Plus One was at their latest stop of The Obvious Tour. To relieve boredom at the hotel, they decided to take a small walk around the town.

"How much longer before we get back to the hotel? My feet are starting to hurt," Jason started to complain as they turned another corner.

"Ooh! My feet hurt!" Gabe began to imitate his friend.

"Well, they do," Jason said with a fake pout.

"The hotel is just at the end of this street," Nathan pointed out. "You can see it from here."

"I can't wait for tonight's show!" Jeremy exclaimed as they drew nearer the hotel.

"Yeah. It's too bad *NSYNC had to be in town the same night," Nate commented. "That really took away some potential concert goers from us."

"But that's okay. We're still gonna rock, right?" Gabe asked, getting a round of cheers from the others.

Just then, Plus One heard screams coming from behind. They saw a small mob of girls, one holding a Plus One sign, coming towards them. "Run!" Jason yelled as they ran towards the hotel. They spotted a limo just waiting in front of it. "Into the limo!"

Meanwhile, inside the hotel, *NSYNC was riding down the elevator to the lobby. A considerably larger group of girls were waiting in the lobby for *NSYNC. All of the bodyguards and security had to form a human barrier as the *NSYNC boys rushed to their waiting limo... the same limo Plus One was rushing into.

"Hey, get out!" Justin shouted at the members of Plus One who were already in the running limo. "This is our get away."

"But we were here first," Jason argued. He then pointed towards the rapidly approaching Plus One fan mob. "And look, we also need a getaway."

"Well, we're more popular, our mob is so big we need to get away faster," Justin retorted. The *NSYNC mob was pushing hard on the human barrier, and it was about to break at any moment. The two continued to argue about who should get the limo, when Lance interrupted.

"Hello! The screaming mob isn't getting any smaller," he told them. "The limo seats ten, we all can jump in for a getaway." The two bands looked at each other, looked at the screaming fans all around, and quickly nodded in agreement. The Plus One guys moved over, let *NSYNC in and they took off down the road, some of the girls chasing after. Eventually, they lost the girls chasing on foot.

The band members sat, not speaking, as the limo lumbered on down the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota. Nate, almost as just discovering an idea, began to dig through the backpack he had with him. He sifted through until he found the two objects he was looking for. He looked up and also found nine pairs of eyes staring at him. "Um," he began, addressing the *NSYNC members, "I have this, uh, CD, and I, uh, was wondering if you guys would, like, autograph it or something."

He handed the two objects, a copy of *NSYNC's "Celebrity" CD and a Sharpie marker, to the closest *NSYNC member, Chris. "Okay, sure." Chris said, taking the cap of the marker and signing his name by his photo in the CD booklet thing. It then was passed to all the others, being autographed by JC, Joey, Justin and finally Lance. Lance then passed the booklet and Sharpie back to Nate.

"Thanks," he said, "I'm a big fan of your work, especially "God Must Have Spent." That's like the one song I wish I had written." The *NSYNC boys all said a sort of 'your welcome', and the limo became quiet again. The silence was broken by the humming of the window, separating them and the limo driver, going down.

"Where to, guys?" the limo driver asked. "I can't just drive aimlessly forever." The musicians all mumbled a round of umms and uhs as they searched for an answer. Joey looked out the window, and saw a sign pass by that said "Como Zoo, 2 miles."

"How 'bout the Como Zoo?" Joey suggested. Everyone agreed, and just a couple minutes later they were out of the limo and at the entrance of the Como Zoo.

"I wanna go to the aquatic area," Chris exclaimed as they looked over the zoo map.

"Me too, me too!" Jeremy shouted, jumping up and down. "They have penguins!"

"Okay, we can split up, I guess," Jason said. "Let's meet back here in an hour." As soon as Jason completed his sentence, Chris and Jeremy were off together towards the aquatics. Joey and Nate headed to the primeapes center, Lance and Jason to the hoofed animals, JC and Nathan wandered towards the large cats building, and Justin and Gabe decided to explore the amusement park that was also within the zoo grounds.

In the aquatics area

Jeremy gleefully watched the penguins swim and play in their enclosure as Chris looked over the other creatures which included polar bears and puffins. Chris looked outside the building and saw Seal Island where fish could be bought to throw to the seals.

"Jeremy, I'm gonna go feed the seals," Chris informed. Jeremy didn't respond or acknowledge he had heard, and continued to watch as the penguins followed the path of his finger moving along the glass. "Jeremy." Chris said again with no response. He shrugged and left the building and got into line to buy fish.

At the hoofed animals

"Man, they're tall," Jason exclaimed as he and Lance looked up at the reticulated giraffes.

"Yup," Lance replied as they continued to the grevy's zebras, the last animal in the area to look at. "So, where do you wanna go now?"

"How about the bears?" Jason suggested, looking over their map.

"Okay," Lance said, and they moved towards the bears exhibit.

Checking out the large cats

JC watched as Nathan stared at a cougar. "What are you trying to accomplish?" JC asked Nathan as he continued to stare down the cougar.

"Just watch, I saw them do this on Animal Planet before," Nathan answered, not taking his eyes off the cat. He finally locked eye contact, and the cougar gave him a warning hiss. "Sweet!"

"Okay, may we move on now?" JC questioned. Nathan nodded as they took a look at the Snow Leopards, Siberian Tigers, and African Lions.

"Lions and Tigers I see, now we just need bears, oh my." Nathan said.

