The Battle for Earth (Teen Superheroes Book 3) by Darrell Pitt

said. “I think someone’s – watch out!”
    A bright plume of fire arced across the sky toward us. I threw a shield up as it slammed into the ground. The earth beneath us exploded, throwing us backward. Trees and dirt flew in all directions.
    I struggled to my feet. I could see two figures in the gloomy field beyond the tree line.
    “American spies!” one of them called out. “You will surrender yourselves for interrogation.”
    I didn’t like the sound of any of that. I never like it when the words spies, surrender and interrogation are used at the same time.
    “We’re not spies!” Chad yelled. “We’re lost. And I’m not American.”
    “I don’t think that will make any difference to them,” I said.
    It was growing lighter by the minute. Now the two figures were clearer. They were men. One wore red. The other wore blue. Something jangled at the back of my mind. The Russian flag was three horizontal stripes. Red, blue and –
    The world turned upside down.
    One second I was turning around to look behind us. The next I found the world spinning sideways and I could not tell up from down. I felt like I was falling, yet my feet were still planted firmly on the ground.
    What the hell was going on?
    “Vertigo,” I heard Chad’s voice come from somewhere behind me – or was he in front of me? “This guy has the powers of disorientation.”
    I understood. Through a gap in the trees I saw a man in a white uniform. His hand was outstretched. Obviously he had some sort of power that disrupted the inner ear. I raised my hand to throw a cannonball of air at him, but the world flipped over again.
    Chad hurled a blast of fire and I heard a scream. Crashing face first into the ground, I felt a sharp pain in my nose. It might have been broken. At least now I knew up from down. As we climbed to our feet, we saw the man rolling about on the ground. He looked singed, but otherwise uninjured.
    We turned. Red and Blue were charging toward us. Throwing out an arm, Blue hurled a bolt of electricity at us. I threw myself to one side, but heard a cry as Chad was hit. He fell to the ground.
    “Chad!” I screamed.
    He didn’t move as the three men closed in around me.
    I would have to deal with them.
    Alone.
     

Chapter Seventeen
    “Faster!” the alien growled.
    The alien hit Ferdy in the back of the head with the butt of his gun.
    Ebony protested. “Hey! Leave him alone. He doesn’t understand.”
    She took Ferdy’s hand and moved him away from the alien. Dan was behind them. Shepherded by the guards, they moved through the dimly lit corridors of the spaceship. Events had occurred rather rapidly since their Flex Fighter had been dragged into the alien ship’s landing bay. Dan had wanted to fight their way out of the vessel, but Ebony could immediately see a dozen holes in the plan.
    Ferdy had super strength, but he was almost impossible to co-ordinate in a fight. She and Dan had powers, but they could not take on an alien ship with hundreds – or thousands – of soldiers on board. Besides, they were here to find Brodie. It seemed to make more sense to wait and see what would happen.
    Unfortunately, not much had happened since then. They had been shoved into a cell before another alien had turned up to move them again. He had introduced himself as T’bar.
    “I am second in command,” he said. “I know you have powers, but I would advise you to co-operate. It is impossible to escape this ship.”
    “Where are we being taken?” Ebony asked.
    “You are to fight,” T’bar said.
    “Who are we fighting?”
    “Our Tagaar warriors.”
    Ebony didn’t like the sound of that. “What have you done with our friend?”
    “The girl?” the alien said. “She has proven quite an adversary.”
    Good , Ebony thought. So Brodie’s still alive.
    “We’re an adversarial race,” she said.
    “You will be overcome by the Tagaar,” T’bar said. “As are all races we encounter.”
    Just what we needed , Ebony thought.