varon opened his eyes and looked around. He was lying on a metal
bunk in a small room. The bunk was fixed to a metal wall.
The Zeron guards have caught me,' he thought. 'I am in prison.'
There was a small screen in the metal wall opposite the bunk.
Varon got up and pressed a switch. The screen lit up and a picture
appeared. Outside there were thousands and thousands of stars and
planets. The biggest was a large circle of bright, yellow light. Varon
had seen the same yellow light when he was coming towards Zeron in
his spaceship. Now he was looking at the planet Zeron from space. A
short time ago, he had been standing in a swamp on its surface.
'I'm in a spaceship,' Varon said to himself. 'And it's not my
spaceship. But how did I get here?'
Then he remembered the Zeron guards who had been chasing
him. And he remembered Omega