No one's at the museum since it's close for the night save a few security guards and Mace and LongArm who's standing side by side next to the incredible Jaguar Eye Diamond nestled inside of a large case. It very much resembles an eye of a jaguar. The most impressive rare gem is billions of dollars worth of fortune. No wonder the crooks are after it, and no wonder Mayor Davis have ordered the C.O.P.S. team to keep the gem from falling into the wrong hands. As Mace and LongArm guard the gem, they worry greatly about LadyHarp and what has to be done to save her (They don't know that LadyHarp has escaped).
Mace: "Gee. I wish I could play the harp."
LongArm: "So do I, but unfortunately we don't have the talents to play the harp like Bulletproof has. All we can do is listen and appreciate the music that comes flowing from the harp."
Mace: "Say, did you know that Sundown's going to play the harp, too?"
LongArm: "No, I haven't. Nobody ever told me that. How did you find out about Sundown's decision to play the harp?"
Mace: "He told me about it yesterday while we were having lunch at the lounge. About two weeks ago, Sundown came into Bulletproof's office while on break and saw BP tuning the strings of LadyHarp before practicing. He says that seeing BP strumming his harp reminds him of the time he used to play the guitar at the Walker family ranch way back when he was growing up in Texas. He used to own a 6 stringed guitar his dad gave him for Christmas. His dad, who also had a guitar, taught him how to play old country songs and folk favorites which Sundown sure got pretty good at playing. But after awhile he got bored with it and gave it up, preferring to engage in pursuing a career in becoming a Texas Marshall he is today. Seeing Bulletproof twanging the harp, however, is helping him to rekindle his interest in twanging on a “string thing” as he likes to put it, but this time his string thing is going to turn out to be a harp which has more elegant shape and more strings to twang on than the guitar. So out of curiosity, Sundown asked Bulletproof for his permission to play on his harp for a little bit and see what is like for a cowboy like him to play the harp rather than a guitar. Bulletproof graciously said, 'Go for it, sheriff.' and that's what he did. Sundown sat behind the harp, twang a few strings, and as they all say, the rest is history. Sundown is going to play the harp and become The Harp-a-long Cowboy."
LongArm: "Don't cowboys supposed to play guitars?"
Mace: "I've told Sundown that, but he says that makes no difference. If a cowboy can twang on a guitar, then chances are he can twang on a harp as well. Watching Bulletproof playing LadyHarp is really getting him motivated to get a harp of his own and play that instrument 'till the cows come home."
LongArm: "And speaking of “that instrument” I'm really worried about LadyHarp."
Mace: "So am I. They'd better not mess up her strings! Cuz' if they did, I'll mess up their hide big time! Got any ideas on how to rescue her?"
LongArm: *noticing a highly suspicious figure holding a violin in hand on the other end of the hall* “No, but I have an idea we're going to have company.”
Mace turns to look at the figure who seems to be searching around for something.
Mace: *muttering softly* “There's a lady with a violin in hand roaming around here. She probably doesn't know that the museum is closed.”
LongArm: *muttering softly* “She seems to be looking for something.... something to steal I bet. Keep your eyes peeled, buddy. I'll approach her and see what's she's looking for.”
Mace: *muttering softly* “Right.”
LongArm walks down the hall and approaches the lady, unaware that the lady holding the violin is really Nightshade in disguise.
LongArm: "Excuse me, ma'am, but the museum is closed."
Nightshade: "I know that, officer."
LongArm: "Shouldn't you be staying home rather than spending the whole night at the museum?"
Nightshade: "Yes, but I lost my bow to this violin and I'm trying to find out where I put it in this place. You see, I'm going to perform a concert at the Empire theater tomorrow night and I need that bow so I can do the concert. Today I decided to go visit the museum for awhile and look at the new Egyptian art display. Somehow I must have put the bow down somewhere and now I forgot where I put it."
LongArm: "I'll be happy to help you look for it. When was the last time you had the bow in hand?"
Nightshade: "At the new Hall of Egyptian Art over there."
LongArm: "Well then, Let's go in and take a look."
LongArm and the disguised Nightshade went inside the hall to look around. All over the hall, an incredible display of artwork made by Egyptians thousands of years ago graced the room, including Egyptian tomb art, gold plated artifacts, statues of Egyptian deities, and coffins decorated with Egyptian art and symbols. One can marvel at the displays for hours, but that's not what LongArm and Nightshade are here for.
LongArm: "That bow has got to be around here somewhere. Are you sure you left it here?"
Nightshade: "Positive. This is where I left the bow at while I was looking at those sarcophagi display over there."
