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SPOOKY LAUGHTER # Creepy ain't the word

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# Freaky ain't the word

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# Sneaky ain't the word

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# See what I've observed

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# There's no easy way to describe this geeky place

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# Even geeky place doesn't tell you what I need to say

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# This is Strange Hill

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# Where a talking frog can eat your face

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# It's very, very random

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# You'll get used to these debates if you stick around

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# Although I wouldn't recommend it

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# When they used the name "Strange", mate, they really meant it

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# There's some things in life with which you just don't mess

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# On every vest I got the letters SOS

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# Cos you never know what might be lurking round the corner

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# And what it might do if it ever found or saw you

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# Keep the lights on in the hallways, all day

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# Things won't always tend to go your way

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# Watch your back and be prepared

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# Can't wait for 3:30 See you there. #

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SCHOOL BELL RINGS

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"..The Corn Laws did not affect merely corn.

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"Barley was also affected. As were certain types of rice..."

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Oh... Must stay awake...

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But every word, more boring than the last!

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Oh...! Only 30 pages to go.

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1883 was another interesting year.

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It consisted of 365 days.

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Of those, 52 were Mondays.

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52 were Tuesdays. But only three were Wednesdays,

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after a ship carrying the nation's Ws

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was sunk by an inconsiderate giant squid.

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MITCHELL MAKES INSECT NOISES

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Mitchell, stop! You're so distractible!

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-What?

-You're such a yo-yo!

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My yo-yo! Brilliant.

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That's it for today. Don't forget your projects are due tomorrow.

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Project?!

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A history project? When has he ever mentioned this?!

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Every day this term. When have you not been paying attention?

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-Every day this term. You done yours?

-Nearly.

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Mine is about the Strange Hill building and its many mysteries.

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Guess I should've emptied the milk out first.

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My project's about the electrical storm

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that nearly destroyed the school in 1881.

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It works!

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OK, I have one afternoon to do this.

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Well, 15 minutes - I don't want to waste an afternoon.

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I'll copy something from the library.

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GASPS

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-Are you, um, totally crazy?!

-Like, boy is INSANE!

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The library! The library! Ah-ha-ha-ha!

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-What's wrong with the library?

-He said it again! Noooo!

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Nobody goes into the li-berry!

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No-one who goes in ever comes out!

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What? That's crazy!

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That's why nobody goes in.

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Because of the BOOK.

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Pleeeeease change the subject!

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A book so boring that if you read it...

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You. Might. Vanish.

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-Yeah, good one! Way to fool the new guy.

-I don't joke about no book!

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Not even a joke book, fool!

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Donald went to the library yesterday. Poor Donald.

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Poor, mysteriously-vanished Donald.

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ALL: Ooooohhh!

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You are crazy people. I need to pass my report.

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I need books. Books in library.

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End of.

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Now I know libraries can be scary places,

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full of books by Beeeeatrix Potterrrrr!

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-But are you going to help me or not?

-Charles Dickens,

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just try to scare yourself out of me!

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I don't know the meaning of the word fear.

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I know a lot of synonyms for it, though.

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"Filling my pants with raisins" comes to mind.

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What are you doing here?!

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We're students. Students use school facilities. I attend this school.

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-Here I am.

-Shhhh! Talk quietly!

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-WHISPERING

-What?

-Shhhhh!

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Shhhhh!

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Somewhere up there is the world's most evil book.

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Is it...this?!

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BECKY SCREAMS

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Oh! No, I guess not.

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Let's do my report then.

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There's a big old book. I bet that book's full of history.

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Or book bugs. Either way, neat!

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"A Most Intriguing History Of Strange Hill High,

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"by Bartlemass Baddooee, 1881."

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-Mitchell, this must have something good for your project!

-Cool.

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You guys start looking for a topic for me

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and I'll go find a pencil so you can write it up. For me.

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"Strange Hill High was founded in the year 12 by a man named John.

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"There was not much going on in Britain,

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"so John had time on his hands..."

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BOTH SIGH

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Hmmm... Pencil, pencil.

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Ooh, The Big Book Of Tanks!

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"The year 14 wasn't much different than the year 12,

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"except that John was now known as "John The Acorn Eater".

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Urgh, get to an interesting part!

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Even the interesting parts aren't interesting!

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"1066 - had a visit from Norman."

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Ooh, go to the Great Storm of 1881!

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You can't make a big, electrical storm that destroys a school boring.

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Here we are! The Great Storm of 1881!

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"The day began, as most school days do, at 8am.

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"At 8:30, the skies were still clear.

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"At 9, a bell rang out.

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"But it was not the storm bell, merely the regular 9am bell."

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"At 10am, nothing happened and it soon became 10:01..."

