Disclaimer: I don't own Rio or any of its characters. Before I start I would like to thank the 3 people who have reviewed my story so far, it motivates me to carry on writing as we all know how annoying it can be when a story you have been following gets discontinued or left (unless of course they have personal reasons for it.) This chapter may deviate from the film a little bit.

Chapter 4: The Escape

Linda and Tulio saw the abomination of a float speeding away from the rest of the parade.

"That's were Blu must be." Linda shouted to Tulio, who was struggling to hear her over the noise of the parade. "Come on Tulio, follow me I have a plan."

Linda's plan would only work if they found something fast enough and big enough to be able to execute her plan correctly. Luckily for her, the much better-looking orange float was left unmanned and ready for the taking. Linda took over the float and drove towards Tulio. Tulio stared at the float as Linda said. "Get in!"

Meanwhile Blu and Jewel were practicing their fighting skills with each other, in an attempt that if the moment arises, he would be able to at least temporarily overpower Nigel and allow the others birds and his love to escape.

Luckily for Blu, he had a lot of free during his time in Minnesota, and therefore read a lot of books, ranging from medicine to rocket science. But, the most relevant book he had been reading for the moment in hand, was the martial arts book.

However there were some problems, most notably the fact that he has wings and claws, not hands and feet, but Blu accommodated for that and practised regularly, his expert knowledge of martial arts such as Kickboxing and Judo, has helped him in previous situations, most notably the fight between the birds and the monkeys.

FLASHBACK (In Blu's mind, but not from his POV)

Blu and Jewel were slightly annoyed by the fact that their kiss was interrupted before it could happen, and it was apparent on their faces. The lead monkey looked directly at the couple and said.

"You two are coming with me."

"In your little monkey dreams." Jewel retorted and spat right next to him.

"Yeah!" Blu agreed, and completely failed to spit as it came out as slobber, he collected it back up and swallowed it and said.

"That was meant for you." The rest of the talk was all a blur to Blu who and switched off until it suddenly became tense. All that was heard was a shout and the fight begun.

Blu was immediately charged and he kick-started the fight by roundhouse kicking/clawing a monkey, which sent him flying into another two and they fell over like bowling pins. Jewel just stared at Blu.

"What?" Blu said, "Do you think I just sat around and did nothing in Minnesota?"

The leading monkey used Blu's distraction to his advantage and knocked him over. But unluckily for him, Jewel stretched the chain and gave a wedgie to the monkey, who spat out some jewels. The fight quickly descended into chaos with birds and monkeys sent flying.

END OF FLASHBACK

"That's it Jewel, you did it." Blu said praising his love, who smiled in return. "That'll do for now." Blu concluded after showing Jewel how to do the roundhouse claw and also teaching her pressure points, and where they are located on a bird. "All, we do now is wait."

Linda and Tulio had managed to follow the float, with the help of broken egg costume pieces that Fernando (I think that's his name) pushed off the float to give them a trail to follow. Linda and Tulio followed the float to the airfield and saw the people their loading up the plane.

"Tulio, there they are, come on, let's try and get Blu and Jewel before they take off."

Meanwhile the three villains were making pre-flight checks and they had failed to notice the two other humans sneaking onto the aeroplane. Unfortunately, Nigel did and quickly squawked in alarm. The first three humans quickly ran to the back and saw Linda, Tulio and Fernando sneaking on. The three villains smiled to each other and snuck behind the other three. Linda, Tulio and Fernando were bound together and gagged before they could even make a sound and where thrown onto the plane, so that they couldn't call for help.

Blu woke up to hear a loud noise. He opened his eyes and sat up, careful not to wake his love who was sleeping next to him. He looked around the back of the plane and instantly recognised the three humans.

"Linda?...Linda!" Blu called, waking up Jewel in the process.

"Blu why are you shou….Oh." Jewel said as she noticed the three humans that could've saved her. "Blu, is that..?" Blu interrupted Jewel by saying

"Yeah, unfortunately it is." Linda had been looking around for a sound she thought she heard and she finally found the source of it, the blue macaws.

"Blu!" She said "I'm so sorry Blu, I should never have let you come to Rio!"

Blu wished he could speak to Linda and forgive her and also disagree with her, because he was glad to have come to Rio. Because he had met the bird of his dreams. And he would never trade her for the world. Blu just shook his head at Linda and looked at her with forgiveness in his eyes, hoping to convey the message to Linda that he forgives her and that he is glad he came to Rio

"Jewel?" Blu said turning to his female friend.

"Yeah, Blu?" Jewel replied looked at her love as well.

"I just thought I would let you know the response to Linda's statement, the truth is that I was glad I got came to Rio, glad I got caught up in this mess, becauseI found you, and to be honest, I would never trade what is happening now for luxury and to be back in Minnesota, because I met my other half here."

Jewel just stared at Blu, unable to say a word after his confession, what he just said to her was the sweetest thing she had ever heard, and she never felt that she was this important to someone before, tears flooded from her eyes, but it wasn't from pain or being upset. It was from happiness.

"Blu I…I-I don't know what to say…" Jewel trailed off as she realised that there was only one way she could convey how she felt to Blu. So she acted upon it.

Blu was taken by surprise as Jewel knocked him onto a side of the cage and climbed onto him and kissed him with so much passion that he felt like he was going to faint, he became intoxicated from her scent and it took all of his willpower to break the kiss. But Jewel tried to get more.

"Jewel stop!" Blu shouted, making her stop immediately.

"Blu, what's wrong? Have I hurt you? Do you not want this?" She said, starting to panic

"No Jewel it's nothing like that, it's just that it isn't the best time to engage in something like this, you almost sent me over the edge, and if you had, we almost certainly would of gone the whole way, and I know that we are both not ready for that."

