Sarah woke up with a yawn and a stretch. "Morning, everyone!" She looked beside her at the people zonked out on the king sized bed. Maria was curled into a fetal position on her side, Jim and Natalie seemed to be hugging each other in their sleep for warmth, and Delbert...

Where was Delbert? Where was Amelia for that matter? Crap! Just crap! They know that they're in danger if they leave, so where could they have possibly' gone?' She got up from the bed and began to look for them.

"Sarah?"

Maria yawned while getting up, she noticed before she swung her legs over the side that somehow Aria had fallen off of the bed. She slid off instead.

"Sarah, what is it?" Sarah whipped around to Maria. "Delbert and Amelia," She said in a worried tone. Maria had a shocked look for a moment then after a slight twitching of her animalistic ears she seemed to be calm.

"Sarah, Amelia is talking to E, and Delbert…" She pointed to the small wooden chair in the a sleeping Delbert had a Star Wars book on his lap and was knocked out. Aria jumped up and said,

"Hey let's wake him up!" Maria chuckled. She knew that SOME pirate was passed down to her daughter. They snuck over and Aria held his ears up so he could hear better.

"GET UP YOU LAZY GOOD FOR NOTHING ASTROMATOR!" Maria and Aria roared in his ears.

"Aaaah!" Delbert screamed like a little girl and fell to his knees on the ground while covering his head. The two relatives grinned and snickered.

"That wasn't very nice!" He received an innocent "We know" from the two troublemakers. Amelia walked in the door, her hood over her head, and held out a wad of cash. "E said he wanted to give this to you, Maria." Maria looked at it and immedately recognized that it was half of the tips he received last night. She waved her hands in front of her and sad,

"No no no no no! I couldn't take this money from him!"

E walked in the door with an unlit stoogie in his mouth. "Maria, I wanted too. By the way, your dad got word of what you did last night, and he's proud of you."

"Uh… okay…" She snatched the money from Amelia. "Thanks, E!"

He tipped his Micrometer Galaxy Warriors baseball cap. "No problem!"
Natalie woke up and noticed the fact that she was hugging Jim. "Bleh!" She smacked him. Jim jumped up rubbing his face. "Ow, what was that for!"

Little did anyone realize, Aria was using her moms smart phone and recording the whole thing regarding Jim and Natalie. She stopped the video before Natalie smacked him. "Hehehe…" She posted it on YouTube. She quickly slid it back into her mom's pocket and tried to look completely innocent.

"You are such a perv!" Natalie yelled. Everyone looked at her in confusion.

Jim blinked. "Seriously...? Look it isn't my fault that E has the tempurature down to fifty degrees ferenheit!" He snapped. Maria rolled her eyes. "Alright... Time to leave..." She said, walking out the door, making way to leave the bar.

The rest followed. They noticed a shady looking guy with a bandana over his head and a pair of shades over his eyes looking at them. He smirked, unfortunately when he had traced his vision on Amelia.

"Great, another creep..." Natalie said, remembering the guy who had rudly smacked her adopted mum's rear.

"Just don't pay him any mind..." Maria said, then called to E who was cleaning glasses. "How much do I owe ye?"
E looked up and said, "Zip! The Tavern Express- kind of named after a historical passage used by slaves way back when- charges nothing to those helping the falsly accused species! Besides, you're practically family!"

"Thanks" Maria called and they walked out the door, Amelia's and Natalie's hoods up so they wouldn't be recognised. They slipped into the "van". They began to drive, Doppler in the driver's seat. After a few hours, Maria whipped out her smart phone.

"Amy... I bet you can't beat me at Angry Birds!"

"Oh really? I'll have you know, Sailor Sue, that I am the Angry Bird champion, Etherium wide!"Amelia said in a challenge.

"Uh… but where are we going?" Aria asked before they started their war. "Hold on," Maria said. "Next state… Kansas… Town… The home of the biggest ball of yarn, Mt. Sunflower."

"We're going to see the biggest ball of yarn…? Yippee." Jim said sarcastically. Aria rolled her eyes. "Jim, I don't think we're in the Etherium anymore… And at least you didn't have to 'spend some time with Mr. Mop and Mrs. Bucket'!"

