Chapter Sixty-One: Making a Bird!

Later that day Thorny cut out a impression of a bird in a leaf as Manny and Gypsy flew up holding up the leaf to the sun making a large perfect size shadow of a bird.

"Perfect!" Thorny yelled into a snail shell megaphone.

"Okay, hit your marks!" Atta yelled in her megaphone as the ants moved setting sticks along the outline of where the bird will be.

"Whoa! Whee-hee!" two boy cheered ridding on a large branch on Dim back as they jumped off and Dim tossed into the center of the stick out line.

"Ready!" Jason yelled from below as two ants dropped an acorn down to him as he summoned his keyblades and jumped up and sliced perfectly through it for their beak as ant picked it up and Flik said Atta helping as she giggled.

"Hi, Flik."

"Oh."

Tuck then snickered as Flik bumped him away and laughed nervously as they moved the acorns

Meanwhile!

In the infirmary Francis groaned as the Blueberries had a tea party on him.

"I love what you did with your antenna."

"Oh, thank you"

"Oh, look. She's a natural mother." Flora said leaving the room with another ant woman as Francis growled.

"All right, that's it! Out! Everybody out!" he yelled tossing the tea party blanket off him as the girls gathered around the entrance whimpering.

"Now you're gonna cry, right? See if I care. Go ahead, cry" he said as they girls brok down crying, "Please, don't cry. Please"

Francis then putt a flower on his head and juggled the drops of water dew then tossed them in the air and caught them in his mouth, "Ta-da!"

The girls then clapped and cheered while outside the sun was beginning to set as Dim began to set down their snail shell megaphone to where it will go in the bird.

"Okay, lower, lower" Throny said as Dim Chuckles as it got in place. "You got it. And that's it!" he yelled into the intercom and made it knock Corneilius over.

"Whoa!"

"Up, up, up, up!" Tuck and Roll said with other chains of ants as they bulled the bird structure together as Rosie came in to tie web to hold it together.

"Rabbit through the hole, chicken in the barn, two by two by, there's the yarn, done!" Rosie yelled.

"Ruben Kincaid!" Tuck and Roll yelled as the chains broke apart.

"Hey!" the ant cheered.

"Good job, guys! Nice work!" Rosie said.

The next day they were working on the wings for the bird as they tested it.

"Up, down. Up, down. Up, down" Heimlich said as he ate and they tested the wings.

Meanwhile!

Francis played cards with the girls as they all looked at their hands with poker faces.

"Hmm."

"Hmm" Francis said as he chuckles and set his cards down and reached for the money.

"Ah-ah-ah. Read 'em and weep" a girl said showing her higher card.

"Huh?" Francis said seeing he lost as the girls giggled.

The next day!

One all the leaves were yellow, orange and red ants began jumping on them and air surfing down with the leaves for their bird's feathers.

"Whoo-whee! Yahoo!" Flik yelled doing flips/

"Flik, watch out!" Heimlich said coming down flapping several leaves.

"Whoa!"

"Look! I'm a beautiful butterfly!" he said as Flik laughed.

Later they were setting their leaves on the bird to make it look like feathers.

"There ya go. Good job, fellas. Keep up the good work" Atta said as she looked to Flik to see him watching her with a dream smile as he saw he was caught and hid behind a leaf in the bird as Atta smiled.

"Soon the bird was ready as it had a rope coming from it's back and ready to be put in the tree.

"Okay!" Atta yelled as the colony began to pull on strings to hoist the bird up as it slowly began to lift as Dim pushed it into a hole in the tree where it would hid and put the locks in to hold it in place as Tuck and Roll came out the fake bird mouth.

"You're fired!" they laughed as the Ants began cheering.

"Yes!" Flik smiled.

Later that night the ants celebrated as they threw a party.

"To the bird! The bird!" the ants cheered moving in a conga line, "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!"

"Whoo! Get down, roly boys!" Flora said dancing with Tuck and Roll.

"How low can you go? Sing it now!" Slim said being the stick for limbo.

"How low can you go" the ants sang as Atta limboed under slim.

"Do it, Princess how low can you go!" he said as Atta laughed.

"And that's how my 12th husband died" Rosie chuckled "so, now I'm a widow. I mean, I've always been a black widow, but now I'm a black widow widow." She laughed.

Dim laughed as he shot of a bug child from his back and sent her flying into a web as Max helped kids down.

"Nice Dim!" Max called.

"Blueberries, dismissed!" Francis yelled as the girls ran off giggling, "And, uh, quit beatin' the boys up."

"Leg looking better Francis" Jason said seeing his cast off.

"Those little raisins do grow on ya" Francis sighed.

"Hey, how you guys doin'? Some party, huh? Is that grain dip fresh or what?" Flik said as he leaned in to whisper.

