The speeding mini tore down the streets of Voronezh and disappeared into a dark tunnel. Inside this fine car was none other than Dr. J.G Cug, despite being an excellent Doctor and Teacher (he was friends with the most also excellent Teacher Graham Seed who was at this very moment in Voronezh) he was also the world's No.1 Secret Service Secret Agent.

"Miss. Moneyteddy.... I repeat Miss. MoneyTeddy, are you there?" said Dr. Cug
"Hiya, James, what can I do for you?"
"The evil villain GoldPaw is now safely disposed of!"
"Hooray! I'll put you through to B.T"
" The dial you called is busy at the moment. Please try again. If you would like to find out more about B.T peak time, please press 301 and the green button. If you would like to just carry on with your tour just press the green button. Thank you,"

"Whoops, sorry about that, wrong B.T!"
"Ah yes, thank you Miss. MoneyTeddy, I am glad to hear GoldPaw is gone but we have another assignment for you. Go to the uni where Graham is teaching. Me, Miss. Moneyteddy and Malcolm The Snail Technician will meet you there in a few hours"
"Rodger that, over and out"
"Who's Rodger?"
"Never mind" and with little more thought about Rodger, Dr. Cug's mini sped towards the centre of town, narrowly missing several trolleybuses and a lot of doctors who were for some reason rushing their way to somewhere, and arrived outside Voronezh State University. Dr Cug's chauffeur opened the door and Dr Cug walked into the building.
Inside thousands of Russian students swarmed about like flies. In addition to this, thousands of flies swarmed about like Russian students. Dr Cug made his way to a certain room, and knocked on the door.
"Vaiiti [Enter]" said a pinkish voice. Dr Cug entered.
"James!" said Miss Moneyteddy.
"Good afternoon Dr Cug" said Malcolm the Snail-Technician
"Do sit down, James," said BT, "and have some cookies. James, something very
serious is going on here in Voronezh and I want you to listen very carefully."
"Go on" said Dr Cug, "I'm listening."
"Well as you know the whole of the computer system on e-mail has broken down and nobody in the world is allowed to use e-mail!" said B.T
"Yes, carry on"
"Your mission is to go back in time to stop the evil villains who did this! Their names are Mick Van Kaamper and his sidekick Limey Maus!"
"Gosh" said Miss Moneyteddy.
"Malcolm the Snail Technician has your gadgets."
"That's right!" he said, "Here is my masterpiece!"
"A telephone box?!"
"Not any telephone box" the snail said as Dr Cug wondered why it had B.T's initials on it.
"This is a..."
"Cool! let's get going!"
"But there's something that I need to tell you, it's about.."
"Never mind, let's go!"
Jumping into the telephone box Dr. Cug and Miss. Moneyteddy looked around to see.....
"Hello! Hello!" a voice at the back of the room chirped. "Don't forget about me!"
"James, be patient! This is your helper. BT has hired her from Christine's Counselling service."
Dr Cug turned around to meet his new helper.
"Dr. Cug, I've heard so much about you! I can't believe it's really you."
"Well hello, and you are....?"
"My name is Ladybaby Christine".
"Well, Ladybaby Christine, shall we get going?"
"Yes, let's" she said.
Malcolm the snail technician showed them how to work the telephone box, otherwise used as the time travel machine, and the two boarded.
"All the best you two" said BT, Malcolm and Miss Moneyteddy.
"I shall miss you," said Miss Moneyteddy.
"Wrap up warm! It might snow!" said Malcolm TST.
"Hope to see you soon. It should be quite a simple task!" said BT and with that, Dr. Cug closed the door, and looked around his travel machine. It was unusually large and fitted Ladybaby Christine and him with lots of room to spare. Ladybaby Christine was eating a banana, she had missed breakfast. Pressing a few buttons he got the time travel machine working and ready to go. Ladybaby Christine had finished eating her banana and was drinking some hot orange, the banana had fallen on the floor. Just as she was about to pick it up Dr. Cug slipped on it pulling the handle that said how far back in time you want to go.

