There in front of us was ...
"What is that?"
Betty started walking toward ... it.
"It is a Malkovician cruiser."
"Looks like a bunch of rusted metal," Calvin remarked.
I had to agree.
"Looks like a bunch of rusted metal, sweetie."
Betty nodded.
"It doesn't look like much right now, but with a new paint job and an overhaul, it just might stay together, long enough to get us to the moon."
"Might?"
I wasn't terribly reassured.
"Well, it is rather old," Betty reminded me.
"But I think with some TLC and ..."
"A lot of luck," I snickered.
The others snickered as well.
Betty walked to me.
"Do you want to rescue your mother?"
"Hummingbird?" the Baron moaned.
I nodded.
"I do.
But sweetie. This could take years to do."
She nodded.
"Sweetie, Nick and Nicky are travelling to the moon in a Zonk spaceship."
I was confused.
"Yea, sooooooooo?"
She put her hands on my cheeks.
"Look at me, sweetie.
Concentrate."
I nodded.
Sigh.
Betty had such beautiful eyes.
"You're not concentrating, Krall."
"Sorry."
"Now think about this.
Nick and Nicky.
Zonk spaceship."
I shook my head.
"Nothing."
Calvin laughed.
"Krall? It took them like 50 years just to get to Earth, so assumption being, it will take them just as long to get back.
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