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Audrianna's POV

Kelly knocked on the door to her house as her mom opened it up.

"Oh, Dria! I didn't know you were coming over mi queridas; come in, come in." she greeted us with a warm smile

"Ay, mi querida, ¿perdiste peso?" She cupped my cheeks
(Oh, my dear, have you lost weight?)

"Mami, Dria can't speak spanish." Kelly remarked

"En realidad no, Señora Haven." I chuckled
(Not really, Mrs. Haven.)

Kelly turned to me with wide-eyes "¿Desde cuándo aprendiste a hablar español?"
(Since when did you learn how to speak Spanish?)

"I downloaded Duolingo for fun." I shrugged as we walked over to the kitchen

My phone beeped, it was a message from my dad.

"Who's that?" Kelly glanced over to me

"It's just my dad." I tried to respond to the message

"Oh, speaking of your dad, mi querida; how is he doing?" Mrs. Haven chimed in

"Uhm, he's doing fine, Mrs. Haven." I nodded awkwardly

"I never really got to talk to him. Never got his number."

Kelly and I glanced at each other before she turned back to her mom "Mami..? ¿Te gusta el señor Manchester?"
(Mom..? Do you like Mr. Manchester?)

Mrs. Haven perked up "No! I mean- no, no."

I smiled widely "Señora Haven... Puede decírmelo. Él es mi papá, sabes."
(Mrs. Haven..you can tell me. He's my dad you know..)

Even though I knew she did, I wanted her to admit it out loud.

Mrs. Haven seemed hesitant before sighing "Okay, yes. I may or may not like Ray."

Kelly clapped her hands "I knew it!"

I jumped up and down in excitement "Ooh! Te gusta mi papa!"
(Ooh! You like my dad!")

"Just please don't tell him mi queridas. Please?"

"Your secret is safe with us mami." Kelly smirked

I gave Kelly a knowing look, wiggling my eyebrows. 

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Time Skip - two days

Henry and I came down the stairs to see Piper and her friends sitting in the living room.

"Hey, has it been on yet?" Henry asked

"Not yet, it should be coming on any minute." Piper said

"I'll get you my pretty!" The girl on the TV said

"Okay tweeners! Food's ready!" Mr. Hart yelled "Hope your mouths are!"

We all walked to the kitchen until Piper blew her whistle, making us all turn around.

"Back on the couch!" Piper yelled to her friends

Her friends sighed before walking back to the couch with her.

"Aw c'mon Piper, I just put out all this nice food." Mr. Hart complained

"Look. The guy at the TV station just texted me and said my commercial's gonna be on in just a few minutes." Piper remarked

"We know, but we're also hungry--" she cut me off by blowing her whistle, so loud that it made my glass bottle crack.

"Ow." I said blankly, dropping the glass shards on the floor

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"What's done is done." a homeless-looking man said as he took a bite on his apple

Henry tapped Piper's arm.

"Yeah?" she turned to him

He pointed to his shirt "Shirt?"

Piper stared at him blankly.

"Shiiiirt?" he repeated

"What's wrong with you?" Piper asked

"What- This is my Fred Lobster shirt. 'Cause you're in a Fred Lobster commercial. So I got this shirt." there was a short pause "In honor of your commercial."

..

"For Fred Lobster." He added

Piper and I stared at him blankly. 

Henry turned to me "Do you like my shirt?"

"Uhhhhh.. I like your hair..?"

"Piper! It's your commercial!" One of Piper's friends yelled

"AHHHH! My commercial's on!" Piper raised her hands, hitting Henry's face in the process

"It's a new day at Fred Lobster!" A video of Piper and a few other people popped up and they were all laughing. 

"It's me, it's me, it's me!" Piper beamed, squeezing my hand tightly

She held up a lobster "Who knows lob-"

"We interrupt this broadcast for breaking news." The news turned on, interrupting Piper's commercial

The little girl got up furiously "What the butt!?"

"And now: Trent Overunder and Mary Gaperman." Trent ran to his seat

"Mary c'mon, you can eat the chicken wings later." he adjusted his earpiece

Mary ran to her seat next to Trent "I am so sorry, is there any sauce on my face?"

