“Take the controls, Yo!” Hatman called, dragging on his Jets hat. “I’m going to try and stabilise our flight.” He rose to the bracing point on the cabin roof and added his own flight thrust to the collapsing aircraft’s.

“Keep going, Hatster!” CSFB! encouraged his friend. “I can see the lake. And… a rainbow flash!”

With a shriek of rending metal the rest of the LairJet wing gave way. The vessel flipped over and ploughed into the crystal waters of the unexpected lake.

“We hadn’t wrecked one of these puppies for a while,” Trickshot noted as they popped the emergency hatch and surfaced. “We were well overdue.”

“What the hell hit us?” Hatman demanded, strapping on his swimming cap.

“Worry about that later,” CrazySugarFreakBoy! advised him. “Worry about the ripples in the water heading towards us now!”

• Make for shore
• Investigate the ripples