"Are we there yet?" Lil asked impatiently. Her seatbelt barely restrained her; she had long learnt to manoeuvre it so that it gave her free movement. She knelt on the chair, sitting up and pressed herself against the window. Small hands were pushing against the glass as though she could reach out to the passing landscape outside.

"It's a bit further I think, by this map..." He glanced in her direction and he frowned worriedly. "Get back in your seat, the potholes here are bad."

As he reprimanded her, she turned around with a disappointed look. Plonking herself back into the seat and twisting her neck to view their surroundings. The car jostled from a pothole that had been missed, he cursed very quietly under his breath.

"Can barely see those bastards. And there's too many small ones," He leaned up in his seat, looking over the steering wheel watching the road carefully and they were jostled constantly, with only a few hard bumps every so often. The surrounding gum trees and various low crawling shrubbery; it all felt too closed in somehow. The dirt track like road, was narrow, and would only allow one car to drive along it at a time. Yet away from the cleared track, the encompassing bush around them was not dense at all. The long spindly trees shot up high with patchwork and thin foliage above. There was room in between all the trees, the sky still clearly visible through the thin layers of leaves. It looked wide open, yet had a feeling of being encased in something far from civilisation. A lonely desertion.

"What's that Pippi?" She pointed to a sign. He scanned it quickly, the large letters spelling out an Aboriginal name he could not pronounce for the life of him. But the finer print beneath it made much more sense to him.

"An Aboriginal burial ground." He shot a quick glance at her, seeing her about to form a question with small lips, but he looked back to the road and cut her off. "And no. We cannot go look at it. We'd be disrespecting their place. Plus I'm sure that's why the sign is there, to keep little thirsty eyed curious children -"

"Are those skulls on sticks?!" She squealed excitedly interrupting him.

"What?" He choked the word out slightly shocked and looked to her side. Her face was once again pressed up against the glass, little fingers pulling against the seatbelt to allow her more movement. Though whatever she had squealed about, were surely not skulls. To him it seemed more like torches, slightly odd ones. They could even be traditional tombstones, figureheads of some kind. He really didn't know very much about these things.

She sat back down sighing. "They really looked like skulls. How much farther? Can't we go faster?"

"No, this track is hard enough to manage at this rate." So the car slowly moved its way down the track, trees thickening and thinning randomly.

Grey clouds hung overhead, but the air was humid and warm. The perfect weather for thunderstorms. After ten slow minutes of driving another car roof came into view. For a moment he worried that the car was driving towards them, and there was no room for either to pull over to any side, as the track was completely flanked by trees. More cars appeared, and all were stationary, all parked, and in clear view as they crested the hill. The fencing of the reserve came into view.

"It looks locked!" She cried out, squirming in her seat and sitting up to get a better look. He turned the car in and parked the car, sighing as he turned the keys. If it was locked what could they do but turn back and slowly make their way through the dirt road back to the main. He looked at the fencing as he stepped out of the car. There was no barbed wire, which looked slightly promising he thought absently. She was already running for the gate as he locked the car up.

"Is it locked then?" He called out to her as he looked skyward, deciding it best to take their jackets seeing the stormy clouds above them.

"No! It isn't! Come on Pippi!" Already she was inside and running off. He closed the boot and ran to catch up with her. Being not too hard, as her own legs covered less ground then his own long legs did. Once reaching her, he caught her, and fussed her with putting her jacket on as she squirmed unhappily, wishing just to run about freely. She didn't care much for the jacket anyhow; she loved the rain, and enjoyed feeling it fall upon her.

"Which way first the Captain?" He asked with a mocking pirate accent.

She stood on her toes, raising her hands and feigning a telescope, scouting the area and humming in thought. She stopped spotting the huge black rock hills. She gasped and pointed about to squeal again, he turned and saw it.

"Arr, the black soulless place where no scurvy dog dares tread. Shall we brave it Captain?" He knelt down besides her, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes we shall me heartie! To the black unknown!" He lifted her upon his shoulders and she screamed and then giggled with delight, enjoying the higher ground. He ran to the very base of the rocky hills. With her hands outstretched as he kept a firm hold on her legs. He placed her down upon the first rock. He smiled as he caught his breath.

