So now that they're out of Central Park and out of the Hooded Claw's treacherous clutches, Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob can enjoy some delicious post-lunch dessert.
Outside of a fancy-looking café in the city, Penelope was enjoying a small glass of vanilla ice cream, topped with hot fudge, a small dab of whipped cream and a cherry, the Ant Hill Mob was enjoying a banana split for themselves.
While Angel dines on her own lunch meant for dogs.
Angel ate a bowl of kibble by the table Penelope was dining at.
"This hot fudge sundae is by far one of my favorite little ole desserts." Penelope smiled. "And luckily Angel passed the 'no begging' part of obedience school with flying colors!"
"How's your dessert, boys?" Penelope asked the Ant Hill Mob.
"It tastes great!" Clyde replied with a smile. "It was a great idea to save room for dessert!"
"Oh yes." Penelope giggled.
No one is aware that the Hooded Claw is still on the hunt for Penelope, and he's waiting up in the air to find her and make his next move.
The Hooded Claw was in a hot air balloon trying to find Penelope in the city.
Hooded Claw: "Okay Bully Brothers, I need you to keep lookout for Penelope and see where she is."
The Hooded Claw then heard snoring. He turned his head and saw the Bully Brothers sleeping back-to-back.
"Blast!" He growled in an annoyed voice. "They fell asleep on the job. I hate when they do that!"
He then searched his cape and pulled out a bugle.
"Hopefully this bugle call will wake my soldiers and put them back into shape." The Hooded Claw grinned.
He then blew into the bugle, which started making bugle calls that startled the Bully Brothers awake, causing them to run and crash into each other.
"Hey, watch where you're going you klutz!" The first Bully Brother said angrily as he kicked the other Bully Brother to the ground.
"You're the one who should watch where you're going!" Argued the second Bully Brother got up and bopped the other Bully Brother on the head.
Bully Brother 1: "I did watch where I was going!"
Bully Brother 2: "Did not!"
Bully Brother 1: "Did too!"
Bully Brother 2: "Did not!"
"If they keep this up, I'm gonna end up falling!" The Hooded Claw worried as the Bully Brothers' fighting caused the balloon to tilt back and forth. "Then who will keep them under control?"
"You calling me a liar!?" Bully Brother 1 protested.
"It's your fault!" Bully Brother 2 argued back.
"If you both don't stop fighting you're getting replaced!" The Hooded Claw shouted as the Bully Brothers stuck their tongues at each other. "I know plenty of evil henchmen around here that would make mincemeat of you! Now do as I say and keep lookout for Penelope."
"Right, Claw." The Bully Brothers replied as they scrambled off to do their job of searching for Penelope from up in the sky, using binoculars.
"We see her claw, slow the balloon down." The Bully Brothers told their boss.
"Where is she?" Asked the Hooded Claw as he slowed the balloon.
"She's at that café over there, eating a hot fudge sundae." The Bully Brothers soon lost track and grinned big grins. "Which looks so good!"
"Focus on Pitstop, not her dessert you idiots!" The Hooded Claw frowned. "Bring this ride close to the café but not directly at the café. I don't want Pitstop to know we dropped in for yet another peril."
"You got it, boss." The Bully Brothers answered.
Having enjoyed their dessert and still having plenty of time to spare before they need to head to the dog groomer, Penelope and Angel leave the café with the Ant Hill Mob to find a good place to work on Angel's training for the dog show, unaware of the Hooded Claw's treacherous trap he's preparing.
The Hooded Claw watched from the very top of the building, holding a boulder with rope tied around his waist as Penelope got up, grabbed Angel's leash and left the café with the Ant Hill Mob.
"Now remember Bully Brothers, lower me down with the rope holding me, so that I can aim for Penelope and throw this boulder on top of her." He told his henchmen. "This peril requires tremendous focus, so go slow when you lower me. Now would be a good time."
"Right, Claw." The Bully Brothers answered as they started to lower the rope holding the Hooded Claw, who slowly descended, aiming for Penelope and ready to throw the boulder on her.
Suddenly, a bee flew in and scared the Bully Brothers, causing them to let go of the rope and run, which caused the Hooded Claw to fall and crash to the ground.
"Blast!" The Hooded Claw grumbled, seeing stars. "They had one job!"
Meanwhile, our heroes have reached another park where Penelope can work with Angel on her training for the dog show and make time to see the Statue of Liberty with the Ant Hill Mob.
"Doesn't Lady Liberty just look beautiful from this wonderful view?" Softy sobbed.
Snoozy: "Yeah, beautiful (Snore)."
Clyde: "Penelope sure picked a good park to see practice with Angel for the dog show and see the sights."
Dum-Dum: "Do you think she has time for both?"
"I can hear you boys from where I am." Penelope said as she was working on obedience with Angel, who stayed sitting as Penelope had told her to do. "It all depends on the show, and let's not forget that we need to get Angel to her grooming appointment before we can head for the show."
Penelope then got an idea.
"Hey boys, would y'all be interested in watching Angel and I rehearse?" Penelope suggested with a smile.
"Would we?" The Ant Hill Mob was overjoyed.
"We'd be delighted." Clyde smiled. "After all, you'll be performing in front of a lot of people, so why not have a practice audience, right you guys?"
"Right Clyde!" The rest of the Mob agreed while Penelope got her practice equipment for the agility trial part of the dog show: Which had two see-saws, two blue tunnels, three tire jumps, one set of weave poles, and three bar jumps.
"And now for the test of canine agility!" Penelope announced in her practice announcer voice. "We now have contestant number eight, Angel! Ready, set, go!"
