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CHAPTER 3<\/p>\n
Kidnapped!<\/p>\n
It was a quarter to 10:00 p.m. when I went home. The sun had gone down and it was almost dark.<\/p>\n
I put my hands in my pockets and touched my Antboy mask. I\u2019d completely forgotten that I had it with me. And it really hadn\u2019t been necessary to bring it. Wilhelm had asked Pelle for help, not Antboy. In fact, I hadn\u2019t needed the mask for quite some time now.<\/p>\n
Maybe I should think about quitting Antboy for a while and focus on Pelle Nerhmann instead. His life was wasn\u2019t very interesting these days, either. In school I spend the entire day dodging the Terror Twins, the schoolyard bullies, and when I got home, I put on my Antboy-suit and Pelle ceased to exist. That\u2019s how it felt sometimes\u2014as if I were disappearing.\u00a0Becoming nothing. Because who was Pelle, really? Was he Antboy? Or was Antboy Pelle Nerhmann?<\/p>\n
Who was I?<\/p>\n
My gloomy thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a horrific scream nearby.<\/p>\n
All thoughts about me and Antboy vanished instantly.\u00a0Someone was in trouble! Someone needed help! But I had to be quick. I\u2019d promised to be home in five minutes.<\/p>\n
While running in the direction of the scream, I removed the mask from my pocket. It wasn\u2019t easy to put on as I ran, and I ended up putting it on wrong. For a moment I couldn\u2019t see a thing and I collided with a street sign. It buckled as if it was made of clay. Shoot! This never happened to Spider-Man.<\/p>\n
There was another scream. It was closer this time and took shape of a word: \u201cHelp! Hel\u2026\u201d Then the voice was cut off.<\/p>\n
I turned the next corner and saw a dark figure running straight toward me.<\/p>\n
At first I thought I couldn\u2019t see the person\u2019s face because it was too dark. Then I realized he was wearing a mask. He was carrying a girl\u2014judging by the clothes, anyway. Because her face was hidden, too. It was covered by a bag that had been pulled down over her head. The girl, whose hands and feet were bound, writhed like a snake in his arms, but the man clutched her tight, holding her with one arm around her waist. His other hand was clapped over her mouth, plugging her screams. I\u2019d stumbled into a genuine kidnapping!<\/p>\n
When the masked man saw me, he froze and stared at me briefly. Then he turned and fled, a long black coat fluttering behind him. It almost looked like a cape.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t just look like a cape, I thought, dumbstruck.\u00a0It\u00a0is\u00a0a cape. What in the world is going on?<\/p>\n
\u201dStop!\u201d I yelled, starting after him and raising swirls of dust as I sped down the street. I quickly gained on him. \u201cDo you hear me? I said sto\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u00a0stopped. Blinked, confused.<\/p>\n
The figure was gone. The street was empty.<\/p>\n
But that was impossible! He\u2019d been right in front of me.\u00a0How could he just disappear like that?<\/p>\n
But he hadn\u2019t disappeared, I realized a moment later.<\/p>\n
The kidnapper was still in front of me. He was just farther away. As if a powerful blast of wind had instantly blown him forty yards down the street.\u00a0What the \u2026?<\/p>\n
Well, no time to wonder about that now. I sprinted down the street so fast it set off a car alarm.\u00a0Once more I gained on him. Only thirty yards separated us. Then twenty. Then \u2026<\/p>\n
Then he disappeared again.\u00a0Just like that. One moment he was there, the next he wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo!\u201d I whispered. \u201cIt can\u2019t be!\u201d<\/p>\n
There was a loud\u00a0bump\u00a0to my left, and I spun around, startled. At first, I couldn\u2019t determine the source of the sound. Then I saw him. The kidnapper. He was standing on one of the rooftops that towered above the well-tended privet hedges.<\/p>\n
I was totally confused.\u00a0A moment earlier, he\u2019d been right in front of me. How could he suddenly be standing on the roof of a house?<\/p>\n
Then, as I was standing there staring at him, he bent forward and took a giant leap into the night. Like a shooting star, he disappeared into the darkness.<\/p>\n
I was speechless, my thoughts doing cartwheels. I couldn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n
The kidnapper had jumped. That\u2019s how he could disappear and reappear again farther down the street. He had jumped. He had jumped\u2014I felt a cold, cold chill running down my spine:\u00a0fifty yards!\u00a0At least!<\/p>\n
But that was impossible. Wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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