"Teremy…Teremy. Are you alright? Come in, Teremy." Bula said, concerned about the comet.
Then, Teremy's eyes blinked.
"I'm here, Bula. Sorry if I flashed out for a couple of seconds." Teremy said, apologizing.
Zeeter and Multo were working together, figuring out what the puddle of red-black stuff.
Bula smiled at Teremy.
"It's alright, Teremy. I knew that you was trying to remember something." He said, reassuringly.
Wizzy and Wigg looked at Astranova.
"Astranova?" Wigg said, hesitantly as he looked from her to Wizzy.
"Are you alright?" Wizzy asked as the two siblings were now flying around Astranova, to get her attention.
Astranova saw Wizzy and Wigg.
"Huh? Oh…Um…Yeah, Wizzy and Wigg. I'm…I'm okay." She said, while trying to fight the current of the gushing red-black liquid that was dripping from her lips.
Teremy looked at Astranova from the screen, concerned.
"Bula, I feel sorry for Astranova. I can't believe that someone would stoop so low and do something as harmful as this to Astranova." He said, looking at Bula.
Bula looked at Astranova, with concern.
"Astra, how are you holding up? Can you hear me? Please say something!" He asked, worried.
Astranova looked into his eyes.
"Bula, hey. I don't know why I feel so weak. Can you help me?" She said, feeling like she was going to cry.
Bula nodded and held onto her, tightly.
"Of course I'll help you, Astra. Zeeter and Multo are over there, figuring out what that liquid was that was dripping down from your lips for about ten to fifteen minutes now." He said, reassuring her.
Multo looked into the microscope and saw something very shocking.
He gasped, surprised.
"Do you see these red and white cells, Zeeter?" Multo said, looking up from his observation.
He moved so that Zeeter could have a look.
Zeeter looked into the microscopic lens and saw the same thing that Multo saw.
"Wait just a minute…Red and white cells? Don't you mean blood cells?!" She said, in realization as Multo came back over to have another look.
Multo looked into the lens and could see the blood cells clearly.
"Oh my stars! This is bad! This is bad indeed!" He said, beginning to freak out.
Zeeter rolled her eyes.
She knew that she could have told him that it was blood from the start.
Bula looked over and saw Multo and Zeeter, talking.
His green antennas began to twitch in different directions.
Whatever they were talking about, it could have something to do with one of them, including Astranova.
Multo looked over and saw Bula.
He and Zeeter stopped talking and were now walking over to Bula and Astranova.
Astranova slowly looked up at them.
"Hey, Multo. What did you and Zeeter find out over there?" She asked, curiously wanting to know.
Multo and Zeeter looked at each other.
"Er…Um…" Multo began to say, hesitantly.
"You see, Astranova…The red-black liquid that we found that was dripping down from your lips…" Zeeter began to explain.
Bula looked at Astranova, concerned.
"Zeeter…Multo? Please tell me what the red-black liquid that is dripping down from my Astra's lips." He said, now looking at the two, concerned and wanting answers.
Astranova looked towards the screen.
"Teremy, you still there?" She said, blinking her eyes so that she could clearly see.
Teremy saw her.
"Yes, Astranova. I'm still here. Don't worry. I'll tell them what's going on." He said, reassuringly.
Astranova smiled and looked back at Bula, Zeeter and Multo, who were all talking.
"Guys, Teremy said that he knows what the red-black liquid is." She said, trying to get their attention.
Bula, Zeeter and Multo all looked at her.
"Yeah. Of course he might know what the red-black liquid is. I've been trying to explain what it was this whole time." Zeeter said, rolling her eyes yet again.
Bula looked at Teremy, who was still on the screen.
"Teremy, could you tell what this red-black liquid is? I'm really worried about my Astra." He asked as Astranova was holding his hand.
Teremy nodded.
"About a couple of months ago, I asked this same question to Astranova's mother Nova after I witnessed seeing you all face Truder. She told me that the red-black liquid is…is…" He said, before nervously studdering on the is part.
"Is…" Wigg began to continue before looking at Wizzy for help.
"Is what, Teremy?" Wizzy asked, curiously.
Zeeter growled.
She knew that she couldn't take the suspense for much longer.
Astranova looked at her, concerned.
"Zeeter, calm down. Give him some patience." She said, reassuringly.
Zeeter began to calm down, slowly.
"You're right, Astranova. I'm sorry for being too impatient, especially since your best friend is trying to give us some information so that we can help you. I hope you can forgive me." She said, apologizing for not realizing the trouble that her impatience had caused.
