JAKE AND THE DYNAMO
CHAPTER 6: GIRL WITH GUNS
Jake half climbed and half slid down the ladder. Because of the hole the dinosaur had made, it was ten feet between the bottommost rung and the pavement. He carefully lowered himself from the lowest rung and dangled for a few seconds before he dropped. Such a fall would have stung if he had been in his Oxfords, but, fortunately, he was in basketball shoes. Once he was on the ground, he helped Miss Percy down by letting her lower herself onto his shoulders.
After he got her to the pavement, she gazed unhappily at her pumps. “What a day to be in heels.”
“I wonder,” Jake muttered, half to himself, “if we should try to find some kind of weapon—”
“What good would that do?”
“I don’t think these are magical monsters.” He shaded his eyes and peered again into the sky. “It looks like the tower guns are doing real damage. That means these are just ordinary, run-of-the-mill dinosaur robots from space.” Continue reading “JAKE AND THE DYNAMO Chapter 6”