"Quick! We must change the time setting!" said Ladybaby Christine.
"No, it's stuck!" said Dr. Cug in panic.
"Where are we going?"
" I don't know!"
Suddenly the travel machine stopped and him and Ladybaby Christine got out. Malcolm the snail technician came up to them in medieval clothes.
"Don't I know you?!"
"Ah, Yes, Dr. Cug" I have access to wherever you go, I'm going to fix the machine and you will soon be up and running!"
"Thank you!"
Ladybaby Christine looked around; she was wearing a medieval ball gown.
"Hey, look those two people over there look like someone we know!"
"It's Limey Maus and Mick Van Kaamper!" shouted Dr. Cug
Hearing this the villains started running.
"After them!" he cried. Ladybaby Christine, dressed in an elegant red ball gown with a stunning white tiara, followed the equally as elegant smartly dressed Dr. Cug towards the villains.
"Done it!" cried Malcolm the snail, "you two, come back quickly!"
Malcolm had fixed the problem and so Ladybaby Christine and Dr Cug went back
into their telephone box.
"Look you two!" said Malcolm "We don't need to bother with Limey Maus and Mick
Van Kaamper in 1406 do we?????"
"Oh, is that the year we are in???" said Dr Cug.
"We just want you to go back a few months in time, to the time before the
computer broke and - also I have some extra news - before Dick Seed's tin can
was smashed up."
Everybody was shocked. "The tin can is dead? Long live the new tin can!"
"Sorry, this is all very confusing. I have fixed the machine now probably so
you can travel back to August 2002."
"Thank you."
With that the medieval Malcolm the snail disappeared and James and Christine
settled down to start their adventure again.
BING! The doors opened.
"Right is this August 2002?" asked Dr. Cug, looking around outside him.
"YES!" Miss. Moneyteddy came bounding up to them.
"Where are we?" asked Christine
" Calmore service station"
"Why?" asked Dr. Cug
"Oh, this is where Dick Seed is coming to buy his new car, a little green rover!"
"Great, but that does not help us"
"No, that was purely to inform you and Graham Seed, now you go off and save the world!"
And then she disappeared.
When the two got back in the phone box they found a letter, from Masha.
"It says that we have to go back a bit further to save the tin can from the scrap."
"Well, what are we waiting for!"
And they set the time travel machine to the day when Dick Seed crashed his car.
BUMP.
They had landed again. This time, they were in 11 Horsebridge Way and standing
proudly outside was the tin can car. It was 8am, and Dick Seed was getting ready for work.
"Let's do something to distract him for a few minutes. Then those few minutes
will make him be a little late, thus avoiding the car which crashes into him" said Dr. Cug.
"OK well how are we going to do that?" asked Ladybaby Christine.
"I'm not sure."
"Well quick think of something before he comes!"
"Erm I'm thinking."
The door opened and Dick Seed walked out. Ladybaby Christine ran into the
alleyway. Cug froze.
Dick stopped and picked up Dr. Cug.
Then he went back inside.
"Matthew," he called "is this your cug?" Why was it lying outside?"
"Hmmmm" said Matthew walking sleepily down the stairs. "Oh Gosh, it is; I know I tried to make him a suit for the Cug of the Glen premiere but it was not as good as that tuxedo he's wearing now!"
Taking James Cug he walked up to his room and put him on his bed.
"Well, I'm not going to make a hullabaloo about it," said Dr. Cug "B.T! What are you doing here?!"
"Well you have got yourself in a right pickle this time haven't you James" B.T said. "Try giving you a simple task to do and you end up making a hullabaloo about it. I came here on a one-way ticket to today in August 2002, I couldn't afford a return. So I have to go home with you. Plus I have to be here from time to time so that Matthew can see his so called 'Brown Teddy'. But now we are up in Matthew's bedroom and we need to get down to L-b Christine who has the time machine in the front garden. Anyway, despite this little problem you have actually managed to complete your first task - you have successfully delayed Dick Seed and so his car will not be crashed into and the tin can will live on further. So all we need to do is to somehow get down to the front garden."
"I see," said James. "Hmmm. I miss Miss Moneyteddy. But I'm not going to make a
hullabaloo about it."
"Well you can see her when we get home." said B.T. "But how?"
"Hmmmmm, let me see, yes yes, ahhhh yes" thought Dr. Cug
"What do we do?" asked B.T
"Haven't the foggiest" said James
"Oh"
"Wait, now I remember!" exclaimed Dr. Cug "I remember Malcolm giving this to me at the beginning!"
"What is it?"
"It's a large parachute hidden inside a Nokia 3310 mobile phone!" said James.
So they got out of the window ready to jump.
"One...two.... three!" and off the window ledge they went falling down, the parachute came out and they landed safely.
"Right now we have to get the travel machine to come here." said B.T
"O.K, all we have to do is take the cover off my mobile phone and using my finger on this control pad I will guide the travel machine to me!" explained James.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
Hanging on to the end of the time travel machine was Lady Baby Christine! Dr. Cug brought the machine to a stop.
"Don't ever do that to me again" said Christine.
"Right, now to find these villains" said Dr Cug.
"Yes indeed" said BT. "I may as well join you in this adventure. I'm glad of
that mobile phone of ours, I think it will save us."
"So then, we are looking for Mick Van Kaamper and Limey Maus, who somehow managed to make Dick Seed's car crash and the computers all break down."
"Indeed, that's what I think we're looking for"
"Well," said Ladybaby Christine. "If you were a small Lego man, and a small
lime-green German mouse, where would you be now, and what would you be doing?"
They all looked at her blankly.
"Any ideas?" she said. "Come on you lot, you're useless!"
"Christmas Shopping of course!".........
 
