The Girl with the Destructo Touch by Tom Sniegoski

Author:Tom Sniegoski [Sniegoski, Thomas E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-49723-9
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2007-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

“Down there!” Billy yelled, looking through the curved windshield of the Owlcopter.

A huge plume of dust had just erupted into the eerie darkness of the Monstros City sky.

“How much you wanna bet there's a bank down there?” he said, watching the thick grayish cloud drift in the sky like smoke.

Archebold aimed the sky craft toward the street.

“I'm taking us down, sir.”

Victoria was running wild in the streets of Monstros City, and it appeared that her already deadly Destructo Touch had been amplified by being here.

It didn't really surprise Billy. He'd seen what this weird place did for his own strength and speed. It was only logical that Victoria's superpower—if you wanted to call it that—would be increased as well.

The Owlcopter dropped down through the thick cloud of dust, the spinning rotor blades clearing the air so that they could see.

It was just like in the other parts of the city.

Total chaos.

Monsters were running everywhere in a panic. A large, square building directly below had lost its front, the stone used to build it turned to rubble. Billy was reminded of the Constructo blocks in his garage.

“I guess I do have to go down there,” he said to his friend.

Archebold flipped some switches on his control panel and a hatch slid open behind them in the floor of the copter.

“Jeez, couldn't you have fought me a little—oh no, Billy, it's too dangerous!—or something like that?” Billy asked.

Archebold smiled, moving the control stick around on the copter to keep it hovering in one place above the chaotic street. “You're the superhero,” he said.

Billy sighed, unbuckling his seat belt and going toward the hatch. “That's what you keep telling me,” he complained.

There was a spool of cable in the ceiling above the hatch opening and Billy took hold of the end, preparing to jump.

“Are you sure there's nothing you can say to convince me not to do this?” he asked as he took the cable in his hand.

“Nope,” the goblin said with a wave. “Bye-bye!”

“Thanks for thinking about it, though,” Billy said as he got ready to leap down into the hatch.

“No prob” was the last thing Billy heard as he jumped, the thick cable unspooling with a whirring sound as he dropped to the street below him.

He landed in a crouch, and quickly scanned for any signs of danger. He let go of the cord, gave Archebold a wave, and the Owlcopter flew off.

Billy reached out to a passing citizen, her arms filled with grocery bags. “Excuse me.”

She had one huge eye in the center of a round face. The eye bulged as she fixed him in what he thought might be a frightened stare.

“Can you tell me what's going on?” he asked her.

“It's terrible,” she said, clutching her bags tighter. “One minute it was there and then it was gone. Terrible! Terrible, I tell you!”

And in a total panic, the eyeball lady ran off.

“Great,” Billy muttered as he approached what used to be the front of the building. “That certainly helped.

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