Zathura: A Space Adventure Page #4

- "Cheater" is a strong word!

- I didn't cheat!

- You cheated!

- I didn't cheat!

- Guys, guys, please.

Bring it down, indoor voices.

Now, did you move the piece?

Maybe I moved the piece by an accident.

Okay. It was an accident.

How can you move a piece by accident?

It's stuck to the game!

That's impossible! You cheated!

No, no, no, let's not use that word.

- No, stop saying "cheated".

- I didn't cheat!

You cheated!

- Cheater!

- I didn't cheat!

Hey, hey, hey, come on. Okay?

Now, where did you move from?

I was right here.

No, you weren't! You were back there!

- Nuh-uh!

- Whoa.

Okay.

Okay. careful.

- God.

- Okay, it's fixed.

- You're such a baby.

- I'm not a baby.

- Slow down. Slow down.

- Yes, you are a baby!

- I'm not a baby!

- You're a baby!

Nobody is a baby here!

- I'm not a baby!

- You're a baby!

I'm not a baby!

Oh, jeez, it won't stop! Please!

Okay, let's play the game.

Fine.

It won't stop spinning.

- What's wrong with it?

- You broke it.

Oh, look, there's the card, see?

It fixed itself.

"Caught cheating. Automatic ejection."

- Does it mean me?

- Well, you did move the piece.

He's the one who cheated.

Walter!

Hang on, Walter!

I'll save you!

Help!

Wait a minute! I got an idea!

I'm gonna swing

this lamp up to you,

and you grab it,

and I'll pull you down!

I can't hang on any longer!

Don't worry, I'll get another lamp!

Stand back!

Walter?

Walter?

Oh, no.

You okay?

Are you okay?

Get away from me.

Sorry.

Don't talk to me till we get home.

That look cool from down here?

Because up there it was...

It was pretty intense.

My heart's pumping pretty good.

That was fun.

Can you just play so I can get the heck

out of here and get away from you?

- I told him I was sorry.

- Whatever.

Okay, you know what we need to do?

We need to get our heads right, okay?

Pull it together. As a team.

The three of us.

You're up, big man. Bring us home.

I got you, buddy. I promise.

- What's it say?

- He can't read.

"Lose map of galaxy.

Go back two spaces."

I'm freezing my ass off.

Forty degrees? Those savages.

Yes! Nine!

Good roll.

Good roll?

Nine's a great roll.

I meant great.

It's gold.

"Shooting star. Make a wish as it passes."

That's gotta be the best card

in the whole game!

I'm almost to the end! Look!

A few more and I win!

I hope you win.

I don't care who wins.

Because you never win at anything.

- Hey.

- What?!

That's why he cheats all the time,

'cause he can never win!

- No, I don't!

- Yeah, you do!

And you almost got me killed!

- It wasn't my fault!

- It's not your fault?

How is it not your fault?!

This is all your fault!

Everything's your fault!

- It's your fault Mom and Dad got divorced!

- Hey!

You suck!

Danny!

I get my wish now, don't I?

Yeah.

Don't do it.

Don't do what?

Don't wish what you're thinking.

You don't know what I'm thinking.

Yeah, well, I can tell it ain't good.

Listen. No matter how good an idea

seems like when you're angry...

...it never is. You gotta trust me

on this one, Walter.

What'd you wish for?

- I can't tell you.

- Tell me.

You know the rules about wishing.

If I told you, it won't--

Tell me what you wished for.

Get off me.

Danny.

Danny.

The card worked.

Yeah. It worked, congratulations.

We're stuck in space now forever.

Leave him alone.

What did you wish for?

- This.

- You wished for a football?

Signed by Brett Favre.

Why'd you wish for a football?

You could have just wished the game over.

You could have wished us out of here.

I was under a lot of pressure!

He was yelling at me!

Why were you yelling at him?

Okay, guys.

Here's the thing.

I've played this game before.

Okay? I played it

with my own brother 15 years ago.

- You're a player?

- Yeah. Just like you guys.

We were fighting a lot back then.

And when the game started,

it got even worse.

Every time we spun, we got madder

and madder at one another.

And then I landed on the star space.

The same one

that Walter just landed on.

Well, I was so mad at him,

that when the star passed...

...I made my wish.

What'd you wish for?

I wished that my brother

had never been born.

Oh, my God.

Soon as I did it, I felt horrible.

I thought, you know,

if I could spin again...

...maybe I... I could land on another

star space and... and wish him back.

But the game wouldn't let me...

...because it wasn't my turn.

Walter.

There are some games...

...you can't play alone.

So what do we do now?

We go back downstairs and

we finish this thing once and for all.

No more cheating.

No more arguing.

All you guys have to do

is spin a few more times.

I'll help you fight off whatever comes out.

Deal?

- Deal.

- Deal.

Is it getting hot in here?

You blew out the pilot light

on the furnace, right?

Stay put.

Zorgons.

My gerbil was in there.

This is bad.

This is very bad.

Why? We didn't get eaten.

Where did you leave the game?

In the living room.

Great.

The game's our only way home,

and now the Zorgons are burning it.

There is one thing we can do.

Waiting for an invitation?

Come on!

- Put your back into it!

- Come on!

Why are we doing this?

Walter?

You guys actually set the house on fire!

Lisa's back!

- Lisa's unfrozen!

- You're okay!

- You're okay, Lisa!

- Get off me!

Get off me!

Try and find the fire extinguisher!

- No, Lisa, wait!

- No, Lisa, no!

- Stop! Lisa, don't!

- The Zorgons are attracted to fire!

- Lisa, stop!

- No, Lisa, don't do it!

- No, Lisa, don't do that!

- We gotta keep the fire!

- The Zorgons are attracted to fire!

- Lisa, wait! No, Lisa, don't do it!

No, Lisa.

- Great.

- Now we'll never get the game back.

Okay. Don't worry. They're back.

- Who the hell are you?

- The astronaut.

From the game we're in.

Danny spun me.

What is that?!

What is that?!

What's going on?! Where are we?!

Somebody, please talk to me right now!

All right, they're arming the harpoons.

They're gonna board us.

- What's gonna board us?

- Guys, look alive.

- What's gonna board us?!

- The Zorgons!

- What's a Zorgon?

- They're lizard-men! They eat meat!

We're meat!

- Come on, you guys, let's hide downstairs!

- Okay, listen, when they dock...

...I'll sneak on the ship and

steal the game. You got it?

- Hang on.

- What?

- Did she say downstairs?

- Oh, no.

Hey, hey.

Just stay with us,

and everything will be okay.

I'll never leave you.

Move, move, move.

Go, go.

Okay. It's gotten

pretty serious out there.

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