Chapter Seven
Margie had zapped Zenon while she was pacing back and forth in her dorm room. "What's up, Marge?" she asked when she answered her zap-pad.
"We think we found a break major," Margie replied. "Meet us at the command center."
"Okay." Zenon hung up, put her zap-pad in her purse, and was out of her dorm room almost thirty seconds after Margie zapped her. She got to the command center about fifteen minutes later, to find Margie sitting at the computer with her father and Commander Plank behind her, staring at the screen. Zenon walked over next to Margie, and the latter pressed a button.
Zenon recognized the sector as the one which the Plank living quarters was a part of. She also recognized the blonde girl walking back into the Plank living quarters as Dasha, but the part that surprised her the most was the man who grabbed Dasha from behind and struggled with her until she was unconscious and yet still managed to hide his face from the camera as he struggled with and hauled Dasha away.
Without a second thought, she stepped outside and fished her zap-pad out of her purse.
ZZZ
Proto Zoa was surprised to hear his zap-pad go off while he slouched in the driver's seat of his pod, but he answered nonetheless. "Oh, hello, Zenon."
"Zoa, Dasha's definitely been kidnapped. We found security video to prove it."
"They still use video on the space station?"
"That's not the point. The point is that we need to figure out where she's been taken and wheter or not she's in danger mortis."
"Where would she have been taken, do you think?"
"I dunno, but I don't think she's still on the spay-stay."
"So that leaves Earth."
"Yeah, but Earth's gigundus extreme."
"I wondered if you were going to say that or if I had to. It reall doesn't narrow our search field."
"So what do we do? How do we find her?"
"I think I can get some assistance for us from the man of a thousand connections."
ZZZ
Lester pressed the button on his transmitter and gave his generic answer, "Lester."
"Lester, I need you to do something for me," Proto Zoa said.
"Zoa, baby, how you been?"
"That's beside the point right now. As I said, I have a task I'd like you to complete for me."
"Shoot, baby."
"Lester, is there any way you can get me a list of recent shuttles which have arrived on Earth?"
"Pods included?"
"Pods included."
"How recent?"
"Within the past forty-eight hours."
"Okay, I'll see what I can do and get back to ya, okay?"
"That sounds great. Thank you so much."
"You're too good to me."
"You're one to talk."
"Well, I gotta get to work. I'll let you know what I find as soon as I find it."
"Great, thank you."
Lester hung up and pulled out his computer. After he logged on, he entered a few queries into multiple search engines before he finally found a promising link.
ZZZ
Dasha couldn't help but gasp when the light in the room flickered on. The white-haired man before her absolutely towered, even as he knelt before her and she could get a good look at his face. "Numbar?" she asked.
