~ Acme Labs ~~~~~~~~~~

That night, the ponies waited outside the door of the lab.

"Is he sleeping yet?" whispered Gusty as quietly as she possibly could.

"Yes." Peachy whispered back, "I think so."

They opened the door silently, and walked silently inside, hoofsteps hitting the concrete floor with pattering sounds and echoeing off the walls.

Peachy placed the note slightly under Brain's cage so it wouldn't blow away in the wind, and then waited as Bowtie ruffled around the counters and drawers by Brain's cage. There were lots of papers and such inside of them, and it took a while to find what they were looking for.

"Got it." Bowtie whispered, holding up the vial of aqua liquid. It glowed eerily in the darkness broken only by the blueish light of the moon through the windows.

She unscrewed the cheez whiz and took out a glob as the others piled up desks, chairs and other various pieces of furniture silently as they could to make a stairway up to where the portal was. Then Bowtie unscrewed it, and jammed the Cheez Whiz into the vial.

Orange smoke filled the room, and Barnacle ripped off the boards covering the roof where they'd patched the hole, with a large crack.

Brain woke up, hearing the commotion. "What's going on?" he yelled, but it was too late.

The ponies lept one by one into the open portal with a blurred goodbye. Except for Gusty, who just grunted. Of course.

"Bye, Brain!" Yelled Bowtie, the last pony. She waved a hoof, then jumped into it, and the portal closed for the last time in a flash of blinding light.