17 May 1995
For Cucumber & Pickles' next assignment, they are photographing the Machu Picchu. In the middle of the discussion about their trip to Peru, Editor Eddie was alarmed about the fact there has been a treasure that's being stolen. There's 10 golden rings in the Machu Picchu temple. The number of the golden rings has been decreasing overtime as more and more were being stolen.
Editor Eddie: Cucumber, Someone has been stealing the 10 golden rings from the Machu Picchu Temple. There are only seven left!
Cucumber: Oh dear god! That's awful! However, I would like to do a photo story on the rings.
Editor Eddie: Certainly. And you better hurry before any more rings get stolen.
Cucumber: You can count on us!
They both leave Editor Eddie's office so they can prepare for their flight to Peru. The pilot is a mouse who's taking them to Peru. Whilst they are flying around Peru, He was lecturing some facts about the Incas.
Pilot Mouse: It's so for centuries, no one knew the Incas were hiding in the Machu Picchu.
Pickles: Boring!!
Cucumber: Shh, I find it very interesting but, isn't that a mountain ahead? The one you're not looking at?
Pickles: Look out!
The pilot just barely looked at the mountain they're about to crash into. So, he steers the plane above the mountain so it wouldn't cause significant damage to the plane. Lucky for them, it was only a minor scratch on the bottom of the plane and still flying as it should.
Pilot Mouse: Wait until you see the golden ring. If there are any left, another one was stolen yesterday.
Cucumber: So, now there are only six golden rings! Editor Eddie was right! We better hurry!
The plane lands at where the Machu Picchu is nearby. After Cucumber & Pickles dismounted the plane, one of the keepers of the golden rings introduces himself.
Amal: You must be Cucumber! Welcome! I'm Amal, the keeper of the golden rings.
Cucumber: It's a pleasure to meet you, Amal. This is my assistant, Pickles.
Amal: Do you care if I show you around?
Cucumber: Of course. But first, I'd like to get another shot of that person flying his kite.
Kite Person: (Cackling)
Cucumber: He sure looks happy!
Amal: It's good that someone is joyful. We've had a tragic event today.
Pickles: That they renewed that pilot's licence?
Amal: No, something else happened. One of our treasures are in danger.
Pickles: (Whispers to himself) The golden rings.
Amal: Right, someone has stolen another golden ring. Now, there are only five left.
Cucumber: Who could be taking them?
Amal: We have no idea. That is why we have closed the Machu Picchu temple to all outsiders, except for you two.
Amal leads Cucumber & Pickles inside the temple where it contains the golden rings laying on a cushion tray. Before someone steals another ring, Cucumber inquires Amal if she could take a photo of the rings.
Cucumber: May I take some photos?
Amal: Of course. Take your time, and I'll be back soon.
Cucumber: Huh, there's insufficient light. Would you get the flash out of my bag, please?
Pickles: You got it. (Accidentally activates the flash) Oops! Sorry! I can't see a thing!
After Cucumber & Pickles' eyes were distracted by the flashing light from the camera flash, to Cucumber's shock, she noticed another ring disappeared and there's only four left.
Cucumber: Oh no! One more is gone! Quick! Go get Amal!
Pickles: Right away, Cucumber! (Runs to the entrance to find Amal)
Cucumber: (Hearing footsteps) Who's there?
Footsteps were heard briefly, it was someone who's about to steal another ring. Cucumber walked back to the cushion of golden rings to see what's going on, But she didn't see anyone, except another golden ring stolen.
Cucumber: (Gasp) Oh god! Another one stolen!
Amal: (Gasps and him and Pickles come back in) There are only three rings left, but how?! No one else has entered the chamber except.. you two.
Pickles: What?! Are you kidding?!
Amal: Guards! Guards!
Cucumber: Wait! Amal! No!
Right before Amal is about to close the door to lock the photographers in the temple, Cucumber & Pickles runs to try and keep Amal from closing the door.
Amal: How could you steal another one of the rings?!
