Atomic Galaxy: Solar System XVII
Planet 106: New Episode
Chef Bernadette slept peacefully, dreaming of a new recipe. One that she thought someone as bratty as Maximus didn't deserve to eat, but she would cook it for him anyway, if only to show off her skills as a chef. However, her peaceful sleep was interrupted by the sound of a loud alarm, or rather several alarms. "The lair is under attack!" Bernadette jumped to her feet. She ran out of her room, still wearing her pajamas decorated in little pictures of cupcakes and went to the kitchen to save her most precious kitchen appliances. There was no way she was going to abandon her golden kitchen utensils.
The first thing she grabbed from the kitchen was her lucky golden frying pan. If the invaders got in before she got out and escaped, this could be of a lot of help. She had studied many forms of cooking and many others things related to being a chef, even a special fighting style created by the legendary chef Ukyo, whose home planet still remains a secret even almost ten years after she was last seen. The doors of the large kitchen started to open and several knives, forks and spatulas where thrown at the intruder, meant to miss only by a little to give the stranger a little scare as a warning. The intruder stopped moving and Bernadette almost hit him with the frying pan, but stopped less than an inch away from her target. "Minimus it's you, I thought it was the invader."
"What invader?" Minimus looked as if he still hasn't recovered his natural color and it would probably take a while for it to come back. His voice was barely above a whisper as if he wanted to say something but couldn't get himself to speak up.
"Don't you hear the alarms? The lair is under attack!" Bernadette knew this wasn't the galactic guardians; a different sounding alarm went off if the security system detected their presence. Even so, Atomic Betty had managed to sneak into Maximus' lair many times.
"Actually, there is no attack. You see, his evilness has something very important to do this morning," Minimus started explaining. As the sidekick told the story, Bernadette felt like hitting Maximus with her frying pan for setting all those alarms just so he wouldn't miss a show on TV.
At the same time as the alarms sounded, Maximus had woken up. He jumped out of bed, happy that it was finally time to watch that new episode. "Fifteen minutes!" He ran to the bathroom and five minutes later he had already changed his clothes, brushed his teeth, taken a sonic shower, and was sitting in front of the TV. "Good, I'm ten minutes early, just in case." He turned on the TV but it didn't work. The TV was on, but the screen remained black. Feeling the panic starting to grow, he desperately searched for the source of the problem. Every cable and wire was where it was supposed to be. He tried a different TV, but it didn't work. Apparently the lair couldn't catch the signal from the TV station. There could be a number of reasons for that, a strong electric space storm being the most usual possibility, but he refused to believe it. Yesterday on TV they said there wouldn't be any space storms for a while, so what could be messing up the signal?
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Sparky stumbled down the stairs and sat in the living room, staring at the TV. "Mahmoola, can I have some popcorn, please?" He was not moving from his place in front of the black screen of the TV and not taking his eyes off it.
"Eat your breakfast first and then you can have popcorn," Zulia gave Sparky a gigantic bowl of cereal and a very tall tower of pancakes with a large bucket of juice, made from a fruit that grew on Mars.
"Okay Mahmoola," as it was to be expected Sparkly had no objections to that and happily started eating the extra food. "This is the longest black screen commercial I've ever seen."
"That's not a commercial sweetie, the signal is out today." When he heard his mother's voice, Sparky nearly chocked. He stopped eating and stared at the black screen in surprise, before bursting into tears. "Aw Sparky don't cry," Zulia tried to calm him. "You can watch TV later."
