When Gobo and Lou climbed down their treehouse ladder, Lou saw a piece of paper tacked to the bottom of the tree.
"Go through the gateway and make a potion at the Herbalist's House to remember," she said.
"What?" Gobo asked.
"That's what this note says. What does it mean?"
"I don't know. This is all so confusing!"
Before the two Fraggles could do anything else, a strange door popped up from underneath the ground, and began glowing. Gobo and Lou stared at it.
"What in the world is that?" Gobo asked.
"Hey down there!" Marjory called from inside the treehouse. "That's a Nexus portal! But how did you two open it?"
"You got me!" Gobo called back. "Think we should go through it, Phoebe?"
"Well, the note says to go through the gateway," Lou said, shrugging. "So let's go."
The two Fraggles were about to head for the nexus, when suddenly, the ground began shaking. Gobo and Lou were knocked off their feet, and a huge chasm was created, blocking the two Fraggles from the Nexus.
"Oh no!" Lou shouted. "What are we going to do now?"
"I don't know," Gobo said, looking around. He noticed a stump nearby, and different colored rocks scattered everywhere. "Hey, weren't these colored rocks on that stump over there?"
"Yeah, I think they were," Lou said. "Maybe we should gather them up and put them back on the stump. Something is telling me that might help."
Gobo nodded, and he and Lou collected four blue rocks, three purple rocks, and one red rock. They walked over to the stump, and found eight circles, with different shapes in front of them. There was one triangle, three squares, and four plus signs. Gobo put the red rock where the triangle was, the purple rocks where the squares were, and the blue rocks where the plus signs were. As soon as the stones were in place, a bridge appeared, allowing Gobo and Lou to cross over to the nexus safely. When they walked through it, they found themselves in a mechanical room. Doors lined the walls. There was a strange device in the middle of it with a note on it.
"Pull the lever and unlock the entrance to the Herbalist's House," Gobo read. "Use the Dream Jewels to unlock the door. You think these notes are really meant for us?"
"Even though this may sound strange, Fred," Lou said. "I feel like they are."
"Okay, then, I'll pull the lever."
Gobo pulled the lever, and the doors shifted. The door that stopped was blank, but there were three colored gems above it. A strange device next to the lever opened. The two Fraggles ran over to it and looked at it. Suddenly, two gold medallions appeared in the Fraggles' hands. One was shaped like a tree, and had two blue gems, and one red gem in it. The other was circular with three pumpkins on it, with two blue gems and a yellow gem.
"What are these?" Lou asked.
"I wonder if they're the Dream Jewels the note mentioned?" Gobo asked. "Look at the gems on top of the gateway. Two are blue, and one is orange. And if I remember correctly, yellow and red make orange. And it looks like this device has spaces for them. Why don't we give it a try?"
Lou shrugged, and put her Dream Jewel on the machine, as did Gobo. Then Gobo began pushing buttons which turned the gems until he aligned them correctly, so that there would be two blue gems on the bottom, and one orange gem on the top when the Dream Jewels were moved toward the center of the device. Once they were positioned correctly, an image of a house appeared above the door, and a light began glowing from inside of it.
That must be it," Gobo said. "Come on, Phoebe. Let's see what this is about."
The two Fraggles stepped through the gateway, and looked around. Gobo looked at the first note again.
"I wonder if this is the Herbalist's House?" he asked. "The one where we're supposed to make a potion?"
"Probably," Lou said, walking over to another room. She tried to turn on the light, but the switch wouldn't work.
"Darn it," she grumbled. "Maybe there's something outside that can help."
Gobo nodded, and he and Lou went out the back door to check things out. The minute they were outside, the door slammed shut behind them, and a huge gust of wind sprayed dirt all over it. When it finally cleared, Gobo looked at it, and all he could see was dirt.
"I don't even know where the handle is anymore!" he shouted.
"We'll have to clean it in order to open it again," Lou said. "But I wonder why someone would want to keep us out?"
"Well, dear, we are trespassing, after all."
Gobo and Lou looked around the yard. They found a windmill with blades missing, a bucket, and an empty water tank. Lou found some of the blades, and began picking them up.
"What are you doing that for?" Gobo asked.
"Maybe if we fix the windmill, the tank will fill up," Lou said. "Be a love and help me out."
