Chapter 2: No. This is Not a Dream

All you could hear was his footsteps coming out on deck. Usually, that was a good thing, their captain would once again save the day, but in this case it was a bad thing. There was no physical danger out to get them. No pirates, No, black holes. In fact right now, Captain Bobosha Elegar seemed scarier than any of those things put together. It was the words he was about to say to his crew that were indeed terrifying.

All of the crew stopped what they were doing and looked up at the well proportioned man. His curly mass of dark hair flowed behind him.

"You worthless bunch of scatterbrains." he announced presumably not in a very good mood. "what will I ever do with you?" with that he clapped his hands and every single crew member got on their feet and lined up in a single file facing towards their Captain.

He walked beside the line passing just a few centimetres in front of their faces causing them to hold their breaths in case a slight fault would get them in trouble. "Most of you have disappointed me this year. You either betrayed me. Not tighten the secure ropes enough. Sacrificed others in return for your life. And the worst of the rules you have broken are that you are just stupid morons. I believe you are not supposed to slack off while being almost eaten by a Hyper Galactic Whale. Therefore I am forced to release most-

ah…well that's not very fair for the people I have vaguely considered or contemplated on weather or not I should keep them so I would rather say "practically all of you." rather than "most of you". You will find this next planet we are going to a very gloomy place. But what can I say? You've defiantly earned a vacation spot like that."

All of the crew sighed at the same time bowing their heads in dismay. "It's not our fault." one of them said. "Our heads hurt from all that fighting and our muscles ache too."

"I've nearly got a brain left after all those concussions I've had." Most of the crew began talking at the same time.

"Be quite" A woman said with enormous bat ears but a pony tail flowing down her back. She was obviously one of the more demanding ones of the crew.

The crew fell silent and Bobosha started walking and dismissing in the order of the line.

"Barnaby, you're fired. Jellix you're fired too. Frelic you are absolutely fired, I never liked you anyway. Grossa, don't give me that look, it makes me want to punch you even more. Your FIRED. Oh come off it now, You know I hate dogs anyway…"

Morchesso on the other hand was on the upper deck looking down. When he saw what Elegar was doing he gave a slight sigh and walked down the stairs to the bottom deck where the action was taking place. "That's a little harsh wouldn't you say?" he said crossing his arms slightly and giving a wry smile.

Bobosha looked up at his extremely tall friend. Once again Morchesso was wearing his immensely huge goggles that completely shadowed his eyes. Not that he ever even took them off. Then again, not that anyone has ever seen his eyes. The only one who had was Elegar himself and that would be it. No one ever again.

"A little?" answered the captain. "No, just a lot."

"I was being sarcastic."

"We'll too bad. Van, just because I was talking to Morty, doesn't mean you can pull that stunt off easily. I haven't forgotten you, you know." Van looked angry now and walked by Morchesso.

"Don't you worry, uh…Van. He really liked you either though he would always call you a self righteous bastard occasionally. I swear it."

Van just gave Morchesso a cold hearted stare. Then did an interesting hand gesture in the two captains' direction.

"Oh. Dear." Morchesso said. "I don't think he seemed to like us."

"There you go. Another example. This new law of freedom of speech is really getting on my nerves." Bobosha continued to choose who he was going to keep and who he wasn't going to keep, 10 of them out of 30 were left. And he decided he would keep those ten. Not including him and Morchesso. Jordon's planet was coming into view, and the space station just a few kilometres ahead. It would be time for the crew to pack, to make way for a hopefully better crew.

"One ticket for the Space Station Please."

"That will be 50 freks including tax."

"That's alright by me" With that notion, Jordon exchanged the money to the person behind the counter and the person stuck his hand out putting one ticket to the station into view. Jordon stared at it with excitement, and then he laid down a hand on it. However he did not feel the ticket under his hand. Someone else had put there hand over his ticket and with some surprise that hand belonged to his sister.

"And where do you think you're going?" Cathy asked. She looked a lot like Grandma Sara, only not with grey hair.

"Umm…no where of your concern." Jordon unsuccessfully tried to look innocent. He was in trouble. He could tell. Once his older sister was involved, his mama was involved aswell. And once his Mom was involved she would always try to change dad's mind.

"Your going to the space station for WHAT reason? Don't try to fool me Jordon cause you've already sabotaged what could have been a great lie."

"Alright alright alright. I'll tell you." Jordon said looking both sides as if he was crossing the street. "I'm going to go work under Captain Bobosha Elegar and Morchesso Vandessa. I want to see if I'm qualified!"

"Captain Bobosha and Morchesso? Are you out of your mind? They've done so many dangerous things and now you want to follow them?"