"To the top Captain?" He asked.

"Of course! Mike!" She immediately began to clamber up the smooth rock surface. It was levelled out like huge oblong stones, slanting against each other to make an easy climb.

She climbed quickly, little legs scampering as he followed behind carefully, checking her own footing at the same time, but she was quite alright on her own ahead. She reached the top first, where remarkably, some trees and shrubs cracked through the hard rock and grew. She scanned the park with keen young eyes.

"Pippi look!" she yelled down to him, pointing.

He turned his head upward. "What is it?"

"No, no, no, over there Pippi." She pointed again, insistently. Jumping this time as he tried to calculate his gaze to where her finger pointed. He still didn't see what she wanted to show him.

"What's there Lil?" He asked, shielding his eyes and scanning the terrain.

"The Kangaroos Pippi, look," she began to scale down to him, jumping quickly eating up the distance quickly. He spotted them, as he looked closer. Their brown bodies seemed to almost blend with the ground. There were so many of them, a large pack, moving slowly, simply milling around.

"Lets go see them then," he said, but she had this idea already on her mind. Jumping across the smooth rock down to the ground. He followed closely behind her, not taking over and allowing her to lead ahead.

Both of them ran until they were sprinting distance from the Kangaroos. Then slowed to a tiptoe pace. She tried to cautiously approach them, but they could see that they knew two fools were trying to sneak up. Within 20 meters the Kangaroo's turned and began hopping away from them. Both on instinct ran after them like predators, until the pack stopped again. Again trying to get close and failing, one of them was much closer than the others. Trailing a little way behind them, allowing both of them closer than they could get to the other Kangaroos. Lil tried as quietly as she possibly could to run up to it and touch it. But the pack moved immediately sensing her nearness, and the lagging Kangaroo bounced half-heartedly out of reach. Stopping, they turned to look at them after a few mere meters.

Lil could see it most likely a young Kangaroo, it was smaller than the rest of them, and Alan couldn't help himself but laugh inwardly at how all children were curious, alike in nature. So they followed the solitary Kangaroo that stopped every so often allowing them to catch up it would seem.

How long they followed the Kangaroo that trailed behind its pack, neither could tell. But the movement of the glow behind the clouds in the sky indicated it could have been between one and three hours. The flat plain of the reserve dipped into a valley. There the pack milled comfortably about as they both approached the lone Kangaroo still waiting a little way down the falling ground. It skipped away towards the herd. Quickly this time, and not with a moments regard to the two following behind it. Alan grabbed Lils arm before she could throw herself running down after it.

"That's enough," he looked at their surroundings and frowned. "It's darker than it first was Lil, and I think we've gone too far." Her face crumpled.

"It's that way isn't it?" She pointed directly behind them.

"No, we made a few turns through allot of bush, and I lost track of it. If there was a hill or something," he looked around but could see very little notable terrain apart from the dipping valley ahead of them. "I think the Kangaroo tricked us into getting lost." He mumbled dejectedly.

"No it didn't! It's just a Kangaroo."

"The sun's getting low Lil, and I'll get dark much faster now. Do you remember if that sign by the gate said anything about a closing time for the park?"

"I didn't read it." She replied thoughtfully.

"Thought so," he sighed. Looking around again. In the valley was a road, maybe a trail. A sign pointed towards their right, saying 'Tricibar Cottage'. He frowned again. Trying to think of the map, was there a name like that? The trail led up the side of the valley and deep into a thicket of gumtree's to which he couldn't see the end of. "We could always try jumping the first fence we see and following it. Or, we could head to that cottage."

"Hey Pippi look!" She cried out as the Kangaroo jumped over the rise and into their view. It paused, watching them, then hopped around them, passing them and heading back the way they had come. It stopped at a line of trees and waited watching them. It was the same small Kangaroo.

