Chapter  17

Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong rushed off the stage of Riley's dream at Dream Productions, leaving Jangles behind as he smashed up the sets and everything in his path with his giant mallet¹. They hurried toward the Train of Thought.

The train was moving! The three leapt aboard the very last car.

"Ha ha!" Joy said. "We made it!" They laughed and celebrated². She grabbed Sadness and swung her around. "Guess who's on their way to Headquarters?" Joy sang.

"We are!" said Sadness.

Back at Headquarters, Anger and Disgust stumbled out of the break room, disheveled and barely awake. "What is going on?" asked Disgust.

"He did it again," said Anger, gesturing to Fear trembling beneath the console.

"We were at school, and we were naked, and there was a dog, and his back half was chasing him… ," Fear rambled³, recalling Riley's dream.

Anger was reaching his limit. "It was a DREAM! This is ridiculous, we can't even get a good night's sleep anymore. Time to take action."

Anger stomped⁴ off and retrieved⁵ the idea he had held up earlier. He stood at the console, ready to plug it in. "Who's with me?" He looked at Fear, who was still recovering and unable to utter a word. Then he looked at Disgust and waited for a response.

"Yeah, let's do it," said Disgust finally.

Anger plugged the lightbulb-shaped idea into the console.

Inside her bedroom, Riley's expression changed. She pulled out her laptop.

"She took it. There's no turning back," said Anger.

"So, how're we gonna get to Minnesota from here?" Disgust asked.

"Well, why don't we go to the elephant lot and rent an elephant?" Anger asked sarcastically⁶. Then he yelled, "We're taking the bus!"

Riley pulled up the Greyhound Bus website and began to look at the schedule for buses to Minnesota.

"A ticket costs money," said Disgust. "How do we get money?"

"Mom's purse," Anger said casually⁷.

Disgust gasped⁸. "You wouldn't."

"Oh, but I would," said Anger. "Where was it we saw it last?"

He punched up a memory and the Tripledent singers came on again, singing the theme song.

"NOOOO!" Anger slammed down on the console, ejecting the memory. Then he remembered that Mom's purse was downstairs somewhere. "Mom and Dad got us into this mess," Anger said. "They can pay to get us out."

Inside the train, Joy, Bing Bong, and Sadness were happily speeding along. Joy looked at Sadness. "Hey, that was a good idea," she said. "About scaring Riley awake."

"Really?" Sadness said, sounding surprised.

"Nice work."

Sadness brightened a little as Joy exhaled⁹, feeling relieved. "I can't wait to get the old Riley back," she said. "As soon as we get there, I'm going to fix this whole mess."

Bing Bong had found a box of memories and was looking through them. He discovered a recent memory and saw that Riley was much older than he had thought. "Whoa," he said. "Is this Riley?"

Joy took the memory to get a closer look. She nodded.

"She's so big now," Bing Bong said. "She won't fit in my rocket. How're we gonna get to the moon?" Joy recognized the memory. "Oh, it's that time in the twisty tree, remember? The hockey team showed up and Mom and Dad were there cheering… Look at her, having fun and laughing. It's my favorite." Joy sat back down, beside Sadness.

"I love that one, too," said Sadness.

Joy couldn't believe it! Sadness actually liked a happy memory. "Atta girl!" she said. "Now you're getting it!"

Sadness stared at the memory. "Yeah," she said, remembering. "It was the day the Prairie Dogs lost the big playoff game. Riley missed the winning shot. She felt awful. She wanted to quit."

Joy's face fell. Sadness had started out so positive. "Sorry," Sadness apologized. "I went sad again, didn't I?"

"I'll tell you what," Joy said. "We'll keep working on that when we get back. Okay?"

Sadness smiled. "Okay."

Meanwhile, Riley sneaked¹⁰ downstairs to find her mom's purse. Mom was in the kitchen on the phone, talking to the moving company, so Riley was able to find the purse and slip the credit card out quietly. She put it in her pocket and crept back upstairs without Mom noticing.

Joy looked wistfully out the train window. All of a sudden a loud BOOM broke the spell. "Honesty Island!" Joy shrieked¹¹.

The train tracks they were on began to sway as Honesty Island started to collapse¹² below them. Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong were jostled back and forth¹³. Screaming, they fell as the train started to tumble, the tracks slipping away with the collapsing¹⁴ island.

The train crashed onto the side of a cliff and began to tip over as mind workers rushed on board.

"Let's go! Move it! Move it!" the workers shouted, trying to get everyone off safely.

Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong jumped to land just in time as the train plummeted¹⁵ into the Memory Dump below. Joy couldn't believe it. "That was our way home!" she said. "We lost another island.… What is happening?"

"Haven't you heard?" asked a worker. "Riley is running away."

