Last time, as you recall, the Jupiter II had only just lifted off form the terrifying giant world without its crew realizing the other half of their intrepid party was still in deadly peril at the hands of the giants.

The Jupiter II flew in the sky. In the forest, Barry pointed up, "Look!"

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

"We'll make it, too, if we..." Steve stopped, feeling the presence of three giants with flame throwers and protective white suits just overhead. One shot a string of flame down at them! Penny screamed, running with Steve, who grabbed her arm! "The ship's ready to go! Get to it!" He picked Penny up in his arms and ran. Dan pulled Will and pushed Barry.

One giant turned to the one who shot, "You know what Greyson said---get them alive if we can."

"Oh, you and he are no fun!" This giant shot again and a tree went ablaze! Sparks flew down on the now barren camp site of Spindrift. Chipper was scooped up by Barry as he, Mark, Dan, and Will raced up to the ramp of the ship. Will grabbed Debbie's arm, "Hey, what about Penny?" A burning leaf fell over the table.

"Don't worry," Dan said, "She'll be fine!"

"But..."

"All of you," Dan yelled, 'Inside! No buts! Move it!"

Dan had frightened even Mark. Mark was almost afraid to ask, "Should I start to lift off?"

Dan looked outside the perimeter for signs of Steve while the boys raced in with the two animals, "Yeah, go ahead." He looked up as three army giants passed by the trees, "Come on, Steve!"

One army giant said, "Be careful. Those fire bugs are taking this area out."

Steve put the coughing Penny down, "You okay?"

"I think so," she coughed, "I can make it."

"Good," he puffed, "Move then!"

A barrel of a rifle pointed at Steve. Penny looked up and saw an army man laughing. "Don't move you! You...you're the leader, I believe. Burton, is it?"

"Sir..." Penny pointed up, 'There's a burning bush above your head! Lookout!"

"What?" The giant turned his head upward and saw a tree burning but off in the distance, "What're you pulling?"

Penny pulled at Steve's arm, spotting two huge fallen rocks, wedged together with room for them to hide in, "In here, captain!" Penny crawled in.

Steve dove in just as the giant shot. Steve stood up and turned around, "Get in further."

"Think you're gonna fool me?" The giant bent down and stuck the muzzle of the rifle in.

"Move," whispered Steve, who followed Penny.

The giant squeezed the trigger. The rocks shook as Penny fell against the side of one boulder, yelling and closing her eyes. Steve rolled into her but looked up, spotting whiter light coming from above. He nodded to the girl, who saw it too, now. Steve lifted her up, then jumped up himself.

"Come out or I'll crush you in there!"

Penny and Steve climbed out on top of the fallen boulders. These rocks were possibly from some rockslide. Steve ushered Penny over to a tree branch which had fallen against the rocks and carefully the pair moved onto the wood. The giant, bending over, couldn't see them. Penny stopped midway down and pointed up for Steve. He could see a huge wall of fire spreading up through the once green forest on the heels of a thick cloud of black smoke. Steve pushed Penny on, gently. They jumped off the fringed bottom. A grenade exploded just behind them! The two ran as a group of explosions followed. A giant with a machine gun began to rain lead down upon the trees but he fired inches too high. They ran under a thicket bush but a flaming tree fell toward it. Through the vines, Steve saw it plunge at them. He lifted Penny off her feet by her arms and flung them both out into the brush. The tree crushed the thicket in a flaming inferno.

Dan looked at the rising column of smoke from the ramp of the Spindrift. "Steve." He ran into the control room where Mark had cleared all circuits. "Good, Mark, now strap in."

"What do you mean strap in? You're not leaving without Steve and Penny."

"Just strap in, Mark. That happens to be an order," Dan beamed angrily.

