The Makers and Dr. Crisp were again standing in an empty room. Across from them were three targets. The center of each target was colored purple, with a black M drawn in the middle. The circle around the purple center was yellow, and the outer circle was neon blue.
“Okay, Makers. This is your final level. And it’s all about sight!” said Dr. Crisp, rolling her eyes in opposite directions.
Henry’s mouth fell open. “How did you do that?” he asked.
“It’s one of my many secret talents,” she said as she walked toward the targets. “As I’m sure you’ve noticed, we all have two eyes.” Dr. Crisp spun around to face the Makers. “But why?” she asked with her hands in the air.
“Because we’d look like aliens if we only had one!” Pablo said jokingly. Violet and Henry giggled.
“Good guess!” Dr. Crisp winked. “But in this level, you’re going to figure out the correct answer.”
Dr. Crisp stuck her fingers in her mouth and whistled. A door in the corner of the room swung open, and three robots zoomed out. They sped over to the Makers. They were each holding a drone and a controller.
“Oh, cool!” said Pablo as he took the drone from a robot’s claw.
“These are like the ones in the Science Space at school!” said Violet.
“But even better!” added Henry. Every drone had a shiny black body with silver propeller blades attached to each of the four purple arms.
“Listen up!” began Dr. Crisp. “You are all going to stand here and wear one of these.” She pulled three black eye patches out of her lab coat pocket and tossed one to each Maker. Violet stretched hers over her curls and fixed it into place.
“You look like a pirate,” said Pablo, laughing as he put his on.
“Violet the pirate!” added Henry.
“Shiver me timbers!” said Violet in her best pirate voice.
“In this challenge, you will use the controller to fly the drone over the target in front of you,” explained Dr. Crisp. She showed them the different buttons they needed to use to make the drone fly. “When you think the drone is hovering over the purple center of the target, press this button and a laser will blast out.”
“Got it!” replied the Makers.
“You’ll each try once with the eye patch and once without,” continued Dr. Crisp. “Based on the results, you will have to decide why we use two eyes to see.” She started rolling her eyes again.
Pablo, Violet, and Henry laughed.
Dr. Crisp raised both hands overhead. “Ready, set—”
“Wait!” Henry interrupted. He pulled on his costume sleeve. “I just want to make sure I got it.” He pointed to a button on his controller. “This is the one I press for the laser, right?”
Dr. Crisp smiled with her arms in the air. “That’s the one!”
Henry relaxed his shoulders and nodded to Dr. Crisp. “Okay, I’m ready.”
Dr. Crisp lowered her arms quickly.
“Launch!”
The Makers sent their drones whizzing through the air. After making some adjustments, Violet blasted her laser over the target.
The yellow circle glowed.
“No way! I was right over the purple circle,” Violet said with her hands on her hips.
Pablo’s tongue stuck out of his mouth as he carefully positioned his drone.
The blue circle glowed!
“What?” he said. “Impossible!”
The yellow circle on Henry’s target lit up.
“This makes no sense at all,” said Pablo as he landed his drone on the floor. He took off his eye patch. “My drone was right above the middle of the target!”
“Mine too!” said Violet.
“Eye patches off!” said Dr. Crisp.
“Everything looks the same,” said Henry as he snapped the patch off.
“Here goes nothing,” said Pablo. He sent his drone flying into the air. Then he very carefully positioned the drone and pressed the laser button on his controller.
The purple circle glowed.
“Yes!” Pablo said as he jumped into the air.
The centers of Violet’s and Henry’s targets glowed as well. But before the Makers could celebrate, Dr. Crisp’s watch started flashing.
“Muffling microscopes!” said Dr. Crisp.
“What’s going on?” asked Henry.
“This isn’t good,” said Pablo. He swallowed hard.
“Oh no!” said Violet. “We’re never going to make it!”