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Speaker 2: Without a ton of direction, we all started doing what
Speaker 2: we could to learn more about Endangered Enterprise. Ali found
Speaker 2: a database with some interesting animals, all seeming a bit
Speaker 2: too crazy to actually be real. There were scarlet spotted cheetahs,
Speaker 2: strange birds, and lots of different extinct animals. The strangest
Speaker 2: part was that the info dated back only two years,
Speaker 2: each small finding went into the pile, the ever growing
Speaker 2: stack of random clues. We just needed that one big
Speaker 2: lead that could actually help us out, and boy to
Speaker 2: I remember the day we got it.
Speaker 3: Hitter Protectors, this is Ali. What can I do for
Speaker 3: you today?
Speaker 4: Well? Hello, wellie, my name is Arthur Winslow. I was
Speaker 4: hoping I could speak to someone on your animal.
Speaker 3: Well, sir, you're talking to one right now.
Speaker 4: Oh. Sorry, Well, I'm dealing with a problem here at
Speaker 4: my shop. This old book.
Speaker 3: Great, I mean not great, you have a problem. I
Speaker 3: mean I love your Storrecer. I've been there so many times.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad you like my shop. The problem, though,
Speaker 4: is that I'm fighting some kind of nuisance of a bug.
Speaker 4: They're tearing up my entire newspaper collection, bit by bet.
Speaker 4: I'd hate to have to call an exterminator, so I
Speaker 4: started with y'all got it.
Speaker 3: We can definitely head on down see what we can do.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we can just get those critters relocated out of
Speaker 3: your shop.
Speaker 5: Mister Winslow, Oh that would be great.
Speaker 3: We'll be there in about thirty minutes.
Speaker 4: If that works, I'll be here. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Ally, You're welcome. See you soon. Marcus Gabe, are either
Speaker 3: of you free to come help me with a call?
Speaker 5: I can Ali, just give me a minute to finish
Speaker 5: up here.
Speaker 2: When we made it down to this old book, we
Speaker 2: were greeted by a friendly old man at the door.
Speaker 2: The building itself was an old brick structure right in
Speaker 2: the center of downtown. I'll never forget the smell of
Speaker 2: old books we were greeted with when we walked through
Speaker 2: the door. It was a mix between paper, leather, and cedar.
Speaker 2: Anytime I opened a worn out book, it still brings
Speaker 2: me right back to that place. Old mister Winslow took slow,
Speaker 2: careful steps with his cane until we reached a glass
Speaker 2: case in the back of the stoor. The case reached
Speaker 2: all the way to the ceiling, with sliding doors on
Speaker 2: either side. It was packed with newspapers and old articles,
Speaker 2: some dating back over one hundred years. And wow, did
Speaker 2: we have our work cut out for us. Turns out
Speaker 2: the entire case was infested with cockroaches. Swell you too,
Speaker 2: I'll leave you to it.
Speaker 4: Just holler if you need anything.
Speaker 5: Okay, thanks mister Winslow.
Speaker 3: Marcus, this is the most cockroaches I've ever seen in
Speaker 3: one place, not to mention the biggest I've ever seen. Lee,
Speaker 3: tell me you brought gloves, got you covered alley? And
Speaker 3: I guess we just we just load these guys up
Speaker 3: in a box and bring them elsewhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess, so let me try on id them. Aha.
Speaker 5: They're Madagascar cockroaches. I should have known because their size.
Speaker 5: The good news is that this type of roach only
Speaker 5: bites when they feel threatened. We just need to move
Speaker 5: slowly and carefully. The bad news is that we just
Speaker 5: can't release them anywhere. I mean, they're originally from Africa.
Speaker 3: Humh well, where do we bring them once they're packed up?
Speaker 5: Lots of people have Madagascar cockroaches as pets. Definitely not
Speaker 5: the p for me, though, But they're easily tamed. Let's
Speaker 5: take them to totally Frog that pet store down the street.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the owners of that place are so nice.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they'll find these critters a good home. But
Speaker 5: what are we supposed to do with all these old papers?
Speaker 5: Most of them are torn to pieces? Hmmm, good points.
Speaker 5: Excuse me, mister Winslow. What would you like us to
Speaker 5: do with all these papers that seemed destroyed?
Speaker 4: Just awesome? It's a lost cause. To try to piece
Speaker 4: them back together. Feel free to keep any that you
Speaker 4: won't though they're no use.
