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All he had to do now was turn the power-flow in the opposite direction, back into the Extractor.
    Starting at his feet, he reversed the current. He pushed a cosmic-wave of destruction through his body, adding as much of his own energy as he could. It coursed through him like a fireball before bursting from him. Every megawatt of power he could find flowed into the Extractor. He raced it towards the core, making it pick up more energy as it did.
    Krrraaccckkk-BLLLAAAAAMMMMM!
    The console exploded, throwing Peri backwards into the air and ripping the wires from his skin. His bionic self instantly took control of his muscles, turning him in a twisting somersault. He landed safely next to Diesel and he grabbed a spare weapon from the half-Martian’s holster and started firing.
     

     
    ‘Glad you could join us,’ Diesel said.
    Peri, Onix, Selene and Diesel ducked more shots from the Meigwor guards. Molten plastic sprayed up from the chairs. There was no way to escape now – they had no choice but to fight, and hope that they survived.
    ‘For the Milky Way!’ Peri shouted.
    The ship shuddered as though there was a spacequake and the laserfire stopped.
    Raaaa-eeee! Raaa-eeee! Raaa-eee! Sirens blared as an electronic voice screamed, ‘Extractor dismantling! Emergency! Emergency!’
    The Meigwor guards dropped their weapons and dashed into the corridor and out of sight.
    ‘What’s happening?’ Selene shouted.
    Otto edged around the barricade to look at the only undamaged monitor. ‘The Extractor’s breaking up into separate viper-ships again!’ he boomed. ‘We’ve done it!’
    ‘Time to get out of here,’ Peri shouted.
    They pushed through the throng of panicked Meigwors. But it wasn’t the clean escape they hoped for. A new battalion of guards appeared in the corridor ahead, pounding towards them with their weapons blazing.
    Diesel set his blaster to Continuous Pulse and opened fire, but his aim was thrown by another shudder rocking the Extractor. His laser melted a small hole in the deck.
    ‘Fire at the floor,’ the gunner barked. ‘Continuous Pulse!’
    Peri and Otto joined him in firing at the same spot. The three beams made the floor dissolve like a sun going supernova. Before the Meigwor guards had time to do more than scream, the floor simply melted away and sent them tumbling down a huge hole in the deck.
    They had no time to cheer. Yet another explosion shook the Extractor. They slipped along a narrow ledge around the hole and then sprinted down the corridor.
    ‘Which way?’ Selene asked at the junction.
    Instantly, Peri could see the layout of the whole ship in his mind’s eye. It took only nanoseconds to see the best route back to the mini-pods. He couldn’t believe it. During his fight with the Extractor, he must have absorbed the design of the whole vessel.
    ‘This way!’ he shouted.
    They raced as fast as they could. It didn’t matter about the guards. They just had to make it back to the pods before the Extractor dismantled or exploded. Peri rounded the corner and saw two crab-bots hanging from the ceiling.
    The robot-guards barely had time to say ‘In-troo-DAH!’ before he, Diesel, Selene, Otto and Onix blasted them into a gazillion smoking fragments.
    ‘Keep going,’ Peri shouted, racing down another corridor. The vent hatch was still open. Otto boosted him and the others into the shaft and climbed up last. It was still hot and cramped in the ventilation shaft, but it didn’t matter. They crawled as fast as they could towards the pods. They could hear the shouts of the Meigwor guards following behind them, ‘Take them dead or alive! For Meigwor!’
    Peri was the first out of the ventilation shaft to where the mini-pods were waiting.
    ‘Otto, you were the last one in, go!’ he ordered. ‘You next, Onix, then Diesel, and Selene.’
    Peri crouched by the shaft and fired his blaster towards the attacking Meigwors to buy his friends some more time. One by one, the mini-pods sealed