Mark frowned, "Yeah but..." Going into the hallway, he spied the hatchway door still open. He also saw, through the door of the passenger compartment, Barry and Will close to the door, on their knees, not ready to get into their flight chairs. They were anxiously awaiting the return of Steve and Penny. Chipper crept up between the boys. Mark took command, "Guys, get in your seats and strap in. And that's an order."

Suddenly Debbie began to rap the horizontally long windows on the passenger compartment area. Will and Barry clambered to it, leaning on the ledge. Outside they saw Penny running from burning trees. Leaves, afire, began to rain from the sky around her. Steve was behind her, looking back. A falling, flaming bush rolled in front of them, blocking their path to the Spindrift. They circled around it and dashed up the ramp ladder, which Steve pulled up after him, "Dan! Get us out of here!" Steve slid the door shut with a push of a button as Penny ran past Mark to her chair in the Passenger Compartment. She chose the one behind Will' seat. On the other side, Barry smiled reassuringly. The engines rose to a loud hum as Steve plopped into the seat beside Dan, "Seat's empty, huh?"

"Waiting for you to fill it, Steve," Dan laughed, "Thrusters on."

"Increase," Steve flipped a booster switch and held the levers to his drive mechanism.

"Boosters on. Reactor holding."

They could see huge boots just outside, trampling plants in front of the ship, which began to shoot up. It shot up quicker. The three giants saw it and began to permeate the air with flames from the flame throwers. Fire seemed to engulf Spindrift. Shields slid over the passenger's windows and their safety belts held them in. The take off buffeted everyone around. Debbie was on Penny's lap, clinging for her life as Barry held Chipper.

The ship seemed to slide up and take off---straight over the giants' heads. All the time these giants fired flame at the ship. Dan reported, "The hull held. Temperature's fine."

"It can withstand space."

Other giants fired missiles from a jeep upon eyeing Spindrift in the air. Explosions missed the ship and it shot out from the inferno in the sky like an arrow. The shields slid back, allowing Will and Penny to see the black, dying forest. Mark and Barry soon joined them, out of their seats.

With binoculars, Kobick was watching, from a jeep on the outskirts of the woods, "So they think they're out of it, do they? We'll see."

Dan eased the ship's controlled climb slowly, "I think we're out of it."

Steve blew out air, "You think so? I hope so."

"Oh, soon we'll be leaving the land of the giants far behind us," laughed Dan.

"Let's rendezvous with Jupiter," Steve checked his instruments.

Spindrift careened through the fogged sky up into the limits of the atmosphere. Far below the ship, giant missiles were being raised up to a firing position.

The Jupiter II orbited the tremendous planet through a vail of mist. In the middle of the control room, Don was trying to plot a course on the astrogator rig, suspicious of Smith and Fitzhugh. The two were behind him, watching his every move. Don turned his head, "Don't either of you get any funny ideas about toying with this."

"Major, are you inferring by your very tone that either my colleague or I would venture access to meddle with..."

"Cut the big words, Mr. Fitzhugh. You two even sound like each other. All I'm saying is keep your hands off."

John flipped to manual override and looked out the viewport, "Here comes the Robot." The Space Pod slowed up to the Jupiter and raised up to the bottom of it. The lower belly hatch opened up and the Pod docked inside the compartment. "Don, come here. Look at this?"

Don frowned over his efforts and walked, tiredly, over to the viewport area, "I'm having some trouble with the astrogator. It won't lock in on any systems."

"There's why," John nodded, never taking his eyes off the outside view. Through the three framed window, beyond the puffing mist, Don saw outer space---and that's all he saw. A large black space of darkness.

"No stars," Don blinked and whispered.

John grit his teeth, "Not a one."

The door to Smith's left opened and the Robot slid forth, "Space Pod secure in berth. Oh, Dr. Smith. It is good to back with you again."

"Is it, indeed, you bubble headed booby. What have you to report on this?" Smith waved his hand to the window.

"This occurrence is caused by the cloud which also caused the Klingon spaceship to vanish. Its prelude is the mist you are now viewing, Professor."