                                *************
Some Shopping mall music comes on.
"This Christmas shopping is really starting to get on my nerves." said Limey Maus "I mean, everybody asks you what you want for Christmas but they don't know themselves!"
"Honestly" said Mick "Well, I've got all mine, I ordered them from www.amazon.com!"
Limey Maus and Mick walk into Matalan.
 "Ohhhhh, look Matthew you need to get some more trousers and a jumper for winter!" said an ecstatic lady running to the centre of Matalan with a boy running along beside her.
"Right now for our master plan!" said Mick
Walking down the centre aisle to the changing rooms both the villains grab a pair of jeans and walk into the changing rooms.
"If we just tap this mirror and...... Bingo!"  the villains come out into the back of Woollies
"Right, let's get on!"

 ******************

Meanwhile running down Southampton high street were two teddy bears and an ecstatic dolly gazing at all the clothes shops and stopping to check the price on a lovely green dress.
"Come on, Ladybaby Christine! We need to get to 'Phones4U', they have a tracking device to go with my Nokia 3310 which will help us to locate the villains." said Dr. Cug. Then ran down the very very very cold street, with gloves and scarves and boots and hats and coats and extra layers of jumpers and socks flying everywhere. Finally they reached Phones4U. They entered the shop.
"Ah hello" said Malcolm the Technician.
"What are you doing here??" asked BT.
"I always have to be in the place if you are going to get a new piece of
technology! Anyway, here is your tracking device."
Dr Cug fixed the tracking device onto his Nokia 3310.
"I'll just find you the code you need so it will start tracking Limey Maus and
Mick Van Kaamper," said Malcolm Snail. After a moment, he found it on his
computer. "The code is 0070732. Remember to put the 0 in before 732."
They typed it in and found that the two rascals were in Woolies, just up the road.
"Wait a minute," said Ladybaby Christine. "Woolies is just up the road!"
"Hang on!" said BT. "Wait another minute. It's suddenly changed - they are now
in Matalan in Eastleigh."
"Now it's changed again," said Dr Cug. "Now they're in WHSmith, just up the
road."
"What on earth are they playing at?" asked L.b. Christine. "How can they do that? What are they doing? Why does Turkey never win the Eurovision Song Contest? Why are Christmas adverts so annoying? Why are..."

