But as I search through my backpack, I see another one of Dad’s gadgets…
The Shrinking Ray Gun!
Yes!
I can shrink the giants from extra-large to ultra-small! Then I can defeat them!
Slowly, I turn around and take aim at the first giant…
ZAP!
Yes!
What a great shot!
I hit the first giant with the zapping, shrinking laser!
This shrinking gun totally rocks!
Once he is hit by the laser, the first invisible giant shrinks to mini size!
He shrinks from being the size of a skyscraper building, to the size of a regular tall building, to the size of a normal building, to the size of a small building, to the size of an ant’s skyscraper building, to the size of an ant’s tiny building!
Awesome!
My giant problem has just become a mini problem!!
ZAP!
I turn around, and shoot another giant!
Hitting him with the laser, he is shocked by the power. He shakes, tries to brush the laser off his arms, but then starts to shrink as well!
“What is happening?” the giant says in a deep voice as he begins to shrink. “I’m not big anymore.”
“No!” I laugh. “You are now a mini giant! Or a giant mini! Or a mini giant mini!”
This shrinking gun is so awesome!
I turn my attention to the third giant, who is looking at his giant friends strangely.
“Me not want to be small,” he says, and then he tries to grab me! “Me want to stay big.”
“Not today,” I yell as I dodge his hand!
After I have jumped out of the way of his slow moving arm, I take aim at his body…
ZAP!
I hit him with the full force of the Shrinking Ray Gun!
The third giant starts to run away from the powerful rays, but with each step he becomes smaller, until he is shrunk to mega-mini size! He won’t run very fast now.
This is so much fun.
When I get home, I’m going to shrink the neighbor’s big, barking dog, who always tries to eat my school shorts. And maybe I’ll shrink the mess in my bedroom.
And my next math test.
Actually, shrinking a math test won’t work – I’ll just have to write the answers extra small!
With this Shrinking Ray Gun, I am going to easily defeat four invisible giants. Yep. I am so awesome. One last giant to go.
But as I turn to shoot the last giant…
TRIP!
I trip over one of the mini giants!
No!
When I fall, my Invisible Detector Helmet goes flying away from me!
Oh no!
I crash to the ground with a heavy thump, hurting my chin. I try to reach for my helmet again, but it has fallen too far away!
Without my helmet, I can’t see the last invisible giant!
Where is he?
He remains at large!
He could be anywhere!
I need that helmet! Desperately, I try to reach the helmet again, but…
Suddenly, I feel something grab me!
It must be the last invisible giant!
Agh!
I’m doomed….
Chapter 7
Wrestling a Giant
I’m wrecked.
This giant will eat me for sure. Invisible giants are always hungry.
The grip of the invisible giant tightens, and I can begin to smell his breath. Oh, he smells so bad. He really should brush his invisible giant teeth more often.
I struggle against the tight grip, trying to break free, but it is no use. He is too strong, and I can’t see what I am struggling against.
Oh man.
This is the end for me…
“Charlie!” I hear a voice below. “Charlie!”
“Mia!”
Mia is standing below me, looking totally confused. She must have come into the Evil Forest looking for us!
“What are you doing up there?” she asks, as she can’t see the invisible giant. “And how are you flying? What is happening?”
“I’m not flying!” I yell as I struggle against the giant.
“Then what are you doing up there? How are you that high in the air?”
If I told Mia that I am about to be eaten by a huge, scary invisible giant - she would think I’m crazy!
“Um… let’s just say I have a giant problem right now!” I yell.
“Ok…” she replies. “You should come back down here so we can carry Harley and Jack the Jock out of the forest. They look like they have been hurt.”
“No, Mia, I need your help! Something bad is happening, and I need to stop it! I need you to throw up my helmet and my mini-gun!”
Quickly, Mia grabs my Invisible Detector Helmet and mini-gun, and throws them up to me.
Her toss is perfect!
“Thanks! Great throw!”
