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He immediately clamored for the wherewithal to fill an aching void that was making itself painfully felt in his midsection. "He's all right!" laughed Wade. "His appetite is just as healthy as ever!" They had already prepared a meal, and Arcot was promptly hustled to the galley. He strapped himself into the chair so that he could eat comfortably, and then looked around at the others.
His only idea was to slug. He did slug. Haney had been peevish rather than angry. Now he began to glower. He began to take the fight to Braun. He knocked Braun down. Braun staggered up and rushed. A wildly flailing fist landed on Haney's ear. He doubled Braun up with a wallop to the midsection. Braun came back, fists swinging. Haney closed one eye for him. He came back.
He was momentarily blinded by the glare of a ring of lights around him, and when he finally could see, he found himself in the middle of a squad of Solar Guardsmen in battle dress. "What's the password?" asked a tough sergeant whose shock rifle was aimed right at Tom's midsection. "Juggernaut!" replied Tom quietly. The word sent the sergeant into a frenzy of action.
He was knocked from his feet by the impact. "Coming!" shouted Harrigan. He raced with long strides, head lowered and back bowed until his long arms nearly swept the ground. Gathering impetus at every stride, he crushed into the floundering heap of arms and legs. The police sergeant rose and whirled with lifted club. Harrigan grunted with joy as he dug his left into the man's midsection.
Simultaneously the entire midsection of the vessel exploded into light and disappeared; completely volatilized. "Sir, please signal the entire fleet to cease action, and to follow me down. If they do not do so, I will destroy the rest of them." The Skylark dropped to the ground, followed by the fleet of warships, who settled in a ring about her inactive, but ready.
Done, it reared on hind feet once again, the pear-shaped head swung in their direction. Vye was half certain he had seen that tube-nose expand to test the air and scent them. Hume pressed the button of the ray tube. That soundless spear of death struck in midsection of that barrel body. The thing howled, threw itself in a mad forward rush at their bush.
From the midsection, which was about five feet in diameter and provided with heavily-cushioned seats capable of carrying four passengers in comfort, the hull tapered down smoothly to a needle point at each end. As Seaton entered and settled himself into the cushions, Rovol touched a lever.
From this ball there shot a blinding plane of light, and the Arcturus fell apart at the midsection, the lower half separating clean from the upper portion, which held the passengers. Leaving the upper half intact, the attacker began slicing the lower, driving half into thin, disk-shaped sections.
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