Section 12

Ford Prefect bounded up to the bridge of the Heart of Gold.

“Trillian! Arthur!” he shouted, “it’s working! The ship’s reactivated!”

Trillian and Arthur were asleep on the floor.

“Come on you guys, we’re going off, we’re off,” he said kicking them awake.

“Hi there guys!” twittered the computer, “it’s really great to be back with you again, I can tell you, and I just want to say that  ...”

 “Shut up,” said Ford, “tell us where the hell we are.”

“Frogstar World B, and man it’s a dump,” said Zaphod running on to the bridge, “hi, guys, you must be so amazingly glad to see me you don’t even find words to tell me what a cool frood I am.”

“What a what?” said Arthur blearily, picking himself up from the floor and not taking any of this in.

“I know how you feel,” said Zaphod, “I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself. Hey it’s good to see you Trillian, Ford, Monkeyman. Hey, er, computer ...?”

“Hi there, Mr Beeblebrox sir, sure is a great honor to ...”

“Shut up and get us out of here, fast fast fast.”

“Sure thing, fella, where do you want to go?”

“Anywhere, doesn’t matter,” shouted Zaphod, “yes it does!” he said again, “we want to go to the nearest place to eat!”

“Sure thing,” said the computer happily and a massive explosion rocket the bridge.

When Zarniwoop entered a minute or so later with a black eye, he regarded the four wisps of smoke with interest.