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9/24/05
The First Epic Science Fiction Adventure of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange
Written by Elizabeth Von Fange

Chapter One
9/26/05
The Adventure Begins!

Hello, my name is Elizabeth Joy Von Fange. A few days ago from the time I started writing this sentence I had just completed another story entitled The First Lengthy Rambling Fantasy Story of Elizabeth Joy Von Fange at the end of which I sort of led into this tale. So you might enjoy going back and reading the previous tale in case you haven’t already.

This said this story can to some extant start and this is a lot shorter opening than I used on my previous story.

Now to set the stage… There is a well lit room of hospital white in a bustling spaceport and as I don’t want you to get used to long and detailed descriptions since you won’t be getting them throughout the story I won’t give you one here.

At any rate there are several teleporting platforms which one can use, for an exorbitant fee, to instantly transport oneself from any of the main cities of the galaxy that has a teleporter installed in it to another teleporter in another large metropolis.

As the story begins I am about to enter one of the teleporters in the room in which I sort of described and drop the narrative style I’ve been using for a more personal one.

I’m coming from a place quite remote from the Galaxy of Yxalag as you would know if you’ve read the previous book. With a swooshing feeling I appear and since the operators of the machines assume that I paid the exorbitant fee of money from what ever point I teleported from they left me pass while saying “Welcome to Jlayis” though they probably were wondering where I got my strange gear for I was not dressed for a science fiction story but rather for fantasy/medieval tale and hung on my belt was a sword and I wore a gown of dark green with a train and long sleeves that fell to the ground.

After looking around me as I walked out of the teleporting chamber I concluded that I really wasn’t dressed in the proper style and that the proper style was pretty ugly for everybody wore more Japanese inspired clothes than fairytale/european inspired clothing and all had a definitely futuristic look.

I walked along trying to look as though I knew where I was going and what I was doing because sometimes when you are fooling other people you may possibly fool yourself. In the last adventure I had stumbled right into a large war and I wondered whether I was going to be doing anything of the sort in this story. Despite the fact that I am the authoress of this story I have very little idea of what is going on and only a faint vague idea of things that might possibly happen but that hasn’t stopped me from going ahead with this story.

Since knowing the current news is important I went to see if they had newspapers in this galactic trading center and I found that they did have newspapers but that I didn’t have any of the galactic currency necessary in order to purchase a newspaper. This looked as though it might be my first adventure in this story for the newspaper salesman was rather upset and being that he was not exactly a man but a large green rather slimy looking alien with large teeth and fangs and he didn’t like, it seemed, to have persons touch his inventory and not pay for it and even deign to read the headlines before paying for it and when they did come to pay for it they didn’t have the money to do so and I just lost my place in the sentence.

Suffice it to say he was rather upset and I decided to leave and leave quickly. I had at least read the headlines of the newspaper, it had said, “Zargle Tremough Findroven II” and I reflected that even if I had been successful in purchasing the news paper I probably couldn’t have read it since it was written in a different language from the one that I spoke.
9/27/05

I walked out of the news stand and stood in the street for about three seconds before I was nearly hit by a speeder and I decided to stand on the sidewalk. I was wondering what to do next when I saw a young woman who was about twenty-one walk out of a nearby building with a puzzled expression on her face. She looked across the street and saw me and since I did stand out from the crowd she walked over.

“Are you from the planet called ‘Middle Earth’ by any chance?’

“No,” I said, “I didn’t know that planet was in your galaxy.”

“It isn’t but I read a book about it and you look as though you came from it.”

I was highly complemented as you might imagine. I asked, “What’s your name?”

“My name is Zellinia Kremeshlious Midernia Rovist Smith” she said, “But my friends just call me Zella as do most of my enemies.” she said and a troubled look came into her pale blue eyes.