Cucumber: But, Amal! We didn't do it!
Amal: There is nobody else here, but you! You will be sealed inside until my guards arrive! There's no other way out!
Looks like Cucumber & Pickles' attempt to make excuses and keep the door open didn't turn out as planned. It looks like they're locked inside the temple in the mean time.
Pickles: Are you serious, right now?! It wasn't us! Bastards!!
Cucumber: (Sighs) We better find out who's doing this, Pickles. And fast!
Pickles: (Sees a shadow and hears footsteps) Oh crap! Look!
Cucumber: (Looks) Stop right there, thief!
Pickles: He got away!
Cucumber: Wait, I see something.
Pickles: See what? There's nothing there to see! That crook got away disobeying our commands!
Cucumber: No! There! (Points to a secret entrance)
Pickles: A hole?
Cucumber: Not just any hole, a secret entrance, Come on.
Pickles: Uhhh, Maybe I should stay and guard the last ring.
Cucumber: (Grabs Pickles by the arm) Chicken shit.
After Cucumber found the secret entrance of the temple, It was practically like a back door of it. Cucumber and Pickles peek out the open passage to try and escape the temple. It was all quiet until the laughing guy flying the kite was running around flying his kite. Pickles was slightly amused and started to chuckle. In the middle of chuckling, he feels something fall on his head.
Pickles: Ow! Cucumber! What was that for?!
Cucumber: Wasn't me. Something fell from the sky. (Looks down and finds a golden ring) Where did this come from?
As Cucumber picked up the golden ring from the ground to try and investigate it, she hears a shout from Amal with his guards running to them clamoring.
Amal: There they are! Seize them!
Pickles: Oh shit! Run inside!
Amal: Stop right there!
Cucumber and Pickles attempt to run back inside the temple. Cucumber was the first to be inside. As for Pickles, he almost got in, but Amal grabbed him by the foot to pull him towards him to punish him.
Amal: Come here, you!
Pickles: Let go of me!
Amal: You're not going anywhere!
Pickles: Get off!
Cucumber: Let him go!
Amal: You're coming with me too!
Pickles: No! (Kicks Amal in the balls)
Amal: OOOOOHHH MI PELOTAS!
After Amal was hit in the crotch, Cucumber and Pickles made it back inside the temple. Cucumber's hat fell off and landed by the door. She quickly grabs her hat before the door closes on its own and they're locked in again. They walk back to where the rings are, and just to their shock, none of the rings are on the cushion.
Cucumber: (Heavy gasp) No!
Pickles: They're gone! GONE!! When Amal finds out, we'll be in deep shit!
Cucumber: We're not giving up today. There must be another secret entrance here somewhere.
Cucumber looks around to see if there's a secret entrance around the temple. She sees a button made of stone and scrutinizes it. After that, she presses it and it sends Pickles falling down the pit coming from the rock he was sitting on.
Cucumber: Pickles? Where'd you go?
After Cucumber heard Pickles' exclamation, she jumps down the pit to save him. It wasn't just any pit, it was a curved hole practically like a slide. Pickles was holding on to the wall of the bit until Cucumber bumped Pickles with her butt and they both start falling and sliding down the pit. They both fly out of another hole of one of the monuments. Pickles landed first, Cucumber ends up landing on Pickles with her crotch on his face.
Pickles: (Muffled jabbering)
Cucumber: What a ride..
Pickles: (Muffled jabbering continues)
Cucumber: Oh, sorry Pickles. (Gets off of him)
Pickles: (Panting with an infatuated look on his face)
Cucumber: Why are you looking at me like that?
Pickles: Where are we now?
Cucumber: I have no clue.
The look on Pickles' face was due to the fact that Cucumber's front side of her crotch was on his face causing him to feel infatuated as he thinks Cucumber has her vagina on his face. They hear a laugh and it's the same laugh as that guy flying his kite.
Cucumber: There's that crazy laughing guy with this kite again.
Laughing Guy: HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!
