Captain Awesome and the Easter Egg Bandit
Mission Control, this is Eggle-1, do you read me? Over,” said Eugene McGillicudy. He picked up a plastic egg from his desk and carried it around the room. “We’re now flying over Sunnyview Elementary. . . . Roger that, Roger.”
“That’s so not the way to decorate an Easter egg,” said Meredith Mooney, the pinkest girl in school. She was dressed in a pink skirt that matched the pink bow in her hair. Her light pink shirt matched her light pink shoes that blinked with pink lights on the toes. “What is that supposed to be, anyway?” she asked.
“If you must know—My! Me! Mine! Mere-DITH! It’s Eggle-1,”
Eugene said. “It is a ship that carries egg-stronauts to the twelve slots on the orbiting Space Carton.”
“Oh, good grief,” Meredith said with a groan.
She went back to coloring her own eggs in different shades of pink.
With only four days until Easter, Ms. Beasley’s class was decorating eggs. Wilma Eisner and Betty Alfa worked as a team, each painting half of each other’s eggs. Gil Ditko was off in the corner working in secret. Dara Sim was busy painting her eggs black. Evan Mason was gluing two eggs together to make a superegg.
Ms. Beasley walked around the class, checking the work of each student. “That’s good,” she said. “Very interesting, Dara. That’s . . . unique, Evan. Meredith, I see you’re staying with pink.”
“Is there any other color worth
coloring eggs with, Ms. Beasley?” Meredith asked.
“Check this out, Ms. Beasley!” Eugene cut in. He held up an egg. It had a tiny blue door painted on it. “I call it Eggtopia. It’s where the tiny Egg People live, safe from the deadly Maple Bacon Warlords.”
Ms. Beasley smiled and quickly moved away.
She likes it! thought Eugene.
Eugene dipped his brush into green paint and painted a zigzag onto his egg. “And that’s the control panel for the force field.”
Eugene got the name Eggtopia from that time Super Dude fought against the evil Easter Boney, the skeleton pirate in Super Dude’s Holiday Egg-stravaganza No. 3.
What’s that, you say? You haven’t heard of Super Dude, the world’s mightiest superhero?
Are you a stranger to this planet? Do you live in a world surrounded by an eggshell? Super Dude is just the greatest comic book superhero ever!
Eugene was so inspired by the heroic adventures of Super Dude that he made his own superhero suit. When he put it on, he became Captain Awesome. Captain Awesome bravely went wherever evil was . . . and wherever his mom drove him.
MI-TEE!
Eugene’s best friend, Charlie Thomas Jones, was also a big fan of Super Dude. He became Nacho Cheese Man, the only hero with the power of canned cheese.
CHEESY-YO!
The last to join their team was Sally Williams. Dressed as Supersonic Sal, she was lightning fast! Her sidekick, Funny Cat, was pretty cool too.
SPEEDY GO!
Together these three heroes and the class hamster, known only as Turbo, formed the Sunnyview Superhero Squad.
SQUAD UP!
But for now, there was no evil in Ms. Beasley’s class.
