Cali and Maci Stop the Lava Butterflies

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Today's story comes with from Calli. Hey, CALLI, she sent

(00:24):
me an awesome idea for a story and you can't too.
To set up to Kids Shortstories dot com. Send me
your idea and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure.
Are you guys are ready for an amazing butterfly adventure?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Me too.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Let's go, Purple Ninjas, get me more ice cream. I've
on strawberry I need it, Get it now. The Purple
Ninjas ran to the other side of the stinky blimp
and looked through the freezer and the news was not good.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Uh boss, I thank you. We're all out of the
strawberry ice cream. Is there anything else that you want?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:05):
No, no, I need strawberry ice cream. I need a big,
a big bucket, like a like a wheelbarrow full of
strawberry ice cream right now, or else I might cry.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Oh no, bass, don't cry. Don't cry. We will figure
out away to catch some Mars strawberry ice cream right away.
Just all that. Okay, don't cry.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Purple Ninjas, I'm counting on you.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
If you don't get me the.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Ice cream, does I want?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I will throw a big fit and cry and scream,
and then you'll have to clean up the boogery mess
after get to for Purple Ninjas. Oh dear, Yeah, the
Purple Ninjas definitely don't like cleaning up doctor Stinky Breath's
giant boogery mess after he has a big fit. That
is disgusting.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Meanwhile, down on the ground, Kelli and Macy were playing out.
They were drawing with chalk on the driveway and having
a ton of fun. What's your favorite thing to draw
with chalk? Well, Calli and Macy they were playing a
game kind of like pictionary. Do you know the game
where you draw something and then the other person has

(02:17):
to try and guess what it is that you're drawing. Yeah,
and they were playing the animal version animal Pictionary. Calli
was drawing a mystery animal and it was Macy's job
to try and figure out what in the world that
creature was. Uh, is that a hippopotamus, asked Macy. No,
that's not a hippo, said Calli. Macy was standing above

(02:41):
Calli's drawing, trying to figure out what in the world
kind of creature that Calli was drawing. Had a very
big belly, a short tail, a strange looking head. And oh, oh,
I know, said Macy. It's a rhinoceros. Nice one, said Calli.

(03:02):
All right, it's my turn, said Macy as she grabbed
some chalk. All of a sudden, they both heard the
same sound. The two girls dropped their chalk and ran
over to get the walkie talkies.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Calli and Macy, this is HQ. We need your help.
There is an ice cream store in town that has
been attacked by butterflies. I know that sounds unusual, but
it is true. These butterflies have been stealing ice cream
all day long and the owners need help. Please grab

(03:37):
your gear and get to work over and out.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Sh Wait a second, what did he just say, said Calli?
Did he did? They say? Butterflies? Said Macy. I love butterflies.
I can't wait for this one. Cally and Macy raced
up to get their spy gear, and boy, are they
in for a big surprise when they get to that

(04:00):
ice cream store. I think this is a dream. I
must be dreaming. I love butterflies, said Macy.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Me too.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
This might be the best mission we've ever gone on,
said CALLI. Imagine a whole store full of butterflies that
need to be Oh, we gotta maybe they could be
our pets, or maybe, oh maybe they'll be so friendly. Oh,
I can't wait. The two girls got all their gear
and headed off to the ice cream store on their scooters.

(04:31):
As they were zooming down the street, they could hear
screaming from afar Ah helpers. Whoa where is that coming from?
Said Calli. It can't be from the ice cream store.
No one would be afraid of butterflies. But as the
two got closer and closer to the ice cream store,
they realized that that screaming was coming from, in fact,

(04:55):
the ice cream store. What in the world could be
going on in there, said Macy. They're just butterflies. Who
is afraid of a little butterfly. They parked their scooters
and walked towards the door. Don't go in there, said
the store owners.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
These evil butterflies in there, and they're ruining all my
ice cream.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Cally and Macy looked at each other. They were confused. Wait,
excuse me, sir, did you say there's like evil butterflies
in there? And why are you afraid of them? Because
they're shooting lava.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Look.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
The two girls pressed their foreheads against the windows and
cut their hands around their eyes so they could look
in better. And they couldn't believe it. There was lava
sprayed all over inside of the building. They could see
dozens and dozens of butterflies flying around, and it looked
like the butterflies were working together to scoop out the

