"Captain, I have a UFO that comes and goes." "It just showed again, sir." "Yes, sir." "could it be a rough sea?" "No, sir." "It's moving at a high rate of speed." "Okay, I'm going to call a Red scramble." "I have the bogey plain and clear, and I'm closing fast." "Contact within eight minutes." "Over." "Roger, Red One." "Advise on contact." "Over and out." "Red One to base." "Reached contact point, and no bogey in sight." "Request instructions." "Over." "well, whatever it was, it's gone now." "I guess we were just picking up sea waves, sir." "Red One and Red Two, return to base." "Over." "Roger." "Wilco." "Over and out." "I wonder what that light is behind the dune." "I'd better notify Dr. Quest." "Yes?" "Something strange going on about 300 yards from the main gate, sir." "What is it?" "I don't know." "It's a light of some kind over behind a dune." "shall I have it investigated?" "No, I'II get Race Bannon and take a look." "Yes, sir." "Which way?" "Over there, sir." "See it, Race?" "Yes, sir." "What do you make of it?" "I don't know." "We better have a look." "Let's go." "Did you see that, doctor?" "The light is gone." "Look!" "What is it?" "I don't know, but it sure looks weird." "Let's have a closer look." "Go get the sand truck and winch." "You're gonna stay here, doctor?" "Yes, I'II keep an eye on it till you get back." "Oh, Race, better bring along a floodlight or two." "Okay, be right back." "well, stranger, where did you come from?" "Say, Hadji, show me that Ievitation trick again, will you?" "We're supposed to be doing homework, Jonny." "Oh, come on, just once more." "Okay, we'II try it on Bandit." "Hey, that's a great trick, Hadji." "Bandit does not think so." "He never woke up." "What's that?" "I don't know." "Something's going on." "Hey, it's a tractor." "Yeah, with Race." "Hey, Race." "Race!" "Race!" "He can't hear you." "Come on, Iet's head him off." "AII right, what's with the thumbs?" "Ride, mister?" "please." "Okay, okay, hop aboard." "Okay, doctor, here we are." "I brought along a couple of hitchhikers." "hello, Dr. Quest." "Hi, Dad." "Okay, boys, I was wondering when you two would show up." "Now, you stay back while we look this thing over." "Let's go, Race." "What is it?" "Wow, it looks like a spaceship." "I better back the truck around and face the winch toward that thing." "What's the matter with Bandit?" "He sees a rabbit over there." "I don't think he's afraid of you, Bandit." "Perhaps he thinks you are another rabbit." "Those rabbits are fierce, Bandit." "He is one ferocious rabbit." "Quiet, boys." "Listen, Race." "I hear it." "It's like a muffled heartbeat." "We better move back." "No telling what it is." "Scary, isn't it, Hadji?" "You said it, Jonny." "Hey, look." "The thing, look." "It's opening." "What is it, Dad?" "I don't know, Jonny." "I really don't know." "What do you think, Race?" "It's like nothing I've ever seen before." "Look, doctor, it's just like an eye." "Yes, it is." "well, Dr. Quest is taking the bait just as I wanted." "Your food, Dr. Zin." "You brainless fool, get out!" "If you ever come in here without knocking, I'II have you flogged." "Now, get out." "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "What do you make of it?" "I don't know but wherever it comes from, it's the result of a brilliant mind." "You'II find out, Dr. Quest." "What are you going to do with it?" "The core seems to be the brain." "Let's take it in for a closer look." "exactly what I planned you would do." "And now to sleep, my little robot friend." "Look!" "The eye, it's closing." "Like it's going to sleep." "AII right, Iet's pick it up, Race, and take it in with us." "Okay, Race, lower away." "Don't let anyone in that building." "That thing may be dangerous." "Yes, sir." "AII right, fellows, Iet's go." "In the morning this para-power ray gun is to be mounted on a flat trailer and hooked into the mobile generator." "I want to be ready for the tests by 1 1 a.m." "Right." "But what about that thing in the storage building?" "That'II have to wait till after the tests." "Come on, Iet's have some coffee." "What's going on in there?" "AII right, who's in there?" "I'm sure I heard something." "What the--?" "An eye!" "I am very sleepy, Jonny." "Me too." "Let's hit the hay." "We study to Iearn and be smart, but I think Bandit is the smartest." "He sleeps while we study." "Yeah, well, five minutes more, and then we'II quit, okay?" "Okay." "What's wrong with him?" "I don't know." "What's the matter, Bandit?" "Having bad dreams about big, bad rabbits?" "Maybe he heard one passing the window." "That para-power ray, doctor, just how much can it do?" "To tell the truth, Race, I'm not sure." "It should at Ieast be able to drain power from an object." "A car, a light