So the boys all go trooping into Funso's. And you may be wondering how they could just WANDER into a LOCKED building, but the fact is it wasn't locked because the back door was wide open. Fancy that. It's almost like the whole thing was planned...

Anyway, so they walked in and Goofy - always one to state the obvious - said. "Bit strange the back door's open, isn't it Mick?"

Mickey waved a hand dismissivly. "Don't think about it to much Goofy."

Goofy's eyes narrowed but he didn't say anything. Mickey waved his hands around a bit and said. "Let's split up and look-"

"-I thought you were the one that wanted us all to stick together?" Goofy asked, with such a level of hostility that Donald was shocked because Goofy doesn't DO hostile. Ever.

Even Mickey looked surprised as he stammered. "I-i know b-but now that we're, we're inside we'd cover m-more ground if we split up."

Goofy looked straight at Mickey and said, slowly. "Yes, because the kids are back in the manor, Scrooge and Duckworth are in St Canard and...er...um." He scratched his chin and stuck out his tongue in concentration. "...Who's doing the harbour again, Mick?"

Mickey sighed. "I told you, Goofy, Mrs Beakley is."

Goofy snapped his fingers. "Of course! MRS Beakley." He gave Donald a sidewards look who by now had - what he called - 'a feeling of dread.'

Mickey took a deep breath and went to turn away when Goofy called after him. "Oh, Mick! Can I just ask you a question?"

Another sharp intake of breath and Mickey turned slowly. "...Go. On." He hissed.

By now Donald realised that something was clearly very wrong with the mouse, but had no idea what. Goofy just steamrolled on with: "What was the name of that college production we were in?"

"...What?"

"You know! When we were at college! You had the lead, Minnie played the lady's assistant, you fell in love?"

Mickey's face cleared. "Oh yes. The Three Muskateers."

Goofy snapped his fingers again. "That's it! And what was the one in the junior year when we did Jack and the Beanstalk and Donald tried to kill the bull for meat?"

"...Jack and the Beanstalk?"

"That was it! And - finally what was the one in the middle of those two when you played two parts? You know - the one when Horace Horsecollar was the valet?"

"That would be..." Mickey thought for a moment. "The Prince and the Pauper. Now, if we're done with this little trip down memory lane-"

Goofy laughed. "Oh yes, sorry! That's me, always getting distracted." Mickey rolled his eyes and started to walk away again. "Oh, Mickey!" Hearing Goofy's voice again the mouse stopped and turned, glaring at his friend murderously. "-Just one more question and then I'll let you carry on."

"What." Mickey hissed.

"Who are you are what have you done with the real Mickey Mouse?"

There was a beat while both 'Mickey' and Donald looked at Goofy like he'd lost his mind. Then Mickey laughed. "You're crazy!" He said. "You're insane, you're mad! Of course I'm the real Mickey Mouse! Donald -" 'Mickey' turned to my brother. "Tell me you don't believe this shit."

Donald's eyes nearly buldged out his head and he took a step back.

Goofy said, calmly. "Would you like me to tell you where you went wrong NOT-Mickey?"

"Please!" 'Mickey' snapped. "Yes, PLEASE tell me where you got this stupid idea from - I could do with a laugh!"

"Well." Goofy began, getting into 'Sherlock Goof' mode. "First of all you should never had tried to imitate Mickey Mouse without knowing how he talks. You kept calling Mrs Beakley, Mrs Beakley. If you were the real Mickey Mouse you would know that we've all been given permission to call Mrs Beakley AUNTIE Beakley. Then there were the questions-"

"-I answered the questions!"

"-Which were trick questions NOT Mickey! Jack and the Beanstalk - Donald killed a cow not a bull-"

"-Easy mistake to-"

"-NOT for someone who's friends with Clarabelle Cow it's not! Prince and The Pauper it was DONALD who was the valet not Horace. He played the advisor. And before you say those two were just mistakes anyone can make because it was a while ago - The Three Muskateers - Minnie played the princess NOT the lady-in-waiting, that was Daisy. And the REAL Mickey Mouse would know that seeing as it was THAT movie that conviced the REAL Mickey that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her and FINALLY-" Goofy took a breath, then said, simply. "Mickey doesn't swear. Ever."