Swiftly, I put the Invisible Detector Helmet on…
Whoa!
The invisible giant is about to eat me!
But not now!
Swiftly, I grab my Shrinking Ray Gun, and fire a shot straight into his mouth!
“Eat this!” I yell.
ZAP!
Woo!
The last giant starts to shrink to mini size!
He is no longer dangerous!
Actually, I don’t know if the giant is a ‘he’ or a ‘she.’ It’s hard to tell with invisible giants.
Phew…
That was close!
As the giant shrinks, I am lowered back to the ground.
Mia is confused as she watches me being lowered gently, “Charlie, are you ok?”
“I am now,” I smile.
The invisible mini-giant looks up at me, and says, “Yummy?”
“Not now,” I say. “Now run away, you little mini giants.”
I laugh loudly as I watch the four mini giants run away from me.
“Um, what are you laughing at, Charlie?” Mia looks at me like I’m crazy. “I can’t see anything. And who said ‘Yummy?’ I can’t see anyone else here.”
“Err…” I realize that Mia can’t see the invisible mini giants. “I’m not laughing at anything.”
“And what is with that crazy helmet?” she laughs.
Chapter 8
The Wind
After the tiny giants have run back into the Evil Forest, I turn to Mia to say thanks for throwing up the helmet and mini-gun. She really saved my life.
“What happened?” she asks, looking confused. “How were you floating up in the air?”
“It was… err… it was just the wind.”
“The wind?” Mia raises her eyebrows. I don’t think she believes me. “The wind picked you up, and swung you around like that? And then the wind said ‘Yummy?’”
“Yeah, just the wind,” I lie. “The old windy wind. It’s crazy, that wind. And that’s what makes the Evil Forest so evil. It was just the wind all along. Nothing to worry about. Just the normal, old, blowy wind. Very normal. Nothing unusual at all.”
Mia smiles at me.
She knows I’ve done something cool, but she doesn’t know what it is. Being a man of mystery is a lot of fun.
“You’re alright, Charlie Chucky,” Mia smiles. “And you look a lot better without that silly helmet on.”
The problem with being a Super Spy is that you can never tell anyone about all the cool stuff you do.
I can never tell anyone that I have just saved the day, and I definitely can’t tell the school’s cutest girl that I’ve just shrunk four invisible giants.
She would think I’m crazy.
“Uh?” Jack the Jock begins to wake up, and Mia rushes over to him. “Where am I?”
“Jack?” Mia says. “Are you ok? Are you hurt?”
“Um… no. I think I’m ok. I think I was hit by something, but there was nothing there. I was just walking along in the forest, looking for the soccer ball, when something hit me. I have no idea what it was. It
was like it was invisible. What happened?”
“When you were running to get the ball, you fell over a stick,” I lie. “You didn’t get hit by an invisible giant. Nope. Nothing like that. You just fell over a stick. That’s all.”
“A stick? That’s not good. How did I fall over a stick? I’ll have to do more agility drills tomorrow to make sure I don’t do that again,” Jack the Jock says as he gets back to his feet. “But if I fell over in the Evil Forest, how did I get out here? Did something drag me here?”
“No…” I try to quickly think of an excuse. I cannot tell these guys that there were invisible giants running around – they will think I am completely nuts. “You fell over a stick, and then rolled all the way out here.”
“Sure,” Jack replies. He would believe anything. Last week, Jim told him that a ham sandwich makes the best hat, and he walked around all day with a sandwich on his head.
I look to Mia, and she just raises her eyebrows again.
“Sure, Charlie,” she smiles. “Whatever you say.”
As Jack the Jock gets to his feet, we start to look for Harley, but we can’t see him anywhere.
Where has he gone?
Then I spot a miniature Harley!
I must have accidently shot him with the Shrinking Ray Gun.
Oops.
“Just wait, Harley. I’ll zap you again, and that will reverse the effects of the Shrinking Ray Gun,” I say.
