The Hyena Scouts' Buggy Bonanza

This is a story narrated by Lisa Yamanaka as Yuko Kagami; it's part of the Storytime Tales collection.
== Chapter 1 ==
I couldn't believe that the annual Happy Hyena Scouts' Bonanza was finally here! I was excited to play Dobble and do activities like participating in a fun feather fight, roasting pizzas and even lip-syncing around the bonfire to my favourite songs as well as winning a white armpit fart badge for making my armpit putter around; I packed my scented glitter jelly pen, my favourite cartoon character, 18 eggs and even my crimson mirror, but the bad news was that the annual Hyena Scouts' Bonanza was called off. Luckily, I cheered everybody up in my own backyard with a super-duper whacky invention convention. Suzy Coolidge and Jade kicked off the convention with a fantastically friendly folk song named "The Old Castle of Scotland" by the delightfully goofy and talented Roger Day from Franklin, Tennessee. On display was a sleepy piano that jumps up with total shock whenever the magic word, "SPONK!" is yelled out, but I also heard a great audiobook starring a knock-knock joke teacher with a totally spooky face named Professor Poppychuckles!
== Chapter 2 ==
Meanwhile, back at the whacky invention convention, I ate waffles, flapjacks and berries while looking at the odd orange crayon that hid my goofy innovation; Lyra had an itchy mattress that tooted explosively and Tarquin had a self-waving flag, but Lucy's giant jumping zipper made me want to say, "Boingity-sproing!" After Lucy showed off her zipper, I unveiled my Swinky Shrinkray 20K and yelled out the magical words, "Ready, set, shiny sparkler sparkles!" Suddenly, everything was so wild that I felt like a hammer hit me! I saw nothing but aqua, so I rubbed my underarm. My aunt, my dad and even Sue were peeking at me from pink things; Kayla lay in a bed of soft green things. A nice tree was being lifted off by a bunch of my scouting friends; Sarah cried, "Oh no-your shrink ray shot us into a new dimension!" My grey tent, which was giraffe-sized, made me yell, "Rotten pony feet!" Jumping up and down and waving my arms like crazy, I cried, "WHOAH, Momma! I can't believe that my shrink ray was totally loopy!" Vermillion-faced Suzy replied, "Oh...my...splurgy!!" I voted away from some vibrant scouts, but Shawn listed a list of activities: running, puppy riding, surfing and raising ladybug pets! We'd also feast on a tater tot; oh, what a vivid feast it would be! I tried my best to return to my tool shed so I'd zap myself back to normal courtesy of Ooger technology, but the nosy shed was as far as Las Vegas! I was snooping around lousy grass and eavesdropping over pebbly puddles, then I waddled to a lucky loon hole.
== Chapter 3 ==
Something grabbed my shin, then it gripped my thigh; I was trapped inside of a spider's web! I screamed, "WIGGLING PATRIOT RACECARS!!!" as I held my hand over my Sleepy Spider badge; Shawn and Suzy taught me that spiders do nut just abandon their scary webs because they wait for unsuspecting dinner to be trapped inside. "Gosh!" yelled Lyra and Tarquin; they saw an 8-eyed, 8-legged tarantula with a pair of radical fangs! I tried to escape, but I was doomed by the disgusting, nasty spider-web! In the nick of time, all my friends trimmed the web to save ourselves; after a group rescue, we recited our special oath all together: "We solemnly swear to be ticklish, jocose and joyful; we'll offer diapers to those in need, we'll be positive in the face of villains and we won't stop persisting for the party!" It wasn't too long before I realized that we were lost; somebody climbed a rich vine, but the cheerful grass hid every VCR and magazine. I got the feeling that we were unwelcome by dangerous beasts! We escaped a dynamic arachnid, but I found my old teddy bear wearing my headphones; what a comical ursine! Wiggling in my tracks, I found Mount Garbage Truck, which would take half an hour to go around; using my visualization skills, I imagined myself as Ferdinand Magellan scaling the forbidden slopes of Denali. 326 by 326, the scouts handed me their radical tube socks; I tied them to make a creative rubber band. We formed a human heart and slyly overcame the obstacle, but I needed a plan because of a Lake Huron-sized puddle!
