Dwayne drove up to the front lawn in his van, rolled out, and fired his net gun at a plastic flamingo, knocking its head off. "Not again. Dang it!" he groused, once he noticed his blunder. "Those things are so lifelike; curse you, plastic moldsman!" He climbed back into his van and drove to the left side of the house.
Once RJ saw that he was gone, he took out a fishing rod and cast the line out to the roof of Gladys' house, where the hook clung to the side of the gutters.
"Okay, Hammy, get ready." Atticus told the hyper squirrel.
"Already on it." Hammy replied as he stretched himself.
Mo soon came up into the tree beside Hammy as RJ put the fishing rod handle in place. "Okay, Hammy, wait." she then tried to stop him, but he already ran across the line.
"Well, you can't call him unenthusiastic..." Lionel remarked.
Hammy ran across the string, though it lowered with him on it and he nearly touched the lasers, feeling nervous as he was suddenly lowered. RJ then quickly reeled up to bring Hammy back to the safe side as he went off far too soon.
"All right, let's try that again," Mo told Hammy. "Keep the string good and tight, RJ."
"It should be a lot better now." RJ nodded.
Hammy and Mo soon ran across the string together like it was a telephone wire before they made it on the roof and Hammy kicked the hook off of the gutters, so RJ reeled it back. "Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go," he then whispered as the two squirrels dashed off, though noticed that Hammy was distracted by the cookie on the roof. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no!"
"Hammy, stop!" Mo whispered loudly. "That cookie is junk, remember?!"
"But I like a cookie." Hammy replied.
RJ groaned, resisting the urge to strangle the squirrel.
"What's going on up there?" asked Verne. "Is everything okay?"
RJ dashed down the length of the tree trunk and gave an awkward "OK" sign. The others looked at each other at that.
"RJ, try a laser-pointer," Cherry smirked. "That drives Aunt Sarah's cats crazy."
RJ soon checked his bag to get her idea into consideration as he searched through his trinkets before he soon found it and pointed the laser right out where Hammy could see it. Mo looked coveted by the sight of the laser light and followed it with Hammy as her animal instincts took over.
"Here we go! Come on, guys, come on," RJ smirked as he made the squirrels follow after the light. "Follow the pretty light. There it is, that's it. That's it, that's it."
The two squirrels soon came to jump down the drainpipe together as the laser continued to go before coming beside the button panel to shut the lasers off.
"There it is. Go get it. That's it, that's it," RJ grinned as that was helping. "Go get it, you little nut!"
Hammy soon pushed the button that the laser was on and soon, the laser obstacle was shut off in an instant.
"Bingo!" RJ grinned, before poking his head around the tree. "Okay, step two." he called down.
"I thought we'd be dead by step two, so this is going great!" Verne whispered to himself.
The group wheeled the wagon and cooler across the lawn with ease and stashed it behind a bush.
"Okay, gorgeous, you're on," RJ told Stella, pushing her out into the open.
"Man, this better be one stupid cat..." Stella muttered to herself as she made her way towards the house.
RJ pointed to a See n' Say toy. "Audio! Go!" he exclaimed.
Verne pulled the lever, and the arrow landed on the "cow" picture. A mooing sound came from the toy, making everyone turn around.
"She's supposed to be a cat!" Verne whispered. "Put it on cat! Maybe the cat likes a cow..."
"I doubt it." Atticus rolled his eyes.
"Let's hope the cat likes a cow." Thor deadpanned.
"Who goes there?!" Gladys's pet cat glared from the window and soon shot right out of his door to see Stella.
"You're a cat! You're a cat!" Cherry whispered loudly from the bushes.
"You're a cat!" Stella soon told the cat.
Cherry then face-pawed at that.
"I mean, I'm a cat," Stella then nervously told the male cat. "Meow~"
"Yeah, right. Shoo," The cat scoffed. "Go on, get away from here. My owner does not give scraps to common strays."