"Alright, alright, that's enough" said B.T
"We need to think about this calmly and simply" said Dr. Cug
"They must have some sort of teleport to get from one place to another so quickly" said Malcolm TST.
" Even if they do why are they going through every shop so fast then?" said l.b Christine.
Suddenly the scanner on the Nokia 3310 went all weird and fuzzy.
"Malcolm, why didn't you remember to charge up the battery?" said B.T
"No, I did" said Malcolm TST "there must be interference in the scanner"
"Oh, no" shouted a Phones4U helper "All are computer systems are closing down!"
"Something smells fishy here" said Dr. Cug " And I intend to get to the bottom of it"
Then he realised that the fishy smell had come from the bottom of his foot. He had just stepped on a fish cake.
"I just stepped in a fish cake" said Dr. Cug
"That's no normal fish cake" said Malcolm TST
"That's a special Fishcake 3310!" exclaimed L-b Christine, who incidentally
was the world's leading expert on Fishcake 3310.
"What do they do?" asked Dr Cug.
"They do three things - they close down all computer systems; then they give out a very smelly smell, which smells of Russian fish, you know, the type they have with vodka, which still have their eyes in!"
"Yes I can smell that!" exclaimed MTST.
"That is to make everybody faint. Secondly, if people haven't fainted from that, the Fishcake 3310 sends the outside temperature down to -17, so everybody will die of pneumonia!"
"That is .... awful" said BT, slowly starting to faint.
"BT no! Don't faint!" said L-B Christine, as all the other people in the shop started to.
"We - we - have to find the villains" said Dr. Cug drowsily. "They - they - did this"
"It's it's co co cold" stuttered MTST. With that, all four joined the rest of the people and fainted. With everybody almost dead, the villains could now have their wicked
way.............

 **************

Somewhere in the heart of Rownhams at the present time Miss Moneyteddy wandered around a bleak and misty Rownhams. None of her computers were working and the mini needed repairing.
"Oh no, they have failed then"  talking to herself " I must go forward in time and wake them back up."
It was just then she stumbled upon the time travel machine.

 ***************

Back in Dr. Cug's time the villains were getting ready to get away in their getaway car when the engine would not start.
"Great, it must be the car battery, we will have to charge it up and that will take a while." said Limey.
"Look! What's that?" said Mick
Out of the gloom came out of nowhere a telephone box and out came a pink very well wrapped in scarves and jumpers with a clothes peg on her nose. Almost as soon as they saw who she was the villains disappeared into the night but not before she caught a glimpse of them. Thinking nothing of it she carried on down the high street until she reached 'Phones4U'.
"Oh, gosh" exclaimed Miss. Moneyteddy " I will have to use my panash perfume on this!"
On saying this she pulled out a small bottle of perfume and sprayed over the shop and our heroes. Suddenly everything was warm and smelling nice.
"Miss. Moneyteddy! I knew you would come!" said Dr. Cug
"But by now the villains are probably out of town." said l.b Christine "we will never get them"
"And all the computer's are still bust so we can't track them." said MTST

"That's where you're wrong" said Miss. Moneyteddy "I saw them when I was coming, their battery in their car is flat so they're not going to go out of town. They're by Woolies and West Quay."
So fully equipped with lots of clothes pegs the team set of to find the villains. The high street lay empty with just a few fainted bodies around. Our heroes spoke to each other in a funny accent because they had pegs on their noses.
"Let's head towards Woolies first of all," said Miss Moneyteddy.
But Woolies was just the same as everywhere else - deadly silent with bodies all over the place. BT helped himself to the pick and mix.
"I hope you're going to pay for that," said James Cug.
BT looked guilty and placed a pound coin by the till.
"Let's split up," said Dr Cug.
"Good idea," said MTST. "Here are some walkie-talkies to keep in contact with
each other."
"Malcolm - you go down the high street towards Argos and the Bargate; BT, you
go through the Marlands, through Asda and down into that area where Staples is;
Miss Moneyteddy will meet you down there - if you go down by the station and
Toys R Us and then meet BT. Christine, can you take West Quay shopping centre
itself - and I will go up Above Bar towards the Library and the Guildhall."
"Oh James I want to go with you, I'm scared" said Miss Moneyteddy.
"Miss Moneyteddy, better this than being a wicked stepmother in a pantomime"
"Oh James,"
"If you see anything moving then tell everybody on the walkie-talkie. Remember -
 the villains have got themselves into a trap here - they've made everything still and silent because everybody's fainted but this means that it's easier for us to spot any movement. If we don't see anything let's rendezvous back at Phones4U in an hour."
"Oh, James"
Everybody moved off, silently, nervously watching.

