Martya floated up and shown her light around and shouted down to Pazu,"We tore part of some kind iris loose, that's where that leak is from. What IS that blue goo? Don't all spaceships have blue goo in them? Some kind of goo?" Pazu glared up at her from the balcony and shouted,"HEY! MY star-ship is freaking GOO free! Keep looking for an emergency manual cut-off up there! Damn cheap human engineering!" 518 yelled up to Martya from the deck,"The goo is some kind of thermal transfer nano-stuff." Pazu looked down and made a squak sound and shouted,"What are you two doing? Circus act?" Snowflake said to Pazu, "Grab my hands and pull me up!" He squaked again, and shouted,"PULL YOU UP? I have hollow bones! You're some kind of super machine-life mega-woman, right? Jump up here! C'mon--Jump! Jump for it! I'll offer you my middle-finger! Pull it and release gas more noxious than this stink from the goo!" She growled,"Why are you trying so hard to anger me? The out-gassing of the MHD-Nano-coolant is offensive to all of us, but non-toxic to all of us. Even humans could breathe it for several hours before dying!" Pazu said casually,"Maybe YOU can turn your NOSE OFF, but the rest of us can't." Snowflake made a gagging sound, and said,"I can't! I'm a soft Machine-Life! The smell of rotten pumpkins having been raped by cleaning fluid and then beaten to death with a burning cinnamon stick is about to make me sick. I've never thrown up before, and do not want to start here!" 518 said,"Leap up or I'm dropping you hard if you vomit on me!" Pazu squaked some more and said, "I like you, machine-life female! You have a poetic way of expression!" A muffled scream came from a space-suited human woman, looking up at Martya, probing around in the crater in the ceiling of the cargo-bay. Martya looked down at her and waved. "HIYA! Where's the off handle at? I can't find it." Martya finished up scratching her butt while doing a slow roll in the air. 518 closed his eyes and suddenly wished he was elsewhere. He stifled a laugh and caused Snowflake to sway around. She jumped down and stifled a vomit reflex, gagging on a dry-heave. Pazu went around to the end of the balcony and leaned over to see around his star-fighter to see the woman. He said in a loud voice," BEHOLD, HUMAN! I am a SPACE ALIEN! I come in PEACE! TAKE ME TO YOUR COMMANDER!" 2nd Lieutenant Mea goggled at Pazu in disbelief. "You...uh....Space alien? Right. You broke my ship! If my Comm-officer hadn't opened the cargo lock when she did, you'd have torn the side off my ship! You...'SPACE ALIEN'! You 'space-aliens' are coming out of the wood-work!" Pazu did his best human-like shrug and said,"Your phrase leaves me aghast. I am not in the habit of ejaculating out of, or having sex with trees like...'Woodpeckers?' " Mea felt like either crying or punching something. She was glad the little 'space alien' was out of reach for the moment. She muttered hopelessly, "I'm NOT trained for this!" --TO BE CONTINUED!