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But won’t they have Mechs too? Waiting for you at the other end?”
    Scrapescrapescrape.
    One of the Mechs folded a few legs up behind its back and flapped them up and down.
    â€œWhat’s that?”
    Without warning the Mech shot a laser beam past his ear. It hissed into the metal wall behind him and molten metal splashed on to his shoulder.
    â€œHey, what are you playing at? Oh, wait a minute. I see. You’re being a dragon. Only dragon ships have Mechs?”
    Drumdrumdrumdrum.
    Will couldn’t help thinking that if they could shoot like that it wouldn’t much matter whether the other ship had Mechs or not anyway.
    â€œOne small detail. How do I get Cream Tea and Teacake back onto their ship?”
    The Mechs just looked at one another.
    â€œThat’s down to me then, is it?”
    Drumdrumdrumdrum.
    â€œEnough talking then. I suppose there’s no time like the present.”
    With one last
Drumdrumdrumdrum
, the Mechs scurried off down one of the tunnels, Will crawling along behind as fast as he could. Eventually they stopped. Without warning the floor of the tunnel slid away from under him and Will fell through. He landed with a bump in the corridor not far from the cabin where he had first woken up inside
Brenda
. By the time he had sat up and worked out where he was the Mechs had followed him down and without looking back scurried off towards the back of the ship. Heading for the tube to the black ship, Will supposed. When he looked up, the hole in the ceiling had already closed.
    Belatedly, Will realised that he hadn’t found out from the Mechs how he had ended up with them in the maintenance tunnel. The thought began to dawn on him that Cream Tea and Teacake probably didn’t know he was on board. They looked fairly relaxed on the control deck, not like people expecting someone else to be on the loose. Will wasn’t there when
Brenda
crashed on the hillside in Wales and since then, until Cream Tea and Teacake boarded
Brenda
a little while ago, as far as Will knew there hadn’t been any actual contact between the black ship and
Brenda
. If that was true there was no way that Cream Tea and Teacake could know about him. Somehow he must have been hidden away before they came on board. If that was true, Drych probably had a hand in it because he was the only one who could really control the Mechs – by sort of thinking about it, as Spiv would have said.
    So where did that leave him? If he was right he had the element of surprise. It would also mean that Drych would be expecting him to do something and so would probably be ready to help him do it. Whatever it was. He hadn’t quite worked that part out yet.
    Oh well
, he thought,
here goes
. And without much of a plan Will started walking towards the front of
Brenda
, heading for the control deck.

Chapter 8
    When Will poked his head round the last corner of the corridor before the control deck, he could see that the door was open. Fortunately Cream Tea and Teacake were still looking the other way, facing Mavis and Drych, so Will was able to slide down the edge of the corridor and squeeze in to the corner by the door without being seen. Having got there, he still had no idea what he was going to do. He was in no particular hurry, though, because he supposed that it might take the Mechs a little while to tinker with whatever they were going to tinker with in the black ship. He decided to listen for a while to find out what was going on. The shorter, fatter one was still talking, punctuated from time to time by complaints from the sack.
    â€œSo, Mr Dragon, you leave us with a bit of a problem. What I’d really like is to take your ship, but it won’t work without you will it? And you aren’t very likely to help us are you?”
    â€œOi! You out there! Let me out!”
    â€œOf course, I have the creature in the sack and the ninja as hostages for now, but I don’t suppose that would work for ever.