Mr. Peabody & Sherman Junior Novelization (Mr. Peabody & Sherman) Read Online Free PDF Page B

They motioned to the royal guards to take Penny to the city gates.
    Mr. Peabody watched from inside the statue’smouth. “More smoke, Sherman,” he whispered. “This canine subterfuge is working.”
    Sherman leaned on the bellows and blew a puff of air across the fire. The blast sent a hot coal hopping from the flames onto Sherman’s foot. He howled in pain, kicking the coal away. Unfortunately, it bounced into a pile of straw and instantly set it ablaze.
    Sherman tried to smother the fire by stomping on the flames. The statue’s mouth filled with thick, heavy smoke, making it hard for them to breathe. Mr. Peabody coughed into the megaphone.
    At the sound of the peculiar cough, Ay stopped the guards escorting Penny to the gate. “Anubis, you sound
unwell,
” he said, growing suspicious.
    “Ahem, well, I have been feeling a little under the weather, but I’m feeling much better now, thank you!” Mr. Peabody replied hurriedly.
    The smoke was clearing in the statue’s mouth as Sherman put out the fire. He squelched the last of the flames with a mighty stomp. At that moment, the stone beneath Sherman’s feet rumbled and cracked. The first cracks were small, but they spread quickly as the rock splintered apart. With a thunderous boom, the statue’s lower jaw broke off in one enormous chunk.
    “Aaaargh!” Sherman yelled as he and Mr. Peabody tumbled headlong to the ground. They landed in a heap on the wedding dais and scrambled to their feet.
    King Tut was not at all pleased to discover he’d been tricked. He ordered his guards to seize the two Anubis impersonators. The guards marched onto the wedding platform, determined to capture them.
    Mr. Peabody spotted the statue’s stone jaw just a few feet away. Thinking quickly, he maneuvered it to the top of the stairs leading from the dais. He called out to Penny and Sherman to join him, and together they hopped onto the jaw. With a quick push, they were off. They tobogganed down the steps, bowling over guards left and right!
    At the bottom of the stairs, the jaw slammed into a wooden ramp, which launched Penny, Sherman, and Mr. Peabody into the air. They flew across the courtyard and landed in a cart of oranges next to a huge stone statue of the sun god Ra.
    Sherman was relieved to see the familiar statue surrounded by scaffolding. The WABAC was parked at the very top. If they could reach the time machine before the guards caught them, they could make their escape.
    The Egyptian servants hurried after them, with King Tut leading the charge. He rode high on Ay’s shoulders in a royal piggyback, calling for the return of his precious desert blossom, Princess Hatsheput.
    Penny, Sherman, and Mr. Peabody scrambled out of the orange cart and ran toward the scaffolding. Mr. Peabody helped Penny and Sherman onto a wooden plank held in place by a gnarled length of rope. With King Tut’s guards getting closer by the second, Mr. Peabody grabbed the rope in his paws and dashed away from the kids to create a distraction. The guards took the bait and hurled their spears at the clever canine.
    Mr. Peabody dodged the pointy weapons with the grace of an Olympic medalist in the long jump—which, fortunately, he happened to be. Thunk! Thunk! The spears missed and landed in the wall behind him.
    Mr. Peabody looped the rope around the shafts and tugged. The rope snapped, yanking him into the air and hurtling the wooden plank skyward. Penny and Sherman sailed to the top of the statue, colliding with an airborne Mr. Peabody. They landed in a tangle of arms and legs in front of the WABAC.
    The three fugitives clambered aboard the timemachine and prepared for immediate takeoff. As Mr. Peabody took the controls, Penny realized she was eager for the trip home. At least in the present, there was no chance of being turned into a mummy!

A s the WABAC hurtled through space-time, Mr. Peabody detected a problem among the flashing lights and blinking gauges of the sophisticated time-travel