"Then you don't know the 'epic' tale of Treasure Planet."

Aria rolled her eyes. "Whatev's."
"Now let the Angry Bird's war begin!" Maria announced like some olympic games... er... announcer. And so they started.

So, for the next few hours there was several shouts of "I'm in the lead!" And then "I GOT THE FRIGGIN' PIG!" And a "F, you... F you, Maria!"

"Well, I almost beat your score..." Amelia said, still ticked that Maria had beaten her score.

"Well, it isn't my fault you're such a novice."

"I'm just rusty!" Amelia said as a lame excuse.

"Riiiight... And I know the Muffin Man!"

"You do?" Jim asked stupidly.

"Yes... he lives on Jeery Lane." Maria said coyly.

"Uh... really?"

She denosoed him. "Get a clue, Jimbo!"

"Ow..."

"Uh guys?" Delbert said in a worried tone. "We're being followed."

"WHAT?" Everyone yelled.

"Delbert, give me the wheel!" Maria said. She wasn't about to let an over protective driver drive like a sissy while someone was following them. Delbert complied, and Maria climbed into the Driver's seat. "Hang on to yer teeth, mates!" She called as she spun around to face the driver.

"Crap! Maria, what are you doing?" Sarah screamed.

"Shush... I'm gonna blow his tires out." She opened the hidden dash and pressed a button and spikes flew out from the rims on the vans tires as she swerved around the following persuer. Once the black 2011 Nissan Sentra stopped in it's tracks, a figure stepped out.

Maria spun the truck around and stepped on the gas. The stranger stepped out into the lights, and Natalie recognised the man from the bar. He took off the glasses and the bandanna and revealed a Persian like felid appearance, complete with light grey hair.

"ZHOUL!" Maria, Amelia, and Aria said in shock. Maria slammed on the brakes and the van stopped on a dime.

Zhoul was wearing a cream shirt and a a pair of jeans, and thank goodness he was driving on a back road. He calmly walked up to the car. Maria rolled down her windows.

"Hello, Maria. Aria." He raised a eyebrow at Amelia, "And you Miss. Newberry." He then glanced from her ring, to Delbert's, "Oh, is it Mrs. now? It really has been awhile." Amelia blushed slightly. Zhoul laughed.

"Zhoul, what are you doing here!" Maria asked in surprise. He shrugged,

"I've been wandering. Saw you at that bar, thought I'd surprise you with a visit, if you hadn't shot out my tires out of the blue."

Maria rubbed the back of her neck, "Heh, heh. Sorry about that." He now noticed Natalie, Jim, and Sarah.

"May I ask your names?" he quiestioned.

"That's Natalie, Jimbo, Sarah, and Delbert." Maria said. Jim glared,

"I told you only Silver can call me that!" Zhoul chuckled,

"So you have met Silver before?" Jim looked at him,

"Uh...yeah. Why do you know him?"

"Why, yes. He is Maria's father after all." Jim's eyes widened.

"Aw, Zhoul you ruined the game." Maria whined.

"YOUR DAD IS SILVER!" Jim yelled.

"Let's see, i'm a pirate, I'm Ursid, and I call you Jimbo. What do you think?"

Jim was about to say something, but Zhoul inturrupted, "Now since none of us will be seeing him anytime soon, Why are all you here?" He looked at Amelia, "And how tall are you now? You look to have grown a foot at least."

Amelia laughed, "I'm 5'11."

Zhoul's eyebrow's shot up, "My, my. Your quite the amazon now arn't you? Uh, anyway. Why are you all here?"

He repeated his first quiestion, adressing Maria. Both side's explained why they were there, and what had happened so far. At the end, Zhoul looked from his now immobile car, to the group.

"Well, seeing as you have taken the liberty of slahing any hope of my car driving out of here, and I have nothing else better to do, may I come along?" He asked.

They all looked at each other, and shrugged, "Sure." they said in usion. He smiled,

"Great!" He opened the car door, and climbed in sitting next to Jim.

They then continued on to Mt. Sunflower Kansas. Amelia looked from Aria, to Maria, and to Zhoul, who was sharpening his nails with a pocket knife. 3 people from her past, all found her on the same planet. What a coincedence. Now she just had to wonder What else could happen.