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    Justice League vs. Bizarro League (LEGO DC Super Heroes: Chapter Book)


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      SCRIPT WRITTEN BY MICHAEL JELENIC

      ADAPTED BY J. E. BRIGHT

      SCHOLASTIC INC.

      LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Brick and Knob configurations and the Minifigure are trademarks

      of the LEGO Group. © 2015 The LEGO Group. Produced by Scholastic Inc. under license

      from The LEGO Group.

      Copyright © 2015 DC Comics. JUSTICE LEAGUE and all related characters and elements

      are trademarks of and © DC Comics.

      (s15)

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the

      product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual

      persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      e-ISBN 978-1-338-04610-6

      First printing September 2015

      Chapter 1:

      superman’s

      twin?

      It was a sunny day

      at the playground in

      Metropolis. Children laughed as they raced around

      the equipment, playing on a merry-go-round shaped

      like an octopus. Their mothers chatted on benches at

      the edge of the sand, drinking coffee. Behind them in

      the parking lot was a line of identical SUVs.

      The mothers sipped their coffees . . . and gasped

      as they spotted a blue blur whiz above the city,

      circling the golden globe atop the Daily Planet Building.

      “Look!” the first mother shouted. “It’s Superman!”

      The being swooped down. He looked like a brutish,

      twisted version of Superman. The mothers screamed

      as the monstrous creature laughed harshly. Then he

      crash-landed, giggling, in the sand.

      The children shrieked as they saw the scary

      thing laughing in the playground.

      The messy monster became alarmed. He stared

      at the kids on the merry-go-round as they hollered

      in the octopus’s spinning arms. “Bizarro save tiny

      people from tentacle creature!” he growled.

      The kids screamed again as Bizarro barreled

      toward the twirling octopus. He yanked it free. Bizarro

      Superman!

      grappled with the octopus, and children toppled into

      the sand. “No like calamari!” he hollered.

      The mothers hopped, shrieking in alarm. Kids

      were crying everywhere.

      Bizarro gave the roundabout a solid shake, and

      two kids flung free, sailing into the sky.

      Another blur whooshed down toward the kids.

      It was the real Superman!

      He caught the children, gathering them safely in

      his grasp as he hovered. Superman lowered, easing

      the kids onto the sand.

      The mothers sighed with relief as they saw their

      MY BABY!

      children giggling next to Superman.

      “Don’t worry,” said Superman. “They’re just fine.”

      “Thank you, Superman!” cried his mother. “You

      saved my child from your crazy brother!”

      “Oh no,” said Superman, laughing awkwardly.

      “That’s not my brother. It. . . I mean, he was created

      when Lex Luthor hit me with a duplicator ray.”

      Bizarro smacked the octopus roundabout hard

      against the blacktop.

      “Excuse me,” Superman said. He zoomed over.

      “Bizarro, put that down,” he ordered.

      “Bizarro put down,” said Bizarro. He hurled the

      octopus spinner overhead. It wheeled straight up

      until it vanished. He smiled proudly.

      Superman rubbed his forehead. “Down means up.

      Up means down. Why does everything have to be

      backward with you?”

      “Bizarro help Superman!” argued Bizarro, sur-

      prised. “Save Metropolis from tentacle creature!”

      “Why is it every time you try to help,” asked Super-

      man, “Metropolis ends up destroyed? That octopus

      isn’t a creature. It isn’t even an octopus. It’s not dan-

      gerous!” He sighed.

      That was when the octopus merry-go-round

      returned to Earth. It slammed into the SUVs in the

      parking lot, smashing the vehicles into hundreds of

      tiny bricks. The SUVs broke into rubble, jumbling their

      pieces together in a heap.

      “Ha-ha-ha,” said Bizarro. “Boom!”

      “My car!” a mother squealed. “Do you know how

      long it took me to assemble that? There were, like, so

      many bricks!”

      Another mother pointed her finger at Superman.

      “Can you take your identical twin somewhere else?”

      “Twins! Oh no,” Superman said. “He’s actually the

      opposite of me in every way.”

      Superman flew over to Bizarro.

      “Bizarro save Metropolis!” Bizarro cheered.

      “Bizarro save home!”

      “You sure did,” said Superman, shaking his head.

      Then he looked up into the sky. “You know,” he told

      Bizarro, “I recently discovered a place that needs

      your help even more than Metropolis.”

      Bizarro’s eyes blazed. “Let’s not go!”

      Superman nodded. “Follow me,” he said, lifting off.

      “I mean”—he corrected himself—“don’t follow me.”

