Deadzone by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Author:Jennifer A. Nielsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Javi was gone.

Vanished.

Kiemashita.

“Javi!” Molly sprang forward before Yoshi pulled her back.

“Don’t,” he said. “Not until we figure out where he went.”

The rest of the Killbots were agitated, too. “He might’ve sank into the sand, like Akiko,” Anna offered.

“She said my name,” Akiko told Yoshi. “What did she say?”

“Not now,” Yoshi growled in Japanese.

“It could be a portal,” Oliver said. “Transporting him from one place to another, maybe even out of the rift.”

“None of us knows where he is,” Anna said. “It does no good to make guesses. We have to look at the evidence and then come up with logical conclusions.”

“Javi!” Kira cried.

“Yes, we know,” Yoshi told her, rolling his eyes. “Javi’s gone.”

“No,” she said, pointing. “He’s not.”

Yoshi followed her gaze. Javi was standing right where he’d been a moment ago, smiling a ridiculous smile.

“Did that work?” Javi asked. “I’m guessing it worked.”

“What did you … What was that?” asked Oliver.

“Check it out,” Javi said. He took a step backward, disappearing again. Then he rematerialized as he stepped forward. “Is it cool?” he asked.

Yoshi didn’t admit it out loud, but it was pretty cool.

Molly’s jaw had dropped. “Did you find a … What is even the word for that?”

“A cloaking field,” Yoshi offered, and Molly and Oliver gave him a surprised look. “What?” he said. “I read manga.”

“I would have gone right past it, but I saw Hercules disappear and then come out the other end,” Javi explained. “And there’s something in there—something you can only see from inside the field. Like a big metal cylinder.”

“Theories?” Molly prodded.

“Is it the source of the field?” Anna asked. “A new device?”

“Or it’s what the field was created to hide,” Oliver said.

“Maybe,” Javi said. “But it looks like it opens. I’m going to take a peek inside.”

“Wait,” Molly said. “That might not be a great idea.”

“Unless it turns out to be precisely that: a great idea,” Javi said. “It’s like a big metal cabinet with rounded ends. It could have food in it, or medicine. Maybe it’s some super satellite phone with a direct line to the people who are looking for us.”

“Or it could contain something that will try to kill you,” Anna said with a shrug. “It could be anything.”

“What are they saying to each other?” Kira asked for maybe the hundredth time that day.

“I thought you were going to learn English,” Yoshi answered.

“Maybe they can learn a little Japanese, too,” Kira retorted.

Yoshi sighed and caught her and Akiko up on the conversation, then added, “Molly had a bad dream last night, and I think it’s got her spooked. She thinks Javi and Oliver are the only ones who know about it.”

“Oliver reminds me of our brother,” Akiko said. Yoshi hadn’t realized they had a brother. He wondered about him, for some reason. He would’ve liked to have a brother, too, someone to whack him on the arm when he was acting stupid.

“What are they saying about me?” Oliver asked. He was looking over at them, having recognized his name.

“They think

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