5 Coke’s Nightmare

Chapter 5 COKE'S NIGHTMARE At this point, you're probably wondering when Coke is going to get thrown into a volcano. Be patient, dear reader. Good things come to those who wait. We're only in chapter 5. While Coke slept, the neurons in his brain kept firing. The result was a dream that was almost like a movie in his head. It looked like this... Beautiful summer day. Coke and Pep were floating on inflatable pool rafts in the middle of a lake. There were no boats in sight. They didn't have a care in the world. Then, suddenly, the peace was disturbed by a faraway noise—the sound of a motor, possibly a small boat. Coke looked up. In the distance, he could see two tiny dots.

说到这里，你可能想知道可口可乐什么时候会被扔进火山。 亲爱的读者，要有耐心。好东西总是属于那些愿意等待的人。 我们才到第五章。当科克睡觉时，他大脑中的神经元继续放电。 结果在他的脑海里出现了一个几乎像电影一样的梦。 它看起来是这样的……美丽的夏日。 可乐和佩普在湖中央的充气救生筏上漂浮。 看不到任何船只。 他们在这个世界上无忧无虑。 然后，突然，宁静被远处的一个声音打破了——那是发动机的声音，可能是小船的声音。 可乐抬起头来。在远处，他可以看到两个小点。

"What's going on?" Pep asked. "Sounds like motorboats." But the dots were not motorboats. They were Jet Skis. And they were heading directly toward the twins. Pep waved her arms to signal the drivers. But they didn't seem to notice. "I don't have a good feeling about this," Pep said. As the Jet Skis drew closer, the twins could see that two men were driving them. Two men wearing bowler hats. "Bowler dudes at twelve o'clock!" Coke shouted. "They're gonna run us down!" Pep screamed.

“发生什么事了？”Pep问道。 “听起来像摩托艇。”但这些点并不是摩托艇。 他们是水上摩托艇。他们正朝双胞胎飞去。 佩普挥手示意司机。 但他们似乎没有注意到。 “我感觉不太好，”佩普说。 随着摩托艇越来越近，双胞胎看到有两个男人在驾驶他们。 两个戴圆顶礼帽的男人。 “鲍勒伙计们在十二点方向！”可口可乐喊道。 “他们会把我们撞倒的！”Pep尖叫。

"Jump!" Coke shouted. He could see the bowler dudes' faces, snickering and giggling like idiots. He took a deep gulp of air and dove off his raft at the last possible instant before the Jet Ski would have rammed him. It passed right over, ripping the raft to shreds. Coke struggled to swim back to the surface. "Oooh, missed him by that much!" cackled the mustachioed bowler dude. "This is fun!" shouted his clean-shaven brother. "We should do water sports more often!" As Coke's head bobbed above the surface, he saw Pep, treading water and gasping for breath. Her raft had also been destroyed. "They're trying to kill us!" she shouted. The Jet-Skiing bowler dudes were circling around, gunning their engines for another attack. "They're coming back!" Pep screamed. "Get underwater!" Coke shouted, before filling his lungs with air.

“跳!”可口可乐喊道。他能看到那些戴礼帽的人的脸，像傻瓜一样窃笑和傻笑。 他深深地吸了一口气，在摩托艇撞到他之前的最后一刻从木筏上跳了下去。 它直接冲过来，把木筏撕成了碎片。 可口可乐挣扎着游回水面。 “哦，差那么远！”大胡子的保龄球手咯咯地笑着说。 “真好玩！”他刮得干干净净的弟弟喊道。 “我们应该多做水上运动！”当可口可乐的头露出水面时，他看到了佩普，他正踩着水喘着气。 她的木筏也被毁了。 “他们想杀我们！”她喊道。 那些玩水上摩托的家伙们在周围转圈，开动发动机准备发动另一次攻击。 “他们回来了！”Pep尖叫。 “水下!”可乐喊道，然后给他的肺里灌满了空气。

The bowler dudes came roaring back, aiming their Jet Skis for the two heads bobbing in the water. Once again, the twins dove below the surface at the last second, avoiding certain death. "It's like Whac-A-Mole, but with people!" shouted the clean-shaven bowler dude as he passed by the spot where Pep's head had been a moment earlier. Coke and Pep stayed underwater as long as they could hold their breath. When they surfaced, a large yacht was approaching from the west. It cruised to a stop. There was a woman standing at the rail. "Mrs. Higgins!" Coke shouted. Yes, it was Mrs. Audrey Higgins, their germaphobic health teacher. She reached a hand down for Coke and Pep to climb aboard the yacht, and gave each of them a towel. "You saved our lives!" Pep marveled. "Why? You hate us. You've been trying to kill us ever since you locked us in the detention room and

