6 Intergalactic Death Battle

CHAPTER 6 INTERGALACTIC DEATH BATTLE 'Did you hear that?' said Terry. 'Yes,' I said. 'We're all going to die in an intergalactic death battle!' 'No,' said Terry, 'not that bit. The bit about how we could win a trophy—or a medal!' 'Unless we lose, that is,' I said.

'No, Andy,' said Terry. 'You don't understand. Even if we lose, we still get a medal that says: If you had fun, you won!' 'No,' I said. 'You don't understand. A death battle is a battle to the death. Only the winner survives: the losers—which is everybody else—will all die.' 'Then we'd better make sure we win,' said Terry. 'But that would mean we have to kill all the other contestants,' said Jill. 'That's awful!'

'It's less awful than being killed,' said Terry. 'And it's not like we have a choice.' 'But how could we win even if we wanted to?' said Jill. 'The other aliens look much more dangerous than us. We don't stand a chance!' 'You're forgetting one very important thing,' said Terry. 'Well, two, actually. I have laser eyes.' 'But you can't even kill a fly with your laser eyes!' I said. 'How do you expect them to help us win an intergalactic death battle?'

As we were speaking, thousands of flying eyeballs were filling the air around us. 'Attention all aliens,' boomed the giant flying eyeball. 'In a moment your enclosures will be removed and the battle will begin. It will continue until only one species remains. Are there any questions?' 'Yes,' said a little green blob. 'Please may I be excused from the battle? I need to go home.' 'No,' said the eyeball. 'All contestants must fight. It's the rules.'

Then, without warning, the eyeball let out a loud, high-pitched noise and our enclosure shattered. In fact, all the enclosures did. We got such a fright, we fell out of the tree onto the soft spongy surface of Eyeballia with all the other aliens.

It was terrifying being so close to so many dangerous aliens, but there was hardly any time to feel scared, because then the eyeball said: We all jumped up.