Jazz looked up from his book (The three Jackrabbit tears) as the view screen bleeped on. Funny, not many of his aquaintences knew the view screen combination for this home away from home, that he went to whenever the (Outdated but lovable) castle got a little too much for him. He activated visual communication and sat down in the special view screen seat. Kon-tar's face appeared on the monitor, looking mad. Jazz was startled. "Kon-tar! Since when do you have the nerve to call here, after you almost killed me and my siblings?"



"Jazz, I've told you a million times that was an accident!"



"Oh, yeah, surrrrre. You "accidentally" pressed the button that locked the safe while we were in it!"



"I'll have you know, Jazz, that while you and your harey friends were looking for the Harelactic Gem, I was fighting off some of those robots you had had such trouble with!"



"Kon-tar, there wasn't a sound! Why, when Lori glanced up, you were just sitting there!"



"So Lori mis-saw, and you were too busy searching to allow the outside worlds to penetrate your concentration! Can we PLEASE get to what I called you about, or should I just disconnect and LET some worlds be destroyed?!?"



"All right, I'll let that be by-gones... for now. So what's this about a world destroyer?"



"A pilot I hired to find Frangelite on Tubelectric came back to me with his personal computer destroyed, and reported that Sparks and *moving* Electrical Walls had attacked him!"



"Impossible. Spaz and I destroyed them all."



"I know that! I came to the logical conclusion, as you would have, if you weren't always so cursed angry at me for an accident!, that Devan had made more of them!"



"Enough. I'll look into it, but I do not belive this pilot of yours. The walls probably caved in and he imagined the things from shock or something. I'll ask a phsycharitrist when I get back to Castle Carrotus." Jazz disconnected, and Kon-tar as left glaring at the view screen.



Cosair walked angrily towards the nearest bar. He had been paid for his trip to Tubelectric, at least, and he did not feel like setting it aside for an acid rainy day. He walked in the door, and sat down on a stool. "One hard liquor, and make it snappy." Soon, he was in no state to remember what he said, which was just as well.



Spaz sat playing Poker with Lori, who had quite a stack of inter-galaxian credits compared to Spaz's rapidly diminsihed one. Spaz folded, and looked up at Lori. "I don't mind the losing, but could we please play something else besides Five Card Draw? My fur simmers for the familiar feeling of Baseball, or at least Low Chicago."



"You know I am no good at Poker, except Five Card Draw, and you wouldn't want your sister to lose all her money, would you?"



"No, but I wouldn't want the same to happen to me, either. What do you want all this money for, anyway?"



"I've told you several times, the taxes on my mini-fighter are coming up again."



"Coolness!" said Spaz, for an instant reverting to his earlier, crazier self. "Can I help pay?"



"You already are, Spaz." Lori finished dealing the fice cards, and studier her hand. Spaz put in a credit, and Lori raised him five. "Spaz, when are you going to settle down? Being a space hero for hire isn't exactly fashionable anymore. I know you want to be like Jazz, but he got married to Eva and stopped. And what's the fun of getting a huge pile of rocks?" she asked, gesturing towards the back of the room, where the ceiling had had to have been raised for all the rocks to fit.



"You wouldn't understand, sis. And besides. Today, a rock. Tomorrow, a... dare I say it? A pizzaria named after me!"



Lori scopped up the pot and passed the deck to Spaz. "Cut." He did, and she raised her hand. "What's so special about having a pizzaria named after you, anyway?"



"They would probably give me free pizza!"



Before Lori could think of something to say to that, Jazz walked in the door. "You'll have to postpone the poker tournament, I checked out Kon-tar's story."



"And?"



"And it isn't completly wild. A sattelite near Tubelectric was brought down recently, and the cameras showed evidence of electrcity in use and life before they broke. Get your space togs, we're off to Industrius."



Spaz dropped his cards in a waste compactor and jumped up. "Coolness! I've always wanted to see Industrius. But why there? You said Tubelectric."



"Because Industrius is where Kon-tar and Cosair are."



"Oh, I see. Let's go then."



"Sounds good. I already left a message on the castle answering machine saying we'd be away and to pay the taxes on Lori's mini-fighter when they came around."



The three rabbits got into the Jazz 1.24 and blasted off to Tubelectric, a new adventure brewing.