      As Superman flew out of the playground and

      zoomed high above Metropolis, Bizarro kept close

      behind.

      Chapter 2:

      bizarro

      world

      Bizarro trailed Superman

      up through

      Earth’s atmosphere, past our solar system, and into

      the deep void of outer space.

      Traveling at super-speed, they soon passed far-

      out stars into uncharted darkness.

      Superman glanced at a handheld navigational

      computer. He studied the star charts.

      “Should be around...” he muttered. Then he spot-

      ted what he was looking for.“Ah, right there.”

      A planet appeared as Superman and Bizarro flew

      toward it.

      It was an enormous rocky cube floating in space.

      Superman dived down, soaring into the cubic

      planet’s atmosphere. Freaky lights
    flashed in the

      planet’s clouds, shining in kaleidoscopic colors.

      Both Bizarro and Superman gasped, star-

      tled, when the little computer in Superman’s grasp

      suddenly fizzled and shattered, floating away in

      broken pieces.

      Their entry through the atmosphere became more

      turbulent as they traveled toward the rocky surface

      below. Superman was badly shaken up. Bizarro gig-

      gled at the bouncy descent.

      “Where you take Bizarro?”

      “Somewhere you can’t get into trouble,” replied

      Superman. “This planet’s physics are a little back-

      ward . .. just like you.It’s going to be the perfect

      home.”

      Bizarro gazed out on the empty alien landscape.

      “Home Metropolis,” he grunted. “How I save Daily

      Planet? How I save people here?”

      “Hmm,” said Superman, rubbing his chin. He

      scanned the area, noticing the huge golden crys-

      tals dotting the desert. “Watch this.” He carved

      crystals with his heat vision. Superman stacked the cut

      crystals until they resembled a jagged version of the

      Daily Planet Building with its signature globe. “Just

      like the one on Earth,” he told Bizarro. “What do you

      think?”

      Bizarro stared blankly at the teetering rocks.

      With lasers from his eyes, Superman etched a

      simple smiley face on to a small crystal by the base of

      the rocky tower. Then he sliced a chunk of the globe

      that

      tickled!

      and it slid down toward the smiley crystal below.

      “Bizarro!” called Superman. “That citizen is in trouble!”

      Bizarro rocketed to catch the falling rock before it

      brained the stone citizen.

      “You nothing to worry for, citizen,” Bizarro said with

      a grin. “Bizarro keep safe.” He patted the smiling crys-

      tal on the back. Its head popped off. “I think I kill him!”

      Superman replaced the citizen’s stone head. “He’ll

      be just fine,” he said. “He just needs to rest at home.”

      His eyes gleamed with an idea. “Can you build him a

      home, Bizarro?”

      Hmm . . .

      Nodding excitedly, Bizarro shouted, “Bizarro build!”

      Superman hovered above the planet’s severe sur-

      face. “I would wish you good luck, Bizarro,” he said,

      “but you’d take it the wrong way.”

      He took off back toward Earth, leaving Bizarro

      alone in his new home.

      Chapter 3:

      going

      bananas

      All was quiet

      from Bizarro for a year.

      In the meantime, Superman and his powerful

      friends in the Justice League stayed busy saving

      Metropolis.

      One day the citizens ran screaming down the

      streets when the monstrous Giganta stomped across

      the city. With every thudding step she took, cars

      bounced. Giganta was eight stories tall and wore a

      leopard skin like a cavewoman.

      Giganta shook the Daily Planet Building. “I got

      news for you!” she thundered. “Print is dead.” With

      a mighty heave, she pushed the entire tower. The

      building slowly toppled.

      Superman swooped in and caught the building.

      “This skyscraper is heavy.”He pushed the building

      upright.

      “Now Clark Kent doesn’t have to look for a

      new job,” Superman muttered. Giganta, scowling,

      raised her fist to punch Superman. A golden lasso

      circled her wrist.

      Wonder Woman yanked her lasso from where she

      stood atop her Invisible Jet. Giganta fell backward,

      plopping down with a thud. “Giganta, this is no way

      for a lady to act,” scolded Wonder Woman.

      “Or dress.

      Animal prints are so last season.”

      “Leopard spots are the new black,” replied

      Giganta.“And I’m going to make you black and blue!”

      She swung a vast fist.

      Wonder Woman hovered out of the way on her jet.

      “If you say so!”

      Giganta climbed back on her feet, punching at

      Superman and Wonder Woman as they ducked and

      fought around her.