"You're right Blu, I should of waited, but the urge to act upon my desires are getting stronger and stronger by the minute." Jewel replied, seemingly to have calmed down.

In the meantime, Linda and Tulio had witnessed what had happened and Linda was in shock that Blu and Jewel were mates, as was Tulio, as he knew exactly what Jewel was like when it came to other birds. Tulio would have been glad to make a comment on how it was about time Jewel had found someone, but unfortunately for him, he had been gagged and couldn't talk

The next morning…

Blu woke up to the feel of the plane in the air. Blu realised that if there was a time to escape, then it would be now.

So therefore Blu set out to create his contraption, with a bunch of cords and a fire extinguisher, his plan was to knock the fire extinguisher off, which would cause a series of cords to move, which would result in the top of the cage coming off.

"Sorry Eva, I won't be home for dinner" Rafael said to himself.

Jewel had woken up by now and saw what Blu was doing. "Blu what are you doing?" The female macaw asked.

"Just watch" Blu replied simply, and knocked the fire extinguisher off, it hit the ground which set off a series of contraptions which led to the popping of the cage.

"Alright, Blu" Rafael remarked.

Blu then proceeded to free Jewel.

"Help the others." He said to her. Meanwhile Blu knocked over some cages to block the doorway to the cockpit.

"Nico?" the male blue macaw said "I need your bottle cap!"

Nico threw the bottle cap to Blu who proceeded to cut the rope that bounded the three human's hands and legs. However Nigel had managed to get through the door. While Blu attempted to find the evil bird off, he shouted to Jewel. "Open the end of the plane, it's the left lever on the wall."

Jewel did as she asked at it lowered the planes back opening. Jewel said

"Go, Go, Go!" and immediately al the birds flew off the plane. By this time, Blu had been knocked down by Nigel and held by his throat. Lind and the other humans watched on in horror, unable to do anything

"Get off of him!" Jewel shouted and jumped on Nigel as she attempted to free Jewel, but she was knocked into a cage and then broke her wing as a cage smashed down on it. "OW!" Jewel screamed

"Jewel?" Blu shouted.

"My wing." Jewel said with considerable pain.

Nigel chuckled and said, "Oh, now we have two useless, flightless birds!"

Blu noticed the fire extinguisher slowly rolling towards him with a cord attached. He reached out for the cord and attached it to Nigel's leg.

"Oh!" Nigel said

"Not Cool Man! Not Cool!" Blu said and snapped off the valve off the fire extinguisher which sent Nigel flying out of the cockpit window, and then subsequently into one of the plane's engines.

Blu heard 'we're going down' in the background as he set to work breaking the ropes with Nico's bottle cap. When he was finished Linda hugged her pet and said,

"Thank you so much Blu!" Tulio fished around and coincidently found three parachutes lying on the floor. However Blu's reunion with his owner was over when he heard Jewel shout

"Blu!" Blu looked to see Jewel slipped towards the end of the aeroplane. Blu jumped out of Linda's arms and set out to stop Jewel from falling off, knowing that if she fell, she would die because she couldn't fly after her injury. "Nooooo!" She screamed as she slipped off the plane before Blu could reach her.

Blu had one last look at the humans and saw Linda shaking her head in disbelief, she couldn't believe that Blu was about to jump and most likely die, because he couldn't swim

Blu jumped and heard Linda shout "Blu! No!" But Blu didn't care about Linda at this time, all he cared about was holding his love one last time before they died together.

Blu went sailing through the air as he using his wings to propel him down to Jewel, where he smashed into her and held her in his wings.

"Uh!" She shouted, then she realised who it was and shouted "Blu, you are crazy! What are you doing!"

"I'm not gonna let you go. We're chained to each other birds remember!"

Jewel then stared at Blu as her mined processed what he said. She now knew that Blu has just sacrificed his life just to spend a few more seconds with her. She then kissed Blu one more time, with a lot of passion, Blu's eyes rolled back in his head as he shut his eyes and returned the kiss, he suddenly felt the need to fly, he was overcome by his heart and he slowly spread his wings and secured Jewel in his claws and started flying.

Jewel opened her eyes, wondering why she wasn't in the water, and then realised that she was flying in the air. She looked up in disbelief and saw her love flying and holding her.

"Blu! You're flying" The female macaw shouted excitedly.

"Yeah! I'm flying! You're right, I'm not an ostrich! I'm not an ostrich!

After navigating his way through the sky elevators (though barely) Blu made his way to the plane crash site, were he knew Linda would be there hoping he might return.

Linda stared hopelessly at the floor, knowing that she had lost her Blu and knowing that the Spix's Macaw was most likely extinct.

"Linda!" Fernando shouted "Look!"

Linda looked up to see none other than Blu flying carrying Jewel.

"Blu?" She said "Blu! Look Tulio it's Blu!" Tulio looked excitedly. "And he's flying!" Linda carried on "My Blu is flying! He's flying!" Linda and co. rushed out to meet Blu as he carefully placed Blu on her side to make sure she didn't hurt her wing.

Linda came running over and stopped in shock as she saw Jewel's damaged wing. Tulio came over to Jewel and said,

"Here, let me see." Jewel reeled back in reaction but eventually accepted his help and within 2 weeks she was out flying with Blu again, in the newly formed Blu Bird Sanctuary, which was run by Tulio, Linda and their adopted son Fernando.

A/N: That's the end of that chapter folks, for some reason I feel that I didn't write this chapter as well as the others, but that's up to what you think, this isn't the end of the story but don't expect daily updates anymore because I have to think through a plot etc. and I have Year 10 GSCE's and GCSE Modules coming up after Easter. Remember to leave a comment, and also I would appreciate some ideas for a plot. I'll write what you would like me to write, but I do have some of my own. See you later!