Planet X91 the Storm

By Mark Stewart

In the continuing Planet X91 series, Florian, Josh, and Clay must contend with a tsunami. Everything would have gone to plan if it wasn’t for the shuttle being pushed from the roof of the Piper spaceship by the giant wave. If that wasn’t bad enough the only way to save the shuttle from any more damage is to build a robot out of the many others which were aboard a deep shuttle craft many years earlier and had disappeared, reasons unknown. When the water from the Tsunami had receded, the robots litter the area. Three twisters form after the initial wave has come and gone. One of the twisters develops a large face in the vortex. It warns the teenagers to leave the planet. Clay takes matters into his hands and challenges the large face. He’s sucked into the air. Knowing he’s dead, Florian attempts suicide. Josh is the only one who can save them. Florian suspects the locked room with the green chair is either a time machine or can give visions of future events. Josh decides sitting in the green chair is the only way to save the other two. He has to put his life on the line just to find out if Florian might be right.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Stewart
• Release date: Jan 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310651212

Mark Stewart

Mark Stewart is an acclaimed author. He loves to write fiction right across the board from romance adventure to crime and onwards to science fiction. His fast paced novels will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first word to the last.Mark lives in Melbourne Australia and tries to keep to the Aussie lingo and customs. His only gripe is he never has enough time to feed the writing enthusiasm inside him.Mark lives in the picturesque region of the Mornington Peninsula, a full one hour drive from Melbourne.He has been married to his wonderful patient wife for over thirty years. He has four adult children and two grand children. Everywhere he looks there is a story waiting to be told.Contact Mark to leave a comment about one of his books or just to say gidday, (hi) he would love to hear from you.email: [e-mail] reviews are gratefully accepted.To all the readers who follow Mark's work. Thank you.

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PLANET X91

THE STORM

Book 4

Mark Stewart

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ISBN: 9781310651212

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Other novels Mark Stewart has written

(crime)

Fire games

Heart of a spider

I know your secret

Romance

Kiss on the bridge (series)

Kiss on the bridge two

Kiss on the bridge three

The perfect gift

Blood red rose (Vampire romance adventure)

Blood red rose two

Blood red rose three

Legendary blue diamond

Legendary blue diamond two

Legendary blue diamond three

Don’t Tell My Secret (Series)

201 May street

The girl from Emerald Hill

Ladies Club

Book of secrets

In this series

Planet X91 the beginning

Planet X91 the new home

Planet X91 the underwater cave

Planet X91 the storm

Planet X91 the drought

Planet X91 the fire

Planet X91 the plague

Planet X91 doorway to time

Planet X91 the new earth

Planet X91 alien amongst us

Planet X91 wayward asteroid

Planet X91 the unwelcome visitor

Planet X91 the derelict

Planet X91 the hidden catacombs

Planet X91 descending into ID

Planet X91Pre-Beginning

Planet X91 sleeping disease

Planet X91the black hole

Planet X91 Decadence

Planet X91 Evelina is reborn

Planet X91Clay gets a girlfriend

Planet X91 the first equinox

Planet X91 Lochabar returns

Planet X91 the finale

with the lost diaries

of Florian Fawkes

PLANET X91

THE STORM

Book 4

CHAPTER ONE

FLORIAN FAWKES stretched at the Piper’s main hatch. She gazed at the early morning sky, counting on one hand the number white clouds she could see.

There is no storm approaching. Sometimes Josh, you are just too much, Florian said.

Josh, Clay, and Florian were more than happy to claim the Piper spaceship as their own and had settled into a rough routine of daily life. On her left, she viewed Clay Silver’s handywork. The three-inch flexible plastic pipe running from the waterfall to the giant crab shell so they could water the horses was a brilliant idea. It worked perfectly. She then stroked the million-dollar gold nugget hanging around her neck the boys made. The gold vein they discovered in the tunnel had been a massive surprise. She felt proud knowing the two boys were watching over her well-being and took time out to make the necklace.

Florian looked back into the ship to see if the boys were on their way outside. Satisfied they were still asleep, Florian jogged over to the natural rock pool. She looked forward to submerging herself in the cool water. If she was to guess, the humidity already felt at least eighty percent.

Standing at the edge of the pool, ten feet from the waterfall, Florian removed her boots, shorts, and singlet and plunged straight down to the sandy bottom, seven feet below the surface. She swam directly underneath the waterfall, surmising she’d be safe from the boy’s prying eyes if they ventured over to the rock pool. Several small jagged rocks jutting up from the bottom caught her attention. The waterfall created a turbulence masking her swim and making the sand wash down to the entrance to the tunnel and onwards to the sea.

Obscured by the water cascading over the low wall, Florian gripped one of the rocks five feet below the surface. A two-finger grip on the rock, and Florian was close to her favorite feeling; being suspended in the water unable to touch anything. She had yet to discover anything like it. The sense of absolute quiet where peace reigned supreme felt extremely pleasurable.

The minute Florian spied the water in the rock pool when they were searching for a place to land the Piper in the storm, she decided, if given an opportunity, she’d practice holding her breath. Stretching the time might pay high dividends one day in the future.

Florian closed her eyes so she could relax. Inwardly she counted off the seconds. When she reached the number fifteen her eyelids flew open, realizing it was her turn to feed the horses.

‘Surely, they could wait a few more minutes,’ she thought. ‘The weather’s going to be warm again. The surface water glistening in the natural rock pool looked too inviting to ignore.’

The crystal-clear water gave her an unrestricted view of the sky from about halfway to the tunnel thirty feet away from where she sat.

Florian swiped her long black hair from her face and focused on the tunnel where only two days earlier Clay and she nearly died from hyperthermia. She shuddered at rethinking over their last adventure about the ice snakes. She viewed the encounter as a warning. They could never let their guard down over anything they did. The giant Pterosaur bird they killed when they first arrived on the planet, the giant crab and the snake-like creatures that could turn water into ice was something she’d never forget. Then there was the hologram; Henry. Thinking about him and the test he said they were in, her eyelids slowly narrowed.

The USS Lock was too far away and couldn’t help. Josh, Clay and she were alone on planet X91. Doubt entered Florian’s mind the three of them could survive long enough to be reunited with the colony on the USS Lock let alone finish this supposed insane test.

At seeing a face staring at her through the water, Florian ascended to the surface.

Clay, what are you doing? she screamed.

Josh and I have been searching for you. Tell someone before you go wandering off.

Don’t tell me what to do. Surely, I’m allowed some privacy?

Josh looked over the edge of the pool. He held a hand laser in his right hand. "We thought you