Hello friends, Welcome to S Biology Squad.

We are a team of spies who specialize in science.

You see Doctor Stinky Breath in the Purple Ninjas are trying to take over the world through science, and it is up to us to stop them before it is too late.

Last time on S Biology Squad, we saw that something is going on with the apples.

Ava is not feeling well and so are a whole bunch of other people.

How in the world are doctor Stinky Breath and the Purple Ninjas doing something to the apples and now the strawberries.

This is super strange.

Let's see what happens next.

After school, Jaden is on his way to HQ.

He was flying with his jetpack there because he wanted to get there as soon as possible.

He was pretty worried about Ava and was very suspense of what was going on.

As he arrived at HQ, he reached for his access card to open the door.

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Just don't let doctor Stinkybreath know about the access card, Jaden.

I'm so glad you're here, said mister Jim.

Come look at this.

Jaden ran over to the big screen to look at what mister Jim had pulled up.

Wow, record apple sales.

I've never heard of that, said Jaden.

But yeah, everyone's talking about those apples, so it makes sense they've become like almost impossible to find.

Now.

I haven't even tried one yet, said Jaden.

Well, I think we should tap the brakes on eating any of those apples, said mister Jim, because it just feels super strange that all these apples started selling out and now everyone's sick.

Seems like it might be connected.

All right, well, let's go to the store and see if we can find one, said Jaden.

Mister Jim and Jaden headed off to the store together, but as they arrived, they could tell that it was complete chaos.

Holy smokes, I've never seen so many people at the grocery store before, said Jaden.

Yeah there's something not right about this, said mister Jim.

But let's see if we can find at least an apple so we can do some tests on it.

Mister Jim and Jaden couldn't even get in the store it was completely filled with people wanting more apples.

The apples were sold out.

Wait a second, said mister Jim.

Ava said she had been eating a whole bunch of the apples.

I wonder if she has any left.

Let's call her s Hey, Ava, are you there over?

Hey guys, Yeah, I'm still here, still feeling terrible.

What's going on, sh Ava?

Do you have any of any more of those apples at your house?

No?

I ate all of them.

Hmmm, because I really wanted to run a test on the apples to see if there's anything strange about them, said mister Jim.

Sh Oh, well, I think there's some apple cores still in the garbage.

I know, I know that sounds completely disgusting, but you can maybe run some tests on those apple cores.

S Yes, that would be perfect.

If you can find an apple core, take a look and see what you can tell, and then send it over to HQ and we'll run an analysis on it.

Ava sat up from her couch and oh, walked over towards where the garbage was and oh, she was holding her belly because it just still was feeling terrible and her teeth.

Ugh, what in the world is going on?

She thought to herself as she opened up the garbage can.

Ough, smells terrible.

She plugged her nose and started carefully looking around in the garbage.

But there it was.

There was one of the apple cores sitting right there.

All right, mister apple cores, let's take a look at you.

Ava pulled it out, put it on a paper towel on her counter, and cut it open.

Whoa, those are weird looking apple seeds.

Do you know what color apple seeds are normally?

Yeah, they're kind of like brown or black, like a dark brown.

Yeah.

Well, these were bright red, like super shiny.

She almost looked like candy.

She took a hammer and cracked one of the seeds open, and it just didn't look normal.

Didn't look like a normal seed.

Hey, Jaden, do you know anything about seeds?

Sh Hey, Ava, Uh, yeah, I actually did a report on seeds a while ago.

And yeah, there's like three parts to a seed.

The outer part is called the seed coat.

That's what we you know, when you hold a seed, that's the piece that you see inside.

If you were to crack it open, you can see the majority of the inside is called the endosperm.

The endosperm is kind of like the food for the baby plant to grow.

Inside the seed, the baby plant is called the embryo.

That's kind of hard to imagine.

Do you have like a better analogy of what that seed looks like, yes, said Jaden.

Imagine like an egg, like a chicken egg.

The shell of the egg that's the seed coat that I was talking about, and then if you crack it open, the embryo that's the yellow part of that chicken egg.

That is the creature that grows inside the egg.

And so for seeds, that's the plant, the tree or the you know, bush or whatever, and the endosperm that's that clear part inside the egg.

Oh okay, that makes a lot more sense, said Ava.

So the endosperm that's a really important ingredient inside the seed.

That is what gives the embryo all it needs to start growing and push its way out of the seed.

Okay, that makes a lot more sense, said Ava.

So what I'm looking at here, the seeds are bright, shiny red, kind of like candy.

And then I cracked one of them open, and inside I'm assuming this is the endosperm that I'm looking at.

It's all so very red.

I don't think that's what a normal apple seed looks like inside.

Sh Yeah, that's definitely not what they look like.

They're usually like whitish inside, not red.

Ava, can you just send that over in a drone to HQ and we'll take a look.

Mister Jim and Jaden were already on their way back to HQ from that failed grocery store run, and so hopefully they were going to be able to take a look at that apple quickly and learn something about it at doctor Stinkybreat's lab.

All right, Purple Ninjas, I think our deleteous strawberries plan is ready, So let's make sure everybody knows about how delicious they are.

Let's make these new strawberries free for everyone.

As Jaden and mister Jim arrived at HQ, they saw the drone that Ava had sent over.

Jaden grabbed the drone outside and brought it in to start a lab analysis.

All right, I'm gonna run a full panel on this apple seed and even the apple, just to see if we can get a better idea of what's going on with it, said Jaden.

Uh, mister Jim, do you happen to have like a regular apple?

Uh?

Yeah, let me check the fridge.

Mister Jim ran over to the fridge and found a regular apple.

Perfect, said Jaden.

This, I'm gonna use as our control.

This is what normal apple should look like, and I'll compare what the difference is with this apple that we think might have made Ava and everybody sick.

Yeah, that's a great plan that Jaden has.

When you are doing an experiment, it's great to have something to compare it too, and so comparing it to a regular apple, that's the perfect way ing the analysis is complete.

Hey, mister Jim, can you grab the report off the printer?

Yeah, here it is.

Mister Jim grabbed the report and handed it to Jaden to read.

All right, WHOA looks like this seed is really like made of candy.

Yeah, the endosperm is completely candy.

And there's something in there that what does it say?

There's some kind of ingredient in there that when you eat it once, your body wants to eat it again and again and again.

That's dangerous, said mister Jim.

Jaden grabbed his walkie talkie and Ava, we just read the report from the Apple analysis that somehow the seeds are made of candy, and I think the apples are too what said Ava, real candy, Yes, real candy, And there's something in there that's addictive, like when you eat it once, your body wants to eat it again and again and again.

It's really dangerous.

I need you to make a video and post it on the school page to tell everyone to stop eating these apples.

There's something wrong with them.

Over, mister Jim, we're gonna need to make some kind of special strong toothpaste and you will call it spy paste, and hopefully that will be able to clean everyone's teeth because there's something in here that is making these cavities just grow so quickly.

That's a great idea, Jaden, I'll get right on it, said mister Jim.

Guys, I made the video, but no one's believing me, and they're even commenting now that it's about strawberries.

Now, I guess apples aren't as cool anymore, and now people are crazy about these free strawberries.

What is going on?

Shouted Ava.

Oh no, it's biology Squad going to be able to save the day and stop everyone from eating these poisoned apples and strawberries.

I don't know.

I hope they're able to make that super secret spy paste in time.

Well, we'll have to wait and see what happens on the next episode of Spiology Squad.

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