"Last night I had a dream. In it, I was riding the tape worm that I had once ridden when inside Stellar Santiago's stomach. Anyway, I was riding this worm through the sands of Kerona."

"Looking up, I could see Xenon Orbital Station 4, which was odd, considering that I was supposedly on Kerona, and you normally couldn't make a space station out as clearly as I could from the surface of any planet, but that seems to be the way that dreams go."

"As I continued to gaze upon the station, it began to be eclipsed by a huge asteroid."

"Cold terror gripped me as I recognized the asteroid to be the same one that was in reality Vohaul's Hidden Fortress!"

"Shuddering, and very scared, I glanced around me at my surroundings and noticed that somehow I had ended up inside that hideous fortress, near the escape pods, and I noticed that Vohaul's MarrowMatic was after me!"

"I ran toward the nearest escape pod, only to be greeted by the hideous sight of what seemed to be a creature composed of Sludge Vohaul, Arnoid the Annihilator, and Elmo Pugg!"

"Without thinking, I threw a hunk of orium that I hadn't had in my hand a second ago toward that horrible visage."

"It ate it."

"I don't know what happened then, most likely I screamed, but the next thing I knew I was running blindly along the catwalks within the Xenon Super Computer."

"I continued running, after glancing behind me just to see that yes, the Vohaul-Arnoid-Pugg monstrosity and the MarrowMatic were still in sharp pursuit."

"Somehow my running feet led me to the room where I had had my previous confrontation with Sludge Vohaul, which I had thought would be my last. And who should be there but my own son, hunched over the console, his back to me."

"I shouted his name, and pleaded for help, but to no avail."

"Reaching out, I touched him on the shoulder, and finally he turned and gazed upon me."

"I recoiled in horror at his features, for they were those of Captain Quirk when his face was swelling because of that primordial soup stuff."

"His face swelling, he turned completely away from the console, and reached out at me."

"I backed up, still shocked at his features, and bumped into something."

"Spinning around, I expected the worst."

"I found it."

"In front of me was an Orat, flanked by the vile Vohaul-Annihilator-Pugg creature, the MarrowMatic and a bunch of sariens, nanonites and countless other monstrosities."

"As they converged and my vision began to fade, it seemed as if everything in front of me turned transparent, and I gazed upon the gigantic faces of those two ingrates from Andromeda I had rescued from ScumSoft."

"Then I woke up."