The Adventures of Kid Combat Volume Two: The Heist of Spring Road Toys Read Free

radio to alert the other guards.
    “Security breach! Security breach! Level two.
In pursuit,” the guard said as he huffed and puffed after Samantha.
Below, the curator heard the call over his radio and looked up at
the opening above him. He saw the faint shadow of a small figure
run by, followed closely by the guard. The two boys stood beside
him and looked up and saw the same thing.
    “Follow them!” yelled the curator to the two
boys. The boys ran toward the adjacent staircase and ascended to
aid in the chase.
    Samantha ran down the hall as the planets in
the solar system flew by. She was only at Jupiter and needed to get
to the far end of the Pluto display. Even though Pluto had been
declassified as a “planet,” the curator of the museum held a
special fondness for the dwarf planet and refused to take the
exhibit down.
    Samantha continued down the hallway and
looked behind her. She saw the night guards quickly losing ground.
They were too out of shape to keep up with a ten-year-old girl. She
was, on the other hand, surprised to see the two boys catching up
rapidly.
    Saturn flew by, and Samantha let out a small
chuckle as she passed by Uranus. Neptune was nothing more than a
big blue blur as she rounded past the giant planet and made her way
toward her final destination, Pluto.
     
     

     
     
    The small dwarf of ice and rock came into
view as Samantha entered the exhibit. All the lights in the small
room were off, save the one illuminating the small world. The light
reflected off its shiny exterior and made it hard for Samantha to
see much else in the room.
    She ran straight for the six-foot-high model.
Behind it, an access door led out to a small landing platform on
the second-floor roof of the museum. From there, Samantha would
make her escape from this place.
    Down a short hallway, up a flight of ten
stairs, and then onto the roof—that was the plan. Simple and
efficient, the way most SOCKs plans ran. From there, Samantha was
to shimmy down a drainage pipe and run across the parking lot to
the set of bushes next to the mailbox where the rover was
hidden.
    The rover was Gears’s latest project, made
with the help of his new right-hand man, Roller. The rover was
nothing more than a glorified go-cart. The steel frame was square
in shape and big enough to hold one rider. The pieces of steel came
from the old hang glider Kid Combat used to escape out of Jones’s
mansion a few weeks back. Seemed its flight-worthy days had
expired.
    The engine had five-horsepower and belonged
to Wedge – one half of the set of twins on Kid Combat’s team. Wedge
had the engine hidden in his parent’s garage. It was from his
“private collection” of “things that could help him go really
fast.”. The steering column, wheels, and other parts had come from
each of the SOCKs members’ garages and were assembled in Maple
Forest in The Playground.
    The rover went pretty fast. It would hit
thirty miles per hour without much effort. Wedge held the record
for fastest test lap around The Playground. He also held the record
for most damage done to The Playground on a single lap.
    In an effort to save time for Samantha,
Roller came up with the idea of outfitting the rover with a remote
control device that would allow him or Gears to start the rover
remotely from The Playground. This way, if Samantha was in a bind,
as she was tonight, she wouldn’t have to waste time starting the
rover. She could simply jump on and take off. Roller and Gears had
tested that feature several times before tonight’s mission.
    Samantha tried to run faster. The boys racing
footsteps sounded behind her. They both gained ground at every step
of the way. One of the boys made a last-ditch effort to stop the
unknown intruder. He dove, head first, and attempted to tackle the
small girl. Samantha countered and jumped up in the air. The boy’s
hand came close, but it wasn’t close enough. He fell to the floor
with a thud and momentarily fell behind in the