About a couple of hours later, Ichigo was in her bed, tossing and turning as she woke up, realizing that she couldn't sleep. Ichigo had a thought that maybe Donkey was still up, so that he could comfort him a little bit. Ichigo then went out of her cage and went over to Donkey's area.
"Hey, Donkey, are you asleep?" Ichigo called out sleepily.
But then, she opened her eyes and noticed Donkey wasn't anywhere.
"Donkey?" She called out in confusion. But Donkey was nowhere to be seen. He couldn't have...
"No," she said, firmly. "No way could he have..."
She noticed the small hole that the dogs had created was open instead of covered by the cup Donkey had been drinking from.
"He's really gone," she muttered under her breath.
She looked up and saw Milo, who had the same worried look on his face.
There were many thoughts running through their heads, but the one that recurred the most was, We gotta tell Jake that Donkey's gone!
Over at Jake's place, Jake was relaxing as he was muttering in his sleep, "Oh yeah, a nice steak... it's perfect."
Ichigo jumped up on the fence as Milo leaned over.
"Jake?" Milo said, trying to wake him up. "Jake, Jake!"
Jake woke up in the midst of sucking his thumb and Ichigo looked bemused, as she said, "You suck your thumb?"
Jake's eyes snapped over as he took his thumb out of his mouth and said in annoyance, "Milo, Ichigo, what do you two want?"
"Maybe you better explain, Milo." Ichigo said, nervously.
Milo nodded as he started. "You know how I have that bladder infection and I have to get up every two hours? Well, I got up to pee, and I looked over in Donkey's pen, which I usually don't do, I don't know why, but I did, and this time I looked over and-"
"Yeah," Ichigo said, joining in with him, "I was going in to talk to Donkey to see if I could have somebody to talk to and-"
"What, guys?" Jake said. "What's going on?"
Ichigo took a deep breath and said, "Alright, I don't know how to say this so I'll just say-"
But Milo beat her to it and said, "It's Donkey! He's gone!"
"Gone?" Jake said, getting up in shock, but bumping his head in the process. "What do you mean, Donkey's gone?"
-
About a minute later, Pepper Ann was wide awake also and her, Ichigo, and Milo were staring into the dog-made hole.
"How long has he been working on this?" Milo said. He stuck his head into the hole and called out, "Donkey, Donkey?"
"Milo, Donkey wouldn't fit down there, it's far too small. He probably kicked it off by mistake." Pepper said and Ichigo nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile, Jake was tearing apart the straw of Donkey's bed, trying to find him, as he called out, "Donkey? Donkey? Donkey, where are you?"
"This doesn't make any sense," Pepper Ann said.
"Yeah," Ichigo said, "where would he go?"
Then it occurred to Jake as he gasped and shouted, "Connecticut!"
The three gasped along with Jake as Ichigo's thought process said, "So, he really did go out there?"
Jake, Pepper Ann and Milo thought otherwise.
"He wouldn't," Pepper Ann said.
"Oh no," Milo exclaimed. "What are we gonna do? We gotta, we gotta call somebody!"
Jake was on it, as he ran towards a pay phone and dialed a number.
"Yo?" Jake said. "Get me Missing Animals, and fast!"
Milo, Pepper Ann and Ichigo's eyes widened in shock, as Jake said, "Yeah, we've got a lost donkey probably on the way to Connecticut now, and-"
From the other end of the phone line, an officer blinked in confusion as he heard dragon like roars (for you see, animals can't communicate to humans). "Hello? Hello?"
Back with the others, Jake stopped short and said, "Wait a second. We can't call the people!"
He quickly hung up, but, after a second, he picked it up and threw it away. "They'll be really mad! It'll get Donkey transferred for good!"
"But I don't want Donkey to get transferred," Ichigo said in worry.
"You don't bite the hand that feeds you," Jake said.
"That's true!" Pepper Ann nodded.
"We gotta go after him," Jake said.
"Go after him?" Milo said in worry.
"He's not thinking straight," Jake said. "We gotta stop him from making the biggest mistake of his life! He's probably out there. Lost, cold, confused. Poor little guy."
-
Over with Donkey, who had went out via an open gate, was smiling as he was looking around the city lights of New York. Donkey smiled. So this is what the outside life of New York looked like! Donkey was still staring in amazement as he looked around... unaware that the people around him were noticing Donkey walking around, either looking scared or confused.
