Detective Dot by Sophie Deen

Author:Sophie Deen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bright Little Labs
Published: 2016-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

“Wait!” cried Tumble, but it was no good. Drone had gone.

“We don’t need her,” Dot huffed. “I can use my phone for everything. Watch how easily I reprogram this gate.”

She fused her phone in. It sparked, giving her a little shock. Wrong connection. That never happened with Drone’s universal adaptor. Dot tried again. BUZZ. Wrong again. Buzz. Buzz. Buzz. By the time she’d connected she’d been buzzed more times than a doorbell.

Dot wanted to change the code so that after the gates had detected a lorry, they wouldn’t open for a whole minute. That meant changing the time variable.

Normally this would be pretty easy for Dot. But normally Dot had Drone. Now she only had her phone, and it was so slow!

“Aren’t you done yet?” asked Tumble.

“It’s the gate that’s being slow, not me,” Dot snapped. “And before you say anything, it’s nothing to do with not having Drone.”

“Reckon we’ll be able to catch that lorry?” asked Tumble casually, pointing down the street at another huge Shelly Inc. truck that was chugging towards them.

“Oh no!” cried Dot, just as she finished the code. She grabbed Tumble and made it back up the tree at a speed a squirrel would have been proud of.

Climbing onto a branch, Dot crossed her fingers as the lorry approached, hoping the gate would stay closed long enough. But... what if the lorry didn’t stop and crashed into the gate? Maybe Drone was right, maybe this was a bad idea...

There was a huge screech. Thankfully the driver had realised the gate wasn’t opening just in time. The brakes had been thrown on with a squeal and the truck ground to a halt millimetres from the gate, straight ahead of Dot, almost two metres away. Just like the one Dot had seen earlier, the lorry had no roof and was filled with pile after pile of crates.

“It’s a long way,” said Dot. Longer than she’d thought.

“A very long way,” agreed Tumble.

Dot was much better at high jump than long jump. Could she make it? She looked at the road below, then wished she hadn’t. They were higher up than she’d thought. If she missed, it would hurt. A lot.

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