His bandages had begun to unwrap and fall off, and he took the escape route we’d decided on.
ET go home.
Except that he forgot the ‘ET’ part. ‘Go home!’ shouted Gra.
‘Okay, okay, don’t lose your hat, Mr Alien,’ muttered Anna Conda, sliding off.
‘You’re mad as a bat too,’ Gra shouted after her.
I guided Anna Conda back into the house, where Mom made her eat more squishy jellies. I don’t think Anna Conda will come back home for a long, long time. She flicked her long, sleek hair and waved goodbye a little too fast, I thought.
‘Well, that was fun,’ said a voice near my elbow, and Blank reappeared, grinning.
10. If you can’t solve the problem, add to it
The next morning, we hadn’t even begun class when Masterror sent us right out, and not even because we were punished. Yet. He sent us out on an urgent job. There was a government building burning in the eastern part of the city. People were stuck on the fourth floor, the Department of Marriage Registrations.
‘Go out, superkids, and save the people! Make me proud!’ he shooed us out, and then muttered at me under his breath, ‘SuperZero, stay out of trouble. Or you’re in even bigger trouble when you get back.’
I gave him my biggest smile of reassurance, and then turned and ran out smack into Blank, who was waiting for me at the door. We both tumbled over each other and down the stairs. My last glimpse of Masterror was of a very worried-looking man. He was twirling his moustache at super speed, which is something he does when he is stressed out.
The building was old and brown and smoke waspouring out of the lower windows. A huge crowd had gathered outside, howling and shouting, but no one was doing anything. There were vans with people from the media too, talking about how serious the situation was.
A reporter known for making up her own stories wherever there weren’t enough, stood in the middle of it all. ‘This is Tara Rumpum from the scene of the crime. Someone has set fire to the building that is home to millions of . . . of . . . of government files. At great personal risk, with the flames leaping out at me, I report that millions of . . . okay, hundreds of . . . okay, maybe eleven people are stuck in this building. They are crying out to be saved. Is anyone listening? Is anyone helping? Oh, who is that now?’
The superkids had arrived. And wow, did everyone get to work.
Anna Conda lengthened her tail to make a huge lasso and she threw it up to the fourth floor to circle a frightened woman and pulled her right down. Vamp Iyer flew up and when people saw him, they just fainted with fear. First fire, now vampires. That helped though, because the muscled Hulket could then just throw them down where the equally muscled Hulkette could catch them. Slime Joos tried to spurt slime at the flames to smother them.
The crowd was going wild. ‘The superkids are here,’ they shouted, clapping and trying to take pictures of the heroes with their cell phones.
The fire raged on even as the rescue operation was going on. Big orange flames were shooting through most windows now, and it was getting REALLY hot.
Tara Rumpum was screaming, ‘Oh, for a drop of help from the skies. Oh, for a drop of water. Will no one hear our cries?’
She looked so pretty and so sad there that my heart bled for her. ‘I will hear your cries, Tara Rumpum!’ I shouted bravely.
She turned to me, surprised. ‘Who are you?’
I puffed out my chest. ‘I am SuperZero. I will save the world.’ And with those very silly words, I went zooming off. You see, I had got an absolutely brilliant idea. I’d seenthe park fountains just beyond the building wall. Water! Get it?
I swiped a helmet off a biker nearby, gathered water from the fountains, and went running over to the building and threw the water at it. It didn’t help even a tiny bit. The crowd burst out laughing. I ran up and down with my helmet till I was quite exhausted, but the fire kept growing
ET go home.
Except that he forgot the ‘ET’ part. ‘Go home!’ shouted Gra.
‘Okay, okay, don’t lose your hat, Mr Alien,’ muttered Anna Conda, sliding off.
‘You’re mad as a bat too,’ Gra shouted after her.
I guided Anna Conda back into the house, where Mom made her eat more squishy jellies. I don’t think Anna Conda will come back home for a long, long time. She flicked her long, sleek hair and waved goodbye a little too fast, I thought.
‘Well, that was fun,’ said a voice near my elbow, and Blank reappeared, grinning.
10. If you can’t solve the problem, add to it
The next morning, we hadn’t even begun class when Masterror sent us right out, and not even because we were punished. Yet. He sent us out on an urgent job. There was a government building burning in the eastern part of the city. People were stuck on the fourth floor, the Department of Marriage Registrations.
‘Go out, superkids, and save the people! Make me proud!’ he shooed us out, and then muttered at me under his breath, ‘SuperZero, stay out of trouble. Or you’re in even bigger trouble when you get back.’
I gave him my biggest smile of reassurance, and then turned and ran out smack into Blank, who was waiting for me at the door. We both tumbled over each other and down the stairs. My last glimpse of Masterror was of a very worried-looking man. He was twirling his moustache at super speed, which is something he does when he is stressed out.
The building was old and brown and smoke waspouring out of the lower windows. A huge crowd had gathered outside, howling and shouting, but no one was doing anything. There were vans with people from the media too, talking about how serious the situation was.
A reporter known for making up her own stories wherever there weren’t enough, stood in the middle of it all. ‘This is Tara Rumpum from the scene of the crime. Someone has set fire to the building that is home to millions of . . . of . . . of government files. At great personal risk, with the flames leaping out at me, I report that millions of . . . okay, hundreds of . . . okay, maybe eleven people are stuck in this building. They are crying out to be saved. Is anyone listening? Is anyone helping? Oh, who is that now?’
The superkids had arrived. And wow, did everyone get to work.
Anna Conda lengthened her tail to make a huge lasso and she threw it up to the fourth floor to circle a frightened woman and pulled her right down. Vamp Iyer flew up and when people saw him, they just fainted with fear. First fire, now vampires. That helped though, because the muscled Hulket could then just throw them down where the equally muscled Hulkette could catch them. Slime Joos tried to spurt slime at the flames to smother them.
The crowd was going wild. ‘The superkids are here,’ they shouted, clapping and trying to take pictures of the heroes with their cell phones.
The fire raged on even as the rescue operation was going on. Big orange flames were shooting through most windows now, and it was getting REALLY hot.
Tara Rumpum was screaming, ‘Oh, for a drop of help from the skies. Oh, for a drop of water. Will no one hear our cries?’
She looked so pretty and so sad there that my heart bled for her. ‘I will hear your cries, Tara Rumpum!’ I shouted bravely.
She turned to me, surprised. ‘Who are you?’
I puffed out my chest. ‘I am SuperZero. I will save the world.’ And with those very silly words, I went zooming off. You see, I had got an absolutely brilliant idea. I’d seenthe park fountains just beyond the building wall. Water! Get it?
I swiped a helmet off a biker nearby, gathered water from the fountains, and went running over to the building and threw the water at it. It didn’t help even a tiny bit. The crowd burst out laughing. I ran up and down with my helmet till I was quite exhausted, but the fire kept growing
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