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pushed the button on the dash to lower the wheels. Then he landed on the bottom of the water land. ‘There’s no slime down here,’ he said. ‘We can see better now.’
    But BC’s tail was wagging.
    â€˜Something else is coming,’ the dogbot said.
    â€˜Where?’ asked Kai looking out into the dirty water.
    Suddenly everything went dark.
    â€˜The windscreen is all black,’ said BC.
    â€˜I can’t see out,’ said Kai. ‘Something is on our sub-drill.’
    The sub-drill’s dashboard flashed. Then it went dead.
    â€˜This pest is taking our power,’ said Kai. ‘Sub-drill won’t work soon,’ said BC.
    â€˜Let’s get rid of it,’ said Kai.
    Kai turned on the sub-drill’s roof water jets. Huge blasts of water pushed the pest off the sub-drill.
    Kai looked as it floated away. ‘It’s like a big stingray,’ he said. ‘But it’s got heaps of suckers on its belly.’
    â€˜And two tails,’ said BC.

    â€˜There’s lots of them,’ said Kai. ‘We can’t let them near us. Those suckers drain power.’
    This time Kai turned on all the water jets.
    Water burst from the jets hard and fast. When Kai stopped the pests were gone. But in their place was something else.
    â€˜It’s a baby beast!’ said Kai. ‘With two heads and a tail.’
    â€˜And a pulver-slam tail like the rock beast!’ said BC.
    â€˜Yes,’ said Kai. ‘A mix of rock and water beasts.’
    Kai took a photo of the baby beast with his orb. A card popped up on the screen.

    â€˜We’ve found the beast, BC,’ said Kai. ‘We’re in the right land. And look! It’s shooting rocks from one of its heads. And it’s making big rock walls with them.’
    â€˜That’s what’s making water spill into the mud land,’ said BC. ‘The baby beast is building big dams.’
    â€˜Yes,’ said Kai. ‘I’m going to drill through the wall.’
    Kai turned on the sub-drill’s driller. Then he drove as fast as he could into the wall.
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    The driller made a huge hole in the wall.
    Then the wall came crashing down. Water rushed in from where the wall had been. The sub-drill was thrown around. ‘We’re getting washed away, BC,’ said Kai. ‘When the water settles we will get the baby beast before it can change.’
    But when the choppy water stopped, the baby beast was gone.

‘We have to find that baby beast,’ said Kai. He turned the sub-drill around. But he still couldn’t see it. ‘I’ll use the see-scope on the roof,’ he said.
    Kai pushed the see-scope up into the water. He turned it around slowly and looked into the scope.

    â€˜It’s behind us,’ he said to BC. ‘And now it’s battling a water beast. We have to stop it.’
    â€˜Baby beast must not win,’ said BC. ‘If it does, it will grow and change.’
    Kai turned the sub-drill around. Then he headed for the battling beasts.
    â€˜The baby beast is throwing so many rocks!’ said Kai. ‘The water beast is getting buried.’
    â€˜Water beast is going to do a tail attack on the baby beast,’ said BC.
    â€˜I’m going to blast that baby beast out of the water with the sub-drill’s jets,’ said Kai.
    Kai raced towards the baby beast. Water shot out from the sub-drill jets. The baby beast was being pushed back. ‘It’s working,’ said Kai.
    But then a massive tail crashed down on them. It was the water beast. And it was doing a tail-attack.
    The sub-drill was sent flying through the water.
    Kai got control of the sub-drill again. ‘It doesn’t know we are trying to help it,’ he said. ‘We have to get back in there.’
    But Kai and BC were too late. The baby beast was too strong for the water beast. It had covered the beast with rocks. And it had won.
    BC’s tail wagged