Zobo was Hogging the Slide

 Zobo was Hogging the Slide

 Zobo was hogging the slide at Heartlake City Airport( again). Rumble the hamster sat on the stool at the snack table, wearing Olivia’s helmet with goggles and rueing that day when the Heartlake City municipal fathers had approved a slide to be attached to the air traffic control tower.

     Black Manta arrived on the mobile grooming van from the Heartlake City Pet Center. Rumble pulled the helmet more tightly over his body. Meanwhile, Zobo scrambled back to the top of the air control tower.

     “ Okay, Helmet, it’s time for some grooming!” goaded Black Manta. “ First, we weigh you.”

     “ My name’s not Helmet.” Insisted Rumble.

     “ Is it going to be the hamster tube - which would be the carrot-or my  power blast weapon-which would be the stick?  “ inquired Black Manta with a sigh.

Rumble considered several possible replies, some not Bilund-approved.

     “ Do Harry first,” suggested Rumble. He was referring to the hamster included in the Pet Center set.

    “ Already done. “

     “ How much did he weigh? “

     “ None of your business. 5 and a half ounces. “ 

     “ You can’t weigh me !” argued Rumble. “ Every Lego piece has a right to it’s privacy! Besides, we’re ABS. Our weight doesn’t change. “

     “Then you have nothing to worry about,” insisted Pet Groomer Manta. “ Now, let’s go!” Black Manta shot first, thought Black Manta, fingering his power blaster. 

     Now it was his turn to rue something. He rued the day that he took that part time job at the Heartlake City Pet Center Set. He had been lured by the promise of that one dollar bill that came with the set. That was months ago, and he had yet to see it. ( It had , in fact, fallen through the heat grate in the human family”s living room. Or, rather, it was pushed.)

     At that moment, the incoming roARRR of an incoming aircraft filled the sky. Olivia’s vintage-style propeller airplane was on a very unrecommended flight path, only inches off of the ground. And, it was upside down. It’s pilot, Carnage, from Spider-man Bike Rescue, proceeded to unceremoniously fall out, knocking his arms on the top wing. He had skipped putting on his safety belt.

     “Zobo, incoming!” yelled Rumble over the deafening vintage-style propeller noise. “Jump!”

     Zobo was at the top of the slide. He looked up with that zany look on his face. His life briefly flashed before his eyes: all the times he had been rebuilt, usually incorrectly. That time his wheels were gone for six months. All of the previous slide landings he had botched. Then, he bulged his eyes out even more, and blithely threw his marshaling paddles into the air like a pair of frisbees. The green and red stud adorned paddles glanced off the blue tail rudder of the plane. The newly positioned rudder changed the trajectory of the plane so that it landed harmlessly on a couch cushion. In the process, the red stud was 1).knocked off of the marshaling paddle, and, 2).knocked Don Carnage in the head.

     Rumble took advantage of the distraction, and jumped into the cab of the mobile grooming van. He threw two cookies out the window at Black Manta’s head. Both were wide, right. Black Manta sighed, sat down at the snack table, and picked up a cookie and ate it. “5 Second Rule.” He said.

Featuring:

1. LEGO Set

2. LEGO Set 76027 Black Manta Deep Sea Strike

3. LEGO Set 76113 Spider-Man Bike Rescue

4. LEGO Set 41345 Heartlake City Pet Center

5. LEGO Set 41343: Heartlake City Airplane Tour.