being made. The pests are making clones!We need to get rid of them fast before they can clone too many for us to handle.â
Kai sprayed and BC zapped.
âThereâs too many of them!â called BC. âAnd heaps more pests are coming out of the pools and puddles!â
âIâll get the pests with the spray,â said Kai. âYou need to stop the pest poo reaching the water.â
Kai sprayed the new pests that were hatching in the puddles. Then BC quickly turned his force-field bubble on. He made it big and long and pulled it over the puddles.
Pest poo landed on BCâs force-field in splats.
âGood dog, BC!â Kai called. âStay there! The spray is working but there are so many pests.â
Kai sprayed as fast as he could. Toxic flying jellyfish fell away in groups but more kept coming from inside the cloud.
Kai sprayed at the new swarm and all at once the entire swarm turned to dust. Kai looked around. What just happened? he thought. Thereâs not a single pest left.
BC turned his force-field off and flew back to the jet.
âI saw what happened,â said BC. âYou hit one pest and then they all went away. I think that was the real pest and, when you hit it, all the clones went away too.â
âPests and beasts that can make copies of themselves is a big problem, BC,â said Kai.
Before Kai could say any more the rock land shook with a massive noise.
The rock land was shaking and rocks were tumbling down from the cliffs.
âSomethingâs happening on the other side of those cliffs,â said BC, his tail wagging madly.
Kai flew above the cliffs and looked down into a valley. The valley was surrounded by tall mountains and it was filled with toxic blue water.
It looked like a bright blue pool. In the centre of the pool was an enormous beast.
âItâs stomping with its feet and itâs very angry,â said BC. âIs it a clone or a real beast?â
Kai looked at his watch.
âItâs a real beast,â Kai said. âMy watch tracks the chips the BMC have put into the necks of the beasts and this one has a BMC chip in its neck.â
Just then Kaiâs orb beeped.
âItâs a message from the BMC telling us that a beast is loose in Beastium,â said Kai.
âLooks like weâve already found it,â said BC. âAnd itâs one weâve not battled before.â
Kai took a photo of the beast on his orb. A card popped up on the screen.
âItâs a mega-mutant,â said Kai.
âIn toxic water!â said BC.
âOh no,â said Kai looking up from his orb. âLook, Itâs cloning!â
âNow there are ten beasts!â said BC. âNine clones and one real beast.â
âWe need help,â said Kai. He quickly sent Border Captain Ying Li a message on his orb.âIâve told Ying Li to come across from the mud land.â
âNew pests are hatching in the water as well,â said BC. âTheyâve got glowing green and red bodies and wings.â
âAnd theyâre dropping fly poo in to the water and thatâs making more pests,â said Kai. âIâm going to see if thereâs a border guard that has battled this beast before.â
Kai hit the button for the border guard files on his orb.
Then he tapped on the mega-mutant card. He waited while the orb found a match.
âThis guard is from Africa,â said Kai as clicked on the name and Jangoâs battle file came onto the screen.
âIâm sending him a text right now,â said Kai. âYing Li And Akin Jango will be here soon. We need a plan.â
âYes,â said BC. âBecause thereâs another clone now! That makes eleven beasts and maybe more on the way!â
âThis is bad,â said Kai.
âYing Li reporting for duty,â Captain Kai,â said a voice through the headset speakers.
âYou sure got here fast,â said
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