"Come on, fellas." Penelope told the Ant Hill Mob. "Now that I've been rescued and now that everything's okay again, let's get out of here!"
And so with all her fears and sorrow cast aside, Penelope makes haste with the Ant Hill Mob out of the Hooded Claw's horrific hideout…
Penelope scooped up Angel and held her in her arms as she and the Ant Hill Mob left the room and ran out to the hideout's main door.
Unfortunately, just as Penelope, with Angel still in her arms, and the Ant Hill Mob got close to the door, it slammed shut.
Oh no! The good guys got locked in!
The Hooded Claw's evil laughter made Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob turn their heads in shock.
"Leaving so soon?" The Hooded Claw grinned wickedly as he appeared with the Bully Brothers. "Oh, come now. This party's only getting started."
"This is one party I won't mind skipping." Said Dum-Dum.
"Yes, and I like parties." Penelope replied. "We just have to get out of here."
"But how, Penelope?" Softy sobbed. "We're trapped!"
Yak-Yak: "(Giggle) And we can't do anything about it. Not with them here! (Giggle)."
"I'm not letting you waste my time just standing there shaking in your tracks." The Hooded Claw warned the heroes. "You meddlers are finished, starting with you, Pitstop!"
"That's what you think, Claw!" Penelope scowled at him. "I'm not afraid of you, anymore! And I'll prove it!"
"Here Penelope, take this!" Pockets said as he tossed a small explosive to Penelope.
"Thank you, Pockets." She told him as she threw the explosive to the ground, creating a smokescreen that blinded the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers.
From there, Penelope, holding Angel, ran off with the Ant Hill Mob.
As soon as the smokescreen cleared, the villains finished coughing and turned, only to see Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob running off.
"Blast! Their getting away!" The Hooded Claw shouted in anger. "Seize them, Bully Brothers!"
"Right, Claw." The Bully Brothers replied as they darted off to chase the heroes.
An angered Hooded Claw followed his henchmen.
With that foul fiend and the Bully Brothers hot on their trail and on the hunt for them, Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob come out of hiding to find a way out.
"Phew." Penelope took a breath. "I think we lost them."
"Yeah, I think so, too." Clyde replied. "But now which way do we go?"
"I know where!" Zippy told everyone else. "I know! Follow me!"
Zippy led the others out as they ran straight across and to the right, where an entry was. However, the Bully Brothers caught the heroes, scaring them.
"Quick, the other way!" Zippy shouted as Penelope and the Mob turned around and ran the other way.
Run for your lives heroes!
"Isn't there another exit?" Penelope asked with fear as she and the Mob kept running.
"There's gotta be." Clyde said. "But where?"
Angel leapt out of Penelope's arms, sniffed a trail and barked.
"Which way do we go, Angel?" Penelope asked her dog.
Angel pointed to the left.
"You heard Angel." Clyde told everyone else. "Go left!"
"We've got to hurry!" Penelope told her protectors. "I hear them coming! They're getting closer!"
"Darn right we're getting closer, Pitstop!" The Hooded Claw shouted as he and the Bully Brothers kept running to catch them.
"Lead the way, Angel!" Clyde shouted. "Hurry!"
Angel quickly led the heroes to the left, but the villains were still after them. While Penelope and the Mob kept running, Angel, with barks and snarls, ran after the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers and started attacking them and trying to outfox them.
Clyde: "You'd better go first, Penelope. You're the one they're mostly after."
"You're right, I will." Penelope agreed. "Thanks fellas, but what about you?"
"We'll be right behind you." Clyde reassured her. "Don't worry about us. We'll be okay."
"I hope so." Penelope worried as she made her way up the stairs.
"Nice doggie!" The Bully Brothers cried as Angel kept ruffling them and their master up. "Stop! Down girl!"
"Knock it off, mangy mutt!" The Hooded Claw snarled as he got back up after Angel finished ruffling him up and escaped to find Penelope. "Of all the reasons I hate dogs!"
Thank heaven Penelope was able to get away.
Penelope: "Thank heaven I was able to get away, but the Ant Hill Mob should be here by now."
She heard Angel barking and whimpering while running up to her.
"Angel, what's wrong?" Penelope showed concern.
Angel's trying to tell you something Penelope.
"Where's the Ant Hill Mob?" Penelope asked. "Please do take me to them."
Angel gave Penelope the leash and led her inside the hideout, where they saw the Ant Hill Mob tied up in what looked like an ore (mining) cart on some tracks.
