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Speaker 1: was a beautiful day and Henry and caroline were playing

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Speaker 1: in the backyard. They love to play outside, but their

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Speaker 1: favorite thing to do was draw chalk mazes. Have you

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Speaker 1: ever drawn chalk maces on the ground for yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: really fun to do when you can draw a maze

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Speaker 1: and then someone else has to figure it out. I'm

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Speaker 1: actually I'm not very good at mazes. How about you?

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Speaker 1: Are you good at solving mazes? Wow, that's pretty awesome. Well,

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Speaker 1: Henry and caroline were doing just that on their back patio.

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Speaker 1: They were drawing with chalk not only mazes but also

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Speaker 1: cities and creatures, and even drawing an outline of their

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Speaker 1: own bodies. Wow, that is a lot of chalk. Hey,

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Speaker 1: can you hand me that Blue Chalk over there, said Caroline.

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Speaker 1: Henry was drawing with the green and the red handed

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Speaker 1: caroline two of the blue pieces of chalk. Oh, thank you,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be Great. I can't wait to finish

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Speaker 1: this giant maze. You're never gonna solve it, she said.

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Said Henry. I can solve

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Speaker 1: any maze. I am a maze mask. There, Henry. Did

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Speaker 1: you hear that, said Caroline. Of course I did. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: That was the spy beeper, which meant there was a

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Speaker 1: message from H Q. Henry and caroline ran up to

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Speaker 1: their rooms to listen to the walkie talkie. Henry and Caroline,

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Speaker 1: we have an urgent message and mission for you. The

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Speaker 1: Purple Ninjas have been seen stealing gummy vitamins all over

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Speaker 1: the world. This would be an absolute tragedy if the

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Speaker 1: world was removed of all of its gummy vitamins. We

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Speaker 1: need you to set a trap and capture, or at

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Speaker 1: least stopped the Purple Ninjas from completing their mission. Over

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Speaker 1: and out Henry and caroline were left there staring at

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Speaker 1: each other. They couldn't believe it. Why would the Purple

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Speaker 1: Ninjas want to steal all the gummy vitamins like the

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Speaker 1: is are really good for us, and that just crosses

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Speaker 1: the line, said Henry. You See, like the Purple Ninjas,

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Speaker 1: it's one thing for them to try and make the

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Speaker 1: world stinky, but to come after our vitamins. I'm taking

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Speaker 1: that personal. Caroline. Let's get to work. Caroline was way

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Speaker 1: ahead of him and already working in their closet, pulling

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Speaker 1: out all their spy gear. It's important to keep your

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Speaker 1: spy gear in a place where you always remember where

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Speaker 1: it is, but it's kind of hidden, because you just

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Speaker 1: never know who might be lurking around. Caroline, do you

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Speaker 1: have any ideas, like how are we going to catch him?

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Speaker 1: Like we could try the net blaster or the glue blaster,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know if that will work. We need

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Speaker 1: a way to draw him in. Oh, I got a

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Speaker 1: great plan that I've already been thinking about while the

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Speaker 1: message was playing. Said Caroline. We could make some fake

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Speaker 1: gummy vitamins and use them as bait in some kind

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Speaker 1: of trap outside. That'll probably definitely lure the Purple Ninjas in.

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Speaker 1: Said Caroline. Do you think we could make the fake

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Speaker 1: gummy vitamins into some kind of like super sticky thing

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Speaker 1: that gets them stuck in the trap? Said Henry. I

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Speaker 1: love it. Let's get to work it, said Caroline. Henry

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Speaker 1: and Caroline race downstairs to start working on their secret

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Speaker 1: concoction of a fake gummy vitamin. They needed to find

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Speaker 1: a way to make their own gummy vitamins that would

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Speaker 1: trick the Purple Ninjas and make them stuck, and so

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Speaker 1: they found a packet of gelatin. That would be the

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Speaker 1: base of the gummy part, and then they added some

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Speaker 1: of their super secret sticky glue. That was the same

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Speaker 1: glue that they using their glue blasters to make, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Purple Ninjas get stuck in a trap, but adding

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Speaker 1: it into this secret trap gummy that would be a

