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The neothrim sheathing of Battle Cruiser Onassis shuddered violently as it punched through the Noen Field, the barrier demarking the deepest sphere of charted Milkspace. "Whoa!" cried Billy, yanking the big levers left and right, punching the big, silly buttons with his sticky palms. "What was THAT?!" asked Suzy, who was crawling around beneath the console trying to work all the pedals. "Wowzers, Sooze! I think we found a planetoid!" "Let me see, let me see!" They should probably give control back to the computer and let the ship return to its proper heading, Billy thought, cuz they were up way past their hybernation time. But Mommy and Daddy were in stasis, so maybe it was ok. They were big kids now, besides. Suzy clambered on top of the console and pressed her face to the glass. Her hands left sticky smears of chocolate and caramel in falling arcs. "Look!" Billy shouted again. "It's inhabited also!" "Zap it, zap it!" "I dunno...we should be in stasis, Sooze." "Pleeeeaaaaze!" "Will you tell me about sex if I do it?" "Umm..." Billy's flat top haircut stood on end. "Come on, Sooze. I'm in 4th grade." "Um... umm... um.... OKAY!" "Tell me!" "Okay, okay. You put your peener in a lady's butt and then you make a pee inside, and that's where babies come from!" "Sooze!" Sweat formed on his ruddy brow, and Billy felt funny. The sweat streamed over his freckled applecheeks. "Gosh!" He swallowed hard. "You--" "Zap 'em, Billy!" [BLAMMO!]