"Of course, sweetheart," Gobo said, and he began to help Lou gather up the windmill blades.
Along with the windmill blades, Lou also gathered up some clear gems laying about the ground. They were so pretty, she just couldn't leave them laying there. Gobo saw her do this, and smiled.
"Once we're finished with this bizarre quest, Phoebe," he said, "I'll take those gems and make a necklace out of them for you."
"Oh, Fred, you're so sweet!" Lou shouted.
Gobo walked over to the gate, and pushed it open. He and Lou walked through it and found a garden. In it, they found large sunflowers blooming, some eggplants, and a couple of green pumpkins. A scarecrow was guarding over everything. Lou also picked up some more gems.
"Oh, how lovely," Lou said, looking at the sunflowers.
"Yeah, these pumpkins sure look good, too," Gobo said. "Won't be long before they're ripe! Anyway, I think we've got all of the blades now. Let's go put them back on the windmill."
The two Fraggles walked back through the gate, and over to the windmill. Gobo climbed up, and Lou handed him the blades. Once they were in place, Gobo fastened a nut he had found into the center, and they began turning. Quickly, the water tank began to fill. Lou took the bucket they had found and filled it up. Then she threw the water onto the door, washing away the dirt. The minute the door was cleaned, half of the pumpkin on the front of the door disappeared.
"Oh brother," Gobo groaned. "Now what do we do?"
"I suppose we could use the scarecrow's pumpkin head as a replacement," Lou said.
"Very clever of you, my dear," Gobo said. "Let's go get it!"
The two Fraggles ran back to the garden, and tried to take the pumpkin off the pole it was resting on, but it was stuck. Gobo found a hammer, and gave it a whack. That did it. The pumpkin fell off, and broke in half.
"That should do it," he said.
"Yes, but look at the scarecrow's pretty dress," Lou said. "It's ripped."
"I'm sure you can fix it, darling," Gobo said. "But later. Right now, we have to figure out what to do about this potion in the note."
Lou nodded, and followed Gobo back to the front yard. He stuck the pumpkin half in the door, and it unlocked. They walked into the kitchen, and Lou flipped the switch. The lights came on, and the two Fraggles looked around. They saw a book on the counter, and immediately opened it.
"Guide to practical potions," Gobo said. "Unfortunately, the words are all mixed up."
"Look what it says on this page," Lou said. We have to set up the kitchen first. And to do that, we need to light a fire under the cauldron, and prepare liquid floral essence."
"Well, here's a match. What does it say about floral essence?"
"We need to crush red rose petals, and put them in the right tank. Then we have to crush sunflower petals, and put them in the middle tank. Then we have to crush lavender and put it in the left tank, and add water to all of the tanks."
"Shouldn't be too hard. At least these jars are labeled so we know what's in them!"
Gobo lit the fire while Lou gathered the rose petals, sunflower petals, and lavender, and crushed them, and put them in the tanks, one at a time. After that, Gobo filled the tanks with water. Then they went to check the book. The words unscrambled themselves.
"Quick ripen potion," Gobo read, "Instant growth potion, and memory recovery potion. Didn't the note say something about making a potion to remember something?"
"I guess this is what it meant," Lou said. "But maybe we should make all of the potions, just in case. We'll start with the quick ripen potion."
"Right. After all, you never know when you're going to need to ripen an unripe vegetable!"
Gobo turned to the page for the quick ripen potion, and noticed some words were missing on the right side of the page, and they were mixed up on the left side of the page.
"Well, isn't this a fine how do you do," he said.
"Don't worry, dear," Lou said. "I can figure this out."
"Of course, honey. I forgot, you're great at solving word puzzles."
Lou picked up a pencil, and began working. Within minutes, she had the whole thing solved.
"Add, in this order," she read, "orange peel, sunflower liquid essence, rose petal liquid essence, and crushed lemongrass. I'll crush the lemongrass while you add the other ingredients."
"No sooner said than done," Gobo said, and he got to work putting the needed ingredients in the glass on the table. Once everything was in, Lou added the crushed lemongrass, and poured the concoction into the bottle.
"Next, is the instant growth potion," she said. "And it's about as mixed up as the other one was. Oh well. Here we go."
