Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Bugs Life at the Ant Island

Upon their next stop Jason blinked as he looked at his now blue tough skin as he saw he was now a blue ant but with his black hair still on his head with his antennas, wore his Keyblade armor on his left arm and the red X across his chest along with the Land of Departure insignia in the center and saw Max was also an ant but with black skin.

"We're bugs?" Jason said as he saw he had wings, "do male ants have wings?" he asked as they walked around though the blades of grass they were in till they reached a line with a line of ants all carrying foods.

"What are they doing?" Max asked as they looked up to see a massive tree and followed the line till they saw an anthill and the ants all putting food on a rock like pedestal where a pile of food was.

"Hey over there by the rock thing" Max said pointing to an elderly ant hold a small green little bug with a crown but had flowers on it indicating she was the queen and was being shaded and another younger looking purple ant pacing with a crown.

"A princess!" Jason said.

"A princess of heart?" Max asked.

"No hers is the same thing the others have is a princess but hasn't become a princess of heart yet" Jason said.

"Oh the winds died down they'll be here soon!" Princess Atta said.

"Just be confident dear you'll be fine" the Queen said.

"AHH! There's a gap! There's a gap in the line! What are we going to do?!" Atta said.

"It's okay your highness gaps happen, we just lost a few inches that's all" Thorny said holding an abacus.

"Oh right" Atta said as she began to hover to look at what he was doing.

"Your highness I can't count when you hover like that."

"Oh sorry! I'm sorry!" she said landing.

"Guys go shade someone else for a while" the Queen said approaching Atta, "okay Atta now what do we do?"

"Uh oh don't tell me I know it I know it what is it?!" she said tapping her head.

"We relax!" The queen said.

"Oh ha ha right" Atta said.

"Oh it will be fine it's the same year after year they come they eat they leave, that's our lot in life it's not a lot but it's our lives" the Queen laughed, "isn't that right Avi? Your such a cute little Avid" she said setting the bug down as the ground move under it and it jumped away from a hole with two little ant kids running out.

"Ditch Dot!"

"Yeah yeah!"

"HEY! Come back here!" Princess Dot said sticking her head out the hole and ran after them as she tried to fly her small wings but only hovered a few seconds before hitting the ground with a grunt.

"DOT!" the Queen yelled.

"Yes mother?" Dot said.

"What did I tell you about trying to fly?" the Queen said.

"Not until my wings grow in" she said.

"Right."

"But mom!"

"Dot you a young Queen Ant and your wings are too little to be-" Atta said before Dot cut her off.

"I was talking to mother, you not the queen yet Atta!"

"Now Dot! Be nice to your sister" the Queen said.

"It's not my fault she so stressed out" Dot said.

"I know I know! I am always acting like the sky is falling" Atta said.

"LOOK OUT!" an ant yelled as a grain stock fell on Atta.

"ATTA!" the queen yelled.

"Princess Atta!" Dr. Flora yelled running to the stock with the other Ant Council men.

"Okay so from what I picked up these ants are collecting food for an offering I think ergo that pile of food over there, someone comes they eat and then they leave but how much food do they need? And where did that stock fly from?" Jason said looking over to an ant attached to a strange device as it sawed the stock dropped it on to the contraption and collected the grain in a basket before launching the empty stalk and it falling on Atta again after the first stalk was pulled off.

"HEY! Stop that! You could have killed somebody over here!" Dr. Flora yelled.

"OH! I'm sorry!" Flik yelled running over.

"Oh it's Flik!" Thorny groaned.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Please forgive me I'm sorry!" Flik said as the stalk was pulled off Atta as she coughed, "AHHH! Princess Atta!"

"Flik! What are you doing?!" Atta said.

"Oh this?! This is my new idea for harvesting grain! No more picking individual kernels when you can just cut down the entire stalk.

"Flik! We don't have time for time!"

"Exactly! We never have time to collect food for ourselves because we speed all summer harvesting for the Offering but my invention will speed up production!" Flik said.

"Ugh! Another invention!?"

"Yeah and I got something for you too!"

"Flik!"

"Since you're going to be Queen soon you could use this to oversee production!" Flik said rolling up a blade of grass, "Dr. Flora if I may" he said taking a dew from her flower.

"It's very nice."

"Just an ordinary blade of grass and a bead of dew right?" Flik said.

"Flick please."

"Wrong! It is in fact!" Flik said putting the dew into the leaf, "a telescope!"

"It's very clever Flik but."

"Hello Princess my aren't you looking lovely this morning" Flik said looking into the other end at Atta, "well of course you wouldn't need a telescope to see that."

"ALRIGHT! LISTEN!" Thorny yelled taking the telescope and tossing it, "the Princess doesn't have time for this! You want to help us fill this thing then get rid of that machine, get back in line and pick grain like everybody else!"

"Like everybody else!" Cornelius a very old ant with a cane yelled pointing his cane.

"Please Flik just go" Atta said.

"I'm sorry I was really just trying to" Flik said as Throny and Cornelius pointed away, "trying to help" Flik said dropping his head and walking away.

