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A SAGA OF DESTRUCTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Beyond the limits of any detection device the vast armada of Titan's Terror Fish lay ready to encircle Space City Island. In the Golden Command Fish, Titan moved towards the control console and slowly pressed a lever. A high-pitched whine pervaded the cabin and then faded away... In the Generator Room below Space City's Control Tower security guards poured from the elevator to begin their search for any sign of sabotage. 'Look!' shouted one of them. 'There's Jock - he looks unconscious, or...' The high-pitched whine pervaded the Generator Room. Every generator erupted in white light. The men shut their eyes in agony - and then blackness. The explosions rocked the whole twenty-five story Control Tower and reduced its basement levels to rubble. On the surface everyone was bowled over by the shock waves - the Tarmac seemed to buck beneath them like a roller coaster. Every window in the building shattered. All the lights went out. The Tower's rotation ground to a halt, all power gone. Space City was crippled! A state of shock reigned over those security guards still conscious. No one could do anything. The only communications still working were their belt radios and those in their jetmobiles - but all calls to the mainland were blocked. Mahoney thought of the neutroni transmitters in the spacecraft down in the underground hangars; but how could they reach them with all the power cut off? Panic was beginning to spread. No one saw the fleet of Terror Fish surface and speed towards the shore. An army of vicious green Aquaphibians armed with atomic rifles struck and overwhelmed Space City's security guards. Within half an hour it was all over - the guards dead or imprisoned. Those killed had been Mysteronised to gain valuable information concerning the island's defences. Many ground staff and astronauts watched the takeover helplessly, trapped in the Tower and the other buildings of Space City. In the Control Room Commander Zero tried desperately to free Lieutenant Ninety, who had just come on duty, from beneath a fallen steel beam. Both his legs were crushed and he had lost a lot of blood - and Zero could do nothing. On nearly every floor of the Tower similar scenes were being enacted - everyone was helpless without power.
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