Jiminy Cricket and a Bug's Life/Transcript

Here's the transcript for Jiminy Cricket and a Bug's Life.

Scenes

The Harvest

(Disney and Pixar logos begins)

The film begins with the reflection of the sun in the water, the camera then pans up to see a tree and there's the title for "Jiminy Cricket and a Bug's Life" right next to it. Then, Jiminy and friends are riding on backs of well stag beetles as they're arriving to their destination called Ant Island.

Jiminy Cricket: Here we are guys Ant Island is straight ahead.

Crysta: Wow!

Pips: So this is the place that Mickey was talking about?

Bartok: Must've been hard work as far as I'm concern.

Then, the ants begin to harvest some seeds and berries. As they bring them towards the offering stone with their harvest, it wasn't long when one ant sees a leaf about to fall.

Ants: No, no, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. (as the leaf landed onto the line) I’M LOST!!! Where's the line? It just went away. What do I do? Help! We'll be stuck here forever!

Mr. Soil: Do not panic! Do not panic! We are trained professionals! Now, stay calm. We are going around the leaf.

Ant: A-Around the leaf? I-I don't think we can do that.

Mr. Soil: Oh, nonsense. This is nothing compared to the twig of '93. That's it. That's it. Good! You're doing great! There you go. There you go! Watch my eyes. Don't look away. And here's the line again.

Ant: (gleeful shout) Thank you! Thank you, Mr. Soil!

Mr. Soil: Good job, everybody!

Dr. Flora: (sees a gap) Oh, my. There's quite a gap, Mr. Soil. Shouldn't we tell the queen?

Mr. Soil: I don't think we need to involve the queen in this. She's got enough on her plate already, training her daughter.

Dr. Flora: Oh, yes, Princess Atta. The poor dear.

Later, Princess Atta who's being all anxious as the queen is well relaxed.

Atta: Oh... Wind's died down. They'll be here soon.

Queen: Just be confident, dear. You'll be fine.

Atta: Ah! There's a gap. There's a gap in the line! What are we gonna do?!

Thorny: It's okay, Your Highness. Gaps happen. We just lost a few inches, that's all.

Atta: Oh, right. (as she begins to hover next Thorny)

Thorny: Princess Atta, I can't count when you hover like that.

Atta: Oh, of course. I'm sorry. (chuckles) Go ahead.

Queen: Guys, go shade someone else for a while. (to her daughter) Okay, Atta. Now what do we do?

Atta: Oh! Don't tell me. I know it. I know it. How is it?

Queen: We relax!

Atta: Right.

Queen: Oh, It’s fine. It's the same, year after year. They come, they eat, they leave. That's our lot in life. It's not a lot, but it's our life. (laughs) Isn't that right, Aphie? Oh, you're such a cute little aphid.

However, before Atta get a chance to relax, she notice something or someone that is about to land.

Atta: Mother, you want to look up!

As the ants take a look who's arriving as Jiminy and friends came in for a landing.

Jiminy Cricket: Hi there.

Atta: Who are you guys?

Jiminy Cricket: (takes his hats off) Cricket's the name, (bows) Jiminy Cricket.

Crysta: I'm Crysta, your majesty, and this is Pips, the Beetle Boys Stump, Root, Knotty and Bark, Batty Koda, Herman, Bartok, Mushu and Cri-Kee.

Queen: You guys look like you're not from around here.

Batty Koda: I don’t know, we were just traveling.

Atta: So who sent you guys here?

Jiminy Cricket: Why, we heard that you and your colony are trouble.

Queen: Says who? There's nothing we can't handle.

Just then, the ground beneath them gave way as two young ants came tunneling out of the hole with Dot chasing after them.

Violet Ant Boy: Ditch Dot!

Blue Ant Boy: Yeah, yeah!

Dot: Hey, come back here! (tries to fly and fell a bit)

Queen: Dot!

Dot: Yes, Mother.

Queen: What did I tell you about trying to fly?

Dot: Not until my wings grow in.

Queen: Right.

Dot: But, Mom--

Atta: Dot, you're a young queen ant, and your wings are too little to be--

Dot: I was talking to Mother. You're not the queen yet, Atta.

Queen: Now, Dot, be nice to your sister.

Dot: It's not my fault she's so stressed out.

Atta: (sighs) I know, I know. (sighs) I'm always acting like the sky is falling.

Mr. Soil: Look out!

As if on cue, a stalk of grass has landed on top of Atta.

Atta: Ah!

Queen: Atta!

Thorny: Princess Atta!

Dr. Flora: Princess Atta! Princess Atta!

Then, we see the perpetrator behind it. This is Flik, and unlike the rest of the colony here on Ant Island, he's an inventor as he's using this invention that he made as he manage to cut the blade of grass down and harvest its seeds and then launched the blade to who knows where, but onto Atta by accident.

Jiminy Cricket: Atta! Watch out! (got Atta out of the way just before the grass stalk fell on him) Oh!

Mr. Soil: Look out!

Dr. Flora: Hey! Stop that!

Mr. Soil: What do you think you're doing?

With that, Flik begins to hear some complaints as he lift his safety mask and sees the council member.

Dr. Flora: You could have killed somebody over here!

Flik: (gasps and rushes down) I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Thorny: Oh, it's Flik.

Cornelius: (groan)

Flik: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry! Please forgive me. I'm sorry! (as Atta helps Jiminy up scream) Princess Atta!

Atta: Flik, what are you doing?

Jiminy Cricket: And what's that you're using?

Flik: Oh... Oh, this! This is my new idea for harvesting grain. No more picking individual kernels. You can just cut down the entire stalk!

Atta: Flik, we don't have time for this.

Flik: Exactly! We never have time to collect food for ourselves, because we spend all summer harvesting for the offering. But my invention will speed up production.

Atta: (groans) Another invention?

Flik: Yeah, and I've got something for you, too.

Atta: (sighs) Flik!

Jiminy Cricket: This should be good.

Flik: Since you're gonna be queen soon, you could use this to oversee production. (borrows something from Dr. Flora) Dr. Flora, if I may.

Dr. Flora: (gasp) Oh!

Atta: This is all very nice, but--

Thorny: What?

Flik: Just an ordinary blade of grass and a bead of dew, right?

Atta: Flik, please.

Flik: Wrong! It is, in fact... (rolls up the blade of grass and places the bead of dew in its center) ...A telescope!

Dot and the Queen: (laughing)

Atta: It's very clever, Flik, but--

Flik: (peers at Atta through the telescope) Hello, Princess! My, aren't you looking lovely this morning! Not, of course, that you would need a telescope to see that--

Thorny: All right, listen! The princess doesn't have time for this! You want to help us fill this thing? Then take that machine and do your job elsewhere! And let us clear you up with a warning! One false injury to any of our harvesters by your machine and you'll have to get rid of it, get back in line and pick grain like everybody else!

Cornelius: Like everybody else!

Flik: I was really just trying to help.

Atta: Look, Flik. I know you're trying to help with your inventions, but this really isn't a good time for you to show us with that much harvest to be done. So, please, just go.

Flik: I'm really sorry, Princess Atta. (as he walks away in sadness)

Cornelius: Harvester. Why, we've harvested the same way ever since I was a pupa.

Atta: (exasperated sighs) Where were we?

Mr. Soil: The food pile, Your Highness.

Atta: Oh, yes. Yes.

Just then, Jiminy decided to go see Flik as Dot follows him with the telescope Flik made.

Enter Hopper and the Grasshoppers

As Flik is walking down the path in disappointment, he was then approached by Dot and Jiminy.

Dot: Hey, Flik! Flik, wait up!

Flik: Oh. Hello, Princess.

Dot: You can call me Dot. Here, you forgot this. (holds the telescope out to Flik)

Flik: Thanks. You can keep it. I can... make another one.

Dot: I like your inventions.

Flik: Really? Well, you're the first. I'm beginning to think nothing I do works.

Jiminy Cricket: Well, I think you got some creativity, Flik.

Flik: Oh, you think so?

Jiminy Cricket: I know so, your colony just need some time to think about it.

Dot: (holds up the telescope) This works.

Flik: Great. One success. (sighs) I'm never gonna make a difference.

Dot: Me, neither. I'm a royal ant, and I can't even fly yet. I'm too little.

Jiminy Cricket: Oh, Dot, don't take it that way. Being little's not such a bad thing.

Dot: Yes, it is.

Flik: No, it's not.

Dot: Is, too!

Flik: Is not.

Dot: Is, too.

Flik: Is not. Is not. Is not.

Dot: Is, too. Is, too. Is, too.

Flik: Is not--

Jiminy Cricket: Okay, hold on, Dot. Flik will give you one good reason why being little isn't a bad thing.

Flik: Oh... A seed. I need-- I need a seed. Uh... (spins around as he tries to take a seed from his harvester) Uh, here, here. (picks up a rock off the ground and gives it to Dot) Pretend-- Pretend that that's a seed.

Dot: It's a rock.

Flik: Oh, I know it's a rock. I know. Uh, but let's just pretend for a minute that it's a seed, all right? We'll just use our imaginations. Now-Now do you see our tree? Everything that made that giant tree is already contained inside this tiny little seed. All it needs is some time, a little bit of sunshine and rain, and voila!

Dot: This rock will be a tree?

Flik: Seed to tree. You've got to work with me, here, all right? Okay. Now, you might not feel like you can do much now, but that's just because, well, you're not a tree yet. You just have to give yourself some time. You're still a seed.

Dot: But it's a rock.

Flik: I know it’s a rock! Don't you think I know a rock when I see a rock!? I've spent a lot of time around rocks!

Dot: (laughing) You're weird, but I like you.

Suddenly, a horn has been blown as Flik know who's coming.

Flik: (gasps) They're here.

Jiminy Cricket: Who's here?

Flik: The grasshoppers!

Ants: They're here!

Ant: Run!

Dot: Mom! Where are you?

Flik and Jiminy tries to catch up with Dot, only for Flik's respective items get caught by the blade of grass sending him flying backwards.

Jiminy Cricket: Flik! (runs back for him)

Ants: They're coming! Run!

Queen: Dot! Dot!

Dot: Mom! Mom!

Atta: Single file!

Queen: (seeing Dot and hugs her) Thank heavens!

Atta: Please, everyone. Uh, food to the offering stone.

Queen: (lets out a loud whistle as all the ants stop in their tracks) Okay, everyone, single file! Food to the offering stone and into the anthill! Now let's go!

Ant: Go, go, go, go!

The ants place their food offerings onto the pile, then race to the anthill at the base of the tree with Herman, Crysta, Pips, the Beetle Boys and Cri-Kee following them. In a single file, ants run down a spiral path cut into a tree root at the center of the ant hill. Smaller roots branch off and lead to tunnels. Following one, ants run into a wide cavern illuminated by glowing mushrooms. The Queen arrives with Aphie and Dot, and they step onto a platform located in the center of the cavern.

Outside the anthill, Batty, Bartok and Mushu hid amongst the trees while Atta flies overhead, ushering the last few ants inside.

Atta: Come on! Keep moving, keep moving! Good! Okay. That's everyone.

But as she flies inside, she's unaware that Flik and Jiminy are the only one left as Crysta came out to check on them.

Flik: Hey! Hey, wait for me! (runs to the offering stone) Get the food to the offering stone, then into the anthill.

Jiminy Cricket: (sees the harvester on him) Care to lend a hand in unloading the seeds onto the offering, Flik? Your device is still running.

Flik: Thanks, Jiminy, that would be very nice.

So with that, Jiminy helped Flik unload the seed to the offering stone, he then takes off his still-running harvester and throws it away from the altar. The harvester falls off and springs open, knocking into one of the supporting rocks and causing the altar to collapse.

Flik: Huh?

The food atop the offering stone then begins falling off, the edge of the island.

Flik: (scream) Ah! No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no!

While Crysta worked her magic to grow a lot more grain and berries, Flik grabs onto the leaf beneath them as it continues tumbling down.

Flik: No! Oh! Oh! (grunts)

Then, the last of the food Flik tries to save falls into a puddle below.

Flik: Oh, no...

Jiminy Cricket: This can't be good.

Crysta then lead Flik to the anthill while Jiminy runs to it while Crysta heads to the trees where her friends are at.

Flik: Princess Atta! Princess Atta! Princess Attaaaa!

With the droning of grasshoppers heard, the ants cower inside the anthill.

Atta: (whispering) They come, they eat, they leave. They come, they eat, they leave.

Jiminy Cricket: (whispering) So that's why you and the rest of the ants have gathering this much food, it was for the grasshoppers to have.

Atta: (whispering) Every year, Jiminy.

Flik: (pushing through the crowd) Excuse me. 'Scuse me, pardon me. Pardon me. Excuse me, coming through. 'Scuse me, 'scuse me. Sorry, sorry. Coming through. (to Atta) Princess Atta, there's something I need to tell you.

