خیابان های پارک وحشت فصل 26

Streets of Panic Park - Chapter 26

We had no place to run.

The villains moved quickly. They pressed us against the building wall.

Slappy’s eyes rolled with excitement as he strode stiffly up to me.

Before I could duck away, he pressed his wooden face against my cheek. And rasped in my ear: “We don’t like you — and you don’t like us. But you freaks are the only ones who can stand up to him.” “Stand up to him?” I asked. “What do you mean? How can we stand up to The Menace?”

“You have to show him you have no fear,” Cranium replied. “He needs your Fear Energy to keep his park alive. If your Fear Level goes down, The Menace is weakened.” “Stand up to him. Stand in front of him and laugh in his face!” Dr. Maniac declared. He tossed back his head and whinnied like a horse. “Something like that.” “I told you, I read his mind. Here’s what I learned. If you all stand in front of him and show no fear,” Cranium continued, “The Menace will vanish, and so will Panic Park. If you stare him down, his world will start to shrink. The Menace and the park will grow tinier and tinier — until it’s just a memory.” “Hey,” Luke chimed in. “If it’s so easy, why don’t YOU do it?”

“It be far from a job for a fearless pirate,” Long Ben answered. “I be feared in all the seventeen seas!” “Is your leg made of wood — or your head?” Slappy rasped at the pirate. “There are only seven seas!” “I’ve been places you’ve never even dreamed of, dummy,” the pirate scowled. “One more word against the captain, and I’ll be using your head for my anchor!” “And I’ll bite your other leg!” Slappy cried, snapping his jaws loudly at Captain Ben.

“Peace! Peace!” Maniac shouted.

Cranium turned back to us. “We can’t defeat The Menace,” Cranium said. “The Menace isn’t measuring our fear. He’s measuring yours. You are the humans.” He grabbed my wrist and slid his hand over my bracelet. “It’s very hot. The Fear Level is high. The Menace is measuring the fear in all of you.” “So you losers have to do it,” Slappy said. “You have to go back to his mansion. You have to find him. Show him you’re not a bit afraid. Make the bracelets go cold.” “Stare him down,” Cranium said. “When your Fear Level goes down, he will shrink away. The Menace and Panic Park will shrink away. Once he is tiny and weak, we know how to escape.” “Do it — NOW!” Maniac screamed.

Matt turned to the rest of us. “What do you think?” he asked. “Is this a trap? Can we trust them?”

“No,” Michael answered. “We can’t trust them. But do we have a choice?”

His second face spun around. “Blah blah blah,” it said. It stuck out its long black forked tongue.

Michael’s real face spun back. “See what I mean? Look at us. We’re totally ruined. Ruined! I think we have to try it. It can’t get any worse — can it?” Famous last words.