The Redwallers stood in front of the Abbey. Some were carrying flowers, crying. Don Juan was leaving Mossflower. The Spanish-speaking pilot loaded the last of his supplies into the XE 14 Fighter, which was draped in flowers.
"Please Don Juan, don't go," Mattimeo begged. "We'll miss you too much."
"I am sorry, youngest Matthias," Don Juan said. "I must be seeing my family again. But," he said, seeing the young mouse's face fall, "you Redwall may be keeping my one golden hamster, to be remembering me by." He handed the figure to Mattimeo.
"Mattimeo," Matthias called. The young mouse obediently went over to his father. "Mattimeo, I cannot defend our home forever. I am getting too old to be living a warrior's life. Son, I now call you Mattimeo, Champion of Redwall Abbey." He placed his battle-scarred blade into the speechless mouse's paws. "Protect our home well, warrior." Everyone cheered (and there was much rejoicing).
The doors to the Abbey opened and Constance and Orlando the Ax came out, dragging a struggling Cluny to the plane. The chained rat screamed as he fought with the two badgers. "No! Don't make me go, please! Anything but this! Send me to a deserted island, lock me up, anything but this, puh-leez!"
Constance kicked the rat. "Oh, shut up! Be happy that we are showing you some mercy, you filthy scum! If I'd had it my way, you'd be dead now!"
As Skipper and Winifred strapped Cluny securely to the back of Don Juan's chair, Abbot Mordafus asked the pilot, "Are you sure you want to take him back to Cuba with you? It might be dangerous for you if he gets loose."
"Oh, I am believing so, Padre," Don Juan answered. "Very Loony will be very happy in Cuba. Yesno, huge rat?"
"NO!"
Cornflower gave a hug to her special friend. "Don Juan, I'll miss you. We all will." She began to cry.
Don Juan comforted her. "I will be missing you too, Cornyflower. But I must be seeing my home. I am very much needed there."
"We'll never forget you, Don Juan," Matthias said. "You saved us from enslavement and sure death. May the seasons be kind to you, sir."
"Okey dokey!" Don Juan boarded the airplane. "May it being, I will be visiting again, yesno?"
"YES!" everyone cheered.
"Goodbye, amigos!" The Spanish-speaking pilot started the plane one last time. The Redwallers backed up against the walls of the Abbey, waving to the stranger from another world. Don Juan started to tear up as the plane took off, away from his new friends. "I will be missing them. Will you, very Loony?"
"Don't speak to me, Don Juan!"
"We shall be having lotsa fun, yesno? Since we be such bestest friends, we will be doing everything together! When I get new BB gun, we can be shooting a bull's horn, or my sister's jug again! And we can send letters to my Avril Laveenie Senorita, since she is being the bestest singer in the wholest, widest world! And I teach you Hokie Pokie, since you were never learning before. We have such fun!"
"HELP!"
The radio switched to the Dr. Evil and Mini Me version of "It's a Hard Knock Life," as Cluny screamed.
Until next time…
(Nelly's "Air Force One" song plays)
(credits roll)