Last chapter as you may recall, Tony Newman and Doug Philips landed on the Seaview just as an unknow mysterious white cloud began to blanket the earth. Admiral Nelson with Chief Sharkey went to investigate in the flying sub when Suddenly they were attacked...

The white menace reached outside of itself, enveloping its own smoke like composition to extend. It seemed alive, meaning to grab the Flying Sub. Admiral Nelson saw it from the console seat and shot the vehicle underneath. The thing was too slow for this and Nelson and Sharkey soon found themselves rocketing toward New York Harbor.

The white cloud expanded upward and then stopped, widening itself into a giant white circle above all of the city, spiraling like a tornado, only wider - and ever growing. Nelson steadied the controls which leveled the Flying Sub into a straight path. Sharkey puffed, sweating, "Admiral, what is that...that thing?"

Nelson, always used to having the answers for Sharkey, began, "It's..." then he came back to reality, his reflexes calming, having escaped the white mist, "...well, how should I know? Whatever it is," he went on in answer to Sharkey's embarrassed and red face, "...it's what caused those ships to vanish and possibly this city."

"What do you...?" Sharkey looked ahead out the viewport, noticing a stillness as they flew nearer. He grabbed up a hanging pair of binoculars from the lower console. "All gone." As Nelson flew into the streets between skyscrapers, Sharkey saw white forms hit the ground, forms dropping from the cloud. When the forms hit the street, the street was gone - replaced by a white patch.

"Admiral, it's got the whole city!"

"We're too late, chief," Nelson shot them away, "But we've got to warn Seaview."

"Lookout!" Sharkey yelled as the widening forms, which were dropping more steadily from the main cloud, circled into a new smaller, almost like a baby, whirlwind with the Flying Sub in the middle! Nelson looked out the two piece window at a wall of white fibers.

Seaview was shooting toward the area from underwater.

In the year 1968, the technicians at Tic Toc Lab, deep in Arizona, were trying to locate Tony and Doug. The man in charge, General Haywood Kirk, an older, distinguished gentle man for a leader, stood looking up at the rounded circles within circles of the great, vast time tunnel, which presently was functioning as a visual monitor screen, "Can't you get it yet?" His voice was calm and gentle but some irritation shone through--just the correct amount that he wanted to---which he found usually made his co-workers do their best.

Doctor Ann MacGregor, dark hair tied up in a semi-bun, her face beautiful despite long hours in the lab trying to retrieve Tony and Doug, glanced up at him from the black leather chair, "General, we're doing our best. There's some kind of disturbance."

"I know," the gray haired man smiled, "I'm on edge."

Ray Swain, an older scientist, older than both Ann and Kirk, frowned, more at the situation than anything or anyone else.

"We all are, General. It's the longest we've been out of contact with Doug and Tony."

"There," Ann pointed as the image cleared to a picture of Seaview contently cutting through the sea.

Ray squinted, "The Nautilus?"

Kirk looked, awe in his eyes, "No, no, Ray. This is something so more advanced. Look at that!" Kirk smiled, "Do you have the year yet?"

"1988," Ann reported, a smile gracing her tired face, "Finally. They're so close to us."

Ray nodded agreement, "Why don't we try to close the time gap, narrow it down so we don't lose them again on a transfer."

Ann turned a dial, "I can't."

Kirk came directly over her and looked at the console, part of the three main computer console alignment that graced the front of the tunnel, "What do you mean can't?"

"I'm turning the power grid but it just won't lock onto 1988..." her voice showed her attempt, "...or any other year for that matter."

Ray reached over and looked, "Let me try. She's right, General. It's as if some outside influence is trying to get to the tunnel--take it over."

"What kind of force? Like that ghost? The ghost of Nero, remember?"

"No, something even stronger but the tunnel's power won't let it near," Ray looked at his own power output, "It's as if its power is being used against this other thing."

Kirk stamped his foot, "We've got to know what it is."

Ann sharpened the image dial. Tony and Doug were both now in the Control Room of Seaview, staring at its equipment. Kirk, Ann, and Ray found it just as interesting as they did. Kirk tore himself from examining it, "There they are. Both of them. Can we try a retrieval?"

"Not for fifteen minutes using our reserves," Ray reported.

"All of time to look and yet we have to wait."

Nelson was pointing FS1 up and up. The whiteness formed a cone which slowly closed up beneath them. The Flying Sub spun up out of the white cone top as forces pushed Nelson and Sharkey until the sub was leveled off. Sharkey looked cryptic.

