Horror of horrors! Our heroes have been scrooched for a hundred years!
In front of the warehouse that serves as a spy hideout, Gidney and Cloyd look sadly at the immobile moose and squirrel. Florence continues to display no emotion. "Some of the spies got away," Gidney remarks. "We'd better skedaddle before they come back for a rematch."
"But we can't leave Rocky and Bullwinkle like this," says Cloyd.
"You're right," Gidney acknowledges. "We should take them to the moon with us and look for a way to unscrooch them."
"Bullwinkle looks really heavy," observes Cloyd. "Do you think the two of us can carry him to the taxi?"
"Leave that to me." Florence grabs Rocky under one arm and lifts Bullwinkle with the other, and effortlessly carries the two toward the cab that the moon men arrived in.
"How convenient," says Gidney.
The moon men follow after Florence. After a few minutes of struggling to squeeze the frozen Bullwinkle into the back seat, they finally decide to strap him to the top of the cab. As Florence climbs into the back seat and places Rocky next to her, Boris and Natasha watch them in astonishment from behind a corner of the warehouse.
"The moon creatures have keeled moose and squirrel!" marvels Natasha.
"Those dirty back-stabbing double crossers!" complains Boris. "I should congratulate them!"
"At last moose and squirrel will trouble us no more!" Natasha exults.
"So what do we do now?" wonders Boris.
While Boris and Natasha consider the prospect of life in a moose-and-squirrel-free world, the moon men transport our congelated heroes to the New Mexico desert, where they have hidden their spaceship.
Gidney and Cloyd park the taxicab in a remote desert location. They jump out and start to unstrap Bullwinkle from the top of the vehicle, while Florence pulls Rocky out of the back seat. "The ship should be right over that ridge," says Cloyd, pointing.
When Gidney, Cloyd, and Florence (who is once again carrying Rocky and Bullwinkle) reach the other side of the ridge, they are suddenly greeted with a blinding barrage of camera flashes. "What the..." exclaims Gidney.
Standing between them and the spaceship is a mob of reporters and strangely dressed hippies. They all yell and cheer when they see the aliens. "Great Scott!" cries Cloyd. "We've gone back in time to the 1960's!"
One of the reporters gloats over the picture she has just taken. "Finally, positive proof of extraterrestrial life!"
The hippies start to throng the consternated moon men.
"Like, take me with you, man!" begs a hippie man.
"I want to have your child!" pleads a hippie woman.
Gidney and Cloyd whip out their scrooch guns and wave them threateningly, causing the hippies to back away in fear. "Whoa, scrooch guns!" marvels the hippie man. "Like, I knew they were real all along."
The moon men and Florence continue on their way to the spaceship. When they reach it, they find that it has been defaced with graffiti and 60's-style psychedelic drawings. "Oh, man!" moans Gidney. "The Moon Queen is not gonna like this!"
Soon Gidney and Cloyd are zipping through space on their way home, accompanied by our frozen heroes and their ill-gotten secret weapon.
The spaceship lands on the moon, and shortly Gidney and Cloyd are kneeling before the Moon Queen. Florence stands behind them, glancing about curiously. Next to her stand the immobile Rocky and Bullwinkle. "My congratulations, Gidney and Cloyd," says the Queen. "You will be richly rewarded for your success. Who are these other Earth creatures you have brought?"
"They are Rocky and Bullwinkle, Your Grace," says Cloyd. "They are friends of ours whom we had to scrooch in order to complete our mission."
"We brought them with us in hopes of finding a way to restore them," adds Gidney.
"But our scientists know of no way to artificially reverse the scrooching process," the Queen points out. "You must wait until the effect wears off naturally."
"But that would take a hundred years!" Cloyd complains.
"Your Grace," says Gidney, "I propose that we test the Wunderkind device by asking it to compute an unscrooching formula."
"Hmm..." The Queen motions toward a small group of moon scientists, who approach her and begin to quietly consult with her. Then they withdraw, and she faces Gidney and Cloyd again. "I agree to your proposal."
The scene shifts to a laboratory on the moon. Several moon scientists watch in amazement as Florence draws complicated equations on the board.
For days on end Florence and the moon scientists work together to find a way to accelerate the unscrooching process.
The moon scientists repeatedly bombard Rocky and Bullwinkle with waves from a raygun-like device, but the pair remains hopelessly scrooched.
When finally...
The scientists once again fire their raygun at the frozen Rocky and Bullwinkle, then gasp in horror when they see the results. "This...this isn't possible..." mutters the first scientist.
"What's happened to them?" marvels the second scientist.
Where Rocky and Bullwinkle used to be, there now stand a living, non-anthropomorphic bull moose and flying squirrel. The two animals look around in confusion.
"Quickly, reverse the polarity and hit them again!" orders the first scientist.
The other scientist does so, and the bull moose and flying squirrel are reverted to their original forms. Rocky and Bullwinkle, now unscrooched, are surprised to find themselves in a moon laboratory. "What happened?" asks Rocky. "Where are we?"
"The Moon Queen is not gonna believe this," muses the first scientist.
Moments later, the two scientists are in a meeting with the Moon Queen. "I don't believe it!" she declares.
"But it works, Your Grace," insists the second scientist. "We tested it on some cows we abducted from a field in Iowa."
Standing behind the two scientists are a pair of anthropomorphic cows who are capable of human speech.
"Got milk?" says the first cow.
"Would you please stop saying that?" complains the second cow.
The Moon Queen gazes at the two cow people thoughtfully. "Interesting. I would like you to test it on other kinds of animals. I would also like to see some large-scale tests."
"May I ask for what purpose, Your Grace?" inquires the first scientist.
"This new weapon may be just what we need...to overthrow and enslave the people of Earth!"
What fiendish plot is the Moon Queen dreaming up? Find out in our next episode, "Plan Ten from Outer Space", or "There's a Bad Moon on the Rise".
