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here any second.”
    meep …
“Parasites got stuff that keep big eaters away” said Thudd.
    “Hmmm …,” mused Andrew. “I have an idea.”
    He started spitting at the hookworm. “Come on, Judy! Help me! Spit!”
    “What are you
doing
, Bug-Brain?” said Judy. “Trying to
insult
the hookworm to death?”
    “I’m calling the big eaters,” said Andrew. “Maybe they’ll come if we mark the hookworm with some of
us.”
    “Aaaaaaack!”
hollered Judy. “There’s a tentacle on my neck!”
    Andrew turned to see a big eater squirming behind them. More tentacles were poking through the capillary walls.
    Big-eater tentacles were everywhere! They swarmed over Andrew and Judy as they lashed out at the hookworm.
    meep …
“Drewd and Oody not wanna get between big eaters and dinner!” said Thudd. “Gotta get away!”
    Andrew looked around. Another big eater was slithering through the capillary wall. As it pulled itself inside, Andrew held the slit open and wriggled out—and into another capillary. Judy was right behind him. The warm blood rushed them along again.
    Judy rolled her eyes. “Well,
that
was pleasant,” she said.
    The red blood cells were turning darker.
    “It’s getting harder to breathe,” said Andrew.
    meep …
“Blood going back to heart, back to lungs. Can try to get out through lungs again.
    “Knock, knock. Who there? Boo. Boo who? Don’t cry! Hee hee hee!”
    “Thudd!” said Andrew. “What’s going on? Why are you telling knock-knock jokes?”
    Thudd’s face screen went dark and the buttons on his chest stopped blinking.
    “Oh no!” said Andrew. He pulled Thudd from his pocket and gave him a shake. “I think Thudd’s thought chips are getting soggy. The last time this happened, he told elephant jokes. He was in bad shape.
    “I painted him with three coats of Never-Wet, but it must be wearing off.”
    Andrew pressed Thudd’s reset button. Thudd’s gumdrop-shaped feet gave a little kick. The buttons on his chest began to blink green again, but not as brightly as before.
    bleep …
“Dewd? Oogy?”
    “Are you okay, Thudd?” asked Andrew.
    bloop …
“Kinda,” said Thudd woozily.
    “Hang in there, buddy,” said Andrew. “We’ll get you dry soon.”
    blurp …
“Thunkoo, Drewp,” said Thudd.
    Thumpa! Thumpa! Thumpa!
    THUMPA! THUMPA!
    They were getting near Uncle Al’s heart again. It was beating faster than before. They were traveling at breakneck speed.
    “Woofers!” said Andrew, somersaulting through the red blood cells. “The blood is moving so fast!”
    gleep …
“Unkie Al doing lotsa stuff, maybe,” said Thudd. “Or Unkie Al scared, maybe.
    “Heart beat fast when someone work hard. Heart beat fast when someone scared. Body need lotsa energy, lotsa oxygen. Heart rush blood to body.”
    THUMPA! THUMPA! THUMPA! THUMPA!
    Andrew could see the heart valve ahead of them. It was opening. They were sucked into the right side of the heart and pumped out so quickly that the heartstrings were a blur.
    The blood rushed them through the lungs too fast to find spaces in the capillary walls. Instantly, they were pumped to the left side ofthe heart. With a powerful squeeze, it zoomed them off into Uncle Al’s body again.
    Red blood cells smacked into Andrew like big rubber rafts. Andrew accidentally jerked the Drastic Elastic and Judy’s head bonked into his.
    Now it felt like the bloodstream was rushing them up and up.
    Maybe we’ll go to Uncle Al’s nose
, thought Andrew.
We could get out from there.
    Suddenly Andrew tingled all over. “Electricity!” he said.
    meep …
“Drewd and Oody in Unkie’s brain now,” said Thudd. “Brain use electric signals to send messages.”
    Andrew noticed that his arms and legs were poking out of his red-blood-cell disguise.
Uh-oh
, he thought.
I’m getting bigger!
    “Oofers!” cried Andrew. He was stuck in the capillary like a cork in a bottle.

A SHOCKING SITUATION
    “Erf!” hollered Judy, slamming into Andrew. “What’s