Captain Tootsie #2

When mysterious traitors seize control of the world's only uranium refining plant on asteroid U-238, they threaten to cripple civilization unless Earth surrenders to their demands—and Captain Tootsie must race through space with the Secret Legion to stop them, though a nameless enemy ship pursues them with deadly intent. With freighters vanishing and Space Patrol rockets destroyed, Captain Tootsie feigns indifference to throw off enemy spies before launching his new rocket ship toward the asteroid to uncover the conspiracy and save the world from blackmail.

Captain Tootsie and the Secret Legion pursue the traitorous Chief Moabit into the asteroid belt, only to discover he's fled to a strange asteroid harboring an impossible secret—a living stone forest populated by silicon-based creatures under the traitor's command. Now trapped on an alien world where the ground itself obeys their enemy, the heroes must outwit both stone guardians and the man pulling their strings to escape with their lives.

When former Space Patrol Chief John Moabit escapes from the asteroid belt commanding an army of living stone creatures, he sets his sights on conquering Uranium City—and Captain Tootsie must find an unconventional way to stop an enemy immune to conventional weapons. Drawing on the principle of sympathetic vibration, Captain Tootsie devises an ingenious device to turn the tide of battle when all other defenses fail. It's a race against time as the Secret Legion fights to protect their world from an overwhelming force.