Brain That Wouldn't Obey! by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480486553
Publisher: Open Road Media

10

Humans—as in Cannonballs!

With an angry flick of his sprouts, King Spud sent Principal Bell, Miss Lieberman, Mr. Sweeney, Rock Storm, and all two hundred and ninety-eight W. Reid Elementary School students charging after Mike, Liz, and Mrs. Carbonese.

“I think it was something we said!” cried Mike. “Come on!” The three dashed over to the double doors of the school.

Rrrrrrr! The bus engine roared. Mike glanced back to see King Spud wedge himself into the driver’s seat. “The ultimate field trip!” the potato leader cried. “To take over the world!”

Mike watched the school bus roar away.

“Get the humans!” shouted Principal Bell.

“Rmm-rmm!” cried Miss Lieberman.

In that instant, Mike realized he had to think of something quick. And when he raced into the gym, he knew what it was. “Only one thing can save us and stop King Spud!”

“It would be nice if you told us!” huffed Liz, helping Mrs. Carbonese try to run in her high-heeled shoes.

“That!” cried Mike, pointing to the giant catapult against the far wall.

“Whoa,” said Liz, slowing down. “I think the wax must have gone to your brain. That thing almost killed me. There’s no way we’re using it!”

“Oh, yes we are!” Mike ran up to the catapult. He rolled it toward the back doors of the gym and into the lot behind the school.

Wham! The double gym doors flew open.

“Rmmm! Rmmm!” grumbled the angry mob of potato-brained humans as they made their way across the room.

“Hurry!” Mike grabbed Liz’s hand and pulled her with him into the launcher bowl of the catapult.

“Rmmm!” The potato-brain teachers and students roared after them out into the parking lot. At the head of the mob were Sean, Holly, and Jeff, pointing and yelling, “Get them! They don’t have numbers. They don’t do the secret potato salute. They’re not like us!”

“Mrs. C.!” cried Mike. “Hurry up and pull the lever!”

“Never mind the weather!” Mrs. Carbonese yelled. “You two kids better fly!”

She pulled the lever.

FWONG!

With incredible force, Mike and Liz were hurled like human cannonballs into the air.

“Whoa!” screeched Mike.

“Whoa!” screeched Liz.

The two kids shot up over the top of the gym, over the flagpole, over the school parking lot, and high over Main Street.

Mrs. Carbonese climbed up to the top of the catapult and kicked at the potato-brains with her high-heeled shoes.

“There’s the bus,” Mike cried out, whizzing fast over Grover’s Mill. “We’ve got to stop it!”

“We’ve got to stop ourselves, too!” wailed Liz, as they just missed getting hooked by the giant fishing pole on the Baits Motel.

Then they started to drop. Fast.

WHAM! WHAM! Mike and Liz hit something. Something yellow and black. Something yellow and black and very hard. Mike opened his eyes.

“The school bus!” Mike shrieked. “We made it! We actually—”

Errrk! The bus swerved onto Main Street and picked up speed.

“Help!” cried Liz, nearly sliding off the top.

Mike quickly grabbed her by the wrist and yanked her back on. Then he started to crawl across the roof to the front. “Follow me. I saw this in a movie once.”

“Not one of the school bus safety videos,” Liz groaned as she made her way over to Mike.

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