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Speaker 1: Hello friends, welcome back to Kitdshort Stories that this is

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Speaker 1: much with cutting down our screen time and getting ready

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Speaker 1: for bed as well. Well, are you ready for part

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Speaker 1: two of today's story? Me too, Let's go. As Aj

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Speaker 1: was still laying in the grass looking at this tiny

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Speaker 1: planet Earth. He didn't know what to do. I gotta

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Speaker 1: get out of here, but I can't leave Joey behind,

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Speaker 1: all right. I gotta wait till the alien's not looking,

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Speaker 1: then grab Joey and get out of here. You see,

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Speaker 1: the alien was pretty small himself. It was just a

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Speaker 1: couple inches tall, but standing next to the size of Joey,

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Speaker 1: Joey was like a small bug. So if the alien

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Speaker 1: he took off running. It's gonna be okay, Joey. We'll

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Speaker 1: figure this out. But are you okay? Like? Does it

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Speaker 1: just uh la flows far as strange little smaller than

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Speaker 1: AJ didn't know what to say. Uh No, it sounds

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Speaker 1: this figured out any second. As AJ was running up

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Speaker 1: What would you do if one of your best friends

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Speaker 1: That would be that would be pretty terrifying. If I'm honest,

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Speaker 1: called into HQ sh HQ, HQ, this is AJ. I

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Speaker 1: is your emergency? Sh? I don't know how to explain this,

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Speaker 1: Joey is the size of a cricket. Over shit, there

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Speaker 1: was a long pause. I don't think HQ knew what

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Speaker 1: Come again, AJ, can you clarify exactly what you just said?

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Speaker 1: Did you say that Special Agent Joey is the size

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Speaker 1: of a cricket? Sh? Yes, HQ, yes, confirm that is

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Speaker 1: what I said. Joey is the size of a cricket

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Speaker 1: slur very small hurl shouted Joey. Yeah, I'll go fast.

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Speaker 1: AJ took off riding his bike towards home. As he

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Speaker 1: What's wrong, said his mom. I need a mirror. I

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Speaker 1: but I'll give it a try. There's an alien spaceship

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Speaker 1: that crashed down in the grass, and then this alien

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Speaker 1: best of fun with their imaginations. Wow, you guys sound

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Speaker 1: like you're having fun. Yeah, here's a mirror you can use.

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Speaker 1: Just be careful with it. Okay, thanks, by bye, Aj

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Speaker 1: shouted as he grabbed the mirror and out the door

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Speaker 1: He had to get back to where Joey was. Was

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Speaker 1: not safe to leave Joey alone. Joey, I'm here, where

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Speaker 1: are you. I'm there, I'm hoddling a little about. Oh good,

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Speaker 1: that was smart, Joey. Okay, um uh here, hop in

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Speaker 1: I can talk to that alien. Come on, He picked

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Speaker 1: for a little while. Aj carefully crept down the hillside,

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Speaker 1: Up ahead, he could see where that alien spaceship was

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Speaker 2: Oh so lurks like those. Plus, that was a fantastic

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Speaker 2: pluz for our whteln to love. But it'll just half

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Speaker 2: to anil all the pup flore I got rid of

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Speaker 1: A floor girl to the root of the earth of

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Speaker 1: all its pulp ball. Hey you, shouted AJ. I want

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Speaker 1: alien was very confused. Le suck on howls or or

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Speaker 1: that come on closer. Yeah, well, I have this mirror.

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Speaker 1: It's a magical mirror, and your laser can't get through it.

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Speaker 1: And I need you to transform my friend Joey back

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Speaker 1: to normal size right now, or all strut our lord

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Speaker 1: under about it. Well to you, I'm a monster size

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Speaker 1: and I will destroy your spaceship. No no, no, no

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Speaker 1: don okay, Well, then transform Joey back to normal size

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Speaker 1: right now. Hark hark har hart does hang on, hung on.

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Speaker 1: The aliens pushed a button that switched the color of

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Speaker 1: the laser. He pointed it at Joey through. Oh Joey,

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Speaker 1: you're back, said AJ. WHOA, that was weird, said Joey

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Speaker 1: Everything was back to normal. Okay, little alien, as he

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Speaker 1: was still hiding behind that mirror. We need you to

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Speaker 1: get out of here, like, there's no way that you're

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Speaker 1: going to transform all of humanity into the size of crickets.

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Speaker 1: That's just not gonna happen. Carlselas, Little Sulu and all

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Speaker 1: of my olans Na Plust, Love and Anta Fraud Laura Planet,

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Speaker 1: I love Bust plus to bull. Yes, it is a

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Speaker 1: very good place, but I don't understand why you need

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Speaker 1: us to be tiny childs will don't want ruin our Well,

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Speaker 1: how many of you are there? Allur's a lot of us,

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Speaker 1: like how many? Like couldn't you just live in the

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Speaker 1: of us. Did you say seventeen, said Joey LUs seven Soon,

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Speaker 1: that's not very much, said Joey. I think you could

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Speaker 1: and no one would ever know. You're pretty small. The

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Speaker 1: alien scrunched up his face a little bit like he

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Speaker 1: was surprised and started to think, well, that's not hurd

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Speaker 1: on both this is I'll fun. We could actually just

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Speaker 1: love on the forest, sir, the room and the stable nuts.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think that the shrunk no more over

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Speaker 1: sh ra Van Lutsur Havler safe there. We're not shrunk

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Speaker 1: and that's actually kind of cool. Then uh, maybe we

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Speaker 1: we have some mirrors close by, then we'll be safe. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Great job, a j and Joey. You saved this whole

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Speaker 1: mystery before or HQ even showed up. When HQ arrived,

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Speaker 1: they awarded AJ and Joey with a very special medal,

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Speaker 1: congratulating them on saving the world from aliens the end.

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