Rick Brick and the Quest to Save Brickport: An Unofficial LEGO Novel
CONTENTS Chapter One Trouble in Brickport 3 Chapter Two The Answer to Brickport’s Prayers 13 Chapter Three In Search of the Onyx Brick 27 Chapter Four The Gate to Gold 43 Down the Toilet 55 Chapter Five Chapter Six Dinosaur in Space 63 Chapter Seven Back to Earth 69 Chapter Eight Almost Home 75 Chapter Nine A City of Grunts 81 Chapter Ten Fool’s Gold 91 Chapter Eleven Brand New City Brand New Day 101
CHAPTER ONE TROUBLE IN BRICKPORT Rick watched the Ferris wheel turn above him the highest point rising up over the water with a clear view all the way to the open ocean just as he had planned it He could hear the gleeful screams of the passengers as he arranged the final colorful bricks in the mosaic he was working on just below their feet Beautiful work Rick said the mayor He looked up to see her smiling over him But then out of nowhere a siren blared But it wasn’t a siren really It sounded more like a horn or a loud truck 3
4 Rick Brick and the Quest to Save Brickport backing up In fact the more closely Rick listened the more he noticed it sounded exactly like his alarm clock Rick rolled off his squat brick bed and landed face first on the studded floor It had all been a lovely dream Had Rick not fallen out of bed he might have stayed in his perfect dream world all day As it was he was tempted to remain on the floor When he finally pulled himself to his feet he tripped over his briefcase on the way to the bathroom His tooth brush was stuck in the rack and as he yanked it out he knocked his favorite razor into the toilet Luckily Rick didn’t have much use for the razor His face was always shiny and smooth whether he shaved or not Rick brushed his teeth vigorously His expres sion might have been as cheerful as usual but his spirits were low He had a meeting with his partner Rita that he was not looking forward to Business was bad at Brick and Block Builders the company he and Rita co-owned The town of Brickport was almost bankrupt and no one wanted new buildings anymore With a heavy sigh Rick wiped tooth paste from his mouth with his pajama sleeve and went to the bedroom to get dressed Putting on his shoes took longer than usual he couldn’t get them to click into place Rick was nearly out the door before he realized he’d snapped
Trouble in Brickport 5 his shirt on backwards Thankfully he was having a good hair day but then every day was a good hair day in Brickport Even when everything else was falling apart you could still count on your hair to be perfect With a deep breath Rick picked up his briefcase and headed out the door He wandered down Pegg Street toward Rotor Boulevard As he turned the corner he tripped over the edge of a sidewalk baseplate and slid sev eral feet on his stomach Blasted sidewalk yelled Rick to no one in particular Rick tripped in a different spot on his walk almost every day The flat gray bricks and slabs that made up the sidewalks in Brickport never matched or fit together properly Some of them weren’t even locked onto other bricks One misstep could send a whole piece spinning across the street Many of the studs on the sidewalk blocks were worn off completely It made the hills even more difficult to climb The buildings that lined the sidewalks were in no better shape Most of them couldn’t even be called buildings they had fallen completely apart or had been picked apart so that they were more space than brick Two-by-twos and two-by-fours had been pulled out of the middle of walls Corner
