The Hunt For The Babies!

The Hunt For The Babies! is the twelfth chapter in the Wombles Four.

Mother was in the steel maze. He saw a wall that said lots of As. He ignored it. The maze went to the left a bit. “Why is everything rhyming? Did I just have lucky timing?”  “No” said a voice. “It was my choice.”  It was One Ten. He was holding his pen. He said, “I found a way out. I marked the door by writing on it About.”  They went to that door and went through. A man in a kilt said, “Who are you?”  Mother and One Ten just went away. They caught a train and One Ten brought some hay.

They arrived back in London and saw Buckingham Palace. It now had big windows and Mother said, “What is this?”  He looked through a window and saw Steed inside. The window he looked through was rather up high. He went up to the palace and knocked on the door. When it started to open then out poked a claw. Freckles emerged with Cathy trying to keep her in. Mother said, “Why are you in here, was there a competition to be royal and did you win?”

Suddenly everything stopped rhyming. One Ten had left. “No there wasn’t a competition” said Cathy. “You seem to have forgotten that you declared me the queen.”  “Oh yes” said Mother. “I did forget.”  Steed came up to the door. “What are you doing here?” he asked. Mother just kicked him. “What did you do that for?” said Cathy. Mother didn’t answer and punched Steed, then went away.

“Are you ok?” asked Cathy. “I think so” said Steed. “But he did knock me over.”  “I noticed that. You should probably rest for a while, he hit you quite hard. I’ll try my best to look after… wait a minute. Where on earth are Thomas and Lucy?”

Thomas and Lucy were at a dark, depressing orphanage. They were trying to tell the huge, scary looking, matron that their parents were in charge of the country. The serum had worn off so they said “waaaaaaaa!”

Chief Bulgaria opened a letter in his office at the Hyde Park burrow. This is what it said.

Dear Chief Bulgaria,

''The Avengers are in charge now. The police are not just fired. They are wanted as criminals. Any police or wombles (except Bungo who has joined the Avengers) will be arrested and sent to prison for 300 years.''

Love Queen Cathy XXOO

Crestfallen And Angry At The Same Time Uncle Bulgaria changed the sign on his office door from CUBO to CAAATSTUBO. Wellington saw the sign change and took the two strings off the door then remembered something. He knocked urgently and shouted to CAAATSTUB. “The existence jewel! It’s at Avengers HQ! They stole our burrow!”

The octopus dropped Mrs Peel on the ground in Southend. She ran away quickly and randomly went into the nearest building. She saw Tara. “Tara!” she said. “Ah Mrs Peel” said Tara. “I forgot about you. Have you got over Steed leaving you?”  “No, I’m going to kill Cathy and make John marry me again.”  Tara was surprised. “You’re still calling him John? If you have a right to do that, I suppose I do as well. I suppose now you know how I felt when you took him from me. And you’ve also taken something else from me. That’s my wig!”