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across the Bridge of the Phoenix . He pointed at the Meigwor viper-ship snaking away from the dusty orange planet. ‘Make them pay for attacking Xion!’
    Peri pulled the thruster levers hard. The Phoenix raced after the enemy craft.
    ‘Locking target trackers,’ Diesel shouted. The half-Martian gunner cracked his knuckles. ‘One X-plode detonator coming up.’ He reached for the button on the gunnery station.
    ‘Wait a nanosecond, Diesel,’ Peri ordered. ‘Why is that viper-ship leaving Xion? Where’s the rest of the Meigwor fleet?’
    ‘Who cares?’ Diesel replied. ‘You blast first and ask questions later.’
    ‘Stop arguing and do something,’ the prince snapped. ‘You promised my father you’d destroy the Meigwors.’
    Peri glared at him. ‘We said we’d help save Xion as long as you never attack the Milky Way again. We need to find out what the Meigwors are up to – then we can start kicking some alien space-butts.’
    ‘Watch out!’ Diesel shouted as alarms erupted across the Bridge.
    A huge purple and silver meteorite was plummeting towards them. Peri jerked the Nav-wheel sharply and slammed on the dodge mechanism. The Phoenix flew past it.
    ‘What the prrrip’chiq was that?’ Diesel asked.
    ‘The s-s-space h-h-highway,’ stammered Prince Onix. ‘Look what the Meigwor have done.’
    The twisty, twelve-hundred-lane space highway that had surrounded Xion had been shattered into gazillions of pieces. Huge chunks of Astrophalt were caught in orbit around the planet. The viper-ship started blasting its way through the debris.
    Peri was not going to let it get away. He checked the Phoenix ’s cloak and activated the sprint-thrusters. The ship zoomed along in the viper-ship’s trail, through the space-carnage.

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