Aquaterros (3 page)

The sub-drill splashed down into the water land. ‘The water is so dirty,' said Kai.

‘Yes, it's hard to see,' said BC.

‘I'm turning the maxi-wipers on,' said Kai. ‘Why is dirt and mud from other lands here? Maybe we should have gone to the mud land.'

Suddenly big splats of slime hit the sub-drill's window. Kai pushed them off with the wipers.

‘More slime is coming!' said BC. His tail was wagging.

Kai could see the slime coming. ‘It will eat through the windscreen,' he said. Then Kai heard his orb beep. He quickly looked at its screen.

‘Oh good. Another upgrade,' said Kai. ‘Toxic slime can't hurt the sub-drill now.'

Kai kept pushing the slime off the window with the wipers. But more kept coming.

‘I'm going to use the wheels,' said Kai. ‘Driving along the sea floor might be better.'

Kai pushed the button on the dash to lower the wheels. Then he landed on the bottom of the water land. ‘There's no slime down here,' he said. ‘We can see better now.'

But BC's tail was wagging.

‘Something else is coming,' the dogbot said.

‘Where?' asked Kai looking out into the dirty water.

Suddenly everything went dark.

‘The windscreen is all black,' said BC.

‘I can't see out,' said Kai. ‘Something is on our sub-drill.'

The sub-drill's dashboard flashed. Then it went dead.

‘This pest is taking our power,' said Kai. ‘Sub-drill won't work soon,' said BC.

‘Let's get rid of it,' said Kai.

Kai turned on the sub-drill's roof water jets. Huge blasts of water pushed the pest off the sub-drill.

Kai looked as it floated away. ‘It's like a big stingray,' he said. ‘But it's got heaps of suckers on its belly.'

‘And two tails,' said BC.

‘There's lots of them,' said Kai. ‘We can't let them near us. Those suckers drain power.'

This time Kai turned on all the water jets.

Water burst from the jets hard and fast. When Kai stopped the pests were gone. But in their place was something else.

‘It's a baby beast!' said Kai. ‘With two heads and a tail.'

‘And a pulver-slam tail like the rock beast!' said BC.

‘Yes,' said Kai. ‘A mix of rock and water beasts.'

Kai took a photo of the baby beast with his orb. A card popped up on the screen.

‘We've found the beast, BC,' said Kai. ‘We're in the right land. And look! It's shooting rocks from one of its heads. And it's making big rock walls with them.'

‘That's what's making water spill into the mud land,' said BC. ‘The baby beast is building big dams.'

‘Yes,' said Kai. ‘I'm going to drill through the wall.'

Kai turned on the sub-drill's driller. Then he drove as fast as he could into the wall.

 

 

The driller made a huge hole in the wall.

Then the wall came crashing down. Water rushed in from where the wall had been. The sub-drill was thrown around. ‘We're getting washed away, BC,' said Kai. ‘When the water settles we will get the baby beast before it can change.'

But when the choppy water stopped, the baby beast was gone.

‘We have to find that baby beast,' said Kai. He turned the sub-drill around. But he still couldn't see it. ‘I'll use the see-scope on the roof,' he said.

Kai pushed the see-scope up into the water. He turned it around slowly and looked into the scope.

‘It's behind us,' he said to BC. ‘And now it's battling a water beast. We have to stop it.'

‘Baby beast must not win,' said BC. ‘If it does, it will grow and change.'

Kai turned the sub-drill around. Then he headed for the battling beasts.

‘The baby beast is throwing so many rocks!' said Kai. ‘The water beast is getting buried.'

‘Water beast is going to do a tail attack on the baby beast,' said BC.

‘I'm going to blast that baby beast out of the water with the sub-drill's jets,' said Kai.

Kai raced towards the baby beast. Water shot out from the sub-drill jets. The baby beast was being pushed back. ‘It's working,' said Kai.

But then a massive tail crashed down on them. It was the water beast. And it was doing a tail-attack.

The sub-drill was sent flying through the water.

Kai got control of the sub-drill again. ‘It doesn't know we are trying to help it,' he said. ‘We have to get back in there.'

But Kai and BC were too late. The baby beast was too strong for the water beast. It had covered the beast with rocks. And it had won.

BC's tail wagged again.

‘Yes. It's going to change into an adult mutant,' said Kai.

Kai watched the beast change. He took a photo of it on his orb. A card popped up.

‘It's grown a new head,' said Kai. ‘A head like the wind beast. Green stuff is coming from that mouth.'

‘And toxic breath is coming from the mouth of the rock head,' said BC.

‘Yes,' said Kai. ‘And it has wings now too. It's a mix of the water, wind and rock beasts. How will we battle it?'

Kai pulled the wheels up on the sub-drill. The wheels lifted up off the ground. They sat on the sides of the sub-drill like floating rings. ‘We need to be up off the ground,' said Kai. ‘Now we can move through the water like a sub. We can sneak up on the beast.'

‘Yes,' said BC. ‘But this beast is massive. What will we do?'

‘I'm going to blast it with water. It will push the rocks back in its mouth,' said Kai.

Kai steered the sub-drill straight for the beast's middle head.

Water shot from the jets.

 

 

It pushed the rocks back into the beast's mouth.

‘It's working!' said Kai.

But this made the beast very angry. A big growl came from its three mouths.

 

 

Then the beast closed its wings around the sub-drill.

‘It's got us, BC,' said Kai. ‘We're caught.'