The Superpower Project

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Authors: Paul Bristow
looking in disbelief at his garden shed. Smoke billowed out from beneath its door and through both–now broken–windows. The door creaked open and they could see TJ standing inside with a smoking bottle of fertilizer. The beeping sound of the Morse-code machine echoed round the garden.
    â€œCameron,” said TJ calmly, “your shed is compromised. I may need somewhere else to hide.”
    â€œWhat have you done?” shouted Cam.
    â€œIt is not my fault,” said TJ. “The contents of the shed are dangerous if mixed together and set on fire. There should be a sign explaining the danger, Cameron.”
    Cam groaned. “This is going to be worse than when I bought bath bombs for the goldfish.”
    â€œIs your mum in?” asked Megan, genuinely worried.
    â€œShe’s on backshift,” said Cam, “but my dad’ll be in.” He glanced nervously up at the house.
    â€œLook,” said Megan, “I’ll take some of the blame. We can say it was a science project that went wrong.”
    Cam looked at the smoking hollow shell that used to be a shed. “I suppose if they think I was doing school work I might only lose one month’s pocket money.”
    â€œCam? What’s this? What’s going on?” Cam’s dad was hanging out the window, looking tired and unhappy.
    â€œWe’re ok Mr Molloy,” said Megan quickly, “but I think we copied down the chemistry homework wrong.”
    Cam’s dad looked at the smoking garden shed. “Cameron, what have we told you about paying attention in class?” he barked.
    â€œSorry Dad.”
    â€œGet it cleaned up,” he said. “You can explain it to your mum. And what’s that?” He pointed down to TJ.
    â€œArt project,” said Megan. “We’re doing sculptures.”
    â€œFlippin’ sculptures everywhere,” muttered Cam’s dad, disappearing back behind the curtains. “Stupid Chronos bell always making me jump out of my skin at work…”
    â€œThere,” said Megan, turning back to Cam. “All sorted.”
    â€œOh, you think?” said Cam, scowling at TJ.
    â€œNone of this would have happened if there had been a danger sign, Cameron,” said TJ.

Chapter 10.
Bricks and Mortar
    Even if Cam hadn’t just lost his next month’s pocket money, it was pretty clear to Megan that Tin Jimmy would no longer be welcome at his house. It was time for a flit.
    This time Megan and Cam decided to move TJ using a wheelbarrow. But after a few minutes of pushing, Megan was hoping for another lift from the police.
    â€œThis is heavier,” said Cam. “How can it be heavier?”
    â€œAt least it has wheels,” said Megan.
    â€œWould it help if I used my wheels?” asked TJ.
    â€œYour wheels?” asked Megan.
    A pair of ancient-looking roller skates popped out of the robot’s feet.
    â€œYou have wheels!” shouted Cam. “Why didn’t you say that before we started carrying you round like a king?”
    TJ clicked. “It did not seem important.”
    â€œCam, honestly, a roller-skating robot would probably have attracted even more attention.”
    TJ’s wheels clunked back in.
    â€œWhere are we taking him anyway?” scowled Cam. “Somewhere he can’t blow anything up, I hope.”
    â€œYou know number two on Gran’s map marks the old tobacco warehouses, down by the dock? I thought maybe we could leave him there when we check them out,” suggested Megan. “You said they were lying empty.”
    â€œYeah…” said Cam, “but I thought they were getting knocked down.”
    â€œEven more reason to search the place soon then.”
    Cam made the new face he had for whenever Megan talked about the map. It was supposed to make him look interested and pleased that they might be going somewhere dangerous, but it just looked like he had a dodgy tummy.
    â€œIt’ll

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