Space Penguins Galaxy Race E-Book

Lucy Courtenay

• Herausgeber: Little Tiger Press
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Serie: Space Penguins
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 49

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

What's black and white, and flies faster than the speed of light? The Space Penguins! They're the ice-cool crew of the spaceship Tunafish. With their pioneering flying skills and resistance to the deep freeze, these intergalactic avians are going where no fin has gone before. Captain T Krill, Rocky Waddle, Fuzz Allgrin and Splash Gordon are on a mission to explore new planets, rescue alien life, and battle their former comrade-in-wings: Dark Wader. In Galaxy Race! Rocky's reputation for death-defying aerial acrobatics gains him an invitation to participate in the galaxy's notorious Superchase Space Race. But will this turn out to be a race to the death? This hilarious Space Penguin adventure is sure to appeal to boys. Full of fishy goings on, humour and adventure Space Penguins is a fantastic series that will tickle even reluctant boy readers. It's just one tiny waddle for mankind...

Leseprobe

For Henry Bedford and his sisters Niamh and Florence ~ L A C

For Alice ~ J D

CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

MEET THE SPACE PENGUINS…

INTRODUCTION

1. YUCK!

2. ARGOS MEGABUX

3. ENTERING THE RACE

4. ANADIN SKYPORKER

5. A POISONOUS INVITATION

6. SKITTLES

7. DARK WADER’S EVIL PLAN

8. BANG!

9. ROCKY SAYS SORRY

10. SHOOT TO SWILL!

11. WHOOPS!

12. VICTORY!

POSTSCRIPT

Copyright

MEET THE SPACE PENGUINS…

CAPTAIN:

Captain T. Krill Emperor penguin

Height: 1.10m

Looks: yellow ear patches and noble bearing

Likes: swordfish minus the sword

Lab tests: showed leadership qualities in fish challenge

Guaranteed to: keep calm in a crisis

FIRST MATE (ONCE UPON A TIME):

Beaky Wader, now known as Dark Wader

Once Emperor penguin, now part-robot

Height: 1.22m

Looks: shiny black armour and evil laugh

Likes: prawn pizzas and ruling the universe

Lab tests: cheated at every challenge

Guaranteed to: cause trouble

PILOT (WITH NO SENSE OF DIRECTION):

Rocky Waddle

Rockhopper penguin

Height: 45cm

Looks: long yellow eyebrows

Likes: mackerel ice cream

Lab tests: fastest slider in toboggan challenge

Guaranteed to: speed through an asteroid belt while reading charts upside-down

SECURITY OFFICER AND HEAD CHEF:

Fuzz Allgrin

Little Blue penguin

Height: 33cm

Looks: small with fuzzy blue feathers

Likes: fish fingers in cream and truffle sauce

Lab tests: showed creativity and aggression in ice-carving challenge

Guaranteed to: defend ship, crew and kitchen with his life

SHIP’S ENGINEER:

Splash Gordon

King penguin

Height: 95cm

Looks: orange ears and chest markings

Likes: squid

Lab tests: solved ice-cube challenge in under four seconds

Guaranteed to: fix anything

LOADING…

Welcome aboard the spaceship Tunafish. I am ICEcube, the cleverest on-board computer you will ever meet. I guide my ship and my space crew through the universe and get them out of FZZWZZ.

I mean: trouble.

My circuit boards got wet on our last mission and are still damp. I keep saying FZZWZZ for no reason. You have been warned.

You will be surprised to learn that the crew on board the Tunafish are FZZWZZ.

I mean: penguins.

NASA sent me and five penguins on a top-secret space mission five earth years ago, aboard a special fish-shaped spaceship called the Tunafish. Then they lost us. My database says: epic fail.

Oh well. Things could be worse. The Space Penguins have kept busy during their time up here. They are now famous across the universe for their intergalactic exploits.

The planet Koffi changed its name to Planet T after Captain T. Krill’s bravery in the famous space battle of Boyling Ketl.

Fuzz Allgrin, Chef and Security Officer, taught the planet Kung-fu-BBQ the difference between a lamb chop and a karate chop.

Splash Gordon, the Ship’s Engineer and inventor, introduced power showers to the pongy aliens on the Planet Smelibot.

And the Tunafish’s pilot, Rocky Waddle, got lost on the planet Strait-Ahed, which everyone thought was impossible.

Now the Space Penguins just want to find a friendly planet where they can settle down and fish for FZZWZZ and slide around on the ice. The trouble is, they keep getting distracted. One minute they’re fighting their mortal enemy Dark Wader – an evil penguin robot with plans to rule the universe. The next they’re landing on wet planets, nearly drowning me and making me say FZZWZZ all the time.

Uh oh. What’s this?

An enormous ball of rotting food, floating among the stars! And it’s right in the Tunafish’s path.

I ought to inform Captain Krill before we crash right into it. But he’s busy just now, giving Rocky Waddle some bad news. And Rocky’s not looking happy…

CHAPTER ONE

YUCK!

“The answer is NO, Rocky,” said Captain Krill as the spaceship Tunafish cruised through Section F of the universe at around three hundred thousand light years an hour. “You CAN’T enter the Superchase Space Race this year.”

“That’s what you said last year, Captain!” complained Rocky Waddle. “And the year before. And the year before that!”

“The Superchase Space Race is the most dangerous race in the universe,” said Captain Krill, looking down at his pilot. As an emperor penguin, the Captain stood head and flippers above the rest of his crew. “Spaceships get smashed to bits every year. We can’t risk losing the Tunafish that way. She’s the only spaceship we’ve got.”

“And the Emperor of Sossij wins every year anyway, doesn’t he?” said Splash. He lifted his inventor’s goggles to join in the conversation. Oil and grime streaked his face, hiding his orange ear patches. “I don’t know why anyone else bothers.”

“But—” began Rocky.

“Make like a sardine and can it, Rocky,” said Fuzz Allgrin. He folded his little blue penguin flippers across his even littler blue penguin tummy. “When Captain Krill says no, he means no.”

“Thank you, Fuzz,” said Captain Krill.

Rocky slid off his pilot’s chair and glared at the other Space Penguins. He flicked his long yellow eyebrows off his face. “You know what your problem is?” he said. “None of you have any imagination. The winner of the Superchase Space Race wins the Golden Galaxy Goblet, and fame and glory forever! I could win the Superchase Space Race with my eyes closed and my flippers tied behind my back. Everyone knows that I’m the best pilot in Outer Sp—”

CRASH!

The Tunafish shuddered in mid-air as something smashed into it. Fuzz fell over. Rocky rushed back to his pilot’s chair.

“The best pilot in Outer Space?” said Fuzz, struggling to his feet. “Then how come we just CRASHED?”

“What did we hit, Rocky?” asked Captain Krill.

“I don’t know,” Rocky admitted, peering through the windscreen of the Tunafish. “It’s gone dark out there.”

“We’re in Outer Space, trout brains,” said Fuzz. “It’s always dark out there.”