Atta: Not now, Flik.

Flik: (whispering) But, your highness, it's about the offering!

Atta: Shh!

Grasshopper: (offscreen as they all landed) Hey, what's goin' on?

Molt: (offscreen) Yeah! Where's the food? (as the ants gasped)

Atta: What did you do?!

Flik: It was an accident?

Suddenly, the ceiling gave way as the grasshoppers came in frightening the Ant Colony.

Grasshopper: (cackling)

Grasshoppers: (whooping)

Molt: Boo! (laughs) Where's the food?

Just as some ants were scattering about, they stopped in their tracks as they come face to face with Hopper.

Flik: Hopper.

Hopper: (as he walks about the ants in silence in a few moments) So where is it? Where’s my food!?

Atta: Uh... I-Isn't it up...there?

Hopper: What?

Atta: The food was in a leaf sitting on top--

Hopper: Excuse me?

Atta: Are you sure it's not up there?

Hopper: Are you saying I'm stupid?

Atta: No.

Hopper: Do I look... stupid... to you? Let's just think about the logic, shall we? Let's just think about it for a second. If it was up there, would I be coming down here, to your level, looking for it?!

Atta: I--

Hopper: Why am I even talking to you? You're not the queen. (detecting her with his antennae) You don't smell like the queen.

Queen: She's learning to take over from me, Hopper.

Hopper: Oh, I see. Under new management. So it's your fault.

Atta: No, i-it wasn't me. It was--

Hopper: Uh-uh-uh. First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.

Jiminy Cricket: Now, you look here, Hopper! I don't know what this is all about! But I'll have you know that she's done nothing to you! (as he kicks him out of the way)

Hopper: If I were you, I'd keep out of this conversation between me and the princess!

Crysta: Jiminy! (hovers to him)

Jiminy Cricket: (gets up) I'm alright, Crysta, don't worry about me.

Atta: But, but he--

Hopper: It's a bug-eat-bug world out there, Princess. One of those circle-of-life kind of things. Now, let me tell you how things are supposed to work. The sun grows the food. The ants pick the food. The grasshoppers eat the food--

Molt: And the birds eat the grasshoppers. Hey, like the one that nearly ate you, you 'member? You 'member. Oh, you should've seen it.

Hopper: Molt.

Molt: This blue jay, he has him halfway down his throat, okay? And Hopper, Hopper's kicking and screaming, okay? And I'm scared, okay? I'm not going anywhere near, okay? (as Hopper comes to his brother in annoyed) Oh, come on! It's a great story! (as he grabs Molt and drags him by his antennae) Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow-ow--

Hopper: (slams Molt into a wall and pins him) I swear, if I hadn't promised Mother on her deathbed that I wouldn't kill you, I would kill you.

Molt: And believe me, no one appreciates that more than I do.

Hopper: Shut up! I don't want to hear another word out of you while we're on this island. Do you understand me?

Molt: (whimpers)

Hopper: (shakes him) I said, do you understand me?!

Molt: Well, how can I answer? You said I couldn't say another word. (as Hopper growls and reels back his fist) Ah! Remember Ma!

With that, Hopper turns around and punches another grasshopper with the ants and grasshoppers staring at him.

Hopper: (panting) Hey, I'm a compassionate insect. There's still a few months 'til the rains come, so you can all just try again.

Queen: But, Hopper, since it's almost the rainy season, we need this time to gather food for ourselves.

Crysta: Actually, your majesty, I used magic and grow a lot of the stuff that your colony have harvested.

Hopper: (to Crysta) Impressive, now there'll be lots of food for both of our kinds. (to the ants) Listen, if you don't keep your end of the bargain, then I can't guarantee your safety. And there are insects out there that will take advantage of you. Someone could get hurt. (snaps his fingers)

Dot: (shivering)

Thumper: (snarling and roars)

Once the two grasshoppers hold a third, pale and fiercely struggling grasshopper, Thumper, by a leash, Dot tries to run as Hopper grabs her by the head and lifts her up.

Hopper: What's the matter? You scared of grasshoppers? (brings her toward Thumper)

Dot: (panicking)

Flik: Dot!

Hopper: You don't like Thumper?

Dot: (whimpering)

Thumper: (snarling)

Flik: (steps forward) Leave her alone!

Jiminy Cricket: (in horror) Flik!

Hopper: (slowly walks over to Flik and holds Dot out to him) You want her? Go ahead. Take her. (as Dot whimpers and Flik looks down to the ground) No? Then get back in line.

And so, Flik steps back in among the other ants while Hopper releases Dot who runs back to the queen.

Hopper: It seems to me that you ants are forgetting your place. So let's double the order of food.

Flik: (gasps)

Atta: No! But, but, but--

Hopper: We'll be back at the end of the season... (tears off a piece of Molt's shedding skin) ...When the last...leaf...falls. (drops the skin piece which floats down as Atta looks up at the outside tree) You ants have a nice summer. Let's ride!

With that, Hopper flies out through the ceiling and the other grasshoppers joining him.

Grasshoppers: Yee-haw! (whooping)

Molt: (laughs and hits his head on the ceiling before flying out a hole)

After the grasshoppers have left, the colony stares at Flik, who chuckles nervously.

Leaving the Island

Later, Atta banging a gavel inside a large courtroom with Flik standing trial.

Atta: Flik, what do you have to say for yourself?

Flik: Sorry. I... I'm sorry for the way I am. I didn't mean for things to go so wrong. I... especially didn't want to make you look bad, Princess.

Jiminy Cricket: Same here, Atta, Flik didn't mean to cause the whole colony a huge disaster.

Atta: Well, Jiminy, he did.

Flik: I was just trying to help.

Mr. Soil: Then help us. Don't get involved with your inventions that won't help us.

Flik: Help? Help? Help?

Atta: Flik, you are sentenced to one month digging in the tunnels.

Thorny: Uh, excuse me, Your Highness. Need I remind you of Flik's tunnel-within-a-tunnel project?

Flik: Helpers to help us. That could... That's it! We could...

Pips: Hey, Jiminy, is Flik okay?

Jiminy Cricket: Hold on, Pips, I think Flik is getting an idea.

Thorny: It took the whole engineering department two days to dig him out. Send him to Health and Ant Services.

Dr. Flora: Heavens, no!

Flik: We could leave the island. The riverbed's dry right now. We could just walk right across the riverbed. We could go get helpers. We could! We could leave, sure. We could go find helpers to help us. It's perfect!

Queen: Perfect? What's so perfect?

Crysta: What're you talking about, Flik?

Flik: The answer to all our troubles, Crysta! (to the Queen) Your Highness, don't you see? We could send someone to get help!

Ant Council: (gasps)

Atta: Leave the island?

Queen: Now, why didn't I think of that? Oh! Because it's suicide!

Thorny: She's right! We never leave the island!

Cornelius: Never leave!

Thorny: There's snakes and birds and bigger bugs out there!

Flik: Exactly! Bigger bugs! We could find bigger bugs to come here and fight and forever rid us of Hopper and his gang!

Mr. Soil: Ludicrous!

Dr. Flora: Who would do a crazy thing like that?

Flik: I'll volunteer. I'd be very happy to volunteer.

Queen: (laughs) You got a lot of spunk, Kid, but no one's gonna help a bunch of ants.

Flik: At least we could try. Oh, I-I could... I could travel to the city. I could search there!

Atta: If you went, you'd be on that silly search for weeks.

Jiminy Cricket: Well, Flik, I'd go with you if you're willing to take that chance. Cause as an official conscious, I'm willing to always do what's right, even if it means finding some extra help to save your colony form Hopper and his gang.

Herman the Bootle Beetle: I would, too!

Crysta: You're our friend, Jiminy, we'd never abandon you or Flik.

Pips: The boys are going wherever Crysta goes. (to the Beetle Boys) Right, Boys?

The Beetle Boys: (exclaiming in agreement)

Mushu: The same goes to the rest of us! Jiminy has once been and always be our guide no matter what!

Bartok: And who knows? Maybe Flik would do the same for Jiminy.

Batty Koda: I'd never thought I'd say this, but I'll go along with Jiminy if my pals would.

Jiminy Cricket: And you're never alone, Batty, you'll have friends every step of the way.

Thorny: Royal huddle. (whispering as the council huddled) Great idea, Princess Atta. It's perfect.

Cornelius: Exactly.

Atta: Wait a minute. What did we just decide here?

Mr. Soil: To let Flik leave.

Thorny: Even the cricket and his pals will watch his back.

Cornelius: While we keep harvesting to meet Hopper's demands.

Dr. Flora: You see? With Flik gone, he can't...

Atta: He can't mess anything up! (as the break form their huddle) Flik, after much deliberation, we have decided... to grant you your request.

Flik: Really?

Queen: Really?

Jiminy Cricket: Really?

Atta: Uh, really.

Flik: Oh! Thank you, princess. Thank you so much for this chance. I-I-I won't let you down, I promise, I promise, I promise, I promise.

Atta: Yeah, yeah, that's fine, that's fine. No, forget it, forget it.

Flik: But I should probably help repair some of the damage before I go, don't you think-...

Ant Council: No! No, no!

Atta: Just go. Just go.

Cornelius: Just leave!

Queen: And good luck with that, Jiminy, you're gonna needed. (chuckles)

Flik: Thanks, Jiminy, I don't know what I'd do without you.

Jiminy Cricket: Well, Flik, I'd always help friends choose between right and wrong. Even Dot deserves to learn from your experience, I'm pretty sure she'll be able to fly someday any day.

With the sunsetting, Flik, Jiminy and the others begins to leave the Ant Island and finds some bugs.

Flik: (suavely) Hey. Don't worry! The colony is in good hands! Bye, now.

Ants: (cheering)

Flik: (sniffing) All right. Hey, fellas. Beautiful morning, huh? (as they came down from the tall grass)

Blue Ant Boy: My dad says he gives you one hour before you come back to the island crying.

Crysta: Now that's mean.

Flik: Does he, now?

Violet Ant Boy: My dad doesn't think that.

Flik: He doesn't, huh?

Violet Ant Boy: Nah, he's bettin' you're gonna die.

Flik: Oh.

Violet Ant Boy: Yeah, he says if the heat doesn't get you, the birds will.

Dot: Well, I think he's gonna make it.

Violet Ant Boy: Nobody asked you, Your Royal Shortness.

Blue Ant Boy: Yeah, Dot. What do you know?

Flik: Hey, hey, hey. Ease up, all right? Come on. She's entitled to her opinion, too. Ohh...

They then stop in their tracks, they arrived at the cliffs edge of Ant Island.

Pips: Would you look at that?

Blue Ant Boy: So go, already.

Jiminy Cricket: Well, if you insist, Young Fella, some of us can fly while the rest of us ride on Batty Koda.

Batty Koda: Even I had to carry Mushu the rest of the way, Jiminy most of all has a magic umbrella to let the wind carry him.

As Jiminy and his friends got ready to fly, Flik then heads toward a dandelion.

Blue Ant Boy: Hey! The city's that way!

Flik: I know.

Blue Ant Boy: You're supposed to look for bugs, not dandelions!

Dot: You leave him alone. He knows what he's doing and so does Jiminy.

Flik: That's right! (brings out a dandelion) Here I go! For the colony and for oppressed ants everywhere! (begins flying with Jiminy and his friends following his lead) Whoa...

Dot: Wow!

Flik: Hey!

Dot: Bye, Flik!

Flik: Wow. Whoa!

Dot: Good luck, Flik!

Flik: Bye! (hits the rock in pain)

Dot: Flik!

Flik: (muffled) I'm okay! (as Jiminy and Crysta helps him out) Thanks for coming along with my, Guys.

Jiminy Cricket: No problem, Flik.

Crysta: We're all in this together, anything to save your colony.

Violet Ant Boy: Your dad's right. He’s gonna die.

Dot: You just watch. He’s gonna get the bestest roughest bugs you've ever seen, even Jiminy believes in him.

The Circus Bugs

Meanwhile, the circus is in town as the first act was Rosie, a black widow spider who was lion taming a ferocious rhinoceros beetle named Dim.

Dim: (roaring)

Rosie: Get back! Get back! Get back, you horrible beast! I have no fear! (as she accidentally hits him with her whip)

Dim: Oh! (whimpers)

Rosie: Oh, my goodness.

Dim: (crying as the whole crowd booed at them)

Rosie: Oh, I'm so sorry, Dim.

Dim: Owie! Owie, Owie! (crying)

Rosie: An owie? Okay, show Rosie the owie. All right, Dim. It's okay. (with the flies flying away)

Fly Mom: (frustratedly sighs) I have been in outhouses that didn't stink that bad. This is ridiculous. What a disappointment.

