Moments later, the Impossibles emerged from backstage.
"Okay, you refugee from a Dracula movie!" Fluey shouted, just as Danalleah picked up the rock. "Drop that rock!"
"Well, if you insist," Danalleah said. She flew into the air, and dropped the rock. It bounced right off Fluey's head and hit the floor. Danalleah picked it up, and started to fly off with it.
"Ow!" Fluey shouted. "Boy, I gotta learn to watch what I say around these crooks."
"Did that bat just talk?" Coiley asked.
"I wonder if it's Cronella Critch in disguise?" Multi said.
"I wouldn't put it past her," Fluey said. "After that bat!"
The Impossibles took off after Danalleah. She saw them coming after her and groaned.
"Don't these guys ever quit?" she asked. "I'll just have to show them!"
Danalleah flew into the air, and then came zooming back down again. The Impossibles ducked, and that caused Danalleah to misaim, slightly, and she slammed right into a tree.
"Ouch!" she yelled, and the moon rock went flying.
"Rally ho!" Coiley shouted, springing into the air. He caught the moon rock, and came back down.
"I got the rock, fellas," he said.
"Now let's take care of the bat," Multi said.
"I'm outta here!" Danalleah shouted, and she began flapping furiously in order to escape. She managed to get away into the woods before the Impossibles could catch her.
"Well, we'll never find her now," Fluey said.
"We might as well go back to the party," Coiley said. "We've still got a gig to finish." Fluey and Multi agreed, and they went back to the community center.
Danalleah, in the meantime, had arrived back at Cronella's cottage. She was mixing the ingredients Danalleah had brought back already to restore her powers. Danalleah flew in through the window, and transformed herself back.
"It's about time," Cronella said. "Did you get the moon rock back?"
"No, Mother," Danalleah said, catching her breath.
"Why not?!"
"These three guys stopped me. Both times. I couldn't get it."
"Three guys? The Impossibles! I might have known! Ooooh, when I get a hold of them I'll . . . . . and as for you, Danalleah, I ought to turn you into a mouse just for trying my patience!"
"No, Mother, wait! Give me another chance, I promise, I promise I'll get your moon rock. I'll go get it tomorrow morning and bring it back here right away."
"Well . . . . all right. But if I don't get that moon rock by tomorrow, I'll definitely turn you into a mouse! Or worse!"
"Yes, Mother."
The next day, Danalleah was about to leave the cottage. Cronella was stirring her mixture in her cauldron.
"Remember, girlie," she said. "This is your last chance! If I don't get that rock . . . ."
"I know, Mother," Danalleah said. "And don't worry, I promise, I'll get the rock."
Danalleah turned herself into a bat, and flew off. Cronella watched her go. She gave her daughter a good ten minute start, and then went to get her broom.
"I'm not taking chances this time," she said. "I'm not about to let my bubble brain of a daughter louse this up again! If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself!"
Cronella took off out the window herself, and cackled. She was going to get that moon rock if it was the last thing she did.
Meanwhile, Danalleah approached the house of Tillie Templeton. She saw Fluey sitting on by a tree. She landed on one of the branches and changed back into a girl. Fluey looking at the moon rock, and wondering what in the world a bat would want with it in the first place. As he was pondering this, the tree branch Danalleah was on started to crack, and then it broke. Danalleah fell, and landed right in Fluey's lap.
"Ooh!" he groaned. "Hey!"
"Good morning, starshine," Danalleah said with a giggle.
"Yeah, sure, good morning," Fluey said. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, I was in the neighborhood, and I thought I'd drop in."
"Yeah, I kind of noticed. "But how'd you drop in like that literally?"
"Fluey, please! A girl is entitled to some secrets! So what are you up to, rock and roll?"
"Huh?"
"Well, you're holding a rock, aren't you? Are you gonna roll it, too?"
"Oh brother."
Danalleah took the rock out of Fluey's hand, and held it.
