A/n: OK HERE YOU HAVE DIEGO AND SID BEING IN MATILDA'S HANDS. NOTE THAT I DID USE A SONG FROM A MOVIE CALLED, 'SNOOPY COME HOME,' THIS WAS NOT COPYWRITED OR ANYTHING I JUST USED IT CUZ… I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY TO ADD IN THIS STORY BUT I DO NOT OWN SNOOPY OR ICE AGE OK? OK. THE ONLY THING I THOUGHT OF HERE IS THE STORY IM WRITING AND THE NAME MATILDA FOR THE LITTLE GIRL. OK SO NOW THAT WEVE CLEARED THAT UP… ENJOY!

Ice Age 3- The Sweet Escape

Chapter two:Fundamental Friend Dependability

Ps- this chapter WILL be musical

Then Matilda tied Diego up with a rope around his neck like she had seen just like she had seen the older hunters do. But she had it tied so Diego could barley get air into his lungs. (too bad they didn't have the ASPCA back then!)

"Wait here kitty," Matilda tied Diego's "leash" tight to a tree trunk, "I'm gonna ask Ma if I can keep you that'll be fun if I can!"

When Matilda was gone. Sid came running up to his friend, "Diego what happened?"

"Sid," Diego gasped, "help me! You've gotta get this rope off I cant breathe and I don't speak human but I can swear to god she said something about keeping me as a… PET!"

Just then, A big cage crashed down from a tree and trapped Sid and Matilda jumped down from the tree.

"Oh boy! I found a lost monkey!" Matilda exclaimed and dragged the cage behind her, (the cage had little wooden wheels and a rope Matilda could pull,)

"Hey Ma I found a lost monkey." Matilda ran into a very big Cave house and yelled in it to her Mom, "this is great I have TWO pets… Hey Ma, I got two pets… a bobcat and a baboon. Hey ma, Can I keep them ma?"

'I don't look like a BABOON!!! Do I? NO!' Sid thought, this sucks!'

Matilda ran to Diego, "Hi kitty, Ma says I can keep you. Boy! I always wanted a cat! I think I'll give you a good Bobcat name." Matilda thought while Diego looked at her- totally freaked out. Then a light bulb went off in Matilda's head, "Bob… HEY!" She looked at Diego, "How 'bout Bob?" Diego made a gagging noise.

"Here Bob, Here Bob, HERE!" Matilda made squeaking noise like she was calling a dog.

Matilda then broke into song,

"I'm a sedemental gal. I need a fundamental pal. I'll Depend on you, you'll depend on me, squeaking sociologically," Matilda ran up and hugged Diego and danced with him, "We'll both have, Fundamental Friend Dependability, Fundamental Friend Dependability. I'll have fun with you, you'll have fun with me. This monumental Friend Dependability. Here Bob, Here Bob, HERE!" Matilda untied Diego to the tree and started dragging Diego to the pond, "Heal Bob! Heal!" For a little kid she had a very strong grip. Despite Diego's tugging on the leash she won the battle in dragging him to the pond, "heal bob!" The tiger dragged along the ground by a rope on his throat.

'oh crap,' was all Diego could think, 'please god tell me I'm not getting a bath! Please!'

But sure enough Matilda dragged Diego right to the small but fenced in area where the older humans washed the animals. But the older humans weren't paying attention to Matilda.

"I hope you like water. Cuz my kitty has to be really clean, ok Bob?"

Diego shivered and flinched at the sight of the water, he knew this was coming.

"Ok, in you go Bob! Singing hi-ge-anicly, we've got to wash away each flea. Rub a dub a dub," She grabbed some soap and remedy shampoo as Diego coughed and struggled as hard as he could but it was no use he was stuck with this singing girl. "I'll scrub you in the tub oh how squeaky clean you'll be, BE- CAUSE- OF Fundamental Friend Dependability. I'll disinfect your whole anatomy when you gotta jump, I'll scrub you till your numb. This monumental Friend Dependability."

'this is even worse than hearing SID sing and that's saying a lot ok ive gotta get out of here.'

The tiger started jumping around and up and down trying to break free from the girls grip but at the same time he did not want to hurt her because the humans carried a lot of weaponry and Diego didn't want to put himself or Sid in-danger. So the tiger just continued jumping.

"DOWN BOB! HEAL BOB HEAL!" It did no good, Diego finally managed to jump out of the water but too bad the area was fenced in so Diego just ran around in circles, "BOB BOB YOU NAUGHTY CAT BOB- BAD CAT!"

'Oh whats the use I'll play along until I get a better chance of escaping' Diego thought as he hopped back in to the water.

"Heal Bob, heal." Matilda started making soap figures on Diego's head, "I'm glad you like baths Bob." Matilda took Diego out of the water and got a towel, "I want you to be REAL clean so we can play dress-up." Matilda said as she dried Diego off with a towel.

