MY BEST FRIEND IS A SECRET AGENT, Book 2: How C.H.I.P. Took a Dive to Dash...

Chapter 28: "Slicing and Dicing"

With the crack sealed, I changed C.H.I.P. back into a weightlifter so he could shut off Dr. Eelstrom's massive pump again.

Fortunately, Eelstrom's mini-sub was still at the dam, so C.H.I.P. jumped into it and dived deep, heading for the evil doctor's lair.

Using the Ladybug Drone camera, I could see that, down below, Dr. Eelstrom had no idea C.H.I.P. was on his way back. The doctor stood proudly at his window, looking out at the underwater part of the dam and the long crack that started up above.

"It'll break any time now!" he gushed to his little octopus. "With that crack, there's no way the dam can hold!"

But it held, of course, because C.H.I.P. the scientist had filled in the crack for good!

"Actually . . . the crack should be getting bigger," Eelstrom mumbled, his smile fading a bit. "I really wish it would get bigger."

Suddenly, C.H.I.P. the weightlifter stepped up right behind him! "If wishes were raindrops," C.H.I.P. said, "you'd be King of the Sea."

Dr. Eelstrom spun around and screamed. "You! You said 'Must . . . destroy . . . dam!' Remember? Well, how about finishing the job?!"

"You're the one who's finished, Eelstrom," C.H.I.P. said, then he shoved the doctor into his big throne-like chair and bent the metal arms to trap him there!

C.H.I.P. grabbed the big valve wheel and started turning, shutting down the flow of water in no time flat.

But Dr. Eelstrom was oddly happy. "So you shut it down. The city's main reservoir is still contaminated with saltwater!" he said, laughing.

C.H.I.P. morphed into a scientist again. "Not for long!" he said in a high, whiny voice. Then he sat down at Eelstrom's big console and started flipping switches and resetting controls. "I'll reverse the intake system and program it to pump only the saltwater out of the lake!"

"NOOOO!!" screamed the doctor. But there was nothing he could do but watch his grand, evil plan get ruined.

His little octopus, however, had plans of its own. I'd heard octopuses were smart, but this thing was truly impressive. It jumped right from Dr. Eelstrom's shoulder to C.H.I.P.'s head! C.H.I.P. was forced to stop working and struggle to pull the slimy thing off.

"Get off of me, you sycophantic cephalopod!" C.H.I.P. the scientist cried. He chucked the octopus to the floor and got back to work. But it wasn't for long because it climbed right back up and attacked C.H.I.P.'s hands!

C.H.I.P. had had enough. He jumped up and morphed into a sushi chef. Juggling two huge Japanese knives, he chased the octopus around the room to turn it into seafood.

Then C.H.I.P. used one of the knives to slam down on a big "Enter" button.

Suddenly, the whole place shuddered as the massive pump reversed itself. Now it was pumping saltwater OUT of the lake, not in!

Up on the dam, I watched as the water stopped flowing over the top, and the level of the lake immediately started going down!

On my phone screen, I could see Stella jumping up and down as she watched everything on the dam-cam. "C.H.I.P. saved Vortville Dam!" she screamed with delight.

"Better than that," I said. "C.H.I.P. just saved Vortville itself!" Sure, Dr. Eelstrom wasn't behind bars quite yet, but C.H.I.P. had once again saved our beloved town from a wacky bad guy—our whole beloved town, not just half of it like my dad always did (while destroying the other half).

But . . . I didn't celebrate just yet.