Goosebumps 42 - Egg Monsters from Mars by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine [Stine, R.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-26T02:58:15+00:00

As I stared at them in amazement, I kept thinking they were like stuffed animals. But they weren't. They were alive. They breathed. They shook and bounced and bubbled.

"Would you like to go in?" Dr. Gray asked.

He didn't wait for me to answer. He pulled out a small black control unit from his pocket. He pushed a button, and the door swung open. Then he opened the door wider and guided me inside.

"Whoa!" I uttered a cry when I felt a blast of cold air. "It's freezing in here!" I exclaimed.

Dr. Gray smiled. "We keep it very cold. It seems to keep them more alert."

He held the shoe box in one hand. He motioned to the egg creatures with the other. "Once they hatch, the creatures don't like heat. If the temperature goes too high, they melt," he explained.

He lowered the box to the floor. "We don't want them to melt," he said.

"If they melt, we can't study them."

Leaning over the box, he lifted my egg creature out gently. He placed it beside three or four other egg creatures. All of the yellow blobs began bouncing excitedly.

Dr. Gray picked up the box and stood back up. He smiled down at the new arrival. "We don't want you to melt, do we?" he told it. "We want you to be nice and alert. So we keep it as cold in here as we can."

I shivered and rubbed my arms. I had goosebumps all over my skin. From the excitement? Or from the cold?

I wished I had worn something warmer than a T-shirt!

The egg creatures bobbed and bubbled. I couldn't take my eyes off them.

Real creatures from Mars!

I watched them start to bounce toward us. They moved surprisingly fast.

They kind of rolled, kind of inched their way forward. They left slimy, yellow trails behind them as they moved.

I wanted to ask Dr. Gray a million questions. "Do they have brains?" I asked. "Are they smart? Can they communicate? Have you tried talking to them? Do they talk to each other? How can they breathe our air?"

He chuckled. "You have a good scientific mind, Dana," he said. "Let's take one question at a time. Which would you like me to answer first?"

"Well — " I started to reply. But I stopped when I realized what the egg creatures had done.

While Dr. Gray and I talked, they had all moved quickly into a circle.

And now they had the two of us surrounded.

I spun around.

The egg creatures had moved behind us. They blocked the door. And now they were closing in on us, bubbling and throbbing, leaving a trail of slime as they slid forward.

What were they planning to do?

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