      Nearby, Gorilla Grodd stood on the ledge

      of a building. He wore his mind-control helmet.

      Gorilla Grodd smiled up at the rampaging Giganta.

      “The perfect distraction for the perfect plan,” he

      declared.

      Grodd pressed a button on his helmet and

      telepathic energy waves circled out. He was con-

      trolling three villains—Deathstroke, the Penguin, and

      Captain Cold. Each carried crates out of a warehouse.

      “The Justice League will never figure out what I’m

      really up to,” hooted Gorilla Grodd.

      “Let me take a shot at it,” said Batman. He leaped

      between the gorilla and the villains. “You’re using your

      mind-control helmet to turn Giganta, the Penguin,

      Deathstroke, and Captain Cold into your henchmen.

      So while Giganta wreaks havoc on Metropolis you

      get your real prize.”

      “Pretty good guess,” Grodd snarled. He reached

      up to press a button on his helmet.

      Before he could touch it, a pair of rocket-powered

      metal hands snatched the helmet off the big goril-

      la’s head. The hands carried the helmet back to their

      owner, Cyborg.

      “Booyah!” Cyborg cheered. “Batman knew you’d

      try that. So he had me snatch your hypno-helmet.” He

      crushed it in his fist. “He’s just so smart.”

      The Penguin squawked as his brain cleared.

      That’s cold,

      man.

      “Grodd had us under mind control.”

      Batman hurled another Batarang, which sliced the

      lid off a crate.

      Dozens of bananas tumbled into the street.

      “Nobody makes a monkey out of me,” Deathstroke

      seethed. “Let’s get out of here!”

      While the villains scurried away, Grodd reached

      into another crate and pulled out a scary-looking

      weapon. He shot laser beams at Batman and Cyborg.

      Batman flipped away from the deadly beams.

      Gorilla Grodd opened the third crate, and put on

      the jet pack inside. He blasted into the sky.

      Batman strapped on his own rocket-powered

      backpack. “Stay put, rookie!” he ordered Cyborg. He

      took off after Grodd, past where Giganta was squeez-

      ing Wonder Woman’s Invisible Jet and Superman in

      her enormous fists.

      The newest Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, arrived

      in a big green bubble floating over a nearby park.

      “Let me show you how a

      real hero does it!” he an-

      nounced. He shined his

      power ring, creating a

      gigantic glowing copy of

      himself, which he could

      pilot from inside its head.

      Wonder Woman rolled

      her eyes. “Wow, look,

      Superman,” she said. “Guy

      Gardner finally made something as big as his ego.”

      Guy leaped at Giganta, but she was ready for him.

      “Say hello to the agony of defeat!” she shouted.

      Giganta kicked Green Lantern, connecting solid
    ly

      Aw, I wish

      I had a

      jet pack.

      with her gargantuan foot.

      Green Lantern tumbled backward and slammed

      upside down against a building. His giant creation fiz-

      zled, and he fell down and landed hard on his head.

      “Ow,” he said.

      At least he had distracted Giganta enough for

      Wonder Woman and Superman to gain the advan-

      tage in their battle with her.

      Green Lantern and Superman buzzed around

      Giganta’s head, and when she swung her fists at

      them, she tripped over the golden wire and fell over.

      “Wrapping things up here,” radioed Wonder

      Woman from her jet as she wrapped her lasso around

      Giganta’s feet.

      Using his power ring, Green Lantern created

      handcuffs big enough to hold her enormous wrists.

      With Giganta under control, Superman contacted

      Batman. “How’s it going with that big gorilla?” he

      asked. “Need any help?”

      In their jet-pack chase, Batman whooshed after

      Gorilla Grodd, tossing Batarangs. “I don’t need any

      help from you,” Batman replied rudely.

      Gorilla Grodd plunged through a pack of Boy

      Scouts, tumbling them into the air.

      With lightning-fast reflexes, Batman hurled a doz-

      en manacles, chaining the Boy Scouts together. He

      caught the whole matrix of scouts before they could

      fall. Then he took a shortcut, heading off Gorilla

      Grodd with the connected pack of Boy Scouts.

      Gorilla Grodd got tangled in the scout chain. All

      the little boys clung to the gorilla, pummeling him

      with their little fists.

      Batman lowered the ball

      of Boy Scouts to the sand

      in the park, with Grodd

      unmoving in the middle.

      The scouts all cheered, and

      Batman pinned merit badges

      on their uniforms.

      “Great takedown,” Superman complimented

      Batman as he landed beside him. “But maybe next

      time, instead of using children to stop super-villains,

     


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