Eventually, Brenda was at the medical station as a nurse examined her leg.
"How's she doing nurse?" Mel asked the nurse.
"Just a twisted ankle." The nurse replied. "I think it is best for her to avoid such intense sports for the next couple of weeks."
She then nodded at the nearby clutches and added, "I advise that Miss Chance use these until her foot heals."
"Yes sir" Brenda nodded.
"Thank god you're okay, Brenda" said Otto "I was really worried about you"
"Thanks Otto" Brenda made a cute giggle and blushed.
Otto then turned to Brenda's parents as they smiled at him.
"Oh, we sure don't know how to thank you, your Royal Highness." Mel said to the prince as he bowed down.
"Oh, that's not necessary." Otto smiled. "I'm just trying to help, and there's no need to be formal."
"Well then, thank you Prince Otto for getting my baby girl here on time" said Mel "I don't know what I'd do if I lost her"
"There's no need to think about that." Otto said. "She's safe and sound, that's all it matters."
"That's true" said Mel "We'll just be out for a while"
As soon as Mel and Laurel left, Otto came to Brenda and held her hand with both of his own hands.
"Oh Otto, thank you" Brenda smiled.
"It was nothing, really" Otto blushed "I just wanted to make sure you were okay"
"That's the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me" Brenda smiled at the prince.
The two then gazed into each other's eyes and both started to blush really hard.
There was some awkward silence, which was broken when Taffy and Dee Dee came to check on them.
"Hey Brenda!" Taffy exclaimed "Hey Prince Otto!"
"Oh hey, Dee Dee. Hey Taffy" said Brenda.
"How are you doing?" asked Dee Dee.
"Other than twisting my ankle and having to move around in clutches, I'm alright." Brenda shrugged.
"Too bad you're not gonna be skiing for the next day or so" said Taffy.
"Well, at least I can relax for the bit." Brenda shrugged.
"And don't worry, B" said Otto "I'll be right by your side to make sure you get better"
"Thanks Otto" Brenda blushed.
Just then, a man came inside the room. It was one of Otto's bodyguards.
"Prince Otto!" the man exclaimed.
"Yes, Rogers?" asked Otto.
"My lord, I come to you with an urgent matter" said Rogers "Someone has broken into the hotel safe and stolen your royal scepter!"
"My word!" Otto stood up. "Has the police been informed?"
"They're on their way at the moment, your Royal Highness." Rogers said. "I advise that you return with us immediately."
"Right." Otto nodded before turning towards Brenda and her friends.
"Otto, what's going on? Is something the matter?" asked Brenda.
"Yes." Otto nodded. "Someone has stolen a very important item that serves as a symbol to the throne of my country."
"That's terrible" said Brenda.
"Don't worry, Otto" said Taffy "We'll help you"
"That's good" said Otto "Let's go"
"What about me, Otto?" asked Brenda "I thought you were gonna stay by my side and take care of me until I heal"
Brenda made puppy dog eyes at Otto, hoping he would stay with her.
"Sorry." Otto shrugged apologetically. "I need to be there when my royal sceptre is recovered, but I'll be back with you once this saga is over. I promise."
"Promise?" Brenda asked.
"Promise" Otto nodded.
Brenda nodded before the prince took off, followed by her two friends.
While the prince was trying to catch up with Taffy and Dee Dee, the intrepid duo were having a side conversation of their own.
"Hey Dee, have you noticed that Brenda's been acting a bit weird around the prince?" Taffy asked her friend.
"Maybe." Dee Dee shrugged. "Why?"
"Her face is turning red and she really wanted Otto to stay with her" Taffy replied "Plus, she always seems really shy around him"
"Maybe there's something going on between them." Dee Dee suggested.
"You think Brenda's fallen in love with the prince?" asked Taffy.
"It would seem that way" Dee Dee replied.
Taffy nodded thoughtfully as they followed the prince.
They found themselves in the lobby where the safe was shown as empty as a cookie jar after a kid stuck his hand in it and the police were searching for evidence.
"Zowie" said Taffy "What happened here?"
"That safe must've been looted." Dee Dee remarked.
"How did this happen?" Otto asked the lobby man, who had been gagged and tied up.
"Well, I was just minding my own business when all of a sudden, there was some sort of yeti and he attacked me" said the lobby man.
"Yeti?" Dee Dee placed her hands on her hips "You can't be serious"
"Well, that's the last thing I remembered seeing before everything went black." The lobby man replied.
"I've gotta get that scepter back" Otto told the girls "It's been in my family for generations. It's a priceless heirloom"
"Don't worry, Otto" said Taffy "We'll help you get it back"
"We will?" Dee Dee raised an eyebrow "I mean, sure we will"
"In that case, what do you girls have in mind?" Otto asked.
"There are some strange tracks leading right into the forest" Dee Dee pointed out "Maybe that's where this so-called 'yeti' was headed"
"Zowie" Taffy exclaimed "Let's go there! Come on. Coming with us, Otto?"
"Sorry" said Otto "But I promised Brenda to go back and take care of her while she heals"
Dee Dee and Taffy looked at each other.
"Okay Otto" said Dee Dee "We'll be back with some evidence soon. Come on, Taffy"
Dee Dee and Taffy followed the tracks to the woods outside of the resort grounds and soon enough, found themselves lost in the snowstorm.
"Now this is just great." Dee Dee remarked as they looked around the woods. "We're lost."
