(Continued from the second installment wherein Bette found herself in the middle of a pitched battle between the pirates and the ninja. Whilst attempting to escape, the pirates seized control of Bette, apparently also winning the conflict. The pirate queen ordered Bette taken forcibly from the house, and it is with Bette’s first viewing of some unexpected thing that we begin this installment…)

            Out on the street, Bette saw Candace’s El Camino. This was not unusual, as Candace often parked the ugly little vehicle on the street. What was unusual at this point was what was sitting atop the El Camino.

            Perched on top of the greatly out-of-date vehicle was what could only be described as a spacecraft. More precisely, Bette would guess that there would be those who would call it a flying saucer.

            For herself, Bette wasn’t quite as worried about the naming of the item. Rather, she was quite pleased that she had decided to leave her car at the bar. After all, the El Camino was being slowly crushed under the weight of the craft, the metal groaning under the strain. There would be no telling the damage that this vehicle might have done to the Saab. Even the Saab’s winter-worthy soft-top would have been no match for an intergalactic hunk of metal.

            Yes, far better for Bette’s car to just be stripped of its tires or whatever outside the club than to be smashed with no chance of filing a believable insurance report.

            The pirates, though, seemed more agitated than relieved.

            “It appears they be after our bounty,” the captain announced.

            “Arrr, they be after her booty,” replied one of the pirates.

            The other pirates ogled said booty, deciding that Bette’s was a booty worth being a bounty.

            Bette, however, the owner of said booty thought perhaps that mutiny of her bounty was in order. Then again, due to the fact that she was trussed up with wrists bound and mouth covered, there was little that she could do to escape.

            However, the pirates did veer from the course towards the spacecraft.

            This ended up being useless veerage as the pirates found themselves flanked by little grey-skinned beings with black eyes.