"I am telling the truth," Will replied.

"Of course you are young man," she said with a smile. "What a thrill it is for me to have a famous astronaut to care for."

"Care for?" Will asked. "Don't you mean castrate?"

"You'll feel better after we fix you dear," she said. The lady was carrying a kid sized down sleeping bag with a hood. "It's really cold outside darling. Why don't you climb into this sleeping bag so you don't catch cold as I carry you out to the van," she suggested.

Will didn't move. "Will please don't made this anymore difficult for yourself and for us," Rex said. "Don't fight it. You have no other options."

Will realized that Rex was right. There was no point in fighting it so Will climbed into the bag. Once inside the sleeping bad the lady pulled a draw string around his neck and locked it. Will was still able to breath but he realized that he couldn't get his hands, or any other part of his body, out of the bag. He was helpless. "I can't get out!" Will said. The lady gave him a little kiss on the cheek saying, "There's a good boy," and pulled the hood over his head. "As snug as a bug in a rug. All safe and cozy warm," she said as she carried him out to the waiting van.

"Bye Will, we'll see you tomorrow. Be a good boy and do everything they tell you," Will heard Uncle Rex call after him. "It's not so bad," he heard Davy say.

The back of the van was a windowless enclosed padded compartment. Once Will was in the van the lady let him out of the bag. "Look Pip, you have a new friend," she said. Pip was the only other boy in the van. He was a little fellow about eight years old and as naked as Will was. He didn't bother to look up. He was huddled in a corner, legs pulled up to his chest, head down. The boy was softly sobbing. He seemed so helpless in his nudity that Will felt sorry for him.

Alone with the boy, Will said, "Pip don't take it so hard. You're not alone. I'm in this thing with you. What ever happens to us we'll face it together." Then Will placed a comforting arm around Pip. The boys felt the van pull away from the farm house. They were on their way to the castration clinic.

The little blond boy whipped away his tears. He looked at Will and did a double take. "I know you!" the little guy said. "You're Will Robinson! What are you doing here Will?" Pip asked.

"Same thing as you. I'm on my way to get snipped."

"But how is it that you are back on Earth Will?" Pip asked. "The newspapers all said you were dead."

"Don't write me off until you see the box going into the ground," Will said. "I didn't die and neither did my family or Dr. Smith who hitched a ride with us. We are all alive and well. The Jupiter 2 landed on another world. Dr. Smith discovered a super advanced high tech alien thingy that he used to transport me back to Earth!"

Pip believed every word. "Wow that's fantastic Will!" he said completely forgetting that he was on his way to be castrated. "Just wait till I tell my foster father about this. He's a spaceflight reporter for Aviation Week Magazine. He never gave up hope for you or the Jupiter 2. All his friends laughed at him. I don't think they'll be laughing much longer. Why hasn't this been on the internet yet?"

"My return to Earth was sort of a random thing," Will explained. "I landed in a cornfield. The people who found me don't believe that I'm Will Robinson. They think I'm a look-alike. They think that I'm a nobody who is trying to pass himself off as a somebody."

"Well I believe you Will," Pip said. The two boy hugged and told each other of their lives. Pip told Will all about his life with his foster father who he loved and was thrilled by Will's accounts of space exploration and adventure.

"But how are you going to get back to Dr. Smith and you family?" Pip wanted to know.

"I have just 72 hours on Earth," Will said. "At sunset two days from today I must be in the cornfield under the scarecrow where I first appeared so that Dr. Smith can beam me back to him. If I'm unable to get back to the cornfield at the right time I'm stuck here on Earth."

"Don't worry Will," Pip said. "When I tell my dad what's happened he'll believe you. He'll get word to mission control about you being here and he'll help you get back to that cornfield."

Will smiled and brushed the long blond hair away from the younger boy's eyes. "You're a good friend Pip," he said.

"Can I ask you to do something for me?" Pip asked.

"Sure," Will replied.

The younger boy gathered his courage and then said very slowly, "Will, take me with you to the cornfield, and take me with you into outer space. I want to do the things you do and see the things that you see."

"But I thought you loved your foster dad?" Will replied.

"I do Will, I really do," the younger boy said. "But don't you see Will, if you took me with you I could help. I could help you and Dr. Smith and your family get home again."

"You're sweet," Will said and he kissed Pip on the forehead.

"Will," Pip said. "After they... Well, after they do what they are going to do to us we'll be different. We won't be boys anymore."

"That's right," Will said. "We'll be nullos."

"Men and boys will want to do things to us Will," Pip said. "They will want to put their dicks into our bottoms and shot their stuff into our butts. Are you afraid Will?"

Will smiled and said, "I'm not afraid at all Pip. If it is done with love it's very beautiful. It's the way that eunuchs are loved by boys and by men. I think that Dr. Smith will do it to me and I want him to."

"Are you afraid of what they are about to do to us? The snip I mean." Pip asked.

"Maybe I am a little," Will answered true. "But in outer space there aren't that many people for me to have sex with and there isn't much privacy for me to whack off. I think I'll be better off if, in a few years from now, I'm not driven crazy by my sex drive . Are you afraid Pip?"

"No Will, I'm not afraid. I was but no more," Pip said with force. "I'm not afraid because you are here with me. I'm not afraid when I'm with you!"

(To Be Continued)