(A/N Y/I means your initial and W/N means wrong name.)
The train headed toward London while the gang contemplated on what to do.
"This is a disaster!" Alex said.
"Major disaster," Y/N added.
"We blow all our money on a bad circus, and we're not any closer to New York!" Gloria exclaimed.
"If anything, we're further away!" Melman replied.
"We could have at least bought a circus that knew how to circ!" Marty commented.
Then the penguins came up.
"I don't even know why we bought a circus in the first place. We had enough dough for a plane!" Skipper admitted.
"Are you kidding me?" Melman asked.
"You must have some money left over," Gloria pointed out.
"I used it to buy teeth and then have them capped in gold. Now I can eat apples!" Skipper replied, put the teeth in, then confessed, "Sadly, I discovered I don't like apples."
"No promoter is sending this show to America. It's toe up!" Marty remarked.
Meanwhile, Y/N and Alex talked privately.
"I don't know what we're gonna do, Y/I," Alex replied.
"I don't either. This whole circus thing is crazy enough. But the fact this is going on..., I don't know," Y/N sighed.
"Well, we need to figure something out or we're never getting home," he told her.
"I know," she nodded.
They turned around to see Stefano at the top, which scared them a little.
"Now it all makes sense. No wonder the circus master was so happy to sell," Melman commented.
"He was happy, all right. Happy about ripping us off!" Marty added.
Stefano shushed them and motioned for them to follow him. They opened the train car door and were whisked away, getting the other there's attention.
"Where did Alex and Y/N go?" Gloria wondered.
"I don't know," Marty shrugged.
Alex and Y/N screamed while they held onto the train. They managed to go up the ladder to the top of the train where Stefano waited for them.
"Come on! This way!" Stefano urged.
"No, no, no. You come this way!" Alex responded.
"Yeah! This is suicide!" Y/N added.
"Alice, W/N, watch your head!" Stefano warned them.
They looked up then behind them to see a tunnel. They ran for a while until Alex grabbed her and ran up the side of the mountain before flipping back, leaving Stefano shocked. Then they fell between the train cars, scaring him. He went in the train car and ran through to get to where the siblings were.
"Alice! W/N!" Stefano called then freaked out not seeing them.
"We're fine!" the siblings answered, making Stefano look up.
They were upside down, Alex's claws in the train car and Y/N just holding onto her brother for dear life.
"Fantastic! Was that Trapeze Americano?" Stefano asked.
"Yeah. Sort of," Alex answered, getting his claws out and wrapping an arm around Y/N to make sure she didn't fall.
"Incredible!" Stefano exclaimed.
"l hope this is important," Alex replied.
"Yeah. Important enough to leave a train car while the train is still moving," Y/N added.
"It is. Come this way, Alice and W/N!" Stefano told them, to which they obeyed.
"By the way, it's 'icks' not 'iss.' Alex. Like New York Knicks," Alex corrected.
"And Y/N, not W/N," Y/N added.
"I know. New York Kniss. Is not hard. And W/N. Got it," Stefano told them.
"Whoa," the siblings replied.
They looked around to see to see trophies and news articles of when the circus was a huge success.
"What is this place?" Alex asked.
"I know you think we are a stinky, poopy circus, but there is something you must know. There was a time when Circus Zaragoza, we were a great circus! Numero uno in all the Europa! And Vitaly, he was the biggest star of us all. He was fearless. Taking risks. Always new. He jump through the hoop like he could fly!" Stefano explained.
He brought to their attention of all the things they did to make a successful circus, starring Vitaly, who did amazing hoop tricks. The smaller the more impossible and amazing.
"Stefano! Make the hoop smaller," Vitaly would tell him.
"Like this?" Stefano would ask.
"Smaller," Vitaly would insist.
"Like this?" Stefano would suggest.
"Good!" Vitaly would approve.
For each small hoop he jumped through, he poured olive oil on himself.
"It had never been done before because it was physically impossible! And the people, they loved it!" Stefano continued.
"Viva Vitaly!" the crowd would chant.
"Smaller!" Vitaly would say.
It was then it got to the point where the hoop was as small as a coin dollar.
"And the hoop, she got smaller! Like the ring on a finger of the tiniest lady with the slimmest of fingers," Stefano continued.
"Bravo, Vitaly!" an audience member would cheer.
"He would not stop pushing. And one fateful day...he push too far!" Stefano said.
"Light the hoop on fire!" Vitaly had declared, which shocked Stefano at the time.
Y/N cupped her mouth shut with her paw as Stefano explained the lit hoop accident and how Vitaly lost everything.
"He fly too close to the sun...and he got burned. Literally. The extra virgin olive oil is extra flammable. And he lost everything. His wife, she run off with a musician. He lost his dignity, his fame, his passion, and his fur. And when it grow back, it is less soft. More like a prickly beard," Stefano said.
"Scusi. Vitaly," Stefano had called.
The image of Vitaly growling at Stefano and the other circus animals popped up in his head.
"Nothing!" Stefano had exclaimed as they ran off.
"His only passion now is the borscht," Stefano finished.
Alex and Y/N were really taken back by the story.
"Whoa," Alex said.
"Oh my gosh," Y/N replied.
"He was our inspiration. So when he lost his passion, well...as Vitaly goes, so goes the circus. This is why we need your help," Stefano explained.
"What sort of help?" Alex asked.
"You can teach us to do new circus. Americano style! We find a new passion. Make a new show. And we go all the way to US and A!" Stefano declared as he spun in a chair, fixed it, then said again, "A!"
They looked at him a little weirdly before really thinking about it.
"I know. It is stupido idea. We are a lost cause," Stefano said sadly.
That's when an idea formed in the sibling's heads.
"No, no, this isn't stupido. This could work!" Alex remarked.
"Yeah," Y/N nodded.
"What?" Stefano asked.
"What you just said," Y/N clarified.
"What?" Stefano asked again.
"The idea you said. Two seconds ago," Alex replied.
"What?" Stefano asked a third time.
"Your stupido idea!" the siblings said.
"It could?" Stefano wondered excitedly.
"Stefano, you're a genius!" Y/N declared as Alex nodded.
"No, no, no, no. I am only average intelligence. Some say I'm even slightly below," Stefano admitted.
"We are gonna rethink everything anybody's ever known about circus!" Alex said.
Then they got to the rest of the gang.
"We call it Phase 4-7B, wherein, in order to get home, we will come up with something fresh, something amazing, something brand-new!" Alex replied.
"Fresh, never before seen! Off the chain!" Y/N added.
Then when the train stopped and the siblings brought the idea to the animals.
"Something that'll blow that circus promoter away!" Alex finished.
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A/N What are their reactions?