So the moon man just helped Jack and Annie get up.
And apparently he has a jet pack. OK, where can we get jet packs in the next ten years, not counting those water sports ones? On second thought, they would probably work as well as those hovercraft things.
Instead of answering the note asking who he is, the moon man just drew a picture of some stars. OK.
Jack is over here like “stranger danger,” and Annie’s like “what if he can help find the M Thing?”
And now Jack’s like “we gotta go get new air tanks for our spacesuits anyway.”
Oh, fun. Now they’re stuck because a meteorite crashed into the pass to the base and blocked it off.
And now they both got weighed down by the spacesuits when they jumped over the meteorite. (Huh. I guess it was big enough to block the buggy, but much smaller than I imagined.)
So now they’re bouncing around the moon in the buggy, trying to find the M Thing, and then they find an American flag,
And apparently that is still the flag from the 1969 moon landing.
So, they just left their own version of the plaque that’s there, done with a page from Jack’s notebook. No, but, what would happen if the scientists who sometimes go to the base saw that? They’d be like “Who are these kids who left this? How did they even get here?”
And now some other dude in a spacesuit just showed up. Unless that’s one of the scientists, that’s not creepy at all…
OK, now they’re in some sort of empty, white room on the moon.
So, a moon base got built in 2031. I guess this is the first (only?) one where they travel to the future instead of the past. *insert dumb meme about not letting Elon Musk read this in the next decade*
OK, so Peanut is freaking out again.
So yeah, it’s a bit of a “space motel for scientists” but more like a research base.
of course Annie’s already running to pick up a spacesuit and go outside.
Yep. Annie’s waking Jack up in the middle of the night so they can go to the treehouse and find the last M Thing.
So apparently the moon is so bright they don’t need flashlights.
Now Jack’s worried about going to the moon without spacesuits. I mean, he’s got a point, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone left them out for them somewhere.
OK, yeah, this is another “series recap because it’s a while between when each book got published,” but the more I think about it… these prologues for the past few books I read in the series the past few days look suspiciously copy-pasted with minor tweaks to include what happened in the immediately previous book…
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