“I would consider it a
sign of Universal camaraderie and goodwill if you would remove your hand from
your weapon and drive on to the city, Drew. We mean you no harm and all will be
explained when we can sit down in comfort, face to face and have a relaxed
chat. Also, as I do not like repeating myself, would you be so kind as to contact
the rest of your crew and have them meet us in your usual common gathering area
when we arrive.”
“Don’t do it Drew! Why
do a ‘Trojan Horse’ by driving him through our defences and into our city, not
to mention herding our people into one place to make it easier for Gonad and
his space goons to contain and/or kill us all.?!”
“What choice do we
have, Nick? Take another look upwards and see if the Spaceship is still above
us if you like. Check the load in your pistol to see if it still has any
bullets in it if you like, it doesn’t really make any difference anyway. The
Spaceman is unarmed and alone and therefore supposedly vulnerable while he‘s
with us, but obviously he doesn’t consider that he is. I bet he’s got a couple
of remote control buttons on his watch that control the Airlock systems of our
City, and what defences would we be driving him through as we don’t have any,
and I’m damn sure Gorad knows it. I suspect that if he had wanted to wipe us
out he could and would have done it without putting on this histrionic
pantomime for us just to introduce him-self.” I glanced back at the Spaceman,
“You buggered up
Nick’s Oxygen regulator as well, didn’t you? How did you manage to do that?”
“I sent out an
electro-magnetic beam that partially closed off his regulator to reduce Nick to
a state of semi-consciousness for a while when I waved to him. Shall we proceed
on to the City where we can continue this conversation in more comfortable
surroundings, Drew?”
I did as Gorad had
asked, all of it! Dick answered when I put out the general call on the R/T Comm.
Channel,
“Dick, can you get the
whole crew to meet us in the ‘Hangout’
cafeteria? We’ll be there in a couple of minutes.”
“I guess so, why?”
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