Chapter Sixty-Two: Save the Queen!
Moving from Ant Island P.T. hummed as he drove the Animal cracker box cart.
"I'm gonna be rich, rich, rich. I'm gonna be rich, rich, rich I'm gonna be the richest flea in the land Ka-ching! The streets'll be paved with golden retrievers I'm rich, rich, rich That's who I am!"
"Ugh he annoys me" Jason groaned as he looked to Flik who sat alone sitting at the edge of the ramp.
"Poor fellow" Slim said.
"Hey, maybe we can cheer him up a bit" Francis said.
"Good idea" Jason said getting up as they approached Flik.
"Don't worry, Flik. The circus life isn't so bad" Heimlich said.
"Yes, you can be part of our act" Slim said.
"Here! Like this!" Francis said slapping Slim who spun a few times as Francis caught him.
"Oof! Ahh. Slapstick! Get it? I-I'm a walkingstick" he said laughing nervously "Oh, never mind."
"Flik! Jason! Max!" they heard Dot yell.
"Dot?" Flik said as they saw Dot fly towards them.
"Guys, wait! Wait!"
"Dot, you're flying! What are you doing here?" Flik said catching Dot as she tried to catch her breathe.
"You... have to go back, Hopper moved into the anthill, and his gang's eating everything!"
"Oh, no!" Heimlich said.
"Good heavens!" Manny said.
"And I heard a grasshopper say that when they're finished, Hopper's gonna squish my mom!"
"Oh, not the queen!" Heimlich said.
"We got to do something!" Rosie said.
"How?" Francis said.
"Come on, you guys, think!" Rosie said.
"Max and I could try to take on Hopper but we can't take on that entire gang, we don't know how strong they" Jason said.
"We need a plan" Max said thinking.
"I know! The bird!" Gypsy said.
"Yes, of course!" Manny said.
"The bird! That's brilliant!" Slim said.
"Ja!"
"Okay we need a plan if we can get to the bird we can scare off Hopper gang and save the Ant colony!" Jason said.
"The bird won't work" Flik said as they all turned to him who was sitting on the pencil bench.
"What are you talking about? It was your idea" Francis said.
"But you said that everything-" Dot said.
"Forget everything I ever told you. All right, Dot? Let's face it, the colony is right, I just make things worse, that bird is a guaranteed failure…just like me."
"You listen to me, my boy I've made a living out of being a failure and you, sir, are not a failure!" Manny said.
"Oh, but Flik, you've done so many good things!" Rosie said.
"Oh, yeah? Okay, show me one thing I've done right" Flik said.
"Umm" Rosie said.
"Uh...let's see there was no that got us in this mess" Jason said thinking.
"Us" Dim said walking outside the back with Tuck and Roll on his back.
"Yeah. Yeah, yeah!" all the bugs said.
"Dim is right, my boy, you have rekindled the long-dormant embers of purpose in our lives" Manny said.
"You showed Max and I that with great idea you can make big differences" Jason said.
"And if it wasn't for you, Francis would have never gotten in touch with his feminine side" Slim said.
"Oh yeah? Well-Hmm..." Francis said as he chuckled, "you know what? He's right."
"Lieutenant Gypsy reporting for duty!"
"Kid, say the word and we'll follow you into battle" Francis said.
"We believe in you, my boy" Manny said.
"Flik, please?" Dot said as Flik turned from them and Dot glared flying out and picking up a rock and flew back in and set it on the spot next to Flik as he looked at it.
"Pretend it's a seed, okay?" Dot said.
The morning sun then began to shine in as Flik chucked and smiled.
"Thanks, Dot" Flik said hugging Dot.
"Hey, what's with the rock?" Francis whispered.
"Must be an ant thing" Slim whispered as Jason chuckled.
"You could say that" Jason smiled.
"All right, let's do it!" Flik said as his friend cheered.
"That's the Flik we know and love!" Gypsy said.
"We're on!" Manny said.
"Alright! I am itchy to kick some grasshopper butt!" Jason said summoning his keyblades.
"So, what do we do first?" Rosie asked as Flik smirked.
"Bugs will pay big bucks to see! A bonfire that is starring me!" P.T. sang as he laughed and Francis flew next to him.
"P.T., look. Money!" Francis yelled.
"Where? Where?" P.T. said turning around as Rosie shot her web at him "AHHHH!"
Later that night!
"All right. Get movin'! Get goin'. Move your abdomens, now!" a grasshopper yelled as Flik looked through a telescope to see the grasshopper gathering all the ants to one place.
"They're rounding everyone up" Flik whispered as they all hid in leaf camouflage as a firefly light hit them.
