Notes & Disclaimers:

• Rio is Blue Sky Studios IP.

New note before we start: I'll be taking a break from "Rio Restart" so I can get far enough with this, and this time I really mean it. Also, I hope you guys will really like this one, and Part 2.

I kept track of the timeline: Now it's July 1996.

Chapter Eighteen: Movie Night Part 1

It has been exactly three months since the gang reopened the club. From then to the present, the birds were having nothing but a fun time together.

Nico and Pedro finally got into spicing up their club without Blu and Rafael sometimes. Blu finally made a new nest for Mikka and Leo close by his. Blu and Jewel have been going on many dates (almost every day and night), and each of them were nothing if not super romantic. Everyone was growing up pretty fast. Rafael and Eva weren't a couple yet but they had become really close. Luiz eventually found an abandoned garage and Rafael thought it was good for them and their friends to hang out. Luiz learned how to speak as good as everyone else could. Blu and Jewel, together, have learned a lot more about the jungle and human things, which gave them the advantage to enjoy their lives even more. Blu and Jewel were still wondering the solution on how to save their species, but were never told yet. Carlos and Sophia were both happy and sad to see their girls growing up. Jewel was still the most excited to grow up because she couldn't wait to move in with Blu and marry him.

Everything for the gang was perfect so far, and their collection of hobbies was about to get bigger for their next upcoming night.

It was the afternoon and at the moment, Blu, Jewel, and all their young friends were together in, what Rafael liked to call, Luiz's Garage. They were sitting down and enjoying each other's company while watching the garage's TV set, watching all of the good stuff of '96.

"Haha! Man, this is too good!" Luiz laughed, and so did the others. "Yeah, I just wish you found this garage a long time ago, Luiz." Said Leo. Though he and Mikka weren't too fond of human things because of the jaguar incident, they trusted Blu and the gang, and have gotten used to some of the many things like TV.

The scarlet couple were cuddled up together still watching the show, as well as Blu and Jewel, but one of them wasn't focused on the TV, just the sight of the two lovebirds, and that was Rafael and Eva. He was sitting right next to Eva and wanted to cuddle with her so badly. So he decided to try one shot.

"Hey Eva?"

"Oh yes, Rafi?"

"Just out of curiosity, are you cold or anything?"

Eva blushed a little since she wanted to cuddle with him too. So she decided to take the shot too.

"Well maybe a little. Could you help me with that?" She brought her left wing out for him to take it, and he did, and proceeded by moving closer, and wrapped his right wing around her. Then they both felt a sudden chill, and slowly embraced each other, with Eva resting her head on Rafi's neck, and Rafael smiling, feeling as if he was trying to protect her from all harm. But of course, Nico and Pedro chuckled from noticing them.

"Young love, bro. It's just all around us, ain't it?" Said Pedro.

"Yeah. You think we'll each get our own hot wing?" Nico asked.

"I don't know. But with how the club's goin', I doubt there's a single chick that can keep an eye off of me."

"You mean us."

"Yeah me." The two were about to have a playful argument until Luiz interrupted. "Shh! Guys, quiet, the commercials are on!"

"What?" Nico said since he and others were interested in the commercials. But the one that came up was unlike any other.

It is morning. You wake up. You greet your loved ones. You grab the morning paper. And although it seems like any other ordinary day…It isn't. For one extraordinary reason.

It showed a whole city being under a giant UFO, and more all over the world. The people in the commercial were shocked over the new worldwide phenomenon, wondering what was to come, until…the UFO's striked. The UFOs, drones, and aliens came and attacked everyone everywhere, turning civilization into total chaos. But that didn't mean everyone was giving up. There were men, people helping each other, and trying to fight back against the annihilators. Then as the commercial intrigued the gang even more, the best part came.

Should we win the day, the fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday. But as the day when the world declares in one voice…We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

"INDEPENDENCE DAY! Only in theatres. Early release comes tonight!" Then the normal commercials went on.

"Whoa." Said the gang.

"Who here has other plans tonight?" Blu asked everyone, and no one raised their wings or paws as they knew what he was talking about. "Alright so we're all interested in seeing this movie tonight?"

