The Battle for Earth (Teen Superheroes Book 3) Read Online Free Page B
Author: Darrell Pitt
slowly sliding to the floor.
“You’re the ugliest modification I’ve ever seen,” Brodie said. “You make Jabba the Hutt look good.”
She had to hurry now. Dragging the ugly brute out of the elevator, she grabbed his sidearm and jumped into the recess. Her eyes searched the display. Once again, the symbols were unfamiliar, but it was easy enough to ascertain the button for the top floor. She stabbed the control. As the elevator zoomed up through the ship at an amazing speed, she checked the gun. The barrel of it ended in a metallic grill; obviously this thing did not fire bullets. Apart from that, it was a simple enough weapon and seemed to have only one setting.
Shoot , Brodie thought. That’s easy enough.
Her heart was thumping now. She had the element of surprise on her side, but not much else. This was not going to be easy.
The elevator doors whizzed open.
Brodie realised two things at once. One was that she had successfully reached the bridge of the ship – she could see a massive row of windows. Through them she could see that night had fallen and an ocean of stars filled the glass.
This detail fell to insignificance, however, as she realised the command centre was being run by twenty creatures similar to the one she had just dispatched several floors below. She stood staring at the bizarre-looking creatures for all of five seconds before realising that going down to another floor would be a good choice.
Except at that moment an alarm sounded – a long peal of doom that made every fishhead look up at each other. One of them happened to glance sideways at the open doors of the elevator.
“Nuts,” Brodie said.
She started forward, firing wildly and taking down eight of the creatures in a matter of seconds. At that point one of them fired back, stunning her, and she dropped the gun. Taking a woozy step forward, she shook her head to clear it, slammed her fist into the stomach of one of the nearby creatures and lifted it into the air.
The unfortunate victim then became a live battering ram as Brodie used it as both a weapon and a shield, smashing several of the other creatures to the ground while deflecting shots with its body. She had successfully taken down fifteen of the monsters before one of them came up behind her and stunned her a second time.
She sank to her knees, dropping her living shield head first into the floor. It was only when she was picked up that she looked through half open eyes to see the scene outside the window. It was crisply black, blacker than any night sky seen from Earth.
That’s when the planet rolled into view. She saw the thin layer of atmosphere, an enormous expanse of ocean, layers of cloud and the East Coast of North America.
I am on a ship , Brodie thought. A spaceship.
Then everything went black around her.
Chapter Five
I arrived at the warehouse with five minutes to spare. By then I felt so stressed that the back of my head was throbbing with tension. The Agency forbade us from using our powers for anything other than Agency business, but this time I was prepared to make an exception. I had flown around the outskirts of the city before landing behind a warehouse in a rundown section of town where Las Vegas crumbled into desert.
This was the part of town that tourists didn’t get to see. Abandoned buildings fighting a losing battle against nature. Decaying roads in need of repair. Even the homeless didn’t come to this part of town; there was no one to panhandle from and there was nowhere to buy food anyway.
I had done my best to stay focused on how to handle this situation, but by the time I landed I realised I’d barely moved forward an inch in my plans. There was one all-consuming thought that had taken over my brain.
They had Brodie.
They had kidnapped my girlfriend.
I felt as helpless as anyone else who has ever been blackmailed by a kidnapper. My powers had not given me an advantage; at least, not yet anyway. The short message sent on my
“You’re the ugliest modification I’ve ever seen,” Brodie said. “You make Jabba the Hutt look good.”
She had to hurry now. Dragging the ugly brute out of the elevator, she grabbed his sidearm and jumped into the recess. Her eyes searched the display. Once again, the symbols were unfamiliar, but it was easy enough to ascertain the button for the top floor. She stabbed the control. As the elevator zoomed up through the ship at an amazing speed, she checked the gun. The barrel of it ended in a metallic grill; obviously this thing did not fire bullets. Apart from that, it was a simple enough weapon and seemed to have only one setting.
Shoot , Brodie thought. That’s easy enough.
Her heart was thumping now. She had the element of surprise on her side, but not much else. This was not going to be easy.
The elevator doors whizzed open.
Brodie realised two things at once. One was that she had successfully reached the bridge of the ship – she could see a massive row of windows. Through them she could see that night had fallen and an ocean of stars filled the glass.
This detail fell to insignificance, however, as she realised the command centre was being run by twenty creatures similar to the one she had just dispatched several floors below. She stood staring at the bizarre-looking creatures for all of five seconds before realising that going down to another floor would be a good choice.
Except at that moment an alarm sounded – a long peal of doom that made every fishhead look up at each other. One of them happened to glance sideways at the open doors of the elevator.
“Nuts,” Brodie said.
She started forward, firing wildly and taking down eight of the creatures in a matter of seconds. At that point one of them fired back, stunning her, and she dropped the gun. Taking a woozy step forward, she shook her head to clear it, slammed her fist into the stomach of one of the nearby creatures and lifted it into the air.
The unfortunate victim then became a live battering ram as Brodie used it as both a weapon and a shield, smashing several of the other creatures to the ground while deflecting shots with its body. She had successfully taken down fifteen of the monsters before one of them came up behind her and stunned her a second time.
She sank to her knees, dropping her living shield head first into the floor. It was only when she was picked up that she looked through half open eyes to see the scene outside the window. It was crisply black, blacker than any night sky seen from Earth.
That’s when the planet rolled into view. She saw the thin layer of atmosphere, an enormous expanse of ocean, layers of cloud and the East Coast of North America.
I am on a ship , Brodie thought. A spaceship.
Then everything went black around her.
Chapter Five
I arrived at the warehouse with five minutes to spare. By then I felt so stressed that the back of my head was throbbing with tension. The Agency forbade us from using our powers for anything other than Agency business, but this time I was prepared to make an exception. I had flown around the outskirts of the city before landing behind a warehouse in a rundown section of town where Las Vegas crumbled into desert.
This was the part of town that tourists didn’t get to see. Abandoned buildings fighting a losing battle against nature. Decaying roads in need of repair. Even the homeless didn’t come to this part of town; there was no one to panhandle from and there was nowhere to buy food anyway.
I had done my best to stay focused on how to handle this situation, but by the time I landed I realised I’d barely moved forward an inch in my plans. There was one all-consuming thought that had taken over my brain.
They had Brodie.
They had kidnapped my girlfriend.
I felt as helpless as anyone else who has ever been blackmailed by a kidnapper. My powers had not given me an advantage; at least, not yet anyway. The short message sent on my
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