Cucumber: Hey, look at the kite's tail. The way it glistens in the sunlight.
Amal: (Far distance) I see the thieves! Over there!
Pickles: Oh crap! We're in for it!
Cucumber: Run away! We've got to keep out of reach until we figure this all out!
Cucumber and Pickles ran out of ideas to elude from Amal and his guards. They didn't want to go back inside the temple, so they ran off to where they can't be seen. Pickles' ankle was caught on the laughing guy's string of the kite and it moves with Pickles' running and ends up tripping.
Pickles: Ah! Ow! My ankle! It's broken!
Cucumber: Quit your faking, Pickles! It's not bro- (Another golden ring falls down and hits her in the head) Ow! What was that for, Pickles?!
Pickles: Wasn't me!
Cucumber: (Looks down and sees the golden ring) Aha! I got it! The laughing guy is the thief!
After Cucumber picked up the golden ring, the laughing guy walks past Cucumber to get away from them.
Cucumber: Get back here, you bastard!
Laughing Guy: HAHAHAHAHA! (Walks on the bridge)
Cucumber: (Astonished to see a bridge) Ohhh! This bridge doesn't look strong, I ain't going on that bridge, uh uh! no way! no how!
Laughing Guy: (Walks on the bridge and it ends up breaking) Ahhh!
Cucumber: We've got to save him!
Pickles: Why? He stole the rings, let him suffer!
Cucumber: (Elbow's Pickles' arm) Dead or not, he has to be bought to justice!
Cucumber grabs a rope and ties a golden ring to it, swings it practically like a floreo de reata and tosses it overhead to get a good shot. The laughing guy grabs the ring so Cucumber and Pickles can pull him up. The laughing guy was too heavy to be pulled, Amal and the guards arrive to help Cucumber & Pickles pull the laughing guy out of the cliff. After all the strength they used to pull him out, the laughing guy is on the ground again, but still laughing.
Pickles: What are you laughing at? You're busted!
Laughing Guy: These feathers! Hahaha! They tickle me! Hahahaha!
Amal: This changes nothing, Cucumber.
Cucumber: Well, we didn't take your precious rings, Amal, This guy did! (Unmasks the laughing guy)
Amal: Hey! I know who you are! You're Sad Sad Sumak! The infamous gold thief!
Cucumber: He sure had a clever masquerade. He laughed all the time to disguise his despondent look on his face along with his real identity
Pickles: And to be precise, he'd keep laughing while he's wearing his ticklish feathers.
Cucumber: And he used his kite to hide the missing rings.
Sad Sad Sumak: (Sobbing) I'm so sorry! Forgive me! I will give them all back, I promise! (Sobbing)
Amal: Cucumber, I accused you and your assistant wrongly. Will you forgive me?
Cucumber: I forgive you. No hard feelings. (Shakes Amal's hand)
Pickles: And uh, I'm sorry I kicked you in the nuts.
Amal: I forgive you as well, Pickles. And as for you, Sad Sad Sumak, For your crime, you will have the severest punishment: You will walk in the rain without an umbrella, without galoshes!
Amal's Guard: And without a hat!
Cucumber & Pickles: What?
Their mission was over, the rings were returned in their proper spot in the temple, Cucumber and Pickles photographed the rings and sends them to Editor Eddie. Editor Eddie talks to Cucumber over the phone after she lands back in Busytown congratulating her for the nice photos.
Editor Eddie: These photos of the 10 rings are magnificent! Hold on, there are only nine!
Cucumber: Are you serious?!
Editor Eddie: I'm just joshing with you! Heheheh!
Cucumber: Hahaha.. real funny. Good one. (Hangs up)
Pickles: (Chuckles) That Eddie. He's such a jokester. I remember one time, when he was drinking his water, and when he heard a noise, the water was sucked up from his nose and he snorted it out. (Chuckles)
Cucumber: I don't remember that.
Pickles: That's because it happened before you came.
Cucumber: Oh, right. I wish I saw it.
Next chapter coming..