John was listening intently, "You mean this planet and its sun are next?"

"Affirmative."

Spindrift eased up as it neared the Jupiter II. Steve looked outside the cockpit window, "Do you see or rather don't you see any stars? They disappeared."

Dan wasn't looking up. He had been staring down at the radar on his left, "It's what just appeared that's worrying me. Six blips."

Steve smiled, "They never give up." He grabbed a mike, "Jupiter, it's the giants again. Six missiles bearing down on us."

John answered, "I'm looking at them. They're big, real big but not very accurate. I've got an idea."

"Shoot," Steve snapped and winced at the slang, "Sorry about that."

The six missiles loomed up behind the Jupiter and Spindrift, which waited...until the missiles came real close. Dan worried about how close, "Steve!"

"Now!" Steve spiraled the Spindrift away like a fired arrow. Pressue pushed Penny, Will, Barry, and Mark into their seats. Three missiles gave chase to Spindrift.

In the Jupiter II's control room, Smith gasped, "We have to get below!"

"No time!" John was sitting in his console chair, "Hold on!"

Don was also sitting at the control deck console, "As big as they are, they aren't very slow. Pretty fast, considering their size."

"But bulky," John said, "And THAT'S our hope."

The missiles came closer to the Jupiter. Spindrift zipped straight through a blackened space. At the window, Steve saw the greenish time-space warp forming, "Oh no! Not again!" Spindrift turned around rapidly, heading back the way it came from. The giant planet came into view once more. The missiles stopped and for a moment, remained stiff in space. Finally, they turned to follow the Spindrift.

In the lower deck of the Jupiter II, Val, Judy, and Maureen were in the galley, preparing a meal. Maureen looked up, "We're increasing speed."

Val heard the hum of the engines whining louder and louder, "Why? What's wrong?"

"I don't know," Maureen frowned.

Val went over to the ladder pegs, "I'm going to find out."

Jupiter had turned around in a similar fashion. The missiles couldn't follow as quickly as the ship moved. Val poised halfway up the ladder. Fitzhugh, holding the astrogator edge, turned, "Get back down there, you foolish girl!"

"What's happening?" Val wondered.

"John," Don stated, "We're awfully close to..."

"Just a few seconds or it won't work!" John snapped. At the window was Spindrift---darting closer to the Jupiter II. Steve and Dan saw a similar view from Spindrift---a view of the Jupiter II heading right at them.

Smith closed his eyes, "Good heavens! We're going to crash!"

Spindrift approached the Jupiter. "Now!" Steve yelled. Spindrift nose dived. Penny felt herself be thrown forward, only to be held by her straps. The Jupiter did the same move. Val grabbed the floor of the tilting deck while Fitzhugh was thrown off the astrogator into the elevator lift. The Robot spun into Smith with his arms waving wildly!

Smith still held onto the astrogator, "Get off me! You bloated blimp!"

Don yelled, "Hold on!"

As both ships plunged downward, their pilots realized it had to be as far from the missiles as possible. Both sets of missiles were following both ships on a collision course. When the ships plunged down, the missiles hadn't time to change. The three hit the three. The resulting explosion was massive by Earth standards. It engulfed part of the tail of the Jupiter end and sent it flipping. Maureen and Judy fell against the wall of food cups and then hit the table. Betty fell out of Maureen's cabin, yelling wildly. Val fell off the ladder.

The Spindrift also was buffeted badly enough to knock Mark's chair off its post. As it slowed, Barry, Will, and Penny ran to him. Mark unstrapped himself from the twisted chair, "I'm okay."

In the Jupiter's lower deck, the girls began to pick themselves up off the floor. John called from above, "Maureen?"

Maureen looked at Judy's bumped elbow, "Okay?"

"Yes, fine."

"Betty? Valerie?"

Val brushed her hair with a hand, "Fine. Just glad we didn't eat yet."

