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pushed the fog out of the room. The air cleared.
    And suddenly she was there. The green-suited lady with the red hair. Wisps of fog swirled around her as she strode over to the five friends. She stopped at a crater on the Mars set.
    â€œWhat an entrance!” said Mike. “Just like in the movies. Are you sure you’re not an actress?”
    â€œThat perfume again,” said Jeff. “Wow.”
    The woman just stood there.
    â€œYou!” cried Holly, staring at her. “We almost have no town left because of you and your big dumb octopus monster! Go home!”
    The woman stepped over to Holly. She looked at her with a snarly smile, then ran her fingers through her wavy red hair. “I’m not leaving until I get what I came for.”
    Holly didn’t like the sound of that. “Just who are you? And what are you doing here?”
    â€œMaybe this will explain!” snorted the woman. Slowly she reached her left hand up and gripped something under her chin. And with Holly, Sean, Jeff, Mike, and Liz watching her every move, she began to pull!
    Sleeooooop!
    The woman tugged a thin layer of spongy stuff off her face. Gooey strings of glue came with it. Then she threw her wig to the floor.
    â€œThere’s a big green thing under her face!” said Mike, bending to look under.
    The big green thing under her face was a big green head! It was a speckly round dome with burning red eyes! Behind the green head were long things twisted up together.
    â€œShe’s not a regular lady,” said Mike.
    Liz moved closer to her friends. “And I don’t think those are regular braids, either.”
    Liz was right. The woman shook her dome as if she were tossing her hair loose from a ponytail. Suddenly, eight slithery green tentacles uncoiled and fell over her shoulder. They slapped to the floor behind her.
    â€œWow!” said Mike. “An octopus lady!”
    â€œIncredible!” gasped Sean. “Dad uses makeup to change regular faces into ugly heads, and—!”
    â€œâ€”And I did the same,” the ocotopus lady cut in. “To me, humans are ugly heads. And look at you, no tentacles at all!” She snorted a laugh.
    Then the lady spoke again. Only this time her voice was different. It sounded deep and bubbly, as if she were talking underwater. “My name is Octa-Loona! Queen of the Octopus Monsters!”
    â€œWhere do you come from, Mars?” asked Jeff.
    â€œMars!” the green head smirked. “That pitiful planet of surfing zombies? I don’t think so. I happen to be Queen of Planet X! And by the way, Mars doesn’t have anything like these cardboard craters.”
    â€œThanks for the geography lesson,” Holly said. “But I think you’d better go back to Planet X, because we’ve got lots of other things to—”
    â€œEnough talk!” Octa-Loona interrupted. “It’s time for death. Yours!”
    The words struck fear in Holly’s heart. But her brother stepped over next to her and glared at the octopus woman.
    â€œSorry, Octa-Looney!” snarled Sean. “We have no time for death. We’ve got a town to save!”
    Octa-Loona’s red eyes went wide. Her tentacles twitched. “And how are you going to win? I’ve got you way outnumbered!”
    Then, in a flash … flash … flash … in eight flashes, actually, Octa-Loona unfurled her tentacles and made a big green fist with each one!
    â€œAnyone for tentacles?” cried the Queen of Planet X.
    Within seconds, the fight had begun!

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    Thonk! Pow! Ka-blang!
    â€œ A ttack!” shrieked Holly, charging at the eight-tentacled Queen of Planet X.
    â€œWait! First we need attack props!” cried Sean. He rushed to the castle set from Dream Dungeon Disco, and grabbed a shiny sword off the wall.
    â€œNow we attack!” he yelled, charging at Octa-Loona, waving the shiny sword.
    Flonk! The sword blade bent in half as he ran.