CHAPTER 1
The rescue
Arthur was on the bridge of the Heart of Gold. He saw some yellow Vogon ships coming. They were shooting at the Heart of Gold. And Arthur also saw that there were some power dolphins shooting back at the Vogons coming from behind the Heart of Gold. It was a pod of ten power dolphins coming to their rescue. The dolphins were shooting with Combonitos - a liquid that on contact with anything makes it explode. The Vogons were shooting asteroids at the Heart of Gold and the dolphins, but the dolphins were destroying the oncoming asteroids with their Combonitos. Large asteroids make an easy target for the dolphins.
The Heart of Gold and the dolphins suddenly disappeared. The Vogons thought that they were desroyed, but the Dolphins and the Heart of Gold sped away so quickly that the Vogons did not see what happened.
They were so fast that they crashed into Magrathea. The dolphins had attached shields to the Heart of Gold before the impact, so the ship did not break. After having installed the shields the dolphins joined everybody else inside the Heart of Gold. Arthur asked: "How did you do that? How did you attach the shields so quickly and come in?" Ieh-Eh, the smallest of the dolphins answered, in a cute voice: "We can do stuff super fast!"
Arthur saw that suddenly two super small cute mice appeaered. Arthur did not know where they came from. They were white.
The bigger one said: "My name is JeeJee."
"My name is HeeHee", said the smaller one.
"Where you ever in the middle of the galaxy ?", asked HeeHee, looking at Arthur.
"No! I have never left England before last week!"
"Ok", said HeeHee, slightly disappointed.
HeeHee had heard that there were treasures in the middle of the galaxy and he was looking for someone to tell him if those stories he had heard were real.
"You have to go to dolphinland, it is the best place to be and you can go now if you want", said JeeJee.
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CHAPTER 2
Dolphinland
Arthur saw another two mice on the floor.
One of them said: "Hello, I'm Benjy".
And the other one said: "Hello, I'm Frankie".
"Come with us!" said Benji and Frankie at the same time.
Arthur replied: "No! I am going to go to Dolphinland!"
Frankie asked: "Where is that?"
Arthur replied: "I don't,know but the Power Dolphins will tell me".
Benji said: "If you don't tell us, we will ask the Dolphins ourselves".
Arthur whispered to the Dolphins, pointing at Benji and Frankie: "Don't tell those two, how to get to Dolphinland. And also don't tell them how good it is to live there.
The dolphins nodded.
"Ok" they said together.
Benji and Frankie still heard what Arthur was whipering, because they have such great ears.
"Then we will find it ourselves" said Benji and Frankie.
But they did in fact not know where Dolphinland was.
Arthur asked Benji and Frankie: "Where did you guys come from?"
Benji said: "From Mexico".
Frankie said: "From Mexico. We lived there while we were on Earth".
"When the Vogons destroyed Earth, we flew to Ursa minor." Said Benji
"And then continued to Magrathea" interrupted Frankie
Then suddenly Benji and Frankie disappeared through a cloud of gray smoke.
"They are probably already searching for Dolphinland", Arthur thought to himself.
Dophinland is not a country, but a planet. Dophinland has a lot of large forests, big rivers, small creeks, active volcanoes and big oceans with some quite small islands. Many of the islands have treasure caves, but some of the treasure caves are hidden even deeper - under the ocean floor.
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CHAPTER 3
Monkeymen
Zaphod Beeblebrox said: "Hey there, Arthur and Ford! Should we go out to walk a bit?"
"Ok", replied Arthur.
"I'm feeling like walking anyways", said Ford, "Where should we go?"
Arthur said: "Should we just walk a bit and see what we find?"
"Ok", said Ford, "That sounds like a great idea."
Ford, Arthur and Zaphod Beeblebrox got down from the Heart of Gold.
They started their hike on the surface of Magrathea. The stony desert slowly turned into a forest. Arthur climbed a tree.
Zaphod remarked: "Now, that is a real monkeyman!"