"Great, it's come to mock us." He said exasperated and ran a hand through his hair shaking his head.

"No, Pippi, I think it wants us to follow us like before."

"I don't know, it might get dark soon."

"Come on Pippi, it's a nice Kangaroo."

He sighed, "I hope so."

They followed for some time until Alan stopped and sat down on a rock. Seeing two paths, he shook his head. There were paths in the reserve and they had gone around gallivanting like fools and getting lost.

Lil sat down beside him, and then lay down on the ground, throwing her arm up above her head. "I'm tired Pippi."

"I know Lil, do you want me to carry you?"

"The Kangaroo's waiting." He looked up and there it was, scratching and waiting for them.

"Come on then," he picked her up giving her a piggyback and started to follow the Kangaroo drowsily. No longer paying attention to their surroundings or for landmarks, but only following the brown figure ahead. He had forgotten about the paths they had passed, and followed what his daughter believed to be right - follow the Kangaroo.

Eventually the Kangaroo stopped, to the point Alan got within a few meters of it. He stopped and looked around. It was starting to grey and the surroundings appeared dull from the lack of light. But he could see the darker shadow of a cross crossed fence, and the bright back of the gate sign.

"Lil," he jostled her gently.

"I know Pippi," she giggled. "I wasn't asleep. I told you to follow it, it wasn't a trick, and it's a nice Kangaroo."

He smiled seeing the car, but it was the second last left. At the gate he turned around with Lil still holding on to his neck tightly. The Kangaroo stood in the first thicket of trees still watching them. In the darkening light he looked at it, it was a small Kangaroo, but now he doubted it was a child. Its eyes seem wise and old.

"Just like Dot and the Kangaroo Pippi, I knew it wasn't a made up story. I bet it was all-true. Thank-you Kangaroo!" She raised her arm and flailed it at the Kangaroo.

"Thank-you," he said smiling warmly at it, he waved with his daughter as it turned around and disappeared through the trees, gone.

Meanwhlie, Pippi looked out the window and when he didn't see any signs of wind, he decided it would be a fine time- and a fine night- for a tea.

Pippi boiled the kettle, poured his tea, and slipped his jacket on. He pulled up his boots, one at a time, of course- one, two- and as quietly as a mouse he opened the door. It made a low creeeek!, which made him wince as if to make himself smaller, and he squeezed outside.

Pippi closed the doors behind him, listening for the latch to slide into the bolt. Clack! Pippi winced again and turned around to face the world. As he took the first step down from the doorstep, he noticed a sound to his left that was like the soft noise of television static in the distance; only it wasn't harsh and annoying like regular television static, oh no, this sound was quite the opposite. This sound was gentle and soothing like when you lay down with your ear against your pillow and you, vey lightly, draw tiny circles into the pillow slip. That kind of sound.

The next thing he noticed was the light sprinkling of snow that had been dusted onto everything in sight; and when he looked to the lamppost across the street, he could see it glittering as it slowly drifted down from the sky.

Pippi made his way over to the muskoka chair, set his tea down on the arm, then set himself down in the seat. He could feel the slight briskness of the chair through his pyjama pants, making him recoil for a moment before settling in.

Looking at the shadows by his closet a little boy started to cry. The shadow began to move away from the closet and turned into the figure of a man. The shadow then moved from one wall to the other and sat down next to the little boys shadow and rested his hand on his head.

"Yeah, your daddy sent me to watch over you so I'll always be with you watching, until you see your daddy again - now go to sleep."

"But what about the dark?" Wendy filled the room as Shadow got up and lifted his arms.

"Seriously, I am the dark kid - are you telling me you're scared of me." Shaking his head the little boy settled back against his bed.

"You'll be here in the morning?"

"I will always be around, just look for a shifting shadow - and when you don't see a shift, it's 'cause I'm with your daddy telling him all about your mommy and you, now go to sleep." Tucking in the boys shadow, Shadow leaned over to brush away the hair from his face.

"You remind me of my brother. " Dave straight, Pippi looked down.

"Yeah, how about you tell me more about him later, or even tomorrow."

