Stormasaurix (3 page)

The SC2-bot dropped down into the wind land with a bump. ‘These winds are wild,' said Kai. ‘It's hard to drive straight.'

‘It's blowing like crazy,' said BC. Then his tail began to wag. And Kai could see why.

‘It's a massive red dust storm,' said Kai. ‘And it's coming straight at us.'

‘Looks like a big wall of red dirt,' said BC.

‘A wild wall,' said Kai. ‘It's strange that the dirt is red. We can't go around it. And we can't go under it. We're going to have to go through it.'

Suddenly the dust storm closed in on them.

‘I can't see a thing,' said Kai. ‘And it's tossing us about.'

Before they knew it the bot was upside down.

‘We have to get out of this, BC,' said Kai. ‘We're going down. I'm going to try the sucker.'

Kai hit the sucker button on the dashboard. There was a loud noise.

‘It's sucking up the dust!' said BC.

‘And look at the dashboard,' said Kai. ‘It's storing it in the bot.'

‘It turns the dust into something else,' said BC. ‘Like the rock changer does.'

‘Yes,' said Kai looking at the dust change button. ‘But I wonder what? No time for that now. We have some cleaning up to do.'

Kai flew the bot and BC drove the sucker hand. It sucked up dust wherever he pointed it. Soon the wind land skies were blue again.

‘Now it looks more like the wind land we know,' said Kai.

‘And we have all the dirt stored in the bot,' said BC. ‘That's good for the wind land.'

‘It is,' said Kai. ‘But now it's time to find our beast.'

Kai flew the bot deeper into the wind land. The skies were blue and the wind was not as wild.

Suddenly the bot was hit by something. ‘What's going on?' asked Kai as he looked out the bot's window.

‘We are being hit from behind,' said BC.

Kai turned the bot around. ‘They look like some sort of bird.'

‘Rock birds,' said BC.

‘But with fire. The rocks are glowing red,' said Kai. ‘I bet they're burning hot rocks!'

‘I can get them with my eye lasers,' said BC. ‘Open the hatch and I'll fly out.'

As Kai hit the button for the hatch he saw the rock changer button.

That could be handy
, Kai thought. But before he could push it the bot was hit by a large rock. The bot was thrown backwards. BC fell from the cockpit.

‘BC,' called Kai. He looked down to see BC falling. ‘I'll get you.'

Then BC flew straight past him. ‘It's okay, I have my jet pack on,' he said. Then he flew into the group of rock birds.

BC zapped the birds with his eye lasers. One by one they fell away.

Kai hit the button for the rock changer.

A loud noise came from above him.

‘The rock changer's on the bot's head,' BC called to Kai. ‘You catch the rocks in it.'

‘You get the birds and I'll get the rocks,' said Kai.

Kai watched the dashboard as he caught the rocks in the bot's funnel.
This bot will be filled with dirt and rock soon,
he thought.

‘Only three more birds to get, BC,' said Kai. ‘Good job!'

Kai caught the last few rocks in the funnel. Then BC flew back inside the bot. ‘You caught them all,' said BC. ‘Go you!'

‘Yes, and you got all the birds,' said Kai. ‘The bot is nearly full.'

‘But another dust storm is coming,' said BC. His tail began to wag madly.

‘The storm isn't moving,' said Kai. ‘Let's go and suck that dust up.'

Kai flew over to the edge of the dust storm. He began to suck the dust up with the sucker. And then he saw that something was inside the storm.

‘It's a baby beast and a wind beast!' said Kai. ‘And the baby is a mutant.'

‘It has the wings of a wind beast,' said BC. ‘And two heads.'

‘It's a mix of rock and wind beasts,' said Kai. ‘I think if it grows it will have fire too.'

Kai quickly took a photo on his orb. A card popped onto the screen.

‘It's bombing the wind beast with rocks,' said Kai. ‘We can't let it win. Or it will change.'

‘I can try to make it follow me,' said BC.

BC flew out of the cockpit. He hit the beast with his eye lasers. But the beast flapped its wings at the dogbot. BC was sent flying. Kai put the bot between the baby beast and the wind beast. He bent the bot's head and began catching the rocks.

The beast flapped its wings once more. The bot twisted and rolled through the air.

As Kai tried to gain control of the bot, the baby beast hissed. Then it shot a load of huge hot rocks at the wind beast.

Kai and BC watched as the wind beast fell away.

It's won
, thought Kai.
And now it will grow and change.

The baby beast spun around and around. Dust flew around it like a twister.

When it stopped spinning, Kai sucked up the dust.

Then he took a photo of the beast with his orb. He waited for the card to load on the screen.