>We was just a buncha hep bats travelin through Funky Space when we got the transmission
>"Callin all bats, callin all bats, we got a serious shortage of funk."
>"All y'all better come down to this little dandelion we call Earth..."
>"'Fore things get out of hand."
>I still remember how Cap'n Echo vibrated up to the bridge
>Her big ol voice boomed in the mic
>"All you hep bats out there listen up," she said, "we gotta bring the cosmic thunder, the raygun of the soul. Earth is the patient and we're the doctor... Dr. Funk, y'all... so let's get our HEAL on."
>We strapped into our banana peels and buckled in for a bumpy ride
>The Mangoship is an old mama
>She'll take you where you wanna go, but she got a rough way of doin it
>We blasted through Funky Space, past dinosaur planets and a million million rainbows
>We was the finest crew our quadrant ever seen
>Gloom Wing was there, and Speck, Carnelian too; Day Starter, Nightlight, and Night Watch on the funkcannons; medical music officer Moss Moon, and cultural funk liaison Aux Tism...
>Navigator Mosina with her 4D maps of Funky Space, always worryin over her nephew the security captain...
>And he was always fussin over those two foals, Heartbeat and Sirocca, always gettin into trouble…
>And then there was me, but my name don't matter much
>Ever since they picked me up from that space bar I'd just been along for the ride
>We came outta Funky Space right over Earth, and we saw it straight away
>The cranial crack, the severe disease
>A critical lack of funk
>It was spinnin the wrong way!
>"Blast 'em!" shouted out Cap'n Echo, and you damn know we listened
>Speck and Carnelian routed power from the mangocore to the funkcannons
>Day Started juiced em up and Nightlight and Night Watch let em have it
>I just kept the ship on track while Mosina fed me the 4-dimensional route
>We circled the globe, and don't you know it, it started to spin right along with us
>Rainbows covered the planet, paintin every plant and animal red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet
>But it weren't enough
>The planet needed more funk
>Cap'n Echo screeched out for more juice
>We gathered together, me and all those hep bats, and we channeled every last drop of funk we had, and I swear we got it even from hep bats who weren't there, even some who weren't even done bein born yet
>Sure enough the planet started spinnin on its own
>Its big planet soul thumpin with a recharged heart of funk
>The transmission came in
>"Mangoship, this is earth, ya'll saved us, how can we ever pay you back?"
>Cap'n Echo grabbed the transceiver
>"Post bate and prosper, baby!"
>Then we blasted off, straight back to Funky Space
>We was exhausted, but we did it
>We saved planet Earth with the power of funk
>And to think, that was just the beginnin of my adventures aboard the Mangoship Baterprise…