Benjamin Impossible: The Helium Heist by Timothy Root

Author:Timothy Root [Root, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: REN Publishing
Published: 2024-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Benjamin, now underwater, purged his hyper-helium bladder so that he wouldn’t float back to the surface. He was standing at the bottom of the ocean, about twenty feet from the surface.

“Can you hear me, Lemonthyme?” Benjamin asked via his radio. Static came back and Benjamin was afraid that they shot the captain down. Eventually, a signal came through and he breathed a sigh of relief to hear the captain’s voice again. “I’m here. Where are you?”

“I’m standing on the ocean floor, dum-dum. You were supposed to follow me. That’s why I yelled ‘dive,’ you know.”

“Oh!” Lemonthyme answered. “I thought you were yelling ‘die, die.’ My bad.”

“What’s going on up there?” Benjamin asked, trying to sound patient.

“I can’t tell,” the captain answered. “I can’t get close to that massive submarine without getting shot. It looks like all the robots are inside it now. I’m afraid they have your brother. The good news is that the cavalry is here. A couple of Osprey reconnaissance helicopters just flew by. The submarine’s cannons are keeping them at a distance, but I have a feeling the Air Force will scramble fighter jets soon.”

Benjamin walked along the sandy ocean floor, heading to deeper water. “That will be too late, Captain. Glockenspiel is about to launch this submarine with my brother trapped inside.”

“What do you mean?” Lemonthyme asked. “You can’t launch a submarine. It’s not like that thing can fly!”

Benjamin turned on his heat-detection imaging system and the behemoth submarine appeared in the murky distance. He turned toward it and a school of fish scattered before him.

“This submarine can fly, Captain. Glockenspiel has enough hyper-helium to flood the hull of his submarine with levitating gas. I think he has enough helium to launch this thing into space!”

“Space?” Lemonthyme asked, unconvinced. “That doesn’t even make sense!”

Benjamin walked closer to the submarine until he was directly under it. The massive ship cast a long shadow on the sea bottom. Standing underneath, it looked even more impressive and ominous.

“If Glockenspiel gets this submarine in space, he may be unstoppable. I plan on finishing him now!”

“You better hurry, then. Charlie doesn’t have long before that time bomb explodes.”

“There is no time bomb,” Benjamin replied. “I was just making all that up.”

“Seriously?”

“Uh, yeah. Do you think we keep time bombs in stock on the Red Zeppelin? What kind of family do you think we are?”

Lemonthyme sounded incredulous. “Then what was that device you glued to the bottom of the hyper-helium generator?”

“That was my bedroom alarm clock, doofus.”

“Oh,” Lemonthyme said, surprised. “Glockenspiel is going to be really annoyed when he figures that out.”

“Yeah? Well, I hope he gets so mad that he Glocken-poops his pants.”

“Be careful,” Lemonthyme said. “I think something is happening up here.”

Benjamin could hear a roaring sound underwater and the submarine above him began to move upward. He added hyper-helium to his spacesuit and floated up in pursuit, grabbing onto a handhold built into the hull of the ship.

The giant submarine lifted out of the water, dripping seawater in great torrents that ran down the side of the craft and washed over Benjamin’s body.

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