With
both hands he jerked the headphone cord out of the control panel. The
wires whipped through the air with a noise like a scourge. Zimbardo
twirled, his eyes bulging, and flung the headphones from him with all
his force. The set flew through the command center and collided with
the opposite wall. Everyone in the room froze and turned to look at the
pirate leader, and were appalled at what they saw. He was trembling
with demonic fury. No one moved or said a word. Even Gene was afraid to
speak.
"They found us!!" Zimbardo shouted. "They found us! The Earthmen know
where we are! They've located the fleet!! The freighters those fools
destroyed yesterday were decoys! The Earthmen deployed the real probes
and they've already found us! They outsmarted us!" He cursed
vehemently, then growled as if his teeth were grinding on gravel. "But
I've never been outsmarted! I won't be outsmarted now!"
Zimbardo jumped back into his chair. "Gene! GENE!!" He screamed like a
man possessed.
"Right here sir," said the young man, coming up quickly to the pirate
leader's side.
"Crank up all the power this asteroid can give me! I'm going to create
the biggest electromagnetic pulse this Solar System has ever seen, and
BURN every last one of those probes out of the void!! And then when we
are invisible again, we'll move this asteroid to a new course and
continue our plan.
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