P.T. Flea: No!

Fly: You! Come here! I want my money back!

P.T. Flea: Uh, no refunds after the first two minutes. (hops into back stage)

Roach: Popcorn! Stale popcorn!

P.T. Flea: (came to see one of his clowns) Francis! Heimlich! We're losin' the audience! You clowns get out there now! (as they head toward the stage)

Heimlich: (groans) I hate performing on an empty stomach!

P.T. Flea: Do your act, Heimlich. Then you can eat.

Slim: (walks up to P.T.) P.T., what's the point?

P.T. Flea: Not now, Slim.

Slim: What's the point of going out there? They'll only laugh at me.

P.T. Flea: That's because you're a clown!

Slim: No, it's because I'm a prop! You always cast me as the mop, the broom, the pole, the stick! (grabs P.T.) A splinter!

P.T. Flea: You're a walking stick. It's funny! Now go!

Slim: You parasite.

So with that, Slim, Heimlich and Francis put on a show while the flies boo at them as the fireflies shine the stage lights for them.

Flies: (booing)

Slim: (with him and Francis as flowers) Tra-la-la-la-la. Spring is in the air. And I'm a flower with nothing interesting to say.

Francis: (high-pitched) Ah!

Slim: A bee!

Heimlich: (dressed as a bee) I am a cute little bumblebee! (begins chasing Slim and Francis around the arena) Here I come!

Slim & Francis: (dramatically screaming)

Heimlich: (panting) Slow down, you flowers! Oh! Candy corn! (pants) Here. Let me help you to finish it.

Then, one of the fly tries to stop him while the tough flies watched in amused.

Fly: Hey, Cutie! Wanna pollinate with a real bug? (laughing raucously as Francis flew up to them) Ooh! Come to Papa, yeah!

Francis: So! Being a ladybug automatically makes me a girl! Is that it, Fly Boy?! Huh?!

Fly: Yikes! She's a guy!

Heimlich: Francis, leave them alone. They are poo-poo heads!

P.T. Flea: Not again. (hops to backstage)

Francis: Judging by your breath, you must have been buzzin' around a dung heap all day!

Slim: Come on, Francis. You're making the maggots cry.

Maggots: (wailing)

Then, large wings with eye spots fan out. They belong to a moth, Gypsy, who preens and warms up her voice in a dressing room.

Gypsy: (operatic vocalizing)

Vanessa: Oh, Mr. Flea, what's the matter? Seems to me, fortune is not going in your favor when you're on fire.

P.T. Flea: What do you mean by that, Vanessa? And where are your parents?

Vanessa: Over there in the trailer.

P.T. Flea: Thank you. (hops towards Vanessa's parents) All right, we're dying out there. Gypsy, quick, you, Vanessa and Manny--

Gypsy: Shhhh. He's in a trance.

P.T. Flea: Well, get him out of it! You, your daughter and your husband are up now!

Gypsy: Manny, we're on.

Manny: Oh? Yet again it is up to me to rescue the performance. Gypsy, Vanessa, come.

Gypsy: (humming)

Manny: (crashes and groans offscreen)

Gypsy: Stage is the other way, dear.

Manny: Yes, a course.

Vanessa: Mother, I hope we'll pulls this off.

Gypsy: So do I, Sweetie. So do I, let's go.

Francis: Anytime, pal! I'm gonna pick the hairs out of your head one by one!

Fly: Take your best shot!

Francis: You name the place!

Fly: Oh, yeah?

Francis: Yeah, 'cause when you get there, you are dead!

Slim: Francis, let me handle this. (to the tough flies) That's no way to speak to a lady.

Francis: I heard that, you twig!

P.T. Flea: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present Manto the Magnificent and his lovely assistants, Gypsy and Vanessa! (hits the gong)

Manny: From the most mysterious regions of uncharted Asia, I give you the Chinese Cabinet of Metamorphosis! (as Gypsy and Vanessa flew into the Chinese noodle box)

P.T. Flea: Rosie, whole troupe! On stage! Finale! Now!

Rosie: Okay, I just need a little time to help with Dim's foot. (placed the bandaid on for him)

P.T. Flea: Make it snappy! The grand finale's starting now!

Rosie: Coming. Coming. (as Dim walks out) Tuck, Roll. Let's get moving, guys. We're up next.

Tuck & Roll: (pops out from their ball forms and speaking foreign language)

Rosie: Don't you understand? We are up!

Tuck & Roll: Up-a! Up-a! (speaking foreign language as Tuck jumps onto Roll's shoulders) Hey!

Rosie: Hey! They don't understand me.

Manny: I summon the voice of Confucius...

Fly: Get off the stage, you old hack!

Manny: (yelps) I demand to know who said that! (as a piece of fruit hits him) How dare you! (with more fruits hitting him)

Flies: (booing)

Manny: Ingrates! (walks off the stage)

Gypsy: (muffled from inside the box) Manny? Manny!

Vanessa: (inside the box) What's taking so long?

Fly: I only got 24 hours to live, and I ain't gonna waste it here! Come on!

P.T. Flea: (screams)

Without a moment to lose, P.T. Flea runs to a matchbox and takes a match.

P.T. Flea: I've just about had it with these losers! (a runs into the ring and holds the match up) Flaming Death! (with the leaving flies stopping to look) I hold in my hand...the match! The match that decides whether two bugs live or die this very evening. In a moment, I will light this trail of matches, leading to a sheet of flypaper doused in lighter fluid! Aimed directly at the flypaper are Tuck and Roll, the pill-bug cannonballs! The cannon will be triggered by Dim, trained to jump at the sound of this bell, set to go off in 15 seconds. Our pill bugs' only hope of survival is our mistress of the high wire, Rosie! Secured to a web line of exact length, Rosie will plummet down to these two posts, spinning a web of safety in less than 15 seconds!!! Not good enough, you say? Well, what if they were all BLINDFOLDED!?

As the cast puts on blindfolds, the flies hurry back to their seats.

P.T. Flea: Ladies and gentlemen, may I suggest that those of you with weak constitutions leave the arena, for this act is so dangerous that if the slightest thing should go wrong...

But when Roll tightens Tuck’s blindfold too tight, they both slap each other, launching Tuck into P.T. Flea as he drops the lit match and triggers the line of matches.

P.T. Flea: No!

Rosie: Go?! Whoa! Okay, through the tunnel...

Upon miss communication, Rosie immediately spins a web. Suddenly, Roll immediately bumps into Gypsy as she accidentally caused the timer to go off.

Gypsy: Woah!

Once Dim heard the bell, he landed onto the cannon where it sent Tuck flying towards P.T. and sent him flying.

Dim: (laughs)

Rosie: Okay, that's done!

P.T. Flea: Woah! (hits the flypaper)

Heimlich: (screams)

Francis: P.T.!

Slim: Oh, no!

Rosie: Oh, dear...

Then, the flame continues approaching as P.T. Flea attempts to pull himself off.

P.T. Flea: (panics and struggles)

Francis: Water! We need some water!

Slim: Water, water, water, water!

Flies: (laughing)

P.T. Flea: (panicking) Help! (struggling) Get me out of here! (successfully pulls himself off the flypaper as he laughs triumphantly)

As P.T. Flea walks away, the flypaper falls on top of him and is ignited by the flame.

Fly: Wow!

The flypaper burns away, leaving behind a charred P.T. Flea standing midstep.

Rosie: It's the-the web. I'm sorry. It's--

P.T. Flea: You're all fired.

Francis: We got the water!

Heimlich: Here we come, P.T.!

Slim: We'll save you!

Just when Francis, Slim and Heimlich toss water onto P.T., who floats within it, Vanessa confirmed her prediction.

Vanessa: Well, my prediction did come true, P.T. is on fire literally. So now what, Mother?

Gypsy: I think it's time we head into the city.

Vanessa: Perhaps you're right.

Flies: (clapping) Whoo! Whoa! Burn him again!

Finding the Big Bugs

After the failed act, the poster of the circus group was removed. That night, two fly were buzzing around when one of them seemed attracted to that bug zapper.

Fly: No! Harry, no! Don't look at the light!

Harry: I can't help it... It's so beautiful! (gets zapped and screams as he fell into a can)

Just then, Flik, Jiminy and the others have arrived at the outskirts of insect city.

Flik: Friends, important note of traveling: Try not to look like a country bug. Blend. Blend in.

Jiminy Cricket: Aren't we all?

Just then, Flik, Jiminy and the others have arrived at insect city as they were immediately impressed by its location.

Bugs: Hey, buggy! Hey, buggy! What do you expect? The guy's a tick. (laughing)

Flik: Wow! The city! (impressed laugh)

Crysta: (notices the light has been changed) Uh, guys? We need to head to sidewalk now!

Flik: Fair point made, Crysta.

With that, they hurriedly raced out of the streets and onto cardboard-like sidewalks.

Beetle Can: Makin' all stops to the septic tank, including standing water, empty bean can and dead rat. Watch your stingers. All aboard!

Bugs: Hey, watch it. Get out of the way!

Flik: Oh, sorry. (bumps into the snail by the eye)

Snail: Ow! Watch where you're goin'!

Flik: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that. I didn't-- Oh, sorry! (accidentally hits the cricket with an off-key violin sawing) Oh. I'm really, really sorry. That was an... An accident.

Just then, they then heard some crashing as they notice a bar just across from them.

Mosquito: Hey, tough guy!

Fly: Hey, let go of me!

Bee: I'll show you who's tough! (threw him outside) And stay out!

Flik: Tough bugs!

Jiminy Cricket: Maybe that place will help us in fending of the grasshoppers.

Pips: Let's hope so, Jiminy, come on!

Inside, some bugs sit, drink and talk as a saloon piano plays.

Roach: I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly...

Flik: Wow...

Crysta: This is something.

Fly: Move it! (pushes through)

Flik: Whoa!

Bugs: Hey, waiter! I'm in my soup! I've been working out. Feel my wing.

Flies: Yo! Two Black Flags over here! All right.

Roach: (chuckles) Hair of the dog you bit. (as they sip)

Beetle Waitress: Hey, who ordered the poo-poo platter? (as the flies feast on it)

Mosquito Waiter: (gives the meal to the slug) Here you go, Slick. Enjoy.

Slug: (eats it but felt a pain) Ow-Oww! Hey, I said no salt!

Bug: Buzz off!

Flik: Pardon me, sir, I was wondering if I could talk to you for a moment. I represent a colony, uh, of ants, and I'm looking for tough bugs, you know, mean bugs, the sort of bugs...

Slim: Fired by a flea! How humiliating!

Francis: Let's face it. We stink.

Roll: You fired!

Tuck: You fired!

Roll: You fired!

Rosie: Oh, will you shut up?

Roll: Hey! (laughs)

Tuck: You fired!

Heimlich: (eats sadly) Someday I will be a beautiful butterfly, and then everything will be better.

Manny: All in good time, Heimlich, m'boy.

Gypsy: I can't believe the troupe is breaking up. We've always been together.

Vanessa: Yes, Mother. (sighs) But at least we're wonderful during our performance.

Manny: You're absolutely right, Daughter. Farewell, my friends.

Francis: To the audience we'll never have.

Vanessa: (got a reading) That's weird.

Manny: What is, Vanessa?

Vanessa: I think we're being scouted out by an ant and some other creatures led by a wise cricket.

But all of the sudden, Slim notices the Fly Brothers and Thud arriving.

Slim: (gasps and whispers) Francis! Your boyfriends from the circus are here!

Francis: (gasps when he sees them and the three flies notice him)

Fly #1: There she is.

Francis: (nervously popping lips)

Fly #2: Hello there, Girlie Bug.

Francis: Shoo, Fly. Don't bother me.

Fly #1: Say, why don't you tell our pal, Thud... (as he shows up behind Francis and growls) ...What you said to us at the circus?

Fly #2: Yeah. Something about buzzing around a dung heap?

Flik: Excuse me. Hi. I represent an ant colony, and we're just--

Mosquito: Hey, bartender! Bloody Mary, O-positive. (as he begins to feast it and tumbles)

Flik: Sir? (when the mosquito didn't as he was drunk on the floor)

Flies: Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home! (laughing)

Fly #2: Not so tough now, are you? All right, Clown. Get up and fight like a girl.

Vanessa: (gets very angry) Hey! Leave them alone!

Gypsy: Vanessa. Calm down! I'm pretty sure they have an idea how to handle it.

Vanessa: I sure hope so.

Francis: (whispers) Slim, Heimlich, get ready to do the Robin Hood act.

Heimlich: (giggles) I want to Feen Little John!

Slim: What part can I play?

Vanessa: Can I be Maid Marian?

Flik: I'm looking for tough warrior bugs.

Francis: Stand back, ye flies! We are the greatest warriors in all bugdom!

Flik: Warrior bugs!

