Darla Discovers a Bug's Life

chapter 5

The scene to cuts to a different place. Francis was resting in an actual flower bed and had a cast on his broken foot.

"Our Blueberry Troop salutes you bugs for rescuing our smallest member, Princess Dot, and as a tribute to Ms. Francis, we've changed our bandannas." The troop leader told the circus bugs.

The young ants turned around to show that their bandannas were now a light pink color with black spots like on a ladybug's back.

"We voted you our honorary den mother!" Dot added.

The young ants soon rushed over to him with smiles. Francis felt shocked by the young ants, but tried to hide anger of being confused for a girl yet again.

"Alright, girls, let's move your little keisters out of here now, your patient needs to rest, you know," Dr. Flora had the young ants leave Francis alone for right now. "Uh-huh. Come on."

'Whew.' Cherry thought to herself.

"Excuse me, Flik, can I talk to you for a second?" Princess Atta requested.

"Oh, sure." Flik said as he accidentally moved Francis's broken foot, making it slam on the flower bed which made the ladybug yowl in pain.

Atticus and the others soon winced. Flik and Princess Atta soon went to talk in private.

"Sorry, Francis." Darla said to the ladybug.

"Yeah, I'm sure Flik didn't mean to do that." Amber said.

"I guess so..." Francis replied. "So, I'm stuck here a while, and I'm a den mother... I guess it could be worse."

"Take it or leave it." Cherry said.

Everyone soon left so that Francis could get some bed rest, though it wouldn't last.

"Hopper's afraid of birds!" Flik announced as he suddenly came back.

"And I don't blame him." Francis shrugged.

"Flik, Francis needs rest." Darla told the male ant.

"Oh, oh, this is perfect!" Flik smiled. "We can get rid of Hopper, and no one has to know I messed up! You just keep pretending you're warriors!"

"Whoa, Flik, honey, we are not about to fight grasshoppers, okay?" Rosie said to him.

"You'll be gone before the grasshoppers ever arrive, it'll be easy," Flik replied. "Here's what we do--"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Cherry spoke up.

"Not another word," Manny added as he refused to be apart of this. "I don't know what you're concocting in that little ant brain of yours, but we'll have no part of it."

"Excuse me?" A young ant asked as he came with his friend. "Can we get the warriors' autographs?"

Hearing those words caught the circus bugs attention. The ant kids continued to cry until the ladybug caught their attention again.

"Eh?" Francis smiled as he soon juggled three water balls before throwing them in the air and gulping them down. "Ta-da!"

This was enough to make the young ants happy.

Meanwhile, back with the others...

There was construction of what Cherry dubbed as The Trojan Bird. There were branches connected to make a bird skeleton as Dim flew overhead with other ants to give advice and supervise, and where it was all working perfectly. The construction took a while, but it would be all worth it in the end. There was painting to make the bird look real and even ants inside to flap wings up and down by coordination.