"I'd like to stop this thing, but then, where would the fun be in that?" Kal shrugged as Zack screamed.
"This is why I like you." Milo replied.
"Wait, why aren't you guys screaming?" Zack soon asked.
"It saves our breath." Kal said.
"Now hand me that bungee, and you better hand on to my backpack." Milo told Zack.
"Yeah, you'll thank him afterwards." Kal said.
They swung by power poles, but the bungee is broke, they then make a run upper the pipe.
"That bungee was definitely defected." Milo commented.
Diogee then came over and barked to the boys.
"Diogee, go home." Kal told the dog.
Diogee pouted and walked the other way.
"Silly dog," Milo shook his head. "He's not supposed to be in the street."
"Uh-oh, the edge of the road up ahead." Kal said.
"You might wanna flight over this way a little bit." Milo advised to Zack.
Once they were on the ground, Zack and Kal soon slid over to Milo.
Soon enough, the school bus arrived.
"So, girls, what's up with your boy?" Bradley asked Melissa and Dizzy. "I can almost taste that snickerdoodle and smiley face cookie now."
"Wanna make it interesting?" Dizzy smirked.
"What you guys are talking about?" One student asked.
"Melissa and Dizzy are betting that Milo's gonna make it to school and on time."The first student informed.
"I'm in! What's happened so far?" Another student asked.
"Concrete drainage pipe chased them down the hill." Bradley collected.
"Anyone want to join in the bet?" Dizzy asked.
"I got some vegan cheese sticks that says we don't see them 'til after lunch." Mort offered.
"I got gummy licorice." Amanda added in.
"Okay, hold on, hold on, Diz, get my notepad." Melissa said.
"On it." Dizzy held out the notepad so they could keep track of the food bets.
The school bus soon drove off where Kal, Zack, and Milo had arrived too late.
"No, no, no, no! Wait, wait!" Zack rushed over before stopping and sighing in defeat. "Oh, man. I'm gonna miss my first day in the new school. My parents are gonna flip out!"
"Don't worry, we can still get to school if we take a shortcut." Kal said.
"Remember what my dad always says." Milo said back to Kal.
"'What doesn't kill you only makes you late for school'." Milo and Kal recited together.
"So, we might not miss the whole day." Kal shrugged.
Diogee then followed them again.
"No, Diogee, go home, we have to go to school!" Kal told the dog.
Diogee pouted once again and went off.
"Plus, if we catch the bus at the next stop, we might not even be late." Kal said.
"I got the bus route marked on my GP... S..." Milo took out a way to help them. "It must have gotten wet when we fell in the mud but... Fair enough!"
"We've got a map to help." Kal said.
The map was then taken by an eagle.
"Heh, don't worry," Milo said to Zack. "This has happened before!"
"This has happened before?!" Zack glared. "This exact thing!"
"Yep." Kal nodded.
"We'll beat them to next stop," Milo told Zack. "We'll just have to go to the rock quarry."
"Rock quarry?" Zack scoffed. "Sure, what could possibly go wrong?"
"That's the spirit." Kal said.
"Sorry, boys," An employee told Milo, Zack, and Kal as they came to the rock quarry. "There's been a little oil spill, as you can see. It's been quite a mess so nobody's getting through today."
"I think we can still make it," Milo smiled positively. "I brought galoshes."
"Great." Kal smiled.
"I didn't." Zack said.
"I've got an extra pair," Milo offered. "And they're hazmat rated for a Level 4 Biohazard."
"Yeah, before you say anything, sir, we've got a certificate from the EPA." Kal said as he gave the employee a piece of paper.
The employee then took it and checked it over.
"What are you?" Milo asked Zack. "A nine? Nine and a half?"
"You look like you could be a nine." Kal said to Zack.
The early eagle appeared again and still holding the paper map, until it's burned by electricity, make it to drop the map to the oil spill. A fire then blows up the way.
"Maybe we should go to the woods." Kal suggested.
"I agree." Milo said.
The bus kept going as the students saw the fire.
"They're alive and now they're going into Coyote Woods." Dizzy told the others.
