Zathura: A Space Adventure Page #3

Hurry up, Danny!

The card!

What did the card say?!

"You pass too close to Tsouris-3!

Enter gravity field!"

Danny!

Danny!

Walter!

What?

What happened?

It's Lisa.

Is she okay?

Walter, do you think she's okay?

I guess. She's still in one piece.

What happened to the robot?

What are you doing?

I think it's dead.

Get up here.

Do you think the door will hold the robot?

No.

Great.

Yeah, once he fixes himself,

we're screwed.

He's fixing himself?

How should I know?

Looks about right.

You think she's okay?

I don't wanna be here

when she wakes up.

Where are you going?

Taking my turn.

Are you crazy?

That thing's messed up!

"You're promoted to fleet admiral.

Move ahead four spaces."

Okay, your turn.

I'm not playing!

- What are you doing?

- Making mac and cheese.

There's no water, dummy,

we're in outer space.

Why are you doing that?

Because I'm hungry and I know

you're not gonna take care of me.

Don't bother, the gas won't work.

Any more advice?

You've gotta turn it up more.

Can we at least talk about this?

There's nothing to talk about,

I'm not going.

Danny, I just wanna go home,

and I can't unless you play.

Don't you wanna get home?

What's so great

about home, anyway?

What do you mean? Everything

was great until you came along.

See? You treat me

like everything's my fault!

You're the one who pushed the button

in the first place!

I just wanted to play

a game with you, Walter.

Fine, what do you want?

I want you not to be mean to me,

not ignore me, and I want you to treat me

like your brother.

- Fine.

- Do we have an understanding?

Yeah.

Wasn't that easy?

Six.

"You are visited by Zorgons."

What's a Zorgon?

I don't think it's bad. Just visitors.

Zorgons!

Maybe they're friendly.

They're not friendly!

The fireplace! Hide in the fireplace!

Run!

Told you I didn't wanna go!

You're the one who made me spin!

There's nothing else we could do!

- Are you crazy?!

- Got any better ideas?

"Reprogram"?

What the heck does that mean?!

How am I supposed to know?!

Reprogram!

It didn't work!

We'll figure it out later.

Go.

- No.

- Go.

- No!

- Go!

"Rest on standing AstroTurf."

- What?

- Rest on standing AstroTurf.

- Let me read it.

- No, I know how to read.

- I know how to read!

- Let me read it!

God!

"Rescue stranded astronaut."

What stranded astronaut?

I guess there's gonna be some

stranded astronaut or some--

Did you lock the door?

I don't know.

Which one of you spun me?

- Who was it?

- Him.

Don't be so quick

to sell out your brother, kid.

He's all you got.

Looks like you got a pretty serious

Zorgon problem.

Yeah, what do we do?

- Hide.

- Hide?

They'll just explode

the whole house.

We're gonna hide the house.

Turn off all the lights

and electrical appliances.

- Me?

- Yes, you. Go. Do it.

Okay.

You. Come on,

kill that flame on the stove.

Okay.

Burning gas. That's probably what

brought them in the first place.

Okay. Now get the pilot light

on the furnace.

What's a pilot light?

In the basement.

Little blue flame under the big heater.

Blow it out like a candle. Like this:

Walter, the astronaut guy

is wrecking Dad's couch.

Come on.

That's Dad's nap couch.

You wanna help me

get this out of here?

Hit it.

Hit it.

- What's happening?

- Come on.

Take it.

Follow it.

Follow it.

There you go.

That's it.

Zorgons.

They're big, gnarly lizards.

Cold-blooded heatseekers.

And the tiniest spark of warmth

will bring them in like moths.

Flying all around the galaxy...

...looking for anything

they could find to burn up.

Why don't they just burn up

their own planet?

Oh, they already did.

That's not even the worst of it.

The real problem

is their ravenous appetite.

They never stop eating.

What do they eat?

- Meat.

- That's good.

Dude, you're meat.

Are you doing this

to keep Zorgons away?

Nope.

I'm doing this because I've been

eating paste out of a tube for 15 years.

- This totally sucks.

- Why?

He's eating all our food.

So? Lupe just went shopping.

How long do you think

we're gonna be out here?

It could be weeks. Then what?

I don't know.

What about air? How long is it gonna

last before he breathes it all up?

- I guess.

- I'm gonna say something.

No, wait. Walter. Walter.

Dude, that's our food.

Yep. And you're running low

on supplies.

Yeah, I know. You're eating it all.

Well, as I recall, the card said,

"Rescue stranded astronaut."

Looks to me like I'm the only one

that's doing any rescuing...

...so I don't think a couple Dagwood

sandwiches is too much to ask for.

Dog, you're eating it all.

I passed through a time sphincter

to get here.

You realize how difficult that is?

What's a time sphincter?

A wormhole, about yay big:

You squeeze through there...

...and tell me you're not

hungry enough to eat a carpet shark.

Sounds like you got a long trip

ahead of you.

Oh, you telling me to leave?

Well, I mean, once you get

finished eating, yeah.

Oh, I hate to break it to you,

but that's not your call.

He spun me, so it's up to him.

Well, I'm fleet admiral,

and I'm telling you to hit the road.

I apologize, sir. I didn't... I didn't

realize you were a fleet admiral.

In fact, I...

I'm a fleet admiral too.

It's just a card, bug nuts.

Well, he wants you to leave too.

That true, Danny?

You want me to split?

- Of course he does.

- Hey, mouthpiece...

...let him answer, all right?

I need to hear it from the big guy.

Well...

Danny, tell him

you want him to leave.

Well, he did help out a little.

Help? He burned our couch

and now he's eating all our food.

You call that helping?

You know what?

I'm just gonna go.

I feel like a third wheel anyways.

I mean, you guys are such a tight,

unified team here.

You're doing great too. I gotta tell you,

the house looks fantastic.

So I'll just get out of your hair...

...and let you guys whomp

some more Zorgon butt without me.

Wait.

Whose brother are you,

his or mine?

You can stay.

Orders are orders.

Come on, admiral, your turn.

- I'm sorry.

- Shut up.

I think he can help.

Okay. Why haven't

you guys started yet?

We're waiting for you.

Okay, well, I'm here,

so turn that clockwise...

- Yeah, I know how to play the game.

- Okay.

Hang on a second.

Something's wrong.

What?

I was ahead of you.

Somebody must have kicked the board?

No, nobody kicked the board.

- You cheated!

- No, I didn't!

You cheated!

I knew you were gonna cheat!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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