The Angry Birds Movie 2
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“There’s an eagle nearby! Courtney! Where’s that Eagle Detector?!” he asked frantically.
“Got it!” Courtney called up to them from the bottom of the slide as the launcher groaned. It then mistook Courtney for an ice ball and sucked her up, ready to fire!
“Chuck, we need you!” Leonard called into his walkie-talkie.
Chuck, whose tongue was still stuck to the icy camera, was hyperventilating—intentionally. All of the heat from his breath was starting to loosen his tongue! A few more seconds of heavy panting and he was free! “Coming!” he answered Leonard as he zipped off. Chuck had his work cut out for him. Zeta had just launched Courtney with the Eagle Detector still in hand!
Silver and Red had hit their top speed. They were about to pass Leonard, Garry, and the newly freed Chuck.
“Chuck! Grab the Eagle Detector from Courtney!” Silver shouted to him.
“On it!” Chuck said, but he was already gone. He zoomed past Courtney, quickly grabbing the Eagle Detector from her. His speed made him go airborne, and he coasted through the air toward Leonard, who stretched out his hand, taking the Eagle Detector from Chuck. Leonard jammed the detector into the track just as Red and Silver’s ice ball began to pass.
There’s an eagle nearby!
Red and Silver’s ball smacked into the Eagle Detector and they were thrown into the air. In what seemed like slow motion, Chuck fell through the air but craned his neck to see if their plan was successful.
“Nooooo!” Zeta squealed when she saw the saboteurs.
Red and Silver clapped their wings together in celebration. Chuck, naturally, perceived it as something more.
“That’s my sister!”
As Red and Silver hurtled toward the pressure chamber, they braced themselves for impact.
CRASH!
Their ice ball smacked into the pressure chamber and . . . bounced off. It fell to the ground and shattered, sending Red and Silver tumbling onto the floor. They looked up, hoping to see some kind of damage to the superweapon, but there was nothing. It was still totally intact.
“I don’t get it,” Red said in disbelief.
“It didn’t work?” Silver was in shock.
“Of course it didn’t work.” Zeta scoffed. “Seize them!”
The Eagle Guards surrounded Silver and Red.
“Ha ha ha! You must really love your little islands to risk your lives trying to save them. Well, guess what? I don’t care! Because this right here . . . ,” Zeta said, tapping her heart, “is ice-cold, baby. Ha ha ha!”
Zeta began to lift her talon to stomp down on the launcher yet again—
“Zeta! Wait!”
The shadow of a gigantic eagle swept down from above. It was none other than Mighty Eagle standing tall before them! His keen eagle eyes looked off into the distance while his mighty wings perched proudly on his hips.
“I’m the cause of all this,” he said to Zeta. “I ran out on you on our wedding day, and ever since then you have been tormented inside.”
“Right now? This is when you—” Zeta was absolutely flabbergasted to see him. “This is when you choose to do this?”
“Take me, not these islands.”
“You have got some flipping nerve!”
“I know, I ripped your heartstrings right out.” Mighty Eagle grimaced.
Strings, Red thought to himself. He had an idea!
He leaned over and directed Silver’s head toward the loaded launcher. “That’s it! Super String!” he whispered.
Silver instantly knew what he was talking about. Silver Vision activated, she made herself a visual map to stop that launcher. Silver always kept a piece of Super String on her, on the off chance it might come in handy—up until now it had remained nested in her feathers. Now her great invention was finally having its moment. She took the piece of Super String and motioned to Chuck.
“Go ahead, do your worst to me,” Mighty Eagle was now groveling in front of Zeta. “I deserve it!”
“You think this is about you, Ethan?” she huffed.
“Ethan?” Red said quietly.
“Oh, that’s so hilarious, slash, embarrassing, slash, I-haven’t-thought-about-your-fat-butt-in twenty-years.”
“Wait, what?” Mighty Eagle asked.
“You lazy, uncoordinated, fish-eyed fool . . . ,” Zeta began a very long list of insults directed at Mighty Eagle.
While Zeta was distracted, Chuck snagged the piece of Super String and zipped up to the superweapon. In a flash, he had wrapped the string around the lava-filled ice ball that was in the launcher and tied it to the floor.
“You ain’t worth the salt in your bread,” Zeta snipped at Mighty Eagle.
