As we already know, PI Pameila did not really go to
the castle tower, she stayed back in Bubba daMouse's
office sitting in a puddle of sticky, spilt Pepsi with
her knees shaking
at the thought that she might have had to go there and
that she still might have to enter the dreaded Cave
of Codes while Bubba daMouse. Did all the dirty work.
Bubba snuck into the tower through a hole that had
been drilled in the wall to allow cables to the boxes
that Psuedo called computers to be connected to the
outside world. She had been busily checking out
every inch of the tower and gathering clues to the whereabouts
of the secrets of the flash magic [and doing a pretty
dern good job of it, too] when who should appear but
the Cat. The
Cat had been sleeping by the fireplace the entire
time, but had been so quiet that even our wiley mouse
had not spotted her. The Cat was immediately on
patrol and attempted to corner the intruder.
A great scuffle ensued. Bubba daMouse managed
to dodge all swats, nips and bites, but the
Cat was relentless.
The two of them were making so much racket knocking
over things and squeaking and hissing that Pseudo pulled
herself away from her wedding/weeding plans in disgust
and marched up the stairs to see what was the matter.
Upon seeing daMouse, Pseudo jumped on one of her computer
chairs and screamed bloody murder for at least half
an hour while barking orders at the
Cat to get that dreadful rodent and shrieking
for someone to bring her peanut butter and a trap.
As we all know, cats do not take orders well, so the
Cat immediately withdrew from the chase and went
back to the fire for a nap muttering about lower life
forms called humans and tossing the screaming Pseudo another one of those disdainful
looks she was famous for giving.
The royal wedding/weeding planner finally located and
presented a trap and a large jar of crunchy peanut butter
then ran back down the stairs to hide from the screaming
temper fit that our Pseudo Princess was throwing in
the tower.
Good old Pseudo got down from her chair and proceeded
to fill the trap with spoonfuls of sticky peanut butter.
Bubba daMouse was thrilled as she had missed lunch and
was never one to pass up a free meal. After tucking
her report safely in an interior zipped pocket of her
furry coat, she proceeded to play a wild game of dodge
the Pseudo-Princess for several hours. Snatching
big scoops of peanut butter on every run at the trap.
This little game went on for hours and Bubba was getting
quite full and had been slowed considerably on each
run by a full belly and sticky paws. On the last
run for peanut butter the little gluttonous mouse made
something horrible happened. Her beautiful tail
became ensnarled in the trap.
Pseudo was gleeful. The mouse was in a real fix.
The crazy Pseudo-Princess rubbed her hands together
in wicked delight. She found rubber gloves [as
she would never touch a mouse] and grabbed the trap
with poor Bubba hanging out by her tail. Pseudo
glowered over poor Bubba. There was no escape....but
then, Bubba came up with a last minute plan. She
let out a long, low squeak, took a deep, deep breath
and dropped into as in a dead faint. For all intents
and purposes, she appeared to be dead.
Luckily our Psuedo-Princess did not inspect her too
closely or too long. She rather unceremoniously
tossed her out the back door and into the rubbish pile.
Bubba, who was turning rather blue from holding her
breath, waited until old Pseudo was out of sight, dusted
off her furry coat and scurried back to her office to
help PI Pamelia write a report that would satisfy the
village women.
So ends this week's exciting episode. Stay tuned
for next week's grand finale .....maybe
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