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Sometime Later - 10:03 p.m. Teddy and Nesbitt’s Big Adventure Chapter 3 Teddy was sitting his favourite arm chair. It was late in the day and he had been expecting Nesbitt to come home from his big trip, but he knew that sometimes the diminutive bear in the red jumper became distracted by bright, shiny objects and wandered off, only to come home days later pretending as though nothing was amiss. In his favourite smoking jacket and with glass of port, Teddy was beginning to drowse in front of the open fire burning in the huge, ornate fire place. Just then Buster entered the room with marshmallows stuck to the tips of his antlers. “Would you care for a sticky treat?” Buster asked Teddy. “What, wha?” Teddy sputtered as he awoke. “I have marshmallows here, your special treats – care for a taste?” “I don’t know,” said Teddy pensively, “It doesn’t seem right to be eating tasty treats without Nesbitt.” “Hmmm,” Buster replied as he gently and gingerly tipped the end of one antler above the fire so that the sweet concoction would begin to cook. “What do you mean by that?” Teddy asked. “Oh… nothing,” the small reindeer said unconvincingly. Just then Penguin arrived with a heavy leather book he was returning to the library shelves. “Have you seen Nesbitt today?” asked Teddy. “Why no I haven’t, I haven’t seen him in days,” Penguin said calmly. “I just naturally assumed he was at the Christmas decorations factory again.” “He was supposed to be back from the airport some hours ago and I thought as much myself, but Buster here seems to know more than he is letting on.” “Oh really?” Penguin said putting the book on the shelf. “What do you know?” “Nothing,” Buster said, a look of slight apprehension playing on his face. “I think you’d better tell us everything,” Teddy said firmly. “Tell us everything and don’t leave anything out.” Buster thinking over his options confessed that he had played an elaborate hoax on Nesbitt and had sent him away to Ulan Bator. “Great Scott!” Teddy exclaimed looking at his fob watch. “He’ll be there soon! We must check the scanner.” Teddy flicked a switch hidden on the wall next to the George Stubbs painting and a huge panel on the opposite wall rolled back revealing an impressive electronic map of the world. Teddy picked up a remote control that he deftly manipulated with his paws. “This will show us Nesbitt’s current location,” he explained. A red light glowed on, slowly inching its way across Southern China and on a direct course to Beijing. “There must be a connecting flight to Ulan Bator,” Penguin quickly surmised. “That’s right,” Teddy said urgently. “And there’s no time to waste. Quick, let’s get to the Teddycopter Action Vehicle™. If we hurry we might be able to catch him.” “Oh dear,” said Penguin as he and Teddy slid down the special poles into the TEZNEZCO! Action Vehicle Bunker™ (Batteries sold separately). “It looks as though we’re going on another adventure.” As they strapped themselves into the Teddycopter, did a quick preflight check of all the systems and waited for the roof to roll back. Penguin had a thought. “But what I don’t understand how your impressive electronic map could pick Nesbitt up?” he asked. “I thought of that in advance,” Teddy said, waving his paws about. “I inserted a subcutaneous homing device under his left ear where it sends out a low frequency beacon enabling me to track him down anywhere anytime.” “But if you’d wondered where he was earlier, why didn’t you just use it then?” “We don’t have time for that,” Teddy explained as the Teddycopter blasted off and headed north at Mach 3. Meanwhile, back in the Library, Buster was left to tidy up and get the melted marshmallows off his antlers. To Be Continued bears in history - future bears 
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