"Admiral, not only is New York gone but there's no more sea, no ground, nothing." He repeated this last word, trying to take in what he saw--or rather didn't see, "Nothing."

Beneath them was a solid whiteness--yet soft, a swirling mist and empty nothingness - creating depression and blankness, quiet, unending quiet.

"Are they dead?"

"Chief, I hope not," Nelson leaned on the handles, "I haven't been able to contact Seaview, maybe I can get to it before they get here." He launched them down as soon as he saw the whiteness end and the water begin again. "Still there."

Flying Sub One dove down and hit the water. Under, it began to head for Seaview.

Chip Morton looked out the large nose window pieces, "Lee, it's the Flying Sub and heading straight for us."

Crane grabbed a mike by the back chart table, "All stop, all stop." He looked forward at Chip, "He's obviously trying to tell us to stop."

Chip pointed, "We'll know soon enough."

The FS1 hovered under Seaview until the doors slid open for it to rise inside the nose. Nelson docked. He and Sharkey jumped from their seats to the ladder as Kowalski opened the above hatch for them.

Chip turned around to see Tony and Doug as Crane joined him, "Lee, do those two have clearance to be in here?"

"Chip, they probably have more clearance to be in here than you and me," Crane cracked a smile as he gave a hand to help Nelson up. "Admiral, why didn't you call?"

"That blasted interference again," he puffed, taking off his flight jacket, "And New York's vanished into a white cloud."

"Vanished?" Chip shrugged as if he couldn't believe it.

"Gone," Nelson said, "Disappeared."

Tony and Doug were getting over their initial shock of seeing the Control Room and moved toward the scope. Doug was visibly impressed, "We've seen some marvelous instrumentation, Admiral, but nothing like your ship."

"Please," Nelson said as he came forward, "Don't say anything."

Tony was more curious at that, "What's going on, Admiral?"

Nelson shook his head, his hand at the back of his neck, "I don't really know. A white puff of..."

"Admiral," Sparks called from the Radio Alcove, "...listen to these."

A voice called over the speaker, "This is Chicago, urgent, urgent. Can anyone hear me? Chicago Airbase calling, the whole rest of the city has just...well, it's gone...it's just vanished. I can't explain how. Some white thing it..."

Silence.

Kowalski eyed Patterson, who was still at his radar. Nelson ran to the radio shack, followed by Crane, Tony and Doug. "Sparks, can you get a picture?"

Sparks turned a dial, "There from World News."

On the scanner, Nelson saw the Eiffel Tower slowly vanish in a vale of white mist, which started from its top and made its way down to the base---vanishing each section it passed. A French reporter babbled on and on. The transmission ended as abruptly as the previous. Sparks changed the picture a few more times - no Moscow, Peking, DC, and no ocean at certain points. Stunned, they watched a volcano in Hawaii disappear from the spout down.

Suddenly, the screen itself was blanked out by a covering of all white. Kowalski's face turned a similar color. Patterson gulped, looking at a radar scope which showed nothing.

Tony looked into Nelson's face, "What are you going to do?"

"I'm wide open for ideas. Do your people at the time tunnel...could they tell us something?"

Doug shrugged, "They have to contact us first."

Kirk, Ann, and Ray watched this using the screen. Kirk frowned, "We know less of what's happening than they."

Ann looked up at them, "We're ready for a transfer."

Kirk asserted himself, "Try it." The tunnel power began to build with its usual low hum rising.

"General, without the power grid, it may not be a sure shot," Ray turned to him, "...but they're close."

"Good, then let's try it," Kirk repeated, "Then we'll worry about what's happening with 1988."

A young man with glasses walked up to Kirk, "General? It's not our systems--there is some outside force affecting us, here in 1968."

"Thank you, Jerry. That's it then--it has some hold on time."

Jerry walked back to a control panel.

Ann smiled, "We're ready to transfer."

"Transfer then," Kirk ordered.

Ann switched the dial. Seaview shook! It vibrated. Crane feel onto the scope island, "Is it that thing?"

"It's behind us," Kowalski held onto the panel under the scanner. The white mass was under the sea, moving freely as if the sea were being eaten by it. Moving at the Seaview from behind.

Crane thumbed a mike as the submarine shook, "All ahead flank! Full speed!" Tony fell against the computer wall. Chip and Nelson stumbled onto the chart table. Kowalski fell onto Patterson's chair.

"Can't outrun it," Chip said, "Look!"