== Chapter 4 ==
We outrageously swam across the puddle and overcame another obstacle; long live us! By now, I was famished since it was noon; I climbed up a guitar, but I fell down and heard 8 billion paperclips in a remote-control whoopee cushion. I covered my kneecaps and ran; a lime green shadow fell over me. I saw a ludicrous bumblebee with a needle for a stinger under a leaf. The bee flew closer to me and all my friends, then it was on the ground in front of us! For the next nine minutes, the bee was silent; I decided to scare it away. Bees dislike people who nap at them, so I filled out from under my toilet; I waved my arms as the bee approached me, but it was an epic failure! I wiggled myself and made friends with that bumblebee all because of my Bubbly Bee badge; I got the badge from reciting fun bee facts such as "Blue bumblebees are in Australia" and "Bumblebees dance when they find nectar, pollen and royal honey." I taught the bee my favourite dance routine called "The Yuko Dance;" it began with The Carlton, followed by The Dr. Turk and The Hokey Cokey, then The Running Man and finally, The Hip-Hop Butterfly. Sadly, I lost my bee friend; the silver lining is that it didn't hurt me!
== Chapter 5 ==
Continuing on our journey, the ground shook sadly, so I yelled out, "TORNADO!!!" and crawled to the ground with my scout camping troop; we all dropped to our patellas as the shaking got lovelier and lovelier. A large red circle came from out of the blue, making me scream, "JOLLY, JOVIAL TOOTHBRUSHES!!!" A tiny rear end popped out and then, Tarquin and Lyra said, "Eureka! We discovered a pill bug!" Several more pill bugs rolled in underneath the clear blue sky; I looked up and saw 10 thousand bees, a dozen ladybugs and 900 butterflies in the air. A school of earthworms the size of New York City wiggled up from the ground; gaggles of beetles and armies of ants surrounded us. I exclaimed, "Help us, we are in trouble!" The scouts whizzed to the west and then zoomed to the east; Tara hid in a daisy, but John covered himself in hardware nuts. Many of my friends hid behind a giant marigold and many other friends of mine dove under a tree trunk, leaving me and Suzy to fend for ourselves in the great outdoors. A bee swooped down in front of us and wiggled its wings. I picked up a little sticky note and tossed it at the bee, but Suzy said, "I think that bee is helpful and friendly." That great Suzy with 12 thousand Bug Math badges hopped on the bee's back.
== Chapter 6 ==
I clutched the bumblebee's fuzzy hair and hoisted myself up. The bee moved its antennae strangely, then we flew around like an intergalactic rollercoaster! We dipped and dove over radios and MP3s; a quick trip over the yard revealed Charlie, my dog, burying his shoes in the toy store. All around me, butterflies were my own personal lightbulbs; on wasps nearby, Suzy and my friends were racing to catch up to the centipede-riding neighbourhood kids. Every Hyena Scout held on for dear life like we were all being chased by wild boars! A moment later, the bee and I came in for a nice landing in my tool shed; even with all the pushing, the tool shed's door was too pretty to open! Luckily, we texted underneath the portal to my trusty, dime-sized work-bench; I picked up my hammer, saws and jump ropes, then I fiddled with the control panel to reset the settings. The Zonkoo switch needed sewing and the Alipali switch needed bricklaying. I aimed my different and totally new Swinky GrowRay 20Kand fired it, then opened up my eyes to look around; I was back to normal and so was everybody else! I told mom all about the adventurous day of mine and showed her my new friend, the world's biggest bee named Gloobey! The bonanza was the best soiree ever, but my fellow Hyena Scouts were sad to see it end; even my mama was in tears!!