Egg Monsters from Mars by R. L. Stine

Author:R. L. Stine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

“Excuse me?” I choked out. I knew I hadn’t heard him correctly.

My whole body shook in a wild shiver. I rubbed my bare arms, trying to warm them.

“Did you say I’m not leaving?” I managed to ask.

Dr. Gray locked his pale blue eyes on mine. “I’m afraid you can’t leave, Dana. You must stay here.”

A frightened cry escaped my throat. He wasn’t serious! He couldn’t be serious.

He can’t keep me here, I told myself.

No way. He can’t keep me here against my will. That’s against the law.

“But … why?” I demanded weakly. “Why can’t I go home?”

“You can understand — can’t you?” Dr. Gray replied calmly. “We don’t want anyone to know about these space aliens. We don’t want anyone to know that we’ve been invaded by Martians.”

He sighed. “You don’t want to throw the whole world into a panic — do you, Dana?”

“I — I — I —” I tried to answer. But I was too frightened. Too startled. Too cold.

I glared angrily at Dr. Gray. “You have to let me go,” I insisted in a trembling whisper.

His expression softened. “Please don’t stare at me like that,” he said. “I’m not a bad guy. I don’t want to frighten you. And I don’t want to keep you in this lab against your will. But what choice do I have? I’m a scientist, Dana. I have to do my job.”

I stared back at him, my whole body shaking. I didn’t know what to say. My eyes moved to the metal door. It was shut. But he hadn’t bolted it.

I wondered if I could get to the door before he did.

“I have to study you, too,” Dr. Gray continued. He tucked his hands into the pockets of his lab coat. “It’s my job, Dana.”

“Study me?” I squeaked. “Why?”

He motioned to my egg creature. “You touched it — didn’t you? You handled it? You picked it up?”

I shrugged. “Well, yeah. I picked it up. So what?”

“Well, we don’t know what kind of dangerous germs it gave you,” he replied. “We don’t know what kind of germs or bacteria or strange diseases these things carried with them from Mars.”

I swallowed hard. “Huh? Diseases?”

He scratched his moustache. “I don’t want to scare you. You’re probably perfectly okay. You feel okay — right?”

My teeth chattered. “Yeah. I guess. Just cold.”

“Well, I have to keep you here and study you. You know. Watch you carefully. Make sure that touching the egg creature didn’t harm you or change you.”

No way, I thought.

I don’t care about strange germs from Mars. I don’t care about egg diseases. I don’t care about science.

All I care about is getting out of here. Getting home to my family.

You’re not keeping me here, Dr. Gray. You’re not studying me.

Because I’m outta here!

Dr. Gray was saying something. I guess he was still explaining why he planned to keep me prisoner in this freezing cold lab.

But I didn’t listen to him. Instead, I took off.

I ran toward the big metal door.

The circle of egg creatures blocked my way.

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