At this point our story splits in to smaller stories as are heroes go about their business, we will first be go to B.T.

The only sound in the Marlands was the munching of Smarties and other small chocolates that B.T was slowly eating through to keep nourishment.

"I better keep in touch with Miss Moneyteddy." he though as he started on some cookies.

"Hmmm, cookies" he thought.

***********

Walking down through the middle of West Quay was Ladybaby Christine.

"Oh Gosh, this is just frightful! It's a good job that the Mountbatten Windband were not playing today as it was cancelled!"

All around her were the sleepy bodies of people who looked as though they had just been to a Midnight Mass at St. Marks and then stayed up to watch all the good films.

*************

"Pink Toaster... Pink Toaster... Come in Pink Toaster..... this is British Telecom...I repeat this is British Telecom."

Was the sound as Miss Moneyteddy walked down the station.

"Reading you loud and clear B.T. What's up?"

"Nothing's up Miss Moneyteddy, rather down. I have not heard a single sound all the time......Hang on, what was that?!....Oh' it's gone now.....Miss Moneyteddy get here now....something strange is going on."

***************

Meanwhile, Malcolm was snailing his way through the Bargate. Similar to many of our other heroes, he couldn't hear a thing, just the slither of his slither. In fact he was getting rather bored, and so starting thinking in his mind again about his latest invention, a 3D jigsaw, quite a novelty he thought. He was just about to decide whether it would be a church or a haunted house when his tanoi bleeped....

                                    ****************

James had headed up towards the library. An eerie fog had settled over Above Bar and was drifting into Our Price. He continued on past, dodging his way past the many fainted Christmas shoppers. How heroic was he, he thought. Four books and a film. He was Cug, the invincible, mighty, yellow, sometimes pink, heroic Dr. Cug. Oh yes. Make no doubt about it. If only his grandfather could see him now. But he was woken out of his dream by his tanoi bleeping.....

                                    *****************

Miss Moneyteddy was so worried about BT. She rushed through Asda, came out, waited for a car for drive past, crossed the road, and entered the Marlands.

"BT?" she called. But no reply came.

"BT?" she cried out again. Still no reply.

"BT what's happened?" She began to panic. Something had happened to BT, but she didn't know what? Where was he now? He was in the Marlands, and she had run through Asda to see what was happening. She had run through Asda, had come out, had waited for a car to drive past, had crossed the road and had entered Marlands.

"Hang on, back two!" she thought.

She ran back out onto the road. A car had driven past. If everybody were almost dead, then nobody would be around to drive a car. She was very scared and wanted James.

She thought back to the car she had seen. It was green. And remembering more, she thought she had seen three lizards in it. But none of this made sense. Where were Mick Van Kaamper and Limey Maus, and where was BT?  She knew she had 2 options; 1) go back and try to follow the green car or 2) wait around Marlands for B.T and try to find him. Surely somebody else in the party is going to see a green car? So she set of through Marlands and into the brand new Matalan where she saw a trail of smarties.

********

Ladybaby Christine had been walking down West Quay, she had just got to the entrance to Waitrose when she noticed something rather peculiar, in the bakery section there were no hot cross buns and it looked as though there had been a long queue for them, but even more strange than that was that all the fishcakes in the fish aisle had gone. Just as she was about to investigate further she heard the sound of a car engine and some heavy dance music coming out of it. She at once set of a tanoi message to Malcolm and Dr. Cug and then ran through the middle of Waterstones and out in to the air where she saw the green car with 3 lizards in it. How odd. she thought. Noticing the brightly coloured skin. It definitely was not Mick van Kaamper and Limey Maus. The diddl car stopped at the sight of her and she ran towards it.

