In our last episode, our heroes were imprisoned for losing Wunderkind to the moon people, who were preparing for an all-out invasion of the planet Earth!

The gigantic moon ship Juggernaut is soaring through space on its way to the Earth. Inside, Gidney and Cloyd are standing behind a bulkhead, holding a quiet conversation. "I don't know about you," says Gidney, "but I don't think invading Earth is a very good idea."

"You're right, Gidney," says Cloyd. "I mean, other than landing a few people on the moon, what have the earthlings ever done to threaten us?"

"There must be something we can do to stop the invasion," says Gidney.

"But you're talking about committing treason against the Queen!"

"Yes, Cloyd, that's exactly what I'm talking about."

"I'm happy to hear it," comes a girl's voice from behind the two moon men.

Gidney and Cloyd turn around and discover to their horror that Florence is standing behind them, and has been listening to their exchange.

"Oh, no!" cries Cloyd in despair. "We've been found out!"

"We'll be scrooched for eternity!" mourns Gidney.

"Take it easy, guys," says Florence in a friendly voice.

Then, as the two moon men watch in amazement, Florence begins to change shape. Within moments, she has assumed the form of Rocky.

"R-Rocky?" Cloyd stammers. "Is it really you?"

"But how?" wonders Gidney.

Rocky holds up an electronic gadget. "I took Wunderkind's place using this holographic generator that she gave me," he explains.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, a trial has commenced...

In a federal court room, Rocky and Bullwinkle are seated in the defendants' chairs. The judge pounds his gavel. "This court will now come to order. Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose, you are charged with high treason and leaking government secrets to the enemy. How do you plead?"

"Not guilty, Your Honor," says Rocky confidently, "on the grounds that we never leaked any government secrets."

The squirrel leaps to his feet, and as the judge and jurors watch in disbelief, he morphs into the shape of a child-sized android with round feet.

"I am Wunderkind," he states in a metallic voice. "I am now prepared to return to the laboratory where I was created, and assist in the defense of Earth against the imminent invasion from the moon."

On the moon ship Juggernaut, Rocky has resumed his Florence disguise, and is conspiring with Gidney and Cloyd. "Here's the plan," says the squirrel/girl. "As soon as the ship enters Earth's atmosphere, I'll meet you at the entrance to the weapon room. I'll tell the guard that something's wrong with the Anthropomorphizer and I need to fix it. Once we get in, we'll jettison the weapon, put on oxygen masks, jump off the ship, and glide down to Earth together."

"Sounds like a good plan," says Gidney.

"We should reach the atmosphere in about ten minutes," says Cloyd.

Rocky/Florence takes his leave of the two moon men. Minutes later, as he is wandering through the ship, the Moon Queen and the two moon scientists approach him. "Wunderkind, we require your presence in the laboratory," the Queen orders.

"As you wish, Your Grace," says Rocky/Florence.

Soon the Moon Queen and the scientists are seated in the laboratory, and the disguised squirrel is standing in front of a blackboard, holding a piece of chalk. "I've been thinking that it will be easier to enslave the Earth people if we use some sort of mind control device," says the Queen. "So I want you to assist my scientists in developing a helmet that will cause those who wear it to obey every command they hear."

"Uh, yes, Your Majesty," says Rocky/Florence nervously. "That should be no trouble at all." He begins to write on the board. "So the hypothesis is as follows. Suppose you have slave, A, who is unwilling to work. Suppose you also have helmet, B, which when placed upon the head of said slave, emits electromagnetic signals, C, which enter the slave's brain, D..."

Gidney and Cloyd are standing by the entrance to the weapon room, and becoming increasingly impatient. "What's taking her so long?" wonders Gidney. "I mean, him?"

Suddenly they hear a high-pitched whining sound. "Omigosh!" exclaims Cloyd. "They're firing the weapon!"

And indeed they are! The waves from the moon weapon engulf the entire Earth, turning every animal they touch into an anthropomorphic being capable of human speech and reasoning!

The scene cuts to the surface of Earth, where the anthropomorphizing rays are mutating animals everywhere. A chicken, who is in the process of crossing a road, suddenly looks around in confusion. "Why am I doing this?" she wonders.

In the Canadian wilderness, Dudley Do-Right is pursuing Snidely Whiplash on his faithful horse. Suddenly the horse stops in his tracks, reaches up, grabs Dudley, and tosses him from the saddle. "I've had enough of your bumbling," he says sharply. "From now on, we go after Snidely MY way!"

