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Chapter 5: The Zoo Experience

Still Day 2/Tuesday

"Gavin, come out of there now!" Lance said firmly, wishing his mutation was phasing instead of being a lame rock tumbler who could do nothing to save his offspring. Inside of the cage, Gavin quietly crept up to the lion cub and yelled, "Boo!" in it's ear. "He's gonna get himself killed!" Lance shouted, reaching his hand between the bars, but immediately returning it to his side when the lioness thought it had been meal time.

"Hey Kurt, you can get him!" Bobby said, gesturing for him to hurry up. BAMF! Kurt teleported into the cage, quickly grabbed the young boy who was sticking his out for the lion cub to lick as if it was a dog, and teleported him back out. Lance grabbed his son in a tight embrace, asking, "HOW COULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?" "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" "ARE YOU ALRIGHT? ARE YOU HURT?"

"Anyway, now that this touching moment is over, how about we get the kids some lunch. I bet they're starving, I know I am," Sam said, handing his youngest child a bottle of juice. "One problem. WHERE ARE THE KIDS!?!" Logan yelled, just now noticing that all the kids (not including Gavin, the babies, and the elementary kids) were gone. "They must have wandered off," Scott said, trying to keep his cool. As if he had one in the first place.

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"Okay. Let the tour begin. Jimmy says give him a cookie and you'll have the time of your life!" Jenna declared happily, collecting all the cookies into the small zoo decorated purse her father had bought her. Once she received all of the cookies as her payment, she led them down to the first cage, MONKEYS. "Oooh! A monkey! Hey, it kinda looks like Nathan!" Immy laughed. Jenna and Immy joined in as they saw Nathan's face redden. Nathan repaid Immy with a kick on the shin as he received a high five from the two boys.

"Hey! That huwrts (hurts)," she said, levitating Nathan into a pile of monkey poo. As Brad neared the place where Nathan had landed, he tripped over a rock and violently slammed into the monkey cage, denting the bars and making an escape for the animals. "Brad, you're in twouble (trouble)…" Emma chided him, wagging her finger disapprovingly. "Look! Monkey likes Opal!" Seth exclaimed.

"Monkey," Opal repeated as the monkey searched her scalp for bugs as it would if it were in the jungle. She, in turn, did the same. "Distuburing (disturbing)," Jenna said, making a disgusted face as she resumed the tour.

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"Looks like the monkeys got out," Logan said, sniffing the area for any trace of the children. "Ughhh, monkey…" Jamie said, remembering his phobia of the small hairy things. "Jamie, these monkeys are tamed. They won't hurt you," Bobby told him. "You've never even touched one. How would you know?" Jamie asked. "Trust me. My wife produced two. Names: Tara Abby and Nathan Drake," he replied.

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The eight kids made their way down to the next cage, WOLVES. "Oooh. Wolves!" Seth said excitedly, turning into his wolf cub form and slipping through the bars of the cage with ease. One of the wolves sniffed him, and began to groom the cub as if it were her own. "Eeew, wolf spit," Jenna said, continuing to a fence surrounding a herd of ELEPHANTS.

"Hey, Mommy was watching a movie once. There was a girl on an elepant (elephant) and she was a pwincess (princess)," Jenna thought aloud. Immy started to levitate herself in the air, but was brought down by the extra weight on her ankle, provided by Emma. "Hey! I wanted to be a pwincess (princess)," Immy whined to her friend. "You can't. My daddy told me I was a pwincess (princess)," Emma retorted. "We don't have time! Let's go!" Jenna told them.

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Logan could smell Seth's scent inside of the wolf cage. "Well, I have good news, and bad. Good news, I've found one of the kids, Seth to be exact. Bad news, he's sleeping in the wolf cage," Logan said. "Great," Roberto groaned, rushing over towards the cage where his son immediately woke up, being the light sleeper he was. "Seth, come out, okay?" "No," Seth answered simply. In the end, Seth was bribed with $15 to come out. "Hey, the boy learned to bargain," Logan said proudly.

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"Ice cream!" Nathan screamed at the top of his lungs, pointing towards the ice cream stand conveniently located near the exit gate of the zoo. "Lets go!" Opal said, leading all the kids over to the stand.

"Mr., could we have some ice cream?" Emma asked in her sweetest voice as she tugged on the man's wet apron. "Sorry, little girl. But you need money to pay for the ice cream. I can't give it to you for free," he replied. "Wrong answer," Jenna told him, firing up her hands with a wild look spreading across her face.

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"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

"That could only mean one thing. Sheila's fired up," Pyro said, leading all the men to the ice cream stand where Jenna was laughing maniacally while the ice cream man screamed as his hair was burning as crisp as toast. "So sorry sir," Bobby apologized, freezing the man's hair to stop it from burning. The man immediately fainted from all the excitement that had just happened. "Hey daddy! Look, I got ice cream!" Nathan shouted proudly. "NO!" Bobby said, lunging for his son, but it was too late. Nathan had devoured the ice cream, and soon to Bobby's regret, would be hyper.

Opal tugged on her Uncle Jamie's pant's leg, repeatedly saying, "Monkey." "What do you mean by… m-m-mmm… money!" he yelled, running towards Scott's car as fast as his legs could carry him as the monkey followed, screeching loudly as if it were mad.

* Thank you to Catz and demongirl04 for the ideas.