Gum E. Bear and her friends decide that the first step to freedom is making it outside. Having a limited knowledge of the outside world though they are not sure what the first step should be. Sweet Pete suggests building a giant parachute and jumping off the large cliff they seem to be stuck on. After discussing this for a while the idea is vetoed due to lack of parachute building materials. Savory Avery then sticks her gummy little arm in the air and yells, "lightbulb!" Seeing a box of something called "teabags" they climb atop and pull the strings off of all the bags and tie them together, only they all skipped school on knot making day to play hooky, so the string fell apart. Gum E. shakes her head in frustration and stares at her friends. The answer is right in front of them, she's sure of it but she just can't seem to grasp it. She scrunches up her face real hard and taps her head, "think...think...think...think..." and they yells "I've got it!"
Seconds later, after explaining her brilliant plan to her friends they all link arms and prepare to jump off the cliff. Sticky Lucy is still worried but she trusts her friend since this was all Gum E.'s idea anyways. They all count to three, screw their eyes shut and jump. Of course, they land safely, because they are in fact made of gooey, sugary, gumminess. In fact they are so bouncy that after they hit the floor they just keep bouncing, right towards the outside world! But right before sweet victory is theirs they run into an invisible force field. With the world still spinning they stand up holding their heads and look at each other in confusion. Gum E. sticks her arm out and it again meets resistance. She secretly wonders if her Aunt B knew about the escape and somehow learned how to make force fields. She was always ruining Gum E.'s fun. She dismissed the thought a second later. Aunt B had been missing for a couple of days anyways.
After wandering around for a couple of hours the four friends are dismayed to find that all the exits to the great outdoors are blocked, locked or screened off. While they gaze longingly outside they discover they are not alone...
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