14 BACKSTAGE BRAWL

CHAPTER 14 BACKSTAGE BRAWL Step 2!" Alexander yelled. He threw the brownie to Rip. Rip caught it and scarfed it down. In seconds, he was hairy, scaly, toothy, and ready to fight.

第十四章后台斗殴第二步！亚历山大喊道。 他把布朗尼扔给里普。 里普接住它，把它吞了下去。 几秒钟后，它就浑身是毛，长满了鳞片，长着牙齿，准备战斗了。

Ms. Vanderpants hunched down, her tail swinging. Rip lowered his horns and charged at his principal. She whipped around, blocking Rip's attack with her armored shell. BLOMP! Rip bounced off her shell and crashed into a stack of stage lights. "So much for Step 2!" Nikki yelled. She grabbed a broom from a nearby workbench. Ms. Vanderpants stepped toward Rip, who was still on the ground. "Leave him alone!" Nikki screamed.

范德帕斯弯下腰，摇着尾巴。 瑞普放下喇叭，向校长冲去。 她猛地转过身来，用她的甲壳挡住了里普的攻击。 BLOMP !里普被炮弹弹回，撞到了一堆舞台灯光上。 “第二步就到此为止了！”尼基喊道。 她从附近的工作台上抓起一把扫帚。 范德帕斯走向仍躺在地上的里普。 “放开他！”尼基尖叫。

Nikki swung the broom at Ms. Vanderpants's legs, catching her ankles and tripping her to the floor. But in an instant, Ms. Vanderpants was back on her claws. "I'm coming, Nikki!" Alexander shouted. He ran for a mop, but tripped over a skittering ant. "Urf!" He crashed into a costume rack, getting his head stuck in a knight's helmet.

妮基用扫把砸向琼斯女士。 范德帕斯的腿，抓住她的脚踝，把她绊倒在地。 但在一瞬间，范德帕斯又重新站了起来。 “我来了，妮基！”亚历山大喊道。 他跑去拿拖把，却被一只飞掠的蚂蚁绊倒了。 “Urf !”他撞到了服装架上，头卡在了骑士的头盔里。

GRAAAWWRR! Monster-Rip roared, and threw a sandbag at Ms. Vanderpants's head. She lunged at the bag, spearing it with her horn. A shower of sand rained down on Nikki. Nikki staggered, wiping the sand from her eyes, and smashed into Sir Alexander. The two of them bumped into a control panel next to the curtains, and then fell into an oversized drum.

GRAAAWWRR !怪物瑞普大吼一声，把一个沙袋扔向她。 Vanderpants的头。她扑向袋子，用她的角把它刺穿。 一阵沙雨落在妮基身上。 妮基踉跄着，擦去眼睛里的沙子，撞到了亚历山大爵士身上。 他们俩撞到了窗帘旁边的控制面板上，然后掉进了一个超大的鼓里。

VRRRRR!!!! A cable began to move. The curtains were going up. "No!" Ms. Vanderpants shouted. "The students mustn't see me like this!" She dove at the control panel, stabbing it with her horn. SPROING! The cable snapped in half, and the curtain came back down. GRAAAWWRR! Once again, Rip charged at his principal. She jumped straight up, clutching the end of the broken cable.

VRRRRR ! !一根缆绳开始移动。 窗帘升起来了。 “不!”范德帕斯喊道。 “不能让学生看到我这个样子！”她扑向控制面板，用她的角戳它。 SPROING !缆绳啪的一声断成两半，窗帘又拉了下来。 GRAAAWWRR !瑞普又一次向他的本金冲去。 她直接跳了起来，紧紧抓住断缆的末端。

Rip flew under her. CLONK-KER-BLASH! He plowed into a stack of brass instruments, and fell into the drum with Alexander and Nikki. "Oof," he said, back in regular-Rip mode. "Enough," said Ms. Vanderpants. "You will listen to what I have to say!" She held the end of the broken cable in her claws. Then she curled back into a ball and rolled around the S.S.M.P., impossibly fast, tying them to the drum.

瑞普从她身下飞过。CLONK-KER-BLASH !他撞上了一堆铜管乐器，与亚历山大和尼基一起掉进了鼓里。 “不。”他说，又回到了正常的开膛破肺模式。 “够了，”范德帕斯说。 “你得听我说！”她用爪子抓着断缆的末端。 然后她蜷缩成一个球，绕着s.s.m.p.滚来滚去，速度快得令人难以置信，把它们绑在鼓上。