Chapter 5
Stephanie heard her friends screaming and came running. Something inside her said that they needed her, just like her parents had needed her.
"Stephanie!" Pixel shouted. They were all happy to see her but Robbie cursed his bad luck. He hadn't expected Pinky to show up and that threw off his plan. Quickly, the villain fled from his hiding spot behind a nearby wall.
Sportacus easily jumped from the hole he fell in and helped the nine year old untie their friends.
"What happened?" He asked the kids.
"We were playing train robbers and suddenly this guy dressed up as a train engineer came over and said if we wanted to be authentic someone had to get tied up. Well we got tied up." Trixie explained.
"He took MY car, I mean train." Stingy said. Sportacus made a face.
"We pretended his car was a train." Ziggy explained.
"Oh." Stephanie and Sportacus said at the same time.
"Well what should we do next?" Pixel asked.
"How about some video games?" Trixie wondered. The four friends were about to run off to Pixel's house when Ziggy turned to Stephanie and asked,
"Are you gonna come too?"
"In a little while, maybe." She curled her lips over her teeth and forced a smile. The four left and Stephanie turned to Sportacus.
"How did you get in that hole?" She asked. The above average hero looked up from brushing the loose dirt off his costume.
"I was trying to untie the kids and my feet just went out from under me." He smiled. "Why don't you go play with them?" At this, Stephanie lowered her head.
"It seems pointless to play." Was all she said.
"I know this seems hard, but you have to play. You have to continue your life. Trust me, even though things don't look so good now, it'll get better. It did for me. I got up and went on with my life." Sportacus told her.
"What do you mean?" The nine year old asked.
"Why don't you have a good time with your friends and we can talk later?" He returned with his own question. Stephanie nodded and watched him flip away. Questions filled her head as she slowly made the walk to Pixel's house.
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Robbie sat in his big fuzzy orange chair strumming his fingers on the arm of it. The whole point of the hole was to spring out and keep the blue elf in the hole. When someone came a long and saw the kids tied to a tree and Sportacus in a hole, they would assume he hadn't done his job and they would make him leave.
That failed, he would have to come up with a new plan and he got up out of his chair. The villain began to pace the floor and tapping the side of his head with his index finger.
"Think, think, think." Robbie muttered to no one in particular. What could he use to trap Sportacus? Maybe trapping him wasn't the way to go. He had to make the overactive being fail. Robbie's eyes went wide. That was it. Sportakook would have to fail and fail big. The plan would have to be perfect.
To Be Continued...