The Space Dreamers by Gary Whitmore - HTML preview

Chapter 19

It was one year later, and trades between Neila and earth had occurred.

Down in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A Cruise spaceship, from Neila, hovered just above the water alongside a long main dock by a "Universe Cruises" sign. 

At the forward end, earth men and woman and children walked up to the hovering gangplanks from the main dock to five opened doors at the forward end of the spaceship. 

At the five opened doors of the aft end of the spaceship, numerous Neila men, women and children walked down the hovering gangplanks to the main dock. 

One of those couples was Tona and Tilla, married six months ago by King Luna for his first official ceremony. They decided to visit earth for another vacation.

Way up in the sky, another cruise spaceship ascended toward outer space full of earth passengers.

On the beach in Cape Canaveral, was a grass hut with a Dutch door and a "Lon, Saul, Lorge and Bingo's "Water Boards Shop" sign on the roof. 

Inside the hut, behind the Dutch door, Lon, Saul, Lorge, and Bingo leaned against it with smiles.

They looked out at the ocean and saw old ladies, older men, younger men, women, and children from earth and Neilas surf on water boards just above the ocean waves. The earthling had a ball with these new devices from Neila.

Some of the old ladies and older men did loop-d-loops five feet above the waves.

Way up in the sky, numerous earth surfers sky surfed on sky boards. 

Some of them sky surfed around the clouds. They had a blast.

Two of those sky surfers were Monica and Timmy, and they had a blast doing loop-d-loops in the air.

Meanwhile, back in a Neila prison, Meena, Boe, Burpy and Dopey all wore green and yellow striped prison uniforms while they stood behind an assembly line table. They were all miserable. 

Boe grabbed a brown sky board off a pile. 

He placed it upside down on the table in front of Burpy.

Burby laid a metal strip on the bottom of the board. 

Burpy snapped his fingers, and then a device hovered down from the ceiling and covered the board. It made whish and then a thunk sound. Then the device rose up. Burpy turned the board over and handed it to Meena. 

It hovered inches above the table in front of Meena who placed a picture of the Surfers on it. He pushed the board to Dopey, who had a spray gun in hand. 

Dopey pressed a button, which sprayed Meena's face with clear sticky stuff. 

Meena got pissed and turned Dopey's gun around and pressed that button He sprayed the board then slapped Dopey. 

Dopey's head spun around. He looked dizzy while he placed that board in an "Earth" box. 

Boe grabbed another blank air board and started the process all over again.

Back on earth in Florida, Timmy sat in his bedroom at his computer desk. His Neila Holophone was turned on, and a hologram of Monica appeared.

"I got one too," her hologram replied, and she looked excited.

"Meet me over at Kirk's place, Frankie also got one and is on his way over," Timmy replied into the Holophone.

"I'm on my way," Monica replied then blew Timmy a kiss.

Timmy blew his hologram a kiss then turned it off. He grabbed a letter off his desk and ran out of his bedroom.

Ten minutes had passed, and Frankie and Monica all met Timmy at Kirk's place.

They were all excited and showed each other and Kirk the official letters they got from President Taylor. These letters stated the three kids are guaranteed a spot in the next NASA's Astronaut Class the second they graduated from college.

They were so excited and could not wait for some more adventures in outer space. And Kirk was so proud of the kids.