" Perry Rhodan 0063 - (55) The Micro-Techs" - читать интересную книгу автора (Perry Rhodan)

himself floating weightlessly through the spaceshipDrusus to the closed cabin door. He might have
bumped into it like a balloon but at the penultimate moment before collision the door was mysteriously
opened as though by an invisible hand and he found himself outside in the corridor. Though he kicked his
legs and flailed his arms he knew from bitter past experience this would do him little good: PuckyтАЩs
kinetic power stream held him prisoner in its pitiless grip.

"IтАЩll show you!" screeched the furious mouse-beaver, losing all control of his English in his mounting
wrath. "IтАЩll teach you to pretend symphony (sympathy) like a hypochondriac (hypocrite) and gloat over
my misfortune, you red-haired ball of blabber (blubber)!"

It was an unkind exaggeration to characterize RhodanтАЩs friend and deputy as fat or even shapeless: his
figure was simply solid, stocky. But it could not be denied by anyone but a colour-blind person that
Reggie was a true redhead. With typical temper to match.

Under other circumstances PuckyтАЩs mangling of the language might have provided Bell with some
amusement but at the moment he was too mad and scared to do other than bellow menacingly: "Wait till
Rhodan hears about this!"

Which only made Pucky laugh hysterically. "Tell himтАФif you can, fatso!" he challenged.

Anyone unfamiliar with such shenanigans would have gasped at the queer sight of a feather-light Bell
drifting just below the ceiling of the corridor and deftly evading all obstacles as the yard-high
mouse-beaver waddled underneath him, his ears standing straight up. His animal lips were slightly drawn
back, exposing a wicked incisor that sparkled in the light reflected from the lamps. Pucky kept his
balance with his broad beavertail which helped support him on his short, rather unsteady legs.

Fortunately no such uniformed individual appeared on the scene. However, Pucky suddenly let Bell drop
when he was startled by a man who walked around the corner of the corridor and stopped in his tracks
when he saw the wingless man awkwardly flying.

Bell hit the floor with a resounding bang and would have fallen flat on his face if the man hadnтАЩt jumped
forward and steadied him. His rescuer already knewwhat had happenedтАФhe only asked: "Why?"

Bell finally had a chance to vent his pent-up wrath. Pucky had stopped grinning and now displayed a
little embarrassment; he was favoured with a dirty look from Bell, who began to roar: "That sawed-off
son of a dam builder decided to use me as a pigeon again to display his powers. I went to his cabin with
my heart full of the milk of human kindness, meaning to sympathize with him over the little mistake he
made with Muzzel, and the next thing I knew, there I was dangling from the ceilingтАж"

"Is he telling the truth?" the man inquired, regarding the mouse-beaver with his cool grey eyes.

Pucky violently shook his head. "Of course not! HeтАЩs lying through his feet again, boss! YouтАЩre a
telepathтАФyou ought to know. He insulted me and wouldnтАЩt leave me alone."

Perry Rhodan looked back and forth between the 2. "Well, Reggie, what else do you have to say for
yourself?"

"He canтАЩt lake a joke," Bell muttered, adjusting his uniform. "He never could, that doddering waddler."

"Balloon belly!" Pucky countered shrilly.