Jack and the Geniuses #3: Lost in the Jungle

Jack and the Geniuses #3: Lost in the Jungle — page 7
wanted to lead the way either I’m always the one who goes first Fine I said quietly I’ll go check it out Matt reached over to a small worktable and grabbed a hammer Ava shot him a look Really she mouthed My brother who had the muscles of an athlete but the fighting skills of a toddler deflated like a popped balloon Hammer or no hammer he wasn’t going to fight anyone None of us were He carefully replaced the tool and we crossed the lab floor as quietly as ninjas Now about this laboratory It’s a little odd Okay more than a little There’s a giant water tank for testing submarines submarines and robotic boats and suits that let you stay underwater without air tanks The glass-encased Mars room is a near-perfect near-perfect copy of the landscape on the Red Planet All kinds of vehicles and robots and enough computers to satisfy two classrooms full of kids are scattered around the place And that’s just the ground floor Each of the platforms that wind up toward the ceiling supports its own miniature lab The biosphere used to be on the fourth platform but Hank redesigned redesigned it and moved it up a few floors The first time Hank let us into his lab I had no idea how he got from one platform to the next The giant catapult catapult capable of launching department store mannequins fifty feet in the air suggested he had some exciting plans but 4 Bill Nye and Gregory Mone