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know how to fly this ship?”
    â€œYes.”
    â€œCan you help us escape?” Adam asked again, not wanting to push the guy but worried about the upcoming jump. “We really have to get home. My mother’s already made me dinner by now. She’ll be wondering where I am.”
    The little alien seemed to understand.
    â€œI have a mother as well. She is nice to me.” The alien glanced once more at his companions. He seemed lost in thought, or perhaps he was confused. He sent them a final mental communication. “I will have to consider the situation.”
    The alien turned and stepped to where the others stood. They acknowledged his arrival with a slight nod of their two fat heads, but if they communicated with the little guy Adam and Watch didn’t hear it, with their ears or their minds. Adam continued to fret about the upcoming hyperjump.
    â€œWhat do you know about hyperspace?” he asked Watch.
    Watch shrugged. “Our scientists only have theories that it exists. But it sounds like this ship is capable of sliding into a shortcut through space. That’s what hyperspace must be. This ship uses the energy of its tremendous speed to open the door to the shortcut.”
    â€œThen we have to brake somehow,” Adam said.
    â€œYou can throw one of your shoes at the control panel, but I don’t think that will do the trick,” Watch said. “It will probably just get you shot again. And this time they might not have their guns on stun.”
    Adam started to stand. “I’m tired of sitting here doing nothing. I’d rather go down fighting.”
    Watch grabbed his arm. “We have to be patient. The little guy clearly wants to help us. Let’s give him a chance.”
    Adam reluctantly sat back down. “I’ll give him ten minutes, that’s all.”
    But Adam didn’t have to wait that long. Five minutes later the other flying saucer suddenly appeared. They saw it through the transparent ceiling. It swooped dangerously close, glowing brightly, and as it did an angry burst of green light struck the ceiling. For a moment Adam and Watch were blinded. Their own flying saucer shook violently as the lights dimmed more. Adam thought he smelled smoke.
    The two aliens at the controls gestured excitedly, although they didn’t say a word. They probably couldn’t speak if they wanted to. Yet they had radio communications. Adam and Watch knew that for afact a minute later when they heard Sally’s voice come through the hidden speakers.
    â€œThis is Captain Sara Wilcox and Lieutenant Cindy Makey of the Starship UFO. We demand your complete and unconditional surrender. You have two Earth minutes to comply. Failure to do so will result in your immediate and total destruction.”
    Adam and Watch looked at each other in amazement.

7
    A board Starship UFO —the ship’s title as well as their respective ranks had been Sally’s idea—Cindy wondered if Sally had pushed it too far. Behind them, against the far wall, the two aliens huddled together as if afraid. Cindy worried that they knew something their human enemies did not.
    â€œMaybe we should negotiate a trade of prisoners,” Cindy said.
    â€œThis is interstellar war,” Sally said, her finger on the firing button. “I don’t negotiate.”
    â€œBut if you blow up their ship, you’ll kill Adam and Watch,” Cindy pointed out.
    Sally removed her finger from the firing button. They had figured out how to work the weapons—and navigate the vessel—on the journey out from the sun. Of course the aliens had given them a few practical hints when Sally held the guns to their heads. Sally was showing the aliens no mercy. She was constantly yelling at them and threatening to boot them out into space, where they would surely die. Cindy did not approve of the cruelty, even though the aliens would probably have killed them if given the chance.
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