Part 3: Sam and Emma Defenders of Earth

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They walked along well lit hallways. The floor rose and fell and the hallways bore left and right as if they were burrowed into the ground. Every few meters they passed a shaft of light from the surface. The walls were paneled in a rich wood with brass rails running down each corridor they passed. Many of the doors had copper plates with figures on them.
Sam ran his fingers over the bumps and textures as they passed.

Soon the hallway opened into a large room.

"You could play basketball in here!" Sam yelled. His echo returned back from the other wall.

"Cool!" says Sam.

"Cool!" says echo.

"Ha!" Sam laughs.

"Ha!" echo laughs also.

An enormous table is set on hte right side of the large room. Before the table is a large wooden floor.

The Ambassador beckons then to the table, and as they are seated several spiders begin to enter the room. Some are carrying large trays and others are draped in scarves and jewels.
As the trays are being set on the table, the costumed spiders begin to dance. Emma is amazed at how graceful the huge insects are, and how complex their dance is. She steps to the edge of the dance floor and starts rocking to the music. Soon a spider stops in front of her and bows low, tapping the floor.

Emma begins tapping the same rythym. The spider leads her in to the dance floor. Emma twirls and jumps and pirouettes, til she is full of giggles.

When the music stops, all the spiders begin tapping their approval. The leader of the spider dance troupe puts a hairy arm on her shoulder and proclaims, "Who knew such beautiful dancing could be done on only two legs? I shall have to create a dance in your honor.".

Emma smiled and blushed. She thanked the dancers and the Ambassador.
As she sat down and looked at Sam she realized he had a six inch grub hanging out of his mouth. Stunned, she looked at the table. It was crawling with worms, grubs, larvae and slime covered eggs.

Speechless she turned to Sam who said, "The eyes are a little bitter, but the rest is like beef flavored marshmallows."

Emma's stomach knotted it self up tightly. She gulped loudly and reminded Sam not to talk with his mouth full.

"I'm just so excited. Permission to see what a bug tastes like. Awesome!"

Sam began swatting and gorging on some large ants while stabbing up red and orange caterpillars with his free hand.

Emma was sure she was as green as the slime covered eggs. She knew though, that she represented Earth and must be as gracious a guest as she could be. She picked out some critters that looked like purple shrimp and was glad to find that they were just like tapioca inside. She was even more glad to see that no one else was eating the heads either.

While Sam ate everything he could catch, and stuck a few slow movers in his pockets, Emma managed to fill up on enough non-wiggly items, that did not stare at her, to be almost full. She was happy that she had a little room left when dessert arrived. It was cold and sweet like ice-cream, but it was blue, and clear like honey. Sheee-Sheee called it 'moon water'.

When the feast was over Sam pushed his plates away and crawled up on the table to lay down. His belly stood in the air and was hardly contained under his little suit of armor. Click-click-tock began to tickle him and after falling to the floor laughing they chased each other around the room and off down the hall.

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Part 2:Sam and Emma, Defenders of Earth

     The spiders were staring at Sam and Emma, mandibles clicking. Finally Sam lowered his gun and said, "I aint afraid of spiders. Besides they're wearing ties."

     Emma tried to  look past all those glassy black eyes. Sam was right. The one in front had a country tie like Colonel Sanders. They all had something around their necks. The one on the right of the lead spider was smaller than the others and had rose colored hairs on the joints of her legs. Emma supposed this was a 'her', because she had a beautiful pink and tan scarf. The spider to the left had a patch of orange ruffles from his neck to the back of his abdomen.

      The lead spider raised a front leg and squeezed the silver clasp of his bolo tie. A blue light appeared on the front and in perfect English, she heard, "Hello and welcome to Rula Vala III. I am Ambassador Sheee-Sheee." The Ambassador said his name in two hisses; "Sheee-Sheee".

     The Ambassador waved three of his legs toward the girl spider on his right, "This is my daughter 'click-click-tock'.

     Sam imitated her name by tapping his little gauntlet against the breast plate of his armor. The girl made a giggly kind of wheezing noise. Sam raised the face plate on his helmet and smiled.

     The spider with orange ruffles handed the Ambassador a grape sized crystal. When the Ambassador held it in front of Sam and Emma, they could see a small lizard frozen inside the green rock.

     "This is a dragon seed. Mind where you plant him and you mustn't water it to much; they are desert creatures."

     Sam reached first and gaped at the gift, "Wow!".

     Emma felt very self conscious about her small clay swan. She considered not giving it to the Matawans. She knew that it would be bad manners not to give a gift in return, so she held the swan out to the Ambassador.

     Emma could not contain a fearful grimace, as two huge spider legs with bristles, reached down and took the small figurine.

