Pleecy returned to her labs to find that Neeka and Ley had finished gathering the ingredients the trio had handy. Pleecy wound up finding Ley in the Planetarium Room. (Neeka and Pleecy = undisguised this chapter XD)

The Planetarium was a very large, spherical room set on a gyroscope with a system of circular hovercraft porches. (As seen in a few episodes, such as "Megadoomer"- the Tallests rode one, but without railings in the beginning.) A control panel next to the door in the hallway leading to the room could be used to program what one wanted to be shown or mapped out on the interior: the interior was covered in screens, so the room was a giant globular T.V. resembling Zim's observatory, just spherical.

Ley was high up on a hover-porch in the top left corner (As much as a corner as a globe can have anyway XD) when Pleecy walked in and stood on the platform, which jutted out in front of the door for about 6 sq. ft. She was scrutinizing a particular star glanced at the system she was examining. The maps looked like the maps from the Great Assigning, but with less dashed lines. Wait, what star system is…? "Why the sudden interest in the Venatian Star?" Pleecy said, smirking sarcastically.

"I've been looking for probably an hour, but Venat's not marked on here," Ley said, rubbing her chin. Her face was just a few inches from the screen, where she was looking at the Venatian Star and trying to convince herself she has the co-ordinates for Venat correctly memorized.

"Nope, not anymore. It was removed from Irk maps a few decades back and replaced with a 'Dead Zone' Marker. Everyone was paranoid and thought it was 'too dangerous to pay attention to.' Hah!" Pleecy scoffed after making two different sets of quotation marks with her fingers mockingly.

"That makes. No sense."

"I know right?" Pleecy chuckled. A hover-porch zoomed to the platform and rose up in a few seconds next to Ley's after Pleecy mounted it. The two porches merged together so that Pleecy was to Ley's left and the duo was on the same elliptical hover-porch. "If I remember correctly," she said, leaning over the railing, "it should be…uhm, about right," she scanned the map, mentally kicking herself for forgetting where a planet was. *Frickin' bull crap...* she thought."Ah, there it is. Here!" She touched her finger tip to a spot about two inches from the icon of the Red Giant, her head against Ley's.

"No wonder it's a tropical planet," Ley said in a hushed tone.

"There ya go. Why were you lookin' for Venat, anyway?"

Ley sighed, hesitating. "...It's the only place we can get Dracon's Root-"

"What?" Pleecy thundered. She fell over the railing, but saved herself when she grabbed the railing with her right hand and used two spider legs to hoist herself back up. "Do you KNOW how frickin' dangerous Venat can be? Most of the plant species aren't even plants! It's like Hender's Island* on frickin' steroids, especially when you take into account all the different toxins life made up ther-"

'Yes, I know how horrid Venat can be, Pleecy. Hender's Island* is nothing in comparison," Ley said, tilting her head up, eyes closed.

"And where exactly does Dracon's Root grow? Plus, isn't it poisonous too?" Pleecy scowled and looked at the hyuuman. One of her antennas twitched in annoyance.

"If I remember correctly, they grow best in extreme heat, more specifically volcanoes or lava fields, usually in magma chamber branch-off tunnels-"

"WHAT?" Pleecy thundered again. Her mark subconsciously flickered.

"Calm down, Pleecy. Remember what the blue moon does to you," Ley said calmly, head still tilted up, eyes still closed. She seemed meditative.

Pleecy closed her eyes and took a deep breath, finally realizing the flickering. It stopped when she exhaled. "Computer, wormhole map."

"Galactic or dimensional?"

"Galactic. Now."

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Neeka walked into a small rectangle-shaped lab with a large screen occupying one wall with cabinets under it: it was Pleecy's holo-interface room, the room from Gaz and Pleecy's earlier discussion. Pleecy and Ley stood before the screen. The route they planned to take (If all went well, and let's face it, nothing ever did…) was mapped out on the screen.

They had finally agreed on a game plan:

1) Use a galactic wormhole as a shortcut to a black market bazaar Pleecy knew about (Best not to ask, Ley decided.) Gather supplies and a few other ingredients. Buy Griffifh Claw Diamond(s). (Or in dust-form if they have any).

2) Take 1-day trip to Venat because the ship would need time to recharge the wormhole-opening program/equipment before making another wormhole jump.

3) Risk lives by heading to and into nearest volcano or lava field, most likely Mt. Uriel. Obtain Dracon's Root. Get off planet alive and ASAP.

4) Take wormhole back to Earth.

Neeka walked over and handed Ley an apple, Pleecy a starfruit-looking thing from Meekrob.

"Here's hoping," Pleecy said, and the pair looked at each other solemnly and toasted their fruits like drinks.

Author's Note- Hender's Island: Island on which the book "Fragment" by Warren Fahy is centered. Basically its species evolved waaay differently than the rest of the planet- Arthopod-like and fend for yourself pretty much. Everything vs. Everything. Epic book :P I couldn't put it down! Only read if you like fight scenes XD anyway, Thanks for reading! ^FT^

Update: 2-18-12 Yea, I might not post a new chapter for a while. MAJOR WRITER'S BLOCK e.o plus other crap goin' on, so I don't have much time to actually write the next few chapters. I'l get to it XD