Deep red eyes stared deviously at the purple eyed tallest. NOW was the time. A perfect prank. As Purple sighed and flipped a page to his book, Red stood lurking from the shadows behind him, containing his glee and evilness as he slowly hovered past the co-tallest and his comfy chair, courtesy of planet Vort, which not only served as a prison planet, but made the most comfortable couches and couch-chairs the universe had to offer.

Red was easily able to slip into Purple's room, the door wide open and very inviting. The ship creaked a bit as it changed course, causing Red to pause in mid hover before proceeding on. And there he spotted it.

Purple had a favored stuffed toy, a teddy alien. Its one-eyed face was beaming with a huge, sharp-toothed grin on its face. It had fluffy ears, tentacles for arms and feet and its skin was a dull green with a dull yellow tummy.

Purple didn't just favor this particular stuffed animal, he ADORED it. And if anything were to happen to this annoying excuse of a toy, Purple would be devastated. It was perfect! Steal the toy, roll it around in the garbage for a few minutes and put it back. Red wallowed in his evil as he slowly approached Pur's bed, the toy resting delicately at the top with a bunch of pillows.

Red's claw stroked the ears of the teddy, before he snatched it up and tucked it under his arm. Trying to contain the giggling forcing its way to his mouth, the red-eyed tallest rushed to the door and peeked out.

Purple sighed sadly and turned another page of his book. The book he was reading was called 'Head and Shoulders Above Everyone Else' an autobiography by a previous tallest, Miyuki.

" She was a good tallest…" Purple muttered to himself as he finished another page and moved on.

Red rolled his eyes and hovered out of the room ever so quietly, creeping past his co-tallest and making his way to the corner. Purple stretched, raising his arms into the air and Red froze. If Pur caught him now, he wouldn't be able to get away with anything for a while.

But Purple didn't notice him and went back to the part of the book where Miyuki spoke of her first conquered planet. Red almost sighed out of relief but held it in as he made it past the corner and a little ways down the hall.

Then he jumped around in gleeful silence as he held the teddy alien in his claws. Red hugged the teddy victoriously and hovered past confused subjects. Whistling in a happy tune put his subjects at ease, though and they thought nothing else of it.

Red cradled the teddy alien and when he finally reached the nearest trash bin, grabbed the handle and pulled the bin away from the wall it was nestled in.

Good, Red thought evilly, they already through out the old mooshminky.

Indeed, the slop mooshminky churned and gurgled in staleness at the top of the seething garbage. Red looked at the teddy alien and then the garbage, deciding on second thoughts, maybe just hiding somewhere.

Then, a horrible impulse screamed I GOT IT!!! And the teddy was suddenly submerged in old mooshminky, soiled papers and old Vort dogs from only IRK knows when. Red smiled and began to slosh the stuffed animal around in the filth, his claws getting sticky with the disgusting goop.

" M-my tallest?"

Red turned to see a COM-unit holding up a clipboard of papers, " I need you to sign these."

The COM was completely oblivious to what Red was doing. Red unthinkingly let go of the teddy alien and signed the papers. As Red was preoccupied with the signing of many forms, a garbage drone made his rounds to the trash bin. He whistled as he pulled out the baggie and threw it into a larger bin behind him, the teddy crushed and shoved deeper into the baggie.

Replacing the old garbage bag with a new one, the garbage drone shut the bin door and carted away the filth. Red finally finished signing papers and sent the COM-unit away, turning back to his evil master plan. He waved to the COM as he shoved his claw back into the bin. When he realized he wasn't getting anything soft and teddy-like he peered into the bin and saw its vast emptiness.

Red gasped and looked around frantically for the person responsible for the disappearance of the garbage.

But seeing no one, Red dashed down one of the halls, " Hey!! Has anyone seen a garbage drone pass through here?!"

An Irken engineer nodded, " Yeah, he passed through here a couple minutes ago-"

" Where?!" Red asked quickly.

The engineer pointed down the hall and Red hovered faster than he ever had in his entire life. Bumping into other engineers and COMs, Red came to a room where he spotted the garbage drone dumping a bin of garbage into a chute.

Red dove for the bin, " NO!!! Wait!!!"

But then a horrible sucking noise could be heard as the garbage was sucked into the chute and pulled into a cannon.

Red grabbed the garbage drone by the shoulders, " Is there any way to stop the process?!"

The garbage drone thought for a moment, " Well… no."

Red began to sweat as the cannon charged and fired off into space.

The tallest stared at the drone, " Where did it fire that?" he asked rather calmly.

The drone shrugged, " Planet Frim. The junkyard planet."

And with that, the garbage drone left the room to finish more of his rounds. Red slumped to the floor. Purple's beloved teddy alien was on Frim. With eons of old rotting piles of garbage, it would take YEARS to find the teddy. There was only one thing for Red to do.

Red stood up slowly and hovered out of the room, followed by the stares of his subjects. Purple suddenly bumped into him, his eyes in a bit of worry and loss.

" Hey," he said, managing a smile, " um, you haven't seen my teddy around have you?"

That smile on Pur's face made Red feel all the more guilty. That sad little 'please tell me you can help' face.

Red sighed heavily as the hallway cleared of their servants before turning to his co-tallest, " Pur… It's not on the ship…"

Purple's eyes widened with worry, " What?"

Red hung his head, " I took it… and," he looked up.

Purple was already getting tears.

Red turned away, " It's on planet Frim."

Purple's eyes grew to the size of Earth's moon, " WHAT?!"

" Believe me," Red pleaded, " I never meant harm to the ugly little thing."

Purple slumped to the floor, " You lost my teddy…"

Red frowned, " Um… yeah…"

Purple curled up into a ball and teetered back and forth, mumbling about his loss of the beloved teddy.

Red shook his co-tallest, " Pur? Purple?!"

" M-my teddy… Frim?"

Red gave a small smile, " Uh huh, it's there."

Purple glared at him, " And you sent him THERE?!? What kind of friend are YOU?!?!"

Red's eyes reflected guilt as Purple turned away from him, " I… I didn't mean for anything like this to happen… It was supposed to be funny…"

Purple began hovering slowly away, but whispered quietly, " Yeah? Well, nobody's laughing…"

Red slumped his shoulders and as Purple went back to his room, he scoffed, " Ah, he'll be fine!! It was just a stupid teddy alien."