"Pippi - did my daddy tell you my name?"

"Yes he did and before I forget, your daddy, he always says one thing before drifting off."

"What's that?"

"'Sweet dreams, Mike.'" smiling the little boy said goodnight to Shadow before turning on his side. Entering the shadows again, Wendy heard one sentence before silence took over.

"Sweet dreams daddy."

"Sweet dreams, Pippi." And back into the shadows, Dave went watching over his little brother and keeping the nightmares away.

The next Morning, Mike gets a drop of cookie batter on his nose.

"GOOD MORNING, MIKE!" Pippi shouted to Mike, rushing to Mike. "Oh, yes, sir. I do assure you everything is absolutely hunky. wouldn't go in there if I were you."

"I, um, hope you won't think me rude, but do you happen to know... out of whose bowl you're eating?" Wendy said, also walk to Mike.

Tommy and Annika comes through the door.

"Pippi! Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready?" Tommy and Annika sald.

"For what?" Pippi said to Tommy and Annika.

"Going to School. So, you ready or what?" Tommy said.

Meanwhile, the Bus drives up to the Villa Villekulla with kids inside.

"The bus is here! The bus is here! C'mon, Pippi!" Tommy and Annika said, rushing to the bus.

"Well, time to go. Don't want to be late. Have fun, bye bye." Wendy said, pushing Pippi, Mike, and Lil out of the house.

As soon as the bus leaves, Wendy and Dave peeks out of the bushes. Wendy and Dave comes out with shorts on and his nose with sunscreen on it and a chair. Unfolds the chair and sits on it.

"This is going to be the best five days of my life." Dave said.

Later, at the School, Pippi and Friends meet Mike and Lil to the classroom.

"All right, listen up. We checked it out. All we gotta do is" Mike said.

It's not? It's not?! Well, why not? What's the problem, Spot? Not good enough for you? I mean, do you even know who I am?" Pippi said.

Pippi, Tommy, Annika, Mike, and Lil then arrive at his classroom.

His classmate was Willie, Karlsson, Svante, Emil, Karl Lejon, Jonatan, Holly, Anna, Peter, Mrs. Prysselius, and Chris.

"Allow me to introduce: Mike and Lil!" Pippi said, give a classmate a two new students.

"Hello" Mike said.

"Hey!" Lil said.

"You were very good." The other three students said. One of the Students was a white skin with light purple swirl hair with red-violet headband, wears a white tank top with pink stripes, a red-violet short jacket with belt, yellow medium skirt, and red-violet boots, an second student was yellow girl with red hair with bowtie on the back, wearing a yellow-green short shirt, short jeans, and light brown boots, and the last student was little orange girl with purple hair, wearing dark grey short hoodle, dark green shorts, and dark grey boots.

"Hey, wait. What's goin' on, you guys?" Mike said.

"I'm Sweetie Belle!" she said. "And this is Apple Bloom and Scootaloo."

"Howdy Mike!" Apple Bloom said while they all sat on the couch "Hey maybe this wasn't so bad"

All of they yelled at once and laughed.

"Ah, what lovely twins." Mrs. Prysselius said, waving at Apple Bloom, Sweetie and Scootaloo. The girl nodded, smiling. "Well, thank you for dropping them off. You can go to Carnival at 3:30 p.m., class will be over by then." Scootaloo said.

And the song, "Rustipitn" plays.

Pippi will be singing. She dance, and go wild. Pippi runs up on the top of the table, and repeatedly falls down.

Tommy and Annika quickly move to the table, and Pippi jumps from the Table.

Pippi fetches a piece of paper and a pencil and goes to the ironing board to write down the note, rushing.

The Children saw Pippi Jumping all over the classroom. The Children grabs Pippi on the Top of each children.

After the Childern going crazy, Each student move to the top the table and cherring sa the song ends.

Mrs. Prysselius had enough of this.

"Oh, not very far. Just about a mile or so." answered Pippi. As the children running ou tof the school, they though about all the things they would do at the carnival. A mile later, they got there. Once they arrived, they just stood their in awe at all the fun things to do in the carnival.

