Last episode, the family Robinson crash-landed on the planet of giants where a party of Earth travelers, stranded for over two years, were eager to join forces with the family. It is now shortly hereafter that the two parties began lift off operations...unaware a giant named Inspector Kobick was even now planning one final trap...

Barry ventured to look out from the leaves he and Penny were hiding behind as Kobick scooped up Fitzhugh and Smith. "Kobick! Come on, we have to follow."

Penny leaned outward, "But that dog..."

"Come," they heard Kobick call the dog.

It instinctively followed him and went past the pile of leaves. For a terrifying moment, it sniffed in front of Penny and Barry. Barry murmured, "Don't move." Penny shivered without looking out again or u. Although only a few seconds before it moved on, it seemed like an eternity. Barry was pulling Penny up before she realized it was gone, "Are you all right?"

"Just a little stunned, that's all."

"I felt that way the first time, too."

Another voice yelled from the woods, "The first time you did what?" It was Will's voice which made the pair jump until they realize it was the redhead. He came out of the foggy ferns.

Penny relaxed, "Will. Will, a giant took Dr. Smith and Mr. Fitzhugh."

"Are you telling me the truth or are you two just..."

"Just what?" Barry squinted. Silence. "Look, Inspector Kobick has them. They're probably miles away by now. If you want to help, come on." Barry ran off, out of sight.

Penny simmered, "Just what did you think, Will!"

"Oh, for Pete's sake, I don't know!"

"Will Robinson, I could just..." Penny let her anger boil and then darted off after Barry - into a deepening darkness.

Will stood in the same spot, feeling helpless and lowly. Without expression, he took off in a different direction from the other two.

Penny stumbled through a thickening mist. "Barry? Barry? Are you in here?"

A hand touched her shoulder, "Here I am."

She turned to see him emerge from the fog, "Do you see Kobick?"

"No, I lost him but I know where SID headquarters is." He turned backward, "...if that's where he's taken them. Where's your brother? I thought he'd help."

"So did I," Penny frowned, "Let's go."

Barry shrugged and lead her into the night fog of the darkening forest.

Kobick walked into his office and picked up a cage, then dropped Smith and Fitzhugh inside it. The two stood up off their backs and looked out at Kobick's huge face, which filled the side of the cage "window". Kobick sounded particularly angry this night, Fitzhugh thought.

"So you have sent for reinforcements from Earth. What are you up to now? Invasion?"

"Oh Kobick, use your giant brain will you...or is it just your outer head that's big?" Fitzhugh spurted, "You should know by now that we're not invaders."

Kobick stared at Smith, both eyes directed right at the cowardly man, "Then why are you here? What's your story?"

Smith gulped, "Well, you see we were, ahh..."

"Coming to attack or to colonize?" yelled Kobick.

"Do not put words in my mouth, sir," Smith said, "Just because you're bigger, you think you can bully us."

"If you are invading, I have a surprise up my sleeve. An agreement with the Supreme Council."

"What kind of agreement?" Fitzhugh worried.

Barry and Penny stopped in the middle of prickly green thorns on the edge of a titanic curb just below them. Every once and awhile, bright twin lights would beam past them. Barry nodded to a puzzled Penny, "Giant cars are easy enough to dodge in the day but with this fog..."

Penny nodded back, "We have to try, Barry."

"I know, it's just..." Barry heard a whining sound bearing down on them, "That sound..."

"No, wait." Penny stopped him from running off. "I know that sound." They were squatting down but now stood up.

Looking up toward the sound, they saw three dotted lights coming into view from within the fog. The lights descended near them. Finally a longer light opened up as Will threw open the door to the still invisible Space Pod (invisible due to the fog). Will's voice was apologetic but also angry...more at himself than anyone else, "Are you coming or not?"

"Will!" Penny ran up to the Pod.

Barry was just behind her, "I knew you wouldn't abandon us." The two climbed the ladder steps to the Space Pod and Penny shut the door behind them.