"Hey! Turn your butt off!" Francis hissed as the bug did and the three other circus crew member began to close the ramp to the back of the animal cookie box.
"Psst! Hey, guys! Get me out of this thing, will ya? I promise to start thinkin' about payin' ya!" P.T said tied to the roof as they closed the door, "Hey! Wait, wait! Okay, I'll pay ya! I'll pay ya!"
"Oh, no! They've finished collecting the food!" Flik said.
"That's just great! What do we do now?" Jason asked.
"We've got to get the queen now, once she's safe, we move on Gypsy's signal" Flik said.
"Got it!" Max said as they moved.
In the grass forest in the Blueberries hidden clubhouse they heard someone coming down the ramp.
"Someone's coming!"
Flik and Jason then slid in as Flik smiled.
"Hello, kids! Ready to make some grasshoppers cry?" Flik asked as Dot slid in.
"It's payback time, Blueberry-style!" Dot said bumping into another Blueberry scout.
"Blueberries rock!" the other kid said as they cheered.
"All right!"
At the royal table Atta sat on one side of Hopper and the Queen on the other as they heard the drums rolling.
"Ladies and Gentlebugs! Larvae of all stages! Rub your legs together for the world's greatest bug circus!" Slim said as they road in on the train waving with music playing and the fireflies make spot lights in the sky.
"Wait a minute!" Hopper yelled as the cart hit's it's brakes making a screeching noise and the music stopped.
"I think I'm going to wet myself" Heimlich said while smiling.
"Steady" Francis said as Max in the grass watching.
"What's going on here?" Hopper growled looking to Atta.
"Well, uh-"
"Uh, yes" Slim said chuckling nervously, "we were invited by Princess Atta...as a surprise for your arrival!"
"Squish 'em" Hopper said as the circus bug all gasped and some of the Hopper hoverd off the ground as Dim backed into a cannon shooting Tuck and Roll as they both landed in front of Hopper popping out.
"Hey!" they said before dancing around singing as Tuck sings on his own as Roll slapped him and yelled at Tuck who yelled back as they began bickering then began attacking each other hitting each other and yelling as Hopper points one of his arms.
"Now that's funny" Hopper said as the other grasshoppers sat back down laughing as Tuck and Roll fought and rolled all over the ground still fighting.
"I guess we could use a little entertainment, looks like you did something right for once, Princess" Hopper said sitting down and propping up his feet as Slim laughed nervously.
"On with the show!" Slim said.
Later!
"Hi-ya!" Rosie yelled whipping a whip as Dim ran around here with Tuck and Roll standing on his back.
"The circus, the circus I love the circus!" Molt sang as cheering continued while unaware to the grasshopper, Jason and Flik lead the Blueberries up the tree to the bird.
Later Heimlich was dressed as a baby as he sucked on a bottle.
"Ba-ba all gone! Baby wants pie!"
"Pie? He asked for it. Should I give it to him?" Francis said holding a pie.
"Yeah! Give 'em pie! Give 'em pie!" Molt yelled charring with the other grasshoppers as Francis threw the pie in Heimlich face making over the purple berries in it splatter on the grasshoppers.
"Yeah! Hah!"
"Thank you, gentlemen. Always an intellectual treat!" Slim said as he juggled six berries, "Say, how many roaches does it take to screw in a light bulb? Can't tell. As soon as the light goes on, they scatter!"
The grasshoppers than laughed while Flik and the other reached where the bird was.
"Ah, almost there" Flik said as they helped the girl up into the hole in the tree while down below Manny did his performance.
"From the most mysterious regions of uncharted Asia, I give you the Chinese Cabinet..."
"Come on, girls. Quick. Quick!" Flik said as the two ant boys move to the rock that would release the bird and waited for the signal.
"of Metamorphosis! Utilizing psychic vibrations I shall select the perfect volunteer!" Manny said.
"Ooh, ohh, pick me! Ooh, no! Come on, I'm askin' ya with my brain!" Molt said.
"Aha! Why, Your Majesty!" Manny said to the queen
"Me?" the Queen said as Thumped snarled at Manny.
"No, no, Thumper, down,let her go, maybe he'll saw her in half." Hopper snickered.
"As you ascend the dung beetle to the unknown, put your trust in the mysteries that are beyond mere mortal comprehension" Manny said as the grasshoppers didn't see when the Queen got on Dim to get in the box he turned to block their view to hide her under his shell and walk off.
"Ooh, this is gonna be good!" Hopper smirked.
Meanwhile!
"Blueberries ready?" Flik asked pushing away the ladder.
