Chapter 16

Chapter 16 If science can't help solve this THRILLING national emergency," I said to myself, "that leaves art. But how can art help us now?" That's when I realized it was the skill and vision of an artist that had created a horse statue so lifelike it fooled the giant fly. Perhaps... perhaps that artist could save us now. "Quick, Nina! Take me to the studio of Vanessa Cowcow right now!" "That rhymed," said Nina. "Oh, sorry."

"I don't like rhymes," she said. "I said I was sorry," I pleaded. "You'd better be," she said. Nina was grumpy and rude all the way to Vanessa Cowcow's studio, but she got me there without too much trouble. "Vanessa Cowcow! Vanessa Cowcow!" I yelled, banging on the door with a leaf. The door opened. A cow came out. "Mmmm! Yummers! Lunch!" the cow said and tried to eat me! Nina stepped in the way. No one was having lunch without her. "NO! I'm not lunch! I'm Inspector Flytrap, and I need your help to save the world!" "Oh... OK. Come right in," she said. I explained the problem.

"Since the President won't let us take the statue down, we need you to make a new, even bigger statue that will make the fly go away." "A bigger statue? OK... but what will it be a statue of?" "It needs to be the scariest thing in the world... to a fly." "A spider?" she guessed. "No, that would scare everybody else, too." "A flyswatter?" she guessed. "No, that would be ugly! We need something beautiful!" "I give up," she said. "Oh, come on... think... something that scares flies... but is also beautiful... or perhaps I should say handsome!" "Oh no," groaned Vanessa Cowcow. "Oh no," moaned Nina.

"Oh yes!" I exclaimed. "What we need is an enormous statue of... ME!"