Trent shook his head "No, you're good." he lied

"Where's my commercial?!" Piper yelled

"Hey, hey it's oka-" I held her hand to try and reassure her

"Shhh!" she cut me off

"--trouble in outer space?" Trent said "Yes. We've just received a report that some unknown person has found his or her way into NASA's new international space station."

"Now Trent, that space station is located where?" Mary asked

"It's in space, Mary. Hence the name 'space station'."

"That's right, Trent."

"Apparently, the mysterious intruder has taken over the station and is holding the astronauts hostage." Trent continued

"And we should point that one of those astronauts, Jim Dickle, lives right here in Swellview. When he's not in space." Mary added

"Here's a photo of Major Dickle, taken last year at Swellview's taco festival." A picture of Jim popped up

"NO ONE CARES! PUT MY COMMERCIAL BACK ON!" Piper demanded

"Stay tuned to KLVY News for more updates on this developing situation."

"In space." Mary added

The Fred Lobster commercial turned back on "Fredddd Lobster. For food."

Piper shut the TV off "They bumped my whole commercial for some stupid news thing that nobody cares about!!"

"Yeahh.. Who would care about astronauts being taken hostage in outer space?" Henry asked sarcastically

"I don't need your sarcasm." Piper pointed to him

Henry and I's watches started beeping. 

"Hey, your watches just beeped." A girl pointed to our watches

"Uh- We know." Henry and I got up

"We uh.. Gotta go call our boss at Junk N' Stuff." we started heading to the door

"What about my commercial!?"

"We missed it." Henry said dryly

"But they'll play it again!" Piper whined

"She's right, they're supposed to run it a few times today." Mr. Hart added

"Ohhh. Then we'll go check the front porch." I grabbed Henry's hand and walked out the door

"Check it for what!?" Piper yelled

I lifted open my whiz watch and a hologram of my dad popped up "Dad."

"Henry, Dria. There's an emergency in- are you wearing a Fred Lobster shirt?" He stared at Henry

"Uh.. Yeah." Henry smiled

"Why?"

"Cause my sister's in a Fred Lobster commercial, so I bought this shirt but-"

"Love, I don't want to be rude but it looks bad and you should burn it." I blurted out, turning to him

"Alright look, there's no time to talk about your shirt!" my dad scolded

"But.. But you asked me."

"We have an emergency. Guess where we're goin'." my dad smirked

"To space?" I raised an eyebrow

"Not just space, Muffin. Outer space." he said mysteriously

"Wait, well how are we gonna get to outer sp--" my dad cut me off

"Y'know I was in a Fred Lobster last week and they told me they didn't have those shirts anymore."

"Uhh.." Henry looked down at his shirt "Yeah, I had to order this one online--"

"Oh, so you really wanna talk about lobster shirts while astronauts are in danger?"

"You're the one who brought up the shirt!"

"Oh God." I sighed

"Just get to the Man Cave, fast."

"Okay, we're on our way." I said

"Bring the shirt." my dad added

I glared at him before flipping off my whiz watch.

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Henry and I got shot down the tubes.

"Hey."

"Sup?"

"Hi Henry and Dria." Schwoz said

I looked up and saw Schwoz on the ceiling "Woah, what the- why is Schwoz-"

My dad shot the blaster at Schwoz but missed as the rubble fell on the floor. 

"Ha! Missed me, missed me! You are very stupid!"

"Those are not the lyrics!" my dad yelled as he shoot the blaster at him again

"Ow! My shoe!" Schwoz groaned as his shoe fell on the ground

"Okay, what is going on?" Henry asked

"Schwoz won't give Ray the launch key to his little rocket ship." Kelly answered

"Well why won't he-- Schwoz has a rocket ship?" I beamed

Kelly and Charlotte nodded.

"It's called the Love Shuttle." Schwoz explained

"Why did Schwoz build a Love Shuttle?" Henry asked

"For his honeymoon." my dad answered

"Yeah, he says that when he gets married he wants to have his honeymoon on the actual moon." Charlotte added

"Don't be ridiculous Schwoz. You're never getting married." my dad scolded as he blasted him again

"It could happen! There's women out there who'll take anybody! And if not then Henry and Audrianna could use it for their honeymoon!" Schwoz yelled

I choked on my spit at the last part. Henry seemed flustered too as he was blushing madly.