"That's not fair at all, so whoever is forcing them to make this offering is not giving them enough time to feed themselves, let's go talk to that guy, maybe he can fill in the rest" Jason said as they followed Flik into the grass.

"Hey Flik! Flik wait up!" Dot called carrying Flik telescope.

"Oh hello princess" Flik said.

"You can call me Dot, here you forgot this" Dot said holding up the telescope.

"Thanks, you can keep it I can make another one" Flik said.

"I like your inventions" Dot said.

"So do we" Jason said approaching with Max.

"Really? You three the first, I beginning to think nothing I build works" Flik said.

"This works" Dot said looking into the telescope.

"Great, once success" he said sighing, "I'm never going to make a difference.

"Me neither, I'm a royal ant and I can't even fly yet I'm too little" Dot said.

"Come on don't say that you two" Jason said.

"Yeah being little is not such a bad thing" Flik said.

"Yes it is."

"No it's not."

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"OKAY! Enough of that!" Jason said.

"A seed!" Flik said.

"Huh?" Max said.

"I need a seed" Flik said trying to get one of the grain in his basket attached to his back but couldn't reach it and end up going around in a circle before groaning and picking up a nearby rock.

"What are you doing?" Jason asked.

"Here pretend that this is a seed" Flik said handing Dot the rock.

"It's a rock" Dot said.

"I know it's a rock, I know but let's just pretend for a minute it's a seed okay? We'll use our imaginations!"

"Okay?" Max said.

"You see our tree?" Flik said gesturing to the tree.

"Yeah hard to miss" Jason said.

"Everything that made that giant tree is already contained in this tiny little seed, all it need is some time and a little bit of sunshine and rain and voila!"

"This rock will be a tree?" Dot said.

"The Seed to Tree! Work with me here alright? Ok! You may feel like you cannot do much now but that's just because you're not a tree yet, you just have to give yourself some time, your still a seed."

"But it's a rock."

"I KNOW IT'S A ROCK! Don't you think I know a rock when I see one?! I've spent a lot of time around rocks!" Flik yelled.

"Your weird" Dot said.

"Yeah" Jason and Max nodded.

"But I like you" Dot said.

"Anyway Flik, Princess Dot I am Jason and this is Max were uh from an Anthill very fat away can you tell us who this offering for?" Jason asked as they heard a loud horn blown as Flik gasped.

"They're here!" Flik said dropping the rock.

"Who's here?!" Max asked hearing the horn again as all the ants began to run around in panic.

"MOM! MOM!" Dot yelled running as Flik did.

"Flik! Who here?!" Jason asked as some leave caught onto Flik invention then launched him back sending him hitting the ground.

"Flik!" Max said as he and Jason ran back to help Flik up.

"Dot! Dot!" the Queen yelled looking around all the running ants.

"Mom!" Dot yelled running to her.

"Single file! Please!" Princess Atta said.

"Thank heavens!" the Queen said hugging Dot.

"Move to the offering stone!" Atta said as the Queen whistled loudly as all the ants stopped running.

"Okay everyone single file! Food to the Offering Stone and into the anthill now let's go!" the Queen ordered as the ants began to toss the food on the stone before all running into the ant hill.

"Come on keep moving keep moving!" Atta yelled as she flew onto the entrance to the Anthill then looked around to see no other ant in sight, "okay that's everyone" she said before flying in.

"Hey! Hey wait for us!" Flik yelled running out of the grass with Jason and Max.

"Flik! Please tell us what's going on!" Jason yelled.

"Got to get the food to the offering stone then into the ant hill!" Flik said running up the leaf leading to the stone as he tossed his invention onto it and ran off the exit as the invention vibrated and fell off the stone then knock off one of the small rocks holding up the stone as the three heard a loud crack before the stone fell over.

"AHHHH!" Flik screamed.

"The food!" Jason yelled as they saw it falling off the large leaf and into a stream below.

"AHHHHH! NO NO!" Flik yelled as Flik Jason and Max grabbed the leaf and tried to save the remaining food but failed as every last bit fell off and they looked into the water the food all fell in.

"Oh no" Flik said.

"What now Flik?" Jason said looking over to see Flik gone, "Flik?"

"PRINCESS ATTA! PRINCESS ATTA!" Flik yelled running to the anthill.

"Wait up!" Max yelled as they heard buzzing noises approaching as Jason and Max followed Flik into the anthill.

"Is it Unversed?" Max asked as they ran down the path down into the anthill city.

"No, for them to have the ant scared like this, it has to be someone very threatening to have them organize and offering has to be another type of bug" Jason said as they entered a large room where the ants were all gathered.

"Excuse me! Pardon me!" Flik said running to the center where the three royal ants were.

"Flik wait!" Max said as they climbed up with him.

"Princess Atta there's something I need to tell you!" Flik said.

"Not now Flik!" Atta hissed still looking up at the roof where the buzzing was getting louder.

"But your highness it's about the offering!" Flik said.

"SHHH!"