LongArm approaches the sarcophagi and peer inside one of the open sarcophagi standing next to him.
LongArm: "Nope. No bow in here. *peers inside another sarcophagus* No bow inside this one either. A guy could spend all night trying to look for a violin bow inside this place, you know."
Nightshade: "Oh! Here's my bow!"
LongArm: "You found it?"
Nightshade: "Yes. But I can't seem to reach for it. This sarcophagus is way too big for me to reach in there and get it."
LongArm: "Allow me, ma'am. Being taller than you are, I should be able to reach for the bow without a problem."
But as LongArm bends over the edge to reach for the bow inside the sarcophagus, suddenly Turbo and McBoomBoom dressed as mummies pops out of two Egyptian coffins, lunges forward to grab LongArm...
LongArm: "HEY!"
…and toss him inside the sarcophagus...
LongArm: "WHOAAA!"
and slams the heavy lid on top of it to trap LongArm inside.
LongArm: "HEY! GET ME OUT OF HERE! GET ME OUT OF HERE, YOU FEMALE FELON AND WHOEVER THREW ME IN THIS STONED BOX!! YOU'VE TRICKED ME!"
Nightshade: "That's right, flatfoot. Hope you like being entombed inside this stone burial chamber cuz' that's where you'll remain inside for all eternity. And oh, by the way, I lied when I said I lost the bow. Buttons actually has the bow which he can now give it to me so he can join Turbo Tu-Tone in playing a special swan song for you with their own musical instruments made up of firearms spraying stone piercing bullets all over the huge stone casket with you in it!! So if you do the honor, boys."
Buttons: *gives Nightshade the bow* With pleasure! *aims the chest with his tommy* Turbo?
Turbo: *aims the chest with his tommy* Eat lead, flatfoot!
A barrage of bullets from both Turbo and McBoomBoom's machine guns instantly blaze out! Within a fraction of a second, the sarcophagus became riddled with bullet holes! Is LongArm finished? Is he now dead? In the afterlife? Never again to return to the living? Meanwhile, Mace, still keeping an eye on the gem, overhears the rapid gunshots from the main lobby.
Mace: "What the heck is going on in there? And why am I hearing gun fire in that Egyptian art hall with LongArm's insi-- *realizing that LongArm is inside that hall* LONGARM!!"
Mace starts running towards the hall, but stops abruptly, goes back, takes the case containing the gem inside, and replace them with a duplicate case containing a Soupy Sales-style cream pie gag. Then went off to rescue LongArm believed to be caught in the onslaught. Meanwhile the guns coming from both crooks fell silent as the two crooks lower their guns and sneeringly gaze at what they've done.
Turbo: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Looks like that chest looks more like Swiss cheese than a sarcophagus eh, Buttons? *takes off the mummy mask*
Buttons: *takes off the mummy mask* Yeah. Not to mention that COP so full of holes, that his buddies'll have to spend a whole lotta time pluggin' up all the holes his body with a ton of bandages.
Mace: "How about I put you all in the slammer and leave you there to rot! You are both under arrest for kidnapping LadyHarp, attempting robbery, destroying public property, and before I press any more charges – what have you done to LongArm?!"
Buttons: *shows the heavily damaged sarcophagus with LongArm allegedly inside* Does this answer your question, copper?
Mace: "GASP!! N-no! You didn't!"
Turbo: "Of course we did, Swat Face. We both did the honor of throwing LongArm inside this stone chest and peppered him with lead. And now he's in that great big police station way up in the sky. Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh."
Mace: *getting furious* Why you lowlife sons of--- !
Suddenly
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Turbo: *drops his tommy* YIKES!
Buttons: "What's that?!"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Bright ghostly lights suddenly flash on and off from another sarcophagus.
Turbo: "YEOOOW!!"
Turbo leaps forward to embrace McBoomBoom who also dropped his tommy and shakes with fear as the spooky noises still continue to howl about.
Turbo: "L-L-L-Looks like we've just released an Egyptian curse from a thousand year slumber!"
Buttons and Turbo: "HEEEELLLLLLP!"
Just then, the eyes of the trembling crooks widen as they saw a large mummy beginning to appear. He rose from another sarcophagus and climbs up out of it. Then he, who is the one making spooky noises, advances towards the scared crooks and announce to them,
Mummy: "Because you have violated the sacred burial chambers of the pharaohs, you will suffer the curse.... OF BEING ARRESTED!!"
