The Invaders!

The Invaders! is the tenth chapter in the Wombles Five. If you were looking for the alien race, see Invaders.

Steed had put the cats and dogs in separate rooms and locked them up. He was worried that he would have to kill his beloved dogs. “The invaders!” shouted David  “Be quiet!” scalded Steed and sent him off to help the gardener.

The gardener was glad to see David. He took him off to find some dark green overalls like his own. David liked gardening so he didn’t mind. “In here David Vincent” said the gardener. David went in the shed. The gardener got in a lorry. The shed was on the back of the lorry. He drove him off to an old mine deep in a forest.

David was led into the mine and strapped to a weird metal chair. Other gardeners in the same overalls were there with strange guns. “The invaders!” shouted David. The men all curled their fingers round in an odd way.

Another man in overalls came in. He looked familiar. “Happy birthday David!” shouted the man. “Who are you?” asked David. “I am your father!” replied the man. “Dad?” said David confused. “Of course it’s me! Many happy returns!” replied his dad, who was called Vincent. “Nobody has remembered my birthday since I started hunting the invaders!” said David. “Well” said his dad. “When no one else can help you” he continued.

“You might be able to hire the A Team!” shouted a man with Cigar appearing from the floor. “You crazy fool! Happy birthday!” shouted BA appearing in front of David (apparently he was there all along in green overalls). Face appeared right in David’s face. “Let’s make this party go with a bang” said the man with the cigar.

He lit a stick of dynamite with his cigar and threw it at the back of the mine. The blast made a hole with a prison behind it. Murdock danced out. BA took some people out of the A Team van. “Bond?” said David. “Commander Bond” said Bond. “Mother” said Mother. BA marched them into the prison, locked them up then the A Team screeched away leaving David with just Vincent.

Mr Teddy Bear and Tara were watching images from the dog and cat cams. All they saw were locked bedrooms. The images were still like the dogs and cats couldn’t move. “I don’t understand it!” said Mr Teddy Bear. “Understand vhat?” said a voice from the doorway.

Baron Von Vomble was pointing a gun at Tara and Mr Teddy Bear. Tara was going to draw her own gun but Mr Teddy Bear stopped her. They were surrounded by tough looking, heavily armed vombles. The vombles marched the two villains outside then hooked them up to ropes. Tara and Mr Teddy Bear were pulled up into the airship. The vomble raiding party joined them and chained them up inside big glass balls.

Meanwhile in Gambit’s Movie House, Gambit was both annoyed & confused while Purdey was just confused. They were both off their rings by now. “I demand an explanation!” said Purdey, suddenly becoming irritated. “No.” replied Gambit. “Anyway, stop acting like that, what about one of these days!” “Well, I’ve cancelled it! Unless you give me a good enough explanation! Otherwise I will break your back in 3 places!” said Purdey, then she punched Gambit in the face & threw him nearly to the floor. She still held on. “Well, Mike Gambit?”

“Mike.” Said an unseen voice. Gambit ignored it & looked at Purdey. He couldn’t really look anywhere else. “Mike.” Repeated the voice after a long-feeling short time. “Mike Gambit!” Gambit struggled out of Purdey’s grasp. He got out his gun & started to walk through the house. “Where are you?” he asked. The unseen voice simply talked about where it could be. Purdey followed Gambit with an angry look in her eyes.

A helicopter flew above Grand Steed Manor. The ladder was let down and Face climbed down it and leapt down the chimney. He landed in a mostly empty room with a table in the middle of it.

On the table was a key. “I wonder what this unlocks?” said Face, picking it up and putting it in his jacket pocket. He went through a door to a room with a very very long table and candles. He went through that room (it took an hour) and into the next one.

This time he was in a room with wanted posters on the wall. He saw the one of him and put it in his pocket, replacing it with one of Meowykins. He went into the next room and couldn’t see anything. It was pitch black. He walked into the wall and accidentally knocked himself out. Steed turned the light on and took him to prison.