At that moment before I could think of a reply, much less make one, something happened. Enemy space ships filled with green martians with eight eyes a piece did not come flying through the air wrecking havoc with their demolition guns but two rather large speeders went down the road at a very fast pace and ran down an older man as he was crossing the road. Zella and I quickly rushed to see if he was alright and not road kill and we quickly got him off the road and onto the side walk and I was rather thankful that green martians had not showed up on the scene.

Zella apparently knew who the stranger was for as we sat him down on what faintly resembled a park bench she exclaimed, “Professor Yniarb!” Hearing his name spoken Professor Yniarb opened his eyes and faintly mumbled in a voice that would have had a strong German accent if there was a Germany in this galaxy, “What… What happened?”

“You were hit by two speeders.” I said, “Though probably only one hit you but I couldn’t tell which one.”

“Where they grey speeders with a blue stripe and red windshields?”

“No.” Zella, who was very observant said.

“Good, then it wasn’t the police. But were the speeders…”

“They were red with white stripes around them and on top of them and from side to side and…” Zella began before being interrupted by Professor Yniarb

“Did they have blue windshields?” he asked eagerly.

“Yes.” Zella said.

“It’s just as I feared, they are after me already! I must get to Tenalp Emoh at once!” and then he fainted off again.

I sat back thinking that if I was trying to make this story quite exciting I was probably succeeding well (I hope) but that the humor in it was probably lacking and I might need to work on that. But exciting isn’t bad.

“We should probably get him off the street.” I said after another of the strangely striped red vehicles came by with someone shooting a blaster at the Professor from a only slightly opened window. The shots were fortunately blocked by the shielding device in my pack.

“I agree.” Zella said, “But where should we go?”

“I think that Tenalp Emoh would be a good idea.” I said remembering that Professor Yniarb had said that he needed to go there.

“That’s halfway across the galaxy from here and my ship wouldn’t make the trip even if it wasn’t impounded.”

“Impounded where?” I said.

“Oh, at the impoundment place” Zella said in a careless way that meant she wanted to change the subject.

“How much would it take to get it unimpounded?” I said. After having no clear idea of what would happen in this story I seemed to have stumbled across an adventure at last and I wasn’t about to let it go.

“Twenty thousand would do it.” Zella said with a look at me as though she hoped that I would be able to provide the amount.

As I had just found out, I had none of the currency accepted on the planet, not even enough to buy a newspaper that cost just three. However, in the previous adventure, I hadn’t had any money either and some had turned up and since I am the Authoress of this story and since I like to go shopping I felt quite sure that some money would turn up.

We sort of supported Professor Yniarb in between us and with me leading we walked down the street. There was an imposing archway at one point down it and as soon as I walked through loud noises were emitted and at first I thought I must have violated some sort of security thing but instead an official looking person stepped up to me and said, “Congratulations! You are the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 life being to pass through that arch! You’ve just won a million!” I was quite pleased and stated that I was so and the official looking person left after handing me the million and Zella said,

“You’re really lucky you know that?”

“It’s not luck,” I said, “I’m the authoress.”

Since I now had the money for it there was very little difficulty in getting Zella’s ship unimpounded and we soon were onboard. It was a small craft and, though I didn’t notice it at first, very old and outmoded in comparison with the latest ships that would be built a hundred years from now. However it was serviceable and Zella, after fueling up, set the course for Tenalp Emoh. Professor Yniarb was still unconscious and we put him in one of the beds in the crew quarters which were quite small. However, after thinking about it, Professor Yniarb got the captains quarters, which like the crew quarters were quite small but unlike the crew quarters which had two bunks the captain’s quarters only had one.

Leaving whatever planet we were leaving behind us Zella took off and I hoped that Professor Yniarb would wake up soon so I could find out who “They” were and what was so important that “they” were after and why Zella’s space ship didn’t have anything that even faintly resembled a refrigerator. Upon making inquirers I learned that food was in capsules and Zella showed me a rather small capsule which I swallowed down with some water and though Zella informed me that I had just had enough lunch to meet the minimum health requirements I didn’t feel very satisfied. Zella looked quite thin and I thought I now knew why.