"I collect rocks," she said. "I've never seen one like this before. Do you think I could have it?"
"I don't think so," Fluey said. "The guys and I are gonna take it back to the museum."
"Oh, I'll take it back for you."
"Well . . . ."
Suddenly, a broom flew in from overhead. Both Fluey and Danalleah jumped to their feet and saw Cronella Critch coming in for a landing.
"I hate to break this up," she said. "But I want that rock!"
"Cronella Critch!" Fluey shouted.
"So glad you remember me, Fluid Man," Cronella said, snatching the rock from Danalleah's hands. "This is the final ingredient I need to restore my powers!"
"Not if I can help it!" Fluey shouted, even though he knew he couldn't change to his superhero form without Multi and Coiley. All three of them had to be together to change. He knew it would give Cronella a chance to escape, but he figured he, Multi, and Coiley would be able to track her down.
But Cronella seemed to be one step ahead. She took her bag of tricks out, and pulled out a handful of some kind of sand. She tossed it into Fluey's face.
"Hey!" he shouted. Then he suddenly felt sleepy. "What's going on? I'm so tired all of a sudden . . . ."
Without so much as another word, Fluey fell to the ground, in a deep sleep. Cronella laughed, handed the rock to Danalleah, and pulled Fluey off the ground.
"That should hold him for the time being," she said. "My magic sleep dust never fails. He'll be asleep long enough for us to make our getaway, Danalleah. But we'll have to take him with us, to make sure he doesn't tell the other two after he wakes up."
"But Mother . . . ." Danalleah started.
"Don't 'but Mother' me! Those Impossibles can't turn into their superhero alter egos unless all three of them are together! We have to take this one with us! Now let's fly before the other two show up!"
"Yes, Mother."
In a puff of purple smoke, Danalleah turned herself into a bat, and Cronella took to the air on her broom, cackling as she and Danalleah flew back to her cottage. However, they weren't going to go unnoticed. As Cronella was flying over head, Shawn and FG were coming down the road on FG's motorized scooter. FG saw the tricky witch in the air, and stopped.
"Hey, isn't that the bat from the community center up there?" she asked.
"Yeah," Shawn said. "And it looks like it's following that witch . . . . and look! She's got Fluey!"
"We'd better get Multi and Coiley and fast!"
"Right. Punch it, FG!"
"Rally ho!" the girls shouted, as FG slammed on the gas.
As the girls were racing down the road, Fluey was starting to come to his senses. He saw a large, bubbling cauldron in the middle of the room. He also noticed he had been tied to a chair. If he were in his superhero form, he would have been able to escape easily, just by converting to liquid and slipping out of the ropes. But he was unable to do that in his rock and roller form, and Cronella knew it. All he could do was try to get himself untied. As he was trying at least to get his wrists free, Danalleah came into the room.
"Danalleah, am I glad to see you!" Fluey shouted. "Hurry and untie me. We've got to get out of here fast!"
"Ummm . . . . ." Danalleah said, hesitantly. Before she could say anything else, Cronella came in.
"Now, maybe I can get this show on the road!" she cackled. Then she turned to Fluey. "And I see you're not so smug without your super powers!"
"Just wait, Cronella," Fluey said. "You can't stop the Impossibles so easy."
"It won't matter," Cronella went on. "As soon as I get that moon rock into my cauldron, I'll have my powers back, and then, you three will be history!"
Cronella cackled and then turned to Danalleah.
"All right, dearie, hand over the rock," she said.
"Don't do it, Danalleah!" Fluey shouted.
"Oh keep quiet," Cronella said. "Danalleah will do exactly what I tell her to do, won't you, my dear?"
"Danalleah, don't listen to her!" Fluey shouted. "She's just tricky witch!"
"I already know," Danalleah said, taking out the rock. "And I have to do what she tells me to do, Fluey."
"Why?" Fluey asked.
"Because . . . . because she's my mother."