He seemed to agree with the animated
one, but his voice had a sorrowful tone to it. He pressed a few buttons
on the screen and a picture of a warship appeared. As the alien pointed
to the ship and talked, all the life seemed to drain out of his
companion and he began looking hopeless and despondent. He turned the
screen off.
Mark didn't understand-what was that ship? Why did it bring such
hopelessness?
As the panel went dark, Mark realized with a crushed heart that, for
some reason, the aliens were not going to deactivate the power plant
after all. He buried his face in his hands. Something was stopping
them, something having to do with the spaceship that had appeared on
the screen last.
Mark looked up and saw that the figures had vanished!
10: Both Sides Move
THE GREAT AIRLOCK on the pirates' asteroid opened. From the depths of
the abyss five ships came forth. Emerging from the stone tunnel, they
moved into formation and then headed for the Asteroid Belt. Lurton
Zimbardo's lieutenant Crass held the authority over the small fleet.
Each ship was sheathed with the radar bender, making it invisible to
the normal means of detection used by Starlight Enterprise, Space
Command, and other Earth-based entities.
As the ships came into the Belt, Crass gave the command to the other
four pilots.
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