Narrator: Last week as you recall we left seven (or was it eight?) groups of our heroes in precarious situations...
John Robinson sat in Roman Coliseum with Myko and the Ruler, watching a gladiator fight a Viking while aliens and humans sat around in the amphitheater enjoying the brutal fight.
Two giant white balls were carrying Dr. Zachary Smith and Mr. Alexander B Fitzhugh through the air over water. They moved toward land and flew quickly down into a game room of an amusement park. The men inside the artificial life forms could hardly breath...
The Seaview submarine was being pulled toward a sea of submarines from both Mu and their enemy Atlantic. A dozen seals filled the sea with gillmen monsters riding them, some of the gillmen looking more human than the ones Dan Erickson and Mark Wilson saw on the Atlantic sub of fish man leader Proto. Dan was eyeing the suction cup device manned by an octopus being.
Two Nazis pushed Don West and Doug Phillips through two doors in a large chateau. They landed on their hands and knees in a plush wooden office with a brown rug inside this Swedish villa. Getting up, the two saw a long dais, behind which sat some of the most evil men in history: Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Nero, Cortez, Vlad the Impaler, Hirohito, Machevelli in his red cloak and hood, Morgana-the sister of King Arthur, Cleopatra, who murdered her own young brother, and the Chinese Sue-Zai! But the most evil, a German, yelled, "Zit down!"
Judy Robinson, Lee Crane, and Tony Newman ran from battling giant monsters in what appeared to be the Mount Fuji area as well as part of the Land of the Lost dimension locked universe. They tried to make their way off a small ridge but the arrival of a fourth entity put them down to the ground on their stomachs. The force of wind as the air filled with a new threat downed them. Mothra, Rodan, and Godzilla began to try to hold down this new terror, working together. Ghidrah, the three headed monster, with a massive wingspan, twice that of Rodan's, formed out of a sizzling display of electric firepower, red, yellow, green, and sparkling auras formed his body until he solidified into his massive bulk, alighting from the sky and landing to attack the other three awesome giant monsters, dwarfing the trio of adventurers. A flying saucer flew over as well!
The Robinson Robot, his tapes erased to an earlier time in his own history---to the time he attacked the Jupiter II just after 8 hours after it took off from Earth---had been brought back to the year 1968 by America's most top secret and highly dangerous project, the Time Tunnel, located in the cross between Arizona and Nevada's deserts. Robot had fired his bolts at Jiggs, the security man. Ray moved to help him up as Ann, Kirk, and Jerry watched the Robot move down from the platform of the time tunnel itself, "Dest--roy inertial---guidance system. De--stroy life sup--port!"
Kirk yelled, "How do we stop it?" He had his pistol out but that did no good.
The Thief of Outer Space's former Slave, a 7 foot man, dressed like an Arabian slave pushed Sharkey from behind while Keel, a hillbilly who was a werewolf on planets that had a full moon or moons, pushed Betty. They were all following the midget clown, Dr. Lovelace, here from the Wild Wild West of the 1800s, brought here some time before he menaced Captain Crane and Seaview in the early 1980s dressed as this clown and using wax dummies come to life. Above their heads but in the distant ahead, was a neon sign that read HAVE FUN AT AMUSEMENT LAND. Lovelace hung back and stood behind the foursome waving his machine gun.
Pirate ship commanded by Blackbeard: alien pirate crewman Deek pointed a cutlass at Riley's bare chest and forced him out onto a plank. Deek put the weapon to Riley's bare back now. Under the plank, Riley could see many shark like creatures, but these had glistening fangs, and were even larger than sharks like the man eating ones he saw on Earth. If he were lucky, they would swallow him whole. For they were large enough to. But those teeth didn't make that seem realistic.
Narrator Continued: In the meantime, Penny and Will Robinson, with their peer and friend Barry Lockridge, sat in a Canadian forest, contentedly eating a strange white muck their pets alerted Penny to find growing on trees. For the moment they enjoyed the solitude of peace and quiet, quite unaware that lurking nearby was a mysterious alien known as...well, read the story...
Someone was watching Penny, Will, and Barry as they ate the strange food. Penny gave some to her pet monkey alien, Debbie, while Barry fed some to Chipper, his small dog. A gloved hand was on a rock near them, peering over at them and chuckling lowly to itself. It made for the trees...
Meanwhile on the pirate ship, Blackbeard had two young and shirtless boys tie Kowalski's arms to the mast while Smeek, the hairy wolf like being, held a sword on Kowalski's stomach. A long haired blond from the 1960s of Earth came to Blackbeard, "Cap'n. Another boat, like man, what's the flower power gonna be?"
"Not boat, ship yer blasted land lover," Blackbeard laughed, "So they dare defy me!" He opened up a telescope he had taken out of his belt and looked ahead, "Burn my soul, another pirate ship! We in fere a little fun wit them!"
Dr. Doug Phillips and Major Don West were awed by such evil to the point where they couldn't talk. More blasts from outside were sounding out the force of war continued. A man walked in behind Doug and Don. "Zit down!" Being slow to turn, they realized finally, that this man, the German voice they heard before turning, was the leader of all this assembled evil----Adolph Hitler!
Judy, Crane, and Tony ran back to the ridge. Tony yelled, "We can't stay here!"
"If we run..." Crane looked up. He saw the white saucer with strange golden orbs all round its perimeter.
Inside, three female Kilaks in silvery hooded robes, white and silvery, shining as they talked and changing colors from time to time, all bright, stood. They looked Japanese but were, in fact, aliens. They stood behind a control console which was round and shaped not unlike the exterior of the saucer. A male Mysterian, in a red cape, and bulbous red helmet said to them, "Kilaks, Ghidrah has lost to them before. How can you believe his control is stronger than the other three?"
"Because," all three women spoke as one, deliberate and slow, "He...is...under...our...complete...power..."
"We need the female. Can we stop the fight to get her. Our race needs women."
"Impossible at this time," they quickly snapped.
Behind the alien allies, stood five eight foot tall giant Martian men with bug eyes and small slits in those eyes. One held a giant bubble, clear but with some venous bulbs in it an along its exterior. Inside this bubble was a giant brain with a male face attached to under it. It didn't talk but its mind sent out messages, "Mars needs women also!"
Another saucer flew past London buildings. Inside was Valerie Scott, "Admiral, where did the Robot go?"
