Incredible Space Raiders from Space! by Wesley King

Author:Wesley King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paula Wiseman Books

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

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JONAH AND SALLY DECIDED THE first step to a successful rescue was information. They needed to find out more about the movements of the crew and the controls for the brig door panel, all without being detected by a group of bloodthirsty space pirates.

Jonah was starting to feel like a hero again. Just a really scared one.

They began by crawling through the entire air duct. Unfortunately, the section they were in ended before the brig itself; Sally guessed that the air in the brig was being fed in through a grate in the ceiling. They wouldn’t be able to get in that way.

The air duct also ended before the thick double doors to the bridge, where the captain and his crew piloted the Squirrel across space. Jonah had hoped to spy on the bridge for a while and figure out exactly where they were going, but no luck there, either. However, the air duct did travel along the rest of the crew’s quarters, with scattered grates staring out into the short hallway along the way, which Sally named Pirate Road.

Watching from those grates, Jonah and Sally managed to piece together a loose schedule for the crew. Over the course of three to four hours, Jonah saw five different pirates, including Red Eye, Wrinkles, Bogg, and the two pirates who had captured Martin—Sally had named them Weasel and Beardy. Sally told him she’d seen two others as well, including one she guessed was First Mate Grouter and a stout, foul-mouthed woman she called the Space Witch.

So that left them with seven pirates, Leppy, and Captain White Shark himself. Sally had never even seen him. She had just heard stories.

“Even the crew is afraid of him,” she whispered as they sat hunched beside an air grate, waiting for crew members to walk by. “If you ever run into him, run.”

“I just wish we could get onto the bridge,” Jonah said. “I want to know where we’re going.”

Sally frowned. “We’re going to the Dark Zone. Same as every other trip.”

“Then what’s PER-7?” Jonah asked.

“Who knows,” she said. “A certain part of the Dark Zone, maybe? All I know is, Space Raiders go into the Dark Zone and they don’t come back.” She paused. “I hope that’s because the fight is still going on and you’re all just reinforcements.”

Jonah glanced at her. “And not replacements.”

She nodded.

Jonah pictured himself being dropped onto some haunted alien planet with a bonker and a bunch of marching, uniformed kids at his side. A thick purple haze lay over the planet, sweeping over scorched red soil and barren cliffs that rose to the sky. They walked between the cliffs, the commander at the lead, and then a bellowing cry rang through the air and clawed green monsters with black eyes streamed down the cliffs toward them. Jonah lifted his bonker, preparing to fight, and said a silent good-bye to his family, knowing he would never leave that planet.

Jonah turned back to the grate. “I don’t think I want to go to the Dark Zone.

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