Charlie and Louis, and the Wild Kratts drove along one of my dirt roads through the Australian Outback.
A land full of many creatures as the Wild Kratts haven't been around here recently. Besides the obvious kangaroo and koala, there other animals like the Perentie, Australia's largest lizard. Many kinds of birds, reptiles, mammals and amphibians only found in Australia live here.
Charlie checked his watch as Louis looked through the map.
Later, they turn left leaving the pavement road onto another dirt road.
"You know, Charlie, this mysterious Mr. Smith that we're gonna meet?" Louis said. "I don't think that's his real name."
"Nothing escapes you, Louis." Charlie said.
"What's eating you, man?" Louis asked.
Charlie remained silent.
"Don't tell me it's about that girl on the plane." Louis said.
"No, it's more than that." Charlie said.
"Hey, hey! Coober Pedy! Coober Pedy!" Louis said noticing a sign showing Coober Pedy and Alice Springs.
"I got it. I got it." Charlie said. "I got it."
"Right here!" Louis said. "All right."
"Here we go." Charlie said as they turned left. "Here we go. Let's face it Louis, I'm never gonna find the right girl."
"You gotta stop with this "never" stuff." Louis said. "2 days ago, we never thought we'd be in Australia, but we here! We're living in the Land Down Under!" He sang and laughed. "Come on, Charlie, give me a beat."
"Come on, play with the radio." Charlie said.
"Come on, man!" Louis said. "I wanna play with you. Give me a beat, man!"
Charlie then beatboxes and raps.
Rolling in the land
With deep red sand
The big black man
The big black hands
Charlie continues beatboxing as he placed a pair of shades on as Louis laughed as the Wild Kratts' Createrra pulls alongside next to them.
We're landing in the land down under
The 2 then fist bumped each other.
We're living in the land down under
"Oh." Louis sanged.
You better run
You better take cover
Suddenly their fun was cut short when a loud thump suddenly hits the Jeep as they jumped.
"Whoa, whoa!" Louis exclaimed.
"Jeez! What-?!" Martin exclaimed flooring the brakes.
Charlie floors the brakes at the 2 cars skid to a stop.
"The heck was that?!" Chris said.
They then climbed out of the cars and approached what they hit.
"What the hell?" Louis muttered.
Laying on the road was a body of a Red Kangaroo.
"My God." Charlie said. "I killed a kangaroo."
"Oh, man." Martin said sadly.
Jimmy then removed his hat.
"I never saw it." Charlie said. "It's such a beautiful animal."
"Poor thing." Aviva said sadly.
"It's the national symbol of Australia." Charlie said. "And I killed it."
"Hey don't worry about that, Charlie." Louis said trying to assure him. "I read in the book, that the kangaroos are the rodents of the Outback. We cool!"
"You should probably consider yourself lucky, Charlie." Chris said. "Red Kangaroos are not endangered."
"Shouldn't we bury it or something?" Charlie said.
"No, look, man, my uncle has 1 rule of thumb: He says whenever you hit something, keep on rolling." Louis said. "So let's roll."
"I can't just leave it in the middle of the road." Charlie said. "I gotta at least pull it to the side."
"Oh, You pulling by yourself, then." Louis said.
"God, I am so sorry, little buddy." Charlie said to the kangaroo.
Charlie then grabs the body as it was a heavy 100 pounds.
"Charlie, don't move." Louis said. "Stay right there." He then rushed off.
"Louis, what are you doing?" Charlie asked as Louis grabbed his camera. "Louis?"
"Louis, come on." Chris said.
"But you guys look so adorable." Louis said.
He then took a photo of them.
"G'day, mate!" Louis said in an Australian accent.
"Stop that, Louis." Charlie said as Louis said.
"Hey, Charlie, hold on!" Louis quickly said noticing something. "Hold on, hold on. You know who he looks? Jackie Legs!"
Charlie turns to the kangaroo.
"Who?" Aviva frowned.
"Jackie Legs from Canarsie with the goatee!" Louis said. "Always wears the sunglasses!"
"What are you talking about?" Charlie asked not seeing it.
"Hold on. Look." Louis said grabbing the shades and placed them on the kangaroo. "Okay, look at it. Right there. Look at that." He laughed a bit as Charlie looks as the kangaroo.
"Jeez, that is Jackie Legs." Charlie said.
"More like Kangaroo Jack with this guy." Martin said.
They laughed a bit as Louis snapped another photo as Chris and Martin got in.
"All right, Louis, enough." Charlie said. "Come on. Help me here."
"Unh-unh." Louis denied. "It's lucky jacket time." He then removes his jacket.
Soon, Louis drops the back hood of the Jeep.
"Come on, Louis, have some respect." Charlie said. "It's bad enough we ran him over."
Louis then pulls the kangaroo body onto the trunk now wearing his jacket. Louis then caught him as he was leaning over to fall.
"Come on, man, just 1 picture for the Brooklyn crew." Louis said.
"All right, just one." Charlie said. "But let's make this quick." He joins them.
"Stay up there, big boy." Louis said and held the camera out. "All right, say "cheese".