"Okay, I've told everyone you'll be stationed deep in the command bunker. Party quiets down, I sneak you out the back way and then you're outta here forever" Flik said as the circus bug had some doubt in their eyes.

"Dim don't wanna go" Dim said.

"Well, if Dim stays he's gonna need me here. He's not fully trained. I mean, house-trained" Rosie said as Dim chuckled.

"I, uh, I kinda promised the Blueberries I'd teach 'em canasta" Francis said.

"It seems we've been booked for an extended engagement" Gypsy said as Tuck and Roll approached Flik and kissed both his cheeks.

"Will you look at this colony?" Atta said approaching, "will you just look at this colony? I don't even recognize it."

"I feel 70 again!" Cornelius said doing one hand pushups.

"Work that ab, baby!" the Queen laughed.

"And I have you bugs to thank for it. So- thank you! And, uh, thank you for findin' 'em, Flik" Atta said.

"Me?" Flik said turning as their antennas got tangled up. "Oh, ooh- uh, uh, I'll get it I mean, if you don't mind, I'll just-
"It's all tangled up" Atta said laughing nervously.

"There."

"Ow! I think I'll go check on the bird" she giggled going the wrong direction "Bird's this way." She said going to the tree.

"Yeah, the bird's that way" Flik laughed nervously as he saw the other bugs knowing smiles, "She- What?"

"You know what" Jason smirked as they heard the alarm horn go off.

"They're back!" they heard someone yell.

"Get ready, everybody!"

"Get to your posts!"

Ants then got into three lines as Atta flew.

"Battle stations, everyone. This not a drill. Come on, everyone. You know your jobs! Let's go, go, go, go!" Atta yelled as a light came behind her.

"Atta!" Jason yelled flying in a pulling her out off the way from P.T. centipede pulled circus car.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa there. Steady, girls. That's it!" P.T. said.

"Oh, it's P.T." Rosie said.

"P.T.?" Dim said as they hid.

"Greetings and salutations! Ooh-boppa-doo and how do you do? I am the great P.T. Flea! I'm in need of your assis-Oh, let's just cut to the chase. Look, I've been goin' from anthill to anthill. I'm lookin' for a bunch of circus performers. Have you seen 'em?" P.T. said pulling down a poster with the bugs on it as

The crowd gasps.

"Wait a second. Ain't that Staff Sergeant Slim?" Cornelius asked pointing as Flik ran in trying to roll up the poster.

"No, no, no. I'm sorry, no, but uh-"

Rustling and groaning got P.T. attention as he looked to a lead.

"Be quiet!" Slim whispered.

"Hey!" P.T. said shinning a light over to the light.

"You'll probably- you'll probably want to get goin'. I guess you got a lot of other anthills to check into, so, bye!" Flik said as P.T. pulled the leaf off the bugs.

"Ah, guys, I've been lookin' all over for ya! Flaming Death is a huge hit!"

"P.T.! Shhhh-" Francis said.

"I'm serious. Word of mouth got around."

"P.T.! No!" Slim said.

"The next day, there was a line of flies outside the tent went on forever! It must have been a foot long!"

" P.T., no!" Rosie said.

"So, I figured it out. You guys burn me twice a night, I take a day off to heal, and then we do it all over again! We'll be the top circus act in the business!"

"You mean, you're not warriors?" Atta said.

"Are you kiddin'? These guys are the lousiest circus bugs you've ever seen and they're gonna make me rich!" P.T. laughed.

"...call me crazy but he sounds like Hamm and that Abominable Snowman!" Jason whispered.

"I know! It's so bizarre!" Max said.

"You mean to tell me that our entire defensive strategy was concocted by clowns?!" Thorny said.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey. We really thought Flik's idea was gonna work" Francis said as the crowd gasped and all turned to Flik, "Oops."

"Tell me this isn't true" Atta said approaching Flik.

"No, you don't- You don't-"

This couldn't have happened at a more inopportune time! The last leaf is about to fall!" Mr. Soil said.

"We haven't collected any food for the grasshoppers!" Dr. Flora said.

"If Hopper finds out what we almost did!" Thorny said.

"Hopper is not going to find out! We're going to hide all this, and pretend it never happened, you bugs were never here, so I suggest you all leave" the Queen said.

"But the bird! The-The bird will work" Flik said.

"I never thought I'd see the day when an ant would put himself before the rest of his colony."

"What?"

"The point is, Flik, you lied to us."

"No, no, no! I-l-"

"You lied, Flik. You lied to her. You lied to the colony! You lied to me! And like an idiot, I believed you!" Atta growled.

"But l-I was just afraid that... if you knew I'd gotten circus bugs- I just wanted to make a difference."

"I want you to leave, Flik and this time, don't come back" Atta said as the crowd gasps and murmurs.

Flik and the Circus bugs then got onto P.T. circus cart as Jason and Max sighed and joined them. "Tough crowd. Yee-haw!" P.T. yelled as they rode off.

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