"Ready!" the Blueberries whispered ready to operate the wings as Dot stood by the snail megaphone.
"Ready!" she said as he voice amplified a bit.
"Shh!" Flik and Jason said.
Meanwhile!
Manny spin the box as he continued to chant.
"I call upon the ancient Szechwan spirits..tto inhabit the body of our volunteer!"
But in the darkness of the grass the circus bugs waited as the queen popped out of Dim shell.
"No, no. Just stay in there, Your Majesty" Francis whispered.
"Transformation, Transformation! Transformation!" Manny said as the sky began to fill with clouds.
"Wow. Manny's gettin' good" Francis said.
"Not now" Dr. Flora whispered in the ant crowd.
"If it rains, that bird'll get ripped to shreds!" Cornelius said.
"Shh! " Thorny said.
"And now, insectus...transformitus!" Manny yelled as the box moved and Gypsy flew out with her back to the grasshopper and spread her wings flashing the scary design on her back.
"Ooh!" the Grasshoppers said as she turned around showing her rainbow colored side.
"AHH!"
"Ooh, pretty!" Molt said as they began applauding as Gypsy landed next to Manny as they bowed.
"Thank you, thank you, Thank you" Gypsy said fluttering her wings showing the signal to Flik who watch with the telescope.
"That's the signal. That's the signal!" Flik said to the boys as they grunt and pull apart the string releasing the rock as it rolled towards the branch that held the bird in place.
"This is it, girls. Get ready to roll!" Flik whispered as the rock got caught.
"Huh? It's stuck!" the boy said as Jason looked out.
"Hurry! You two need to knock over the branch!" Jason whispered.
Down below!
"That was amazing! I have no-How did they do that? I have no idea where she went!" Molt said
"Thank you. Thank you, thank you" Gypsy said as the grasshoppers cheered 'More, more, more!' as Hopper noticed the empty box.
"Wait!" Hopper yelled as it got quite.
"Crap!" Max hissed as he looked to the tree, "hurry up!"
"Where is she?" Hopper growled.
"Well, now, uh, actually-" Manny said as Gypsy stood in front of him.
"I am sorry. A magician never reveals his secrets!"
"That's very true, Hoppy. Where would the mystery be if we all knew how it was-" Molt said as Hopper hit him in the head with a grain, "Shutting up."
In the three the two boys tried to push the rock.
"You can do it! You've got to make it work!" Flik said.
"Hey!" one said pointing to a pile of hammers.
Down below
"I said, where is she?!" Hopper yelled as they began to surrounded the circus bugs.
"Ohh!" Many whispered as Max jumped in and pointed his sword.
"Back off Hopper!" Max growled.
In the tree the two boys whacked the branch with the hammers as it came loose and they screamed and covered their heads as the bird slid out.
"Hold on!" Flik yelled as they flew down below.
"Now Dot!" Jason yelled as Dot began to make an amplified cawing sound as down below Hopper was strangling Manny as Gypsy and Max tried to get him off as Hopper screamed and they ducked as the bird flew over them
"Bird! It's a bird!" Hopper screamed.
The ants then slimed as they all began to run screaming and pretending to be in panic
As Dot made more cawing
"Let's get out of here! Go!" a grasshopper yelled as a few flew away.
"Don't let it get me! Don't let it get me!" Hopper yelled hiding behind Molt.
"Up, down, up, down and turn!" Dot instructed as the girls grunted as the bird turned around and Slim took a berry and mashed it over his eye for a blood effect as the bird flew back and Slim made it look like the bird got his eye.
"AHHH!" Slim screamed running over to Hopper "Oh, my eye! Help me!"
"AHHH!" Hopper screamed as he ran into ants cover in fake blood all screaming as he ran to Heimlich missing his head as he screamed again and flew off as Max laughed and Heimlich head poped out.
"Mmm, boysenberry!"
"Flik!" Jason yelled as they saw they were heading towards the Circus train.
"Huh? Aah, no, no, no, no, no!" Flik yelled as they knocked it over freeing P.T. with a grunt who saw Manny covered in the berry
"Oh, the pain!" Manny yelled falling over dead to scare a grasshopper away.
"There goes my magic act!" P.T. yelled as he picked up a match "Flaming gas!"
"No! P.T.!" Slim yelled.
"Don't!" Max yelled as P.T. screamed landing on lighter fluid hit it with the match and setting the bird on fire.
"A direct hit! Ah-hee-ha!"
"AHHHH!" the girls inside screamed seeing the back was on fire.
"Flik! Help us!" Dot yelled as Flik and Jason moved from the control as the bird spun out of control as Hopper saw it was fake and growled.
