The Candy Man Cometh by Dan Danko & Tom Mason

Author:Dan Danko & Tom Mason [DANKO, DAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV001000
ISBN: 9780316025775
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2007-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

2 + 2 = EVIL!

I looked at Super Vision Lad as he chewed the head off the Pumpkin Pete doll and spit it onto the floor. The head bounced across the gray marble and rolled to a stop at the edge of the Hall of Heroes of Big Justice.

“Since I’m stuck babysitting you for a few hours, you might as well tell me your real name,” I said.

“Soap tastes bad!” Super Vision Lad shouted. “Fine. I’ll just call you Super Vision Lad. How’d you like to go play in the park across the street?”

“Soap tastes bad!” Super Vision Lad shouted, and head-butted me in the stomach.

We walked across the street to the park. Well, it used to be a park. About a month ago, Sunburneo attacked the League of Big Justice with his solar satellite. His calculations were off a bit (he forgot to carry the “2”) and instead of melting the League of Big Justice, he just burned the park across the street to a crisp. Now it was just a vacant field with a melted slag heap that used to be monkey bars.

Super Vision Lad and I sat on the blackened grass and suddenly, a very strange thing happened. No, Super Vision Lad didn’t stop kicking me in the shin. Nor did he stop yelling “The itsybitsy spidah! The itsy-bitsy spidah!” No, what happened was, the melted slag heap that was once monkey bars slowly dissolved into nothingness. Then, the charcoaled remains of a nearby tree dissolved as well.

“Uh... maybe we should get the heck out of here,” I said to Super Vision Lad, but it was too late. Evil was upon us.

“Well, helllllooo, my little goggled one! Are you the champion of the League of Big Justice come to do battle? I didn’t expect him to be so...goggled. But no bother! You shall fall before the decaying might of The Candy Man!”

“The Candy Man? Am I supposed to be afraid or hope you’ll give me a chocolate bar?”

“Oh, llllaugh while you can, chimpanzee of goodness. But once I attack with my rainbow of fruit flavors, we shall see who is llllaughing!”

“Probably still me.”

I looked at The Candy Man. He was tall and very thin. He had narrow shoulders and long, narrow arms. His long, thin legs were like short stilts. He wore a pinkish waistcoat with a frilly shirt. On his head was a tooth. A very large, oversized tooth that strapped under his chin like an enormous water bucket on his head. In his right hand, he held a cane. Actually, he held a large candy-cane cane.

“I mean, what’re you going to do? Pelt me with Skittles or something?” I asked. I pressed my palm against Super Vision Lad’s forehead and gently pushed him back so he’d stop head-butting me.

“Oh! I shhhhall do far worse than that! I shall ssspread candy and chocolate throughout the world for all to eat! Bwahahahaha!” The Candy Man thrust both fists in the air as if he had just won a championship boxing match.

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