Chapter Five
A Show of Teamwork
"Right then" i buzzed to Ms Frizzle & Phoebe, Ms Frizzle who had a rather hopeful smile on her face "So what's your plan Tim?" she asked. Then bus bee finally stopped and spotted us hovering beside it. The face like front where its headlights, bumper bar and radiator use to be all currently replaced with bee like features looked at us and smiled. Its eyes we then moving around almost like it was trying to tell us something. Ms Frizzle, Phoebe and I had trouble working out what it was trying to say although i think Ms Frizzle knew exactly as she still had that smile on her face "Kids! Look who is inside!" she shouted with happiness! As we peered through the windows of the bus bee as it still kinda had its original bus parts we could see Liz! She was waving her arms around madly trying to get our attention "Oh no poor Liz, at my old school we never allowed lizards to be trapped in a bus" Phoebe said "Don't worry Phoebe" i said "We'll figure out a way to save her and US!". Just then Ms Frizzle flew towards the window where Liz was they both were communicating in someway. While this was happening it was like the bus bee continued to gather nectar. The inside of the bus was quickly felling up with nectar juice which made it difficult for Liz to stay put as she was almost swimming in it. Then an old memory came to my head, the way to communicate with a bee when you are a bee is by dancing! I remember that from our field trip those years ago in the beehive "Hey Phoebs, I've got an idea on how we can communicate with the bus bee, we need to dance!" i told Phoebe who was hovering beside me. She smiled and remembered too "Nice one Tim, lets tell Ms Frizzle" Phoebe answered. We flew towards Ms Frizzle who was still trying to get Liz's attention "Sorry kids, we are going to have to act fast! Liz has managed to tell me that the bus has completely lost its memory and thinks its a real bee while turning as into bees during the process. Liz has been trying to control it but she keeps getting swept around by the nectar inside it to gain control" Ms Frizzle quickly told us. I looked at Phoebe and i looked at her then we both looked at Ms Frizzle "We have an idea, how about if we communicate by dancing, like real bees. We are almost real bees anyway" i told Ms Frizzle. Ms Frizzle smiled with joy "Oh you kids are so clever! That's something that i will be teaching my new class about bees and how they communicate, hopefully when we get out of this mess" she said. Then without warning bus suddenly flew away "Oh no, where's it going now?" asked Phoebe "Come on kids, we need to follow it" said Ms Frizzle "I hope that this doesn't happen for this class!". We followed the bus trying to keep it in our sights trying to fight off the bee spell from overtaking us "faster, faster" i said to the girls " we cannot let that bus bee out of our sight!".
We flew into the next garden that was 2 blocks away from the school and found the bus and Liz heading straight towards a patch of daisies. Instead of landing on a flower it landed on the garden bed wall that had been built around the daisy patch. We all shouted "hooray!" as it was the first time the bus bee had basically stopped on a flat surface rather then a flower. Phoebe, Ms Frizzle and i landed on the wall feeling exhausted from all the flying we have been doing "Hopefully the bus will let us catch our breath before it flies away" i buzzed while observing the bus who was looking just as worn out. Liz, who was still trapped inside finally managed to stop being whooshed around by the liquid of the nectar inside the bus started to swim in it. While the nectar is a liquid, having it whooshed around while the bus was flying made it start to thicken and Liz was struggling to swim towards the controls while holding her breath "Its OK Liz" Ms Frizzle shouted "We have another plan, Tim you may begin". Then suddenly she pulled out a poster with what looked like dance steps on it from out of no where! She placed it on the wall we were sitting on, it looked very much like the one that we used when Phoebe and i were in that beehive with the gang all those years ago "My sis past it down to me" Ms Frizzle buzzed with a large smile on her face. "Right then" i said "hope this works, i'll...take the lead shall i?", all i could think about was that this bus was being brainwashed to gather nectar to make honey but we didn't have a hive to return too. Phoebe then pointed out that we do have a hive, the classroom "Tim, the classroom, remember it was transformed to what looked like an inside of a beehive?" then Ms Frizzle quickly answered "that's right! Phoebe, we need to tell the bus bee that it needs to go back to the classroom which...is now a beehive. Hopefully if we try and tell it to go back there, everything will return to normal including us!". I nodded but then asked if we needed to make adjustments to the dance pad that Ms Frizzle originally pulled out and began to say "Its ok Tim, if you may remember you used the dance steps to and worked as a team communicate to other bees to follow you for more nectar right?" Phoebe and i both looked at each other and smiled "So...lets try doing the same as you, Phoebe and the rest of the class did in the past but instead of finding flowers we fly to the classroom ahhh classroom hive...". In my head all i could think that it was worth a shot "Ok, here we go, you try first Tim" Ms Frizzle buzzed. I crawled onto the dance pad "One, two, three, One, two three" Ms Frizzle sang, i was following the dance steps that were printed on the pad almost going around in circles. I still to this day are amazed on this is how bees communicate and how they don't get dizzy! I was really hoping that the bus bee will see what i was doing "Tim, the bus doesn't seem to be interested in what you are doing, however you of Liz's attention" i could hear Phoebe shouting. Then not before long she flew over and started to follow me from behind. Ms Frizzle was still singing. Phoebe and i continued our dance routine while Ms Frizzle was observing the buses behavior "Right kids, this looks like its going to be a complete team effort, i'm coming in" she said. Just then Phoebe could feel Ms Frizzle follow behind her as Ms Frizzle's antennas tickled Phoebe's stinger. I could hear Phoebe giggling as i remember her being ticklish "OK everyone, lets make this the best performance ever!" i buzzed to the girls.
All three of us were dancing on the dance pad, all going around in circles. Then in no time at all the bus bee started to observe in what we were doing! "Oh right!" i said in relief "Let's not stop now" Ms Frizzle said "We need to have its complete attention". We all again were starting to get exhausted from dancing it took ages for the bus to take notice but then it started to move again along with Liz still inside "hope you kids have saved some energy, i think we are about to buzzed off" Ms Frizzle told us. The bus fluttered its wings and started to take flight "Could this be? Did we managed to convince it to follow us" Phoebe asked "Fingers crossed or shall i say antenna's crossed" i answered back to her shortly before we also got our wings moving and launched off the wall to follow it. The bus bee came to a halt and started to hover just as the three of us were flying towards it " Let's get ahead of it and see if it follows us" i buzzed, in no time at all the three of us began to fly ahead "What if this doesn't work?" Phoebe buzzed Ms Frizzle who was flying beside her smiled and said "Well judging from our show of beefantastic team work back there, i have a feeling that we are sure to have a win!". "Yeah, having worked as part as a team surely we will have more of a chance" i said in hope while also feeling deep down scared in that this may not work and that we will never turn back into ourselves again! "We are the 3 Bee team!" Ms Frizzle buzzed "high five kids" while still flying in the air we all lifted a hand or well shall i say a insect leg to touch each others to do a high five "I guess that's how bees do high fives" i buzzed. I looked behind as and with great joy the bus bee was following us!
