The explosion it turned out was lasers blasting the space squirrel in his space squirrel butt.
“Ee hee hee,” came a voice over the radio, “it’s me, Prince. Eh heh.”
Selena Gomez looked out the window of the rocket she was trapped in alongside Audra Macdonald by Elon Musk. She amended in her head. The rocket she was succeeding on her mission in. Yes, that’s right. Success. Oh, right, the window.
“Oh my god,” said Selena Gomez, “That’s not Prince—that’s Lady Gaga!”
“And she’s flying a Bezos Boostie, the new single-person spaceship from Blue Origin!” Elon exclaimed woefully. “I’ve been on the preorder list for years now.”
“I identify as Prince now,” Lady Gaga replied on the radio after psychically eavesdropping on their conversation. “That’s why my ship’s name is the Purple Rain.”
“That is the most played out Prince reference of all time, you hack,” Audra Macdonald thought to herself. “The things I do for eternal youth. No one here knows I’m over a thousand years old.”
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