I aimlessly wandered about the ship, there wasn’t much to wander through, while Zella made some adjustments in the cockpit and I wondered just what I was going to do in order to fill the minimum daily writing requirement of two pages. I was very close to doing this already and I just needed to write a little more.

I then remembered that I hadn’t really introduced myself very well though most of you who read this probably will know something about me.

I stopped in front of a mirror, or to rephrase that, a highly reflective wall panel, and looked at it. I had brown eyes and dark brown hair that I had lengthened to waist length in the previous story but had somehow in the teleportion process gone back to it’s former length of being about midway down my back.

Though I suppose it’s vain to say it, I’m fairly pretty and none of my features are glaringly too large or unnaturally too small and I have two eyes in the proper place and no more than one nose.

A quick check informed me that I had written the minimum requirement for today so with a glad heart I thought that Professor Yniarb would probably be waking up soon…
9/28/05

I was right. Zella stepped out of the cockpit and informed me that the course was set for Tenalp Emoh and as though he was cued, as soon as the words Tenalp Emoh were spoken Professor Yniarb woke up. He stepped out of the captains quarters and walked over to use.

“I hope that they did not mark our departure.”

Zella was about to respond when I burst in,

“Who is they?”

“Your grammar is incorrect.” Professor Ynairb told me. It was not the first time I’d been told this. “You should have said ‘Who are they’ since the word “they” is plural and “is” is singular.”

“Then who are they?” I said. “And why are they chasing you? And what do they want? And why do you want to go to Tenalp Emoh?”

“That’s a lot of questions.” Professor Yniarb told me. “I do not know which question to answer first…” He paused for a moment in thought but he was temporarily relieved from making a choice for at that moment something hit the ship and it violently moved about and Professor Yniarb, who was still a bit unstable on his feet, was knocked over and hit his head oh something hard and was knocked unconscious.

Zella quickly rushed to the cockpit. I dragged Proffessor Yniarb to the couch where he lay deathly still, and I then rushed to the cockpit.

“It’s they” Zella said. “Or so I think. See, were being attacked by two space ships and they are painted red with that strange stripe formation.”

I looked on her scopes and saw that it was so. Another hit on the ship sent it rocking.

“A few more hits like that and we’re done for!” Zella said as she prepared to take evasive action with the controls. “You’ll have to man the guns!” Zella said and then bent in concentration on what she was doing.

For a moment I wondered where the guns were and when I asked Zella told me very hurriedly.

I quickly went where I was directed and saw the guns. Now I was faced by the problem of turning them on. I saw a switch marked “On” and “Off” and switched it to “On” and the guns seemed to turn on.

How to run them was now the problem. I sat in the control chair for them and looked at the controls and buttons.

A screen turned on and I was rather glad to see it do so for it was helpful. Aiming at things is certainly not what I’m good at but the guns did have a help mode for ammeters and I soon was firing away beautifully but unfortunately I was usually missing the target completely or closely missing it. Finally I hit but the gun was so inferior in comparison to other guns which could destroy one of the enemy ships with a single shot that almost no effects were seen.

Despite Zella’s skill as a pilot several times already shots had hit. “You might want to destroy those ships about now!” Zella said over the paging system.

I was trying hard to do so and I decided not to waste time on finding the controls that would allow me to talk back to Zella until I had destroyed a ship or two.

Apparently Zella’s voice had awakened Professor Yniarb and he stumbled in to see me a few moments later.

I noticed his entrance and said, “Do you know anything about running guns?” I asked hopefully.

“I am a professor of linguistics.” Professor Yniarb said, “And though I study physics and mathematics and I do not study the operations of guns.”

“You might do better at this than I’m doing.” I said and I looked at him pleadingly.

“I’ll see.” Professor Yniarb said as he sat at the guns. During the next few minutes he gave me a very detailed account about what was wrong with the guns and how the projected angle of the scope was incorrect and quite a lot of other information which I did not understand and sounded extremely technical. But I was right about it, Professor Yniarb was a better gunner than I was. The sight of they really motivated him I think and soon the two pursuing ships were quite damaged when all of the sudden they stopped pursuing and left.

