Planet X91 the Derelict

By Mark Stewart

Florian, Josh, Clay and several eager volunteers unite in saving the dome from being destroyed by a meteorite. To retrieve the glass dome they must travel to the second moon orbiting planet X91. If they succeed in this mission, Josh is one step closer to travelling through the black holes. Nick Benhill decides his relationship with Florian has ended. He tries to stop the rescue mission from going ahead. Cora stops Clay’s advances by telling him she’s not interested then gives him a kiss. Clay tries to butter her up again when he comes to her rescue after her fingers get wedged underneath the glass dome. Another one of Henry’s Crenoxian secrets is revealed. The final question still remains a secret. Is he on the side of the human colony or the cannibal alien’s? After all they did create him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Stewart
• Release date: Jan 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310062421

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 DERELICT

Book 13

Mark Stewart

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ISBN: 9781310062421

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Edited by: Rosemary Cantala

Cover design Joe Hart

Other novels Mark Stewart has written

Crime

The Kendal chronicles

Fire games

Heart of a spider

I know your secret

Romance

Kiss on the bridge

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

Mistress

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 the 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 X91 black hole

Planet X91 Decadence

Planet X91 Evelina is reborn

Planet X91 Clay gets a girlfriend

Planet X91 the first equinox

Planet X91 Lochabar returns

Planet X91 the finale

including the lost diaries of Florian Fawkes

PLANET X91

THE DERELICT

Book 13

CHAPTER ONE

FLORIAN FAWKES sat deep in a deck chair on the Piper’s roof soaking up the sun’s rays. Feeling a gush of strong wind brushing her face and a large shadow blocking her warmth she opened her eyes and witnessed a shuttle craft landing. The moment the engine fell silent she saw Clay Silver stepping away from the shuttle’s hatch and walking directly at her.

Clay, what are you doing?

I decided to show off a bit and land the shuttle on the roof.

Which girl were you trying to impress this time?

Clay chuckled and sat on the only other vacant deck chair. The blue-eyed blonde sitting amongst four other young ladies over by the temporary stage I helped to build.

Take it from me she won’t be impressed.

And why not? he grilled.

There’s no element of danger flying a shuttle fifty feet across the grassland.

Now I understand why she looked away and studied the forest.

Florian giggled. Is that the only reason why you decided to fly the shuttle?

You’ve caught me out. The real reason I volunteered for such a dangerous mission is due to the fact we need more room.

You saw an opportunity to show off, and you took it?

Yes, answered Clay, truthfully.

Take this from me; a woman who knows, stop trying so hard to find a girlfriend.

It’s easy for you to say. Have you seen the way young blokes stop what they’re doing just to look at you whenever you’re around?

No, I haven’t. Florian studied the men walking about the camp. They all looked preoccupied with their task for the day. Not one of them glanced her way. Knock it off. They do not.

Plenty of times I’ve seen men down tools just to have a gawk. It’s not my fault you were born gorgeous, stated Clay.

Enough! jeered Florian. What’s the idea behind needing more room?

I thought we could move the shuttles and build small individual homes for each colonist a bit closer to the force-field. Our colony will be expanding soon. Homes will take up room for our crops.

You should put your idea to the vote. It will be a good experience for the newly elected council, seeing how they haven’t had to vote on anything extremely important since they were elected. Need I say I don’t appreciate you landing the shuttle on the Piper’s roof. It has cast a shadow on my deck chair? Park the shuttle somewhere else.

You can’t just say park it somewhere else. You must have an idea, stated Clay.

On the beach might be a good place to house the ten shuttles which are still flyable.

And have all the salt in the air attack their hull?

Build a roof and four walls, suggested Florian.

Your idea will be the council’s second decision. The way we’re going, they’ll be busy making decisions.

Seeing the glass tube elevator ascending out of the Piper’s roof, Clay and Florian walked over.

Josh stared at the two looking at him. He waved a flippant hand gesture in the air.

It’s been five days since I saw Lochabar’s ship enter the black hole and vanish from this galaxy. I was thinking last night when the next adventure might begin, said Josh.

You sound slightly bored, said Florian.

Me, never, I have too much to study, answered Josh.

What subject are you reading now? probed Clay.

I was looking over the star charts Henry agreed to show me. There are many sustainable planets close to Planet X91. From the Earth, they are too far to be detected.

Josh boy, give your brain power a break, said Clay.

I thought you boys would be trying to repair the damage Lochabar did to the laser rifle? Florian squinted in the sunshine, pointing to the weapon still out of its hiding compartment. The blackened plate on the side of the weapon made the five-foot tall laser rifle an eye-saw.

The thing is only good for scrap, announced Clay. I’m going to unbolt the weapon and bury it under your idea of a beach shuttle hangar.

What’s the Goss on a hangar? questioned Josh. Does the council know about this? If they do, why wasn’t I asked to vote?

Clay you’re a barrel of laughs. Josh, he’s daydreaming again, said Florian.

If the hangar idea goes ahead, I swear I will dig a hole and I will bury the weapon, stated Clay.

We still might be able to use some of the parts, said Josh. He knew he didn’t sound too confident, but he didn’t want to waste such an important commodity.

I have looked at the melted circuit board. I highly doubt we’ll ever be able to fix it, stated Clay.

Instead of burying the weapon in the sand, I think you should unbolt it and store it with the damaged robots, said Florian.

The way things are going, the small room will be piled to the roof with derelict parts in a matter of weeks, complained Clay Silver.

We have plenty of room throughout the Piper, said Florian.

The Piper’s storeroom is full of spare parts.

We can always use more, mentioned Josh.

"Need I say, if we run out of parts, you’ll have to show