Pinky emerged from a small hole in the wall of the gorge, and sneezed as the snow fell on his nose. He was holding his left arm to his side.

'What are you doing here?' Pinky asked.

'Ve could ask you the same thing,' said Scratchy.

'Me and Brain was walking on the top of the cliff, when we fell through a hole in that wire mesh.' Pinky pointed upwards. 'We both got conked out for a while, I guess I was out too long, zort, 'cause Brain left without me.'

'Vait, vhat do you mean, vire mesh?'

'Oh, is that what it's called? I always thought it was called wire mesh, but then Brain always did say I have the IQ of a doughnut. Or was it a peanut? Narf.' Pinky said. Wakko and Dot looked at each other.

'No, he means wire,' Dot said.

'He's just got a funny accent,' Wakko added.

'Oh... what was the question, again?'

'Vhat's all this about vire mesh?'

'The whole section of cliff here is lined with it,' Pinky said. 'Sticking out about a few yards from the real cliff face, troz, and covered with snow.'

'That must have been what happened when you and Yakko fell,' Dot said to Wakko. 'The wire gave way.'

'Sounds like it vas a trap,' Scratchy added. 'Did you say Brain vas gone vhen you voke up?' Pinky nodded.

'Did you see what happened to Yakko?' Wakko asked, still holding on to his brother's glove. Pinky looked at him apologetically.

'No, sorry,' He said. 'Poit, but I heard a lot of talking.'

'What did you hear?'

'I can't remember exactly, but they talked a lot about colour schemes.'

'What?' said Wakko.

'Well, one of them kept saying greyscale, narf.'

'Vhy does that sound familiar?' Scratchy asked, more to himself than the other three. 'Kids, I don't think we should go back to the Varner lot until ve find out vhat is going on.'

'Why?' Dot and Wakko asked, as Dot reached up so Pinky could step out onto her palm.

'Vell, if whoever took Yakko also took Brain, who says that they aren't looking for you, too?'

'Poit, where are we going to go?'

'We could go to the Run Away house.' Dot suggested hesitantly.

'Vhat is that?' Scratchy asked. Wakko burrowed his toe in the snow nervously. Scratchy wasn't supposed to find out about the Run Away house. No one was.

'When we were younger,' he said, 'we told Yakko that we wanted to run away from the studio. When he asked us why, we said it was because we didn't like Mr. Plotz, he was mean.'

'So Yakko went to Slappy and asked her to help him build a small house somewhere outside the studio. Somewhere that the three of us could run away to if we ever needed a break from anybody.' Dot continued. 'We haven't been there in a while, but it still has full cupboards.'

'And I'm hungry,' said Wakko, his tongue sticking out. On that note, they decided that it would be the best place to stay, and started walking.