"And probably won't for some time," Maureen laughed as she eyed the fallen plates and steak dinner meshed in a pile of soup slop on the right side of the table. She grabbed a wall mike to the right of the galley chairs, "Yes, John. We're all safe."

"It was missiles from the giants."

Don nudges John, "More problems."

"More?" John looked out the window as the green cloud spread out at them! "Turn back."

"Danger! Danger!" Robot waved his arms.

"Stop cackling and tell us what!" yelled Smith.

"White cloud is behind us!"

John ran to the screen and put it on. The white cloud was immense now and looming onto the giants' planet, slowly causing it to dim out of view. On the planet, in his office, Kobick looked out a window as the white cloud descended. "No! No! I tried! I tried. You told me you wouldn't. No!" Kobick's office vanished, leaving only a white mist in its place. John, watching the scanner, saw the planet eventually vanish altogether. "Tractor beams on Spindrift," he gulped, "We enter the green cloud!"

Jupiter and Spindrift flew close together and into the green cloud.

In the Tic Toc lab, Anne, Ray and General Kirk looked up at the time tunnel. Kirk closed his eyes, hoping for a visual contact when he opened them, "Anything? Anything at all?"

"We lost contact when they passed through that green cloud," Anne sat down again, turning dials.

Ray frowned, "A space-time warp."

"Well, don't we know anything about those?"

"Not much, General," Anne groaned, defeated.

Kirk calmed himself, "I'm sorry again. I just don't understand...what about the Seaview?"

Ray scanned, "No, no. Nothing at...wait...Anne lock on this." On the screen through time particles came the green time warp and in it, flew the Jupiter II and the Spindrift. "That's them!"

"In the warp," Anne said, "It's hard to hold the image."

"Try," Kirk pointed, "They may lead us to that point of disturbance."

"And to Tony and Doug," recalled Anne.

Steve looked up as the green sizzle effect washed away, "We're emerging."

Spindrift and Jupiter II spewed out of the time warp. John, in the Jupiter, snapped, "Tractor beam's out! We can't hold em!"

Spindrift flew down---suddenly a large yellowish planet appeared, filling all space. Spindrift descended. Steve pulled up on his hand levers, "Drive on!" The ship responded and pulled upward.

Dan sucked in air as they rose, "That planet?"

John called them, "Captain Burton. We're going to have to land. It seems to be the only planet---anywhere."

Steve thought on this, puzzled. What new strange events had space and time thrown at them?

Dan suddenly gasped, "Steve!"

In space outside, a satellite appeared. It has five pointed ends and the center was a silver grid from which came a thick ray aimed at Spindrift. The ship skimmed up past it but another contraption appeared in space from thin air, very thin air. This new one had a round ball shape with five razor ended poles coming out of it. From each pole spark like weapons shot out and the thing began to turn at the Jupiter II, trying to get it at the same time as Spindrift. The ball like device spiraled out sizzling rays as it turned like a only a ball could. It looked like some strange Fourth of July firework to Don and John. Don fired a missile from the Jupiter II's nose and blew it up. John exclaimed, "We can't fight them all."

"All?" Don looked up from the controls to see the space around the giant planet now filled with metal orbs, blue, red, yellow in color and of all shapes and sizes.

John turned to Fitzhugh and Smith, "Get below and strap in! Move!"

"Yes, yes!" Smith bumped into the Robot in his haste to make it into the glide elevator, "Stand aside, ninny!" He and the Robot slid down together while Fitzhugh climbed the ladder down.

As the three entered the lower deck, the women had just picked up fallen items. Betty put a plate into a small cabinet in the galley but then she noticed beyond the small room to the lower deck window, "Look!" A snake like metal and silver machine filled the window, curling up. Other mechanical tubes and spheres were behind it, hanging in space, A pyramid flew close by, in front of the metallic snake ship.

Robot was sliding under his magnetic lock, "Danger! There is Danger!"

