Chapter 6
Mike returned to his dorm room and tacked up his school calendar, right over the Scare Games flyer he’d picked up earlier. Then he started planning his studying time for the rest of the semester.
But Randy didn’t want to think about school. The first day of classes was over, so he — and most of the other kids — wanted to unwind.
“Come on, Mike. It’s a fraternity and sorority party,” Randy said, referring to the student Greek clubs. “We have to go!”
Mike flipped his calendar to December and marked the date for the Scaring final exam in red ink. He looked at Randy. “We flunk that scaring final, we are done. I’m not taking any chances.” He sat down at his desk and pulled out a textbook.
“We’ve got the whole semester to study,” Randy protested. “But this might be our only chance to get in good with the cool kids. That’s why I made these cupcakes”.
Mike looked at the tray of cupcakes Randy held. Each one had a letter on top, and together, they spelled out BE MY DAL. Randy suddenly noticed the misspelling and twisted the cupcake with the “d” so it turned into a “p”. Now the message read BE MY PAL.
“Oops,” Randy said, adjusting his thick glasses. “That could have been embarrassing.”
But Mike still wouldn’t go. “When I’m a Scarer, life will be a nonstop party,” he said, walking Randy to the door. “Stay out of trouble, wild man!”
Randy giggled. “Wild man!” He liked the sound of that.
Mike smiled, too, and closed the door. Then he rubbed his hands together, eager to dive into his books. He looked at his MU hat on the windowsill and sighed happily.
Just then, he heard a snuffling noise and a strange pig-faced animal popped up at his window. “What the ...?” Mike said in confusion.
The creature snorted as it f lopped through the window and landed on the f loor, its six legs f lailing. Mike jumped back when it ran around the f loor wildly. Then a large blue hand appeared on the windowsill.
“ARCHIE!” Sulley yelled as he fell into Mike’s room with a thud. The pig ran over Sulley’s stomach and under Mike’s bed.
“Hey!” Mike shouted, jumping onto a chair. “What are you doing?”
“Shhhh,” Sulley replied. “Shhhh.”
“Wait,” Mike said. “You’re shushing me? You can’t shush m —” But before he could f inish, Sulley put his big blue hand over Mike’s mouth.
Sulley peeked out the window and saw four big Fear Tech guys run by. “Where’d he go?” one called out. “That guy’s in big trouble!” They were scouring the campus for Sulley.
“Hey, guys, over here!” another shouted, and they all took of f.
Sulley watched them leave. “Fear Tech dummies,” he said, chuckling. Mike mumbled something, and Sulley realized he still had his hand clamped over Mike’s mouth. “Oh, sorry about that, buddy,” he said, and let Mike go.
Mike was gasping for air. “Why are you in my room?” he asked angrily.
Sulley seemed confused for a second. “Your room?” He looked around and said, “Huh, this is not my room,” then shrugged and turned his attention back to the pig. “Archie? Come here, boy!”
“Archie?” Mike asked in disbelief.
“Archie the Scare Pig,” Sulley said as he kneeled down and tried to pull the animal from under the bed. “He’s Fear Tech’s mascot. I stole it! Gonna take it to the RORs.”
“The what?” Mike asked.
Sulley stood up. “Roar Omega Roar? The top fraternity on campus? They only accept the ‘highly elite’, ” he said, poking his big blue chest with his thumb. Then he turned back to the creature. “Okay,” he told Mike, “I’ll lift the bed, you grab the pig. Ready?”
“What? No, no!” Mike cried as Sulley quickly counted to three and then shoved Mike under the bed. The bed bumped and bucked as Mike struggled underneath.
“Don’t let go!” Sulley called out. “And watch out. He’s a biter!” Archie shot out from under the bed, dragging Mike behind him. He ran over Sulley, leaped out of Mike’s hands, and landed on top of Mike’s bookcase.
Sulley quickly began climbing after him. He reached for the creature, shouting, “I got ’im!” just as the whole bookcase came crashing to the f loor.
Sulley landed on the floor, laughing. “That was awesome!” Then he looked at Mike. “What am I doing? I haven’t introduced myself: James P. Sullivan.”
