Just as she's about to speak, a hairball in Black Knight drag squiggles in on the other side of the clearing to make with the glowering. "They're coming!" bleats the Floozy, not realizing "they're" already present. The hairball hurls a dagger end over end into the Floozy's back, and she gasps in pain before staggering to the dirt. Excalibur, meanwhile, flies out of her grip and whickers through the air to disappear behind some trees. Hairball glares as the Glamorous Ladies scamper over to the Floozy's nearly lifeless form. Two leather-clad enforcers, apparently summoned by Hairball's glare, squiggle into the clearing with battleaxes and dash off to dispatch the Ps. Phoebe and Raige leap into action as Hairball conjures a smoky sword and glares some more. Blink, damn you! Blink! Hairball ignores me to stare at Phoebe and Raige as they make fried mincemeat of his enforcers. Raige calls for one's battleaxe with her orbing telekinesis, and plants it in the guy's back almost before it's had a chance to reform. That's kind of cool, actually. This first enforcer erupts in a ball of fire and drops out of camera range. Meanwhile, Phoebe wrests the other's axe from his hands and plants the business end in his stomach. This second enforcer vanishes almost instantly in a puff of flame and smoke. Hairball menaces his way over to Piper, who deploys her Hands of Discontent. The blast merely ricochets off Hairball's shield, however, as Phoebe and Raige dart over to provide Piper with cover. Phoebe leans back on one leg and notes, "I like these odds." Hairball glares -- again! Jesus! Blink! For the love of all that's holy and good! Blink already! -- and squiggles out. "Wimp," Raige sneers, even though she should have screamed, "Oh, I see! Running away, eh? You yellow bastard! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!"
Ahem. The almost-dead Jacuzzi Floozy lifts her head from Piper's lap long enough to moan, "The sword!" before losing consciousness for the final time. She collapses back, glows a bit, and dissolves in a splash of water that's quickly absorbed into the ground. "The sword?" Piper puzzles. "Where is it?" "It's in the stone," Raige intones, nodding her head towards the suddenly-appearing papier-mâché boulder a few yards behind the gals. The camera tracks in on Excalibur encased in its fake rock before leaping back to Phoebe, who incredulously breathes, "The Sword In The Stone?" "Oh, you gotta be kidding me," Piper groans. "Right?" That twinkle in Excalibur's hilt tells me it's dead serious, Piper. Albeit a little mischievous. It's going to be a long night. Credits.













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