Space Story by W. W. Marplot

Author:W. W. Marplot
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction > Action & Adventure > General
Juvenile Fiction > Science Fiction
Publisher: Waxing Gibbous Books
Published: 2022-02-09T21:13:55+00:00

Los Live On Stage

Back to Bobby-Los...

Barky was abashed at the size of the crowd he found following Los around the ship. Though he understood their adoration, he wondered what it meant and what would happen and how all these signs came together: the appearance of a human, Lully’s son, here, so near to the Middle, and just as they were about to be destroyed, most likely, by the Deepom Army.

Just as the Prophetess prophetessied, Barky thought to his dogself while biting his own hip to dissipate an itch. The sprayed, excited version of that thought would have been very wet indeed if he had expressed it to Los, whom he found in the ship’s large, green, square auditorium. On the stage. Of all places. And just after the Earth was blown to pieces.

Yes, BeepBeep had received that awful news, and all shipmates had to threaten Guk to keep it from Los, and also to stop his awful smiling. Guk’s teeth were the size and color of cereal boxes.

Bobby-Los knew nothing of the shipboard prophetess. He hadn’t heard of the explosive end of third planet from the Sun either, the sweet, happy Sun he used to stare at until it forced his retina to regenerate, while standing on a planet that no longer existed. He also had no idea that, to some in the universe, his name began with “The.”

He did know how to name things; an active imagination and years of having to amuse himself had prepared him. And because of Los’s growing fame and itinerant, christening skill, the young space hero had to move his trailing crowd to the largest space on the ship where all the curious or needy could watch and listen: The ship’s auditorium’s acoustics were perfect. Every wise word, or new name, bounded along olive-colored walls, along right-angled steps, and reflected from floor to ceiling to be heard by all, even those in the cubes way in the back.

The musical instrument-themed creatures sat in the first few rows and intoned softly.

Barky wagged his tail as Los spoke to the other Deepom refugees. Master renamed a very large ogre-type being from “Mittens” to “Gauntlet.” A small, shy robot—who very much reminded Bobby of his own room back home (which at this moment was in pieces that were thousands of miles apart)—was pushed near to the stage and would not talk, but others explained the problem. Bobby renamed it from “Schtom” to “The Inculcator.” The robot stood taller as it slid away, back up the yellow-green aisle.

In between explanations of sports and music, and stories from Bobby’s favorite Christmases, Halloweens, TV shows, and video game heroics, others would approach, and in this way names like “Fffthhhh,” “We-eee,” “Ung,” and burpy noises were replaced with noble expressions of descriptive respect, like “Stan” and “Lord Upright.”

At this, the receiver, the new Lord Upright—a large soccer ball with two shark’s fins at his sides—shot upward and outward with excitement to cheers from the crowd and bursts of D-major notes from the stringed guests.

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