Chapter 10
HOOOONK! Woody and Buzz turned around just in time to see the moving truck driving toward them. With a scream, they ducked. As soon as the truck passed, Buzz began to chase it. “Come on!” he called to Woody.
Back at Sid’s house, Scud was lying on the porch, but he perked up at the sight of the two little action figures running down the street. He bared his teeth and growled.
Buzz ran closer to the truck, with Woody just a few steps behind him. A strap dangled off the back of the truck. Buzz leaped… and caught it! Grunting, he climbed onto the bumper. Then Woody lunged for the strap—and missed.
“You can do it, Woody!” Buzz called out.
Woody tried again. This time he caught hold of the strap. “I made it!” He began to clamber up to the bumper, but suddenly he heard a furious barking. Looking over his shoulder, Woody could see Scud racing after the truck—the dog was closing in fast!
“Aaaaaaah!” Woody yelled as Scud’s jaws chomped on his leg. He kicked at the dog with his other foot. “Get away, you stupid dog! Down! Down!” Scud continued to tug, pulling Woody down to the end of the strap.
“Hold on, Woody!” Buzz cried.
“I can’t do it!” Woody gasped. “Take care of Andy for me!”
“Noooooo!” Bravely, Buzz leaped onto Scud’s snout and pulled on the dog’s eyelids. Scud yelped and let go of Woody. Dog and spaceman were left behind as the truck continued forward.
Thinking quickly, the cowboy scrambled up the strap and onto the truck’s bumper. He unlocked the back door. When the moving truck screeched to a halt at a red light, the door flew upward, with Woody dangling from the handle.
Inside the truck, he spotted what he was looking for: several boxes scrawled with the words ANDY’S TOYS. Woody jumped down and yanked one open. Mr. Potato Head, Rex, and some of the other toys squinted in the sudden burst of sunlight.
“Are we there already?” Rex asked.
“Woody!” Slinky cried. “How’d you—”
But Woody was busy rummaging through another box. “There you are!” He pulled out RC, along with the remote. Then he ran to the back of the van and kicked the toy car down into the street.
“He’s at it again!” Rex wailed.
Woody turned on the remote and steered the car toward Buzz. Scud had shaken the space ranger off, and now Buzz was trapped under a parked car. When the toy car zoomed up, Buzz jumped on. Using the remote control, Woody then guided RC back toward the moving truck. As the red light turned green and the truck started forward, RC and Buzz were close behind. But so was Scud!
Meanwhile, the toys in the moving truck didn’t understand what was happening. All they saw was Woody throwing RC out the back of the truck.
“Get him!” Mr. Potato Head shouted, leading a mob of angry toys out of the box.
Rocky the wrestler grabbed Woody and spun him overhead. Woody was still holding the remote control, and the toy car began to spin, too, matching Woody’s movements. Luckily, it was perfect timing—RC and Buzz spun away from Scud just as he was about to chomp down on them.
Rocky threw Woody to the floor, and the car resumed its straight course toward the truck. Scud gave chase as Buzz and RC drove right into a busy intersection. The toys made it through, but a traffic jam trapped Scud among a jumble of cars.
In the truck, the mob of toys lifted Woody up. “Toss him overboard!” Mr. Potato Head shouted.
“No, wait!” Woody pleaded. “You don’t understand. Buzz is out there! We’ve gotta help him!”
But the toys didn’t believe him. “So long, Woody!” Mr. Potato Head sneered as the toys threw Woody out the back of the truck.
Woody hit the ground hard. A horn blared as a car swerved to avoid running over him. Shaken, he tried to stand up just as Buzz and RC came barreling toward him. They scooped him up and kept driving.
“Thanks for the ride,” Woody said, still holding the remote. “Now let’s catch up to that truck!” He flipped a switch on the remote from ON to TURBO. The toy car roared toward the moving truck.
Lenny was watching the action out the back of the truck when he spotted Woody and Buzz chasing after them. “Guys! Woody’s riding RC! And Buzz is with him!”
Bo Peep peered through Lenny’s lenses. “It is Buzz!” she said. “Woody was telling the truth!”
“What have we done?” cried Slinky.
“Rocky!” Bo Peep ordered. “The ramp!” The wrestler ran toward a lever and pulled, releasing a loading ramp mounted on the back of the truck.
“Hold on to my tail!” Slinky woofed. Mr. Potato Head and Rex grabbed on to his tail, and Slinky jumped onto the ramp and held out his paw to Woody.
As RC neared the moving truck, Woody handed the remote to Buzz and grabbed Slinky’s paw.
“That a boy, Slink!” Mr. Potato Head cheered. But suddenly, RC began to slow down and swerve. As the moving truck pulled ahead, Slinky’s middle stretched out… and out.
“Woody!” shouted Slinky.
