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.......................Billy and Leo woke up with a jolt, they were sitting in a huge pile of fish heads. Among the rotting fish heads, there was Evil Kate. She laughed evilly and said,

"Did you think I was going to give in so easily? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

"Enough with the laughing already," snapped Billy, just realising what a state his suit was in. "We get the picture."

"What are you going to do with us?" asked Leo nervously, he had promised to meet with his mother for lunch, and if he was late she would take away his playstation privileges.

"Don't worry," laughed Kate evilly, "I'm just going to leave you here until the slugs eat you."

"What!" cried Billy, "You can't do that! I hate slugs they leave nasty lines everywhere!" Kate laughed evilly some more, then made her way through the rubbish, still having an immaculately clean dress towards the exit. Suddenly another of the fish flew down from the ceiling and hit her on the head, she slumped then fell.

"Yes!" yelled Billy, "Don't you know the good guys always win."

"Now what?" asked Leo who was still groggy.

"Now we tie her up and take her to the authorities," said Billy matter of factly.

"Good idea" said Leo, "Except that we are tied up and can't move."

"We could be here for weeks!" moaned Billy, "Years...........decades..........millennium, we would have starved to death before anyone found us," he sobbed, "And I don't even have a change of clothes, or eyeliner."

"Stop going overboard," snapped Leo, "those violins are driving me nuts."

"Where are they coming from?" asked Billy, somewhat more composed.

"Over there, I think." Leo pointed to a group of bin men playing the violins in the corner. Billy shouted over to them,

"Hey can you play something a little more cheerful, like maybe Bye Bye Miss American Pie, or Yankee Doodle, or something." Obediently the binmen put down the violins and picked up some saxes sitting in the corner. They began to play the blues.

"That's not what I meant," Billy pointed out. "Something happy please."

Immediately the bin men began to play Bye Bye Miss American Pie. Billy was now satisfied.

"Well, now that we have better music," he said, "how can we get untied?"

Leo pondered this for a moment, and then his nose became itchy. As his hands were tied behind his back this presented a problem. As he was straining to rub his nose on something that wasn't a fish head, the bonds that were holding his hands together broke.

"That was lucky," exclaimed Leo, "Mind you only Kate would tie us up with red liquorice rope." He started to eat on the rope, hungry after his ordeal. He quickly freed Billy and the pair of them went over to where Evil Kate lay unconscious. The creepy violin music that had started up from the bin men warned them that Kate was behind them. Leo spotted a roll of tissue paper on the ground. He quickly picked it up and spun round. Kate was standing there with a large headless rubber chicken in her hand, ready to beat the boys over the head with. Before she could, Leo and Billy had wrapped her mummy like in tissue paper.

"Oh no," she cried, "I can't break out, this is Andrex tissue paper and it is so thick that I can't break it!"

"Ha that will teach you for wrecking my purple suit," said Billy.

"Come on," said Leo, who was now on the verge of being late for his lunch, "Hurry up let's just get her to the police." So after thanking the musical bin men for all their help, they got into the conveniently parked helicopter and flew over the police station, where they dropped Evil Kate into a huge tank for the criminally insane.

"We almost met our match there," said Billy, relieved. "She sure was onefemme fatale."

"She sure was," said Leo. "Anyway, wanna come to lunch with my mom?"

"No thanks" said Billy, "I am going back to bed right this minute." And without further ado he fell asleep, leaving Leo and the string quartet, who were still waiting outside Billy's window to lug him up the stairs to his bedroom.