Lou began unmixing up the words. Before she read them off, she went to the memory recovery potion page to unmix those words as well, while she was thinking about it.
"Okay, for the instant growth potion," she said, "we need heated sunflower petals . . . ."
"Crushed or uncrushed?" Gobo asked.
"Uncrushed. After the sunflower petals comes heated and crushed juniper berries, then lavender liquid essence, and finally a drop of rainwater. Where do we get that?"
"I saw wet umbrella out in the hall. I'll go get it while you're mixing the potion."
Lou nodded, and began mixing the ingredients. Gobo returned just as she added the lavender liquid essence. He held the umbrella to the glass, and a drop of rainwater slid into it. Then he poured the potion in an empty bottle.
"Okay, now for the final potion," he said.
"For that one," Lou said, "we need a freshly cut grey rose, crushed orange peel, lavender liquid essence, heated lemongrass, crushed bitter aloe, and crushed and heated juniper berries."
"Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any gray roses here. But here are some gray rose seeds. Maybe we can plant one using the instant grow potion."
Gobo took a handful of seeds, and took them outside. Lou followed with the instant growth potion. They dug a hole, put the seeds in, and covered it up. Just as Lou was about to open the potion bottle, a big, black tree creature dove down, and ate them.
"Hey!" Gobo shouted.
"We'll never be able to grow that rose we need if that tree creature eats the seeds!" Lou shouted. "Maybe we should put the scarecrow back together."
"We're gonna need a pumpkin for that," Gobo said. "And these pumpkins aren't ready yet."
"They might be with the quick ripen potion."
Lou handed Gobo the instant growth potion, and took out the quick ripen potion instead. She opened it, and poured it on the biggest one of the unripe pumpkins. It ripened into a big, fat, bright orange pumpkin in an instant.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Gobo asked, as he pulled the pumpkin out of the ground.
"What?" Lou asked, as she tied the horizontal post against the vertical one so they could rest the pumpkin on it.
"The scarecrow's dress is torn."
"Oh. Well, I'm sure I can fix it if we can get back to the tree house. We'd better go through the Nexus thing and see if we can get back."
Gobo shrugged, and set the pumpkin on the post. He didn't have any better ideas, so he decided to go along with Lou on that one.
When they reached the Nexus, they saw that a second lever appeared to the right of the strange device. Gobo pulled it, and the doors moved, only in the opposite direction, allowing the gateway to the treehouse to come back. Immediately, they went through it. When they tried to climb up the ladder to their treehouse, the steps disappeared, and reappeared, scattered all over the place.
"What is going on here?!" Gobo shouted. "Who's doing this to us?! What did we do to deserve this?!"
"You got married, that's what you did!" Red's voice called from the crystal ball inside the treehouse.
"Oh really, Red!" Mokey shouted.
"Sounds like the Fraggles and the talking trash pile inside the glass ball are still there," Lou said, as she began gathering up the wooden sticks that made up the ladder.
"Yeah," Gobo said. "Maybe if we keep ignoring them, they'll go away."
"Very funny, Gobo!" Red shouted.
Gobo and Lou ignored Red, and began returning the steps to their proper place. Then they climbed up the ladder, and went to the sewing room with the scarecrow's torn dress. Lou placed it on the sewing machine, and pressed the pedal.
"Oh, that's a lovely dress," Mokey said, as the crystal ball rolled into the sewing room just as Lou was finishing. "But I don't really think it's your style, Lou."
"My name isn't Lou, it's Phoebe," Lou said. "And it's not for me, it's for the scarecrow in the garden."
"If you'll excuse us," Gobo said, and he and Lou left again.
"Oh no you don't!" Red shouted. "You're gonna take us with you this time!"
"I really don't think . . . . ."
"NOW, BUSTER!"
"Okay, okay! Sheesh!"
Gobo picked up the crystal ball, and he and Lou climbed down the ladder, and went back through the nexus. When they were inside, Gobo pulled the left lever to get back to the Herbalist's House. When they got there, Gobo put the crystal ball on the counter in the kitchen, and grabbed another handful of grey rose seeds, while Lou went out to the garden to fix the scarecrow.
"We'll be right back," Gobo said. "Now don't go away."