"AHHHH! GIMME THAT KEY!" my dad yelled as he started blasting Schwoz

We all went aside to the couch as rubble kept falling down on the floor which made my dad stumble onto the couch as he stood up, panting.

"I think you might be overreacting." I pat his shoulder

"May I?" Kelly grabbed the blaster

"No, no, wait- Kelly, don't--" Schwoz got cut off by Kelly blasting her

"AHHHHHH!" he fell to the floor

"Ha!" Henry chuckled "You shot his butt."

Kelly handed the blaster back to my dad, smiling proudly at herself.

The elevator landed and Jasper got out of the door "Hey! Did you guys hear!? There's a hostage situation up in space!" he beamed

"We heard."

"We're aware."

"We know."

"Well.. Did you know that one of the astronauts is from Swellview!?"

"Yes."

"Yeah, Jim Dickle."

"Everyone knows."

"Yep."

"Oh. Well did you know that I was born with eleven toes, but only nine on my feet?" Jasper asked

"What'd he say?"

"Eleven?"

"What..?"

"I- what?"

"Yeah. Who's got news now?" he smirked

Schwoz groaned and I kneeled down to check on him before something started beeping.

"I'll check that." Charlotte walked up to the monitors

"Hey, shouldn't you be up at Junk N' Stuff watching the store?" my dad asked

"Well I have to use the bathroom but the one upstairs is broken." Jasper reasoned

"That's why we told you to use the bathroom across the street at the gas station." I tried to get Schwoz's hands off of mine

"I'm no longer welcome at that gas station."

Henry swatted Schwoz's hands off of his face.

"Uh-oh.. You guys, the space station's gonna be orbiting over Swellview in one hour." Charlotte turned to us

"So?" I asked, trying to get Schwoz's hands off my face

"What does that mean?" my dad asked

"That if you guys don't head up there soon, you'll have to wait another 24 hours." Charlotte explained

"And by then it may be too late.." Kelly added

"Come on, we have to help those astronauts. Atleast the one from Swellview." Henry insisted

"Come on Schwoz, give us the key to your Love Shuttle." I pleaded

"Wait, why doesn't NASA just send someone up there to help the astronauts?" Jasper asked

"Yah. Call NASA." Schwoz said

"No, no, no, no, no. NASA just sent a supply rocket to the space station two days ago. It'll take 'em six months to get another one ready to send up." Kelly chimed in

Henry groaned "Well, can't we borrow a rocket from China?"

"No! No." my dad yelled "I am not getting inside a Chinese rocket ever again!"

"Hey, c'mon Schwoz. Let us use your Love Shuttle." I begged, putting my hand on his back

"Yeah, you're never gonna need it." My dad reminded him

"I will! For when I get married." Schwoz protested

"Oh, to what Schwoz!?" my dad asked "What's gonna marry you!?"

"Even that robot girlfriend you built for yourself, Gerta. Even she left you." Henry remarked

"No.. We.. We're just taking a break." Schwoz reasoned

"Oh come on!" My dad groaned

"She turned herself into a bird, Schwoz." I said, emphasising every word "Then she flew away."

My dad clapped his hands and made a bird figure.

"When did that happen?" Jasper asked

"Last season." Henry answered

"So you mean winter?" he asked

"Yeah. that's what I meant." he smirked

"Look, buddy-" My dad walked up to Schwoz, holding out his hands

"Dah, don't choke me." Schwoz said

"Are you planning to marry someone in the next.. Ten hours?" my dad asked

"Well, I don't plan to, no."

"Okay, so just lend us your Love Shuttle," I glanced over to Henry before turning back to Schwoz "and we'll bring it right back." I turned to him and he smiled proudly at me

"You promise to be careful with it?" Schwoz asked

"We all promise." Henry chimed in, walking over to us and wrapping an arm around my shoulder. 

"Now give us the launch key!" my dad yelled

"Okay. Hold out your hand." Schwoz demanded

He nudged me before holding out his hand to Schwoz.

