Doctor Bonkers! by Jeremy Strong & Jeremy Strong

Doctor Bonkers! by Jeremy Strong & Jeremy Strong

Author:Jeremy Strong & Jeremy Strong
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141930596
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-08-04T04:00:00+00:00


The doctor tried lifting the grid himself, but it wouldn’t budge. Alfie and Bandit came over to add their muscle power. Bandit didn’t exactly add his, but he did watch the other two with great interest. There was a lot of panting and grunting and all of a sudden the grid broke free and shot straight up into the gap.

The doctor looked back at the pointing skeleton and wondered how long it had been there, waiting to show them the way out. ‘Sorry, old chum,’ he murmured quietly. ‘But thanks for your help.’ He turned away to join Alfie and Bandit as they clambered out.

They were in a long passageway, faintly lit by burning brands. The ceiling above them was curved, so it was like being in a tunnel. It stretched away in both directions.

‘Well, Alfie,’ said the doctor. ‘We can either go right or left. Which way do you think would be best?’ he asked, thinking that the right looked quite promising.

‘Left,’ said Alfie.

The doctor’s brow screwed itself up into an annoyed frown. He was convinced that going to the right would be better. The solution suddenly came to him and he reached into a pocket. ‘Let’s toss a coin.’

‘OK,’ Alfie said happily. ‘Tails.’

‘Heads,’ chose the doctor and he spun the coin into the air. It fell to the ground. Tails. The doctor stooped and picked up the coin. ‘Heads it is,’ he told Alfie. ‘We go right. Sorry.’

‘Are you sure?’ asked Alfie.

The doctor lifted his nose a fraction and sniffed the air to the right. ‘I think I smell food that way,’ he suggested.

Alfie sniffed too. ‘I can’t smell anything,’ he said bluntly.

‘Well, I can. How about we go right and take a look?’ the doctor urged. ‘Come on, we can’t hang around here all day.’

He began to march down the passage. Alfie and Bandit soon fell in beside him.

The doctor became deep in thought. First of all he was wondering if the Doombuster was likely to be hidden anywhere near where they were.

Then his thoughts drifted back to the rubbish tip. He was still finding bits of old banana skin in his pockets and down his shirt. Smelly as the dump had been, it was a good thing it was there. At least they’d had a soft landing. And he also began to wonder, if the banana skin itself was ancient, which it certainly was, would that make it an ancient ancient Egyptian banana skin?

The doctor was just playing with the idea that it might even be an ancient Egyptian’s ancient ancient Egyptian banana skin when he turned a corner and there, at the end of the passage, was a real patrol of real ancient Egyptian guards, along with a couple of velociraptors.

‘Oh dear,’ he murmured. The velociraptors, which were like small, yappy tyrannosauruses, immediately spotted the doctor and Alfie. They howled and barked with fury, tore the leads out of the hands of their handlers, and came tearing after the adventurers.

‘Run for it!’ yelled the doctor.

‘What are they?’ squealed Alfie as he tried to keep up.



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