Smith yelled, "Get to the couches, everyone! Quick! Quick! We're all in mortal danger of our lives! Hurry, hurry!"

Maureen ran past him to close the viewport window and usher Betty into her chair as if this were an everyday occurrence. She shut out the terrible sight before them, "C'mon, let's get into our seats," she calmly said and took Betty by the shoulders.

The Jupiter and Spindrift faced an army. Don hit the forcefield, "Let's try a chain reaction!"

"Force field," John smiled.

The snake robot bounces back into a few orbs, exploding the orbs into bits. The snake body split apart slowly. Sparks came from within. Its curls flew into other shapes and burst them open. The Jupiter shook as Maureen and Betty tried to strap into their flight couches. Val fell across and over one couch. Fitzhugh kept tying his buckles nervously. The remaining orbs fired a net of rays at Jupiter II, causing it to rattle and vibrate. The girls managed to strap in somehow amid all of this. The galley was shaken all over again and a shelf protector fell off, releasing a pile of plates.

Spindrift dodged two arrow like satellites which crashed together and blew up, dissecting each other. Steve turned the Spindrift toward the Jupiter II. Dan stammered, "These aren't the giants' satellites. They're too advanced."

Steve was more concerned about the Jupiter II. Dan noticed this, "They're in trouble!"

The Jupiter was caught in a net of lightning from several orbs. John yelled, "We're caught!"

Spindrift flew close to one orb. Steve turned the rear of the ship on one orb, "Try the rockets." Dan fired and flame hit the orb which spun away, turning red hot. Finally, it headed for the planet and the force of the spin made it explode as Spindrift scooted off, being fired on by a red pyramid. The Jupiter was free now and Don fired a rocket at another orb, breaking the glowing yellow net that held the Jupiter. This orb flew into pieces.

"Gone," John said. The space around both ships was clear of any alien devices.

"Where?" Don nodded, "A whole army just appears, attacks us, and then vanishes?"

"Something is trying to scare us off," proclaimed John, "But we haven't any other land falls to choose from."

"Down we go," Don said. Jupiter headed down.

Spindrift followed but suddenly, both ships began to vibrate all over again.

Dan grabbed Spindrift's controls with a firm grip, "Now what?"

"Radiation belt!" Steve yelled.

A large silvery curtain of radioactive particles spread between the planet and both ships. In the Jupiter, John saw it, "Fly right through it!"

The two ships flew into the field of curtain-like material and the hulls of both began to glow. Inside Jupiter, circuits began to spark off the console. The board to John's left sparked with showers of sparks coming off the wall! Below deck, the wall devices puffed smoke out.

In Spindrift's cockpit, flame rose from the radio deck. Dan grabbed a fire extinguisher from the side of his chair, unbuckled, and shot at the fire.

Below Jupiter's control room, Fitzhugh began to sweat as Betty looked up. The ship was tilting violently from side to side. Everyone was thrown to one side finally.

The two ships emerged from the radiation belt. John looked out, "Clear from that."

"You expecting anything more?" Don asked no sooner than a meteor flew from space and hit the window, shaking the ship some more. Don ran to the astrogator, unbuckling himself, "Its the closer we get to that planet..." A hail of meteors bombarded the Jupiter II! Spindrift shot under them and headed at the planet.

"Full power," Steve yelled tensely, "We're going straight in!" A meteor skidded under Spindrift, bouncing it up and down.

Aboard the Jupiter II, Don yelled, "Black hole!"

A spiraling tunnel of darkness spewed into the Jupiter, which turned upside down and around again and again. Don had barely made it back to his seat before this. A blue glow pervaded the lower deck. Everyone closed their eyes until the spinning stopped. John grit his teeth. "I'm still heading us for that planet!" They could see it on the other side of the black hole---from which they flew out of. "It couldn't have been a real black hole...what the...?"

