The Sandlot Girl: Small's Sister- Under Editing

Chapter 29

Scotty's Point of View...

"Okay, guys almost ready. Connecting power now." Denunez says to Squints.

"Power connected." I tell Denunez.

Ham, Yah-Yah, and Denunez help to lower the tubes of the vacuum cleaner that has Ham's face mask attached to it. "Okay, we're ready." Ham tells Squints.

"Initiate retrieval suction." Squints tells Tommy who then relays the information to Timmy.

Prepare to initiate retrieval suction number one." Timmy tells Ham.

Ham then tells Bertram and me. "Initiating retrieval suction number one now." Bertram says and turns on the first vacuum cleaner. Benny, DeNunez, Catherine, and Ham hold on tight to the tube.

"Initiate number Two," Tommy says.

"Firing number two now," I say and turn on the second vacuum cleaner.

"Fire number Three," Tommy yells down to us.

"Number three now!" Smalls says.

Bertram and I just sit there happy to have the ball back when the vacuums begin to malfunction. "What's going on Squints?" Ham asks.

"The pipe. It's pinched shut." Squints tells us.

"Turn it off man!" Bertram yells at me.

"I can't! The switch won't work." I tell him.

"What is that noise?" Squints asks me.

"I don't know." I say.

"The vates are clogged. I don't know about you guys but I would get out of here before it blows cause I'm getting the heck out of here. " Bertram comes up to tell us.

Everyone begins to scramble and I try to find Timmy to tell him. "Oh no!" Squints says and runs away from the tree house. "Timmy where are you?"

"In here Catherine." he says.

"We got to go. The vacuums it's going to... " And then it happens. Dust goes flying and I cough for a few seconds.

"Are you alright?" I ask Timmy.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He says, sighing.

We then walk out of the treehouse. Everyone just looks at us. Timmy shakes off and continues to look at us. We all look back at where the land of no forgiveness lies. "We've been going about this all wrong. I blame myself."

"Timmy, there is no reason to blame yourself. We are all to blame." I tell him.

He ignores me. "We need total surprise. An airborne attack. The beast will never suspect it."

They all agree and Timmy and I go to get cleaned up. "Are you alright?" Bertram asks me.

"Yah," I say. Bertram only nods his head slowly. "Bertram, You know that if it were you that was stuck in that treehouse I would have helped you right?"

"Yah, I know."

"And besides the worst thing that could happen is it would've started a fire but it didn't."

"Yah, Your right." He says, staring at the ground.

I kiss his cheek. "I'll be back. I just want to get the dust off of me."