This edition of the series is based on a new "toy" that Megan discovers in a secret place mentioned in the last chapters of the third book. See that big blue thing hovering over the girls' heads on the novel cover? That's a fourth dimensional intergalactic class spaceship. Megan named him "Orion." How large is he? On the outside he's as large as a football field, but on the inside he's bigger than that.
Orion allows Megan, May, and Brianna to go on a brand new kind of adventure. They go on a trip across the galaxy and meet new friends along the way. They discover more secrets about the crown device and they go on brand new and very dangerous adventures.
It's the night of Christmas Eve. May and Brianna talk Megan into showing them a secret place she found using the crown. She says it's inside the crown. They find Orion floating in fourth dimensional space. Orion allows them to take an adventure to a distant place, a place that Megan could not get to using the crown alone. Orion is no ordinary spaceship though. He's a fourth dimensional craft that has strange and amazing abilities like the crown does only some of these abilities are quite different than the Crown device. Not only that, Megan and her friends discover that strange things happen to time inside this alien craft. Their watches stop sometimes when they are inside of it and time does strange things. They conduct this entire three day adventure to return home only a few hours later than when they left. Megan has determined that inside the Orion spaceship there must be ...
A SPACE IN TIME
The entire first half of this story they are on an alien world. They make a new friend there named Xeba. (That's pronounced as "Zee-buh"). Xeba is about four and a half feet tall with beautiful ice blue eyes and long light blond hair. It's so light yellow that it is almost white.
Xeba's people live like primitives among the dense forest and tall trees. Megan is determined to discover where these little people came from and why they are now living on a planet inhabited by prehistoric creatures. That's right, the beautiful little people who live there live in a world of dinosaurs and Megan says, "It just doesn't make good sense." So she sets out to find out what the big deal is.
Brianna discovers some unusual things on this planet like huge pictures that can only be seen from the air. She also discovers a huge pyramid that holds the secrets to the mystery Megan wishes to solve. She tries but cannot view through the many feet of solid stone. The only way to find the answers then is to go in and explore the huge but very dangerous pyramid. Find out what's hidden inside the pyramid.
When they get home on Christmas morning, the Books A Zillion store explodes with the manager inside and the store burns to the ground. The store is right beside ol "Crazy" Bob's pawnshop that Simon Banister has been trying to buy from Bob for pennies on the dollar. Has Simon found a new way to get land next to Bob? Perhaps he also intended for the fire to burn Bob's place down as well.
To make things even worse, Megan learns that Simon Banister and Don Lowery are hot on her trail. They know someone has been foiling their plans to drive people from their land and Don Lowery has determined that it must be one of grandma Martha's relatives behind it.
Megan leaves in the early morning hours because of a bad dream and to deliver some evidence to her new FBI friend "Agent Roger" (she met in A Christmas Story) but when she returns home someone has broken into her house and abducted her entire family.
Will this be the end of Megan Martin? Or will this be the end of Simon Banister? Don't miss the show-down between Megan and Simon Banister in this exciting adventure!
The Pyramid of Phargus
Megan, May, and Brianna take Orion to another solar system, to another world. It is a strange mysterious jungle world inhabited by beautiful little people and dinosaurs. On this planet they rescue a little woman named Xeba from a tyrannosaurus-like creature. Seeing the little woman is highly intelligent, Megan sets out to find out why these people are living on a world filled with monsters.
You may read the excerpt below or you can listen to the author Bryon Smith read it for you in MP3 format.
Excerpt
"This pyramid is no doubt really old and I want to know who built it and why," Megan answered as she began to move the ship around the structure searching each side of it until she was positioned to the north and looking toward the south at the pyramid.
"There, a doorway about 15 to 17 feet behind the outer casing stones."
"Oh no, Megan, what in the world are you thinking?" May's eyes widened as she looked into the dark dank passage way.
"What?" Brianna asked as she looked over at May and Megan.
"What nothing, she's going to get us dragged through the bat crap in a dark tunnel down there that's what! Just look at her, she's got that look in her eyes again! You know that look!" May warned.
Brianna looked back at her view screen and since Megan had flown all the way around it Orion had made a full 3D image of the structure. "Smooth angled casing stones kinda like the ones that were on the Great Pyramid of Giza. Um, let's see." Brianna moved around the structure. "I see portals or shafts of some kind entering the structure in several places. Maybe they are air vents?"
"We are all going to die on a foreign world and our parents won't have a clue what happened to us!" May moaned.
"Oh stop being such a baby, May!" Megan told her.
"Why do you care about a, ah, well a 10,000 year old pyramid on an alien world for anyway?" May whined as she held her hand out toward the image on the view screen.
"I'll tell you why, because Xeba knows way too much to be a descendent from some primitive race of beings on a planet covered with prehistoric creatures that's why," Megan said as she zoomed her view into the dark shaft as far as she could. "Why did it stop? Why can't I see into that place?"
"The density of the structure appears to be preventing me from scanning into it," Orion answered.
"Fine!" Megan got up and walked to the seat just to Brianna's left and began sorting through her pockets. "Blue crystal!" Megan exchanged the blue jewel key in the crown putting the white one into her pocket then turned and looked at the dark downward tunnel again.
May and Brianna looked at each other. "See, I told you she has that look in her eyes again," May nodded her head warning Brianna they were all about to go to certain doom!
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