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The Solarite was hurled back by an explosion that seemed to rend the very atoms of the air, and all about them was a torrid blaze of heat and light that seemed to sear their faces and hands with its intensity. Then in a time so brief that it seemed never to have happened, it was gone, and only the distant drone of the other ships' propellers came to them. There was no luminous spot.
Where it touched the cliff there was intense incandescence that made the rock glow white hot, then flow down in a sluggish rivulet of molten lava! For five minutes longer this terrific spectacle lasted, while Arcot withdrew the Solarite to a safer distance.
You, perhaps, have saved more than a city you may have made it possible to save a world our Earth. But the battle here has only begun. "There are now in the Kaxorian camp eighteen great ships. They have been badly defeated in the three encounters they have had with the Solarite so far. But no longer will they be vulnerable to our earlier methods of attack.
The Solarite was moved to the bank of the little river and the electrolysis apparatus was set up beside it.
Arcot, "but I should like to know the name of this remarkable ship." "What?" asked Wade. "Name? Oh, it hasn't any." The elder Morey shook his head sadly. "That is indeed an important oversight. If a crew of men can overlook so fundamental a thing, I wonder if they are to be trusted." "Well, what are we going to call it, then?" asked Arcot. "Solarite II might do," suggested Morey.
Visible or not, that plane was marked. Quickly Arcot tried to maneuver the Solarite over another of the great ships, for now the danger was only from those he could not see. Suddenly he had an idea. "Morey go back to the power room and change the adjustment on the meteorite avoider to half a mile!" At once Morey understood his plan, and hastened to put it into effect.
These were attached to the landing gear of the Solarite in such fashion that the fusing of one piece of wire would permit the entire thing to drop free. "So that's what you hatched out, eh? What is it?" asked Wade as he entered the ship. "Just a thing I want to try out and I'm going to keep it a deep, dark secret for a while. I think you'll get quite a surprise when you see those bombs in action!
The hundred gigantic propellers roaring below, however, would distribute their gas perfectly. "We're going invisible," Arcot exclaimed. "Look out!" There was a click as the switch shut, and the Solarite was as transparent as the air above it. Arcot drove his ship swiftly, above and ahead of the mighty colossus, then released the gas.
The illuminated plane was diving, twisting wildly now. The Solarite flashed toward it with sickening speed, then suddenly the gigantic bulk of the plane loomed off to the right of the tiny ship, the great metal hull, visible now, rising in awesome might.
In every direction they could be located and all were leaving the scene of the battle. But one by one the Solarite shot after them, and always the speed of the little ship was greater. Two escaped. They turned off their useless invisibility apparatus and vanished into the night. The Solarite, supported by her vertical lift units, coasted toward a stop.
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