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it in there for safekeeping,” said Bing Bong. “Now I’m all set to take Riley to the moon!” Then he accidentally bumped into the House of Cards, and it
collapsed. “Oh, I’m sorry,” he said.
    “Great,” muttered a construction worker.
    “I love Imagination Land,” I said.
    “Isn’t it great?” he replied. “And there’s always something new, like…who the heck is that?”
    Bing Bong was looking at a giant machine with a conveyer belt. A teenage boy with hair flopping in his face, dark brown eyes, and a major case of bad-boy attitude rolled out onto the belt.
    “Imaginary boyfriend,” said a nearby worker.
    When the boy turned to look at us, we could see the depths of heartsick despair in his gaze. “I would die for Riley,” he said.
    Ewww.
    We quickly moved beyond the Imaginary Boyfriend Generator.
    “This way, through Preschool World! We’re nearly to the train!” said Bing Bong.
    Sadness and I followed Bing Bong to the Preschool World gates. Just then, there was a loud
BOOM
! I quickly turned around and saw Hockey Island collapsing. Riley loved hockey! She
couldn’t give up on hockey.
    I knelt down and pulled out Riley’s hockey core memory from the satchel. The memory sphere showed Riley when she was just two-and-a-half years old. She was with Mom and Dad on the frozen
lake, trying to shoot a puck into the goal. She missed at first but then spun around and accidentally knocked the puck into the goal. She was so proud of herself, and so were Mom and Dad. I looked
up at the empty space where Hockey Island used to be. I sighed and then quickly caught up with Bing Bong.
    “We have to get to that station,” I told him.
    “Sure thing,” he said. “This way, just past Graham Cracker Castle.”
    But there was no Graham Cracker Castle. Bing Bong looked confused. “It used to be right here. And where’s…I could have sworn Sparkle Pony Mountain was right over there.
What’s going on?”
    Just then, a bulldozer came by and knocked over a cotton candy-pink castle.
    “Princess Dream World!” Bing Bong gasped.
    The bulldozer kept knocking things over. Soon the air was so full of glitter and fluff that I could barely breathe. What was this stuff?
    “The Stuffed Animal Hall of Fame!” Bing Bong wailed. Then he screamed out loud, “My rocket!”
    He ran as fast as he could, chasing two Mind Workers who had taken his rocket when he wasn’t looking. Bing Bong tried to catch up to them, but they were faster and they had a head start.
They tossed the wagon onto a pile of rubble that was getting bulldozed off a cliff.
    “Wait!” Bing Bong pleaded. “Riley and I were still using that rocket! It still has some song power left!” He sang his theme song and the rocket fired forward, powered by
the music.
    Unfortunately, when it zipped forward, it launched itself over the cliff and into the dump below. Bing Bong fell to his knees.
    “Riley can’t be done with me,” he murmured.
    I hated to see him so sad, especially when we had a mission to accomplish that would put everything back to normal. I put a hand on his back and tried to rally him. “We can fix
this!” I assured him. “We just need to get back to Headquarters. Which way to the train station?”
    “I had a whole trip planned for us,” Bing Bong said sadly.
    He was
not
snapping out of it. I had to try a new tactic. “Hey, who’s ticklish, huh? Here comes the tickle monster…”
    I tickled him under his arms, which is the most supremely ticklish part of the entire body, but he didn’t even move. Not a giggle, not a flinch.
    “Hey, Bing Bong!” I tried. “Look at this!”
    I made the goofiest face in my arsenal: crossed eyes, tongue out, fingers pulling my lips wide apart in two different directions.
    No response at all. How was I going to make him happy again so he could lead us to the train station?
    Then Sadness came over and plopped down beside him.
    “I’m sorry they took your rocket,” she said gently. “They took