The 13-Story Treehouse    

PART 3 of 3

Andy and Terry praise their book, saying it's their best work yet. Andy reminds him it’s their only work. Bill the postman rings the doorbell again with more sea monkeys for Terry. Terry explained the Mermaidia situation with the company, so they sent some more eggs to apologize.

Terry hatches the eggs in a matter of seconds—but the replacement eggs weren’t sea monkey eggs, they were monkey-monkey eggs. The stupid company sent the wrong eggs again.

The monkey-monkeys were everywhere. There were monkeys in the bathroom, monkeys in the kitchen, monkeys in the bowling alley—there were monkeys everywhere.

Some monkeys were swinging on a vine. Terry and Andy ducked, and the monkeys on the vine collided with the monkeys on the marshmallow machine, breaking it into pieces. But the monkeys weren’t phased and soon started throwing things at Andy and Terry.

Terry grabs the giant banana he made the day before and starts whacking the monkeys out of the treehouse—and also the things they threw. But then Terry and Andy realize the monkeys were in a hypnotized trance because of the giant banana, which Terry uses to lure the monkeys into the catapult. He also puts the giant banana in as well, and they launch the monkeys and the banana far, far, far away to a remote island.

After Terry and Andy clean up the mess the monkeys made, they begin writing their next book—when a giant gorilla starts shaking the treehouse, mistaking it for a giant banana tree after he ate the giant banana, used the peel as a boat sail, and found the treehouse looking for more giant bananas.

But Andy and Terry can't give the giant gorilla more giant bananas because the monkeys destroyed the banana enlarger. They completely tore it apart.

After that, a chauffeur rings the doorbell looking for Terry. Terry says he’s up here, and the chauffeur says that he has won the grand prize of the Barky the Barking Dog competition. Barky comes out of the limousine and starts barking at the giant gorilla, but Barky is given the Monty Python treatment and is squashed by the giant gorilla’s foot.

Andy and Terry start to lose hope as the giant gorilla goes back to shaking the treehouse. But then, Silky and 13 other catnaries come in and attack the gorilla. The gorilla climbs the treehouse higher and higher to fight the catnaries until it loses its balance and crashes to the ground with a SICKENING THUD!!! The catnaries carry the gorilla back to its island home.

Then the doorbell rings on the treehouse—but it’s not Bill the postman. It’s Jill, panting as she ran there, thinking she saw Silky. Andy confesses that Terry painted Silky yellow and she became a catnary. But Jill doesn’t mind—because having a catnary is like having the best of both worlds.

Jill leaves to pour Silky and her new friends some birdseed.

But Andy is angry because they still haven’t done their book. But Terry says to write what they did today—so they did. But it’s nearly 5:00. How do they get the book to Mr. Big Nose on time?

Then a ringing noise is heard, which Terry thinks is Santa Claus—but Andy says it’s not Christmas. It’s actually Jill in a sleigh pulled by her 13 catnaries.

Jill gives Andy and Terry a lift to Big Nose Books in the city. Mr. Big Nose publishes the book, and the book is sent off to bookshops, libraries, e-reading devices, and state-of-the-art brain-transferring helmets.

Then you read it—and Andy and Terry and everyone else lived happily ever after (if you haven’t had your brain fried by a prototype brain-transferring helmet).

I give The 13-Story Treehouse 5 giant bananas out of 5 giant gorillas.