"Common strays?" Stella glared as she turned around, about to spray him. "All right, you asked for it."
"Get the collar!" RJ whispered loudly.
"Gee, that's a nice collar you got on," Stella then said, turning around as she approached the cat. "Mind if I have a look?"
"No! Come no closer!" The cat panicked as he backed up away from her. "I must not be so near a creature of the outdoor woods. Away with your filth!" he then added before he suddenly sneezed.
"My filth?" Stella glared as the others began to feel nervous. "My filth?!"
"Oh, jeepers, here we go." Penny whispered nervously.
"Oh, that's it. I am sick and tired of everybody taking one look at me and running away 'cuz they think I'm filthy!" Stella glared at the cat. "Well, I got news for you. I didn't get all primped and preened to have some overfed, pompous puffball tell me he's too good for me. I got make-up on my butt, dude! And you don't even wanna know about the cork!"
"Stop! No one has ever spoken to me like that!" The cat glared sharply at her before he looked aroused. "It is bold. I like it."
RJ and Verne glanced at each other, then back to the action.
Stella was a bit shocked, but regained her composure. "Well, believe me, there's more where that came from..." she said, leading the cat away. "...Puffball!"
Once they were out of sight, RJ turned to the others. "All right, team, let's boogie!" he declared, and the others headed off.
"You are strong..." The cat told Stella. "Your essence is overpowering...!"
Stella panicked a little. "What? What do you mean by that?" she asked, nervously.
"It is your eyes." The cat replied.
"My eyes?" Stella asked, feeling a bit shy.
"They are luminous!" The feline continued.
If Stella were human, she'd have been blushing like crazy right then. "Luminous? Dang..." she remarked.
The Hedgies then met up at the cat door.
"You know, I think this is the part where I blacked out," Verne said to the others. "Did the little shoes and cars actually get into the house?"
Suddenly, the cat's collar was thrown on Verne's neck as the door briefly opened and closed.
"That's a yes." Thor replied.
"So you got a name?" Stella soon asked the cat.
"Yes. It is a Persian name, for I am Persian," The cat replied proudly. "I was born Prince Tigeriess Mahmood Shabaz."
"Ooh! That's a mouthful," Stella remarked as the others went in through the cat door. "Can I just call you Tiger?"
The others soon made it inside and looked all around the inside of Gladys' home.
"This place is huge." Ozzie remarked.
"Wicked cool." Quillo beamed.
"Animals are in the house." RJ then smirked.
Atticus soon dashed over to the fridge with super speed before opening the doors and saw the various amounts of food.
"So, what are we looking at-" Lionel started, before he took a look and trailed off. "...Now I know how Garfield feels on a good day..."
The other Hedgies gasped in amazement.
RJ gleefully rubbed his paws together. "...YES!" he exclaimed. "Okay, stations, everybody."
"Let's boogie!" declared Ozzie, and the team dispersed throughout the kitchen, minus Hammy, who was slipping and sliding on the floor. "No grip, no grip, no grip!
RJ grabbed him and set him down. "Hammy! Less claw, more pad." he instructed.
"Oh, okay!" Hammy replied; he did so, and took off, smacking into a china cabinet. "That hurt!"
"I'm sure it did, pal." Thor winced for the hyperactive squirrel.
Hammy then bolted off again. Ozzie soon rolled out some wrapped up plastic wrap over the kitchen counter before letting his daughter catch it. Heather soon caught it and began to run with the plastic wrap in the air before tossing it out the open window.
Quillo soon sat on the TV remote and accidentally turned it on. "Uh-oh."
"THX logo of death!" Cherry yelped from the logo on the TV as it let out a very loud and unpleasant sound.
"The audience is now deaf." Mo commented.
Just then, the TV screen's picture changed from the THX logo to footage of Gladys, asleep in her bed. Once that was done, the group got to work, loading cans of food into the wagon, one by one, so they didn't wake anyone up.