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Speaker 1: new way that they would never suspect. Alright, caroline, you

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Speaker 1: keep working on those gummies and I'm gonna set up

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Speaker 1: some kind of trap outside. Henry loved setting up traps.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever set up a trap before? Well, one

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Speaker 1: easy ways. You find a box and then you put

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Speaker 1: then you tie a string to the stick and then

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Speaker 1: whenever whoever it is that you're trying to capture in

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Speaker 1: a very sticky gummy, then you pull the string, which

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Speaker 1: Purple Ninja. As a spy kid, we learn all kinds

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Speaker 1: of ways to set traps to catch those sneaky Purple Ninjas,

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Speaker 1: because you never know what the mission is going to be.

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Speaker 1: Henry knew that the Purple Ninjas were pretty clever and

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Speaker 1: so the trap it couldn't be as obvious as just

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Speaker 1: putting a box in the middle of the yard. He

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Speaker 1: needed to be a lot sneakier. One of his favorite

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Speaker 1: traps was the circle rope. Yeah, you put a little

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Speaker 1: piece of rope in a circle on the ground and

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Speaker 1: then you drape it over a branch in a tree

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Speaker 1: and when a Purple Ninja steps on the trap, the

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Speaker 1: circle part of the rope gets really tight over the

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Speaker 1: Purple Ninja's foot and then it trips him down, which

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Speaker 1: gives you enough time to launch a net blaster. How's

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Speaker 1: it going out there, Henry, shouted caroline from inside. I'm

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Speaker 1: almost done. I'm just trying to hide this rope on

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Speaker 1: the ground with some leaves so that the Purple Ninjas

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Speaker 1: don't see it at all. That is most important in

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Speaker 1: setting a trap. You can't let the Purple Ninjas see

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Speaker 1: it before they step in it. Caroline had finished her

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Speaker 1: batch of blue gummies and walked out to the trap. Wow, Henry,

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Speaker 1: great job, this is really good. She said. Yeah, thank you. Oh,

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Speaker 1: your gummies looked so sticky, and they actually looked pretty

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Speaker 1: real good job. The time had come to set the trap.

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Speaker 1: They carefully set the plate of sticky gummies out in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the yard. This was right next to

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Speaker 1: that rope that would catch onto a purple Ninja. As

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Speaker 1: the two of them ran off towards the bushes to

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Speaker 1: hide in there. They didn't know how long it would take,

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Speaker 1: but it was only a few minutes, Henry. Do you

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Speaker 1: see that over there? There's no way there. Then Henry

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Speaker 1: saw it. Two Purple Ninjas had arrived. They must have

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Speaker 1: some kind of like gummy detector that they know exactly

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Speaker 1: where they appear and they come and steal them. Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: look at this over here. It's like someone desperate got

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Speaker 1: their gummy vitamins in the middle of the yard. What

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Speaker 1: a silly kid. You see, they're not very smart after all,

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Speaker 1: said one of the Purple Ninjas. I'm just gonna reach

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Speaker 1: down and grabbed this and put it in our bag,

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Speaker 1: and on the way we go towards world domination. As

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Speaker 1: the Purple Ninja reached down towards what he thought were

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Speaker 1: regular gummy vitamins, the trap was set. Hey, how Whoa,

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Speaker 1: I'm so sticky in the world I can't even move

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Speaker 1: my fingers. Somebody helped me, shouted the Purple Ninja. His

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Speaker 1: partner took off running faster than I'd ever seen a

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Speaker 1: purple Ninja run. Henry and Caroline came out with their

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Speaker 1: net blasters and blasted that first Purple Ninja. Ah Man,

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Speaker 1: they caught me. Oh dear, I think this was a trap.

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Speaker 1: I think those kids are a lot smarter than I thought.

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Speaker 1: A great job, Henry and Caroline. You caught a purple Ninja,

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Speaker 1: which those are hard to catch, but I think the

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Speaker 1: mission of them stealing all the gummy vitamins has just begun. So,

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Speaker 1: even though this is the end of this story. It's

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Speaker 1: just the beginning of a world where we need to

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Speaker 1: stop the Purple Ninjas from stealing our gummy vitamins the end.

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