"Hello Everyone, and welcome to a new episode of Animalia Ambassadoria." said Sarah, starting the latest episode of Animalia Ambassadoria.
"This episode will be a little shorter than usual not only because of Animalia's Year of the Rat Zodiac celebrations, but also because of Super Bowl Weekend being this weekend also." said Malice, "So we'll cover some important bits and welcome a new member, talk with another, and show something from the past."
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"So this is the final challenge that the top three in both the Mister and Miss Zodiac Competition must face before obtaining the crown." said Abby, using a drone to do a flyover of the enormous mountain that was now in Claw Coliseum. "Inspired by a similar mountain from the Nickelodeon TV Show Global Guts, The Mountain of the Zodiac is designed to not only be similar to the mythological race that showed which animals would be part of which year, but is also designed to challenge both physical and mental strength, dexterity and stamina."
"The overall goal is to get to the top of the mountain in the shortest time possible while also activating twelve targets, each representing one of the animals of the Zodiac." said one of the Zodiac Organizers, the one who designed the climbing mountain, " The bottom third of the mountain is easiest, with the targets in relatively close proximity. But once the competitors get to the midpoint, the slopes will become steeper and the competitors will have to deal with a rock slide of foam boulders, and the targets will be spaced further apart. The final third of the mountain involves climbing a near vertical 'ice sheet' with blowing snow made of cloth with the final target at the very top of the mountain. But the competitors will also have to deal with the sound of a severe thunderstorm playing all the time they're climbing up the mountain. The overall goal is to, again, climb to the top of the mountain in the shortest time possible while activating all of the targets, including the final one at the top of the mountain. The first one to complete this will receive first place points, which will be added to their overall score to determine who wins the crown."
"A real 'race to the top' moment." commented Abby as she piloted the drone to showcase what the event organizer was talking about.
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"We all know that this year the 2020 Olympics will be taking place in Tokyo, Japan." said Jessica, reading from the Olympics website. "Although the route from North Korea to Tokyo won't be changing too much, they did make a small amendment. The amendment was a stopover at Heiya Island to light a "sacred flame" at Heiya Island's new Shinto Temple before moving on to Japan. While this was a little unexpected, it is always nice to be recognized a stopover for transportation of the Olympic flame."
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"We all know that Milly was doubled dosed and is only one year old, in terms of years on earth." said John Eecks, reading "declassified" records on the original outbreak. "But she wasn't the only one, since we all know about the Hanson herd. But, according to this, Abby wasn't the only one to be accidently converted during the initial outbreak AND weren't at least 10 to 12 years old." (Stewie: "Say Whaaat?!) "According to this, The first two to be double-dosed to adulthood were two girls named Ashley and Jennifer." At this there was a custom animation where one of the infamous Men in Black said 'Last names withdrawn to protect identity.' While this was a little upsetting to some who were watching, these ones were outnumbered 30 to 1 who thought this kind of thing was hilarious.
"Ashley and Jennifer were enjoying a walk in the woods where the river the virus was originally accidently released, since it was only a few steps to the woods from their back yard, when Jennifer decided to get a drink from the river." Continued John, "Ashley's cat Skippy also decided to get a drink and was accidently uplifted. Ashley rushed to help him and got bitten, and thereby converted, while Jennifer somehow got infected by the 'skunk strain' of Animalia Virus. Skippy kisses Ashley as apology for biting her, and they both end up double-dosed by accident... again. Jennifer feel a little left out, and Skippy kisses her without a second thought." At that, Vlad collapses facedown and Dimitri crosses another name off... yet again while saying "Oh brother."
"Eventually, the intelligence test developed to determine level of intelligence that they were old enough to be in high school. What makes Ashley and Jennifer different from other cat and skunk Animalians is that Ashley is an orange-striped tabby with brown hair, and Jennifer is a striped skunk with blonde hair." (The Big Lebowski: "That's marvelous.")
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Ashley Jenkins (NOT the one who was double-dosed at 5 years old) did an interview with Jeff, who's dad was double-dosed to deal with his clinical depression King Andrew I at the Meat Market. While most of them were considered standard, there was at least one that was a little unusual.
"So what do you think of your new stepmother?" asked Ashley.
"She's alright." answered Jeff. "She's also a dancer at the Meat Market, but she seems willing and able to help dad with his depression."
"So have you got a lioness of your own yet?" asked Ashley, not intending to be mean.
"No," replied Jeff, still a little miffed at it, "Neither dad nor Aslan will let me have a lioness of my own 'until I'm older', nor will they let me double dose."
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"So now we meet Jan, our newest Orca member, to help out with the male orca Animalian from 'Mr. D's' House Party' adapt to his rising heterosexuality." said Rebecca Longshot, who was now in charge of interviewing new Animalians, as Jan stepped into the interview room. She had similar orca markings to others except that she had white spots around her eyes that made her look like she was wearing glasses.
"So why did you decide to become an Orca Animalian?" Rebecca began asking.
"It's hard to explain it without offending anyone, but I had a fear that if I entered water more than 3 feet deep at the pool, I'd end up drowning." answered Jan, the white of her face turning a little pink.
"So this was to overcome that fear?" asked Rebecca, to which Jan nodded yes.
After some more questions, there was one that was getting five digits on the website.
"So what do you think of Stefan?" asked Rebecca.
"He is alright, and a bit handsome, if a bit shy." replied Jan, much to everyone's surprise. "I'm sure he can help with my fear of drowning in return for his fear of girls."
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"And that's all the time we have for today's episode." said Sarah, "We'll be having a Valentine's Day Special so be sure to check in then."
"But we'll also be covering the final challenge of the Mister and Miss Year of the Zodiac so see you there in the wilds of Animalia." finished Malice, marking the end of the episode.