15 THE ESCAPE

CHAPTER 15 THE ESCAPE Using all the strength in her legs, Roz jumped straight up, high into the air, and landed on a tree branch overhead. The tree shook with the sudden weight of the robot, and then—thunk thunk!—two pinecones bounced off Roz, and a moment later—thunk thunk!—the same pinecones bounced off the bears below. The bears grunted with annoyance. This gave Roz an idea. The robot's programming stopped her from being violent, but nothing stopped her from being annoying. So Roz plucked pinecones from the nearby branches and lobbed them down at the bears. Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! Each pinecone bounced off its target with annoying accuracy and whipped the young bears into a frenzy.

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"Roarrrr!" said the sister bear. "Grrrrrr!" said the brother bear. "I do not understand you, bears," said the robot. Roz was about to unload a whole armful of annoying pinecones when a distant roar echoed through the forest. Back at the cave, the mother bear was calling for these two, and she did not sound happy. The young bears looked at each other. They knew they were in trouble. But before lumbering home, they glared up at Roz and snorted one last time. More than anything, they wanted to kill the robot.