Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5 FRANKY, WOLFY, VAMPYRA, AND IGOR Junior stood at the open doorway to Doctor Frankenstein's laboratory. Thunder boomed, lightning crackled, and the whole room was a hissing, spitting, sparking, grinding, flashing mess! "So all we have to do is pull that lever back to where it was in the first place?" said Franky. "Yes," said Igor Junior. "That lever all the way on the other side of the room?" said Wolfy. "Yes," groaned Igor Junior. "Then why didn't you just do that in the first place?" Vampyra said.

"Because I was scared," said Igor Junior. "I don't blame you," Wolfy mumbled. Franky pulled out his copy of the Junior Monster Scout handbook and opened to the Scout Laws. "'It may be scary,'" read Franky, "'but a Junior Monster Scout is brave.'" "'And that means doing what is right,'" said Vampyra, reading over his shoulder. "'Even if they are afraid,'" finished Wolfy. "'Especially if they are afraid,'" Franky said. "'That's what being brave is.'" "You'll help me?" said Igor Junior. "Of course!" said Vampyra. Igor Junior puffed out his chest. "Then let's go!" he said. He reached back and took Franky's hand. Franky took Vampyra's hand. Vampyra took Wolfy's hand, and Wolfy... Well, I suppose he would have held your hand if you were there with the Junior Monster Scouts, but

you were not. So Wolfy did not hold anyone's hand but Vampyra's. Slowly but surely they crept through the laboratory. Past the hissing steam pipe. Over the sparking wire. Under the grinding gears. Around the spitting cauldron. And right up to the flashing machine with the big red lever.

"Well, this is the one," said Igor Junior. "That wasn't so bad," said Wolfy. Thunder boomed overhead, and an arc of lightning lit up the sky. All four of them jumped. It was loud, and it was scary. But the

Junior Monster Scouts and Igor Junior were being brave. Remember? That means doing something even when you are afraid. They were certainly afraid, but they were going to help Igor Junior, and this time Igor Junior wasn't going to pull that lever.... He was going to push it, right back to where it belonged. "Go ahead," Vampyra said. "You can do it," said Wolfy. Igor Junior wiggled his fingers. He squared his shoulders. He took a deep breath. He reached out for the lever— "Wait!" said Franky. He held up the Junior Monster Scout handbook and said...