Matilda and Diego finally reached Matilda's room of the cave and Diego saw Sid all locked up in a cage. But Sid was happy to see Diego. Sid sarted yelling at Diego as Matilda got the things she needed for her tea party, "DIEGO! IM SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE! WOW I WAS REALLY WORRIED, HOW COME YOU'RE ALL WET? WHAT HAPPNED TO YOU? WILL SHE EVER LET US OUT DO YOU THINK? WHY IS SHE CALLING YOU BOB? WHY ARENT YOU ANSWEREING? DIEGO, DIEGO?"

Diego just sighed he was in no mood to answer any questions.

Matilda came back in a fancy dress and a light peach bow in her hair and with another bigger dress and a hat. "I've always wanted a bobcat. You stick with me Bob!" She picked Diego up by the neck. She broke into song again.

'oh boy,' Diego thought.

Sid immidetly covered his ears when he herd that singing.

"Found a little shaggy saber, and we get to gussy up." With difficulty she pulled the dress over Diego's head and put one leg in the armhole and the other in the other arm hole. Then she threw a big straw hat with beads onto Diego's head. She took out two wooded stools and a wood table. "Oh how proper we will be… Cuz we've got, Fundamental Friend Dependability," Matilda continued her song and poured into a little tea cup some tea and into Diego's tea cup she got distracted and over filled the tea cup and it spilled onto Diego's dress. He tried to wiped it off but it did no good. "Fundamental Friend Dependability, Fundamental, Fundamental, Fundamental oh Fundamental Friend Dependability." Matilda then opened her eyes and saw Diego's tea stained dress.

"You naughty tiger, you got your dress dirty. ILL HAVE TO SPANK YOU!" She grabbed a paddle in the closet and swatted Diego on the butt.

"Ah ow. Uh ah eh!" Diego groaned and slipped away. Diego ran to the door but it was locked so he kicked the door.

"Down Bob down! Bob, Bob… bad cat come back Bob… Here Boy."

Diego continued banging on the door when Matilda grabbed the tiger by the ear and put the leash on him.

Diego was strapped to a tree outside… again.

"You naughty kitty… raising all this commotion. Mom says, if I'm gonna keep you I'll need to take you to the vets for a check up. You probably need about a dozen shots!"

Diego cringed, he didn't know what these, "shots" were but they sounded real painful. Diego was SO close to killing her now that he thought he actually would for a minute. But he restrained himself. He didn't want to deal with an angry human father besides he had a plan on how to escape.

"I'll walk you to the vet. That'll be great ok Bob? Heal Bob HEAL!" Matilda tugged at the leash.

They came to a sort of big cave. "Here we are."

Matilda dragged Diego in.

"Lets see. What does this tiger need?" The vet asked.

"Every shot you've got. He's from the wild you know."

"Ok first, we need to take a blood sample. I'll need you to remove the leash for a second Matilda."

"No problem, Bob is very tame."

As soon as the leash was off, Bob mauled the vet and broke out of the cave. Leaving the vet to tend to his wounds and Matilda dazed. Diego ran as fast as he could and did not stop until he got to the cave and then he snuck out of sight from the parents and ran to Matilda's room and Sid squeaked with joy when Diego came and then Diego finally broke the bars and Sid was free.

"Thank you so much Diego!"

"Ha no problem now lets go."

"Ok, but first I have a question. Why did you let that kid tug you on a rope?"

"Well, you wouldn't believe how much I wanted to hurt her?"

"Then why didn't you?"

"Well because, if her father knew what I did, he would do everything he could to kill both of us. So I figured out a plan that I hurt this… vet person she talks of and leave her dazed while we run out the door for our lives and go home!"

"Good plan… lets run for our lives now."

Matilda's Parents were out of the house to go fish hunting when Matilda came home. (ya… poor diego and sid didn't get out quick enough.)

When Sid and Diego made their way out of the living room, they just reached the door when Matilda burst in, "Here Bob, Here Bob, Here!" All the tiger and sloth could do was run with of course Matilda following them.

"Ah sh…" Diego trailed off.

"Apparently we didn't get out of the house fast enough!" Sid said to his friend.

"Bob, Bob… you naughty kitty… BOB!"

Diego and Sid ran all through the house. Until it got to one point where it had all of these rooms. Each room led into the next. After a while of getting chased through out the house they got down the stairs and they were running to the door. "Bob, Bob… you naughty kitty!"

Then Diego and Sid somehow tripped over each other and Matilda grabbed Diego by his tail. "That's it her dads not round anymore." Diego growled and gave her a big scratch on the face. Matilda stumbled back. Surprised of what Diego had just done but then started crying then Diego and Sid finally escaped and ran home.

MEANWHILE

"Manny, I'm getting worried about them… They haven't come back for a while now." Ellie said.

But Diego didn't stop running until they were all the way home. They got in the cave and ran inside and lied down on the floor.

"We did it." Diego gasped to Sid.

"Oh ya." Sid sighed.

"Where have you been?" Manny looked at the two,

"Believe me," Diego looked up, "you don't wanna know!"

a/n: ok there it is. sorry if it was confusing or hard 2 follow. Anyway… I hope you enjoyed that big LONG chapter and if u did please review… if u didn't review anyway. ps- 4 those of u who DIDN'T no… u pronounce Fundamental Friend Dependability like: fun-de-mental-friend-da-pendal-biliye