One day, as everyone was preparing for the filming of the Worst Witch, Mildred and Luella saw one of the producers hiding a mechanical something in the bristles of Mildred's broomstick. "What's that?" asked Mildred. Luella looked closer, and saw that it was a medium-sized jet engine. There were more of them being installed in all the broomsticks for the filming of the new series of the Worst Witch. "Rockets, I presume," Luella responded to her friend. "No," laughed Mildred, "I once saw one of those. They're called jet engines. The crew are placing them into our brooms to allow us to fly faster." She began to feel a little sneaky. "If I can climb onto my broomstick and take it for a test run, maybe I can prove that I'm the fast witch and not The Worst Witch." "Oh!" cried Luella, "Before you go - let me come with you." "Always happy to help," smiled Mildred, patting Luella on the back.
"Which one is my broomstick?" asked Mildred to the director. "That one over there," responded the director, pointing to the one near the director's chair. "Thanks!" called Mildred and raced over to her broomstick, climbing slowly on. Luella sneaked up behind Mildred and pulled the switch, which started the jet engine, and the engine began to whine. The whine got louder and louder. "Uh-oh!" cried Mildred.
Before she could say anything else, the broomstick was rocketing Mildred into the sky and away from Cackles' Academy. "OOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!" screamed Mildred. Luella was hanging on behind her upside down, but Mildred couldn't stop! "OOOOOOOH BOY!" Miss Hardbroom called ahead. "Action Stations! Mildred's shooting away on a rocket-powered broom!" The students at Cackles' raced off on their broomsticks to follow Mildred. She had never been so excited! She flew by Maud, and rocketed past Enid, and raced by Ethel! They were amazed!
Ant was excited when he saw Mildred flying across the sky. "Hey! Want a race, Mildred?" he called.
"Never mind."
No one had ever seen Mildred go so fast!
Ethel was catching up to Mildred fast, but just as she was about to reach the broom, it blasted off, leaving a sonic boom right in her face! "Hi Ethel Bye Ethel!" shrieked Mildred. "You'll PAY!" screamed Ethel, shaking her fist in anger. "Okay, it's time to stop," laughed Luella nervously, trying to reach for the switch. She nearly didn't reach, but that didn't stop her, as she reached further and further, almost managing to fall off and loose her grip, before finally reaching into the bristles and switching off the jet engine.
Mildred was back under her own power, but she, Luella and the broom fell down from the sky into the forest below, and ended up tangled in a thorn bush. Thorns covered them from head to foot as they emerged, and all the students landed to see their clothes torn and their faces all red from exhaustion. The broomstick had been snapped in half. "Sorry for overtaking you," teased Mildred to Maud and Enid. "Overtake me? I didn't notice." said Enid. "You're the fastest witch in Cackles?" asked Maud. "Yes, I am the fastest," laughed Mildred. As Mildred and Luella shared a hearty laugh, Ethel came up to them. She felt sorry for herself. "It's okay," said Mildred, "Ethel doesn't have to go as fast as a jet engine, she's a witch." "But she's still full of hot air!" called out Luella, and everyone made their way back to Cackles' academy, with Mildred and Luella holding each end of the broken broomstick together.
THE END.
