Meanwhile, in the forest the kids, thankfully unharmed, climbed out of the truck, pulling the Angel Wagon with them, and began to survey their surroundings.
"W-where are we?" Mike stuttered.
"I don't know" Lil replied. "It looks kinda like the park."
"Only biggerer" Pippi added.
"Biggerer?" cried Tommy. "This place is biggerer than the park and Lil's backyard all put together!"
"This is b-bad you guys" said Mike. "R-real bad." Suddenly, Mr. Nilsson began to make a series of strange sounds and expressions, and her cheeks were tinged with a light shade of pink.
"Uh-oh, Lil" said Pippi. "I think your sister might be broked again."
"Oh no!" cried Lil, as she and the other kids ran over to check on the baby. "Are you okay Mr. Nilsson?"
"I think she's gonna explode" said Annika.
"Poopie" said Mr. Nilsson, seeming as though she was concentrating on something.
"What?" asked Lil, panicking a little.
"POOPIE!" Mr. Nilsson yelled, along with an unmistakeable plopping sound.
"Eww!" the kids cried in unison.
"Well" sighed Lil, "I guess we're gonna have to change her diapie."
"What do you mean we?" said Annika, annoyed.
Meanwhile, back at the house, the police had arrived to investigate, along with a number of news crews.
"I can't believe you left them with Rupert!" Wendy cried to Dave. "The man slept through the Watcher's Council exploding for God's sake!"
"I sounded the alarm as soon as I bloody well could!" said Ephraim defensively. A detective, Kate Lockley, was also present, asking the parents questions.
"So, Wendy, does your daughter have any enemies?"
"Oh.." said Wendy.
"Uh-huh.." said Kate, scribbling on a clipboard. "Any vampire or demon connections?"
"She is a baby!" Wendy yelled in disbelief.
Back in the forest, the Scoobies were attempting to change Mr. Nilsson's diaper. Lil was trying to powder her sister's bottom, without much success. It was getting everywhere, causing the children to cough.
"The powder's 'sposed to go on her bottom, Lil!" yelled Pippi.
"I'm doing the best I can!" Lil replied. Mr. Nilsson was making things difficult by squirming around, and kicked her sister.
"Pee!" she cooed happily, as she began to do just that.
"Look out!" cried Annika, moving to avoid the yellow stream.
"Watch it!" shouted Lil, dodging also.
"Ew, ew, ew!" cried Pippi, ducking.
"Stop it, Mr. Nilsson!" Tommy yelled.
"Careful!" said Annika, dodging again. He crashed into Tommy, knocking her down, and a frog jumped on her head. Mike gasped. Tommy was terrified of frogs. "Ah!" Tommy cried, jumping up and running around in circles, panicking. "Frog, frog!"
"Tommy, h-hold still!" said Mike, chasing her friend to try and help her remove the offending animal. Tommy tripped, falling into a pile of leaves, and the frog hopped away. Mike helped her up, and she marched angrily over to Lil and Mr. Nilsson.
"Your sister maked a frog jump on me!" she growled.
"Ribbit!" giggled Mr. Nilsson.
"Stop it!" Tommy yelled.
"Stop it!" Mr. Nilsson mimicked.
"You stop it!" shouted Tommy, becoming annoyed.
"Stop it!"
"Stop it!"
"Hey, you guys" said Lil, cutting off the argument as she finally managed to get Mr. Nilsson's diaper on, "Maybe we should stop playing around and figure out how to get home."
"But Lil, we don't even know where we are!" said Pippi. At this moment, Lil got an idea.
"I know!" she cried, pulling out her new pocket watch. "I got my sponsatility!"
"What's a sponsatility Lil?" asked Pippi.
"It sounds yucky" said Annika.
"Is it g-gonna hurt?" said Mike.
"No, it's what you get for being a big sister" Lil explained, heading over to the Angel Wagon. "It's like what Okey-Dokey Jones uses when he needs to find his way home."
"I thought that was called a crumpass" said Annika, confused.
"Well, my daddy gived it to me, and he said it's called a sponsatility."
"Okay then. Which way does it say to go?"
"Um, er, uh.." Lil stared at the watch, confused by the moving hands, but then spotted a path. "That way! Straight up that hill!"
Meanwhile, Anna was still being dragged through the streets on her rollerblades by Buster.
