(Here's the next chapter for my "Animal World" story. Thanks to Sonic Lover, Aerosnitch, and The Time Traveler for reviewing. First off, I guess I'll do review replies.)
Sonic Lover: What I meant was that I was trying to use your style when you did your episodes, you would include a little more sayings in it, and extra words. By the way, I don't remember what R.S.V.P. means, but I know that it has something to do with reservations at a party or something.
Aerosnitch: I could, theoretically, but I don't know much songs that have a scene like with Clover and David. So, I don't think I can be of help. Sorry about that. If you wanted a song from Aerosmith only, you're out of luck because I don't know much songs from Aerosmith, except 2, and I hate them both (sorry).
The Time Traveler: Thanks, man. I appreciate the suggestion you gave me. I really am looking forward to doing that episode if that gets the most suggestions. I'm like that because "Here Comes the Sun" is my all-time favorite episode.
Copyright 2005
2:03 p.m. -- Beijing Zoo -- China
The girls and I were walking through the zoo wearing zoo outfits.
"I got it. I got it. If I tell David that our date's off in a poem, he won't take it so hard. What rhymes with 'I'm dumping you'?" Clover said.
"Umm...Merci Beaucomp," Alex guessed.
"Not even," I said.
"Will you forget about your poem? We've got to get to the bottom of this case," Sam said.
"Sam's right, girls," I improvised.
We were walking up to a guy named Adam, who was throwing a small ball into a gorilla's cage. He happened to have glanced over at us.
"Oh, my new volunteers. 3 of my employees haven't been showing up at work for weeks now. I'm guessing the guy is also a replacement?"
"That's right," Sam said.
"We're glad to be able to help,"
"Absolutely. Especially in a case this weird," I said.
The gorilla handed Alex the ball, and she noticed it.
"Did you see that? He handed me the ball all by himself. Good monkey,"
Alex began to pet him on his head.
"Actually, Sherman is a gorilla. They're a lot smarter than people think," Adam said.
"Sherman, huh? Pretty good name," I said.
"Now, would you 4 be so kind as if to clean the polar bear and condor cages? Neither of them have been clean since my workers went missing last week," Adam requested, handing Clover a shovel and walked off.
"Maybe this is why the employees stop showing up for work," Clover assumed.
"Possibly, but I highly doubt it," I said.
"Yeah, me too," Sam said.
We went to check out the polar bear cage. Nothing or nobody was there.
"There's no sign of any forced entry or exit, or any sign of foul play," Clover said.
"Maybe it was an inside job," Sam assumed.
"Could be, or maybe they came before we did. Don't you think so?" I said.
"That's always a possibility, Mathew," Sam answered.
Meanwhile, back at Sherman's cage, Sherman was peeling the skin off of a banana and eating it. Behind him, a man was pointing a mysterious gun at him. He triggered the aim, pointing it at Sherman's forehead, then zapped it.
"There you go, Sherman. This should go a lot further than a pile of bananas,"
Adam noticed him.
"Hey! What are you doing?"
The mysterious man didn't listen, and ran off, dropping the gun in Sherman's cage. Adam was a little too late as Sherman picked up a stick, and tried to unlock the door to his cage. He did it, and Adam was shocked.
"Sherman,"
Alex noticed Sherman out of his cage.
"Look, Sherman got loose!"
"But how could he? That's impossible. Gorillas aren't THAT smart," I said.
"I think this one is," Sam said, as she ran in front of Sherman's path.
"Hold it right there. Your cage is back that way,"
She tried leading Sherman nice and easy back to her cage, but Sherman grabbed Sam and threw her from behind. Sam screamed as she flew through the air. I tried to catch her, but Sam landed on my chest, knocking both of us to the ground. Alex and Clover both dived to catch Sherman, but he made it cleanly past them.
"Look, it's like he's some kind of track star," Clover said.
"Thanks for breaking my fall, Mathew," Sam said as she got up.
"No problem. Anything for the girl of my dreams," I said.
I held out a hand for Sam to help me get to my feet, and she pulled me up. I was a little sore, but I was perfectly fine other than that. Sam began to put her hand to her lasso belt.
"Let's see how he does against my lasso belt,"
Sam twirled it in the air like a cowgirl, and threw it over Sherman's body, catching him.
"Gotcha," Sam said.
We ran to her. Sherman started to smirk.
"Don't be so quick to congratulate yourself. I am far too intelligent to fall pray from your precious little gadget,"
Sherman grabbed it, setting himself free, and throwing the rope to the ground. The girls and I were stunned, but my jaw had completely dropped.
"Ta ta, you 4. I'll see myself off,"
Sherman began to waltz away.
"Okay, now that was completely unexpected," Clover said, shocked.
"Can somebody slap my face? Because I think I just heard him talk," I said.
"We heard him too, Mathew. You don't need a slap on your face," Sam said to me.
The girls ignored my offer to slap my face, but Alex had ran out to block Sherman's way again.
"Now who's the intelligent one?"
"I do not have time for your shenanigans," Sherman hissed.
He spotted a car behind Alex, and darted for it, and Alex as well. Alex screamed when Sherman grabbed her by her stomach, and threw her into the car.
"Put me down, you crazy monkey!" Alex screamed.
Sherman had came into the driver's seat by the open window.
"He's got Alex!" Sam said.
"How dare you! I'm a person," Sherman hissed again.
Sherman started the car, and drove off with Alex in the passenger's seat.
"Okay, either I'm hallucinating, or that gorilla just drove off in a car with Alex," Sam said.
"You're not hallucinating, Sam. We saw it too," I said to her.