"This is making me hungry." Thor commented.
"You're always hungry." Cherry rolled her eyes.
Thor stuck his tongue out at that.
"Yes, I'm gonna make it." RJ grinned eagerly.
"My father, he had an exceptionally flat face," Tiger said to Stella as they got to know each other better. "He was so beautiful, he could barely breathe."
"Fascinating." Stella nodded.
Eventually, it was close to sunrise as the animals kept on loading food on the wagon.
"...Inside, I have a multi-leveled climby-thing with shag carpet," Tiger continued, not noticing how much time had passed. "Come, I show you."
"No, no!" Stella yelped nervously. "I haven't told you about my life."
"Good, good. Going great, going great." RJ nodded, as he heard a beeping sound coming from the percolator.
"What is that?" asked Verne.
"That is what gets the humans out of bed in the morning..." RJ explained, before it dawned on him. He and the others looked back to the TV, and saw that Gladys was no longer in her bed.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" They screamed.
"And it was going so well, too!" Lionel sighed.
"Where'd she go?" Bucky asked as he was watching the TV screen on Gladys's bedroom with his brother and sister.
"You were supposed to watch her!" Cherry told them.
"We fell asleep and got bored." Spike replied.
"Get down and stay down," Verne whispered loudly at the other animals. "Move. Move. Come on! We've gotta go before she comes back."
RJ looked into an open cupboard as Gladys woke up, coming into the kitchen to have her morning coffee as he spotted a certain food in the back. "No! Not without those Spuddies." he then said.
"What?!" Verne glared.
"Lou, Penny, Thor, back to the TV," RJ began to organize. "Cherry, Heather, keep an eye on that human. Atticus, get ready to lift the wagon and move it."
"I'm on it, RJ." Heather replied before leaving with Cherry.
"No, Heather." Ozzie said out of concern.
Verne clutched his head nervously. "The tingle... The tingle...!" he groused.
RJ was pushing a stool over to the cabinet as Verne followed.
"RJ! The wagon's full," Verne advised. "Let's get out of here."
"Hang on! Vincent, this'll only take a second!" RJ exclaimed as he raced up the side of the chair.
Verne raised an eye-ridge. "Vincent?
RJ whipped around, terrified. "Where?!" he exclaimed.
"Who's Vincent?" asked the turtle.
"Oh, Verne, Vincent," RJ replied as he pulled a pot over to the countertop. "Simple slip of the bear. Tongue! Just bear with me is what I meant to say..." he chuckled sheepishly as he made his way up. "There's no bear!"
The Hedgies began to look concerned and suspicious about that.
Cherry was shown with Heather, lying flat on the wall as Gladys came upstairs as Heather peeked her head out.
"Heather, no!" Cherry panicked.
Gladys looked over and soon gasped as she saw the possum and the mongoose.
"Lights fading... Limbs growing co-" Heather began to get dramatic like her father before Gladys kicked both her and Cherry at the wall making them fall flat on the floor and not moving, though Cherry seemed to twitch a bit.
"Heather!" Ozzie cried for his daughter.
"There are two dead rats on my staircase!" Gladys cried out on the phone. "One of them's white and another one's a bit brown! The brown one looks more like a weasel too!"
Ozzie picked up Heather as he looked like he was about to cry before she soon smiled and opened her eyes at him. "I thought you were dead." he then said to her softly.
"I learned from the best, Dad." Heather smiled.
"That's my girl." Ozzie smiled back proudly.
"Oh, yeah, no need to worry about me." Cherry rolled her eyes playfully.
"For a mongoose, you were good at playing possum too." Ozzie then told her.
"I'm just glad you're both okay..." Lionel remarked. "But in a matter of minutes, I doubt any of us will be okay."
And so he and the others regrouped in the kitchen.
"We'd better get going," Ozzie informed the others. "We haven't got much time."
"What's going on, RJ?" asked Verne, hanging off the raccoon's tail.
