The NiGHT riders passed over them
with devastating effect. Both moon and earth began to tilt and they all gripped
one another because they were tilting too. "Orders?"
asked Lapinette. "Watch," said the Wabbit. Several things
happened at once. Quantum's quantum lattice beam sliced across the surface and
picked out the team. Designed to be impenetrable, no-one had ever tried it
before - so the Wabbit poked it with his knife and the beam formed a shield
around the blade. "It works," murmured the Wabbit. "Now what
should we do?" asked Skratch. "Nothing," said the Wabbit.
Lapinette glanced over her shoulder. Hundreds, maybe thousands of red
spiders made spiky silhouettes against the Earth's blue glow.
The Wabbit's radio crackled with enigmatic space transmissions.
"Device Three status activated." "Payloads
primed." Lapinette's ears quivered. "Payloads?"
"Arachnid venom," shrugged the Wabbit, "it's been trialled." Wabsworth shuddered and so did Skratch. "What's the
delivery system?" asked Lapinette. "Bites on the front,"
explained the Wabbit. "Then Duetta's spiders will also
bite the sides." "But what does Device Three do?" asked Wabsworth. "It's hush hush," said the Wabbit. "What the binky does
that mean, Wabbit?" groaned Skratch. The Wabbit grinned. "It
means I have no clue ..."