Moon Dust (Alien Disaster Trilogy, Book 2) by May Rob

Author:May, Rob [May, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Rob May
Published: 2014-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

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The medical centre was a small consulting room at the back of the ship’s pharmacy. As Kat and Gem approached down an aisle full of creams and lotions, they could see, through the glass windows of the partition wall, Brandon arguing with Doctor Chow . At one point, Chow put her hand to her head as if she was in pain, then she snapped out of it and slapped Brandon across the face.

He stormed out moments later, anger and fury in his eyes. ‘Bran, stop!’ Kat yelled, grabbing his arm as he stormed past them. ‘What just happened in there?’

‘The doctor knows where Steve is, I’m sure of it,’ he fumed. ‘I tried to use to use the bionoids to read her mind. Stupid idea, I know. It didn’t work; it’s far too complicated, even for them. I deserved that slap! Come on, the Captain will tell us. I’ll make him tell us!’

Gem took his other arm, and they steered Brandon in the opposite direction to where he wanted to go. ‘Kat knows were Steve is,’ Gem said. ‘Come with us instead!’

Thankfully he soon cooled down, and let the girls lead him below decks, rather than up to the bridge. They took a service elevator down to the cargo hold. The storage bays were dark and cold, and connected by a maze of tight corridors. Brandon looked uncertain as Kat led him and his sister along. ‘Um, where are we heading exactly?’ he asked.

Kat pointed out a sign up ahead:

COLD STORAGE

‘Oh … okay,’ he said. ‘That sort of makes sense.’

At the giant bulkhead door that formed the entrance to Cold Storage 3, they found Liam and Jason. The pair of them were kitted out in ski jackets, waders, hats and gloves. They both carried an arsenal of tools and wrenches. Liam had a rifle strapped to his back.

‘Oh, hey, you guys,’ he said cautiously. ‘What are you doing down here? Are you lost?’

Gem turned the question on the boys: ‘What are you two doing down here? Checking up on the prisoners?’

‘What? No,’ Jason said. ‘Just routine maintenance. You should go, it’s dangerous down here, er, without the proper equipment.’

Liam and her brother were doing the Captain’s dirty work, Kat had no doubt. She tried to make sense of their get-up. Wrenches and waders? ‘Have we sprung a leak?’ she asked them.

‘It’s just the bilges,’ Liam said. ‘Steam, condensation, rain—it all finds its way to the lowest part of the—’

He was cut of mid-sentence by a squealing, grinding sound. Brandon was using the bionoids to swarm around the wheel of the bulkhead door and try and turn it. But just like back at the dock at Dieppe, the physical effectiveness of the bionoids was limited, and Brandon soon sank to his knees, out of breath.

Gem stepped up and finished the job. She spun the wheel and pulled the door. A river of freezing cold water slopped out over the lower lip of the bulkhead and soaked them all up to the knees, before draining away.

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