"Who are you? Where do you come from? How can you survive?" she blurted out to the lizards

"Yo, lady, I be the 'Big Daddy' and this be my crew, meet Edgar and Lucinda"

"Charmed, I'm sure," said Edgar

"We come from Presentland," said Lucinda

"Oh, right, so why are you not almost dead like everybody else?" questioned Ladybaby Christine.

"Oh, we lizards can survive freezing cold weather and boiling weather because of our mirror type skin. It reflects hot and cold," said Edgar

"Yeah, and us lizard people like don't have noses for the smell" said the 'Big Daddy'

"And so the sleeping potion can't get into are lungs and make us go to sleep." said Lucinda

"Well you better come with me" said Ladybaby Christine

********

Meanwhile, Malcolm the Snail was slithering quite fast to get to West Quay to Ladybaby Christine. Suddenly his snail type brain realised something. If Limey Maus can teleport himself so quickly around the shops then it will be even harder to find them but we have bigger problems than that, Ladybaby Christine... "...might be in danger!"

He was woken out of is thoughts by James who had sneaked up behind him and was heading for West Quay as well.

"Yes, Yes James, we must hurry," he said. And with that the two heroes set off into West Quay.

                 ****************

Miss Moneyteddy followed the trail of smarties out of Matalan, which took her round the corner and into STA travel. She traipsed over a long line of people, who had fainted in the middle of booking a complex holiday to Helsinki. The smarties just stopped. She began to get scared.

"I don't like this," she thought to herself. "I want James. It's all foggy and smelly and cold, and I don't know why the car drove past and why these smarties are here and where BT is and where the rest of them are.

***************

"The Daddy," daddied Big Daddy.

"Come with me," said Ladybaby Christine. "I'm Christine. You have to meet with my friends; by the way we're looking for Limey Maus and Mick Van Kaamper. You don't happen to know them, or where they are do you?"

"Oh we know," said Lucinda.

"We sure know," said Edgar.

"Now Miss Christine; you must come with us." said the Big Daddy. Ladybaby Christine got scared.

***************

Dr. Cug and Malcolm the Snail entered West Quay.

"Ladybaby Christine?" shouted Malcolm

"BT?" shouted James. They tanoid both of them, but they got no answer. They then tanoid Miss Moneyteddy. Fortunately they got an answer from her.

"Hello? It's me, Miss Moneyteddy. Oh James, I'm so relieved to hear your voice."

"Miss Moneyteddy, where are you?"

"I'm in STA travel. There are some smarties but I don't know what they mean."

"Miss Moneyteddy, we have bigger problems. Ladybaby Christine and BT have both disappeared. We think they might be in big danger. Limey Maus and Mick Van Kaamper can teleport themselves so quickly around they could be doing anything. Christine reported seeing a lack of fish in Waitrose - that must have something to do with the fishy smell. But now she's gone. I don't think it's safe for us to be separate anymore, Miss Moneyteddy, come quickly down to West Quay. We'll have a search round"

"James!"

"Yes?"

"I saw a green car"

"A green car? When? Do you know anything else?"

"It just drove past me quickly. Quite a while ago now; on the road between Asda and the Marlands. I don't know anything else."

"Well, Miss Moneyteddy, just come quickly down to West Quay. Over and Out"

Dr. Cug turned to Malcolm. "So we have Christine and BT missing; a mysterious green car; and once we've solved those two mysteries, we still have to catch Limey Maus and Mick Van Kaamper. That's going to be so impossible. We're going to need our time machine."

Miss Moneyteddy noticed that in actual fact, the smarties doubled up and took her out of STA travel again. This was fine, as she needed to go out to get down to West Quay. She left the travel shop and looked straight in front of her. The green car was there again! This time it stopped. Miss Moneyteddy froze. Inside there were 3 lizards. How odd she thought. Noticing the brightly coloured skin. It definitely was not Mick van Kaamper and Limey Maus.

"Who are you? Where do you come from?" she blurted out to the lizards.

"Yo, lady, I be the 'Big Daddy' and this be my crew, meet Edgar and Lucinda"

"Charmed, I'm sure," said Edgar

"We come from Presentland," said Lucinda.