Will silently fired the rockets and lifted the Pod up, gently, into the air. Penny, behind Will, looked from him to Barry and back, "How'd you find us?"

Will motioned t the infra red scope hanging on the wall. Barry was looking out the window to the street below but could only see brilliant lights moving in either direction of the street. The Pod flew past a few skyscrapers. Barry pointed east, "SID is that way."

"I was wondering when you were going to tell me," Will scoffed as he changed direction.

Barry looked at a building through the fog, "I think you're flying a little too low."

Will ignored him, "That must be a factory. We'll zip over it." The Pod headed east, past a bridge like structure, hardly a visible object to them.

Suddenly, a bright light engulfed the Space Pod which was actually flying over a railroad track. The Pod was directly in front of an onrushing giant train! Barry yelled, "Get us up! Get us up!"

It was a station for trains - and the platform was impossibly high off the ground. It all happened incredibly fast. The Pod flew across the path of the train, avoiding it. Will was momentarily blinded by the light as the gush of the force from the train swept up the tiny Space Pod. His hand hit the stabilizer control only after the Pod had flipped twice end over end. Penny had screamed but at least the friction kept them from hitting their heads on the ceiling.

Once stable, Will apologized, "I'm sorry, Barry. From now on, I'll listen to you more closely."

"Forget it. It wasn't your fault," Barry shrugged, "It's hard to remember this is just like Earth--except bigger, much bigger. You're flying at heights in a city - that you've probably never flown at before with so many objects around you."

Will looked at the radar, "Can you tell where it is on the scope?"

"Yeah," Barry murmured and then looked down at it, "There or near there." He pointed toward the center of the radar. The Pod flew in a brighter part of the city. Penny saw a huge, red light turn green in one huge flash, and then realized she was looking at a traffic light, one not far from them.

Kobick placed his box, with Smith and Fitzhugh in it, on his wall desk, "So now you know my plan. You see, I've always made the same mistake. I go and leave you alone while your loyal friends scamper to your rescue."

Smith gulped, "You mean you're having us guarded?"

"No, I've tried that before as well. This time, I will be ready when they arrive. I want to save as many of you as I can before we begin my ultimate plan."

"Save us? Fitz shrugged, "For what? Interrogation, experimentation, brainwashing?"

"I'm not going to argue with you. I may lose my temper. That wouldn't be good for you."

Fitzhugh felt that Kobick was acting very unlike himself. There was something different about him that didn't add up. He didn't know what.

Kobick went on, "This time I am ready." He walked out the door and slammed it.

"The hour is dark indeed," Smith frowned.

The Pod approached the SID building, hidden by fog. The structure was huge to them but flatly built...just a stone square building. It didn't look like it had more than one floor. Barry pointed, "That wall. Kobick's office is there, unless he's moved it again."

Penny stared at the window, "Let's just hope it's where he's taken them."

Will piloted the Pod up to the window and they watched out as it seemed to grow toward them. Will looked, "Look, it's open?" He guided the Pod toward it.

"Cut the engines," Barry suggested, "Some giant inside may hear us now."

The window sill filled the viewport as Will glided the Pod between the open window and the wall. He cut the engines just then, bumping the Pod down on the left side of the sill. To Smith and Fitzhugh, who couldn't see, it was on the right side of the sill with the Pod front facing the open room. Will, holding the parajet backpack, opened the door of the Pod and climbed down. Penny and Barry followed him onto the sill. Barry watched Penny put the helmet on Will, who was strapping the pack to himself, "Let me come with you."

"It's too dangerous for both of us."

Penny smiled, "You sound like dad."

"I do, don't I," Will frowned, "Okay, come on and keep clear of the rockets. We can fly out together." Barry held onto Will's shoulders as he stepped onto the pack's small passenger area behind. Penny stood back as Will fired the rockets, lifting off the window sill. She saw them sail across the room. Above her, unseen, a camera moved to follow the boys.