"Nothing!" RJ replied sheepishly.
"Well, then let's get out of here because we have what we need!"
"No, we don't...!" RJ grunted.
"What are you talking about? We have more than enough!" Verne protested.
"Hey, listen! I've got this long to hand over that wagon of food to a homicidal bear!" RJ snapped. "If these Spuddies aren't on the menu, then I will be! NOW LET GO OF MY TAIL!"
The Hedgies gasped in shock.
But Verne looked devastated. "...What?" he asked.
"Let GO!" RJ shouted, as he claimed his Spuddies... Before he fell over, knocking a wine bottle down from the cabinet and breaking it [the bottle, not the cabinet, folks].
"Speaking of go, I think we should do just that," Lionel suggested. "Before that crazy Verminator creep takes the 'playing' out of 'playing dead'."
"Agreed." Atticus nodded urgently.
"I'm sorry, I've gotta go." Stella soon told Tiger.
"Stella, Stella, where are you going?" Tiger frowned in concern. "Stella! STEEEELLLAAAA!"
"Look, it's not you," Stella told him as some of her make-up wore off to show her white stripes. "It won't work, okay? Because I'm a-"
"Skunk!" Gladys gasped in fear once she saw Stella.
"Yeah, that. Sorry you have to see this," Stella replied before she called out. "Fire in the hole!"
And at that, Stella sprayed the house with her stink as her cork went flying outside and landed in the middle of the road as a certain vehicle arrived.
"This smell doesn't bother you?" Stella asked Tiger as she saw that the cat was unaffected by the smelly smell.
"No. This face was bred for beauty," Tiger smiled. "I cannot smell a thing."
"You can't smell...?" Stella asked softly as she began to have a revelation.
"Come on, Thor, we have to go!" Atticus cried out to his best guy friend.
"We can't just leave the Hedgies!" Thor replied before Atticus pulled him by his tail to drag him out the cat door.
"If we stayed, we would've gotten captured too!" Lionel exclaimed. "As much as I hate doing this, we have ZERO choice!"
"Promise me they'll be okay at least?" Thor pouted.
"Sure they'll be okay," Atticus replied. "Sometimes you just have to sacrifice like this, but I promise you, we'll make it up to you later. Okay?"
Thor sniffled before wiping his eyes. "Okay." he then said, a bit sad about leaving their new friends behind like this.
Lionel patted him on the back and continued to help him along as they exited the yard.
"To the door!" Verne called out. "Go, go, go, go, go, go!"
Gladys soon gagged as she came to the door from the unpleasant smell.
"Run!" Verne then cried out before running another way. "This way!"
"Let's party!" Dwayne soon arrived with a gas mask as he got ready for work before shooting a net at the Hedgies. "Bunnies!"
The Hedgies then luckily got out of the way and Gladys's legs got trapped in the net, making her fall flat on the floor on her face.
"Flee, my love!" Tiger told Stella as he had to stay with his human.
"Run, that way. Outside! Move, kids! Come on!" Verne called out as he led the Hedgies to a door going outside, but they all squashed into the glass together as they were tricked by the glass door as it looked like it was outside.
"Buenos dias, reptile." Dwayne grinned as he soon brought out his net weapon and shot it at the Hedgies, trapping them instantly.
Soon, the Hedgies were all rounded up and put into cages, courtesy of Dwayne, who'd put them all in a pile on the front lawn. "You've just been Verminated." he chuckled at Verne, feeling quite proud of himself for coming up with that quip.
Eventually, the animals were being loaded up in cages to be properly disposed of. Gladys then stormed up right beside Dwayne.
"Phew!" Dwayne grimaced as he smelled her. "You stink."
"That's because you let them into my... HOUSE!" Gladys told him, nearly crying. "Those... Those-"
"Hey, Nancy, stop your honkin'," Dwayne told her. "These little guys will be disposed of quickly and humanely."
"No! Not humanely!" Gladys glared before she went back to her house. "As inhumanely as possible."
