"A tea pot?" cried Bugs.
Everyone went to the giant white tea pot, except the coyotes who held their cannons at the Neo Army again.
"Hmm," said Eric, as he examined the tea pot. "Giant tea pot. White. China."
"This came all the way from China?" asked Babs.
"Either that or high from the sky," said Dia.
"Me loves tea!" cried Dizzy.
He went for the tea pot and took a big bite. Then he was thrown off. Out of Dizzy's bite everyone saw a computer screen. Zack went to it and pressed the red button underneath it. The screen turned on and it showed the Deep-Sea Hunger Games Arena.
"There's Hamton and Nell!" cried Buster.
It showed Hamton and Nell falling down. Then they saw Nell had some purple powder in his flipper and she threw it all over herself and Hamton. The cloud cleared and they weren't in water anymore. Hamton didn't have his diving helmet on anymore and was back in his blue overalls. They were on a big rocky surface, surrounded by mountains and clouds.
"Where are they?" asked Sylvester.
"And why are they in a Sesame Street animation environment?" asked Zack.
Then Hamton and Nell turned around and, seeing something, they began to run.
"Where are they runnin'?" asked Bugs.
"Probably from the Vulture Squadron behind them!" Dia pointed out.
Dia was right. Hamton and Nell were running from the Vulture Squadron. Klunk's plane had sand bangs which the tiny duo avoided. Zilly's plane tried to catch them with a big net, but they were too tiny and too quick. Finally Dick Dastardly and Muttley's plane came with a hand and a lasso that was aimed for Hamton and Nell.
The tiny duo came across a big tree. Nell jumped up to grab the lowest branch. She pulled it down and back as far as it could go. When the plane came close for them, Nell let go of the branch and it sent the plane spinning away. Dastardly fell to the ground and hit his head on a big rock, while Muttley landed safely with his tail spinning like a propeller as always.
Hamton and Nell were near an edge and they looked down to seeing flying creatures of all shapes and sizes fighting one and another.
"Eric, where have you put them?" Dia demanded.
"Look, Dia," Eric sighed. "I never intended to put them in more danger."
Then Hamton and Nell came across a fire-breathing dragon! They ran for their lives.
"Well, you have!" snapped Dia. "You've put them in the Sky-High Hunger Games!"
Nell showed Hamton a cave and they went in. All anyone could see now were two pairs of eyes. Then came a third pair of eyes. Hamton turned on a torch and the touch shone on…
"Big Bird?" cried the watchers.
"Why would that yellow griffin from that kids show be in this kind of game?" asked Plucky.
"Probably because he's a bird?" said Buster.
"But not all birds can fly, you know," said Daffy.
"Yes, thank you, Mr. Bird Expert," said Lola.
"Look on the bright side, guys," said Mary. "I think they've made a new ally and that means they're our allies too."
And she was right. Hamton and Nell shook wings with Big Bird. Then they saw dangerous-looking vultures with sharp spears coming for them. Big Bird pointed to the other side of the cave where daylight shone. They ran for it. They were soon out of the cave and at the bottom of the rocky ground. Then something landed next to the trio.
"Gromit?" cried Clive.
"I don't see any grommet," said Daffy. "Just a dog in a red plane."
Hamton and Nell helped Gromit out of his red sidecar plane. Then Big Bird pointed his wing out. The others turned around to see all the opponents running towards them. Then Hamton spotted a big door with a wheel. The fearless four ran to it. Big Bird and Gromit turned the wheel and the door opened.
All the opponents stopped and the four allies pointed out they can escape through the door. The opponents dropped their weapons and ran through. But the Vulture Squadron were getting closer towards them in their planes.
Big Bird went through the door, followed by Gromit, then Nell and finally Hamton who struggled to close the door quickly. The planes got closer and closer. Hamton barely moved the door. Gromit came back to help Hamton close the door much quicker. The planes got closer and closer and then –
BANG! Hamton and Gromit were safe from the plane crashes from the other side.
Back on Earth, the viewers cheered and applauded.
"O, wook!" cried Tweety. "They're 'teeing' the others."