"Boo!" The Hooded Claw popped out from the entry and grabbed Penelope's arm with a sinister laugh. "I'm glad you stopped in for a special trap that will finish both you and those fleas!"
"As soon as I tie you up to some tracks, the Ant Hill Mob will race down the tracks, all tied up together in an ore cart just like you notice. After you get run over by the ore cart, the cart will crash and catapult your friends into a giant pool of hungry piranhas!"
The Hooded Claw was about to take Penelope to the tracks, however, by the time he was on the middle of the stairway, Angel raced over and bit the Hooded Claw in the butt, causing him to let go of Penelope's arm.
From there, Penelope wasted no time in rushing downstairs, hoping to find a ways to save her friends before the Hooded Claw could catch up to her.
The Hooded Claw ran after Penelope downstairs to where the tracks were, but Angel charged at him, attacking him.
"Stupid dog! Stop that!" The Hooded Claw yelled. "Bully Brothers, get her ready and start the trap from here!"
"Right, Claw." The Bully Brothers answered as the snatched up Penelope, tied her to the tracks, and started the ore cart holding the bound Ant Hill Mob by pushing it down, sending the poor Mob speeding down.
"Help!" The Mob screamed.
"What'll we do now?" Zippy worried. "What can we do?"
Dum-Dum: "Yeah! Everyone's in peril now!"
Oh dear! What a disaster for everyone. Whatever will our heroes do?
"I'm not about my horrible guardian win, and I'm certainly not about to let the Ant Hill Mob become piranha dinner." Penelope tried to come up with a plan at the right time. "If Angel can keep attacking the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers as a little ole distraction, I just might be able to stop the ore car and save the fellas."
While our lovely heroine tries to devise a plan to save herself and the Ant Hill Mob, Angel keeps using her attack dog skills on the Hooded Claw!
Angel continued to fight the Hooded Claw until he felt sore from all the bites he endured. Despite the pain, he was not about to give up.
Fortunately, Angel spotted a ramp with a rock that was the size of a coconut. She climbed up the ramp and pushed the rock down with her nose, causing it to fall and hit the Hooded Claw's head, knocking him unconscious.
"Boss?" The Bully Brothers worried. "Wake up. Say something. Anything."
Angel snarled and barked at the Bully Brothers, sending them on a chase that distracted them while Penelope, despite being tied up, searched her coat pocket for something.
With the Claw out cold and the Bully Brothers on a wild dog chase, Penelope searches her pocket for something to spare the Ant Hill Mob's life and hers. But it's only a matter of time!
"It's got to be somewhere in here" Penelope searched her coat pocket with her hand until she found and pulled out a small mint green container. "A-ha! Found it! My favorite little ole facial mask!"
A facial mask? Penelope, you couldn't possibly do some cleansing and pampering at a time like this, could you?
"Heavens no." Said Penelope pulling out a small container of glue. "If I can pair my clay mask with this superglue, I might have a strong chance at stopping that ore car. I hope this combo works."
Penelope squeezed the facial mask container, causing it to squirt out thick streams of the mint green clay mask that landed on the tracks, creating thick puddles, and then she squeezed the superglue bottle that let out streams of super glue that fell on the facial mask puddles.
"Look, guys." Pockets told the rest of the Mob. "Penelope made something to stop the car."
Snoozy: "Yeah, stop the car (Snore)."
The ore car drove onto the clay mask and superglue combo and got stuck in it.
What do you know? Penelope's clay mask and superglue combo saved our heroes! What a save for everyone!
"Thanks Penelope!" Softy wept.
"Nice job, Penelope!" Clyde smiled. "You saved us from turning into piranha bait! Now we just need to get untied."
Angel kept fighting the Bully Brothers until she ruffled them up in a room in the hideout. While they were down from the attack, Angel ran out and shut the door, locking it, before rushing to her owner and protectors and barking at them.
"Angel!" Penelope cried happily. "Nice work in stalling those fiends! Now please do get us loose, girl!"
Angel untied the ropes around Penelope with her teeth. While Penelope got back up, Angel afforded the same thing to the Ant Hill Mob.
"Good girl, Angel." Clyde smiled as he and the rest of the Mob jumped out of the ore car and pet Angel.
"Come on, boys." Penelope told the Ant Hill Mob. "We just have to leave now that those fiends can't stop us."
Sadly, Penelope spoke too soon, for the Hooded Claw woke up and scowled in pure hatred as he saw her leaving.
