The Zula Patrol alongside their Captain Astranova took off after the ship that was on course to crash headquarters.
As they were in the air, everyone kept an eye out for the ship.
Wizzy, Wigg and Gorga looked towards the back, Multo and Zeeter looked at the sides and Bula and Astranova looked at the front, towards space.
"See anything?" Bula asked as everyone was still continuing to look.
Astranova looked ahead and saw the dark purple ship coming right at them.
She gasped.
Bula looked at her and then looked in the direction that Astranova was looking in.
He gasped as well.
"Zeeter, slow down! Multo, use the grabber and Astra, you know what to do!" Bula said, now leading the team.
…
Astranova was outside of the ship, with the grabber on both sides of her hips as a way for the team to hold onto her as she's flying.
Meanwhile…
Dark Truder was steering the dark purple ship in circles because of his GPS screwing up every time he tried to make a different turn.
Traxie, on the other hand was the lookout.
When she saw the Zula Patrol's ship coming to meet up with them, she looked down at Truder.
"They're onto us, Trudie. Happy now?" Traxie said as Truder was trying to take control of the ship.
Dark Truder had a mischievous grin on his face.
"Delighted." He said as Astranova was coming up beside the dark purple ship.
As Astranova was flying right beside the dark purple ship, her lip began to drip blood but it was dripping quicker than ever before.
The alarm went off in the ship.
Every time that Astranova's lips drip blood, an alarm goes off in the ship meaning that alien bodily fluid has been detected.
"Astra, are you okay? What's going on?" Bula asked, concerned for his girlfriend.
Astranova looked at the dark purple ship.
"We need to stop so that I can change." Dark Truder told Traxie, while driving.
Traxie sighed and looked for them a place to stop.
"There's a huge floating rock over there. Why don't we stop there?" She said, pointing him in the direction of the huge floating space rock that had a resting station on it.
Truder nodded.
"Good idea." He said as he now began to fly towards the space rock.
Astranova stopped and began to take a rest.
"Hey! Why'd we stop?!" Zeeter said, furious.
Bula looked at Zeeter, with stern eyes.
"We almost had the ship but, Astranova let it get away!" Zeeter continued talking.
Wizzy got out of her seat and flew over to Bula.
"Bula, can I um talk to you in privacy? Just for a little while." She said, flying next to him and talking in a low voice.
Bula looked at her and smiled.
"Of course, Wizzy. Besides, I'm not up for Zeeter's nonsense today." He said, in a low whisper so that Zeeter wouldn't hear them.
Wizzy nodded.
"So…Where should we go to talk?" She asked, wondering.
Bula began to think.
He then remembered a place where he and Wizzy could talk.
"Wizzy, how about we talk in the compartment below this top floor? It might be a little cramped but, we can make it do." Bula said, giving Wizzy a suggestion.
Wizzy flew around him, thinking.
"I don't know, Bula. Shouldn't we be focusing on your girlfriend? We can talk in private when we land." She said, remembering that Astranova was outside of the ship, struggling because she was way too close to the purple ship.
Bula smiled at the mention of his girlfriend.
"You're right, Wizzy. Astra needs us! Come on!" He said, now getting back up onto his feet.
Wizzy smiled and flew back over to her brother, who was still in his seat and buckled up.
"So…Did we miss anything?" She said as she was getting back in her seat and buckling up again.
Wigg looked at her.
"Well…Astranova's trying to catch her breath and Zeeter is yelling and screaming at her." He said, giving her an update on the situation.
Wizzy nodded her head yes, in understanding as Bula walked over to Zeeter.
"COME ON, ASTRANOVA! LET'S GO! WE DON'T HAVE ALL DAY TO SIT HERE! YOU'RE LETTING THAT SHIP GET AWAY! YOU'RE A WASTE OF SPACE, YOU KNOW THAT?!" Zeeter yelled.
Multo's eyes went wide.
Bula came over.
"Zeeter!" He said, sternly.
