"Madame!" Smith's voice came over. "Major!"

"MOMMY!" Judy screamed. "DON!"

Maureen watched Judy and Smith's figures grow distant to her eyes as did the space pod. The cries from Judy slowly faded from the radio. Between from them to the space pod, traveling from the asteroid belt to the distant space pod would take a little more than a hour if they hadn't taken a fifteen light minutes. She can feel her heartbreak for her daughter. She looked on ahead to see a collection of smaller asteroids headed their way. Don reached out for the thick, large green rope. Maureen slid out her rope scissors from her suit pocket then with a click the rope was cut in half.

"We're going to make it!" Don said, then turned toward Maureen. He saw her floating away in the field. Don gripped onto the rope as asteroids flew in his way. "Mrs Robinson! Mrs Robinson! I am coming after you!"

"Don't waste your breath on me, Don," Maureen said.

"We can make ourselves a little air pocket in one of the asteroids," Don said. "We can use our radios to boost a signal. That way if the nearest help appears, we can easily be retrieved. As your pilot, I am bound by duty to make sure my passengers get to Alpha Centauri."

The asteroid passed Maureen.

"What are you going to use?" Maureen asked. "Rock? Space will suck it out."

"Anything!" Don said. "Anything to stop the oxygen from escaping."

"Breathing in the same air won't sustain us for long," Maureen said. "We must face the inevitable. I always knew that I wasn't going to last long in outer space."

"Don't talk that way," Don said, as she became distant to his eyes. "Hold on, I am coming."

"You've been kind to my children and a good friend to John," Maureen said. "Save yourself."

"That order can't be carried out," Don said. "I am going to find a way and get you-Asteroid headed your way!"

"Thank you for piloting my family down to Preplanis safely," Maureen said.

"Get out of the way!" Don shouted, watching the asteroid hurl toward her. "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Maureen closed her eyes, relaxing her body for the oncoming collision. The glow around her shined in a way that was similar to the glint of a diamond against the sunlight when there was none. She overheard Don's screaming as the asteroid crashed against her sending her flying away. The radio contact with Don ceased. She watched the space pod turn to a distant dark gray blip that lost its glow. Don's figure lost its shine from the asteroid belt. She was falling like a shooting star from the distance. Except the falling star not once vanished before the view of the camera that slowly closed in on the woman through the bright shine illuminating from her. She was a delicate china doll falling through the heavens.

Maureen heard the computer's voice indicating how much oxygen that he had left.

There wasn't any pain lingering from her chest, nor ache, she was otherwise unharmed floating in space.

Fragments of Maureen's life appeared in her mind. Meeting John for the first time, greeting her children in little bundles, watching her children grow up before her eyes over the years, encountering Doctor Smith for the first time in his office, meeting Don at their first briefing, and happily watched the happiest moments in her life unfold on the screen with a smile. The memories were playing up to being selected for the Jupiter 2 mission including after becoming lost in space. Maureen and John slowly dancing to the music during the night before the fateful launch. The sound of his laughter, his smile down toward her, the dim lighting in the room, his hand laid to her waist and held to her small hand. Sitting side by side on a rocky hill watching a cosmic storm occurring in the distance. Each light blue cackle from the dark gray skies rumbled in the distance as she leaned against his shoulder feeling safe and secure. Moments like those were treasure. The smiles on her children's faces as they turned toward her, bright eyed and hopeful, in space uniforms. John lovingly looking toward her. Don seated in the pilots chair checking the scanner. Smith, healthy and hearty, looking over toward Maureen as though he had been called with the most curious expression on his face and his hands clasped together. That was the way she could remember her family.

