My Evil Twin Is a Supervillain by David Solomons

Author:David Solomons [David Solomons]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857639561
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2017-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Stellar was down, but was he out? At that moment I had no way of knowing. I looked up as the beat of rotor-blades filled the air and a swarm of transport helicopters thundered low over the High Street, angling in for a landing. I counted at least six dual-rotor Chinooks. The leader broadcast a message: “Shoppers, prepare for immediate evacuation.”

Even Star Squad Six couldn’t have foreseen the threat of a thirty-storey world-devouring terror crashing through the main shopping street, so this was an impressively speedy response. The helicopters touched down, military personnel jumped out and began to steer people towards the transports.

It didn’t take long for Gordon to sense their presence. I hadn’t given him eyes, but he had a range of abilities that allowed him to detect even the merest vibration. He lowered his great head to investigate. It hung like a black sun over the nearest helicopter. At the sight of the monster, the pilot decided to take off in a hurry.

“They’re not going to make it,” said Zack. “Not without help.”

“My turn,” said Lara. With a squawk, she leapt from the roof. As she reached the top of her jump, a flock of birds swooped in and latched themselves on to her cape. She flew off swiftly in the direction of a dark cloud. For a moment I thought it was another gerbil-hole, but it was moving this way. Fast. As it drew closer I realised what I was watching.

Lara returned – at the centre of the biggest flock of birds I’d ever seen. There had to be thousands of tiny fluttering…

“Starlings?” said Serge. “What does she think that she is doing? This is madness.”

The flock dived and swooped together, one great feathered mass, turning the air into vast black curves.

Under Lara’s control, the flock began to form a new shape. It stretched and flailed, bent and twisted, like some nightmare creature trying to escape from quicksand, until at last its final form emerged. Even though I knew it was made entirely of tiny birds, the effect was striking. It appeared to be a creature, bigger than two titanosaurs glued together. Spikes ran the length of its crooked back; arms ended in hands that were whirling black blades; its legs were the size of skyscrapers. It dwarfed Gordon the World-Eater.

Zack assessed the situation with a practised eye. “There’s only one thing a predator like Gordon the World-Eater is afraid of. And that’s a predator further up the food chain.”

The Lara-beast roared. A tweeting bird is not exactly a frightening sound, but let me tell you that when thousands of them sing out at once it makes quite an impression. Gordon reared up, lifting his head away from the helicopter, gazing into the face of what, to him, must have appeared to be a terrifying rival. Lara’s decoy plan was working. With another tweet of terror, she marched her bird-monster towards Gordon. He took a cautious step back.

That was all the space the helicopter pilot needed. He banked his aircraft and, engines straining, gunned it out of harm’s way.

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