Chapter 21

21 KLINK, KLANK, AND FRANK EINSTEIN SEARCH ALL OF MIDVILLE for Watson. Watson is not at the lab. He is not at his house. Frank searches north. Klink searches east. Klank searches west. Watson is not at the library, the park, the candy store, the diner, the baseball diamond, the oak tree above town. No Watson uptown,

downtown, east side, west side. No Watson anywhere. Frank, Klink, and Klank meet back at the lab. They sit down at the workbench, and Frank rolls out a map of Midville that they study, puzzling over where Watson could be. "If Watson had a GPS signal like I do," says Klink, "I could track him on my map." "If Watson could sing robot songs like I do," says Klank, "I could find him with my song locator." "He doesn't have a GPS, and he can't sing at all," says Frank. "But if I know Watson, he's trying to solve this mystery." "What mystery?" beeps Klank. "The mystery of why Edison is buying up energy-supply companies... and wrecking them." Frank scratches his head. "What was the last thing Watson said?" Klink checks his robot memory. He replays

Watson's "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" "No," says Frank. "Before that. The thing he said about tracking something down." Klink searches his records. He plays: "We have to find out who this helps. We have to follow the energy." "That's it!" says Frank. "That's our answer to where Watson is. He followed the energy. To the one energy source still working." "The robot monster's house?" asks Klank. Frank Einstein mentally checks off the destroyed power sources: —the Midville Coal Plant —the Midville Wind Farm —the Midville Solar Array Grampa Al sticks his head in Frank's lab to complain about losing all electricity. "That darn Midville Power and Light company!" "Exactly," says Frank. "Huh?" says Klank.

Twenty minutes later, at the shoreline of the lake just above the only power-supply source in Midville still working—the Midville Hydroelectric Dam—Frank Einstein is, once again, proved right. "Watson!" booms Klank. He gives Watson, who happens to be tied and taped to the front of an inflatable raft, a giant Klank hug. "Watson!" beeps Klink from the bottom of the raft, where Klank has dropped him. "Exactly," says Frank, hopping into the raft to untape him. "Watson." Everyone is so excited that no one notices a long, dark, not-human hand untie the raft, push it gently out into the water flowing toward the dam, and sign:

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