Chapter  14

"Bing Bong, we have to get to that station," Joy said. She couldn't believe they had lost another island. The train whistled in the distance, which made her feel even more anxious.

"Sure thing," Bing Bong said. "This way, just past Graham Cracker¹ Castle." But then he stopped and looked around, confused. The castle was gone. "I wonder why they moved it?" he asked. He walked a bit farther. Suddenly, he realized things didn't look right.

A giant bulldozer came hurtling toward him and knocked over a pink castle. Bing Bong gasped².

"Princess Dream World!" Glitter flew into the air as the castle disintegrated³. All of Preschool World was being torn down!

"My rocket!" Bing Bong screamed as he saw the Forgetters walking by with a red wagon⁴. He ran after it. "Wait!" he yelled as a bulldozer pushed the pile of old memories closer and closer to the cliff edge. "Riley and I were still using that rocket! It still has some song power left!"

He desperately⁵ sang the song that powered the rocket and it responded, binging and bonging back at him and firing up. It rocketed into the air, then dove straight over the cliff! "Nooo!" Bing Bong screamed. "You can't take my rocket to the dump! Riley and I are going to the moon!" He watched in shock as the rocket disappeared into the infinite darkness of the dump below. "Riley can't be done with me," he said, feeling heartbroken and falling to his knees.

Joy could think of only one thing: she had to get to the station. So she tried to pep Bing Bong up. "Hey, it's going to be okay. We can fix this. We just need to get back to Headquarters. Which way to the train station?" Bing Bong had no reaction. He was frozen with grief.

"I had a whole trip planned for us," he said quietly.

"Here comes the tickle⁶ monster," Joy said, as she tried a different tactic⁷. She tickled⁸ him, but he didn't respond. She even tried making funny faces, but her silliness wasn't snapping Bing Bong out of his misery⁹. "Oh, here comes a fun game. You point to the train station, and we'll go there," Joy said. Bing Bong remained motionless.

Sadness walked over and sat down next to him. "I'm sorry they took your rocket," she said gently. "They took something that you loved and it's gone… forever."

"Sadness, don't make him feel worse," Joy said.

"Sorry," said Sadness.

"It's all I had left of Riley," said Bing Bong.

"I bet you and Riley had great adventures," Sadness said.

"They were wonderful. Once, we flew back in time. We had breakfast twice that day."

"That sounds amazing. I bet Riley liked it."

"Oh, she did. We were best friends," Bing Bong said. He started to cry.

"Yeah," said Sadness. "It is sad."

Bing Bong put his head on Sadness's shoulder and cried candy tears. Sadness put her arm around him and tried to comfort him as he sobbed¹⁰.

After a good cry, Bing Bong wiped his eyes and took a deep breath. "I'm okay now," he said with a sniffle. He stood up and looked around. "C'mon. The train station is this way." He started to walk toward it. Joy looked at Sadness in disbelief. "How did you do that?" she asked.

"I don't know," said Sadness. "He was sad, so I listened to what—"

"Hey, there's the train!" Bing Bong called.

The three ran up to the train and climbed aboard just as it was starting up. "We made it!" Joy said. "We're finally going to get home!"

Back in Headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust ranted¹¹ about the terrible day they'd had. "On a scale of one to ten, I give this day an F," said Disgust.

"Well, why don't we quit standing¹² around and do something," Anger suggested, dropping his newspaper, which was emblazoned with the headline "Riley Quits Hockey!"

Fear thought they all should quit their jobs as Riley's Emotions. He knew it was the coward's way out, but since he was Fear, he was okay with that.

"Emotions don't quit, genius," Disgust said.

Suddenly, Anger ran to the back and rummaged¹³ through the ideas, looking for something. "Aha!" he shouted, holding up an idea bulb triumphantly¹⁴. He believed he'd found the solution they needed to fix everything for Riley. "Just the best idea ever!" he announced.