"He was taken it would seem." Nelson was concentrating, trying to fly this alien saucer.
Jai, the jungle boy, a protégé of Tarzan the Ape Man, said, "I hope he can handle whoever took him."
Robot marched down into Tic Toc Lab's Time Tunnel complex, "Destroy! Destroy!"
Ann gasped, "We must find a way to remagnetize his tapes!"
Ray was helping Jiggs up, "How? There's no time..."
"I'll give you time. Find that Doctor Smith. He seems to know the most about this Robot! Get him here!" Kirk moved around to the Robot's left, drawing him away from the center panels. Ray and Ann moved toward the panels. Kirk fired his revolver at the Robot again.
Ray said, "General, isn't this a long shot really?"
"Do it," Kirk fired again with no effect. The Robot zapped a side panel near him and it sparked up into flames.
The two giant Rovers dropped Smith and Fitzhugh on the floor of a huge video game arcade. The monsters then bounced out the game room open door, which looked like a car garage door. The bald headed Blofeld, once an enemy of James Bond, and a clone onto himself, pet his white cat inside the Village Control Room, "Rovers return. I want to see what will happen to them. Their reactions are most important as they are most like..." He turned to the nameless men in his room, "...the average population of any known planet."
Fitzhugh removed himself from the marble floor of the arcade and saw Smith on his stomach. He bent over to touch him, to tug him awake, "Comrade Smith. Smith," Fitzhugh moved his hand at Smith, "Doctor Smith? Doctor." As he touched Smith's back, the man on the floor vanished with a popping bell like sound. Fitzhugh drew back in fear.
Ann yelled in Tic Toc Labs, "We got him, Ray!"
Ray pushed her by darting an arm in front of her, "Good! Now get back!" Robot swept his arm across a tape computer on the left side of the complex room where Kirk drew him. Kirk rushed him and pulled the arms just behind the claws but the force of the Robot as it turned, hit him down and away. Robot then turned to a monitor, exploding it.
"General!" Ann ran to him. Robot turned to look at her.
Ray looked, "If it hits these..." He looked at the central control unit, "...while Smith is in time flight..."
Robot moved at him now, his arms out.
Smith awoke, flying through time particles. His stomach wavered and jumped. Nothing was under his feet. He yelled. He covered his eyes after seeing nothing but multi colors beneath his feet and thin air, "Oh dear! I won't look, that's what I'll do!" He covered his eyes with both hands, "Oh dear." He uncovered his eyes, "Over is it? Ohhhhh. Where am I? Oh dear, I don't like this, I don't like it at all!" He sneezed and sneezed, "And I am allergic to time travel!" He shut both eyes, tumbling through the infinite corridors of time. He opened one eye and then shut it again. Smith tumbled.
The tunnel burst forth blue smoke. Ray picked up a blue chair and hurled it at the Robot, who was advancing on the main panel in the center of the lab. Robot tossed the chair aside. Ray gasped, cowering but ready to distract the Robot again if need be.
Ann yelled, "Ray, get away from there!"
"I can't! If he wrecks this---well, we'll never see Tony and Doug again---let alone be able to help any of the others and the boys!" Robot picked up another chair and tossed it at Ray.
Kirk moved, standing up, "Ray, that's an order, get away!" He moved up behind the Robot, "All of you move back!" Robot turned to him but Ray wouldn't move so it turned back to Ray.
From the tunnel someone's coughing, some of it faked, came. Then a voice, "Oh dear? What's going on? Saint Peter, is that you?" Smith's voice. It came out of the tunnel as an advance guard. Then he came out, his eyes covered by his hand and ring on one of the fingers of his right hand.
"Destroy guidance system!" The Robot emitted lifelessly.
Kirk grabbed Smith's arm, "Dr. Smith. This is the Time Tunnel that Doctors Newman and Phillips spoke of. We need your help!" Smith dropped his hands from his eyes.
"Destroy! Destroy!"
Smith took in the scene, "Good heavens! Cease and desist, you bubble headed booby!"
"Can you stop him?" Kirk looked at the Robot moving up on the center panel.
"Of course!" Smith went up to the Robot quickly and pulled out the power pack. The Robot hunched over, deactivated. Smith waved the power pack at him, "I'll deal with you later, you traitor."
Kirk picked up the chairs, "Thank you, Doctor."
Smith took in the whole of the complex, "Oh my. What a wonderful place this is. Do I take it...this is...Earth...in 1968?"
"Yes," Kirk said, "And the momentary dizziness you are feeling will..."
"Dizziness? I feel no dizziness, for I am Dr. Zachary Smith, knew ye all, that..." He teetered and almost fell. Kirk caught him and looked at Ann and Ray, who joined them now.
"Yes," Kirk repeated, "But why don't we talk over dinner. You must be hungry?"
"Hungry? Yes, indeed I am," Smith quibbled and stood up out of Kirk's arms. "Always time for food, mother always said but she didn't know about all these lovely time travel thingies, did she?"
The Tic Toc staff silently wished they could just send him back now. They huffed to themselves, knowing they owed him their lives. They HAD to be nice to him. And who knew, maybe he wasn't such a bad sort after all.
Penny, Will, and Barry ate, sitting. The stuff looked like white cakes. "This stuff is good," Penny said.
"I'm glad you found it," Barry ate some of the white cakes, too, "And that Chipper ate some before we did."
"Well he and Debbie actually lead me to it so I guess the credit is all theirs." Penny laughed.
Elsewhere in their TARDIS, where they were trapped by the evil Master, the five Doctors from Gallifrey, Time Lords, were mind linking. Sarah Jane, a human girl, a journalist from the 1970s and 1980s, quietly watched them.
Penny suddenly jumped back, "Will!"
Hovering above them, a ghost like white-translucent apparition, seemed to beckon. Barry picked up Chipper and stood. Will winced to see what the image looked like, "It...it's someone we know."
"A few someones," all five Doctors said. "This is an amalgam of my first five selves. We're expending great psycho kinetic energy doing this. We had hoped to find our other three selves, the last three but we suppose you three will have to do."
"Golly," Will sneered, "Thanks."
"The Master, our enemy, has locked us in the TARDIS on a preset time curve. We can't get out. Find his," the projection broke down for a bit but the Doctors didn't seem to notice; when it returned, this mixture of their images went on, "...destroy it." This ghost looked like all first five Doctors put together.
