Tulio's phone began to buzz. He frantically fumbled around in his pocket for it before finally being able to pull it out. Once he saw that it was the veterinary service that was calling him he squeeked with anxiety and answered the phone.

"Hello, Tulio here, what seems to be the problem?" he stammered into the phone. Some inaudible stuff was babbled from the other side and Tulio's face went pale. At that moment Linda walked in the door carrying an ungodly large bag of bird seed.

"What's going on?" she asked, seeing Tulio's pale face.

Still talking on the phone, Tulio wedged the device between his ear and his shoulder. Then, he walked over to a desk, got out a piece of paper and a pen and wrote on it.

Jwl hs escpd

Linda gasped and then glared at Tulio.

"For a bird expert you really are terrible at actually caring for them. You saw how shaken up Jewel was on the plane and you just thought she would be fine locked up. If we had just taken Jewel to the local vet, she'd be on the mend already, but instead you decided to fly her to Timbuktu to fix a broken wing!"

Tulio who was still being talked to on the phone and yelled at by Linda seemed to visibly crumple up from the information overload.

Blu heard all this commotion and alighted on the back of a chair, just out of view of Linda and Tulio but well within earshot. Tulio wrapped up his conversation on the phone and promptly hung up.

"I have made a terrible mistake!" Tulio exclaimed,"These birds are evidently much more social and intelligent than I first anticipated, yet I have been treating them like pigeons."

"Yea!" Linda said exasperatedly ,"did it not occur to you that I might have just a little bit of insight on these birds having cared for and nurtured one of them for 15 years."

"Well if you're so full of sagely advice!" Tulie yelled back ,"then why didn't you tell me! If you did, we could have prevented Jewel's escape! If..."

"Jewel's escape?" Blu said to himself, "is Jewel in trouble?"

He flew over to the arguing humans and landed on a table right next to them. The both immediately fell silent and turned to face Blu. he looked at the two sternly with an expression that clearly said, "Tell me everything ."

"Ummm, welllll..." Tulio explained, "Jewel may have escaped from the vet and is now wild in the streets of Moose Lake Minnesota."

"WHAT!?" Blu cried.

At that Moment, Nico and Pedro both flew from outside and landed on the windowsill.

"I have to help her," Blu said to himself.

He turned and flew towards the window, meaning to fly out of it but he was distracted by his friends.

"What's poppin' blue bird," Pedro said, "man, you look worried about something. I guess that means more soccer is off the table"

"Jewel's escaped," Blu frantically explained, "I've got to help her."

"Wait a minute," Nico said, "isn't Jewel miles away in tiny santa."

"Tiny santa? What? No," Blu replied, "she's escaped the vet in Minnesota, I'm going to help her."

"Woh woh woh," Nico said," you can't just go out there empty handed man, you've gotta come prepared."

"Oh, yes what was I thinking?" Blu scalded himself, flying back into the house," luckily i have readied myself for this kind of situation."

Blu flew back to the windowsill with an odd looking bag in his mouth.

"Ish cawed a fangy fack," he explained, the bag in his mouth impeding his speech.

"A manky yak?" Pedro questioned, "man, what you talking about."

"A fanny pack." Blu repeated, the bag now clipped around his waist, (do birds have waists?) "Pre equipped with everything I need to survive."

"I was thinking more along the lines of a plan, but this works." Nico said ,"have a safe flight."

"You too," blu replied, flying off, internally scalding himself because that reply made no sense.

He looked at the sun, which was now setting, Turned 90* to his right and then flew north, towards Minty Scooter.