In another room, Kobick, Sergeant Geido, and two officers watched a monitor screen which was built like a TV. It was full of static. Kobick yelled, "Fix the screen! My plan depends on getting at least a few of them."

The craggy faced Geido was not about to argue, "Yes sir."

Will landed and Barry ran to the cage where Fitz, who didn't see the boys yet, was trying to pull the vertical close latch up. "Smith, help me."

Smith hung back, "Oh the pain, we'll never get out."

Fitz spotted Barry, "I knew you'd come my young friend."

"Can't you get it open?" Will joined them.

"William," Smith said, with renewed hope.

They all try to force the latch upward. Will puffed, "No good. I hoped not to use this but I'll have to risk the noise." He pulled out a laser pistol, "Stand back, everybody."

Smith gasped, "No, have you all taken leave of your senses! I'm too young to die!"

Fitz pulled Smith to the back of the wire cage. Will shot the latch, blowing it off. "I'll fly you over first, Dr. Smith," he explained but didn't see Smith near Fitz, who was at the front of the cage, ready to escape. "Doctor?"

Smith was in the corner of the far side of the cage with his head buried in the corner and his hands over his eyes. Will came into the cage and tugged on his shoulder. Smith jumped, "I'm innocent!"

"Come on!" Will yelled, "We haven't time for this."

In his smaller room, Kobick yelled also, "Come on! Get it working properly! Or I have to go in there!"

Geido turned a screw within a panel under the screen, "Sir? Do you think they'd rescue them this fast?"

"Sergeant, I want that screen..." Kobick looked as it popped back on, "...on." He saw Will flying Fitzhugh across the room. "Where are they going?" The giants were amazed.

Geido winced, "Beyond the camera range - I think up to the window."

"Get in there now!" Kobick yelled, "Don't let them get away!"

Will took off yet again. He flew down to Barry while Penny, Smith, and Fitzhugh watched. Just as he landed, the door to the room flew open. Penny ran to the Pod. Kobick stood behind his three men, "Don't stare at them! Grab them!"

Penny came out with a laser rifle and shot up at the lights, blowing them out. Will and Barry took off just as the hand of one giant smashed down where they were - and smacked into a green ash tray. The two boys whisked up past the mammoth form of another giant officer who began to flail his hands around, trying to swat them. Penny ushered Smith and Fitzhugh into the Pod and followed. She soon began to take off. Kobick grabbed a broom from a corner of the room and swatted blindly at the window sill. The Pod lifted off just as the bristles brushed past, slightly shuddering the Pod. Penny rose the Pod up out of the room.

Below the window sill and outside, ten giant officers stood, each holding guns at the ready. One also had a spotlight which caught the Pod in its glare. Shots rang out. Smith peered down, "Good heavens! They're shooting at us! Yeowww!"

Fitzhugh stood behind Penny, "My dear girl, are you sure you know how to fly this contraption?"

"Of course she can. Of course, I taught her everything she knows," Smith proudly put his head up.

Just then a bullet smacked the side of the Pod, bouncing off but violently buffeting them. Penny stared outside, "Of course, that was only after he accidentally launched it three or four times into space." The Pod left a rain of bullets behind.

Will and Barry were avoiding massive bodies in the room. Kobick grabbed a can of bug spray and started to shoot it into the air, hitting one of his men in the face. Geido took up a flashlight which was on the desk. He shone it up at Will and Barry, who were trying to fly out the window, avoiding the hurt giant who flung himself past them. The other giant had a net and swung it beneath them. Kobick ran to help the hurt man while Geido took out his gun and shot. The boys flew up past Geido's ear and out the open door. Will flew down a hallway while Barry hung onto him. He found a window in the hall and flew out it's open crack. "Can't they see in the dark?"

Outside, Barry asked, "Can you get back?"

"I sure can try," Will said, "But this fog is dangerous. I can hardly see."

"Which reminds me, why...LOOKOUT!" Barry yelled as a thick telephone pole came into view just ahead. Will swerved them and missed it.

