Geoff St. Reynard by The Giants From Outer Space

Author:The Giants From Outer Space
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-12-20T14:05:24+00:00

Pink activated the intercom screen, told the crew briefly what had happened. Then he raised the mutiny gates, giving a sigh of relief. “Get going,” he told his officers.

“What about the girl?” asked Jerry suspiciously. “She could still be one of them.”

“Leave her with me. I have six bullets in this thing and forty-eight more after that.” He looked at Circe, who was pale and weary. “Sit down, O. O. Smith,” he said gently. “I think you’re all right. But you realize we can’t chance anything till we have proof.”

“I understand,” she said listlessly, and dropped into a foamseat, staring at the fallen giant. The others trooped out.

With the door shut, Pink walked to the head of the creature; it was a swollen and hideous head, but by rights it should have been even more hideous, should have had half a dozen wounds. The yellow hide was unmarked. Pink said, “You’re alive. Can you speak?”

“Certainly.” The lips barely moved. “I am but immobilized for the moment.”

“What caused it?”

The being sneered at him without answering. Pink said, “I can keep you in this state for a long time, chum. And when we’ve shown our heels to your brothers, I’m going to dump you out an air-lock and let you drift around between the stars.”

He knelt beside it. “What did you do to the space drive?”

There was a long pause. Then it evidently made up its mind. “The drive should be in working order now. Your men will discover so when they try it. As with the other contrivances, I merely placed a temporary stasis on the protons of certain atoms, which rendered them futile. There should be no damage by this time.”

Echoing his words, Pink heard the first throbbing murmur of the activated piles. He looked without conscious volition at Circe, and they exchanged smiles of vast relief.

“You’ll be popping out that air-lock sooner than I’d hoped,” said Pink to the giant. Then he was startled by a great peal of harsh laughter.

“Oh, you pigmy!” shouted the alien. “You flea-brained besotted fool! Your ship is out of control even now, and your hours are numbered on one hand. You’ve lost, and haven’t the brains to see why!”

And, thought Pink, listening to the mirthless laugh while a chill sought out his belly, the monster’s words did not sound remotely like a bluff.

He knew something hidden from the captain, and even in his captivity he felt himself master of the Elephant’s Child.

Why? Why? Why?

Then Pink turned and looked at Circe.

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