1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to Kids 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Did you know that there's also an ad 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: free version of all the Mr Jim shows. Yeah, so 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: heading over to Hey Mr Jim dot com slash Premium 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: to try out our ad free podcast for a fourteen 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: day free trial. Today's story comes to us from Henry 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: and Caroline. Hey guys, they sent me an awesome idea 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: for a story, and you can too. Just head of 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: a kid short stories dot com send me your idea 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: and maybe you will turn it into an awesome adventure. 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: Are you ready for today's story? Me too, Let's go. 12 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: It was a beautiful day and Henry and Caroline were 13 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: playing in the backyard. They love to play outside, but 14 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: their favorite thing to do was draw chalk mazes. Have 15 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: you ever drawn chalk maces on the ground for Yeah, 16 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: that's really fun to do when you can draw a 17 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: maze and then someone else has to figure it out. 18 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm not very good at mazes. How about you? 19 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: Are you good at solving mazes? Wow? That's pretty awesome. Well, 20 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 1: Henry and Caroline were doing just that on their back patio. 21 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: They were drawing with chalk. Not only mazes, but also 22 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: cities and creatures, and even drawing an outline of their 23 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: own bodies. Wow, that is a lot of chalk. Hey, 24 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: can you hand me that blue chalk over there, said Caroline. 25 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: Henry was drawing with the green and the red handed 26 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: Caroline two of the blue pieces of chalk. Oh, thank you. 27 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: This is gonna be great. I can't wait to finish 28 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: this giant maze. You're never gonna solve it, she said. 29 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: What are you talking about, said Henry. I can solve 30 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: any maze. I am a maze mass there, Henry. Did 31 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: you hear that, said Caroline. Of course I did. Let's go. 32 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: That was the spy beeper, which meant there was a 33 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: message from h Q. Henry and Caroline ran up to 34 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: their rooms to listen to the walkie talkie. Henry and Caroline, 35 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: we have an urgent message and mission for you. The 36 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: Purple Ninjas have been seen stealing gummy vitamins all over 37 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: the world. This would be an absolute tragedy if the 38 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: world was removed of all of its gummy vitamins. We 39 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: need you to set a trap and capture, or at 40 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: least stop the Purple Ninjas from completing their mission. Over 41 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: and out Henry and Caroline were left there staring at 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 1: each other. They couldn't believe it. Why would the Purple 43 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: Ninjas want to steal all the gummy vitamins? Like these 44 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: are really good for us, And that just crosses the line, 45 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,119 Speaker 1: said Henry. You see, like the Purple Ninja is. It's 46 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: one thing for them to try and make the world stinky, 47 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: but to come after our vitamins. I'm taking that personal, Caroline. 48 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: Let's get to work. Caroline was way ahead of him 49 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: and already working in their closet, pulling out all their 50 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: spy gear. It's important to keep your spy gear in 51 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: a place where you always remember where it is. But 52 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: it's kind of hidden because you just never know who 53 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: might be lurking around. Caroline, do you have any ideas, 54 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: like how are we going to catch him? Like we 55 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: could try the net blaster or the glue blaster, but 56 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if that'll work. We need a way 57 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: to draw him in. Oh, I got a great plan 58 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: that I've already been thinking about while the message was playing, 59 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: said Caroline. We could make some fake gummy vitamins and 60 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: use them as bait in some kind of trap outside. 61 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: It'll probably definitely lure the Purple Ninjas in, said Caroline. 62 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: Do you think we could make the fake gummy vitamins 63 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: into some kind of like super sticky thing that gets 64 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: them stuck in the trap? Said Henry. I love it. 65 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: Let's get to work, said Caroline. Henry and Caroline race 66 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 1: downstairs to start working on their secret concoction of a 67 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: fake gummy vitamin. They needed to find a way to 68 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: make their own gummy vitamins that would trick the Purple 69 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: Ninjas and make them stuck. And so they found a 70 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 1: packet of gelatine that would be the base of the 71 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,719 Speaker 1: gummy part. And then they added some of their super 72 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: secret sticky glue that was the same glue that they 73 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 1: using their glue blasters to make, you know, the Purple 74 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: Ninjas get stuck in a trap, but adding it into 75 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: this secret trap gummy that would be a new way 76 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: that they would never suspect. All right, Caroline, you keep 77 