"Oh dear" Jason said as they hear multiple thuds above of the insect gang landing.

"Hey! What's going on?!"

"Yeah! Where's the food?!"

All the ants in the room then gasped as Atta eyes widen, "what did you do?!" she growled at Flik as all eyes glared at Flik Jason and Max.

"It was an accident" Flik said as a foot broke through the roof letting in light as more holes began to get broken as Grasshoppers began to fly in laughing as all the ants began to run in fear with the grasshoppers flying around.

All then got quite as Jason looked over to see three ants on the ground one of them being Flik as Hopper glared down at them.

"Hopper" Flik said with fear.

"So that's the bad guy" Jason said quietly as Hopper walked over then began to walk around with all the ants moving out of his way.

"So where is it? WHERE'S MY FOOD!" Hopper yelled with his voice echoing.

"Isn't it up there?" Atta said.

"WHAT?!" Hopper growled approaching her.

"The food was in a leaf sitting on top of-"

"EXCUSE ME?!"

"Sure it's not up there?"

"Are you saying I'm stupid?"

"No!"

"Do I look stupid to you? Let's just think about the logic shall we? Let's just think about it! If it was up there would I be coming down here to your level LOOK FOR IT?!"

"I-"

"Why am I even talking to you?" Hopper said as his antenna began to touch Atta face, "you're not the queen, you don't smell like a queen."

"She learning to take over for me Hopper" the Queen said.

"Oh I see under new management, so it's your fault" he glared.

"No! It wasn't me it was-"

"Uh uh uh! First rule of leadership everything is your fault!"

"But I-"

"It's a bug eat bug world out there princess, one of those circle of life kind of things, now let me tell you how things are supposed to work, the sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food-"

"And the birds eat the grasshoppers! Hey like the one that nearly ate you remember?" Molt said as he began a story.

"Molt!" Hopper growled.

"He had him halfway down his throat okay? And hopper kicking and screaming okay and I'm scared" Molt said as Hopper began to walk towards him.

"I am not going anywhere near oh come on! It's a great story!" Molt said as Hopper grabbed his antennas and began to drag him, "Ow! OW! OW!"

Hopper then slammed Molt to a wall as he growled, "I swear if I hadn't promised mother on hear deathbed that I wouldn't kill you I'D KILL YOU!" he growled.

"And believe me no one appreciates that more than I do."

"SHUT UP! I don't want to hear another word out of you while were on this island do you understand me?!" he growled a Molt whimpered. "I SAID DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!"

"Well how can I answer you said I couldn't say another word!" Molt said as Hopper growled and pulled back both his right arms, "AHHH! Remember ma!"

"RAAHH!" Hopper yelled punching the nearest grasshopper and knocking him out.

"Hn" Jason grunted watching Hopper calm himself.

"Hey! I'm a companionate insect, there are still a few months till the rains come so you can all try again!" he growled.

"But Hopper since it's almost the rainy season we need this time to collect food for ourselves" the Queen said.

"Listen! If you don't keep your end of the bargain then I can't guarantee your safety and there are insects out there that will take advantage of you! Some could get hurt!" he growled snapping both his left hands as they heard a roaring as all the ants looked to the entrance to the room to see a feral grasshopper on a leash behind held by two grasshopper enter growling as it roared as Dot gasped and tried to run but Hopper caught her, "AHHH!"

"What's the matter? You scared of grasshoppers?" Hopper said holding Dot out as he walked them towards the feral bug as Dot whimpered "you don't like Thumper?"

"Leave her alone!" Flik yelled running out from the crowd and into one of the lights coming from the roof as Hopper attention went to Flik as Flik began to regret speaking out as Hopper approached.

"You want her? Go ahead take her" Hopper said holding out Dot as Flik looked down the ground, "no? Then get back in line!"

Flik then backed away into the crowd as Jason was about to approached Keyblades in hands as Hopper dropped Dot and she ran back to her mother.

"It seems to me that you ants are forgetting your place, so let's double the order of food" Hopper said as the room gapsed.

"No! The Ants will starve if they do that" Max said to Jason.

"No but but-" Atta said.

"We'll be back at the end of the season" Hopper said pulling a flake off Molt, "when the last leaf falls" Hopper said dropping the flake life a leaf as the ants glanced at the tree above with all its leaves.

"You ants have a nice summer, LET'S RIDE!" Hopper yelled as all the grasshopper cheered and fired up their wings before flying out the holes they made leaving the ants.

Every ant then glared and moved away from Flik who stood alone with all the glaring eyes before he laughed nervously.

"Jason we have to do something" Max whispered.

"I know, that bug heart is full of darkness and we can't let these ants suffer" Jason said.

"But a whole summer? Jason what about your friends?" Max asked.

"Oh you didn't notice? Some worlds have slower time lines then we do when crossing the lanes between staying a summer here maybe two or three days back out in the lanes so we can stay and help" Jason said.

A.N. I know originally it was going to be the Rescuers but do to some complication it will have to wait and we'll go off from A Bugs Life then after it maybe the Rescuers so please enjoy and Review!