chapter 6

Jetstorm and Slipstream were two very busy three year olds. Soon they would be celebrating their fourth birthday. Russell was playing a board game with them. They were playing go fish. The cards had real fish. Slipstream was enjoying himself and so was Jetstorm but then a butterfly flitted over and landed on Jetstorm's nose. Jetstorm giggled the butterfly tickled his nose.

"Looks like Jetstorm made friends with that butterfly." Denny said.

"Be careful Jetstorm that butterfly is delicate." Russell said.

Then it flew away. "Bye, bye" Jetstorm said.

The next day.

Jetstorm was playing with a toy stick horse. Meanwhile Slipstream was playing with a toy car.

"It's pretty nice to watch them play." Strongarm said.

Drift came driving in and transformed.

"Daddy!" Slipstream and Jetstorm said. Then they ran to him.

Drift smiled and knelt down and opened his arms. The two little ones jumped right into them. "I'm glad to see you both. Have you two been good for the others?" Drift asked.

"Yes daddy." Slipstream and Jetstorm said.

Drift knew next week was a big day was coming up. It was Slipstream and Jetstorm's fourth birthday. Jetstorm seemed interest into going to an earth place called a zoo. Where you could see all kinds of animals.

Drift wanted to take his children there for their birthday. Fixit came up with an invention that would make them human for 24 hours. Drift was a little wary about this, because of what might happen.

"Are you sure everything will be alright?" Drift asked.

"I'm sure Drift don't worry." Fixit said. "Everything will be alright for tomorrow." he said.

"Okay." Drift said.

Then next day Drift woke up the sleepy little bots. "Good morning," Drift said.

"Morning." Slipstream said.

"Morning daddy." Jetstorm said.

"Happy birthday you two." Drift said. "I have something specail planned." he said.

Once in the command center Drift, Slipstream and Jetstorm stood on the invention Fixit came up with. Jetstorm and Slipstream looked a little nervous. "It's okay." Drift said.

Then after a minute they saw they were human. "Looks like it worked Fixit." Drift said. Drift had black hair that short and bobbed with black facial hair like on his face when he was a robot. he had blue eyes. He was wearing an orange and black jacket with a grey shirt and black pants. He also wore black tennis shoes.

Jetstorm and Slipstream had black hair that was short on the sides and the back and wavy on top. They had blue eyes. Slipstream wore a red shirt with black trim on the collar and sleeves and red shorts with red sneakers with black trim and laces. While Jetstorm had a black shirt with red trim on the collar and sleeves with red shorts with black sneakers with red trim and laces.

"I got the bus fair and money for the zoo. This will help buy Zoo tickets and other things at the zoo like souvenirs for the little ones." Denny said.

"Thank you." Drift said.

"You have to take up human names so people won't make fun of you." Russell said.

"Okay," Drift said. Russell wrote down some names for them.

Drift picked out David for himself. He picked out Stanley for Slipstream and Joshua for Jetstorm.

Then the three of them climbed on the bus and headed towards the zoo. Once at the zoo they climbed off the bus. "Daddy where are we?" Slipstream asked.

"We are at the zoo." Drift said.

"Zoo?" Jetstorm and Slipstream asked.

"Yes, Russell said a Zoo is where you can look at real living breathing wild animals." Drift said.

"Cool," Slipstream said.

Drift went up and paid for the tickets. "Daddy what kind of animals will we see?" Jetstorm asked.

"Father and sons specail day?" The lady asked.

"Yes today is the twins fourth birthday and I'm taking them here to celebrate I know my son Joshua will love it. He loves animals more than anything." Drift said.

"That's nice happy birthday you two." The lady said.

"Thank you." they said.

"Your most welcome." The lady said.

"Okay you two stay close and hold my hands." Drift said.

Jetstorm and Slipstream held their father's hands and they started to walk through the zoo. "Look what is that?" Jetstorm asked pointing at statue.

"That is an elephant little fella." a Zookeeper said.

"It has a big nose." Slipstream said.

"Yes it does." Drift said.

"That nose is called a Trunk they can use it like a straw to drink water and use it like a hand to picked up food or to move stuff out of the way." The zookeeper said.

"You know a lot." Jetstorm said.

"I work here I am a zookeeper which means I take care of the animals and tell people about the animals." the zookeeper said.

"I love animals." Jetstorm said.

"Well than zoo must be a great place for you to visit." The zookeeper said.

"Yes Joshua loves animals." Drift said.

"Are there other animals?" Slipstream asked.

"Of course little fella." the Zookeeper said. "I see you don't have map." he said and handed Drift a map.

"Thank you." Drift said. "I see you have elephants other than that statue." he said.

"Haven't you been to a Zoo before?" the zookeeper asked.

"No this my son's and I's first visit ever to the zoo for all of us." Drift said.

"I see let me tell you a few things some of the animals in the exhibits might come up to the fence to see you. But be careful these are still wild animals so you should be cautious. There are some places where you can feed certain animals." The zookeeper said.

"Which animals can we feed?" Jetstorm asked.

"We have two places to feed the animals. One is in an area of the zoo for the Australian animals you get to feed parrots small pieces of fruit. Another is where you can feed the elephants apple slices." the zookeeper said.

"That sounds nice." Drift said. "But won't the animals try to bite them?" he said worriedly.

"Not really they might but they normally don't just be careful with your finger near their mouth," the zookeeper said.

"We'll keep that in mind." Drift said.

