It's a Small World--Unfortunately

Hong Kong Disney is right on the coast.
The Shatterdome is right on the coast.
Hong Kong Disney and the Shatterdome are 6.1km apart.
==Ain't that Right==
"'Who' like 'Hu'." Jin rolls over. "Hey, Hu!"
""What?""
Jin flops back onto his stomach. "See?" 
"Hoo," says Fei Yen. 
"Exactly. And then, 'puts the'."
"Puh da." 
"'Glad'."
"Gad?"
"Like 'happy'." 
"Gad!"
"Yea! 'In 'gladiator'!'." 
"Ih ga-di-a-tur--Gador?"
"Sounds like 'alligator', doesn't it?" 
Fei Yen lights up. "Gador!" 
She scrambles to her feet--
Jin grabs her around the waist and swings her onto his shoulders. "Where to, your highness?" 
"Marmer." 
"Your quarters?" 
"Yea yea." 
"Onward!" 
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Fei Yen's running even before her feet hit the floor and she shoots off into her room. 
Jin takes his time to pull off his shoes and put them aside. 
Fei Yen zooms back out clutching a plastic monster. "Gador!" she explains earnestly.
[end of words]
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Herc says to a tech, "And if we can--"
Fei Yen shouts, "Hoo puh da 'gad' in 'ga-di-a-tor'?"
The entire fucking canteen--""HER-CU-LES!""
(Tamsin spits milk across the table.)
Herc turns right around and walks out. 
==The Main Event==
There's an Aussie strutting the Shatterdome like he owns the place; Hu, Jin, and Cheung don't take this well. Disney, however, has great fun.
Notes:
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Two huge conglomerations squat on either side of the Ma Wan Channel. To the West, Hong Kong Disney. To the East, the Hong Kong Shatterdome. 
Not deep inside the latter (because the engagement occurred closer to Hong Kong than any other Shatterdome), /Striker Eureka proceeds with post-drop maintenance.
Up high on a catwalk today, four footswings to be seeeeen: 
「My ears hurt,」 whines Jin as Australian echoes up to them. 
「Then get headphones,」 grumbles Cheung. 
「~beware~」 
Hu, drooling on Cheung's shoulder, grunts in his sleep. 
「~I've never seen a~」
「But you'll steal my spot.」
「~of beasts with~」
「Then stay where you are.」
「~so little~」
Hu yawns. 
Jin scowls. 「It's like he thinks he's the main event or something,」
Cheung pats his shoulder. 
「Mako's gotta brush up how he looks down on people; that's just sad.」 
Hu snorts, starts awake. 
「Thus far an uninspiring thing,」 agrees Cheung, rubbing Hu's back. 
「Any better?」 asks Jin. 
Hu blinks. 
「Go back to sleep,」 suggests Cheung. 
Hu grunts, curls up against Cheung's side. 
「It's like, 'Do this',」 mimics Jin. 「'Be there'. 'Stop that'.」 He huffs. 「For all our sakes, Ranger Hansen, control your kid! He's not free to run around all day!」
Cheung frowns. 「Why does this gripe sound familiar?」
「~Oh I just can't /wait to be king!~」
Cheung ponders applications of self-defibrillation. 
「~I think it's time you and I arrange a heart to heart. / 
~Kings don't need advice from little horn-bills, for a start~」
「I can't unsee it.」
That evening in the cafeteria, the cub— 
Jin glowers. 
—brat collides with a Typhoon tech and runs off. 
Hu mutters, heaving himself to his feet, 「If this is where the Shatterdome's going, forget it, count me out.」 Trudges from their table. 「Out of Typhoon, out of—」 He stops. 「Why the fuck 'Africa'?」
==Happiest Place on Earth==
"Mako! Grab Pete!"
---Effort-energy-impact ratio too low--nothing like a sword--AHA
"NO NOT GOOFY!!!"
---Second largest Category 4 ever and you're concerned for a statue?
"Ooo, Rapunzel's Tower!"
---Perfect! 
Goofy gets thrown aside.
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The next day dawns bright and stormy and livid.
Except that last part really only applies to a visiting executive.
"When I said," begins the Disney representative, "that this park 'is your toy chest' I did not mean literally!!!!"
/Danger hangs her head. Her right arm twitches and she offers the boat sword with her left.
"I do not need a boat sword!" The executive flails wildly at Magic Mountain. Or rather, Goofy lodged head-first in Magic Mountain. "I need a new park!"
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It's a 14 minute drive from the Hong Kong Shatterdome to Hong Kong Disney. 6.1kms as the crow flies. Or as the Jaeger is thrown.
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