Will gulped, "See what I mean."

Barry shook his head, "What did you ask me before?"

"The giants. They seemed totally blind in the dark."

"They have very poor night vision," Barry explained.

At the Spindrift, Mark, on the outside table, had an energizer unit which had wires going from it to inside the Spindrift. These ran to the new solar batteries and the reactor. Dan came walking out of the ship, "I'll check the vertical planes."

The Robot was watching the unit with Mark. Don came from the front of the Spindrift's nose. "Stabilizers and thruster units seem functional."

"Seem? Are they or aren't they?"

Don smiled at Mark, "Are." He put a foot up on a chair.

Maureen and Betty came from behind the canopy near the rocks off to the right of the Spindrift Betty plopped into a chair across from Mark, "No luck at all."

"I'm really very aggravated. Will has done this more than once," Maureen blinked.

Betty puffed, "Maybe they have a good reason for running off like that."

Mark turned a dial higher. "Well, I know Fitzhugh and if he's missing, there's something fishy going on."

"I agree because I know Smith and he's missing, too," Don waved a screwdriver.

Judy, in her yellow-orange outfit and with her hair tied up in a bandanna, walked out of the trees with a very tired looking Valerie by her side. Val tumbled onto a rock and put her feet up on another smaller rock. Judy walked up next to Don, "How is it going?"

"Good," he said, "This ship should be flying by..."

They all heard engines whizzing downward. Dan came running from the rear of the ship. The Pod descended and landed next to the Chariot but more toward the rear of the red ship. Smith, Fitzhugh, and Penny piled out and down. Mark asked, "What's happened?"

"Oh dear," Smith leaned on the back of Betty's chair, "The strain is too much to bear."

Betty stood up, "Here doctor, sit."

Maureen inquired also, "Penny? Can you explain?"

Penny caught her breath, "Sorry mom but Dr. Smith and Mr. Fitzhugh were captured by Kobick."

Maureen brought her chin up and then down, "And you went and rescued them?"

"Yes:" Penny answered, "Will and Barry should be back soon on the parajets."

Steve and John ran out of the ship. Steve heard some of this, "What was that about Kobick?"

"The kids rescued us from him," Fitzhugh laughed, "They were marvelous."

"But we're all doomed," Smith intoned, "He's sending the army in to burn us out. We're doomed."

Mark looked up at Steve, who came down off the ladder ramp, "What do we do?"

"We keep up with the work," Steve said, his tone implying that he was tired of fighting off the evil intentions of giants.

John nodded, "Our ship should be checked over again. "I suggest we try for a double lift off tomorrow."

"I agree," Steve nodded, "We'll work through the night." Everyone began to move in different direction--except Smith.

Smith wrinkled his forehead, "What? No sleep? Indeed!"

The next morning it was still cloudy and a vale of mist covered the forest and the city. Steve, Dan, John, Don, and Mark ran up curb to a brick wall of a giant building. Steve looked around the corner to spot giant military men in green uniforms - evacuating civilians from an apartment building. Others were walking down a fire escape. Steve turned back to his companions, noticing the rifles on the men, "They're packing heavy artillery."

Dan whispered, "You know, this isn't like Kobick. He's always resisted giving in to the Council."

Mark added, "And public opinion."

Don looked up, "We're almost ready to lift off even though the weather is hardly what we want."

John was staring into the sky, "Could be that disturbance."

"Back!" Steve warned as a black SID car skidded around the corner and halted just in front of them. Kobick emerged from one side and Inspector Greyson from the other. Geido was driving. Greyson had a wrinkled face, more kindly looking than Kobick, gray hair, most of which was fleeing his head, and a slight distinguished moustache.

Greyson was against this, "How could you do this? They'll all be killed."

"You don't know that. We may get one we can use."

"I thought we agreed to protect them, not use them," Greyson slammed the car door and followed Kobick to the corner.

