Sidekicks by Dan Danko & Tom Mason & Barry Gott

Author:Dan Danko & Tom Mason & Barry Gott [DANKO, DAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316068949
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-02-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Evil Leaves the Cap off the Toothpaste

I dug myself from the rubble. I was bleeding, but not too badly. They had left me for dead, trapped under a ton of collapsed ceiling. The Professor and The Complainer had revived Le Poop and taken the other sidekicks.

One thing that’s really cool about being fast is that sometimes you can do things faster than people can see. So after The Professor blasted the roof, I dove for cover under the Sidekick Super Computer desk.

And I made it.

It didn’t protect me completely, but enough to save my life — and if you ask me, that’s more than you can expect from furniture purchased at a yard sale.

“More money for me!” Pumpkin Pete had gloated when he stuffed the leftover twenty-dollar bills in his pocket. We had spent an entire Saturday driving from garage sale to garage sale looking for new Sidekick Clubhouse furniture.

Every bone in my body ached, but I had a job to finish. I had a whole lot of saving to do, and I was alone.

And then I heard the groan.

It was Exact Change Kid. He had been buried beneath the rubble as well. He was a little more beaten up than me, but otherwise okay. I helped him up.

“Thanks, Speedy,” he moaned. He looked at the mess of rubble and scratched his head. “It’s going to take forever to find all my pennies.”

“Don burry, dahm dure dere are benty mo in da Thidegick Thuber Gouch dofa gushions.”

Exact Change Kid gave me a blank stare. “Huh?”

Spelling Beatrice’s Scrabble tile nose clip! I took it off and tried again.

“Don’t worry, I’m sure there are plenty more in the Sidekick Super Couch sofa cushions. Come on. We’ve got to save them.”

“How?” Exact Change Kid asked.

Sometimes, you don’t worry about the how’s. Sometimes you just have to dive in and hope things sort themselves out. When people are in danger and you are their only hope, it’s really one of those times.

“Look!” I spotted a T tile on the ground by the huge hole in the far wall. Good old Spelling Beatrice had left her tracking tile behind, hoping someone would be able to use it. “We can track the homing Q tile that Spelling Beatrice still has!”

“Quick!” Exact Change Kid said, and I was very surprised, as I didn’t think “quick” was even a word in his vocabulary. “To the Sidekick Super Rocket of Blastingness!”

“We have a rocket!?” I said, shocked.

But Exact Change Kid didn’t answer. He raced toward the hole in the wall, and I ran as fast as I could with my throbbing ankle.

“Oh. Wait a sec,” he said, stopping.

Exact Change Kid walked to a door on the far side of the Sidekick Super Clubhouse and knocked.

“What?” an irritated voice called from inside.

“Who’s in there?” I asked Exact Change Kid, having always thought that that door was just a closet.

“Latchkey Kid,” Exact Change Kid replied and cracked open the door.

“Hey, me and Speedy are going out for a bit, okay?”

“Okay .

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