"Relax, Lemy..." said Rascal. "It's a tractor beam - and it's what all big ships use to pull in smaller ships."

Lemy was clearly concerned but not really worried. He gave up controlling the ship, which slowly drifted inwards into the TrainStar and docked in the landing bay of the huge ship.

"Wow" said one of the foxes. "This ship is super-huge!"

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Having left the Rainbow Planet, the remaining crew on
board the craft made preparations to reach the TrainStar,
which was SuperTrain's main spacecraft that moved from
one galaxy to another in search of animals from all kinds
of planets to rescue.

The reason behind the search was something that dated way back to
the time when Lemy & Rascal first met SuperTrain on the planet Martoc
over the rescue of two-tailed blue foxes.

So, both Lemy & Rascal knew exactly what they were looking for as they
scanned the asteroid field looking for signs of the huge ship. They had to
travel carefully however, because the whole space in front of them was
full of large asteriod chunks that could damage their ship again.

 

As they swerved round one of the asteroids, they received the shock of their lives - another huge craft skirted past them, barely missing them by metres.

"What was that!! said Lemy & Rascal together.
Scrambling to the opposite side of the craft, they were very surprised to see another ship just like theirs, heading towards the general direction from where they came. It was travelling at a tremendously faster speed and was apparently headed towards earth.

"Who could that have been?" asked Lemy in bewilderment.

"If I didn't know better, I'd say that it was SuperTrain's craft because it looks exactly like ours but only a lot bigger!" responded Rascal.

They were considering going after the huge craft that had passed them by when Ranger reminded them that the TrainStar was within range and that they should actually concentrate on getting there instead. Their craft headed in that direction and everyone onboard was thrilled by the fact that they would finally get to be inside SuperTrain's famous and mysterous ship that was shaped like a cube.

Using his navigational skills, Lemy piloted the craft closer to the huge ship when suddenly, a strange invisible force took over control of their entire craft.

The inside of the ship was like a very large town. There were smaller craft all around in neat rows

"Look at that", exclaimed Rascal to the other foxes on board. Those are fox-craft and I wonder if they're piloted by....foxes?

Everyone was too busy looking all around - there were driods, machines and a number of other foxes on board - all smartly dressed in orange, altogther there were some in different attire.

Although they knew that they weren't really expected on board the TrainStar, they didn't quite expect to be almost completely ignored either!

"How very strange!!" said Ranger in astonishment. "It looks as if they're expecting something to happen, and it has nothing to do with us whatsoever!"

Ranger was absolutely correct because moments later, the craft that had just passed them earlier, entered the TrainStar too, but by a different entry point. The animals of the TrainStar gathered as two familiar figures emerged from the craft.

Lemy, Rascal and the foxes from their own craft stood at a distance and watched everything.

SuperTrain and Alexander Fox emerged from the spacecraft that had passed them earlier on.

Both had cloaks and a somewhat similar form of dressing. Lemy & Rascal knew that Raiee and Lemu must also be on board the craft.

Before they could do anything however, one of the droids announced in a metallic voice, "Greetings SuperTrain and Alexander Fox...we welcome your return."

"And now..." continued the droid, "Please welcome the leader of the TrainStar..." A large figure emerged from within one of the many doors of the TrainStar.

Everyone turned their attention to the new figure who had just emerged. SuperTrain and Alexander Fox did the same and stood stifly to attention.

Lemy and Rascal were astonished.

"It's...it's...a HUMAN!!" said Lemy

Next: Part 4
 
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