When the Bagges are fast asleep the gingerbread man merges from the truck. He sneaks into the house by sliding his thin body under the door. He feels his way through the family room since its pitch black and is hard to see. He starts up the stairs and suddenly hears a crash and freezes there.

Muriel: Eustace! Would you be a dear, and stop the snoring, its keeping me awake!

Eustace: (softly irritably) Alright! Alright!

The gingerbread man continues up the stairs and eventually reaches the second floor. He walks into the bathroom only to find Courage using it.

Courage: Ahhh! Can't a dog have its privacy!

Gingerbread man: Your not Muriel!

He slams the door and walks slowly into the bedroom. Courage finishes and dashes out of the bathroom into the hallway hoping to catch the scheming intruder. Courage: I'll find you! You can't hide from me! Courage opens the bedroom door and suddenly is hit over the head with a croquet hammer. Courage moans in pain and dances insanely in circles. The gingerbread man runs quickly over to the bed and climbs up the bed post. Courage awakens from the blow and runs toward him about to smash him with the croquet hammer. He aims and hits Eustace.

Eustace: (loudy) Owwww! Give me that hammer!

Courage holds on to it tightly and shakes his head in disapproval. Muriel remains asleep through all of the commotion.

Eustace: (furiously): You better get! Cause I'm going to hit you so hard with this hammer you'll forget what your name is!

Courage: Where's Muriel? She's gone!

Eustace: You hid Muriel too! Now your really in for it!

Eustace violently yanks the hammer out of Courage's hand and starts chasing him. Courage runs down the stairs and out of the house; with Eustace chasing behind him. Eustace corner's him in the barn.

Eustace: Say your prayers dog! I'm gonna flatter ya into a pancake!

Eustace swings the hammer and Courage screams for dear life. Eustace accidentally misses and hits the power box and the barn explodes in a electrical explosion. Eustace lays stunned on the ground and Courage runs into the house screaming.

Courage: What did that gingerbread man do with Muriel!? I hope she's alright!

Courage approaches the kitchen no body is in there, he starts to walk back and forth trying to figure out where Muriel could of possibly been taken to. He walks over to the basement door and opens it very slowly. Its moldy smell leaks out into the air, as he opens the door .He stands there on the first step afraid of being by himself and afraid of the sound of absolute silence. His eyes look from side to side for over five minutes looking for the enemy lurking. Courage's heart starts to beat fast. So fast and loud it echoes throughout the basement. Courage then feels something cold touch him. In dread he looks down at his feet. There is nothing there. Suddenly something grabs him, something cold. It starts to laugh and finally lights a match.

Gingerbread: I'm afraid your next, after all I already finished the first.

Courage stares at him in misunderstanding glance, and waits for him to continue.

Gingerbread: Here are the woman's glasses she won't be needing them anymore, in her condition!

The gingerbread man laughs evilly and hands the glasses to Courage. The lights turn on in the basement by itself. There sits Muriel as a gingerbread cookie.

Her face is a pail white icing with white hair. Courage walks over to Muriel and puts him hand on her.

Courage: What am I suppose to do now Muriel? Have I came too late?

Muriel sits and says nothing, she has no soul and can't say anything.

Gingerbread: You should not have made your arrival, it too late for her survival You will die for your dedication and your life will end in a ginger cookie of devastation!