31_days | [18-Feb-2007] [Galaxy Angel] How High The Moon

Title: How High The Moon
Challenge: 18-Feb-2007 "how the trickster stole the moon"
Based on: Galaxy Angel
Characters: Mint, Ranpha
Type: Humor / parody; 100 words
Warnings: Silly slapstick violence.

Galaxy Angel © BROCCOLI / Madhouse / Bandai Visual / Bandai Entertainment.
"The Holes Around Mars" by Jerome Bixby.

Mint and Ranpha stood on the featureless surface of an uninhabited planet.

"I thought," Ranpha said,"that the 'Lost Technology' we're seeking was on one of this planet's moons, not on the planet itself."

"It is," Mint said. "But this moon is tiny, and it has an extremely low orbit."

"What!?" Ranpha asked impatiently. "Where is this moon, anyway?— OOF!!"

Ranpha was knocked on her face from behind by a slowly drifting rock. It then passed harmlessly over the shorter Mint's head.

Ranpha jumped up, grabbed the improbable moon— and was dragged along after it. "I HATE THIS JOB!!" she wailed.