Ascent by Morgan Rice

Author:Morgan Rice [Rice, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan Rice
Published: 2018-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

“This is fun!” Luna yelled as she clung to the side of the school bus’s front seat, bracing for the impact as its modified snowplow shoved another cluster of cars out of the way. She reached out with her free hand, catching hold of Bobby’s collar so the sheepdog wouldn’t tumble back along the length of the aisle.

“Maybe for you,” their driver, a fat biker who incongruously wore a bandana featuring teddy bears, muttered.

“Ignore Trey,” Cub said, beside Luna. “The bus was a great idea. Even if I do say so myself.”

Luna turned to him. “Oh no, you are not claiming the bus was your idea.”

“I saw it,” Cub said.

“I saw it too,” Luna insisted, and then caught Cub’s grin. “You—”

What she might have said next was cut off by the next impact, which sent Bobby sliding down the middle of the bus despite Luna’s attempts to hold on. The dog didn’t seem to mind, treating it almost like a game and running back up to sit beside Luna, tail wagging.

“How far is it to LA?” Luna called over to Trey.

“You asking me if we’re nearly there yet?” the driver grumbled.

“Trey,” Cub said, with a warning note.

“Maybe half an hour, an hour?” Trey said.

“Depending on… well, I guess you could call it traffic?” Luna asked. “Can’t we go any faster?”

She was only too aware of how little time they had. Although she was having fun smashing into things, every moment that passed was one step closer to the point where the aliens would take them over again, another moment in which the remaining aliens could ravage the world.

Trey shot her a look. “You want to try driving?”

Luna jumped up at once. “Can I?”

“It’s probably best if Trey keeps driving,” Cub suggested. “Given that he actually has a driver’s license. He used to actually drive a bus before he joined the club, too.”

That, Luna thought, explained a lot.

“If it’s going to be that long before we hit LA,” she said, “I’m going to check on Ignatius.”

She glanced back to where the chemist was sitting on the back seat of the bus, which was empty except for him at the moment. It seemed that the members of the Dustsides gang weren’t happy about spending too much time around him. He had gear spread out there, clinging onto it every time they hit a car, working with it in the spaces between.

“I’ll shout to you once we get closer,” Cub said. “Maybe while you’re back there, work out what he’s doing.”

“I’ll ask,” Luna said, and made her way back through the bus with Bobby following. She went to sit on the back seat just as the bus hit something else, and Luna barely managed to put out a hand in time to catch a vial as it fell.

“Maybe this isn’t the best time to be working on anything?” she suggested to Ignatius.

The chemist shrugged. “I have to do something, and it’s not as if the bikers are going to talk to me.”

“They have a pretty good reason, given what you used to do,” Luna pointed out.

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