CHAPTER SIX

Our heroes had no choice, but to throw their weapons onto the ground.

The Cactus Man just looked at them and laughed.

"You really are all so stupid! And now I will take Ivy on the bus with me! Try and catch me!"

But before he could set foot on the bus, he heard a strange whistling noise. He looked around and wondered where it was coming from.

Then CRASH! The Cactus Man was suddenly flattened by a big safe that fell from the sky.

His arm was sticking out with the hand holding Ivy. She wiggled free and ran to her parents. They hugged her.

Calamity James and Alexander's hot air balloon was right above them. The balloon came down. James and Alexander got out of the basket.

"Well done, James," said Alexander. "A critical hit."

"For once, I, Calamity James, the unluckiest boy in Beanotown has stopped the baddie and saved the day!"

James was so excited. He couldn't believe it.

Police cars came up over the road. The cops could see what was really going on.

"James?" said Alexander.

"Yeah?" asked James.

Alexander pointed up at the sky to show James that the hot air balloon had taken off and that the Cactus Man was inside it.

"Oops," said James.

He felt really stupid, he had just caught the bad guy and now he just let him get away.

Alexander then placed his hand on James' shoulder for comfort.

"Hey, you tried," said the Lemming.

"I'm gonna fly my way out of here!" The Cactusman called down to our heroes. "Try to catch me now, fools!"

"I'll fly up there and stop him!" said Bananaman.

But just as he was about to take off, he started to shrink back into Eric.

"Oh no!" he cried. "I knew I shouldn't have fired all those bananas!"

He then turned back into Eric. Everyone was in shock to know that Bananaman was a 10 year old boy all along. Granny was grossed out because she flirted with him earlier.

Dennis looked around. He saw one of Aunt Aggie's empty pie trays. He ran over and climbed inside one.

"Dan, pick this tray up and throw me straight at the balloon," said Dennis.

Desperate Dan picked up the tray with Dennis inside it and threw it like a frisbee up to the sky and towards the hot air balloon.

Dennis was gaining towards the basket as it move away from him. He held his hands out and grabbed onto the rim of the basket. He was 200 feet into air. Everyone below gasped.

"Dennis!" cried his parents with worry.

Dennis was holding onto the rim of the basket for dear life. The Cactus Man looked at Dennis and placed his own prickly fingers on Dennis' fingers. Dennis howled in pain.

"It is true what they say about me," said the Cactus Man. "I am an absolute pain."

But the Cactus Man could have sworn that he saw small eyes inside Dennis' hair. They blinked at him. He took another look. And all of a sudden, the hair bounced off Dennis' head and landed in the basket.

"What is that?" asked The Cactus Man in fright.

The hair appeared to be sprouting limbs and a face! It was Gnasher. Dennis still had his own hair of course. Gnasher ran behind the Cactus Man, opened his gnashers and…..

The Cactus Man howled in pain as he held his bottom whilst leaping into the air.

Gnasher's mouth was covered in thorns from the Cactus Man's prickly botty.

Now that hurt the both of us, thought Gnasher.

Whilst the Cactus Man was in the air, his prickly body punctured the giant balloon.

"Oh no," he whined as he realised what he did.

Small holes appeared on the balloon as big gusts of air blew out of them. The hot air balloon blew out of control as it appeared to be heading for a field next to the Home.

It crashed and all of the Beanotown and Dandytown people and the police ran over to it.

Dennis, Gnasher and The Cactus Man came out of the wreck. Dennis had handcuffed his wrist along with the Cactus Man's. The human cactus was for it now.

The Cactus Man was arrested and all of the kids were proved innocent by the authorities. The kids danced with victory outside the Home.

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Later that night, the Beanotown News crew was at the scene, each of the participants were interviewed. They all told their side of the perilous story of what happened. Smiffy's story was a little hard to understand though.

When it came to the Teacher and Head of Bash Street School, the reporter asked them:

"Are these your students?"

The Teacher looked at the Bash Street Kids and for the first time in his life, he said "Yes, they are and I'm proud of what they did tonight."

The kids felt honoured.

A few hours later, after the news crew had left, all the Beanotown folk and Dandytown folk shook hands as they said goodbye.

"Thanks, we couldn't have done it without you," Minnie said to Beryl.

"You were really cool with that super soaker," said Beryl. "Move over Chloe Moretz."

"Thank you so much for helping my son and his friends," Dennis' dad said to Desperate Dan.

"Anytime, sir," said Dan as he shook his hand, but he was so strong that he almost crushed it.

"Sorry," he said.

"That's okay," said Dad rubbing his hand.

Granny went over to Eric, Bananaman's alter ego.

"I am so sorry, I had no idea you were….." she began to apologise.

"That's okay," said Eric. "I won't press charges."

"Alright," said Granny as she walked over to a Dandy citizen to say goodbye to him..

Minnie walked over to Eric.

"Actually, I think you're kind of cute," she said. "Do you mind if I follow you on Facebook and Twitter?"

Eric gave her a smile.

"Sure…..erm… that was really cool when you did the….."

"Oh thanks," said Minnie.

"Are, are you doing anything this weekend?" asked Eric.

"Well, I was going to do a bit of minxing," said Minnie. "But… yeah, what time do you want me to come over?"

Korky's kits were saying goodbye to Gnasher, Gnipper, Rasher and Winston, Cuddles and Dimples were saying goodbye to Bea, Roger was saying goodbye to Sneaker and the Bash Street Kids were saying goodbye to Winker Watson and his class.

"Hey, you and I have the same jumper," Bully Beef said to Dennis.

"Isn't there a boy in Dandytown who has the same jumper as me?" asked Roger.

"Yeah, Smasher," said Chips. "He said he was going to be here, but he never….."

BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMM! CRASH!

Something crashed into the police cars. There were all lying on a pile. And in the wreck, there was Smasher on a moped.

"Hi guys," he said. "Sorry I'm late. Good thing I had a helmet on. It would be terrible if I didn't wore one."

After they all said their goodbyes, they all parted their ways back to their hometowns.

However, Erbert was heading for Dandytown and Blinky was heading for Beanotown.

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The next day, the Beanotown Home For Really, Really, Really, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAALLLLLLLLLLY Troublesome Kids was closed down.

The Cactus Man was sentenced to life in prison.

The folks of Beanotown and Dandytown still kept in touch with each other throwing their grudges towards each other into the past.

Dennis still kept his vow on never to menace Walter or the people of Beanotown and Dandytown ever again.

But he still kept his menacing tools in the wardrobe just incase another villain with an evil plot comes along.

THE END