Penny called up, "Find his what? Doctors!"
The spirits faded apart and vanished from above. Barry gasped, "Doctors!"
"Doctors!" Sarah Jane Smith screamed in the TARDIS control room as the five Doctors all passed out flat on their backs. She didn't know which to turn to first, "Leela! Susan! Brigadier!"
In the woods, Barry shrugged, "So how do we this, this Master?"
"I have a feeling he's found us," Will nodded up to the Master who was on a hillside.
"Do not move any of you," he gloated, "Or this laser gun will incinerate you."
"Isn't shrinking people more your style?" Penny pointed out.
"I have no desire to cause you undo suffering, any of you. But all you children understand is threats."
Penny whispered as the Master started walking down, "We have to stop him." She turned toward him to draw his attention, "Let the Doctors go. What have they done to you?"
"Oh my dear girl, that would take volumes of tomes to fill," the Master touched a medallion around his neck on a chain, "No, my dear, let them go? After all this time? The Doctors will serve my universe right where they are."
"And what about us?" Barry asked.
"Young man, I thought that was perfectly obvious. No one must know the secret of the trapped first five Doctors--you three, do, there you must die," he pointed the gun at Barry but Chipper sprang onto the Master's leg and bit down hard. The Master pointed the gun down at the dog but it was Will's turn now. He pushed the Master and the gun went off as it moved upward at him but missed. Its ray power hit a tree and the tree went on fire. Barry grabbed the medallion off the Master's neck and opened it. He flipped a switch inside.
In the TARDIS console room, the two Romanas worked the console while Sarah, Leela, Tegan, and Adric helped the Doctors up. Romana One said, "Oh good."
Romana Two said, "Yes, it is," flipping a switched and a dial, "Let's go find out who is causing all this, shall we?"
"Yes, I agree," the raven haired Romana said.
The TARDIS vanished from the void.
Penny gasped, "Will! The Canadian forest! It's ablaze!" Will and Barry pushed the Master over a small rock and ran. Will, as he did, purposefully, stomped on the Master's gun.
The Master stood up infuriated, "Come back here! No one does this to me! I am the Master!" He ran after them and stopped at a tree. He found an axe in a tree stump and swung it heartily. Trees caught fire rapidly as the flame spread faster.
Judy, Crane, and Tony walked into a used car junkyard. Judy puffed, "How did we get here?"
"I don't know," Crane got angry, "How does anyone get anywhere on this crazy place. This whole place is a zoo!" They looked around at broken down car husks. Then moved on through the open areas. In the stillness a large bulldozer started and rammed cars at them. Inside, at the controls was a bird like man with a pink top hat and a black and white tails outfit---the Penguin! He quacked at them, "What kind of a...bird is that?" The trio turned to run but a giant crane started up and a hook was swung at them.
Behind the crane was a pale faced, green man called the Joker, "Oh how about a crane, Captain Crane! Ho ho ho ha ha h aha hehahee!"
"Who is that Joker?" Tony asked.
Joker made the crane pick up a car and tossed it at them. They ran as the saucer of the Daleks landed in front of the crane. Valerie, Jai, and Nelson ran out, Nelson bypassing the other two, "Crane! Lee! Over here!"
Judy, Lee, and Tony stopped, in front of the bulldozer. Judy yelled back at Nelson, "Lookout for the crane!"
"No, Crane, over here," waved Nelson.
"Admiral, behind you!" Crane yelled a warning.
Joker had five cars over the saucer and dropped them all at once. Val, Jai, and Nelson joined Crane, Judy, and Tony as the Penguin moved up on them with the bulldozer. The cars being pushed to the front were moving up on them. As they moved to get away, a cliff opened up. They faced the dozer but the cliff that opened up was behind them or in front of them, either way you looked at it. The cars moved at them and they tried to hold onto the car bodies.
Joker watched, "Too bad that William wasn't here, I always wanted to say, lookout William--dozer! Heeheheheheheheheheeeeeheeheee."
Penguin kept the cars moving slowly but surely, "Try to flap your wings on the way down! Quack! Quack! Quack!"
Mr. Pem watched from a monitor room. He saw this on a TV screen, "No, not yet. I don't want Nelson dead just now."
Mallory puffed, he did want Nelson dead and Crane, too. "Then when?"
"All in good time, my young man."
Nelson, then Valerie and Tony, followed by young Jai and Judy, and finally Crane piled off the cliff into blackness. Mr. Pem hit a button on the wall. A ground rose up from nowhere and the six landed on the ground. The cliff walls moved away and vanished.
In Tic Toc Labs, Smith was finished eating, "Mmmm. Good. Just like mother used to make."
"I wonder what made him go crazy like that in the first place?" Kirk wondered.
"With that bumbling bucket of bolts, one is not to reason why one is to deactivate or die." Smith seemed to finish eating.
Kirk asked, "Well, are you ready to go?"
"Go? My good man, go where?" Smith was sitting at a table that was set up on the main lab room not far from the tunnel--it had a white sheet over it, candle sticks, and a gourmet meal as well as wine in a goblet.
"Why, back to your friends," Kirk stared at him as if this were common knowledge.
"Return to that dreadful menagerie out there, never!" Smith stood up as if to run.
As Kirk stood, Ann came to the table, "Oh doctor. They need you. We've enabled the tunnel to send you to the very center of the disturbance."
Kirk raised an eyebrow, "You'll have the Robot with you for protection."
"That cowardly clump? Bah! I warn you! I will not walk right into the lion's mouth!"
"You can't be forced," Kirk admitted, looking away and down at the table, "But remember there's nothing beyond this lab, our complex. No Earth, No space, no time. But you can do something about it."
Smith thought about this, "Oh dear." He sat back down and put his hand on his chin, his elbow on the table.
"No Earth?"
"No," Kirk said, nodding his head.
"No space?"
"No, Doctor," Ann told him and shook her head.
"And no time?" Smith sat down again and pondered negatively over this. "And I can do something about it?"
Ray came back, "The coordinates are being set now. They're spot on."
"But not yet?" Smith gulped, "The final indignity." He stood up, "Since it is my duty and my time zone I accept. I'll just remagnetize the ninny and be on my way." He walked off to the Robot who was deactivated since he went on his rampage, "It's all your fault, you mental midget!"
