Disclaimer: I do not own Flushed Away. If I did, there'd be a sequel out. I'm only guessing the names of Rita's siblings so just shut up. This is my first Flushed Away story so please be nice to me.

Plot: When Rita has a life threatening nightmare, she ignores it, until her roommate gets murdered. If she spoke up, she would die. But if she was quiet, she'd let the Toad take over herself. Can Rita find a way to save her family, and get her life back?

A pair of green eyes open. They vision a different sight from the last one they closed on. Rita Malone was on the Jammy Dodger II. She sat up. It looked around three in the morning. The rat city across the lake was a ghost town in her eyes. Every single street light was off. The only place lit, was the bottom floor of Le Toads old hideout, the city Floodgate.

"Roddy?"

She doesn't hear a respond.

"Roddy!" she yells.

She looks for him but he's nowhere to be found. She realizes that she was all by herself. She goes to the steering wheel then see's that the key is not in the initiator. She looks for it. It must have fallen in the water. Rita slipped and fell as the boat made a sharp turn and sped off towards the Floodgate by itself. She gets up and stomps on the break. It wouldn't stop. It takes a sudden chest pounding stop. Rita realized that it changed. Behind the fence were toads. Young ones. Two were fencing, one was cutting off doll heads, and another one catching flies with his tongue. Twenty or so tadpoles were swimming in a pond. She thought about leaving… then again, why were the lights blazing in the basement?

She notices that there was a front entrance on the ground. She gets off the boat and see's a little girl guarding the front door. She was a rat, just like Rita. They shared the same hair and eyes. The little girl's hair was tied in a ponytail with a green ribbon tied to it. Her dress was green likes Rita's sweater with ruffles hanging down and the ribbon around her waist was like the belt Rita wore. Her stockings looked like the flag of the United Kingdom and she had on grey sneakers. She stands there like a statue.

"Go back." She tells Rita.

"What are you doing here?" Rita asks. "This place is dangerous. You have to leave. Come with me."

"I can't." she says. "I'm doomed."

"What are you talking about?"

The door creaks open. "I have to go." The child walks in.

"Stop!" Rita screams. "Don't go in there!"

Rita runs in. As she turns her back on the door, it shuts immediately. She turns to see it disappeared. Instead of panicking she calls for the little girl. Rita walks down the stairs into the basement.

"Little girl?" she calls. She's never been in the basement before. The room had electric chairs, chains hanging from the walls and ceilings and this giant steel door that said, "Danger: Very Hot!"

She opens it to see that it was a miniature human oven. There was something on the bottom shelf, wrapped up in a wool blanket.

"Don't go in there."

The little girl stood behind her.

"You'll get locked in. You'll burn to death." She points at the wool. "Just like him."

The blanket flew off by itself, as if a ghost was moving it to reveal a burned corpse. The oven rack sprung in front of her that it knocked her over and burned her chest. She hit the stone wall, slamming her spine violently. The corpse fell out and landed right in front of her feet. It was familiar.

"Roddy!"

As she saw the remains of her first mate, she heard stomping from upstairs.

"Le Toad knows you're here."

She could hear him coming down the steps. Rita looks to see the little girl disappeared. Rita spotted a door ahead and opened it, right as the monster got into the basement. The hall she faced was not very wide and had a lot of objects blocking the way; bottle caps, jewels and straws most of the time. She throws a few jewels behind her so get them out of her way. The killer burst through the door. Rita tripped on a bottle cap and hit her stomach, like a hammer was pounding it. But lucky for Rita, there were two stairways. Hopefully, he'd go through the wrong door. She picks left and silently shuts the door behind her. She sighed in relief, until she realized she should have picked right. The girl from was hanging right in front of her… with a hook through her neck. Her eyes were wide open. They blink for a slight second.

"This is what he does to us rats." The girl says. "He freezes us, burns us, and hangs us."

The atmosphere of the room was filled with dead rats, hanging from hooks. She saw her mum, and dad and every sibling she ever had. She wanted to faint at this time. Then she hears the knob twisting. She feels her feet freeze. She see's them locked to the ground with ice. She tries to break free but cant. The door knocks down. She hears footsteps like a person walking on land in flippers.