-
Back with the group, Jake, Pepper Ann, Milo and Ichigo had broken free and were busy trying to escape. Ichigo climbed up a branch of a tree and hopped down to the other side of the wall. Meanwhile, Jake held onto Milo's neck, before he let go and landed on the grass. Pepper Ann went through the wall, breaking it.
"Milo, come on," she said as everyone started to go.
"You know..." Milo said, nervously, "Maybe one of us should wait here, in case he decides to come back."
"Oh no!" Pepper Ann frowned, dragging him. "Not now! This is an intervention, Milo, we all gotta go!"
"What's the fastest way to Grand Central?" asked Jake.
"Oh, you should take Lexington." Milo said.
"MILO!" Ichigo and Pepper Ann both shouted.
"Okay. We." Milo sighed. "We should take Lexington."
As the four animals ran off, Jake said, "What about Park?"
"No, Park goes two ways!" Milo said. "You can't time the lights."
-
But, unknown to the four, Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, had also escaped as they looked at the wall.
"My, it seems a big hole has been added to the zoo." Mac said.
"Certainly has, certainly has." Tosh said, looking at the size of the hole in the wall.
Mac and Tosh both paused as Mac smiled. "You know, I heard that Doug Dimmadome, owner of all things relating to Dimmsdale, USA, is speaking at Lincoln Center. Should we go?"
"Only if we pick up those lovely peanuts on the way." Tosh smiled.
"But of course. After you." Mac smiled.
"You first." Tosh smiled.
"Thank you." Mac bowed as the two walked out of the zoo.
-
Meanwhile, Donkey was having the time of his life as he was skating inside the Rockefeller Center.
-
A while later, Jake, Pepper Ann, Milo and Ichigo had arrived at a subway station.
Jake looked impatiently down the track, as he said, "I knew we should've taken Park."
He walked back and said, "Are you sure this is the fastest way to Grand Central Station?"
"I dunno," Pepper Ann shouted, as she and Ichigo looked down the tracks.
"Yeah, I'm just listening to what Milo said," Ichigo said.
At that moment, Milo came out of the men's bathroom and said, "Hey, you guys! That room has some nifty little sinks where you can wash up and everything and look!" He stuck his tongue out, revealing a urinal biscuit in his mouth. "Free mints," he said.
Jake stared in disgust as he grabbed Milo's tongue and got the urinal biscuit out of it. "I'm sorry to disappoint your fun, Milo, but this isn't a field trip! This is an urgent mission to save Donkey from throwing his life away! Where's the train?"
Suddenly, there was the sound of a train approaching and Milo said, "Ah, here it comes!"
The four quickly looked down the track, unaware that the train was coming in behind them, until Milo screamed and they drew their heads back.
"What did you do?" Pepper glared at Jake, as Ichigo waited patiently for the train to come to a stop and Milo ate the urinal biscuit. "I thought I asked you to talk to him!"
"I did!" Jake said. "I don't understand! He said, 'Let's go!' And I said, 'What are you crazy?' He said, 'I'm 10 years old.' And that he has white and grey hairs." The four went onto the train, as the doors open and nearly all the people on board ran out, like the devil himself was upon them. "And so then we sang and..."
The doors closed on Milo's foot in a tissue box, but then Milo shook it off as he got in. The four rode the train to Grand Central Station, unaware of the adventure that would wait for them in the morning.
-
Back with Donkey, he was currently asking for directions from a horse named Mr. Horse.
"Okay, so you just gotta go straight back down West 42nd. Then it'll be on your left after Vanderbilt. If you hit Chrysler Building, that means you went too far." Mr. Horse said.
"Okay, I think I got it. Thanks, sir!" Donkey smiled as he started to walk off.
"HEY!" Mr. Horse yelled. Donkey turned to Mr. Horse. "Wait for the light to change!"
Donkey nodded as he looked up at a traffic light. Mr. Horse sighed. "Idiot..."
As the light changed, Donkey continued to walk on his way. However, one of the officers on duty next to Mr. Horse was an officer named Krupke as he was holding a walkie talkie. "That's right, I see a donkey, walking right past! Should I shoot it?"
"Negative! If there was a animal break-out, we don't want these animals dead." The voice on the walkie-talkie said.
"Well, you never know, it could be dangerous. I'm going to need some back-up." Krupke said.
-
As the train continued towards Grand Central Station, Jake, Pepper Ann and Milo sat on one side of the train with a frightened passenger, while Ichigo sat on the other side, facing her friends. Jake glanced to his right and looked at the newspaper.
