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reaching the top next to him. “Hey, I just thought of something. What’s worse than a giraffe with a sore throat?”
    â€œMore jokes?” Mike whined. “I don’t know.”
    Liz smiled. “A Tiki head with a headache!” She grabbed Mike’s bat and began banging the top of the Tiki head. Boom! Boom!
    â€œRevenge!” thundered the Tiki man.
    â€œThat’s the word, all right,” yelled Mike, taking the bat and whacking the head some more. “And we can use it, too!”
    That was when Liz and Mike saw the other Tiki heads. They were coming to help their Tiki head pal. And their eyeballs were all glowing and ready to fire.
    â€œUh-oh! Time to move along!” Liz cried. “Follow me!”
    â€œHuh?” said Mike. “Follow you … where?”
    But Liz grabbed his hand and took a running jump off the Tiki man’s head, just as the other heads crowded around him.
    They landed on one of the other Tiki heads.
    â€œRevenge!” the head boomed.
    They raced across that and jumped to another head. And from there to another and another.
    â€œRevenge! Revenge!” boomed all the heads.
    â€œHey, just like stepping stones!” Mike shouted. “I love it!” But the Tiki heads didn’t. They blasted at the kids with every leap.
    BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! The jungle exploded with fiery flashes of incredible Tiki eyeball power. But the kids were too fast for them.
    Leaping off the last head, Liz and Mike scrambled to the ground and ran as fast as their legs could carry them. They ran straight up the highest hill overlooking Grover’s Mill and straight into the crowd of townspeople and their friends.
    â€œThey’re coming!” Liz told everyone. “For their final attack!”
    â€œAnd thanks to us, they’re way mad,” Mike added.
    In the distance Buddy Kool was barking commands into the microphone as his army of thousands of Mango Men massed for a huge assault.
    The sun was setting quickly over Grover’s Mill. Over what used to be their town.
    Scrape! Thump! Scrape!
    Boom-ba-boom-boom!
    The sounds echoed up and around the hill from the jungle below. And then came those terrible quaking, thundering words again.
    â€œRevenge! Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!”
    The five friends huddled together.
    â€œThey’re going to do that ray thing on us and zap us out of existence!” cried Holly.
    â€œThey’ll take over once and for all!” Jeff said.
    â€œWe’ll be the town that never was!” said Sean.

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    Forever Weird
    Z ZZZ — BLAM! The Tiki men marched up the hill, blasting away with their deadly eyeballs, destroying everything in their path!
    â€œI can’t stand this!” Liz yelled out, jumping up. “If those Tiki men get here, we won’t have any town left! We won’t be living anywhere!”
    Sean shook his head. “What would that be like?”
    â€œIt would be like … nothing!” shrieked Liz. She felt so angry she grabbed one of the baseball bats and slammed it on the ground next to her.
    WHOOF! The ground crumbled away beneath her. Liz lost her balance and fell into a hole.
    â€œOh, not again!” she cried. “Man, I hate holes! What is with me today? I’m spending most of my time underground!” Then she looked around. “Hey, wait a second. There’s something down here. A stone. And it’s carved.”
    â€œUh-oh,” said Mike. “Tiki man number six?”
    â€œNo,” she said. “I don’t think so.”
    â€œStand back!” yelled Mr. Duffey. “If it’s stone and it’s carved, it must be archaeological!”
    He jumped down into the hole next to his daughter. “Golly, it’s round,” he announced.
    â€œAnd flat,” Liz added. “With a little hole in the middle like a wheel. It looks like—”
    Mr. Duffey jumped up. “It’s a millstone, used to mill or grind things.