In this episode, the Wise Guys build a high-tech wonder and Sly Fox tries to steal a piece of the action.
Truth Sleuth, Courageous Curt, and Generous Genny looked proudly at their latest creation. They admired the bright, shiny exterior of their invention.
Truth Sleuth smiled and said, “Ok, who wants to be the guinee pig?”
Generous Genny cringed and said, “I volunteer Courageous Curt! Gotta earn your name, right?”
Courageous Curt put his hands on his hips and agreed, “Yeah, I’ll do it. I can’t wait!”
Just then Caring Carie and Voluntary Valerie showed up. Caring Carie looked curiously at the machine and asked, as she smacked away at her gum, “Wow, what is it?”
Generous Genny announced happily, “It’s a flying car that runs on blueberries!” Voluntary Valerie’s face lit up and she asked, “Cool, have you guys flown it yet?” Truth Sleuth rubbed the shiny, silver exterior and answered, “We were actually about to make the first test flight!”
“We?” Courageous Curt asked with a slightly offended tone. Voluntary Valerie jumped up and down and tugged on Curt’s shoulder and yelled, “I wanna go! I wanna go!” Carie scoffed playfully and said, “You’re braver than I!”
“Doesn’t take much to pull that off,” Curt mumbled.
“What was that?” Carie questioned. Curt did a mock whistle, looked away, and said, “Oh, nothing. Ready Val?”
The two adventurous youngsters climbed into the sleek two-seater and strapped themselves in. Curt looked over the control panel and got a confused look on his face. He turned to Truth Sleuth and asked, “Hey, where’s the go button again?”
Truth Sleuth did a face-palm, pointed to a giant green button in the center of the control panel labeled “GO”, and said, “Right there, genius. It’s an enormous green button! Are you sure you can see good enough to fly this thing?”
Curt adjusted his glasses, turned away from Truth Sleuth and with a long face defended himself, “Yeah, I was just joking. Of course I saw that enormous green button.”
Curt then shut the door and hit the green button. Nothing happened. He hit it again. Same result. He opened the door again and turned to the group.
“What this time?” asked Carie. Genny’s face lit up and she exclaimed, “We forgot to put the blueberries in the fuel tank, silly!” Everyone did a collective face-palm as Genny went to grab a bucket of berries. She came back and dumped a big bucket of blueberries in the back of the machine. Carie got a curious look across her freckled face and asked, “Why did you guys pick blueberries as the fuel?”
Generous Genny giggled and answered, “We thought it would make a tasty puree for smoothies.”
“Awesome! Hurry up, Curt, so we can have some smoothies!” Valerie said excitedly.
Curt hit the “GO” button and the engine fired up at once. Six eyes outside the vehicle lit up with satisfaction and anticipation. Would it fly?
Curt pulled the controls to make the silver bullet lift gradually into the air. They hovered in the air for a moment and then the two looked at each other. Valerie glared impatiently at the pilot and said, “Any day now, grandpa. Are we just going to hover all day?”
Curt rolled his eyes and hit the forward thrusters. They zipped off in a blaze of glory and the onlookers cheered with great delight.
“Fast enough for ya?” Curt asked as he admired the look of shock he had created on his friend’s face. Valerie wrinkled her nose and tried to appear calm as she asked, “Is that all she’s got?”
“Whatever,” Curt shrugged off Valerie’s sarcasm. The craft was streaking along smoothly when it started approaching the woods. “That’s where Sly Fox lives,” warned Valerie.
“So,” Curt said in an unconcerned tone. Valerie’s eyes darted around and she said, “He gives me the creeps. I want to avoid him.” Curt responded, “We’re in a flying car! How is he going to do anything to us?”
“He’s crafty!” Valerie shouted. “Gimme a break,” Courageous Curt said with agitation.
Curt slowed the craft down so he could maneuver through the dense, lush greenery. After a few moments, although they didn’t know it, they did indeed cross paths with Sly Fox. Watching from a distance with his order-following monkey, Sly Fox eagerly said, “Well, will you look at that! Quite the ambitious little rugrats, now aren’t they? The question is, how can I use this to my advantage?”
The monkey looked around with confusion, shrugged, and stated, “I dunno, Sly Fox. I haven’t got any ideas of my own.”
Sly Fox sighed, narrowed his eyes at his underling, and huffed, “I know you don’t have any ideas. I’m the brains, and you’re the brawn, remember?” The monkey scratched his head and said, “Uhhhhh, whatever you say boss, you’re the boss.”