John whispered, 'We'll be spotted any minute."

Don fingered his laser gun, "Let them try and grab us. They'll find Earth people now have stingers."

"Lt. Greyson," Kobick stammered, "We've tried everything to bring them in. Or at least, I have. Metal detectors, posting rewards, gas guns, forcefield traps, and I even tried turning them against each other but nothing works!"

"So you're destroying them?"

"Our planet must be rid of these little pests!"

"Inspector..." Greyson followed him over to the curb, "This is too unlike you, too weird. It's not like you to talk like this."

"It is now! And..." Kobick shook his head strangely and as he did he saw something below, "Sergeant Geido! There they are!"

"Come on! Run!" Steve pulled Dan's arm. The group ran along the wall but Geido was out of the car, blocking them. Mark and John looked behind and saw Kobick and Greyson approaching, massive building sized legs and bodies. Geido pulled his gun out. It was zapped out of his hand by a laser shot from Don. Geido stared at his hand.

Mark gasped, "Let's go!" The five ran past Geido's tremendous feet as the giant remained startled, eyeing the melted remains of his revolver on the floor. Kobick chased the little men, Greyson behind.

Mark, Steve, Dan, Don, and John raced out past the brick wall. Steve and Mark, ahead, suddenly felt the ground beneath them vanish. Clinging onto the arm of a drain, they realized below them was a mile deep drop into a slimy pit of muddy water complete with weeds and worms. John pulled Mark up to the pavement while Dan and Don helped Steve out.

They heard Kobick yelling like a madman, "Sergeant, hurry up!" Geido stood motionless at the car, not sure he should give chase again. "Call the captain of the army!" Geido went back to the car, moved away from it, and went back to it and inside to use the radio in the front seat.

Before Kobick could yell at Geido again, Greyson took him by the arm, "What're you planning to do?"

Kobick pulled away from him, "Don't stop me, Greyson." Kobick decided to do something for himself and ran at the five little Earthmen.

Steve was investigating the drain as quickly as possible. The part he and Mark fell through were square like bits, too big for a giant to fall into. "This may be what we need. Do you think your lasers could drill it open?"

"We have to try," John said. The five ran to a ledge on the other side, a small metal shelf like area. John and Don began firing at the screen over the drop, "Hurry, Don." It wasn't totally finished as Kobick and Greyson emerged from the other side.

"There they are!" Kobick reached down, moving closer.

"Cut out!" Steve pushed Dan and Mark. They ran and Don and John turned and followed.

Kobick stepped on the vent and plunged down a few feet. He grabbed onto the pavement as he his feet hit water below. Greyson was laughing at him. Kobick found this more annoying, "Well, help me up and out or are you going to film it!"

Greyson laughed, "What a great idea!"

Steve lead the other four past a number of empty stores and they turned a corner of a barber shop. "Look!" He pointed to a military jeep which turned onto a main road. It was the same color as jeeps on Earth. Another jeep with five army men in it came whizzing around a closer corner. The men tossed gas bombs onto the pavement. One landed near the five men who didn't wait around to see what kind of gas it was. They ran into a slim alley.

Mark saw the fence fist as they stopped running, "Steve, it's a dead end!"

A loud mechanical noise filled the air. They whirled around to see a gigantic, lumbering tank slowly rolling toward them from the front of the alley, not mindful of the buildings on either side. Don gasped, "Look at the size of it!"

"You look," Steve ran to the fence, "We have to get to the other side!"

John shoved Steve out of his way, "Lasers!" He fired a beam at a board of the fence which blasted open under the laser fire. Avoiding the small residue of flame on the outskirts of the hole, Steve and John stepped through, John putting his hand out for Steve to enter first. John poked his head back through after stepping onto the other side, "Come on you three!"

Suddenly the tank stopped, its engines quieting down. In the tank, a soldier looked at radar. "That's the five. Why not fire?"

"There's a rat in there. It'll get them."

"What? Don't risk that! Fire!"

