
What will happen to the Muppets next?
Will they capture Zia or will the evil woman escape before they have the chance?
Who will she hurt next? Find out in the next chapter of Offed-Stopping Zia.
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