     Ambassador Sheee-Sheee turned it left and right and asked if it was a statue of an Earth creature.

     Emma, embarrassed, said, "Yes, it is a swan. I made it this afternoon."

     The Ambassador and his daughter gasped. "You made this yourself, just for us? Thank you so much, Emma of Earth. We are humbled that you would give of yourself in this way." Click-click-tock began prancing on all eight legs. Her father handed the swan to her and she began tracing the smooth curves of it's wings.

     Sam reached into his back pack to pull out a great big bag of cotton candy. He tore off a fistful and held it in front of the Ambassador.

     "I didn't make this, but its my favorite carnival candy to eat.

     The Ambassador leaned forward and delicately took the little cloud of sugar between his great mandibles.

     "This is delicious, Sam of Earth. It is as sweet as nectar, but looks like our webs. Thank you."

     "Your welcome. I can make loads more." and Sam handed some to click-click-tock.

     Sam and Emma followed the Ambassador below ground.

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Sam and Emma; Defenders of Earth

"Are we there yet?" 10 year old Emma asked the computer.

"No." said the computer flatly.

This answer always irritated Emma. She raised her voice, "I mean, wheeeen are we going to get there?"

"We will arrive at the Matawan colony on Ruta Vala III at 4 o'clock twenty-three minutes and thirty-nine seconds." Responded the computer.

Sam chimed in from the galley, " So lets eat!"

Emma crossed the bridge into the galley. There was room enough for eight at the table, but Sam and his lunch occupied three places on the end. He could eat like an adult, even though he was six.

Sam had gotten into the crackers and cheese they had brought. He also had been trying to make Earth style food with the 'Electric Cook' on this alien ship.

It could reproduce peanut butter and jam, however it couldn't make bread. The "Food Box" as Sam called it, would weave coasters out of a kind of fiber that tasted like wheat bread and was as dry and brittle as instant noodles. This never bothered Sam. Emma asked the 'Food Box' for a hotdog with ketchup, "No bun."

Emma and Sam loved going places on the ship. Despite the odd food, the ship never failed to carry them somewhere exciting.

Today they were going to visit the Matawans. The computer new very little about this alien race. They never allowed outsiders to their world. Now the Matawans had begun colonizing nearby worlds and asking to meet their neighbors.

Emma enjoyed making friends from many different planets. Some had become close and Emma wrote to them often.

Sam was happiest on the go. He didn't seem to care where they were headed; he wanted to see it.

Emma liked to bring gifts when she visited new aliens, but very little was known about the Matawans, so it was difficult to pick out something she knew they would like.

"Give 'em candy." Sam said, "Everyone likes candy."

"Yeah, but what if they don't have any mouths?" Emma countered.

"Well, get them a candy they can slurp in case they have proboskis." Sam said slurping.

Emma corrected, "You mean, proboscis."

"Not if it's more than one." said Sam.

Emma gave a heavy sigh. Sam could help and tease at the same time.

Since Matawans might live on sunlight instead of marshmallows; Emma decided to make some art.

Sam was teasing again, but he was right when he said she should make something bumpy, "In case they're color blind."

In no time at all she had made a swan out of clay and painted it.

Sam decided to bring a gift as well. He was going to bring cotton candy. "If they have proboskis we'll just get it wet. "He explained.

Soon the ship was in orbit. As always the computer checked the air to  make sure they could breathe and then arranged a pod to drop Sam and Emma to the surface. The pods were small. All they did was go up or down, like an elevator. There were four seats in the pod with belts and passengers rode back to back facing out through the windows.

Emma could barely keep Sam in his belt, he loved looking over the edge as they went down.

Ruta Vala III was emerald green from space and as Sam and Emma descended they expected to see lush dense jungle hills or forest mountains. Instead the horizon was just as straight and green when they landed as when they left the ship. They stepped out of the pod onto beautiful green grass. It looked like a soccer field for as far as they could see. All the way to the clouds, in fact. The sun stood high in the sky and shone brightly.

This spot is where they were to meet the Matawans; how come there were no buildings?

Sam ran into the pod and put on a set of armor the ship had made him. He handed Emma a walkie-talkie and checked the gummyballs in his gun. The gummyballs did not hurt. When you get hit with one it becomes sticky and spongy like bread dough. They could stick a grown up to the ground.

Emma admonished, "Put that away Sam, we were invited."

"Yeah, for dinner. Maybe were the dinner!" Sam retorted.

Suddenly the ground on their right peeled back revealing a swarm of spiders. Not house spiders, not tarantula size spiders, but man size spiders. Emma and Sam were surrounded.

"Eeeeek!" Emma shouted. "Sam shoot them!"

Sam had his gummyball gun raised, but he didn't move a muscle. The spiders were staring at Sam and Emma, mandibles clicking.

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