"Oh, this is going to be fun." said Mike happily. "Let's not waste any time." So Pippi, Tommy, Annika, Mike, Lil, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo merrily skipped into the carnival grounds and up to the ticket booth to get their tickets.

"How may I help you, young ladies?" asked the ticket person.

"We'd like ten tickets each, please." said Pippi. The ticket person rounded up twenty tickets and gave ten to Pippi, Tommy, Annika, Mike, Lil, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo.

"Thank you." said Tommy. And Pippi, Tommy, Annika, Mike, Lil, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo headed off to find a ride to go on. Within five minutes, they found a roller coaster. In order to get on the roller coaster, they each had to give two tickets to the person in charge of running the ride. They did that, and the roller coaster ride was the most thrilling ride for the girls so far.

"Well, that roller coaster was fun." said Annika. "What should we go on next?"

"I don't know." said Apple Bloom. "Let's look around." They looked around and found a merry go round.

"The merry go round looks like fun." said Sweetie Belle. "Let's go on that one next." So they gave two tickets each to the person in charge, leaving them with six tickets left for each of them. They both got on some nice horses. Once they got comfortable, the ride started.

"This is a nice, relaxing ride." said Scootaloo.

"I know." said Pippi. "Merry go rounds are nice and quiet. I like those kinds of rides."

"Me too." said Tommy. The merry go round kept going for a good seven minutes before the ride stopped.

"What ride should we go on next?" asked Annika.

"How about the Ferris wheel." suggested Mike.

"That sounds good to me." said Lil. They went over to the Ferris wheel and paid three tickets apiece to go on the Ferris wheel. Once they were seated, the wheel started up.

"Don't you just love the Ferris wheel, Pippi?" asked Mike.

"Oh, I love them." said Pippi. "They're nice and relaxing." The eight children figured nothing could possibly go wrong, until the Ferris wheel stopped suddenly, right as eight children got to the top.

"What just happened?" asked Lil.

"I don't know." said Mike. "But I do know that we are going to have to sit here on the wheel until the ride starts again. It's probably stuck or something." Maintenance crews spent twenty minutes getting the wheel unstuck, but it did get going again, and once it did, there were no more setbacks.

"Well, aside from being stuck at the top of the Ferris wheel for twenty minutes, that was a fun ride." said Mike. "What ride should we go on next?"

"We can go on the merry go round again if you want." said Lil.

"Okay." said Pippi. They went on the merry go round again, and enjoyed a good ten minute ride on the merry go round. When it was over, the eight children realized that they only had one ticket left, which wasn't enough to go on anything else.

"We could play some carnival games next." suggested Tommy.

"Sounds good to me." said Annika. So they went off to find some carnival games. After walking around for about five minutes, they found a game where you throw a ball to knock down milk cartons.

Soon, "Well, that was a fun day at the carnival." said Mike. "We should do that again sometime." eight children get on the bus and headed up to Villa Villekulla.

Later, The school bus rides off. Wendy and Dave is watching TV and snacking on Bon-Bons in the living room. Wendy watches Pippi and said, "Pippi! Feel it. That's it. Very good."

Meanwhile, back upstairs, the goat chewed on the corner of Dave' newspaper while he sat sleeping in his armchair.

"Wow" said Lil and Pippi in unison, spotting the Angel Wagon as they crept into the room.

"What is it?" Tommy asked, she and Annika trailing behind them.

"It's Angel!" said Lil.

"On wheels!" added Pippi, awestruck.

"W-what do y-you think its f-for?" asked Annika.

"I don't know" said Lil, while Pippi climbed into the wagon, examining the controls.

"I bet it could take us to the baby store!" she smiled, spinning the steering wheel.

"Great idea Pippi!" Lil grinned. "We could take Mike to the hopsicle and get Mike's money back."

"Yeah" Pippi agreed, jumping out of the wagon. "It's a money back bearantee." The pair ran into the other room to fetch Mike.

