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Speaker 1: Hey, friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kid

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time or you're

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Speaker 1: to use their imagination and watch their creativity come to life.

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Speaker 1: You see, we make stories every single day for you,

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Speaker 1: and you just never know what kind of story you're

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Speaker 1: gonna find on any given day. So hang with me

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Speaker 1: for five days, whether maybe driving in the car or

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Speaker 1: maybe during lunchtime, and I think you're gonna find something

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Speaker 1: pretty amazing happens. Well, friends, are you ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. It was another beautiful day and

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Speaker 1: Maverick the Monster was climbing down from his favorite tree

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Speaker 1: do today, he said to himself, but first I need

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Speaker 1: to get my muscles moving. Maverick was the jungle's protector,

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Speaker 1: so he had to stay in tip top shape in

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Speaker 1: case anyone needed help. He started every day with a

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Speaker 1: run up and down the mountain, but today something seemed wrong.

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Speaker 1: The jungle was quiet to quiet at the top of

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Speaker 1: the mountain, Maverick found one of his friends, Jasper the Jaguar.

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Speaker 1: Where is everyone, Maverick asked, They've all taken cover. Something

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Speaker 1: is coming. We could smell it, said Jasper. Maverick sniffed, Well,

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Speaker 1: I can't smell anything. Really, it smells awful, like really

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Speaker 1: steaky bath. Well it's my job to protect this jungle

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Speaker 1: and all the things that live here, Maverick said, standing

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Speaker 1: up tall. Tell everyone to meet me at my tree

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Speaker 1: in thirty minutes. As Jasper spread the word, Maverick ran

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Speaker 1: What am I going to tell them? Maverick thought to

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Speaker 1: himself as he picked up a dead tree and lifted

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Speaker 1: That's pretty impressive. By the time he was done with

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Speaker 1: his workout, Wow, quite a workout, he could smell what

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Speaker 1: Jasper was talking about. Meanwhile, in the Stinky Blimplap, Doctor

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Speaker 1: Stinky Breath and the Purple Ninjas were on the move.

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Speaker 1: People keep ruining my plans. I have brought us to

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Speaker 2: Oh when after there's no one here, how are we

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Speaker 2: gonna take over the world.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry about that, doctor Stinkybird said with a smile,

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Speaker 1: I have a plan. Back in the jungle, the animals

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Speaker 1: were all gathered together. Attention, attention. I know you're all worried,

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Speaker 1: but we must remain calm, Maverick said, has anyone noticed

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Speaker 1: anything about that smell? Sierra the snake raised her tail

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Speaker 2: As I was slithering over Cier, it felt like the

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Speaker 2: ground was rumbling under my scales.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean, asked Maverick. But before Sierra could explain,

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Speaker 1: a dark shadow passed over them. The animals looked up

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Speaker 1: and saw a big, oval shaped purple balloon above them

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Speaker 2: Hey, the ground is strembling again. My skills, shouted Sierra.

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Speaker 2: Had I hear fate running, said Jasper me do me?

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Speaker 1: Do I hear it too. All the others started to

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Speaker 1: chime in, Jasper, use your tracking skills and lead us

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Speaker 1: towards the sound. As Jasper led the group, Maverick tried

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Speaker 1: to protect them. If he showed how he was really feeling,

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Speaker 1: it might even make the other animals more scared. Suddenly,

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Speaker 1: Jasper stopped. Look, he whispered. The animimals saw human looking

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Speaker 1: creatures dressed in purple. They were holding a huge tube

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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Suddenly there was a loud, cracking

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Speaker 1: sound like thunder. The entire jungle shook. The animals squawked

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Speaker 1: over the blimp speaker to the animals.

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Speaker 3: I have injected my toxic breath into the ground, and

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Speaker 3: now the earth is splitting in half, and there's nothing,

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Speaker 1: Ah ah, Quick as a flash, Maverick grabbed a pointy,

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Speaker 1: Maverick as he threw the branch at the blimp to

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Speaker 1: of like a ginormous balloon. Now, Maverick was good at

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Speaker 1: many things, but unfortunately throwing it's not one of them.

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Speaker 1: The branch missed. Feeling disappointed and sad that he had

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Speaker 1: but when he got to the bottom, all the animals

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Speaker 1: and now the earth is splitting in half. It's all

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Speaker 1: my fault. But the balloon flew away. You scare them off, Jasper,

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Speaker 1: shouted Maverick and saw that the balloon in the sky

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Speaker 2: Why we still have a problem with the ground splitting.

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Speaker 1: The earth is still cracking, said Sierra. She was right.

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Speaker 1: Maverick knew that the jungle was resilient, which means it

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Speaker 1: can heal after bad things, but it would need some help.

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Speaker 1: Maverick held on to two strong trees, one on either

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Speaker 1: side of this giant crack that was for me, and

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Speaker 1: used his super strong muscles to try and squeeze the

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Speaker 1: crack back together. At first, nothing happened, but Maverick did

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Speaker 1: The ground rumbled and the trees shook. Maverick kept pulling

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Speaker 1: the two sides together until he couldn't pull any more.

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Speaker 1: He dropped to the ground. All the animals were silent.

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Speaker 1: Sierra slithered over to the crack, Yo dead ened.

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Speaker 1: All the animals cheered as Maverick was so proud of

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Speaker 1: himself for not only choosing to be brave even when

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Speaker 1: he felt scared, but he tried his best, and his

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Speaker 1: to close the crack that had formed in the jungle.

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Speaker 1: Even though this is the end of our story, I

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Speaker 1: think it's only just the beginning the amazing adventures that

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Speaker 1: lie ahead for all these animals in that jungle. The

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Speaker 1: We could not have this much fun without you, my friends.

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Speaker 1: Will you have a super duber day and I will

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Speaker 1: see you on our next adventure. Bye.