(CENTIPEDE vomits again. The sound of thousands of seagulls swarming is heard.)
SPIDER
(peering overboard)
You need to see this! There space thousands of seagulls eat Centipede s vomit!
CENTIPEDE
Shoo! Shoo! Stupid seagulls!
EARTHWORM
Seagulls!? I m terrified of seagulls!
JAMES
organize on everyone! The sharks are coming back!
(The SHARKS ram into the peach, sending everyone flying.)
INSECTS, JAMES
Whoah!
LADYBUG
Is there nothing we can do?
JAMES
over there is something
EARTHWORM
call us!
JAMES
If an aeroplane have the right to take come the sky, why can t a peach?
CENTIPEDE
since an aeroplane has engines and also wings!
JAMES
and also so perform we.
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LADYBUG
The seagulls!
JAMES
Exactly! They deserve to be ours engines and our wings!
CENTIPEDE
How s the gonna work?!
JAMES
Spider, is your net strong?
SPIDER
The strongest in the world.
JAMES
and can friend make lots of it?
SPIDER
I have the right to spin every the web you need!
JAMES
Perfect! We ll loop Spider s web around the seagulls necks, and then we ll tie the other end to the stem that the peach.
CENTIPEDE
and how room you walking to get those seagulls down here?
JAMES
Bait!
(The INSECTS look pointedly in ~ EARTHWORM.)
EARTHWORM
I discover that term incredibly insensitive.
JAMES
yet you space the biggest, juiciest earthworm in the whole world.
EARTHWORM
ns am not about to be pecked to fatality by a i cry of seagulls.
JAMES
ns won t allow them touch you, Earthworm. I promise.
EARTHWORM
Fine... I ll carry out it. Because that you, James.
JAMES
say thanks to you, Earthworm. Activity stations everyone! We ve not a moment to lose!
CENTIPEDE
This is never gonna work!
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LADYBUG
that feels fairly wonderful come be totally free of the wretched hillside.
EARTHWORM
and also Spiker and also Sponge.
SPIDER
go you know they killed my fiancé?
LADYBUG
No!
SPIDER
Yes! and then the giant one... She ate him.
LADYBUG
Horrible!
(CENTIPEDE snores loudly.)
EARTHWORM
(afraid)
What was that?! What WAS THAT?!
JAMES
the was just Centipede snoring.
CENTIPEDE
(waking)
What? What s walking on? Why go the human say my name?
SPIDER
Tell them what happened to you, Centipede.
CENTIPEDE
Blah, that cares.
SPIDER
We re sharing!
CENTIPEDE
Fine! My household was in the sock and also shoe racket. We re pretty famed in the pest world. Til Spiker and Sponge pce everyone with insecticide in the good raid of fifty-nine.
LADYBUG
Those two monsters hated everything. Even ladybugs. Who doesn t favor ladybugs?
GRASSHOPPER
I choose ladybugs.
(Awkward silence as LADYBUG and GRASSHOPPER re-publishing coy glances.)
JAMES
(a realization)
Spiker and also Sponge were terrible to everyone.
CENTIPEDE
Spiker and Sponge to be no different than any kind of of girlfriend humans.
GRASSHOPPER
Centipede, James is one of us.
CENTIPEDE
That is a human being boy. His kind pulls off our legs, or burns us with magnifying glasses! that is NOT one the us! He will NEVER be one of us!
(CENTIPEDE climbs as much as the crow s nest, alone.)
LADYBUG
neglect him, James. His kind are pests.
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CENTIPEDE
(calling indigenous the ladder)
and your kind are snobs!
LADYBUG
James, friend haven t stated anything around your parents. Where space they?
GRASSHOPPER
They must be very worried around you.
(JAMES becomes silent, staring in ~ the ground. SPIDER, LADYBUG and GRASSHOPPER feeling something is really wrong.)