A great, giant white sheet blanked out the sea ahead of them. Nelson ran over to the nose area, steadying himself as the ship unleveled back and forth, but shaking a bit more slowly than before. He pulled the nose laser down from the ceiling compartment, aiming. A beam from the front of Seaview hit the white and it seemed to recoil.

Nelson held onto the laser device to keep from falling as the floor slanted. "It...it felt it!" He fired again but there was no effect this time.

"It's almost on us," Kowalski yelled.

The Seaview rocked to and fro, more violently. Tony fell against Crane near the scope. Both hold onto it. Crane saw Tony's aggravated face, "You'll get used to it!"

Nelson flopped back to the table, "It's all around us! We can't..."

Suddenly, Seaview spun, one end flew around the other. The sub twisted and turned.

"Can't stand much more of this...she'll..." as suddenly as it started, it stopped and the ship leveled off, only slightly slanted but not rocking. "What the...we're still moving but .. but not through water."

Tony moved nearer to Doug, "It felt like a time tunnel transfer."

Nelson, Chip, and soon Crane looked out the front window as colorful time particles flew by! Crane stared and then turned back to the two passengers,

"Do you two know what this is?" Tony and Doug ran up to the nose.

"We're flying through time itself," Doug said, calmingly. "It's the time tunnel lab. They're transferring us...or rather, they already have. Switched us from one time zone."

Crane widened his eyes as he stared from Doug back to the time vortex, "To another?"

Tony gulped, "They'd better--the Seaview would destroy the time tunnel and visa versa."

In the lab, Ray looked at the tunnel spirals. It began to rock and shake.

"Quickly, Ann, change them to another time!"

Ann looked up into the tunnel, "What is that?"

Ray yelled as the tunnel and the lab shook harder, "Do it!"

Kirk grabbed onto a chair to hold on to, "Why Ray? What's wrong?"

"We've locked onto the entire sub! Not just Tony and Doug!"

Ann gasped, "The magnetic forces are pulling it through to us! I can't change their time frequency!"

"Why not?" Ray stared at the dials, "General, all time...it.. it's not just there anymore."

The tunnel whined eerily and blasts start to occur. Water splashes out at the consoles! Ann and Ray duck down behind their consoles. Kirk watches water pour past and the whole complex seemed to shake. Kirk hit an intercom, "All personnel to shelters! All personnel to shelters!"

Military men ran across the bridges of the many levels and labs of the Tic Toc installation.

"Ray! Can't we send them someplace else?"

"General," Ray ducked as a console exploded in front of them, "All time is gone except from 5 BC to 29 AD."

"Send it there!" Kirk pulled Ann up as a chair fell on her.

Ann yelled, "No! We can't! The power grid has just locked in!"

Seaview began to sway again--more and more---as it never had before. No one could stand now and many in the sub were on their faces--not Nelson--he was on his back. Forces pushed at Nelson's face as if he were taking off in a spaceship going into orbit. He lay helpless between the ladder and the table.

Crane was near the scope also on his back. Kowalski was at the radar on his stomach near Patterson who had been thrown back on his chair. Tony gasped, "I can't move!"

Doug stuttered, "The force of it trying to get inside the tunnel! It'll tear us both to pieces!" Seaview's computer sparked and showers of the sparks passed Sharkey and Sparks near the radio shack.

Jerry ran from a side computer, "General, I've traced the spacial coordinates!"

"Not now, Jerry!" Kirk took Ann by the arm, "Let's get out. We can't help them now!"

"General," Jerry pleaded, "Outer space doesn't exist either! Only one place does!"

Ray yelled through the blasts coming from the interior tunnel, "Where Jerry?"

A live wire shot up from a console. Ann jumped back. Ray pulled himself together.

"Jerry? Patch it in!" He hit s a few buttons, hoping it would work, ignoring the live wire.

"It's the source of that disturbance!" Jerry ran to the side computer, "Now!"

Ray turned as Kirk grabbed the live wire with protective gloves he scrambled from a storage closet in the back of the lab. He tried to hold it from hitting Ray, which it seemed intent on doing.

Ann screamed as more water sprayed out at them all. Kirk and Ann fall from the pressure but Ray hit that button before he joined them on the floor, not of his own free will.

The tunnel spewed forth smoke and flame, swaying the entire room. All other techs had already left but Jerry had stayed. He ran over to the lab's double exit doors where Ann and Kirk had been thrown and pushed by the water. He started to help them both up. "Ann, you all right?"

"Oh, yes," she puffed, "Ray!"