"What?" Disgust asked.

"All the good core memories were made in Minnesota," Anger said. "Ergo, we go back to Minnesota and make more. Ta-da!"

"Wait, wait, wait. You're saying we run away?" asked Fear. "You can't be serious."

"Our life was perfect until Mom and Dad decided¹⁵ to move to San Fran Stinktown," said Anger.

"But, I mean, it's just so… drastic," said Fear.

"Need I remind you how great things were there? Our room? Our backyard? Our friends?" Anger punched up a memory, playing it on the screen.

The Tripledent gum commercial song played throughout Headquarters. "Did I ask for the gum commercial?" Annoyed, Anger slapped his hand against the console, ejecting the memory. "Anyway, it was better. That's my point."

"Yeah, Riley was happier in Minnesota… ," said Disgust, nodding her head.

"Shouldn't we just sleep on it or something?" asked Fear.

"Fine. Let's sleep on it," Anger said, crossing his arms over his chest. "Because hey—I'm sure jolly, fun-filled times are just around the corner."

Inside her bedroom, Riley drifted off to sleep.

With Riley asleep, day turned to night in Mind World and the Train of Thought came to a screeching¹⁶ halt. "Huh?" Joy was confused. "Hey! Why aren't we moving?"

"Riley's gone to sleep," the train engineer said. "We're all on break."

"You mean we're stuck here until morning?" asked Sadness.

"Yeah, the Train of Thought doesn't run while she's asleep," answered Bing Bong.

"Oh, we can't wait that long!" groaned¹⁷ Joy.

 

第 14 章

“兵兵，我们必须到达那个火车站。”乐乐说道，她不敢相信她们又失去了一座岛屿。火车的汽笛声从远处传来，这让她感到更加焦虑。

“当然。”兵兵说道，“这边走，过了前面的全麦饼干城堡就到了。”但是他停了下来，环顾四周，满脸茫然。城堡不见了。“他们怎么把城堡搬走了？”他一边问一边继续往前走，突然发现事情有些不对劲。

一辆巨型推土机朝他猛冲过来，推倒一座粉色城堡，兵兵倒抽了一口气。

“公主梦世界！”城堡崩塌的瞬间空中亮晶晶的一片。整个童年世界正在被摧毁。

“我的火箭！”看到路过的遗忘小人手里抓着的红色火箭，兵兵叫了起来，他追过去。“等等！”推土机将一堆旧的记忆球朝悬崖边缘越推越近。兵兵喊道：“我和莱莉还要用到火箭哪！火箭里还剩一些歌声能量！”

他绝望地唱起那首可以发动火箭的歌曲，火箭动了动，朝他发出乒乒乓乓的声音，发动了。火箭朝空中飞去，接着笔直地坠入悬崖！“不——！”兵兵叫道，“不要夺走我的火箭，不要把它扔进清理库！我和莱莉还要飞到月球上去呢！”他惊愕地看着火箭消失在下方清理库无边的黑暗中。“莱莉不需要我了。”他心碎了，跪倒在地。

乐乐只想着一件事：她必须到火车站去。于是她试着给兵兵打气：“嘿，一切都会好起来的。只要我们能回情绪总部，一定能解决这件事。哪条路可以去火车站？”兵兵没有反应，他由于过度悲伤，已经呆住了。

“我本来计划好了整个行程。”他静静地回答。

“挠痒痒怪兽来啦。”乐乐试着改变战术，开始挠兵兵痒痒，但是他没什么反应。乐乐甚至开始做鬼脸，但是装傻的乐乐也没能将兵兵从痛苦中唤醒。乐乐说：“噢，要不我们玩个好玩的游戏，你指着火车站，然后我们到那儿去。”但是兵兵仍然一动不动。

忧忧走上前，坐在他旁边。“他们拿走了你的火箭，我也很难过。”她温和地说，“他们夺走了你心爱的东西，而且它没了……永远没了。”

