CHAPTER ONE YUCK The answer is no Rocky said Captain Krill as the spaceship Tunafish cruised through space They were currently in Section F of the universe going around three hundred thousand light years an hour You can't enter the Superchase Space Race this year
That's what you said last year Captain complained Rocky Waddle And the year before And the year before that The Superchase Space Race is the most dangerous race in the universe said Captain Krill looking down at his pilot As an emperor penguin the captain stood head and flippers above the rest of his crew Spaceships get smashed to bits every year We can't risk losing the Tunafish that way She's the only spaceship we've got
Splash lifted his inventor's goggles as he joined the conversation And the Emperor of Sossij wins every year anyway doesn't he he said Oil and grime streaked his face hiding his orange ear patches I don't know why anyone else bothers But began Rocky Make like a sardine and can it Rocky said Fuzz Allgrin He folded his little blue penguin flippers across his even littler blue penguin tummy When Captain Krill says no he means no Thank you Fuzz said Captain Krill Rocky slid off his pilot's chair and glared at the other Space Penguins He flicked his long yellow eyebrows