Professor Yniarb and I hurried to the cockpit to see how Zella was doing.

“Well, that raised my heart rate quite a bit.” Zella said as she endeavored to calm herself.

“My adrenaline running quite a bit too.” I said. “But I’m glad it’s over.”

At that moment all three of us suddenly and simultaneously realized just why they had run away. It wasn’t because of Professor Yniarb’s superior gunning skills it was because of…

“Space monster at twelve o’clock!” Zella said, slamming on the brakes and turning the ship to the right as quickly as possible. I was about to mention that it was actually only ten o’clock when I remembered that one can give directions in where to look by mention the time of the clock and that twelve o’clock meant dead ahead and I looked dead ahead and there was a huge space monster.

“It looks like a green specimen of Eallyray Igbious from the class Monstrositious.” Professor Yniarb said.

“I don’t like the look of it’s teeth.” I said.

“I hope it doesn’t see us.” Zella said as she quickly began leaving the vicinity.

Unfortunately it did see us and started pursuing. It went a lot faster than we did. I couldn’t help wondering how any sort of creature could exist and move in the total vacuum of space but one of my brothers had told me long ago that something won’t seem strange and unnatural unless you try to explain it so I’m not going to offer an explanation. Professor Yniarb probably could have explained it though.

Zella was looking worried since the space monster was moving a lot faster than the ship was. She was looking around on her scopes and suddenly she breathed a sigh of relief for she spotted another ship. It was a large military ship and looked quite capable of dealing with large space monsters.

Zella started typing in a distress signal and when she was done she sent it to the other ship. The first sign of response came a few minutes later when the other ship altered it’s course and started heading towards them and the space monster.

However the space monster was catching up very quickly. Zella was looking seriously worried and suddenly left her post and starting getting her important belongings together into a pack. My pack was still on my back since it had an anti-gravity device on it that made it seem almost weightless.

A few moments later the space monster caught up with us. “Quick this way!” Zella said running down the corridor which wasn’t very long fortunately. We followed and as we did their was a crunch and several long jagged teeth came into the space ship. Zella opened the escape pod and all three of us rushed into it and Zella hit the eject button and since fortunately it was on the side of the space monster that did not face into its cavernous mouth we were able to get away while the space monster proceeded to chew the ship.

The other space ship was now nearby and soon used it’s tractor beam to haul us in. We entered a large well lit hanger and the escape pod was set gently down and the hanger bay doors were closed.

A very official looking officer in a military uniform stepped forward and behind him was a rather handsome looking young man of about twenty-five who also wore a military looking uniform but it wasn’t quite military.

Zella opened the escape pod’s hatch and clambered out. No one seemed surprised. I climbed out and gracefully stepped away from the escape pod. Several looked surprised at seeing me but their surprise was nothing to what they expressed when Professor Yniarb stepped out of the escape pod.

“Professor Yniarb!” the handsome young man said, “I was on my way to see you! I’m glad to see that you are safe.”
9/29/05

“I’m quite glad to be safe.” Professor Yniarb said, “I’m glad you came along just then. What with they and the space monster things were looking a little dark.”

“Do they know about it?” the young man, whose name by the way was Raldan.

“I’m not certain.” Professor Yniarb said, “but if they don’t know they certainly have guessed something. At any rate they’ve been pursuing me and were doing so until almost up to the point you cam along.”

“This is disturbing news.” Raldan said, “I suppose you want to go to Tenalp Emoh at once?”

“Yes, naturally.” Professor Yniarb said.

Raldan gave an order to set the change of course and then he was about to lead the way out when he stopped, turned, and said, “By the way, Professor, you haven’t introduced me to your companions yet.”

“You’re right, I haven’t.” Professor Yniarb said and he turned and looked at us and suddenly a puzzled expression came on his face.

