52 The Cloaked Division

52 The Cloaked Division "Table Guy! Am I glad to see you!" said Peanut, smiling at the superhero wearing the dark brown spandex bodystocking, and standing on the large coffee table floating a couple of metres above her and Jonathan Higginbottom. "Yes! It is I!" he replied. Peanut remembered that he only spoke in sentences ending in an exclamation mark. "Can you get us out of here?" said Peanut. "Of course I can! But first we must attend to this!" Table Guy nodded towards Alan. "CAST YOUR NETS, FISHER MAN!"

52 披风分队 “桌子哥！ “真高兴见到你！”花生笑着对这位超级英雄说，他穿着深棕色氨纶紧身衣，站在一张大咖啡桌上，桌子飘在她和乔纳森·希金博顿上方几米处。 “没错！ “正是我！” 他回答道。 花生记起来，他说的每句话都以感叹号结尾。 “你能带我们离开这儿吗？”花生问道。 “我当然可以！ 不过我们得先处理这件事！” 桌子哥朝艾伦点了点头。 “撒出你的网，渔夫男！”

An equally muscular figure, wearing thigh-length yellow boots and a yellow cape with built-in sou'wester, was sitting in a flying rowing boat that had just appeared out of nowhere. He stood up, adopted a wide- legged, heroic stance, and started firing some sort of webbing from his fingertips. The webbing merged together to form huge nets that floated down through the air and completely covered Alan, the RAZERs and the Exocetia. "CATCH OF THE DAY!" shouted Fisher Man, with a chuckle. "Thank you, Fisher Man!" shouted Peanut, before turning to Table Guy and beaming. "Shall we?" The superhero cleared his throat. "BY THE WONDER OF WOOD!" he bellowed. Seconds after he shouted the words, a very long table that looked like it must have come from the boardroom in a fancy office somewhere flew around from behind the Spire and floated gently down to the ground. "Climb aboard, Mr Higginbottom!" said Table Guy. The alligator kicked off his roller skates and did as he was told. Peanut, meanwhile, clambered up on to Table Guy's flying coffee table and adopted a surfing stance.

一个同样肌肉发达的身影，穿着及踝黄靴，披着自带防水帽的黄色披风，正坐在一艘不知从哪冒出来的飞行划艇上。 他站起身，叉开腿摆出英雄站姿，开始从指尖射出某种网状细丝。 细丝交织成一张大网，从空中飘落，把艾伦、剃刀战队和飞鱼号全罩住了。 “今日渔获！”渔夫男大笑着喊道。 “谢谢你，渔夫男！” 花生大喊道，接着她转向桌子哥，露出灿烂的笑容。 “我们走吧？” 这位超级英雄清了清嗓子。 “以木材的神奇魔力之名！”他大吼道。 他话音刚落，一张看起来像是豪华写字楼会议室里的长桌从尖塔后方飞出来，缓缓飘落到地面上。 “请上来吧，希金博顿先生！”桌子哥说。 鳄鱼脱掉轮滑鞋，按照他说的做了。 与此同时，花生爬上桌子哥的飞行咖啡桌，摆出了冲浪的姿势。

"OK! LET'S FLY!" commanded Table Guy, and the pieces of furniture, with their passengers safely on board, soared high into the air. "Table Guy, won't they be able to get out of those nets pretty easily?" asked Peanut. "Don't worry!" he replied, as they flew towards the battleground. "Cheese Girl and Inferno have got it covered!" Peanut looked back to see yet another muscular superhero flying towards the Spire. She was wearing a pale-

“好了！我们起飞！”桌子哥下令，两张载着乘客的家具稳稳冲向高空。 “桌子哥，他们不会轻易挣脱这张网吧？”花生问道。 “别担心！ 他回答道，此时他们正朝着战场飞去。 “芝士妹和炎男已经搞定了！” 花生回头看去，又一位壮硕的超级英雄正朝着尖塔飞来。 她穿着一身浅——

yellow suit covered in an interesting, if slightly repulsive, blue veiny pattern, and she left a strong smell of Stilton in her wake. Flying just behind her was a man who appeared to be completely on fire. Peanut noticed that he was holding his nose as he flew. The two heroes stopped in mid-air when they reached the Spire, hovering directly above the writhing mass of robots struggling to free themselves from Fisher Man's nets. They looked down and exchanged a few words, before Cheese Girl

黄色战衣，上面布满有趣却有点恶心的蓝色血管纹路，她飞过后，身后留下一股浓烈的斯蒂尔顿奶酪气味。 紧挨着她身后飞着一名男子，他整个人看起来都在燃烧。 花生注意到他飞的时候一直捂着鼻子。 两位英雄飞到尖塔后停在半空，悬浮在那群挣扎着要挣脱渔夫男大网的机器人正上方。 他们低头对视交流了几句，接着芝士妹——

proceeded to hold her hands ten centimetres apart, palms facing inwards. She started muttering a strange incantation, and, as she did so, a small pale-yellow ball materialised between her palms. It grew bigger and bigger as she moved her hands further apart. She kept going until it was about a metre in diameter. She then lowered her hands, leaving the strange object floating in the air, and backed away. At this point, Inferno moved into position and squared up to the floating cheese ball. He opened his mouth and (there's no

上前一步，双手分开十厘米，掌心相对。 她开始念一段奇怪的咒语，念着念着，掌心之间出现了一个小小的浅黄色光球。 随着她把手越分越开，光球也变得越来越大。 她一直分，直到光球直径差不多有一米。 接着她放下手，把这个奇怪的东西留在空中漂浮，自己往后退开。 这时，炎男走到位置前，对着漂浮的芝士球摆好架势。 他张开嘴，（实在没有

other way to describe it) burped fire at it. A powerful blast of white-hot flame shot out and blasted the cheese, instantly melting it. The resulting thick, gloopy liquid rained down on the crowd below, totally covering them. Alan, the RAZERs and the Exocetia, who by this point were almost free from the netting, suddenly found themselves covered by a hot, stringy mess, and unable to move. "I GUESS IT'S JUST NACHO DAY!" shouted Cheese Girl to the fromage-covered crowd. "YEAH!" yelled Inferno. "YOU GUYS NEED TO THINK CAERPHILLY ABOUT YOUR LIFE CHOICES!" Peanut smiled and shook her head. "What is it with superheroes and puns?" she said.

别的方式形容了）打出了一个火焰嗝。 一股强劲的白热火焰喷出来击中芝士，瞬间就把它融化了。 融化后浓稠黏糊的液体落在下方人群身上，把他们全都盖住了。 艾伦、剃刀战队和飞鱼号本来都快挣脱网了，突然就被这滚烫黏软的糊状物裹住，动弹不得。 “今日芝获！”芝士妹对着浑身沾满奶酪的人群喊道。 “说得对！” 炎男大喊道。 “你们得芝仔细细想想自己的人生选择！” 花生笑了笑，摇了摇头。 “为什么超级英雄都爱玩谐音梗呀？”她说道。