“Speed up!” Woody ordered Buzz.
“The batteries! They’re running out!”
Slinky’s spring was stretched as far as it could go. His paw slipped out of Woody’s hand and he snapped back into the truck, scattering the toys like bowling pins.
RC coughed and choked, then sputtered to a stop. Woody and Buzz watched helplessly as the moving truck drove on without them. Buzz threw down the remote.
“Great!” Woody cried in frustration. Buzz sighed, then jumped to his feet and grabbed the sheriff’s sleeve. “Woody! The rocket!”
Woody stared at the rocket still taped to Buzz’s back. “The match!” Woody shouted. Smiling, he pulled out the kitchen match Sid had stuck in his holster earlier. “Yes! Thank you, Sid!” Woody rushed around to the rocket and struck the match. He was just about to light the fuse when a car whizzed over them. A gust of wind blew out the flame. Woody fell to his knees and pounded the street with his fists. “No, no, nooooooo!”
Unable to watch Woody’s despair, Buzz bowed his head. Suddenly, the sunlight that was streaming through his helmet acted just like Sid’s magnifying glass. A tiny white-hot dot shone on the back of Woody’s hand.
Getting an idea, Woody jumped up, grabbed Buzz’s helmet, and aligned it so that the pinpoint of concentrated sunlight hit the tip of the rocket’s fuse. “Hold still, Buzz,” he ordered. At last, the fuse lit.
“You did it!” Buzz cried. “Next stop—Andy!” Woody jumped back onto RC. Suddenly, he stopped smiling.
“Wait a minute,” he said. “I just lit a rocket. Rockets explode!”
And at that moment, the rocket ignited, blasting Woody and Buzz down the street so fast that RC flew inches above the asphalt. Woody struggled to hang on.
Soon the moving truck came back into sight. The rocket was so strong that it began to lift Buzz, Woody, and RC off the ground. Woody managed to hang on—but not for long. He lost his grip, and the toys in the moving truck managed to scatter just as RC hurtled into the back of the truck. The rocket—along with Buzz and Woody—flew higher and higher into the sky.
“Ahhh!” Woody hollered. “This is the part where we blow up!”
“Not today!” Buzz shouted. He pressed a button on his chest and his toy wings sprang open, cutting the electrical tape and separating him from the rocket.
As the rocket exploded just above them, Woody covered his eyes and prepared to fall. But Buzz used his body like a glider, and suddenly he and Woody were soaring.
“Buzz! You’re flying!” exclaimed Woody.
“This isn’t flying,” replied Buzz. “This is falling—with style!”
“Ha, ha!” Woody cheered. “To infinity… and beyond!”
With easy confidence, Buzz swooped under some power lines and drifted gracefully toward the moving truck. But then he flew over it.
“Uh, Buzz? We missed the truck!” shouted Woody.
“We’re not aiming for the truck!” Buzz replied.
Buzz tilted a little to the left, spun them in a loop, then sailed down through the open sunroof of the Davises’ van. Before anyone could notice, Buzz and Woody landed in an open box in the backseat—right next to Andy.
As Andy turned away from the window he had been looking out of, he discovered Buzz and Woody lying in the box, their faces arranged in the exact same smiles they’d worn the first day he had laid eyes on them.
“Hey!” Andy exclaimed. “Wow!”
“What is it?” his mom called from the front seat.
“Woody! Buzz!” Andy cried.
“Oh, great, you found them,” Mrs. Davis said. “Where were they?”
“Here!” Andy replied. “In the car!”
Mrs. Davis chuckled and shook her head. “See? What did I tell you? Right where you left them.”
Andy hugged both toys. Tucked in his arms, Buzz and Woody exchanged knowing smiles.
第 10 章
“嘀——嘀——”胡迪和巴斯猛轉(zhuǎn)過身,剛好發(fā)現(xiàn)搬家卡車正沖他們開過來。他們尖叫一聲,急忙躲到一旁??ㄜ噭倹_過去,巴斯就開始追趕,并大聲招呼胡迪:“快跑!”
在阿薛家的門廊上,大炮正在趴在那兒。但它一看到兩個玩具在大街上飛奔,便立刻跳起來,追了上去。它露出兇狠的牙齒,咆哮不止。
巴斯離卡車越來越近,胡迪也只在幾步之后??ㄜ嚭竺鎽沂幹欢卫υ鷰ё樱退箍v身一躍……抓住了帶子!他哼了一聲,爬上了保險杠。胡迪也猛沖過來抓帶子——卻撲了個空。
“你能行的,胡迪!”巴斯大叫道。
胡迪又試了一下,這次他抓到了。“我抓到了!”胡迪開始爬向保險杠,但身后突然傳來一聲狂怒的狗叫。他回頭一看,大炮正在后面狂追,馬上就要追上了!