The passenger looked up in fright as the dragon roared, making the passenger look down.
Actually, Jake was merely reading, as he was groaning. "Aw man. The Mets are just NOT having their best season."
"Well, what are you gonna do?" Milo said, sarcastically.
"Yes," Ichigo said, "They probably haven't had a championship since their last one."
Suddenly, a voice blared, "Grand Central Station."
"Did that say 'Grand Central Station,'" Jake asked, "or 'My aunt's constipation?'"
"This is it!" Pepper Ann said as all four got up.
-
Meanwhile, Donkey had just arrived at Grand Central.
"Grand Central Station," Donkey said, surveying the train station. "It's grand and it's central."
-
Back in the subway, Jake pushed the doors open and he, Pepper Ann and Ichigo instantly rushed out to find Donkey, as they passed a drummer, who was playing the drums on the ground railway. Milo, however, was the last to get out, as he tried to back out carefully, only to have the doors close on his neck.
"Ouch!" Milo yelped, pulling his neck free.
He stumbled, smashing his hind feet through the drummer's drums, and fell.
-
Jake was running up the stairs, as some people panicked, trying to run for their lives to get away from Jake, while a little old lady named Cruella walked up the stairs.
"This is an emergency situation!" Jake shouted, as he ran up the stairs. "Don't panic! It's okay! It's not that big an emergency!"
But, just as he reached the top of the stairs, Cruella gasped as she began beating him up with her purse.
"Upstairs, downstairs," she said. She sprayed him with pepper spray and Jake shouted in pain. "How do you like that?" Cruella shouted.
She then grabbed his arm and flipped him like she was in a karate match against her opponent.
"Lady," Jake said, "what is wrong with you?"
Cruella whacked him with the purse and Jake said, getting away from her, "Get a grip on yourselves, people!"
"You're a bad lizard," Cruella said.
-
Meanwhile, a sign flashed that the Metro North train to Connecticut had just departed.
"Aw man, I just missed the Express!" Donkey cursed. "Looks like I'm stuck with the Stamford local."
But Jake prevented him from doing any such thing, by slamming into Donkey, sending them both skidding across the marble floor.
"I got him," Jake shouted to Pepper Ann, Milo and Ichigo. "I got him!"
"He's got him! He's got him!" Pepper Ann and Ichigo cheered, as they ran up the escalator.
Well, Pepper Ann ran up the escalator, while Ichigo scampered up the railing and landed on her feet as she quickly ran with Pepper Ann to Jake and Donkey.
"He's got him!" Milo shouted, as he came up the escalator. "He's got him!"
Unfortunately, he tripped on the last step and he skidded across the marble floor, just as Cruella whacked him with her purse, as she said, "I got something for you!"
Milo crashed his head into the clock and got up, saying, "I'm okay, I'm okay."
"What are you guys doing here?" Donkey asked in confusion, when he saw Milo, Pepper Ann, Ichigo and Jake.
"Oh, I'm so relieved we found you, dude!" Jake smiled.
"We were so worried about you," Pepper Ann added.
"You're alright," Ichigo said, happily. "Thank God!"
"Don't worry," Donkey said, "I'm fine, I'm fine. Look at me, I'm fine. Tell him, Ichigo."
"He's fine alright," Ichigo smiled, with a nod.
"You're fine," Jake said, strangely calm, making Ichigo confused. "Oh, he's fine! Oh, great."
He turned to his three other friends and said, "Hey, you hear that? Donkey's fine. That's good to know."
He then turned to Donkey, as he said, "Because I was just wondering..."
He grabbed Donkey by his throat and shook him, as he shouted, "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US, DONKEY? I THOUGHT WE WERE YOUR FRIENDS!"
"What's the big deal?" Donkey squeaked. "I was going to come back in the morning!"
"Don't you ever do this again!" Jake said, angrily. "Do you hear me?"
"Do you hear him?" Pepper Ann frowned.
Suddenly, there was the sound of police sirens and Milo lifted his head down (with the clock) as he said, "Guys, we're running out of time!"
Pepper Ann then noticed the clock on Milo's head as Pepper Ann groaned. "Milo, you broke their clock?"
She quickly got to work on trying to pull the clock off of Milo's head.
"Don't do this again," Jake shouted at Donkey, continuing to shake him, while Ichigo could only watch, with a worried expression. "Don't you ever ever do this again!"
"Uh, guys?" Ichigo said, nervously, noting the police reinforcements.
"Come here," Pepper Ann said, trying to get the clock off Milo's head.
