Chapter 8

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Under the sea, everybody settled in as Chuck and Silver singed operatically together while the family sat together in one row. Red was getting annoyed by the singing until he felt a hand on his shoulder and looks at Stella, making him be more calm as he looked away. They heard Leonard imitating a horn as he announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to our master of gadgetry: Garry!" The curtain opens to reveal a pig with a beard, hair, glasses and was wearing a suit before he spoke, "This is it? This is the amazing team I've been workin' around the clock for?" Gale chuckled and said, "We're working on what we got." Garry takes a sip of his coffee and said, "Well, that's disappointing." He turns to walk out before he calls out, "This is the part where you get up and follow me!"

Everybody got up to follow Garry inside a lad as Garry spoke, "Welcome to my piggy gadget lab. Everywhere you look, you'll see inventions being tested by my team of guinea pigs." "This is so cool!" Miles said as Bomb agrees before Garry continued, "All the gadgets have been designed specifically with your current mission in mind. The first bein' Invisa-Spray. Need to go undetected in plain sight? Invisa-Spray does exactly that." He goes to one pig doing a demonstration of the spray as he sprays it on himself, turning invisible with his goggles left on, much to the group's surprise.

"So, how long does the invisibility last for?" Jason ask, which Garry replies, "Forever." "Wait, what?" The pig said as he gets a call from his partner and tells her that they won't be seeing each other tonight. "And what does the next gadget do? Bury us alive?" Red ask sarcastically, which Stella nudged him with her shoulder. Garry chuckled and answered, "What? That would be ridiculous."

He whispers in Pig Latin to some pigs behind him carrying shovels, "Ix-nay the shovel-ay. And movin' right along." They hear chuckling as they see Chuck, Bomb, Poppy, Willow, Dahlia, Luca, Jason, Miles, and Lillie smearing themselves with some sort of green slime as Stella scolded, "Jason, Miles, Lillie!" "What are you guys doing?" Red ask as Poppy said, "This is so fun!" "Oh, it's so squishy. What is this stuff?" Garry then answered, "Oh, well, that is a special type of flame retardant we call pig snot."

The group froze from that as Red was about to ask, "Why do you call it...? You know what? Never mind." They grimace with disgust as they try to get the snot off of them. Garry then brings out his last invention and said, "Now, everyone, prepare yourselves 'cause this next one is really somethin' special." It appeared to be a small UFO as the group looked at it, amazed as Poppy said, "So shiny." "Yes, my friend. Bold yet sleek. Simple while complex. This device can detect an eagle anywhere within a 100-foot radius."

"How does it work, Mr. Garry?" Lillie asked as he explains, "Simply push this button, and it does the rest." He pushed the button on top as the disk raised up, showing its speakers as it repeated, "There's an Eagle nearby." Everybody turned to Mighty Eagle, who said, "Okay, you got me guys." Garry spoke through the transitions, "This clever thing will... no doubt prove to be... crucial during your mission." "Wonderful. That's amazing! Can you turn it off?"

Red ask, getting annoyed by the repeating line before Garry answered, "It'll turn itself off." The speaker stopped, much to Red's relieve until Garry adds, "One hour after it doesn't detect any more eagles." The speaker went back to repeating the line as Red grabs it and was about to throw it on the ground, but Silver takes it from him, makes some adjustments to it, and turns it off, giving it back to Garry. "Oh, thank you." He said when Red began to speak, "Okay, guys, these gadgets are terri-" "Hey, hey, Red, can we chat for a sec?" Silver ask before she took Red away from the group before she said to him, "I can tell you're used to runnin' the show. That's great and all. But maybe since we're all a team here, a team you put together, maybe you can try to be more supportive. The results might surprise you, huh?"

Red sighed and said, "Fine. Fine, fine, fine." He goes to Garry and said, "Garry. Woo. Unbelievable. Really, really good stuff. Ya know what? I'm sure I can figure out a plan to... Ya know, to use all this... This awesomeness that you've... KIDS!"

The kids were interacting with the other inventions with Bomb as they froze before Bomb said, "Hi, Red."

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