As soon as he arrived on the Moon, Ted Dustin found himself thrown into
desperate action. _Maza an Ma Gong_, the beautiful ruler of the friendly
faction of Moon-people, had been attacked by a weird globe-ship, and had
fallen with her winged mount to the surface. As Ted hurried to her
rescue he saw a fantastic sight:
The girl was standing at bay before one of the round-bodied enemy
Moon-men. The two were fencing—not with blades of steel, but with ray
projectors. As Maza sought to reach her antagonist with her red ray he
warded it off with a green ray from his own projector, and in turn
menaced her with his weapon while she parried with the red ray.
Ted drew his pistol degravitor to dispatch the man—but he was unaware
that there were many more of the enemy creeping toward them in the dark
of the Moon’s surface.