Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall

Author:Sophia McDougall [McDougall, Sophia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
ISBN: 9781780314136
Publisher: Egmont UK Ltd
Published: 2014-03-26T23:00:00+00:00

The Goldfish gamely started trying to zap the Animal but it isn’t easy shooting a moving target, in a confined space that is also moving, with a number of children you’re programmed to protect right there. The air filled with the smell of scorched metal and the Animal remained perfectly healthy. It lunged at Josephine and ate a hank of her hair as she dodged out of its way.

‘Get the tent in – I can’t steady her,’ yelled Carl, unaware that this wasn’t as much of a problem as the Animal on a beeline for his head. Josephine grabbed her bag and swung it by the strap and batted the creature away from him, and I was never going to complain about anyone carrying a bag full of rocks with them anywhere again. The Goldfish took another shot but the Animal was too fast for it. Then just to make everything even better, the ship swung over sideways so the wall became the floor, and Noel fell through the door into the tent, which was of course still open to the air at the far end.

‘Noel!’ I bawled, hurling myself towards it. Noel was still there, thank God, clinging to one of the dangling struts.

‘Noel? What’s happening?’ asked Carl anxiously, dragging the Flying Fox through a terrifying swerve that I was almost sure was going to shake Noel off but somehow didn’t. I heard the ship’s guns go off so I supposed Carl was firing at one of the Animals outside the ship.

‘Nothing! Everything’s fine!’ I said in a ridiculously cheerful way, feeling that giving the pilot anything more to worry about wouldn’t be productive.

‘Uh, help, please?’ said Noel, sounding vaguely embarrassed as the tent bounced and thrashed in the whirling air.

I really couldn’t get near him. Fortunately we had somebody there who could fly.

‘Get him, Goldfish!’ I yelled, and the Goldfish stopped trying to shoot the Animal and dived into the tent.

Which left me and Josephine to tackle the Animal on our own.

Josephine swung her bag again and this time it exploded against those whirring teeth in a shower of interesting stones and highlighter pens.

I swung a bottle of water (it was at least moderately heavy), and Josephine hurled one of her stones with excellent aim for someone who was so terrible at Flight and Combat Training. The Animal actually dropped to the ground for a second before bouncing back up at us again, and so for a while it was just a matter of us both yelling, ‘AAAAARGH!’ and throwing anything that wasn’t tied down. Most of what we threw got eaten, which at least slowed the Animal down. Then it came at me again, and as I threw myself out of the way I knocked into the food crate, which I grabbed, and emptied everything out. And then I threw the crate over the Animal and jumped on top of it.

This happened so fast that even before I’d finished doing it, I was thinking, ‘I’m not sure

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