Suddenly two power cuffs shoots out from the mummified wrists and cuff both Turbo and Buttons on both their wrists. The next thing they knew, the mummy pulled the two crooks to the ground, went forward, and slap the cable cuffs on them. Then the mummy takes out a device and press the button to shut off the holographic cloaking device. Instantly the bandages disappeared to reveal the mummy's true self; the mummy turned out to be none other than the LongArm of the Law himself.
Mace: "LongArm! You're safe!"
LongArm: "Yeah! Thanks to Mainframe's teleportation device that got me out of that sarcophagus seconds before Buttons and Turbo destroyed it and the holographic cloaking device that I used to disguise myself as a mummy, I made it out ok."
Mace: "Well things won't turn out ok for these two crooks where they're going, but what about that lady with the violin in hand? Was she a part in this, too?"
She was. The moment she left the hall after receiving the violin bow from Buttons, she hid around the corner to wait for Mace to leave his post and head to the hall to help his teammate. When Mace is gone, Nightshade quickly sneaked up to the display table and swipe the case with the supposed gem inside. She then used a grappling cable to quickly climb up all the way to the museum's sun roof and make her escape. Outside on the rooftop, Nightshade stops to look at what she stole.
Nightshade: "Ha Ha! How easy it is for a cat burglar like me to steal elegantly beautiful jewels like this one!" *goes to open the case*
But just as Nightshade lifts up the lid to open the case..
Boing! Splat! AIEEEEEE!
Nightshade gets plastered by a cream pie!
Nightshade: *removing the pan from her face to reveal a real creamy mess* "OOOHH! OOH SHOOT! OHHHHH! YUUUCK! MY FACE! MY HAIR! MY MAKE-UP! OOOOOOOOOHHHHH! *gets ragingly mad* DARN THOSE FILTHY FLATFOOTS!!! *tosses the violin set and the gag case away* UUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!"
Nightshade ragingly toss away both the gag case and the violin with its bow before sitting down on the rooftop to sulk over another failed heist. They went sailing over the edge and down to the ground they go, landing in the bushes in front of Big Boss and Squeeky who were awaiting for the outcome of the heist.
Squeeky: *looking outside the window* "Big Boss. Look. Some stuff has fallen from the rooftop of the museum."
Big Boss: "(mahh) Looks like my crooks are makin' a mess of things again-- as usual. Go on over and fetch that stuff so I can see what dropped from the rooftop above."
Squeeky got out and walked to the bushes to look at what was dropped from the roof above.
Squeeky: "Well I'll be."
At once Squeeky took the violin, the bow, and the case with the cream pie gag and brought them back into the limo.
Squeeky: "Look what I found within the bushes, boss."
Big Boss: *takes the case* "Humph! Some jewel this turned out to be. Bah! *tosses the case out* If I would've known that I would've never bother with this caper. Now what else do ya... GASP! Lo and behold! Do my eyes detect a violin that comes complete with a bow in hand!?"
Squeeky: "Do fish swim, sir?"
Big Boss: "Gimme that! *swipes the violin and bow from Squeeky's hand* Ooooh oh oh oh, at last! At long, long last! I finally got myself a violin! A FULL VIOLIN SET! Maaaaaahhhhh Maaaahhhh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! AH ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! My own beautiful, beautiful violin to make music upon! *hugs and kisses his new treasure* Meeeeeooooohhhhh this is the most happiest moment of my crooked life.... (sigh) *pausing to joyfully savor the moment* Here. Lemme see if I can make this baby sing."
With that the boss puts the bow onto the strings and..
eeeeeee eeeeee eeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee eeeeeee eeeee eeeeeeeeee eeeeee eee eee eeeeeee
Squeeky merrily twirled his finger as Big Boss softly run his bow across the strings of the stolen violin that's now in the hands of the Big Boss. Then Big Boss stops.
Big Boss: "Beautiful. Just beautiful."
Squeeky: "Anything I can do to make this night of music a splendid one for you, sir?"
Big Boss: "(myah) Let's go home, Squeeky so I can spend all night playing on this thing under the city's stars, by the light of a full moon..."
Suddenly there's a rumble of thunder heard in the distance.
Squeeky: "(gulp) Or under a stormy sky for that matter."
Big Boss: "Oh, what a good inspiration for a great stormin' virtuoso! Thanks for the suggestion, Squeeky! *goes back to playing his violin and sings* Oh, la la la la la la la la la la la..."
Squeeky: *smiling* "My pleasure, Big Boss."
And with that, Squeeky gets inside, revs up the limo, and drove away to take one very happy Big Boss home so he can play with his new stolen toy.
Next Post... The Hero Harp, with the help of her two newest allies and her robot warrior, stands strong and shines her badge-- even in the face of a NightMarish storm!!
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