“忧忧，你这样只会让他更难过。”乐乐说。

“对不起。”忧忧说。

“那是莱莉留给我的唯一一样东西。”兵兵说。

“我敢打赌你和莱莉以前有过很多伟大的冒险经历。”忧忧说。

“棒极了。有一次我们还回到过去，所以那天我们吃了两顿早餐。”

“听起来很不错啊，我相信莱莉一定很喜欢。”

“噢，当然，我们是最好的朋友。”兵兵说着说着开始哭了起来。

“是啊，”忧忧说道，“是很令人难过。”

兵兵把头靠在忧忧肩膀上，糖果眼泪掉了下来。忧忧伸出手抱着他，努力在他哭泣的时候安慰他。

大哭了一场之后，兵兵擦干眼泪，深吸了一口气，他擤了一下鼻子说：“我没事了。”他站起来，看看四周。“来吧，火车站往这边走。”他开始朝火车站走去。乐乐难以置信地看着忧忧，问：“你是怎么做到的？”

“我也不知道，”忧忧回答，“他很难过，因此我听——”

“嘿，火车在那儿！”兵兵叫道。

他们三人向前跑，在火车正要出发的那一刻爬了上去。“我们成功了！”乐乐说道，“总算可以回家了！”

情绪总部里，怒怒、怕怕和厌厌为经历了糟糕的一天而大喊大叫。厌厌说：“如果要从一到十给今天打分，我会打不及格。”

“我说，大家别光站着不动，做点什么吧。”怒怒提议道。他扔下手里的报纸，报纸上印有“莱莉放弃冰球比赛！”的大标题。

怕怕认为他们都应该放弃担任莱莉的情绪小人，虽然这是懦夫才会有的胆怯心理，但是因为他是恐惧小人，他可以有这种想法。

“天才，情绪小人可不能卸任。”厌厌说道。

突然，怒怒跑到后面，将点子球翻来翻去，搜寻着什么。“啊哈！”他叫着，得意地举起一个点子球。他觉得自己找到了为莱莉解决一切问题的方法，于是大声宣布：“这是有史以来最好的点子！”

“什么点子？”厌厌问他。

“所有美好的核心记忆球都是在明尼苏达州产生的。”怒怒说，“因此呢，我们回明尼苏达州去，创造更多美好的记忆，嗒——哒！”

“等等，等等，等等。你是说我们离家出走？”怕怕问，“你不是认真的吧？”

“在爸爸和妈妈决定搬来这个糟透了的圣弗朗西“死”科之前，我们拥有完美的生活。”怒怒说道。

“但是，我的意思是，这样有点太……极端了。”怕怕说。

“需要我提醒你那儿有多么美好吗？我们的卧室？我们的后院？我们的朋友？”怒怒击起一个记忆球，在屏幕上播放起来。

Tripledent口香糖的广告曲在情绪总部里响了起来。“我要求放口香糖广告曲了吗？”怒怒生气了，伸手拍在控制台上，记忆球弹了出来。“不管怎样，在那儿更好。我就是这个意思。”

“没错，莱莉在明尼苏达州确实更快乐……”厌厌点点头说。

“难道我们不能把问题留到明天再解决？”怕怕问道。

“好啊，明天再解决吧。”怒怒双臂交叉放在胸前，“因为，嘿——我相信愉快的、充满乐趣的时光就要到来了。”

莱莉在自己的卧室里慢慢进入梦乡。

莱莉睡着后，大脑世界由白天变成黑夜，思想火车也戛然而止。“哈？”乐乐疑惑不解，“嘿！火车怎么不动了？”

“莱莉睡觉了。”火车司机说，“我们也该休息了。”

“你的意思是说明早之前我们都得困在这儿？”忧忧问道。

“是的，她睡觉的时候思想火车是不运转的。”兵兵回答。

“噢，我们可等不了那么久！”乐乐抱怨道。

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