13 The Last

CHAPTER 13 THE LAST CHAPTER You wouldn't believe what happened next. I mean, I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

One group of blobs joined together to form a really big blob with super-strong arms that hugged our tree tight while another group of blobs merged themselves into a giant sling with super-stretchy arms and pulled the tree in the opposite direction. 'Prepare for sling-off,' called the little blob. The sling-blob pulled and pulled until its arms looked like they were going to snap under the strain. 'Three, two, one… SLING!' shouted the little blob.

The big blob that had been holding onto our tree let go and, with a deafening TWANG, we were slung away from Blobdromeda at super-slingshot speed!

'Well, that was fun,' said Terry. 'Let's go back to the time-wasting level and waste some more time.' 'I think we've wasted enough time for one book,' I said. 'And, speaking of which, we've got a book to write—and a lot to write about. Let's get started. We should just have enough time to finish it before we get back to Earth.' And that's exactly what we did. We wrote… and we drew…

and we drew… and we wrote…

and we wrote… and we wrote…