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Soon afterwards she was again in the sealed room wearing her special outfit, as well as her spacewalking equipment, which now included a full spacesuit. Now she could safely enter their ship and stand a greater chance of holding her ground, should she discover any insincerity from the Space Force members from Saturn. She stepped out of Wildstar and watched the airlock closing again. She soon found that she could control her movement by activating the thrust boots and pointing her feet away from the direction in which she wished to go. She reached the cruiser's airlock and entered the other spaceship through its sealed room. Wendell had stayed behind in Wildstar. He was over the moon at the seemingly endless supply of scientific adventures he was having with the relative giantess Ann O’Malley.

 

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A conversation, using Butler One as an interpreter from Wildstar, provided Ann with a description of the space bandits. They had basically human appearances, except that their hands each had four fingers and two thumbs. There was a thumb at the end of the fingers and another thumb at the other end. They had shapeless heads with dark blue skin, with no eyes, mouth, nose or ears, but apparently they could absorb food and water into their heads and bodies like a sponge, and their sight and hearing were compatible with the corresponding attributes of earthlings.

"We'll stop them, Butler One," said Ann, "Tell these Space Force people to make me their avenger. We will track those space bandits on earth and then capture them all. They may have planned to escape Space Force, but they could not have anticipated the likelihood of meeting an earthling or two with some special powers on this their latest choice of target planets. We will just have to see where the space bandits attack first."

"I think I would know," said Arella.

"You?" said Ann.

"Yes. I dreamt of an attack on London, last week, an attack by dark blue skinned people with shapeless heads."

"I would believe that," said Ann.

The two spaceships managed to enter the earth's atmosphere and land on the outskirts of London. Ann arranged for a triple contact communication link to be created and held between herself, Wildstar and the Space Force members, so that she could use Butler One as a means of communicating continuously with the team from Saturn.

"We were not all born on Saturn, but we all live there now," explained one of them.

Ann and the others soon noticed a police force fighting a losing battle against the swift nimble visitors from outer space. Arella stayed inside Wildstar with Butler One to accompany her, while Ann joined the Space Force team in pursuing the bandits either on foot or by flight. Ann noticed an unusual dark pink cloud floating through the city of London.

For the moment she chose to ignore the cloud. One of the Space Force heroes managed to shoot small green energy balls from his hands, as they were created by his unique body radiation. They struck the bandits' guns with precision aiming, knocking the guns far out of reach of the space bandits.

"Good," thought Ann, "Now that he's disarmed the bandits, we can finish them off by hand, or by exolimb in my case."

Using her anti-gravity triangles, Ann flew at the bandits, using the force of her movement and the power of her exolimbs to knock them over three at a time. Only four bandits had escaped to their own cruiser, and were suddenly invisible, but so was Ann, and so was everything in London. It did not happen instantaneously. So hopefully the cars would have a chance to stop. The drivers would realize that it would be far too dangerous to continue driving an invisible car with one's invisible body.

The space bandits sent a message to the Space Force team's communicators, and Butler One translated it for Ann.

"So they plan to keep the city invisible using that cloud until and unless we let them escape," said Ann, "Well use your sound and homing sensors to guide me towards Wildstar, and we will see what we can do about that."

 

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