It seemed to take forever. A long and swirling tunnel with bright and beautiful colors that seem to dance around them like fairies dancing around flowers on a spring morning. Although the tunnel was in fact the same width throughout, it seemed to be impossibly wide near the ship and fading down to a single point of light at this far and distant end.
As the great ship finally emerged from the hyperspace tunnel and broke into normal space, before it appeared a blue-green world of oceans and great continents. The family Robinson remains safely tucked in their chairs with wide-eyed amazement as time remained frozen. Only the Robot, the ever vigilant guardian, seemed to take it all in stride. With a human passengers, time was frozen and day were stuck between life and death.
The ship was on autopilot and it gently and methodically glided into orbit. Time regained its momentum in the robot watched as cops and other sundries dropped to the floor as if held in place momentarily by some unseen force.
On cue, the robot undid the magnetic buckles holding him in place and moved to the sofa containing the form of Major Don West.
"Major, are you okay?" The robot had a human personality, but he couldn't get past its mechanical voice.
Don shook his head several times and tried to wipe out the cobwebs that hyperspace travel always left behind. He quickly turned to look at the displays that showed the light signs and other vital statistics for each of his charges that made up the first family in space from Earth. He took special care to notice the display above Judy, beautiful Judy, the woman he could never have. To his right set Professor John Robinson, more than a leader, more than his boss. He was like a father figure to him. The least with his right hand and softly touched Professor Robinson's arm. John snapped the life and immediately unbuckled deceit restraints and ran to the latter leading to the control center. Major West unbuckled his own belts and was right on his heels. The Robot remained below and busied itself waking the rest of the family Robinson.
"Don, is the ship okay?"
Don quickly glanced at various lights and controls, then turned to Professor Robinson and nodded his head to indicate that the Jupiter 2 was safe. Behind them a jostling of the ladder told them both that young Will Robinson was awake and would soon be joining them in the control center. Will had the scientific knowledge of man wrapped up in the body of a boy.
"Where are we Dad?"
John held his son close to decide and rubbed his hair.
"I don't really know right now son. I thought we might wait for your mom and your sisters before we checked to find out."
Penny, the youthful future of the Robinsons, came up next followed closely by Judy and Maureen. The Robot join the group in short order as fast and the elevator could carry his bulk. Mrs. Robinson joined her husband and son and rapture arm around them and gathered her daughters to her side.
"Well John, did we make it?"
"Let's take a look" as he motioned to Major West.
Don pressed button on my control console that opened the giant blast doors protecting the glass windows of the Jupiter 2. All of them gazed, for the first time, the new world that they hoped would be theirs. They hoped they would be the first family on another world, the vanguard so that others might join them and establish new human colonies in space. After years of errors, hostile forces and sabotage from their unwelcome passenger, Dr. Smith, they hoped the new world they now orbited would be the paradise they sought on Alpha Centauri. John unfastened himself from his families embrace and busied himself studying the star charts and the position of the stars surrounding the planet they now orbited. Within minutes he looked to Major West and saw him smile broadly and then he looked back to his family and smiled.
"We've made it! Where in orbit above Alpha Centauri Prime."
They all crowded around the front glass and looked down. They could see blue oceans and long, winding rivers. On all the continents and islands green patches of vegetation beckoned them. They all shared a feeling, like coming back to your long-lost home for the very first time ever. Alarms began to ring and the robot began his ever famous chant.
"Danger, danger, danger! I detect a missile fired from the surface! Conventional warhead. Estimated impact: 15 seconds!"
"Major!" John yelled to West.
Major West deftly manipulated the controls and fired the mighty engines of the Jupiter 2. The ship bucked and rolled as a drive to avoid destruction. Jupiter 2 rolled away and scrape the top layer of the atmosphere, but the missile still raised along the skin of the ship. It veered away and exploded moments later. The shock wave struck the Jupiter 2 and sent it reeling. Only centrifugal force kept the occupants from tumbling up and crashing into the top of the ship. Dr. Smith rolled out of the elevator compartment and slid along the floor and crashed into the tread-base of the Robot.
"Ahh! Just what in blazes is going on!"
"Your guess is as good as mine doctor, but offhand I would say somebody down there don't like us" Major West barked back. "Why couldn't you stay down below anyway, Dr. Smith?"
"You two can talk about this later," John yelled back. "Right now, we need to save the ship. We're going down fast."
Mrs. Robinson, the children and Dr. Smith scrambled back to the ladder and went below. They quickly buckled themselves back in to their chairs and prayed.