"I hope he's a better driver than she is," Clover said.
We were interrupted by Adam running out to us, holding the strange gun the mysterious man had when he zapped Sherman.
"This is crazy! One second, a man was holding this device to Sherman's head, the next, Sherman was behaving with human dexterity,"
"I wonder if this thing is responsible to do with the way Sherman was acting," Sam wondered.
"It has to. I mean, he doesn't just act like a human being himself," I assumed.
Clover noticed some of Sherman's saliva on her zoo outfit.
"Okay, I wanna know who's responsible for that ape slobbering all over me. Ohhh! If he can drive, he certainly can pay the dry cleaning bill,"
Clover took out a tissue from her pocket, and wiped the saliva off of her shirt, and threw it in the trash.
"I better hurry back inside to make sure that the rest of the animals are secured," Adam said.
"You do that," I said.
"And we better contact the authorities about Alex," Sam added.
She began to look through the trash for Clover's tissue.
"Sam, I know you're into recycling, but if you need a tissue, just ask," Clover said when she looked over at her.
"Let's run this through the scanner watch," Sam said when she pulled out Clover's tissue.
"Maybe we can get a clue from Sherman's saliva,"
She placed a wet part of the tissue on the scanner watch, and it began a scan.
"Look. It's as if Sherman's DNA is half human, half simian," Clover said.
"That's odd," I said.
"Weird," Sam said.
"Let's check it out with Jerry,"
She opened up her compowder, and Jerry popped on the screen. He was in the WOOHP kitchen making some food for the picnic.
"Hello, girls. What do you think of coleslaw as a side dish?" Jerry said.
"Jerry, how can you think about something to eat at a time like this!" I said in disbelief.
"Mathew's right, Jer. I think we have more important issues than side dishes," Clover agreed.
"A talking driving gorilla just kidnapped Alex,"
"Yeah we just sent you a very strange DNA sample," Sam added.
Jerry looked at his computer he brought along.
"Well, I see what you mean by strange. The human half of the DNA belongs to a zoologist. I don't know who the gorilla half belongs to,"
"Doesn't the gorilla half belong to Sherman, Sam?" I asked.
"I don't think so, Mathew," Sam responded.
"Jer, do you have an address for the zoologist?" Clover asked.
"I just found a link to your compowder," Jerry responded.
"And need I remind you 3, that I want Alex safely returned and all of this figured out quickly,"
Jerry's coleslaw began to overflow onto the WOOHP stove.
"You don't need to remind us or worry so much, Jerry," I said to him.
"Yeah, Mathew's right. You need not worry so much, Jerry," Sam said as she closed her compowder.
We hopped into a jeep to find Alex and Sherman.
"Okay, let's see if there's a link to the zoologist, and figure out why his DNA is in Sherman's spit," Clover said.
While on the road, Sam began to worry about Alex.
"I hope Alex is okay. You don't think Sherman would hurt her do you?"
"I hope not. She is a girl, and you're not supposed to harm a girl," I said, trying to cheer Sam up a little.
"You're probably right, Mathew," Sam said.
"What about you, Clover? Clover, hello?"
Clover didn't respond.
"Sorry. Talking with Jer reminded me that I still have to cancel on David," Clover said depressed.
"Just tell him you have to reschedule. That way he won't feel rejected, and you still get to go out with him," Sam said.
"Yeah. If guys like David are sensitive to rejection, you gotta express yourself to him every now and then," I added.
"Reschedule, of course. And if I tell him in a rhyme, he probably won't mind," Clover said.
She opened up her compowder to call David up. David was just finishing up some music on his rock music guitar when his phone rang.
"Hello hello. I hope you're not feeling low. David here,"
"Hi, David. It's Clover. I have something important to tell you before this call is over. Sorry, but I can't keep our date. Can I move it to next Friday, so it won't be late?" Clover said.
"Wow, you are a good poet. But, I can't make it next Friday. I've got a date with Mandy that night," David responded.
Clover was shocked.
"Mandy?"
"Never mind. Saturday is just dandy,"
Clover hung up, and David was surprised again. Clover started growling while Sam and I glanced at her with our eyes.
"Does she take a small date this seriously?" I said to Sam.
"Yep. That's typical Clover," Sam responded.
3:25 p.m. -- Derelict Veteranary Hospital
Meanwhile, Sherman was carrying Alex into an abandoned veteranary hospital. He reached a nearby cage and threw Alex in. Alex landed on the ground with a hard thud. She looked over to her left and saw a few animal workers from the Beijing Zoo and Jacob.
"Jacob, am I glad to see you," Alex said relieved.
Oddly enough, Jacob started growling like an animal. In fact, the animal workers from the zoo were acting like him. Alex was scared.
"What did you do to them?"
"Silence," Somebody said.
A guy in a white lab coat turned around and faced Alex and Sherman.
"Well, well, what have you got here, Sherman?" The guy asked.
"She and her spy friends tried to stop me from escaping the zoo," Sherman responded.
"We were trying to save you. A city is no place for a mon--" Alex was about to say, but Sherman looked at her when she was about to say "monkey".
"I mean gorilla,"
"Pipe down, missy," The guy hissed.
"It appears my plan is coming together quite nicely. I must congratulate you, Sherman, on a job well done,"
"Thank you, sir. Without your selfless dedication, I would still be living like an animal," Sherman responded bowing down to his knees. Alex was not amused.
End of chapter.
(I hope you liked this. It took me a few hours just to write this because I had to watch "Jeopardy" on TV, and wash my dirt bike, and watch "Wheel of Fortune". But, thankfully, I managed to finish this. I hope you appreciate the hard work I put into this.)