Triple Trouble by Elise Allen & Daryle Conners

Author:Elise Allen & Daryle Conners
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2019-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

et down!” Petey shouted in Gabby’s ear.

Gabby didn’t even realize she was standing. Her heart was still racing triple-time, and she had no idea where she was or what she was doing.

She instantly dropped to the ground and felt the itchy softness of tall red grass all around her. The blades rose higher than Petey, and he had to stomp and make wide sweeping gestures with his arms to move them out of his way so he could stand in front of her.

“What happened?” Gabby asked.

“I pressed the button for an emergency Aeroway stop,” Petey said. “It just took me a while ’cause I didn’t want the Martians to see and stop me.”

“They didn’t seem happy that we were here,” Gabby said. “You said it’s a restricted area?”

“Yeah, but we should be okay now,” Petey said. “The only bad thing would be if the Martians on the Aeroway got in touch with the ones down here. Then it’d be bad.”

Just then, a loud whooping siren filled the air, and Gabby heard the thrum of countless metal footsteps.

“Okay, it’s bad,” Petey said.

Gabby peeked over the tall grass. She and Petey were at the top of a large hill that looked down on what appeared to be a sprawling park dotted with fountains and statues and crisscrossed by red-pebbled paths. It would have looked beautiful, except the far end of the park was clogged with a sea of metal-suited Martians, weapons bared, marching double-time onto the paths and spreading out in twos and threes.

Gabby ducked back down into the grass. “Please tell me they’re not here for us.”

“I can,” Petey said, “but my mom and dad probably wouldn’t be psyched about me lying to the babysitter. There’s good news, too, though.”

“The Martians’ weapons are fake and won’t actually hurt us?” Gabby suggested.

“Nah, they’d obliterate us on contact. But look—is that the tower Sneakers showed you?”

Gabby peeked up again. This time she looked beyond the Martian soldiers to what was across from the park. There rose an endless array of identical towers, each of which was tall and thin, made of red metal that seemed to move like mercury. Every tower had three bulbous donuts blooming out of it, each one redder and wider than the one beneath it, and a huge, bright red umbrella-saucer at the very top.

“Yes,” Gabby said uneasily. “They all look like Sneakers’s tower. How will we know which one’s right? And how will we get there with all the Martians in the park?”

“I’m the kid, remember? You’re supposed to be the one in charge.”

“Yeah, but I’ve never been to Mars—any Mars,” Gabby countered. “You had that field trip and your virtual reality game.”

“Virtual reality tour. There wasn’t a game level where I had to escape from Martians out to kill me.” Then he smiled, nodding. “But when we get back, I’m totally sending an email to the company, ’cause that’s a seriously cool idea.”

Gabby rested her elbows on the ground and gripped her curls with her hands. “There has to be a way through this.

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