Speaker 5: To me, now, okay, mister Winslow.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Ali and I spent the next two hours carefully sorting
Speaker 2: through the papers and gathering every last cockroach into the
Speaker 2: bin I'd brought from h Q. We were just about
Speaker 2: finished when we discovered something we were never expecting.
Speaker 5: Marcus, take a look at this paper, Endangered Enterprise a
Speaker 5: ward's professor Roger Anderson the Award of Excellence and Geological Research.
Speaker 3: After all this researching, we found this here.
Speaker 5: This is crazy, you're.
Speaker 3: Telling me, Marcus, Take a look at that pile of
Speaker 3: papers we just threw in that garbage back over by
Speaker 3: the door. I'm not so sure this is a coincidence.
Speaker 2: We sifted through papers for a few minutes, and lo
Speaker 2: and behold, we pulled out ten pages that had a
Speaker 2: headline saying something about endangered enterprise, endangered Enterprise funds research,
Speaker 2: endangered Enterprise saves, critically endangered a kikiky bird, and the
Speaker 2: list goes on. And the reality was these cockroaches were
Speaker 2: most definitely put here on purpose to destroy evidence. Someone
Speaker 2: didn't want us to find out any more about endangered Enterprise.
Speaker 2: When we made it back to HQ, we planned our
Speaker 2: next step. Although all the articles about saving endangered species
Speaker 2: we're fascinating, the real golden ticket was the article about
Speaker 2: Professor Roger Anderson.
Speaker 7: Guys, great work today. We finally have something leading us
Speaker 7: in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Thanks to you.
Speaker 5: I'm just glad we noticed. Ali's the real ones to
Speaker 5: thank for that.
Speaker 3: It was a team effort. But mister Luke, what's our
Speaker 3: next move? What do we do with all this?
Speaker 7: This person right here, Roger Anderson. If we find him,
Speaker 7: we get our answers about endangered enterprise.
Speaker 3: Well, let's just see what pops up when we search
Speaker 3: his name. Then let's see Roger Anderson. Huh. And that
Speaker 3: was easy. Look, he's a professor at the community college.
Speaker 5: Isn't that where Gabe's sister goes. That place is only
Speaker 5: ten minutes away. Tops looks like.
Speaker 3: He teaches geology one oh one on Tuesday night.
Speaker 7: Well, guys, I guess I'm going to class tonight. Time
Speaker 7: to pull out the old college sweatshirt. I knew I
Speaker 7: saved that for a reason.
Speaker 2: As mister Luke packed up for college class, the rest
Speaker 2: of us closed up the critter queue for the night.
Speaker 2: We were so excited to finally feel ahead of the game.
Speaker 2: But like all our other challenges, Victor von Smog and
Speaker 2: his accomplices were working day and night towards their worst
Speaker 2: plan yet. If only we would.
Speaker 6: Have known, Becky, I mean agents.
Speaker 8: Yes, what is it?
Speaker 6: Come help me with this contraption. I'm too big, too
Speaker 6: fit under this thing, and I can't connect the batteries.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, give me a second. Where does it connect?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Zip bottom left? Attach it to those loose flyouts.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 8: Oh man, so you have me on a timer or something.
Speaker 6: We are on a timer. This mission launches in t
Speaker 6: minus two days. I don't have time for your attitude
Speaker 6: or your questions.
Speaker 8: You know, I could just go off and start my
Speaker 8: own mission. I'm sure the boss says something for me
Speaker 8: to do something without you around, preferably fine.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, now I need you. Okay, this won't work
Speaker 6: without your help and you know it.
Speaker 4: Fine.
Speaker 8: Apology accepted. Now just start treating me like a real
Speaker 8: agent and we won't have a problem.
Speaker 6: Dad okay, no more, daddy, daughter. Then you call me
Speaker 6: Smog and that's it.
Speaker 4: Deal.
Speaker 8: They're done. Anything else, No.
Speaker 6: But you'll be happy to know I solve that problem
Speaker 6: myself today. Oh did you just a few hundred cockroaches
Speaker 6: and that collection of evidence is destroyed.
Speaker 8: Well, I give it to you. That's one way to
Speaker 8: use one of their precious critters against them, endangered enterprise.
Speaker 8: In the dark, we can keep this plan on schedule
Speaker 6: Exactly, my dear, exactly