He then took a photo of them.
"All right, come on, let's get this jacket off." Charlie said. "We got things to do, Louis."
"Hey, come on, Charlie." Louis said. "1 more."
Charlie turns to him.
"This could be our Christmas card." Louis said.
Then suddenly the kangaroo's right ear twitched, and then blinked and lifted his head up revealing he was still alive.
Charlie, Chris, Martin, Aviva and Koki saw this as their eyes widen.
"Louis." Charlie said.
"What? What?" Louis asked not noticing the kangaroo staring at him.
"What's the matter?" Jimmy asked.
Chris, Martin, Aviva and Koki gestured to the kangaroo with their eyes glancing left.
Louis and Jimmy then turn to the kangaroo seeing him alive.
"AHH!" They both screamed.
The kangaroo let out a scream-like sound as well as being startled, and they 3 screamed at each other.
Jimmy then shot out of the Jeep as Koki caught him as Louis rushed off the car as the kangaroo fell as they all backed away.
The kangaroo then stood up.
"Charlie." Louis said in disbelief.
Kangaroo Jack then leaped off the Jeep as they backed away a bit.
"Jeez!" Louis said looking at the photograph.
Jackie Legs stares at them and then shook the shades off tossing them away.
"Guess we only knocked him out for a few minutes." Martin said.
"Hey, look." Charlie said. "We didn't hurt him after all."
"It looked like we did." Louis said.
"You're a tough little guy, aren't ya?" Charlie said approaching the kangaroo.
Then Jackie Legs stood up to his full height.
"Hey, look how tall he is." Charlie said.
"Charlie, get back." Chris said having a case of Deja vu. "Male kangaroos stand like that when their about to-"
Before Chris could finish, Jackie Legs suddenly jumped and then kicks Charlie in the chest hard as he hits the ground on his back.
"Ooh!" Chris cringed. "Kick."
Charlie laid on the ground stunned from the kick.
Kangaroo Jack hops off as Louis laughed as well as the Wild Kratts.
"You all right, dog?" Louis asked.
Charlie blinked a few times regaining his senses.
"Come on, come on!" Louis said.
He helped him up as they continued laughing as Charlie looked in the direction Jackie Legs hopped off.
"I just got my ass kicked by a marsupial!" Charlie said.
Louis and the Wild Kratts continued laughing as soon Charlie joins in as he laughed.
"You wanna know the best part?" Charlie laughed.
"What?" Louis asked. "What?"
"The best part is... Now I never have to see that stupid red jacket of yours again!" Charlie said.
They then laughed more as then soon Louis' humor died as he then he started crying as they kept laughing.
"Charlie?" Louis cried. "Charlie!"
"What?" Charlie asked turning to him.
"What's the matter?" Martin asked wiping a tear away.
"The kangaroo got the money." Louis cried.
"What are you talking about?" Charlie asked.
"What do you mean the kangaroo has the money?" Chris asked.
"I put the money in the jacket, and the jacket on the kangaroo, and now he hopping away." Louis cried.
Charlie and the Wild Kratts' expression start to lower.
"The kangaroo has the money?" Charlie said.
"Uh-huh." Louis cried.
"The Kangaroo has Salvatore Maggio's $50,000?" Charlie said.
"Yeah." Louis said.
They all stared at each other for a few moments.
Then suddenly they rushed to the Jeep and Createrra.
"Come on!" Louis yelled as Charlie closed the back hood.
They quickly climbed in as Louis floors the gas pedal.
The Jeep and Createrra flew over a ditch as their engines revved.
In the Jeep, Charlie was whacking Louis' arm as he drove.
"Who puts a jacket with 50,000 on a kangaroo?" Charlie angrily said.
"A dead kangaroo!" Louis remarked. "He was dead, Charlie!"
The Jeep and Createrra were then tossed in the air after passing a shallow depression.
"You should of just let me drown, Louis, I mean it!" Charlie said. "When you had the chance. You should have let me drown."
"Look! There he is!" Louis yelled spotting the kangaroo. "Charlie, there he is! Right there!"
"Kangaroo 12:00!" Martin yelled.
They quickly turn towards the kangaroo.
Jackie Legs hopped as he saw the 2 cars coming towards him.
"I see you now, sucker!" Louis yelled.
Kangaroo Jack quickly turns and then hops off accelerating to top speed.
"Go, go, go, go, go! We got him! We got him!" Charlie yelled. "Go! Go, go!"
They drove after him through the Outback.
"Oh! Look at the little fellow go, Charlie!" Louis said. "Look at him go!"
They continued driving.
Jackie Legs hops through the landscape in a top speed of 43 miles per hour.
The Jeep and Createrra revved as they drove as they all laughed as they start to gain, and then they screamed as the Jeep and Createrra were then tossed into the air.
"Here we come, baby!" Louis yelled. "Oh, we gaining on him! Oh, my God. Look at the fellow move, man."
"Yep, that's how a kangaroo gets around out here!" Martin said.]
