Solborn...

The Worst Idea. Ever.

Astrid walked through the door and looked up. As he stared at the number of celestial bodies above him he thought, why me? Why me of all people to experience this madness. "Is anyone-" "FINE I'LL DO IT!" Venus shouted "We're worried about you, first I crash into and you almost die, then you crash into Sun, AND THEN-" "His point is we're very very worried." Saturn cut Venus off "All this talk from Moon about you looking different and acting weird is getting us freaked out, we just wanna know if you're ok." Mars added, "If you could meet us halfway up here, we'd like it a lot." Astrid took a deep breath "First of all I can't go back to space, I- I quit the mission, all the chaos and stress combined with Houston REPEATEDLY trying to kill me, I-I can't," Astrid opened his mailbox, which only contained a small yellow envelope. "And this guy?" Astrid pointed to himself while instinctively walking back to his front door "I'm Doing well. Doing better actually for the most part." "Astrodude-" "Thanks for checking up on me though!" "Astrodude-" "I'M COMPLETELY FINE-" Astrid cut himself off by slamming the door shut. "Welp, we tried." Uranus sighed.

He took a deep sigh of relief and sunk down to the floor. He took out the envelope and carefully opened it. It read, You have been invited to the planetary masquerade at the Stargate Planetarium, opening tomorrow night, near the ROTSAR Space Center at 8:00 PM, Astrid Drixen Astrodude! "Of course, they cross out my name..." Astrid scoffed. Wait... Rotsar? Isn't that where his rocket is? "WAIT A MINUTE...", Astrid silently whispered. If they want him to come back to space. And he's being invited to the Space Center... Yeah, he could make this work, Astrid stood up. All he'd need was makeup, a dress, and a total disregard for his dignity. Easy! A few hours later, Astrid was getting ready. Luckily, Taffy was out for a grocery shop run and brought their son with her. There he was, in one of Taf's yellow dresses from when she was younger, luckily he was quite short for his age so he slipped into it easily. Astrid sneaked right over to his car and drove straight over to the Stargate, which oddly enough, wasn't as far away as Astrid thought it be. When he began to walk towards the door he stopped. "Is this a good idea? For god's sake, this is a terrible idea-" He stopped himself and sighed, "If I can survive Venus, and the sun, I can survive this." Astrid insured himself though he didn't really believe his own words. Despite all that, he opened the door.

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The place was totally packed, above him was a large dome, glistening a royal shade of purple onto the floor below. he struggled to make his way through the crowds of people but managed to find a seat near the front. "Ladies and Gentlemen!" Houston announced as he walked onto the stage. "As many of you know, Astrodude has recently quit the mission due to some, ahem- Unfortunate events, but do not worry! We at Rotsar had come up with the perfect solution! Definitely. So I am pleased to announce," The commander proceeded to pull a remote control out of his pocket, causing a box the rise out for the stage, the box was lifted off and the commander again spoke

"Our final but powerful resort,"

"SAR!"