Suddenly, they were in the atmosphere---no naturally. They were just there. The Jupiter flew downward and passed a huge mountain of rock. Don yelled, "John!" What seemed to be a thick tree moved. A giant that both men had encountered before reached up at the Jupiter II. The clawed fingers were hard to forget and now reached up at them from beyond the viewport. They could hear its growling...a cyclops giant. The ship passed it, descending into a canyon---down until it hit its sandy surface.

Spindrift was also touching down uncontrollably. It careened through a pile of sand which spit at Steve and Dan from the outside. The sand blurred becoming thick hairs of tree leaves and plants. Spindrift shot past trees and undergrowth. Dan looked up at it, startled. A leaf covered the viewport which, after the leaf fell behind, revealed a pile of snow! Spindrift slid through snow on top of ice and skidded. It finally skidded to a turning halt on top of a sandy dune! Dan blinked, "What was that all about?"

"You saw it, too. Different landscapes."

"Yes, I did or at least, I thought I did."

Steve bolted up, 'You did. Come on."

Some time elapsed before they could check out their respective spaceships but the general scans of the area, both with binoculars and the radio telescope on the Jupiter proved to show some strange things...unexpected things. Some work would be needed to find out what was happening, not just here but in the rest of the universe. If this planet was the only one with life now and the only one with what seemed to be an active sun-star, what else happened to the rest of the universe? There were many unanswered questions and the crews and passengers of both ships wanted answers...but there was no place to look except on this planet, like it or not.

Some time later, outside Jupiter II, John, Maureen, Don, Valerie, Betty, Fitzhugh, Smith, and Judy had assembled the Space Chariot. The Jupiter was on a slant, having hit some rocks. John opened the door to the car and climbed in, "We're going to check out that area."

"You think it could be a city, John?" Maureen asked as her husband entered the car.

"It looks like it," he said, helping Judy, Val, and Betty up. Robot was already inside the back of the Chariot. "We'll pick up Steve along the way," John added.

Betty climbed past, "That's why we insisted on coming."

"To find out if they're all right," Judy said, behind Betty, near Robot.

Don shrugged, "Why shouldn't they be?"

"Don," John said, "Make a scan of the area. There may be more cities."

"Let's go," Val started the engine, impatient. John climbed into the seat on the right and frowned at her. The car pulled off across the dune covered desert. The others watched them pull away.

Maureen puffed, "I'll try to fix our radio."

The Chariot stopped at Spindrift where Steve climbed aboard. He looked out to Dan and Mark from the door of the glass car, "Find the kids. We don't know what kind of place this is yet."

Mark nodded, "They went off that way."

"Don't worry," Dan said, "They didn't go far. And even this, no one can get lost."

"Hmmm, but you saw those changing landscapes. We still don't know what that was all about. Find them.'

"We will," Mark said, impatiently.

Steve nodded and closed the door and sat next to John, where Val moved from. Soon, the Chariot was once more heading for the city that showed crisply on the Jupiter's scopes. The planet was hot, clear, and sandy. Through some wind swept dunes, the car, bumped toward its goal. Inside the group became uncomfortable. Minutes later, Robot warned, "Temperature rising. 103 degrees Fahrenheit."

Judy loosened her turtleneck, "103?"

Steve looked ahead, "Rising that fast?"

John forged ahead, "This is a strange planet."

"If it is a planet," put in the Robot.

"What does that mean?" Judy asked.

"There is not enough data to explain."

"Is this the AC here?" Steve checked, "It's on full."

"Outside temperature 115," Robot reported.

The Chariot crossed a flat area of less wind and comprised of arid rock and sand. The sun beat down stronger. "Look," Betty pointed out toward the sky. In the sky, more suns appeared with equally glaring brightness. "That's why it's getting so hot."

"Suns appearing in the sky?" Val looked up, shielding her eyes with her hand.

"I wish we knew what was going on," Betty snapped.

