A Kratt Caught
It was another day on the open savanna for the Wild Kratts crew and the team members were doing their own things in and around the Tortuga HQ. Aviva was tinkering with a super secret project that was to be revealed to the rest of the crew later in the week when it was finally complete. She hadn't given them any details as to what it did but she had assured them that it would be important to future creature adventures. Koki was at her computer working out some kinks in the Tortuga's processing system. There had been a few bugs in the solar panel deployment programming that needed to be fixed before the mechanical turtle headquarters ran out of power and needed recharging. Jimmy Z was sitting in his hover chair working on completing a level of the brand new video game he had received as a gift from one of his various relatives. Meanwhile, the Kratt brothers, Martin and Chris, were outside the turtle mouth entrance trying to decide what they should do to pass the time.
"Alright, Chris, what should we do today? The savanna is wide open with possibilities and I'm raring to go!" Martin shouted. Chris chuckled and then responded almost as enthusiastically as his older brother.
"Well we could play hide-and-go-seek with our creature powers!" Chris suggested. Martin's face lit up with an excited grin and nodded his head. The tall grass and various small bushes would make great hiding spots for their game.
"That's a great idea! I'll seek first and you go hide," he said as he slipped a cheetah power disk into his creature power suit. He gripped a tuft of cheetah fur he had stored in his pocket and raised his other free hand up to the large button in the center of his suit.
"Activate creature power!" Martin exclaimed with enthusiasm. A bright blue flash emitted from the button and then spread to the rest of the suit engulfing his body in a blue glow. His outline shifted as his form changed. When the light faded he was left standing with the blue body of a cheetah-human hybrid.
"The cheetah's great eyesight and dark patches to dim the glaring sun will help me to find you out in the tall grasses!" Martin said matter-of-factually. Chris's grin widened as he took another power disk from his own pocket and slipped it into his own suit as he imitated what his brother had done. A flash of green light similar to Martin's blue one lit up from Chris's suit and he was left standing there with the body of a Thompson's Gazelle. A look of confusion crossed Martin's face, not unnoticed by Chris. Chris decided to explain and save Martin the trouble of guessing why he chose a gazelle, which was not know for camouflage or stealth.
"With gazelle power I will put as much distance as I can between us before I change into an animal that's better at hiding, like a caracal." he explained. Martin seemed to understand and the smile came back.
"Alright, I'll start counting while you hide!" Martin turned around and covered his eyes with his paws and began counting.
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