"Jeff, wake up!!," Dr. Andonuts lightly tapped the new chrome noggin of his son, "This doesn't make sense, he should have escaped this passive status right now!!"
"I'm right here father!," Jeff called out to his father, who appeared before him in his dream state. Still, father and son were divided by a wall of light. Jeff experiences a feeling of being heaved upward towards a flash of light. The boy genius opens his new eyes.
"There you are my son!," a pleased reaction from Dr. Andonuts. Jeff was once again in his Saturn Valley hotel room.
"Dad? *Chhhkkt*," Jeff buzzed through his new mouth.
"I knew you would come to!," Dr. Andonuts polished off Jeff's new metallic head.
"I already had! *Buzzt* Err....aaagggghhhh!!!!," Jeff finally realized what he had become.
"It's not supposed to be that comfortable Jeff," Dr. Andonuts explained, "but you must get used to it if you want to salvage your entire universe. Or at least take part in it for that matter.
"That's more like it," Jeff got vertical and moved about in fluid motion, "where's my stuff?"
"Not just yet my son," Dr. Andonuts warned tonefully, "you had better relax and let the gears and the sesser engine clean itself before you become too active. In the meantime I shall begin operation on the prince."
Jeff asked calmly, "Is he sleeping? Like I was when you decided to ambush me with the operation?"
"Forgive me, it was for the best," the doctor chuckled. "And yes, I will 'ambush' Poo's operation as well."
"Very well then, good night!," Jeff retires from the area as Poo's operation begins.
* * *
"What is this feeling?," Prince Poo Tangoo of Dalaam awoke from his sleep. He found himself face to face with the legendary Starmaster he had come to know, set in a sea of light.
"It is your spirit Poo," the Starmaster boomed, "you are unconcious in worldly life."
"Then would I not exist only in my mind?," Poo inquired, recalling upon his knowledge of Mu.
"You destroyed the 'mind' during the course of your Mu training," the Starmaster explained.
"You are concious now only in your spirit," continued the Starmaster, "you have unified your mind with the more powerful entity of spirit. A silhouette of an old man appeared in the distance. As he approached Poo, the light revealed him to be Poo's earthly master, Yagi.
"Most mortals, such as your friends, who in life are experiencing the same undertaking,"
Master Yagi explained, "they must suffer in their minds until they are recalled to life."
"I am superior to them then, in spirit," Poo concluded.
"You have the ability due to your training," Master Yagi explained, "to roam your psyche freely without the obstructions of the darkness you destroyed."
"Such ignorance...." A sinister voice projected amongst the three Mu warriors, familiar to all three.
"Ignore it!," Master Yagi immediately instructed.
"No master, it exists!!," Poo shouted, frightened.
"Not unless you believe it does!," the Starmaster insisted. The Starmaster was indeed the undisputed master of the Mu discipline.
"I hear it before my ears, therefore it must exist, and it threatens me," Poo concluded. "Therefore I must destroy it." With that, Poo disappeared from the sea of light, leaving his masters in a state of disapproval and worry.
"He is allowing the darkness to conquer his purity," Starmaster expressed his worry. "He is still a boy at heart."
"No, you are contradicting yourself Starmaster," Master Yagi objected, "if we have faith in him.....if we believe that he can block out what seems to threaten him..." The sea of light finally gave way to the darkness, the masters themselves accepting the existence of this evil power. The same evil power that has plagued the training of every Mu, student and master alike.