Astranova smiled.
"Of course I forgive you. After all Zeeter, sometimes it can be difficult. Believe me…I know. Remember when I was being too impatient about going to the moon?" She said, beginning to open up to Zeeter.
Zeeter smiled and nodded her head.
"Yep. Bula told you to wait until after dinner to go to the moon but, you just couldn't wait any longer. So, as you were eating dinner, you teleported away and after Bula was done eating dinner, he saw that you was gone, remember?" She said, reminiscing.
Astranova nodded.
"Yeah I know, Zeeter." She said, giggling.
Bula looked at the two.
"What's going on over here, Zeeter? Are you two getting along?" He said as a little bit of blood got into Astranova's mouth.
Astranova started coughing.
Zeeter, Bula and Multo alongside Wizzy, Wigg and Gorga all looked at the coughing alien.
Bula began to rub Astranova's back.
"There there, Astra. It's okay. We'll figure this out." He said, helping Astranova to stop coughing and choking on the blood that had just tried to suffocate her.
Just then, an alarm rang out.
Zeeter ran over to the computer, sat down and pressed a button.
Bula, Astranova, Multo, Wizzy, Wigg and Gorga looked at her as they were now joining her.
"What is it, Zeeter?" Teremy said, still on the screen.
Zeeter looked over at the dual screen.
Teremy was on the right side while on the left side, it was static.
"Someone's trying to send a distress call." Zeeter said, trying to get the screen on the left side to work.
Inside of Astranova's helmet, she could feel her sensory nodes in her antennas begin to tingle.
Bula began to notice the squeamish and painful look on Astranova's face.
"Astra, are you okay? What are you sensing?" He asked, wondering with concern and integrity.
He had never seen Astranova like this, unless you count that time when Truder captured her and tried to use her energy for his ultimate master plan to take control of the universe.
Truder's main objective was to use Astranova as a weapon against the Zula Patrol.
Well…You could say that the plan backfired when Bula rescued Astranova and the two fused into Star Dream for the first time.
Anyways…
"I…I'm sensing that someone is in trouble and needs our help." Astranova said, answering the question that Bula had asked her.
Just then, a woman appeared on the screen.
Her eyes were covered in a maroon red eyeshadow.
She was also wearing lipstick, which was also red and her brown-red hair was in pigtails.
This woman was wearing a dark purple nurse's outfit and dark purple scrub shoes.
Astranova could see that the hairpiece had a face on it, meaning that she already knew who it was.
"Zula Patrol, please help! My ship is crash landing! Please help!" The woman said, in a high pitched Arabic accent.
Zeeter began to work on tracking the signal.
There was a glow coming from underneath Astranova's helmet.
A light blue glow.
Bula looked at her.
"Astra, you're glowing light blue. Take your helmet off. I want to see." He said, amazed by Astranova's sudden illumination.
Astranova began to take off her helmet.
When she took it off, what showed was her navy space hair that had glittering stardust in it and her indigo blue antennas that were glowing a light blue.
Zeeter found where the signal was coming from.
She began to turn around and when she turned around, she saw the whole team in awe as they were staring at Astranova's light blue glowing antenna nodules.
"I found out where the signal is coming from." Zeeter said, trying to get the whole team back on track.
Wizzy and Wigg looked at each other, as did Bula and Astranova and Multo and Gorga.
"Where's it coming from, Zeeter?" Bula asked as they were now paying attention to the left screen.
Zeeter looked at the computer.
"It's coming from a ship that's on a collision course with…" She began to say, seeing that Astranova had her eyes closed.
Astranova could sense where the ship was on a collision course with.
She gasped, her eyes opening in realization.
"Headquarters! It's coming in fast!" Astranova said, looking at the windows and seeing a dark purple ship in the atmosphere, coming in fast.
Bula looked at the windows that were in all angles.
He could see exactly what his girlfriend was seeing.
"You're right, Astra. Okay, team! Let's go save the woman from crashing into our headquarters!" Bula said, now looking at Astranova who was now putting her helmet back on.
Once it was on, she looked at Bula.
Bula smiled at her.
Astranova then had a confident smile on her face.
"This is a job for the Zula Patrol…!"
( So…In this chapter, we learn why Astranova's lip is bleeding. Plus, we learn that Zeeter and Astranova can get along well together. We also learn that Nova is always looking after Astranova, even though Astranova is on Zula because of what happened when Truder bashed into her and she went crashing into Zula! Stay tuned for chapter six!)