13 The Final Inning

CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE FINAL INNING Franny watched calmly as Miss Shelly fell toward the ground, screaming. Then, with the loudest puff sound anybody had ever heard, Miss Shelly fell right into the big, squishy pile of white bread, completely unharmed. Franny turned to the Lunch-Meat Creature. "Now, my lunch-meat abomination, go get that pumpkin-headed creep."

第十三章最后一局弗兰妮平静地看着谢利小姐尖叫着倒在地上。 接着，随着一声前所未有的巨响，谢莉小姐一头栽进了那堆又大又软的白面包里，毫发无伤。 弗兰妮转向午餐肉怪物。 “好了，我的午餐肉讨厌鬼，去把那个南瓜头的讨厌鬼叫来。”

The Lunch-Meat Creature grabbed the flagpole tightly and pulled until bologna-flavored sweat dripped off its forehead. Finally, with a monstrous groan, the Lunch-Meat Creature ripped the flagpole right out of the ground, causing a very angry Pumpkin-Crab Monster to fall and hit the pavement with a ground-shaking crash. The Pumpkin-Crab Monster got to its feet and growled. It began stomping toward the kids. It was almost on top of them when Franny, the only kid that did not look worried, calmly whistled.

这个午餐肉生物紧紧抓住旗杆，用力拉着，直到大腊肠味的汗珠从额头上滴下来。 最后，随着一声可怕的呻吟，午餐肉怪物把旗杆从地上扯了下来，愤怒的南瓜蟹怪物摔了下来，撞在人行道上，震动了大地。 南瓜蟹怪站了起来，咆哮着。 它开始向孩子们走来。 快到他们头顶时，弗兰尼——唯一一个看上去不着急的孩子——平静地吹着口哨。

Suddenly a cloud of bats flew down from the sky and grabbed the Pumpkin-Crab Monster by the arms. "Batter up," she said. The bats flew as fast as they could with the Pumpkin-Crab Monster, and they headed right for the Lunch-Meat Creature, who had the flagpole up on its shoulder.

突然，一群蝙蝠从天上飞下来，抓住了南瓜蟹怪的胳膊。 “打起来，”她说。蝙蝠们带着南瓜蟹怪尽可能快地飞着，径直朝那个肩上扛着旗杆的午餐肉怪物飞去。

The bats dropped their burden just in time for the Lunch- Meat Creature to bring the pole around like a giant baseball bat and connect with the Pumpkin-Crab Monster as if it were a giant, stinky softball. With a loud crack it went hurtling off into the sky, never to be seen, or heard from, again.

蝙蝠放下了它们的负担，正好赶上午餐肉怪物把杆子像一个巨大的棒球棒一样绕过来，把南瓜蟹怪物当成一个巨大的发臭的垒球。 随着一声巨响，它飞向天空，再也看不见，也听不到它的声音。

"Home run!" shouted Franny. Then Franny turned around and saw the shocked and horrified kids huddled around an equally shocked and horrified Miss Shelly.

“全垒打！”弗兰妮喊道。 然后弗兰妮转过身来，看到震惊和恐惧的孩子们围着同样震惊和恐惧的谢利小姐。

They looked more scared of her than ever. Franny had the sad, sinking feeling that she had saved the day but had lost all of her friends.

他们看起来比以前更怕她了。 弗兰妮有一种悲伤、沮丧的感觉，她挽救了局面，却失去了所有的朋友。