Thurmon shouted the name in fear and threw his arm over his face. But the thing remained. It was real!
"Wayne ... no! IT CAN'T BE! NO...."
But the figure did not move. The vast colossus loomed stark white and naked in the brilliant sunlight. Legs apart, arms folded on its breast, it stared with brooding eyes at the vast emptiness of the lunar plain.
Thurmon howled with terror and fury.
"Damn you! Damn you! Why don't you answer me? I killed you once ... I'll kill you again! I'm the first one here! Do you hear me? I'll kill you again!"
"Why don't you answer me? I killed you once!"
He lowered his head and charged. The last thing he remembered was the soundless tinkle of his shattering helmet, and the terrible pain as his skull cracked under the suddenly shifting pressures....