"Where would we go, anyway?" Boober asked. "Although going back to Fraggle Rock doesn't sound like a bad idea right about now."
By the time Gobo made it to the garden, the scarecrow was fixed, and Lou had already dug the hole. Gobo put the seeds in, took the shovel, and covered it, while Lou took the instant growth potion out of her smock pocket, opened it, and poured it. Immediately, a grey rosebush grew. Gobo plucked one, and the two of them went back to the kitchen, and went to work.
"What are you guys making?" Boober asked.
"A memory recovery potion," Gobo said, as Lou mixed the potion. "We got a note saying to make one to remember."
"Did you send them any notes, Madam Heap?" Mokey asked.
"No, I didn't," Marjory said. "But a memory recovery potion sounds like a good idea."
"Well, down the hatch," Lou said, pouring half of the potion into another glass.
"Here's looking at you," Gobo said.
The two Fraggles clinked glasses, and drank the potion. Then, they choked, whistled, and snapped rigid.
"Hmm, it has the same effect as Boredom Juice," Red said. "You sure you guys didn't make Boredom Juice?"
Gobo and Lou didn't answer. They just stood there, but something was happening. Images of their memories were flashing before them, ending with the mission they were on, right before they woke up that morning. When it was over, the two Fraggles began coming out of their trances.
"Whoa," Gobo said. "What happened?"
"Where are we?" Lou asked.
"Gobo, Lou?" Mokey asked. "Are you guys okay?"
Gobo and Lou looked around, and spotted the crystal ball on the table. They looked through it, and saw their friends.
"Hi, Mokey!" Gobo shouted. "Yeah, we're okay, just a little confused. Why?"
"You do remember us, don't you?" Boober asked. "And why you're out there?"
"Of course we do, Boober!" Lou shouted. "Gobo and I are all the way out here . . . . wherever here is . . . . to find Wembley!"
"It worked!" Red shouted. "Whoo hoo! They got their memories back!"
"What's going on, anyway?" Gobo asked.
"Before I answer you, I have one very important question to ask," Red said. "You two aren't really married, are you?"
"Married?!" both Gobo and Lou shouted in unison. Then Gobo began laughing.
"Where'd you get a crazy idea like that, Red?" Gobo asked.
"You told us you were married," Boober said.
"What?!" Gobo shouted. "Me marry Lou?! Ha, ha, ha, ha! That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life! Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
Gobo was laughing so hard, he didn't notice Lou glaring at him, until he looked over at her. Once he saw the look on her face, he stopped laughing almost immediately. Lou looked like she wanted to kill him.
"And just what is so funny about that?" she asked.
"Nothing, nothing at all," Gobo said, quickly. "It's not ridiculous at all."
"WHAT?!" Red shouted.
"I didn't mean it like that, Red!" Gobo shouted. "I mean, Lou's a nice Fraggle all right, but she's really not my type."
"What's been happening, anyway?" Lou asked.
"Sit down, we'll explain," Mokey said, and she, Red, Boober, and the Trash Heap began to explain the entire story.
"Wow," Gobo said, once they were finished. "Good thing we found that memory recovery potion!"
"I'll say," Lou said. "But one thing puzzles me. If the Trash Heap didn't leave those notes, then who did?"
"I guess you'll find out along the way, little Fraggles," Marjory said. "Unfortunately, the powers of my crystal are fading now. Who knows when we'll be able to communicate with each other again?"
"Before you go, can you tell us what these are?" Gobo asked, pulling out one of the medallions that he and Lou used to enter the Herbalist's House.
"Of course!" Marjory shouted. "Those are Dream Jewels! They will open up other gateways. And it looks like you've found several Dream Pieces, already! Good for you!"
"What, these?" Lou asked, reaching into her pocket, and pulling out a handful of the crystal gems she had found.
"Exactly!" the Trash Heap shouted. "You can use them to try to open the other doors. I hope you can find the Dream Jewels to put the pieces in, because they are no good without them."
"And they may be our only chance of finding Wembley," Gobo said. "Thanks, Madam Heap! Thanks, everybody!"
"Good luck, you two!" Mokey shouted. "And be careful!"
"Don't worry, Mokey," Gobo said. "We will! Nothing's gonna stop us from finding Wembley now!"