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It was Sunday morning and Billy had gone back to bed after watching the morning cartoons before getting back up to watch Baywatch later ( he had been out with his mate Len and the rubber chicken the night before and been going a bit hard on the ginger beer ). So, he was looking forward to a day of lying in bed and watching T.V possibly with a short game on the Playstation - if he felt up to it that is. But, when the doorbell rang he lept energetically out of bed and bounded down the stairs - well he at least crawled out of bed and stumbled down the stairs, still wrapped up tight in his action man duvet, and opened the door, prepared to tell whoever it was that he had suddenly contracted bubonic plague and would they please leave at once for their own sake. However, he never got the chance to do this, because as soon as he opened the door a pair of blue joggers and a white sweatshirt blurred past him, almost knocking him for six. The blue joggers then ascended his stairs three at a time and went into his room. Billy turned to the empty porch and said, rather sarcastically,

"Oh how lovely to see you again, do please come in, make yourself at home." He was just shutting the door when the voice of the blue joggers called down to him in a voice that sounded suspiciously like his friend Leo's.

"Oi Billy come on, wake up, get up here I have something important I want to tell you." Billy sighed and began the long climb up the stairs, went into his room, and sat down on the bed. Leo had already begun to play on his Playstation and Billy suspected that this important thing Leo was going to tell him probabably had something to do with the fact that his mother had confiscated Leo's Playstation again, but he was wrong. Leo turned to Billy and said in a grave tone,

"Billy you gotta help me, only you can save the world now!"

"What are you talking about?" questioned Billy in astonishment, "Why can't you do it? I want to go back to bed."

"Please!" pleaded Leo "You're my last hope." Billy now knew that Leo was being serious, he had switched off the Playstation, and Leo was addicted to the Playstation.

"What's going on?" Billy demanded.

"This is hard to explain," Leo replied, "but Kate Winslet is trying to take over the world and we have to stop her, or she'll have us all wearing long red dresses and pointy toes shoes."

Billy paused for a moment thinking of himself in a red dress and pointy toed shoes, he was thinking that if this happened he would have to buy a fair wig, none of his brunette ones would go with red. He was brought back to reality with a jolt, a chandelier had just fallen down round him. Leo untangled him from the chandelier and threw it out the window, narrowly missing a string quartet that had been playing under the windowsill. Billy was just starting to consider what his legs would look like in pointy toed shoes when Leo's next words struck him through the heart ( just missing his vital arteries ),

"She's going to make everyone talk like her and walk round on their toes!"

This was too much for Billy and he screamed out in anguish, partly because he just realised that his favourite action man had been badly squashed by the chandelier.

"How can I help?" he asked.

"Well" Leo replied, "you were the phantom after all."

"What about Peter Parker, he was Spiderman?"

" Also a cartoon." Replied Leo.

"Dean Cain, now he's Superman"

"He has a face like a potato, he would scare everyone to death, they would think he was the potato man, come to pay everyone back for eating those chips last night."

"True I suppose" Billy muttered, "But isn't there anyone else? I really just want to go back to bed."

"Trust me, " said Leo coaxingly, "I've even asked Lassie but she has arthritis these days, and little Jimmy's not as little as he used to be."

"Well it looks like I'll have to don that purple lycra catsuit again then," mused Billy secretly excited, purple really was his colour, he looked sooooo good in purple.

"I shall be your sidekick," Leo decided, "every good superhero has a sidekick. I think I'll be.....superleo, it has kind of a nice ring to it don't you think. To the superbike then, we will save millions of people from evil Kate!"...........................................................

How will Leo and Billy save the world from evil Kate? Can Billy find his purple catsuit? What is the superbike? Find out next week, same time, same place.