16 One More Reason to Never Clean Your Room

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ONE MORE REASON TO NEVER CLEAN YOUR ROOM Franny couldn't get away, and she couldn't reach the controls on her Time Warper Device. Suddenly a thought occurred to her.

Franny looked around and spotted her old Voice-Activated Cheese Cannon. "Cheddar!" she shouted, and caught the cannonball of cheese it launched her way. Teen Franny spun around. "Hold it right there, kid," she said. "I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that cheese will attract the mice, and then the mice will scare the

elephant-monster, which will drop you, and then you'll escape. Am I right?" Franny said nothing. "Of course I'm right," Teen Franny sneered. "I'm just as clever as you are, Franny. But two principles in your dumb little plan are entirely incorrect: Mice don't really like cheese, and elephants aren't really afraid of mice."

"I guess you're right," Franny said. "But my plan was based on the principle that nobody likes it when you stuff wads of cheese up their nose," she said as she did exactly that. "And I never, ever, ever cleaned up my room."

The elephant-monster, struggling to dislodge the cheese wad from its trunk, took two steps backward and slipped on the banana peel that had been in that exact spot for years, just as Franny's mom had predicted. As the monster fell, it released Franny.

Teen Franny lunged for one of the countless inventions lying around the lab. She aimed the Frog-O-Matic and fired it at Franny. Franny swiftly grabbed a mirror and deflected the ray. Teen Franny picked up the electric Molecule Destroyer and switched it on. Franny quickly unplugged it from the wall.