Disclaimer: I, E.Vital, do not owns the terms or characters from the Invader Zim Tv show. I do, however own Bobby and Sally Bledsoe.
Here's the next chapter.
Bobby pushed back his welding mask to wipe the sweat from his brow.
"Baby," he said, "What's the status on the EVC pulsator?"
A smooth, even toned female voice answered him from somewhere in the rafters in the barn.
"EVC Status searching...EVC power recharged at 67 percent."
"Good", he said. He sighed, arching his sore back. "Time for a break."
He opened the icebox and took out a metal can. Sitting on a plastic crate, he gazed up admiringly at his creation. The huge chrome pod glistened gold and silver under the light of the lanterns strung up by the hayloft.
"Bobby?" Sally came into the barn. "How's everything going?"
"Oh just fine. Everything's going smooth as satin, " he smiled, mopping his brow with a red bandana. "I got the secondary power unit up and running, and the EVC pulsator will be done charging soon. Once that's all set up, the cruiser should be just about ready. It won't be long now." He took a sip from his metal can.
Sally looked up at the big round, conk-shell-shaped structure, as an uncomfortable feeling fluttered in her belly. Bobby had told her it was just another experiement of his; and new tinker-toy her was working on. But he spent all his time out here fiddling with this thing. What was he really up to?
"I'm gonna try to uplink the cruiser's computer system to Baby's mainframe. That way I can still communicate with the house while I'm flying this thing, " he said, mostly to himself.
Sally frowned. "Well..." she said, shrugging, " Don't stay out here too long...Mysterious Mysteries will be coming on in about twenty minutes..."
"Oh sure thing, mom. Just a few more minutes," he said, his lollipop-red eyes never leaving the cruiser. He absent-mindedly nibbled his left antennae, thinking.
Sally turned to go, but before she shut the big wooden door, she paused to stare at her boy. He just sat there on the crate, gazing thoughtfully up at the big machine. Her heart sank as she shut the barn door...
Whew. That's it for today...
E.V.