Smart Kid: Apocalypse

Smart Kid: Apocalypse is the fourth book in the Smart Kid series. It was released in the fifth of September 2021. Ali Abouelfetouh, the author and main character, posted a teaser at June 2021. The book cover was revealed in July 2021.

## Contents

Characters

Synopsis

Plot

Trivia

Goofs/Errors

## Characters

A Main Character( Ali Abouelfetouh)

Kareem Abouelfetouh

Fred the Vampire( main antagonist)

Mr. Steel

Zeina Sousa

Ziad Sousa

Hla Sousa

Jeff the rat

## Synopsis

Ali Abouelfetouh is desperately trying to improve his RTF, but it gets worse when he accidentally unleashes a spooky, scary, and hellish invasion of zombies, ghosts, demons, and a whole bunch of creatures that threaten to invade the world. So will Ali and his friends be able to stop the apocalypse before it’s too late?

## Plot

The book opens to a flashback in 2018, when Ali and Kareem were hanging out with the Sousas and they were playing hide and seek, but when Ali hides in a closet with one of Ziad Sousa’s Halloween costumes, it suddenly started moving, which scared Ali and when he tried to tell everyone, no one believed him. Then, a flash forward to modern day when Ali tries to impress a bunch of pretty girls to raise his RTF, but his plan fails when they call him a simp, much to Ali’s dismay.

When Ali heads to the Terminatiors’ base, Ziad makes his pet rat have human abilities by mixing him with a dead human’s brain and Ziad calls his rat “Jeff”. Ali then goes to his brother, Kareem, who had a horror ray, which could bring any horror film character to life. But while Ali and Kareem were sleeping, Jeff activates the horror ray, thinking it was a pistol.

Ali wakes up the next morning to finding a zombie in the streets. Chasing Ali, the zombie trips over a wire cord, killing him. Ali looks next to the dead zombie corpse and finds a huge castle in the distance, which was weird. So he calls his friends and his brother, who were all confused about the castle and thought it was a prank until Ali swore to them it was real. Then they noticed that the apocalypse was in five different places: Khufu’s tomb, Poisedon’s layer, Dracula’s castle, Frankenstein’s lab, and Joker’s funhouse. The five decided to split up and break the curse.

Ali and Jeff decide to go to the castle, much to Kareem’s dismay. So Hla Sousa creates a bunch of weapons to defend theirselves with, and the gang set off to defeat the apocalypse. Ali and Jeff enter the castle by disguising themselves as zombies, but then Jeff grasps on a zombie’s soul when Ali manages to kill it as Jeff floats with the soul up the sky. Meanwhile, Kareem faces attacks from mummies but then got infected by the Khufu virus which made him think he’s King Khufu. Zeina faces attacks from the Poiseden zombie, who infected Zeina, who called Gigi and Hana Attar for backup before collapsing into the ground and turning into a zombie. Ziad summons Frankenstein to him but then gets bitten by a zombified Mr. Uberan, turning Ziad into a zombie. Hla visits Joker and Pennywise the clown, who are both fighting over Hla’s marriage before turning Hla into Harley َQuinn.

Gigi and Hana came to defeat Poiseidon, and Zeina, who had turned back to her normal self from the medicine Gigi healed her with, along with Gigi and Hana, managed to terminate all zombies from Greece and set off to save Hla. Hla meanwhile, had to decide who she has to pick for marriage. She was about to say who she liked more when Saw crashed the wedding, asking for Hla’s hand. Joker and Pennywise decided to fight Saw, while Zeina rescued Hla without anyone noticing. Then they went to Kareem, who is brainwashed and sitting on Khufu’s throne with all mummies and Egyptian zombies under his command. Hla managed to “kidnap” Kareem and had all zombies chasing her to get their master back. Kareem finally gained counciousness and was on his way to save a zombified Ziad.

Meanwhile, Ali got caught and was sent to Dracula, who calls himself Fred. Then he was imprisoned and was shocked to find out that Jeff was also captured and gone insane after his trip to heaven. Then the duo came up with an escape plan thanks to Jeff who figured out the security code to Fred’s secret vault of reversation. Ali manages to power up the machine, destroying the castle and reverting any zombified or cursed person back to their original form( including Ziad), except Mr Uberan, who remained a zombie for some reason and was powered with Kareem’s brain ray to not eat people or cause trouble. Ali was considered a hero and managed to impress the girls he tried to impress earlier. The book ends with Ali going through the mail one morning and finds a contract to a new school.

## Trivia

This is the first Smart Kid horror/comedy themed book.

The first SK book with purple cover.

This is the first SK book where Ziad is going through puberty, from his mustache, Adam’s apple, his tallness, and probably his voice became deeper.

Hla looks much different from the previous SK books.

The brain ray foreshadows the hypnotization of robots in Smart Kid: Robowars.