Vanessa: You're reign of terror has come to an end ye filthy flies.

Francis: My sword! (used Slim as a sword which he is not happy about it at all)

Slim: (unamused) Swish, swish. Clang, clang.

Francis: Little John?

Heimlich: What ho, Robin? Justice is my sword, and truth shall Feen my quiver!

Flik: (as the bugs backed up on him, Jiminy and the others) Wait, wait! No, no! I-I want to watch this!

Jiminy Cricket: Careful there!

Slim: Thrust, parry, lunge! (as Thud grabs him by the neck growling at him) Me thinketh it's not working!

Heimlich: (screams) Back to Sherwood Forest! Schnell, schnell!

Flik: What Going On There?

Circus Troupe: (clamoring, screaming)

Just then, the can began to spin like crazy as they stopped by colliding into a brick as everyone inside was groaning in pain.

Slim: (muffled) Help! Help! Get me out!

Francis: (pulls him out)

Flik: Wow.

Jiminy Cricket: I think we found our warrior bugs, fellas.

Mushu: No doubt there, Jiminy!

Circus Troupe: (groaning)

Rosie: Oh, ow-ow-ow...

Vanessa: Father, Mother, are you two okay?

Gypsy: We're fine, Sweetie.

Flik: You're perfect! Oh, great ones! I have been scouting for bugs with your exact talents!

Gypsy: (gasp) A talent scout.

Vanessa: Mother, it's the ant that I was talking about.

Gypsy: And look, he brought friends.

Flik: My colony's in trouble. Grasshoppers are coming! We've been forced to prepare all this food.

Manny: Dinner theater!

Heimlich: Food?

Flik: (begging) Please! Will you help us?!

Thud: (groans as he and the other two flies regain congeous)

Fly #1: Where are they?

Slim: (as he and the other circus bugs act nervous) We'll take the job!

Flik: Really?

Heimlich: Yah, yah!

Vanessa: Hurry, hurry! Make haste!

Slim: (placing Flik on Dim) You can explain the details on the way. (as Tuck and Roll joins Flik)

Roll: Hey-hey-hey!

Tuck: (chuckles)

Roll: (grumbles in foreign language)

Rosie: Okay, come on, everyone! Break a leg!

Flik: Whoa, you're vicious!

Bartok: That's rhino beetles for ya!

Dim: Hold on, Mr. Ant. (as they took off)

Flik: Amazing! This is too good to be true!

At last, Flik, Jiminy, his friends and the troupe fly over a grassy field, followed by Heimlich finished a leaf and eats another.

Flik: So you see, it was my fault that Hopper's coming back. But then, Princess Atta... Boy, is she one in a million. She let me go out and find you. And after seeing you fight off those flies... Boy, are those grasshoppers in for a big surprise! (laughing triumphantly as Tuck and Roll laughed)

Tuck: (asks question in foreign language as Roll shrugs as they continued their journey back to Ant Island)

Flik, Jiminy and his Friends' Noble Return

Meanwhile, back at Ant Island, it was a slow and hot pace as one of the ants fall to the ground dead tired.

Atta: Dr. Flora!

Dr. Flora: Oh, dear. Not another one.

Thorny: This is insane.

Cornelius: Insane.

Thorny: There's just not enough food left on the island! No way we can make double quota before Hopper comes!

Atta: Well, we have to try, Thorny. We don't have any choice.

Thorny: Yeah. I know.

At the clover forest, Dot was using a telescope that Flik made in hopes of finding him.

Blue Ant Boy: Hey, look who's playing lookout again. Little Speck!

Dot: The name is Dot.

Violet Ant Boy: Well, Spot, you still looking for Flik?

Blue Ant Boy: Forget it, Dot. That loser's never coming back.

Dot: First off, it's Dot! Second, Flik is not a loser! He's got new friends to help him look for bigger bugs, they'll get bigger bugs! You'll see!

Violet Ant Boy: Sure, Dot! That'll be the day, which will never be the day!

However, Dot was proven right as Flik did came back with help.

Dot: Flik! Flik did it! Flik did it!

Violet Ant Boy: What?

Blue Ant Boy: Quit shoving!

Flik: This is it! This is Ant Island!

Vanessa: It's beautiful, Flik.

Jiminy Cricket: Well, just you wait, Vanessa, you'll see what's in store for all of you!

Dot: Flik! Over here! Flik! Flik!

Flik: Hey!

Dot: He did it! He did it! Yay! He did it! He did it!

Violet Ant Boy: Cool!

Both Ant Boys: (yelps as they fell off a clover)

Thorny: At the rate these leaves are dropping, we're gonna need a miracle.

Cornelius: That's right! We need a miracle!

Just then, the troupe begins descending with a droning buzz.

Cornelius: Run for your lives!

Jiminy Cricket: Incoming for a landing.

As Flik, Jiminy and the others lands, the extreme closeups of Manny, Gypsy, Slim, Heimlich and Dim's feet lands.

Francis: Ta-da!

Unfortunately, the ants were to frighten to come out of hiding.

Manny: (sighs) Once again, our reputation precedes us.

Vanessa: I'd guess these ants haven't seen any bugs like us on this island.

Flik: Hey, everybody! Hey! We're back! Hey, guys! Hey! Look. Look! Look who's here with us!

Jiminy Cricket: We've brought friends with us!

Dot: Flik! Flik! Flik! You're back! (as he lifts her happily) I knew you could do it!

Ant #1: Flik?

Ant #2: It's Flik!

Ant #3: What?

Ant #4: Yeah.

Ant #3: No, it's not Flik.

Ant #5: Flik?

Mr. Soil: (as all the ants gathered around him, Jiminy and his friends) Flik, Jiminy and their friends have returned!

Atta: They're back?

Mr. Soil: And they're accompanied by savage insects!

Atta: What? How? They weren't supposed to actually find someone!

With more ants gathered together, they were curious about these newcomers. So Flik introduced them to the "Warrior Bugs".

Flik: Oh, look at this. Look at this. This is great. Look.

As Gypsy revealed her backside of the wings, she shows off a monstrous face.

Cornelius: Oh, my ticker!

Vanessa: Mother!

Gypsy: Sorry, Vanessa. Just want to show off my wings.

Vanessa: I know.

Blue Ant Boy: So, what are you supposed to be?

Violet Ant Boy: He's a stick, stupid. You hit bugs with him.

Slim: That's an oversimplification.

Francis: That's right, kids. Like this! (takes Slim)

Slim: No! Put me down! (slims him on Heimlich) Oh!

Tuck & Roll: (pops out form their ball forms) Hey! (shaking Dr. Flora's hand and foot)

Dr. Flora: My, you just pop right open there, don't ya?

Ant Kids: (coming under Dim) Ooh! Wow!

Rosie: Kids, he's kind of ticklish.

Dim: (laughing)

Rosie: Let's come on out. Careful.

Just then, Dim begins to laugh as he stomped the ground so hard that it begins to shake frightening the young ants.

Ant Kids: (screaming and laughing)

Queen: (chuckles) Well, my boy, you and your new pals came through! Aphie and I are very impressed.

Flik: Princess Atta! Hey! Hey, guys, this is Princess Atta! She's the one that sent us to find you!

Dot: Atta! Atta! Did you see that really big bug over there?

Mr. Soil: He looks absolutely ferocious!

Thorny: They're our ticket out of this mess!

Dr. Flora: They came just in time!

Cornelius: That's right!

Flik: So, Princess Atta, what... What do you think?

Atta: No, no, no, wait! This was not supposed to happen.

Slim: Mayday, mayday. We're losing the job.

Atta: We don't fight grasshoppers!

Thorny: We don't, but they will.

Cornelius: Bingo!

Francis: (pops his lips) We've gotta sweeten the deal. (flew on Dim's horn for his speech) Your Majesty, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, our troupe here guarantees a performance like no other! Why, when your grasshopper friends get here, we are gonna knock them dead! (as they all cheered)

Slim: (to Heimlich) Boy! These folks are sure hard up for entertainment.

With that much celebration, a concert was in order.

Ant Kid: Come on, come on. Hurry! (panting) Wow!

With the upbeat music playing, everyone seems to enjoy the concert.

Queen: Atta, Honey, relax. You should be proud of yourself. Your instincts on that boy, the cricket and his pals were right on the money. (as the music ends) And to make our official welcome complete... Mr. Soil?

Mr. Soil: Yes, Your Highness?

Queen: He's our resident thespian. (to Gypsy) Last year he played the lead in Picnic. (laughs)

Vanessa: (feeling embarrassed) I never been treated like royalty.

Gypsy: (to Vanessa) Neither do I.

Mr. Soil: The children, and myself, have quickly put together a little presentation in honor of our guests. Dot, Reed, Daisy, Grub?

Gypsy: Aren't they adorable! They're cute!

Girl Ant: The South Tunnel Elementary School second-grade class would like to present you with this, a mural we have drawn of you bugs helping us fight the grasshoppers away. (with the gruesome pictures showing)

Rosie: Oh, look at the beautiful colors of the blood.

Dot: We drew one of you dying because our teacher said it would be more dramatic.

Circus Troupe: (gasps)

Heimlich: (whimpers as he turns pale)

Mr. Soil: (playing his lute) I tell you a tale of heroes so bold, who vanquished our grasshopper enemies of old.

Ant Boy: (as one of the ants as the last leaf laid down) Look, the last leaf has fallen.

Ants in Grasshopper Costumes: We are the grasshoppers! Where's our food?!

Ant Boy: Who will come to save us poor ants?

Ants in Warrior Costumes: We are the warriors, here to defend you!

As the play goes on, most of the Circus Troupe were shocked except for Tuck and Roll as they like the performance.

Ant Kid: I die! Die! Die! (collapsed as the crowd cheered and Francis fainted)

Roll: Hail, the bugs!

Mr. Soil: Thank you, thank you! Oh, thank you!

Tuck: Hey, hey, hey!

Francis: I say we go.

Queen: (to Atta) Okay, honey. You're up.

Atta: (clears her throat) We're all very, very grateful to have...

Flik: (crafts a megaphone and hands it to Atta) Here, here.

Atta: (amplified) ...The warriors--

Ants: (laughing as Flik gave Atta thumbs up)

Atta: Thanks. (amplified) First of all, I'd like to thank the warriors for helping us in our fight against the grasshoppers. Secondly, I would like to thank Flik... (as he waves) ...For his forthright thinking--

Flik: (amplified) Thank you, Your Highness. Sure, I'd like to take credit for all of this, but, well, that wouldn't be right. Because it was you, Princess Atta. You believed in me and you sent me on my quest. I, for one owe it to Jiminy Cricket and his friends to help me during my quest.

Slim: (to Rosie) You say that ant that we need to talk to him right now.

Rosie: Okay, okay. All right.

Flik: Now, I know that I've made a lot of mistakes in the past. And I hope that this will make up...

Rosie: Flik!

Flik: Not right now, Rosie. I'm making a speech. Now, I truly believe that these bugs are the answer to our...

Rosie: (whispers)

Flik: (quietly) No, there's no circus around here. (amplified) So I...

Once Flik looks over to the troupe, who perform a quick juggling routine and pose. The camera zooms through the crowd of ants onto Flik, whose eyes contract in horror.

Flik: (whimpers) Your Highness, the warriors have called for a secret meeting to plan for a circus-- CIRCUMventing the oncoming hordes, so they can trapeze-- trap them with ease! I'll have to bring Jiminy and his friends as well!

Atta: Shouldn't I come, too?

Flik: No! (laughs nervously) Sorry, no, you see, it's classified in the DMZ. Gotta go A.S.A.P. You know, strictly B.Y.O.B. Bye! (as they moved on) Sorry. Sorry I have to take the warriors away so early, but, you know, they have a lot to get done, with the battle looming and all. So, please, everyone, enjoy the party. (as Dot secretly follows them)

Atta: B.Y.O.B?

Flik: Thanks again. Bye. Bye-bye. Okay, just... Just... (to Dim) Just get in there. Go! Go, go, go!

Jiminy Cricket: I wonder what this is all about.

While Jiminy and his friends followed Flik and the Circus Bugs through the clover field, Dot had to keep herself well-hidden, so she'll know what they're doing.

The Bird Attack

Once Flik, Jiminy and his friends are alone with the circus bugs, Flik most of all was shocked about it.

Flik: Circus bugs?! How can you be circus bugs?!

Heimlich: What?

Francis: Hey, hey, hey. You said nothing about killing grasshoppers, pal. You lied to us!

Heimlich: Yeah!

Flik: Are you kidding? I thought you were warriors! And besides, do you know what this is? This, my friends, is false advertising.

Vanessa: (gasped) Excuse me but we weren't aware when you hired us on the spot for an entertainment not a gruesome battle!

