Dude, Where's My Horse?

chapter 8

Everyone got back on their horses and continued their ostrich drive.

"We just survived our first ambush!" Susie beamed.

"And we're not even dusty!" Lil giggled.

"And Moon Shadow saved my life~" Courtney gushed. "I just wish I could thank him... Wherever he is right now."

"Oh, I'm sure that he already knows." Phil reassured her.

"For the first time in my life, my teacher won't fall asleep reading my 'What I Did on my Summer Vacation' essay!" Chuckie beamed.

"You know, I didn't just play Enrique, I was Enrique!" Dil smirked. "And Gaz, you're such an amazing actress!"

Gaz blinked and hid her face behind her GameSlave as she actually seemed to blush from that.

"It's all because of Tommy and Mike." Buddy praised.

"Well, we had some friends to help us out and luckily, the famous superheroes came to our rescue." Tommy replied.

"Now, let's get these birds home," Mike told the others. "I think we've had enough adventure for one day."

Then suddenly, everyone heard thunder and the bright sky became dark and cloudy and it now began to rain as everyone tried to take cover as there was then lightning strikes too, and everyone could see that a flood was coming.

"MOVE OUT!" Belinda cried out to the others.

Everyone went to a safe distance, but it didn't help much as the water was still rising.

"What are we going to do?!" Rhonda panicked. "The ostriches won't cross the river!"

"Well, we can't back the other way!" Gerald panicked.

"There's gotta be a way out of this." Mike tried to think.

"No pressure, guys, but it would be better if you could figure this out in, oh, say, the next five or six seconds." Chuckie advised.

"All we need is for one of them to cross and then the rest will follow." Tommy replied.

"How are you gonna do that, guys?" Dil asked.

Mike and Tommy came toward one ostrich and grabbed it by its neck.

"What are you guys doing?!" Angelica asked. "Mike, Tommy can barely control a horse!"

"Tommy, we have to ride these ostriches." Mike said as she took another ostrich.

"Are you guys insane?!" Junior asked.

"No, I saw this on TV," Mike replied. "It was when Action Guy was battling against the minions of The Ostrich Man who was a mutated bird himself who rebelled against the science lab who created him."

Mike and Tommy soon rode on the ostrich, but they had a hard time doing so.

"I can't watch!" Chuckie cried out as he then covered his eyes with his hat.

Tommy and Mike manged to get the ostriches to go across the river. Soon enough, the other ostriches followed. Everyone cheered for Tommy and Mike, especially Belinda and Lil.

"And our moms said we wasted our time watching television." Phil laughed as he then rode his horse with the others.

"This storm shouldn't last long." Belinda smiled and blushed to Tommy as he took charge like she knew and loved all the way back to Teeter-Totter Gulch.

Lil kissed Mike on the lips which made Mike blush too. The sun came back, and everyone was still heading out until Angelica and Junior noticed something was wrong.