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"There's some reason for it, Major." Pucky was once more serious. "I don't have to
remind you. You know it as well as I. Standard procedure holds for this instance,
too."
"OK, Lieutenant," Koster agreed and took pains not to think badly about the
mousebeavers. "If you'd like to go to central control-robot Homunk is in charge
now. I'll be in my cabin if you need me."
He turned around and kept his face frozen as the door was again opened and shut
by ghostly hands. Regally he stepped into the hallway. He disappeared in the
direction of his cabin.
"We'll catch it yet," piped up Ooch enthusiastically and leaped onto one of the
beds. He was the only one of the mousebeavers except for Pucky and Iltu who had
mastered not only telekinetics but also telepathy. It was no wonder, then, that he
thought a lot of himself. "Is this our ship or not?"
"Maj. Koster is, after all's said and done, the commander. "Pucky tried to dampen
Ooch's enthusiasm. "We can't really complain."
"If you look at it realistically," chirped in a mousebeaver with striking curly hair
who was standing off to one side, "he's quite a rational individual, even though
he's a human being."
Pucky threw the speaker a devastating look. "That was an entirely superfluous
remark, Wullewull. Besides, it was stupid. Where would we be without the
Terranians, hm? Have you forgotten that they rescued us when our own home
planet was destroyed? Wasn't it they who brought us to Mars where we grew up?"
He cleared his throat. "You at least."
"I didn't mean it quite that way," said Wullewull ruefully.
Pucky was silent and regarded the little band.
Besides himself and Iltu, 10 mousebeavers-it was more than anyone alive could
bear. Ten half-grown mousebeavers perpetually ready to play practical jokes;
mischievous menaces born with telekinetic abilities. Worse yet: they insisted that
these abilities were primarily for play. On all possible and impossible occasions,
they 'played' at it. For the past few days they had put the EX-238 antigravitation
elevator out of order and had assumed for themselves the role of the gravitational
fields. Nobody had noticed a thing. Officers and crew were swept up or down as
usual, but now they were held only by the telekinetic powers of the mousebeavers.
Until Pucky caught onto it. The unlucky one was a fat technician who happened to
be in the elevator at the time. He fell the last two meters into the shaft, landing on
his hind end. Ten seconds later, the elevator was again functioning normally.
"Keep your hands off Biggy!" Ooch's shrill voice startled Pucky out of his
thoughts. He looked up. Wullewull had used the interval to waddle up to pretty
Biggy who was known by all to be Ooch's favourite. Since Ooch was the leader of
their colony on Mars, no one tried to win pretty Biggy's favours. No one except
Wullewull. He stood next to Biggy and stroked her fur.
"My paws should be no concern of yours," he shrilled back and flashed his one
incisor. No mousebeaver had more than one tooth.
Wullewull had not yet finished speaking when he was already pasted to the ceiling
of the great common cabin. Ooch held him there through telekinesis. Since
Wullewull was also genetically endowed with telekinetic powers, the contest
promised to prove interesting.
For this, Pucky decided, there was no time, however. "Stop it!" he hollered at
Ooch, who shrank back immediately.
Wullewull fell from the ceiling and landed safely on all fours. Luckily just beside