"Deprive us of watching the fun?"

"Will you just fire!"

Steve called from the hole, "Hurry it up!"

Mark, Dan and Don were not watching the tank anymore. They were facing a huge, hairy rat which had suddenly leapt in front of them, probably trying to escape the tank, too. Don had a hand on his holstered gun, "When I fire," he whispered, "...make for the fence." The rat inched at them, making loud sounds. Dan had the safety pin open but didn't want to use it, hoping their getaway would be clean. "Now!" Don pulled his gun and fired. The rat took a beam to its head and roared violently. Mark flung himself into Dan and both raced through the hole to a waiting Steve.

"Got him!" The soldier watching the radar was excited. "He got him!"

Don fired again but the rat went mad! It sprang right at Don, who backed off but fell over some wood left on the floor. John fired a ray from his gun from the hole section on the fence. The ray hit the rat's body, shocking it. Don rolled on his arms and into John. "Thanks. I thought he was going to..." The rat wasn't dead but was running off. Suddenly a loud burst tore into the air. The tank fired blasting bombs at the alley. Garbage cans exploded, sending all sorts of giant messes at John and Don! A garbage can cover spiraled at them! They dashed out the hole as wood and metal flung at the fence, crashing against it. It held but shook violently. The tank was on the move again and rolled at the fence, starting to knock it down.

Steve helped Don up, "All right. I don't think we're out of it, yet."

"Steve!" Dan's alarm caused them to see the wavering fence. "It's gonna give!"

"Run and keep running!" Steve pulled Mark onward. The five scattered off. The tank pushed the fence, cracking the wood but giving the middle of the fence a reason to fall. The middle came forward and the rest of the fence followed. Steve and the others found themselves on the other side of the fence, now running in a part of the park which was more full of foliage - better for cover but not for running. The entire fence fell after them. Reaching a light green colored park bench, the five stopped underneath. The fence top fell in front of the bench, blowing up a great wind that toppled all five onto their backs. The tank started lumbering over the fallen fence. The five men scurried up and ran. The tank fired a shot, blowing the bench to pieces!

Another jeep bounced through foliage to fire random shots. Men on back of it were firing guns on turrets. Kobick called on a megaphone, from the edge of the park, "Begin spread out procedures!" He was on the back of another jeep.

Oddly dressed giants were walking into the woods. They wore white fire suits and helmets with thick mashing boots. Steve lead the men through a mass of tangled vine wood to the other side--just as three of these giants shot flame throwers a the wood. The fire engulfed it. Don turned around to see it burn.

Dan pulled Don's arm, "Don't look back! Come on!"

The wood flamed up and fell amid black smoke. The flame throwing giants moved in. From the other side, the military men marched, a few steps behind but both were careful of the other. The huge feet mashed down the ground as they trod.

At the Space Pod by Spindrift, Will, Barry, Penny, Chipper, and Debbie gathered around. The door was open and Robot was inside. Debbie hung around Will's neck, kissing him. Will said, "Robot, you know what to do."

"Affirmative! Make one sweep of the Jupiter and then orbit around the giant planet until rendezvous time with the Jupiter Two."

"Roger," Will gave him an okay sign with his thumb and forefinger.

"Stand back, my friends," Robot closed the door. Penny carried Chipper away from the Pod as it blasted off into the sky amid huge trees. It gathered speed and flew off.

Elsewhere in the forest, Judy stood on a high tree stump, watching for the men. Val walked up to her, using the jagged side to get there. She was puffing when she reached the blond girl, "Need more vitamins," she said to herself.

Judy just noticed her, "Oh, it's you."

"A fine how-do-you-do," Val smiled.

"Sorry," Judy frowned, "I only wish the others stayed here."

"I wish I could have gone with them."

"We had to finish here," Judy said, "But why when we're ready to go, they decide to check up on the giants?"

"To find out if our escape path is clear. You're worried about Don, aren't you? So am I."