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MITCHELL CHUCKLES

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CACKLING

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Where'd they go?

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THEY SCREAM

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-Excuse me?

-Oh, great(!)

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Did you see where my friends went?

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What friends?

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-The friends I came in with.

-No, you came in on your own.

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-No, I didn't.

-Yes, you did.

-No, I didn't.

-I see only you.

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No, I came in with two friends.

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Maybe you imagined them.

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Imaginary friends.

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Are you an only child?

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Yes, I am. But there were three of us.

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Shhhhh!

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You're a very persistent young man and I don't like that.

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Three of us.

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I'll check the records.

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HE GASPS

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No.

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Nobody has been in here for... 12 years.

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Look, you really must go. It's closing time.

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It's 11:15 in the morning.

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Closing time.

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OK, I'll go.

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Going is good. Goodbye.

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Where are we?

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As far as I can tell, we've been abducted by aliens.

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Which ones, I cannot say.

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That's crazy. Why would aliens have an old broom?

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Probing.

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RESONANT METALLIC ECHOING

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What's this? What's that sound?

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Don't you know what it is?

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Warp engines!

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Travelling at light speed!

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We are most certainly on a spacecraft!

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Yes, that book must've been some sort of star-gate,

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A draw for the bravest and brightest.

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We have been chosen!

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Take me to your leader.

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Whoa!

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CHILDREN RECITE: 19th April, 1605...

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We come in peace! Under the shadow proclamation Section 44...

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..April, 1605 was a Wednesday....

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And the 21st was?

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Would it be a Thursday, Master Balding?

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No, Shackleton! There was no Thursday!

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Thursdays were destroyed in the Gunpowder Plot

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and we had to make do with a cobbled together day called Wednefrisday.

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Holy macarolly!

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It's incredible.

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Yes, Mr Balding is an alien.

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Now, children, if you'd all like to wipe clean your slates...

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THEY SPLUTTER

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Ew, gross!

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Fascinating! This must be how they digest their prey.

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..and write down today's date.

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May 5th, 1881. Why does that date look so familiar?

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-SHE GASPS

-The Great Storm!

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It's the date of the storm that destroys the school!

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-We've got to...

-Abandon ship!

-..rescue these kids!

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Mr Balding, you don't know me, but you do, well, you won't yet,

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but you will. Listen, there's going to be a terrible storm today

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and you have to get everyone to safety!

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Young lady, I cannot have this type of disruption in my class.

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There's going to be a disruption, all right -

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b-b-b-boom! Smash! Smash! Aargh!

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I'll have to send you and your compatriot to my office.

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-Creeply?

-Grrrr.

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In the name of the Interstellar Peace Treaty, we...

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Whoa!

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-Aargh!

-Oh!

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Becky!

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Templeton!

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Becks!

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T-Town!

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Beck...

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Ohh.

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1001 Party Hats. Cool!

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DOOR HANDLE RATTLES

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We're locked in!

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The Great Storm is coming and we're stuck in a room

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with stuffed dodos and...

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Ew, what is that?

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No, Becks, don't you realise what's happened?

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They've selected us to be part of their alien zoo!

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-SHE GASPS

-Templeton, look!

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A Most Intriguing History Of Strange Hill High.

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What's that doing here?

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HE WHISTLES

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Oh, where was I? Oh...oh, yeah, my friends!

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Hmm.

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The book they were reading might have a clue.

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Find the book and... Aw, filing cabinets?!

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Where's the computer?

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That's got to be it!

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HE GROANS AND STRAINS

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Ha-ha!

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CREAKING

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Waaah!

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Bum.

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Hmm.

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A Most Intriguing History of Strange Hill.

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That's it!

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Hmm. Becky and Templeton had this book and went missing.

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So did Donald.

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So must've all of these kids!

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Book, prepare to be read!

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Well, skimmed through, actually.

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CHORAL VOICES: # Aah-aah! #

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HE GRUNTS

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Ha!

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-SHE GASPS

-It's handwritten!

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-SHE GASPS

-"Written By Bartleby Balding."

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That's Mr Balding! What's going on here?

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It's the operator's manual for the spaceship!

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And Mr Balding is the pilot.

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SHE SIGHS

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Or he's a spaceship himself, operated by tiny aliens.

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-Let me see.

-What? No, that's nuts!

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THEY GRUNT AND STRAIN

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SHE GASPS

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-SHE COUGHS

-Wait. I'm all gasped out.

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OK.

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We just caused it to say, "Written by Bartlemass Baddooee," which is

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what it says in the future. So if we did that, that means

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we can use the book to communicate with whoever reads it in the future!

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That is the most absurd thing I've ever heard.

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"The Great Storm of 1881.

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"The day began, as most school days do, at 8AM."