After I zap him again, Harley grows back to normal size.
“Well, that was weird,” he says as he dusts himself off.
“No, it wasn’t. That was totally normal,” I reply. “Totally normal.”
“I don’t want to be here any longer, Charlie. Too much crazy stuff has happened,” Harley says as he rubs his head. “I just want to go home and hug my teddy bears.”
“It’s time to go back to camp,” Mia agrees. “I think they might be worried about us.”
“But do we have to go back through the Evil Forest?” Harley looks terrified. “I don’t want to go back through there. That place is so scary.”
“Don’t worry,” I say. “The forest isn’t evil any more. Maybe we can rename it ‘Mini-Giant Forest.’”
I laugh at the name, but nobody else does.
I guess they don’t know what happened.
Mia shakes her head, “Charlie, you’re pretty cool, but sometimes you say the weirdest things.”
Although Mia doesn’t know what I did, I’m sure she thinks I’m awesome now.
Slowly, we walk back through the dark forest, pick up the soccer ball, and return to school camp.
Nobody knows what I did to save my friends, but that’s ok.
It’s all in a day’s work for a Super Spy, I guess…
The End
Also in the Diary of a Super Spy series:
Diary of a Super Spy
Diary of a Super Spy: Attack of the Ninjas!
Diary of a Super Spy: Space!
Diary of a Super Spy: Evil Attack!
Diary of a Super Spy: Daylight Robbery!
Also by Peter Patrick and William Thomas:
Diary of a Ninja Spy
Diary of a Ninja Spy 2
Diary of a Ninja Spy 3
Diary of a Ninja Spy 4
Diary of a Time Spy
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Chapter 1
Math Class
Another math test…
I bet teachers lie in bed at night and dream up new ways to torture their students. This time, Mrs. Jackson has developed the ultimate torture – a ten-page math test on everything we have studied this year.
Oh man…
My name is Charlie Chucky, I am in the sixth grade, I love playing Minecraft, and I am learning to become a Super Spy.
My Dad is the world’s best Super Spy, and he is starting to teach me all his little tricks. Lately, I’ve been battling invisible giants, crazy zombie teachers, and super ninjas!
Life has been pretty crazy, and I’ve enjoyed every second of it.
My best friend Harley is different to me. He doesn’t want to become a Super Spy. He doesn’t want to battle bad guys and save the world each week. Nope. He wants to sit indoors and stare at numbers all day. Harley’s dream is to become the world’s greatest math professor.
He loves school, he loves studying, and he absolutely loves math tests.
He goes mad for them. It is the one thing he is really good at. He just loves numbers.
Numbers are like candy for him – he can’t get enough of it. He even asked Mrs. Jackson for extra math homework last night. Mrs. Jackson then decided to give the whole class extra math homework. Let’s just say Harley wasn’t that popular after school.
This is Harley.
Mrs. Jackson always says that someday math will save our lives, but I can’t see how it will.
Maybe one day, four giant numbers will attack our school, and I will defeat them using an algebra equation… or maybe the numbers in my textbook will go bad, and start attacking all the words on the pages, and I will stop them using a calculator!
Maybe.
Or maybe not.
About halfway through the math test, I lose concentration and stare out the window, dreaming about all the crazy things I get to do. I wonder what I will get to do today? Maybe I’ll battle chocolate frogs, or an ice-cream monster. That way, I could defeat them by eating them for dessert. Hmmm… they would be the best bad guys ever.
As I stare out the window at a cloud that looks like a giant hotdog riding a toy elephant, I see something in the sky.
It looks like some sort of spaceship.
And it is falling.
Fast.
Really, really fast!
That is so cool!
A spaceship! Or a UFO! Or a flying saucer! Or a space cup!
Whatever you want to call it, it is cool!
But…
CRASH!
Whatever has fallen from the sky has crashed into the ground at a really fast pace!
That looks totally dangerous.
Wait a minute…
It looks like it has crashed right next to my house!
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