Capt. Cookie struggled to keep the airship under control as Winterbottom rushed into the cockpit to see Aerobot, followed by all the passengers.
“Wow!” said Winterbottom, gazing at the strange and enormous thing hanging in the air.
“Wohh!” said the passengers.
“Winterbottom!” shouted the captain. “Get these people out of here at once! We’ll crash like this! Quickly, Winterbottom!”
“Yes, sir!” said Winterbottom, pulling himself together and ushering the passengers back into the cabin.
“We could go around a couple of times so that everyone can see it from the cabin!” said Miss Wu.
“Yes!” said Cookie. “Let’s do that. Good idea!”
Eveyone gawped in amazement at the thing called Aerobot. It was like a machine and a building and a man all in one. It had big eyes which were observation windows and people could be seen looking out. Below the head part, the gigantic body also had many windows on different levels. Below that there were no legs, but a kind of conical duct from which steam was gently flowing. It was quite still except for its massive arms, which were busy taking aboard and putting back passengers from other visiting aircraft.
Now, the passengers on the airship, which was still about two hundred metres away could see the yacht being held by one of Aerobot’s giant hands. It raised it’s hand up to it’s face and a gangway came out of it’s mouth like a tongue. Admiral Spicerack, Temples and Singsong walked along the tongue and entered Aerobot. When they were safely inside the head, the tongue retracted. Then the arm holding the yacht moved down to the body part, where large sliding doors opened and the yacht was put inside.
“Wow!” said Capt. Cookie into his microphone. “I mean.. Birdladies and Gentlebirdmen, please prepare to disembark.”
© David Severn 2013
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