Follow the Yellow Bug Home

Follow the Yellow Bug Home is the forty ninth chapter in the Wombles Eight.

Superman switched back to his guise as Clark at a waiting car. He and Bruce headed back to the Batcave (Clark had to change it back again) in the innocuous sedan. It was then that Catwoman picked up their trail on her superbike.

Bruce was just changing into a batsuit when Catwoman revealed herself. “Bruce darling! That really does suit you.”  Bruce sprang into a fighting stance. “No need for that. Things have changed a little. You know there really is no honour among thieves.”

Wellington arrived at Womble Manor with the news of the bug. “Good work!” said Bungo as he, Wellington and Mr Class went into the MoT. At first they could see nothing unusual then a light flicked on at the front of the Iron Womble suit. The light got brighter or dimmer as Wellington moved around the room. Bungo spotted the bug when the light was bright enough to light the room on its own.

“It actually is a bug!” said Mr Class. There walking about on the security panel was a yellow cockroach. “Well the question is how to trace it back to its owner” said Bungo. PMW and Shansi had arrived now. Shansi’s eyes lit up as she shouted “I know! Follow the yellow bug home!”  “Follow the yellow bug home?” chorused the others. “Follow the yellow bug home!” repeated Shansi. “Let’s go now!” said PMW but Bungo held up a paw. “No” he said “We already have a mission. Sorry Mr Class this is too highly classified for you to know about.”

Mr Class left the Ministry to go back to his window cleaning. Bungo made a call when he had left. “Hello Murdock! You will never guess what I need.”  Murdock put the phone on speaker and a chorus of people, womble and Tiger shouted in unison “You need the A Plus team!”. “Got it in one!” shouted back Bungo.

Murdock landed a few minutes later on Wimbledon Common. Hannibal led the way out of the chopper followed by BA, the Muscle Crew, Murdock, TCUB and the tigers. Just when Bungo was going to ask about Face something whirled and there he was with the others.

“What’s the mission Chief Bungo?” asked Hannibal. “Follow the yellow bug home!” Bungo replied. “Follow the yellow bug home?” said Hannibal. “Follow the yellow bug home!” said the Wombles together. Suddenly Murdock and TCUB felt like singing. “Weee’re off to do the mission and follow the yellow bug home! To find, to find, to find, to find, to find out where it might go!” they sang.

The A Plus team all sang and danced out of the chopper and headed off singing heartily as the yellow bug was released and flew up into the night.

With Face now back on his team Constantine turned to the others at Evie’s London house. “It’s time for war! So anybody who wants to pull out do it now.”  The team, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Mal and Evie said nothing but looked at each other determined and nodded. There was no doubt they were ready. “This demon has done enough damage and if ‘e keeps goin’ there’s gonna be a lot of death. It’s time to stop him. You lot wait here until I need ya. I’m gonna join the Queen and her team. Wait for my instructions.”  The team all shook hands with Constantine and the ladies hugged him before he apparated.

Mother was back home with a Brandy, quadruple, in his hand when the doorbell rang. “Bother!” he grumbled and begrudgingly answered the door. As he opened it somebody whirled in and hugged him tight. Mother was a bit winded so the woman let go. “Father!” he shouted and danced his sister round and round into the living room. After pouring her a massive brandy he looked at her amazed. “You’re so … young!” he said rather stuck for words. “It’s a long story Brother! But a happy one. There’s no time now though. The world is at stake.” Father replied. Just then the phone rang and Mother headed to Wimbledon Common to join Bungo and the team.

The A Plus team followed the yellow bug and lost it. There was nothing but a road and fields. “Colonel what do we do now?” asked Murdock when they landed. “See there!” said Tomsk who had the sharpest eyesight. They all stared. At first there was nothing. Eventually they saw brown, black and green sparkles. The sparkles were taking the form of two people. As the forms took shape the A Plus team were ready to strike.

“Don’t shoot!” shouted a familiar voice. There stood Tara Keel and Katy Perry hand in hand. “We’re on your side. Please wait a moment …” Tara said with a wink. Then to the amazement of the A Plus team Katy threw black sparkles at the air where the bug had disappeared. The sparkles landed on something big. As the sparkles landed they showed a huge 20 storey manor house, now shining in black.

The door of the house opened and lots of women in gold, sparkly uniforms poured out. Each armed with gold automatic pistols. Just as the A Plus Team thought they’d seen everything Tara opened wings out from her back and flew up to a hole in the wall at the top of the mansion. Katy stood with the A Plus team, hands on hips, with multi-coloured sparkles dancing around her hands. Inside Tara was facing Esmerelda. The two women stared at each other with hostile eyes.