"Guys" Tommy frowned, after they returned with the baby in tow, "I don't think Mike's gonna be very happy abouts this."

"Well she sure isn't happy now" said Pippi, loading Mike into the wagon while Lil loaded the diaper bag, before both climbing in themselves. "Just watch, once Mike goes back to the baby store, Mike will be happy again."

"I'm n-not so s-sure about this" said Annika, uncertain. If you were allowed to take babies back to the store, Annika thought that her daddy probably would have taken her back a long time ago. At that moment, Mike came back upstairs, still looking at her new watch. She frowned when she saw what was going on.

"What're you doing?" she yelled.

"Uh, we were, well Pippi was.." Lil stammered. Pippi rolled her eyes. Boys really were useless sometimes.

"We're taking Mike back to the hopsicle Mike, we're gonna get your moneys back" she explained.

"What? You can't do that!" Mike cried. "My Mommy and Daddy wanna keep her!"

"See, see, I told ya!" said Tommy. Lil ignored her.

"Why?" he asked. "All she does is cry and poop."

"So do you!" said Mike.

"I don't cry that much!" Lil argued.

"Well, you poop an awful lot!"

"Look who's talking, Lil' Miss Chocolate pants!"

"I am not a poopie monster!" Mike cried.

Nearby in the lounge room, Anna sat watching her current favourite TV show, Shirley Lock Holmes.

"More Shirley Lock Holmes: Girl Detective, right after these messages." Willie groaned in annoyance as she heard the younger children arguing in the next room and marched over, clutching Mr. Nilsson in one hand.

"Hey babies, knock it off, me and Mr. Nilsson are trying to watch TV!" she yelled. Then, the doll caught little Mike's eye, and she attempted to snatch it out of her cousin's hand. "Hey, hands of the merchandise Pinky!" a small tug of war erupted over Mr. Nilsson, but with one extra strong pull, Mike won, causing Anna to lose her grip and tumble into the crate that the kids had been playing in earlier. Annika climbed into the wagon to check that the baby was okay, because as annoying as she was sometimes, she was still a baby. She was also, in Annika's opinion, far less annoying than her baby cousin Bethie. Anna growled menacingly as she got out of the crate, and took a threatening step towards Mike. Mike stepped between them.

"Be nice Willie. She didn't mean it." This comment only served to make Anna even more mad.

"You wanna ride in a wagon?" she growled, grabbing Mike by the collar and tossing her in with the others. "I'll give you a ride, to outside space!" Willie kicked the wagon, causing her to yelp as she stubbed her toe.

"We now return to Shirley Lock Holmes: Girl Detective."

"My show!" Anna cried, sprinting back into the lounge room. "Next commercial, you babies are in big trouble!"

"All aboard!" Pippi called, as, thanks to Willie's kick, the Angel Wagon was now rolling towards the open front door. Tommy, the only Scooby not on-board, turned away from the wagon and blocked her ears.

"Walk away Tommy, just walk away.." she said to herself.

"Tommy!" Annika cried in panic, reaching a hand out to her. Tommy shuddered and shook her head. She couldn't leave Annika alone on an adventure as scary as this one.

"Wait for me!" she cried, running after them and grabbing hold of Annika's outstretched hand so her friend could help her into the wagon as it rolled off down the street.

"Which way to the hopsicle?" asked Lil, taking hold of the steering wheel.

"We're not going to the hopsicle!" Mike cried angrily.

"Well, we're going somewheres!" yelled Tommy, clinging to Annika.

Meanwhile in the Angel Wagon, Mike, Lil, and Pippi all fought for control of the steering wheel. Mike was clutching Mr. Nilsson in one tiny hand. The wagon swerved to avoid an oncoming car and tumbled down a flight of stairs, narrowly missing an old lady. They managed to get back on the road, but another car swerved to avoid them, causing it to crash.

"Oops" said Pippi, wincing. Mike glared at her.

Anna sped into the backyard, wearing her new Shirley Lock Holmes costume and a pair of roller skates.

