“Dave?”
“Yes.”
“Why Dave?” I asked confused.
“Well, because…I’m named Dave.”
“So, how did you get here, Dave?”
“I walked here.”
“Walked to this planet?”
“No, walked to this cave. I got to this planet by means of an escape pod.”
“So did we.”
“Anyway, did you see a group of a white lion, a four armed weasel and a little green, sort-of-hard to describe creature?”
“No, I didn’t see them, but I do know where they went.”
“Where?”
“I’ll show you.”
So I followed him through about 20 to 30 minutes of winding maze until we reached a large open space with a smashed kerosene lamp lying on the floor. He lead me across the cavern to a battered up and half rotted wooden trap door. With some effort, he wrenched open the trap door and led me down.
After some time we exited the shaft and came to a tunnel. After about a minute of walking, or half slithering in Dave’s case, there was dim light at the end of the tunnel. The light got brighter and brighter until we reached an exit. It was an incredible view of the expanse of desert outside of the maze of caves. I was so drawn in by the miraculous blue desert that I barely noticed that Dave had climbed down a series of ladders and was standing on the ground next to something. What it was I couldn’t tell at that point. He motioned for me to climb down after him and I obliged. After managing to clambered down the series of ladders I saw what he was standing next to. It was a rusted up submarine hatch like the one from the Deathbird. Dave raised two tentacles and wrenched open the door. We climbed inside.
After about a minute of adjusting to the dim light, I looked up to see what an amazing thing could possibly be in this cavern. What I saw before me was the most stupendous thing I had seen upon reaching this planet. It was a humongous starship.