Chapter 12 Summary: Help!

The chapter 12 it’s about Bruno and Boots talking with Elmer and George about their grades; Bruno got 86% but Elmer got 97% while Boots got 89% and George got 88.5% and then Bruno and Boots waited until the midnight for their meeting at the old canon. When they arrived at the canon, the boys started to talk bout plans so that they could get back together again, Bruno said that maybe it would be a great idea if they talk with their parents and they said that they have to be together because of medical reasons by saying that they had a mental disease, but Boots replied that idea by saying that if they call to their parents to talk with the headmaster, Mr. Sturgeon would tell them that Bruno and Boots had made a lot of pranks in the school and they would be in trouble with their parents, then Bruno had another idea, he said that maybe if they go in a hunger strike, Mr. Sturgeon could feel pity on them and they can be rejoined again, but Boots said that that plan never would success because he said that Bruno wouldn’t last even one hour. Then when the moon was clear with any cloud on it, they saw a strange object like a rectangle crashing over a tree and after that rapidly they went to the scene of the event, although Boots didn’t wanted to go to the direction of the of the object, Bruno convinced him to go with him in order to see what happened. Bruno and Boots arrived to the scene and then they realized that the strange rectangular object actually was a basket attached balloon, and then they heard a voice that came from inside of the basket, Bruno and Boots immediately help to the person that was in trouble. Boots climbed the tree and he was holding a branch in order to grab the basket, and Bruno was squeezing through the window of the locked gym. He hurried to the equipment room and grabbed a Volleyball net, then started back to the tree, when he arrived to the tree he was calling for Boots, then Boots responded and Bruno clambered up with the net and soon joined Boots on the dangerously creaking branch, he threw the Volleyball net to the basket so the boy could use it as a ripe in order to come down from the tree, after a couple of tries the boy caught it and tied it to the cable and then he could come down from the tree.

Bruno and Boots could save to that person and they asked for his name and the boy said that his name was Francisco that actually was the son of an ambassador from an unspecified country that was living in Ottawa. The boys had to ask for help to Mr. Sturgeon and when they arrived to his house, he opened the door and he got upset because of the hour he thought that Bruno and Boots had made pranks, but they explained to him that it wasn’t that the reason for they to knocking at his door, then they introduced to him to Francisco and he said that Bruno and Boots had saved him and they were a heroes, then Mr. Sturgeon called to Francisco’s father, then Francisco talked with his father and asked to Mr. Sturgeon to spend the night in McDonald Hall, of course Mr. Sturgeon accepted the request. After some minutes, they heard a slam at the door and Mr. Sturgeon opened and he again was thinking that it was another prank from Bruno and Boots but only was Elmer, although he was very nervous and he was very scared because he saw everything with his telescope and he thought that it was an UFO that landed on the earth and he was thinking that it was a some kind of alien invasion, then Bruno and Boots made him a joke on him by telling him that it was an alien and Francisco was actually an extraterrestrial, then Elmer was so scared about that and when he saw to Francisco he thought that he was a alien and he wanted to find his spacecraft because he wanted to get the Nobel prize, then Mr. Sturgeon tried to make Elmer understand that all the events wasn’t nothing to do with aliens, but Elmer didn’t wanted to hear Mr. Sturgeon and then Elmer darted out the door in search of the UFO and everlasting fame.