Chapter 1

Nelson Hunter hated vegetables. He hated smelling them, he hated eating them. But most of all, he hated fighting them.

‘Get off me!’ yelled Nelson, as a two-metre tall head of broccoli pulled his hair and gave him a wedgie.

Broccoli fight dirtier than any other vegetable.

Nelson had been fighting broccoli for a while now, but bigger heads of broccoli kept showing up to join in. Soon Nelson was surrounded by a forest of stinky broccoli, their tendrils reaching towards him, trying to grab his arms and legs.

If only Nelson had some pumpkin! He’d recently found out that eating pumpkin made him super strong, and even though he hated the vegetable, maybe he’d consider taking a bite if it meant he’d be able to beat this evil broccoli gang!

Nelson shook off the fuzzy green broccoli monster from his shoulders and started to run but tripped, falling flat on this face. All the broccoli around him giggled. One of them had tied his shoelaces together! Nelson ripped his shows off and threw them at the closest head of broccoli, but they just bounced off like ping-pong balls.

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