Dr. Critchlore’s School for Minions Book 2: Gorilla Tactics
She wore a beret over her pigtails and her vest was covered with colorful badges When the sunlight sunlight snuck through the trees to spotlight her face I could see the freckles on her nose I hope she has Monster Clump Sugar Bombs my friend Frankie said He stood next to me with his creator Dr Frankenhammer and Dr Frankenhammer’s Frankenhammer’s new dragon They’d been about to take off on a father-son dragon ride now that Dr Critchlore’s post-assembly post-assembly reception was winding down That issss no Girl Explorer Dr Frankenhammer Frankenhammer said and the look on his face made my heart rate jump to it’s time to flee speed Dr Frankenhammer Frankenhammer with his sunken dark eyes and his wild white hair was probably the scariest teacher in the school If a little Girl Explorer made him nervous nervous that meant something was very wrong How do you know I asked What had his highly highly trained scientific eye noticed Nobody that young could have earned so many badgesss I was sssixteen before I earned my Excellence Excellence in Explosivesss badge You were a Girl Explorer
He didn’t answer He stroked his dragon who had started fidgeting and seemed anxious to get away from the little girl Frankie reached for his neck and started twisting one of the bolts there his nervous habit As the girl approached I noticed that the shadow she cast wasn’t right It looked like the shadow of a wolf or some other beast The cypress trees normally filled with chirping birds became eerily quiet as she walked past I reached for my medallion medallion resting on the outside of my shirt As soon as I touched my necklace her appearance changed dramatically The pigtails morphed into horns that curved down around her face Gray fur covered her body and her bottom jaw stretched forward revealing a row of sharp teeth Claws as big as a velociraptor’s scraped the ground at the end of unnaturally long arms Her hind legs were huge like a kangaroo’s She’s a beast I gasped And those aren’t cookies cookies Her wagon was filled with a squirming mass of worms each the size of a swimming-pool noodle noodle They’re they’re they’re spewing They coughed up little blobs of phlegm that landed landed on the ground and smoked
Dr Frankenhammer reached into his lab coat and pulled out a pair of glasses with blue lenses lenses Those wormsss are the Minion Saboteurs I sent to the Pravusss Academy last week he said Someone hasss put a glamour on them But how can you see through it I don’t know I said It just happened Dr Pravus is playing gamesss Dr Frankenhammer Frankenhammer said Returning my failed Minion Saboteurs with one of the Girl Explorers he used to embarrass embarrass usss Pravus I said Of course this monster was one of Dr Pravus’s minions He and Miss Merrybench had been behind all the catastrophes that had plagued our school recently Dr Frankenhammer had sent the Minion Saboteurs as revenge but apparently apparently they’d been found out Frankie I need the MonsssterTrapper Dr Frankenhammer Frankenhammer said Then go alert Dr Critchlore Frankie sped off in a blur ten times faster than a normal human Dr Frankenhammer squeezed his dragon’s flank and a ball of fire shot straight at the Girl Explorer I winced expecting her to be severely singed but she opened her mouth and swallowed the fireball Interesssting Dr Frankenhammer said Higginssss Higginssss get everyone to safety
