Crash! Bang! Boo! by Joe McGee

Crash! Bang! Boo! by Joe McGee

Author:Joe McGee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin


CHAPTER

10

BEFORE LONG, BORIS RETURNED WITH the rest of the rats. There were a lot of rats.

“So, what’s the plan?” asked Boris.

“Yes,” said Igor Junior, “what is the plan?”

Franky smiled. “You know all that sparking, popping, spitting, hissing, crackling electricity?” he said.

“You mean the electricity that almost destroyed the laboratory?” asked Wolfy.

“Yes,” said Franky. “It just needed somewhere to go!”

“Like the village!” said Vampyra.

Igor Junior did not look happy.

“I’m not so sure, Franky,” he said. “That would mean I would have to pull that lever again.”

“But this time you would be pulling it to help someone,” said Vampyra.

“A whole village!” Wolfy said.

“And let’s not forget what that means,” said Boris the rat. “Cheesy popcorn!”

All the rats cheered. They were very excited about anything that had to do with cheese.

“Well, maybe . . . ,” said Igor Junior.

“And this time,” said Franky, “you won’t pull it alone. We’ll all do it.”

“You will?” said Igor Junior.

“We sure will,” said Wolfy.

• • •

Franky told them all his plan. It was a good plan, and soon the rats were running through the night, pulling extension cords down from the castle. The rats ran down the Crooked Trail. They ran past the graveyard, through the Gloomy Woods, and across the covered bridge. They ran right to the village, and when they got there, they did just as Franky had said. They plugged their extension cords into the festival lights, and the merry-go-round, and the popcorn machine. Especially the popcorn machine. Nobody could see the rats because it was so dark. And the rats could stay out of everyone’s way because rats are very good at sniffing and hearing in the dark. And when they were done, they ran back the way they had come, straight to Castle Dracula.

They were tired. That was a lot of running. But they knew that all that running meant delicious cheesy popcorn. You would probably run back and forth for delicious cheesy popcorn too.

Boris gave Franky a thumbs-up. He was too out of breath to speak.

“Ready?” said Franky.

“Ready,” said Igor Junior. He put his hand on the lever.

Wolfy put his hand on the lever too. Then Vampyra added her hand. And finally Franky added his.

“On three,” said Franky.

“One . . . ,” said Wolfy.

“Two . . . ,” said Vampyra.

“THREE!” said Igor Junior. “Pull that lever!”

Igor Junior and the Junior Monster Scouts pulled the lever. A bolt of lightning flickered in the sky. It hit the lightning rod at the very top of Castle Dracula. It surged down the laboratory cables. It raced along all the extension cords Boris and the rats had taken to the village.



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