Sarah sat alone in her room on Planet Royale. She felt completely and totally miserable, and she was on one of her least favorite planets. There was absolutely nothing to do besides relax, which just happened to be the thing Sarah liked doing least in the entire universe.

She had accidentally offended just about everyone in the Astral world. Mick had dumped her from the campaign. She had nowhere to turn. She thought about going home, back to her family, back to her sister The Brat and piano lessons and ballet practice and soccer matches, but there was something that was stopping her from getting on a spaceship and heading home.

Sarah Daisy was not a person who just gave up.

Sure, her career as a future vice president was over, but there were still crazy Astrals out there who wanted to destroy Earth, and she wasn’t about to let them destroy her planet without putting up a fight. Jacob Wonderbar was now Earth’s only hope. Sarah felt sad when she thought about him winning and never coming back home to Earth and being president, but if that was the tradeoff for having a planet to go home to, she knew what she had to do. She had to help Jacob Wonderbar win.

Sarah tried calling him on her Telly, but he wasn’t picking up. She tried Dexter, and he didn’t pick up either.

She wasn’t about to call Princess Pointyhead. She stared at her phone and tried to figure out what to do.

Praiseworthy.

She called Praiseworthy, who picked up with a yelp, and Sarah suddenly found herself in the cockpit. She saw Jacob at the wheel of the spaceship, and Princess Catalina, Dexter, and a monkey were holding on tightly. Sarah was alarmed that Jacob was driving the ship, and she scrambled over to the cockpit window to see if he was about to crash into something. She was quite surprised to see that he was actually driving rather well.

“Daisy Mistress!” Praiseworthy yelled. “Trouble in are we!”

Sarah looked at the ceiling. “What?”

“Backward talking I’m. It help can’t I.”

“You’re talking backward?”

“Understand you’d knew I. Intelligent so you’re! Friends we’re glad so I’m, Daisy Mistress, oh!”

“Praiseworthy, don’t talk to Sarah!” Jacob shouted, but he was soon distracted as a bright bolt almost grazed the ship out in space. Someone was shooting at them.

“How far until Planet Blueprint?!” Dexter yelped.

“Not far!” Princess Catalina said.

Sarah didn’t even have to ask Praiseworthy who was chasing them. It was definitely the Valkyrians, and Sarah was sure that Mick Cracken was behind it. Now that Mick was tanking in the polls thanks to her gaffe, the only way he had to still win the election was to kidnap Jacob Wonderbar and put him out of commission.

“Praiseworthy, what’s Planet Blueprint?”

“Live workers construction where planet the it’s. Royale Planet from away hours Earth four only it’s. Us help please, Daisy Mistress!”

Sarah closed her eyes and concentrated in order to decipher what Praiseworthy was saying. It’s where the construction workers lived. They needed her help. It was only four Earth hours away.

“I’m on it!” she shouted. “End call.”

Sarah found herself back in her room on Planet Royale. She ran down the hall toward the spaceport where the spaceship Lucy was parked, and she smiled for the first time since she had said the word “alien.”

Her political career may have been down the tubes, but at least she could try to save Jacob Wonderbar. Even if he didn’t want her to.