Extraordinary beauty! Superhuman strength within her! These are the adventures of Doctor Darala Starr, an alien woman from a heavy planet whose trip to Earth will help her discover her own incredible power! As Darala grows to understand the enormity...
Inside the store, the sound of the alarm was almost deafening. Tina ran behind the main counter and pressed a hidden button. The sound stopped immediately.
"That was a very unpleasant sound" Darala said.
Tina whirled around and ran down a flight of metal stairs. Jason and Darala quickly followed her.
They arrived in a concrete room. On one side of the room were many filing cabinets and a drafting table. There were some antiques left about along with some cleaning supplies. On the far side of the room was the vault door. It was very imposing, silver grey, with a single, large spoked wheel in the center of it. The spokes were enormous and the rim of the wheel was more than an inch-thick solid steel and twenty one inches in diameter. It looked like the sort of thing one would see on a hatch of a battleship.
On the wall next to the vault was a mounted telephone with a red button underneath it. Tina rushed to the phone, picked it up and pressed the red button to talk. It was a simple two-way intercom between this room and the inside of the vault for just such an emergency as this.
"Hello," Tina said loudly. "Is anyone in there?"
A moment later a frightened voice answered.
"Help, please help me!"
The voice belonged to a young man named Kyle who'd been working in the store part time for over a month.
"Kyle, how did you get trapped in there?" Tina asked. "I didn't see you anywhere when I locked up!"
Kyle's frightened voice said, "I know, I'm sorry. I was down here and I had my Walkman on. I couldn't hear you. Someone grabbed me and pushed me inside. This is my fault!"
Tina said, "Okay, don't worry, we're going to get you out of there, just relax and I'll call someone. I'll be right here." She hung up the phone and Jason asked, "Can't we just open this thing"
Tina shook her head. "Normally, yes, but look over here..."
She pointed to a flush panel on the wall that was ajar. Inside were a set of cables that were cut clean through.
Tina explained "Those lines power the hydraulics that generate enough pressure to move the locks inside the door with the wheel. Without those, there's just no easy way in. Whoever threw Kyle in there knew enough to cut them so we couldn't get to him."
Jason lunged for the door and grabbed the wheel in his hands. He pulled against it, trying desperately to turn it. The muscles in his arms and legs bulged.
Tina said, "Jason, forget it. Those locks are thousands of pounds, you can't move that wheel."
Jason let go and took a step back. "Maybe not," he said. He turned and nodded to Darala. "But she can."
Tina glanced quizzically at him, then whipped her stare at Darala who stood halfway between them and the staircase.
"Her?" Tina said nearly scoffing. "Jason, this is very serious, it's no time for jokes!"
Jason planted his hands on his hips and said, "This is no joke, Tina. Darala can do this."
Darala took a step forward and said, "Please, let me give it a try."
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