"Haven't we done this before?" asked Edgar.

"Well you better come with me" said Miss Moneyteddy.

"Oh no, you'd better come with us!" exclaimed The Daddy.

***************

Meanwhile the two surviving people in the party had come to halt in front of a West Quay map of Southampton.

"We'd better tanoi Miss. Moneyteddy to find out what's taking her so long" said Malcom but when they did there was just an eerie silence.

"This is getting to freaky" exclaimed Dr. Cug "we need to get to the bottom of this."

"Then we must get the time machine to see what happend"

And so James got out his Nokia 3310 and drove the time machine via the keypad on the phone to West Quay shopping centre.

"Come James, we must be quick," said Malcolm

There was a flash of lightning and they were gone.

"Quickly James, press that big purple button over there"

"Why?" asked Dr.Cug

"No time to explain, we are nearing our destination"

And so they arrived at the end of West Quay, near Waitrose.

"What was that big purple button?" asked James

"It was the invisibility bubble," said Malcolm "We can't have everybody noticing us!"

"Look! There's Ladybaby Christine! And there's the green car with the lizards!" exclaimed Dr.Cug

They watched as the four people had their conversation and saw them drag Ladybaby Christine into the car.

"We must go!" shouted Malcolm in panic whilst pressing a number of buttons

"Why?" shouted James back

"No time for questions!"

The next thing they knew was that they were hovering outside STAtravel.

"We could have followed them!" shouted Dr.Cug 

"No" answered Malcolm back "The invisibility bubble runs out after a few minutes"

But their discussion was interrupted by the arrival of the green car.

"There's nobody in it" said Cug.

The car drove past with the lizards still beating out heavy dance music. After a while James noticed something.

"I do believe I've just noticed something!" exclaimed Dr.Cug "Look it's BT!"

And sure enough it was. He was running and stopping after a little while to hide himself.

"He is following the car!" said Malcolm

Cug noticed that his smarties tube was leaking. Suddenly they were off again and found themselves in the same position just at a different time. They could see Miss. Moneyteddy running and stopping to think about the green car and then running again following the line of smarties. Then they saw the lizards and the green car and the conversation and her being shoved in the car. Then it was off as the travel machine's bubble was running low. Suddenly Cug noticed something, it was the perfume that had saved them, attached to it was a small note. He quickly shot out his hand and grabbed it just as the travel machine went. Back inside the safety of the travel machine he read the note, it said simply 'Use it wisely'.

Back in the present day Malcolm and James stood in front of the map and thought on what they had just seen.

"From this we can work out the villains course of action" Malcolm said pointing with his finger to the roads that the car had been down.

"We also know that BT is not with them," said Cug

"We really need a scanner," said Malcolm sighing

"Of course!" shouted Dr.Cug "Quickly! To 'phones4U'"

Once in 'Phones4U' Cug quickly got to work. Spraying everything in the shop with the perfume. Suddenly all the customers and helpers woke up and most importantly the computer systems in 'Phones4U' were turned on.

"Right, now we can get the scanner and find out where everybody is!" exclaimed Dr. Cug

"Oh, no" sighed Malcolm "The radius on the scanner has got smaller so we can't see much.....Wait!...hang on....yes, apparently BT is right here in the shop!"

"Yes, the scanner works then." said BT from behind them......

"Yes, the scanner works then." said BT from behind them.

"BT!" cried James Cug.

"I'm so glad you're safe! We first thought you might have been captured by the lizards, but then we quickly went back in time and saw that you were actually following the Diddl car."

"Tell us all!". Meanwhile all the customers in Phones4U were wandering around in a daze wondering what on earth had just happened.

"Well," said BT, "I've run out of Smarties. It's disastrous."

"I don't mean about the Smarties - I mean about our villains and those lizards. Anyway your Smarties were leaking - though it did attract Miss Moneyteddy's attention." said James.

"This scanner is still not working very well." said Malcolm the Snail.