Angel dashed through the tunnel and the weave bars, got on the see-saw, held still while the see-saw lowered and ran off it and jumped through the three tire jumps and the first two bar jumps without missing a beat or messing up. Just as she was about to leap the third bar jump, the Hooded Claw, from behind a tree, used a butterfly net to scoop up Angel.
Oh dear! That hooded dogcatcher just snagged our practicing show dog!
Worried about what just happened to her dog, Penelope ran to the tree where the Hooded Claw was hiding with the Bully Brothers.
Hooded Claw: "Here she comes. Hold onto that net while I grab Penelope, Bully Brothers."
The Bully Brothers did as they were told and held onto the net holding Angel.
"Angel!" Penelope called for her once again dognapped dog. "Where did you go? Who did this?"
Out of the blue, the Hooded Claw popped out from behind the tree and grabbed Penelope from behind, lifting Penelope up, wrapping his arm around in front of her shoulders and clamping his hand over her lips.
And he's got our girl, to boot!
"Scared you, didn't I?" The Hooded Claw sneered at Penelope, who was fighting to break out of his grasp. "I like that in my captives."
Penelope kept squirming and wriggling her body and her head until the Hooded Claw's hand was off her lips. His arm was still wrapped around in front of her shoulders, so she sank her teeth into his hand and bit him hard.
Angel kept fighting until the Bully Brothers let go of the net, and then she quickly ran and bit the Hooded Claw in the butt, causing him to really let go of Penelope, who quickly grabbed Angel's leash and ran out of the park with Angel.
So Penelope breaks out of that treacherous fiend's grasp and makes out of the park, into the city and off to the dog groomer with Angel.
"That little brat and her mangy mutt!" The Hooded Claw was turning red with rage and anger, but then he paused.
"Stay calm, relax." The Hooded Claw told himself while calming himself and turning back to his normal skin color. "Remember, your blood pressure. I'll find Pitstop, even if it means searching the entire city to do so."
But that twice bitten and once shy Hooded Claw isn't backing down. I sure hope Penelope is able to find the dog groomer. Maybe and hopefully the Ant Hill Mob will find her and get her where she needs to be.
"Alright you guys, Penelope and Angel ran somewhere into the city while escaping the Hooded Claw." Clyde rounded up the rest of the mob into Chuggaboom. "Where in the city she and Angel are I don't know, but we need to find her and get her to the dog groomer right away."
"Go Chuggaboom!" Zippy told Chuggaboom. "Go find Penelope! Into the city!"
"R-r-r-right!" Said Chuggaboom as he drove off with the Ant Hill Mob inside.
Meanwhile, in an empty part of the city, Penelope was reading a map.
"It says here, from Fifth Avenue, that's where I am." Said Penelope as she read the map, the loop of Angel's leash around her elbow. "Go straight, take a left turn, keep going straight, take a right turn, take another left turn, and from there is the groomer."
Penelope folded up her map and put it in her coat pocket.
"If this little ole map says so." She thought to herself. "We just might make it there on time after all! Come girl."
And so Penelope and Angel follow the sidewalks of New York from fifth Avenue to the dog groomer.
Penelope and Angel walked straight down the sidewalk from Fifth Avenue, took a right turn and went straight from there, then they took another right turn and turned left, only to find that the dog grooming place they were supposed to go to was not there.
"Oh dear, according to my map the dog groomer is right here." Penelope worried pulling out her map again. "Poor little ole me is lost! I wish we would've taken a taxi, Angel. We are not having very good luck today."
"And your bad luck is only gonna get worse, Pitstop." The Hooded Claw sneered, giving an evil laugh as he and the Bully Brothers came out from the shadows of a building.
"The bad luck-causing Hooded Claw!" Penelope gasped.
"Not only did I cause you bad luck, but I also tampered with your map and lured you here, where I want you." The Hooded Claw grinned. "Now come with me, my dear."
"No." Penelope scowled.
"As you wish." The Hooded Claw laughed as he and the Bully Brothers got closer to Penelope as she held Angel, who was barking and growling at the Hooded Claw as he put a muzzle on her.
"What a nice little dog." He smirked as he stroked Angel's golden fur, and then took Angel out of Penelope's arms and placed the poor pup in a sack.
"And now it's your turn, my sweet Penelope." He said as he grabbed some ropes. "Hold her still, Bully Brothers, and don't let her get away."
"Right, Claw." The Bully Brothers replied as they pinned Penelope's hands behind her back while the Hooded Claw tied her up with the rope.
"Let go of me!" Penelope protested. "Let me go!"
"You might as well cooperate my dear; it's pointless to struggle when there's only three of us, and only one of you." The Hooded Claw told Penelope.
"You will never get away with this!" The tied-up Penelope scowled at the Hooded Claw as she was held by the Bully Brothers. "You may not know this, Claw, but New York City is crawling with people."
"I knew that." The Hooded Claw replied with a sinister smile. "So here's the finishing touch to make sure no one hears or sees you in the big city."
The Hooded Claw gagged Penelope with a white scarf and placed her in the same sack Angel was in.
The Bully Brothers lifted the sack that held a tied up and gagged Penelope and a muzzled Angel, placed it in a horse drawn carriage where the Hooded Claw was in the back seat and took control of the horse.
"Giddy-up!" The Bully Brothers said as they moved the reins of the horse up and down sharply and quickly, causing the horse to trot and take the villains and their captives to wherever the Hooded Claw's next trap for Penelope would be.
Once again that foul fiend makes off with Penelope, but where could that stagecoach be taking him for Penelope's next plight?