So on Friday morning, I woke up pretty sick but went to school and pushed through. This morning my husband was nice and let me sleep in. When I finally had to drag my sorry carcass out to get some medicine I saw my son painting my daughter's toenails. When they saw me, my daughter looked at me and beamed. She wanted her nails painted and didn't want to bother me because I was sick so her brother had volunteered to do it. "He's the best big brother ever."

So he was in trouble and I had started this story for him and then stopped because I was annoyed at him. But now I'm continuing it because he was so sweet although if you ask him he will deny it.

My son has asked for a story with catastrophic failure. So I hope he likes this one.

BTW he wants you to know he "helped" me write this (He's 10).

I do not own any of the characters.

Rex stood dejectedly waiting for Sarah in the hanger. They never finished their visit to Fun Land. Meechum had at first said he was going to take Sarah but then with the committee heads sending evaluators to the base he had to stay. Rex had of course politely refused to go.

"No way! Not gonna do it!" Rex was adamant.

"Well, maybe a certain head of Providence might find out who blew up Dr. Holiday's lab." Meechum replied.

"It was an accident. It looked like a pen!" Rex protested.

"Hmmm." Was Meechum's only response.

So here Rex was waiting for Sarah. This time there was no Noah or Circe to help him out. Rex didn't want to take any chance that Six would find out about any of his shenanigans especially since Six can now actually take the money out of the account White left him to pay for the damages.

Calan walked in and greeted Rex.

"Hey, so what are you doing today?" He asked.

"Ugh, I gotta take Meechum's kid to an amusement park." Rex grumbled.

"Huh, I'd rather do that than meet these evaluators that are coming." Calan snorted. " I hate when people who have no idea what we do come and tell us how to do our jobs."

Rex nodded sympathetically. Just then a cheery Sarah bounded in with her dad in tow.

"Okay honey, have a great time. Uncle Rex will take good care of you." He gave Rex the eye.

"Sure, we'll have loads of fun." Rex tried to keep the sarcasm from his voice.

"Bye daddy. Have fun with the evatuachurs." Sarah said stumbling over the word.

Meechum gave her daughter a wry smile then with one more withering glance at Rex left.

Sarah bounded over to Calan and examined him closely.

"Can I help you, little lady?" Calan asked with a smile.

"Hey Rex, his neck isn't red." Sarah pronounced loudly. She turned to look at the boy. "You said…"

Rex quickly grabbed the girl and covered her mouth. He slowly backed away from Calan whose wide eyes were starting to narrow into a glare.

"Ha ha, will you look at the time. We really need to be going Sarah. Times a wasting…"

Rex nervously half pulled, half dragged a struggling Sarah away from the increasingly irate captain.

0o0

This time Rex was unable to get Noah or Circe to accompany him so he had to have Bobo drive them since Meechum didn't want Sarah on his rex ride.

"How come you have a fez? Are you from Egypt?" Sarah asked Bobo.

"Hehe, cute kid." Bobo muttered.

Rex sighed. It was going to be a long day.

Bobo finally reached the amusement park and dropped them off.

"I'll pick ya up during closing time." Bobo announced before he sped away.

Rex rolled his eyes as he turned to Sarah.

"So where do you want to…" He turned to look at Sarah but she had disappeared. Not again! He looked around frantically but luckily spotted her by the ticket booth.

"Sarah, don't run off like that." Rex snapped at her.

Sarah looked at Rex. "I didn't run off. I was right here."

"Look, stay where I can see you."

"You can see me now can't you?"

"Do you know what being smart is?" Rex asked.

"Yeah! It's when you gather information and use it to make decisions!" Sarah said.

Rex smacked his face.

"Neaxt" said the person behind the booth.

"I'd like two tickets to the airplane…"

"Broken," the guy behind the booth interrupted.

"Then I'd like two tickets to the tea…"

"Maintenance," the guy behind the booth interrupted.

"Then I'd like two tickets to the bumper-"

"Not workin," the guy behind the booth interrupted again.

"THEN WHAT IN THE WORLD WORKS?" Rex asked frustrated.

"I have tickets to da rolla coaster… But you'll need to ride with her."

"Ooh! Ooh! Okay!" Sarah yelled.

Rex already began to feel sick.

"Heeerrrrreeeeee ya go. Tickets to da rolla coaster. Come again."

"BYE! I REALLY LIKE YOUR MUSTASHE!" Sarah yelled as she left..

"Cute kid," the ticket booth guy mumbles.

Rex didn't answer.

0o0

Rex rushed Sarah to the garbage can. They made it just in time as Sarah bent over and puked up her breakfast. Rex held her at arms length trying not to look and holding his breath. When she finally stopped heaving he set her down.

"You okay?" He asked trying not breath through his nose.

"Let's do that again!" She said excitedly.

"No way!" Rex said.

"I've got nothing left to throw up."

"That's disturbing in its own right." Rex grumbled. "Why don't we look around to see what other rides we can go on?"

"All right." Sarah pouted.

They walked around the amusement park. Sarah kept pointing at rides but Rex kept nixing it.

Finally, Sarah said, "If you won't let me go on rides can we at least go play games?"

Rex thought about it. That sounded safe and puke-free.

"Sure." Rex and Sarah headed for the arcade.

Sarah stopped short. Her eyes grew wide.

