Takes Two to Tangle

Takes Two to Tangle is an episode of HTFF.

Starring

 * Spike
 * Tangles

Featuring

 * Mouse Family

Appearances

 * Sorcery

Plot
The Mouse Family walks toward a trap baited with cheese. Spike, hiding in a bush aided with a pair of binoculars, waits for his plan to come to action. However, the mother mouse sees through the ruse and triggers the trap with a rock, then escorting the mice away. Spike chases after them.

Nearby, Tangles is coiled up sleeping. He awakens and yawns, then his stomach growls. The Mouse Family flees past him, so he decides to have a snack. He pops up in front of the mice and stops them in their tracks. Spike follows up from behind, leading the two hungry predators to come face to face. Tangles and Spike engage in an argument while the mice try sneaking away in the distraction. The father mouse gets grabbed by Spike at the last minute. Spike lays the father mouse on a table and plans to slice him in half, so he and Tangles can each share a piece. He misplaces his pocket knife and tries to search, telling Tangles to hold the mouse still. Considering his lack of limbs, Tangles tries to do the job using his tail, allowing the mouse to slip away. This causes Spike to cut the tip of Tangles' tail, angering him to the point of swallowing the cat whole. The mice soon reunite, only to be found and swallowed by the snake as well.

Now Tangles slithers off with the victims in his body. The mouse children cry as their parents try to console them. Spike, on the other hand, is thinking of a way to get out. Just then he realizes the knife was in his pocket the entire time. Tangles is decapitated from the inside and his captives escape.

Spike takes the sweet time to dry his fur, when Tangles' head is placed over his head. The snake's fangs pierce his eyes and fill them with venom. He is unable to see as the Mouse Family wraps Tangles' body around him, pulling so hard that they squeeze him to death.

The Mouse Family share a high five and walk home, oblivious that Sorcery is hungrily watching them from his crystal ball.

Deaths

 * 1) Tangles is decapitated.
 * 2) Spike is squeezed to death.

Trivia

 * This is the first Spike and Mouse Family episode where Spike isn't the only character to die. It also marks Spike's first kill.
 * The title is a pun on the saying "it takes two to tango".