As Penny raced by, Luke and Ellie Mae were waiting by their shack for Evinrude to return. Seeing the girl run by clued them in to the current state of affairs, and they were quick to respond. As Medusa turned the corner, the two mice leaped up onto her legs and began to attack as best they could. Luke purposefully climbed up the woman as Ellie Mae banged a rolling pin against the woman's shins. Medusa shrieked from both pain and fear, her musophobia making it like a scene from a nightmare for her.
Meanwhile, the alligators were swimming up on the scene in the water, an owl and a dragonfly in hot pursuit.
"Evinrude, I need you to fly down and attack their eyes. That should aggravate them enough to pursue you. Then you must fly back to me. I will be here, and I shall lead them back to the boat. If we can find some place aboard the ship to lock them away we won't have to worry about them attacking the child!"
Evinrude nodded and dove down, landing directly on Nero's eyeballs. The alligator snapped and flailed about in the water from the assault on his eyes. Sadly, Evinrude was not fast enough to fly away from the flailing reptile, and the dragonfly was slapped down into the water.
"Evinrude!"
Q dove down into the water, hooking the bug's sweater onto one of his talons. As he tried to swim about, the owl quickly realized that he let his emotions overcome his logic. The bird's body was not built for swimming, and Q the owl flailed about in the water, drawing a lot of attention from two ornery alligators just feet away from the scene.
Back on the boat, Mr. Snoops had started up a tiny motorboat like machine and was beginning to drive over to where he last saw Medusa and Penny. He wasn't a bad guy, he just wanted money and was easily manipulated by the overbearing Medusa.
This of course didn't matter to two alligators, who saw the portly man and had to make a decision. Eat the easy meal that floundered about in the water before them, or eat the delicious meat of a large fellow? The owl, it was closer and they could get Mr. Snoops next. They opened their mouths wide and tried to chomp down...
Only to lock their jaws together just inches from crushing Q. The gators turned against each other quickly, biting and snapping angrily. Q took the moment to try a daring move. He pulled himself and Evinrude on top of Brutus, which caused Nero to leap up onto the other gator. Q quickly hopped over to Nero's back, causing Brutus to spin around and attack Nero's back. Q continued to jump around on the two scaly backs until both reptiles had been properly aggravated. The constant friendly fire turned the gators against one another. Both beasts begin to tear each other apart, partly out of rage, but as they bit into each other, their hunger took over.
Q leaped off them and floundered as best he could through the murky water to the shore.
Medusa managed to shake Ellie Mae off, but Luke got up to her face and chucked his tiny bottle of moonshine down her throat. The intense brew began to work its magic in her system, causing the woman to seize up and flail from the potency of the drink. The mice quickly left her to drunken spasms as they ran off into the forest, hoping to find Q and the escape route.
What they didn't know was that Q was on the shore, barely clinging to life. Owls are not supposed to swim, and now he had confirmed that for sure.
Mr. Snoops pulled up to the shore, seeing the two alligators tearing each other apart from afar. Silently he cheered to himself, glad to be rid of those nuisances, but the spasming Medusa nearby caught his attention. Mr. Snoops went to help her, but quickly he had a change of heart. Or rather, he realized he could take the diamond from her in this state and run off in her car.
Mr. Snoops pilfered the Devil's Eye and got back onto his Swampmobile. He drove the machine back to the boat, near which he would find his car and possibly drive away Penny's hope of returning to New York City...
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