Chapter 2 A Day At Zeo's Zoo

It was a hot summer day in Anti-Zeo Zaggart Land, and Yu and Kenta had gone to Ian's Ice Cream to get a cool treat. As they ate their ice cream, Yu asked Kenta where he wanted to go next.

"Oh. Hmm..." Kenta thought for a bit. "I know! Let's go to the zoo!"

After finishing their ice cream, Yu and Kenta headed off to Zeo's Zoo and each bought a day pass. Kenta headed to the aquarium to gape at fish, but Yu headed over to the apes and monkeys building. Once in there, Yu saw Masamune, who was munching popcorn and having a stare-down contest with a chimpanzee.

"Hey Masamoomoo," called out Yu. "I think I see the resemblance between you and that monkey."

"Yu!" cried Masamune, dropping his popcorn in surprise. "Look what you made me do! I lost the stare-down and my popcorn."

Just then, Zeo Abyss walked up to them. "If you have been paying any attention to the information, Yu, you would have realized that a chimpanzee is an ape."

"How do you figure that, Zeo?" asked Masamune.

Zeo sighed. "Look at the sign. A chimp has no tail, therefore it is an ape. See that golden lion tameron over there? It has a tail, so it is a monkey. Now if you'll excuse me, I must go find a group that I was supposed to give a private tour to."

Yu giggled as Zeo left. "Hey Masamune, let's go look at some other animals." Yu and Masamune headed over to the African exhibit, where they discovered Kyoya and Nile in front of the lion exhibit. Yu ran up behind them and yelled "Boo!" They didn't jump. Kyoya just sighed and moved on to look at the cheetah exhibit.

Masamune crowded up behind him. "Ooh! Yu! Come look at this monkey!"

"He he! That's a cheetah," Yu told Masamune.

Kyoya just stared at him and then moved back over to where Nile was now looking at gazelles. He wondered what in the universe Masamune had meant by calling a cheetah an monkey, and heard Yu arguing with him about tails, no tails, and primates.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," said Masamune. "Let's go see the pandas!" He was still upset about the 'serious lack of pandas' in China.

After some fun at the panda exhibit, Masamune said good-bye to Yu and headed off to Gingka's Gangly Burgers. When he got there, Gingka cam out to meet him. Business at the restaurant was rather slow today, so Gingka and Masamune started a food fight. (Actually, it was Masamune's fault.) They had started by playing catch with burgers, then meatballs, and then the spaghetti noodles themselves.

Madoka came out and yelled at them for making such a mess, and they all took four hours to clean up the entire spaghetti covered restaurant.

"Madoka," whined Gingka, who was tired of cleaning up. "I thought we only sold burgers. What's with the spaghetti?"

"It's today's special, smarty," Madoka snapped back. She hated cleaning up after their messes.

"Whew," said Masamune. He ran a finger across a table top and inspected it. "Perfectly clean! You know what that means? It's time to make it messy again!"

Gingka groaned and left. He didn't want to clean up for another four hours. Madoka also left. Masamune left too, but only after making a mess and not cleaning up. After all, he had some spare cash, so he called Konzern's Kool Kleening and the clerk said they would send someone right away. Masamune smiled, hung up, and then went to Salhan's Supersoaking Water Park to have fun and cool down.


Julian Konzern had finally made it to the eleventh floor of the Beyblade Battlegrounds. "Which of us do you choose to battle?" Kyoya asked him.

Julian responded right away. "I'll battle Nile first, and once I defeat him, I'll beat you next, Kyoya."

Nile loaded his bey on his launcher. "We'll see about that! 3!"

"2!" called Julian.

"1!" they said simultaneously.

Bring! Bring! Julian sighed and lowered his bey. He pulled out his ringing cell phone. "Hello? This is Julian Konzern, about to bey battle, so this had better be important!"

Kyoya and Nile heard a long pause, and then Julian yelled "Stupid Freshman!" and slammed his phone shut.

"What was that about?" Kyoya asked.

Julian sighed. "That was a call from Tyson Freshman, the most incompetent person on my entire staff at Konzern's Kool Kleening. He never knows what to do, and was given a lone assignment at Gingka's Gangly Burgers. However, he needed help because the mess is apparently terrible, so he called me! What is his problem? I'm not a mere staff member to be ordered around! He didn't even bother calling headquarters to see if anyone else on the staff was free. Now if you'll excuse me, I must go to "help" Tyson. Bye."

After Julian was out of earshot, Nile said: "Wow. We never get to battle him. This has to be the third time this has happened."

"It is," said Kyoya with a shrug. "At least now we got an explanation."