New Friends from Far Away

Mickey Mouse and his friends were excited about what they were about to do. Two years ago, Professor Ludwig Von Drake had drawn up plans to build a giant starship and have Mickey and his friends as the crew. The starship had recently been christened Disneystar and it was being launched into space today.

The crew consisted of Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Minnie's twin nieces, Millie and Melody, and Von Drake's robotic mouse drone, Toodles. Mickey and his friends along with Minnie's nieces were quarantined to get ready for launch so they would not catch germs before they put their space suits on. The white-room technicians helped them into their suits and then everyone put their helmets on.

"We are going to have a beautiful ride.", Mickey said to Clarabelle.

"I'm sure you will, Mickey.", she replied as Mickey latched his helmet.

Once everyone was ready, they followed illuminated arrows on the floor until they had boarded an elevator. The elevator took them up to a pressurized glass walkway that led to the main hatch on the side of the Disneystar. Once the pressure was equalized, the seven members walked proudly down the walkway with reporters and newspaper photographers clapping and cheering as they made their way to the ship. Once the hatch was sealed, Mickey and his friends were cleared to take off their space suits since the ship's interior was sterilized and free of germs. After changing out of their space suits and into their crew uniforms, they made their way to the cockpit where Toodles was already plugged into the main computer.

"Sixty seconds to takeoff. Access bridge retracted.", said Von Drake over the ship's intercom.

Mickey and his friends fastened their seatbelts and prepared to launch into space.

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50 seconds later...

Alarms began to blare outside as the ship's engines started powering up. When the engines fired off, the noise was so loud that Millie and Melody covered their ears. Once enough thrust had built up, the launch clamps opened up and the ship began to move upward from the pad. After the Disneystar had ascended far enough, Mickey and his friends took control and piloted the ship higher into the sky until they had cleared the atmosphere.

"We're in space.", Mickey said to Von Drake over radio.

"Well done, Mickey. I hope this test flight goes well for you. I wish you all good luck.", replied the Professor.

"Charge warp drive when ready.", Minnie said to Toodles.

"Warp drive charged and ready.", he replied.

"Engage!", said Mickey.

The warp engines fired off and the ship began flying through space at a powerful speed. Little did anyone know that their test flight was about to be jeopardized.