CAPTION: Meanwhile…

BUBBLES ROSECHU: (thot) It’s so nice to just lie under the sun with the ocean at your feet.

SFX: SPLASH

BUBBLES ROSECHU: Hey!  I didn’t want a bath!  Get back here!

CAPTION: Up ahead…

SFX: THWACK

WILD SONICHU: Woa-woa-woa-woah…!

WILD SONICHU: Man!  That hurt!  That jerk ain’t gonna get away for that!

Here the plot starts to come together as Black Sonichu begins running into literally every hedgehog introduced in episode 10.  Defying the laws of phyiscs, somehow Black Sonichu’s hoverboard drags a huge wave of water in its wake, which splashes onto the beach and leaves Bubbles completely drenched.  (Why this should bother Bubbles is left unexplained; her response suggests that she simply didn’t wish to get wet at that particular moment.)  As she begins to chase Blachu, he continues into a densely forested area, just as Wild is swinging through the trees in the opposite direction.  (Note the tiny black spot reflected in Wild’s eyes in panel 6.)  We are left to imagine that the resulting collision throws Wild up and over the branch he has snagged, causing him to spin uncontrollably until his vine whip is totally wound up.

Aside from being exceedingly banal, Bubbles’s remark about “the ocean at your feet” raises even more questions about the location of this story.  As we’ll see on page 19, the action is occurring near Angelica’s church, which is in or around Cwcville.  Cwcville is in Virginia.  Very little of Virginia actually borders the Atlantic Ocean, since the Delmarva Peninsula is in the way and only a small section of that landmass belongs to the commonwealth.  Only the city of Virginia Beach and the Eastern Shore’s uninhabited barrier islands have oceanfront territory, and I somehow doubt the author intended for Cwcville to be located so far from his own stomping grounds in the greater Charlottesville area.