“You are nothing to me! You are nothin’! I don’t think about you at all. I don’t think about your stinkin’ feet. I don’t think about your rusty wings. I don’t think about your rusty elbows!” Zeta declared, but her eyes filled more and more with tears for every “bad” thing she remembered about Mighty Eagle.
“Wait, so you have or you haven’t thought about me?” Mighty Eagle was so confused. His ego was such that he found this very hard to comprehend.
“News flash, bro, I’m over you. I’m over this place, and I’m ready to get that upgrade situation going for me and my daughter.” Zeta pulled Debbie close to her.
“Hello!” Debbie said.
Everyone in the room gasped!
“Well, our daughter,” Zeta corrected herself.
“What?” Mighty Eagle blurted out.
Everyone in the room gasped again!
“That’s my dad?” Debbie asked.
“I have a daughter?” Mighty Eagle exclaimed.
“Yes! You do! And I raised her all by myself in this icy hellhole,” Zeta scolded him. “But now I’m gonna be sipping slushees on those warm tropical islands”—Zeta raised her foot to stomp on the launchpad—“like I deserve to!”
She stomped her foot, and the ice ball was launched into the air. It sailed toward the top of the volcano. Silver’s Super String was still attached, but something was wrong—it was stretching with the ice ball instead of holding it down. The string wasn’t working!
Above the volcano, the hot-air balloons that the pigs and birds had used to escape the islands had arrived! Vivi, Zoe, and Sam-Sam immediately saw what was happening. Their hero Red needed help. The hatchlings hopped out of their hot-air balloon and formed a birdy ladder so that they could reach the broken ends of the string. They had to really stretch, but they caught both ends!
“Gotcha!” Sam-Sam exclaimed.
The piglets cheered them on from a nearby hot-air balloon.
“You can do it!” one shouted.
“Hold on to that string!” another one encouraged.
But the piglets’ happiness was short-lived. The hatchlings were getting tired.
“Oh no! They’re in trouble!”
The piglets jumped in to help the hatchlings! Together they formed a birdy-piggy ladder that was strong enough to reverse the ice ball’s direction!
“Jump!” Sam-Sam shouted as the ice ball flung itself back toward them. All the piglets and hatchlings threw themselves back to their hot-air balloons, narrowly escaping the ice ball.
With the ice ball headed straight for her superweapon, Zeta had gone from happily berating Mighty Eagle to being downright annoyed.
“Ha! Forty thousand more pounds than any other string!” Red teased her.
“Oh, snap!” Zeta cried out. But it wasn’t the time for a chat—the ice ball was about to wipe out the whole lot of them!
“Everyone, run!”
Everyone bolted. The birds and pigs ran while the eagles flew. The ice ball crashed into the superweapon, causing the whole volcano to rumble and shake violently until—
KABOOM!
The entire volcano exploded!
Through the dust, the pigs and birds turned around to look. Eagle Island was in ruins. As they dusted themselves off, Zeta went into full freak-out mode.
; “Debbie? Oh my god, where’s Debbie?” she asked no one in particular. “Debbie?! Debbie! Oh, Debbie! Who’s gonna bring me my drinks?” Zeta began to sob. Nearby, a large piece of rubble began to shift. From under it, Mighty Eagle emerged. Under him was Debbie, and she wasn’t looking so good.
“Are you okay?” Mighty Eagle gently shook his daughter, trying to wake her up.
Zeta rushed up to Mighty Eagle and Debbie as the others looked on.
“Sweetie?” Mighty Eagle continued. “Honey pie? Love of the last one minute of my life?”
Slowly, Debbie’s eyes opened. “Dad?”
Zeta gasped. Debbie was alive!
“Yes?” Mighty Eagle answered his daughter.
“You’re so strong. He saved my life! Mom, can we keep him? Please?” Debbie gave Zeta her biggest, cheesiest smile.
Zeta thought for a moment before replying, “So you got your own place on Bird Island? I mean, what’s up?”
Reuniting with her love had thawed Zeta’s heart. So much so that she agreed to marry Mighty Eagle. She quickly saw how wonderful it was to be friends with the other birds and the pigs! Not too long after that, Bird Island was peaceful again. Birds and pigs were living together. Happily! But they weren’t the only ones. . . .
