BERNARD CRAIG GIBSON GOO JP KELSEY OMAR SALMA WATERLILY_GIRL KELSEY hmmm… CRAIG hey omar, we’ve been looking for this lost and found for a while now. are you sure it even exists? OMAR i’m positive! if there’s any place we’d find a lost puzzle cube, it’d be there! problem is i’ve only ever found it once… when i was lost. JP we were looking for a lost and found? heh, i thought were looking for a bathroom. i’ll be right back. can you hold this for me? thanks. KELSEY augh! JP off to the bush bidet! OMAR jp!!! KELSEY jp!!! CRAIG jp!!! JP i found the lost and found! OMAR whooooaaaa! KELSEY whooooaaaa! craig whooooaaaa! JP stop watching!!! WATERLILY GIRL excuse me, i found this toy racecar. SALMA hmm. and where exactly did you find it? please be very specific. WATERLILY GIRL i found it stuck in a sewer grate sometime after lunch. SALMA mm-hm, interesting, interesting. no doubt left unattended on a driveway. thank you so much for your patronage, we’ll file your item right away. CRAIG ohh, i see, vacuum- powered. not bad… for someone who’s not me-- OMAR whoa! SALMA um. can i help you four? CRAIG yes! um… we’re here on a very important mission! OMAR SALMA are you finders or losers? CRAIG whuh…? KELSEY uh, excuse me?! SALMA i mean did you find something or did you lose something? CRAIG oh, i guess we’re… losers? SALMA ah, i could tell right away that you were losers. come on over. CRAIG dang, okay… we’re looking for a piece of a puzzle cube. it looks like this. SALMA hmmm… yeah, it’s here. i can go get it. CRAIG wait, really? thank you! SALMA this what you’re looking for? CRAIG yes, that’s it! JP alriiiiiight! we’re one step closer to finding the heart of the forest! SALMA hooold on a minute. according to these files, this puzzle cube was found after a softball game five years ago. SALMA you’re way too young to have lost this. CRAIG well, we didn’t lose it. we were just trying to find it. SALMA the lost and found has a strict no finders keepers policy. if you didn’t lose anything, then your request is denied. KELSEY craig! she’s jeopardizing our entire adventure! do you want me to ransack the place real quick? cause a distraction? whatdyawant, whatdyawant? CRAIG no no no no, i have an idea… CRAIG look, i think we might’ve got off on the wrong foot here. i dunno if you know this, but you’re talking to craig of the creek. hero of the other side? may i ask what your name is? SALMA salma. CRAIG well, salma, i can take that pesky cube off your hands, and in exchange, i can give you this choco roll, only half-squished. what do you say? SALMA tch. what is this? this isn’t your trading tree, y’know. SALMA this is my domain. i’ve been running this place before you were even old enough to get your shoes dirty at the creek. so don’t think you can bribe me with your little baby snacks. CRAIG SALMA i pride myself in returning everything here to their original owners. your trades are useless here. KELSEY salma, is it? hi, i’m kelsey, kelsey of the creek. uh, seems that cube’s been lost for 5 years. if no one’s showed up then they can’t care that much. so… why don’t you just give it to us? SALMA you have no idea what it’s like to lose something precious to you… like i do. it’s been over 5 years now, since i lost bubbles. SALMA i had been particularly brave at the dentist that day. that’s when my baba introduced me to bubbles. we were completely inseparable. we shared everything together. bath time. secrets. even our treasures. until that fateful day… SALMA bubble’s and i were going to have a picnic together. i told them i’d be right back with the snacks, but by the time i returned, they were gone. SALMA after that, i made a vow that if i ever found anything, i’d make sure it went back to the right person, so that no one would lose anything ever again! and so that maybe… maybe someone would find bubbles, too. OMAR that’s so sad! KELSEY so noble. JP aww. CRAIG i guess if we want that cube, we’re gonna have to find its true owner. do we know anyone who plays on that field? OMAR hmm, i think i saw a baseball game a few summers ago. who was on first… KELSEY who? OMAR was on first? KELSEY yeah, who? JP uh, hey guys? i’m not really feeling so good. i’m gonna have to go home and use a real bathroom. CRAIG everything okay, jp? JP o-oh yeah! don’t worry. there’s just some… thunder down under! hoof! KELSEY okay well, stay hydrated, man! JP aha, thanks. good luck, guys! CRAIG okay, let’s see if we can put our heads together and try and make a composite sketch of this baseball kid. let’s start with what we know. they were a creek kid so they were