"And it's getting late" Taffy added "We'd better find a place to stay until the storm dies down, like that cave over there!"
Taffy pointed to a nearby cave.
"Dude, that is way too convenient" Dee Dee remarked.
The two girls walked over to the cave for shelter.
"You sure this is a good idea, Taffy?" Dee Dee asked her blonde friend "I mean, what if there are wolves or bears in here?"
"Don't worry, Dee" said Taffy "I'll show you there's nothing to be afraid of"
Taffy grabbed a flashlight and started to search around for any signs of life, but found nothing. Just then, she saw something and turned the flashlight back to it.
"Zowie!" she exclaimed "What is that?"
What they were looking at appeared to be a giant block of ice with two figures frozen inside it.
"Beats me." Dee Dee shrugged. "Let's take a closer look."
The duo walked over to the ice block and saw two hairy cavemen and a pterodactyl frozen solid.
"Zowie!" Taffy exclaimed "A Caveman, a little caveman and is that pterodactyl?"
"Looks like it." Dee Dee squinted her eyes. "What do you think we should do?"
"Let's thaw them out" said Taffy "They look so adorable. Especially that long nosed guy"
"You sure?" Dee Dee asked, uncertain about the idea.
"Well we can't just leave this adorable specimens here in the freezing cold and the poor guys have no where to go" Taffy replied "Plus, it'd be great to show someone from the past what the modern world is like"
Dee Dee pressed her lips and then she nodded.
"Very well, then." She said.
"Well come on" Taffy said as she put her hands on the block.
Dee Dee and Taffy managed to pick up the ice block and carry it back to the lodge.
By then, the snow had stopped and they were able to return to the lodge effortlessly.
"Finally, we're back" Dee Dee huffed "I think my fingers were about to chafe"
"Come on, Dee" said Taffy "Lets get this thing over to the fire place to thaw out"
The girls then pushed the ice block containing the two cavemen and the dactyl to the fireplace.
"I hope this works." Taffy said as they placed the ice block in front of the fireplace.
The girls looked on anxiously as the ice block begin to melt from the exposure to the heat from the fireplace.
Soon enough, the ice started to melt much faster and the more thawed out the frozen trio were becoming and next thing they knew, the ice was completely melted.
"Zowie." Taffy remarked. "Now what?"
"We wait for them to move, I guess" Dee Dee shrugged.
Taffy walked over to the three prehistoric creatures and saw that their eyes started blinking and they started moving like they hadn't moved in millenniums.
"Ohhhh..." One of the creatures groaned after being thawed.
"What just happened?" the other one groaned "And why do I feel like I was just frozen for millions of years?"
"Me don't know, son" said the bigger caveman "All me remember is-"
Just then, his eyes saw Taffy's beautiful and angelic face.
"Maybe we died and went to Heaven" said the big Caveman "Cause me see an angel!"
"Angel?" Taffy asked as she and Dee Dee looked at each other.
"Yeah pop" said the little caveboy "She's very pretty"
"Unga, she is" the Caveman looked dreamily at Taffy "She more beautiful than pink pterodactyls in springtime"
"Perhaps she's my momma?" The little caveboy asked.
"Huh?" the big caveman raised an eyebrow "Uh son..."
"Mommy!" the little caveboy flew into Taffy's arms and wrapped his arms around her neck.
Taffy and Dee Dee were stunned as the little caveboy hugged the former.
"Mommy, mommy!" the little cave boy sang as he hugged Taffy "Oh mommy I've missed you so much!"
"Wait a minute" said Dee Dee "Who are you guys? And what's going on here?"
"Me son think you his mother." The caveman spoke.
"Sweetie, I'm not your momma" Taffy told little boy "You must have me confused with someone else"
"Where are we anyways?" The caveman asked.
"Well you're at the Twin Lodges" said Dee Dee "We found you two and your dactyl frozen in that block of ice, so we took you three back here and thawed you out"
"Who are you, anyways?" asked Taffy "And where did you come from? And how did you get frozen?"
"Me am Captain Caveman." The caveman replied. "This me son, Cavey Jr. We came from Bedrock."
"Bedrock? What's that?" Taffy asked.
"It place run by me fellow cavemen" Captain Caveman explained "We use lots of animals for appliances including dinos, mammoths, saber tooth tigers, birds, saber tooth squirrels..."
"Wrong franchise" Dee Dee remarked.
"Oh, sorry" Cavey blushed.
"But how did you guys got frozen in that block of ice?" Taffy asked.
"Me not know" Caveman shrugged "One minute, me and Junior flying on dactyl to stop arch enemy, next thing you know, we freeze solid and sometime later, we end up in this place and see beautiful blonde angel"
"I see." Dee Dee nodded understandingly.
"Uh, pop?" Junior pointed to the dactyl.
"Oh right" Caveman said as he grabbed the pterosaur and put him back in his fur.
"So exactly how long have we been frozen?" asked Junior "And where are we? What year is this?"
"I'll say for thousands of years." Dee Dee said "Even millions."
"Millions?!" the two exclaimed.
"Yep" Dee Dee nodded "And this is the 21st century A.D"
"Unga, this look more advanced than Bedrock" Cavey remarked "What has happened while we frozen?"
"Yeah" said Junior "I wanna know everything!"
Dee Dee and Taffy looked at each other before replying, "It's a long story..."
Author's Note:
It looks like the girls have found Captain Caveman and his son. Who knows? Maybe these two unevolved crimefighters can assist them in finding the scepter. Stay tuned.