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"By the stars, you're right!" yelled Connel. "It's Corbett!" Astro jumped up and yelled, "Tom! Tom! You big space-brained jerk! It's me, Astro!" Behind the corner of a house, Tom peered cautiously around the edge and saw the big cadet scramble over the tangle of barbed wire with Connel right behind him.
"Major Connel to Manning and Astro, come in!" called Connel. He waited for a moment and then repeated. "Manning Astro, come in! By the rings of Saturn, come in!" There was the loud roar of an approaching jet boat. Shinny guided the ship into the Polaris with a quick violent blast of the braking rockets. The noise was deafening. "Belay that noise, you blasted space-brained idiot!" roared Connel.
Tom flipped a switch on the board and set the ship on automatic flight. Then, turning to the teleceiver, he switched the set on. "Lady Venus to Polaris " said Tom, "come in, Polaris come in!" " ... Strong here on the Polaris!" the officer's voice crackled over the speaker. "By the rings of Saturn, I should log you three space-brained idiots for everything in the book!"
"Cadet Higgins, I want you to know I have taken all the blasted space-brained antics I'm going to take from you," said Connel quietly. "Yes, sir," replied Alfie blandly.
"I'm getting the identification request from the station, sir. Shall I answer her?" asked Roger over the intercom. "Of course, you space-brained idiot, and make it fast!" exploded Connel. "What do you want to do? Get us blasted out of space?" "Yes, sir!" replied Roger. "Right away, sir!" Tom kept his eyes on the teleceiver screen above his head.
"By the craters of Luna," he roared good-naturedly, "you three space-brained idiots had me scared! I thought you would really let go with that mortar!" Tom and Roger grinned, relieved to find the spaceman unhurt, while Astro looked off at the disappearing fleet of ships. "What's happened, sir?" asked Tom. "What's it all about?" "Haven't time to explain now," said Connel.
"Aw, go blast your jets, you space-brained jerks!" snorted Winters. He turned back toward the hatch, but there was noticeably less swagger to his walk. The three cadets smiled at each other and followed him into the main body of the ship. While the Polaris was the command ship of the fleet, the nerve center of the entire operation, it was still hardly more than a prison ship for the cadets.
"We knew you would come, sir," said Tom, "but we didn't have enough water to wait for you and we had to leave." "Boys," said Strong slowly, "I've had a lot of wonderful things happen to me in the Solar Guard. But I have to confess that seeing you three space-brained idiots clinging to that raft, ready to eat a raw fish well, that was just about the happiest moment of my life."
Astro had applied emergency power to his reactors, sending the Polaris hurtling back into the safety of space. "By the rings of Saturn," bawled Sykes, after he had adjusted to the sudden acceleration, "I'll have that space-brained idiot court-martialed for this!" "It's not his fault, Professor," said Hardy, getting to his feet again.
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