Curt and Valerie returned triumphantly to their anxious buddies. Curt set the sleek invention down smoothly and the two hopped out happily. Truth Sleuth asked, “What took you guys so long?” Valerie chided her friend playfully, “He flies like a grandpa!” Curt returned the favor and said, “Valerie got scared of the big bad fox so we had to take a detour.”
Genny shouted with cheer, “What are we waiting for? It’s time for blueberry smoothies!” Truth Sleuth opened the “exhaust” end of the car and pulled out a cube full of silky smooth blueberry puree. They all took turns mixing, stirring, adding, and creating some outrageously good smoothies. “Best invention ever!” Carie announced as she slurped her victory victual.
The next day, Sly Fox’s monkey henchman went out looking for the rascally little wise guys. He caught them just in the nick of time as they were filling the car with blueberries.
“I bring an urgent message from Sly Fox!” the monkey announced. Courageous Curt answered curtly, “We didn’t order any, but thanks anyway!” The monkey scratched his head and said, “Sly Fox says that you can’t fly this thing without a permit.”
“Lemme guess,” Truth Sleuth said as he looked the monkey over, “Sly Fox just so happens to be selling licenses.”
“I just happen to have one right here!” the monkey assured the group. The children ignored the monkey’s meanderings and continued their business. The order-follower kept on, “Sly Fox also said that there’s a 50 percent new car tax that you need to pay, and that blueberries aren’t an approved fuel source, and that you have to pay a fine for not registering your vehicle, and that.”
The children just laughed at the silly monkey and his crazy musings. What was he talking about? Licenses, fines, taxes? What a joke!
“We’ll make you a deal,” Valerie said as she turned to the mangy monkey. “We’ll fly you back to the forest if you promise to never bother us again. And if you were smart, you’d stay away from that Sly Fox, too.”
“But I’m not smart,” the monkey said sadly.
“Will you leave us alone?” Genny asked politely with a soft voice.
“Can I have a smoothie, too?” monkey asked.
“Sure, why not?” Caring Carie agreed.
This time Truth Sleuth and Carie fired up the blueberry-powered silver streak. “You’ll have to ride up top,” Truth Sleuth told the monkey.
“You’re joking,” monkey said with a twisted face.
“It’s only a two-seater. I’ll fly slow, don’t worry,” Truth Sleuth tried to comfort his passenger.
So the mindless monkey hopped onto the top of the shiny spectacle and Truth Sleuth, as promised, made the ride as slow and smooth as possible. The monkey lay on top and enjoyed the ride.
When they reached the forest, the monkey hopped off. Truth Sleuth and Carie put the windows down. Carie smiled and said, “Now remember, stay away from that Sly Fox. He’s always up to no good.”
The monkey smiled, nodded, and, without thinking of course, said, “I will, I won’t go near that crazy fox. Bye!”
They waved goodbye and zipped away through the air.
It wasn’t long before the monkey came across Sly Fox, who had been waiting for him. “So how much tax did you collect?” Sly Fox asked expectantly.
The monkey tried to come up with a decent excuse, but all he could come up with was, “Uh, well, they said they’ll pay later. I believe them, don’t you?”
Sly Fox crossed his arms and shook his head and said, “No, I don’t. You’re bigger than them! You need to be more forceful to get what we want. Now I’ll have to go to plan B.”
“Plan B?” the monkey asked.
“Luckily for us both, my wise mind has already made another plan. I had a feeling you wouldn’t come through, so I thought of another scheme while you were gone,” Sly Fox said with a snicker.
“Oh boy, oh boy. Can I help?” the misguided monkey asked.
“I’m counting on it, Here’s what I need you to do,” Sly Fox began to explain his deviant plan.
That night, with the sky full of brilliant moonlight, the moronic order-following monkey did as he was told without question. He sneaked onto the wise guys property and approached their new invention.
He looked all around to make sure that no one was watching and tried to open the hood. “It’s stuck,” he thought to himself. He wasn’t aware that you needed to pull a lever on the inside to open the hood. So he did what order-following criminals do best, he forced his way in.
Once the hood was open, he viewed all sorts of wires, tubes, gadgets, and gizmos. He had no idea which one he was supposed to destroy, so he just shut his eyes and ripped out the first tube he found with his hand.
He ran off into the night and returned to Sly Fox’s dark delight.
To be continued…...