“Actually,” he said, “I don’t think I’ve been introduced to them yet.”

Although in real life I’m not sure I would have been equal to the situation I was in the story. “My name is Elizabeth Joy Von Fange,” I said, “And I’m an Authoress amongst other things.”

“And my name,” Zella said trying to sound important, “is Zellinia Kremeshlious Midernia Rovist Smith. I’m a pilot”

“And I’m” Raldan said, “Raldan Havornlel the Third. And,” here he smiled ever so slightly, “I’m a prince.”

Zella knew he was a prince as soon as he had mentioned his name and blushed to think that she hadn’t recognized him before.

I however, though I had harbored suspicions of his rank, hadn’t officially known until now. I curtsied and said that I was honored to meet him and Zella attempted to do the same.

Prince Raldan said a few polite words and then led the way out of the hanger with the rest of us following.

At the moment I was almost wishing that I were a bit older than I currently was for my mother considers the tender age of seventeen to be much to young for romance. However as I’m sure a real romance when I’m old enough will be more interesting than a fictional one when I’m not I stepped calmly aside for another heroine who, being twenty-one, was old enough. However I’m not saying that you’ve already met the heroine who’s old enough though I’m also not going to say that you haven’t. Still the fact remains that Prince Raldan was quite handsome.

We entered a lounge and the four of us sat down and Prince Raldan, much to my delight, ordered refreshments and they tasted very good. Though it isn’t one of my chief pleasures I do enjoy eating when I haven’t done so in a while. And by while in this present instance I mean over an hour.
11/18/05

We spent a few minutes eating before any serious conversation started. Rella didn’t seem to mind the break from minimum daily health requirement food capsules and Professor Yniarb showed signs of a greater appetite than one would think common in professors.

However Zella’s curiosity finally overcame her desire to eat and seizing her opportunity when Professor Yniarb was also slowing down in his eating she asked, “Professor Yniarb, who are they and what are they after you for?”

Professor Yniarb was about to answer when suddenly something collided with the ship and all were thrown about and Professor Yniarb fell forward and knocked his head quite hard on the table.

“Asteroids!” someone said of the ships intercom. Prince Raldan quickly got up and headed for the command center and as he went I heard him say, “There shouldn’t be any asteroids within…” and then he was out of the room.

Zella and I helped Professor Yniarb back to his seat and I commented, “You know, I’m beginning to suspect that it’s not such a good idea to ask who they are or what it is.”

Zella looked at me in surprise, “Why?”

“Because just about every time we do something happens to Professor Yniarb and eventually he might be seriously damaged with all of these bumps on the head.”

“But don’t you want to know who they are and what it is?”

“Well…” I said and paused, “I must admit my curiosity isn’t greatly raised on the subject at the current moment. I’d much rather know when I get to go shopping.”

Zella looked at me in disbelief. “At a time like this you just want to go shopping???”

“Well, I suppose so. I’d like to find a store which has some new clothes because green velvet is rather hot and it restricts one movements somewhat and the train goes all over the place and besides that, I already have strong suspicions as to who Prince Raldan is going to marry so that’s not what I want to find out.”

Zella did not reply immediately for just then several more asteroids hit the ship and and Professor Yniarb fell forward but this time his fall was cushioned by a plate of refreshments which fortunately were not of the type that had toothpicks stuck into them. Professor Yniarb’s hair looked a little interesting when we once again picked him up and set him in the seat.

“I wish we could strap him in.” I said, “So he wouldn’t keep falling.”

“Now why couldn’t I have thought of that?” Zella said as she quickly located the chair’s seat belt and promptly fastened the still unconscious Professor Yniarb into his seat.”

Around then Prince Raldan came back into the room. “We’ve encountered an asteroid field.” he said, “However it’s not on any of our charts.”

“Well,” I said, “if you see any small fighters don’t bother with them and avoid small moons.”

“What?” Zella said.