Seaview began to spin around again. It literally spun down from an alien reddish-blue sky into an ocean. Inside, the men found they could move again but they did so very slowly. Nelson rose the quickest, despite his age, "All damage report. All damage."

"Reactor room, sir. Reactor strained almost to critical point but is now leveling off."

"Keep it constant," he ordered, "If it doesn't rise, we'll be all right. Lee?" Nelson extended the mike to him.

"Fine," Crane took the mike, "I'm fine."

Tony helped Doug up, "You took a bad fall."

"I'm just dizzy. I'll be all right."

Nelson looked out the viewport at the normal looking surface of a sea, "Well, gentlemen. Where has your...your time tunnel dumped us?"

Doug approached him, "Admiral, they had to..."

"I know that," Nelson went and lowered the scope, "But we're in some far off time, unable to save Earth from that ... thing." He looked into the scope.

Chip moved to Lee quietly, "Lee, we haven't even sprung a leak. Aside from our reactor overheating and our computer burning out, I'd say we were just like before."

"That's good news," Crane puffed, "Doc says no one was seriously hurt. Now we concentrate on..." his attention was caught to Nelson, "Admiral?"

Nelson came from the scope, bewildered. Tony hopped up to it and looked in. He saw an ocean for mile in each direction, stopping his scan at---an old fashioned Spanish galleon. "A pirate ship!"

"Obviously we're in the 1800's," Nelson awoke.

"Doug, take a look," Tony turned the scope, astonished.

Doug shrugged, "What?" He looked in. On the deck there were pirates including a big, bald man and a sinister smaller one--all dressed up in the fashion of pirates. "Captain Beal! This must be before we met him. He died when Admiral Johnson sank his ship!"

"That was 1805," Tony said, "It must be before that."

Beal yelled through a megaphone, "Prepare to be boarded yon strange ship."

Doug turned to Lee, "Captain Crane, there are pirates out there waiting to Board - or attack!"

Crane came to him, "Let me take a look. They'll be sorry if they come near this ship. There's nothing in the seas in this time that can take Seaview on."

Beneath both ships, a quivering mass of tentacles and leather like skin folded, rising up. A giant squid floated from the lowest depths up toward Seaview and Beal's ship.

Crane turned from the scope, "We'll have to defend ourselves. We'll fire a warning shot."

"Good idea, Lee," Nelson commended.

Patterson called from the radar, "Captain, we're picking up a massive object on sonar, rising rapidly."

Crane and Chip looked over his shoulder soon enough. Chip gasped, "The size of it. It couldn't be..."

"It is, a squid!"

A blast hit the Seaview. Chip and Lee are thrown against Patterson's back. Another blast splashed up near Seaview. Doug took to the scope, "They're firing a primitive cannon."

"Primitive but it'll destroy us just the same," Nelson warned, "Fire a warning missile to explode near to their ship."

Crane grabbed a mike, "Fire a warning shot!"

In the missile room, Stu Riley pressed the button. Chip moved over to Crane, "We can't dive with that thing down there."

"I know, Chip, I know."

"Where did it come from?"

"That I don't know."

The blast, not far from the pirate ship, was ample enough to scare most of the hairy brutes on board. To them, it was a giant explosion, the like of which they had never encountered.

Patterson called, "Sir? That object's still rising but away from us now."

Chip returned to Patterson, "Where's it going?"

"To the pirate ship, sir."

The squid grabbed the ship from beneath. Beal yelling from his wooden deck, cursing the blast, fell overboard. A huge tentacle wrapped around him, pulling him down under. The tentacles began to rise all around the vessel.

Nelson, Crane, Tony and Sharkey were outside in the Conning Tower watching. Sharkey said, "The blast must have attracted it to them."

The monster pulled itself up out of the water and the men on the ship could see two huge eyes and a suction cup body. The tentacles began to grab pirates while pulling at the mast. Crane whispered, "A kraken. It's a Kraken."

Tony nodded, "A what?"

Sharkey explained, "A legendary creature. Can't we help them?"

Nelson started to move down, "We'll fire a laser blast--that's the weapon that will allow us the closest we can get without destroying them."

The squid dropped some pirates into its circular mouth through a fringe of whips. Nelson grabbed the laser controls again, "Chip, keep her steady."

Patterson reported, "Admiral, more blips, all around us."

Nelson turned to the radar but stopped. Outside the nose window arose a gigantic jellyfish. "Lee! Sharkey! Get inside! We're under attack!"