Manny: How dare you! You, sir, are the charlatan in this scenario, touting your wares as a talent scout, preying upon the hungry souls of hapless artistes. Good day to you, sir. (as Tuck on top of Roll gave Flik a couple slaps in the face)

Flik: Wait! No, no! Wait, wait, wait, wait! You can't go. You have got to help me, Jiminy and the others are the only support I got. Give me some time. I'll come up with a plan.

Heimlich: Just go tell them the truth!

Flik: They can't... They can't know the truth. The truth, you see, is bad. I will be branded with this mistake for the rest of my life. My children's children will walk down the street, and people will point and say, "Look! There goes the spawn of Flik, the loser!" Oh... Oh, you know, all right, fine. Yeah, okay. Just go. But if you could just do me a little favor before you leave. (lays down and places Dim's foot on his head) If you could just squish me, that would be great, because when they find out, I'm as good as dead.

Just then, Flik heard Atta calling out his name.

Atta: Flik!

Flik: Huh? (goes to check it out)

Atta: I really do think I should be part of this meeting. Flik!

Then, Flik pulls away the blade of grass and sees Atta's annoyed face.

Flik: Princess Atta! What a nice surprise.

Atta: Just what exactly is going on? I would like to speak with the so-called "warriors."

Flik: You can't! They are in the middle of a top-secret meeting right now, and they really should not be disturbed now. Right, guys? (gasps to see the circus bugs leaving with Jiminy trying to stop them while he looks back at Atta) Could you excuse me, please? (running after them) Wait, wait, wait! Please, don't go!

Atta: I'm not going anywhere. What is going on? Flik? Flik! (groans) I knew it!

Flik: (with Dot lookout from the dandelion) Wait! Wait, wait, wait, wait! Please! Don't go! No! No, no, no!

Vanessa: Sorry, but we're leaving.

Jiminy Cricket: Wait, come back! We can work things out!

Slim: Quick, he’s losing it!

Flik: (holding onto Slim) You can't go! I'm desperate!

Slim: Really? I couldn't tell.

Dot: Hmm. (tries to fly) Come on, wings. (fell and sent flying on a dandelion screaming) Help!

Atta: (seeing his mother) Mother, Flik and Jiminy are up to something.

Flik: No! No!

Slim: Okay, Flik, time to put you down now. Get him off me. He's cutting off the circulation to my foot.

Flik: No, no, no, no!

Manny: (getting Flik to let go) Let go!

Flik: Oh, please! Please! Don't go!

Jiminy Cricket: Come on, fellas! We can work it out for a minute.

Rosie: Put the stick down. Flik, I mean it now. Drop the stick. Drop it.

However as the Circus Troupe struggles to get Flik to let go of Slim, he'd notices a bird nest and ran for his life.

Flik: (screams) Run!

Heimlich: Boy, Flik runs fast for a little guy.

Bird: (lands behind them as they looked back at her chirping)

Jiminy Cricket: I think I know why Flik ran for his life!

Tuck & Roll: Tweet-tweet! Tweet-tweet!

With that, the Circus Bugs and everyone else ran after Flik as the bird chased after them.

Atta: This way. There they are. (as they all can see a bird as she gasps) A bird!

Dot: (screams) Flik!

Atta: Look!

Queen: Dot!

Dot: (whimpers) Flik!

Just then, the bird notices an ant on a dandelion seed and zipped by causing the poor princess to fall.

Dot: (screaming)

Atta: Dot!

Queen: My baby!

Francis: (sees Dot falling as he tried to catch her) I gotcha! I gotcha! I gotcha, I gotcha!

Francis then got her, only for them to fall into the crack in the ground as one the rock lands on Francis' foot while the other knocks him out.

Queen: I can't see!

Cornelius: Somebody do something!

Mr. Soil: Are they all right?

Thorny: Can anyone see? Are they alive?

Dr. Flora: I can't see!

Thorny: What is happening?

With quick thinking, Atta used a blade of grass and dewdrop to make a telescope. While Flik, Jiminy and their friends hide behind a rock they heard Dot screaming.

Flik: Dot?

Jiminy Cricket: Francis must've gone down there to save her from the bird!

Manny: Good heavens, you're right, Jiminy! They must be in trouble!

Slim: Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis, Francis...

Batty Koda: What are we gotta do?!

Flik: You guys, I've got an idea!

Atta: (using the telescope) Here! I've got it!

Just down below the ground, Dot was trying desperately to wake Francis up.

Dot: Please, ma'am, wake up! Wake up! (screams) Help! Help!

Then, the bird heard something and sees a caterpillar on a stick insect in the distance.

Heimlich: Yoo-hoo! Mr. Early Bird! How about a nice, tasty worm on a stick?

Slim: (struggling while carrying) I'm going to snap. I'm going to snap.

Heimlich: Nice and juicy, succulent...

Flik: Let's go! (as they took off to find Dot and Francis) There they are!

Dot: Flik! Help!

Flik: Okay. (as Rosie lowers him, Tuck and Roll down with her web net)

Dot: Flik!

Flik: It's going to be okay, Dot.

Manny: The cavalry has arrived!

Heimlich: (exclaiming with Slim still carrying him) Bye-bye, birdie! (as Slim jumps into the crack leaving him stuck) Help! I'm stuck! Pull me down! Schnell, schnell, schnell!

Atta: The caterpillar's using himself as live bait!

Mr. Soil: How brave!

Heimlich: (screaming in pain)

Vanessa: (enraged and used her back wings to distract the bird) Get away from Heimlich!

Gypsy: Vanessa, what are you doing?!

Vanessa: Do as I do to distract the bird! (as she joins in with her daughter)

Heimlich: Alright, Vanessa!

Slim: (struggles while pulling him down) Suck it in, Heimlich! (as he did and gets pulled down)

As for the rescuers, they manage to get Francis and Dot out of the crevice and towards the safety of Ant Island.

Francis: (regains conscious and felt pain) Ow! My leg!

Suddenly, Francis accidentally snips one of the strings of the net that Rosie has made as Flik is now holding onto his antennae, so he and Dot won't fall causing poor Francis to scream in pain.

Atta: (gasps) The bird! The bird! Look out for the bird!

Dot: Flik! (gasps)

Tuck & Roll: Up-a, up-a, up-a, up-a, up-a! Up-a, up-a, up-a, up-a, up-a! (as everyone screams)

And just as the bird was about to make out of them, the group has successfully reached to the safety of a raspberry bush. And thanks to the thorns on the vines, the bird wasn't able to land on it forcing it to retreat back to the nest as the group sighs in the relief.

Jiminy Cricket: (sighs) Boy, that was a close one.

Slim: I couldn't agree more, Jiminy.

Pips: That was some quick thinking, Flik.

Flik: Thanks, Pips, now that we're all okay.

Just then, they heard some applause out of nowhere.

Rosie: What is that?

Manny: That, Rosie my friends, is the sound of applause!

With the ants cheering, the Circus Bugs got the attention they were hoping for.

Francis: Applause... I'm in heaven! (sighs as the scene cuts to him in the hospital where the Blueberry Troops salutes him)

Blueberry Troop: Our Blueberry troop salutes you bugs for rescuing our smallest member, Princess Dot. And as a tribute to Miss Francis, we've changed our bandannas!

Dot: We voted you our honorary den mother!

Francis: (as the kids cheered and came to him but reacts) What? (satisfied) Great.

Tuck & Roll: A-Ha, Thumbs up, thumbs up.

Tuck: I don't know, Uh-oh.

Vanessa: That's very sweet of them.

Jiminy Cricket: Just to be clear, Francis is a male ladybug, not an actual lady mind you. But as far as I'm concern, he seems den mother material. (chuckles)

Francis: Very funny, Jiminy.

Dr. Flora: All right, girls. Let's move your little keisters out of here now. The patient needs some rest, you know. Come on.

Atta; Excuse me, Flik. Can I talk to you just for a second?

Flik: Oh, sure. (accidentally knocked Francis's stand for his leg as it landed hardly)

Francis: Owwww!

Flik: Sorry, Francis!

Francis: Don't worry about me, Flik, I'll be alright.

Atta: Again, thank you all very, very much.

Heimlich: Oh, stop.

Dim: You're too kind.

Circus Bugs: Thank you.

And so, Flik and Atta left to leave Francis to make his recovery.

During Flik and Atta's walk, they have a conversation between the two.

Atta: You don't think I've offended the warriors, do you?

Flik: You? No.

Atta: Oh, good. Because, you see, when you first brought them here, I thought you'd hired a bunch of clowns.

Flik: You did? (laughs nervously)

Atta: Don't tell them I said that. Boy, that's all I'd need, another royal blunder like that.

Flik: Princess, you're doing a great job.

Atta: Thanks. You're sweet. You're wrong, but sweet. I know what everyone really thinks.

Flik: I don't follow you.

Atta: Everyone, the whole colony. Nobody really believes I can do this job. (sighs) It's like they're all watching me, just... Just...

Flik and Atta: Waiting for you to screw up.

Atta: Flik, I owe you an apology.

Flik: For what?

Atta: Well, I haven't been that nice to you, and I'm sorry. If there's any way I can make it up to you... Hey! I know! How would you like to be the queen's official aide to the warrior bugs?

Flik: Me?

Atta: Oh, sure. You've got a great rapport going with them, especially after that rescue. It was very brave.

Flik: Really? No, no...

Atta: Well, not every bug would face a bird. I mean, even Hopper's afraid of them.

Flik: Yeah, well, I guess maybe I have... (realized for a moment) Say that again?

Atta: I said, even Hopper's afraid of birds.

So with that, Flik quickly heads back to the hospital ward to tell the Circus Bugs the idea, after he came back as he gave Atta a kiss on the cheek.

Flik: Thank you. (runs straight back)

After that kiss, Atta begins to smile.

Building a Bird

Soon, Flik came into the hospital ward as he'd got a wonderful idea on how to get the Circus Bugs out of this mess.

Flik: Hopper's afraid of birds!

Francis: And I don't blame him!

Flik: Oh, oh, oh, this is perfect. We can get rid of Hopper, and no one has to know that I messed up. You just keep pretending you're warriors.

Jiminy Cricket: Hold on a sec, Flik, where are you getting this idea from?

Flik: From Princess Atta, she told me that Hopper's afraid of birds! It's perfect, we can get rid of Hopper and his gang for sure.

Rosie: Whoa, Flik, honey. We are not about to fight grasshoppers, okay?

Flik: You'll be gone before the grasshoppers ever arrive. It'll be easy. Here's what we do.

Manny: Not another word. I don't know what you're concocting in that little ant brain of yours, but we'll have no part of it.

Pips: Wait a minute, Manny, I think we can hear Flik out for a bit.

Just then, two ant kids came into the hospital ward in hopes of getting the Warrior Bugs' autograph.

Violet Ant Boy: Excuse me? Could we get the warriors' autographs?

Heimlich: Autographs? Yeah!

Blue Ant Boy: Oh, wow! Great!

Francis: So you fellas catch the action today?

Blue Ant Boy: The bird went... (making plane sounds) and it just missed you!

Gypsy: Aren't you sweet?

Vanessa: They sure are, Mother.

Violet Ant Boy: And the way you pretended to be stuck in that huge crack!

Heimlich: That's just all part of the plan.

Blue Ant Boy: Yeah, yeah. And then you dive-bombed into the bush!

Manny: There you go, my boy.

Violet Ant Boy: (as they receive the autographs) Wow! Thanks!

Blue Ant Boy: "Major..."

Manny: That's Major Manny, young cadet. I outrank everyone here, remember that

Ant Boys: Yes, sir!

Manny: Dismissed!

Vanessa: Ta-ta!

Violet Ant Boy: Wow!

Blue Ant Boy: When I grow up, I'm gonna be a praying mantis!

Violet Ant Boy: I'm gonna be a stick bug!

Blue Ant Boy: Oh, they're all so cool, I can't pick!

As the Circus Bugs could get used to being famous Vanessa was starting to like them.

Vanessa: You know, maybe we should keep the charades up until the grasshoppers leaves.

Gypsy: (sighs) I hope so, Vanessa.

Manny: (chuckles) Delightful lads. (to Flik) You were saying, Flik?

Flik: All right. We are going to build a bird, a bird that we can operate from the inside, which would then be hoisted...

Manny: ...Hoisted above the anthill and hidden high in the tree. Then, right when Hopper and his gang are below, we'll launch the bird and scare off the grasshoppers. Now it's going to take...

Atta: ...Everyone's involvement to make this plan a reality. I know it's not our tradition to do things differently, but if our ancestors were able to build this anthill, we can certainly rally together to build this bird!

With the ants cheering, Jiminy, the others and Flik are hoping that this plan will fall through.

As they all got to work, they start with an outline shape for the bird as Gypsy and Manny arrange the size of the bird with a hole on the leaf.

