"Alex, wake up!" Y/N said as she shook him awake.

He woke up to hear the people chanting his and Y/N's name, but looking around, his enclosure was fenced off.

"Y/N, what's going on?" Alex asked.

"We're back in our enclosures. They've caged us off like we're prisoners," she answered.

"Oh no," he gasped.

"Alex? Y/N? Where are you?" Marty called.

"Gloria! Are you okay?" Melman asked as Gloria struggled to get out of her drained pool.

"What is happening?" she asked.

"Alex! Y/N!" Marty yelled.

"No, no! No, no!" Alex said as he and Y/N ran up the rock.

"Alex the Lion and Y/N the Lioness!" the announcer said.

Y/N and Alex ran up the rock to see everyone cheering for them, but they turned around to see their friends, upset of what was going on. The siblings looked at each other and Y/N started crying, making Alex give her a comforting, brotherly hug.

"What are we gonna do, Alex?" she asked, her face in his chest.

"I...I don't know," he answered as he rubbed her back soothingly.

"Thank you. Thank you all for coming to this special celebration. And now, the woman who made this all possible, who brought Alex the Lion, Y/N the Lioness, and a couple of...three?" the announcer started, questionably at the end, then continued, "Three other animals back to New York. And she's French. Ooh la la. Please welcome Chantal Dubois!"

Then Dubois came up with a brief case and smirked at the siblings, who were nervous. She got to the stand with her men on either side of her and she was given a check for a millions dollars..., which she ripped in half, shocking everyone. She dropped the torn check down and opened we briefcase without anyone seeing.

"Alex? Y/N?" Marty called.

The siblings took a better look at what was in it: a poison dart. The siblings were immediately scared. She put it in her gun, placed an Alex foam finger over it, then tapped the mic.

"It was never about the money. It was about..." she started, raised her foam finger in the air, then finished, "the lions."

At that, Alex felt he knew what he should do.

"Y/N, get down and get behind me," he told her.

"But--" she objected.

"Please. No argument," Alex said sternly.

Y/N hesitantly obeyed as Alex raised his paws in the air and Dubois aimed and fired. As the dart got closer, someone swooped in, grabbed Alex, and whisked him away as the dart hit the light of a lamp post. Alex then looked up to see his savior.

"Gia?" Alex questioned happily.

"Circus stick together," Gia told him with a smile.

They then looked beside them to see the circus in the air, making Alex and the others smile as the recording of Marty singing play.

"Da-da da-da-da-da-da-da, circus

Da-da da-da-da-da-da-da, Afro

Circus Afro, Circus Afro

Polka dot, polka dot!"

"Look! A flying circus!" a child exclaimed.

"No!" Dubois yelled.

As they spun, Alex looked back at his sister.

"Y/N! Get in Marty's cage!" he told her.

"Got it!" she responded.

She then ran toward the gate then flipped over it to Marty's cage, shocking him.

"Why couldn't you do that before?" Marty asked.

"Didn't think of it?" she shrugged.

Then Skipper led the circus, everyone wearing afros.

"Operation Afro-Circus Rescue...engage!" Skipper commanded.

"Aye, aye, Skipper!" Private yelled.

The elephants blew fire out of their trunks to increase their speed.

"Unleash the seal," Skipper yelled.

"I am a sea lion!" Stefano objected as his cannon was aimed.

"Whatever," Skipper rolled his eyes.

Stefano was fired out of a cannon, giving them a line to work with.

"Two tons of fun. Dive, dive, dive!" Skipper ordered.

The elephants dove in and took out Dubois's men.

"Let's rock," Melman smirked.

"You and me, baby!" Gloria exclaimed happily.

Melman spun himself and Gloria upon the line while Sonya and Julien came in, helping take out Dubois's men while the elephants crashed into each other with Dubois in the middle.

Then Vitaly went through a lock that held Marty and Y/N in.

"Wow!" Marty said.

"I'll never get tired of that," Y/N commented, making Vitaly chuckle.

Then Sonya and Julien took out Dubois by hitting her through the brick wall of the reptile room.

Vitaly then had Y/N on his back while he held Marty in his arms.

"Suck in that gut!" Vitaly told Marty, which he obeyed.

They went through the keyhole, with Marty now wearing the afro.

"I am impressed!" Marty said.

"I've always been impressed," Y/N smirked then kissed Vitaly's cheek, making Vitaly blush.

The acts continued until they made it back on board.

"Mission accomplished. Now let's get out of here!" Skipper commanded.

"Wait! Wait for me!" Stefano shouted.

They looked down in the zoo to see Stefano, running for the flying circus.

"Stefano!" Alex gasped.

"Don't leave without me!" Stefano called.

Then Dubois got out, really mad, and knocked out a snake that hissed at her.

"Oh no!" Y/N panicked.

Stefano ran as Dubois tried to catch up to him. Then as he got to a brick wall, a knife stabbing his Afro to the wall.

"Go, Stefano! Climb!" Gia called.

Vitaly threw more knives to make a ladder. As he climbed, Dubois gained on him. Then he leapt for Vitaly's paw.

"Come on, my friend!" Vitaly urged, Stefano was yanked to the ground, making Vitaly yell, "Stefano!"

"Help me!" Stefano shouted.

Everyone was scared and at first didn't know what to do to get Stefano back.

"I will have your head!" Dubois declared as she dragged Stefano behind her to get her tranquilizer gun.

"Oh, no! Help me!" Stefano yelled, holding onto a lamp post.

"Alex!" Gia panicked.

Then Alex looked around and figured out the perfect plan. The aquatic cobras, the trapeze, the jetpack, it all made sense.

"Marty! Shoot me a line," Alex said.

"You got it," Marty saluted, jumped in the cannon, then exclaimed, "Afro, don't fail me now!"

He was fired and Gia looked at Alex, confused.

"What are you doing?" Gia wondered.

"We are doing Trapeze Americano," Alex answered.

"Let's do it!" Gia nodded.

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