“啊!”胡迪慘叫一聲,大炮咬到了他的腿。胡迪用另一只腳踢向大炮,“走開,笨狗!下去!下去!”大炮卻不松口,它把胡迪拖到了帶子的末端。
“堅持住,胡迪!”巴斯大喊。
“我不行了!”胡迪喘著粗氣說,“替我照看好安弟!”
“不——”巴斯勇敢地跳到了大炮的鼻子上,雙手扯了一下大狗的眼皮。大炮尖叫一聲,松開了胡迪。卡車?yán)^續(xù)前行,大炮和巴斯卻留在了原地。
胡迪靈機一動,順著帶子爬上了卡車的保險杠,把后門的鎖打開了。這時卡車遇到紅燈,緊急剎車,后門迅速升了起來,胡迪緊抓著把手懸在了上面。
胡迪在車廂里發(fā)現(xiàn)了想找的東西:幾個寫著“安弟玩具”的箱子。胡迪跳進車廂,打開了其中一個。蛋頭先生、抱抱龍以及其他玩具們突然見到亮光,都瞇起了眼睛。
“我們已經(jīng)到了嗎?”抱抱龍問道。
“胡迪!”彈簧狗叫道,“你怎么……”
但是胡迪又忙著去翻另一個箱子。“可找到你了!”胡迪把賽車RC和遙控器拖了出來,跑到卡車車廂邊上,一腳把賽車踢到了路上。
“他又殺人了!”抱抱龍大叫道。
胡迪打開遙控器,讓賽車駛向巴斯。大炮已經(jīng)把太空戰(zhàn)警甩開了,現(xiàn)在巴斯被困在了一輛停在路邊的汽車下面。賽車RC飛奔過來,巴斯跳上了車,胡迪用遙控器指揮著賽車RC朝卡車急馳過來。這時,紅燈變綠了,搬家卡車?yán)^續(xù)向前行駛,賽車RC和巴斯就在后面不遠(yuǎn)了。然而,大炮也追過來了!
車廂里的玩具們并不明白這是怎么回事。他們只看到胡迪把賽車RC從車廂后面踢下去了。
“抓住兇手!”蛋頭大喊一聲,帶領(lǐng)著憤怒的玩具們沖出了箱子。
摔跤手洛基雙手舉起了胡迪,把他在頭頂上轉(zhuǎn)了幾圈。胡迪手里還抓著遙控器,所以賽車RC也隨著胡迪打起轉(zhuǎn)來。幸運的是,賽車RC的旋轉(zhuǎn)恰到好處——大炮剛要大口咬下去,賽車RC和巴斯就成功地旋轉(zhuǎn)著躲避開了。
洛基把胡迪扔到車廂的地上,賽車RC又繼續(xù)向卡車直奔過來。賽車RC和巴斯來到一個繁忙的十字路口,大炮在后面緊追不舍。兩個玩具成功沖過了路口,而大炮則被過往的汽車圍堵住,造成了交通堵塞。
而卡車?yán)?,玩具們把胡迪抬了起來?ldquo;把他扔下去!”蛋頭先生大聲叫道。
“不,等等!”胡迪懇求道,“你們不知道,巴斯在那兒!我們一定要幫助他!”
但是玩具們并不相信。“再見,胡迪!”蛋頭先生冷笑一聲,玩具們把胡迪扔出了卡車。
胡迪重重地摔在地上。一輛汽車鳴著笛,緊急轉(zhuǎn)向,差一點就碾壓到胡迪。胡迪搖晃著站了起來。這時賽車RC載著巴斯駛了過來,他們把胡迪一把抓上車,繼續(xù)向前追趕。
“謝謝你們把我拉上來,”胡迪說道,手里還拿著遙控器。“現(xiàn)在我們追趕卡車吧!”胡迪把遙控器的開關(guān)從“行駛”撥到了“加速”,賽車便呼嘯著朝卡車飛奔而去。
大眼睛觀察著車外發(fā)生的事,一眼看到胡迪和巴斯正在追趕,便朝大伙兒喊道:“伙計們!胡迪在駕駛賽車!巴斯也在上面!”
寶貝也拿望遠(yuǎn)鏡看了看,說道:“真的是巴斯!胡迪沒有說謊!”
“我們都干了些什么?”彈簧狗大叫。
“洛基!”寶貝命令道,“放升降板!”于是洛基跑過去,拉動一個操作桿,把卡車后面的裝貨升降板放了下去。
“抓住我的尾巴!”彈簧狗汪汪叫道。蛋頭先生和抱抱龍抓住了他的尾巴,只見彈簧狗跳到了升降板上,把兩只前爪伸向胡迪。
賽車RC馬上就要追上卡車了,胡迪把遙控器交給了巴斯,伸手抓住了彈簧狗的爪子。
“好樣的,彈簧狗!”蛋頭先生贊許道。但突然,賽車RC卻開始減速,并左右搖晃。隨著卡車?yán)^續(xù)行駛,彈簧狗的身子被越拉越長,越拉越長……
“胡迪!”彈簧狗大喊。
“加速!”胡迪命令巴斯。
“是電池!電池快沒電了!”