“Mike Wazowski,” Mike said, trying to lead Sulley toward the door. “Listen, it was quite delightful meeting you and whatever that is, but if you don’t mind, I have to study my scaring.”
Sulley rolled his eyes. “Pssh, you don’t need to study scaring, you just do it.”
“Really?” Mike replied. “I think there’s a little more to it than that. But hey, thanks for stopping by.” Mike was about to open the door when he turned and saw the pig ... with his beloved MU hat in its mouth. “Let go of that!” Mike shouted, and lunged for the hat. But Archie leaped out the window. “My hat!” Mike screamed as he dashed through the doorway, hoping to intercept the pig outside.
“My pig!” Sulley shouted, following right behind him.
第 6 章
麥克回到寢室,把校歷釘在之前那張“驚嚇杯”宣傳單的正上方,然后就著手規(guī)劃起這學(xué)期的學(xué)習(xí)時(shí)間。
但是藍(lán)道的心思卻一點(diǎn)也不在學(xué)習(xí)上。第一天的課上完了,他和班里大多數(shù)同學(xué)一樣,打算好好放松一下。
“來(lái)吧麥克,這次是兄弟會(huì)和姐妹會(huì)的聯(lián)誼,”藍(lán)道說(shuō)的其實(shí)就是希臘議會(huì),“我們得去瞧瞧。”
麥克將日歷翻到12月,用紅筆標(biāo)出了驚嚇期末考試的日期。他看著藍(lán)道說(shuō):“要是考試不及格,我們就完了。我可不想冒這個(gè)險(xiǎn)。”說(shuō)著他坐到書(shū)桌前,拿出了課本。
“我們還有一整個(gè)學(xué)期可以學(xué)習(xí)呢,”藍(lán)道反駁道,“但今天的聚會(huì)可能是我們唯一的機(jī)會(huì)去結(jié)識(shí)那些酷酷的伙伴了。所以我才做了這些紙杯蛋糕。”
麥克瞅了瞅藍(lán)道端著的那盤(pán)紙杯蛋糕。每個(gè)蛋糕上都立著一個(gè)字母,連起來(lái)讀就是“做我的‘呆’友吧”。藍(lán)道突然發(fā)現(xiàn)字母拼錯(cuò)了,趕緊把“d”倒過(guò)來(lái)變成了“p”,現(xiàn)在讀起來(lái)就是“做我的朋友吧”。
“還好還好,”藍(lán)道扶了扶他那副厚厚的眼鏡說(shuō),“要是這樣拿過(guò)去可就尷尬了。”
但麥克還是不想去。“等我成了驚嚇專(zhuān)員,好玩的事多著呢。”說(shuō)著麥克把藍(lán)道推到了門(mén)口,“別惹麻煩啊,野小子!”
藍(lán)道咯咯地笑起來(lái):“野小子!”他覺(jué)得這名字聽(tīng)起來(lái)還不錯(cuò)。
麥克也笑了,關(guān)上了門(mén)。然后他便摩拳擦掌,迫不及待地想要進(jìn)入書(shū)本的世界。望著窗臺(tái)上那頂“怪大”的帽子,麥克心滿(mǎn)意足地舒了口氣。
就在那時(shí),麥克聽(tīng)到一陣鼻息聲,只見(jiàn)一只長(zhǎng)著豬臉的奇怪動(dòng)物出現(xiàn)在窗口。“怎么回事……?”麥克不解地問(wèn)道。
那東西從窗外“撲通”一聲掉進(jìn)房間,重重地摔在地上,六條腿抽搐著,發(fā)出粗重的呼氣聲。然后它在房間里發(fā)瘋似地奔跑起來(lái),麥克只能往后倒退。這時(shí),窗臺(tái)上又出現(xiàn)了一只藍(lán)色的大手。
“阿奇!”毛怪高喊著,“砰”的一聲跳進(jìn)麥克的房間里。那只豬躍過(guò)毛怪的肚子,躲進(jìn)了麥克的床下。
“喂!”麥克跳到椅子上大聲問(wèn)道:“你在干嗎?”
