Vatoman can’t stop laughing, until he realizes the lumpy mess Ruben’s landed on is actually an extremely agitated mutant steroid-induced and illegally kept guard chicken!! Well, rooster to be exact– disturbed from its afternoon power nap.
The two high- step it out of there as fast as possible down the alley with the chained up chicken hot on their tail. Even running at full speed, escape won’t be easy. This chicken’s tether must be longer than Highway 101.
Leaping tall fences in a single bound, the two split up when the alley diverges and Vatoman successfully thwarts the chicken’s advances.
Unfortunately, Ruben’s path leads to mud into which he slips and falls. When he pulls himself out by grabbing onto a barrel, he’s drenched in the waste motor oil stored behind the Oil Slick Lube garage. But the crazed chicken is gaining, so he runs on, precipitating an avalanche of feathers from the discarded pillows and mattresses piled up behind the Feather Bred Mattress Factory that coat him head to toe with goose feathers. Now Ruben looks like a Big Bird himself!
Panel of Ruben being dragged away, clawing at the ground while the shadowy hen shape with claws inexorably draws him back into a dark alley. Cackle! Cackle! Cackle! Cock-a-doodle-dooo! Etc., Etc…
Long shot of alley. In the distance we hear crowing, cackling and Ruben yelling and screaming.
Cut to a scene in the future of a father rooster with his chick or son on his knee telling him a story, “And that is the story on how I met your mother…” Little chick (who resembles Ruben!!!) looks totally bewildered and confused.