A giant stinger rose up past Crane, Tony, and Sharkey! They hurried below, Tony first. Crane slammed the hatch shut behind him and cranked the handle. He jumped down to the Control Room. Nelson fired a shot at the squid and it recoiled off the pirate ship. It was too late, the pirate ship began to sink.

The jelly fish moved at Seaview. Nelson shot a beam into it. Exploding inside, it threw out a blast of electric at Seaview. Everyone fell to one side and the lights went red.

"Solar mirror up," Crane yelled into the mike, "I know what that is!" He sounded surprised.

Another blast from the new creature is attracted to Seaview's mirror on the tower. It reflects the blast back to the monster and the creature implodes - hit by its own beam. Patterson shook in his seat, "Large school of whales dead ahead!" Seaview had just stopped rocking again.

"What's going on? This sea's gone crazy," Sharkey revolted.

Seaview turned fully around to outrun the whales which were already upon her. Large black sperm whales mixed with huge white "killer whales".

Chip looked at them from the control room, "One hit from any of them and..."

Nelson looked as the whales came forward past the windows, "I can't figure it. Whales don't interbreed."

Crane stood beside him, "At least not killer whales and sperm whales."

Seaview slipped between two giant whales that were bigger than 20 Empire State

Buildings. Tony shut his eyes and opened them again, hoping the masses would vanish,

"How can they move--they're so huge."

Nelson pointed and waved his arm, "I think the question now is where did these things all come from?"

Chip called from radar, "We're almost clear now."

In a large computerized room, a scanner shows Seaview amid the massive mammals. A hand wearing a blue sleeve moves to close it, "I've seen enough. I haven't the time..."

"No, my dear man, leave it. They amuse me so--the Admiral and his crew."

In Tic Toc in 1968, Ann, Jerry, and Kirk help Ray over to a chair, "Ray? Are you okay now?"

"Yes, General, just not used to the excitement, that's all," Ray smiles, "Tony, Doug?"

"They've been sent along with the sub to the point of the disturbance," Jerry

said, "...uhmmm, by you."

"Well, I know that, Jerry, but where is that?"

Kirk frowned, "We don't know. We've lost contact again."

Ray started to try to stand up, "Let's get active again."

Ann held Ray's arm, "Ray, are you sure you're okay?"

"Yes, Ann," Ray turned a dial, "Power on."

Sergeant Jiggs walked in from the back doors and reported to Kirk, "General, we're all back on duty and all systems are go."

"Good news, Jiggs," Kirk smiled and patted Jigg's shoulder.

Ray looked forward at the tunnel, "I'm searching for time."

Ann looked puzzled and then at the year chronometer, "Nothing. Nothing beyond 5BC and 29 AD. Every year in between is there."

Jerry checked a scope, "No planets, no stars."

"We don't know where the guys are?" Jiggs asked.

"No, Jiggs," Kirk answered, "Ray, why weren't we affected, here in 1968?"

"I don't know--could be the time tunnel has protected us from this thing," Ray frowned.

Ann jerked her head up, "Ray, stop!. You've found two more times - 1985 ... and ... 1999." The year on the screen stopped at 1999 but it began to fade, "You're losing it." The chronometer read 1999 but the number faded and then came back.

On the screen, the tunnel showed outer space. The saucer shaped spaceship, the Jupiter II flew past. Kirk snapped, "Hold on that!"

"What is it? A flying saucer?" Jiggs squinted and almost laughed at the thought.

"Who could they be, in 1999?" Ann wondered.

Ray looked up, "Whoever they are--they're in danger of being taken or evaporated by that cloud."

The Jupiter II contently streaked through outer space. The white cloud followed it - expanding on all sides.

In her cabin, Penny Robinson, one of the Space Family Robinson, has just combed out her long hair and sat on her bed, wearing her more comfortable planetary clothes. She opened her Bible and began to read - something she hadn't done in a long time was read the Bible. "And he said onto them--go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Penny paused, putting the Bible in her lap,

"Creature. Creature. I wonder why it said creature instead of man." She looked down to another line, "And these signs that shall follow them are that in my name shall they cast out devils..."

The room slanted to one side. The Jupiter II shook and Penny fell off her bed, but the Bible did not. She got up and tried to run to the cabin curtain like door. She opened it and managed to get to the square ladder rungs to the upper deck. Once up and in the control room, she asked, "Mom, what's happening?"

Maureen, in her silver spacesuit, turned, "We've picked up an alien ship and I don't think they're friendly."

Don sniffled, "They're not!" Major West sat at the controls of the ship.

John Robinson, Maureen's husband, put on the TV monitor, "I'll see if I can raise them."

