Chapter 21


“GOOOOD EVENING!” Greeny boomed, starting off their next meeting, this time during the dark night. They had an action-packed day of shopping and door removing. Refreshed from another dinner together and some free time in Greeny’s house, they felt ready to take another step forward.

“Whatcha got for us, Greeny?” Pinky asked.

“Well, I came up with a great idea!” Greeny boasted. “We will design a flier and stick it on Pac-Man’s front door tonight.”

“Cool!” Blinky approved. “I don’t see any better way we could get him over to that building.”

“Right,” Greeny grinned.
Violet rolled her eyes. Keep soaking up the attention, Greeny, because tomorrow… the attention is on Pac-Man, she thought.

“Any suggestions?” Greeny asked.

“Nope,” Blinky answered confidently.

Silver got to work designing the flier and making sure Pac-Man would take this as a challenge, not a threat. The finished result read, “WANT A CHALLENGE? BOOMING CITY HAS CONSTRUCTED A NEW MAZE! COME FOR PLENTY OF CHERRIES AND DOT-CRUNCHING, GHOST CHOMPING FUN, FREE OF CHARGE! 1762 ORIGINAL STREET!” Silver decorated the flier with cherries and a drawing of Pac-Man almost chomping Blinky.

“Nice drawing. I hope it isn’t predicting the future,” Blinky chuckled.

“No no, I hope not!” Silver replied. “We didn’t want it to look like a ghost was challenging him. For all he knows, Pac-Land construction workers could have chosen to make one in Booming City!”

“Lead us to Pac-Man’s house!” Greeny yelled to Blinky.

“What if Pac-Man sees us?” Clyde asked.

“I doubt it. He’s an early riser,” Pinky reminded him.

“I’m pretty sure he, Ms. Pac-Man, and Jr. Pac-Man are all asleep.”

All the ghosts rushed out of Greeny’s house and into the night. They traveled to and through Pac-Land in stealth mode. Pac-Land, normally a bright and colorful city with a decent amount of activity, looked entirely different. The only lighting was on each Pac-citizen’s small, gray house. All the businesses were closed. Bushes and houses were the only scenery very visible to the ghosts. They didn’t know if any other Pac-Men stayed awake at this time, so they sneaked around the bushes and houses.

“What am I seeing?” Clyde whispered. Everyone else instantly looked over to their left.

Inky squinted, trying to make it out. “Huh… I think that’s a construction site. I wonder what they could be building,” The darkness outside prevented them from seeing the huge, halfway done maze right next to them.

“Slow down guys. We’re approaching Pac-Man’s house. Silver hold up that flier,” Blinky whispered as quietly as possible. Silver held up the flier, and once they arrived at Pac-Man’s house, he smoothly and speedily slapped the sign onto Pac-Man’s front door. They paused for a second to make sure the duct tape was effective, and then they took off. They contained their excitement until they returned to Greeny’s office.

“Well done, everyone!” Violet smiled. “We managed not to get caught, which was the most important part of that trip. Not only that; no one even came out of their house! I guess everybody was asleep. Speaking of sleep, I’m really tired. I’m gonna go back home now before all this traveling really gets to me.”

“Alright, goodnight!” Greeny shouted.

“See ya,” Clyde replied.

Violet closed the office door behind her. As she began her travels home, she thought about what she could do to teach Greeny a lesson. She had tested him enough, so now she needed to step it up. Would anything I do get Greeny extremely mad at me again? she wanted to know. Two minutes later, she decided she should call it a night when she arrived at home. Her and Greeny’s team was only one step away from completing their mission. She found comfort in thinking about waiting to act until their teams were once again separate.