AN: Hi to anyone who is reading this and yay! Hope you look at the world the same way I do…hie hie.

Disclaimer: I don't own Hitchhikers or the late Douglas Adam's and if you mistokenly (from Little Britain for you uncultured swine) think that I do. (sigh.) GO AWAY. That's all from me!

Chapter 3

One hour later Adam was standing aboard what he could only presume was a spaceship. He had been whisked away by the strange man, who had later introduced himself as Neitch, a worker for the Bulbas company that delivered messages to 'Wherever, Whoever and Whenever' in the universe. After this rather brief introduction Neitch explained that there was a whole universe full of many other planets, most of which had discovered how to space travel and time travel. On a whole he said, Earth was rather behind.

"Yup, I grew up on a sock farm out in Hibiscas North on Yellup. It's a fairly big planet."

"Sorry, uh, did you say sock farming?" Adam said, confused. He had decided by now that he was having a very complex hallucination. He had also decided to run along with the hallucination and work out a way to get rid of it later, for example when the hallucination didn't have him standing on a rather large, pink spaceship.

"Apology accepted. Yes sock faming." Neitch saw Adam's look of incredibility and continued "we farm socks. Yellup is one of the few planets that can sustain large amounts of socks at once. It's unfortunate because they have terrible union rules there. Otherwise they could be quite rich. I escaped the planet because I was sold to another company. I'm apparently worth exactly $3.50"

Adam stared at Neitch who was looking rather pleased with himself. Obviously in this delusion, $3.50 was quite an accomplishment. "I'm sorry, but socks are made. Knitted and such…they don't…grow." Adam explained as delicately as he could.

"That's what you think" Neitch winked, "and apology accepted once again."

With that, Neitch proceeded to walk down the rounded pink corridor, which Adam was having trouble deciding if was real or not. After Neitch had disappeared out of sight Adam did a full 360 turn and took in everything around him. The walls were pink. The floor was a darker pink. The ceiling was the same colour as the walls and as it was also curved, caused the watcher to feel as if it didn't really exist on its own. On a whole, the effect was rather disquieting.

"Earthman! Come up to the bridge now!" A voice boomed through the ship through what Adam presumed were hallucinated speakers. He sighed, completely at loss of what to say or do. "Earthman! I have sent two robots to get you! Do not be alarmed!" The voice boomed over again. Adam froze, a fairly impressive feat, he thought, since he had not really been moving in the first place.

"Come master Earthman, we are to escort you to the bridge!" Chirped two voices from behind him

Adam screamed.

"Please Earthman, do not scream." The two pink, fluffy robots chirped.

Adam continued to scream, and ran.

On the bridge, Neitch was having a rather difficult time of it. He had only recently acquired (stolen) this spaceship and was still slightly iffy (had no roofdoggin idea) as to what each button did. A fish with three eyes watched Neitch lazily from the bowl it lived in, that sat on one of the many benches that lined the spaceships bridge. The room was circular, with three doors on the south circular wall, benches lining the east and west walls and floor to ceiling, (well, floor to a certain point high up in the wall/ceiling curved ship interior) were windows. The fish knew all about windows. He knew they were for looking out of, which was precisely what Neitch was currently attempting to use them for. Unfortunately having not knowing the spaceships controls he wasn't really sure where the button to uncover the windows was, as they were currently shielded by black opaque metal. The fish watched Neitch become more and more agitated, which is understandable due to the fact that while trying to find the window uncover button he accidentally initiated the ships manual flight drive. The fish, other than knowing what windows were for, also knew that attempting to fly a spaceship through the universe without being able to see was not advisable and promptly committed suicide.

Adam tore into bridge, still screaming, though he stopped (much to Neitch's relief) after witnessing a three eyed fish that had previously been lazily floating in a bowl on a bench, leap out of its bowl and flop itself to death.

"Earthman! Little help!" Neitch yelled from the control bench below the, ahem 'windows.'

In that second, Adam decided that if this hallucination was going to continue he might as well go along with it and try to enjoy himself.

"What?" He jumped up the stairs three at a time to reach Neitch.

"Short or long?"

"What?"

"Short or long?"

"Uh…short."

"Flying, can't see, die."

"And that means…?"

Neitch glared at the Earthman. "Well this is the long explanation now. Make up your mind!" Netich took a deep breath. "I accidentally activated the manual flight drive and now we are flying a spaceship I don't really know how to fly, through the universe, blind." He paused for dramatic effect, "Get it?"