The three bullies stumbled around the zoo, desperate to find a way out. The dugong climbed the rocks at the side of her tank and took a giant leap into the water.
The trio were soaked.
Baz started blubbing. “Why are all the animals picking on us?”
“NOW!” boomed Sir Basil again from the top of the aviary. Winston cleared the way through the crowds for the sloth, who for the first time ever was riding on the back of the tapir. Slowly but surely, the sloth slapped the tapir’s bottom. As the tapir charged at the boys, the sloth looked very startled. She had never gone so fast in all her life.
The bullies retreated, only to be tripped up by the snapping turtle’s shell. The three tumbled backwards, the turtle snapping at their heels as they fell.
Gaz’s bottom landed on the spikes on the echidna’s back.
the boy wailed.
Baz’s bottom landed on the sharp tusks of the warthog. One tusk for each cheek.
Stubbs glanced behind him. There was nothing for him to fall back on, so he looked smug. However, the hamadryas baboon leaped off the top of her enclosure and landed on the hooded seal’s balloon-like nose.
The baboon bounced up into the air …
Her bright red bottom went flying straight towards Stubbs’s face … 
If you’ve never had a baboon’s bottom in your face, I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s very overrated.
Gaz and Baz snorted with laughter.
“HO! HO! HO!”
The two henchmen thought they’d got away. They were wrong.
The elephant seal lolloped across the ground. Using his stumpy trunk, he scooped the three boys up one by one. As they desperately clung to the giant animal’s back, he used his huge flippers to leap up into the air.
screamed the boys.
The elephant seal landed in a water tank with a ginormous 
As the three boys’ heads bobbed up, the spotted handfish swam towards them. The half-hand/half-fish shot out of the water and, with a series of leaps, slapped each one of the bullies around the face.
All three had big red handfish marks across their cheeks.
You might have thought this was plenty of humiliation, but no. There was still one more creature waiting for his chance to avenge Bob.
His friend Blob.
Bob beamed as he saw his special friend the blobfish leap from his tank into the spotted handfish’s.
Stubbs, Baz and Gaz screamed in terror as the world’s ugliest creature swam straight towards them.
The other children all looked on with interest. What was this fish, that looked like a dropped blancmange, going to do?
“GET AWAY FROM US!” cried the boys in terror.
“NOW!” ordered Sir Basil one last time.
First the blobfish swam up to Gaz, and gave him a big kiss on the lips.
uttered the boy.
Next the blobfish swam up to Baz, and gave him an even bigger kiss on the lips.
Stubbs desperately tried to escape. He swam as far away as he could, and clung to the side of the tank.
One by one, the spotted handfish bent back the boy’s fingers. Then the elephant seal hooked his trunk round the back of the boy’s trousers and dragged him back into the middle of the tank.
Finally, the blobfish took a long swim-upfn1 and sped through the water towards Stubbs. The boy tried to cry out, but it was impossible to make a sound. The blobfish had pushed his big, pink, blubbery lips right up against the boy’s.
Their kiss made a noise like air slowly escaping from a balloon.
The kiss was so strong that Stubbs passed out.
The boy lay motionless in the water.
“NOOOO!” cried Miss Veer.
fn1 a fishy term for run-up