Wendy had to come up with a plan
and she had to come up with one FAST. The Brisby home would be moved tonight
and there was no-one who knew about Jenner's evil plan. Wendy knew Jenner was
crazy and determent. He did everything in his power to get what he wanted. It
was probably in a black rat's nature. Wendy could have come up with all kinds
of things, like sabotage, but murder!? No, she'd never come up with that one.
And yet, Jenner had planned to murder Nicodemus, AND Justin and who knows who
more! He even tricked Sullivan into helping him! She didn't know Sullivan that
well but she knew he wasn't at all evil. She knew for sure Sullivan had no
chance to stand up to Jenner. ‘Gosh, perhaps Jenner even threatened Sullivan
that he would kill him if he didn't cooperate! What would have happened if I
had decided to be Jenner's Personal Assistant!' Wendy shook her head to get rid
of these thoughts. ‘I have to stop him!' Wendy was walking back and forth in
her room. Nicodemus and Justin will probably not return before dusk. Oh no! The
cat has to be drugged as well! Justin won't return before it's completely dark!
How could she have forgotten about that! Well then, she needed to look after
Nicodemus first then. He'll be Jenner's first target. She knew that much.

‘Who can I trust? How can I be
sure the rats are sincere towards Mrs. Brisby? Most rats wouldn't even think
twice of helping a mouse! Those hypocrites are willing to help, but only
because she's Jonathan's widow. Justin was different, he'd help no matter who
he dealt with. So would Nanny and Arthur. Heck, I didn't even know she was Mrs.
Jonathan Brisby and I saved her from the claws of Dragon as well! But how on
earth can I be sure of the fact that rest of the rats are faithful to their leader!?
Many rats agree that the time has come to choose a younger male. Nicodemus
doesn't want to resign yet, but you'll have three guesses to who will be our
next leader; Jenner! Brutus, can I trust Brutus? Oh I'm not sure... Mr. Ages!
Yes, he can be trusted... oh wait, he's probably preparing the powder in his lab.
It'll take him ages to get back with that broken leg of his and I'm not allowed
to leave the colony any more, well not after today, that's for sure. No Wendy,
you have to solve this on your own.'

Wendy took a pen and paper and
started writing down what Jenner's was up to. ‘If I'll get killed, at least
Justin will know what Jenner has been up to.'

Dear
Justin,

I'm
writing this letter before the moving. It all ended up in chaos, I know that,
and I also know who caused it! It's Jenner, yeah and Sullivan as well. I
over-heard their conversation after you, Mrs. Brisby and Nicodemus left. They
were planning to cut the ropes of the construction that held the Brisby home so
it would fall on Nicodemus and kill him. I wasn't able to tell you this in
person because you were already gone, so I tried everything in my power to
prevent this. By the time you'll read this note I'll be dead. But I'm proud that I had
the honor to give my life for our leader. Oh and Justin, be careful... Jenner
is  after you as well.

Love
you very much,

Wendy
Elisabeth Victoria Emma Kenmare.

She took the note to Justin's room
and put it on his desk. His desk was one big mess. She had forgotten how much
he hated cleaning up. When Wendy turned to leave Justin's room she hesitated.
She turned back into the room and closed the door. ‘I'll never see you back
again, I'm sure this is my final day and you won't return until it's too late
for me. At least you've kissed me... I'll never be able to tell you how much I
love you and how long I've been in love with you. I'll never be able to kiss
you again and I'll never be able to know how you feel about me...' Then she shook
her head. ‘No, no way. I'm not going to die, not today, I HAVE to tell you how
I feel about you, I won't die before you know it.'

She walked back to the desk and
took the note in her hand. She looked at the note and tore it apart. She threw
the note away and walked out of Justin's room with her nose in the air. ‘We'll
all be fine Justin, you can count on me!'

She went back into her room. ‘Ok,
let's get rid of this dress. This one disables me to run fast, so I'll have to
change.' She opened her closet and found another dress.

‘Yes, this one is perfect. And
it's dark brown, so it won't attract a lot of attention. I bet women aren't
allowed to go anywhere near the construction. Especially not grounded women.
I'll have to act very carefully. They can't catch me before I've saved
Nicodemus.'

She changed and sat down on her
bed. ‘I'll have to wait until it's dark. Gosh, I don't even have a plan! Well,
I guess I'll just have to improvise when it's the moment of truth.'

