Badly shaken and feeling very ill, Jonnie tried to control the plane. There was a thin spot in the storm.
It was extremely hard to think. If he shut off the left balance motor, maybe the stricken ship would stop rolling. He managed it. Then he realized the guns must still be firing. He got a wad of blanket out of his vision and reached up to push the firing button off. And as he did he saw it.
it.The drone!
Almost straight at him, it was tumbling out of the sky. Spent flames were l*****g out of the doorway and a vast plume of smoke was trailing behind it.
It was going to hit him if he didn’t move!
His hands hit the console. He felt the plane move.
The drone went by so close the plane tumbled again in the air rush.
Abruptly, a geyser of water smashed upward into the storm, a column t