probably a little scrappy. OMAR and they played baseball, so they gotta be athletic. KELSEY oh oh oh, but they’re older now, so they gotta look more, uh… teenager-y. CRAIG there. KELSEY i don’t think we’re gonna find this person. OMAR this is useless! we all know what happened! the creek kid who had this cube became a teenager and just stopped caring. i understand where salma is coming from, but that cube’s been missing for 5 years. it’s not doing anybody any good just sitting in a dusty old drawer. KELSEY oh, so what, what do we do? just ask some teenager to pretend to be the owner?! CRAIG kelsey, you might be on to something. and i know just the teenagers to ask! BERNARD no! i’m not helping you rip off one of your forest friends. CRAIG please, bernard! she’s got a piece of a puzzle cube and i need it to complete a map and find this treasure called the heart of the forest! BERNARD i don’t understand anything you just said, and i don’t want to. my answer is no. now if you’ll excuse me, gibson and i are about to watch a very serious documentary, and we need more popcorn. GIBSON hey craig, i’ll do it. CRAIG really!? GIBSON for five bucks. CRAIG i don’t have that. GIBSON you got three bucks? CRAIG dude! i don’t have any money! GIBSON i’m in. GOO mrowr? JP goo… we have to talk. GOO mrowr? JP don’t make this any hard than it is! CRAIG okay, so here’s the deal: you get in that line, and you tell her you’re looking for your missing cube that you lost after a baseball game. GIBSON got it, just one objection. i’m not standing in a line labeled losers. it just doesn’t fit my character’s motivation. KELSEY ughh… and what is your character exactly? GIBSON gibson “cracker jack” hardy. baseball player extraordinare. CRAIG just get in there. GIBSON hey ho, young one! i was wondering if perchance you had my precious little cube? SALMA oh, how did you lose it? GIBSON it was 5 years ago. i was playing the old basing ball, as we called it back then, with my lucky cube in my back pocket. i hit a humdinger over the fence to win us the pennant! but when i got home, i found that my lucky cube had fallen out of my pantaloons. when i heard about your well established establishment, i thought that maybe me and my sweet baby cube might maybe meet again. SALMA yes! i knew the real owner would show up. wait right here. CRAIG yes! he’s got it! GIBSON you know, i just recollected that i may have a few more lost items… SALMA oh? CRAIG oh no! gibson’s going rogue! GIBSON did you ever find a boom box? cuz that’s mine too. SALMA here it is! GIBSON and i lost, uh, a box of cookies recently. SALMA got em! GIBSON you got sunglasses? SALMA what frames? GIBSON what kind ya got? SALMA hmm. CRAIG gibson, what are you doing?! GIBSON oh, craig. you want somethin’? don’t worry, it’s on me. i’m finding. CRAIG what is that machine?! KELSEY don’t you dare use any techno-mancery on craig! SALMA using deception to try an steal from the lost and found? that’s the problem with you finders keepers. you never think about the losers weepers. and that’s why you guys are getting banned forever! CRAIG no please! JP wait! SALMA JP they don’t deserve to be on that wall! i do! CRAIG jp? you didn’t do anything wrong. JP i did do something… i took bubbles! SALMA bubbles! but… why? JP i was but a young lad creeking it up on a saturday afternoon. and then, i saw them… JP i looked to and fro for their kid, but i didn’t see anyone around. so i brought ‘em home, so our new kitten goo would have someone to play with when i went back to school. goo loved it with all of her little kitty heart. JP but when i heard it belonged to you, salma, i knew i had to do the right thing and return it… even if it made goo sad. SALMA bubbles… it’s you! JP i know this bubbles looks a little different than when you last saw them. but, uh, bubbles and my cat goo had a lot of adventures together. SALMA i see. there’s a lot of love in these scratches. JP y-you’re giving bubbles back? SALMA i think maybe the person that lost something isn’t always the one who needs it the most. JP aww, really? SALMA and to you losers… maybe it’s not right to hold on to these toys forever when there are kids or cats who need them now. starting today, i’m initiating a new rule. the five year finders keepers clause. if it’s not claimed after 5 years, it can go to someone who needs it. this cube deserves to go on adventures with you guys instead of sitting here collecting dust. KELSEY we’re not losers anymore! GIBSON how ‘bout you throw in that boombox? i know that’s been here for 5 years. [Type text]0[Type text]0[Type text]