"What?" Judy felt jealous, "What about Mark? Aren't you worried about him?"

"I worry about tornadoes," Val smiled, "Relax."

"I can't," Judy shivered, "I feel as if something horrible is going to happen. What's that?"

She saw movement ahead but it was too far for her to see what was causing the ruffle of trees. Far off, army men were shooting randomly and a large pack of stray dogs, of all shapes and sizes, began to scurry off for safety.

Maureen and Betty walked out of the Jupiter II, passing the force field machine. Maureen turned it off, "They'll be back soon."

"Let's round up Judy and Val."

"You know they really shouldn't have run off like this," Maureen shook her head, "They're getting as bad as the children."

"Really," Betty laughed, agreeing, "Or even worse--as bad as Fitzhugh and Smith." Laughing, the two walked off. Smith was watching them from the round viewport, inside the ship. He went to the radio telescope and looked into it, spotting a mass of giant dogs ploughing through the forest.

"Oh dear!" He ran outside, "Mrs. Robinson! Come back!" Not seeing them, Smith activated the forcefield. "Doomed, we're all doomed! Beyond all hope!"

Behind Val and Judy, a giant spotted black and white dog sniffed. It began to growl. Maureen and Betty were walking up the stump, laughing. Suddenly, they spotted the mongrel. Maureen yelled, "Judy! Valerie! Behind you!"

"Run!" Betty waved, "A dog!"

Judy turned around, screamed and fell back off the stump onto a clump of soft ferns. Betty and Maureen were running over to her, unaware of two more wolf like coyote type dogs, towering above all of them! Val jumped off the stump avoiding snapping jaws. Some giant dogs were friendly. Some ignored them. Others were just hungry or frightened. This one fell into the last two categories. Val puffed, "Back to the ship!"

Betty looked up, "They're all around us!"

Maureen took out a laser gun from her holster and shot at a Doberman. It ran off and two of the smaller dogs followed. Another circled around the stump. It was a furry Sheep Dog type and followed the women as they ran for the Jupiter II. Maureen and Val helped Judy recover as they went. Maureen turned and fired at the new dog and hit it in the chest. It ran off as well but then two German Shepherd dogs came running from the opposite side. Maureen fired at a bush between the pair and that was enough to scare them off. "Run for the ship!" The girls were already doing that.

In the Jupiter, Fitzhugh came out of the elevator onto the tilted deck of the control room. He saw Smith cowering behind the scope set up, "What are you doing?" Fitz went to the scope and looked in. He ran out the door, Smith following him.

Smith gasped, "What do you plan to do?"

"Let the ladies in, of course," Fitz turned off the force field, "They're being chased."

"Aren't you ever afraid, my dear man?"

"My dear Dr. Smith. You are looking at this world's - and I am sure many other's--greatest coward."

Smith bit his lip, "Then let's try to face it together, shall we?"

Fitz nodded as the women ran up to the ship, followed by a red Irish Setter type dog and a Labrador--both showing fangs and foaming at the mouth. "Get the forcefield on," Maureen yelled, "Now!" As they moved in closer, Smith turned the dial. The two dogs hit the field and it caused them a momentary shock.

The girls were catching their breaths. Judy puffed, "Nice work, Dr. Smith."

"Thank you, my dear girl," Smith gulped, "But now I fear we are surrounded."

Looking up, they saw it was true. The entire pack of intermixed mongrels surrounded the entire perimeter of the spaceship Jupiter II.

Don and John ran through the forest. John looked back, "I think we've left them behind."

They ran past some more tree stumps to the one near the Jupiter's clearing. Don whispered, "John." They saw the dogs. "Some of them are coming this way." They ran as a brown mongrel and a white husky rushed at them.

Don looked at a gopher hole, "John, what about in here?" The pair rushed into it. The dogs began to stick their noses in. Then, the two dogs began to fight over which was going to get in closer. Every so often, the two would fall against the hole, dropping dirt on Don and John.