Zeeter let go of the controls and turned around to look at Bula.
"Um…Uh…Hey, Bula." She said, hesitantly.
Bula stood there and glared at her, with his arms crossed.
"What did you say about my girlfriend?" He asked, with suspicion in his voice.
Zeeter gulped.
"Um…Uh…I uh didn't say anything about your precious Astranova…Why?" She said, looking at him with cutting eyes.
Bula nodded.
"Uh huh…" He said, not fully believing her.
Astranova's eyes began to slowly open and she was now looking into the amidst of the solar system.
She was breathing in and out, calmly.
"Astra…Hey, Astra. Are you alright? Are you feeling any better?" Bula said, transmitting a message through her headset.
Astranova turned around and saw Bula looking at her, with concerned eyes.
She smiled and waved at him.
"Yes, Bula. I'm feeling a whole lot better. I'm sorry if I blackened out on you all. I'm nothing but a failure." Astranova said, now beginning to feel terrible.
Zeeter sighed.
"Astranova, you're not a failure. If you're thinking you are a failure, it's because of me. I didn't mean to say that you were a waste of space. It's just… I saw the dark purple ship getting away and I didn't know that you was passing out because of it. I hope you can forgive me." She said, apologizing.
Astranova then looked at Bula.
"Should I forgive Zeeter?" She asked him, in a low voice.
Bula nodded his head yes.
Astranova nodded, in understanding and looked back at Zeeter.
"I forgive you, Zeeter. Now, everyone…Let's get back on track! We have a woman that needs our help!" She said, with determination as she was getting ready to fly again.
Zeeter smiled and pulled back the levers so that the hyper boosters wouldn't fire while Astranova was flying.
She knew that Astranova was flying them.
Astranova fired up her comet boosters and now, they began to take off.
Faster than the speed of light…
…..
Dark Truder landed the ship on the floating rock.
After he did that, he went to the back where his costume closet was.
"I could have told you to stay in costume this whole time!"Traxie said as Truder was getting out his nurse outfit again.
Truder looked up at Traxie.
"If I did, Traxie…Those Zula meddlers would be onto us, right?" He said as he picked up the outfit and was now about to head out of the ship.
Traxie sighed.
"I suppose you're right, Trudie but they are onto us." She said, concerned as Truder was going down a little inclined staircase that stretched out of the ship.
Dark Truder sighed.
"Traxie, we lost them. Remember?" He said as they were now off of the inclined staircase and onto the hard and rocky surface of the huge floating asteroid.
Traxie smiled down at him, in relief.
"Now I remember! We were being chased by the Zula Patrol and their Captain Astranova!" She said, reminiscing.
Dark Truder laughed.
"Precisely, Traxie and she couldn't even catch up to us because we were flying faster than she was." He said, bragging about their run-in chase with Astranova and her team.
As they were walking into the resting station, an alarm rang out on Truder's tri-pod.
Truder took the tri-pod out of his pocket and saw on the radar that there was an incoming ship.
Him and Traxie looked over and saw the Zula Patrol ship, alongside Astranova heading in to land and meet up with them.
"Told you they would find us!" Traxie said as Truder was beginning to freak out.
Truder looked at the nurse's outfit and then looked at the resting station.
"Hey, um, Trudie…I hate to intrude on your private thinking but the Zula Patrol are just about to come this way!" Traxie said, freaking out but also was trying to stay calm at the same time.
Truder looked from the resting station over to the Zula Patrol's ship, where Astranova was floating in front of it as the grabber was released from her hips and now, it went mechanically back into the ship.
Truder growled but then, a mischievous grin grew on his face.
"Time for Operation: Undercover!" He said as he grabbed his nurse outfit and he went into the resting station restroom.
(So…Dark Truder is cooking up a plan and the Zula Patrol is now onto him. Hehe. Classic Truder. Anyways…We know now the reason why Astranova's lip bleeds. Whenever she is around him, her lip begins to bleed profusely. Stay tuned for chapter seven!)
