Dragon Father flew Bonny’s Revenge to a new planet that appeared, as usual, out of nowhere.
“Here we go,” he said, as he parked Bonny’s Revenge. Bonny’s Revenge came to rest on the landing pad of a roof of a building that seemed to be constructed entirely of circuits.
All the structures on the planet, in fact, from buildings to mountains, were covered in circuits. I could not see sand or stone anywhere.
Dragon Father and Dragon Little descended the rope ladder.
“Listen,” he told her. “The entire planet has been overtaken by an angry machine, a machine that wants to destroy all life on it.”
“We can beat it!” three-year-old Dragon Little exclaimed, raring for a fight.
“No, Joy, the one thing we can’t do is fight circuits, circuitry, computer viruses. Swords and lasers don’t work. But we’re here to help the only guy who can defeat it.”
Dragon Little looked around.
“Who?”
“Colonel Doug Widget of the Sanders Computer Corporation,” he pointed to the corner of the roof.
A man appeared there, a split second before he pointed to him. The man was roughly Dragon Father’s size, but he was wearing a soldier’s uniform half made of circuits. His face was filled with circuits.
But the man was cowering in the corner, hugging his knees.
“Colonel Widget,” Dragon Father said, “was injected with a serum that allows him to put a virus in the system. The virus can destroy the evil machine. You got it?”
She nodded, but it didn’t seem she completely understood.
“So we need him to win. But look at him…” he pointed at Colonel Widget. “He’s crying. He’s afraid.”
Indeed, the man was crying.
“You have to help him get ready to fight or the entire planet is lost! Okay?”
“Why don’t you do it?”
“I have to help the army. Go help him!” Dragon Father somersaulted into the air and landed on the deck of Bonny’s Revenge. “Good luck!” he waved at her and took off in Bonny’s Revenge.
Dragon Little looked at the crying colonel.
Tomorrow I will tell you what she did.
—Told by The Red Dragon