"So you're all from up top eh?" Whitey asked Roddy and Kali's gang while they were heading back to Spike and Whitey's boss's hideout.

"I used to work in a laboratory up top. Yeah, big shampoo job. I was dark grey when we started. Still it cleared up me dandruff" Whitey explained to Kali's gang while they seemed a bit uncomfortable and confused.

"Ulgh, that explains a lot" Cynthia commented on Whitey's story.

"Where do you think they're taking us?" The Twins asked. "Beats me" David shrugged his shoulders.

"Although I do wonder who this boss of their's is" Kali said.

"I got a bad feeling about this" Teeders told the others.

"You and me both sister" Kali agreed with her best friend, since they both shared similar senses with each other.

The gang then had arrived at the hideout, a place where the floodgates control-center building was. "Boss, we're back" Spike said as everyone entered the hideout.

The hench-rats brought the group over to the boss's chair where he was sitting, while Kali's gang got a look around the room. Rita was the only one with her hands chained up so she wouldn't be vulnerable to fighting.

"The ruby, I found it" Spike boasted.

"Well technically Spike, it was Millicent that found it" Whitey corrected.

"Um actually, the name's Roddy. And in exchange for my assistance I was hoping you might-" Roddy started as he came closer to the boss's chair. When suddenly a long sticky tongue launched out, catching a fly that flew by, which startled Roddy and the teens slightly.

At first the teens were thinking it was a big rat until the boss got up from his chair. Cynthia's notions were right as she feared the worst. The hench-rats's boss turned to face the group, revealing to be a large toad.

"Hello ugly" Kali and Teeders muttered, once they got a good look at the portly toad. Even Roddy jumped back, slightly shocked at the amphibian. Cynthia then fainted.

"Oh come on Cindy, it's not the fashion devil" David deadpanned while he got out a spray-bottle of armpit smell (from his own creation) to revive her with. When Cynthia woke up to see the toad she fainted again.

"Can someone clout her?" Brock groaned over Cynthia's constant fainting.

Kali then woke Cynthia up with one slap across the face, saying "Cynthia, the power of Lady Gaga compels you!". The young fashionista got back up on her feet.

"Ugh I hate toads, almost as much as I hate the sewers!" Cynthia quietly pouted to herself.

"Hello, Rita" The Toad looked to the red-haired scavenger rat with disgust in his voice.

"Hello handsome" Rita said back with a bit of sarcasm.

"And who are these fine folks?" The Toad turned to Roddy and Kali's gang. "Is your new boyfriend the waiter?" The Toad asked Rita mockingly before looking over to Kali's gang and adding "And are these lovely children the entourage?".

"Boyfriend!?" Rita interrogated.

"Waiter!?" Roddy interrogated.

"Children!?" Kali and her gang interrogated. They hated being called children, considering that Kali, David, Teeders, and Cynthia were 13, while the twins were 11.

The Toad then snapped his finger and Spike gave him the ruby. "The prize returns to me" The Toad deviously chuckled, before he asked Rita "Did you image that I would let you steal it from me?".

"What!? That jewel belongs to my father and you know it!" Rita snapped before Whitey pulled her back by her chains to restrain her.

"Your father, a good for nothing scavenger just like his daughter!" The Toad groused at Rita.

"Don't you dare talk about her father that way!" Ann defended, even though she hardly knew Rita.

The Toad looked scornfully at Ann before he then noticed Kali's crystal hanging loosely from her neck which interested him. "That's a peculiar looking gem" The Toad tried to get a closer look before Kali grabbed her crystal and held it close up to her chest, not letting The Toad lay one finger on her crystal.

"Uh excuse me" Roddy walked up to The Toad. "Actually, i'm the one who found your ruby, So..." Roddy started, but The Toad had his eye focused on a nearby fly.

"Perhaps you'd be generous enough to repay the favor and help me get home" Roddy asked before The Toad's tongue suddenly shot out, catching the fly in his mouth right in front of Roddy. "Help me!" the poor little fly cried out before The Toad ate him.

"Dispose of them" The Toad told his hench-rats to get rid of Roddy and the others.

"No, No, please! I just want to get home to Kensington" Roddy said.

"Same with me too. I want to get out of this wretched sewer and back home in my nice hot bathtub" Cynthia added profoundly. This made The Toad stop in his tracks and gasp for a moment.

"Kensington? The Royal Borough? Up Top?" The portly toad asked Roddy and Cynthia.

"Uh yes, Up Top" Roddy replied.

"Yeah whatever, are you familiar with it too?" Cynthia asked The Toad.

"Huzzah! A man and lady of quality" The Toad declared to the two upper-class rats.

"Finally, somebody gets it" Cynthia said to her friends while they just rolled their eyes at her. "You said it" Roddy agreed with the young fashionista.

"Come let me show you my private collection, I know you'll find it diverting" The Toad told Roddy and Cynthia.

"I don't know about this guy" Kali whispered to her friends. Her senses were off a bit about The Toad, especially right after Roddy mentioned Up Top to him.

"I agree with you" Teeders whispered back to her best friend.

Spike and Whitey pulled a giant curtain away, revealing a bright room of various England art and pottery. It was like a museum. "My shrine of beauty. Works of high art crafted in tribute to our beloved royal family" The Toad said, now seeming very sophisticated.

Kali and the others stayed back by Rita, looking at The Toad's collection from there. They found The Toad's collection pretty stupid and boring, nothing but old junk. Unlike Cynthia who studied about this kind of stuff. Roddy waved a bit sarcastically at Rita while she sarcastically waved back at him.

"Victoria's bust, wrought in porcelain" The Toad then showed Roddy and Cynthia a replica of Victoria's bust. "Quiet lifelike, wouldn't you say?" The Toad asked.

"It's as if she were here" Cynthia replied.

"Smooth to the touch" The Toad remarked while admiring his Victoria's bust.

"Easy tiger" Roddy said which made The Toad giggle.

"But come, let us restore the heart and highlight of my collection" The Toad brought the ruby over to a stand. "This ruby, fallen from the very brow of ancient kings! A true crown jewel" The Toad placed the ruby on the stand while Spike turned on a switch which played a little tune. "Well what do you think?" The Toad asked the two upper-class society rats.

"HE'S A MADMAN! RUN AWAY! RUAHH-" The fly popped out of The Toad's mouth for a second but was sucked back in, Cynthia jumped, a little freaked out. "Pardon me, my fly's undone" The Toad apologized.

"Yes, speaking of which we'd love to see more of your collection, it's very amusing" Roddy started.

"Amusing?" The Toad suddenly sounded offend.

"Uh didn't you say we'd find it amusing?" Cynthia asked.

"I said you'd find it diverting, NOT AMUSING!" The Toad snarled at them, feeling insulted.

"When I said "amusing" I really meant it in the sense of the ancient Greek muse, the goddess of inspiration" Roddy started before he and Cynthia both bumped into a bobblehead, nearly falling over but they grabbed it.

Unfortunately the springy bobblehead popped out hitting a piece of pottery, knocking everything over in a row like dominos. The Toad's whole collection was destroyed, including the Victoria bust which was The Toad's favorite.

"Oh real smooth, Cynthia" Kali and the others complemented sarcastically.

"Smashing" Rita added to Roddy.

The Toad's throat suddenly bulged hugely out in anger. Whitey then grabbed Roddy and Cynthia. "Oh heaven help me" Roddy and Cynthia both said.

"Ice them, ICE THEM ALL!" The Toad ordered.

"Ice us?!" The teens looked at eachother, not really sure what that meant. But they were about to find out.

"THIS IS NOT MY DAY!" Cynthia wailed.