Chapter Three
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"The mission went on for days, weeks even, with no end in sight. There was nothing... nothing... to show the brave, gorgeous crew the correct course. For all anyone at home knew, Space Force 3 had also been lost... lost.... lost...."
Yellow was bored, very bored, and a bored Yellow was typically a melodramatic Yellow. Yellow had tried to journal, and had started off with some great entries so far:
Nothing really seemed to help pass the time, though.
And then the intercom bleeped.
bleep "Attention everyone, this is Mission Commander Blue. Planet spotted." bleep
It was impressive that even when he spoke his name was capitalised.
Yellow hurried to the cockpit to meet with the rest of the crew.
"What have we found?" he asked when he got there.
"A planet."
Well, that just clarified everything.
"Yellow," Blue said, "You and I are going to go down to the surface to explore and see if we can find a clue as to what may have happened to Space Force Two."
Yellow jumped up and down in excitement. "Oh yay!"
Before long the ship came into orbit and Blue and Yellow ventured toward the launch bay and the mini-shuttle. "Opening payload doors... now," White's voice said over the radio. "Good luck and Godspeed."
Blue and Yellow waited for the doors to open, then floated out of the shuttle ont he mini-shuttle and flew down toward the planet.
Landing on the planet the pair began to do some quick exploring. "Looks kinda boring," Yellow mused.
"But it's a foreign planet!" Blue answered exictedly. "How can this be boring?"
They continued on their way until they saw what appeared to be a ship - a small ship - approach them. "Look! Look! A ship!"
The pair watched in anticipation as the ship landed and began to open. Out come what appeared to be a dinosaur! It looks like a velociraptor, but was small.
"It's so cute!" Blue squealed while he approached the raptor. "Awwww, who's the cute little guy... so adorable.." he cooed while leaning over to give the cute little thing a scritch.
RAAARRRR! Perhaps it took exception being called cute. Or perhaps it didn't like being called adorable. Or perhaps Blue just smelled like dinner. Whatever the reason, the adorably cute little raptor suddenly leapt onto Blue and began to try to gnow.
"Get it off! Get it off!" Blue shrieked while flailing and trying to battle the raptor off.
Yellow turned, began to flee, then remembered... he had a gun! An official Space Force Three Outer Space Laser Gun (tm) in fact! He turned, aimed, and fired!
THWEEP! THWEEP! A direct hit! Twice! The raptor went tumbling and the two brave explorers fled for the safety of their mini-shuttle. Without thinking twice about it, they leapt onto their small spacecraft and bravely quicky hurried toward the safe confines of their space shuttle.
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