He knew that further struggle was useless. It would only send him plunging deeper into that awful blackness. Anyway, he seemed not to have the strength to struggle more.
He sat there motionless and terror stricken while the scene unfolded before his eyes.
Bob and Marene had caught sight of the ship. It had come to a hovering stop just outside the window, its black hull seeming to fill the whole sky. A long ladder had been let down from one of its open ports and Creatures of Darkness were filing down into the city.
Soon those evil monsters would be ferreting out the healthy youth of the city.
Zurk, powerless to stop them or to shout a warning, watched Zuldi and his men come quickly up into the laboratory through the trap door.
Neither Bob nor Marene saw their danger. Marene was staring fearfully out at the black ship and Bob was working frantically with the gun.
"If we can blast the ship out of the sky," Bob was saying. "If we can kill the creatures already in the city, get their voltage guns...."
Bob never finished his hopes. A giant, clawed hand clutched him by the shoulder at that moment and spun him back and away from the gun, spun him back and away until he nearly collided with Zurk's steel frame.
Zurk felt the strain and horror of it all driving him deeper into blackness.
Zuldi's hideous face was twisted into an anticipatory smirk. He took a slow, deliberate step closer to the young man.