(05:54):
ice cream into a really big bin. What are they
gonna do with that? Said me? Wait a second, lava
shooting butterflies? What planet are we on? Shouted CALLI. I
don't know, but there's gotta be something wrong with those
butterflies and it's up to us to figure it out.
They both pulled out their spy gear and put on

(06:16):
a suit that would help a little bit from the lava.
But it wasn't exactly lava proof, but maybe it would
help a lot better than just their regular clothes. They
also pulled out a net blaster. That might be a
good way to catch them, all right, Let's try and
get one and take a closer look. Macy aimed the

(06:36):
net blaster andoh, she was able to capture two of
them and pull them out and then close the door again.
It looked like the other butterflies were getting angry that
they stole some of their friends too too. Huh, they're
shooting lava balls at us. Look out, Calli and Macy

(06:57):
ducked for cover behind a rock. The butterflies were still
shooting these tiny little lava balls. They were like the
size of beads, but they were real lava. How are
they doing that, said Calli. All right, we need to
capture them in something and take a closer look. Maybe
maybe like a glass jar. Macy grabbed a jar out

(07:19):
of her backpack, and they quickly put the butterflies into
that glass jar from the net. Holy smokes, what is
that on there? Said Calli. You see on the back
of all of the butterflies or some kind of look
like a little backpack with a blast. Oh, that's where
the lava is coming from. There's like a lava blaster

(07:40):
that someone had put on the back of these butterflies.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
How in the world.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Are butterflies being controlled or shooting lava. This is very confusing.
Cally and Macy had never seen or heard of anything
like this. Have you ever heard of lava shooting butterflies
before me? Definitely not. Well, they started to think and
then came up with a really great plan. Wait, Cally,

(08:07):
don't we have some of that a little bit of
that magic sleeping powder left? Macy was digging through her
spy backpack, and finally there it was. There was a
little bit of powder in the jar that they got
from some unicorns a long time ago. This was only
for an emergency, and I think this definitely qualifies. All right,
let's test it first on these butterflies in the jar
here and see if it puts them to sleep. They

(08:29):
dropped a little bit of the powder in the jar,
and instantly the butterflies fell fast asleep. Have you ever
heard of BUTTERFLI snore me neither. That was pretty strange.
While the butterflies were sleeping, Calli and Macy were able
to remove that lava backpack blaster thing from the backs

(08:52):
of the butterflies, and then when the butterflies woke back up,
they flew off happily as normal butterflies. All right, that's
what we gotta do. We gotta remove those backpack things
from all the butterflies. I think we gotta dump all
that sleeping powder in the ice cream store, and that
will make all the butterflies fall asleep. As Calli and

(09:12):
Macy got to work, the Purple Ninjas were very very sad.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh dear, do you guys see what's going on down
and there at the ice cream store. Take a look
at this.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
One of the Purple Ninjas handed the other a pair
of binoculars. Remember they were up in the blimp, high
up in the clouds, right above that ice cream store.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Oh dear, is that one of the Spine team. Ugh,
oh dear, somebody get the Kleenex ready. The boss is
gonna be really upset about this. What are you talking about?
What am I going to be upset about? Well? Uh,
remember all that ice cream that we were trying to
get you. Uh, I think our plan didn't work.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (09:58):
The Purple Ninjas?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
I need my ice cream, Purple Jo.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Great job, Kelly and Macy. Well, the rest of the
day they were able to remove all of those lava
backpacks from the butterflies, saving not only the ice cream store,
but probably our entire world, because I don't think I
could live in a world with lava shooting butterflies.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Great job you two.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
You saved the day.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
And that is the end of today's adventure. Who good
thing too, because I was worried about those butterflies getting
away the end. Great job you listened all the way
to the end. And you know what time it is,

(10:55):
It's time.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
For kid show out.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Sound to say to Henry Sorry from Texas, Maya from Massachusetts,
Connor from Virginia, Harry and Ian from Vancouver, June from Georgia,
Eva and Daniel from Australia, and Riley from Taiwan. I'm
so glad that you're all on the Kitchen Stories family
and on our spy team. We could not stop doctor

(11:19):
Stinkybreath and his crew without you, my friends. Well, thank
you so much for leaving your reviews on Apple podcasts.
I love reading through them. They are so encouraging to
me and Well, I hope you have a super duper day.
I will see you next time.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Bye.