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Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to Kids

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's story comes to us from Ingrid. Hey, Ingrid,

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Speaker 1: she sent me an awesome idea for a story, and

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Speaker 1: you can too. Just head over to kids Short Stories

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Speaker 1: it into an awesome adventure. And while you're there, you

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Speaker 1: can also fill out the form for kids shout outs

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Speaker 1: that happened after every single story in Parents. I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to say hello. If this is your first, second,

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Speaker 1: or one hundred time listening to this story, I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to say hello and thank you to you. My

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Speaker 1: name's Mr Jim, like I said, and my wife and

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Speaker 1: I we have three boys. We live in South Carolina,

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Speaker 1: and we love story time. Um. We we all know

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Speaker 1: the battle that screen time can be and we want

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Speaker 1: to throw back to to you know, when we grew

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Speaker 1: up in the eighties and nineties of just listening to

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Speaker 1: stories on cassette tapes. And that's really the inspiration to this.

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Speaker 1: And I love that the creativity comes from kids all

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Speaker 1: around the world who send in these crazy ideas and

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Speaker 1: then I get to turn them into an awesome adventure. Well,

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Speaker 1: my friends, are you ready for today's amazing story. Me too,

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Speaker 1: Let's go. It was time for Ingrid and her little

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Speaker 1: brother Wally to start getting ready for bed. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go brush our teeth, Wally, Come on, said Ingrid.

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Speaker 1: They ran upstairs to the bathroom to grab their toothbrush

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Speaker 1: and toothpaste, and they started to brush their teeth. Then

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Speaker 1: we all know that doctor Stinky Breath does not like

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Speaker 1: it when we have clean teeth. He wants us to

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Speaker 1: have stinky breath. Well, they had finished that, got on

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Speaker 1: their pajamas and got ready for bed. Oh wait, I

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Speaker 1: gotta go feed my fish, said Ingrid. She ran back downstairs,

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Speaker 1: and she had just gotten a whole bunch like a

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Speaker 1: family of beta fish. Do you know what a beta fishes?

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Speaker 1: They're very pretty fish. They have very flowy fins, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes they're blue and purple and red, and they have

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Speaker 1: they come in all kinds of different colors. And she

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Speaker 1: had about four of them. All right, good night fish ees.

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Speaker 1: Her favorite was rainbow, Good night Rainbow. And she put

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Speaker 1: in just a little bit of food. You don't want

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Speaker 1: But she put in just the right amount, and then

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Speaker 1: The next morning, she woke up and raced downstairs, and

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Speaker 1: what happened? She looked in the tank with the baita

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Speaker 1: she shouted. Wally came running over. Oh no, where did

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Speaker 1: the fish go? Where's rainbow? Said Wally. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: said Ingrid, But we have got to figure this out.

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Speaker 1: Let's get our spy gear and start looking for clues.

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Speaker 1: They ran up to their room and grabbed their spy gear,

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Speaker 1: came back down. They started with a magnifying glass. You

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Speaker 1: know what a magnifying glass does. Yeah, it helps you

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Speaker 1: see things that are really smoke. It makes much bigger

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Speaker 1: so that it's easier to see. And she held the

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Speaker 1: And she looked around Wally, Look look at this, look

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Speaker 1: look look look. She handed Wally the magnifying glass, and

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Speaker 1: he saw it too. There were three purple fingerprints on

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Speaker 1: the fish tank, Ingrid, you don't mean did the Purple

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Speaker 1: Ninja's steal our fish? I think that's exactly what that means.

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Speaker 1: As Ingrid and Wally ran upstairs as fast as they could,

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Speaker 1: They grabbed their spy deeper and said, h Q, HQ,

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Speaker 1: Ingrid and Wally? It's ready to hear you again. This

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Speaker 1: is HQ. What's the problem. Something darribile happen last night,

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Speaker 1: and we're pretty sure the Purple Ninjas stole all of

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Speaker 1: my fish. Oh really, that's terrible. What what kind of

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Speaker 1: fish were they? They were beta fish and my favorite

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Speaker 1: one's name is Rainbow. There are four of them. Did

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Speaker 1: you say beta fish? Um? Yes, I did, said Ingrid.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, you see, we've been monitoring the Purple Ninjas