"Rita…"

The voice was so familiar.

"Rita, Rita, Rita."

It puts a slimy arm around her shoulder. She could feel the stench of flies on his breath. He puts his lips close to her ear and says: "It's so good of you to return and see my new collection."

"Le Toad!"

"Hello Rita." He turns around and looks at her strait in the eye. He was still the same ugly fat-slimy-airbag she knew before. But one thing changed. In his hand, was a fishing hook. She screams as he puts a hand on her neck. "Don't scream, Rat."

"What have you done?" she screamed. "I want my family and first mate back!"

She tried to stop him. She punched him in the chest but she ended up breaking it. He had his hand squeezing her neck. Rita screamed again as he gently scratched the blade of the hook against her neck. A huge rip opened and blood spews out like a fountain.

"Now pay attention, captain." Le Toad sneers. He puts his hand on her chin and looks her in the eye. "If you tell anybody about this nightmare, all of this will come true."

"And if I keep it quiet?"

Tears of fear and pain were swelling up in her eyes, as Le Toad wrapped his long tongue around the rip and began to feed on her like a vampire.

"Wake up Sleeping Beauty."

Rita's eyes snapped open as her friend flicked the light on. She started panting.

"Are you ok?" he asked.

"What time is it?" she asked him.

"Ten."

"That's nice." She rolled away from him.

"That's it."

He kneeled on the bed and started to tickle her—her greatest weakness. Rita squeaked with laughter.

"Roddy!" she screamed. "Stop!"

"Get out of bed and I might!"

She bounced up.

"Are you serious? Is it past ten?"

"Indeed."

Rita examined the room. She shared it with five other sisters and their beds were made and their nightgowns were nicely folded. It wasn't like Rita to wake up late, but she was up at a restraint with Roddy. Rita dropped her white nightgown on the floor, placed on her Union Jack Pants, fixed her ponytail and pulled on a white bathrobe like Roddy's with the "R" only in black. Her sisters' suitcases were closed and ready. At the table, chatter about school was the main subject.

"Why are all the kids packing up?" Roddy asked.

"Boarding school." Mrs. Malone explained, feeding a bottle to one of her babies. "I have so many kids to take care of as it is. And thanks to your ruby, wed have the money for it."

"Is Rita going? I thought she graduated already."

"Well, she skipped school last year to help us out."

Roddy remembered that well. Rita told him all about her adventures, with her father. How her broke all his bones, how a toad tried to kill her, and the ruby which turned out to be fraud. Finding the ruby which she thought was real and being chased by a toad.

Rita came walking down the stairs.

"Good morning everyone." She says with a smile. She sits down in her usual seat next to Roddy.

"Well, now that everyone's here." Said Mr. Malone. "Anyone dream last night?"

Children were screaming at the same time.

"Everyone quiet down!" Mr. Malone demands. "Let's start with Rita, since she didn't scream."

"Hmm?" Rita turns around to look at him.

"What did you dream about last night?"

Rita puts her elbow on the table and uses her hand to hold onto her head.

If you tell anybody about this nightmare, all of this will come true.

"I didn't have any dreams last night." She said. "Alright. I admit it. I had a dream that we built a cruise ship and everybody in town went aboard."

"Well that's wonderful." Her mother said. "Why wouldn't you tell us before?"

Rita shakes her head.

"Pass the tea." She demands.

She pours it into her cup, but doesn't sip it. As side conversations went on, Roddy put an arm around Rita's shoulder.

"Are you alright?" he asked. Rita looked up at him and smiled.

"I'm quite alright." She says. "So you coming?"

"Where?"

"I need to get some things for school." She says. "Some clothes and school supplies. Do you wish to come?"

"Of corse." He says.

"Good." Rita gets up and walks upstairs.

"Rita!" her sister Mimi calls. "You never touched your tea."

"I'll have it in a moment."

Rita leaves the kitchen. Roddy stared at her plate.

"Needless to say, she hasn't even eaten."

"Don't worry about her, Rod." Said Mr. Malone. "She usually gets ready for the day before breakfast."