Chappie 6: Maxwell outsmarted?
"Time for the next task!" bellowed Princess Spoiled. Maxwell stepped up and entered the door labeled LIBRARY. The other hams walked up the stairs and emerged up on a platform, giving them a perfect view of the whole library, and the miniscule Maxwell. Sandy was shaking.
"The task of intelligence," Spoiled proceeded "is simple. A questionnaire will ask you one question, if you answer correctly, the key is yours, but answer wrongly and…" She drew a line across her neck. Sandy burst into tears and Maxwell began to tremble.
"And just to tickle you," Spoiled continued "your quizzer will be wearing this Maxwell suit. A short hamster in the Maxwell costume appeared. "Are you ready, Maxwell?"
"Yes." He stepped forward.
"What" the Maxwell impersonator uttered "is my name?" Maxwell looked blank. "You have thirty minutes to find out. Max scurried to the nearest bookshelf and began looking in books of names. He searched for ten minutes and hailed no results. Maxwell was very red in the face now. There had never been a question he had not been able to answer, no test he had not passed. But now, as he stood there, looking into the impersonator's face, his own face, his knees buckled. He thumped to the ground, grabbed his knees, and began to rock back and forth.
"Can'tdoitcan'tdoitcan'tdoi." He muttered.
"He's having a seizer!" Sandy cried. She attempted to rush to his side, but the guards held her back.
"Look at you!" The quizzer stated to Maxwell with ten minutes to go. "You're pathetic! Why do you think I'm dressed as you, Maxwell? It's to symbolize your weakness. You can't stand up to yourself, Maxwell. I am you. You are what is holding you back!"
"He's trying to psych you out, Max…" But the rest of Sandy's words were muffled as the guard's hands clamped her throat. The questioner continued.
"Dexter made this suit, Sandy's trying to distract you, and all your so called friends are out to get you! You think they're your pals, huh? Let me tell ya something. They all thing you're a bossy know it all. You don't have friends, Maxwell. I stand here alone to show that you are alone. I am you, Maxwell."
"You are me!" Maxwell suddenly thought. "And that means your name is… Maxwell!"
The imposter bowed and tossed a silver key to him. The hams rushed to him.
"Oh, Max!" Sandy sobbed. "All those horrible thing he said, they're not true. I, I mean we love you Max. You do have friends. You are not alone!"
"I know Sandy." Maxwell nodded. He hugged Sandy.
"The test of strength won't be so easy!" The Princess yelled, flashing a bronze key.
"We're ready!" All the hams yelled together. Pashmina waited at the end of the line as the hams left the library. As planned, Dexter and Howdy did also, wanting to get Pashmina alone. Pashmina winked at Max and Cappy, who stayed behind as well. The time was ripe to start operation "get Dex and Howdy to leave Pashy alone".
Pashmina climbed up a large bookshelf in clear sight of Dex and Howdy. Cappy and Maxwell followed. Suddenly, Pashmina "accidentally" slipped. She hung there with one paw.
"Help!" She screamed, falsely. Maxwell and Cappy pulled her up.
"Thank you Maxwell and Cappy!" she lied. She kissed them on the cheeks. Dexter and Howdy burst into tears and scampered out of the room. Pashmina gave the two a thumbs up and led them out to the courtyard for their next task.
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