"Daddy can we look now?" Jetstorm asked.

"Looks like someone is ready to see the zoo." the zookeeper said.

"Yes he is, today is their birthday and this is their birthday trip." Drift said.

"That is so sweet, happy birthday boys." the zookeeper said and gave them each a sticker with an elephant that says on it: "It's my birthday!"

"What do you two say?" Drift asked.

"Thank you." they said.

Drift helped them put on the stickers.

"Your sons are mighty cute." the zookeeper said.

"Thanks these twins are my life." Drift said.

"I know what you mean I have a son of my own. I hope you have good time." The zookeeper said.

"Thanks we will." Drift said.

"Bye bye." Jetstorm said.

"Bye." The zookeeper said.

"He's nice." Slipstream said.

"Yes he is. Now remember what he said." Drift said.

"Yes daddy." They said.

They saw all kinds of animals. When they got to the Australia area they saw Kangaroos. Jetstorm liked the way they hopped. In the African area Slipstream was excited about the hippos.

"Big and fat." Slipstream said.

They saw everyone was watching.

"What's going on?" Drift asked.

"They are about to feed the hippos." a woman said.

"Well let's watch." Drift said.

They watch as keeper placed a melon in the hippo's waiting mouth and it got crushed.

"It ate it whole." Jetstorm said.

"Big mouth." Slipstream said.

"That mouth is strong." Drift said.

"Yes it's mouth is very strong." A zookeeper said. It was the keeper form before.

"Hey it's you again." Drift said.

"Are you having a good time?" The zookeeper asked.

"Yes," Slipstream and Jetstorm said.

"Which animal did you like seeing the best?" The keeper asked.

"Kangaroos!" Jetstorm said.

"Hippos!" Slipstream said.

"I enjoyed the tigers." Drift said.

"That's great." the zookeeper said.

"I like the kangaroo hop." Jetstorm said. "I love Kangaroos." he said.

"I like Hippo they big and fat and big teeth." Slipstream said. "I love hippos." he said.

"Looks like your sons each have their own favorite animal." the zookeeper said. "I bet you were happy they day they were born." he said.

"No actually I adopted them." Drift said. "They were newborns when I adopted them I had no wife or children to call my own and I was lonely so I decided to adopt these to they really brought sunshine into my life." Drift said.

"That is so sweet." The zookeeper said.

There was a lot of yelling and Jetstorm covers his ears. "Daddy too much noise." Jetstorm said.

"Is he okay?" The zookeeper asked.

"Yes he's fine." Drift said and he knelt down to Jetstorm and rubbed his back. "Joshua has Asperger's syndrome he sometimes is like this when things get too noisy." he said.

"Ah he's Autistic. My niece is Autistic too." The zookeeper said.

Jetstorm finally calmed down. "You ready to look at more animals?" Drift asked.

"Yes daddy." Jetstorm said.

"Well I hope you enjoy the rest of your time here." The zookeeper said.

"We will." Drift said. "Thank you."

A while later they came to an area where they were about to hold show. "Daddy let's see it." Slipstream said.

"Let's see when the show starts." Drift said. "It starts after lunch. We can eat our lunch and then go to the show." he said.

At the cafe Jetstorm and Slipstream got kiddie meals and they got cupcakes because it was their birthday. Drift got a sandwich with some chips. Jetstorm's and Slipstream's kiddie meals were chicken nuggets with fruits snacks and juice. Slipstream got apple juice while Jetstorm got grape.

After eating they went to the show. They got to meet some of the animals. Jetstorm went ecstatic when they brought out a baby kangaroo. The zookeeper explained that Kangaroos are marsupials which means the mama carries her baby in specail pouch.

Once the show was over they went to the reptile house. They met up with the same Zookeeper. "Fancy seeing you here." Drift said.

"Yes this is the part of the zoo were I work I take care of the reptiles." the zookeeper said.

"What is rep-rep?" Jetstorm tried to say.

"Reptile." The zookeeper said. "Rep-tile." he said.

"Reptile." Jetstorm said.

"Right." he said. "That is a good a question Joshua." he said. "A reptile is a cold blooded creature with scaly skin." he said.

"What does cold blooded mean?" Slipstream asked.

"Well uh?" the Zookeeper said.

"His name is Stanley," Drift said.

"Sorry. I'm Chris." he said.

"David." Drift said.

"That is also a good question warm blooded creatures like use can maintain our body temperature no make what it is like outside. While cold blood creatures their body temperature depends on what is outside. If it is cold they move some place warm. If it hot the move some place cold. They do that through out the day. It's how they stay healthy." Chris said.

"What kinds of reptiles are there?" Jetstorm asked.

"Lizards, crocodilians, snakes, and turtles." Chris said. "We have a variety of them here." he said. "Come on I'll show you around." he said.

Chris told them about the reptiles. "This one keeps sticking it's tongue out at me." Jetstorm said.

"Actually all snakes and many lizard use their tongue to help them smell." Chris said. he pointed to a picture. Then explained.

"Cool." Jetstorm said.

After leaving the reptile house they saw the rest of the zoo. Drift bought each of them a plush toy. Slipstream picked out a hippo. While Jetstorm picked out a kangaroo.

They made it back to the scrapyard.

Jetstorm and Slipstream told them all about their day.

"They had great time." Drift said.

They hugged Drift. "Thanks daddy for taking us to the zoo." they said.

"You're welcome." Drift said.

To be continued.