The Canadian forest was blazed away! A giant cloud formed in the sky and trees fell. Penny ran as a small tree collapsed overhead! She ran to a clearing, coughing. The Master ran toward her. Penny looked up and hopped to a fallen log.
Will turned around, stopped running, "Penny! Penny! Where are ya?"
Penny crawled back as the Master tossed the axe, not being as affected by the smoke. He missed. "Will! Barry, we're over here!" Penny coughed as she crawled. The Master retrieved the axe.
Will turned, "The...Barry!" Will pushed Barry with his shoulder out from under a falling branch. The branch fell on Will! He fell and fire started on his arms and back.
"Will!" Barry took his yellow sweater off and put the fire on Will out, "Will? Are you badly burned...?"
Penny swung a branch at the Master's arm, "Will! Barry! Help!"
Barry helped Will up and ran before Will could explain, "Our space, even our planet clothing, are protective against flame but...hey?"
Barry ran toward Penny and when Will saw this, he followed. The Master chopped Penny's stick away from her. She fell back away but a rock is behind her. The Master raised the axe over her again. She leaned against the rock, waiting the inevitable. Fire whizzed up in the forest. Barry came up behind the Master and grabbed both his wrists, forcing him back from Penny. Penny, who fell again due to the smoke, got up and watched from behind a log she ran to. The Master turned on Barry and tried to force the axe at his head. Barry fell downward as the axe moved closer and closer to his head. Will came running from in between flaming trees. The Master heard this and turned his head at him but Will threw all his weight onto the Master's body, throwing him away from Barry. Penny circled the log, watched the two. The Master pushed the axe at Will now! Will blocked it with his arms but was backed against a tree. He ducked as the axe is pushed upward at his head. Missing, it stuck into the tree as he moved his head aside. He punched the Master's lower back and the Master doubled back in pain. Will wasn't about to stop. He kneed the Master in the shoulder as the man bent up. The Master fell but managed to trip Will as he ran by. Penny ran to Will and helped him up. Barry came to them as well, "Will!" He saw the Master take out a small but sharp knife from his tunic.
Will moved off from the range, "We have to get out of here!"
The Master yelled from the leaves on the dirt, "You started it!"
"Real mature," Will winced.
"I mean the fire, you imbecile!"
"Yeah, he does," Penny stated.
"Oh," Will rolled his eyes. "We did. Let's move. These rocky mountains will go up fast! Barry, Penny, come on!" He had started out but noticed they were not moving. "What are you waiting for, come on move your...yourselves!"
They ran after Will but Barry looked back and stopped, in that order, "The Master! He's not following!"
"He's indestructible," Will said.
"How do we know that?" Penny asked, "Can we save him from the fire?" Penny saw the Master moving deeper into the inferno, either by choice or by mistake.
"Well," Will coughed, "We can't let him die. Master, come out!" He called.
"I don't think he can hear..." Barry was cut short as...
"No! I AM indestructible. But I'll get you three!"
"His mind is gone," Penny gasped.
"Master! Look out!" Will yelled, seeing a flaming tree above the Master. It fell on top of him in a flaming heap. "Oh no," Will said and shut his eyes. Fire was closing in on them, too. Animals were fleeing, not mindful of how close they came to the three humans and their two pets. "Take cover!" Will ran as crackling sounds filled the air.
Barry grabbed Penny's arm, "It's coming for us!"
Penny saw flames everywhere, "We're closed in!"
The trio ran as far as possible, past burning leaves, trees, falling branches, and ash. A large burning trunk fell. Barry saw it. Will did too and stopped them in their tracks, his arms out on either side, "Freeze!" They watched as it fell in front of them---in their way.
In Tic Toc Lab, Smith and the Robot moved up to the Time Tunnel maw itself. "Come along, come along." Smith turned to the tunnel personnel, "Good riddens, you people." The tunnel hum was rising and building up power.
Robot put his bubble up, "I do not like time travel--especially when it is not technically perfected yet," he complained.
"Hold your tongue if you intend to keep your friends," Smith pulled on the Robot's holders on the upper body, then gulped in fear, "And your right place in time and space...oh dear." The power built up and the blue mist began to envelop the Robot and Smith.
"Good luck, Doctor," called Ann and waved.
"Thank you, dear lady, so nice to meet you..." He was totally out of sight now.
Ray stared at the consoles, "General, the image is changing again. I don't know why!"
"Hold it then," Kirk snapped, "Or we don't know where they'll end up!"
"No, it's changed," Ann said, "Same dimension though---only that looks like the Canadian Rockies."
On the screen they saw Barry Lockridge, flames closing in, "We're blocked off!"
"Stay down," ordered Will. Smoke enveloped them.
"I can't breath," coughed Penny.
Suddenly a huge flaming bush rolled at them all. The three kids, Chipper, and Debbie vanished in a pop sound. The bush burned over the spot they had just left. The five of them were flying through the time particles in the time space vortex. Kirk looked up at them doing so, "What's happening?" He then looked at a panel on the console.
"Something is working with us to help them," Ray guessed, "It showed us them and we transferred them."
Ann puffed, "Thank God."
"Yes, maybe you should," Kirk smiled. Ann frowned at him and then smiled back.
"It could be the time tunnel," Ann said, "It seems almost sentient, alive somehow. Maybe..."
Two pirate ships pulled along side each other. Both fired cannons! On the new galleon was an evil black haired lady, hefty, named Captain Wrack, dressed like a cross between a gypsy from Europe and a pirate. She waved a sword on the bow, "Fire!"
A robot, half human pirate called the Captain, came up from below deck, "You Eternals know how to have fun. All I want is Blackbeard's booty."
"All I want, captain, captain is to have fun," Wrack laughed, "Not being able to die is not fun."
Cannons blazed away. Pirates swung from the mast of the galleon as it came closer to the Blackbeard ship and skirmishes began. Deek pushed a sword at Riley's bare chest as he moved over the plank. Young boys, barely pirates, fought others with knives and swords. A few guns were shot from afar, killing some. The true pirates went after the pirates from the other ship---the roughest and toughest ones. Kowalski saw the young blond stab his sword into a young boy before that blond himself was jabbed in the stomach by another.
On the galleon was one Captain Tucker, who ran off it and hopped across onto Blackbeard's ship. Wrack saw this, "Tucker, you scoundrel! Come back!" Nothing in her tone suggested seriousness as if this was all just some insignificant game to her of no matter or consequence.
