Q's Bayou Adventure Pt.2

Q was an owl, so the night flying was no trouble for him. As the two mice slept on his back, Q followed their directions to a tiny bayou. In the bayou was the wreck of a steamboat, on which two alligators were leashed to a railing. If Q wasn't so used to the bar this might seem a bit odd, but it did not phase him.

What did phase him were the screams of a little girl. Q landed on a tree and watched as a rather ugly woman and a stout man guided the child to a hole in the ground.
"Now Penny, stop screaming and crawl in that hole! You need to get in there before high tide or else we'll never get that diamond!"

 Penny continues to struggle in the fat man's grip, refusing to go into the whole. The ugly woman pushes him aside. "You bumbling idiot Snoops! You can't be so rude!"

"Now Penny dear, we need to put you down in the cave so we can get the Devil's Eye. You remember that don't you? Only you can fit in the hole. If you be a dear and fetch us that diamond, you can live with me and Mr. Snoops on our boat for the rest of your life!"

Penny quickly pulls away. "I don't want to live with you! I want to go back to New York. I want someone else to adopt me!"

The woman, Miss Medusa, pushes her into a bucket dangling from a rope above the cave. "If you ever want to see anyone besides those skeletons down there, you better grab me that diamond! Because this time, you won't be coming out until you do!"

"N-now Medusa, we can't do that, she might d-die!"
"I know Mr. Snoops! That is precisely the POINT!"

Penny begins crying as she is lowered into the pit. Q wakes up Bernard and Bianca and tells them the scene he just witnessed.

"Oh my, poor baby, how will ever help her?" Bianca asks.

"Well, we will just have to go down there and help her find that diamond! Then we can plan an escape." Bernard says.

"She might be a bit too large for me to be able to carry her home... While you two are down there, I will look around and try to find a suitable escape route for the young girl once you rescue her!" Q flies off towards the boat, hoping that since Medusa seems to live there, there would be some sort of transportation back to the city.