Con and Stonk pushed Beryl and me back into two seats next to Dr Zhang, snapped plastic ties around our wrists and attached our seat belts.
Andy spoke to Con and Stonk. 'Go get whoever is inside that vehicle and move it out of the way.'
For a few minutes Andy left us alone, to talk to the pilot, and Beryl managed to release my seatbelt buckle. I got up and quickly released her's but I had a harder time pealing the duct tape from Dr Zhang's seat belt buckle before Andy came back.
He slammed me into my seat and used two plastic ties to fasten my arms to the arm rest but he didn't check Beryl's seat belt which appeared to be still in place. She had not moved.
Con came back a few minutes later prodding Licia and Miguel in front of him with some kind of stun-gun.
Licia grimaced at me while Miguel was grinning. 'Stonk and the guy with the gun are trying to figure out the controls on the Terramax,' he explained, 'we refused to move it . . . Oh, Hi Dr Zhang.'
'Licia! You didn't leave the power on, did you?' Dr Zhang asked anxiously.
'I couldn't find the Off button,' Licia told him.
'It's the big red one at the top of the panel,' Dr Zhang said.
'Miguel told me that was the Ejection Seat button.'
'Miguel, please help me,' Boz wailed.
'Shaddup! Con snarled, 'or I'll zap you with the stun-gun again.'
'Ziff,' Dunc said in my earpiece. 'Who is driving? Because the Terramax just climbed over the pick-up truck just before two guys jumped out. Now it is rotating toward the SUV. Are you all in the aircraft?'
'Affirmative,' I whispered; silently thankful that Dr Zhang couldn't hear Dunc's report.
'You mean no one is driving it?' Dunc asked.
'Affirmative,' I told him.
'Standing by,' Dunc said.
Andy said, 'Please sit down and fasten your seat belts for take off,'as Con pushed Licia and Miguel into seats behind Boz and Ozzy.
Stonk came back in through the aircraft door at a sprint and the door promptly closed behind him. The engine noise grew louder as everybody prepared for take off and the jet began to taxi toward the runway.
About a minute later we stopped moving and the pilot stuck his head around the flight deck door. 'There's a crazy Canada goose trying to smash into the flight deck. I can't see to take off. Would someone go out and knock it off the nose of the aircraft?'
'Jeez!' Andy said. 'What else can go wrong. This place is spooked.'
Con and Stonk opened the aircraft door and ran down the steps.
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Undercover Goose - book 6
Science FictionMurga wanted to borrow Dr Zhang's computer, which the Dark Fire Data Bunglers were trying to destroy. Yonnie and Treeka (two algorithms from the future) claimed the computer was their mother, Mandia, and were intent on protecting her. And now the...
