The Great Egg Adventure

Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnng! Went the bell. Mat and his classmates jumped out of their seats and ran out the back door of the school. All of them, that is, except Rainbow the chameleon. The teacher lifted him to the ground and patted him as he crawled out the door. On the playground, the friends were talking about what they had learned that day. Kito said something in Chinese. "Huh?", said Mat. "I learned that if you don't sssshake the milk the right way it will SSSqeeezzzzze out," translated Dexter the snake. "Very sensible," agreed Mat. "I learned jewelry is beautiful under the micro- whatever they call it," said Sally. "Say something interesting. I like interesting things. I want to learn interesting stuff. I didn't learn anything today. I was daydreaming," blurted Spats. "What were you daydreaming about?", asked Chester. "Easter," said Spats.

"Easter!?," everyone shouted in surprise. "Yeah, Easter. It's a holiday my family celebrates. It's got presents, cards, bunnies, eggs, and stuff," said Spats. "There's this big dude, a bunny in fact, that has a basket full of eggs and presssentsss. I know, I celebrate it too," said Dexter. "You got it, Dex. At our house he puts his eggs around the house and then we have to search for 'em. He usually leaves one by the basket on my dad's coffee table. Then he puts clues in 'em and we follow 'em," said Spats. "It becomes SSpring around that time. Lots of babies are born around that time. Birds come from eggss so that's why eggs symbolize Easter." said Dexter. "I'm hungry," complained Tangerine. "Bravo Dex! You know a lot about Easter," said Spats.

"I'm hungry," said Tangerine again. "So that's Easter," said Spats. There was a giant round of applause for Spats, Dexter and Easter. "I'm hungry," said Tangerine for the third time. "Oh, for Pete's sake! If you're really that hungry, we should go over my house," said Mat. They raced over to Mat's house.

They saw a train. It had lots and lots of eggs on it. "Let's get on it!," said Mat. Hector posed as a conductor and took pretend tickets that Kito had found. They were in Chinese, but nobody took notice of that. They just gave them to Hector. Tangerine handled the food (of course!), Willee looked after the eggs in the freight car, and Mat and Freckles teamed up to drive it. The train puffed up high hills and rattled down them. Soon they came to the biggest hill of all, that swayed through a gigantic crater and raced down into a valley filled with colorful eggs of all sizes. As they raced down the hill, Hermie the hammerhead shark, who was in the aqua car with Manny manatee, saw a red signal. "STOP!!!" he yelled. Mat and Freckles put on the brakes! SCREEECH! The force of the stop was too much for the eggs! One by one they rolled down the hill. The train tried to stop but the hill was too steep! It rolled fast down the hill with the eggs following it. BAM! Caa! Caa! The friends opened their eyes. They were on an island by a circular river that twirled around them with the easter eggs in its grasp. "Nuts!" came a small voice. The friends looked around. There was nothing there except a giant Easter egg on the Island. Suddenly the egg popped open revealing a small bunny. "Hello!" it said. "I'm Benny Bunny. I was just hauling this big egg up the hill onto my train, but it looks like you found the train first. Good thing that hammerhead of yours saw the stop sign I put up so you wouldn't crash into me. Unfortunately, it did anyway. You just crash landed on Egg Island. I store my eggs here, but my new ones kinda fell into the river so, I kinda have to get 'em out, so you help me if you care to?," said Benny. "Of course Benny!," they all cried. "You have to cross by jumping on the rocks in the right order to spell out 'easter egg'. Got it?" "Yep!" meowed Spats. Before Spats could stop her, Sally jumped on the rocks spelling out E-E-S-T-R. When she hopped onto the second 'E' the rock sunk into the water. "HELgurgle gurgle" Sally shouted. "Huh?" said Hector. "I'll save you" yelled Mat. He grabbed a rotten pair of swim trunks that somebody had left on a bush for no apparent reason and dove in. Freckles grabbed his swim trunks and pulled him out of the water hanging by them and let him fall out of them. "Oof!" said Mat, "don't do that. I know that Manny and Hermie can swim out there and get her - with this," Freckles said as he held up the swim trunks. "They can hold this out to her and she can grab on and then they will pull her to land," he continued. "There. Mission accomplished." "Let's do it!" everyone yelled. They put their plan into action and soon Sally was safe and the eggs were found and painted.

"Now, we must take these eggs to the Easter Bunny," said Benny. The Easter Bunny was pleased and gave Freckles, Hermie, and Manny medals of bravery for rescuing Sally and gave Benny a badge for being the Easter Bunny's official assistant. "And yours," he told Mat. "Is for having hope for rescuing Sally," he said calmly. Everyone cheered. They were a team for Mat! THE END