"If you want to but you'll have to sit in my lap so in case of an emergency I can take over."
"Cool, Let me in!" 'This is SO cool, last time I was in captain seat (when we saved our parents) the vehicle was on autopilot.'
Back at Sheen's house it was nearing 5:00 and Sheen was picking out something to wear. 'This red shirt that mom bought me is pretty nice.' Sheen thought as he pulled a short-sleeved red t-shirt with the number 77 written on it in big white letters out of his closet. Sure, episode 77 was his favorite episode, but no one else knew that. He pulled the shirt over his head and threw on some new jeans his mom had bought for their family reunion that was coming up, his dad was supposed to be there as well.
"Sheen," his mother called from down the hall, "Libby's here."
"K, just a sec." He called as he struggled to get his comb out of his messy drawer. He quickly ran it through his hair and went to the door to greet Libby. 'Now that's funny, we're both wearing the same color.' "Hey, nice outfit, I like it."
"Thanks, you to." '77, hmm I wonder if he knew that was my favorite episode, he seems to have known my favorite color was red.' "I just thought I'd come over a little early so that we don't miss any of the show."
"That's cool, wanna hang in my room, till the show starts?"
"Sure, I'd love to, got any music?"
"Ultra-lord soundtrack."
Libby giggled. "It will do." They walked down the hall holding hands and Sheen opened the door. "Wow, look at this! I mean I thought…"
"That Ultralord would be everywhere?"
"Yea, I guess I shouldn't judge just by how you act but this is amazing!" Libby turned in circles a few times, the only signs of Ultralord were a few pictures and three shelves stacked with Ultralord action figures. All around the room were pictures of Sheen as he was growing up and a young man, no older than Sheen's mom, playing with Sheen, or rocking him to bed. There was one single photo that was sitting alone on Sheen's nightstand, the one that had most recently been taken. One of Sheen and the same man standing side by side and the man had a since of pride in his eyes. "Who's the man in all of those pictures?"
"My dad."
"Why is the last one from about 5 years ago, and why is he so proud of you."
Sheen's eyes got watery thinking about the moment that picture was taken. "That was just after we had rescued our parents from Pultra." By the end of that sentence Libby and Sheen were sitting side-by-side on Sheen's bed, Libby had her hand on his reassuring him and encouraging him to go on. "Right after that picture was taken my dad said that we were not going to get to see him as much. He said that just like when I was real little the show needed to travel and he would not be home as often. That was the last time I saw him. He stopped by the house now and then, and my parents are still together, but I was always off somewhere when he decided to drop by."
"Your dad is in a show?"
"Ultralord."
"Your dad is Ultralord!"
"Yep."
"I thought we were just obsessed, but you were supporting your dad, how nice."
"Yea, I hated Ultralord at first. When I was three my dad took the job and was never home, that's why most of the pictures have a gap between them. He'd bring me home little 'souvenirs' and I would break them or 'lose' them. But then one day when I was four Dad came home and said that the show wasn't a hit and we may have to move back with my grandparents in New Mexico. I asked why and he said the show might go under, and I knew there was no way I was going able to relocate."
"Why not?"
