Newt hasn't really been that fortunate throughout this story, has he? Well, his luck might be able to change this time... Story and plot created by me; Minerva Mink and other Animaniacs characters (including Newt) created by Warner Bros.

A Minerva Mink Christmas

Chapter 7 - Newt's Last Stand

Newt got out of the fountain after falling into it from twelve stories. He was in pain, but he didn't care; he was so angry that he was really determined to get Minerva Mink once and for all. He said to himself...

"I am getting really sick and tired of going after the mink without getting myself badly hurt! I'm just going to do something I should have done hours ago ever since I got here!"

He went to get a big sack, which he took from a Santa Claus on the first floor; it was basically a prop used as a decoration where the Santa sat, and it was filled with prop presents that Newt dumped out. Luckily for him, nobody even noticed what he just did. He then looked up at the elevators, waiting for Minerva to go down one of them.

"As soon as that mink comes back down to the first floor as she's ready to leave, I'll jump her using this sack and run out of this barbaric place and head back to home, sweet home!"

Meanwhile, back at the twelfth floor, Minerva had bought the last couple of things she found at "Pranks 'N Presents". And she said to herself...

"I guess I've got everything I needed right now. It's time for me to head back home."

She walked out of the store, carried her bags, and headed to one of the elevators; however, the elevator she was about to get into was full of guys whose tongues hung from their mouths at the sight of her.

"I think I'll take the next one..."

And so, Minerva decided to get into another elevator, one without so many guys looking at her when she's in it. She pressed the button to go back down to the first floor. Unbeknowst to her, Newt kept his eyes on Minerva as she was in the elevator going down (since elevators at most malls have see-through walls to them). Then, Newt began to think to himself...

"I don't want to make any mistake by doing this quickly, so I'll just wait until I see her step out of the elevator."

He hid beside the door to the elevator and stood flat against the wall, hoping that nothing bad will happen to him. Minerva was still in the elevator, humming to herself until she arrived to her destination. A few seconds after she stepped out of the elevator, she heard someone shout...

"Gotcha!"

Before she even reacted, she felt a sack getting thrown onto her. Newt had pounced on her with the sack and sealed her inside it. After doing so, he shouted triumphantly to himself...

"Ha ha! I've finally done it! I, Newt, have finally captured the blasted mink! Wait until my master sees what I've done!"

Without doing anything else, Newt picked up the sack Minerva was in and carried it the best he could. Inside the sack, Minerva can be heard squealing...

"Help me! Somebody help me! It's a mink-napper on the prowl, and he's got me! Heeellllp!"

At that moment, the security guard (who's been mentioned at least once in each of the recent chapters) had just made it down to the first floor to check on Newt after seeing him fall from the twelfth floor and into the fountain. He saw Newt running as fast as he could, carrying a sack with Minerva's blond tail sticking out of it. He immideately figured out what he was doing, and he took off after Newt. Newt was almost twenty feet away from the exit as he said to himself happily...

"There it is... I'm almost there!"

But when he was about to go through the door, he got hit on the head really hard by something...

SMACK!!!

He stopped to rub his head, then he turned around and saw what it was that hit him: it was a nightstick that belonged to the security guard, which he used to stop Newt.

"I've noticed what you were just doing when I came down, and I cannot tolerate that!"

"But... but..."

"I mean, shoplifting from one of the stores here is actually a pretty common crime, but kidnapping someone? Now THAT crosses the line here in this mall, pal!"

He began to smack Newt a couple of times with his nightstick, and then he picked him up and tossed him right out of the Mega Mall. After doing so, he untied the sack Minerva was sealed in. After she emerged from it, she was saying...

"Now who could've possibly done such a thing to a gorgeous mink like myself? I've never had anybody try to pull a stunt like that to little ol' me. I think that whoever did it must have been somebody who's allergic to minks, since that's the only reason I know that somebody would do something like that..."

"Are you okay, ma'am?"

Minerva turned her head to see who it was that spoke up. When she saw the security guard, her jaw dropped and her eyes bugged out in cartoon-style at the sight of him. Then, her body stood in the air with her hair and tail all frizzled up and her eyes became the shape of hearts (which is a common effect seen when a character falls in love with someone). Afterward, she leaped into the arms of the security guard and hugged him tightly.

"Are you the handsome-looking figure that tried to rescue me?"

"Yes, I am. The guy who tried to take you away has already been taken care of, so there's no need for you to worry."

"Thank you. By the way, how'd you like to come over to place and mingle a bit?"

"That's, uh, awfully nice of you to ask, but I have a job to do here at this really huge place; and also, I already have a wife."

Minerva's smile almost lessened after hearing him say that.

"I see... Well, I guess I'll just head back to my home then..."

She picked up her bags and headed for the exit. When she was about to do so, she heard the security guard say...

"Oh! One more thing... Merry Christmas!"

Minerva turned her head and said as she smiled back at him...

"Merry Christmas to you, too."

As for Newt, he was lying down in the middle of road after being thrown out of the Mega Mall. He said to himself as he came to...

"Well, this has not been a very good day for me at all... I've been smacked, squashed, shocked and even had my taste buds severely scorched...and all because I tried to capture a mink in a mall. Maybe...just maybe...there could be a sign telling me that all of this misfortune that's happened to me will finally come to an end..."

Then, he heard a familiar honking noise from behind...

SMASH!!!

Another semi-truck had run him over like before. After being flattened again, he picked himself off of the road and walked away. Newt began to sob...

"I knew I should have stayed in bed today... I should have!"

TO BE CONTINUED...