Penny asked, "Don, how's your cold?"

"Cold's fine, but I'm not," quipped Don, quickly realizing how cold he sounded. He turned to look at her this time and smiled, "But thanks for asking, Penny." He turned back to the controls and the radar.

John zoomed in on an alien face. A dark, tanned, and bearded humanoid face with bumps down the middle of his forehead bared pointed teeth and beamed a nasty gaze at them all. Maureen nearly screamed. "Earthship, I am Korgar of the Klingon Empire."

Don frowned, "Klingon Empire? I've never heard of it."

"We are expanding to the outer reaches of Klingon's galaxy for the first time. We have watched the development of your puny planet for a number of years."

"What do you want?" John spoke up, impatient.

"You have invaded our space."

"I didn't see any do not trespass signs," Don spouted, "Space is for everyone."

Penny gulped, "Dad, what about...?"

"What do you want?" John repeated, not really hearing Penny.

"Your ship will be docked onto our own. Any sign of your fleeing--and you will be destroyed. I am most interested in seeing the inside of an Earthship for the first time." The monitor buzzed off.

"They know our language," Don commented.

Penny finished what she wanted to ask, "Dad, what about Will, Judy, and the Robot?"

"Well, Will insisted on going with them to the unstable area," John said, "I shouldn't have let him."

Maureen frowned and then smiled, "John, I know I'm the least likely to say this but Will has to do things for himself. He has to grow up--if we let him."

Don said, "I think we should outrun them."

"For how long?" John wondered.

"We are smaller," Penny put in, "Like David."

"Unfortunately our Goliath has deadly rays," said her father, "...but I won't let them board us."

"I'll fire the retros," Don hit the switch. The Jupiter shot ahead, faster and faster. The sound of a high pitched shriek came from the elevator in the control room. Dr. Zachary Smith, reluctant stowaway and ex-saboteur, came up to the front window viewport.

Maureen gasped, "Dr. Smith!"

"I just looked out my window and saw..." Smith put a cold pack on his head, "...it must be my cold. It must." Smith looked outside.

A giant Klingon battle cruiser hovered over the tiny Jupiter II. The Jupiter ship moved away from it. Korgar laughed, "Puny earthlings! Fire!" The aliens obeyed their commander and fired.

A deadly phaser shot forth from the round nose of the Klingon ship, which in design resembled a giant sword. Jupiter II, being smaller, was able to fly around the phaser rays. A few explosions came very close but merely shuddered the ship. The Klingon ship followed the Jupiter and although it was slower, it quickly increased in speed. Behind it, the white cloud moved up.

The Space Pod, the Robinson's exploratory capsule, made by them in their long stay on one of the planets they had crashed on, a short time ago, flew just ahead of a green, swirling mass. Inside the Pod, Will Robinson, little red headed boy, about 12 now, and his older, blonde sister, Judy, wore their silver spacesuits. The Robot stood behind them, calculating the green swirls ahead. John called on the radio and screeched, "Will!"

"Yes, dad, we're on top of that disturbance now," Will thumbed the mike, "What's going on with the one behind you...that white cloud?"

"Not much but we're under attack by some alien starship," John warned, "We can't turn back. Whatever that green thing is---fly into it. It may give us some cover. We'll follow with the Jupiter. We don't stand a chance against them."

"Okay, dad," Will said, "I'll..." static filled the Space Pod and the Jupiter's radios.

Don, on the Jupiter, nodded, "I sure wish you'd finished that laser you were constructing for the Jupiter," he shot at John.

John felt bad but thought to keep up their humor would help, "Well, Major, who expected a quiet ride in a galaxy so far from Earth---or any other planet." An explosion rocked them and John grabbed his wife's arm to steady her. Penny held onto the back of Don's chair while Smith, still in his long stripped nightgown and nightcap, grabbed a freezing tube off to the left of the viewport and control console.

Korgar, on his bridge, became angry, "Sharpen the beams. We're using too much power---slowing down our vector angles! Destroy them!"

The Space Pod flew at the green glop which hung in space. Judy yelled, "What's happened?"

Will looked at a radar, "They're under attack."

"So are we!" Robot pointed ahead as he talked, his voice box illuminating, "That is a time-space warp!"

Will pulled the levers on the Space Pod controls, "What?"

"Will, we're heading straight into it," Judy gasped, "We don't know where we'll end up!"

"I can't help it," Will yelled, "I can't change our course! Whatever that warp is--it's got us."

"Danger! Danger!"

The Space Pod flew into the green hole and vanished!