"It was a pleasure doing business with you, ma'am." Dwayne nodded as she suddenly left.
Verne soon looked outside of the cage, holding on to the bars like a convicted prisoner and watched as Atticus and Thor pushed the wagon for RJ as they went to bring the food over to a certain, hungry bear.
"Well... This is it," Lionel sighed. "The moment of truth."
"Yep..." Thor sighed. "I'm a little nervous though."
"We should be fine as long as this bear gets his food." Atticus replied.
"I just hope you're right." Mo pouted.
They soon made it up the hill, about to go into the cave until they were greeted by a voice. "Wow!"
"Vincent?" RJ asked as they soon saw the bear with a pair of binoculars.
"So I was on my way down here to kill you, but I stopped to watch the show, and I gotta say that, right there, is a thing of beauty," Vincent smirked as he came towards RJ and made him look out to the distance with his binoculars as Dwayne loaded the Hedgies into his van to dispose of them. "That is the most vicious, deceitful, self-serving thing I've ever seen. Classic RJ. You take the food, and they take the fall. You keep this up, you're gonna end up just like me. Having everything you ever wanted." he then said before he came to come to the food before Atticus stood in front of Cherry protectively in case the bear tried something.
RJ was wracked with guilt. "...But I already had that..." he mumbled.
Vincent gave him a glance. "What, them? Who're you kiddin'? You said it yourself: you're a family of one." he remarked. "Always will be. It's how guys like you and me survive!"
"Well then, Agent Bruno," Lionel replied in a Tony Jay impression. "I think now is a proper time to rectify your mistake."
RJ nodded at this, as he began to think.
"So a few saps got hurt in the process," Vincent continued. "Pfft. That's life. Trust me, you don't need them."
"Actually, I do," RJ soon said with a small smile forming. "And right now, they really need me. So I really need this!"
"Let's go, guys!" Atticus called out as he began to push the wagon.
"Wait up!" Thor added.
RJ went after them as Vincent took the chips before he saw what happened.
"RJ!" Vincent soon called out as RJ left the scene with Atticus, Cherry, Lionel, Mo, and Thor.
"Whoo-hoo!" Mo beamed as she began to fly out to the van as she glided in the air, putting her flying squirrel abilities into use.
"CowaBUNGA!" Lionel whooped as the wagon careened into the van's path and they smacked onto the windshield.
The cages shot forward and knocked Dwayne out cold, causing him to spin out.
"Ooh! That's gotta hurt!" Thor smirked.
The group held onto the van as they were spinning all around on the road before it came to a stop.
"There goes my back again!" Hammy yelped.
"Are you okay?" Ozzie asked his daughter.
Verne and RJ smiled as they saw each other through both sides of the window.
"You sorry sack of rat dung!" Stella glared once she saw the raccoon.
"Whoa, Stella, this is a rescue," RJ tried to tell her. "I'm rescuing you."
"I'm gonna gas you so hard your grandchildren'll stink." Stella threatened.
Lionel reached offscreen and pulled in a piece of paper and a marker. He scribbled something down and held it up to the windshield.
"RJ REALIZED HE WAS BEING A DOOFUS; SO HE CAME BACK TO FIX HIS MISTAKE." It read.
The animals then started to read what was written.
"Hopefully they can read." Thor said.
"If they know how to use TV remote controls, I think they can read that." Atticus replied.
Verne soon grew wide-eyed as he saw something behind RJ and the adventure group. "Bear!"
"What's that?" RJ asked.
"Bear!" Verne replied.
"Hair?" Cherry asked.
"Bear!" Verne repeated.
"Dare?" Mo asked.
"Bear!" Verne replied.
"Oh, bear!" RJ said before turning around and looked wide-eyed himself. "Whoa!"
Vincent soon lunged out to eat and kill RJ as he jumped onto the windshield.
