8. The Big Bang

While it is true that the Hoo's rocket is not in working conditions by any measure - apart from the shiny state of the art Pluotnium HyperDrive hurriedly wielded to the failing framework - all the punching and kicking, pushing and shoving, quarrelling etc also tore the rocket from inside out.

And so it came to pass that the rocket finally gave up on them, exploding in a blaze of glory after months of moaning through space and flinging the family of five through space in one huge tangled mess, each at each other's throats.

Conventional wisdom tells us that people can't survive in space -- they can't breathe as there is no oxygen; the pressure difference in space simply tears a person apart; sudden entry into any atmosphere causes high friction burns; the pressure difference then implodes the person. No chance of survival at all. None. Zilch. Zero. Kosong. (You get the idea.)

But they did.

Unknown to them, they were actually still under the quickly fading power of the all-powerful Pluto Royal Magic. This Pluto magic is rather simple -- whatever you believe, would be true. Like if you believe that you can fly, then you truly can.

At this point if you still don't get it, I shall make it clearer : they didn't die not because they had invulnerable skins, had great magical bubble shield or anything. They survived, simply because of ignorance -- they didn't know about it. They simply had assumed that space is just like "a very big street that's always at night" as Ah-moe put it.

Not long after, with a rather big bang, they smashed into the Indian Ocean, in a small planet called Earth.

It's here where the story finally starts.

(Footnote: This mind-boggling Pluto magic will reappear many years later.. Stay tuned.)