“I was referencing a movie.” I replied. “Though really, in the movie tit seemed to turn out for the best that they went to the moon and found out that it was a apace station and…”

At that moment another asteroid struck the ship and I stopped referencing one of the six science fiction movies I’d seen.

Prince Raldan got up off the floor and headed back to the main control room and Zella and I followed him although we were uninvited. There were a lot of buttons in the cockpit control area of the ship and I was very thankful that i didn’t have to figure out how to fly that ship because by the time I figured it out we probably would have been smashed to smithereens in the asteroid field.

“Have you got the analysis on how big the field is?” Prince Raldan asked an official looking man who sat in front of an enormous computer screen and seemed very intent on what he was doing. “Yes, it’s N class as far as size goes and R class are far as intensity of motion and L class as far as amount of particles and why couldn’t they let you put any card in a blank spot instead of just having to wait for a king?” A quick glance at his screen informed me that he was playing Solitaire. “I know how to play that.” I said. It was about the first thing I’d really known how to do that I’d seen on board a spaceship so far and I was quite pleased at discovering that I did know how to do something.

Ignoring the remarks on Solitaire Prince Ralscan was carefully analyzing the situation, “Do you think we’ll be able to get through it all right? We’re already some ways into it and going around would take up a great deal of time besides putting us a bit to close to the war zone.”

“War Zone?” I asked quickly. I hadn’t know that their was a war going on before.

“Yes,” Zella said to me, “Zargle Tremough Findroven the first started the war and since his death three days ago it seems as though his son Zargle Tremough Findroven the second is going to finish it.”

“Or be finished.” some unidentified person in the command center muttered underneath their breath loud enough to be heard by everyone in the room.

“And which side are we on?” I asked.

“The people of Raldanstrovere are committed to a strict position of neutrality.” Prince Raldan explained to me. Then he suddenly seemed to notice that Professor Yniarb was not with us and he said, “Where is Professor Yniarb.”

“We left him in the other room.” Zella replied.

“I’d better check on him.” Prince Raldan said and he walked back while Zella and I followed. Professor Yniarb was no worse than we’d seen him last and soon another shock of asteroids sent the three of us scurrying back to the command center.

“Are we almost clear of them?” Prince Raldan asked as soon as we arrived there.

“Not quite but almost. A few more minutes.” the pilot said.

“Our shields are still over fifty percent.” another of the ships officers mentioned and several other reports then flowed in but since I really didn’t understand all of the terms and I didn’t know the purpose of a lot of the persons there I won’t write down what all was said. However by the expression of relief on Prince Raldan’s face I thought that things were going fairly well.

And apparently they were for we soon reached the end of the asteroid field and everyone let out a sigh of relief until we noticed the fleet of star ships under the command of Zargle Tremough Findroven the second which was headed our way.

“I hope they haven’t heard about it” was Prince Raldan’s comment as he ordered evasive action.

“Even if they have.” I said, “They probably don’t know that Porfessor Yniarb is on here.” I replied in a hopefully comforting way.

“Good,” said one of the characters in the room in a very sarcastic voice, “Then they won’t think there is any use in our ship and just blow us up.”

“Well if that’s the case….” I said as the ship was starting to be fired at, “Maybe I can do something.” I then pulled out the instruction manuel from my pack and found that it did have a communicator of sorts but it wouldn’t communicate with forces under Zargle Tremough Findroven the second so instead I flipped back to the chapter on smoke signals and, after cautiously performing the preliminary details I typed in the message to be written. It read

PROFESSOR YNIARB IS HERE AND HE KNOWS ABOUT IT SO DON’T DESTROY US PLEASE

It is very polite to say please so I thought I’d better stick that on there. However the comment of the officer who was playing solitaire was, “That’ll make us sound like wimps.” I decided to add something to it…

IF YOU DO ATTACK US THEN DIRE THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU

Since I’m the authoress of the story it wasn’t exactly an empty threat. However from the way they got into attack formation I assumed that neither message had done any good.

