Goodnight Wombles, Goodnight Avengers, Goodnight Wombles, We're Leaving You Now

Goodnight Wombles, Goodnight Avengers, Goodnight Wombles, We're Leaving You Now is the thirteenth and final chapter in the Wombles Three.

The wombles who had been working on the plant were trying to find their way home.  They accidentally went to the beach.  Two weird octopi came out of the sea.  Surprisingly the octopi started talking to the wombles.

“Glug blllrp blobb” (Why are you not dead?)

“Slurp bwllb blobb” (Seriously!  You should be dead!)

“Elllttn blllly wlllble pllllrnt” (Eaten by a womble eating plant.)

The wombles couldn’t understand a word so they tidied them up.  Great Again At Last Uncle Bulgaria took the octopi to Eat at Joe’s.  It was the only use he can see for them.  Shansi for some reason liked eating weird creatures so maybe some other wombles did. When he got there Eat at Joe’s looked more a manor house.  “Ho hum” he said and walked in.  Tobermory was there with Tomsk.  “I was just saying that we need a butler!” Tobermory told Tomsk.  “Ho hum service Wombat!” replied Tomsk who proceeded to pick up Leave Me Alone You Great Gormless Womble Uncle Bulgaria, carry him off to a room full of clothes, make him dress like a butler and serve him and Tobermory.

At Your Service Uncle Bulgaria had to keep doing jobs for Tobermory and Tomsk. They both rang bells whenever they wanted AYSUB.  Inside he was Fuming Livid Uncle Bulgaria but Tobermory and Tomsk were both too strong for him.  So he had no choice but to be their butler.

The octopi had escaped while all this was happening.  They made for the safety of the pond in the manor’s grounds. Suddenly they were surrounded by eyes!

The eyes were the eyes of the womblets.  They each had a bunch of needles that Bungo had given them.  They threw them into the octopi, but instead of falling dead, the octopi just got stronger.  The womblets ran away as fast as they cold.

Suddenly Steed and Cathy burst into the womble manor, slammed the door after them, locked it, and started putting loads of stuff in front of it. Confused Uncle Bulgaria stared at them, as he was there to clean Tobermory’s Wombat costume.

“Excuse me but what are you doing?” asked Tomsk.  “Hiding in here if that’s alright.” Replied Steed.  “Um… alright then.” Said Tobermory.  “But hiding from what?”  “Not what!”  “Do you mean a wotnot, because if you do you don’t need to hide from it.”  “No!  Not what who!”  “I’m not wotnot hoo!  I’m Wombat!” “Aaah!  Why does no one understand what not what who means?”  “Hang on I’m not Wombat at the moment!  I’m Tobermory!”  “What I meant was that it is who we’re hiding from not what we’re hiding from!”  “Oh, well who are you hiding from?”  “Who do you think?  The police!” “Huh?  Have you gone evil again?”  “No!  It’s a long story and hard to explain so nevermind!”  Tobermory shrugged and said, “Alright then I’ll hide you in the Wombat Cave!”  “What’s the Wombat Cave?” asked Cathy.  “Just follow me down here.”  They went behind a bookshelf and slid down some poles.

They landed in the Wombat Cave, with Tobermory now dressed as Wombat and Tomsk now dressed as the Womble Wonder.  “Now look over here” said Wombat, leading the way.  “At the Wombat Computer.  It knows practically everything!  Now, let me just ask it a question…”  He typed in, “Are Steed and Cathy guilty of the charges?”  A piece of cardboard came out the other end.  Wombat read it.  It said yes.  Wombat then punched Steed and kicked Cathy.  “Not you as well!” said Steed.  “We are NOT criminals!”  Wombat stopped fighting them but didn’t really believe them.  He sneakily asked, “Do you have anything I could use to fight the police for you?”  “Yes. I got these from fighting the winged avenger.” Steed said and gave him some cardboard slates with big exclamation words such as pow on them.  Wombat then used them to fight Steed and Cathy.  Luckily Steed and Cathy managed to escape though.

They ran into two weird octopi with needles stuck into them.  “Like zoinks!” said Steed.  “Why am I speaking like Shaggy?”  “I don’t know.” Replied Cathy.  “Why do I sound like Velma?”  They never found out but the reasons for this were that the octopi had some kind of air in them, and some of the needles had come out, making holes, so that the weird air would flow out, and somehow make you talk like the last character you saw on TV. But that only lasted about ten minutes.

They were standing there unsure what to do for a while, when suddenly Cathy had an idea.  She pulled all the needles out of the octopi, making them deflate.  Then all of a sudden she remembered something.  “The babies!  We left them in the helicopter!”  They rushed back and grabbed them, just before Bungo landed as at the airport with a lot of other people in a plane.  “Steed!  Cathy! Why did you leave me behind?” he asked. “I’m not sure really” replied Cathy. “I guess we just wanted to get home. That is, before we remembered about the police.”  “Oh yes I forgot about that.  Anyway have we defeated all the villains?”  “Let’s see there was Lord Omsk and Oslo Von Vomble, we defeated them, there were the weird octopi, we defeated them, there was Tara, we defeated her, there was DOV, we defeated her, but we haven’t defeated ESP, POL and Grandma.”

Suddenly ESP, POL and Grandma ran up to them.  They chucked the needles that they had taken out of the weird octopi at them.  ESP and POL fell dead, but Grandma didn’t because it hit the octopus on his head instead of him.  Suddenly Cathy had an idea.  She put lots of other needles in the octopus on his head, then took them out, then the octopus started to deflate and fell off Grandma’s head easily.  Grandma went back to normal.

A few weeks later, the police were being told who they were being sent to catch. “It should be easy enough to catch them” said the police captain.  “As one of them has a tracking device in their mouth.”  One of the policemen piped up,  “But sir, who actually are we trying to catch?”  “These two people.” Said the captain and showed them some pictures. “If you can only get one of them, I would advise you to get the woman.  She is the one who committed the crime, but the man helped her get away. Their names are John Steed and Cathy Steed.”  “Anything else?” asked one of the policemen.  “Yes.” Replied the captain.  “I have come to a conclusion that this prison is not strong enough to hold them.  So when you see them: kill them.”

Steed and Cathy were worrying about where to go to be safe from the police. They could find nowhere.  “Do you have any ideas?” asked Steed.  “You have had lately.”  Cathy shook her head.  “No.  I guess it’s because I’m worrying so much that I can’t think straight.”

The policemen looked at their devices that showed them where the tracking device was.  “Just through those bushes.” Said one, grinning.

“Run!” said Steed and Cathy after the police poked their heads out from the bushes.  They did run. “Policemen are all over this country looking for us!” said Steed.  “Quick get in this boat with me!”  So they both leapt into the nearest rowing boat and rowed off to France.

And now we are going to stop and save the rest for the next story. P.S. Why do these stories get shorter every time?  Anyway, goodbye!