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One day, as usual, Marvin the mouse was 

skateboarding to the hotdog stand after school. He 

was thinking of trying the new kind of hotdog, when 

suddenly...

Marvin screamed, his skateboard flipped over and 

whacked him in the face, then something splashed 

everywhere. Then Marvin heard something crash, 

then it suddenly smelled like strawberries. He heard 

something fall over, with a loud "BANG", then a 

voice shouted, but it sounded quite familiar. Then 

his helmet slipped over his eyes. He adjusted it 

and...

It was his friend, Rachel the kangaroo. It seemed 

she had been carrying a strawberry smoothie while 

walking her bike. It seemed that when Marvin was 

daydreaming about hot dogs, he had lost control of 

the skateboard and bumped into her. "Terribly sorry 

Rachel." muttered Marvin while he wiped off the 

stains from the grooves on the skateboard. "That's 

okay. But where were you going anyway? I've just 

been heading to the clubhouse." replied Rachel as 

she helped clean up. She then picked up the pieces 

of the shattered glass in a scarf. "Well...I was on my 

way to the hot dog stand. But why the clubhouse?"

"Lisa and George say there's another mystery." said 

Rachel as she deposited the pieces in a nearby 

trashcan while parking her bike against a wall.

Rachel sat on her bike and explained while Marvin 

removed halves of strawberries wedged between his 

skateboard's wheels. When Marvin was finished, 

Rachel asked if he could meet her and the rest of the 

gang at the clubhouse for a discussion. He said yes, 

and Rachel zoomed away on her bike in the direction 

of the clubhouse. 5 minutes later, Marvin finally 

removed the last slices. Then he got on and 

skateboarded away.

Marvin finally gave up the thought of getting a hot 

dog, and decided to just focus on getting to the 

clubhouse. He arrived a few minutes later. Soon, the 

meeting began. "You all know that new store?" asked 

Shirley the opossum. "Yeah what about it?" 

answered Xavier the bat. "Well..." began Shirley. 

"We think it's trying to drive the fruit shop out of 

business." continued Lucas the tiger. "Yeah that." 

said Shirley, a bit annoyed at Lucas interrupting her. 

"But why?" asked Primrose the goose. "That we don't 

know." said George the beaver. "And, we think that 

dumb PB shop is trying to bribe the fruit shop." said 

Lisa the sparrow. "Well, all we know is that, for some 

reason, the owner of Nutty PB is against the owner 

of the fruit shop." continued Lisa. 

"Well, I have a plan." said Monica the parrot. "First, 

we investigate both shops. Then, we search for 

clues." continued Monica. "The first group consists of 

Rachel, William, Lucas and Paul. Then the second 

group will be small animals, since they can fit 

through tight spots. Shirley, Marvin,George and 

April, you are in Group B. Now, for the last group, 

me, Primrose, Lisa and Xavier will search the sky." 

"Good idea." said William the wildebeest. "Okay 

then, we'll go with that plan. Let's go!" said Shirley. 

Then the gang set off to the fruit shop.

As Primrose and George pushed and pulled the lever 

of their handcar, they asked about the mystery. 

"What kind of *huff* clues do we *huff* have to 

find?" asked Primrose. "Well,they usually end up on 

*squeak* objects that we need to *squeak* find. 

The objects are *squeak* anonymous, and we still 

don't know what we're *squeak* looking for. Marvin, 

are you doing that?" said Shirley. "No. But maybe 

your cart is doing that." answered Marvin. "Well that 

means those wheels need to be oiled. I haven't been 

oiling them for awhile." said William. "A push 

please." said Monica while the paper airplane she 

was riding on started to go down. "Right on." said 

Lucas, and signaled Paul the goat, who was sitting in 

the back, to fan some smoke from the exhaust in 

the direction of the descending plane.

"Whee!" shouted Monica as her paper airplane flew 

up. A portion of her paper airplane was covered in 

smoke, so she swished her tail feathers. The smoke 

began disappearing, when she spotted the fruit shop. 

"Hey guys, I see the fruit shop, we're almost there." 

said Monica. "And I see a strange object next to it, 

but I don't know what it is. I can't see all the details 

and stuff. It looks like a brown dot from here." 

continued Monica. Just then, they arrived. Also 

Monica's paper airplane caught a sudden drift 

downwards. She spotted a wolf selling cushions, and 

she aimed for one of then for a soft landing.

She carefully steered to the cushion, making sure her 

shadow was approaching the cushion at the right 

speed, then finally landed atop a plump blue pillow. 

While folding up her paper airplane, she told the wolf, 

"Hello Mr.Wolf, sorry if I bothered you, but I was just 

landing my paper airplane." The wolf replied, "I don't 

mind it, don't mind at all. The name's Aaron." "Okay 

then, goodbye." She then promptly folded up the last 

corner and waved as she walked away. 

Yesterday, the group had the owner of the fruit shop 

leave the shop to them. He was going for his 

vacation, but he didn't want any customers in the 

fruit shop while he was away. That was the perfect 

opportunity for them to investigate. So, back in the 

present here they are arriving. It seemed the "brown 

dot" Monica had saw from her paper airplane, was a 

small cabin the owner had rented for them. Back in 

the present, the group had arrived and were walking 

over to the fruit shop. Monica had yet spotted 

another object, which looked golden.

Hello! I have left you the 

key to the cabin and also, 

to the fruit shop.You will 

find the key to the fruit 

shop wedged under this 

sticky note. And, here is a 

list of chores you need to 

do.

1. Hang up the closed sign

2. Mop the floor and sweep 

it

3. Throw away expired fruits

4. Store fruit juice 

properly

5. Clean windows

6. Paint over any old areas

7. Lock the fruit shop's 

door

Once the group got to the spot Monica mentioned, 

they found a key and a sticky note on the door. 

Monica read the note and then reached under the 

note with her beak. She pulled her beak out, and 

there was a golden key in her beak. She then took it 

out and said, "Well, I guess this is the key to the fruit 

shop." The group headed for the cabin, while Xavier 

slipped out the key to the cabin and pulled off the 

sticky note. He then tossed the key to Shirley and 

she opened the door. Xavier turned around and the 

sun was setting. He told Monica to hang up the 

closed sign and lock the door to the fruit shop. After 

Monica did so, she joined the others inside the cabin.

Once they got in the cabin, it was getting late. So 

they decided to get to sleep. Some slept in 

hammocks attached to the roof, while the others 

slept in beds down below. Xavier's hammock was 

quite unique, it was just a pole attached to the roof. 

Being a bat and all, the pole was just fine. Once they 

got to sleep, Monica heard a noise and woke up. It 

sounded like somebody banging on a glass door. 

"DAMMIT!!! It's closed again!!!" screeched a voice. 

"La la la. Nothing strange going on here. I'll just 

investigate it tomorrow." thought Monica. She rolled 

over and went back to sleep.

In the morning, the group took a bus to the nearest 

restaurant for breakfast. They planned to do the 

investigation in the fruit shop after they got back. 

They would do the chores the sticky note indicated 

after they did the investigation. Because, if they did 

the chores first, they might have thrown away some 

valuable evidence. "Are we there yet?" This, which 

Primrose kept asking on the way back to the fruit 

shop, and Shirley kept answering ignorantly, "No, no 

and no." A few minutes later, when Primrose asked 

her question, yet again, "Well, a lot of times no, but 

this time yes." answered Shirley as the bus pulled 

into the bus stop. They got off and walked 5 blocks 

to the fruit shop. They then went inside to look for 

evidence.