Alien Invasion by Israel Keats

Author:Israel Keats [Keats, Israel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Competition, Competitions, Darby Creek, Fiction, Future, Game, Gamers, Games, Hi/Lo, High Interest, High/Low, Level Up, low reading level, Player, Players, Reluctant Reader, Struggling Reader, Technology, Video Game, Video Games, Videogame, Virtual, Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality Video Game, Virtual Reality Video Games, Fantasy, Contemporary, Fantasies, Modern, Technology, Computers, Digital Media, Technological, Computer, Action, Action & Adventure, Adventure, Adventure, AI, Alien, Alien Invasion, Aliens, Artificial Intelligence, Israel Keats, Outer Space, Rescue Mission, Robots, Space, Space Adventure, Space Station
ISBN: 9781512482294
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2017-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Lobo darted to the rear wall, away from the railing. The aliens had all stopped to look at the malfunctioning robot. He jogged behind them with quiet steps.

They’re so quiet, he thought. Shouldn’t they be shouting in surprise? Asking each other what’s going on? Yelling for help? What’s wrong with them?

He crouched in a corner. An Orionan rolled by on some kind of strange motorized scooter. The deck of the scooter was narrow in the front and wide in the back, and the back was lined with metallic canisters. Then Lobo noticed the scooter was floating a couple of inches above the station floor.

I wish I had a hover scooter. Score another one for alien tech.

After the scooter passed he hurried to the next wing. When he glanced back, he could see the aliens had forgotten the distraction and were moving on. Spec was gone too. He didn’t see what had happened to her.

That little robot was brave, he thought. But there’s no way to help her without walking into a nest of aliens, so I’d better focus on rescuing my crew right now.

He continued down the hallway, darting from post to post. This area didn’t seem to have a lot of traffic, and it also didn’t seem to be a high-security place like the room he’d trashed earlier. But Spec had told him that at least one of his companions was here, so he was sure he’d run into guards sooner or later.

He came to a gate, which was locked. He pulled the master key from his pocket and waved it. The device made a low humming noise and hissed open. He stepped sideways and peered around the edge. Straight ahead were two guards watching the open gate. They jabbered at each other in their alien language.

They’re wondering why the gate opened, he guessed. One of them walked over, stepped through the gate, and looked down the hall, but didn’t look his way. The alien walked back in and the gate hissed closed.

It’s no use opening the door if I can’t get in without being seen, Lobo thought. He put the device back in his pocket. He heard a rumbling behind him and turned. Another alien was rolling up on a delivery scooter. Fortunately the alien was looking back at the crates loaded on the scooter’s deck, or Lobo would have been seen and disanimated.

That’s right. Spec said this was the storage facility.

The gate hissed open again. The doors opened, and the alien guards waved the scooter in. Lobo had the five seconds he needed to slip inside and hide. He crouched behind a stack of crates and looked around.

Past the guards were towers of crates. Each crate had about twenty sides, like the dice in old role-playing games.

I wonder if they need to guard supplies from other aliens. They seem so well-behaved.

To lift the boxes and stack them onto a tower, the alien on the scooter used a device that had a long bar with a handle on one end and a ring on the other.

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