bulb, an airplane." "Making them useless?" "Temporarily useless." "How does it work?" "You might say it magnetizes energy, which is, after all, power." "Quite a weapon." "could be, because it doesn't have to kill just disarm an army or air force, leaving it useless but alive." "well, I'm going to have a look around before I go to bed." "Check security." "I'II go with you, Race." "I need some fresh air." "Now we make the move." "And in a few moments the secret para-power ray will belong to me." ""Dr. Quest." "No admittance."" "Now, proceed carefully, my little robot friend." "This is it." "Easy, easy." "Now, your antenna." "Ready, aim, fire." "Nice work, my friend." "well, doctor, everything seems to check out." "Anything else before we turn in?" "Yes, Race, the storage building." "Want to check that thing we brought in?" "Yes, it worries me." "Where's the guard?" "And the door's open." "Let's look inside." "Look." "Get the light, Race." "It's the guard." "Yes, Race, it looks like he's in shock." "Look, he's coming to." "Can you talk?" "I guess so." "What happened?" "Who stole what you were guarding?" "No one." "It cIobbered me." "clobbered you?" "Do you know what you're saying?" "Yes." "It had legs like a giant spider and an eye and two antennae sticking out the front." "It touched me with one of them, and I was paralyzed." "Are you all right?" "Yes." "Then come with us." "We've got to find that thing and fast." "That's it, my friend, look around." "We'II find the para-power gun yet." "Hold it." "Let's have a closer look at that panel." "That's it, the top button on your left." "That's the one." "Press it." "There it is, Dr. Quest's new para-power gun." "And now, my robot friend, pay attention." "Approach it, examine it, learn it well, so you can come back here with all its secrets safely stored in your memory cells." "hold it, no one is supposed to be in here." "What is it?" "There's a light in my lab." "Come on, Iet's check it out." "Poor Tom, it got him too." "Yes, but where is it now?" "Race, come here." "What is it, doctor?" "Look." "What do you make of it?" "I don't know." "You have learned the power source, the range limitations and circuitry." "Now I will bring you home, so I can hear its secrets from you." "Good evening, Dr. Quest." "I know that voice." "It's Dr. Zin." "Zin?" "Quite right." "You like my secret agent?" "What is it?" "Since you have no way of stopping it, I will tell you." "It's my very latest invention, an electronic spy." "Spy?" "The Trojan horse routine." "Correct." "Once inside your laboratory, it gathers information through these antennae and stores it in a memory bank and brings it back to me." "Very ingenious." "congratulations." "Of course, it hasn't left yet." "No, it hasn't, but it will." "Nothing can stop it." "Let me demonstrate." "Get tanks, flamethrowers, anything." "That thing must be stopped!" "Yes, sir." "What if they can't stop it?" "We'II use my para-power gun." "You don't know if it works." "You haven't tested it." "We don't have a choice." "We must test it now." "We've got to stop the robot." "Here it comes." "Fire!" "Fire!" "What's going on?" "It sounded like an explosion." "Come on, Iet's find Dad." "It's headed for the electrified fence." "Swing around." "Fire!" "Fire!" "You, Jones, give it the flamethrower." "Yes, sir." "We've tried everything, but nothing seems to stop it." "Keep trying." "Yes, sir." "Okay, Race, Iet's get back to the lab." "Gonna try your para-power ray?" "There's no other way." "We have to." "Give it another blast." "Fire!" "Fire!" "We haven't a second to lose, so stay clear." "Yes, sir." "Yes, Dr. Quest." "It's no use." "Nothing's gonna stop it." "We'II have to work fast." "Jonny, you hook in that power line." "Race, turn on the generators." "Hadji, you handle the hydraulic pressure." "Hurry up." "We haven't much time." "will she fire?" "I'm not getting a reading yet." "More power." "Look, the robot, it's taking off." "Now." "Oh, I hope it works, Dad." "Son, it's got to work." "More power." "You got it, Dad." "Okay, Race, kill the generator." "well, doctor, your para-power ray gun really did the job." "Too good, Race." "It needs more work and more testing." "You sound disappointed, Dad." "I am, in a way." "The ray should have brought the thing down, not destroyed it." "well, at Ieast it brought it down." "Yes, thank heaven." "But I'd have liked to have seen that robot close up." "It looks like Bandit salvaged something." "It's the robot's eye." "Yes, it is." "And someday I'II meet Dr. Zin eye to eye, and when I do...." "We will meet again soon, Dr. Quest." "Very soon, I promise you." "And we'II be ready for you, Zin." "You can bet on that." "That's right, Bandit." "That's exactly what I was gonna say."