Thorny: (on the megaphone) Perfect!

Atta: (on the megaphone) Okay, hit your marks!

Vanessa: Well, done, Mother and Father!

Then, Dim brings over a branch and did the skeletal frame of the bird. Next, everyone used an acorn as a beak for the bird as it breaks upon contact towards the rock.

Bartok: Incoming!

Atta: (chuckles while the first half is carried) Hi, Flik.

Flik: Oh?

Then, Tuck nudges at Flik because he knows that he's in love with her. So he'd shove the pill bug away, they proceed to carry the shell to the structure.

Back at the hospital ward, Francis was not amused as the Blueberry Troop played tea with him.

Ant Kids: Do you mind passing the sugar crumbs? Sure. Thank you. I love what you did with your antenna. hank you.

Dr. Flora: Oh, look. He's a natural den mother. (as he and the nurse left)

Francis: All right, that's it! Out! Out! Everybody out! (as the kids started to whimper) Now you're gonna cry, right? You're gonna cry. See if I care. Go ahead and cry. Go ahead. (as they did) Please, don't cry. Please.

With that, Francis did a juggling act to entertain them.

Francis: (finished juggling the dews and swallows them) Ta-da!

Blueberry Troops: Yeah, Francis!

Back outside, Dim was lowering shell into the bird-like structure in order to make a convincing bird call.

Thorny: Okay, lower, lower... You got it. (through the shell) And that's it!

Mushu and Cornelious: (was sent flying) Whoa!

Tuck & Roll: Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up! (as they all got the branches together)

Rosie: (stick them together with her web) Rabbit through the hole, chicken in the barn, two by two by, there's the yarn. Done!

Tuck & Roll: Ruben Kincaid!

All: (spread out and cheered) Hey! Hey!

Atta: Good job, guys! Nice work!

Next, with Heimlich help, they tested out the wing control of the bird.

Heimlich: (while eating) Up, down. Up, down. Up, down.

Back at the hospital ward, Francis was playing a game of poker with the Blueberry Scouts.

Blueberry Troop #1: Hmm.

Blueberry Troop #2: Hmm.

Francis: (chuckles as he tires to lay down his cards)

Blueberry Troop #1: Uh-uh-uh! Read them and weep.

Francis: Huh? (became amused with she one the cash)

Back outside with fall fast approaching, it was time to collect the colorful leaves to decorate the bird.

Flik: (whooping down like a surfboard)

Heimlich: Flik, watch out!

Flik: Whoa!

Just then, Vanessa came in with a couple of leaves.

Vanessa: Look out below!

Gypsy: Careful, Vanessa.

Heimlich: (flapping the leaves) Look! I'm a beautiful butterfly!

Flik and Vanessa: (laughing)

Atta: There you go. Good job, fellas. Keep up the good work. (noticed Flik looking at her awely)

Flik: (gasps as he covers the leaf to hide from her)

At last, the bird was complete, and it was time to hide the device until the grasshopper's arrival.

Atta: (as Cornelius hits the rope with his crutch signaling Atta that it's okay) Okay!

So, with everyone's help, they begin to pull and lift the bird towards the hole in the tree on the branch.

Tuck & Roll: (popped out of the fake bird's beak) You fired! (as the ants cheered)

Flik: Yes!

Finally, Jiminy gave Flik a high five knowing this plan could pay off.

Hopper's Big Speech

Not too far from Ant Island, there's the grasshopper's hideout which looks like a sombrero in the midst of the desert as Mexican music begins to play in the background.

Waterskiing Grasshopper: Look at me! I'm barefooting!

Sunbathing Grasshopper: Yo, bugito! Dos granitos, pronto!

Waterskiing Grasshopper: You gotta try this, man!

Grasshoppers: La cucaracha, la cucaracha, da da da da da da...

Grasshopper #1: We have more than enough food, and if we go all the way back there and it starts to rain, we might as well be suckin' bug spray.

Molt: Ooh! Don't even say that! You know somethin'? You're making a lot of sense. I mean, why take the risk? You should tell Hopper.

Grasshopper #2: Good idea! But, you know, it's really not our place. I mean, you're his brother. That makes you, like, uh... The vice president of the gang.

Molt: Wow! It kind of does, doesn't it? Okay, I'll tell him. Boy, I should talk to you guys more often.

Grasshopper #1: What if Hopper doesn't like it?

Grasshopper #2: Then at least the genius will get smacked, and not us.

Molt: Vice President Molt. (chuckles as he takes off)

Just not far from here, Hopper was getting his back massaged.

Hopper: Yeah, that's good. Oh, that's good. A little lower. Lower, lower.

Molt: (came to Hopper) Heya, Hop.

Hopper: Go away.

Molt: That's fine. Then I won't tell you my idea.

Hopper: Good!

Molt: Okay, okay. I'll tell you anyway. You see, I've been thinking, okay, which is something that I do. You know, being vice president and all. And thi-this is a thought, and it was mine. Why go back to Ant Island at all? I mean, you don't even like grain.

Hopper: (gets up in anger) What?!

Molt: (backs up nervously) You're right. I didn't think it was such a good idea, myself. Actually, it wasn't even my idea. It was Axle and Loco's! They talked fancy to me. I got confused!

Hopper: (begins to think) For once, you might be onto something, Molt.

Molt: I am?

Hopper: Lucky for you, I'm easy on you this time, just keep you mouth shut and let me do the talking.

Molt: Okay, anything you say, Hopper. (clears his throat) Shutting up.

So with that, Hopper heads to the center of the hideout as he gives out a big speech.

Grasshoppers: La cucaracha (as the music stopped while they singers hummed)

Hopper: Guys... Order another round, because we're stayin' here! (as the grasshoppers cheered)

Grasshoppers: Yeah! Yeah!

Hopper: What was I thinking? Going back to Ant Island. I mean, we just got here, and we have more than enough food to get us through the winter, right? Why go back? (as the music plays "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow" as they stopped for a moment) But...there was that ant that stood up to me and that cricket who stood up for the princess.

Grasshopper #1: Yeah, but we can forget about them!

Grasshopper #2: Yeah, it was just one ant with a cricket.

Grasshopper #1: Ooh! One ant!

Hopper: (laughs) Yeah, you're right! It's just one ant with a cricket!

Grasshopper #1: Yeah, Boss! Heh. They're puny!

Hopper: Hmm. Puny. Say, let's pretend this grain is a puny little ant. (throws one at one of the grasshoppers) Did that hurt?

Grasshopper #1: (chuckles) Nope.

Hopper: Well, how 'bout this one? (throws another with another one)

Grasshopper #2: Are you kiddin'? (as they chuckled)

Hopper: Well, how 'bout this? (breaks open the bottle as the three grasshoppers are buried under an avalanche of grain)

Grasshoppers: (screaming and fades)

Hopper: You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line. That's why we're going back! (as his antenna twitches) Does anybody else want to stay?

With no answer, the remaining grasshoppers open their wings.

Molt: He's quite the motivational speaker, isn't he?

Hopper: Let's ride!

At last, Hopper and the grasshopper swarm fly off to return for Ant Island.

Banishment for Flik, Jiminy and Company

Back at Ant Island, everyone seems to have fun now knowing that the bird plan will work.

Ant: To the bird!

Everyone: The bird!

With the festivities starting, everyone was having fun while Manny, Gypsy, Vanessa and the ants are doing a conga line.

ALL: Hey!

Dr. Flora: Get down, rolly boys!

Slim: How low can you go? Sing it now. How low can you go? How low can you go? Do it, princess. How low can you go?

Rosie: And that's how my 12th husband died. So now I'm a widow. I mean, I've always been a black widow, but now I'm a black-widow widow.

Bartok: (laughs) Now that was a good one, Rosie.

Mr. Soil: Thorny! Any sign of those fiends?

Thorny: Let me check. (raises the glowing mushroom as the other ants that are in the tall grass did) No, not yet. But we'll be ready for them.

Francis: Blueberries, dismissed! And quit beating the boys up. Those little raisins do grow on you.

Flik: Hey, how you guys doing? Some party, huh? Is that grain dip fresh or what? Okay. I've told everyone you'll be stationed deep in the command bunker. Party quiets down, I sneak you out the back way, and then you're out of here forever.

Dim: Dim don't want to go.

Rosie: Well, if Dim stays, he's gonna need me here. He's not fully trained. I mean, house-trained. (as he chuckles)

Francis: I... I kind of promised the Blueberries I'd teach them canasta.

Gypsy: It seems we've been booked for an extended engagement.

Just then, Vanessa got another vision and she's dreading for the worst.

Gypsy: Vanessa, darling, are you alright? Why aren't you having any fun.

Vanessa: Sorry, it just that, I'm now getting another reading that our former boss P.T. Flea is coming back to rehire us.

Atta: Will you look at this colony? Will you just look at this colony? I don't even recognize it.

Cornelius: I feel 70 again!

Queen: Work that ab, Baby!

Jiminy Cricket: (chuckles) It looks like your mother seems to have a feeling for Cornelius, don't you think, Atta?

Atta: Well, I sure do, Jiminy. And I have you, your friends including the bugs to thank for it. So, thank you! (to Flik) And thank you for finding them, Flik.

Flik: Me? (as he and Atta got their antenna all tangled up) Oh... I'll get it. I mean, if you don't mind, I'll just, I'll just...

Atta: It's all tangled up.

Flik: (as he got untangled up) There.

Atta: I think I'll go check on the bird. (goes the wrong direction and goes back the other way) Bird's this way.

Flik: Yeah, the bird's that way. (chuckles nervously) She... What?

Just then, Thorny notices movement through the grass forest.

Thorny: (gasps) Jiminy H. Cricket! (blows the alarm horn)

With one blow heard, everyone quickly gets ready into position for the Grasshoppers invasion.

Flik: They're back!

Jiminy Cricket: It's go time, everyone!

Atta: Get ready, everybody! Get to your posts! Battle stations, everyone. This is not a drill! Come on, everyone. You know your jobs! Let's go, go, go, go!

Pips: Atta! Look out! (as P.T. Flea's wagon came as he drives his millepedes)

P.T. Flea: Whoa, whoa, whoa there. Steady, girls. That's it.

Dim: It's P.T.!

Vanessa: Oh, no! Not now! Quick! We must hide! (as the regroup into hiding)

P.T. Flea: Greetings and salutations! Ooh-boppa-doo and how do you do? I am the great P.T. Flea! I'm in need of your... Oh, let's just cut to the chase. Look, I've been going from anthill to anthill. I'm looking for a bunch of circus performers. Have you seen them? (shows the poster of his circus crew)

Everyone: (gasps)

Cornelius: Wait a second. Ain't that Staff Sergeant Slim?

Flik: (covers the poster from him) Nope! No, no, no. I'm sorry, no. I've never seen anyone like that around here.

Slim: Be quiet! (as they accidentally draw P.T.'s attention)

Flik: No one has ever seen anyone like that around here. So you'll probably want to get going. I guess you've got a lot of other anthills to check into, so bye!

P.T. Flea: (uncovers the big leaf to find the circus bugs) Ah, guys, I've been looking all over for you! Flaming Death is a huge hit!

Francis: P.T.!

P.T. Flea: I'm serious! Word of mouth got around. The next day, there was a line of flies outside the tent, went on forever! It must have been a foot long!

Rosie: P.T., no!

P.T. Flea: So I figured it out. You guys burn me twice a night, I take a day off to heal. And then we do it all over again! We'll be the top circus act in the business!

Batty Koda: We're doomed!

Atta: You mean, you're not warriors?

P.T. Flea: Are you kidding? These guys are the lousiest circus bugs you've ever seen. And they're gonna make me rich!

Thorny: You mean to tell me that our entire defensive strategy was concocted by clowns?

Francis: We really thought Flik's idea was gonna work. (as the firefly shines on him) Oops.

Pips: Nice going, Francis.

Atta: Tell me this isn't true. You put Jiminy and his friends up to this, didn't you?

Flik: No, you don't...

Mr. Soil: This couldn't have happened at a more inopportune time! The last leaf is about to fall!

Dr. Flora: We haven't collected any food for the grasshoppers!

Thorny: If Hopper finds out what we almost did--

Queen: Hopper is not going to find out. We're going to hide all this and pretend it never happened. You bugs were never here. So I suggest you all leave.

Flik: But the bird! The bird will work.

Queen: I never thought I'd see the day when an ant would put himself and his so-called friends before the rest of his colony.

Flik: What?

Queen: The point is, Flik, you lied to us. And on top of that, you got your pals to cover for you so we wouldn't know about your circus friends sooner.

Flik: No, no, no! I... I just...

Atta: You lied, Flik. You lied to my mother. You lied to the colony! You lied to me! And like an idiot, I believed you.

