MISSION IN THE STARS
Crewmember #4, Elizabeth, walked steadily through the narrow back hall of the spaceship with Hologram 924-A, the one everyone called Holu. Holu had blown a circuit and now he was going fuzzy, and that’s why Elizabeth was taking the shortcut to Dr. Tyler, as everyone called him, who was the "hologram doctor."
Suddenly, Elizabeth stopped at the sound of a little Robot trying to escape from someone in the dark room up ahead. She quickly pulled Holu behind a big support beam and watched horrified as their newest crewmember, Sue, tied the poor, helpless robot up so it couldn’t move. "Holu," Elizabeth whispered hoarsely, "record this with the holo-projector, and fast!"
"I have been! So SHH!" he nervously hushed. They watched the scene but they could not hear the whole conversation because everything was said so quietly. The next thing the two knew, Sue was shoving the robot into the tiny pod used that was supposed to be used to for escaping danger.
Elizabeth leaned closer, "That’s Robot R-4, the one holding the top-secret information! And now that mean, old Sue is escaping with all that information, and the poor robot, using our emergency pod!" They watched her zoom off in the little pod in disgrace. "Hurry," she cried, "we’ve got to tell the captain!"
They darted through the hall like lightning. As they turned a corner they practically ran into Captain Sarah. "You better have a good explanation for why you are stampeding down these halls like a mad herd of elephants!" she said rather sternly.
"Captain," Elizabeth began, "Sue kidnapped Robot R-4! Holu recorded it on the three-dimensional holo-projector, but he’s going fuzzy so I need to take to see Dr. Tyler before everyone watches it."
"What?" the captain cried, "Hurry and take Holu to the doctor, now!"
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After they took Holu to Dr. Tyler, the whole crew watched the 3-D projection in an important meeting. While watching that they found out that Sue’s real identity was Jerri. Now, everyone knows that her dream was to control everything, Robot R-4 was holding one big chunk of very important information. They decided on a plan were taking their largest emergency pod (like the one Jerri escaped in only big enough to hold five instead of two) to rescue Robot R-4.
"Poor R-4," Elizabeth said sadly, "Jerri is a simply dreadful person to be around. I should know, when we thought she really was a true crewmember she was my roommate, and for some reason she always seemed to bother me, and now I know why."
Soon the group, which consisted of Captain Sarah, Commander Steven, Co-Pilate Jeff, Holu, Elizabeth, were sneaking into the gigantic space station through an old exit. After about a ½ and hour of wandering they figured out where Robot R-4 was located.
"Hurry," Co-Pilot Jeff called, "We’ve found the little guy!"
"Not so fast!" a ruthless voice from behind them called out. It was Jerri and her top ranking guards. "Take that girl away!" she cried. Jerri was pointing directly at Elizabeth. The small team tried to defend their brave friend, but the guards were too strong. Jerri and the guards took Elizabeth and were gone but Captain Sarah knew they’d be back.
"Jeff, blast the door to Robot R-4’s cell!" Captain Sarah said, "Hurry!"
He took his gun and gave a nice blast to the door and it fell to the floor. The robot zoomed out of the little room. "R-4," Jeff called, "Plug into the wall and find Elizabeth!"
The little machine gave some beeps as if to say ‘yes sir,’ than plugged into the circuit on the wall and headed down a wide hall with the team following quickly behind.
"There she is, right inside that door! She’s looking at us waving and trying to show us where she is!" said Holu excitedly.
Suddenly, that same awful voice called out again, "It’s you again, and now I’ve got all of you!" In an instant, all ways of escaping were closed up by huge electronic walls! In fact, Jerri had them in the perfect spot for her, because of all the walls she had them cornered!
"Help!"
"Ahh!"
"Oh-no"
Jerri pulled out her gun. Elizabeth gave a muffled scream. Jerri was about to shoot but R-4 quickly smashed into her and pushed her down the metal trash-chute.
Everyone was cheering, after their little celebration, Jeff blasted the door and Elizabeth ran out crying for joy. Soon, they all headed back to the pod and went back to their space ship, safely.