Tweety was right. The four friends were freeing the other opponents from other Hunger Games battle arenas.
Then some Neo soldiers came charging for them.
"Like, what are they so going to do now?" asked Shirley.
"Probably do a Star Wars reference," said Eric.
"You mean whack them with lightsabers?" asked Buster.
"I was referring to the escape pod scene," replied Eric.
All the Hunger Games creatures got into the escape pods and they left. All the pods were gone. And there were only four creatures left – Hamton, Nell, Gromit and Big Bird. They saw the Neo soldiers coming.
"How are they going to get out now?" cried Babs.
The four heroes looked at what was left – a white china teapot. The watchers looked at the teapot next to them and saw it was the exact teapot. They saw Gromit working out a keypad on the pot that opened a door on the pot and they got in.
"They're in there!" cried Dia. "Get it open!"
Eric went to the keypad and pressed the enter button. The door opened and they went in.
"It's as empty as my stomach," said Sylvester.
"One big red button that has been pushed," said Zack. "I'm assuming that's what they pushed to get this away from the whole Hunger Games station."
"What does the video have to show about what happened to them?" asked Lola.
They all ran back and found the four folks still in the teapot. Then the screen went dead.
"No, no, no!" cried Dia.
"So where are they?" asked Plucky. "Where's my pal?"
"How are we going to even find out?" asked Babs.
"La, la, la, la, la," sang a voice.
"What's that?" asked Melissa.
Penelope looked up and pointed up to the sky. They looked up to see a blue parachute and two big orange feet. The legs were on the ground and the parachute covered them. Eric walked to it and lifted his hand up. The parachute flew back revealing the live-action Big Bird.
"For some six-year-old to escape the Sky-High Hunger Games and sky dive," smiled Eric, "you are some bird, Big."
"Well, it was scary," said Big Bird as he got up.
"So how did Big Bird get into the Hunger Games?" Clive asked. "Big Bird's not even the correct age to enter."
"Well, it all happened when…" began Big Bird.
"What's the point of all these non-Warner Bros. cameos?" asked Babs.
"If Babs knew her Warner Bros. history really well," said Clive, "Babs would know that Big Bird starred in a Warner Bros. movie called Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird."
"And that movie also had Kermit the frog, who was also in Part One of this story," added Zack. "Also your master Steven Spielberg played tribute to Jim Henson when he – "
Then something landed next to him. It was two clay legs sticking out of the ground. Zack pulled them out. "There you go, Gromit," said Zack, as he helped the stop-motion animated dog on his paws. He took his blue jet-pack off.
"Let me guess," said Zack. "Wallace's invention, right?"
Gromit nodded.
"Hey, you guys," said Lola. "Where's Hamton and Nell?"
"You mean the little pig and the flying dolphin?" said Big Bird. "Well, the tea pot escaped the big station Nell called it – "
"Flying dolphin?" cried the toons. They all look at Dia.
The mermaid smiled sheepishly. "Uh, Big Bird, you don't think you might have got mixed up with a cloud that looks like a – "
"Dia!" warned everyone.
Then the sun was blocked. Everyone looked up to see that something from the sky was coming towards them. They saw it was Hamton being held by the flippers of Nell – who had no pink dress on and was flapping in the air. She put Hamton gently on the ground.
"Well done, mate," Nell smiled, patting him on the head like a dog. "You were a great male tribute." And she flew off.
"Hamton!" cried the Tiny Toons as they ran to their porker pal, picked him up and cheered.
Nell flew to Big Bird. "Thanks for getting us to safety, Big," she smiled.
"Ah, no problem," smiled Big Bird. "Anyway, we couldn't have gotten out without you, could we, Gromit?"
Gromit shook his head.
"And thank you too, Gromit," smiled Nell, who shook paws with him.
Dia flew towards her. "I'd like a word with you," she said sternly. Her jetpack took her behind a rock and Nell followed her.
Eric put his hand around his ear. Then he felt something behind. "Are you standing behind me to be funny or are you only interested in the girl?"
