Wombles To The Rescue

Wombles To The Rescue is the fourteenth chapter in the Wombles Two.

Wellington put the car on the grass outside carefully keeping the remote-control with him.  He turned his shrink ray upside down then fired at the toy car.  It suddenly grew to the size of real one.  “Oh yes we’d forgotten about that!” chorused the other wombles.  Wellington jumped in followed by Womble Wonder and Wombat.  He switched on the still small remote and raced away!

“Welling, I mean er Super Womble, how do we know where to go?” asked Tomsk. “Well Tom, I mean er Womble Wonder, I microchipped all of you whilst you were asleep.  This little box tracks everyone.”  The box had a screen with tiny pictures of each womble.  Wellington tuned it to Yellowstone, Alderney and Bungo. They raced to the old Dickensian house is no time at all.

“Hello Super Wombles!” said Orinoco as they arrived.  “How?” they sort of asked.  “I took the Lotus Steed stole from Tara.  It was in the garage with keys left in.” he replied.  “OH!” they said feeling a bit silly.  “You know Orinoco, to work with us you need a super name.” declared Tomsk.  “OK then I’ll be Fat Womble” replied Orinoco.  They couldn’t really argue with that so Fat Womble he was.

Wombles being very good at climbing they eased up the wall to the broken window.  As they climbed the strongest signal was Yellowstone.  He was on his own but Bungo and Alderney were close together.  “Looks like Bungo and Alderney must be the safest.” Said Super Womble.  “Why?” asked Fat Womble.  “Because they are together!” replied Super Womble.  So they headed into a creepy room with a coffin.  They were quite scared now because this was a particularly creepy room with stuffed animals (but thankfully not wombles), old bones and nasty looking weapons and torture devices.  Then the coffin started to open!

“Oh by the way,” said Steed.  “You might want to take off those MP3 players.  All of them apart from mine, Cathy’s, and Peter’s are actually bombs that we secretly swapped for them when we were working with TODE.  “What?” said the others, and immediately took them off. That is, the ones who were carrying bombs around with them.  They threw them at the old Dickensian house, and they exploded.  “Hey!” said Emma.  “There are wombles in there.  Innocent wombles!  And look you blew up Peter!”  “So what about Peter?” asked Tara.  “He’s a criminal anyway!”  Emma sighed.

Inside, Super Womble, Wombat, Womble Wonder, Bungo, Alderney, Yellowstone and Rover were coughing and spluttering.  (Yellowstone had been in the coffin.)  “Aaaaarrrrreeee yyyyyoooouuuu ooookkkkk?” asked Rover. Bungo coughed twice, and said, “No.” “Oooohhhh nnnnnoooooooo!” said Rover, who was now black and dusty on one side, and came to comfort them.

Bungo felt for Alderney’s pulse.  She was alive, but barely.  “Are you ok?” asked Bungo.  “C…c…c…cold.” Stammered Alderney.  “Ok.” Said Bungo.  “I’ll get you something to warm you up.”  He found a fur rug and wrapped it round her, then rushed to the Dickensian kitchen and made her a hot chocolate.  “Thanks Bungo.” Said Alderney when he gave it to her.  “Hey!  What about us?” said Wellington, who’s Super Womble costume comes first.  “Sorry” said Bungo and did the same for the others, apart from Rover, as he couldn’t get cold and balls don’t drink hot chocolate.

They were just finishing their hot chocolate when a creepy voice croaked “And where pray tell is mine young womble is mine?”.  They looked around and there was a creepy looking man in a torn suit and cloak.  He was a bit like a vampire with the blood on his face from the explosion.  “Run!” shouted Yellowstone.  They all did following Yellowstone down the stairs at quite a pace.  The house started to creak.  The walls started to break.  The wombles only just rushed out before it collapsed in a great heap of Dickensian bricks and debris.

They ran to the Avengers, especially Mrs Peel.  “Look!” said Steed pointing.  A hand was waving an angry fist from under the rubble.  Tara was just going to run and help them when Steed shouted.  “No! It’s Long Since Forgotten Steed and he will kill us if he gets out.”  “Well what do I do then?” asked Tara.  “Kill him of course” said Mrs Peel.  “Kill him?  He’s trapped in the rubble!” replied Tara sounding a bit weak for an Avenger. “Well so is Peter but he and this weird old version of Steed are both evil so ..” replied Mrs Peel.  “So what?” said Tara.  “KILL HIM!” they all shouted.  Tara just cried so Bungo said “tsk tsk tsk, ho hum, I’ll do it”.  He ran over with Tara’s gun, shot the hand then buried some more with the most horrible things he could find.