"Back off, Yogi!" Lionel exclaimed as a frying pan materialized in his paws; he then used it to smack Vincent over the head a few times. "Hey... I got my powers back! Way Past Cool!"
Vincent snarled from the sudden frying pan attack, though he did look dizzy. Verne fell from the dashboard and fell on Dwayne's knee which made his foot hit the gas pedal that then sent the van riding down the road by force.
"We're out of control!" Cherry cried out. "Somebody stop or drive this crazy thing!"
"We can drive!" Quillo smiled as she and her brothers went to drive the car for them.
"It's just like Auto-Homicide 3!" Spike added.
"Somehow that doesn't fill me with confidence!" Mo yelled as the van careened down the street.
"I think I'm gonna be sick!" Cherry groaned.
The porcupine triplets soon ran across the steering wheel to drive them down the road properly.
Vincent soon latched onto the truck and clawed his way after them.
"Verne! Let us in!" RJ panicked from outside the window.
Verne then pushed a button which moved the window mirror with RJ on it.
"Wrong button! Wrong button!" RJ then panicked as Vincent was now right behind him before ending up on the roof of the vehicle with a certain hare who glared at him.
"Aww... What a cute little delicious bunny rabbit..." Vincent grinned as he came towards Atticus.
Atticus soon punched Vincent away from him which sent the bear flying back a few feet before he soon grabbed the back of the vehicle and his feet skidded on the roof of the truck, though the bump made Verne bounce and hit the GPS device.
"Please select destination." The GPS spoke.
"Take us home!" Hammy cried out as he punched the GPS. "Take us to the log!"
"Previous destination selected," The GPS then spoke again. "Make a legal U-turn."
"You got it!" Quillo exclaimed as he and his brothers ran on the wheel again, sending the van spinning into reverse.
Vincent lunged after RJ and the others, leaving some massive dents in the roof as RJ clung to the window.
"Hammy! Let me in!" he screamed, pounding on the window.
Hammy just covered his ears. "Lalalalalalala, not listening to RJ!" he sang loudly.
Verne turned to the Spiny Trio. "Kids, lose that bear!" he ordered.
"What weapons do we have?" asked Bucky.
Spike checked the dashboard, until he saw some orange buttons. "We've got a hammer!" he exclaimed.
"Cool...!" gushed Quillo as she mashed the button.
On the roof, Vincent threw the balloon rabbit aside as he tried to grab Thor, but he ended up getting whacked in the head by the hammer. "You little...!" he snarled as he tore the mallet from the display's hands, and tried to smash RJ himself, but he ended up breaking the right window.
"Thanks for the help, Bozo!" Lionel chuckled as he and the others crawled inside. "By the way, 'Bozo' was the name of the bear actor in the 1970's television series called 'The Life & Times of Grizzly Adams', for those of you who didn't know!" he added.
"Good to know." Atticus nodded.
The Hedgies caught RJ at first.
"Thank you! Yes, yes!" RJ said in relief, only to be tossed out the other window. "No! No! Let me in, let me in!"
"No! Ring-tailed charlatan!" Ozzie glared as he closed the window on the raccoon.
"Ozzie!" Verne cried out. "They're trying to help us. Just let them in."
"After what they did to us?" Stella glared.
"But they came back." Verne defended.
"And they brought a bear!" Lou added, gesturing out the window to Vincent.
"No fighting while we're driving." Spike scolded.
"We will turn this van around, Mister!" Quillo added.
"...He started it." Lou said as he pointed at Verne like a child.
"I'm telling you, they're trying to help us." Verne then told the others.
"But, Verne, you're the one who always says trust your tail." Ozzie reminded.
"But it's not tingling." Verne replied.
"Ohhh..." The other Hedgies then said as they decided to let RJ and the others inside with them. "Why didn't you say so?"
"For the love of humanity, let us in!" Cherry begged before the window opened up and she fell in suddenly with her tail over her head and she glared, swatting it away. "Thanks... I hate this tail!"
