As it turned out, she had! She was currently running across the extremely unsafe crumbling stone path. This bridge, though, was actually sturdier than it looked - it was strong enough to hold the weight of one cat and 21 and a half bears. Unfortunately, there was half a bear too many, and the bridge began cracking and bits and pieces fell off as all of the bears ran onto it in a single file line behind Klumpkrump. But in a wild turn of events, one of the bears produced a flare gun and shot it at the bridge, causing it to instantly stabilize. As it turned out, the one and ONLY use of those flare guns was that they had the magic ability to repair crumbling stone bridges.

As Klumpkrump was running across the path, she came up with the genius idea of jumping down onto the table below. It was a far drop of about 8 meters and the bears would have to go all the way around to get to her.

Upon landing on the table, she immediately ran for the door the bears originally came from, as it was the only door other than the one they would be using to get back to her (the one that connected to the tunnel).

Through this door was a small kitchen with a bunch of ovens and cupboards and stuff. Pots and pans were hung from the ceiling by Bear Tape and Klumpkrump grabbed a pan for self-defense. Not that it would be of much use against 22 cyclops bears. But it was at least something. She then climbed into a cupboard and closed it, hiding amongst some spices.

It was almost 43 seconds later that the bears barged into the room, ready to steal some eyes. The bears thought she had run through the kitchen, further into their living quarters, and so that is where they went. When Klumpkrump was sure they were gone, she tumbled out of the cupboard and onto the floor. She then sprinted towards the dining room but was stopped by a BEAR.

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“Stop right bear!” said the bear. Klumpkrump did not stop and instead slid between the bear’s legs and out the door.

“Hey!” yelled the bear, attempting to turn around but getting stuck in the doorway. “Get back here!”

“Nope!!” Klumpkrump yelled back, hurling her pan at the bear’s butt and continuing through the door that led back to the tunnel.

Meanwhile, everyone else was sitting in the main area with all the tunnels and pondering where they could find 22 bears so Mushpuff could get to the magic bracelet thing (don’t worry, the reason as to why a straw is imperative to this will be explained shortly). Klumpkrump soon came running out of her tunnel in a panic.

“Guys!!” she shouted. “There’s 22 cyclops bears coming to attack us!!”

“OMG, I’ve been looking for 22 bears,” said Mushpuff.

“Why?”

“Long story. I need to bring their bodies as proof, so the Energy Cube won’t work. Hoofa, can you barrel them?”

“Yup,” said the dog, elephantless.

When the bears came running down Klumpkrump’s tunnel 12 minutes later, Hoofa was ready. She shot the bear in the front of the line and it fell over unconscious. All the bears behind it then tripped on its body, and they all bonked their heads on the ground and were also knocked out.

“Well that worked out,” said Klumpkrump.

“Alright, lemme go get this fish and show him these bodies as proof,” said Mushpuff.