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Speaker 1: There's a long old legend of the magical powers of

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Speaker 1: are trying to crack the code. Crack the code, said Ingrid. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we need to stop them before the unlock the magical

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Speaker 1: what kind of information they send over. Ingrid and Wally

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Speaker 1: ran over to their spy beeper printer that printed out

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Speaker 1: and she grabbed the papers and looked and holy smokes,

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Speaker 1: look at this. There's some kind of picture of like

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Speaker 1: a floating cloud castle. It's maybe like the blimp that's

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Speaker 1: what takes them to this. Oh, I bet that's totally

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Speaker 1: what it is. They have some kind of cloud castle

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Speaker 1: bet that is where Rainbow and all the other fish are.

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Speaker 1: We gotta do this, let's go. Ingrid and Wally grabbed

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Speaker 1: all know we need jet packs that we're going to

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Speaker 1: the clouds, right yeah, three two one whoa. Ingrid and

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Speaker 1: Wally blasted off to the clouds. And they forgot that

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Speaker 1: it was on turbo boost mode. Whoa, it was going

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Speaker 1: way too fast. And finally they switched off the turbo boost. WHOA,

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Speaker 1: that was crazy, said Wally. I know, I forgot that

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Speaker 1: the turbo boots button. Oops, said Ingrid. Pretty soon they

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Speaker 1: this cloud castle was ginormous, and there it was. They

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Speaker 1: saw some purple nines coming in and out of the

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Speaker 1: All right, Wally, we had to stay really quiet. We

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Speaker 1: don't want them to see us. And sure enough, inside

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Speaker 1: there were beta fish and there's rainbow. I mean there's rainbow,

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Speaker 1: whispered Ingrid. She almost forgot that she shouldn't scream, but

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Speaker 1: she was so excited to see rainbow again. All right,

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Speaker 1: what's the plan, said Wally. I don't know, but we

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Speaker 1: gotta get in there and rescue all of the beta fish.

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Speaker 1: It looks like they have at least like twenty Wow,

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Speaker 1: what are they doing? They're all kinds of test tubes

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Speaker 1: and wires and lights and all kinds of weird looking equipment,

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Speaker 1: but it looks like they were definitely trying to unlock

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Speaker 1: the magical powers of Beta Fish. Ingrid and Wally snuck

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Speaker 1: brought some little bags filled with water, and they carefully

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Speaker 1: the bags. They had to get out of there in time. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Get out of here? Wait?

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Speaker 1: Put Thouse back. The Purple Ninjas had spotted them. Run run, running,

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Speaker 1: Grid and Wally, go go go. Ingrid and Wally grabbed

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Speaker 1: and snuck out just in time as they blasted off

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Speaker 1: with their jet packs. What are they gonna do now?

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Speaker 1: Ingrid and Wally were blasting off, fleeing away from the

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Speaker 1: Ingrid peered down into the bag and there was Rainbow. Rainbow.

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Speaker 1: The Beta fish was looking right at her, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, she heard a small voice, that's it,

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Speaker 1: bring us back round our magical pond. Oh Rainbow was

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Speaker 1: asking them to bring all these beta fish back to

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Speaker 1: this magical pond. That means the magic is real and yes,

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Speaker 1: Ingrid and Wally need to rescue all these beta fish

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Speaker 1: and bring them back to their home in the wild.

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Speaker 1: Rainbow led Ingrid and Wally to the very super secret

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Speaker 1: released all the beta fish and they waved a very

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Speaker 1: happy goodbye. Great job, Ingrid and Wally. You guys saved

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Speaker 1: the beta fish and stopped the Purple Ninjas from stealing

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Speaker 1: The secret will stay with Ingrid and Wally the end.

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Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the ending.

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Speaker 1: You know what time it is. It's time for Kid

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Speaker 1: shout out. I want to say, hey, the Stria from Bangalore, India,

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Speaker 1: Towns from Charlotte, North Carolina, Benjamin from Venice Beach, California,

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Speaker 1: Dominic from Washington, D. C. Heath from Winthrop, Washington, and

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Speaker 1: Terence and Shy from Pennsylvania. I'm so glad that you're

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Speaker 1: spy team. We could not stop dr stinky breath without you,

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Speaker 1: my friends. Well you have a super duper day and

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