Save the Bees

Chapter 7

Freddy: They are pinheads. (both laugh and Elmo says, "Pinhead". Freddy opens a smoker box after they arrive)

Freddy: Hey, check out the new smoker.

Elmo: Oh, sweet. That's the one you want.

Freddy: The Thomas 3000.

Maddie: Smoker?

Freddy: Ninety puffs a minute, semi-automatic. Twice the nicotine, all the tar. (both laugh again)

Freddy: Couple of breaths of this, knocks them right out. They make the honey, and we make the money. (Barry, Y/N, Maddie, and Loki fly onto Freddy's hat and onto the brim.)

Elmo: "They make the honey, and we make the money." (Freddy and Elmo walk onward. Freddy opens an apiary box and sprays it with smoke. Inside, the bees start moaning and gasping, including Maddie's parents.)

Barry: Oh my. (Barry, Y/N, Maddie, and Loki fly into the open box as Freddy leaves and makes his way into an apartment. Two bees are just waking up.)

Maddie: What's going on? Are you okay, mom and dad?

Howard: Yeah, it doesn't last too long.

Maddie: How did you two get here? Do you know you're in a fake hive with fake walls and how long I've been looking for you 2?

Howard: (points to a picture) Our queen was moved here. We had no choice and we wanted a better life for you.

Barry: (looks at the picture) This is your queen? That's a man in women's clothes. That's a drag-queen! (The walls separating the apartments are removed, revealing hundreds of them.)

Y/N: What is this? (Flies through the apartments and out into the open air. She hovers high above a tree, where she sees even more apiary boxes on the farm. She begins taking pictures) Oh no. There's hundreds of them. Bee honey, our honey, is being brazenly stolen on a massive scale.

(Back at home, Barry, Y/N, Maddie, and Loki's talking with Berry's parents, Adam and Uncle Carl.)

Loki: This is worse than anything the bears have done to us. And I intend to do something about it.

Mom: Oh Barry and Y/N, stop.

Dad: Who told you 4 that humans are taking our honey? That's just a rumor.

Maddie: Do these look like rumors? (Maddie throws her pictures on the table)

Uncle Carl: That's a conspiracy theory. These are obviously doctored photos

Barry: Ugh.

Mom: Barry, Y/N, Maddie, and Loki, how did you 4 get mixed up in all this?

Adam: 'Cause they've been talking to humans!

Mom: Whaaat?

Dad: Talking to humans?!

Adam: Berry and Y/N has 2 human girlfriends...

Dad: Oh Barry, Y/N, Maddie, and Loki.

Adam: ...and they make out!

Mom: Make out? Barry and Y/N?

Barry and Y/N: We do not.

Adam: You 2 wish you could.

Loki: Who's side are you on?

Adam: The bees!

Uncle Carl: I dated a cricket once in San Antonio. Man, those crazy legs kept me up all night. Hotcheewah!

Mom: Barry and Y/N, this is what you 2 want to do with your life?

Barry: This is what I want to do for all our lives. Nobody works harder than bees. Dad, I remember you coming home some nights so overworked, you- your hands were still stirring. You couldn't stop them.