"It takes some getting used to, I'll admit," Lionel replied, cradling his own tail. "But it's so soft... And it makes a decent pillow." But his statement was derailed by Vincent tearing the roof open, making the group scream in horror.
"YOU'RE DEAD, RJ!" Vincent roared as he swiped a meaty paw at the raccoon, which he dodged. "AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE NEXT!"
"Look out!" exclaimed Bucky as Penny pricked Vincent, leaving him with a snootful of pointy quills. The gruesome grizzly reared back and let out a roar of anger and pain.
"Make an immediate left turn." said the GPS, and the triplets ran on the wheel once more, jutting Vincent to the side and forcing him to cling to the van for dear life.
Cherry soon cupped her mouth as she looked even more sick. The truck was soon back in the neighborhood as some people were out with balloons. They soon crashed into the balloons as some of the Hedgies screamed.
Vincent held onto the truck as best as he could before the balloons flew out to him and the strings latched onto his arms and he was suddenly blown away into the air. "RJ!" he then yelled out as it looked like he was defeated.
The animals soon cheered that the bear was gone and they were victorious.
"Look out!" Thor called out to the porcupine triplets.
"High score!" Quillo beamed as they drove right towards the speedometer and rode on it like a ramp as it went past 99.
Gladys was spraying out her house with a canister of air freshener, when she turned around to hear a honking noise, and saw the van careening towards her house. For a moment, the world seemed to be moving in super-slow motion... As the van crashed right into the top level of her home!
"Heeeey... Yoooou... Guuuuys!" Thor called out while in the air.
Hammy grinned as he saw Gladys and seemed to wave at her from inside the van.
"You have arrived." The GPS soon said after the crash.
The others groaned a bit and checked each other over.
"Huh?" Dwayne grunted as he soon woke up to see the Hedgies and he was suddenly upside down in his van while the animals were free from their cages.
"Come on!" RJ cried out.
"We've gotta go, we've gotta go!" Stella added as they scampered out suddenly.
Dwayne glared as he tried to grab them before grunting with slight pain. "The old jazz dance injury." he then grumbled before he fell from his seat and fell flat on his stomach.
The group scampered through the hedge, only to find Hammy gazing up at the sky, one shuddering finger-pointing.
"Hammy, what's going on?" asked Thor.
"Scary clown...!" was all Hammy managed to say; it didn't make much sense, but as the group looked up into the air, they put 2 and 2 together.
Up above them was Vincent, floating down with the clown balloon like he'd returned from the dead, as some sort of dark angel. The second his furry haunches touched the ground, Vincent plucked a quill off his snout, and used it to puncture the balloon, sending it spiraling off into the distance.
"Back over the hedge!" Atticus called out.
The Hedgies then rushed back over the hedge and were then faced by Dwayne. Dwayne laughed as he looked ready to finish them off as did Gladys as she stepped out of her house.
"A weed hacker, Verne," Hammy cried out as he saw the weapons that Dwayne and Gladys had, though Dwayne's appeared to be an electrical taser. "A weed hacker!"
The animals soon tried to hide inside of the hedge as Vincent brought his claws out to hit them and grab them.
"Up, up, go up!" RJ told the others.
"Show your little rat faces!" Gladys glared as she tried to get the animals with Dwayne. "Filthy creatures. Stay in the woods where you belong!"
"Watch out!" Mo cried out as she tackled Cherry down out of the way as the taser shot out and hit Vincent on the other side.
Vincent growled as he got electrocuted before hitting Dwayne back, nearly knocking his glasses off his face.
"You guys wanna party, do ya?" Dwayne grinned darkly as he decided to turn up the volume. "All right, then, let's party." He jammed his taser through the hedge again, and Vincent tore a chunk of the hedge off.
The animals were running about in a frenzied panic.
"Penny, Lou, look out! Down!" RJ called. "That's it! Verne, get everybody outta here. I'll distract him."
