The Righteous Indignation was heading towards the planet Genus, the home world of the United Animals council and the S.P.A.C.E. alliance. Unbeknownst to the crew, they had three unregistered stowaways from the planet Ragnarok hiding in a supply closet. Bucky turned to Jenny and said, "We've got a long flight ahead of us; is there a particular subject you would like to converse about?"
Just then Willy came in with a Sony Walkman cassette player. It was a red and white TPS-L2 Walkman. He was currently listening to The Beach Boy's album Pet Sounds. It was one of Willy's favorite albums. He liked the album. It had some of the best music in the world. The 13 year old boy was wearing thin lightweight headphones, the type that hung around a person's neck. The green rabbit and the white female cat looked at Willy.
"What's that thing on your hip?" Bucky asked Willy. Unfortunately, since Wily had his headphones on, he couldn't hear what Bucky was saying. The green rabbit was annoyed. Willy saw the rabbit's annoyed look on his face and immediately stopped his music.
"You were saying something, Bucky?" Willy asked the rabbit.
"Yes. I want to know what that thing strapped to your hip is?" Bucky asked the human. Willy looked down at his cassette player. It was the cassette player that Bucky was referring to.
"This is my Sony Walkman. It's a cassette player." Willy said to Bucky.
"What's a cassette?" Bucky asked the boy.
"A cassette is a thing in which you listen to that is portable." the boy said to the space rabbit and the space cat. He ejected the Beach Boys cassette and handed it to the green rabbit. The green rabbit looked at the white cassette tape in his hands. Bucky couldn't believe that something this small would be able to play music.
"This is a cassette tape?" Bucky asked Willy.
"Yes." Willy said. "The thing you're holding in your hands right now is a cassette tape. A cassette tape is a thing in which people use to listen to music. I'll show you how a cassette player works."
Willy took the Beach Boys cassette tape from Bucky and he took out his Sony Walkman cassette player. He inserted the Beach Boys cassette into the player. He closed the door of the player. Willy clipped the cassette player to Bucky's belt. He then took off the cassette player off of Bucky's belt and put it on Bucky's lap.
"This button is a rewind button." Willy said to Bucky. He pressed a button. The tape automatically rewound itself. It was rewinding very fast. Bucky was surprised by how fast it rewound. The tape stopped rewinding itself after a few seconds. Once the tape stopped rewinding, Willy opened the cassette player and took out the cassette to make it was on the correct side. It was on the correct side of the tape. It was on the first side of the cassette tape. He reinserted the tape in the player and closed it.
"See this button here, Bucky. That's the play button. I want you to press it." Willy said to the green space rabbit. Bucky found the play button and pushed. The little wheels of the cassette player began to spin. He put headphones over Bucky's ears. The opening notes of the Beach Boys song: Wouldn't It Be Nice began to play. Bucky was surprised by the music. He liked it. The man's singing voice was good to Bucky's ears. After a few songs, Willy stopped the cassette player.
"So, how'd you like the cassette player, Bucky?" Willy asked the green rabbit.
"It's great!" Bucky said.
"Really?" Willy said.
"Yes!" Bucky said.
"Well, feel free to play around with my cassette player." Willy said. "If you need anything, I'll be at my house."
"Ok." Bucky said.
"Oh and one other thing." Willy said. "There's two sides to every cassette. Once you're finished with one side, flip it over to the other side and continue playing as normal. Remember, a cassette player runs on two AA batteries."
Willy showed the rabbit 2 AA batteries.
"These batteries are the key to operating the cassette player." Willy said. "Without it, the cassette player will never work. And the cassette player is portable. Meaning that you can go anywhere you want with it and it will never lose signal."
"Cool." Jenny said.
"See you guys later." Willy said to Bucky and Jenny. Before he left, he gave Bucky 2 more cassette tapes: Breakfast In America by Supertramp and Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits. Then, the human boy left the cockpit of the ship. Little did anybody realize that soon, a couple of toads would bombard the lives of Bucky O'Hare and his crew and change their animosity towards toads forever.