Honey, I Shrunk the Kids by Elizabeth Faucher

Author:Elizabeth Faucher [Faucher, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novelisation
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Russ and Nick slowly sat up, dizzy and weak. As they did, they saw the bee shake itself awake as well. It was very angry and, spotting the two of them, began to advance, its wings buzzing ominously.

“Are you strong enough to run?” Russ said, helping Nick to his feet.

“Y-you bet,” Nick said.

They tried to run, but the bee darted toward them. It was almost on top of them. Suddenly it was knocked out of the air by a gigantic droplet of water. The two boys stopped, puzzled.

“Are we safe?” Nick asked.

“I’m not sure,” Russ said uneasily.

Then, enormous droplets of water began falling around them. Within seconds, the ground beneath their feet turned to mush, as the yard slowly filled up with water.

“Come on, up here!” Russ climbed up a blade of grass, pulling Nick up behind him.

They hung on tightly, their weight swinging the blade of grass back and forth.

Humming and humming, Mrs. Thompson watered away.

Amy and Ron ran from a wall of water that rose behind them, knocking over stalks of grass in its path.

“Head for higher ground!” Amy yelled, stumbling through the muddied dirt.

They ran, but the tidal wave of water came closer and closer.

“What do we do?” Ron asked, his voice high with terror.

Amy looked around frantically. “I don’t — there!”

Ahead of them, a giant bottle cap lay in the dirt. Amy ran to it, grabbing Ron and hurling him inside by his belt just as the water caught up with them. She tried to climb on board but couldn’t quite make it, clutching the metal rim as the flood carried the cap away.

Pulling and tugging, Ron helped Amy drag herself inside. Before they knew what was happening, they were taken for a spiraling white water rapids ride, the bottle cap spinning around as the water rushed through the yard.

Amy and Ron gripped the sides of their boat as it bumped and zigzagged through the raging river, like a waterborne Tilt-a-Whirl car, completely out of control.

Russ and Nick hung onto their grass blade, the water rushing below them. The torrent’s force uprooted the entire blade and they zipped down the current on a grass “canoe.” The grass blade dipped up, then plunged down over a small waterfall, the two boys yelling in protest. Or fear.

In the meantime, the bottle cap had begun to take on water. Amy and Ron used their hands to try and bail the water out of the spinning cap, but the flood sloshed in faster than they could bail.

The bottle cap careened down the river toward Russ and Nick and their grass canoe.

“Russell! Nick!” Amy waved her arms. “Help, we’re sinking!”

Russ and Nick used their hands as paddles, trying to bring the grass blade alongside the cap. The two storm-tossed crafts zigzagged closer and then further away from one another. Amy and Russ reached out for each other, trying to grab hands, but kept missing by inches.

Finally, after a superhuman lunge, Amy managed to grab Russ’s sleeve, and they slowly pulled the two boats together.

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