Atomic Galaxy: Solar System XVI
Planet 103: Home
This plan was perfect, it just had to work. It was quite simple and rather logical, but it has never been done before. As effective as it might sound, it was also not very elaborate, therefore Maximus IQ, the self proclaimed greatest super villain genius in the universe, thought it wasn't worthy of him. But lately, after Atomic Betty had time and again stopped him from taking over the universe, he had come to appreciate the simplicity of this plan. To place a tracking device on the Starcruiser and see what planet the ship makes a stop at after a mission.
Placing the tracking devise was no problem. Betty and her crew were too distracted stopping Maximus from placing bomb in a random defenseless planet. All they had to do was take away the control that Maximus was going to use to detonate the bomb and he gave up and ran away. Experts in explosives arrived at the scene to assist the Galactic Guardians and assured them they could handle things from there.
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Today Betty was in a school fieldtrip. They were visiting an old town for historical purposes and there was also a museum there. It was a little far from Moose Jaw Height, but the trip was fun so far. The students were given some time to look around as long as they didn't go too far and stayed in groups. As she walked around along with Noah, Betty spotted an old mansion in the distance and in a clearing next to it she saw Maximus' space ship. Betty stared at it with her eyes open wide, unable to move as a million thoughts raced in her head. "What are you looking at?" Noah's voice brought her back to reality.
Betty quickly made up an excuse. "Look, a gift shop!"
"That's a grocery store," Noah wondered why Betty had started acting so strange all of a sodden after staring at the space ship next the old mansion. Of course he never thought the ship was real, it was probably there for little kids to play in.
"Well it's just as fun, let's go inside!" Betty practically dragged him by the arm into the grocery store.
"Betty, is something wrong?" Noah was a little worried by his best friend's strange behavior.
"Nothing," Betty searched for a way out of there without Noah seeing her. She spotted a mountain of apples neatly piled up like a pyramid. "I want an apple but I'm afraid I'll knock over the pile, could you get one for me, please?" She gave him her sweetest smile, which he couldn't resist.
"Sure, I'll get it." It was true that her sense of balance was better than his and he knew it, but he just couldn't say no. Feeling the guilt already building up, Betty whispered an inaudible apology and pushed the mountain of apples from the other side, then ran away before Noah saw her. The one in charge of the grocery store came running and started yelling at the boy who caused the mess. Noah believed it really was his fault and offered to pick them up. He started making a pile of apples again, only to have them fall every now and then and he had to start over.
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Betty ran towards Maximus' ship. She activated her bracelet to change into her Galactic Guardian uniform just in case it was a coincidence he was here. Just in case this was just another random planet he was attacking. If that was so, then she didn't want to give him any hints by wearing anything different on this planet. There didn't appear to be anyone on the ship so she decided to look around the surrounding area. She entered the old mansion to find a mummy standing behind a counter. From the inside, the mansion looked like an inn. Sure she would receive strange stares if anyone saw her dressed like that, but she would rather have people staring and pointing than the Earth blowing up. Other than the mummy, this place looked pretty normal.