Now Emma was left in Grand Steed Manor with no-one else there except the cats and dogs. Suddenly she realised that meant that Steed and Cathy had lost Thomas and Lucy again. She went out to find them.

Hannibal saw Face being marched out of the house from the helicopter. He flew it to the prison. It didn’t fit inside very well, and he accidentally landed on Steed and Face. He quickly moved it off and pretended it hadn’t happened.

Later Steed woke up tied up in a helicopter. “What? Where? How?” he said. He saw Hannibal and Face in front of him. “I love it when a plan comes together!” said Hannibal. “Well I hate it!” said Steed. “Let me go!”  “If we do you’ll arrest us.” Said Face. B A suddenly came out of another room in the helicopter (it was a very big one) and said, “You fool! You just pressed a button by mistake and now Murdock has fallen out the helicopter!”  “What?” said Hannibal. “To stop him hitting the ground we’ll probably need four people to catch him!”  They all looked at Steed pleadingly.

Cathy and Emma were both looking for Thomas and Lucy now. Suddenly Emma fell down a drain with a loose cover. Cathy looked down it. It was rather deep, no chance of getting down without hurting yourself. She knocked out the nearest person and took their belt to reach down to Emma. It wasn’t long enough, so she knocked out another person and took their belt too. It still wasn’t long enough. She ended up with fifty belts and finally managed to reach Emma.

Emma grabbed on and Cathy pulled her up. “Why was that cover so loose?” said Cathy, and let go of the long line of belts, which came loose of each other and landed in a soft heap at the bottom of the drain.

Suddenly Murdock fell into the drain and landed on the soft belts. Suddenly he realised that Hannibal, Face, B A and Steed were standing there. “I love it when a plan comes together!” said Hannibal.

“And this time so do I!” said Steed, quickly hand-cuffing Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B A. B A broke his hand cuffs and ran off, whilst Hannibal, Face, and Murdock were marched off to prison.

“Commander Bond!” shouted a prison guard. No answer. He just left Bond’s dinner in the cell. Mother ate it. “Commander Bond!” shouted another prison guard. No answer. He just left Bond’s snack in the cell. Mother ate it. The guard left. “Laundry!” shouted another guard. “Here!” shouted back Mother. The guard took the sack of laundry. It was very heavy and somehow seemed to wriggle.

The laundry bag was heaved into the van. A head poked out. The prison guard came back with more laundry. He went into the back of van. A fist poked out. Into his face knocking him out. Bond climbed out of the sack and took the ignition key. He rushed to the driving seat, started the engine but four people ran fast into his path. “Have you got a problem?” he asked.

“That was close!” said BA. “You stopped Steed firing the A Team!” added Hannibal. The A Team got in. BA was about to drive but Bond stopped him with a judo move. He found a music CD and put it on. “You fool! What is this crazy music?” asked BA. “Bond theme, James Bond theme” replied Bond who was causing havoc on the roads for no good reason.

BA put in another CD. “What is that?” asked Bond. “You got a problem with it?” asked BA. “Yes actually” replied Bond. “You’ve hired the A Team!” shouted Murdock. “That’s my line!” shouted Hannibal. Bond and the A Team raced to the secret A Base wreaking havoc on the way.

Back at the prison a guard shouted. “Mother! Visitor! Five minutes!”  Mother looked out of the bars to see Grandma. Grandma knocked out the guard and changed into his clothes. He marched Mother out to a big prison van. They calmly drove away then parked in an alley. “The back!” urged Grandma. They raced around to the back (luckily Mother wasn’t fat today) where a silver sports car was waiting for them. “Pretend to kidnap me!” said Grandma putting a mask on Mother.

Mother looked in the car mirror. “That’s not my face! That’s not my face!” he shouted. Grandma slapped him and he drove away out of the van to the Avengers garage where the old burrow used to be.