John opened his radio, "Jupiter II, come in!"

In the Space Pod, flying serenely, Robot suddenly shouts, "Danger! My sensors indicate danger even though there is no one to warn danger to!" He turned the radio on.

John's voice came over it, "Maureen, get ready to turn the forcefield off. All we need is one clear shot to run in." The sounds of fighting dogs nearly drowned him out.

"Hmmmmmm," Robot raised his bubble. He flew the Pod in closer to the Jupiter II, abandoning his orders for now. "Do my scanners deceive me?"

Dirt fell on top of Don and John. Don says, "I say now or never."

"We have to try it before that lunatic army bears down on the Jupiter," John agreed.

Don listens, "Listen. Nothing. They've stopped fighting."

The two edge to the exit and look out. One dog was moving away, hurt but not badly. The other, the husky moved closer with fangs bearing down on them. John shot a blast at its nose, "Now!" They start out and run under it, "Run and don't stop!" He called on his radio at the same time, "Maureen, lower field now!" The pair ran under the legs of a brown collie and then past its head. It is startled by them and started to spring at them. The Space Pod skimmed past it, diverting the dog's attention. Other dogs back off from the collie and the Pod.

Waiting at the field machine and outside the Jupiter, Maureen turned the field off. Don and John raced inside, "Back on," John yelled.

Maureen hit the switch, "On! Oh John."

"Come on, inside!" Don ushered Judy, Val, Betty, and Smith into the Jupiter II. Fitzhugh followed the others. John grabbed the forcefield machine and pulled it up the ramp to the control room, followed by his wife, "Prepare for liftoff!" Judy and Val rode down the elevator with Dr. Smith. Maureen and Fizhugh climbed own the ladder, Maureen making him go first.

The Space Pod flew up into the sky. Robot, inside, was proud of himself, "Nice job if I must say so myself and I must. Previous orders now in session."

In the Jupiter, Don was doing a countdown, "No sign of those dogs." The engine hum rose up.

"There's why," John pointed outside, "Ignition on. Power full."

From beyond the viewport and over bushes, a row of seven military men were firing guns. One pointed at the Jupiter. Don yelled, "Blast off." The Jupiter rockets fired. After the blast, the ship rose to a sound beyond hearing. Below, all were in chairs, rocking as the ship shook off dirt and weeds which clung to it. Don saw a giant signal to his men and they began to hurl grenades! Explosions rocked the ship.

John yelled, "We're rising!"

Grenades blasted the tree stump and the rocks that were around the Jupiter's previous clearing. One grenade hit the viewport, shaking the two pilots. The saucer shaped ship resisted it and flew upward. A giant with a bazooka fired. A blast of fire engulfed the Jupiter II, making the giant proud he scored a hit. From the fire, the Jupiter continued to rise, intact, spiraling out of it and careening upward further.

Maureen, from her lower deck couch, grabbed a mike, "John?"

John quickly answered, grabbing a mike, "It's the giants! They're attacking us! Hold tight!" The ship rose up above the army blasts. Finally, it flew out of the sky with the failed army men watching.

Penny, Will, and Barry ran out of the Spindrift. Penny gasped, "That noise! It sounds like a war."

"We are at war," Barry surmised, "... with some of the giants."

"Come on!" Will spouted. The three ran into the forest. Steve and Dan came running up to them. Will said, "You're okay?" Mark came out from some bushes.

Steve was angry, "What are you three doing out here?"

Mark looked behind to the place he and the pilots were running from , "Steve, we have to get out of here!"

"All of you back inside the ship," Steve ordered.

"Look!" Barry pointed up, "The Jupiter." They all saw it flying in the sky.

"Just like Fitzhugh's dream," Dan commented, 'At least they made it."

"We'll make it too if we..." Steve stopped, feeling the presence of giants. Three, just overhead and in those white suits, holding flame throwers. One came forward and fired the flame thrower down toward them! Penny screamed as a wall of flame headed down at everyone!