Building Confidence

Building Confidence is an episode of HTFF.

Starring

 * Rush

Featuring

 * Lumpy
 * Handy
 * Flaky
 * Ava
 * Mime

Appearances

 * Tycoon

Plot
Rush is ordered to work on a structure that is supposed to be completed by the end of the day. He looks at his watch and panics about losing time. He calls in a team of friends consisting of Mime, Flaky, Ava, Lumpy, and of course Handy to help him get the task done.

Falky and Ava carry planks of wood, Mime works with an invisible buzz saw, and Handy looks over blueprints. Lumpy is in the process of chopping down a tree, when Rush tells him to be faster. Lumpy tries to chop faster, but the axe blade flies off the handle. It ends up chopping off Ava's tail, causing her to scream and run, and Flaky's arms rip off due to the weight of the wood. Ava causes a bucket of nails to fly onto Handy's head, followed by bumping into Mime and getting him sawed in half. Ava stops to eat his heart.

Soon, Ava and Flaky's wounds are patched up, the latter scowling over her nubs. Rush is worried because this has let even more time pass by. To make matters worse, the nails are missing. Handy gets his feet stuck in a pool of cement and Rush discovers the nail bucket on his head. He pulls out the nails one by one - to Handy's pain - and begins hammering.

It isn't long before the nails run out. Handy is relieved this is over, until blood pours out of the holes in his head. Rush desperately looks for an alternate source and sees Flaky. Having Lumpy hold her still, Rush plucks out each of Flaky's quills to use as nails.

The day comes to a close and the structure is finally done. Flaky has just a few quills left, which Handy somehow plucks off to plug in his leaking wounds, but has lost too much blood and falls dead. The boss, Tycoon, shows up and is pleased with the building, paying Rush a suitcase of cash. As Tycoon enters the building to check it out, Lumpy hammers in one loose nail, causing the whole structure to collapse. A shocked Rush rushes off, grabbing the suitcase along with him.

Moral
"Time is money."

Deaths

 * 1) Mime is sawed in half.
 * 2) Handy dies of blood loss.
 * 3) Tycoon is crushed when the structure collapses.

Injuries

 * 1) Ava's tail is chopped off.
 * 2) Flaky's arms rip off.
 * 3) Handy's head is pierced by nails.
 * 4) Flaky's quills are removed.

Trivia

 * This marks Rush's first starring role in a regular episode, and his first kill.
 * After Broken Hearts and Chipped Beaks, this is the second episode to show Ava's heart craving.
 * Cuddles, Petunia and Sniffles were originally planned to appear.