"Well I followed the green car, you know, the Diddl car, which the lizards were driving. They've taken Miss Moneyteddy and Ladybaby Christine. I vaguely heard one of them - I think his name was Edgar - saying they had to take them to Mick Van Kaamper and Limey Maus."

"But where are they?" asked Malcolm. "They keep moving about so fast I don't know where they are."

"They're up to no good," said James. "Destroying cars - making computers crash and now making everybody faint. Going into every shop in Southampton. They have to be planning to take over the world or steal a lot of money of something. Let's make a list."

So they started to write a quick list of everything that had happened when all the lights went out.

"Power cut!" everybody cried.

"We can add that to the list!" cried BT. Malcolm lit a candle. 'I am writing this by candlelight' wrote BT. 'It is very dark. I am going to go soon. I may be gone sometime.'.  They waited a bit longer, then suddenly all the power came back on again.

"The scanner!" cried Malcolm. "It's working properly now! Right, let's see where those two villains and the lizards and the girls are."

Malcolm typed in the code. "They're all together. All of them!"

"Where????" demanded BT.

"Woollies! Quick, let's go!" shouted Malcolm.

They sprinted the short distance from Phones4U to Woolies, the other side of the high street. There were still fainted bodies in Woolworths, but at the back, by the phone fascia section, was.... their time machine!!!

Mick Van Kaamper stepped out. Inside of the time machine, James, Malcolm and BT could just make out the shapes of Limey, the three lizards and the two girls.

"Ah!" said Mick. "Who might you be?"

"The name's Cug. James Cug."

"You have come to save your friends have you? Well too late!" He gave a cackling laugh. "Too late! Everything's done now, I'm going to steal your time machine and dump these two miserable ladies sometime a long time in the future. Too far in the future for you to rescue them. Then I have other plans! Well goodbye, twenty-first century, goodbye!" With that, Mick stepped inside and closed the door.

James ran towards the machine. "Nooooooooooooooooooooo!". But it was indeed too late. The time machine vanished..........

 

The time machine vanished into thin air

"Right"exclaimed  'The Daddy' "Now we can get you!"

'The Daddy' moved closer and closer towards them, cornering them in between the kitchen appliances and the gardening tools.

'What a horrible way to go' thought Dr. Cug.' What shall I do? Come on Cug, think! What would my grandfather do? Yes! that's it!'

And so grabbing a kitchen whisk-o-lais he throw it at 'The Daddy'

BT and MalcomTST got the idea and soon spoons and trowls and forks and salt pots and spades and a garden knomes were flying everywhere.

"Alright, Alright"said Edgar "We never wanted to hurt you anyway but Limey Maus threated to take off are lovely mirrors"

"Yes, we are very sorry" said Lucinda "We just want to go home.."

"...But Mick and Limey took away are time machine and would only give it back if we killed you. Of coarse, he would'nt have given it back anyway"said 'The Daddy'

"Great"said Malcom "Were stuck here in a smelly world while Mick and Limey take over the world. We need to either a) try and pull the time machine out of where it's going back to now or b) find some other way to go back in time and stop this all."

"Hmmmmm, Yes! that's it." shouted Dr. Cug "Follow me!"

He led the way back to Phones4U where there were still people looking and deciding on phones.

"Right, we need to get onto www.cookie-jar.20m.com!" he said logging on to the lap top computer.

"O.k, now were on to it lets go to the Dr. Cug story!" he said typing in matthew's password to get in to the site.

They could see that as they spoke words were coming on to the page.

"I like strawberry cookies!" said B.T

The words appeared on the screen.

"Cool!" exclaimed B.T

"Enough fooling around" said Dr. Cug

Clicking onto 'EDIT' he located the part where Mick stepped inside the time travel machine and closed the door.

Then  he wrote in:
But as they were traveling through timespace the travel machine stopped and started going back towards the 21st century.

"Noooooooooooo!!!" shouted Limey

BT stepped in.

They were also dressed up as giant smarties..

"Why did you put that in?!" said James and quickly deleted it . 

"Quickly get back into woolworths!" exclaimed Cug "It will be exsactly the same but this time we have the lizards on are side.......   

 

What will happen next? The end can only be seen in the original book!