Torlavasaur (3 page)

Kai and BC flew into a red-hot land. ‘This is the fire land,' said Kai. ‘Look at the temp outside!'

‘I'm going to see if Jay is here yet,' said Kai.

Kai spoke into his headset mouthpiece. ‘Border Guard Jay Armstrong. Report in for battle. Over. Jay Armstrong. Report in for battle.'

There was no reply.

‘Where is he?' asked BC.

‘He mustn't be here yet,' said Kai.

‘Fireflies are coming,' said BC, his tail wagging.

‘You're right,' said Kai.

‘I'll blast them with the fly spray. It's a new add-on.' Kai pushed the fly spray button on the dash. Mist shot out from the front of the jet.

As mist hit each firefly, it dropped away. Kai laughed and said, ‘They're dropping like flies! Too easy, BC.'

‘Look out,' said BC. ‘There's an ash cloud ahead.'

‘We'll fly below it,' Kai said. ‘We know this land's tricks!'

Kai flew the chopper under the ash cloud. ‘We're far enough away from it now,' he said. Then Kai saw BC's tail wagging. ‘What is it now, BC?' he asked. But before BC could answer, the chopper was hit by a huge gust of wind.

‘It's a fire and wind attack,' BC said as the chopper turned over and over.

Kai struggled to get control of the chopper. ‘We've been blown back a long way.'

Suddenly something crashed into the side of the jet. ‘It's burning rocks!' said Kai.

The rocks came hard and fast. The chopper was being hit again and again.

Kai struggled to keep the chopper steady. ‘I can't keep the chopper up. We'll have to fly away.'

‘Open the cockpit,' called BC. ‘I'll get them with my lasers.'

Kai opened the cockpit. But before BC could hit the rocks they all began bouncing backwards away from them.

‘What's going on?' asked Kai.

‘Hello Captain Kai,' a voice said over the chopper's speakers. ‘Border Guard Jay Armstrong reporting in for battle. Robohawk has put a force field around you.'

‘That's why the rocks are bouncing away from us,' said Kai.

Kai and Jay hovered together. Both were inside their own force field bubbles. The wind began to settle. The burning rocks stopped and the dust cleared.

‘Thanks Jay, good work,' said Kai. ‘You came just in time. Look down there.'

‘Where?' asked Jay.

‘Below. It's the two mutants,' said Kai. ‘And they're fighting each other.'

Kai looked at the mutant beasts fighting. He used his watch to find out more about it.

‘It has rock in it now, BC,' Kai said. ‘When we battled it before it was only fire, water and air.'

‘Mega-bad,' said BC.

‘Send Robohawk in to get some photos with its eye-cam,' Kai said to Jay.

Jay sent the hawk in and Kai waited. Then a card popped up on the dashboard screen.

Kai read the card carefully. ‘It has changed,' he said.

Another card popped onto the screen.

‘This is the beast Jay battled before,' said Kai. ‘It's still only a mutant. If it wins a battle play it will change as well. We need to stop these beasts. We have to catch them and take them to the Outlands.'

‘Flamatoraq has launched a toxic breath attack,' said BC.

Kai watched as Torlavasaur flapped its wings. ‘It has sent the toxic breath right back at Flamatoraq. And now it's growing another head! We have to stop them before they change any more. You take Torlavasaur, Jay. BC and I will take the mega-mutant.'

‘Going in now,' said Jay.

‘Out you go, BC,' said Kai. ‘Pull on the chains at the front of the chopper with your paws. Try and wrap the beast up. I'll put out its fire with the chopper's Slushy-Max.'

BC flew out of the chopper. He grabbed the chain-ends and flew towards the beast.

Kai blasted it with water, slushy ice and ice balls all at once.

Kai watched BC fly behind the beast with the chains. Then he looked over at Jay.

He's catching all the beast's hot rocks and shooting back ice rocks,
he thought.
And Robohawk is dropping something on the lava wing tips. Good work!

But it was not enough. Suddenly there was a massive roar.

Kai watched in horror as the two beasts grew. They became almost twice their size. Twice as strong. Massive mega-mutants.

Kai, BC, Jay and Robohawk hovered before the enormous beasts. Then Kai saw BC's tail wagging. ‘Get ready, Jay,' said Kai. ‘More trouble ahead.'

‘What kind of trouble now?' asked Jay.

‘I don't know,' said Kai. ‘But BC has a good tail for trouble. And it's wagging like crazy right now.'

‘Uh-oh,' said Jay. ‘They've found us.'

Everything went still. Then both beasts turned slowly. They now faced Kai and Jay.

‘And they're both getting ready to launch a double attack! They're pulling back their wings. It's a double fire and wind attack!'