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: working on those gummies and I'm gonna set up some 78 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: kind of trap outside. Henry loved setting up traps. Have 79 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: you ever set up a trap before? Well, one easy 80 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: way as you find a box and then you put 81 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: it on the ground and you raise it up a 82 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: little bit with the open part down, and you put 83 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: a stick on the edge that holds it up, and 84 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: then you tie a string to the stick, and then 85 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: whenever whoever it is that you're trying to capture in 86 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: this box walks inside and maybe finds a snack or 87 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: a very sticky gummy, then you pull the string, which 88 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: pulls the stick out, and the box drops on the 89 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: purple Ninja. As a spy kid, we learn all kinds 90 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: of ways to set traps to catch those sneaky Purple 91 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: Ninjas because you never know what the mission is going 92 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: to be. Henry knew that the Purple Ninjas were pretty clever, 93 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: and so the trap it couldn't be as obvious as 94 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: just putting a box in the middle of the yard. 95 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: He needed to be a lot sneakier. One of his 96 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: favorite traps was the circle rope. Yeah, you put a 97 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: little piece of rope in a circle on the ground 98 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: and then you drape it over a branch in a tree, 99 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: and when a purple Ninja steps on the trap, the 100 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: circle part of the rope gets really tight over the 101 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: purple Ninja's foot and then it trips him down, which 102 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:33,119 Speaker 1: gives you enough time to launch a net blaster. How's 103 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: it going out there, Henry shouted Caroline from inside. I'm 104 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: almost done. I'm just trying to hide this rope on 105 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 1: the ground with some leaves so that the purple ninjas 106 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: don't see it at all. That is most important in 107 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: setting a trap. You can't let the purple ninjas see 108 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: it before they step in it. Caroline had finished her 109 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: batch of blue gummies and walked out to the trap. Wow, Henry, 110 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: great job, this is really good, she said, yeah, thank you. 111 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: Oh your gummies look so sticky, and they actually looked 112 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: pretty real good job. The time had come to set 113 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: the trap. They carefully set the plate of sticky gummies 114 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: out in the middle of the yard. This was right 115 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: next to that rope that would catch onto a purple ninja. 116 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: As the two of them ran off towards the bushes 117 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: to hide in there. They didn't know how long it 118 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: would take, but it was only a few minutes. Henry, 119 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: do you see that over there? There's no way there. 120 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: Then Henry saw it. Two purple ninjas had arrived. They 121 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: must have some kind of like gummy detector that they 122 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: know exactly where they appear, and they come and steal them. Hey, guys, 123 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: look at this over here. It's like someone desperate got 124 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: their gummy vitamins in the middle of a yard. What 125 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: a silly kid, you see, They're not very smart after all, 126 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: said one of the purple ninjas. I'm just gonna reach 127 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: down and grabbed this and put it in our bag, 128 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: and on the way we go towards world domination. As 129 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: the purple Ninja reached down towards what he thought were 130 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: regular gummy vitamins, the trap was set. Hey how whoa 131 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: I'm so sticky in the world is I can't even 132 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: move my fingers? Somebody helped me, shouted the purple Ninja. 133 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: His partner took off, running faster than I'd ever seen 134 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: a purple ninja run. Henry and Caroline came out with 135 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: their net blasters and blasted that first purple Ninja. Ah man, 136 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: it caught me. Oh dear, I think this was a trap. 137 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: I think those kids are a lot smarter than I thought. 138 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: Oh great, jaw, Henry and Caroline, you caught a purple ninja, 139 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: which those are hard to catch. But I think the 140 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: mission of them stealing all the gummy vitamins has just begun. 141 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: So even though this is the end of this story, 142 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: It's just the beginning of a world where we need 143 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: to stop the Purple Ninjas from stealing our gummy vitamins 144 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: the end. Great job, you listened all the way to 145 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: the end, and you know what time it is. It's 146 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: time for kid shout out. I want to say hey 147 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: to Millie from Ontario, Armand and Kian from Toronto, Calea 148 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: from Australia, A J and Emmy from Massachusetts, Claire from Vancouver, 149 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: B C. Elliott from Georgia, Mia from Virginia and louisan 150 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: Adel from Michigan. I'm so glad that you're all in 151 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: the Kids Stories family and on our spy team. 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