There was a long pause while 'Mickey' and Goofy silently stared at each other. Then 'Mickey' said. "I see the jig is up." Now. When Donald was telling me about this later on he asked me to guess what happened next.

I looked at him like- what?

"Just guess." Donald said, again.

I shrugged. "I dunno. Disapeared in a puff of smoke?"

"No, he just collasped."

Yeah that's right. The mouse collasped and Donald caught him before wondering what he was DOING - as Mickey was clearly not Mickey - so he dropped him on the ground.

Then there was a high-pitched voice. "I suppose it was nice while it lasted."

Cue Donald and Goofy looking round for The Mysterious Voice.

"I'm over here, ya morons." Snapped the voice as a figure stepped out the shadows.

"The Phantom Blot!?" Donald and Goofy exclaimed together.

"What have you done to our friend!?" Goody demanded.

The blob waved a gloved hand. "He'll be fine. It's just the effect of the hypnosis. He'll be awake in a couple of moments."

Goofy and Donald looked down at Mickey - who showed no signs of doing anything except breathing anytime soon - and, after a pause, the phantom went. "Or maybe it'll be half an hour, who cares?-"

"-We do!" Donald squawked.

The Phantom put his hands on his hips and snapped. "Hey, you think this is what I wanted? I had an entire monologue planned and everything!"

As if on cue Mickey chose that moment to groggily sit up and put his head in his hands with a groan.

"Mickey!" Goofy dropped to his knees and put a hand gently on his friends shoulder. "Are you okey?"

"Ugh...what hit me?"

"That would be me." The phantom blot announced proudly. Mickey frowned, looked at him, then said, in a mix of amazement and horror.

"It CAN'T be...you're dead! You died in jail five years ago!"

[I had no idea of ANY of this BTW. You miss a lot when you're on the moon. Anyway, where was I? Oh yes-]

"I had a letter!" Mickey added, like people have never forged letters before.

"Oh yes." The Phantom Blot said. "The Phantom Blot IS dead however-" The hood was pulled down. "-I am not!"

Now, it's a bit hard to describe seeing as I wasn't actually there and all, but basically the crux of this is that the person under the hood was NOT the guy we know as the Phantom Blot. It was a girl for one thing. However none of the boys had the faintest clue who she was and that made the whole thing even more awquad than it already was.

"...You don't recognise me do you?" The Phantom Blot said, after a few seconds of silence.

The boys shook their head.

Basically the girl was the Phantom Blot's daughter. Donald told me this and I was like: "What!? The P.B. has a daughter!? Since when?" Athough as soon as I said that I did vaguelly remember that when Mickey first had his first ding with the P.B. and the guy went to jail [for all of 6 hours before he broke back out again.]I do remember Mickey having a moral freakout because the Blot had a young daughter and he was worried about what would happen to her. He was so wound up about it he was actually RELIEVED when the P.B. broke out because then the kid wouldn't be alone for long! That's Mickey Mouse for you folks...

Anyway. Back to the point. P.B. Junior was not happy about the fact no one remebered her and went on a ten-minute tirade about how she was carrying on her dads legacy and her name would be up in lights eventually and how EVERYONE in the world would know and fear the name THE PHANTOM BLOT! The phantom wanna-be was half-way through this tirade with no sign of stopping when there's the sound of an engine outside that's getting closer and closer and closer...

She stops the tirade to go: "Can you guys hear that-" And -

CRASH! The entire left side of Funso's Fun Zone COLLAPSES and Gus's rust bucket [or as he calls it, his 'baby'] come barrowling through SMACKS into phantom junior and sends her flying into the ball pit. I'm still trying to figure out exatly how that happened, my best guess is she basically did a massive semi-circle through the air before landing in the ball pit.

Donald, Mickey and Goofy are standing there open-mouthed, unable to quite believe what they just saw. Gus throws the door of the rust bucket open and yelled. "Did we hit something?"