Countdown to Boom Town

Countdown to Boom Town is the seventeenth and final chapter in the Wombles Five.

Murdock was digging a hole. “What are you doing?” asked B A. “Digging” replied Murdock. “I see that” said B A, “But why?”  “For gold.”  “You fool! There ain’t no gold under Wimbledon common!”  Suddenly there was a clang. “Gold!” shouted Murdock and leapt into the hole. B A peered down it and saw Murdock sitting on top of some metal. “What is that thing?” he said. Murdock looked at it and saw some old looking writing. He read it aloud. “WOOF!”

“Stop barking fool!” said B A. Suddenly someone tapped on his shoulder. He turned around and got hit by Zorin Von Vomble. B A knocked him out and took him to prison.

Bond hit Gambit. Gambit hit him back. Bond leapt on top of him and pulled a knife out. Purdey kicked him. Mr Teddy Bear was shocked by the sight of people on the same side fighting so fainted and landed in the sea, along with the teddy bears that the Avengers, Commander Bond, The A-Team and the Avengers had collected. Bond screamed. “How did those teddy bears faint?”  He ran away. “Phew!” said Gambit.

Suddenly there was a ringing sound. Purdey looked around. “Where’s that noise coming from?” she said. “I don’t know” replied Gambit. Steed pointed. “Look it’s Mr Teddy Bear’s phone!”  Purdey answered it.

“Hello? No I am not Mr Teddy Bear!”  “No, you’re Purdey.” Said Steed. “Currently, yes.” Replied Purdey. “What do you mean?” asked Steed. “Well soon my surname will change.”  “To what?” “Gambit.”  “I think I misheard you.”  “No, you didn’t.”  “So… it’ll change to bandit?”  “Oh, no, if you think that actually you did mishear me. I said Gambit.”  Steed fainted. “Are you ok?” asked Cathy.

The person calling Mr Teddy Bear’s phone continued talking. “I’m Cali, a Canadian member of SCARE. Me and Cate are coming to get you!”  The call ended.

By the time Cate and Cali got to London it was eleven o clock at night. It was dark so they couldn’t tell who was who. They decided just to kill everyone they saw to make it easier. Mrs Peel said they were copying her.

Cate tried to knock out B A but just got knocked out herself. Cali tried to take him on and also got knocked out. B A picked up the WOOF sign and found a metal box with a digital timer on it. Face picked it up and gave it to Hannibal. “Team, this is countdown to an explosion.”  “Only the A Team know about this and it’s saying that in 1 hour those itty bitty bears will blow!” said B A. “The people of London have hired” added Murdock. “The A Team!” finished Face.

Face called Steed. “We have 1 hour, no 58 minutes to get rid of those bears!”  “We have faced worse! The wombles are on the case!” replied Steed. The Window Cleaning vans were racing around London collecting bears from the frantic wombles. The wombles were collecting them at an incredible rate but the time went to ten minutes and they had to get all the collected bears to the coast.

The Avengers waited there anxiously. Two minutes to go. The vans raced in. The wombles poured out hurling the bears into the sea. One minute. The A Team raced in. They started throwing bears into the sea. They also threw Cate and Cali into the sea in the rush. Ten seconds to go. Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!

London waited. People, cats, dogs and wombles took to the nearest shelter. All around the city there booms then silence. Ambulances started racing around. Several were injured, some bad but no deaths were reported.

The Avengers and the A Team sat around a table as London started going back to normal. “OK Steed let’s sign it. The A Team will no longer have to run!” said Hannibal. Just as he was going to sign the TV came on by itself.

''This is Mr Teddy Bear, leader of SCARE. I have a message for the UK. Lord Sir John Steed is a murderer. He killed Venus Smith, Mywordisy Bond, Tara Keel, Lara King and many others! Catch this man! Make him pay!''

The A Team broke their souvenir Avengers pens. James Bond clenched his fists. Hannibal glared at Steed. Cathy and Mrs Peel quickly knocked out the A Team. James Bond made his plans for revenge.

Thousands of people swore that they would keep killing Steed!