Monster Blood For Breakfast (SPOILERS)

Matt is top of his class, rocks at science and he's the best swimmer on the swim team. His annoying neighbor is always borrowing his stuff and getting him in trouble.

He throws a rock that bounces and breaks his teachers windshield and he blames Matt. Later that day he cheats off Matt's paper and gets them both in trouble and Matt gets a warning that one more mistake and he will be suspended.

Later that day he arrives home to find him in his room on his computer. He kicks him out but scrolled across the screen are the words "Monster Blood". He goes next door, gets his stolen shirt back and verbally abuses the kid.

The next day at school his teacher pulls him aside and tells him thanks for helping his friend with his science project which turns out to be Matt's and he was just stealing it like everything else. They get in a fight in the hall and Matt is expelled but his neighbor says they were just joking. He tells Matt that he has something better than his computer based birdhouse.

On his way home Matt is attacked by some hooded men who are looking for something he shouldn't have gotten. Thankfully his teacher comes along but the guys vanish before he seems them.

When he gets home he finds Bradly in his room and he has an egg. On the egg is says Monster Blood and Matt tries to tell him about the two men but he won't listen. They wrestle and Matt kicks Bradly out of his room. He puts the egg on the dresser and a small amount falls onto his plant.

Matt awakes in the middle of the night to find his plant has grown to enormous size. He has trouble sleeping and when he goes downstairs eh finds Bradly eating a bowl of cereal. As usual a fight breaks out. Matt heads upstairs before school but the bag is no longer in the closet where he hid the Monster Blood.

On the way to school his sister stops him and tells him she stole the Monster Blood and put some in Bradly's cereal and that he didn't even notice. At school he tries to convince Bradly to go to the nurse but he reveals that he saw Matt's sister put something in his cereal so he swapped his for Matt's.

Matt feels ill but still goes to his swim meet. His clothes are growing smaller but he dives in for the race and he feels himself in powered and he remembered how fast his plant grew last night when he watered it after it was exposed to the Monster Blood.

He wins the race and breaks the school record. He worries about being seen as 9 feet tall but he gets out without anyone seeing and as he heads to the lockers his shorts rip and fall off, leaving him naked. He ends up hiding in the girls locker room and finds a way to cover himself.

He gets home and the plant has grown more. He decides he needs to go to Bradly's and see if he still has the box. The two coated men are otuside but when he asks for help they reveal they are there for a stink gas that was too strong (it was sued earlier in the book but didn't seem important when I typed this).

He goes to Bradly's and they find the box but Matt starts to shrink. They find on the box that it's just a 12 hour sample. His plant is the same size still. Next day is the science fair and Matt has pretty much won but the teacher wants to make another round. Bradly hasn't shown up but suddenly a large plant busts in and it's Bradly with matt's plant. He wins the contest but Matt sees the plant is using it's tendrils to grab Bradly so he congratulates him and walks away.

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Horrorland segment

NOTE: This section takes place right after the second books Horrorland section so the first part of Matt's story is told in that.

Matt and Billy are still freaked over Sheena becoming invisible. They head back to the hotel to find help and run into two horror police. They don't believe them about Sheena but when they mention the mirror they ask to be shown it.

They head back to the cafe but it isn't there. The horrors tell them to come with them to a detention center. Inside the horrors demand that an item be returned to them. The two boys claim they don't have the card. Billy goes through an x-ray machine and he doesn't have the card. Same for Matt. They go to escape and the horrors give chase but invisible Sheena trips them and hands the card back to Matt.

They continue to hide from the horror police and end up in a lab of sorts. Billy opens a jar that says Monster Blood. The goo comes out and covers Billy and Sheena and starts to smother them.

The horror who gave Matt the card shows up and pulls out a tiny mirror. The Monster Blood climbs into it and gets sucked up. Along with it goes Sheena. Some new Horror Police show up and take the helpful Horror away.

They notice the now broken mirror and gather up the pieces and turn it into liquid. As the boys go to leave they find a piece the horror police forgot to grab and when they look into it they see Britney and Molly riding a carousel and it's in flames.

To be continued in book 4