Flik then released the rope as the bird flew down and crashed into the side of the anthill.
"Dot!" Atta yelled as she and the circus bugs ran to the fire.
"Okay! Everyone out! Hurry!" Flik yelled as the girls all began running out of the peak coughing as they gathered around Atta.
"Where's Dot? Anyone seen Dot?" she asked.
Dot then came out and screamed when Hopper picked her up.
"Whose idea was this? Huh? Was it yours, Princess?!" Hopper growled as he approached Atta and the Blueberries.
"Just get behind me, girls. It'll be okay" Atta said shielding the kids.
"Leave her alone, Hopper!" Flik yelled jumping out of the bird "The bird was my idea. I'm the one you want!"
Hooper then dropped Dot and snapped his fingers as Thumper screeched and kicked Flik as all the ants watched and flinched as Thumper beat on Flik with each blow landing and Flik grunting.
"Thundaga!" Jason yelled striking Thumper with the spell and knocking him away from Flilk as he growled and Jason stood in front of Flik with keyblades in hand.
"Come on!" Jason yelled ready to fight as Hopper snapped him finger and Thumper looked back at Hopper.
"Where do you get the gall to do this to me?!" Hopper growled.
"Here Flik" Jason said helping him up.
"You were-You were gonna squish the queen" Flik said as all the ants gasped.
"It's true" Dot said.
"I hate it when someone gives away the ending" Hopper growled as Thumper came at them again as Jason smacked his keyblade into Thumper face as it came back kicking Jason in the gut and sending him skidding back as he coughed.
"You piece of dirt! No, I'm wrong, you're lower than dirt, you're an ant! Let this be a lesson to all you ants ideas are very dangerous things. You are mindless, soil-shoving losers, put on this earth to serve us!"
"You're wrong, Hopper.
"You're wrong, Hopper" Flik said as he got up and took a deep breathe, "Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers! I've seen these ants do great things and year after year, they somehow manage... to pick food for themselves and you, so-so who is the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's you who need us! We're a lot stronger than you say we are! And you know it, don't you?" Flik said as Hopper smacked Flik over and was about to bring his foot down as Atta and Jason flew in to block in both glaring.
"Well, Princess!" Hopper chuckled.
"Umm, Hopper? I hate to interrupt, but, um-" Molt said pointing to the army of glaring ants.
"You ants stay back!" Hopper yelled as they all locked arms and glared at Hopped.
"Oh, this was such a bad idea!" Molt said.
"You see, Hopper, nature has a certain order, the ants pick the food, the ants keep the food, and the grasshoppers leave!" Atta said in his face as the ants all yelled and charged in as the other grasshoppers took off and Jason and Atta helped Flik up.
"I'm so proud of you, Flik!" Atta said.
"You did it!" Jason said.
"Charge-a!" Tuck and Roll yelled as they rolled down the ant hill with some ants as the grasshoppers ran past Hopper.
"Where are you going? They're just ants!" Hopper yelled as the twins knocked him over the the cart wheel ants ran him over as the ant mob rushed over all running him over as Thumper landed in front of Dot as he snarled and Dot slapped him.
"No! Bad grasshopper! Bad grasshopper! Go home!" Dot yelled as it roared and Dim landed behind her and roared louder scaring Thumper away who whinnied and yelped following the other grasshoppers.
"Come back here, you cowards! Don't leave!" Hopper yelled as the ants grabbed him and picked him up.
"To the cannon!" Flik yelled.
"To the cannon!" the colony yelled.
"No!" Hopper yelled as they carried him and shoved him in a cannon as they angled it up and a spider played the drum and P.T. pointed up at Dim ready to shoot Hopper away.
"Happy landings, Hopper!" Flik said as the ants cheered and just as Dim was about to jump they heard thunder clashing above.
"Huh?" Dim said looking to the sky as Flik looked over to see the wall of rain coming at them.
"Rain!" Flik yelled as the rain hit upon them and the drop of water felt like being hit with a heavy gallon of water as it crashed down and ants all ran trying to get back into the ant hill.
"GAH!" Jason grunted when a drop hit him and he landed one the ground and rolled away from another drop.
"Get in the anthill!" Max yelled as Hopper looked up and spotted Atta and Flik with Jason and Max as they tried to help Flik up.
Hopper then growled as a drop of water knocked Dim off where he stood as Hopper rolled over to make Dim land on the cannon and flew as he came at Flik and snatched him and began to fly off.
"Flik!" Atta yelled.
