53 THE INTRUDER

CHAPTER 53 THE INTRUDER REEEEE! REEEEE! REEEEE! Across the mining station, alarms were blaring and lights were flashing red. Nimbus jolted awake. The gull looked from the drone to the robot and squawked, "What did you do?" "Nothing!" said Roz. "Well, get going! The other robots won't be long!" At that, Roz dashed out from the antennas and leaped off the control tower. She arced through the air and down to the roof of the next building. From there, she leaped to a lower building, and she dropped onto a walkway, and she ran across a platform. But wherever the robot went, the drone followed. Nimbus raced after the drone and tried to stop it. He kicked it and pecked it and beat it with his wings. "The sky is no place for a machine!" he squawked. But the drone easily pushed past him and continued following Roz. Stomping footsteps echoed through the buildings and powerful voices boomed, "Warning! Intruder!

Warning! Intruder!" The BOSUN robots couldn't keep up with the wild robot, but the drone tracked her every move. She was sprinting across the main platform when the BOSUNs finally surrounded her. There was nowhere left to run. Roz remembered that she could fight if she wanted to, but she didn't want to. Even then, she was convinced there was a better way. Alarms blared all around. The drone buzzed high above. Ocean waves crashed far below. Waves. Our robot's only escape was to dive into the waves. She sprinted for the edge of the platform, and before the BOSUNs could reach her, she leaped. Once airborne, there was no turning back. She soared off the station and plummeted down, down, down toward the ocean. But Roz never touched the water. Because just when she was about to plunge into the waves, the HYDRO robots rose to the surface, and a giant robotic claw snatched her out of the air.