They blink their eyes as steam rose outside.

Penny, Will, and Barry walked around a huge boulder and on the other side was a grove of green grass. It was hilly and lush which surprised the three. Will nodded, "A meadow. That can't be."

"But it is," Barry went ahead.

Penny followed, "Where do you think Debbie and Chipper are?"

Will strode after, "Those two crazy animals will be the death of us yet." He caught up to the other two.

"You sound like Mr. Fitzhugh," Barry put his yellow sweater over his shoulder and puffed, "Let's try that way." The three found themselves nowhere near a desert but in a large, open, grassy field.

The Chariot pulled up toward a very familiar object. Through the steamy air, they could see the outline of a city they all knew well. The car bumped treads from off of a sandy sea onto a paved street.

"I don't believe it," John gasped, finally.

The other had been awestruck into silence. The Chariot drove down a deserted street in a city...an Earth city...New York City! The car passed Radio City Music Hall. Everyone was even more silent than before, watching only the billowing of strewn papers along the empty sidewalks. There were no cars or buses or people, only the familiar atmosphere of huge skyscrapers on all sides. No one talked for a long, long time as John guided them past known roads--Sixth Avenue, Fifth, then down Lexington, past the Empire State---all the buildings shining in the brilliance of the many suns. The car pulled alongside a large overhang and stopped underneath.

John threw open the door and climbed down, helping Judy and Valerie. Steve and Betty followed as the Robot climbed down last.

In a computerized room, there were three monitors: one showed Seaview rising up through an ice rift opening, another showed the Jupiter II in the desert of dunes, and another showed the Chariot and the group from it, exiting it. A voice laughed, "The universe and all had a great fall because it thought it sat on a great wall. And all the heroes especially the Robinsons couldn't put the universe together again. Hahahaha."

Judy wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, "Dad...dad, do you suppose this is Earth after some war or..."

"Judy, after traveling in outer space for as long as we have, I've learned not to suppose anything unless we have all the facts."

Val murmured, "And we have little of those."

"Robot," John reacted to that, "Scout around a bit."

"John, why don't we try down toward that cathedral and the library," Steve pointed ahead. He turned to the women, "You three..."

"Stay here," Val mimicked, "Right?"

"You do have a few facts," Steve said in a patronizing but friendly manner and then smirked and ran off before Val could protest.

John shrugged and followed Steve. Val, Betty, and Judy began to eye all the nearby office buildings, shops, dress stores, camera shops, and big name department stores that squared them in. Valerie looked behind them, "A posh restaurant. We can go in there."

"Well, I don't..." Judy started to say something.

"Oh, there's no one here anyway," Val opened the door and went in. Betty nodded disapproval to Judy but followed her in. Inside, they were very quiet, finding themselves in a dining hall filled with empty tables, chairs, and a lot of space. Everything was neat and untouched, including marble tables. "It doesn't look like anyone's been in here for years."

"But everything is clean," Betty whispered, "Like it was new. Hey, why are we whispering?"

"We aren't," Val smiled at her, "You are."

John and Steve jogged down an immense block of skyscrapers. Steve stopped John with an out stretched hand, "Feels funny running around a normal sized city. After so many years on the planet of the giants..."

"No sign of life anywhere. There's the library," John nodded, "Let's go." The pair ran across an unjammed intersection beneath several traffic lights and to the steps of the library. A vacant world of cement. They paced up the steps past a lion statue. The eyes on the lion began to glow but neither John or Steve saw this. The men went up inside the lobby of the large library. "Hello? Anyone home?" His only answer was his own echo. Steve hit John in the shoulder and pointed. The men ran up a flight of steps.

Judy was back outside, looking up at seven suns which slowly lined up in the sky along the block she was on. "Robot?" Judy left the shade covering and walked near a metal drain covering over the ground. She started to walk on it but it gave way and she jumped back off of it. As it fell down to the bottom of the drop---far down and onto concrete, Judy watched. As it hit bottom, a slab of mud moved over it, strangely. "Robot, where are you?" Judy, avoiding the drains, walked down the street.