A large crowd of birds, pigs, and eagles had gathered. Mighty Eagle had asked Red to officiate the ceremony. He had been a bit uneasy about the idea of celebrating the marriage of someone who had recently tried to obliterate Bird Island, but even he came round eventually—as Chuck said, “Who doesn’t love a wedding?”
Debbie looked adorable in her flower-girl dress. Chuck couldn’t stop crying, and Zeta was finally getting the wedding she was promised so long ago.
“We are gathered here today because of these two characters,” Red recited as he stood behind Mighty Eagle and Zeta. In the audience, Silver beamed up at him. “Not only because they are being joined together in holy matrimony, but also because one of them tried to destroy our islands for her own selfish reasons.”
Zeta blushed and giggled like it was no big thing.
“But,” Red went on, “Mighty Eagle swooped in at the last second and got all the credit for stopping her.”
“Yes you did, baby,” Zeta said proudly.
“And also won her heart even though he abandoned her and her child over eighteen years ago.”
“Yes you did, baby,” Zeta cooed.
Silver motioned for Red to wrap up the barbed comments. It was time to let it go.
“I now pronounce you eagle and husband. You may now kiss the—”
Zeta beat Red to the punch. Before he could get the words out, Zeta bent Mighty Eagle backward and kissed him like there was no tomorrow. Everyone cheered!
Ding-ding-ding!
The judge tapped on his glass to get everyone’s attention.
“I would like to propose a toast! Let’s raise a glass to the bird who made all of this possible. . . . Bird Island would like to present you with a statue in your honor. Our hero: Red!”
The judge pulled down a large sheet, revealing a huge statue of Red! The plaque at the bottom read: “In Honor of Red. Hero of Bird Island.”
The crowd chanted Red’s name as Zoe, Vivi, and Sam-Sam walked up to him. They were each holding an egg.
“You’re a hero, Red!” Zoe proclaimed.
The crowd agreed! They picked up Red and sent him up on the stage.
“Speech!” Chuck yelled.
In the back of the crowd, Red saw Silver. She saluted him, then walked away. She was carrying a backpack.
“Looks like someone got everything he wanted,” Chuck said to him.
“Oh . . . Uh . . . Well . . .” Red was confused. He didn’t understand where Silver was going. “Two seconds. Be right back.”
“Woo! Good speech!” Bomb cheered.
Red ran through the crowd after Silver. He caught up to her just as she was loading into a slingshot to fire away from the ceremony.
“Hey, Silver!”
She glanced back but didn’t make any motion to stay. Just as the slingshot released, Red grabbed the loop on the back of her backpack. The slingshot unfurled without shooting Silver anywhere.
“I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the bird who really made all this possible!” Red thanked her as they walked back on to the stage in front of everyone. Red held Silver’s wing high up in the air.
“This is the real hero! Silver is the one who came up with the plan to stop the superweapon . . . and saved all our lives,” Red told the murmuring crowd.
“Red, I didn’t do this all on my own,” Silver said, pulling her wing down.
“And we couldn’t have done anything without Chuck and Bomb. Courtney and Garry. Leonard. Well, maybe we could have done it without Leonard. And even Mighty Eagle. We’re strongest when we band together. Just like Super String.” Holding up the Super String, Red motioned behind him. “Okay, Garry, now!”
There was a gigantic shroud covering Eagle Mountain. On Red’s cue, Garry used his piggy drone to remove it. The crowd went wild when they saw what was there: the faces of the heist team that saved their islands. The new monument was called Hero Mountain!
“I’m married now! Let’s party, y’all!” Zeta bubbled as Chuck popped all the champagne.
While the party raged below, Red and Silver poured a glass of champagne up at Hero Mountain.
“Okay, worms or birdseed?” Silver paused. “Kidding. Toast.”
Clink!
“Ya know . . . I was actually being sarcastic when I said that was my favorite food,” Red admitted.
“What? You? Sarcastic? No way. Maybe you can teach me sometime?”
“Yeah, maybe when you’re not busy saving the world.”
“You know I actually just finished doing that, so I am pretty free.”
“Oh, no way, I’m pretty free, too.”
“Well, I don’t have anything to do, either,” Chuck suddenly slipped in, ruining the moment. “Wait a minute! What’s that sound? Tickle train! Coming to third-wheel station!”
“Chuck! No!” Red and Silver said in unison.
“Jinx! Jinx! Jinx!”
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