After a few hours of walking, they finally stumbled across an AssBlaster out in the field, munching on some hapless animal. It looked up at them and "shrieked" before Burt blast it in the head, scattering it all over the grass.

Meanwhile, Courage and Sandy were trying to explain to Molly exactly why Courage had preference for Sandy, while trying not to be too "descriptive" as it were. Courage tried to tell Molly that it wasn't that he didn't like her as a friend, but he already had a relationship with Sandy. They could still be friends.

"It's okay." Molly sighed. "I wanted to die a virgin anyways. I don't know what came over me."

Molly stood up and hugged Courage in apology. Courage returned the hug.

Sandy hugged her too, and thanked her for understanding.

"But Janet is still in trouble. How can we save her? Rex isn't going to stop his plan, even if I surrender her or not." Molly said, tears welling up.

Sandy and Courage comforted her by patting her on the back.

"We'll think of something. Where is Janet anyway?" Sandy asked looking around.

"I don't know." Courage said in a whisper, trying not to upset Molly more.

Janet was, in reality, locked up in a cage at Rosilitia's ranch. Everyone was so distracted by the Shrieker chaos that they totally forgot about her. Which was unfortunate, as an AssBlaster was approaching her at that very moment. If it could talk it would say "helpless prey!"

A scream echoed throughout the town, catching everyone's attention. All ran towards the ranch house except Rex and DS, who were laughing that something finally found Janet.

Janet was cowered into a corner and had her face buried in her sleeves. She looked about ready to cry when a loud boom made her jump. Something wet and warm splattered on her, and when she looked towards the source of the sound she saw Burt unlocking the cage. At his feet was a headless AssBlaster.

"What was THAT thing?" Janet asked, shaking.

"THAT, is an AssBlaster, the third and most dangerous stage of a Graboid." Burt said looking over at the body.

"See ElBlanco is endangered and can't be killed. Shriekers and AssBlasters reproduce so rapidly, that they're open game!" Rex said, riffling through the junk in the back seats.

"So that explains how they are able to blow them away with no remorse." DS said, looking toward the ranch house.

"Here it is! My old plan when I first built the Viper. Now I can finally do it like I wanted to!" Rex said, showing the schematics of a Viper/Helicopter hybrid. It was a Viper, but with a rotor-less Comanche tail and a helicopter rotary structure, complete with air intake jets and all. The sides were adorned with gun chopper type wings, with big guns.

Where the 4 wheels in back should be, was a huge, totally separate structure of a tread system, to support the weight of the tail and rotor on the Viper. The two bladed propeller had the traditional yellow blade tips, and looked straight off a helicopter.

The Viper itself was really a hollowed out shell, with the engine in the tread system, making the body lightweight and placing the chopper engine under the hood, extended through the body and under the seats up to the propeller and tail constructs.

This made the body lightweight enough to be lifted by the helicopter structures, and leaving the tread system behind, dropping considerable weight, and leaving the treads to follow closely under for landing or to be remote controlled to crush anything in it's path. It even has a gun itself, making it a separate tank.

The Viper engine was in the treads and basically pushed the rest of the car forward when attached. There was no front wheel drive, just rear wheel force. This means that if the treads were damaged, the Viper would be immobile and have to revert to chopper mode.

Needless to say this huge addition mutated the Viper to look almost unrecognizable. Only the sloped hood gave it away of the car it once was.

"Let us build!!!" Rex said, and they began the overhaul.