She roamed to an adjoining street and saw a large department store. Trying the door, she was surprised it opened. She went in, immediately noticing a dozen mannequins in fancy dress scattered all over the store, both male and female. She looked at the dresses that were on the racks, enjoying them since she hadn't seen dresses in such a long time nor been in such a store for years. Judy forgot her surroundings and wandered further into the store past a perfume counter. Eyeing a pink gown, she walked to the bald mannequin and touched the frilled sleeve. To Judy's horror, the arm moved up at her in protest! Judy screamed at the unconcerned face of the model. She ran down the tiled center aisle toward the door as more mannequins began to move, slowly but creepily. None were fast enough to get to her. From behind a dress display, a hairy creature stepped out in front of Judy, blocking her way. Judy stopped short, recognizing this thing---which has two horns on its head and a black furry body. Two fangs sprouted from its foaming mouth and hunger blazed from the dog like eyes. This thing has paw-like claws that Judy knew almost too well! She ran backward and then toward a center of a display area. The monster mutant sprang after her!

Judy dashed around the corner of a counter and she grabbed a bottle of perfume, opening it just as the mutant approached. He swiped a claw at her but she splashed the bottle's contents into his face and hurled it at creature's chest. Without watching, Judy turned and ran. The monster was more affected by the perfume than the bottle hitting it.

As more and more mannequins began to move from both sides of the new aisle Judy found herself on, she fled down it, the mutant fell, trying to continue pursuing her.

In the library, John said, "Let's find out if the Robot has come up with anything." The two started own to the lower floor entrance lobby when a piercing laugh broke the air of silence. A child's laugh. A female laugh. A sinister, almost sadistic laugh. And to both men, it appeared to come from above and it began to echo not only through the library but down the streets of the huge yet belittled city.

"Uh oh," Steve felt a familiar menace, "...that laugh sounds familiar." They rushed down to the door which seemed to fling in open of its own accord. A tremendous giant hand has opened it. Steve gulped, "Oh no."

"Little people, come out and play," giggled the same girlish voice, "Come out and play."

"It's her," Steve proclaimed, "Akman's grand daughter. Let's find another way out!" The men ran under a glass roof window and the giant young girl's face filled it from outside, peering down at them, smiling with evil, ghoulish intent. She smashed her hand through the window.

John and Steve made it to another section of the library, barely avoiding a rain of glass, "Remember me, little captain! I see you've got some new friends to play with!"

"She'll kill us if she can," whispered Steve.

"Fire exit. Come on."

They ran to one and Steve opened it and looked out. The pair ran out, checking that it was safe first. On the other side of the library, the giant girl towered. John and Steve ran down the opposite street but she spotted them. Turning around to a large church behind her, a church almost as tall as she was. She tore the steeple off the church and hurled it down at Steve and John! They separate, running down either side of the street just as the massive steeple crashed down the middle, sliding all the way down the road, finally crashing into a roller rink and sticking into the ground after making a dive.

In the fancy restaurant, Betty watched Val plop down to a stool at a darkly lit bar. "Just think, Betty, I used to sit at bars like this all around the world. You know, now, I don't think I would."

"It's why you never met the right man."

"True, true. But as I recall...some terrible bartender would pop up and make a pass at me---I'd always resist..."

Betty screamed as an ugly, red faced thing with two unaligned eyes popped up in front of Valerie but on the other side of the bar. Val screamed, jumping off the stool and next to Betty. The creature wore a golden space suit, one piece. Its face resembled a melted pumpkin, dripping with some kind of fungus. "I am known as Mister Keema! Do not move or you will be destroyed!" Both girls saw him raise a strange shaped laser gun pointed at them, "In fact, even if you don't move, I am going to destroy you!"