He closed the mike as the speaker started to make little animal sounds.
"Fellows," said Larry. "She's mad!"
"Crazy mad or angry mad?"
"Boiling mad."
"She'll be hard-boiled by the time she gets through stewing in her own
juice," grinned Hammond. "Let's get some sky, fellows. O.K. ... we go?"
he asked Tet'h.
"We go," said Tet'h cheerfully.
There was a quick conference between the two men who were to stay and
Tet'h. Then the air-lock door was closed, and Timkins started to set up
the controls.
Up in the emergency room, the batteries started to fume and fret as the
terrible overload hit them. The _Haywire Queen_ lifted uncertainly,
gained a little speed, and then took off into the cloudless sky at an
acceleration that varied continuously between nine to twenty feet per
second per second per second under the super drive.
Not too long after, the gravitron-cupralum drive took over, and the
_Haywire Queen_ pointed her dome upwards at tiny Sol, blinking there in
the sky between the constellations Aquila and Ophiuchus.