Flik: But I... I was just afraid that if you knew I'd gotten circus bugs... (sighs) I just wanted to make a difference.

Atta: I want you to leave, Flik, that includes Jiminy and all of his friends. And this time, don't come back.

Jiminy Cricket: So banishment is the way it has to be, huh? Well, Atta. As your official conscious, I have a fair advice for you. Be careful with the choices you make, before you realize your mistake of doing so, you'll regret it. That's all I had to say.

Ant Kids: (gasps)

Aphie: (whimpers)

Vanessa: I didn't think this day would come.

Jiminy Cricket: Come on, everyone, something tells me we're not welcome here anymore. (as they walked away)

P.T. Flea: Tough crowd. Yee-haw! (as they moved on)

Dot: (as her mother stopped her) Flik!

Once Jiminy, Flik and their friends are away until out of sight, the last leaf has fallen in the darkest hour.

The Reign of Hopper

At the further distance by dawn, Hopper and his gang of grasshoppers were on the move for their return to Ant Island.

Once the fog hits the island, the ants are having a very hard time finding enough food because their time's running out.

Atta: How's it looking on the food supply that Crysta's magic gave?

Thorny: Hopefully enough, because we're running out of time!

Atta: Hopper won't accept this! (gasps as she heard the grasshoppers arriving and came to her mother as Aphie hid in her crown) Mother, it's still not enough. What do we do?

Queen: I... I don't know.

Suddenly, the grasshoppers arrives as things got worse for the ants.

Ants: (gasps)

Thumper: (snarling and roars)

Hopper: You little termites! I give you a second chance, and this is all I get? (threw the offering forcing the ants to scream)

Atta: But, Hopper, we ran out of time!

Hopper: Have you been playing all summer? You think this is a game?

Atta: No, no, please!

Hopper: Well, guess what? You just lost.

Thumper: (roars sending the ants running)

Hopper: Not one ant sleeps until we get every scrap of food on this island!

Molt: Just do what he says. You don't want to make him mad. Believe me!

Hopper: (stops the Queen from leaving) No, no, no. You're staying with me, Your Highness.

Grasshoppers: Where do you think you're going? (with the ants screaming while being stopped) Get over there!

Dot: (to the Blueberry Troops) Quick! To the clubhouse. (leading the Blueberry Troops and gasps while she looks back) Hurry!

Without a minute to lose, the Blueberry Troops race through the grass forest as they reach a blade of grass that's been hollowed out by the troop as they slid on down to the clubhouse below.

Grasshopper #1: Shut up a minute, will you?

Grasshopper #2: I think I heard something over here.

Grasshopper #1: Have you checked over there?

Grasshopper #2: No, not yet.

Grasshopper #1: Well then, get over there and check it out!

Grasshopper #2: (sees something) Wait a minute.

Dot: (gasps)

Grasshopper #2: Hey, I think I found something.

Then, the grasshopper bends down and picks up a ladybug leaf cape and placed it on his head.

Grasshopper #2: (chuckles) Cool. Hey, how do I look?

Grasshopper #1: Like an idiot.

Grasshopper #2: I don't know, maybe it'll keep me dry in the rain.

Grasshopper #1: You moron! We'll be out of here before it rains. Didn't you hear Hopper? After the ants pick all the food, he's gonna squish the queen to remind them who's boss. Then she's dead, they cry, boo-hoo, we go home. End of story.

Grasshopper #2: Oh. Cool. I love our job.

Dot: Stay here. I'm gonna get help.

As Dot secretly leaves the the club house, she bumps into Thumper who chases her through the grass forest until she was trapped at the edge of Ant Island.

Dot: Come on, wings, fly. Fly!

Thumper: (snarls as he flew after her)

Dot: (screams as she fell as Thumper flew away)

However, little did Thumper realized, Dot is now flying.

Dot: Yeah!

So as Dot regains balance to fly, she flew off to warn Jiminy, his friends, Flik and the Circus Troupe about Hopper's plan.

Flik's Third Time the Charm

The next day, P.T. is very happy now that he found his troupe it was time to head back to Bug City.

P.T. Flea: (singing his tune) I'm gonna be rich, rich, rich, I'm gonna be rich, rich, rich, I'm gonna be the richest flea in the land! Ka-ching! The streets'll be paved with golden retrievers, I'm rich, rich, rich, that's who I am!

However, not everyone is that happy to leave yet, especially the way they fooled an entire ant colony.

Vanessa: We're truly sorry you'd got yourself in this mess.

Jiminy Cricket: It's okay, Vanessa, I'd just felt pretty bad for Flik not making a huge difference to his colony to begin with.

Pips: We did what we could to build the bird.

Crysta: I just hope there's a way to stop the grasshoppers from causing any harm.

Slim: Poor fellow.

Francis: Hey, maybe we can cheer him up a bit.

Heimlich: Don't worry, Flik. The circus life isn't so bad.

Slim: Yes, you can be part of our act.

Francis: Here! Like this. (does the slapstick trick with Slim)

Slim: Slapstick! Get it? I... I'm a walking stick. Oh, never mind.

Just then, Flik and Jiminy heard someone very familiar as Dot came flying to the circus troupe, Flik, Jiminy and his.

Dot: Flik! Jiminy!

Flik: Dot?

Jiminy Cricket: Well, bless my soul! It's Dot!

Crysta: And she can fly!

Dot: Flik, wait! Wait!

Flik: Dot, you're flying!

Jiminy Cricket: What are you doing here?

Batty Koda: Didn't you realize your mother and older sister are gonna be worried half to death!?

Mushu: Whoa! Back up, Batty! Let's hear the kid out!

Dot: (panting) You have to go back. Hopper moved into the anthill, and his gang's eating everything!

Heimlich: Oh, no!

Manny: Good heavens!

Dot: And I heard a grasshopper say that when they're finished, Hopper's gonna squish my mom!

Bartok: Oh, no!

Heimlich: Oh, not the queen!

Rosie: We got to do something!

Slim: How?

Rosie: Come on, you guys, think!

Pips: What about the bird that we built?

Gypsy: Of course. The bird.

Manny: Yes, of course.

Vanessa: Splendid idea, Pips.

Slim: The bird! That's brilliant.

Flik: The bird won't work.

Francis: What are you talking about? It was your idea.

Dot: But you said that everything...

Flik: Forget everything I ever told you. All right, Dot? Let's face it. The colony is right. I just make things worse. That bird is a guaranteed failure. (sighs) Just like me.

Manny: You listen to me, my boy. I've made a living out of being a failure. And you, sir, are not a failure!

Rosie: Oh, but, Flik, you've done so many good things.

Flik: Oh, yeah? Okay, show me one thing I've done right.

Dim: Us.

Circus Bugs: Yeah, yeah.

Manny: Dim is right, my boy. You have rekindled the long-dormant embers of purpose in our lives.

Slim: And if it wasn't for you, Francis would have never gotten in touch with his feminine side.

Francis: Oh, yeah?! Well... (chuckles) You know what? He's right.

Crysta: Flik, you've made a huge difference to Dot and the whole circus bugs.

Gypsy: Lieutenant Gypsy reporting for duty.

Vanessa: Along with Commander Vanessa.

Manny: (chuckles) Like mother, like daughter.

Francis: Kid, say the word, and we'll follow you into battle.

Manny: We believe in you, my boy.

Dot: Flik, please?

With Flik not moving, Jiminy had an idea as he whispers to Dot that made her smile and flies off, picks up a rock from the ground and brings it to him.

Dot: Pretend it's a seed, okay?

Flik: (slowly lifts his head as a smile spreads on his face and sighed) Thanks, Dot. (hugs her happily)

Francis: Hey, what's with the rock?

Slim: Must be an ant thing.

Jiminy Cricket: Flik, I can tell that deep down, you know it's wrong to never give up on your colony. You were right to stand up for them because they gathered enough food for themselves. And Crysta's right about you making a huge difference, you made a huge difference to Dot and the whole circus bugs. It's never too late to save and queen take a stand against Hopper like you did for Dot. So what do you say? Are you willing to give your third chance a third time the charm?

Flik: All right, let's do it.

Gypsy: That's the Flik we know and love.

Manny: We're on!

Rosie: So, what do we do first?

Jiminy Cricket: Well, Rosie. For starters, let's turn this cart around, I've got just the thing to put your circus to good use if it'll save the queen.

Flik: What do you have in mind, Jiminy?

P.T. Flea: (singing) Bugs will pay big bucks to see a bonfire that is starring me!

Francis: P.T., look! Money!

P.T. Flea: Where? Where? (screams)

With that, Rosie trapped P.T. in web where it was darkened for him.

Rescue the Ant Colony

Back on Ant Island, the grasshoppers are now forcing the ants to bring out the food from the storage.

Grasshopper #1: All right. Get moving! Get going.

Grasshopper #2: Move your abdomens, now!

Flik: They're rounding everyone up. (gasps with the firefly shining a bit)

Pips: Darn! That firefly's gonna give us away if it gets too bright.

Francis: (to the firefly) Hey! Turn your butt off. (as he turns it off)

P.T. Flea: Hey, guys! Get me out of this thing, will you? I promise to start thinking about paying you.

Jiminy Cricket: Sorry about that, P.T., but we've got a colony of ants to rescue.

P.T. Flea: The what now? (as the carriage is about to close on him) Hey! Wait, wait! Okay, I'll pay you! I'll pay you!

Flik: Oh, no! They've finished collecting the food. We've got to get the queen now.

Mushu: Once Crysta watches for the queen, Gypsy's opening her wings to signal the rescue group.

Vanessa: Who's going to operate the bird?

Crysta: The Blueberry Scouts could help us out.

Jiminy Cricket: (to Dot) Dot, take us to your clubhouse.

At the clubhouse, the Blueberry Troop were waiting for Dot's arrival when they heard some rustling down the slide.

Blueberry Troop #1: (gasps) Someone's coming!

Flik: (slides down with Jiminy and Dot) Hello, kids! Ready to make some grasshoppers cry?

Dot: It's payback time, Blueberry-style. (as she chest bumps her teammate)

Blueberry Troop #2: Blueberries rock!

Dot: All right!

All: Yay!!!

Jiminy Cricket: Alright now, here's what we're gonna do.

Back outside as the Grasshoppers are having a meal, they heard some drumming and sees some spotlight.

Slim: Ladies and gentlebugs! Larvae of all stages! Rub your legs together for the world's greatest bug circus!

Once the circus arrived at the scene however, Hopper seems to suspicious as he has the entire crew to halt.

Hopper: Wait a minute! (as the music stops)

Heimlich: I think I'm going to wet myself.

Vanessa: (as she and Francis are smiling and waving) Just act natural, Heimlich.

Francis: Steady.

Hopper: What's going on here?

Atta: Well...

Slim: (chuckles) Yes. We were invited by Princess Atta as a surprise for your arrival.

Hopper: Squish them.

The Circus Crew: (gasps)

Just as Dim backed up in fear, he accidentally back into the cannon where it launches Tuck and Roll as they put on a show before doing a comedy routine while singing and fought each other.

Hopper: Now that's funny. I guess we could use a little entertainment. Looks like you did something right for once, Princess.

Slim: On with the show!

With that, the Circus Bugs kept the grasshoppers entertain while Flik, Jiminy, his friends, Dot and the Blueberry Troop sneakily passed the grasshoppers and climbed up the tree.

Molt: The circus, the circus, I love the circus!

Jiminy Cricket: Are the Beetle Boys standing by, Pips?

Pips: Ready for action when you are, Jiminy.

Heimlich: (acting like a baby) Ba-ba all gone! Baby wants pie!

Francis: Pie? (as Heimlich pretends to coo) He asked for it. Should I give it to him?

Molt: Yeah! Give him pie! Give him pie! (as Francis splat the pie at Heimlich) Yeah!

Slim: Thank you, gentlemen. Always an intellectual treat. How many roaches does it take to screw in a light bulb? Can't tell. As soon as the light goes on, they scatter! (as the grasshoppers laughed)

Soon, Flik has reached the hollowed out hole of the tree where they stashed the bird while Manny on the other hand begins his magic show.

Flik: Almost there.

Manny: From the most mysterious regions of uncharted Asia, I give you the Chinese Cabinet...

Flik: Come on, girls. Quick. Quick.

Manny: ..of Metamorphosis! Utilizing psychic vibrations, I shall select the perfect volunteer. (begins her trance)

Molt: Pick me! No! Come on. I'm asking you with my brain.

Manny: (points at the queen) Aha! Why, Your Majesty!

Queen: Me?

Thumper: (growls at him)

Hopper: (tops him) No, no. Thumper, down. Let her go. Maybe he'll saw her in half.

Manny: (escorting her) As you ascend the dung beetle to the unknown, put your trust in the mysteries that are beyond mere mortal comprehension.