"What?!" Jordon was surprised "Am I the only one in this entire world who hadn't found out about them until an hour ago?! I wasn't expecting you to know about them."

"Well you are just oblivious to the world."

"Oh My god. You're the second one to use that word today. Anyway. Don't you think it's great? I think I am pure genius."

"I still think you are insane."

"well, promise you won't tell Dad? Mom would freak."

"Oh, I won't tell him, alright." With that she grabbed his ear and dragged him. "I'll inform him instead."

The INN was busy as always and when Cathy and Jordon came in Morph went gliding straight to Jordon so he could cuddle with him.

"There you are Morph" He said. "I was looking for you all day"

"looking for you all day looking for you all day" morph would mimic. Then he giggled.

Jordon's ear throbbed because of Cathy's grasp. But because they were now home, she let go of his ear pretending everything was perfectly normal. She's plotting it top to bottom. I know it. She's making a move like a bomb. Jordon had no intension of making his sister even angrier. Just yesterday she got engaged to that jerk Gander and she was mad enough already that Dad wouldn't lead her down the ail when she gets married, unless he liked the person she was being married to. Jordon loved his dad's opinions. They always seemed to match his. Besides was very civil.

"Oh GOODNESS gracious ME." BEN walked down the front hall to greet them. "WE thought YOU TWO had been KIDNAPPED or something. I mean HELLO!? There is like ONE thousand, NO, TWO THOUSAND criminals in this region. I think you should have some CAKE. I baked it."

Jordon had to admit. BEN was random, but what the heck? He made Jordon's days.

"Supper's ready!" It sounded like Sara calling. She was growing older but she still knew how to cook. Cathy was taught just about everything from Sara on how to really be a good cook, and now it seemed that Cathy was a better cook. However this didn't stop Sara for making a mean meal.

The table was set. Jim was already there, their mom was already sitting. Cathy walked to sit at the table, and Jordon came following afterwards. BEN was just BEN, he didn't need to eat he only served. And so they began their succulent meal.

Cathy gave a little cough. "Dad, guess where I found Jordon just about two hours ago? I think it was rather good of me to stop him because if I didn't then we wouldn't have seen him for another few months."

Jim stopped eating and looked up. "I dunno. where was he?"

"Don't listen to her dad. She's mental." Jordon was frantic. She was spoiling his dream of ever going up there and once she said where he would be going mom would convince dad to not let him go. It was a cruel world. Cruel cruel world.

"I am not mental. Dad, he was muff. mmmmfff!!" Jordon covered her mouth.

"Oh, I think she said I went to Dr. Dilbert's house to find Timothy, I- I mean I know she said I went to Dr. Dilbert's house to find Timothy…Oww. You bit my hand." Cathy cut free of him and sputtered the words fast enough so he couldn't muffle her voice again. Only this time Jim was doing a series of "LA LA LAs" to drain out her voice.

Jim, slightly amused by this behaviour told Jordon to shut up and Cathy to continue.

"Jordon was buying a ticket to the space port." Everyone stared at him, then his mother looked teary eyed.

"Why would you want to do that?" she asked. "Are we not being good parents?" BEN began to pat her on the back as she solemnly sulked.

"No it's non of that. I just-

"He wanted to work with Captain Bobosha Elegar, and Morchesso Vandessa, I knew it was a terrible idea." She began to look proud of herself.

"Well." Jim changed his emotion entirely "Why didn't you say so in the first place?!" He looked like he was about to explode with contentment. "That's a wonderful idea. Why, you have my adventure in you, my boy."

Cathy for a moment looked taken aback. "You have every right to go. You have my permission to go. And bring back some treasure while you're at it. Oh. you are going to love space. I fell in love with it the first time I set my eyes upon it. Jordon, my boy become a captain will you? Then you'll have fulfilled my dream. You will leave first thing tomorrow morning."

"But dad"

"And you will accompany him Cathy and watch him to make sure he doesn't do anything foolish while he's on the trip. Anyway, it would be good for you too. You need to loosen up."

Jordon was right about one thing. She was ticking time bomb about to explode. well at least it seemed that way at the time being because she was turning so red…

"But what about Gander?!"

"Oh…he can wait. Besides you might find yourself in a better…ahem state then when you were with him after the trip...

"Jim you've gone too far." his wife warned him.

"I don't care, I'll pack your bags for you two." he stood up and began to whistle and swing his arms to the beat out of the room.

Jordon just couldn't help giving Cathy the "Serves you right stupid backstabber" stare.

They were truly going. And this time, he didn't have to pinch himself to make sure it wasn't a dream.