..........continuing the story of The Iron Man

At the start of latest episode of The Iron Man, by Ted Hughes, the Iron Man had been living happily in the scrap metal yard, eating his favourite foods of spicy metal stoves and slurping up metal spaghetti chains.


And so, all was calm and peaceful. The farmers went about their work and the Iron man munched away to his heart's content.....that is, until the arrival from the night sky, of a beast most terrible, a space-bat-angel-dragon, the size of the whole of Australia,


who wanted nothing more than to eat living things, lots and lots of them (after all, with a body the size of Australia, can you imagine the size of his stomach?)
There was world-wide PANIC.....until the Iron man thought of a stupendous plan to save the world from the space-bat-angel-dragon.

Before we read on to find out what his plan was, we tried to think what we might have done. Here are some of our more bloodthirsty ideas:

Maybe the Iron Man will go up to the space-bat-angel-dragon while he is asleep and twist him up in iron chain, attach him to one of the iron poles and then swing him round and round, faster and faster. Then he will let him go and the space-bat-angel-dragon will fly up into the sky and never return.....

Maybe the Iron Man will tickle and tickle the space-bat-angel-dragon to make him fly away.....

Maybe the Iron Man will take scrap iron and make a sword with it and the use it to cut off the space-bat-angel-dragon's tail.....

Maybe the Iron Man will make an enormous boat; he will put the space-bat-angel-dragon in the boat and send him to Antarctica, where he will be frozen.....

Maybe the Iron Man will dig a gigantic hole for the space-bat-angel-dragon and then he will cover it with dirt.....

Maybe the Iron Man will grow bigger and bigger and bigger and fight the space-bat-angel-dragon and make him go away.....

Maybe the Iron Man will take a giant rock and throw it at the space-bat-angel-dragon.....

Maybe the Iron Man will hit the space-bat-angel-dragon with a piece of iron and squash him.....

Maybe the Iron Man will ask Hogarth for a knife and fork and he'll tap them together and then the space-bat-angel-dragon will follow him to a farm where he will eat all the animals. Then the Iron man will use the knife to cut the space-bat-angel-dragon.....

Maybe the Iron Man will cut the space-bat-angel-dragon's wings with a cutter so he will not be able to fly any more.....

Maybe the Iron Man will take some fire and throw it and the space-bat-angel-dragon will die but the Iron Man will not.....

Well maybe one of these ideas is the right one.....but I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens in the final.....gripping.....episode.....

I, for one, can hardly wait!