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be capable of such frightening power. 'A ... bleep ... galactic destroyer's at our rear end!' Robottom sounded surprised to say the least. 'It must have used & bleep & a space pocket to hide from our sensors.' 'Never mind,' said Dong, accepting the situation, 'Cube is still in blocking mode. Our main priority is to capture Pugjaw. I'm not going to let that little shit get the better of us again ...' BOOM! the post shook again& Pugjaw laughed, knowing that it was now Cube's turn to be dwarfed by the formidable and utterly gigantic galactic destroyer coming for its much awaited revenge. 90 'Look at that smug creature, he's actually got a smile all over his cockpit, he's laughing at us! He hasn't yet realised that he's drifting into the dangerous Umpy Bolland system.' Chucker was hoping Pugjaw would soon be scared into holding his current position, he wouldn't be able to survive the Umpy Bolland System with all of its dangers, not a shuttle of his size and limited power. 'Look, Captain,' said a dark, tall handsomely bearded form, 'it's a bosseye galactic destroyer!' 'I can see it, Number One,' answered an authoritative voice, pronouncing every word with Thespian pride, his tongue obviously dying for an R to roll over it. 'They arrrre afterrrr that small shuttle craft, the voice paused, crrrraft, the one heading towards us!' The captain stopped to itch his long nose and shiny bald head. 'Initiate full defence systems and set frontal, excuse me, frrrrontal, course, full speed, Number One. We arrrre going to snatch that shuttle crrrraft whilst those two fight it out amongst themselves. But before we do all that ... Computer, tea, earl grrrrey, hot!' After the tea had been happily sipped, the long, mostly white form of the pirate ship, moved slowly away from the asteroid which was sheltering it. 'Dong, there's a ship coming at us head on ... it's called the U.S.S Something or Rather, I believe it's Rather.' Chucker leaned forward, his eye narrowing, 'I think it's a pirate ship ... it looks very familiar though ...' 'You say it's coming at us head on,' repeated Dong, an idea bursting open in the middle of his mind, making an awful mess in the process. 'I think we'll leave the navigation up to Cube, don't you agree?' 'Yes,' smiled Chucker, catching on, 'agreed!' Quickly summing up the situation at hand, Cube acted accordingly. Having started firing a spiralling round of spinning horn shapes, the galactic destroyer watched each silver torpedo miss its target. They missed not just one- two- three- four- five- six- seven- eight- nine times 91 but after ten consecutive attempts. Throughout the bombardment Cube had knowingly moved up and down, escaping extinction yet again. The bosseye are renowned for their bad marksmanship, the reasons for this reputation are obvious. Meanwhile with all the attention being paid to the raging fight in front, the pirate ship continued on its drawn out (but most thrilling) forty-five minute course to snatch Pugjaw for its own purposes. Seeing what was happening, Cube plunged forwards with an astounding amount of grace, leaving the more than surprised galactic destroyer behind in a storm of stirred up spacedust mites. Moments later the destroyer followed them at full speed. Cube jerked forwards, this time with just enough accuracy to initiate a hold on Pugjaw via a grip ray and - with another skilful and completely unplanned manoeuvre - dropped downwards with breathtaking velocity. As hoped, the manoeuvre resulted in the dramatic collision of the two spacecraft which were left embarrassingly behind to make their unwanted, and slightly painful, acquaintance with each other. 'WWWehey!' screeched Dong, from the safety of his newly vibrating gripseat. 'It's bbbecoming my favourite line but she's dddone it yet again,' cheered Chucker, his voice also shuddering. 'HHHold on!' Robottom quaked, rattling at an interface. 'Our speed hasn t dddecreased! WWWe seem to ... bbbleep ... bbbe above a bbblack hole ... and it's pulling us in! Cube's having a mmmomentary systems failure!' Chucker and Dong looked quickly at the optical screen. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |