Oirat, Week 10"Again?" Lipitor groaned as he looked up at the saucer-shaped command module above him.
"I've completely upgraded my rocket ship. I've regained my powers and can do with a minimal amount of sleep, food, bathing, and elimination. The next time I go to work it's almost a certainty that I'll be promoted to Celebrity Mixologist. So what more do you want to know?"
"That's all very good," said the Oirat commander. "But that's not why I summoned you. Headquarters has some concern about your marital relationship. Apparently they received a report that your wife was crying inside that device where you store clothes --"
"the closet," said Lipitor. "I can explain. I had to work the same evening when she had her midlife birthday, so she was sad about that."
"Hmm," said the commander. "Well, that will be all for now."
Lipitor returned to his home. He wasn't sure whether to feel relieved or anxious. Would he be summoned again?
The next night, Wendy had to go. The commander went straight to the point. "Are you happy in your marriage? We're a bit worried that our representatives have been rushing into relationships too quickly and then neglecting their spouses."
"Not me," said Wendy. "Lipitor's been great. He's always paying me compliments, brightening my day, even flattering me sometimes. And I don't think the only thing he wanted was to produce an heir. We have a second son, you know."
The commander coughed. "Very commendable, I'm sure. You may go."
"I wonder what that was all about," Wendy said when she returned home.
"Probably the Zargons stirring up trouble again," said Lipitor.
Speaking of Advil, it was time for him to become a teen. Xarelto congratulated him beforehand.
And Wendy made sure he had a cake with candles.
He grew up into quite a handsome youth. Everyone had expected him to be a carbon copy of his brother, but when they took a picture together their differences were obvious.
"I'm the one he inherited his nose from," said Wendy, and their picture confirmed it.
Meanwhile, Xarelto had been working on his skills. The best thing about fishing was that he got to see pretty scenery. He fished by the center lake in Newcrest...
...at the wide creek in Willow Creek...
...at the pond in Oasis Springs...
...and at the thin creek running through the park there.
Finally he completed his handiness skill and was able to enter the old mine shaft. It looked a bit ominous as he approached one night, and Xarelto had the distinct feeling that someone was watching him.
He pried the boards off with his hammer.
Inside the grotto was the prettiest place that he'd fished so far and the most lucrative, for thousand-simoleon sturgeons practically leaped on to his hook.
Besides going fishing, Xarelto also traveled into space, trying to collect small aliens.
When he had seven four space squid, two pink whales, and a red coral he took them to the Museum on his grandparents' lot. He also hung the two portraits that Wendy had painted.
One of Xarelto's good friends, Lucas Munch, was ready to become a teen, so he invited him over for some cake.
Lucas turned out to have a strong resemblance to Eddie Haskell, one of the characters that had been on the ancient television show that had been the first message the Oirats received on Sixam.
They replaced the candles on the cake, and Xarelto became an adult. He hadn't quite finished his requirements while he was a teen he still had to make two enemies and catch five more fish, but he'd made good progress.
