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A few more minutes elapsed. Though they were only a few, it seemed to be an eternity. Then Betty
suddenly cried out: "I can see it now! ItтАЩs heading straight toward us!"

Bell answered calmly: "Let it come!"

He moved his right arm forward and waited. For awhile the stony desert remained as he had observed it
for the past 10 minutes. But then a brown shadow of paper-thin veneer slid across the ground, pushed
pebbles out of the way, surmounted others and crept closer, making a scraping noise as it moved along.

"Hold your fire!" Bell growled. "Wait till it gets here!"

He heard Marshall pant and turned around solicitously. When Marshall caught his glance, Bell grinned:
"easy does it!"

200 feetтАж 150 feetтАж 100тАж

Bell looked a last time at Betty. She didnтАЩt seem to be afraid. She lay quietly and took aim along the
barrel of her weapon.

тАж75 feetтАж 50тАж

"Fire!" Bell shouted.

He heard Marshall groan beside him and saw the blinding white beam of concentrated energy shoot
from his weapon. He observed where Marshall hit and aimed a few feet to the left. From above Betty
raked her fire over the other areas of the aggressor which were outside the range of Bell and Marshall.

The lacquer bulged with hissing bubbles and went up in blue-grey smoke. But other layers advanced,
moved over the empty spots and kept coming closer.

"ItтАЩs at least a mile long and 300 feet wide!" Betty exclaimed in desperation.

Marshall continued shooting. Bell rose up at the stone needle to get a better view of the battlefield and
tried to sever somewhere the long body of their opponent in order to break up all connections between
the two parts.

However the attempt was useless because of the enormous width of the body. The gaps Bell created
closed up a few seconds later.

He dropped down to his former position when he noticed that Marshall was unable to keep the sheet
away from the rock by himself. He kept the trigger of his weapon in permanent firing position and poured
a rain of fire on the alien being as if it spouted from a watering can.

He took a little breather and shouted to the two teleporters: "Get out there and see what you can do!"
Tako and Ras had been waiting for the order. They disappeared instantly and a few seconds later
blue-grey vapours rose from two different spots on the mesa, showing the result of their work.

However the situation didnтАЩt change drastically. The enemy didnтАЩt seem to care how much substance it
lost under the murderous fire and how hot the ground became under its brown belly. It moved toward its
target and persevered with so much determination that Bell could count on his fingers the number of