13 Volcanoes All Around!

Chapter Thirteen Volcanoes All Around! "They have Vale!" Finn shouted. But he could see from his friends' faces that they already knew. If they didn't do something fast, Vale would be rock-giant lunch. Paige, Finn, and Foggy landed at the top of the volcano. "We have to get back down there and get him," said Finn. Voltronix landed just behind them, setting down Elias and Abigail. "I WILL FIX THIS!" said Voltronix Zu. "No!" yelled everyone. "OH, I DON'T MIND," said Voltronix. "BUT THANKS. LET'S SEE." Voltronix raised the scope again and began fiddling with the dials on the side. "What are you doing?" said Elias.

"I'M GOING TO REVERSE WHAT FOGGY DID LAST TIME AND SEND THIS VOLCANO BACK DOWN INTO THE GROUND." "Me?" said Foggy. "I told you counterclockwise!" "PRETTY SURE YOU SAID COUNTERWISE, WHICH ISN'T EVEN A THING," said Voltronix. "I FORGIVE YOU. ANYWAY, LET ME SEE HERE. AHA. HERE WE GO. PROBLEM! MEET YOUR SOLUTION!" The scope again lit up different colors, eventually turning white. "Oh no, Voltronix," said Elias. "Not again." Another volcano, just a football field away, started to spring up from the ground. "HUH," said Voltronix. "FOGGY MUST HAVE BEEN WRONG ABOUT THAT ONE, TOO." "Me?!" shouted Foggy. "I didn't do anything, chum!" "Foggy, we need to get down there and save Vale," said Finn. "Voltronix is not going to do it." "I BEG YOUR PARDON!" said Voltronix. He was surprised no one was telling him how

awesome he was. "LOOK. PRESTO! EVERYTHING IS FIXED!" Another volcano erupted from the ground. The rumbling nearly knocked the explorers over. "Elias, can you take a look at the scope?" asked Abigail. "We need to get down there to Vale. I think they're squeezing him like a teddy bear." "Me?" said Elias. "But don't you want someone else? It always takes me forever to do

anything." "Can't get any worse than Voltronix," said Finn. "I don't know," said Elias. "The last thing I built blew up in my room." "Elias, you can do this," said Finn. "And I never did make the breadshield," said Elias. "You know, I think if I could somehow get the scanner to tell a Danish from a doughnut, then—" "ELIAS!" yelled Finn. "Stop talking about pastries. We believe in you. You are our chief technologist. You got this. We are all depending on you." Finn, Abigail, and Foggy flew back down to the giants. Foggy soared right at the rock monsters.

"This is fuunnnnnn!" he yelled as he circled the giant holding on to Vale. The giant swung a large hand at the robot, barely missing him. "Okay, all depending on me," said Elias. "No big deal. Actually, big deal. Very big deal. Kind of a bigger deal than a breadshield." Elias was starting to sweat. "LET ME TRY ONE MORE TIME!" said Voltronix. He twisted more dials on the scope. Six

small volcanoes shot up out of the volcano they were standing on. "Oh, for Pete's sake!" said Paige. She grabbed the scope from Voltronix and handed it to Elias. "Just fix it already. Otherwise, we're done for." Elias held up the scope. Giants were now crawling out of every volcano on the surface of the planet. He had to do something. But what?