"Yes! Go, Milo! Go, Kal!" Melissa cheered.
"Coyote Woods?" Mort asked Dizzy. "What exactly is your definition of alive?"
"You do realize that Kal isn't like other people, right?" Dizzy replied.
'So do you even know where we are?" Zack asked Milo and Kal.
"Yeah, the fire's dried out my phone," Milo smiled. "We are right in the middle of Coyote Woods."
"That's great to know." Kal smiled back.
"Wait, Coyote Woods?" Zack asked on the way through the woods before panicking. "I've got a thing about coyotes. They're like big dogs that are dangerous to pet!"
"Don't worry, there aren't any coyotes here." Kal assured him.
"There isn't?" Zack asked out of confusion.
"No," Milo replied. "Actually, the woods were named after actor Peter Coyote."
"Really?" Zack asked.
"Yeah, and he made these woods into a wolf reserve." Kal smiled.
Zack pulled a face as a wolf howl was heard. "You get how that's not better, right?" he then deadpanned.
"Yeah, we should probably start making a run for it or as I would say," Kal said before flying in the air. "Fly for it."
Zack's eyes widened as Kal was flying like a superhero.
"Come on!" Milo told Zack before running.
Zack soon shook off what he saw and started to run. They were soon being chased by the wolves.
"Don't worry, wolves love peanut butter!" Milo told Zack as he took out a sandwich from his backpack, and where he soon threw it at the wolves, but then Murphy's law kicked in and the sandwich landed on Zack's back.
This made Zack scream even louder.
"Up here, guys!" Kal called out from on top of a tree.
Milo soon used a branch he picked up from the ground to get the sandwich of Zack's back and then the two of them climbed up the tree.
Kal helped them up with a smile. "You know, wolves barely ever attack humans." he then advised.
"Is that true?" Zack asked.
"Oh, yeah," Milo smiled and nodded. "Bees are the responsible for many more fatalities of wolves every year."
"Oh, crud." Kal groaned as he saw a bee hive next to them.
The boys tried to crawl through the tree to avoid the bee hive.
"There is one good thing to come out of this." Kal said.
"What could possibly be good?!" Zack replied.
"We're on the other side the fence." Kal said.
"Jump!" Milo told Zack.
Milo, Zack, and Kal soon jumped off the tree. The bee hive then shot through the sky and luckily it fell onto the fence.
"Wow! That was incredibly lucky!" Milo beamed.
"Yeah, I thought for sure it was gonna-" Kal started.
The bee hive fell onto a wolf, making it to angry enough and chase them.
"Are you guys seeing this?" Bradley asked.
"Yeah, that wolf's wearing a-" Mort was about to say.
"Double or nothing, who's in?" Dizzy asked as she took out Melissa's notepad.
Kal soon grabbed a hold of Milo and Zack as he flew them away from the wolf and into a sewer.
"How many fatalities are blamed on wolves and bees together?" Zack asked.
"Well, we would be the first if Kal wasn't here." Milo replied.
"We'll have to get through the sewers now." Kal said.
"Here you go!" Milo gave Zack a flashlight. "These will help us navigate in the dark."
"Dudes, if and when we get outta' here, I'm gonna have to go my own way," Zack groaned. "No offense. I just can't handle all of this."
"Handle what?" Kal asked.
A raccoon then came by.
"This cyclone of calamity that follows you everywhere you go," Zack flailed out to Milo. "How do you live like this?!
"How do you live like that?" Milo replied.
"Yeah?" Kal added.
"What do you mean?" Zack added.
"I mean, you want to live like those other kids?" Milo said to the new kid. "They took a bus to school today. A BUS?! Does that seem like more fun to you?"
"For us, the bus is boring." Kal added.
"Alright... Where do we go next?" Zack soon gave in.
"Well, there's a loose grate up over here to the left," Milo suggested. "We've been here before."
"Of course you have." Zack nearly deadpanned.
"The fun is just going to get better." Kal smiled.
The boys soon ended up on a construction site.
"Alright, I guess we turn the water back on." The foreman told his workers.