In the meantime Justin, Nicodemus
and Mrs. Brisby came to shore. Mrs. Brisby had been asking about the Plan in
the boat and by now she understood that the rats wanted to live without
stealing. She learned that the rats were too intelligent to stay rats. They had
to start over somewhere else, in some place they call Thorn Valley.
A place without a farmer next door to provide for all the things the rats had
gotten used to. Not only things like food to survive, but luxury stuff the rats
didn't actually need. She also understood that drugging the cat would be a huge
problem without Mr. Ages climbing through the tiny hole in the kitchen floor.
Mrs. Brisby never knew of such hole, but she suddenly had this brilliant idea,
that she would take over Mr. Ages' dangerous job.

Justin said it was a bad plan. He
told Mrs. Brisby there was no way he was going to allow her to drug the cat. Nicodemus
didn't say a word. Mrs. Brisby decided to ask him instead. Nicodemus answered
that she had to do it if she really wanted to. Justin agreed, but wasn't
completely behind the plan. He agreed to meet Mrs. Brisby on the Westside of
farm, at dusk.

He did as he promised. He met Mrs.
Brisby at the Westside of the farm. He didn't speak much, he was clearly more
nervous than she was about the idea of her doing the job. And although he spend
the entire late afternoon thinking of an other option, he had to admit this was
the best and only solution to drug the cat. He looked at Mrs. Brisby and
wondered if she knew where she got herself into. It was a crazy, idiotic
mission, but it had to be done. Dragon had to be in a deep sleep while they
would move the Brisby home. Justin had no idea there was an even bigger danger
than the cat. This danger was as alert as he ever would be and was ready to
attack, and there was nothing and no-one who could stop him.

‘Mrs. Brisby, here's the powder...
are you nervous?' Justin asked.

‘Yes, very nervous.' She answered.
‘Well, don't be, it won't be long now, ssst listen... Mrs. Fitzgibbon is filling
Dragon's bowl. Get ready.' Justin quickly said.

‘Oh my, I don't think I can do
this.'

‘Yes you can, now take a deep
breath, concentrate on the bowl, steady... now, NOW!'

Mrs. Brisby made a dash towards
the cat's bowl. She threw the powder in it and ran back. But, oh no! Billy
caught the running mice! Billy asked his mother to keep it. His mother agreed
that the mouse could stay in Porky's old birdcage.

There was nothing Justin could do
to get Mrs. Brisby out of the farm, away from the farmers. He had to wait until
the entire family was asleep. But now he had to rush back to the stone in the
garden patch, where the moving would take place.

Wendy also rushed there. She was
on a mission and she couldn't afford making mistakes.

She looked around, seeing if she
could spot Nicodemus anywhere. She found him, standing on a small rock, right
in the middle of the construction. The next thing she had to do was look around
where the ‘block' (as it was mainly referred to because of it's concrete
composition) headed. She spotted the block and saw that it was heading right
towards where Nicodemus was standing. She was already afraid of that. Now she
had to find Jenner. She looked around, but she wasn't able to see him anywhere.
‘Where is he? Did he finally realize this plan of his was stupid? Gosh I hope
so... but I can't take any chances, I have to get Nicodemus away from that rock!'

But Jenner was there. He and
Sullivan were standing on a spot where they could see everything, but couldn't
be seen. They both held a long knife and were ready to attack even though
Sullivan was having second thoughts. ‘Jenner... I can't do it' Sullivan stumbled.

But Jenner didn't listen and
stared at the block which was reaching closer and closer above the place where
Nicodemus was standing.

‘When the block reaches midway you
cut the lines!' He said and suddenly he jumped at Sullivan who had put the
knife down. He took his knife and put it at Sullivan's throat. ‘Don't get any
ideas my friend, you're in this up to your neck.'

Wendy Elisabeth rushed to the
Nicodemus' rock. ‘Nicodemus! I need to speak with you! It's very important.'

‘Wendy, my child, I hope it's
nothing serious.' Nicodemus replied.

‘Well, actually it is, but.. can
we please step away from that stone, I'd like to talk to you over there...'
Suddenly a loud cracking noise was heard right above Wendy's head. It struck
Wendy that Jenner had cut the ropes. She gave Nicodemus an enormous push so
that he fell forward. A piece of rope hit Wendy's head very hard. Then
everything went black.