彈簧狗的彈簧被拉到了極限,他的爪子也從胡迪手中滑了出去,身子快速彈回了卡車內(nèi),把玩具們撞得四散開來,就像打保齡球一樣。
賽車RC“噗嗤”著熄了火,“噼噼啪啪”地停了下來。胡迪和巴斯只能無助地看著卡車越開越遠(yuǎn)。巴斯把遙控器扔在了一邊。
“全完了!”胡迪沮喪地喊著。巴斯也嘆了口氣。突然,巴斯站了起來,拉了拉警長的衣袖:“胡迪!火箭炮!”
胡迪看了看巴斯身后綁著的火箭炮,叫道:“我有火柴!”他微笑著把阿薛先前插到他手槍皮套里的火柴取了出來。“耶!謝謝了,阿薛!”胡迪跑到火箭炮前,劃燃了火柴,正想去點引信,一輛車呼嘯而過,帶起一陣風(fēng),把火給吹滅了。胡迪雙膝倒地,兩手直捶地面,“不,不,不要這樣!”
不忍再看絕望的胡迪,巴斯低下了頭。突然,陽光穿過巴斯的頭盔,照在胡迪的手背上,竟然聚焦成了一個又白又熱的小點,就像阿薛的放大鏡一樣。
胡迪一下子有了主意,他跳了起來,抓起巴斯的頭盔,小心地調(diào)整著位置,把陽光聚焦到了火箭炮的引信頭上。“不要動,巴斯。”胡迪說道。終于,引信被點燃了。
“成功了!”巴斯喊道。“下一站——安弟!”胡迪跳回賽車。突然,他的微笑又僵住了。
“等等,”胡迪說,“我點燃的是火箭炮,火箭炮會爆炸的!”
此時,火箭炮已經(jīng)噴出了火焰,推著巴斯和胡迪向前沖,快得都讓賽車在離柏油路面幾英寸的地方飛了起來。胡迪使勁抓住,盡量不被甩出去。
很快,他們又看到了行駛中的卡車?;鸺跊_力太強了,巴斯、胡迪和賽車RC真的飛了起來。胡迪努力駕控著,可還是沒能駕得住,便松開了賽車。賽車最終失去了控制,從后面沖進了卡車車廂,嚇得車內(nèi)的玩具四散而逃。然而,火箭炮卻帶著巴斯和胡迪越飛越高,飛到了空中。
“啊!”胡迪大叫道,“我們會被炸成碎片的!”
“這次不會!”巴斯說道。他按下了胸前的按鈕,打開了機翼,將電工膠帶割斷,與火箭炮成功分離。
隨著火箭炮在他們頭頂爆炸,胡迪雙手捂著眼睛準(zhǔn)備掉落。但巴斯的身體卻像滑翔機一樣,帶著胡迪在空中翱翔起來。
“巴斯!你在飛!”胡迪贊道。
“這可不是飛,”巴斯回答,“只是摔得漂亮而已!”
“哈哈!”胡迪歡呼道,“飛向太空,宇宙無限!”
巴斯信心十足,俯沖過幾根電線,姿勢優(yōu)美地朝卡車飛去??墒牵麄儏s飛過了卡車。
“噢,巴斯,我們飛過頭了!”胡迪叫道。
“我們的目標(biāo)不是卡車!”巴斯回答。
巴斯朝左側(cè)稍稍傾斜了一下,盤旋了一圈,從戴維斯家汽車的天窗鉆進了車內(nèi)。誰都還沒有注意到,巴斯和胡迪就已經(jīng)落進了后座上一個敞開的盒子里——剛好在安弟身邊。
一直望著窗外的安弟一扭頭,發(fā)現(xiàn)了躺在盒子里的胡迪和巴斯,玩具們臉上的笑容和安弟第一次見到他們時一模一樣。
“嘿!”安弟大喜,“哇!”
“怎么了?”在前座的媽媽問道。
“是胡迪和巴斯!”安弟大喊。
“噢,太棒了,你找到他們了,”戴維斯夫人說,“他們在哪兒?”
“這兒!”安弟說,“就在車?yán)?”
戴維斯夫人咯咯一笑,搖搖頭說道:“瞧,我怎么說的來著?就在你放的地方!”
安弟緊緊摟著兩個玩具。巴斯和胡迪蜷縮在安弟的懷中,相互會意地笑了。