Maureen had no regrets regarding her life and how she had spent it. Being loved as a mother, a sister, a friend, and a wife. She had resigned herself to a fate that was the kindest way to go. It was better than being fired killed by a phaser blast, being killed in cryostasis, or some other method that could kill her in the far reaches of space. Some that included by the hands of beasts and robots. Speaking of robots, she felt honored to have known the Robot. A being that had grown from his original programming into his own unique, colorful individual. He was going to help her family thrive in space out there and make sure they all came back alive. Doing his best safely monitoring Smith and Will at all times after all that had happened. She closed her eyes then opened them once more. Her blue eyes stared at the vast cosmos. Cosmos that New York City at night didn't allow her to see in full. Past five years she had seen a lot of it, and as of this moment she was floating in it without a shell to keep her grounded thanks to artificial gravity. Needless to say, she missed having her feet on the ground.

Suddenly, there was a bright light gray light from ahead. It seemed to be glowing to her eyes. The shine reminded her of a sun seen from planet-side at a safe distance. A second distant figure slowly flew into the asteroid field. She watch a much larger figure in the distance from above the asteroid field coming forward. The computers voice came over informing her how much oxygen was left behind for her. They couldn't have enough time to come after her. It would be a fools errand. Not if they had faster than light travel in there. They could make jumps through vast distances and this large spaceship was more advanced than the Jupiter 2 and yet not advanced at all. She can see the look on Judy's face calling out for the spider pod to reach out and grab her mother who was still flying like she had been hit by a asteroid. Bodies that were in explosions kept going in outer space with the same force that killed them and would damage a ship once striking the hull. The spider pods must be more advanced than she thought to keep up with her speed.

When she blinked, she can see the Jupiter 2's space pod flying her way. She looked at in confusion. The space pod couldn't have gone through the hole and went out into space with the last member of her family. It wasn't expected nor was it certainly planned. It couldn't be John, Penny, or the Robot who were patiently waiting for the return. The familiar bright gray and bright orange spacecraft was tearing its way through space. It came to a standstill just feet away from her. The four legs dangling below on the base. The bulky craft's large square window displayed a familiar figure at the console. She blinked, her heart racing. It couldn't be. It couldn't be. But it was. She was in shock while floating in space staring back at the space pod. A figure jumped out of the space pod with a silver, long cable wrapped around his waist then flew on after her and had a larger figure compared to her petite, small figure.

"John?" Maureen called. "John!"

John caught on to her figure grabbing hold onto the side hooks.

"I got you, Maureen," John said, as the rope came to a abrupt and strong stop.

"John," Maureen said. "You have shaven."

"A hummingbird told me things are going to be alright," John replied.

She placed her small hand on the side of his helmet. She had a soft, small beautiful aging smile back at the healthy and more happier face who's eyes were fixed on her. She slid her hands down the side of the helmet. Her red hair was unkempt on the other side of the helmet, her normally beautiful make up was smeared on all the places it normally wasn't, and her skin seemed to be turning a shade of red.

"I didn't expect you to come down to my rescue," Maureen said. "You left the Robot with Penny and Will?"

"Someone had to," John said. "The Robot can take care of them."

"'All on his own' I don't think so, John Sims Robinson," Maureen said, giving him a displeased frown.

"I can't exactly leave you alone out there to have all the fun," John said, warmly.

"My very own professor in shining armor," Maureen said. Maureen closed her eyes then placed her head against his warm chest. "Being your friend was the best thing that happened to me. . ." And within moments she lost consciousness.

"Maureen?" John shook her by the shoulders. "Maureen!"

There was no reply.

John looked over toward the space pod

"Don, Judy, reel me in!" John called, as the hallucination ended to reveal it was his blonde counterpart holding Maureen. He turned his attention onto Maureen where he watched her bright, optimistic color dimming in his arms and the once bright golden glow was vanishing from the inside of her helmet. He grew alarmed at the loss of bright color illuminating from her suit.

Doctor Robinson and West were inside the pod working together as a team tugging in them into the space pod.

"Working on it!" West replied.

From the space ship above the asteroid belt, Judy was praying for their safe return beside Don with their helmets deactivated. Smith was no where in sight but primarily outside of the hangar bay leaning against the doorway in emotional pain and uncertainty. A soft, aged bloop came from behind him. Smith looked up to see a giant, large version of Debbie. Debbie placed their long, rounded finger on to his shoulder. Instead of screaming, Smith placed his hand on to their finger.