As police were starting to enter, sitting on a bench, reading a newspaper, were Bathound, Mr. Peabody, Stitch and Krypto as they put the newspaper down.
"Looks like we've been ambushed, boys." Bathound said as all four dogs lifted their paws and hands in the air.
Jake, Donkey and Pepper Ann now noticed the police, as everything became silent.
"Cute and cuddly, boys, cute and cuddly." Bathound whispered as he and his group slowly started to edge off.
-
Meanwhile, Mac and Tosh had just been buying some train tickets, when they were surrounded by the police.
"Uh-oh..." Mac and Tosh gulped as guns were raised to them. They instantly raised their hands up.
-
"It's the Man, man," Ichigo whispered.
Donkey nodded as he said, cheerfully, "Good evening, officers!"
Jake frowned as he whispered, "No, no, you don't talk now, okay? You're not so good with the 'putting words together and they're coming out good' thing. I can handle this."
Jake smiled as he got up and said to the officers, "Yo, everybody! What up? Yeah! You know what, everything's cool, we just had a little situation. Little internal situation. Actually, my friend just went a little crazy."
Ichigo, who had just been coming over to help Donkey to his feet, frowned the minute she heard that and she had also noticed an animal control officer be shoved out into the open. He tried to run back in, but the police blocked him.
"It happens to everybody," Jake laughed. "The city gets to us all. My friend just went a little cuckoo in the head."
"Hey!" Ichigo snapped, "Donkey is not crazy!"
"Yeah," Donkey said, taking her side, "don't be calling me cuckoo in the head!"
"Will you two shush!" Jake angrily whispered to Ichigo and Donkey. "I will handle this!"
But just then, Cruella shuffled towards Jake and hit him right in the place where the sun don't shine with her purse and Ichigo broke out into hysterics.
"You don't know how long I've been waiting for someone to do that to Jake!" she whispered to Donkey, with a smirk, as she helped him up.
"I got him!" Cruella said, happily.
Two police officers quickly wasted no time in coming in and they quickly dragged Cruella away to safety.
"Would you give a guy a break?" Jake said, in a high-pitched voice.
He turned back to the officers and said in his normal voice, "We're just gonna take my friend home and forget this whole thing ever happened. Alright? No harm, no foul."
Jake took a step forward and all the police officers backed away.
"Oh, no, no, no!" Jake said. "Hey, it's cool! It's me, Jake Long, the American Dragon, from the Zoo."
He quickly did one of his playful growls and roars as he did one of his acts.
To the animal control officer's point of view, he panicked as Jake looked like he was roaring, about to attack.
Jake was smiling, but then realized they didn't recognize him. He turned to Pepper Ann, Milo, Donkey and Ichigo and said, "What's the matter with them?"
Ichigo shrugged and the animal control officer shot a tranquilizer dart at Jake, hitting him.
"Ow! Ow..." Jake said. He staggered about and twirled like a ballerina before he collapsed.
Pepper Ann caught him and set him down, gently, as Jake said, "Wow! I feel really, really weird!"
He patted Pepper Ann as he said, "Hey, I love you guys."
Ichigo and Donkey turned to each other, wondering what the heck was wrong with Jake, as Milo looked down at him.
From Jake's eyesight, he saw some colors swirling around as his voice slowed down.
"I love you so much."
(Sammy Nelson)
Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
Cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two
The Candy Man, oh the Candy Man can
The Candy Man can 'cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good
Then we get a weird sequence where a million Donkeys and Milos were dancing around as Ichigo did some weird Indian style dance. Then we go to the city of New York as the Statue of Liberty (who was really Pepper Ann) flew around, raised her torch, and banged Jake's head.
Then Jake blacked out.
-
A few hours later, Jake came around to see he was in a crate at the zoo, while a bunch of people were watching. Jake ws quite unaware of what's going on.
"Last night's event at Grand Central Station was an example of what animal rights wackos have been shouting about for years," April O'Neill said. "The animals clearly don't belong in captivity. Now they're to be sent back to their natural habitat, where they will live their lives in the freedom they so clearly desire."
"Hey," Jake said, trying to get up, "A little help?"
"He's awake," someone shouted. "He's awake!"
Everybody quickly ran for the hills while 25 tranquillizer darts were shot at Jake. One got on his hand.
"Oh man," Jake groaned as...
You know what, you just saw the weird acid trip, so how about I fast forward through that?
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...and banged Jake's head.
Then, Jake blacked out again.