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Updated: June 13, 2025
He laid the film and the report on his desk and faced the professor. "And you are absolutely sure of your findings?" Sykes snorted. "I've been working with uranium all my life. And I should know a deposit like this when I see one!" Vidac didn't answer. He turned to the teleceiver and flipped it on. "Send Winters and Bush in here right away," he told the aide.
"Is my work considered so unimportant that I should be impeded by these these " He sputtered and turned to wave at Tom, Roger, and Astro who still stood at rigid attention. Sykes got no further. Vidac simply cut off his teleceiver and left the professor staring into a blank screen. His face became beet red, and he screamed at Jeff Marshall. "Get them out of here!
He had placed too much confidence in Bush and Winters and had underestimated the cadets. Something had to be done and fast! But it couldn't be anything obvious, or his plans of taking over Roald would fail. The buzz of the teleceiver on his desk interrupted his train of thought and he flipped open the small scanner. "Professor Sykes to see you, sir," reported his aide in the outer office.
"Regular!" yelled Tom. "You give me a quarter on hyper and we'll go right through that planet!" "One-quarter regular space speed," replied Astro. Tom adjusted his controls for the speed reduction, while keeping his eyes on the teleceiver screen. He watched the planet grow larger before his eyes, and the terrain become more distinct.
He had been worried about not being able to keep his eyes open to see the dwindling Earth in the teleceiver over his head, but the tremendous force of the rockets pushing him against gravity to tear the two hundred tons of steel away from the Earth's grip held his eyelids open for him.
Stand by to pick up the surface of the satellite on the teleceiver as soon as we get close enough." "O.K., Roger," said Tom. "Where are you going?" "Down to Loring and Mason in the cooler! I want to see their faces when I tell them they finally are getting where they wanted to go, but under slightly different circumstances!" Tom laughed and turned back to the board. "Power deck, check in!"
With an exclamation of startled surprise, Astro rushed to the teleceiver screen and saw a man in the uniform of the Solar Guard, his face grim and purposeful. Just as Astro was about to speak, the officer spoke again. "Did you hear me? This is Captain Newton aboard the cruiser Regulus! I order you to cut all power and stand by or I'll open fire! Acknowledge!"
"Just like Manning is himself." "Look," said Roger. "Look, you guys " He hesitated, as though intending to say something more, but then he turned back to his dinner. "Go on finish your food," he growled. He bent over his plate and ate without lifting his eyes. And not another word was spoken at the table until a young man approached, carrying a portable teleceiver screen. "Pardon me," he said.
Never can tell what we might run into. Also the first-aid surgical kit and every spare oxygen bottle. Oh, yeah, and have Astro get both jet boats ready to blast off immediately. I'll keep trying to pick them up again on the teleceiver." "Yes, sir," replied Tom sharply. "What's going on up there?" asked Astro, when Tom had relayed the orders from Captain Strong.
His eyes were glassy, his ears deaf to the roar of triumph from below as Loring and Mason, watching the flight of the jet boat on the control deck teleceiver screen, saw it explode. Roger couldn't move. He had fired a reactant bomb at Tom and Astro. "By the craters of Luna," roared Connel, "we've been attacked!"
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