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Matt was dancing with Mirasol. He saw that she was an amazing dancer. Then, he kissed her. This was a big secret he wanted to keep it from everybody.

One of the greatest musicians was turned into an eejit. This musician is Chacho's father. This was just another reason for Matt to find a cure for eejits. The boys were upset and told Matt to leave.
Matt went to go see Dr. Kim. The doctor is working on a cure for the eejits. Matt found out that Dr. Kim was "sacrificing" the eejits. Matt was not happy about that and stated yelling at the doctor.

The boys and Daft Donald went on a picnic. The boys started talking about Tam Lin because he was Matt's father figure. Daft Donald wrote down on his yellow note pad that Tam Lin was at El Patron's funeral and that he drank the wine. Matt started sobbing.
The next day, they ate a lot of good foods while watching soccer games, wrestling fights, rodeos, and concerts.

Cienfuegos and Matt talked about Mirasol. But this conversation switched to Matt becoming El Patron. Matt was angry.
Matt was throwing a party for the boys. To distract them, he showed them a Safe Horse.

Matt explained eejits to the boys. Then they went to the space station and looked at the stars.

Fidelito fell in love with Listen and was trying to get close, but she was being rude and slapped him. The boys were fascinated by all the things they saw. Then, they went to the dinner table. Sor Artemesia asked where Emilia and her father are, then Cienfuegos told Matt that he has to tell her. Listen blurted out that they were poisoned at El Patron's funeral.

Cienfuegos and Matt used the holoport to speak with Glass Eye Dabwenga. Glass Eye was surprised when he saw a "child" and asked to speak with Mr. Alacran.

they got to the next building, Oceania. There was water and fishes. The next building was the Sub-Saharan Africa. There was giant trees, antelopes, and it was hot. Next was the Mushroom Forest. It was just as warm and there were mushrooms everywhere. They met the Mushroom Master and he told them all about the mushrooms.

Matt, Listen, and Cienfuegos landed at the Alacran Biosphere. They started talking about the scorpion star. Some old machines came out of a room to disinfect them. After going through a final door and found themselves in a beautiful place where there were trees and a pond with frogs. They met a frogherd. He said that the all the scientist have been dead.

Matt went to the nursery and The Bug, Mirasol, and Listen. The Bug put tacks in Mirasol's arm. Matt was furious. He wanted to kill The Bug but realized that is the wrong person to kill. He had to kill Dr. Rivas.
Matt, Cienfuegos, and Listen boarded a hovercraft to go to The Ruins of Tuscon. They saw lots of animals, and a nuclear power plant. They landed at a hovercraft port and men swarmed out of a building.