Numbed! by David Lubar

Author:David Lubar
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

CHAPTER

2 × 2 × 2

It worked. Benedict went sprawling.

“Hey!” he screamed when he got back to his feet. “You tripped me!”

“It was an accident.” I shot to my feet. “I was stretching. You should look where you’re going.”

“You should keep your big feet under your desk.”

“They’re not as big as your head.”

Benedict let out a roar and tackled me. We went rolling across the floor.

“Boys!” Ms. Fractalli shouted.

Benedict and I sprang apart.

“Go to the office. Both of you.”

“That was fun,” Benedict said when we got into the hall. “Did it look like I really tripped?”

“Totally.”

“Good thing she doesn’t know we play like that all the time.”

“Yeah. I hope we didn’t scare her too much.” I knew Benedict wouldn’t get hurt when I stuck my foot out. We play lots of games that involve pretend pushing, tripping, falling, and shoving. We just don’t usually play them in the classroom. “Do you think we’re in a lot of trouble?”

“No. We’ll just get a lecture,” he said.

He was right. I guess Principal Chumpski could tell that Benedict and I were friends and that the whole thing had been an accident followed by a misunderstanding.

We were warned and released.

We got back to the classroom just in time to miss the whole math lesson. Ms. Fractalli called us to her desk after the bell rang.

“I expected better behavior from you,” she said.

“We’re sorry,” I said.

“Really sorry,” Benedict said. “But we made up, and we learned a valuable lesson.”

I kicked his foot to stop him from going too far. Ms. Fractalli seemed satisfied. She smiled, went to her cabinet, and reached into her pocket. The smile turned into a frown. “I seem to have misplaced my key,” she said.

“I’ll look.” I hunted for a moment and then lifted the marker. “Found it!”

“Thank you, Logan,” she said. “It’s a good thing the principal didn’t make you stay in his office. Well, I hope both of you are ready for the math test.”

“We’re totally ready. Math is all we’ve been thinking about,” Benedict said.

Ms. Fractalli gave Benedict a funny look. I dragged him out of the room before he said too much.

After school, we took a bus right to the museum. Dr. Thagoras wasn’t in his lab, but Cypher was. The robot rotated its head toward us.

“Uh-oh,” Benedict said. “I don’t want to get zapped again.”

Neither did I. I didn’t trust the robot. But I knew what it was built to do. If I could keep it busy, it wouldn’t hurt us. So I asked it a question. “Cypher, can you tell me about zero?” I remembered there was an exhibit upstairs about that.

That did the trick. Cypher started talking. About five minutes later, Dr. Thagoras walked in. “Ah, it’s my two new math fans. You realize you ran out of here yesterday without all the skills you needed?”

“We sort of figured that out,” I said.

“Can you fix us?” Benedict asked.

“I believe so,” Dr. Thagoras said. “You’ll have to go into the Repetition Room. It will restore your multiplication and division abilities.

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