Ready Red Rastamouse

# Zooba zooba zooba dan

# Zooba zooba zooba day

# Rastamouse and Scratchy and Zoomer

# Also known as the Easy Crew

# Crime fighters They're very special agents

# Playing reggae when the work is through

# Give it up, give it up

# Give it up for the Easy Crew

# Solvin' mysteries in the neighbourhood

# Always there to make a bad thing good. #

Mmm.

Yeah, swing it back...Ooh-ya.

Yes... Mmm, no!

Ah! I need some help, and quick! Ahem.

Ah, President Wensley Dale calling. Me reserved a couple of golf books.

Can you bring them with you on your mobile library van today?

Ah, I would love to deliver the books, Mr President, but I cannot.

'The mobile library, it has broken down'

-Oh, no.

-I am really, really sorry.

I'm going to have it fixed soon, I promise, Mr President, Sir.

Well, bring them over as soon as you can. Laters.

REGGAE MUSIC

This rhythm wicked!

-Wha' gwan!

-What just happen?

Must be a power cut. Let me go check it out.

Oh! Ah! The whole street have no power.

Oh, no, that is dread!

RADIO CRACKLES

'Rastamouse, come in, come in! Are you reading me?

'Message from President Wensley Dale. Come immediately!'

Come on, Crew. It's time to check out wha' gwan.

Oh, Easy Crew, thank goodness you here.

Me think something has broken down.

Me getting reports of lights going out, and it happening all over town.

Ya, man. The same thing happen at the studio.

-So, what me want you to do is...

-HISS

What's that? Ah!

-The power's gone.

-Who did that?

-Uh-oh.

Come on, Easy Crew. We better go and investigate.

-Hmmm.

-Eh?

-Oh! Check this out!

Oh! Me beautiful, beautiful lawn!

-Look, big track marks.

-Oh.

-And a plug.

-But where it go to?

Me can't believe it. Someone be thieving all of me electricity.

And them causing the blackouts for sure.

It's too dark to do something now, Wensley Dale,

but first thing tomorrow, we'll get on the case

and find out what made them tyre tracks.

Yo! Malky. You smooth out all them tyre tracks. They was our only clue.

Clue, or no clue, it was ugly!

And this garden must be perfecto! Magnifico!

It's a work of art, you know?

Now what we going to do, Rastamouse?

Easy Crew, there's been another power cut.

Sounds like the same mouse

trying to thief the electricity from the orphanage.

Oh! Come on, Easy Crew. Let's go and investigate.

Shh, shh. Calm down. Calm...Shh.

Oh, Easy Crew, thank goodness you're here.

Before me could finish mixing them ingredients

for the orphanage cheese pie, someone suck up all the electricity.

Oh, anything else happen?

Anything strange?

Well, there was a little burst of music just before the power cut out.

And there's some massive tracks outside, too.

Tracks, hmm. That's interesting. Let's take a look.

Hey, that looks like one heavy-duty tyre make that track.

Only one mouse can get him hands on tyres like that.

Mm-hm. Let's go and see Fats.

For sure. Me did fit some huge, huge tyres, for this nice little fellow.

But who? What was his name, Fats?

Redman. He works at the library. Him drive the mobile library van.

Ah, so that's what they put the wheels on.

Exactly. It carry nuff-nuff heavy books, you know?

Mmm. Thanks for your help, Fats.

OK, Easy Crew. Let's go talk to this Redman.

Yo, Redman. Can you tell us about these new wheels of yours?

-What wheels?

-The ones on the library van.

Well, I got the wheels supersize, cos the books,

they was far too heavy.

Them sure feel mighty heavy to me.

Could we take a look at the van?

Well, not right now.

You see, it's, er, it's being...painted.

Painted?

Well, a little spray paint to make it look perfect.

A mobile library van should also look smart, you know.

Ah, of course.

When the painting is finished, and I have done my rounds,

you can have a look.

Oh, thanks, Redman. What this?

"The heaviest new sound system in town."

-Hmm.

-What do you think, Rastamouse?

Me think we should follow that Redman on his mobile library round.

Well, that van looks extra cool, painted up like that.

True that, but it don't look like books to me.

Me need to have a closer look. RADIO CRACKLES

'Easy Crew, come in, come in. There's been more power cuts.

'This time at Ron the barber's. Me need you to investigate.'

EASY CREW: Oh.

Look, Redman's gone.

Me can't believe we lost him.

Nah worry, Zoomer. Let's head down to Ron's.

What happen, Ron?

What happen is that the power thief not only took all the power,

but him also left my customers with only half them hair cut.

Anything strange happen before the power went?

Well, me saw the library van parked just outside,

and a little mouse in a red baseball cap.

Him set up up some speakers and then there was a boom!

-And all me power went.

-EASY CREW: Redman!

It seem that Redman is also DJ Ready Red

from this heavy sound system.

Of course, he was nah putting books in that van.

-Thems was speakers!

-Exactly.

And it must have been them speakers that was causing them power cuts!

Me thinking that sound system of his is too powerful for his own good.

But if he could get it working, wow!

That would be some heavy, heavy bass.

Me guess that's what him trying to do.

Him going round Mouseland in search of a power source

big enough for him system.

And we have to stop him

before him blow every power circuit on the island.

Thanks, Ron. Come on, Easy Crew.

Look, there's something in the road where that van was parked.

It must have fell off Redman's van.

-Them speakers, they too heavy for the van.

-Way too heavy.

Easy Crew, we need to follow that trail.

-Huh?

-Wait, what that?

The bumper from Redman's library van.

Them speakers, they making the library van fall apart.

Oh, my days!

Those leaning towers of speaker are way too heavy!

-Where's Redman?

-Look!

-Hey, Redman!

-Yes? That is me. Yes?

Hold tight and don't move!

Just drop that plug by the speaker tower, cos me guessing

that it's this sound system that's thiefing up everyone's power.

Redman, or should me call you Ready Red?

Me think it's time you tell us about why you been thiefing electricity

and causing all of Mouseland's power to cut out.

I'm so sorry! I never meant to do that at all.

I was just trying to find a way

of playing this heavy, heavy sound system,

to make up for being quiet all day.

And those heavy speakers, they wreck the library van.

Oh, I know. I love books and my job at the library

but being hush-hush isn't a thing I enjoy.

That is why when the night time came around I got this urge

to just crank up the noise!

Well, me have an idea how you can make a bad thing good.

But first, you need to get that van fix up,

while me have a chat with the President.

-PHONE RINGS

-Greetings.

-Rastamouse?

-'Mm-hmm.'

Oh, thank goodness. Mm-hmm-hmm?

Oh! That plan there sound proper, Rastamouse.

Irie, man. Catch you later.

Ready Red, me can see that you're sorry

and that books and music are your obsession.

So we going to bring together your night and day jobs

and create your dream profession.

Me got a plan to put things right.

A mobile library with a twist.

Listen to tunes as you choose your books.

No mouse in Mouseland could resist.

That is a wicked idea!

Rough-rough tunes with great books.

I'm going to call it Ready Red's Reading. Wonderful!

-LOUD REGGAE MUSIC

-One for you. Take that one.

Have this one.

-Enjoy. It's a good read.

-Yes!

-RADIO CRACKLES

-'Easy Crew, come in, come in.

'Are you reading me? Message from President Wensley Dale.

'Listen up, you three. Rastamouse, come in, come in.

'That was a powerful plan and Ready Red's Reading really rocks.'

Thanks, me love that. Irie, man.

# Give it up, give it up

# Give it up for the Easy Crew

# Solvin' mysteries in the neighbourhood

# Always there to make a bad thing good. #