Chapter Seventeen
I burst out of the hole in the ceiling of the mother ship and shot straight toward the ship still floating above it. I zoomed around it until I landed on the top of the ship, right on the spot where I had exited it perhaps less than ten minutes ago. I didn’t even look up at the worm hole in the sky; I just shouted into my watch, “Nick, I’m out! Let me in!”
Immediately, I descended back into the ship and the hole closed above me once I was fully inside. But I didn’t even wait for the plat form to touch the floor before I jumped off of it and made my way back to the control room, where Nicknacks and Blizzard were waiting.
“Bolt!” said Blizzard as I ran in. She immediately hugged me. “Oh, I’m so glad you’re alive! I thought you might not make it.”
“Good to see you escape