"You…" The Hooded claw growled in a threatening voice as he got close to Penelope and grabbed her arm. "You think you're so brilliant and can outfox me! I've had enough of you!"
Penelope pulled her arm out of his grasp and ran away from him, but the Hooded Claw chased after her.
"Come on you guys!" Clyde told the Mob. "After that villain! We can't let him hurt Penelope!"
They immediately dashed off with Angel.
Penelope climbed up a ladder and up to what looked like the very top of a balcony of the hideout. She saw more staircases that led to the roof of the hideout and climbed them until she reached the hideout's high rooftop.
Quickly thinking, Penelope races to the hideout's rooftop. Just be very careful on that roof, Penelope.
The Ant Hill Mob got to the balcony and saw Penelope catching her breath on the rooftop. They suddenly showed looks of horror on their faces.
"Penelope, look out behind you!" Clyde shouted.
The Hooded Claw, after making it to the rooftop with the Bully Brothers, kicked Penelope down, causing her to roll down and fall off the roof, only to quickly grab the roof with both her hands. While Penelope held onto the roof, the Hooded Claw showed his refusal to give up and kept smashing her fingers with his foot in hopes that she'd eventually let go.
Don't let go, whatever you do, Penelope!
Penelope, even though the Hooded Claw kept smashing her fingers with his foot, kept holding onto the roof and tried to bear the pain. She was starting to get frightened again.
"Did you honestly think I cared about you all those years after your parents' deaths?" The Hooded Claw smirked with pure evil. "I never cared for you or your family! I think you have always been nothing but a sneaky, cunning, ignorant little brat, and a troublesome, airheaded little optimist! The only person who deserves the Pitstop fortune is me! You might as well surrender, Blondie. You can't win!"
The Hooded Claw gave another triumphant, evil laugh. As Penelope held on and looked into her betrayer's eyes, she welled up, turned her head in fright and started to cry.
Penelope, I know you're feeling scared, but you can't let that villain destroy you!
"Penelope!" Clyde called out. "Remember what we told you!"
Penelope started to remember what the Ant Hill Mob told her.
"Sure he might be bigger than you, sure he might be older than you, and sure he might have hurt you, but you're much better than him." Zippy's voice played in her head.
"But you need to show that. Don't give up." Pockets' voice echoed in her memory.
"What Sneekly did to you is not your fault." Clyde's voice ringed in her head. "You can't let him hurt you."
Penelope put her fears away and, with a brave face, she climbed to the rooftop ready to show her guardian how unstoppable she was.
"You're wrong, Mr. Sneekly…" Penelope confronted him. "All you did was lie to me and you turned your back against me. You tried to do me in so many times just you can have the Pitstop fortune, but all that's now in the past. I am no longer afraid of you and I will never, ever, allow you to hurt little ole me again. You may think that I can't win, but I will win. I will win with my love and my kindness, all of which make me a much better person than you and your henchmen ever will be…"
That a girl, Penelope! And look who's here to stand with you!
The Ant Hill Mob and Angel got to the roof and stood by Penelope. She looked at them with a smile and turned her face to the Hooded Claw and Bully Brothers.
"I know who my real guardians are, and with them on my side, I will get past the pain, fear and sadness that you caused me when you revealed your true self, because they've been there for me through everything and I always believe that time heals all wounds! And with the Ant Hill Mob on my side, I will be unstoppable, for teamwork is the strongest thing in this world! Together we stand! We're ready to face you down any time!"
Indeed teamwork is the strongest thing in this world, and with the Ant Hill Mob standing with you, you'll never go wrong Penelope!
"We need to get out of here, but not with the Hooded Claw still on to us." Penelope told the Ant Hill Mob and Angel. "Boys, Angel, follow me."
The heroes ran past the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers.
"Let's go, Bully Brothers!" The Hooded Claw ordered. "We need to stop those do-gooders!"
"Yes sir." The Bully Brothers replied as they dashed off with their boss.
Penelope, are you leading those do-badders on yet another hunt for you?
"Indeed I am. It's all part of my plan to stop them." Penelope said as she and the Ant Hill Mob were chased by the villains.
They ran into the same area they were trapped in earlier that had the ore car and the tracks and the pool of hungry piranhas.
"Here's where we'll devise our plan." Penelope told her protectors and her dog.
"Uh, weren't we just here earlier?" Dum-Dum wondered.
"Indeed we were." Penelope replied. "Listen up."
Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob put their heads together in a circle and whispered a plan.
