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Speaker 3: Critter Protectors. It's crazy to think just how little those
Speaker 3: two words meant to me a few short years ago.
Speaker 3: I mean, maybe the word critter would have gotten my attention,
Speaker 3: but all I could think about that summer after fifth
Speaker 3: grade was how glad I was that school was finally over.
Speaker 3: I think what I was really craving was an adventure,
Speaker 3: something beyond just myself, the classroom or my little hometown.
Speaker 3: And boy did I ever get it. The truth is,
Speaker 3: our story started a lot like any story with a villain. There.
Speaker 3: We were suddenly blindsided by a huge problem. We had
Speaker 3: no training, barely any experience, and we were mostly just
Speaker 3: kids ourselves. Just like that, we were thrown into one
Speaker 3: of the craziest missions of all time. Almost overnight, we
Speaker 3: became detectives, high speed chase experts, environmental scientists, and the
Speaker 3: team responsible for.
Speaker 2: Saving the world. But I'd better not give it away.
Speaker 3: Just like that, Let's start at the beginning, Critter Protectors
Speaker 3: day one. Since summer break had just begun in our town,
Speaker 3: all the camps, sports programs, and public beaches were packed
Speaker 3: with people. Everywhere just seemed a little more crowded and
Speaker 3: a little more alive. Our town's famous biology squad team,
Speaker 3: mister Jim Jaden and Ava were single handedly saving the
Speaker 3: world time and time again. Doctor Stinky Breath, that smelly
Speaker 3: villain kept them on their toes, for sure, but they
Speaker 3: never failed to put him back in his place. He
Speaker 3: always landed right back up in his purple blimp with
Speaker 3: those sneaky purple ninjas. Even when Doctor Stinky Breath thought
Speaker 3: up another terrible plans, Biology Squad seemed to defeat him.
Speaker 2: Just the same.
Speaker 3: Things on the villain front were pretty normal and pretty controlled.
Speaker 3: But then everything changed. This is when our story began.
Speaker 3: This is when the Critter Protectors made a name for ourselves.
Speaker 1: Once the situation mister Jim over, Uh, hey, Luke, I've
Speaker 1: got a huge problem.
Speaker 4: Over Where are you.
Speaker 1: Over, I'm I'm at the Force Preserve esive HQ. You
Speaker 1: know the one with that really winding path. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the one.
Speaker 4: Got it heading your way now?
Speaker 2: Ten four.
Speaker 3: The beginning of the story is a bit tricky to follow.
Speaker 3: Mister Jim was supposed to be busy with this biology squad,
Speaker 3: and animal rescues weren't usually part of the job. The
Speaker 3: problem was, critter rescues were becoming pretty frequent around town,
Speaker 3: people constantly calling in and animals stuck in strange situations.
Speaker 3: All the rescues were becoming very time consuming, which is
Speaker 3: why mister Luke joined the team as head Gritter Protector.
Speaker 3: And now the real problem was starting to show its face.
Speaker 2: Shit, it's okay, I'm not gonna hurt you.
Speaker 1: And oh I wish I could say the same for
Speaker 1: whoever set this trap. It just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: I just wish there was some kind of like release
Speaker 1: rope on this net. Oh there's my backup. Those tire
Speaker 1: sounds didn't help us much. Now you're even more tangled
Speaker 1: in this mess.
Speaker 2: How are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: A bobcat and I knew they lived around here, but
Speaker 4: I never seen one wild like this.
Speaker 2: But wait, a net trap? This makes no sense, you're
Speaker 2: telling me.
Speaker 4: I mean when you said a huge problem, I thought
Speaker 4: maybe you had a possum by the tail or baby
Speaker 4: rabbit's about to freeze to death, or luke.
Speaker 1: It's summer frozen to death, and a possum by the tail.
Speaker 4: As I was saying, I didn't expect to see such
Speaker 4: an angry predator so.
Speaker 2: So deliberately trapped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there's definitely something fishy about this. Whoever caught
Speaker 1: this guy definitely didn't do it by accident.
Speaker 4: Well, either way, we need to get him free without
Speaker 4: hurting him or him hurting us, that is.
Speaker 2: I don't think I have anything on me to cut
Speaker 2: him loose hold on. I should have something in the jeep.
Speaker 4: Let's see essentials. Essentials where are you.
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 4: Ha, I knew these scissors would come in handy someday.
Speaker 1: Ha.
Speaker 2: And that bag of beef jerky?
Speaker 4: Hey, Jim, do you want some beef jerky?
