Koons laughed to herself. Maybe she is still having a nap and this is a dream. Maybe she is sleeping on the spaceship and this is all a nightmare.

"Something funny captain?"
"Captain? Are you okay?"

"Huh, eh yea. The captain thing. Stop with that, I am not a captain."

Doc and Tech looked to each other. "What should we call you?"

Half disregarding it, Koons replied. Just call me Koons.

Doc.
Koons, Just Koons, but aren't you.

He didn't get a chance to finish. He was cut off. Listen dimwit. I don't have time for this. Koons. That's it, don't over complicate it. Five letters, K, O, O, N, S, Put them together, Koons.

Koons.
Oh for F... Where did that girl go?

Tech.
Oh she is over with the natives.

Koons made her way to the the runabout again and met with Lisa and the natives. "Okay, Lisa, you are recruited. You are now my translator. Pick two of them and let's go." Koons then shouted over to doc and tech. "You guys ready? We are up in 10."

Lisa.
Eh? I don't know your name but..

Koons.
I don't need buts.

Lisa.
We have to bring three? One has to go for me also.

Koons.
There has to be one for each of you and not me, why? I know I don't want to know. But tell me why.

Lisa.
Oh that one is easy. You fly, you are better than the rest of us cause you control the flying machine. None of them see themselves as equal to you. So they want to be seen as equal to the rest of us.

Koons.
This is getting ridicules. Okay, whoever is coming all aboard.

Placing the last explosive that was removed earlier. On returning to the loading dock. Lou Looked to Ezel with a half puzzled look. Shouldn't Koons be back by now?

Ezel.
She will be back, I am sure of that. Sure was good thinking on separating the ship and saving two levels.

Lou.
Remind me of that when this is all over. Right now we need to work out how we are going to accomplish this. 146 hours revealed itself when Lou looked at his timer. Six days should be more than enough time.

Plans hitting complications straight away. How do we do this. We need to have someone each each level for the separation. On level 23 and 25 anyway. We can manually remove the locking's on level 24 from both 23 and 25. Then when using the controlled release from the outer level. A soft thruster boost should gently separate the levels.

Then we can use the runabout to tie a tether to 23 and 25. We can slowly guide them back to each other then. We will need at least 36 hours orbiting time after the separation. To out enough distance between the orbits, when the explosion happens.

Koons landed the runabout in the landing bay.

The entourage that followed as she exited, totally threw Lou and Ezel off guard. Questioningly pointing with an open mouth. Lou wondered of Koons about the natives.

Koons.
Don't ask me. Interplanetary equality or something. Worry about it later. The girl there. Lisa, she can understand them. So what's our agenda.

Ezel.
Separate the levels after we empty level 24.

Ezel brought Koons up to date on the under developed plan. Lou nodded in agreement as Ezel went on. It wasn't long before Koons held her hands up.

Koons.
Whatever is on 25 leave it. Move everything to here from 24 that you can. You will need three people to decouple the levels, not two.

Lou.
What about the natives?

Koons.
You're suppose to be the one in charge? Never mind, Skip it. The natives are going to help move the cargo. They want to be equal. They can labour equally too. Lisa tells me, show them what you want them to do and they can pick it up fast. But if you talk to them, use a soft voice no matter what, they hear the tone not the sound. That has a big impact on the language.

Us three should get going. I will explain how this process works on the way.

TBC...