Jackie Legs hops over a ditch, and the Jeep and Createrra flew over it and soon land on the ground as they start to close in on the kangaroo.
"I'm gonna pull on your side, and I want you to reach out and grab the money!" Louis said.
"Piece of cake." Charlie said. "You want me to just open the door and lean out of a speeding car."
"Fine, Charlie!" Louis said. "We'll just drive pass him and hope he hops in the Jeep!"
"You got a better idea?!" Aviva snapped.
Kangaroo Jack continues hopping at full speed as the 2 cars start closing in.
"Here I go!" Charlie said getting ready.
"Okay." Louis said.
They continued chasing Jackie Legs as Martin managed to pull the Createrra on the kangaroo's left side trying to herd him closer to the Jeep.
"Okay, I here go." Charlie said leaning out.
"There you go!" Louis said. "Lean out there, baby!"
"Get me closer. Get me closer!" Charlie said.
"Charlie, he's hopping like a rabbit!" Louis exclaimed watching Jackie Legs hop.
"Closer! Get me a little closer, Louis!" Charlie said.
"I'm trying to get closer, Charlie!" Louis said. "Oh, come on! Get him, baby!"
"Closer, Louis!" Charlie said.
"Come on, get the money, Charlie!" Louis said.
Charlie was just inches from grabbing the envelope.
"Closer, Louis!" Charlie said almost close to grabbing it. "Almost got it! I'm almost there!"
"Come on, Charlie! I can't hold on!" Louis as they then turned avoid some bushes.
"Whoa!" Charlie exclaimed slipping out.
"Oh!" Louis yelled catching him by his belt.
Charlie was now hanging upside-down out of the Jeep.
"Get the money!" Louis yelled.
Charlie looked ahead seeing Jackie Legs hopping and makes a sudden turn, and then he saw a termite mound coming up fast. And Charlie yelled shielding his face as then Louis quickly pulled him up and turns as the door hits the side of the mound.
"Woo!" Louis exclaimed.
"As it turns out, this is hard." Charlie said.
Then Louis screamed as they drove through a termite mound, and then 2 more as they coughed.
"What are these things?" Charlie said as they were in a termite mound field.
"They're termite mounds!" Louis said. "I read about them in the book!"
"Careful, Louis, you almost missed one!" Charlie said.
"At less they'll rebuild them!" Chris said.
They continued driving as then Charlie and Louis drive through another termite mound.
"You're mine now, sucker!" Louis yelled.
"Yeah!" Charlie said.
Kangaroo Jack then hops up a ridge as they quickly followed him, they got ahead of them and drove up ready to cut him off.
"Go, go, go, go!" Charlie yelled.
They then drove up the ledge and flew in the air.
"Yee-haw!" Martin yelled and then his excitement suddenly drops. "Uh-oh!"
They then started to fall.
"Stop, stop, stop, stop!" Charlie cried.
They then landed on a rocky ledge and they rolled down the hill as Jackie Legs watched as they yelled. And then they hit a large boulder as they groaned.
The dust started to clear as they coughed, and they looked through the mirror seeing Jackie Legs on the ledge above them watching them chewing.
"I don't suppose you took the insurance?" Charlie inquired.
"My uncle always told me that was just a rip-off." Louis said.
Then a rock on the boulder tips over and lands on the Jeep's hood.
Jackie Legs tilted his head with a groan.
Louis hung his head down, and the Createrra's windshield cracked and then drops flat on the hood as the Wild Kratts turn to it.
Kangaroo Jack soon lost interest, and then hops off.
Later, Charlie, Louis, and the Wild Kratts abandoned the Jeep and Createrra grabbed their things and headed down the road.
"Don't worry, Charlie." Louis said. "We'll get the money, all right? It can't go far."
"It's a continent, Louis." Charlie said. "He can go very far."
"I know it's a continent." Louis said. "I read the book."
"You happen to read the chapter on not putting your jacket on a wild animal?" Charlie questioned.
"No, but I read one on how an aboriginal can kill a white man with a twig." Louis said. "You wanna see that one?"
Elsewhere, Kangaroo Jack hops over to a shallow river with 3 other kangaroos, and he soon nears the shore of the river.
Jackie Legs soon saw his reflection of him wearing Louis' jacket, and he tilted his head with a curious groan.
He leans his head down, and then the hood slipped over his head blinding him as his eyes were covered. Jackie Legs started blindingly reaching around groaning as he then lost balance and falls back, and he soon got up again with his left ear sticking out.
2 kangaroos then turn to him.
Kangaroo Jack then shook his head as the hood slid off, and he soon hops off.
Author's Note:
The chase for the money begins.
You know, in some camera shots, it looked like they actually used a real kangaroo as well as a CGI kangaroo for Jackie Legs.
And, you know, kinda think of it, it's been a while since there's been an episode of Wild Kratts in Australia isn't it? I hope Season 7 will show some new Australian animals, like the Perentie, or maybe the Saltwater Crocodile. Some Australian snakes would be cool, like a Death Adder, King Brown Snake, Eastern Brown Snake, and maybe the Inland Taipan.