Tucker ran in front of Kowalski just as Smeek started to bring his knife down on Ski. Tucker shot Smeek back. Ski looked, "Thank you! But don't I know you?"
Before they could talk more, Blackbeard interrupted, facing Tucker, "Aye, a pirate worthy o' me, finally and final for ye, Tucker!"
Tucker nodded his head and spat, "Arghh, less talk and more walk, from you, Blackie, aye?."
Penny, Will, Barry, Debbie, and Chipper flew out of the sky and landed between Tucker and Blackbeard; Blackbeard was stunned by this turn of events.
"Ow my butt," Will rubbed it.
Penny was the first to look up, take in their surroundings and see the scowling Blackbeard, "Will, Will," she nudges her brother, "Will!" Disorientated, Will finally saw their new dilemma.
"What are ye's to ruin a good fray!" Blackbeard. It was unmistakably Blackbeard.
Barry, holding Chipper, stood up with the other two kids. Around them, they saw a vicious pirate fight in full swing. The Robot Pirate, half man, half machine stood on his deck zapping enemy swordsmen, a metallic parrot on his shoulder, also firing rays at the enemy boys.
Will turned to see who was behind him, "Captain Tucker!" He was both amazed and startled as well as unsure of Tucker's part in all this. The last two times, Tucker had been involved in things untidy.
"Aye, mate," Tucker slapped a hand on Will's shoulder.
"Now ye all die!" Blackbeard raised a sword even as Will hugged Tucker.
Will hugging Tucker vanished, startling Blackbeard to look around, "I thought only I could do that!" He moved at the girl, Barry and the two pets, but they, too, were popped out of thin air with a bell like sound and a slight hum. "I want someone to stab! Leave me someone!" He moved the point of his sword at Kowalski, tied to the post. But Ski vanished in a pop. The pirate picked up the ropes that had held Ski to the pole.
On the plank, Deek stabbed a sword at Riley who turned back to the water and as Deek stuck a bit into Riley's back, Riley tottered and fell off the board, plunging straight at the shark monster infested waters. In mid fall, Riley vanished. Deek looked down, confused. The Robot Captain pirate shot him with a laser and he fell off, a burning hole through his back and out his chest. The battle continued on as young boys with swords fought young boys with swords. Captain Wrack began to fight with Blackbeard, who finally was glad he found someone to match his abilities even if he complained it was a female. Wrack smiled, "A female only in look, fine swordsman! What fun! Of course, neither of us can win---because although you've had your memory erased, Blackbearded one, erased by the White Guardian of Time and Space, you are an eternal, as I!"
"What filled your mind, black haired and hearted one!"
"Just fight, foul breath!"
"Aye, a woman after me own heart."
"Yeah and I'll git it too, on the end of my sword!"
Steve Burton walked across a man made road in a futuristic city which stretched out for miles. Not only did he manage to avoid the giants but had also survived an attack on a peaceful Indian village he had been staying at to recover his strength. The attackers were a curious blend of warriors---some were Southern Confederates, some French soldiers, others seemed to be Arab long knives. The attack was horrible and Steve hoped that a young Indian lad that helped him escape a previous more hostile tribe of American Indians--had himself escaped this onslaught by whites.
Steve carried his jacket over his shoulder while his shirt was torn from the waist up to his shoulder, showing signs of his struggles both in the hostile Indian camp and in the fight against the whites who attacked the second, more peaceful Indian village. The lad that helped him, Keran, must have escaped. At least, he told himself that.
Smith and the Robot tumbled into a large computer tape room. Tape machines and tiny glass slots were lined up along the walls from floor to ceiling just before huge neon lights in the ceiling crossways illuminated the room. It was all bright. Robot bumped into Smith upon landing but Smith pushed him off of him, "Get off me, you blimp!"
"Oh Doctor Smith!" Robot yelled, "Look!"
Smith's eyes grew wide with joy. He loved play things. "Oh how lovely. All the pretty buttons." He opened a panel and from a glass slot he took out a rounded glass case, "What is this, I wonder?" He moved over to a huge device just under one of the computers, "It looks like it fits in here."
"Warning. I would advise against fooling with such a complicated and unreadable device."
"Nonsense. They sent me here to help and help I will. Now stand and observe a master at work." Smith put the glass case into an opening in the larger device under the computers, "It looks like it is a perfect fit! Oh how nice it all is."
Up in a starless outer space, the United Space Ship Enterprise appeared. A ship from Earth's United Federation of Planets in the year 2269, it was vast as it was sleek, a saucer shape at the helm of a wider range of long log shapes behind it. Inside, the captain, a man from Illinois, Captain James T. Kirk, turned from his square like seat to his first officer, a man in a blue shirt and black pants and black boots, "Mister Spock, what did we just experience?" He asked this with the rawest of emotions.
In contrast, the alien Vulcan, pointed ears, strange greenish, dull complexion, and straight back black hair, scanned with a pulsating box like device set in the wall, and when he spoke, it was in slow, unemotional patterns, "Captain. We were plucked out of space and time--until just now when we seemingly reappeared." He said this as he straightened from his scanner.
A black woman in red mini skirt sat in a black chair at a radio console, "That white cloud in space we saw."
"Yes," Spock said, coldly, "And we experienced a kind of suspended animation, if you will, while on the cloud or whatever the amazing device that was used to perpetrate such an undertaking."
"Scan that planet for life forms."
"Not a planet, Captain," Spock returned to looking into his scanner. "But a number of different planets, times, places, all put together to form that---the universe."
Chekhov, a Russian man, not out of his twenties yet, turned from his seat at the main bridge console, a straight board in front of the Captain's command chair while the bridge hustled with the sound of computers. "You mean that's all that now exists in the universe?"
"As of now ensign, as of now, all that exists."
"Mr. Sulu," Kirk frowned to the other man at the console, an Oriental in a yellow tunic, like Checkov, but older, just entering his thirties probably. "Make a visual scan." Kirk thumbed a mike built into his chair, "Scotty, prepare the transporter."
"Aye, Captain," the Scottish voice answered.
Smith, in the computer room, laughed, "Oh good. All the little balls fit neatly into all the holes. How nice it all is." He took out another and fit it into the device.
In a control room, Mr. Pem turned to Chronos, "Look at that screen. Someone has just made the Earth Moon appear!"
"The disc room!" Chronos snapped, "Someone has invaded the disc room!"
