After being in the car for several hours, Shadow, Captain Cattitude, Baudelaire, and Phoebe made it to Captain Cattitude’s spaceship located at Lake Merced. Baudelaire woke Shadow up from her deep sleep “We are here, Shadow,” said Baudelaire as he shook Shadow awake. “Oh, ok,” shadow replied yawning out her response. “Captain Cattitude we need to hide this car. Can you do that?” said Baudelaire. “Yes, I can put an invisible shield on the car once we get to the spaceship.” Let me step outside and make sure no one is around,” said Captain Cattitude “You think people will be around at 3:30 AM?” said Phoebe sarcastically. “Yes, there may be people around at this time. I don’t want to take any chances,” replied Captain Cattitude in a matter of fact way.

Captain Cattitude stepped out of the car and headed toward a forest of trees in a short distance. “What is he doing?” said Phoebe. “I believe he is retrieving his spaceship out of its hiding place,” said Baudelaire. “Yes, he sent it up into orbit using stealth blocking technology so it could not be picked up on radar,” said Shadow as she stepped out of the car heading toward the forest. All of a sudden, a bright light lit up the forest and a loud roar was heard. Shadow ran toward the forest. In a clearing was Captain Cattidude standing by his spaceship. “Hurry, get the others. We need to get out of here quickly before someone sees us,” said Captain Cattitude to a running Shadow now heading back to the car.

“Everyone get out of the car and follow me,” said shadow upon reaching the car. Everyone got out of the car and began to follow Shadow to the spaceship. When they arrived at the clearing, they saw Captain Cattitude standing by an opened door in the spaceship where a ramp led to the inside of the ship. “Quickly get on board the spaceship. We must leave now,” said Captain Cattitude pointing to the opening in the spaceship. Shadow went first, the others stood and looked somewhat afraid to get on board the spaceship. “Come on,” yelled Shadow as she scurried to the opening in the spaceship. “We don’t have time to waste.” Phoebe made the first step toward the spaceship and the others followed. Once everyone was inside the spaceship, Captain Cattitude boarded. “Everyone follow me,” said Captain Cattitude to the group. “We must get you strapped in before I can take off,” he said as he ran down the metal-coated corridor to the front of the spaceship. Everyone came up behind him and began to run as he was. After running what seemed to be in a circle, they came upon the front of the spaceship. In front of them were twelve seats and a vast amount of blinking colored lights from a huge console in the front of the spaceship. In front of the console was a single large seat from which the captain could command the spaceship. “Please take a seat and stay still. The chairs will automatically strap you in once we start take-off,” said Captain Cattitude.

Captain Cattitude took a seat in the console chair. A crystal clear screen seemed to appear in mid-air in front of him. He placed his hands on the screen and began to manipulate it. The spaceship made a whirling sound as its engines came to life. The seats were everyone sat began to vibrate violently. Pheobe wet herself as her fear began to escalate at the thought of flying into space. Shadow dug her claws into the arm wrest trying not to show the others she was afraid. Baudelaire made a low whimpering noise as the spaceship began to leave the ground.

“Is everyone ok,” asked Captain Cattitude. Everyone nodded their head yes even though they did not feel safe. “The initial take-off is kind of rough but once we get into orbit, things will calm down and we should have a smooth journey from there. “I need to plot our navigation. Where exactly are we going Baudelaire?” said Captain Cattitude. “We are going to the swiss alps. I have the coordinates written down,” said Baudelaire. “I’ll come and get them from you, so I can plug them into the navigation system. Captain Cattidue unstrapped himself reached his right arm forward and made hand gestures on the screen as he put the ship on auto-pilot and made his way to Baudelaire. “Is that safe for you to leave the console like that?” said a shaken Baudelaire. “Yes, it’s safe. I put the spaceship in auto-pilot mode,” said Captain Catitude as he reached for the paper in Baudelaire’s shaking hand. “Thank you I will plug these coordinate in, and we will be on our way to your safe house,” said Captain Cattidude as he headed back to the console.

Captain Cattitude raised his hands to the floating screen in front of him. He punched some buttons and moved screens to the left with his hand until he came to the navigation pane. He punched the coordinates into the navigation system. There was minor movement by the spaceship as he re-adjusted the navigation to the safe house. “Looks like we are going to the Swiss Alps. Is that correct Baudelaire?” said Captain Cattitude from his command chair. “Yes, that is correct. How long will it take?” said Baudelaire. “My calculations have us arriving in ten minutes. “Wow, that fast?” said Baudelaire. “Yes, that fast,” said Captain Cattitude. “Did you remember to hide the car?” said Baudelaire. “Yes, I hid it before we took off,” said Captain Catitude…