"You know we're missing one of those heavy bungees that we tie stuff down with, and also a section of that concrete drainage pipe." A worker told him.
Soon enough, a huge amount of water came out due to the missing pipe. Zack saw this before he fell into a vehicle, and where he got some help from Kal and Milo.
"Hey, Milo, is that a new scar?!" A worker called out.
"Yeah, thanks for noticing!" Milo smiled.
Back on the bus...
"Okay, Diz, whatya got?" Melissa asked.
"Okay, Chelsea's in for a pack of chips, Sid's up to two pudding packs, Mort's down for cheese sticks and an apple, and Bradley is the big spender with a whole vacuum-sealed lunch pack, which I can cover, but I'll have to bring it tomorrow." Dizzy looked at the results.
Bradley soon saw the boys outside of the bus. "Huh! Look! There they are! Oh, man, they gonna beat us to school," he said before the boys flowed to the river. "Never mind, there they go."
"Anyone want to up the anty?" Dizzy smirked.
The others then raised their hands.
"That's what I thought." Dizzy said.
Meanwhile in the river...
"We should get a way to steer this thing to shore." Zack suggested.
"We don't need to do that." Kal said.
"Look! The Maple Street Bridge," Milo smiled. "Here, we'll give you a boost."
Milo and Kal both soon gave Zach a boost up to the bridge. Unfortunately for them, the wolf with the bee hive on its head, came out jumping at them.
"Oh, this cannot end well..." Kal sighed.
Diogee came over yet again, but this time, it was actually helpful.
"Excellent, Diogee! Good boy!" Milo beamed.
"But you should really go home now." Kal said.
Diogee got into the water after the wolf had fallen into the water and was now making its way to land.
"Go home!" Milo and Kal told the dog.
Diogee then swam away from the boys.
"He's not supposed to be in the river." Milo told Zack.
"Nothing could go wrong now." Kal said.
"You know, I don't know if it's the adrenaline talking, but I'm starting to feel like we can handle anything that comes our way." Zack commented.
"I know the feeling." Kal smiled before he saw a wave that was going to wash them out.
"Or maybe not anything." Zack muttered until an alien spacecraft appeared.
"Okay, now I think I should fly us to school." Kal muffled as they were on the windshield of the spacecraft.
"We still got time until the morning bell, so let 'er rip, Kal." Milo nodded.
Kal nodded back before grabbing Milo and Zack and soon flew off at super-speed to the school.
"Ninety seconds to the bell," Bradley said. "There is no way he's making it."
"Heh, if you're so sure, it's not too late to sweeten the pot." Melissa smirked.
"Done, there's jawbreakers and some vitamin C tablets." Bradley challenged.
"Really?" Dizzy asked as she wasn't impressed with his choice of food.
"What? It's cold and flu season." Bradley defended.
"Fine," Dizzy shrugged. "Anyway, they should be here any second now."
They all waited anxiously for Kal, Milo, and Zack to arrive and it was now a few seconds until the bell would ring.
"Well, girls, start passing out the loot." Bradley smirked to Melissa and Dizzy.
They all soon felt a slight breeze blow into the room as Kal, Milo, and Zack appeared in their seats as the bell rang.
"Phew! Made it all in one piece," Milo smiled. "Of course the wolves got my lunch."
"Mine got crushed at the bus stop." Zack remembered.
"And I lost my lunch on the way here." Kal sighed.
"Don't worry, we got you guys covered." Melissa said.
Dizzy then took out the bag and showed them a lot of food they won from the beat from their fellow students.
"Ohh, look! A vitamin C tablet!" Milo smiled before he got odd stares. "What? It's cold and flu season."
"I can already tell that more things like this will happen." Zach said.
"Better get used to it." Kal chuckled.
"I wonder where we'll go next?" Dizzy said.
"I hear there's going to be a trip to the National History Museum coming up." Melissa replied.
"That should be interesting." Kal smiled.
"Yeah, we'll be taking the subway..." Dizzy smirked. "One of the only things I like about living in the city."
"That and Murphy's law." Kal said.
"True..." Dizzy had to admit.