When we last left our heroes, Sherman's new invention, the Dublinator, had created an exact copy of Bullwinkle!

The two Peabodies open the glass doors, allowing the confused Bullwinkle and his equally confused duplicate to step out of the booths. The two moose gaze at each other in wonder.

"It's like looking in a mirror," the real Bullwinkle remarks. "A mirror that adds fifty pounds!"

"Idiot!" says the Bullwinkle clone sharply. "I weigh exactly as much as you do!"

"Well, I hide it better," boasts the real Bullwinkle.

"They look alike," remarks Sherman, "but something's different about them. I can't quite put my finger on it."

"Put your finger on this, brat!" says the Bullwinkle clone, sticking his rear end at the boy.

"Hey, that wasn't nice!" complains Rocky.

"Neither was this!" says the Bullwinkle clone. Lowering his head, he charges at the Dublinator machine, knocking it over. The glass booths shatter, and the control panel starts to let off sparks.

"Stop!" orders the real Peabody. "That device cost millions of dollars in taxpayer money to construct!"

"Who do I look like, the Secretary of the Treasury?" says the Bullwinkle clone as he starts to run about the lab, waving his antlers about and knocking over everything in sight.

"Stop what you're doing!" commands the Peabody clone. "You're destroying everything!"

While the real Bullwinkle, Rocky, the two Peabodies, and Sherman chase him, the Bullwinkle clone becomes curious about a fancy-looking device that resembles a shoulder-mounted rifle with a glass lens on the end. He lifts it from the table, puts it over his shoulder, and points the business end at Rocky. "Hey, what does this thing do?" he wonders.

The real Peabody, struck with terror, leaps at Rocky and pushes him out of the way just as the Bullwinkle clone pulls the trigger. A laser beam emits from the device and hits Peabody, vaporizing him into oblivion.

"Great Scott!" cries the Peabody clone. "My original!"

Rocky, Sherman, the real Bullwinkle, and the Peabody clone gaze in shock and disbelief at the spot where Peabody disintegrated. The Bullwinkle clone, his face twisted into a mask of hatred, aims the weapon's nozzle at the real Bullwinkle. "One of me is enough!" he barks menacingly.

"Don't shoot!" Rocky pleads. "If he dies, you'll die too!"

"Huh?" grunts the confused Bullwinkle clone.

Catching Rocky's hint, the Peabody clone collapses to the floor and convulses in mock agony. "Oh, the pain!" he wails. "It's unbearable! Kill me, please!"

As the Bullwinkle clone nervously witnesses the Peabody clone's performance, Rocky soars into the air and rams him, knocking the weapon from his shoulder. The Bullwinkle clone turns and rushes toward the main door. Rocky, Sherman, the real Bullwinkle, and the Peabody clone pursue him, but the broken weapon on the floor explodes in front of them, sending up a shower of smoke and sparks. By the time it clears, the main door is sliding closed, and the Bullwinkle clone is long gone.

"Curses!" grouses the Peabody clone. "He escaped! There's no telling what he'll do now!"

"What is this thing?" asks Rocky, looking over the ruined weapon.

"It's a molecular destabilizer," Sherman explains. "I'm afraid the real Mr. Peabody is not coming back." He takes off his glasses and wipes the tears from his eyes.

"I'm all that's left of him now," the Peabody clone laments. "If I don't remain stable, one of the greatest scientific minds of all time will be lost forever."

"Can't we fix the machine and make another copy of you?" asks Bullwinkle.

"We can, but if we make copies of copies, they'll start to degenerate."

"You should have made it so it doesn't explode when it's dropped," says Rocky, glancing down at the destabilizer.

"Yeah," says Bullwinkle. "That'd be a lot safer."

"None of us is safe now," says the Peabody clone. "I'm afraid Sherman and I have created a monster...a duplicate of Bullwinkle who is pure evil!"

"He has all your stupidity and dumb luck!" Sherman remarks to Bullwinkle.

"And he's not afraid to kill!" adds Rocky.

"He must be stopped!" declared the Peabody clone.

Less than an hour later, our heroes arrive at the Southern California regional headquarters of the Department of Defending Everything We Hold Dear, also known as DDEWHD (pronounced "dude").

Rocky and Bullwinkle are standing in front of the desk of Mr. Shadowy, the DDEWHD regional administrator, who is talking to someone on the phone. "Mm-hmm...right...thank you, goodbye." He hangs up. "Your man's been sighted in a Santa Clausa china shop. He smashed the entire inventory. The police showed up, but every time they took a shot at him, he ducked just as the bullet went over."

"That takes years of practice, you know," says Bullwinkle.

"Boys, I don't need to tell you how serious this situation is," says Mr. Shadowy. "If not for Bullwinkle's tireless defense of liberty and justice, we'd all be speaking Pottsylvanian today. And now this fiend is on the loose, turning everything that's good and great about Bullwinkle to purposes of evil. After some deliberation, I've decided to replace one of you with a new partner for the duration of this mission."

"You must be joking!" exclaims the shocked Bullwinkle. "I can't do this without Rocky! He's a valued member of the team! He can fly and stuff!"

"No, Bullwinkle," says Mr. Shadowy. "I was talking about you."

Bullwinkle's jaw drops.

"Your evil clone thinks like you do," explains Mr. Shadowy, "and he's familiar with how you and Rocky work together. If Rocky goes after him with a different partner, he won't be able to predict their moves."

Bullwinkle is devastated. "But...but that's just not fair!"

"Who's the new partner, Mr. Shadowy?" asks Rocky.

Mr. Shadowy presses a button on his desk. A door opens, and through it strolls a she-moose, about the same height as Bullwinkle, but with smaller antlers. On her head she wears a yellow felt fedora with a red ribbon. She stands in front of Rocky and Bullwinkle, and regards them curiously.

"Boys," says Mr. Shadowy, "I'd like you to meet Honeysuckle the Moose."

"Charmed," says Honeysuckle, speaking with a refined British accent.

"Honeysuckle spent sixteen years as an Interpol agent before agreeing to lend her expertise to the U.S. Government," explains Mr. Shadowy.

"But...but you're a woman!" exclaims the astonished Rocky.

"How could you tell?" says the she-moose sarcastically.

"Well, you're naked, for one thing."

"Humina humina humina..." mumbles the wide-eyed Bullwinkle.

"So what's wrong with being a woman, flyboy?" Honeysuckle asks Rocky.

"Uh, nothing," Rocky answers. "It's just that...there's only one woman on this show, and she's evil."

"A lot of things have changed since the 1960's," Honeysuckle points out. "Now, if there are no more gender-based objections, let's get on with the mission briefing."

"Humina humina humina..." Bullwinkle mumbles on.

Will Rocky and his new partner be able to stop the evil Bullwinkle clone? Will Bullwinkle ever stop saying "humina humina humina"? Find out in our next thrilling episode...

"Humina humina humina..."

Enough already!