Feg extended his long barbed tongue and used it like a finger to operate the communications network BEEP BEEP Feg’s saliva activated the buttons He retracted his tongue Now he could speak Attention all ships Feg said Form attack positions The swarm of alien vessels spread out to create a ring around Earth The ships activated their weapons The Mullooskans were ready to take what they wanted They were ready for a fight Broadcast our demand Queen Bloorga said to Feg Yes Your Glory the captain replied He pressed another button Attention all beings on the planet below Surrender your water and minerals or face destruction
The statement was short and simple Feg had said it a hundred times to a hundred worlds All of them had obeyed Feg was sure that this planet would not be any different than the others But he was wrong WOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH A streak of red and white flew out of the planet’s atmosphere Feg watched it on the monitors At first he thought the object was a missile The foolish inhabitants are firing a weapon Feg exclaimed in surprise Gunners destroy it KZAAAAP KZAAAP Multiple energy beams streaked toward the flying target The object dodged the beams What is that Feg wondered aloud
He stretched his eyestalks to look at the monitor more closely The shape zoomed toward the command ship Now Feg could see that the object was not a missile but a being in a white spacesuit It had a head two arms and two legs Feg was familiar with beings like this The Mullooskan fleet had conquered many of their worlds Attention alien ships a voice said over the communications network My name is Superman and I protect this planet Leave in peace Feg realized that the message was coming from the being in the white suit The words did not please Queen Bloorga This planet dares to oppose me she shouted Send out the troops Superman floated in space outside the ship He watched a huge hatch open in the hull of the alien vessel