“噓,別說(shuō)話(huà)。”毛怪回應(yīng)道。
“等等,你讓我別說(shuō)話(huà)?你憑什么不讓我——”還沒(méi)等麥克說(shuō)完,毛怪就用他那藍(lán)色的大手捂住了麥克的嘴巴。
毛怪向窗外瞥了一眼,看見(jiàn)四個(gè)恐懼理工學(xué)院的大個(gè)子學(xué)生跑了過(guò)去。“他躲哪兒去了?”其中一個(gè)大喊道,“那家伙死定了!”顯然,他們正在校園里四處搜尋毛怪。
“大伙兒,這邊!”另一個(gè)學(xué)生叫道,于是所有人都過(guò)去了。
毛怪看著他們離開(kāi),低聲嗤笑道:“一群恐理的蠢貨。”直到聽(tīng)見(jiàn)麥克發(fā)出含混的嘟噥聲,毛怪才意識(shí)到自己還捂著麥克的嘴巴,于是趕緊松開(kāi)了手:“不好意思啊,老兄。”
麥克大口喘著氣,生氣地問(wèn)道:“你在我房間里干嗎?”
一時(shí)間,毛怪似乎有點(diǎn)迷惑,“你的房間?”他環(huán)顧了下四周,說(shuō)道:“哈哈,原來(lái)這不是我的房間啊。”說(shuō)完,毛怪聳聳肩,想起了那只豬。“阿奇,好孩子,快過(guò)來(lái)!”
“阿奇?”麥克難以置信地問(wèn)道。
“就是那只‘驚嚇豬’阿奇,”毛怪一邊解釋?zhuān)贿厪澫卵?,試著把床底下的豬拖出來(lái)。“它是恐理的吉祥物,我把它偷來(lái)了!打算帶給精嚇會(huì)。”
“帶給誰(shuí)?”麥克問(wèn)。
毛怪站起身來(lái)說(shuō):“全名好像叫‘精嚇兄弟會(huì)’吧?好像是學(xué)校里最棒的兄弟會(huì)。他們只接收‘高級(jí)精英’,”說(shuō)著毛怪用大拇指戳了戳自己寬厚的藍(lán)色胸膛。接著,他將注意力又轉(zhuǎn)回到那只豬身上,對(duì)麥克說(shuō):“現(xiàn)在我來(lái)抬床,你來(lái)抓豬,準(zhǔn)備好了嗎?”
“什么?不行不行!”麥克大叫起來(lái),可是毛怪已經(jīng)快速地?cái)?shù)到了三,把麥克推到了床下。麥克在下面掙扎著,床都快要震翻天了。
“別讓它跑了!”毛怪大聲喊道,“而且要小心,他會(huì)咬人的!”這時(shí)阿奇從床底下躥了出來(lái),拖著麥克,跑過(guò)了毛怪身邊。之后它又掙脫了麥克的手,跳到了麥克的書(shū)架頂上。
毛怪趕緊跟著他爬上書(shū)架。眼看要抓到了,他大叫一聲:“抓住啦!”話(huà)音剛落,整個(gè)書(shū)架轟地倒了下來(lái)。
毛怪摔在地上,笑著說(shuō):“這下可好了!”他看看麥克,說(shuō)道:“你瞧我這腦子,都忘記自我介紹了,我叫詹姆士·蘇利文。”
“我叫麥克·華斯基,”麥克邊說(shuō)邊試著引導(dǎo)毛怪朝門(mén)邊走,“聽(tīng)著,遇到你還有那只什么豬真是挺開(kāi)心的,但如果你不介意的話(huà),我要學(xué)習(xí)怎么嚇人了。”
毛怪轉(zhuǎn)了轉(zhuǎn)眼睛說(shuō)道:“嗨!嚇人用不著學(xué),直接去做就好了。”
“真的嗎?”麥克問(wèn)道,“我看不完全如此吧。但還是謝謝你過(guò)來(lái)玩啊。”麥克正要開(kāi)門(mén),轉(zhuǎn)身卻看到了那只豬……它正咬著麥克那頂心愛(ài)的“怪大”帽子。“把帽子放下!”麥克大叫道,說(shuō)著便去搶帽子。不料阿奇縱身一躍,跳出了窗戶(hù)。“我的帽子!”麥克尖叫著沖出房門(mén),想從門(mén)外攔住那只豬。
“我的豬!”毛怪也大喊一聲,趕緊追了上去。