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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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At
last
the
column
slowed.
Far
ahead
the
merest
bulge
broke
the
level
line
where
sky
and
waters
met.
The
amphibian
city
of
the
Ralas!
At
Fellows'
order-the
flying-boats
sank
downward
until
they
moved
just
above
the
waters.
Another
order
made
the
green
hosts
don
the
grotesque
helmets.
Norman
found
that
while
cumbersome
their
oxygen
supply
was
unfailing.
They
shot
on
again
at
highest
speed,
but
as
the
gigantic
black
dome
of
the
frog-city
grew
in
their
vision
there
darted
up
from
around
it
suddenly
a
far-flung
swarm
of
black
spots.
"Rala
boats!"
The
muffled
exclamation
was
Fellows'.
There
needed
now
no
order
on
his
part,
though.
Like
hawks,
leaping
for
prey,
the
fleet
of
the
green
men
sprang
through
the
air.
Norman,
clutching
the
force-gun
between
his
knees,
had
time
only
to
see
that
the
Rala
craft
were
a
few
hundred
in
number
and
that,
contemptuous
of
the
greater
odds
that
favored
these
humans
they
had
so
long
oppressed,
they
were
flying
straight
to
meet
them.
Then
the
two
fleets
met--and
were
spinning
side
by
side
above
the
waters.
Norman
saw
the
thing
only
as
a
wild
whirl
of
Rala
boats
toward
and
beside
them,
great
green
frog-men
crowding
the
craft,
their
force-guns
hailing
shells.
Automatically,
with
the
old
air-fighting
instinct,
his
fingers
had
pressed
the
catch
of
the
gun
between
his
knees
and
as
its
shells
flicked
toward
the
rushing
boats
he
saw
areas
of
nothingness
opening
suddenly
in
their
mass,
shells
striking
and
exploding
in
annihilating
invisibility
there
and
in
their
own
fleet.
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