Not far away, a fisherman is sitting idly in front of a river, waiting for a tug on his line. He is about to get one, as a mass of intelligent trout have grasped the other end of the line. One of the trout is serving as a taskmaster, bellowing, "Heave...ho! Heave...ho!"

Before the fisherman knows what hit him, he is yanked, pole and all, into the river. Soaking wet, he jumps to his feet only to see a gigantic horde of birds flying in his direction. At the head of the flock is a large eagle, who is screeching commands to the other birds. "Kill the humans! Peck their eyes out!" The fisherman flees for cover as the angry birds start to throng around him.

In a nearby forest, a hunter dressed in camouflage gear is stalking deer, rifle in hand. Suddenly two deer fall upon him from an overhanging limb. Seconds later, the two deer emerge from the forest. The doe is still naked, but the buck is wearing the hunter's clothes.

"They look lovely on you, dear," says the doe.

"Now where could his mate be?" wonders the buck.

Meanwhile, Rocky/Florence is still frantically writing on the blackboard in the laboratory aboard the moon ship Juggernaut. The Moon Queen and the two scientists are looking rather suspicious. "...and you divide that by the price of tea in China, and add the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin..."

The Queen leaps to her feet. "Enough! You are an impostor! Guards! Seize her!"

"We're scientists, not guards, Your Grace," the first scientist points out.

"It's against union rules for us to seize anybody," adds the second scientist.

The frightened Rocky/Florence flees from the laboratory and down the corridor towards the weapon room. He soon meets up with Gidney and Cloyd. "We've got to hurry, guys! The Queen knows I'm not Wunderkind!"

"How will we get past the guard now?" wonders Gidney.

"I've got an idea!" says Rocky/Florence.

He flips a switch on the holographic generator and morphs back into his flying squirrel form. Then he tosses the device at the guard who stands in front of the weapon room entrance. The guard idly catches it, and is shocked and confused when he suddenly takes on the appearance of Florence. "Huh? What?"

At that moment the Moon Queen races down the corridor, accompanied by four guards. "There she is!" she cries out.

The Queen's guards grab hold of the weapon room guard, thinking he is Florence. "Hold on, guys!" he protests in Florence's voice as they drag him away. "You're making a big mistake!"

Rocky, Gidney, and Cloyd hurry into the weapon room. "There's the weapon," says Cloyd, pointing at the Anthropomorphizer, a large ray gun attached to the floor of the weapon room. Its nozzle has been inserted through an opening in the ship's hull.

"Correction," says Gidney. "There WAS the weapon." He walks over to a switch on the wall that has the word JETTISON printed above it in large red letters. Cloyd and Rocky find oxygen masks in a wall compartment and start to put them on.

Cloyd tosses Gidney an oxygen mask. "You know, Rocky," he muses, "after this, we'll never be able to go home again."

"Gee, I'm sorry, Cloyd," says Rocky comfortingly. The three fasten their masks.

As Gidney pulls the switch, the Anthropomorphizer is hurled into the atmosphere, along with Rocky and his two moon friends!

As he is ejected from the spacecraft, Rocky grabs Gidney and Cloyd by the arms, and begins to glide through the air towards the Earth's surface. "It's...c-c-c-cold!" he stammers as the freezing air envelops him.

With their oxygen masks protecting them from the thin air of the upper atmosphere, Rocky, Gidney, and Cloyd plummet gracefully to Earth...

After about fifteen minutes, Rocky, Gidney, and Cloyd slowly descend to the ground.

...and into the middle of the San Diego Zoo!

The three look around and find to their dismay that all the humans have left, and that the zoo pathways are occupied by lions, tigers, and elephants. They slowly remove their oxygen masks. "Hokey smoke!" exclaims Rocky.

A moment later, Rocky, Gidney, and Cloyd are surrounded by a large, hungry mob of lions, tigers, panthers, and leopards. One of the tigers approaches them menacingly. "Forgive the terrible cliche," he growls, "but look who's dropped in for lunch!"

"Cloyd!" cries Gidney. "Your scrooch gun!"

The two moon men pull their scrooch guns from their holsters and try to fire them at the animals, but they fail to engage.

"It's not working!" says Cloyd. "The cold air of the upper atmosphere must have damaged it!"

Will Rocky and the moon men become tiger chow? Don't miss our next exciting episode, "Chewed at the Zoo", or, "Moon Pies and Rocky Road for Everyone".