This created moments of sheer terror and chaos. Undersea, the water began to react and bubble. The many subs began to shake. Dan took this as his chance to jump at the controls and hit the suction device that he thought was holding the Seaview captive. As he reached for it, the octopus man at the organic chair writhed a tentacles around his neck! Dan continued to make his hand for the suction device and the newly arrived rocking of the sub gave him the extra momentum he needed to hit it and break it off.
On Seaview, Patterson turned from the computer and ran to Chip Morton, "Mr. Morton, sir! We're free!" Outside the viewport nose, Chip could see massive turbulence hitting Mu submarines and Atlantis subs alike. Many crashed into their own co-hort subs and some hit the enemy, none under any kind of control. Chip saw the turbulence reaching out for the other subs and...Seaview. He thumbed a mike at the table, "Back full rudder and make it quick! All back full!" Seaview followed his instructions.
Judy Robinson, Valerie Scott, Jai, Capt. Crane, Tony Newman and Admiral Nelson were exploring a Greek temple in which to settle down and rest in for the darkness...the night and day in this place came and went without warning but they all needed a rest. It was short lived, for before they could even sit down and relax, the temple started to shake, the foundations themselves cracking. The ceiling split. Poles fell, statues burst. Nelson yelled, "Outside, hurry!" Everyone ran out as the temple collapsed, narrowly missing their tiny group. It was day again but not for long as a dark cloud passed over and tremendous wind forces began to blow them all backward. Nelson pointed up, "Look! The moon!" He was right. The ball, the Earth moon, rolled in the sky.
The sub Dan Erickson and Mark Wilson were on was violently shaking now. Sparks flew across the ample control room. Explosions rocked it as Proto came into the control room again, "You...you have betrayed us!" Mark was not listening. He was holding onto the tentacle that was wrapped around his friend's neck and trying to hold it off from strangling him. Another tentacles whirled around Mark's waist. Proto pointed as two gill men with large claws came into the room, rocked from the hallway. Proto pointed at Dan and Mark, "Kill them!" The gill men, both with long spikes on their arms and the rest of their bodies, rushed at the two men and the octo being. They raised their arms up, their claws ready to strike. Mark knew this was it but he would go down trying to help save Dan, if he had to.
General Kirk watched this from the relative safety of Tic Toc Labs. He saw this unfolding on the tunnel image projector, "Switch them!"
Dan and Mark vanished just before the gill men lowered their claws but as the two creatures would have hit the octo man instead. They didn't get the chance as the sub hit a huge Australian coral reef which tore it open. Water flooded the control room and doused the blasts inside. Larger blasts engulfed the sub as the reactors blew, hit from hard coral. Soon, the ocean was clear again.
Ann gasped, "We got that image just in time for Erickson and Wilsons."
Ray looked at her and thought now was the time for some humor, "Please, Ann, call them Dan and Mark."
Ann smiled. Kirk ignored them both for the moment. He was trying to figure out what was happening.
In a deep, dank dungeon of some huge Coliseum, hung a rod iron black cage from a ceiling. Inside it was Captain Steve Burton's Indian friend Keran, an Incan-Aztec Indian boy called Qexcotl, Etrec--the long haired boy of the peace planet Archanon, 15th Century 25 year old Italian Prince Guiliano, and Noble Niolani of the space faring female colonist Condor race. It was a big cage. The males wore tattered rags as if their clothing has been stripped off by some torture.
Below them, a boy about a year older than Will Robinson was on a rack, his wrists tied to the top and his legs spread apart. He wore only a tattered loin cloth, the remainders of what had once been a space suit. This was Quano, now about 16, a few years after William Robinson had known him. He had whip scars on his chest and knife scars on his stomach. An Egyptian torturer, bare chested and in a kind of skirt had a burning sword from a hot coal stand. A deep voice called in and a shadowy figure stepped down from the gray stone stairwell. "Don't kill the boy." Megazor of Zon came up to the rack, his half bald head showing his beady eyes and narrow lids, his hair going down the bridge of his nose. He wore a purplish blue jumper and a turquoise belt. The Egyptian nodded and lowered the sword back to the coal holder. "We may need him until the demise of my ally---his father, the so called Ruler."
Quano puffed, his head held high now, "You and that female, Myko, plan to kill him."
"Unfortunate for you that you found that out. But your father believes you did not agree with our plans for domination."
"I don't!"
"Your father," Megazor nodded, walking up to Quano, turning and talking as he paced, "...he lacks the true killer spirit. This is attributed to his family tied, I imagine. Myko and I, now he and I, agree, that your father will be our weak link."
"He will kill you both as I would provided I were free! And it would be an easy feat to such worthless pointless curs!"
Megazor's anger rose and he took out a jagged knife and put it up against Quano's belly, "I wish I could provide you the chance to try that now!"
Quano stared only into Megazor's eyes, not quivering, ready to die if he had to.
"I'd had enough of your meddling when we first met. All I desire of you is to die!" Megazor looked at the boy, "But not yet." He lowered the knife.
Niolani called down, "You! You call yourself a warrior! Against boys, hah!"
Megazor pointed his knife up, "You, be silent! I have told you to be silent!"
"When do you plan on letting us out of here?" Guiliano asked, the Italian nobleman's strong sharp features and long dark hair lost in the dark.
Megazor laughed, "When you fight in the arena, of course! And Noble Niolani can prove herself a warrior there!" He laughed some more.
Etrec, smaller than the others, sat down, "I cannot fight," he told the others more than Megazor.
Keran looked down at him, "Why? You would not defend yourself?"
"An Archanon cannot kill. I would die first."
Megazor laughed, "You will, peace lover! The worst kind of hypocrite there is."
"At least he believes in something," Niolani put a hand on Etrec's back.
In the arena, a Viking drove a spear into the gladiator's stomach and killed him. The Victorian crowd that watched went wild, out of reserve of their usual nature. The stands were filled with them and others from other times and planets and even other dimensions. John stood up, "Ruler, stop this!"
"Sit down," Myko yelled, "Or you will join them in the arena."
"It is the only way to prove who will be the best in our army, Professor Robinson. But you shall not be harmed," Ruler looked at Myko when he said this and he said it with such conviction, that Myko averted his gaze, his moment stolen by the Ruler.
John snapped, sitting, "How kind of you, Ruler."
