CHAPTER 11

"Fire!" bawled Major Savage to his crew of gunners. At the other end of the field one of the remaining two undamaged rocket destroyers blasted off to battle the invading spaceship. Tom and Roger had been on a tour of the great central tower with Major Savage when the attack came and had been ordered to find safety in the open fields. The major knew the tower would be one of the first targets. Sprawled on the ground behind a bunker, they saw the major, his space jacket torn from his back, standing in the middle of t…