那些玩保龄球的家伙呼啸着回来了，他们的水上摩托瞄准了那两个在水里晃动的头。 再一次，这对双胞胎在最后一秒潜入水面下，避免了死亡。 “这就像打地鼠游戏，只不过是和人玩！”那个刮得干干净净的保龄球手从刚才佩普的脑袋所在的地方走过时喊道。 可口可乐和佩普一直呆在水下，直到他们能屏住呼吸。 当他们浮出水面时，一艘大游艇正从西边驶来。 它慢慢地停了下来。有个女人站在栏杆旁。 “希金斯太太!”可口可乐喊道。 是的，是奥黛丽·希金斯夫人，他们有洁癖的健康老师。 她伸手让可乐和佩普爬上游艇，并给了他们每人一条毛巾。 “你救了我们的命！”Pep希奇。 “为什么?你恨我们。自从你把我们锁在拘留所后你就一直想杀我们

burned the school down." "Well, I didn't want those idiots to kill you," Mrs. Higgins replied matter-of-factly, "because I wanted to do it myself!" It took a moment for Mrs. Higgins's words to sink in. It also took a moment for the colorless, sweet-smelling liquid she had soaked the towels in to take effect. But very soon, Coke and Pep were feeling lightheaded. "What's that smell?" Coke asked. "I think... I'm going to... pass out," said Pep. "It's my favorite scent—chloroform," said Mrs. Higgins. "It increases the movement of potassium ions through the nerve cells, which serves to depress your central nervous system. The result will be cardiac arrhythmia. Don't worry, in a few minutes you won't smell a thing. Because you'll be dead." Clearly, she was insane. Unbeknownst to Mrs. Higgins, a helicopter had landed at the other side of her yacht. While

烧毁了学校。”“嗯，我不想让那些白痴杀了你，”希金斯太太若无其事地回答，“因为我想自己动手！”过了一会儿，我才明白希金斯太太的话。 她浸在毛巾里的无色的、有甜味的液体也过了一会儿才起作用。 但很快，可口可乐和佩普就感到头晕目眩。 “那是什么味道？”可口可乐问道。 “我认为……我要…… 昏倒了，”佩普说。“这是我最喜欢的气味——氯仿，”希金斯太太说。 “它会增加钾离子在神经细胞中的运动，从而抑制中枢神经系统。 结果会导致心律失常。 别担心，几分钟后你就闻不到味道了。 因为你会死的。”显然，她疯了。 希金斯夫人不知道的是，一架直升机降落在她游艇的另一边。 而

she was busy poisoning the twins with chloroform, the helicopter pilot—a red-haired teenager—had come running over. "Step aside, you old hag!" he said, shoving Mrs. Higgins overboard. "Archie Clone!" Pep yelled. Yes, it was Archie Clone, the teenage supervillain who had attempted to drop them onto the tip of the Washington Monument. "Come with me!" Archie Clone yelled. "Quickly!" "I thought you died in Washington!" Coke yelled as he and Pep ran and climbed into the passenger side of the helicopter. It had no door on it. "You thought wrong," Archie Clone replied. He grabbed the controls and the chopper lifted off the yacht. Archie Clone turned the helicopter and pointed it toward the edge of the lake. Soon the twins could see land passing below. Archie Clone slowed the chopper and hovered over

她正忙着用氯仿给双胞胎下毒，直升机驾驶员——一个红头发的少年——跑了过来。 “靠边站，你这个老妖婆！”他说着，把希金斯太太推了下去。 “阿奇克隆!”Pep喊道。 是的，是阿奇克隆，那个试图把他们扔到华盛顿纪念碑顶端的少年超级恶棍。 “跟我来！”克隆阿奇喊道。 “快!”“我还以为你死在华盛顿了呢！”可口可乐一边大喊一边和佩普一起跑进了直升机的副驾驶座。 上面没有门。“你想错了，”克隆阿奇回答。 他抓住控制装置，直升机从游艇上起飞了。 克隆阿奇调转直升机，把它指向湖边。 很快，这对双胞胎就看到了下面的陆地。 克隆阿奇放慢了直升机的速度，在上空盘旋