T.E.D.D.I.E. B.E.A.R. In S.P.A.C.E. by Victoria Bastedo

Author:Victoria Bastedo [Bastedo, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

“What do you mean we can’t go?” Shentarra demanded. “Some other attack might be coming at us as we speak!”

“That mechanism which struck Tyen,” Felix said. “I think we have to capture it.”

“Capture it! Why?”

“Do you think the doctors will need it in order to know what’s downing Tyen?” asked Leberus.

“I think I already know what’s downed him,” said Felix. “The same devices like the one that’s implanted inside my brain. I’ve seen coma like this before,” he added. “I just woke up from it!”

“You think those devices are in his brain?”

Felix shook his head. “Not in his brain. I think many of them touched his skin and drained him of energy all at once. That’s why he sunk so fast.”

“We’re wasting time,” interrupted Shentarra. “We need to go!”

“But sir, listen!” exclaimed Felix. “Don’t you see? Those devices didn’t remain attached to Tyen. did they? That’s because they clung to the mechanism instead!”

“So, what?”

“So, it must mean that mechanism is a beacon for them. It draws those devices into itself!”

She blinked, but she was in pain, after all.

“Imagine what that could mean,” he spelled out. “If such a mechanism was taken out into the Blankensphere!”

Now her eyes grew large. “You mean that our ships could…”

“…Denude the Blankensphere of those devices, so we could ask the Flunians to locate our missing ship!” finished Leberus.

“Yes, sir,” said Felix in relief. “It’s just a theory and I could be wrong, but we might not get a second chance to enter this place. I’m afraid it’s worth the risk.”

They both stared at him for a second.

“How could we transport the thing anyway?” asked Leberus.

“Yes,” agreed Shentarra. “That mechanism sends out constant barbs. The wisest thing seems to be to stay away from it.”

“But the barbs hit your coat, Shentarra,” Felix said. “They fell-back ineffective. I think they only attach to skin.”

“You’re saying we wrap it up in our shirts?” asked Leberus.

“Two of our coats could form a bag,” replied Felix. “They’re designed to zip together, aren’t they?”

Leberus tilted his head and then looked to Shentarra.

“Just go get the awful thing,” she said with a wave of her hand. “I’ll stay here with Tyen. But if you two don’t return, I’m blaming you, Ti-ber.”

Felix swallowed as he straightened. He slid off his coat and handed it to Leberus, who, with a shake of his head, slipped off his own. It was cold in the building and Felix felt his body warmth start to leave him quickly. They opened the door and went out, Leberus zipping the two coats together as Felix turned off his light and they slunk down the hallway.

They didn’t have to go far. The strange-looking mechanism with its bug-crawling mid-section had chugged down the hallway in their direction on its two wheels. It’d come to find them.

Leberus sighted it and pushed Felix back with a firm hand. It was awful watching Leberus approach it, holding the coats out like a net. Felix started shivering so his teeth were chattering, from either the cold or from fear his idea would be the cause of an attack which wasted or killed Leberus.

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