More gladiators came into the arena along with Native Americans, Zulu warriors, Mediaeval Knights out of armor, and Mongols. Also among them were Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans. Soon the fighting continued again. John cringed as bodies fell.
Fitzhugh walked around the video game room when suddenly a video game blinked awake. Other games came on. The two rows on either side of him shot laser rays at each other. Fitzhugh dove downward. Lasers shot over his head. He crawled out of the room into an amusement park set for night--lit up only by the gay lights on each ride. He ran to a game booth hut and hid, seeing the Slave of the Thief of Outer Space and Keel pushing Sharkey and Betty into the park entrance. Above them, a neon sign read HAVE FUN AT AMUSEMENT LAND. Behind them, waddled Dr. Lovelace, the Wild Wild West 1800s midget, now dressed as a clown. Lovelace turned to say something to Sharkey and Betty.
"Look." From the flying saucer ride, came out hundreds of young people.
"What planet are they from?" Betty asked. She didn't mean to sound sarcastic for it was a legitimate question.
"Why yours, my pretty," laughed Lovelace.
The crowed assembled. Betty saw that the kids--most were young---were of all races. The typical line up near the front was----a long haired blond boy wearing a leather vest with no sleeves and dirty dungarees. An ear ring was on. A girl with various colors in her hair and a two piece outfit and skirt with glitter on it was behind him, draped on his shoulders. Another was a bald headed boy with an all leather outfit. There were two little children, one male, one female, dressed in tattered and brown filthy clothes, the boy with long brown hair, sticky and with a metal ring in his nipple, bare under a vest with an insignia that had the world as a part of a hand with the middle finger sticking up. There was a tall black boy with no shirt on and bulging muscles. A girl with pointed hair like a parrot; showoff muscle boys with short cut shirts. Literally scores of others dressed in rock and roll and punk style. There were a few who evoked the disco look of the 70s. This gave the crowd a sense of rebellion, carelessness, and indifference. Betty wanted to reach out to help them, "Oh Chief..."
"I think, Dr. Lovelace," Sharkey began, "She means what planet are they on?"
"Oh they are on something all right," Lovelace chuckled.
"Oh Chief," Betty leaned on his shoulder, "I want to help them but I...I don't know how."
"How could they get that way?" Sharkey asked Betty and then asked Lovelace, "...and these are the people you want to populate your universe with?"
"I...we've done nothing to them--we simply picked them out of the 1970s and 1980s----we like them the way they are. Made that way by people like you----by your civilized world. So you should have no complaints, eh?' Lovelace broke into one of his annoying and fearsome laughs. Betty felt more sorry for the youths than she felt horrified.
"What's that one?" Sharkey asked, pointing. He distracted Lovelace and the Chief pulled the little man's arm and grabbed the machine gun. He pulled the trigger and water came out to land harmlessly at Keel and the Slave's feet.
Lovelace controlled his laughter, "A simple mind...heee heee...mind game. A gun represents threat. I had it. You made no move."
"Until now!" Sharkey swung the machine gun at Slave, "Betty run!" She did and Sharkey followed. They raced off into the amusement park. Slave growled and held the gun he caught and pulled from Sharkey. Pipe music filled the park as Betty and Sharkey dashed down the midway of the park--both sides of which were blocked by game booths and rides. The two ran past a kiddie ride area complete with satellites, helicopters, and antique cars. A vale of mist appeared near Lovelace and the wily Pied Piper appeared under it. Tranquilly, he said, "Go and fetch them, will you all?"
The mass crowd formed a swarm, filled the empty midway effectively as Sharkey pulled Betty's arm. The pair raced up a slanted flat platform to a wood floor above. Off the floor was a track for the roller coaster. They were up on the coaster ride. On the other side was the entrance where unruly youngsters and teenagers were already filling----jumping, running, throwing themselves. Their quietness scared Betty but something in their faces made her realize this was not a personal attack. Behind her, she saw more misguided youths running for the platform. Punk reggae, disco and rock fanatics mixed with gang types and simply troubled kids. In all kinds of dress and undress they attacked. A few hopped onto the roller coaster cars while a greasy haired boy started the entire coaster from the front mechanism. The sounds were loud and unbearable from the machine. Sharkey yelled, "Jump!" He pulled Betty to the rail edge and below was the ground on the other side from the one they came from----the inner coaster was mounted on this side.
Betty hesitated, "Maybe they'll listen to us!"
"You want to negotiate? Jump!"
Behind, the mob approached. A boy with spiked purple hair to match his spiked bracelet, tried to grab Betty while a girl with bangs and bow ties on both sides of her head, made to scratch at Sharkey with rainbow colored fingernails. Betty and Sharkey jumped just in time to avoid them. They found themselves on a rail just beneath a drop of the roller coaster and wouldn't you know it: a car was moving along the rail just before the drop. A number of gals and guys were in it, drinking, spitting, laughing, tearing at what clothes they wore, and generally just being horrid. Betty and Sharkey recovered from the fall but failed to notice the mob behind them on the platform were pushing an obese boy from behind. He has a Mohican haircut, jet black hair, and an open cloth brown vest. He was pushed down at the two. Betty and Sharkey jumped back, having heard the laughs from above but the large arms of the boy crashed onto their legs, knocked them over again and all three landed back on the rail on the ground just as the car above, having slowed just before the drop, now...well, dropped.
The long haired boy in front of the car screamed wildly as if ready to see the sights of killing the three on the rail. Betty had pulled herself out from under the fat kid and Sharkey rolled backward, free of him and hit him. The car whizzed by and Sharkey had to punch the fat kid's face and jump over to Betty as the fat kid fell back. One of the kids in the car, another Mohican wearing haircut kid, tossed out a series of beer bottles. These crashed around Betty and Sharkey.
Betty stopped for a moment and turned to see the car making its way back up from the drop recovery and moving off, 'These are the worst things we've faced!"
"C'mon, don't stop!" Sharkey pulled her onward as she gasped. They ran toward a railroad track---over the last of the roller coaster rails. The mob, now yelling insanely, cheated of their death, followed and were now not wasting any time in doing so. Sharkey and Betty raced past hoses, cables, and more rails, these not white but gray and steel. The mass followed them, blindly. The pair came out of the coaster to the railroad track where a red-white antique train slowly passed. Betty puffed, "It's obvious someone wants us on that."