“We’re in for it now.” Prince Raldan said. I was rather surprised by the attack since nobody had been asking who they were or what it was lately.
11/19/05

Everyone began taking battle stations and Zella and I attempted not to get in anyones way, and we were fairly successful. Pretty soon the ship was being fired at and we could hear the explosions, I think. though I also think you aren’t supposed to be able to hear sound in a vacuum and space is presumable a vacuum and it must be a pretty dirty one since there are a lot of cleaners fro vacuums though they generally aren’t used in space and how… A large shock broke off my train of thought and I decided maybe I’d better see if my pack had any useful things about it for this sort of situation. I grabbed my user manuel and began scanning the table of contents.

“It’s too bad the fuses on our destructo bombs are so short.” the chief gunner said regretfully and loudly.

“Yes, ” a miscellaneous person who probably either had something to do with attacking weaponry or knew what the gunner was talking about, “They’d explode us before we could get away.”

At that moment the officer who had been playing solitaire turned around and noticed the user manuel I was reading. “Does that thing have PIA teleporting capabilities?”

“Should it?” I asked flipping to the chapter on teleporting to see if it did. However another officer, who wore glasses and looked extremely technically capable said, “If it’s mode l(here he said a string of numbers and words that I didn’t understand and couldn’t repeat), which it is, it does.”

“Great!” the officer who had asked if the thing had PIA teleporting devices when he found out that it did, “Stand over here.” he told me and then pulled out a cable from a zippered pocket in my pack and plugged it into a socket on the wall and told the gunner, “release that destructo bomb when I yell ‘NOW!’.”

The gunner got ready. There was about two minutes of tense waiting which would have, in a movie, been filled with suspenseful music and close ups of persons faces looking worried, excited, confident, and possibly some shots of outside showing the increasing dangers surrounding us and maybe even a shot of Zargle Tremough Findroven the second either Muhahahahaing or perhaps saying “I have you now”, or maybe “We will crush them like little tiny flies!” or something like that.

However as this is not a movie you’ll just have to use your imagination to figure out what those two minutes were like. I was standing there and was primarily wondering what PIA teleporting was and whether the word “socket” was the proper one to use to describe what the cable had been plugged into and whether or not is was a cable and whether or not that bomb would explode when we were there or when we weren’t.

However, another of the younger officers was contemplating other matters and finally broke the silence by saying “But won’t setting off a destructo bomb violate our status of neutrality?”

“Self defense!” the gunner shrieked and a before there was any other discussion the person who was supposed to shout now shouted “NOW!!!”

The bomb was released but we weren’t there when it exploded.

Chapter Two
We arrive somewhere

Apparently my backpack teleported us, including the entire spaceship, to a very different part of the galaxy and it was assumed that in the part we had left there was a great big explosion. There were sighs of relief and exclamations of triumph being made by the various persons inside the command center and as I looked around I thought that perhaps I ought to have given the characters in there names and perhaps descriptions but since I hadn’t it was a little late now because I kind of doubt they’ll come in the story again for the place where we had teleported to was none other than Tenalp Emoh where Professor Yniarb was trying to go to.

Prince Raldan led the way out of the cockpit to the room where we had left Professor Yniarb. He had regained consciousness and we, Prince Raldan, Professor Yniarb, Zella, and I, walked out of the ship. I now found myself in about the same sort of room that I had teleported into at the very beginning of the book, only fortunately for us and the room this one was a bit larger so it was able to contain the rather large space ship that had just teleported into it. Unfortunately it looked as though none of the doors were big enough to get it out again but then, I realized, they could always teleport somewhere else. At any rate that problem was left behind as prince Raldan led us out of the building.
12/8/05

“We should go and discuss these matters at,” Prince Raldan began when I interrupted with, “that store.” and pointed. They looked in the direction I pointed and saw a large elegant clothing store which I had noticed the instant I laid eyes on it. The window displays showed several very lovely dresses and without further delay I started walking towards it.

