Brakelatabasaasta + Jenny Govvy WEDDING TIME!

[Zukeenee]

Brakelatabasaasta and Fark Mcgeezax cruised through open space in the Colorado system, heading for the Kepler jumphole. Brakelatabasasta had further explained to Fark just why he couldn't use jumpgates.

"The LPI keep me in New York. They say it's so they can keep an eye on me," Brakelatabasaasta had said. "So they put this chip in my neck that talks to the jump-claws and whines whenever I go through one. Then a bunch of Police-guys come and go all 'Grr! Get back in your pen! Rah rah rah!'"

So Fark had assumed--and correctly so--that the device in this man's neck would not react to the naturally-occurring jumpholes. He led his client though to Colorado and they continued from there.

"So I don't think I ever got your name," Fark said.

"I'm a Brakelatabasaasta," his client replied simply. "And this is Bert the Starblazer."

Fark wasn't sure he'd heard the man right. "You're a what? And... what?"

"My name is Brakelatabasaasta," he repeated. "My full name is Brakelatabasaasta Feed Me. And this Starblazer's name is Bert. He doesn't have a full name, I guess. Except for Bert. Bert the Starblazer."

Fark didn't respond to that, and decided to change the subject. "So, why're you going up to Kusari anyway? What's up there for you?"

"I'm going to Kusariland to meet the Emperor!" Brakelatabasasta answered.

"Meet the Emperor, huh? Just like that?" Fark asked.

"Yup. Just like that," he said. "How hard could it be?"

"Oh, I think you'll find it to be rather hard..." Fark trailed off. "Here. Closing on the jumphole. Get ready to jump."

Fark and Brakelatabasaasta dropped out of cruise and slowly aproached the swirling anomaly of light. Fark went though first, and Brakelatabasaasta witnessed his escort's fighter being stretched and compressed inside the hole before disappearing entirely. Bert soon followed.

A blinding flash, and a long, winding tunnel of light appeared before Brakelatabasasta. Bert was pulled forward at an incredible speed, twisting and turning with each bend of the passage... and then it was dark again.

Brakelatabasaasta was inside the dark, dangerous clouds of the Kepler system, with Fark not too far ahead. Lights flashed on Bert's console, indicating the high levels of radiation present in the system, monitoring the integrity of the tiny Starblazer's hull. Brakelatabasaasta had been here once before, years ago, with one "Winky-man", so he knew what to expect.

"We're in the cloud now," Fark's voice came over the intercom, "But stay close to me and we'll be out soon."

Brakelatabasaasta formed Bert on his escort's fighter, and the two travelers carefully navigated the asteroids, making their way to the next jumphole...

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