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lost and alone. I found you when I was playing by the river, talking to the crocodiles. They were going to eat you, but I convinced them to let you go, and you came to live with me. I became your family! Remember? You’d never want to help someone like Aunt Petunia!’
    Chu blinks, but I can’t tell if I’m getting through.
    â€˜Please, Chu, try to remember who you really are!’

Chu slowly looks down at the Super Transmitter in his hand and then back at me.
    â€˜Leigh?’
    My whole face breaks into a grin. ‘Yeah, Chu?’
    â€˜Catch!’ He throws the Super Transmitter to me, and I grab it through the bars of the cage.
    â€˜What’s going on?’ screeches Aunt Petunia. ‘How dare you interrupt my plans!’
    But I ignore her and concentrate on the Super Transmitter. I’ve got no idea how to turn it off since there’s no switch, and I can’t risk destroying it, even with Sam’s help, in case it hurts the animals whose minds are being controlled. But there is one thing I can try. I close my eyes and send out my psychic animancer powers.
    â€˜Animals everywhere! Stop doing the things you’re doing! Stop attacking your owners and destroying things! They’re not the ones to blame. Aunt Petunia is the real bad guy! She tried to control your minds and make you do things you’d never normally do. But you don’t have to do what she says! The only voice you have to listen to is your own. That will tell you what you have to do!’
    A silence settles around the studio, and I don’t know if it worked or not. The first person to break the silence is Aunt Petunia.
    â€˜Sweetpea, unlock their cage!’ she orders. I watch nervously to see what the gorilla will do, and my heart sinks when I see he does exactly what she tells him to.
    â€˜It didn’t work,’ I mutter. ‘My powers weren’t strong enough.’
    â€˜Beryl, rip these annoying kids to shreds. I don’t want them meddling in any of my plans ever again!’ Beryl the bear steps forward with a growl,and I can’t help but think we’re all done for. But to my surprise I realise she’s not growling at us, she’s growling at Aunt Petunia and Sweetpea.
    â€˜You can’t tell us what to do any more, old lady!’ she says in a gravelly voice. ‘I’m free of your signal now!’
    â€˜All right! Leigh’s plan worked!’ yells Jay.
    We all cheer, overjoyed not to be meeting our ends at some very sharp teeth. But it’s not over yet. There’s still Aunt Petunia to deal with and her pet gorilla.
    â€˜You’d better apologise, Aunt Petunia,’ I say. ‘Beryl is pretty mad. And I’m willing to bet there are animals all over the world who have a bone to pick with you!’
    â€˜B-b-but it wasn’t even my idea!’ stammers Aunt Petunia. ‘It was Sweetpea’ s!’
    The gorilla spins around and glares at Aunt Petunia. ‘Shut up, old lady!’ he growls.
    The others gasp. ‘A talking gorilla?’ exclaimsRoger. ‘Now I’ve seen everything!’
    At first I wonder if somehow the others have developed animancer powers too, but then I realise that being able to understand Sweetpea has nothing to do with being an animancer. Sweetpea is talking out loud – in human speech!
    Sweetpea turns to run, but Beryl is onto him quickly. She lumbers forward and latches her jaws around his leg. Sweetpea pulls away, and as he does a loud ripping sound fills the air. Beryl is left with scraps of gorilla fur hanging from her jaws, which confuses me at first until I see a pair of very human-looking legs in the place where Sweetpea’s fur has been torn away.
    â€˜It’s a costume!’ I yell. ‘Sweetpea’s not a gorilla at all, he’s a human wearing a gorilla suit!’
    The others gape in astonishment, but the man just laughs under his gorilla mask.
    â€˜Ha! You stupid