"I've been wondering about the same thing about what we've been through before your foster family sent me away," said Zack.
"She was the only female that's been part of my life," said Eric. "Whereas you – "
"All that time I've been living in America," said Zack, "I've resisted the cuteness of Dot Warner and the attractiveness of Hello Nurse and Minerva Mink. And for what? So the loneliest wizard in the world can steal my girl."
"If only she knew it's not like you've never been kissed," Eric said.
"How do you know that?" asked Zack.
"I can see your history through your memories because you're good at remembering," said Eric. "And I know you've been kissed by the Harvard cheerleaders and, going further back, you went out with Katie Ka-Boom!"
"What?" Dia zoomed out to Zack and Eric.
The toons went behind a big rock and watched the live action characters argue.
"Big Bird, Gromit, come with Clive," said the CGI alien. The bird and the dog followed her.
Back behind the rock, the toons noticed Nell with a rucksack on her back.
"Where are you going, Nell?" asked Buster.
"Well, me and Dia had a heated chat," said Nell. "And we decided we don't need each other in our lives, so I decided to move on."
"Where would you go?" asked Plucky.
"Well, if I can't make something out of myself," said Nell, "Big Bird says I'm always welcome to come and live on Sesame Street, even if I don't get on the actual show, and Gromit says he'll invent someplace for me to live if I choose to live on West Wallaby Street."
"Just think about this, Nell," said Melissa.
"Don't worry, I have," said Nell. "Dia still can't make up her mind up between her friends. You guys are together again and you're not looking for any more new characters. So I don't wanna be in anyone's away." The little dolphin turned, flapped her wings and flew away.
"You know what?" shrieked Dia, flying away with tears in her eyes. "I don't need any of you two. Risking other people's lives to get to me is not the way to impress us!"
"If you chose between us when we were still young," said a frowning Zack, "I would have moved on instead of holding onto a pathetic romantic fable like this!" He angrily stormed off.
The toons came out and walked towards Eric. The wizard turned around to face them. "I want to thank each and every single one of you for what you've been through," he said. "My fellow puppets, you are free from the services of the Epics." He turned away slowly.
"Eric, wait!" cried Choc.
"So what, I'd say, what are we going to do?" asked Foghorn.
"We will sort everyone and everything out," said Clive, "once Clive teleports Big Bird and Gromit to… Eh, where would Big Bird and Gromit like to go to?"
Gromit got out a postcard; the one which had him and Wallace on a rollercoaster in Blackpool.
"Setting for Blackpool," said Clive.
"Blackpool?" cried Big Bird. "Hey, that's where all my friends are! Well, they're in Blackpool for a brand new Sesame Street special."
"Sesame Street in Blackpool?" asked Bugs.
"Something like that," replied Big Bird.
"Well, tell them h-h-h- hello from us," said Porky.
"And make them believe you when you tell them about us!" added Babs. "Don't let it be like the time when they didn't believe you about Snuffy."
"Tiny Toons so want to be back on TV, don't they?" smiled Clive.
"Clive's not wrong," said Buster, joining in with her.
"I'll try!" Big Bird cried back. Clive pressed the big button and Big Bird and Gromit waved as they vanished.
As they vanished, Clive and the Toons saw the Neo soldiers around them. They aimed their guns at them.
"Cotoyes!" snapped Lola.
With Neos aiming guns at them, Wile and Calamity both held a sign that said, 'WHAT ELSE COULD WE DO?'
"Hey, I demand to know what's goin' on here!" shouted Daffy.
"We are what's going on here," said a voice. They turned to see Jim who was full of dirt. He held Zack by his arms.
There were a lot of sounds of struggling and shouting. John was dragging Dia by her tail. She was trying to stop herself by putting her hands on the grass, but all that did was leave a trail of finger marks on the grass.
Jim and John threw Dia and Zack with the toons.
"You guys survived?" asked Sylvester.
"Well, we discovered we're demigods," said Jim.
"Despite not knowing our mother," added John.
Then a sliding noise came. Jim and John got out of the way and Eric slid past and joined the prisoners.