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HE SIGHS

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-BECKY AND TEMPLETON:

-Wake up, Mitchell!

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HE GASPS

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'We got sucked through the book.'

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'It's aliens.'

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'Ignore him! But help us! We're stuck in 1881!

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'The Great Storm is coming!

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'Turn the page!'

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"Baddooee is Balding. It's his book.

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"He's behind all the disappearances.

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"Get Balding and get help. And don't get distracted."

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How could Mr Balding have written a book hundreds of years ago?

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HE GASPS

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Mr Balding is immortal!

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Or at least really, really old.

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Oh, hello, young Mitchell.

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Hello!

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Just what I expect a time-bending, school-destroying villain to say

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as he falls into my trap!

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Whoa!

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Would you like a cup of tea?

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No, I'm fine, thanks. Are you feeling at all trapped yet?

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What's your game, Baldy? Destroy the school?

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Destroy the school?

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I love the school! Been here my whole life.

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I was writing a book about it, once.

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Yeah, a book so boring it's opened a borehole in space and time!

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Hmm, that boring, eh? Oh, dear.

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Been around so long, history just lost its pizazzle.

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You remember the last time you felt pizazzled?

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Ooh, uh...the 12th century. It was a Wednesday.

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Hmm. You said you love this school?

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Think about all the amazing stuff that happens here!

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I've just been here a few weeks

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and already I've seen stuff that would pizazzle your pants off.

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Like when they found that mummified king in the basement!

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Oh, that's the sort of thing that you find exciting, is it?

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Yeah. Skeleton with a crown? Duh.

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Now, listen. Exciting is the opposite of boring, right?

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And your book was so boring it sucked people in.

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So if you can make your book exciting...

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It might stop sucking!

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In so many ways! It might reverse the borehole!

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Spitting out everything it's swallowed! Brilliant!

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How did you come up with that?

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I don't know. I'm upside down.

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Guess the blood's actually making it to my brain for once.

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Odd. I thought the storm would've hit by now.

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Odd indeed.

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Are you ready to...finish your book?

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Which number pencil shall I use?

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-Erm...

-I'm only kidding.

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I'm going to use a pen.

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Looking for this?

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Oh, yes, that's it. Thank you so much.

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Dude, she's being sarcastic.

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Uh, librarian lady, you do know that book does some horrible things?

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Horrible...or wonderful?

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It keeps my library clean. Clean of children and their sticky hands!

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Bending the pages, marking them,

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wiping bogies on a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow!

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HE CHUCKLES Wadsworth.

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Awful children like you.

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Now, perhaps you'd like to come here and read a nice,

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long passage from this book?

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It won't work on me. I have ADHD!

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No!

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Oh!

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Mr Balding, start writing exciting stuff!

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THEY GRUNT AND STRAIN

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It's hard to think of anything exciting that's ever happened to me.

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Tons of stuff happens here!

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Last week, we found a boy

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who was living in the lost and found for 100 years!

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Oh, yes. Peter! Rather an excitable boy!

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-HE GRUNTS

-Ooh!

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RUMBLING

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The storm's coming! But it's coming from inside!

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We've got to warn the kids!

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Initiating panic phase. Roger.

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-Hi-yah!

-Whoa!

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Aaargh!

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Prepare for the paper cut of your life!

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Hi-yah!

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PANICKED SHOUTING

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-You! What's your name again?

-Ernest, Miss. Ernest Shackleton.

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Ernest, remember I told you about that storm?

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Well, it's happening

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and I need you to help get all these kids to a safe place.

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Have you ever been brave before?

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-No, Miss.

-Well, it's as easy as being scared, but with less worry.

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So I want you to be brave and get everyone to the basement!

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Yes, Miss!

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"And then there was that time when a mysterious sailing ship,

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"devoid of passengers, washed up on the shores of Strange Hill"

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HE GRUNTS

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Oh!

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Ha-ha!

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-Oh!

-"And then there was The Battle of the Library!"

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Oh!

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That's it!

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"The End. For now."

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It's the mother ship!

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Actually, it's the eye of the electrical storm!

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-BOTH:

-Aaarrrrgh!

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Aaargh!

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Waaah!

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My precious books! They're all scuffed!

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As books should be. Don't you see, old girl?

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History's nothing if it's not lived in.

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And a book is not a book until it's read.

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You did it!

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All along, the Great Storm of 1881 was just you rescuing us!

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The Galactic Federation's sure to be pleased.

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So, after all that,

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I bet Mr Balding gave you a good grade on your project.

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Project?! D'oh!

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# This is why we stay out of the library, yo!

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# Out of the library

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# Out, out of the library

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# This is why we stay out of the library, yo!

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# Out of the library

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# Out, out of the library. #

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