Chapter 3
Onto the Spaceship
Heidi's POV
Why can't I move? How long will I stay like this? I can't move my eyes, but Dib is in my peripheral vision and I can tell he can't move either. Okay, so I know this is affecting the humans too. Are we going to stay like this forever?
Apparently not. We're moving. But we're not doing it on our own; something seems to be making us move. We're walking towards the door. The door opens by itself, and we walk through it. We gather in the middle of the street and form a line. I am right behind Bill, who is first. He lifts up into the air and out of sight. I step forward to take his place, and I, too, float up in the air, and onto, as it seems, a spaceship, and I can immediately move again. Someone in a suit and helmet scans me with a handheld. A robotic voice says: "Given name: Heidi; Surname: unknown; Age: fifteen Earth years; Race: Irken."
I am immediately imprisoned in a glass box and stripped of my disguise. I start shouting.
"What's going on? Who are you?! Let me go!" I try blasting through the glass with my PAK, but it doesn't even make a scratch.
Fae is up next, and I scream and bang on the glass to try and warn her, but she doesn't even turn around. She is trapped in the cell with me, and her reaction is the same as mine. It's Nobnard's turn, and she pounds the glass.
"Don't bother," I tell her. "I tried the same thing with you. The glass is soundproof."
Fae's POV
We're forced to sit and watch as this happens over and over, to Nobnard, to Gem, to Z, Sib, Dib.
Sib takes out her vault pole and starts pounding the glass.
"Don't," I say. "Heidi and I both tried to blast it down, and, as you can see, nothing happened."
Sib relents, pushes a button on her pole, making it collapse, and stashes it back in her coat.
"Oy," she snaps in the direction of our captors, "can we at least know who captured us? And why?"
I'm about to tell her it's soundproof when, surprisingly, one of the suited people takes its helmet off.
Oh, hell.
TO BE CONTINUED...