Inside the cathedral, Muck has his first encounter with a pet spider. Muck then confesses how his luxurious home and his family were destroyed in a fire he might have accidentally started. The two rats have differing opinions on how long Muck can reside in the bell tower.

After Muck makes an astonishing confession, Blister’s fantasies of raiding the Furbanks family's overstocked pantry evaporate. Instead, the rats rush to reach the bell tower before sunset awakens the wolfish wharf rats that prowl nighttime streets eating anything or anyone.

Clashing personalities slow Blister and Muck’s efforts to get the bear named GRRR aboard a train with opeRATives waiting to escort her to a new wilderness home. Meanwhile, a mysterious person with a steals a Westinghouse electric generator which has just arrived on a nearby platform.

Muck accompanies Blister on the bear rescue mission. In Oddvine Park, they find the creature forced to perform while her handler, Vexler Q. Drummal panhandles the crowd for money. With time whittling down, the rats must trick Vexler, free the bear, and smuggle it on a train that will soon depart.

Blister reaches the docks and gathers details about his assignment from Madam Putreska. He must rescue a Siberian bear shipped to Blaakrust and sold on the black market to a cruel whip-cracker. Blister then discovers Muck entangled with a gang of gambling bilge rats and their gargantuan leader, Bile.

En route to the harbor, Blister catches two secret agent spy pigeons deliberately splatter-painting passersby. He promises not to report them to the head of their order so long as they do him a favor. They must investigate the strange electric rattraps known as Dr. van Sangfreud’s Incredible IncarceRATors.

Blister travels to the opeRATive headquarters in the ancient chambers beneath X.S. Capital Bank. Some rats give him a lukewarm welcome. Nonetheless, their leader, the legendary Madam Putreska, offers him a one-time job. A shrew at the harbor will have all the information Blister needs to carry out his assignment.

Blister leaves Muck to fend for himself. At home in the bell tower of an abandoned cathedral, Blister confesses a secret to his pet spider, Spindle: he must bend his strict One for One and None for All credo in order to eat. He will help the animal rescue opeRATives in exchange for food.

Blister, a Tuff Tail street rat, scores a fresh apple while besting his rival Scab and her rat pack, Spit, Grime, Gag, Scum, and Snot. Blister must then save a timid Silver Whisker rat from wicked alley cats. McCallister, or Muck, reveals a dangerous electric rattrap lurking in the city of Blaakrust’s streets.

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