 

第 17 章

乐乐、忧忧和兵兵跑下造梦场中莱莉的梦境舞台，留下叮叮在台上用巨大的木槌将布景和所到之处的所有东西砸得粉碎。他们朝思想火车赶去。

火车已经开动了，他们仨跳上了最后一节车厢。

“哈哈！”乐乐说，“我们成功了！”他们笑着庆祝。乐乐拉着忧忧转圈，欢快地唱着：“猜猜是谁要回情绪总部了？”

“是我们！”忧忧说道。

情绪总部里，怒怒和厌厌跌跌撞撞地走出休息室，两人蓬头垢面、睡眼蒙眬。厌厌问：“发生了什么事？”

“又是他干的好事。”怒怒示意了一下躲在控制台下颤抖的怕怕。

“我们在学校里，但是没穿衣服，接着出现了一只狗，被撕裂成两半，后面一半追着他……”怕怕慌乱地描述着莱莉的梦境。

怒怒的忍耐似乎达到极限:“那不过是个梦！这太荒唐了，现在连好好睡一觉都不行了，是时候采取行动了。”

怒怒跺跺脚走开，取回了之前拿过的点子球。他站在控制台前，准备插入点子球。“你们同意吗？”怒怒看了看怕怕，他还没有从惊吓中恢复过来，一句话也说不出。于是，怒怒转头看向厌厌，等着她的回答。

“好吧，就这么做吧。”厌厌终于开了口。

怒怒将灯泡形状的点子球插入了控制台。

卧室里，莱莉脸上的表情出现了变化，她拿出笔记本电脑。

“她接受了提议，没有回头路了。”怒怒说道。

“那么，我们怎么从这儿去明尼苏达州？”厌厌问道。

“呃，我们何不去大象棚租头大象呢？”怒怒讽刺地回答。接着，他叫道：“当然是坐巴士去！”

莱莉登陆灰狗巴士官网，开始查看前往明尼苏达州的汽车时刻表。

“买车票需要钱，”厌厌说，“我们怎么才能搞到钱呢？”

“妈妈的钱包。”怒怒随口说道。

厌厌倒抽了一口气：“你不会吧。”

“哦，可是我会的，”怒怒回答，“我们上次见到它是在哪儿？”

他将一个记忆球按了进去，Tripledent口香糖广告里的歌手们再一次出现，唱起了那首主题曲。

“不——不——！”怒怒朝控制台用力一拍，弹出了记忆球。接着，他想起妈妈的钱包应该在楼下某处。“是妈妈和爸爸给我们带来了这么多麻烦，”怒怒说，“他们应该出钱让我们脱离困境。”

乐乐、兵兵和忧忧乘着火车开心地向前奔去。乐乐看着忧忧。“嘿，那主意不错。”她说，“就是把莱莉吓醒的主意。”

“真的吗？”忧忧惊讶地问。

“做得好。”

忧忧露出一点喜色，乐乐也长呼了一口气，如释重负地说：“我已经等不及让莱莉恢复到原来的样子了。一回到情绪总部，我会将所有的麻烦都处理好。”

兵兵找到了一盒记忆球，一个接一个地翻看。他发现一个最新的记忆球，看到莱莉比他想象中长大了不少。“哇，”他说，“这是莱莉？”

乐乐拿过记忆球来仔细看。她点点头。

“她现在长这么大了，”兵兵说，“我的火箭已经装不下她了，我们还怎么飞向月球呢？”乐乐认出了记忆球里的画面。“哦，这是那次发生在那棵弯树上的事，记得吗？冰球队出场的时候妈妈和爸爸在那儿欢呼……看看她，那么开心，笑得那么欢快。这是我最喜欢的记忆。”乐乐坐回了忧忧旁边。

“我也喜欢那段记忆。”忧忧说道。

乐乐简直不敢相信！忧忧竟然会喜欢一段快乐的记忆。“好姑娘！”她说道，“现在你也明白了吧！”

忧忧盯着记忆球。“是啊，”她一边说一边回忆，“就是在那天，草原土拨鼠队输掉了重要的总决赛。莱莉没能击中制胜的一球，她感觉糟透了，都想要放弃冰球了。”

乐乐的脸拉了下来，忧忧刚刚还挺积极的。“对不起，”忧忧向她道歉，“我又伤心了，是吧？”

“我会告诉你的，”乐乐说，“我们回去后再一起研究这个问题，好吗？”

忧忧笑了起来：“好的。”

与此同时，莱莉偷偷溜到楼下去找妈妈的钱包。妈妈正在厨房和搬家公司打电话，于是莱莉悄悄地找到钱包并且将信用卡抽了出来。她把信用卡放在口袋里，蹑手蹑脚地回到楼上，妈妈没有发现她。

乐乐满怀希望地看着车窗外，突然传来一声巨响，打破了美好的现状。嘣的一声！乐乐尖叫道：“诚实岛！”

底下的诚实岛开始崩塌的时候火车铁轨也跟着倾斜，乐乐、忧忧和兵兵在车上前后摇晃。车轨随着岛屿的塌陷逐渐消失，火车就要翻了，他们尖叫着摔倒了。

火车撞到了悬崖边上，开始倾斜，这时，大脑工人冲上火车。

“快走！快！快！”工人们大叫着，努力让每一个人安全地离开。

乐乐、忧忧和兵兵刚跳到地上，火车就垂直栽进了下面的记忆清理库。乐乐不敢相信眼前发生的一切。“那是我们回家的火车！”她说，“又一座岛屿消失了……究竟发生了什么？”

“你没听说吗？”一位大脑工人说，“莱莉要离家出走。”

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