While our heroes form their plan, the villains are close to finding them.
"Which way do we go now, boss?" The Bully Brothers wondered.
The Hooded Claw looked at the ground, studying some footprints left by Penelope, Angel and the Ant Hill Mob.
"From the looks of these footprints, they went that a-way." He replied pointing at his left. "Let's go."
"First thing we need to do is unstick that stuck ore cart." Clyde told the others as he stood by the ore car. "But how are we gonna do that?"
"Leave that up to me." Pockets replied as he took out a device with a sharp end. "One ore cart unstick device coming up."
"Nice work, Pockets!" Clyde told Pockets with a smile.
"Now hold the ore cart still while I get the wheels out of these clay and glue puddles." Pockets told Penelope as she held onto the ore car. "Then you push the ore cart where it first was."
After Pockets successfully used his device to get the wheels of the ore car free from the clay mask and superglue puddles, Penelope pushed the ore cart back to where it first was before the Ant Hill Mob got tied up in it.
I hope everyone knows what they're doing, because from the sounds of those footsteps, the Hooded Claw is about to come!
"Oh dear!" Penelope worried. "Even though we're far from the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers, I hear their footsteps. Does everyone know what to do?"
"We sure do!" Dum-Dum replied.
Zippy: "We're ready for that villain of villains!"
"Good!" Penelope told them as she got in the ore cart. "I'll stay in this ore cart as bait; you boys go out and lead him in!"
The Ant Hill Mob sped out of the area and saw the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers.
"Well, well, well." The Hooded Claw grinned evilly. "Looks like you little ragamuffins got caught."
"Well if you wanna catch us, you'll have to chase us down first!" Clyde taunted the Claw as he and the others led them on another pursuit to the area.
Once the villains chased the Mob into the area, they saw Penelope in the ore car.
"There she is, Bully Brothers." The Hooded Claw laughed. "Help me capture her."
"Right Claw." The Bully Brothers answered as they and their boss got ready for the capture.
Penelope, what are you waiting for? Those fiends are about to get you.
Penelope: "This is part of my plan."
The villains were about to pounce onto Penelope to capture her, but the Ant Hill Mob grabbed her just in time as they pounced and landed in the ore car.
"Now's the part we all work together on." Penelope told the Ant Hill Mob. "Help me push this ore car down!"
Together, Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob pushed the ore car down, sending the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers speeding down the tracks. The ore car crashed in front of a large brick that sent the villains flying into the pool of piranhas.
Looks like the tables have turned and the villains got caught in their own trap.
The piranhas looked at the Hooded Claw and the Bully Brothers with growls and started attacking them. Terrified, the villains climbed out of the pool and held onto part of the ceiling with fear as the piranhas jumped up to try to get them.
"Blast!" The Hooded Claw shouted. "Foiled again! Help me, Bully Brothers, before I turn into piranha bait!"
But the Bully Brothers were too scared to help their boss.
And now with the villains finally defeated, Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob have a laugh as they make their way out.
On their way out of the hideout, Penelope and the Ant Hill Mob were laughing at the fate of the Hooded Claw before taking deep breaths.
"That takes care of those fiends." Clyde smiled. "You were right, Penelope, teamwork is the strongest thing in this world, and it helped us stop those that truly no-good guardian of yours."
"Indeed it is. Thank goodness I have you boys in my life, to be there for me and to protect me." Penelope smiled as she hugged her protectors. "You boys are true guardians."
She then took out her facial mask container.
"And thank goodness I still have plenty of my facial mask left." She grinned. "I'm looking forward to using it as soon as I get home. All this stress from what Mr. Sneekly has done to me and all these misadventures from today are not good for my little ole skin."
Yak-Yak: "(Giggle) You can't go home now, Penelope. You still have the dog show."
"The dog show…" Penelope gasped as she realized. "With all I've been feeling after Mr. Sneekly's betrayal and my determination to escape the hideout, I had completely forgotten. Oh, Angel I hope they didn't start round two without us."
Luckily for the heroes, Chuggaboom found them by sniffing out their trail.
"Look, here comes Chuggaboom!" Clyde told the others.
"Oh, Chuggy, honey we missed you." Penelope smiled as she stroked Chuggaboom. "Now that we're safe and have escaped, please do take us back to the dog show right away."
"R-r-right!" Chuggaboom said as he drove off to the stadium with Penelope, Angel and the Ant Hill Mob.
And so with the villains defeated and everything at peace again, our heroes get back to the dog show!