Hail Potato!
        For the sake of our short attention spans and disfunctional,
television intoxicated memories, a short synopsis will put the story back
into perspective:
        Arbourbot, Astro-Cow, Smack and the mouth and left ear of Captain
Potato Head are stranded along with the Millenium Vulture on a Giant Space
Slug, orbiting a white hot star.
        That Swashbuckling Devileer, the handsomely adventurous and all
round great guy, the Baron of the Cosmos had recently discontinued his
travels through a pan-spacial, inter-temporal, trans-dimensional vortex,
but I'm not going to tell you where he ended up for the sake of suspense.
        Buckaneer Weiler, Pirate Scourge of the Dark Segment, and her
intrepid crony, Krauslich the Woodlesnatchit, were both freakin' rich and
flippin' drunk, and having a stupendously fabulous time on a sun baked
beach on the planet Siesta playing fetch with their brawny man-slaves.
        The one eyed, one legged, fork tongued llama has been resurrected
from the grave by the DARK ONE to become leader of the Dark Side: he is
now a steel clad cyborg armed beyond relief.  He is also about to commence
a blood thirsty vendetta against the person who shot him dead (the first
time).
        Princess Becker was having a really shity time on the planet
Voorblox, and was really getting resentful at having as yet not
participated in any adventures so to speak.  Let's see if we can't remedy
the situation?
        The Planet Voorblox was a depressingly square place.  All plants
and topographical relief had evolved perfect right angles, as had the
native animals to blend in with their habitat.  Yet, besides being an
overwhelmingly blatent eyesore, it really was a peaceful, quiet place.
        And then Princess Becker blasted her way out of the side of a
perfectly square mountain, jumped into a perfectly square lake below, and
let herself be carried away down a square river on a square current.  She
was almost enjoying her adventure when she was eaten by a really big
square frog.  However, having blasted the entirety of the compound, her
former prison, to bits with her new-found talent for manipulating the
frequency and intensity of sound waves, she had unfortunately managed to
lose her voice quite completely and was thus unable to affect an escape by
her unconvensional means.  Something sure did stink down there though...
        "So I sez, freak dis, I sez, I'm oudda here!  An' dem hepped up
lil' hussies did stole my ship, dey did!"
        By some miracle of bad luck, Guy & Guy's escape pod had landed not
ten miles from the compound in which Princess Becker was formerly a
prisoner, and had been, by another extraordinary coincidence, been
swallowed by the exact same frog.  Princess Becker made weezing noises,
though whether they were attempts at communication, attempts at
reastabliching her vocal ability to destroy things (Guy & Guy) with sound
waves, a natural breathing disorder brought on by the incredible
stench of being up close and friendly with Guy & Guy, or just run of the
mill hyper-ventilation instigated by the trama of having her head wedged
under Guy & Guy's armpit, is tough to say.  One thing, however, is
certain: Princess Becker was not impressed at all.
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        The misty atmosphere of the Giant Space Slug concealed the 3.5
members of the EXCITING SPACE....well, it's getting hard to count; they
were there, some of them, and that's all that counts.  To pass the time
Arbourbot was singing her most bestest rendition of twenty gaziloin
bottles of beer on the wall, which of course brought the attention of the
Hooper-Looper People, who captured them, made them their gods, and then
proceded to tie them to sacrificial alters on the cone of the Great Gubber
Volcano, by which action the Hooper-Looper People were attempting to
passify.  Fortunately, just before their chief priest was able to cut out
and eat the victim's spleens in the traditional rites, the Great Gubber
Volcano spat forth a great green gross gubber which wiped out the whole
Hooper-Looper Civilization (which drowned in it), but somehow managed to
save out heros for further adventuring (Arbourbot is reported to have said
that it tasted like artifial watermellon flavouring).  
        Dazed and icky, and in dire need of cleaning facilities, they
continued their journey until they stumbled upon an isolated run down
cabin in the woods.  Smack dared Arbour to enter.  Arbour dared Astro-Cow.
Astro-Cow dared the Ear of Captain Potato Head, who called him a moron for
thinking an ear could just mozy on in and scout the pad out.  Gulping,
Arbourbot proceded through the rickety old door, and turned on a hazy old
lamp.  The cabin was cluttered and lived in, but empty of other sentient
beings.  She went to the table where there were three bowls of soup.  The
big bowl was of course too hot, and the middle one was too cold, but the
little itty bitty bowl was JUST right.  She ate it all up.  The gang
called to her in whispers from outside if she had found anything, but
Arbourbot declined to answer them.  She bathed herself, not in the big or
middle sized tubs, which were too hot and too cold respectively, but the
little itty bitty one which was of course just right.  Then she went
upstairs and slept, not in the big or medium sized beds, because they were
too soft and hard, but.... well, I'm sure you can figure out where she
slept.  Anyway, the gang got tired of waiting for her outside and decided
to come in and look around.  Then they heard footprints from outside.
Sqeaking like scared mice, they flung open the cellar door and hid
themselves down in the murky darkness within.
        And then, IT entered!

        Stay tuned tomorrow for the further adventures of the
                STUPENDOUSLY EXCITING SPACE SEVEN AND A HALF !!!!!

                                Baron.