"Quick! After them!" Slim yelled as Francis picked him up and they flew after Hopper as Dim picked up Hemlich and flew off with Rosie, Tuck and Roll on his back and Jason picked up Max to go after them.
"Aah! Aah!" Flik yelled as they flew in the branches to avoid the water.
"I have an idea!" Jason said going in another direction as Francis flew through branches then saw he lost Slim with a real stick.
"Aah! Slim!" Francis yelled.
" Francis! Francis! Francis, I'm stuck!" Slim yelled as Francis tried to find Slim in all the sticks.
"Where are ya?"
"I'm over here! Here!"
"Where? "
"I'm the only stick with eyeballs!"
Meanwhile Dim and the others were hot on Hopper tail.
"Help! Help!" Flik yelled.
"Get him!" Heimlich yelled.
Rosie then spun a web lasso and threw Tuck and Roll onto Hopper as the twins began yanking on Hopper antennas.
"Yes! Yes!" they yelled as thunder crashed above as Hopper flew through a small triangular shaped branch that pinned Dim and pulled Tuck and Roll off.
"No!" Flik yelled as they flew off and Tuck laughed as Roll glared and spoke most likely saying, 'What's so funny?!'
Tuck then replied with 'Look what I have!' he said holding Hopper still twitching antenna as the two laughed.
"GRRR!" Hopper growled seeing his missing antenna as Atta flew in from the front with Jason and Max as she grabbed Flik and they flew away as Hopper growled and flew after them.
"Go that way!"
"But the anthill's over-" Atta began.
"I've got an idea!" Flik yelled as they flew in that direction as Hopper roared and chased after them as they flew over the now forming lake.
"Flik!" Atta yelled.
"Come on!" Flik yelled as a water drop hit Hopper and made him spin back as few inches as the other got to the grass.
"There!" Flik yelled as water drop hits them as the four wrestle out of the droplet on the leaf as it crash and splashes on the ground as they coughed.
"Come on! We've gotta hide!" Flik said as the two moved to a rock.
"No matter what happens, stay down!" Flik said.
"Flik, no! What are you doing?" Atta said as Flik ran with Jason and Max as Hopper landed in front of them.
"Hopper!" Flik said.
"You think it's over?!"
"No, no, no. No, l-I can explain!" Flik said as Jason saw where Flik was trying to lead Hopper.
"All your little stunt did was buy them time!"
"No, please! Please, Hopper!" Flik said trying to back them to where they needed as Hopper grabbed Hopper neck.
"I'll get more grasshoppers and be back next season, but you won't!"
Jason then punched Hopper away as Max helped Flik up.
"We got it from here, go!" Jason said as the two glared at Hopper.
"What do you morons think your doing?" Hopper growled.
"Fight us Hopper unless you can't beat two weak little ants" Jason smirked summoning his keysblades as Hopper growled.
(Vim and Vigor battle theme starts now!)
"I will squash you!" he growled.
"Bring it on then Hoppy! Let's see what you got!" Max said as he and Jason went into battle stance.
(Information: Defeat Hopper but avoid the rain!)
"You will be crushed little the weaklings you are!" Hopper growled as Jason charged at him.
"Ha! Rah! Ya! Take that!" Jason yelled swinging his keyblades.
"Gah! Ugh! Ah! GUK!" Hopper grunted as he move fast hitting Jason and Max with a series of punches and kick.
"Ah! Gah! UGH!" Jason grunted as a rain drop came at him and Hopper charged as Jason kicked him up into the water drop and rolled away and Hopper hit the ground coughing with wet wings and Max and Jason charged again.
"Ha! Ya! Hiya! Like that?!" Max said with each stike.
"Guh! Gah! AH!" Hopper grunted as Jason spotted an opening and charged at Hopper.
"Let's go!" Jason yelled as he hit Hopper several times then flew back and threw his keysblades both hitting Hopper delivering the final blow.
"This can't happen!" Hopper growled as he was sent hitting a nest as he growled as a chirping noise got his attention and looked up to see a bird looking at him.
"Well, what's this? Another one of your little bird tricks?" Hopper said looking to Flik, Jason and Max who smirked.
"Yup!" Flik smirked.
"Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too? Hello, girls!" Hopper said as the bird screeched as Hopper eyes widen realizing it was a real bird.
"AHHH!" Hopper then tried to run away as the bird jumped after him and picked him up with her beak and flew to her nest as Jason and Max hid with Atta and Flik behind a rock as the bird held Hopper over three baby birds all chirping.
"No! No! No, no, no, no! No! Aah! No! Oh, no! Oh, no! No, no, no!" Hopper screamed as Flik, Jason, Atta and Max looked away from the scene.
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