"Yeah!" Everyone said.

"There's just one problem."

"What's that, Leo?" Blu asked his tall red friend.

"None of us have been to a movie theatre before."

"Oh right. Well, I doubt it's anything that I can't handle with Nico and Pedro helping me out.

"Sure." Nico agreed.

"The three of us can find the best theatre in the city, and see if we can find the best way in for free and watch the show tonight."

Blu continued, "And we'll make sure that we will ALL see it." Everyone seemed to get excited about that plan.

Since everyone got together, they had been doing a lot of things. Singing, dancing, eating, partying, traveling, and all kinds of fun stuff, but going to the movies would be a new thing for all of them, and thought that if it went well, they could turn it into a new hobby. And it was all thanks to the love of Jewel's life, Blu.

"Then it's officially settled. Now me and Eva will see if Carlos and Sophia will be all right with it." Jewel said. Then everyone, but Blu, Jewel, Rafael, and Eva separated. "I can't wait. See ya soon, Blu." She said and hugged her boyfriend who replied, "See ya, Jewel." He kissed her forehead, and she and Eva were ready to leave. "Let's go, Eva." She started flapping but Rafael stopped her.

"Eva, wait."

"Yeah. Something wrong, Rafael?"

"No. Nothing, it's just that…I won't be going to the movies tonight. Instead, if you want to, do you…wanna go on a…a date with me instead?"

A giant bright smile grew on Eva's beak. Rafael, the first boy that Eva had a crush on, finally made the first move. So she rushed to him and hugged him tightly. "Aw Rafi, I would love to." Then Rafael did the same thing to her. "Thanks." Then after a few seconds, their moment of embracing was stopped by a certain bird clearing his throat. The "twocans" turned back to see Blu and Jewel smiling at them. So they released the hug.

"I guess you guys now know how we feel." Jewel said.

"Haha." Eva laughed sarcastically. "Bye Rafi, I'll see you soon. Back here to start?"

"Sure, see you soon." Then she kissed his cheek and flew off.

The blue macaws just smiled at that, and Jewel kissed Blu's cheek. "I'll see you at the movies, sweetheart."

"Can't wait, my angel. Bye."

"Bye." Then she followed Eva.

Blu seemed to notice Rafi just smiling to where Eva was, and he nudged him a bit.

"Hey hey hey."

"What?"

"First Leo, then me, Tulio, and now you. Haha, how many other guys do we know that are lucky enough to end up with girls like these?"

"Oh, right. I just hope I'll be good enough for her."

"What are you kidding me? You'll be great, pal. You've helped out with the club while I was gone, and Eva tells me and Jewel that you won her heart a long time ago."

"Really?"

"No. I mean she never said that to us but it was always obvious."

"Oh. But do you really think I can do great?"

"Absolutely. I mean look at me. I always think of myself as a…nerdy nervous wreck despite my capabilities but I still have Jewel. You however are the opposite. Full of total confidence. So with your talent, I'm pretty sure she'll wanna be with ya for a long time."

"Okay, thanks Blu."

"No prob. Now I'm gonna catch up with Nico and Pedro. See ya tomorrow, and good luck."

"See ya."

Rafael sighed, as he was about to prepare himself to go out with Eva, and the others would get ready for their first movie night.

More Notes & Disclaimers:

• "fun time together": and I'm just adding this list for fun.

• "traveling": They only travel throughout the one city and a good portion of the jungle.

Short again, I know. It's just that school's been driving me nuts again, but Part 2 will be all about them at the movies watching INDEPENDENCE DAY, and about Rafael & Eva on their first date.

Now here's a couple of other crazy things I wanted to bring up.

1. The main character to my entrepreneur TV shows is an immortal traveler, so what if later in this series, Blu and Jewel are traveling together and they get caught by something that makes them immortal? Just as an excuse to make this series go on.

2. What if while Blu and Jewel are still living together, Blu gets these visions about the events that happened in the original Rio story?

What do you think of those? I know that sounds extreme but I just wanted to mention 'em.