Jack appeared. "My dear foes, you are just in time to see the reawakening of Nymther!"
"Nymther!" cried Eric. "The Magic God of Evil. You? You don't have even have powers."
"Really?" Jack clapped his hands. The blue sky turned into full darkness. The prisoners were either scared or alert.
John smiled as he took his damaged glasses off and drew his finger on his forehead and blue flashing light came out of the line on his forehead.
"What are you, John?" chuckled Eric. "A slitheen in a David Tennant suit?"
"Um, Eric might want to take a look at Jim," said Clive.
Jim took his coat off. Then his jumper. Then his shirt. Then his vest.
"Behold Jim Epic, the demigod of stripping," Zack laughed.
Then something hit his face. He took it off. It was Jim's face! Well, it was a rubber mask. Then more body parts made out of rubber were thrown at the group. They saw what was on Jim's place was a strange elephant-like creature wrapped in teddy bear fur. He could move only slowly.
"You're stop-motion, we get it," giggled Dia. "But what are you? Are you a heffalump or a snuffleupagus or a teddy elephant?"
The prisoners laughed.
"The name is Nyhth!" shouted the creature.
"At least you're not some CGI cartoon character for preschoolers, Nyhth!" said a CGI animated character that looked like a very cute kangaroo. He angrily threw a David Tennant suit next to the prisoners.
"Yeah, people are really gonna fear and respect a really cute kangaroo!" teased Daffy.
"Ohh, I'm so scared and terrified," mocked the others.
"Do not wind up Nymuch!" snapped the CGI creature.
"Now, Jack, what have you got?" laughed Eric.
Jack smiled evil as he threw some magic powder and disappeared into a purple cloud. Out of the cloud came a suit.
Bugs caught it. "An Ian "Mac-Shame" outfit?"
Everyone turned to see the cloud vanished and what was in the middle was a giant vicious, mean-looking, sharp-teethed, sharp-horned…
"Sheep?" cried everyone.
"A stop-motion animated elephant dressed in teddy bear fluff," said Plucky, looking at Nyhth.
"A CGI kangaroo that you wanna kick in the pouch," giggled Lola, pointing at Nymuch.
"And now a sheep in a scary-as-Barney-the-dinosuar-way," laughed Eric. "How do you expect to bow to us?"
The sheep opened his mouth and out came not a sheep baaing, but speaking like a Tasmanian devil. Taz span to him and started speaking. The sheep spoke again in the same way he did before. Taz went on.
"Cut that out!" the sheep roared so loudly that it sent Taz back to the group.
"Good try, Taz," said Zack.
"Now bow before Nymther!" yelled the sheep.
"Just how are you gonna make us to do that?" asked Sylvester.
"Since Eric d-d-di-di-d-d… never gave you his m-m-mag-mag… powers," added Porky.
"And turned you guys into pathetic CGI, stop-motion and giant puppet characters," added Melissa.
Then they saw the Neos putting on breathings masks on their faces. Nyhth and Nymuch brought two metal canisters. Eric fixed his eyes as they opened them. Nothing came out. Then he heard laughter. He turned to see everyone, including Dia and Zack laughing their heads off.
"Why, I say, why am I laughing?" giggled Foghorn.
"Me getting bellyaches!" roared Dizzy.
"Why couldn't you be half as funny as this, Babs?" laughed Plucky.
"Aw, get a life, Duck!" roared Babs.
"Just where you intend to go with this, Nymther?" Eric asked the sheep god.
"Remember the 'laughing-to-death' myth from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" said Nymther. "It's more efficient than that dip nonsense. And this is going to be the time they will ever laugh, Eric. Unless you surrender."
One by one, Eric's friends were starting to fall down. The sorcerer sighed and he bowed down. He put his hands out where he was chained up by Nymuch. Nyhth appeared in front of him, holding a metal baseball bat.
"Old school teachers used whips to discipline kids, not baseball bats," said Eric.
"Then this will make them learn much better and quicker," smiled Nyhth as he went behind the young sorcerer. Then he lifted the bat up and it went closer and closer to Eric.