Arthur noticed a leaf falling onto his head. And then the leaf continued to fall onto Ford's head, who was on the same tree, but a bit lower. The leaf continued further onto Zaphod's head.
Zaphod complained: "Ford, are you not from Betelgeuse? You are no monkeyman! Why would you climb a tree".
Ford defended himself: "Arthur did it, and it looked like fun!"
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CHAPTER 4
Chapter 4
The vogon captain looked at the screen on his bridge staring at the spot where the Heart of Gold was just moments ago. He thought he had seen a tiny little round something. Suddenly, the vogon ship crashed into something weird and blue. It was a blue star. The Vogons tried to fly their ship out of the star. It worked.
On Magrathea, Arthur just had jumped to another tree like a squirrel showering Ford and Zaphod in a lot of red and brown leaves, because it was fall on Magrathea. Arthur climbed down from the second tree.
Ford said: "Here is something for you."
Ford took a small yellow jar out of his pockert. When he opened it, Arthur saw a small yellow fish.
"It is a Babelfish", said Ford.
"Another Babelfish?", said Arthur
"Yes, said Ford, "I am going to put it somewhere, where you can't see it."
Ford went over to Arthur and dumped the Babelfish into his ear. The Babelfish squeaked, because the Babelfish did not know where he was.
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CHAPTER 5
Chapter 5
Benji and Frankie found Dolphinland. They tried to get inside. Dolphinland has a door and that is the only place where it is possible to get in. The door sits at the river that connected Dolphinland and the Earth before the earth was destroyed by the Vogons. Benji and Frankie were standing in front of the door. Thirteen power dolphins were guarding the entrance. Benji and Frankie could not find a way in.
Benji just said to Frankie: "What should we do now?"
Frankie said: "Let's try to go in when they aren't looking".
Benji said: "I think they will look forever".
Frankie said: "Then we try to enter somewhere else".
The atmosphere of Dolphinland is out of diamond.
"Let's try to bite through the atmosphere." suggested Benji.
Frankie tried to bite the atmosphere. Suddenly something squirted water at Frankie throwing him 20 meters back into a mouse trap. Benji tried to bite at the exact same spot. He also got squirted at and thrown into the exact same mouse trap. And then Benji and Frankie bit the bars of the mouse trap open and escaped. When they ran away, Benji was caught by a cat. But Benji wiggled free and just climbed up the left arm of the cat onto its head. Benji jumped from the cat's head over to Frankie who was already running away 20 m from the cat. Benji jumped one meter and then ran towards Frankie.
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CHAPTER 6
Chapter 6
Back on Magrathea, Arthur was standing on something weird. It was the head of a giant Magrathean spider. It was as big as a dinner table. The spider belonging to the head was 10 meters in diameter. Next to Arthur stood Ford, Zaphod and MinusTrillian. They jumped down to try to escape and started runnning towards the Heart of Gold. The spider pursued them. Magrathean giant spiders are surprisingly slow for their size. Even though a single step gets them very far they are slow to move each leg. The group ran through a tunnel, small enough that the spider did not fit.
They eventually reached the starship and entered. The Dolphins were waiting for them with freshly prepared Magrathean cod. JiuJiu the dolphin was sitting on top of the Heart of Gold holding a fishing rod into the lake beneath him. He had already caught 20 fish. Marvin was standing on the bridge. Marvin got out of the Heart of Gold and walked to another spaceship.
He introduced himself to the spaceship: "Hi, I'm Marvin."
"Go away, metal man!", said the spaceship
Marvin did not want to go. "No, my name is Marvin, not 'metal man' ", he said.
Marvin eventually left quietly for the Heart of Gold. "What a rude spaceship", he thought to himself.
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CHAPTER 7
Chapter 7
Marvin found another spaceship.
He said to the spaceship: "Hi, my name is Mar..."
"Go away, metal man!", said the second spaceship immediately.
"Go away, tin can!" said Marvin angrily.
"No you go away, metal man, you are not Marvin. I will call you 'metal man' ".
Marvin left to slouch back to the Heart of Gold.
Zaphod said: "Go out, monkeyman, and climb a tree".