"Well, I see a Lance and a Jason," JC said, pointing out the two musicians passing by. Nathan and JC approached them. "Where are you guys headed?"

"The bears," Jason answered simply.

"Oh my!" Nathan exclaimed.

"Huh?" Lance asked.

"Don't ask," JC said. "We'll come too because we saw everything here." The four continued their trek to the bear exhibit.

Hanging with the primeapes

"Ooh ooh aah aah aahhh!" Joey imitated the gorillas he and Nate were observing.

"You frighten me," Nate told Joey before they moved to the next enclosure, which had orangutans

"Orangutan," Nate said. "I like saying that word... orangutan."

"And I frighten you?" Joey said to Nate who was continuing to say orangutan under his breath in random tones and voices. As they finished walking through the primeapes facility, Joey and Nate heard the sound of seals barking at the aquatics area. "Let�s go check it out,� They headed out towards the sound.

Riding the rides

"Oy!" Gabe grunted as he and Justin got off the Tilt a Whirl and sat down on the closest bench. "I definitely should have waited until after the ride to eat that foot long hotdog."

"I hear ya, "Justin replied. "Just don't puke on me if you have to. Run to a garbage can or something."

"Gee, thanks for the concern," Gabe said sarcastically.

"No problem," Justin said, checking his watch. "It's almost been an hour."

"Let's head back to the meeting spot," Gabe said as they stood up and went back towards the parking lot.

At seal island

"NO, you already got one," Chris scolded the harbor seal that gobbled up a fish he had thrown down to a different seal. He moved away from where the seal was to give fish to some sea lions. He threw some to them before the harbor seal made his way over to where Chris was standing. "No, these are for them, Piggy Seal."

Exiting the bears den

"Wow, it's just about time to head back to the limo," Lance exclaimed.

"What's Chris doing?" Nathan asked as Seal Island came into view. They all looked, and saw Chris attempting to feed the pelicans by throwing fish at their heads.

"Chris, basically, is being Chris," JC answered. The four walked up to Chris.

"What's up?" Jason greeted.

"I'm feeding the animals fish. Do you want to throw some down?" Chris asked Jason, holding up a slimy fish to Jason's face.

"Uh, no thanks," Jason said, pulling Chris's hand away from his face. "Where's Jeremy."

"Penguin boy is still watching the penguins," Chris answered. "Can you believe that guy spent an hour watching the penguins?"

"I can, actually," Nathan said. Chris finished up feeding the seals, and they went inside to collect Jeremy before going to meet up with everyone else.

Back with Joey and Nate

"Cool there's going to be a show in 20 minutes," Joey said as they read the sign at the entrance of the amphitheater where the zoo held Sparky the Seal shows.

"Hmm, looks like the guys had to drag Jeremy out from the penguins," Nate said as they watched Jason pull Jeremy out of the aquatics area. They all came up to Joey and Nate.

"I wanna see Sparky!" Chris exclaimed after he too read the sign.

"Fine, but lets first go and find Gabe and Justin and bring them back," Lance said. They ran off to get the two, and were back at the same spot less then 10 minutes later. They all went into the amphitheater to find a spot to sit. They took up the entire front row.

"I'm Hungry," Nathan complained as they awaited the beginning of the show.

"We passed by a vending machine on the way in," Gabe suggested.

"Ooh, it might have Snickers in it," Nathan said semi-excited as he jumped up and climbed up the stairs.

"I'm bored," Jeremy shared. He stood up and said, "I'm going back to the penguins."

"Fine, go," JC said as Jeremy left, paying more attention to the mosquito buzzing near his arm. He continued with a Crocodile Hunter impression, "By cricky! Look at a size of this mosquito! This bloke is one of many species of mosquito found in Minnesota," The mosquito landed on JC's arm, "Cricky! He bit me!" He then fake fainted as the mosquito drew up some of his blood then flew away.

"Okay, then," Jason said as JC came to and sat back up. Just then, Nathan came walking back to their spot, happily munching on a Snicker bar. A few minutes later, the Sparky the Seal show began.

"Oh my God, there's *NSYNC!" The guys heard a girl scream halfway through the show.

"And they're with Plus One!" Another girl yelled.

"Okay, time to go," Lance sighed as they all got up to leave.

"But we didn't get to see Sparky toot his horn," Chris protested.

"Do you want to be potentially attacked by a screaming mob of girls?" Joey asked Chris.

"Not really," Chris said as he also got up to leave. "But it could be fun."

"I'll get Jeremy," Gabe said as they started heading back, "We'll meet you back at the limo."

"You're funny mister penguin," Gabe heard Jeremy exclaim as he entered the aquatics. Jeremy watched as a penguin did acrobats underwater.

"We gotta go now, Jer," Gabe told his friend. "Say goodbye to your penguin friends so we can get going before we have to be chased by screaming girls again." Jeremy sadly said bye to the penguins, and they quickly headed off to where the others were waiting in the limo. The two got to the limo, and they were off before the girls had a chance to find and chase them.

"That was fun," Justin said as they were driven to Plus One's venue to drop them off in time for their soundcheck.

"Yeah, it was," Jason agreed. They arrived at Plus One's stop.

"We'll see ya around," JC told the Plus One members as they emptied out of the limo.

"Bye, bye, bye!" Nate said, doing a bit of the choreography to the song before the door closed and *NSYNC headed to their final destination, the Target Center.

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