Secrets of Valhalla by Jasmine Richards

Author:Jasmine Richards
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Inside the Worm

Buzz expected everything to be dark and sticky and gloopy inside, but the reverse was true. It was like he was in a huge balloon filled with air that was heavy with static—like the sky before a storm. He could smell electricity. Strings of glowing code swept around him and through him. He was weightless, and he whooshed through the worm’s body, loving the rushing sensation of freedom and the data that rained down on him. Welcoming the facts, files, and documents that exploded behind his eyes.

For moment, he almost forgot that he had a plan—his mind felt so full of the worm and all that it knew. When he remembered, he felt regret that he would have to leave this feeling behind.

But there is no other way. How could he enjoy his submersion into this amazing world of data if his own world were destroyed? EarthWorm was a virus, and Buzz was the antiviral software.

His hand went to the buttons on the side of the watch. He’d seen which one Mary had pressed before to scan the mountainside for an entrance in Saturn’s realm. Now it was time to press the other one.

His finger rested on the button that Mary had designed to burst water balloons. The button that was going to burst EarthWorm. She hadn’t tested it. But it would work. It had to work.

He felt something bang into his side, and he saw Jupiter floating in the light and air, his eyes closed and his breathing shallow.

It was time. He pressed the button, and a red light beamed out from the watch and hit the translucent side of the worm’s body.

BOOM!

The worm was gone, and Buzz was lying on the rainbow bridge, watching bits of code drift off into the ether.

“Buzz?” Mary knelt down beside him. “Are you okay?”

Buzz sat up. He felt better than okay. He felt amazing. Extraordinary, even. Something had changed in him. But he wasn’t quite ready to tell Mary that yet. Not until he understood properly what had happened. “I’m fine,” he said. “How are you?”

“Much better now that I know you’re alive.” She tilted her head to one side. “How’d you do it, then, Sherlock? How’d you explode the worm?”

Buzz unstrapped her watch from his wrist and handed it back to her. “Your water balloon exploder function.”

Mary grinned. “It works!” The smile slipped off her face. “Hey, that was pretty stupid, Buzz. I told you I hadn’t tested it.”

“Yeah, but I knew that it’d do the trick.”

“How?”

“Because I know you.”

“You trusted my invention,” she whispered. “You trusted me. That’s never happened before.” She held out a hand and pulled him to his feet. “Listen, Buzz, I need to tell you what I saw in the time tun—”

A low groan to their left interrupted her. Jupiter lay on the ground, his eyes still closed. They swiftly knelt by his side, and Mary gently touched the god’s shoulder.

Jupiter’s eyes snapped open. He sat bolt upright.

“Wow, what a trip!” he exclaimed. He looked up at them and jumped to his feet.

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