Super Turbo and the Fountain of Doom
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The superpets agreed that was a good idea.
The Green Winger dove into the chute. A few minutes went by. Super Turbo was starting to get a little nervous. Finally, they heard the Green Winger’s voice. She sounded very far away.
“Well you heard her!” said Wonder Pig. “Last one in is a rotten egg!”
Wonder Pig jumped down the hole. Captain Chameleon glanced at Super Turbo, shrugged, and then she too jumped in. Super Turbo was the only one left now.
“Well,” he said with a gulp. “I guess I’m the rotten egg.” And then he jumped down the hole.
Super Turbo couldn’t see anything, but he could tell he was sliding fast—very fast.
Through the vent, Super Turbo could just make out what seemed to be a light switch in the boiler room. “It’s too far!” he said, reaching.
“Wait!” said Captain Chameleon. “I think I can turn it on with my tongue!”
“With your tongue?” asked Super Turbo.
Captain Chameleon opened her mouth, and suddenly a superlong tongue shot out.
“Wow!” said Super Turbo. “Nice work, Captain!”
With the lights now on, the superpets could get a sense of what was on the other side of the vent. Wonder Pig used her super-pig strength to carefully open the vent cover.
Once it was open, it was clear that the boiler room was a place they wanted to get in and out of as quickly as possible. Spooky shadows danced along the walls. There were tons of crazy pipes and vents. The air seemed heavy and warm. In the middle of the room was the boiler itself, giving off a strange hum.
“Hey, Super Turbo, remember when we thought that pencil sharpener in your classroom was scary?” whispered Wonder Pig.
Super Turbo nodded.
“Well, this is way, way scarier,” she said.
Super Turbo had to agree. “We’d better figure out how to turn off the water—and fast,” he said. “Professor Turtle said there are controls for the heat, the air-conditioning, and the water. We have to find the right one!”
“I’ll scout it out!” said the Green Winger, taking off.
Soon she landed on a pipe on the other side of the room. “Well, this one has a label that says ‘water,’ so I’m guessing this could be it,” she announced.
“Well, it’s a good thing we have Wonder Pig’s super-pig strength on our side!” cried Super Turbo.
“Not me, Super Turbo,” said Wonder Pig. “Look where that pipe is! Green Winger will have to fly one of us to the knob, and it’s going to have to be you.”
The Green Winger, Captain Chameleon, and Wonder Pig all looked at Super Turbo.
It was suddenly clear to Super Turbo that the fate of this school lay in his paws.
“He did it!” yelled Wonder Pig. “Did he do it?”
The Green Winger cocked her head to one side to listen. “That weird hum has stopped! I think that was the sound of the water rushing!”
“He did do it!” cried Wonder Pig, pumping her fist in the air.
“I did do it,” Super Turbo said, smiling to himself.
Meanwhile, upstairs, the Great Gecko, Boss Bunny, Fantastic Fish, and Professor Turtle were doing all they could to stop the flood from the water fountain. They had made a pretty good dam out of sponges and chalkboard erasers when Professor Turtle noticed something.
“Hey,” he said. “I think . . . the water has . . . stopped!”
The Great Gecko looked up from what he was doing. “It has?”
“It sure has!” answered a voice from above.
“I knew you guys would do it!” said the Great Gecko, patting Super Turbo on the back.
“We all did it,” Super Turbo corrected him. “You guys did a great job cleaning up what you could.”
“The rest . . . of the water . . . will evaporate . . . ,” said Professor Turtle.
“It’s been a long night, superpets,” said the Great Gecko. “And now I say we all turn in. Unless . . .”
Super Turbo couldn’t imagine what the Great Gecko could possibly want to do besides go to sleep.
“Unless you guys want to come with me to grab some snacks from the cafeteria,” the Great Gecko finished, smiling.
“After all, half the fun of being a superpet is doing things the schoolkids and teachers will never know about!” Super Turbo said with a grin. “Let’s just not turn any knobs or flick any switches this time,” he added.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR
LEE KIRBY has the proportionate strength and abilities of a man-size hamster. He spends his days chewing up cardboard and running in giant plastic bubbles throughout his very own fortress of solitude in Brooklyn, New York. And, no, he is not related to world-famous Captain Awesome author Stan Kirby. Or is he?
GEORGE O’CONNOR is the creator of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series Olympians, in addition to serving as the illustrator of the Captain Awesome series. He is also the author and illustrator of the picture books Kapow!, Ker-splash, and If I Had a Triceratops. He resides in his secret Brooklyn, New York, hideout, where he uses his amazing artistic powers to strike fear in the hearts of bad guys everywhere!
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