Sharkey turned as the raging kids raced out from under the coaster, "Let's not disappoint them then! Get on!" They jumped on the front car of the open train---where the seat, controls, and engine were all in the front car. About twenty youths were making for the train and Sharkey could see they would make it. "Faster! We have to go faster!" He shoved a control forward but about fourteen teens managed to cling to the train back and jump onto the small benches that made up each car. Four of them started to crawl toward Betty and Sharkey, slowly making their drunken way over the seats, egged on by the others, who made it clear that they would follow, too. A black girl with an orange afro and blue stripes down the side of it, a muscular tall blond with short curly hair and wearing white leather pants and a bare top, a bald girl and a smaller boy with long black hair and a rock concert shirt on came forward. The bald girl had on a fringe vinyl dress and was the quickest. She lunged at Sharkey as the black girl followed and sunk her nails into his shoulders, screaming wildly as if she were the one being hurt. Sharkey somehow thought of the rock, movie star Grace Jones as he knocked the bald girl over with his arm and she fell off the train. It was not going that fast yet but picked up and she recovered and shook her fist at him.
The train was not going to let anyone get thrown off and not get hurt again.
The blond boy grabbed Betty's legs and pulled her toward him. Sharkey threw the black girl into him and both turned their attention back to him again. The blond boy punches Sharkey's stomach and the girl got behind Sharkey, now pulling his hair.
A large wall, brick, that mounted the amusement park, passed by the sides.
"Chief!" Betty moved to help him but the second boy, a slight build on him, came upon her. He looked into her eyes with his own crystal blue. He has long silky hair blowing in the wind, hair that went down to the middle of his back and there was a dash of blond in it. Betty noticed his skin was as fine as a newborn baby and his short cut rock t shirt ended in a tee formation just above his navel. Drawn on it was a fiery vision of hell with a large bone face in the fire. A rock band was in the mouth of the bonehead while demons flew all over it. Smiling, the boy revealed perfect white teeth, slowly put both hands around her neck and drove her down onto the cushion seat onto her back. Compelled by the beauty of this boy's outward appearance, Betty found herself not struggling against him. He was gently killing her and who knew---he would probably do worse before killing her.
Leaving the wall behind, the train moved past a very big and very glass covered game room.
Sharkey ducked a punch from the tall boy and the punch hit the black girl's arm. She let go of Sharkey's hair and he turned and swiped her off the train.
A mountainside was all around the train now.
Betty, staring into the youth's eyes, heard a song. "The Piper's calling you to join him." The verse played over and over again in her mind. The Piper was calling her to join him. To him, she was his. "No," she thought meekly. After living on and escaping the LAND OF THE GIANTS and surviving the crash onto this place and getting this far---she was not going to give up this easily. Not to be killed by a teenager. As the boy crouched over he, closer and closer, she put both feet into his stomach, surprising him. She pushed her legs and feet. The boy yelled and fell off the train, which was now going much faster. The wind took her breath away as she righted herself. She began to cry but looked up at Sharkey who was not able to return the look.
The train passed over a large gorge that looked like the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg were going on beneath it. As well as a river where a wagon train had been drawn and not succeeded in getting across.
Sharkey was merely blocking the tall boy's punches. The boy was much stronger than he was. Steroids? The Chief saw his chance as the boy got more and more wild. He made one jaw punch in and the boy---with his feet planted in the locks between the front car and the rest of the train, fell off and toppled.
He hit a tree top in an African plain and it was possible he could have survived.
Sharkey puffed. He was tired. "Oh no," he spewed. The other teens were coming. Betty grabbed the lock pin and pulled it out, making the train front she and Sharkey were on, separate from the rest. Soon, their front car left the rest far behind. "Good move..." He started to say it with confidence as if he thought they would finally make it but his last syllable gave Betty notice that he didn't think any such thing, "Down!" Overhead there was a sky ride, seemingly a part of the crazy bizarre amusement park. The wires tipped and the seats fell at the train. The pair of them could not do a thing but hope these virtual bombs would not hit the train. They covered their heads with their hands, a futile gesture really.
The train passed over the amusement park and into the hills. Betty recovered herself and began to cry on Sharkey's shoulder. He held her to comfort her. As dusk drew near in a pinkish sky---neither noticed the train headed toward a giant silvery object far ahead on a flatter plain, a type of flatland desert. This object was as huge as a city and resembled one in structure from the outside. It had three giant legs with many ramps and entrances going inside. Ladders were all about its underbelly. The main three legs led up to a gigantic triangular belly with three large, sharp endings. A circular tub was in the rear---this was a complex that resembled an old Earth satellite, almost like the Voyager that was sent into space.
This is what went through the mind of Admiral Nelson as he led Jai, Valerie, Judy, Crane, and Tony toward it from a jungle. Judy saw a snake dangling from a tree. "I'll be glad to get out of this jungle..."
"Into what, I wonder," Crane nodded to give her advance notice of the complex which loomed up before them as they exited the jungle...or did the jungle just slide away from them? It was hard to tell. They stood in awe of this complex.
Inside the disk room, Dr. Smith smiles, "That should do very nicely indeed. Just lovely, absoul..."
"Danger! Danger! We have been detected," the Robot failed his arms around, "Aliens approaching!"
"Detected by whom, ninny?"
A large square wall slid away to the right side of the huge room. Revealed, Mr. Pem, Chronos, Mallory, Olos, Fieldar, Alpha, and the Space Trader came in, all smiling. Chronos dropped his smile, "You! It is you! You meddling busybody! You will be melded into the tracks of time by me!" Chronos obviously lost his time temper and moved at Smith, his hands making threatening gestures.
Smith ran around the protective side of the Robot and hid, "Nice to see you again!" The Robot held his arms out, ready to fire.
"Do...not s-s-slay him." The villains turned to see three Saticons' dark shapes by the door, "Our s-s-supreme ss-uperiorrrrr."
"I want to question this human from Earth, is it?" A large man in black walked into the room, dwarfing all the others, including the Robot. He has a strangely shaped black mask on and a black cape with black boots. In other words, he was in all black. And Smith noted he must have had a sinous problem for he was breathing awfully heavy. Perhaps offering this creature his allegery medicine would help pave the way toward getting him to do what Smith wanted. Like letting him live. The new "man" thing walked right toward Smith and the Robot, "I am Darth Vader!" He approached Smith quickly now...