Talk:Galax-Arena

Book Summary

Joella, Leane and Peter are three children whose mother leaves them and father goes insane so they are sent to live with their aunt, Jill. At the train station they wait for Aunt Jill but a man called Hythe pulls up in a car and convinces them that he has been sent by their aunt and that he will take them to her. Joella is suspicious and Hythe tells her she can wait for Aunt Jill (because Hythe only wants Peter and Leane) but Joella comes aNyway. In the car he gives them drugged coffee and puts them on a rocket ship. The rocket ship takes them to an alien planet called Vexac. At first the three children want to die but slowly they regain the urge to live. Hythe reveals to them that they were kidnapped so that they can perform in the Galax-Arena, an intergalactic gymnastics show for aliens called Vexas. The three children are taken to meet the other gymnasts who are children called ‘peb’. Peter has a major personality clash with Leeward, Allyman and Ashmaq, the three other boys his age. Joella isn’t any good at gymnastics. The only link with Earth they have is Leane’s toy rabbit, Bro Rabbit which begins to talk through Leane at certain times making predictions and insults to the peb. Hythe decides Joella does not have the required skill to make it as a gymnast so decides to get rid of her and turn her into a pet for one of the vexa after the Galax-Arena performance. The Gymna (the room were the peb train) becomes made of something like crystal for the performance and Joella sees some Vexa through the glass wall. Joella learns that the Vexa are attached with devices at the Galax-Arena so they feel the danger and adrenalin the peb feel when doing dangerous stunts and tricks. The night before she’s going to become a pet Joella is told by Leeward that it’s up to her to convince the Vexa that pebs shouldn’t be forced to risk their lives for the Vexa’s entertainment. Hythe takes Joella to a tank where she is a pet for a Vexa who comes and pats her. Mariam joins Joella as a pet for the Vexa when her twin sister dies because Peter convinces Hythe to make them work on Los Altos (the tallest bit of the Galax-Arena) and her twin sister gets dizzy and falls to her death and Hythe decides she is Mariam is a boring a gymnast. Back at the Galax-Arena Bro rabbit predicts Ashmaq’s death and he goes on to die in the performing in the Galax-Arena while Peter becomes more and more powerful in terms of control. In the tank Maraim is brought to join Joella as a pet for the Vexa but Mariam is very depressed and refuses to eat leading Joella to think she may die soon. Joella becomes very suspicious of Hythe’s story about them being on Vexa when she sees a fly in their tank on what’s supposed to be an alien planet and she realises that it’s all set up and they are really on Earth. The next time the Vexa comes to pat them Joella takes off the Vexa’s glove and underneath is a wrinkled human hand, the supposed vexa takes off her vexa costume and reveals herself to be a very old woman called Emmeline. Emmeline tells the shocked Joella and Mariam that the Galax-Arena is part of a massive experiment called ‘Genesis 5’ to give the extremely rich audience of Genesis 5 like Emmeline eternal life by channeling the peb’s adrenalin into the old people’s bodies to trick the body into thinking it’s young and not close to death. Joella and Mariam are extremely angry at Emmeline because many children had to die just to keep the audience like her alive. Joella realises that Emmeline is their only way of escape and tries to convince her to let them go, Emmeline is very unsure of whether to let them escape but Joella takes advantage of her tired, confused mind and she lets them free and gives them the card keys to access the elevators. Mariam and Joella return to the Gymna to the peb who are amazed because no one has ever been kicked out of the Galax-Arena and returned. Joella and Mariam tell the peb that there on Earth but most of the peb don’t believe them. Leeward does believe them but Peter and Allyman who are now Hythe’s right hand men refuse to let them leave and Allyman calls Hythe. Hythe tells the peb that he needs to return Mariam and Joella and take Leeward with them but in fact he plans to kill them. Bro-rabbit begins to insult Hythe and Hythe tells Leanne to stop the bro rabbit act which just makes bro rabbit insult him more. Hythe tells Peter to use his microchip to stop Leanne but Peter can’t bring himself to torture his sister so Hythe gets Allyman to do it which he does. The buzzing makes Bro Rabbit and Leanne scream in pain and Peter tackles Allyman to stop it while Leeward, Mariam and Joella attempt to fight Hythe. Bro rabbit orders the peb to kill Hythe and Eduardo, one of the peb stabs Hythe then the other peb rip Hythe to pieces. Joella, Miriam, Leeward, Leane, Peter, Eduardo, and Fenja leave the Galax-arena to discover all this time they’ve been in Australia. Peter leads them to a land rover and they make their escape but Joella is suspicious of Peter because he talks like Hythe and gave a thumbs up to a guard while passing the Galax-Arena security check. Peter feeds them drugged chocolate but Joella is suspicious so doesn’t eat any. Peter takes them to a tall mountain and tells them that they have to jump off of it. Leeward refuses and Peter starts his buzzing (a microchip in his arm which causes a mindnumbing and painful sting in the brain) causing all of them to be forced closer to the cliff edge. Leeward tells Peter to stop because he will do it on his own free will and jumps over. Unknown to Peter Leeward managed to grab a branch and started climbing back up. When no one else wanted to jump over the cliff Peter started the buzzing. Everybody surrounded Peter even though the buzzing was unbearable and Bro rabbit urged them on to attack Peter. Eduardo took out his knife and cut the microchip out of Peter’s arm leaving Peter’s right arm bloody and limp. With the microchip no longer controlling him Peter runs to jump off the cliff and kill himself but before he can Leeward hauls himself over the cliff and grabs Peter stopping him jumping. Bro Rabbit spoke for the last time and said everyone could go home now.