"Bad dog, bad dog, stop!" she cried. As they passed the site of the truck crash, Buster spotted Mr. Nilsson's binky by the side of the road, and tried to stop and investigate, but because of their speed, Anna kept moving, dragging the horse with her as she fell into a ditch and knocked herself out on a tree trunk. Buster's face was the first thing she saw as she came to. "You know" she said, glaring at him, "Not all dogs go to heaven."
Back at the house, Wendy and Dave stepped outside, finding themselves instantly swooped upon by a swarm of news reporters.
"Wendy, is it true that you shipped your own children to Tokyo in a wooden box?" asked one.
"Is it true a vampire ate your baby?" said another.
"Wendy, just how many pecks of pickled peppers did you pick?" Suddenly with a great roar of wind, a helicopter flew into the backyard, and reporter Sweetie Belle Rayne leapt out of it, followed by his cammera crew, pushing the other reporters out of the way before turning to the camera.
"Childhood, a time of innocence, a time of joy, a time of unspeakable, unrelenting, tragedy." He turned to Dave. "Dave, tell us how it feels to know, you may never see your children again!"
"Hey!" Applebloom, who had recently arrived, leapt to her friend's defence. "Can't you pit bulls show some compassion?"
"So sorry, forgive me" said Sweetie Belle, before turning back to Dave. "Please tell us how it feels to know, you may never see your children again!"
"That's it, let me at him!" yelled Applebloom. She lunged at Sweetie Belle, but Wendy and Giles held her back. "No, let me at him!" While the other reporters looked on, Scootaloo and Candice drove up to the house. Candice was chatting away on her cellphone.
"Hold on, Robert. There's a disturbingly large crowd outside my in-laws, indicating either a yard sale or a family tragedy. Let me get back to you." She and Scootaloo climbed out of the car and the reporters pounced on them, lead by Sweetie Belle.
"Mr. Chase, how does it feel knowing your brother lost your only daughter?"
"He what?!" Scootaloo growled, face turning red with anger.
"Share your pain" Sweetie Belle smiled. This was going to make great television. Scootaloo leapt at Wendy, knocking him to the ground.
"You're breaking my arm!" Wendy cried.
"Only because I can't reach your neck!" Scootaloo snapped. Sweetie Belle chuckled, before turning back to the camera, holding up a stack of flyers with the children's photos printed on them. "And there you have it. Two sour brothers and, young Sarah, baby Michelle, best friends Nicholas and Emma, the inseparable Alyson and Amber, and poor Charisma, all vanished without a trace. I'm Sweetie Belle, and I'll be back soon with more Really Big Action News!" As the chaos continued, Ira came dashing up to the house.
"Miss Calendar said she saw Anna and Buster run through her garden and head north on I 99!"
"My baby!" cried Candice.
"Let's go!" yelled Dave. Everyone rushed off and piled into their cars, when Giles burst out of the house dressed in a soldier's uniform.
"Private First-class Giles, reporting for duty!" he said, saluting. Ira, Dave, and Wendy, already sitting in the car, glanced at each other.
"Just get in!" yelled Ira.
Meanwhile, Mike, Lil, Pippi, and Tommy were pulling the Angel Wagon up the hill, while Annika pushed it from behind.
"Good job guys, we're almost there!" she smiled, turning to her sister, who was sitting in the wagon. "You're doing good too Mr. Nilsson, just play nice." Mr. Nilsson giggled, whacking Annika on the head with her bottle.
"Not too much fun back there is it?" called Mike smugly.
"Oh, we're doing okay" said Annika. "That's some good hittin' there Mr. Nilssonie!" With that, Mr. Nilsson hit Annika again.
"I'm hungry" Pippi groaned. "Right about now my Daddy would be making me a fried baloney sandwich."
"Mmm" said Tommy. She stayed at Pippi's house often enough to know exactly what she was talking about. "I c-can almost smell it b-burning."
"Yeah" Pippi continued. "And it tastes all crunchy.."
"Stop it Pippi, you're making me hungry" said Annika. Mr. Nilsson must not have liked the sound of her sister's voice, because she hit her yet again. The Scoobies reached the top of the hill, gasping in horror at the endless stretch of forest that lay before them.
"Oh n-no!" cried Tommy.
"We can't see our houses from here Annika!" said Lil.
"We can't see any houses from here!" added Mike.
"We're all gonna die!" cried Pippi, dropping to her knees. "Die, die I tell you!" Unfortunately, things were about to get even worse for the Scoobies. An unknown creature was watching them from the bushes, and it was hungry...