While everyone was getting ready for Thanksgiving week, Heather and Jeremy were watching the video made of the Attack by the Cannibal Mole Mutants. While slightly disappointed that they were too big to fit down the "portal" to their lair to get some payback, they were glad that someone had the presence of mind to record everything, even including a "filter" to make it look like a sleazy movie.
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The attack began when the announcement of the winners of the Mister and Miss Farmhand Competition was interrupted by a power outage, which was followed an assigned guy saying the well known line "Hey! Who turned out the lights?!"
With the discovery that all of Spookyville was without light, and with fall producing longer nights, the theme was similar to what some people would identify as "Grade C horror movies."
Part of it was somewhat helped along by someone giving a speech about how "electrical grid failures, or blackouts as they're more commonly known, are more often then not temporary." But then one guy, dressed up as Ed from Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy "borrowed" the flashlight being used to begin the prepared script.
"Gangway!" he cried before doing 'mister specter-face' with the flashlight, "This is the work of the Underground Cannibal Mole Mutants! They have sucked the surface world of its power, and now will hunt us down for Sunday Supper!" At that, several people began the cheesy 'we're all going to die!' act and running around like proverbial chickens (Chicken Animalian: "I resent that.") while blathering like idiots. After a collision, everyone realized that Samson, Simon, and Diego were missing (actually getting into position). With that, Ed recited the next part, "Freeze-dried and mechanically de-boned, they always capture the strongest first. Samson, Simon and Diego were mere appetizers!"
"But I'm so petite, they'll eat me last!" cried one young girl in fear, "I'd be their raspberry-swirled parfait!"
"It is said," continued Ed, "Overripe bananas and day-old hotdog buns will make them go back from whence they came!"
"Okay, that was below Grade C movie line." commented one tourist.
Occasionally during the night, another would go missing with Ed describing why they took who for what nutritional reason, while still doing Mr. Specter-Face. When the way down into their lair (Specially assigned for that night), Ed recited "A Portal! They have dragged our fair comrades to their lair to be de-skulled!" After that, the bondmates of those who were taken by the mole mutants decided to go down there to get them back, despite Ed's protests ("Stop, They will dine in you with fast food utensils!"). Jeremy and Heather wanted to go down for some payback for last year, but the entrance was simply too small.. But when they made their way through a small portion of the "mole mutant tunnels" they were ambushed by the mole mutants, who were really the Piper Brood back for an informal family reunion and made to look like what mole mutants would look like via movie makeup. The group was outnumbered six to one, and brought into the main brood cavern.
It was a truly disgusting sight, combining the sewer that the Piper Brood were found in with features of Goblin-town from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, mainly the jury-rigged scaffolding. But what helped it along was the appearance of devices that seemed to be crosses between medieval torture devices and modern food preparation machines. The most disturbing thing was the queen of the mole mutants. Not only was Mary Piper done up in a similar way to her children, but she had a massive maternity belly that seemed to give the famous octomom while she was pregnant a run for her money, with animatronics making it look like that it was somewhat realistically filled with children moving just underneath it.
At the stereotypical "last possible moment", Lord Chumlee and his apprentice/sidekick Mr. Scampwick, done up as a 19th century chimneysweep with a specially reinforced chimneysweep broom, arrived as the Deus ex Machina to save all of the mole mutants' victims from being eaten. What followed was a running battle to escape from the Mole Mutant Lair that was later described by critics as "a cross between Lord of the Rings running battles and Mr. Magoo".
When everyone was accounted for, Ed recited his final line for the attack.
"It may be days before it is safe to go outside, as we will be the last people on earth, living on grubs and stale marshmallows!" At that, Ed, got a good bop on top of his head to get him to stop.
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While everyone generally enjoyed the Attack, there were requests for the use of naked mole rats for next time, mainly because of how weird naked mole rats looked. While there wasn't going to be an attack every year, it was one of the more looked forward to events. After that, there was the official announcement of the winners of the Mister and Miss Farmhand Competition.