Bix Banderson vs the Universe 16
Decoder Ring Theatre
Gregg Taylor
4.8 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The biggest, baddest, most-all consuming Cosmic Empire ever known is about to meet its match:
An eleven-year-old Earth Boy, on the run from summer camp.
Decoder Ring Theatre presents Bix Banderson Vs. The Universe, an intergalactic adventure par excellence written and read by Gregg Taylor, with additional voices by Clarissa Dernederlanden, Tessa Taylor and Maxwell Taylor as Bix Banderson!
This week: Chapter Sixteen – Which someone gets their comeuppance… but who?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Chapter 16 |
| 0:06.0 | Even at ion drive speeds, the sector command station was three days' journey, an inconceivable distance encompassing countless inhabited worlds. |
| 0:16.0 | The rag-tag fleet monitored local transmissions as best they could, and heard nothing to suggest that they were heading into trouble. |
| 0:23.1 | As time wore on, they heard less and less, and that worried thirteen. |
| 0:28.2 | The local systems are way below the levels of data transmission you would expect, he said. |
| 0:32.8 | I don't understand it. They couldn't maintain basic operations like this. |
| 0:37.1 | Is it possible that you're having trouble with your readings when we're moving at this speed? |
| 0:41.2 | Bix asked, hopefully. |
| 0:43.6 | It's possible, 13 admitted, but in a voice that suggested that he did not think it was exactly probable either. |
| 0:50.7 | If there is trouble, Bix, there are chimed in. |
| 0:53.3 | You should know that the Grasol ships are generations of technology less advanced than the universe |
| 0:57.7 | warships. |
| 0:59.4 | They're fast, but they aren't tough. |
| 1:01.2 | That's what we could never break the balkade ourselves. |
| 1:03.6 | Guys, you worry too much. |
| 1:05.5 | Bix said as calmly as he could. |
| 1:07.4 | Do any of you think we could have got this far if the universe was as tough as it was supposed |
| 1:11.6 | to be? |
| 1:12.6 | I mean, who gives themselves a name like that? |
| 1:14.6 | He put on a silly voice. |
| 1:15.6 | Oh, hi! We're the universe! You can't possibly fight us. We're too huge. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm not buying it. I've never met a bully who was half as tough as he was supposed to be, |
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