The Return of Meteor Boy? by William Boniface

Author:William Boniface
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Array
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-01-22T01:59:32+00:00

“No it’th not. Here, look.”

Melonhead opened the can and shook out a few of the chips.They didn’t really look like potato chips, but they were identical. Hesitantly I reached for one and took a small bite. It didn’t taste awful, but it certainly wasn’t a potato chip. It was like some strange alternate-reality version of a potato chip. I looked again at the label on the can.

“‘The Amazing Indestructo’s Amazing Pseudo-Chips: Each One as Perfect as Him!’” I read aloud. “But I’ve never seen these for sale anywhere.”

“I think it’th thomething new that he hathn’t put on thale yet.”

Just then the bell for lunch rang and Melonhead grabbed back his can, emptied the remaining chips into his hand, and shoved the can back at me.

“Tho here you go,” he said. “I’ve done my part by finding thith thylinder. Now you need to figure out how to make it thpin at the thpeed of light.”

“That will be tricky,” I replied.

“Well, it really doethn’t matter,” Melonhead said. “Printhipal Doppelganger thaid we were guaranteed to win jutht by attempting a time mathine.”

“What?!” I said, thinking I had misheard him.

“That’th what he thaid when he took me out of clath the other day,” Melonhead informed me. “After all, he wath the one who thuggethted the thubject in the firtht plathe.”

With that he got up and went to lunch. I stared blankly at the potato chip can and then stuffed it into my book bag. All my thoughts had shifted to Principal Doppelganger. Why had he given Melonhead the idea for our project? I needed to meet up with my teammates. I had an awful lot to tell them.

“Doppelganger picked your science fair project?” Tadpole asked in disbelief as we walked to the cafeteria.

“That’s really strange,” Plasma Girl said.

“I’ve got other news, too,” I informed them.

I began by relating my strange visit to Pinprick Manor. The early history of the League of Goodness fascinated them, but it was the letter that really got their attention.

“A letter from Meteor Boy, and it was addressed to you?” Halogen Boy asked with wide-eyed amazement.

“Not to me,” I corrected him. “It was addressed to Lord Pincushion. But according to him, Meteor Boy mentioned me by name in the letter.”

“But how could that be possible?” Plasma Girl asked for probably the third time in less than a minute.

“It isn’t possible.” Tadpole snorted dismissively. “Someone’s messing with you.”

“It’s improbable, not impossible,” I corrected him. “And I don’t think Lord Pincushion or the Animator would have any reason to lie.”

“Maybe the Bee Lady is behind this,” Stench interjected. “She could have put that letter in the Collide-a-scope.”

“Don’t you dare say anything bad about the Bee Lady,” Plasma Girl responded angrily.

“I agree, she didn’t do it,” I cut in quickly to head off an argument, “which leads me to the unmistakable conclusion that Meteor Boy himself left that message where he knew I would find it.”

“But he vanished twenty-five years ago,” Stench protested. “He had no way of knowing you were even going to exist now!”

“That’s true,” I agreed, “if he planted the message twenty-five years ago.

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