Odds & Ends by Amy Ignatow

Author:Amy Ignatow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2018-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Cookie looked around, bewildered. No more banging, no more screaming, no more sticky dumpster, and most of all, no more rage thoughts permeating her brain. “Oh my god,” she whispered. “Oh my god oh my god oh my god.”

“Nick,” Martina said, “you did it.”

Nick half leaned, half fell into a bale of hay in the barn where they found themselves. “And all it took was the complete terror of being hunted down by a roving band of deranged middle-school overachievers.” He hugged the chicken he’d named Rihanna closer to him.

“What happened?” Abe asked at the same time that Cookie asked, “Where are we?” They looked at each other for a moment before Abe relented.

“You are in my neighbor’s barn and that is my chicken. I can take you back into town unless . . .” He looked at Nick expectantly.

“I am pretty sure that I shouldn’t try that again until I can control where I’m going,” Nick said. “I don’t want to zap us right back to the roving band of deranged middle-school overachievers.”

“I would prefer not to do that,” Martina chimed in.

“Me, three,” Cookie said. “I never want to see any of those lunatics ever again.”

“Who is a lunatic? Who are we talking about?” Abe asked.

“Remember how we suspected that the kids of the people who worked for Auxano were being given the same formula that made us get these superpowers?”

“The poison they gave to Rebecca and the others, of course.”

“Well, we think it’s made them kind of violently crazy and they’ve formed a mob and are running around Muellersville destroying stuff,” Nick told him.

“And you are sure this is not something they normally do?”

“Pretty sure.”

“We should probably stop them,” Martina said, “before they actually hurt anyone.”

“What are you going to do, change your eye color at them?” Cookie snapped.

“Do you think that would stop them?” Martina asked. “I don’t think it would. We probably need a better plan.”

“Their parents should be stopping them!” Cookie exploded. “It’s their fault! They did this to their own kids and it made them into freaky monsters and it’s all because they wanted them to do well on some stupid tests and they need to stop it!”

She glared furiously at everyone in the barn. “Well? How is this our job?”

Abe took a step toward her. “Because we can,” he said, his voice full of resolve.

The barn was silent.

“So?” Cookie asked, very annoyed. “That is not an answer. I CAN do lots of stuff that I don’t do all the time. Now, please, if you don’t mind, I don’t trust Blinky Boy over there to zap us home, so I’m going to have to ask for another ride in the horse buggy of death to get back into town.”

“All right,” Abe said, his shoulders slumped. He looked at Nick. “You’re going to have to leave the chicken.”

“Bok,” Rihanna said.

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