This stage is arguably the most difficult in the game. If you find yourself taking too much damage and losing lives, you can save it for later in your adventure, after you have a full life meter and plenty of lives in reserve.
From the start, begin by walking toward the right. The majority of this stage is going to take place within an alien ship of some sort, so you'll find a lot of hovering red aliens and ducks in space suits as you proceed right over the crater-strewn moonscape.
There are some treasure chests suspended in the air along the way toward the right, and those can be reached by jumping into the air and using your pogo stick to bounce off a duck astronaut. They both contain large diamonds.
When you progress far enough to the right, you'll find a chain suspended over a bottomless pit. Pogo up to the chain and climb it into the alien spacecraft. In the next room, you'll see a pinkish, one-eyed alien patrolling to the left. Go ahead and drop off to the right, then jump from the gray blocks there back to the green ledge from which the chain hangs. Now hop from that out to pogo the pink alien without risking damage to your life meter, and move left.
Here, you'll find a few enemies you can pogo as you press left. Make sure not to get stuck between the two towers with the patrolling red alien. Getting back out can prove difficult. Left of here, you'll find a chain leading down. Don't take the chain, as you've already collected everything down there (it leads to where you saw the two treasure chests suspended in the air before).
Past that chain is a bed of spikes. Pogo over those to find two treasure boxes. One contains an ice cream cone, the other a large red diamond worth $50,000. Now go ahead and go back to the right, to the chain you first used to enter the shuttle. This time, proceed to the right. Pogo the pink alien, and hop up to the column where a round block rests. Use it to hit the hovering red alien, and continue moving right.
You'll find a rope here that leads upward, but move past it and over more spikes. Along the spikes is a large diamond, and past that you'll find two more treasure chests. These contain a large red diamond, and a small little gem. Now go back left and take the first chain you see, which leads up into a new room.
Here, you'll see gray blocks supporting a red block. Hit away the gray ones, and swipe the red one so that it slides to the right. Follow it into the next chamber, and bounce off it to reach the green ledge. From there, jump left to make two treasure chests appear. These contain two large diamonds, while the two treasure chests resting under the destructible blocks to your right hold a large red diamond and a cake.
With those collected, head back to the chain and this time go left. There are some enemies here, and a large diamond in the air. Proceed left to a stack of blocks and pogo from their top. You'll collect more diamonds there, before heading back to the right. Now climb the chain that leads up into the next room. To the right of this rope, you'll find three more large diamonds hidden in the air, and also some duck astronauts to defeat. To the left is Webby, letting you know that a door to the left can't be opened without the U.F.O. key, which you don't yet have.
Go back right and climb the chain leading up to the top side of the shuttle. There's a pink alien patrolling the ledge to your upper right. Defeat the alien, and then bounce left from that ledge to grab a large red diamond from the visible treasure chest. Now go back to where the alien was patrolling and prepare yourself for a series of difficult pogo jumps.
The bottomless pit to the right may be crossed. You'll have to bounce off the heads of aliens and the tips of spikes. Wait until the first hovering red alien is at its lowest point, then jump outward and pogo across the open expanse to a treasure chest. This contains a hidden treasure with $1,000,000!
With that collected, pogo back left and follow the chains straight down to the lowest level of the UFO, with your pogo stick held down so that when you reach the bottom stage, you take out the enemy there without suffering damage. Now head left to the next chain, and climb it up into the next room. From the top of that chain, head quickly to the right to collect some diamonds, then move left past the chain. Duck astronauts will attack as you proceed, but take care of them and move until you see two red aliens hovering around a chain. You should be standing on a pillar here, so drop straight down to collect a hidden large diamond, then move left and take out the red aliens. Push the red block against the wall to their left, and pogo off it to the ceiling.
Walk left across the ceiling to find a room with a single treasure chest. Drop below the chest to reveal a hidden large diamond, then grab the large red diamond from the treasure chest itself. Now hop onto the ceiling and walk back to the right, and from there climb up the chain and head left. The treasure chest there contains the key to the U.F.O. Now head back right, past the chain, and use the circular blocks to defeat the aliens you find hovering in the air.
Past those aliens, you'll find Launchpad. When your score is right, go ahead and accept the lift back to Duckburg.
When you come back to the moon, this time head for the room where Webby told you that you would need a key. Since you now have the key, your little niece is gone and you can pass through the shutter to the left, where three red aliens are guarding a remote control. Pogo off the highest of these and press 'up' to find a hidden chain leading to a room where Mrs. Beasley waits for you. She'll refill your health by showering you with ice cream cones. Now drop back down with the pogo armed and take out the three aliens to collect the remote.
You now can call Gizmo Duck. With that done, your time in the U.F.O is ended. Go ahead and work back toward the start of the stage, exiting the U.F.O. by way of the shaft at its bottom center. Now you can cross over the pits to the right until you reach a wall, which Gizmo Duck will blast on your behalf. The cross over the pits is more difficult than you might anticipate, though, thanks to a series of aliens hovering over the pit you must pass. There's a block ledge you can ride, like the one in the Himalayan mountains stage, but this particular ride is more dangerous. Be sure that if you hit the alien, you're doing so from above with the pogo stick.
When Gizmo destroys the wall, it will reveal a chain leading down into an underground portion of the moon. You can pogo along the wall to the right side of this new room, if you're interested in grabbing two ice cream cones that are hidden there. Otherwise, proceed left past a series of Beagle Boy enemies, until you come to the low passage that leads to this area's boss encounter.
Rabid Rat
What better to protect the moon's precious supply of green cheese than a giant rat?
This giant rat will hop around at a fairly rapid rate, and you're only safe if you move back and forth between the two raised ledges. Of course, the rat is doing the same, though focusing most of his attacks on the ground level. Your basic strategy, then, should be to try and remain on the side of the screen opposite the rat.
As it jumps toward the side where you stand, jump out and pogo its back on the way past. Then turn and repeat. Keep swapping sides while hitting it with the pogo stick, and the rat will fall in no time.
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