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it?’ Linden smiled and let go of Max’s hands.
    Pleased now that it was over, Max looked at her watch again for what felt like the hundredth time.
    â€˜It’s almost nine o’clock,’ she said frowning.‘Maybe they’ve forgotten about us.’
    â€˜I don’t think that’s possible. You’re a pretty hard person to forget.’
    â€˜Is that right?’ Max replied. She was about to let fly with something witty when they felt the ground beneath them start to vibrate.
    â€˜Can you feel that?’ she asked.
    â€˜Either I’ve developed a bad twitch or we’re about to find out what the email from Spyforce meant.’ Linden put his hands on the ground and looked around.
    The vibrating became more intense, like a gigantic steamroller was coming towards them.
    â€˜What do you think it is?’ Max strained her eyes to see through the dark.
    â€˜Not sure, but it’s something big.’
    â€˜What should we do?’
    â€˜I don’t think we’ve got much choice but sit here and shake.’
    Just as Linden finished saying this, a mighty thump shook the ground. They closed their eyes as a powerful gust of wind swept around them, encircling them in dust and almost lifting them into the air.
    â€˜Aaahhh!’ Max and Linden held onto each.
    After a few minutes, the vibrations decreasedand the wind dropped down like someone had switched off a huge propeller.
    And then, nothing.
    Max and Linden looked around them. Their hair was plastered upwards and their teeth were gleaming white against their dirt-covered skin. Apart from that, everything seemed as it was before until they realised one horrible thing.
    They had their arms around each other.
    â€˜Errrrrrrr!’ they screamed and pulled away, quickly wiping their hands against their clothes to brush away the hug as much as the dirt that had caked itself to them.
    â€˜What happened?’ Linden wiped his eyes so that he left two dirtless stripes like he was wearing a bank robber’s mask.
    â€˜I can’t see anything.’ Then Max remembered. ‘Maybe it was that windstorm Larry predicted.’
    â€˜He’s got a good nose for weather that pig.’ Linden smiled proudly.
    Max was getting annoyed. ‘Where are they? They said they’d be here,’ she said huffily. ‘We’ve been waiting over an hour and —’
    Before she could say any more, a mechanical hum began to whir in front of them from the inky night blackness. Max and Linden squintedhard to see what it was and couldn’t keep their mouths from falling open when they saw what happened next. A large metal hatch was being slowly lowered to the ground. Nothing else. Just a large metal hatch.
    â€˜Maybe it’s the alien theory after all.’ Linden gasped, not sure he was ready to have his first extra-terrestrial encounter.
    A silhouetted figure stepped carefully forward as if between two walls of light, leaving behind a solid glow that poured out of the hatch in a blinding flood.
    Max and Linden sat wide-eyed and frozen like two rabbits caught in headlights as the mysterious figure loomed before them.
    â€˜I guess it’s too late to make a run for it?’ joked Linden, hoping to ease the tension.
    It didn’t. Before Max could answer, the figure removed a long, solid object from its pocket, stepped down the hatch and headed straight towards them. They nervously imagined what the object could be. A gun. A knife. A Spectral Atom Pulveriser (this was Linden’s thought, not Max’s).
    Whatever it was, Max and Linden watched the figure getting closer and closer, knowing they could be facing the final, terrible moments of their lives.

‘Max?’
    â€˜Yeah.’
    â€˜If you survive and I don’t, could you make sure my goldfish Henry gets fed?’
    â€˜You’ll survive,’ said Max, trying to work out what their next move should be.
    â€˜And could you let my dad