Attack of the Spider Bots by Robert West

Author:Robert West
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Array
Publisher: Zondervan

When the Star-Fighters stepped off the city bus the following Saturday, Beamer scanned the neighborhood like his head was a radar dish. He’d had an uneasy feeling ever since their conversation with the principal. Still, Jack said he wouldn’t show himself until he was sure they were alone. Beamer saw no sign of any police cars — of any cars at all, for that matter.

It was just the same old deserted, rundown neighbor-hood — except that the ice Castle/trolley station was melting. Thanks to a gazillion dripping icicles, there were plop-plop sounds all around them. Beamer felt like he was tap-dancing all the way to the trolley yard — either that or going crazy from the infamous drip torture.

Beamer, Ghoulie, and Scilla had brought a few presents for Jack — some stuff they’d found cheap on the Internet. “Jack!” Beamer shouted as he approached the sagging snow Castle. Ghoulie and Scilla joined their voices to his, making a little trio singing Jack’s name, as if it was a Christmas carol. “Come out, Jack!” Beamer shouted. “It’s just us, like we promised.”

“If you don’t mind,” they heard Jack’s voice echoing from somewhere, “I’ll wait a little longer, just to make sure.”

“Well, whatever,” Beamer answered, looking for him across the rooftops.

“I hope you guys have done a little practicing with the football since the last time,” he said from another direction.

How’d he get over there without anyone seeing him? Beamer wondered. Maybe he really was Peter Pan. Peter Pan could fly, but he wasn’t invisible. Right now, Jack was doing a pretty good job doing the invisible thing.

They went into the building. The dripping sound was even louder in here as the legions of icicles hanging from the balconies, rafters, and ticket booths shed their frozen weight.

The old wooden benches were beginning to peek out through the rolling hills of snow.

“Hey!” Jack yelled again from somewhere above them. “I’ve been wondering: Who or what is a Star-Fighter?”

The three exchanged glances, rolling their eyes in unison and once more wondering how they could explain this?

“Well, you see,” Beamer began, looking up toward the voice which now seemed to be above them, “we have this tree house — ”

“ — and it’s shaped like a spaceship,” continued Scilla.

“I get it,” the invisible boy interrupted. “So, since you play in a pretend spaceship, you call yourselves the Star-Fighters.”

Beamer thought he could hear him snicker. “Well, there’s a little more to it than that — ”

“Hey, I totally understand,” said the voice from nowhere. “That’s what most kids do — make-believe. Not me, though, I gave that kid stuff up years ago.”

“Are you telling me you don’t dip into a little fantasy now and then in this ‘ice palace’ of yours?” asked Ghoulie with a definite smirk. “Come on.”

“Well, in case you didn’t notice, this ice palace is melting.

And besides, ice is cold. I have to spend too much time trying to keep warm and fed to do much playing.”

“So why don’t you go back to your mom?” Beamer asked.

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