Schwoz started gagging, like he's trying to cough something out.

"Oh my God." Kelly looked at him in horror as Schwoz continued coughing something up

"I can't watch this." Henry choked through his words "But I can't look away.."

"Even therapy can't get this out of my mind." I looked at Schwoz in disgust

"What are you doing!?" my dad asked

Schwoz coughed out the launch key which landed in my dad's hands. 

"Aww!"

"Ew!"

"Gross!"

"That is disgusting."

"What the hell!?"

"It's wet!"

"That's the launch key." Schwoz pointed to it

"Alright Jasper, looks like Captain Man needs your help." my dad said

"Sure, anything! What do you need?" he quickly ran up to my dad

My dad wiped the key on his shirt "You're a good boy." he smiled

Jasper gasped and turned to us, smiling widely.

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"Okay Henry and Dria, I'm now going to insert the key into the console." my dad said

"Uh.. Okay." I furrowed my eyebrows as Henry pulled me closer to his lap since there were only two seats.

He pushed the key inside which activated the rocket "I did it."

"Great." Henry whispered to him as I pressed a few buttons on the control panel

We pulled out our gumball tubes and popped a gumball in our mouths.

"You are aboard the Love Shuttle. Welcome Schwoz and.." A female voice said

"Woman's name." Schwoz replied

"Prepare for your honeymoon." romantic music started playing and the boys started slowly dancing

"Oh God, why did I sign up for this.." I whispered to myself

"Schwoz, Schwoz." Henry stopped dancing in his seat "How do I turn this love music off?"

"Aw, come on. Love music isn't for turning off." Schwoz whined "It's for turning on."

"It's not turning me on." I muttered to myself, rolling my eyes

"I got it." my dad pressed a button and the music stopped

"Alright Henry, Dria, and Ray. We pre-set the flight computer to automatically take you to the space station." Charlotte spoke up

"Copy that. And we are.. Prepped for launch." Henry said

"Hey kids." my dad called out "Let's go to space and kick some ace."

Henry chuckled "To the stars."

We blew our bubbles, transforming into our superhero uniforms.

"Hey.. Pretty cool." I smirked

"Yeah, I've never done that sitting down before." Kid Danger added

"Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was gonna work." Captain Man chuckled

"It's pretty good right?"

"Yeah, but it did work!"

"Alright you guys." Jasper spoke into the intercom "I just wanted to say.. Be careful up there."

"Aw, thanks Jasp."

"Roger that."

"We copy."

"Cause you three are the only Ray, Henry, and Dria I have." he continued

"Thank you."

"Thanks."

"Okay then."

"And.. I've never said this out loud before, but.."

"Don't do this." Kelly pleaded

"I just wanted you guys to know that--"

"Hit it." Captain Man demanded

"Yup. Launching." I pressed the launch button and we started ascending. Really quickly

"AHHHH!"

"WOAH!"

"OH MY GOD!"

Captain Man chuckled "WE'RE GOING TO SPACE!"

"I KNOW, IT'S SO FUN!" I grinned

"WOOO!"

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Captain Man sighed as he looked out the window "Space, 'The final frontier'." he said in a weird accent

"What does that mean?" I asked

"Y'know..'The final frontier'. Last place in the universe that mankind hasn't explored yet." he explained and Kid Danger and I nodded in response

"Space!" Captain Man yelled "Ah.." he sighed

...

"What about oceans?" Kid Danger asked

"Huh?"

"Oceans." he repeated "I mean, we haven't explored all parts of the oceans yet. So aren't they an unexplored frontier? Oceans?"

"Okay, fine. Space, one of two final frontiers. Ahh." Captain Man sighed

"What about parallel universes?" I asked

"What?" he groaned

"Remember that time Charlotte, Henry, and I went to that parallel universe?" I remarked

"I suppose."

"Well, there's probably lots more parallel universes that none of us have explored. So I guess you could say--"

"Space!" Captain Man yelled "One of many, many remaining frontiers."

"Yeah." Kid Danger nodded

...

He furrowed his eyebrows "Y'know, I don't like the fact that my daughter is sitting on your lap."