"They took Mr. Nilsson Oz!" she cried, clipping a leash to the dog's collar. "Come on, you're gonna be my butthound! We've gotta check every doghouse, playhouse, tree-house, and dollhouse! I wan those fugitives back in custody!" With that, Oz took off, dragging Willie behind him. "No, bad dog, bad dog, stop!"

Back inside, Wendy walked into the front hall, chatting to Ephraim on the phone.

"Just go to the Spa and relax, Ephraim. Dave and I are fine taking care of the.." he paused, noticing that the crate and Angel Wagon were gone. "Dave, where's the crate?" Dave jolted awake.

"I guess the delivery company must have picked it up" he replied, noticing the receipt on his stomach.

"Wow, they loaded it up and everything huh?" Wendy smiled, before turning back to the phone. "Sure, you can talk to Mike.." he paused again, frowning when he realised that none of the children were anywhere in sight. "Uh, Dave, where are the kids?"

"That's strange" Dave frowned, "They were right here a minute ago, playing in the.." both Wendy and Dave looked towards the open door, eyes widening in horror.

"The crate!" they both cried. Wendy slowly raised the phone back to his ear.

"Honey, I'm gonna have to call you back" he said, before hanging up and glaring at Dave.

The kids were still speeding through the streets in the Angel Wagon. So far during their terror run, they had run over five garbage cans, knocked over a trash collector, and smashed through a pane of glass as two men were carrying it across the road. Annika was holding onto Mike to try and make the bumpy ride easier on her, but the baby was beginning to look a little green, and soon threw up all over Annika's shirt. They then drove into the park, where they drove over the top of the monkey bars, down a slide, and onto the see-saw, which propelled them back to the road. Unfortunately, the Scoobies now found themselves driving along an overpass that was still under construction. Just as they reached the end of the unfinished bridge, Pippi pressed a button which caused the Angel Wagon to extend a robotic arm that grabbed onto a post and turned them back around. Next they drove through a mattress factory, knocking over countless piles of mattresses before finally driving into the back of a mattress truck just before it closed and drove off.

Wendy drove wildly down the street, with Dave beside him.

"How could you fall asleep when you were supposed to be watching the kids?" he growled. Wendy then rolled his eyes at his cousin, who had fallen asleep once again. Unbeknownst to Wendy, the truck the kids had driven into was right in front of him. The back of the truck flew open putting the Scoobies in full view as they bounced up and down on the mattresses, but Wendy didn't notice, as he was to busy complaining to Dave. "We'll never find the babies with this jerk in front of us!" The back of the truck fell closed, blocking the kids from view. Wendy honked his horn at the truck as he passed, startling the driver and causing him to swerve off the road. He escaped, but the truck continued to roll into the forest. The Scoobies, oblivious to the danger, were having the time of their lives.

"This is more fun than picking noses!" Lil laughed.

"Or blowing bubbles in the bathtub!" added Pippi, giggling. Tommy wasn't having quite as much fun.

"I don't know if I should throw up, or throw down!" she groaned, clutching her stomach.

Now at the airport, Wendy and Dave listened anxiously to the radio submission from the plane that had been supposed to carry the Angel Wagon to Japan.

"We've turned this plane upside down and I assure you, there are no children." Suddenly, a bleating sound was heard. "We found a kid, but it's not the one your looking for!"

Returning home, Wendy and Dave continued their search.

"Mike?" called Wendy, throwing open the closet.

"Children?" asked Dave, checking under his bed.

"Mike?" yelled Wendy, looking around the basement.

"Anna?" said Dave, peeking into the cookie jar.

"Where can they be?" cried Wendy, now panicking as he checked under the sink. "We have to find them!"

"Find what?" came a familiar voice. Wendy hit his head on the sink, then he and Dave turned to see Ephraim carrying a bag of groceries.

"The great inventor here lost the children" said Dave, pointing accusingly at Wendy.

"I lost them?!" Wendy cried, glaring at his cousin. Ephraim gasped, dropping the groceries and sending a lone jar of baby food rolling across the floor.