Prince Raldan said, “Well, it doesn’t really matter where we talk I suppose.” and followed with Professor Yniarb and Zella. Zella was also shooting admiring glances at the window displays and seemed to enjoy the prospect of going into the store.

By the time they came in I had already picked out an outfit I liked and was rapidly moving on towards more attractive options. I wasn’t sure about sizes but fitting rooms were available and I was soon much to busy to notice Princes Raldan and Professor Yniarb standing in a quiet corner and talking in low voices about they and itt. Zella also was looking around and didn’t hear the conversation.

In a surprisingly short time I purchased a few outfits and put on one of them, a very lovely yellow dress with fluttery sleeves and lots of pink flowers embroidered all over it and I had found matching shoes. Prince Raldan looked admiringly in my direction when he noticed me and for a moment I enjoyed that thoroughly but since I wasn’t going to be the final heroine for him I soon redirected his notice to Zella who had just walked out in a lovely dress of pale pink which set off her charms exceedingly well. She decided to buy it .

Professor Yniarb didn’t allow Prince Raldan very much time to observe us for he quickly resumed the conversation and for another few minutes they were deep in discussion when a messenger entered and handed a notification paper to Prince Raldan who proceeded to read it. From the expression on his face one would have assumed that the news was good, which it was, and he soon mentioned it.

Apparently they had a meeting at some place with a confusing name that I didn’t know how to spell and for some reason, which was mentioned, somebody had dropped something which had a metal in it into the main reactor core of wherevery it was and it had caused a great explosion and there weren’t survivors so Professor Yniarb didn’t have to worry about being pursued by they anymore.

Also, due to another explosion caused by a certain destructo bomb the war was now over and all present were glad to hear that. Professor Yniarb was especially pleased to hear about the fact that he need not worry so much about the safety of it. I was about to inquire about what it was but the word “Clearance” printed in large letters on a sign over a rack of extra pretty evening gowns that I hadn’t noticed before caught my notice and Professor Yniarb had left before I remembered that I was about to ask a a question.

Approximately about that moment I heard a familiar sound which I recognized as my cell phone ring-tone and picking it up I heard my mother’s voice informing me it was time to eat lunch. I said, “I’ll be right there.” and pulled out the teleporter device and managed to send myself back to my own room where I quickly changed into ordinary clothes and went downstairs to eat lunch with my family leaving Zella and Prince Raldan to handle their own romance.

Chapter Three
A bit more information

In case you are wondering here is some information that might answer some questions you might have such as, “Who are they?”, “What was it?”, “Did Prince Raldan end up marrying Zella?”, “Why aren’t you mentioning any of the questions I’m thinking?”, “Why was this story so short?”, “Will there be a sequel to this story?”, and “Why didn’t you mention more questions?”. I shall now answer these questions. To begin with…

1. “Who are they?” They are, or perhaps I should say were, a mysterious race of unkown beings who since nobody ever saw them, nobody knew quite what they were or who they were. The peculiar shape and color of their spaceships were known and about the only way to identify them. Also they were fond of having conventions and meetings at which all attended.

2. “What was it?” It. Or if you want to be more specific, Professor Yniarbs “it” was, or is, an invention that is, or was, extremely useful but far to technical for me to understand at the current moment. It doubtlessly had a name but It works well enough for the purposes of the story.

3. “Did Prince Raldan end up marrying Zella?” Yes, they fell very much in love and got married, had twelve children and stopped then because the number thirteen was unlucky.

4. “Why aren’t you mentioning any of the questions I’m thinking?” I beg your pardon, but I don’t really know what your thinking and I only mentioned the questions that I was thinking.

5. “Why was this story so short?” Because I prefer writing fantasy stories and I lost the inspiration for a science fiction story. Besides that I was tired of this one and it was time to start writing on another story.

6. “Will there be a sequel to this story?” Probably but it may not show up for a long time.

7. “Why didn’t you mention more questions?” As I think I mentioned before, I’m tired. And I couldn’t think of any more.

8. “Is this the end of the story?” Yes but just so it’s clear, THE END!