Chapter 16

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Alex cheered "We're going to America! Whoo! Today! Yeah! Hey! Whoo!"
Marty cheered "That's what I call crack-a-lackin' to the mack-a-lackin'!"

Stefano cheered "We did it, Garfield!"
Garfield cheered "Yeah!"
Stefano said "Maybe I am average intelligence after all!" Garfield said "Perhaps even slightly above."
Stefano said "No, I don't think so."
Vitaly said "Ha! Hair conditioner. Great idea, my friend! Feel. Go ahead. Soft like kitten, no?"
Stefano said "Ah. Look at that.

Garfield said "Slippery but not flammable."
Stefano said "You smell like peaches and herb!"
Alex cheered "Wow!"

Pomni said "Pomni and Garifeld, the trapezing duo!"

Garfield said "We did pretty good."
Pomni said "You will flip, and I will catch. And sometimes I will flip, and you will catch. And then we will both flip, and we'll travel the whole world! Flipping and catching, and I will flip you!"

Jax said "Ah bleep bleep blap bloappa beebidi doah!"
Marty, Gloria, & Melman sang "New York, New York It's a heck of a town"

Pomni said "We all flip! Maybe at the same time!"

Garfield said "Uh.. You know, the thing is... I may not always be around." Pomni asked "Where are you going?"
Garfield said "Well, I'm... I'm... I'm..."
Dubois then rolled up "Bravo, bravo! What a heartwarming performance, Monsieur Circus Master. It brought tears to my eyes. No, not really." Garfield tuned on his phone to alarm the penguins "Monsieur, we both know the lion and cat does not belong to you."
Private said "It's that horrid woman!"
Dubois held out the newspaper "He is a fugitive from justice. You will turn the lion and the cat over to me so that I may put him where he belongs." She drew their faces closer to hers "On my wall." Then the others were knocked out "What?"
Skipper said "lncoming!" Then they launched her into the cannon with the other officers tied up to her "Outgoing!"
Dubois said "Wait!"
Skipper said as they high fives "Up high! Down low. Too slow. Well done, Private."
Private asked "Did I do good?"
Skipper replied "Nah, not really.
Melman said "Man, that was close!"
Gia asked holding up the newspaper "Alex? You are from a zoo?"
Alex said "Yes. Yes. But wait, there's more."

Pomni asked "More?"
Alex said "Or less. There's less."
Vitaly asked "You were never circus?"
Gloria said "We had to say we were circus."
Melman said "Or you'd never have let us on the train!"
Gia said "After all we have been through together... you want to go live in a zoo?"
Alex said "Gia, I..."
Vitaly said "You used us."
Alex said "No, no, no. I mean, yes, but..."
Pomni asked "Trapeze americano, you make that up, too?"
Alex said "lt didn't exactly exist when I taught it to you."
Gia said "Oohh! Jetpacks and aquatic cobras! I should have known."
Stefano asked "Balloons to the children of the world was not real, either?"
Alex said "Well, yeah, that's not real. But look at what we did."
Stefano said "I was shot out of a cannon! I could have died!"
Marty said "But I thought it was your lifelong dream."

Stefano said "For all I know, your name is not even Alice."
Alex said "No, Stefano, but it never really was."
Stefano said "I don't feel safe!"
Alex said "Gia, I..."
Gia said sadly "We trusted you."
Stefano said "My tears are real! You are not!"
Skipper said "I can't believe you lied to all us circus folk."

King Julien said "Me? Stay with the circus? I am a king! I want to rule New York! We should talk. Whoa! Stop it! No means no! Or in your language... Not everything is solved that way, you know. Sonya? Are you listening to me? Now I'm getting the silent treatment, am I? Come over here, right now! Don't shut me out, baby! What is wrong with you? Speak!" Sonya roars "OK... if these are your feelings, I understand now. And l'm going! lt's obvious I'm just an emotional whoopee cushion for you to sit on! When you look for where I am, l won't be there!"

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