Speaker 1: I'll pass on the snacks. And don't you think it
Speaker 1: might be a bad idea to bring meat around this,
Speaker 1: oh bobcat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, come to think of it, that's a pretty terrible idea. Well,
Speaker 4: I found these little guys. I knew they'd come in
Speaker 4: handy someday.
Speaker 1: I guess those little things will do with the job.
Speaker 1: But those have to be the smallest scissors ever made.
Speaker 2: Hey, at least I'm prepared. Okay, okay, you're right.
Speaker 1: Um. I think our best bet is to try and
Speaker 1: cut the rope loose from above. Then we can figure
Speaker 1: out where his paws are caught in the netting it.
Speaker 4: I'll climb up there. You just make sure he doesn't
Speaker 4: somehow come after me. In the meantime we'll do. Okay,
Speaker 4: not too bad so far. Just a little further.
Speaker 2: Those things making a debt on that rope at all.
Speaker 4: Patience, patience, just a little bit.
Speaker 1: More, and.
Speaker 2: Quick jump down here.
Speaker 1: We need to hold his net down flat before he
Speaker 1: gets it tighter on his paws.
Speaker 2: There his left paw. That's what's stuck.
Speaker 4: Jim. Just keep holding that net. I can get it
Speaker 4: in a one snip.
Speaker 2: I'm lucky. Okay.
Speaker 1: Count of three, one, two, three, and he's free.
Speaker 2: Quick flipped your side.
Speaker 4: Uh, Jim, what is he doing?
Speaker 2: Why is he frozen like that?
Speaker 4: Why is he staring at us and purring?
Speaker 2: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: Grab that branch and like, I don't know, make a
Speaker 1: sound against the tree or something, scare him off.
Speaker 4: Okay, that was really weird. Did you see his eyes?
Speaker 4: It was like he was in a trancer, like sleepwalking,
Speaker 4: or like some kind of robot mind control. Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: maybe let's not go quite that far.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just all suspicious though, don't you agree? Yes?
Speaker 4: But do we know who whoever set this trap actually
Speaker 4: wanted to catch a Bobcat?
Speaker 2: Well? I don't know for sure, but look a can
Speaker 2: of cat food. Huh.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was for the bobcat. Holy smokes, it's two
Speaker 1: thirty already. I've got to be back at HQ to
Speaker 1: meet Jayden in five minutes. Oh we're supposed to meet
Speaker 1: up to test all the jetpack batteries today.
Speaker 2: Oh mind if I catch a ride with you.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no problem, I'm heading back there anyways.
Speaker 3: And if only this whole story was that simple. But
Speaker 3: mister Luke and mister Jim knew something or someone was
Speaker 3: behind it all. And man, this was just the beginning.
Speaker 4: So I think this guy makes sixteen rescues and that's
Speaker 4: just this week alone.
Speaker 1: Sixteen rescues. Yeah, but now it seems like, hm, we
Speaker 1: need to start the count over again. Like fifteen simple
Speaker 1: rescues and one animal saved from an actual trap.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean I've felt swamped before, but if this
Speaker 4: is the new type of thing we're trying to handle, well,
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how much longer I could keep this
Speaker 4: one man job going.
Speaker 1: You're right, Luke, I mean fishing, boating, hiking, picnics makes
Speaker 1: sense that there were more opportunities for animals to be
Speaker 1: in the wrong place at the wrong time. I just
Speaker 1: hope this Bobcat incident was just some kind of misunderstanding.
Speaker 2: What was that? I think? So something just popped our
Speaker 2: tire quick all over up here?
Speaker 4: Wow, Jim, you're right, something completely punctured this thing when
Speaker 4: the world was that. It's like someone sliced through half
Speaker 4: the tire. I'll call it toe truck. I don't even
Speaker 4: have the spare tire in the back right now. This
Speaker 4: thing is definitely not drivable.
Speaker 1: One agree with you, but I need to let Jayden
Speaker 1: know I'm not gonna make it back. Hey, we got
Speaker 1: a flat tire. I need to schedule or tomorrow. Send yes,
Speaker 1: right off wind road. It's a jeep that says credit Protectors.
Speaker 4: On the back.
Speaker 2: You won't miss us.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'll go look back over there on the road
Speaker 1: like maybe it was a scrap metal or I don't know,
Speaker 1: something we didn't see. Huh, Okay, let's see. There's there's
Speaker 1: gotta be there's gotta be something back up.
Speaker 2: That's it. I was right, well kind of kind of, Luke,
Speaker 2: you're gonna want to see this