"No you, four-eyes!" said Arthur.
"Arthur!", said Ford, "Let's just go to the bridge."
"No Ford, let's just leave from Magrathea."
So they left.
The Dolphins were driving the Heart of Gold to Dolphinland. When they were at the door of Dolphinland, one Dolphin jumped out of the ship and used his snout to press 4 8 4 9 on a pad on the door.
The door opened. The Dolphin jumped back onto the ship, the Heart of Gold with everybody inside moved throug the door.
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CHAPTER 8
Chapter 8
Benji and Frankie were sleeping. When they woke up, Frankie said to Benji:
"Should we bite HeeHee and JeeJee?"
"Yes", said Benji, "that is important. But we can't, because they are in Dolphinland"
Frankie said: "Maybe we just have to find some ship that is headed inside and we hide on that ship?"
Benji said: "I don't think, there is another ship coming".
Frankie said: "Then we will just have to wait here. When they come out, we will directly go on to the ship and bite them."
Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, MinusTrillian, and Marvin found a house where they want to live. The house was on a beach, so they can visit the Dolphins every day. It had fifteen stories. The walls, the floors, the ceilings, the roof, the stairs and the elevator were blue. It had a flat roof, which was accessible through the elevator or a ladder. On the roof there was a small enclosure with one super cute white chicken inside. Next to the chicken's house there was a small garden. Arthur was sharing one of the beds with Ford and Marvin. Zaphod and MinusTrillian took the other one. There were only two beds in the house.
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CHAPTER 9
Chapter 9
Arthur, Ford, Marvin, Zaphod, and MinusTrillian were asleep. The dolphins were catching fish in the ocean. They caught 100 sardines. Then HeeHee and JeeJee were sleeping in their bed in the garden. Arthur, Ford; HeeHee and JeeJee woke up.
"Should we go to the beach?", asked Arthur.
"Ok", agreed Ford.
Arthur suggested: "Let's catch some crabs".
Arthur, Ford and Marvin stepped outside and walked across the beach to the ocean. They turned to the left and walked 1 km to arrive at some giant rocks.
Arthur suggested: "Let's just catch some Halloween crabs. They live near rocks".
And indeed, seconds later, Arthur saw a giant Halloween crab. It had a diameter of 50 centimeters. Arthur leapt forward to catch it. And he got it. Proudly, he showed it to Ford and Marvin, holding the large crab with both hands. He put the Halloween crab in a bucket. And then Arthur, Ford and Marvin went back to the house carrying the crab in the bucket. They were planning to cook it.
Suddenly, the crab started to grow. It turned into a 50 meters crab in less than a second. The crab looked hungry and angry at the three. Arthur and Ford started to run. Marvin was unimpressed and continued to walk. Arthur and Ford reached the rocks and hid in between them. As quickly as it had grown, the 50 meter crab deflated back into a 50 centimeter crab. The crab ran towards the rocks and found its own hiding place.
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CHAPTER 10
Chapter 10
"Earthman", said Ford.
"Arthur!", said Arthur.
"Should we find Marvin and go home?"
"Yes", said Arthur.
"No, let's go to my home", said the Halloween crab
"No", said Arthur and Ford, "we go to our home. And you will have to come with us."
Arthur, Ford and the Halloween crab did not find Marvin. So they went home, where Marvin was already waiting.
"Marvin", said Arthur, "let's cook this Halloween crab".
"Ok!", said Marvin!, "But how?"
Arthur said: "We will just put it in a pot, put the pot on the stove, and turn on the stove".
"Hello my name is Mar...", said Marvin.
"No! Your name is 'Halloween Crab!' ", said the Halloween crab.
"No, your name is MarMar", said Marvin.
"No, your name is MarMar, I'm Crabby Crab", said the Halloween crab.
"Ok, Crabby Crab! But my name is Marvin!", said Marvin
"Let's just put him in a pot, now", interrupted Arthur the argument.
Marvin said: "But how?"
Arthur said: "We just put him in there". He was pointing at the pot.
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