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"Why?" said Annie.

They bumped over the rocks as Jack turned the buggy around. Then they zoomed toward the pass.

"No!" said Jack. He grabbed her arm. "Let's go back to the base -- before he gets here!"

They were almost at the mountain pass. Suddenly, a cloud of dust flew up in front of them. The ground trembled.

Annie gave a little wave to the dot in the sky. Then she climbed into the moon buggy.

"Whoa! Slow down!" said Annie.

"I don't know," said Annie. "But we'll soon find out!" She started waving.

"Who is that?" said Jack.

The buggy took off.

"It doesn't matter. We can lock the door at the moon base until he goes away," said Jack. "Then we can get new air tanks!"

"Careful!" said Annie.

"But we can't go back," said Annie. "We haven't found the fourth M thing yet. We won't be able to go home."

Jack steered around craters and rocks. More than once the buggy nearly tipped over.

Jack hurried to the moon buggy. "Come on!" He jumped into the driver's seat.

"We don't know who he is!" said Jack. "We don't know if he's friendly or mean or what."

He stepped on the brake. The buggy jerked to a stop.

It was more than twice as tall as she was.

But Annie was already backing up.

"Jump? I don't think so," said Jack. "It's too high."

Jack looked at the black sky. The flying thing was nowhere in sight -- yet.

"Watch it!" cried Annie.

Jack quickly found a picture of a giant rock in the moon book. He read aloud: Rocks of all sizes crash into the moon from outer space. These rocks are called meteorites.

"Yeah, and I guess it's too big to be the M thing," said Annie. She had climbed out of the moon buggy and was standing by the meteorite.

A giant rock had fallen into the narrow pass. It was stuck between two walls of rock. They were trapped!

"We're lucky that meteorite didn't land on us," said Jack.

Jack couldn't see a thing.

"I'm going to try anyway," said Annie.

The dust settled.

"We'll have to jump over it," Annie said.

"Wait. Let's think first," said Jack.

"One, two, three -- go!" she shouted, and took giant, leaping steps toward the meteorite.

"Yes!" Jack was relieved to hear her voice. But he couldn't turn his head to see her. He could only hear her over the radio.

"Can you see anything?" he asked.

"Oh, brother," Jack sighed. "Now we are really in trouble."

"I fell down, too," she said.

There was no answer.

"Are you here?" asked Annie. "Did you make it?"

"Just the sky," said Annie. "Wow, is it weird…"

"Annie!" Jack called.

"Oh, no," he groaned. "Not again."

"Can you help me up?" he asked.

"Nope," said Annie.

"Why not?"

Jack hit the ground and fell facedown into the dust.

He tried to stand again. And failed.

Jack tried to stand. But his suit was too bulky. He tried to roll over. But his suit made even that impossible.

When Annie got close to the rock, she pushed off the ground. Then she flew through space and disappeared behind the meteorite.

"Oh, brother," Jack said. He backed up and took off toward the rock. He jumped as high as he could. Then he was flying through space.

"Ja-ack…" said Annie.

"I'm worried about our air tanks," said Jack. "I feel like it's been two hours."

"And what about that moon man?" said Jack. "Where did he go to?"

"Jack!" whispered Annie.

"What?"

"He's here," she said. "The moon man is here."

"What?"

"He's standing above me."