Hopper: This is gonna be good!

Pips: (secretly to himself) Not as good as we send you packing, Hopper. (flew off)

Flik: Blueberries ready?

ALL: Ready.

Dot: (through the horn) Ready!

Flik: Shh!

Manny: I call upon the ancient Szechuan spiritsm to inhabit the body of our volunteer!

Francis: (with the queen popping out of Dim's wing shields) No, no. Just stay in there, Your Majesty. (as she stays inside)

Manny: Transformation. Transformation! Transformation!

Francis: (seeing the rainclouds) Wow. Manny's getting good.

Mr. Soil: (gasps) Not now.

Cornelius: If it rains, that bird'll get ripped to shreds!

Manny: And now, insectus... transformatus!

At last, both Vanessa and Gyspy came out of the box in a wonderful display.

Grasshoppers: (exclaiming in amazed)

Molt: Pretty!

Manny: (as they get applause) Thank you, thank you.

Gypsy: Thank you.

Vanessa: Thank you.

Flik: That's the signal. That's the signal! This is it, girls. Get ready to roll.

It's go time as the ant boys released the rock, only to get stuck in the crack.

Blue Ant Boy: It's stuck!

Back on the ground, the grasshoppers were still applauding for that wonderful performance when Hopper notices that the queen didn't come out.

Molt: That was amazing! I have no... How did they do that? I have no idea where she went.

Gypsy: Thank you. Thank you, thank you.

Grasshoppers: More! More! More! More! More!

Hopper: Wait!

Vanessa: What is it, Hopper?

Hopper: Where is she?

Manny: Well, now... Actually...

Gypsy: I'm sorry. A magician never reveals his secrets.

Molt: That's very true, Hoppy. I mean, where would the mystery be if we all knew how it was... (as he throws a grain at him) Shutting up.

Jiminy Cricket: (sees through the telescope) Flik, we need to hurry!

Flik: (to the boys) You can do it! You've got to make it work!

Violet Ant Boy: Hey! (noticing the hammers)

Hopper: I said, where is she?

Enraged, Vanessa steps in front of her parents.

Vanessa: (angry) Don't even think about it!

Hopper: Or what!?

Manny: Ohh! (while Atta whimpers)

Back in the tree after a couple of whacks, the bird was loose as it was sent down to scare the grasshoppers away.

Flik: Hold on!

As Hopper was shaking Manny like a rag doll and holding both his wife and daughter at bay, he heard something that he knows too well as soon as he looks up and to his horror it was a bird.

Hopper: Bird! It's a bird! (yelling and screaming)

Atta: (as the ants ran off pretending scared) Yes!

With the fake bird flying around, the Circus Bugs and ants are screaming while the fireflies sets off some warning lights.

Grasshopper: Let's get out of here! Go! (as many few flew off)

Hopper: Don't let it get me! Don't let it get me!

Grasshopper: Help me! Aaah!

Queen: (laughing from Dim's wing)

Dot: Up, down, up, down. And turn!

Just as the fake bird keeps swinging, Slim decides to kick up a notch so he used some berry and smacks it in his eye as a result of a "victim" of a "bird's" attack.

Slim: My eye! Help me! (SCREAMS) (SCREAMS) Get out! (SCREAMING)

HEIMLICH: Hmm! Boysenberry!

FLIK: Huh? Aah! No, no, no, no, no! (GRUNTS) Aaah!

???.

Gypsy: ???

MANNY: Oh, the pain!

Vanessa: (fake crying) No not you dad.

P.T.: There goes my magic act! Flaming Death!

SLIM: No! P.T.! (YELLING)

P.T.: A direct hit! Ah-yee-ha!

However he was tackled off of the gas canister by Mushu.

Hopper's Death by a Bird

(FLAMES CRACKLING) (ALL SCREAMING)

DOT: Flik! Flik! Help us! (GROWLS)

ATTA: (GASPS) Dot!

FLIK: Okay! Everyone out! Hurry! (COUGHING)

ATTA: Where's Dot? Has anyone seen Dot? DOT: Aah!

HOPPER: Whose idea was this? Huh? Was it yours, princess?

ATTA; Just get behind me, girls. It'll be okay.

FLIK: Leave her alone, Hopper. The bird was my idea. I'm the one you want.

(GRUNTING)

(THUDDING)

HOPPER; Where do you get the gall to do this to me?

FLIK: You were... You were gonna squish the queen.

DOT; It's true.

HOPPER; I hate it when someone gives away the ending.

You piece of dirt! No, I'm wrong. You're lower than dirt. You're an ant!

Let this be a lesson to all you ants. Ideas are very dangerous things. You are mindless, soil-shoving losers, put on this earth to serve us!

FLIK: (weakly) You're wrong, Hopper. Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers! I've seen these ants do great things. And year after year, they somehow manage to pick food for themselves and you. So who is the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers. It's you who need us.

(ANTS MURMURING)

FLIK: We're a lot stronger than you say we are.

[Comprehension dawns on Flik's face.]

FLIK: And you know it, don't you?

HOPPER: Well, princess!

MOLT: Hopper? I hate to interrupt, but...

Hopper notices that bunch of ants were angry at him and his troop for all those years.

HOPPER: You ants stay back!

But they didn't they locked their arms along with the Circus Troupe and Jiminy and Friends, especially P.T. Flea who was upset for what Hopper said to his troupe.

MOLT: Oh, this was such a bad idea!

ATTA: You see, Hopper, nature has a certain order. The ants pick the food, the ants keep the food and the grasshoppers leave!

Jiminy Cricket: In other words get them!

So with that everyone screams as they begin to charged at grasshoppers as they runs away in terror.

Atta: I'm so proud of you, Flik!

Tuck and Roll: Charge-a!

HOPPER: Where are you going? They're just ants!

DOT: No! Bad grasshopper! Bad grasshopper! Go home!

Thumper was about to scare Dot again only meet a terrifying roar from Dim causing to fly for his life.

(YELPS)

DOT: Yeah!

HOPPER: Come back here, you cowards! Don't leave!

FLIK: To the cannon!

-ALL: To the cannon!

Hopper: No!

So with that everyone carried Hopper to the cannon as they shove him in there ready to be launch to who knows where.

FLIK: Happy landings, Hopper!

(THUNDER CLAP)

Huh?

FLIK: Rain! (SHOUTING AND SCREAMING) (SCREAMING)

ATTA: Flik!

SLIM: Quick! After them!

FRANCIS: (YELLS) Slim!

SLIM: Francis! Francis! Francis, I'm stuck!

FRANCIS: Where are you?

SLIM: I'm over here!

FRANCIS: Where?

SLIM: Here! I'm the only stick with eyeballs!

FLIK: Help! Help! Help!

HEIMLICH: Get him!

(HOPPER YELLING)

TUCK/ROLL: Yes! Yes!

FLIK: No!

(CHUCKLING)

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) (SCREAMING)

FLIK: Go that way!

ATTA: But the anthill's--

FLIK: I've got an idea!

ATTA: Flik!

FLIK: Come on! There! Come on! We've got to hide! No matter what happens, stay down!

Flik, no! What are you doing?

FLIK: Hopper!

HOPPER: You think it's over?

FLIK: No, no, no! No, I can explain!

HOPPER: All your little stunt did was buy them time!

FLIK: No, please! Please, Hopper!

HOPPER: I'll get more grasshoppers and be back next season, but you won't!

[Above Hopper and Flik, a large bird peers down.]

BIRD: (chirping)

HOPPER: Well, what's this? Another one of your little bird tricks?

FLIK: Yep.

HOPPER: Are there a bunch of little girls in this one, too? Hello, girls!

[The bird inspects Hopper and opens its beak wide.]

BIRD: (screams)

HOPPER: (yell) No! No! No, no, no, no!

[Hopper is blocked off by the bird who grabs him with its beak as Flik ducks down beside Atta.]

HOPPER: No! No! Oh, no!

[The bird flies over to its nest with Hopper. Inside the nest, three chick jump up and down.]

HOPPER: Oh, no! No, no, no!

[Flik and Atta turn away as Hopper is lowered down to the chicks.]

HOPPER: (screaming)

Farewell, Ant Island

[The screen goes dark. Scene cuts to daytime as a conch sounds. Thorny and other ants, using their own harvesters to cut down and harvest grain stalks, stop work at the sound of the conch.]

THORNY: Come on, boys!

[Dot and other ant kids are playing in the frame of the fake bird, now surrounded by flowers.]

ANT KID: Hey, Princess Dot! Wait up!

QUEEN: I finally get a second to relax, and I got to get out of my chair. Come on! You can rub lotion on me later, shade boy.

CORNELIUS: Yeah, hubba-hubba.

[The Queen and Cornelius walk down toward the ants and circus bugs joyfully gathering among blooming flowers

CIRCUS TROUPE: Oh, thank you!

MANNY: Thank you.

GYPSY: You're too kind.

SLIM: The least we could do.

MANNY: All in a day's work.

SLIM: Any time.

ROSIE: Dim!

[Dim opens his shell to reveal ant kids attempting to secretly ride him.]

DIM: Oh...

ANT KIDS: (moan)

ROSIE: I'm so sorry, kids. I wish you could come along, too.

[The Blueberry troop tearfully hugs Francis.]

BLUEBERRY TROOP: (all crying with Dot)

FRANCIS: (quavering) I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna cry.

[Tuck and Roll perform a skit using Hopper's antenna.]

TUCK & ROLL: (speaking foreign language)

P.T. FLEA: Hey, let's go. We got a schedule to keep. Come on. Let's go.

[A number of ants cartwheel into the wagon.]

CARTWHEELING ANTS: Hup, hup, hup, hup, hey!

P.T. FLEA: Hey, Tiny! Let's get this show packed up! We got paying customers hatching!

[Molt carries supplies into the wagon.]

MOLT: Yes, Mr. Flea. Yes, sir. Of course, sir. Right away, sir. And, um, I just wanted to thank you for giving me a chance, because it's an honor to work with creative giants such as yourself.

[P.T. Flea motions the fireflies to close the wagon door.]

MOLT: Shutting up.

[P.T. Flea jumps on top of the wagon.]

P.T. FLEA: You sure you can't come on tour with us?

FLIK: Sorry. My place is here.

ATTA: (quietly) Good answer.

P.T. FLEA: Oh, well. Your loss. One minute, insects!

[Flik and Atta walk over to the circus troupe.]

ATTA: I want to thank all of you for giving us back our hope, our dignity...and our lives.

SLIM: And to you, Princess Atta. You have given us so much. Please accept this gift from us bugs to you ants.

[Manny twirls a leaf and produces a large rock, handing it to Atta.]

MANNY: For you!

ATTA: Oh! (chuckles) It's a rock.

[Manny, Slim and Francis congratulate each other.]

CORNELIUS: What's with the rock?

THORNY: Must be a circus thing.

DOT: (giggles)

ROSIE: Well, Flik, you really goofed up. (quavering) Thanks.

FLIK: (quavering) Yeah. You, too.

[Rosie begins to clap for Flik, followed by the rest of the troupe and the entire ant colony. Atta kisses Flik on the cheek. The queen removes Atta's tiara and gives her own crown to her. Atta tosses her tiara to Dot who flies up and catches it on her head.]

DOT: (giggles)

P.T. FLEA: (sniffles) All right. Now it's getting mushy. We're out of here!

BLUE ANT BOY: Whoa!

ROSIE: See you next season!

SLIM: See you, Flik!

GYPSY: Bye! We miss you already!

TUCK: You fired!

ROLL: You fired!

SLIM: (gasps) We forgot Heimlich!

[A chrysalis hangs on a nearby tree root. It opens to reveal Heimlich's face.]

HEIMLICH: I'm finished! Finally, I'm a beautiful butterfly!

[Heimlich struggles and slides out of the chrysalis, looking largely the same as before but now a green and blue color and with two bulges on his back.]

HEIMLICH: (grunt)

[Two tiny butterfly wings pop out of the bulges.]

HEIMLICH: Mein wings! Oh, they're beautiful!

FLIK: Heimlich! The wagon's taking off! You better start flying!

[Flik and other ants lift up Heimlich.]

HEIMLICH: But I am flying! And from way up here, you all look like little ants!

[Francis and Manny fly down and carry Heimlich away.]

HEIMLICH: Auf Wiedersehen!

FLIK: Bye!

[Atta and Dot lift Flik up and land on the root. They wave goodbye to the circus troupe. Thorny and the harvester-wearing ants line up.]

THORNY: Present stalks!

[The ants face backward.]

THORNY: Harvester, salute!

[The harvesters launch their stalks into the air, crashing into each other and producing firework-like showers of grain. Flik and Atta hold hands as they and Dot continue waving goodbye. The circus troupe flies away from the island, now surrounded by water and whose tree now bears pink blossoms.]