Invasion of the Dognappers by Patrick Jennings

Author:Patrick Jennings
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: eBook ISBN| 9781606842898
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: 2012-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

21. Mind Control

They hid behind some nearby bushes and watched and waited for the hairy guy to appear. Half an hour went by. Then forty-five minutes.

Logan didn’t mind. He was used to waiting and watching. Aggy had her book but was nearing its end.

Kian and Thatcher, however, were done waiting and watching after ten minutes. By the hour mark, they were bored out of their minds.

“Soccer’s way better than this,” Thatcher groaned.

“Piano is better than this,” Kian said, and smacked the back of Thatcher’s head.

Thatcher smacked him back.

“Get out of here, you apes,” Logan whispered. “You’ll blow our cover.”

Kian puffed hard into Thatcher’s face, making Thatcher’s long hair lift.

“There,” he said. “I blew your cover.” He laughed, then took off running.

Thatcher ran after him.

“Good,” Logan said. “I hope they don’t come back.”

“I have a question, Logan,” Aggy asked. “Can the alien make people vanish, too?”

“Absolutely,” Logan said.

“So if Mr. Sarris is really the alien, do you think it’s a good idea to make him mad? He doesn’t like you, Logan.”

“I know how to defend myself against an alien,” Logan said, and tapped his forehead with his finger. “I have mind control. They can’t do anything to you if you have control over your mind. Which I do. Do you, Aggy? You better start practicing. Tell yourself, ‘I will not be zapped by an alien. I will not be zapped by an alien. I will not be zapped by an alien.’…”

“You must be kidding,” Aggy said.

“I recommend you work on concentrating your thoughts. Unless, that is, you want to see the inside of an alien spacecraft.”

“Concentrate your thoughts on that,” Aggy said, pointing at a small gray car coming down the street.

It pulled into the Sarrises’ driveway and stopped. Mr. Sarris got out the driver’s side, his son, the other.

“Be back by five,” Mr. Sarris said, and walked toward the house.

“That the alien’s son, Darius,” Logan whispered to Aggy.

“Mm-hm,” she said. “I’ve seen him before, playing with a drumming group in the park.”

Logan gasped when Darius pulled open the garage door,

“What is it?” Aggy asked. “What do you see?”

“Nothing,” Logan said. “I was just expecting to see something.”

“Hoping to, you mean.”

Darius wheeled out a black BMX with red tires. He put on a black bike helmet with red skulls printed on the sides, straddled his bike, and coasted down the driveway. In the street, facing the bush where Logan and Aggy were hiding, he skidded to a stop.

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