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The Pikaponian

from Diaries of a Space Cadet by An Hobbes

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Just a pikaponian never to see his home again. The stars outshine his lonliness. Adventure brings his only bliss. It happened on accident back on that day I met a man who wanted to trade a spaceship in a bottle for a portion of my gundam models. Fast forward back to the lab I displayed my new prize on the table with pride. Then I turned around and accidentally knocked the bottle on the ground and I could tell by the sound that it had shattered but when I turned back around, to my suprise, the ship was life sized. The shuttle doors opened, it all looked so inviting I had to take her for a ride. I hopped in the cockpit and the controls straight up looked like a neo geo pocket. Must have hit the overdrive button by mistake cause seconds later I found myself in outerspace like something straight out of farscape. I saw a frog piloting a spacefighter accompanied by a fox. Then alarms starting ringing. I had to react quickly. Then a cable came out of the console and it felt like it bit me. Suddenly I could see everything the ship saw and a voice started speaking in my head and said "No time for introductions you need to take a sharp left!" I grabbed the controls with movement so fluid we flew through the air like we were music. For a second I thought I'd lose it but then we leveled out and I could see a planet of blues and greens like they were tattoos. There were four moons of different colors; each a different size than the other. Even though I didn't have a camera it was one of those "a picture you'd never forget" type of moments and I knew on this day my life had changed forever; but I didn't know it would mean I wouldn't ever see the earth again. Yet I digress cause right now I'm a spacefighter pilot focused on survival. I hid my ship behind an asteroid trying not to make a scene when the next thing I know we're being pulled in by a tractor beam. There on the meet and greet was a nasty crew of demons. I mean their leader was looking kinda skeksi with her vultures neck. The ship said "Chill, combined you and I we've got abilities. I'm gonna hack the system then we're taking over. You feelin me?" "Say word", I replied "you know I'm down to rock it". Then we took down the whole crew and I didn't even have to leave the cockpit. The nasties taken care of, I thanked the ship for the pair up cause we've become that team to be scared of he said "according to the flight manifest the original crew is still alive and on a lower level in a holding cell." Before we showed up this ship must have gone through hell so we set free the crew and stayed to offer our help and thats how it happened...out of their gratitude I was named the irresponsible Captain Hobbes.

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from Diaries of a Space Cadet, released July 10, 2012
Produced by Sassoon
Mixed and Mastered by Matthew Ihrig

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Hobbes works a day job as a super hero in the city of Cubicle Hell. Armed with a degree in Philosophy he spends his day doing absolutely nothing related to his field of study. However, by night (and some evenings) he becomes An Hobbes- emcee extraordinaire, cosmonaut, philosopher and all around nerdy everyman who makes love to your ears with his quick lipped rhymes. ... more

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