Verne gave a look of disbelief. "Are you crazy? He'll kill you!" he exclaimed.
"Well, I'm the one he wants," RJ replied. "Take care of your family, Verne."
"...I intend to," said Verne. "The whole family."
"It's so touching how close they all are." Thor smiled.
"Just focus, Thor!" Cherry reminded. "We're not done yet!"
"There's got to be something we can do." Verne said thoughtfully.
"There's no time." RJ replied.
"Maybe I should use my magic to freeze time." Atticus suggested to his friends.
"Not unless Verne and RJ have another idea." Cherry replied for just in case.
And then, as if on cue, two fireflies lit up above their heads like light bulbs!
"HAMMY!" they both exclaimed, getting the attention of the squirrel.
RJ took out a can of Mach 6 Energy Drink: Now With More Caffeine, and popped the top open.
"Ahh..." Lionel exclaimed in realization.
RJ popped out of the top of the hedge. "Hey, Vincent!" he called to the bear, holding up a potato chip. "With a Spuddie, enough just ISN'T enough!" he laughed, chomping down.
"RJ!" Vincent roared as he lunged at the raccoon.
"Now, Hammy!" Ozzie declared as Hammy guzzled down the entire can of energy drink. "Go! Go! Go-o-o-o-o...!"
Hammy began to twitch, spasm, and gibber wildly as the world seemed to slow to a complete halt. Everybody was frozen in place since Hammy was moving so quickly as he was more hyper than usual. Hammy soon walked out of the hedge while everyone else was frozen in place as he walked along, passing by Dwayne and Gladys before coming to the control panel and setting the setting to the picture of a bear and pushed the button to turn the lasers back on. The lasers were then slowly coming back on before Hammy sniffed something he really wanted and climbed up the roof to get what he wanted.
"I got the cookie~" Hammy sang to himself as he ate the cookie while going back across the yard to go back over the hedge, then glanced at Dwayne with a smirk and began to move the garden gnome to the man and laughed.
RJ was then shown to be wearing Verne's turtle shell while Vincent bit down on him violently before the raccoon began to smirk as Verne had the fishing rod and used the line to pull RJ to safety as Vincent began to fall from the hedge as everything began to go back to normal after Hammy did his job. Vincent landed on top of Dwayne and Gladys, which caused them all to fall into the crosshairs of the laser grid. As Vincent looked up with them, the secret weapon was activated.
"That's the..." Gladys began.
"The Depelter Turbo..." Dwayne finished, before wincing. "Prepare for a lot of stinging...!"
The Hedgies, as well as the group put on their protective eye gear to protect themselves from what was about to happen.
"Oh, no!" Dwayne panicked. "No, no! No, no! No!"
"Ouch!" Gladys cried out.
A bright light soon shot out from the Depelter Turbo as the porcupine triplets brought out marshmallows on sticks to be roasted while RJ brought out a bag of popcorn which popped it instantly. The bright light shined everywhere, even past the house and the whole neighborhood as the light went past outer space.
Eventually, the bright light cleared and suddenly, Vincent, Dwayne, and Gladys were all locked up in a cage together.
"My hair!" Gladys cried out as she was soon shown to be bald.
"That stung like I knew it would!" Dwayne told her.
"Okay... That was AWESOME." Lionel commented.
"Very epic!" Thor beamed. "I'm gonna remember this for the rest of my life!"
The Hedgies then cheered as they were victorious while the bad ones were defeated.
"Come here, Hammy, come here," RJ smiled as he pet the squirrel on his head while still wearing Verne's turtle shell. "You are a genius, my boy."
"Oh, thank YOU!" Hammy smiled back before burping his last word which sent him flying backwards.
"And, Verne, don't you ever fix this shell!" RJ then told the turtle.
"Yeah. Glad it's working for ya," Verne smiled before narrowing his eyes in annoyance. "Take it off, give it back."
RJ chuckled as he handed back Verne's shell and carapace.