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people saying mean things. ‘I said, ‘‘You don’t have any water anymore.’’’
    â€˜Don’t be ridiculous,’ Dr Hill scoffed. ‘My pipeline is pumping millions of litres of pure melted ice water into my tanks as we speak. And soon those tanks will be rolling their way onto SHADOW tankers. SHADOW will control the world’s water market and I will be rolling in millions of dollars!’
    â€˜So you’re doing all this just for money? What about the South Pole? What about the Emperor penguins?’ EJ pleaded.
    â€˜Bah! Penguin, shmenguin. I couldn’t care less. All those smelly penguin chicks can fall in the sea and drown for all I care. Ha-ha-ha!’
    â€˜You’re not going to get away with this, Dr Hill!’ said EJ defiantly.
    â€˜Oh really, EJ ‘‘zero’’, and who is going to stop me? Certainly not SHINE —those silly do-gooders back at SHINE HQ couldn’t stop me if they tried. That silly A1 with her silly mottoes—she had her chance but chose not to pay. And now she really will pay.’
    â€˜No she won’t. I’m here and I’ll stop you!’
    â€˜Don’t make me laugh, EJ ‘‘zero’’, you couldn’t stop anything.’
    That did it for EJ12. She looked straight at Dr Hill and instead of seeing someone scary, she just saw someone with bad nails and a cold heart—someone she could stand up to. She was not going to back down or melt away this time!
    â€˜I already have, Dr Hill. I think you’ll find that your pipes have been switched. Cold water is now heading back to re-freeze the polar ice cap and hot water is on its way here. In fact, now that I think about it, your ice flowers are looking a little droopy...’
    Caterina sat up with a start. Sure enough, the hot water now being pumped around the ice hotel was slowly melting the ice tables, the ice vases and the pointy ice flowers inside them.
    â€˜How did you do that?’ Dr Hill turned back to EJ with a frosty glare. ‘Well, no matter, I will simply switch them back again—after I have dealt with you, EJ12.’
    â€˜Maybe you should just chill out for a while, Caterina...’
    â€˜How dare you, you little nobody. I’ll...’
    But that was far as Dr Hill got. EJ pulled the Portachill from her backpack and sprayed it full blast towards the ice-queen. Almost instantly, Dr Caterina Hill was snap-chilled into an ice statue. She was finally as cold as she looked.



EJ heaved a big sigh of relief. She gave Caterina another quick spray with the Portachill. With a few top-ups, she would remain snap-chilled for quite some time and she would be fine once she thawed out—in prison.
    While Caterina was now frozen, her ice hotel was slowly melting around her. Hot and cold, cold and hot, everything seems to be one thing or the other at the moment, thought EJ. It would be nice to be somewhere in the middle for a while. Then a little squeaking and rustling sound in the lining of her jacket broke into her thoughts—she had nearly forgotten about the little penguin chick!
    Gently she lifted it out. ‘Time for some more food, is it?’ The little chick looked up with its mouth wide open, waiting. ‘I’ll take that as a yes,’ laughed EJ as she took out the charm bottle and dropped some more food into the little penguin’s beak. ‘But now we need to get you back to your family and make sure your mum has been able to get back to the breeding ground.’
    As she was putting the penguin chick back into her jacket, something fell out of her backpack and onto the ground. It was the little silver whistle that came with Caterina’s ‘party’ invitation. She had forgotten all about it but was curious as to what it did. She picked up the whistle and blew. It made a long high-pitched sound.

    EJ blew it again. She had no idea what it could have been for.
    Then EJ heard a noise