"I want that!" She pointed at a large pink penguin.

Rex looked at the game. You just needed to knock over some milk cans. Looks easy enough.

"Step right up. Try your throwing skills! Knock over the bottles get a prize! It's just that easy!" The man at the booth shouted.

"How much?" Rex asked.

"Just a dolla!" The man hollered at him.

Rex dug in his pocket for a buck. He handed the wrinkled bill to the man and the man handed him 3 balls. Rex winded back his arm and threw his ball. The ball bounced off the bottles. What the…? He had hit the bottles head on. He scowled. Rex tried again. Again the ball bounced off. Rex was starting to think it was rigged. He looked at Sarah's eager face.

"Okay stand back." Rex formed his slam cannon. He gave the ball to Sarah.

"Load me up." He told her.

Sarah dropped the ball into his cannon.

He fired the ball. Not only did it knock the cans over it blew through the back and through several other booths. Rex could see the stunned faces of the other booth operators through the holes.

The man looked at Rex with shock. "You can't use that!" He protested weakly.

"Would you rather I use this? " Rex formed his smack hands.

"No, no. Here take this, leave, and don't come back. "He pulled out a random prize.

"No, I want the pink penguin." Sarah said.

Rex looked at the man.

"Sure, sure whatever you want. Just go!" He almost threw the penguin at them.

"Thank you. " Rex said as he handed the penguin to Sarah.

Sarah hugged the stuffed animal then to Rex's surprise she hugged him.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

They didn't notice that there was a man glaring at them from a distance.

He radioed someone, "The bird has flown the coop. Repeat the bird has flown the coop." He gritted his teeth.

0o0

"I have to go to the bathroom," Sarah told Rex.

Rex located the restrooms and they walked to the area. Rex started walking into the Men's Room when he noticed that Sarah was not following.

"Come on." Rex nodded his head toward the door.

"I can't go to the guy's bathroom." She looked scandalized.

"Are you serious?" Rex looked at the door.

"I'll go to the girl's by myself." She insisted.

"You sure?" He asked.

"Of course!" Sarah turned to walk to the bathroom. She stopped suddenly, walked back, and handed Rex her penguin. "Hold Henrietta."

"Henrietta?" Rex stared at the stuffed animal.

"She looks like a Henrietta." Sarah said matter-a-factly.

"I'll wait for you over there." Rex pointed to the benches not bothering to argue with that logic.

He went over to the benches and sat down to wait for her… and waited… and waited.

Finally, after waiting for what seem like forever he got up and walked closer to the bathroom.

"Sarah!" He called out trying to get some indication on what's taking her so long. "Sarah!"

Some pretty teenaged girls looked at him suspiciously as they walked into the restroom.

"Excuse me," Rex called to one of the girls. "Can you see if there's a little girl answering to the name of Sarah in the bathroom?"

"Are you her brother?" Another girl asked him.

Brother? It would take too long to explain. "Sure, I'm her brother." Rex lied.

The girls went in. A second later one of them came out. "There's no one in here." She told him.

"What!" Rex had a feeling of déjà vu. "Where could she have gone?"

"Well, there's another exit on the other side." The girl tried to be helpful.

Rex muttered a curse and ran to the back of the restrooms. When he arrived, he could see the door but Sarah was no where to be seen.

He was thinking what to do as well as a variety of excuses just in case. (A flock of seagulls carried her off. I swear they were this big!) He groaned. He was so dead.

"Excuse me, mister." A man approached him.

Rex shot a glance at the man hoping he could help him with his predicament. Instead, the man pulled out a gun.

"Give me the bird!" He demanded.

Rex blinked for a second then answered, "I'd love to but this is a family park." He formed his free hand into a smack hand and knocked the assailant away.

He didn't have time for this. He had to find Sarah. In his panic it didn't occur to him how weird it was for someone to jack him for a stuffed animal. He formed his boogie pack and flew off to see if he could spot her from the air.

0o0

When Sarah exited the restroom she didn't see Rex. Just as she was about to look for him she got distracted by a man making balloon animals. She skipped over to see what he was making.

"What can I make for you little girl?" He asked with a smile.

"I have to get my babysitter. I don't have any money." Sarah told the man.

Before the man can say anything she ran off. Rex must be on the other side of the restroom. But when she got there he wasn't there either. Strange. Where could he have gone? Then she heard the blast of some turbines. She looked up in the air. There he was!

"Rex!" She yelled but he was too far away to hear her.

Great now what was she suppose to do?

"Hello, little girl. Is that your brother?" A voice behind her asked. She spun around and saw a hand reach out to grab her. She knew that this was not good. Remembering what her dad had shown her, she stomped on the man's instep and ran.

"Why you little brat!" The man let off a string of curses as he hopped up and down.

Sarah ran as fast as her legs could carry her. But where should she go? Her dad always said to go to an adult she could trust. She didn't see any policeman or anyone else in uniform. Maybe she should head to see the ticket booth guy. Before she can make up her mind, however, someone grabbed her shoulder. Sarah yelped and twisted out of the person's grasp. She ran straight and the first thing she saw was the ferris wheel. It was roped off with a sign that indicated that it was under repairs. Sarah ducked under the rope and ran towards the wheel. Maybe if she can get up to the top Rex would see her.