"Where do you want me to sit?" I furrowed my eyebrows

"I don't know.. My lap?"

"No."

Kid Danger scoffed "Dude, she's my girlfriend; and from what I recall, you gave me permission to ask her out."

"Yeah, but it's weird!" Captain Man said

"Dad, we're fifteen.."

"Exactly! Teenagers are always horny when they're fifteen."

"Dad!"

"Ray!"

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Captain Man groaned "I'm sick of just sitting here."

"I'm so close to throwing something off this rocket.." I whined

"Yeah, well, Schwoz said that we should be at the space station pretty soon--"

"I wonder what these buttons do." Captain Man pressed a button

"No wait, no wait, dude- what are you doing?" Kid Danger asked

"Don't start pressing random buttons!" I scolded but Captain Man ignored me

I felt the chair starting to vibrate. 

"What's happening?" Captain Man asked "What's happening?"

Kid Danger chuckled "You made our chair start to vibraaaaate."

"Aw.. No fair! I wanna vibrate." He whined

"It's niiiiiice." I teased

Captain Man pressed a button and his chair started vibrating "Ohhhhh yeahhhhh.."

"Feels goooooood.."

"This is amaziiiiiiing.."

"Hey." Captain Man exclaimed "My voice sounds weird. Listen, aaaaaaaaaaahhhh."

A loud crash could be heard.

"AHH!"

"OH FUCK-"

"D'OH!"

"Hey Schwoz, I think we just docked with the space station." Captain Man said

"Oh, really? My goodness, thanks for the information." Schwoz replied sarcastically

"Okay, you have a solid pressure lock so you are good to enter the space station." Charlotte said

"Ten-four, good Charlotte." Captain Man said

"We're ten-ten on the side." I added as we all stood up from our seats

"Alright, kids. We're about to leave the Love Shuttle and enter the space station."

"Yep. We're up to speed on the story." Kid Danger nodded

"I know, I'm just sayin'.. We have no idea who or what hijacked that space station." Captain Man remarked

"And we won't know until we go there and look inside." I sighed and tightened my grip on my blaster

"Yep.. That's all been clearly established." Kid Danger said blankly

How is he not nervous?

"Then let's go do this." Captain Man said

"Waitin' on you." Kid Danger added

"Here we go." I took a deep breath

"I hope so." he continued

"Set weapons to stun." Captain Man demanded

"Is this right?" Kid Danger asked, showing me his blaster

"Uh no, you just set it to melt." I answered

"Oh."

"You wanna melt the space station?" Captain Man asked

"No I do not." he quickly adjusted his blaster

"Give it." I snatched his blaster and adjusted the settings before giving it back to him "Here you go."

We all took a deep breath and Captain Man opened the rocket door.

We all went straight to the door, bumping into each other.

"Sorry, do you wanna go--"

"Oh no--"

"I thought--"

"Do you wanna go first?"

"No, you, yeah you--"

"I thought you were gonna--"

"Alright, you go then I'll go then he goes--"

We all bumped into each other again.

"What are you doing?"

"You- you said, okay yeah." Captain Man made Kid Danger go inside first

I glanced over to Captain Man's blaster "Ooh, it's on melt."

"Oh." he quickly adjusted his blaster before I followed Kid Danger inside

We got inside the space station.

"Okay kids, stay cool.." Captain Man instructed

Something fell on Captain Man's head, making him fall to the ground "OW!"

Kid Danger and I started repeatedly blasting the ceiling.

"AHHH! What was that, what was that!? What's happening!?"

"What the fuck!?"

Kid Danger rolled across the floor and shot- something.

I grabbed his arm and helped him up "Hey. I think I got whatever it was that attacked--" he got cut off by something metal falling on our heads

I groaned "You didn't get it.."

The lights turned on and we saw a little girl pointing the blaster at us "Captain Man?"

"Uh, we're here too." Kid Danger remarked

"Kid Danger and Danger Girl." I added "Also relevant." I hissed in pain, touching the back of my head

The girl continued pointing the blaster at us as we raised our hands in defense while slowly stepping back.

To be continued..

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